Board Thread:Survivor 43: San Andrés/@comment-26161875-20200523041718/@comment-28431903-20200523223746

Hey Jack!!

Vid at the end to answer the fun part!

How would you prevent a salty jury panel and convince them to vote for you?

Jack: "I knew you're definitely someone to look out for, as you remind me of a certain old friend I had in my previous game."

Zee: "Jacob told me Mackie is an ORG Legend and we need to get him out ASAP"

For the record, I will preface this by saying I am N O T an ORG Legend lmao. I had a short lived career, and couldn't with a Survivor game! The only reason I shared those quotes was to show a few examples that as soon as the game started, my tribe was talking to one another about how big of a threat I was and that I needed to go. I will never forget when Jacob was able to tell me how I did in Main Org and stats about my placements that I couldn't even remember. That was the moment I felt like the tribe saw me as a big theat and that I would have to really play the game I ended up playing if I even wanted a chance to make it to FTC. I felt like I had a really good chance to win no matter what if i made FTC, but from day 1 or 2 I knew I had a big target coming in. You asked me how I would prevent a salty jury panel and convince them to vote for me. I think one of the main things for me was circumstance, and I'll try to briefly explain:

- I felt super threatned from day 1 and felt like I had to play with my back up against the wall, even if it wasn't. This way I was always prepared for the moment people decided that I ha over-stayed my welcome. I wanted to always be prepared to try and combat an opposition that may have formed against me, and I was fortunate enough to be proactive to the point that I could stop it before it ever happened except at F4.

- I can be honest and say that I got swap fucked. When we swapped I pretty much accepted that it would be a miracle just to make merge. This kicked my game into overdrive and made that fight or flight instict go through the roof. If I felt like my back was up against the wall before, It was even more now.

- By merge, the rest of the fans had much more time to connect and forge their bonds at tribal, where I was also worried that you guys would all just assume I was with NuFlorencia and try to snipe me out early. So I had to prevent that.

- Zee said something that resonated with me, he had always tried to be 2 steps ahead, but felt like I was 5 steps ahead. I knew how strategic and clever the vast majority of this cast is! I felt like if I was going to deserve to be voted the winner at FTC, I had to play a game that made people feel pride in having me represent the season as the winner. So I didn't want to hold back. - Lastly, I want to try and emphasize something that I haven't mentioned in any response yet. I feel like I had as large or larger of a threat level as Andrew, and in many respects had to do an equal amount of work to stay in the game. One of the key differences is that I was able to do this with my threat level being elevated so much higher by being publicly known to have a duo with Jim. While Andrew had the A/A/A, he was unable to do anything to protect his allies. The first time my 3 decided we needed to flip back to go against AAA, Andrew sold Aaron out very easily. This created some scenarios where I had to eliminate people that I felt close to, but felt like might turn against me due to my relationship with Jim. People caught on to Jim's connection to the other side (especially Abi) relatively quickly, so I had to put in Double Time to ensure the one on one relationships that i had built remained strong enough to continue to provide me with options to make the best move I could make for myself each round. Playing the majority of the game as a known 2 makes it much harder to take a back seat and not play an aggressive game.

If you got the chance to add one more player to your alliance (with Jim and Izzy) in the beginning of the merge, who would you choose?

I think this is an interesting question. In the dynamics of this season, I feel like the reason the alliance worked so well was due to how hidden it was, and how small it was. We could quickly agree to things as Jim and I almost always saw eye to eye, as did Izzy and I. There weren't many different agendas being pushed, so we could focus on maintaining our trust with one another, and helping one another stay in the game. But that isn't an answer! So I'm going to give a hypothetical:

Ideally, I would say Jacob. I feel like Jacob is one of the people that I had to burn the most, so having him in the group would provide me a better opportunity to not have to burn him as hard. In terms of how I think we may have been the most successful? I'll say Zee. I think with Zee, all 3 of Jim Izzy and I would be able to strategically and personally mesh very well. I think I could have had other alliances that may have worked, such as Me, you (Jack) and Jacob. That was something I thought about early in the game when I was close one on one with both of you, but I knew that If I needlessly created alliances to have to then turn on, it would be poor social game. I only created aliances that I felt were absolutely necessary.

'''I hope this answers it all! Time for the fun part:''' https://youtu.be/KeaSeg3IE7c

Alex - Kaysar

Jack - Jessie

Jay - Howard

Matthew - Eric Stein BB8

Chieko - Donny

Aaron - Dustin BB8

Jacob - Ragan BB12

Zee - Keesha Smith BB10

Izzy - Christie/Angela

Abi - Monica BB2