Board Thread:Survivor 28: Carthage/@comment-27335927-20171122235402/@comment-30692190-20171123155347

Hello Danielle, thanks for your video speech! Wish I would reply with a video as well, but I'm pretty shy at it.

For the question: would I have still stayed loyal to Tharros if I didn't have Ben and Keaton? No, it would have depended on who would have made into my tribe instead of them. If there were stronger players than them, I would most definitely flip to your tribe if I realized I was in the bottom or if I wanted to make a big move myself. I did appreciate our relationship way back in Bali, and I'm sorry that it wasn't the case in this game. You were right about my social game - while it was strong within the Tharros alliance, outside of it I should have talked to you and some others more. I know that I didn't have the best game here and I didn't treat you and some others well as I should have, I apologize. But I did put in effort into my strategy and physical abilities in order to make it to the end. I honestly still think you were a jury threat, people love an underdog story and I'm sure I have made people bitter by voting out people outside of my alliance. Do take it as a compliment, because you're an amazing player.

There was a reason for the "Keaton is doing all the work, Nadine isn't" thing. It was to portray Keaton as a leader (to make him be seen as a bigger threat), where I was actually doing more things behind the scenes in the tribe. Like how Will was blindsided before me, because he was my threat shield and it helped me to advance further into the game smoothly. I wouldn't say that other people make moves for me, I did make my own moves from the start - they were just well hidden, so I can understand that gives off an impression to others.

Moving on, my pre-merge moves: I believe that a  pre-merge game is the foundation for merge game, which is why Ben and Keaton were loyal to me til the end, and that my strong alliance with Will has given me information I needed and a powerful advantage for the merge. So as soon as the game started, I socialized with my tribe and easily found myself into a majority alliance. I was the heart of the alliance, where I talked to each of the member individually so pre-merge tribals weren't hard when we voted people outside of the alliance. I also tried hard in challenges on my own, to prove my value to the tribe despite displaying myself to be a challenge threat but later into the pre-merge, I would downplay it.

I monopolized the Observer knowledge in my tribe. In order to make Will see me as his #1 due to the meta with Keaton and to know his thoughts, I started talking with him a lot to gain his trust and be able to exchange information throughout the pre-merge. He seemed like a strong strategic player who could backstab me anytime if he saw me as a huge threat (he even said to my face that I was a big time player), as you have seen from him betraying your alliance in the merge. Will would talk about wanting Keaton out, and I would prevent him from doing so because Keaton was an ally I wanted to keep to the end.

I did realize people could potentially think I have an idol, since I have the best chance of having it due to the Observer twist. But Will and Jack C. were the people who were given the idol clues, and not me, but I was still able to get the idol due to my allegiance with Will. The fake idol play and getting my alliance to tell Andy to vote for me were my own ideas - I wanted to confuse people for fun, and also to lower my social threat level so I didn't have to arrive into the merge with 0 votes on me.

The rest of the merge, you know how it goes. Jerry, Fariha, then my F6 plays and onwards. I hope it's enough to satisfy your concerns about my game so far.

- Nadine