Board Thread:Season 34: Romania/@comment-32626451-20180826000519/@comment-31715181-20180828235944

1. This is a question that needs a fairly long response so I’m not giving you that many questions. Imagine Maya does not flip at Final 9 and I am voted out. What would have happened the rest of the game, all the way to the Final 3? Had Maya not flipped at Final Nine, the best-case scenario would have been Maya sticking with us for one more vote seeing as we had the clear majority, and voting off Julia, Morgan and Anthony. However, with all the idols going around, it would have been tricky to keep all of our numbers so at this point I'd say maybe Brian would have been voted out due to immunity wins if the idol play would have worked. This meant the numbers would have been 3-3 with maya still as a swing vote, which now i think she'd go back to Anthony and Julia. I think this would mean that like the original votes, nick and Dakota, as deemed bigger targets than I was, would have been voted out. However, at this point it would be the same final 5. I would assume it would play out the same way it did with Julia's elimination followed by Anthony's.

However, Had the idol play not worked, I'd assume that me, nick, Maya, Dakota and brian would have continued until we were the final 5. At this point me and nick had originally planned on blindsiding brian as he was an immunity threat so i feel that plan would have brian in 5th. Now I'd think that Maya and Dakota would vote Nick out at this point and as much as i love him, I need to think with strategy so id assume nick would get 4th. The only major change in this scenario is Dakota replaces Morgan in the final three.

This is what i would assume would happen.

2. What are the strategic and/or social benefits, if any, of ignoring most of the people in the game? I don't feel I ignored people as when I was spoken to, I responded and engaged with conversation. However, when I just meet people, I'm kind of introverted. I don't typically start conversations a lot and once I just meet you, I try to keep people at arm's length. Once I begin to know you and trust you I get more comfortable conversing with you. I don't think I deliberately ignored anyone, however I do admit I could have tried a bit more to come out of my shell and approach people. Strategy wise, I feel keeping people at arm's length made me more aware of some people more than I would have had I been closer to them. It made me more aware of some of the happenings going on. It personally benefited me as my isolation from everyone took the target off my back and allowed me to not be on anyone's radar. My isolation definitely came with a lot of hinderances that damaged my social and overall gameplay, but the fact It allowed the target to stay off my back is what allowed me to make the final three.

1. What was the worst and best aspects of each finalists’ game? Mayas best aspect was her strategy. She made some important flips that affected the whole outcome of the season. she was also the cause of one of the biggest blindsides. Her weakest aspect was her social game as she was not very talkative. She was, like me, someone who you'd struggle to get a hold of. Morgan, hmm... I'd say Morgans best aspect was his overall gameplay. He knew when he needed the immunity and when he needed to. He also made sure to build a lot of trust with his allies. However, I feel that his social game, while not terrible, could have been better as his lack of relationships with others made him one of the bigger targets

2. If you could change who you were sitting next to at Final 3, would you and why?

In all honesty, I would not change the final three, in a strategic mindset. This is due to the fact that if I were against anyone else I feel my chances at winning would plummet significantly. Also, I personally feel that everyone here made the final three for a reason, so changing it would be pretty insulting to their gameplay.