Board Thread:Survivor 21: Kerala/@comment-27707100-20161208071513

Okay I already wrote this once but I guess Satan was trying to get me down BUT IT’S OK I CAN DO IT AGAIN (((((((((((((:

I think it would be an insult to all of y’all that played the game if I didn’t include a really thorough analysis if I didn’t win, so I hope y’all enjoy it.

The crux I think of what makes my game surpass the other two finalists lies within my ability to accumulate accurate information and use it to turn people against each other while getting minimal blood on my hands. There’s a lot of moves that I made in this game that gave me less of a risk than other people that made the same move because of the way I set up my social relations within the game. My social game surpassed the other two contenders by far, and I think it results from I effort I put in to accumulate as much information as possible by getting to know each and every one of you really well on a personal level. Some of you were harder to crack by using this method, but I think overall it put me at an edge to predict each of your motives and be able to administer each of y’all into my plans. Don’t expect this to be an explanation of big moves, while I did make a few, because I think another thing that puts me on an edge over the other two finalists was my consistent gameplay. I didn’t not get voted until final four on accident and it was the result of a consistent gameplan compared to random outburst of POWER MOVES!!! I’ll go into depth of each stage of the game so y’all can get a handle on what I was doing and why I was doing it, so enjoy.

Premerge – Old Periyar 

In Old Periyar I took the first couple of days to survey the other contestants. It usually takes me a day or two to formulate a schema of their personality that I can use as means to sway them in certain directions or at least have the framework to understand who is willing to vote certain ways.

For example, within my first couple of days I had this about figured out:

Kon – opinionated, paranoid, sneaky, good game sense, good at challenges, close to Michael/Jacob

Asa – tight lipped, trustworthy, honest

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Violet – strategic, quick-witted, close to Sim

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Jacob – paranoid, too trusting, close to Kon

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Sim – I didn’t talk to him very much but he told me within a couple of hours of talking to him that he trusted me most in the game, while I know Violet was closer to him, so I just kinda labeled him as sus, close to Violet

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Michael – not very involved in the game, close to Kon

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Diane/Tati – inactive

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">As the game progressed, there was a group made that excluded Michael and the inactives called eggplant that served as the majority for the tribe. We voted out Diane/Tati because they were not active/not talking to most of the people in the tribe.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I didn’t get good vibes from Kon but I figured it would be a lot more difficult to work against him than with him so I kept him as close as I possibly could in hopes that he would function as a shield for me. I knew that his opinionated remarks were driving people away, and his sloppiness in game play was keeping people wary of him so I thought he would be more than suitable to relieve any pressure I may get in the game.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I probably get closest to Asa as this time is here as we trade idol information and other information we acquire. Kon labeled himself as the idol god so obviously I was going to work with him to get it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Premerge – New Periyar 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">With Sim and Asa getting swapfucked, the majority alliance that we had on Old Periyar stayed and we maintained the majority as myself, Jacob, Kon, and Violet. With new additions to the tribe, I took the time to get to know the new additions as players, with unfortunately only Julia being active enough to hold a conversation with.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">My first impressions of Julia were that she liked to talk a lot, meaning that I could get a lot of information from her, but she was also sloppy in the fact that she was giving a lot of the same information/opening statements to everyone from Old Periyar, and that rubbed a few people the wrong way. I figured that it would be more than beneficial to use Julia as an alternative shield since she was rubbing people the wrong way and also an open faucet to any information I could get my hands on if I could get her to trust me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Kon wants to throw the first challenge so that we can maintain Periyar numbers on our side going into merge, but I say it’s a bad idea because I “don’t want to throw any challenges”, but the real reason was a bit more devious. I suspected that Violet and Sim were close and I didn’t trust Sim very much so I figured I would roll the dice and in the case that they lost the challenge, I hoped that they would vote Sim out over Asa. My gamble paid off and Sim went home and I was able free Violet up a little bit. After Sim went home she talked strategically a lot to me and I think that stemmed from the fact that Sim was her closest ally and he went out, but I’m not sure I guess it could just be coincidence.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">We throw the next challenge because I don’t want Asa to go home, since I trust her the most, and the rest of the Periyars are onboard and like why didn’t we throw the other one we’re dumb whatever, and we vote out one of the inactives. I also want to preface that I didn’t want to keep the inactives in not because they were threatening to my game directly but if I can’t get any information from them then they’re not beneficial for me. They’re just empty space.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Additionally, I being to notice that my two primary shields (Julia/Kon) start to take a liking to Vikram to the point where it seems like they both think that they have their vote and if they think they have his vote and don’t need mine that’s also not good for my game, so heading into merge, Vikram was my primary target.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Merge <span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">So with the addition of a few people from Thekkady that I hadn’t had the opportunity to talk to, I focused a lot of effort in trying to get to know them on a personal level so I could get a peek into what their nature may be and how they make decisions:

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Anna – I knew her from Tikal. When I met back up with her she told me that she really liked Asa and I suggested that we made a f3 with her in it. We named it Ass Fucker Jane. Anna was pretty inactive so it was pretty hard to rely on her vote, but I think we could have made it work if a couple things went differently.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Nicolai – Shifty, dodgy, sneaky, but still viable. Coming into merge he had a target on his back, and no one else trusted him either. I figured that if I could keep him safe that he would repay me somehow or at least that if he tried to go against me when I saved him that he would just be further shooting himself in the foot. Not initially very easy to talk to but he opened up more over time. Closely tied to Julia.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Jake – as tight lipped as Asa, but easier to talk to than Nicolai. Very cautious and not trusting of anyone from old Periyar. Had ties to Julia, Catherine, and Daulton. EXTREMELY threatening. I could kinda tell that he was taking the same approach to the game that I was and that he would be the first one to try to remove me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Catherine – super easy to talk to, but also avoidant of anything game related for the longest time. Every now and then she would release snippets of game talk amongst the life talk that we would have frequently, but it seemed throughout the entire game that she didn’t trust me very much. Had an affinity for people on the Thekkady side. Closest ties seemed to be with Jake at the time.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Daulton – a little sneaky. I couldn’t put my finger on it but it seemed like he was trying too hard and it came off as being ingenuine. He tried to get in really good with Old Periyar to do, from my perspective, what it took to play both sides, but it was kinda unsightly so I didn’t trust him very much. He was willing to reveal a lot of information. I gained a lot of information from him about how the Thekkady side was set up that I used to set up the rest of the game. He seemed to have ties to Jake and was very against Nicolai.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Periyar merged into a minority, but it wasn’t very difficult to get the sides to turn against each other.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I’m gonna split every round into an explanation so y’all can get a good taste of what my thought processes were and how I used the information I gained to make optimal decisions.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F12 <span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Daulton immediately starts pushing for Nicolai to leave. I still want Vikram to leave so that I can have more freedom with Julia/Kon’s votes, and Julia surprisingly has a strong preference for Nicolai to stay. She really wants to rally for Nicolai to stay and I let her do all the work so that I can frame Nicolai/Julia as a pair and get what I want out of the vote as well. I also want to keep Nicolai around because I know a lot of people still don’t trust him and it would aggravate the split further between the Thekkady alliance.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Vikram leaves and Kon loses a vote.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I think it was around this time that Julia and I also founded an alliance called “Meme” but Julia got Kon to make it to seem as though he was the center of it in case anything blew the fuck up.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F11 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">The split goes between Nic and Daulton this time, and Julia really campaigns for Daulton to leave, painting her as a large social threat, and her somewhat sloppy messaging is starting to turn people onto her (i.e. Violet) and I kinda start to aggravate that split as well. I kinda have limited desire to keep Daulton in because I don’t trust him very much coupled with the fact that if he leaves I can further pin Nicolai/Julia as a pair. The vote is a massive landslide which only makes the public eye of Julia look kinda worse because it makes it look as though she’s running the game.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I’m not sure when this happens, but I think it was around this time that Nicolai makes an alliance with myself Kon and Julia and I advocate the addition of Jake to it in the hopes that he may open up a bit more towards me. I don’t think it made a very large impact but I think it helped a little.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I also get word from Catherine and Violet that Kon is telling people that I have the idol, but I’ve already set up earlier that Kon most likely has the idol since he admitted to everyone old periyar that he found the empty place where the idol was. The only person who would openly admit that to a group of people usually is someone that already has the idol and is trying to cover their ass, and that’s the kind of argument I used to Violet and I think she believed me a bit. I think for the most part people didn’t think I had the idol for a while after since I came off as such a belligerent idiot!! But, people eventually back off about it especially after I confront Kon to the point that I make it apparent that if he tries again I’ll find out about it, so the pressure subsides and I’m not targeted for having an idol.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F10 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Kon really prefers for Jacob to leave because his absence is making him paranoid. I’ve also since then stopped talking to Jacob just from his inactivity, so I’m not getting any new information from him and he’s kinda dispensable at that point. People start to get paranoid about the possibility of Jacob having an idol, so I figure that my discourse of me not having an idol has had at least somewhat of an effect. :^)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Violet and Asa both tell me that Violet created an all girl’s alliance so I kinda start to set up stuff to make it fall apart. I still continue to instigate the Violet/Julia split by telling Violet that Julia is really close to Nicolai and that she’s playing a really obvious game. Violet agrees and really wants to take Julia out as soon as possible. I try to get Catherine to admit to the existence of the alliance but she lies to my face continually, which kinda indicates that she doesn’t trust me very much or trusts this newfound girls alliance a lot, which is probably the former, because it would make more sense for her to distrust me on the grounds of just working with her side.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Around this time, I tell Julia that I have the idol, I think it may have happened a bit earlier than this as a token for her to trust me, and I told her I would use it on her if she was ever in danger so that she would see my vote as more of a necessity moving forward.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I’m starting to view Cathy as a threat, since she’s close to both Kon and Jake at this point and is not relaying me any information despite my attempts to try and breach through her guard. I start thinking of ways to take her out but I think I need to wait a couple rounds for the perfect opportunity.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F9 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Julia starts to really push for Anna to leave along with Kon and I express that I would rather not do that since Anna is not going to win anything, so I kinda start a movement for voting for Julia, and Kon agrees that it would be good to take her out. Everyone on Old Periyar and Anna were down for it, but Anna tells me later that she would be okay with being voted out, so Asa went ahead and voted Anna out before she could change it, so I had to backtrack and turn votes back onto Anna so that I wouldn’t’ get too bodied by this vote swap. Violet had already voted for Julia so I could just frame it as Violet trying to get her out and failing so that Julia would still trust me. That vote could have been really fatal for me but because Violet had already voted I was able to aggravate the split between Violet and Julia even more, putting me in an even better position.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I still want Jake to leave but I know that I can’t do anything unless Catherine goes, because she serves as somewhat of a shield for him. With Anna out of the picture, I have to definitely make sure that Catherine gets out or I’m not going to have a chance.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F8 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Fuck Thanksgiving? There was a lot of chaos that happened this day and not enough time to process it, but given my knowledge of relationships, I was still able to convince two people who were at each other’s throats (Violet and Julia) to vote with me to vote off Catherine. I knew Violet was willing to do anything to play to her win condition better, and she would be in a much better setting if she voted out Catherine over Nicolai because we could still play the whole Julia/Nic f2 supposition, and I knew I could get Julia’s vote to vote out Catherine because I knew she was very close to Nicolai.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">What I didn’t know though was that Julia and Catherine were a f2 of sorts, and in my opinion it seemed like Nicolai and Julia were a lot closer than Catherine and Julia given that Julia added Catherine to approximately 0 of the alliances that we were all in. When I advocated making the Meme alliance, she said she would add Jake from her side instead of Catherine so when Catherine was upset that Julia had betrayed her, it was really beneficial for my game despite the vote not turning out in our favor.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">From this vote I had determined a few things: Jake/Catherine were a pair of sorts.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Julia is someone that I can convince with logic, and I can trust Violet.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Also, resulting from the betrayal of Catherine, I had the least backlash because I wasn’t talking to her about strategy at all. It was more expected so she didn’t lash out at me very much. As for Violet and Julia though, Catherine as upset with Violet for the whole girl’s alliance thing and that she went behind her back, and she was even more furious with Julia because she broke the f2 for someone that apparently wanted her out. So even in the votes where I didn’t come out on the majority I was cushioned by some of my knowledge of how the alliances worked and how people were friendly with each other, so even in the case that a vote failed, I would receive the least amount of backlash.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I said I wanted to tie that vote but in reality I wanted Cathy to go so that I would have more of an ability to talk to Jake and Kon strategically without her influence.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I made a f2 with Jake at some point, but it was evident after this vote that he kinda trusted Cathy a bit more as a first instinct, so I was even more motivated to split them. He also told her immediately that she was getting votes and from whom, so I was kinda sus at that. This knowledge of them being a potential pair also gave me ammunition to get other people to want to split them up.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Also, I chose to make the move to rally votes against Catherine when I was immune mostly because that’s when there was the least risk for me to have the vote turn against me. I could lead the vote while immune and still be okay because she couldn’t be like “oh I’ll vote for tucker that’ll show him!!”.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F7 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I had a feeling that Jake had the idol so I was okay with people voting for him. He didn’t trust me near as much after the following vote, and I needed one of him/Cathy to leave as soon as possible so it was okay with me that other people were leading the vote on him, namely Violet.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Cathy and Jake told me they were voting for Kon, but I still didn’t really believe them. I kinda figured they would vote for either me Julia or Violet since we were the ones who tried to blindside cathy the round before. I kinda figured Julia would be the least likely to be voted, followed by me, and then leaving Violet as the person most likely to be voted, and low and behold it was. I thought maybe my “f2” with Jake gave me some coverage but I definitely could have gone out at that point. I think the way Violet was framed as a physical threat kept me more covered, and since I had been hiding behind her for a good part of the game people had developed the assumption that Violet was my closest ally, and while she was pretty close, Asa was still my closest ally.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Violet goes out, and I have to ensure that Cathy goes out next or I literally lose the game.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F6 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Thank God that immunity was something winnable, but even if Id idnt’ win immunity I was planning on using my idol to get one of cathy/kon out since I knew they were the most likely people to have the merge idol.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">With immunity, I spearhead the vote on Catherine again. Kon wants to vote for Julia but I convince him that that’s not the right move strategically “for us” even though it would have been a much better move for him to vote Julia out there and then force cathy/jake against me and asa with him playing directly in the middle. But he fucked up and I convinced him to do something that better represented my game. I got Julia to vote against Kon and that set us up well for F5. Kon and Julia would have a reason to go after each other and Asa and I were essentially safe even if Jake won immunity. Kon uses his advantage to vote Catherine out because he’s terrified of going home, even though he probably didn’t have to. Julia is voted by both Jake and Cathy, so her mobility is basically restrained to voting with me and Asa if me her or Asa win immunity, since she voted Kon prior and since Jake voted her. I still have my idol, and Asa remains close to Kon in the case that Jake wins immunity.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I lie out the butthole to Cathy about the merge idol clue because I couldn’t’ afford for her to get the idol. I had to ensure that she was out immediately next if I had any shot to get to the end.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F5 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I tell everyone I have the idol and that I’m playing it on myself at this point. There’s no point in lying or being like lol surprise!! And I wanted to make sure that I didn’t’ have any votes on me coming into f4. I felt like that would be a good addition to my resume over anyone else I was sitting next to.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Unfortunately Jake wins immunity, and since I have to choose between two people I wanted to go to the end with, I choose to vote out Julia because she snitched to Jake the round that Jake and Cathy were voting her for no reason, based on a communication error, so I figured she would be most likely to vote me out at f4 when I was most vulnerable. Kon is still salty at Julia for her voting him in f6 so he really wants to vote for her and so she goes. Another reason I wanted to vote for Julia there was because she told me that Jake was saving her, and I knew that Jake wanted me out, so there was not really any reason to take steps to benefit his game any further. If I wanted a chance to survive f4 I had to ensure that he was on the weaker end of the alliance spectrum.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">F4 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I knew this was the time where I would be the most vulnerable to leave, since my game envelops on gathering information and using it against people. Logically, the less people that are in the game, the less information I can use to turn people against each other, and in f4 people don’t’ really care about that. They’re more focused on who’s going to win in the end, and unfortunately the general consensus was that I was going to win, and hopefully after y’all read this I can say that I don’t blame them (^:

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Thankfully, I had a trump card in the form of Asa. Kon made a mistake in not voting her out because he underestimated how much we were working together. I knew that I would at least have a tie vote for me to stay if I didn’t win immunity, and I was willing to try and win the tiebreaker to stay in. Even when I was in most danger to leave, nobody could get a majority vote on me. The best they could reckon for was a tie.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">I was kinda underestimated the whole game, in the fact that people assumed they could get me out later, but the deeper I got into the game, the more able I was to win challenges as well as have coverage in the form of my idol and other social connections I made throughout the game. People wrote me off as a bust, that I would get to the end of the game at f4 and just be shafted by the remaining players, but it’s the mistake of whoever let me get this far that allowed that to happen.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">OK THANKS FOR READING THIS FAR IF YOU’VE MADE IT but I’ve got a few more things to say in regards to Kon’s line of argument.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Kon’s probably going to claim that he played the middle of the game, that he had a general sense of control of what was going on, and that I was loyal and trusted him, and I’d like to say that all three of those claims are false.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">First off, his claim that he played the middle since f8 is bogus because in order to play the middle there have to be two definite sides at least, as well as the fact that all the sides expect your vote, and I don’t think that was the case at all. Everyone was blatantly aware at the game that Kon was playing since like the beginning of merge. It just seemed like his tenacity to message everyone and get their votes sprung from a general sense of a lack of control of the game. There were several periods where I would talk to Kon and he would ask me the same question over and over again just to see if I was voting him. I don’t think someone that was in control of the game in any sense would expect so much that they were being voted literally every round.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Finally, the “trust” I had in Kon was only founded on the basis that I had to keep him close because he was probably the sneakiest player in the game. By keeping him close I could have an influence on his moves and influence him to act in a way that benefited my endgame more than his, (i.e. voting out Catherine and Julia) and by doing so I think any argument of him “playing the middle” is clouded by how inefficient his endgame ended up being for him. I don’t think he planned very efficiently for any variants that may have happened in the game, (i.e. Jake winning f5 immunity, Asa saving me at f4), so he neither had control over me nor had as much control of the outcomes of the game as I did.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">In conclusion, I think I played the best game because I was able to get the least amount of backlash and targeting for doing the most this game compared to the other two finalists. The moves I made were a lot more clean and they didn’t have to compensate for any lack of control that I had during the votes. I felt like I was always prepared for a variety of scenarios whereas my other two finalists didn’t really prepare well and in exchange put themselves in a scenario where they didn’t have a good shot of winning.

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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">IF Y’ALL MADE IT TO THE END I’M SO FUCKING SORRY I TRIED TO DO THIS ONCE BUT MAYBE IDK YOU’LL LIKE THIS ONE BETTER please vote for me ok bye I’ll await your questions!! <ac_metadata title="Vote for Tucker!"> </ac_metadata>