Board Thread:Survivor 39: Poveglia/@comment-36035721-20190604010319/@comment-38856411-20190604125940

If you want more detail well prepare yourself honey cause here she comes.

Obviously I can only see the chats that I’m in, and obviously I’m not going to see the conversations where people are considering targeting me, but the fact that I didn’t receive any votes during the merge means that those conversations never came to fruition because there were always other people that the majority of people wanted to deal with.

'''And I can understand how you feel confused about my statement about how my personal relationships weren’t as strong as you perceived. Our relationship was messsssy, and I can tell that we’re two people who don’t really have a super lot of things in common, but I still tried my fucking hardest to try and make a personal connection with you on the original Este tribe. And I liked you, you’re a funny fucking dude, and your sense of humour is 100% unique. I don’t know where the disconnect happened between us but it was never from any animonsity on my end. Were you the first person I would have tried to vote out if we had gone to another tribal before the swap? Absolutely. But I also felt good enough that if we swapped on to a tribe together that we wouldn't tear each others throats out. '''

'''But all of my other conversations with people started out with small talk and getting to know them and their lives. I always made sure to talk personal before I talked strategy, not only to get to know who I would work well with, but also because we were gonna be spending nearly two months with these people and I’d rather have talk about stupid and fun shit than be a game bot the whole time. If the relationships that we built weren’t as strong as I felt they were, then that’s on me, but I do feel like I genuinely like everyone on this cast and I hope they liked me too. '''

'Can you name the three separate times you saved Jordan? And as a follow up to that, can you explain how that is a negative on his game because it really just sounds to me like he had you wrapped around his finger.'

'''This is a negative for Jordan because it meant that in our strategic partnership, I was doing more to keep him safe than he needed to do to keep me safe. I had to make sure that he was safe through several difficult situations that were varying degrees of his fault, whereas I never had to rely upon Jordan’s acumen to secure my own safety. '''
 * 1) During the swap, after the anarchy tribal council, I decided that I needed to protect Jordan (and you) from getting voted out any any cost by aggressively throwing the immunity challenge. I thought of the idea probably at the same time Jino did, so when he was the one who brought it up to me, I nurtured the idea because it was beneficial to me and Jino would take the fall if it ended up blowing up in our faces. 
 * 2) At final 7, when Abi was blowing up and revealing all the things that Jordan had said to her to Natalia, I came to Jordan with this information. If I hadn’t have told him, the rift between him and Natalia would have widened, as I knew that there was mistrust starting to brew there. If Jordan hadn’t completely mismanaged Abi on his way out, I wouldn’t have had to bail him out from this situation. 
 * 3) At final 4, I voted to keep him in the game over John. I’m not going to lie and pretend that I hadn’t considered voting him out (just as you consider all of your options before every vote), but I came to the decision to keep him BEFORE our conversation about it. I go into more detail about why I made that decision in my answer to Jackson’s question. 

Can you elaborate on this end game plan that you told Abi you had upon her leaving or whatever it was?

'''At the point that I knew that Abi was leaving I formulated a plan to send information with her to the jury. I knew that I needed to communicate more clearly how I planned to get to the end of the game so that the jury could follow along with what I had laid out and knew that I was acting with intention and executing a game plan instead of just following the flow of the game. '''

The plan that I laid out for her went like this:

Final 6) I rally the Padua members to vote out Scott. They would be eager to watch the Estes continue to cannibalize themselves and not gun for them and I could sell it as a revenge move. During this round I would continue to build my bond with Jackson and get him on board with flipping on the next vote. 

'''Final 5) Jordan and I convince Jackson that Natalia/John are the people controlling the flow of the game and get him to flip and vote one of them out (whichever one he was most comfortable with at the time. '''

Final 4) The three of us (Jackson/Jordan/Me) vote out the remaining of Natalia/John

Final 3) Jackson and Jordan would both want to take me to the final 2 because they both would know that they can’t win against the other. 

'''It didn’t play out exactly the same way I drew it up, but it was pretty close. Jackson was willing to flip a round sooner than I anticipated, and Natalia became the person to take the fall at 6. We had the votes to get John out at 5 (barring idol shenanigans), and at that point Jackson would have more than willing to vote for Scott (who the Paduas all perceived as a huge jury threat). '''

'Say for example Jordan’s game is owed to you. How much of YOUR game is owed to Abi and Alex for saving your ass at rocks when they could have dipped and been perfectly fine?'

'''100%. If either of them decided that I wasn’t worth the risk to keep then I would have been gone and I wouldn’t be given the opportunity to talk to the jury (or even be in the jury) at all. But they did decide that I was worth the risk. The loyalty and I trust I had built with them was worth them risking their OWN games to keep our group together. '''

'''I think an underreported story is that Abi, Alex and I were tight before the rock draw happened. Right before the swap, I got news that Jino had started a separate alliance with you and Jordan and didn’t want me to know about it. I used this information to build the relationship Abi and Alex closer to me and solidify my place in the Este swap tribe so that even if we had lost 3 challenges in a row we would all be safe.'''

Other Questions 

'Say you have 100% to allocate. Split that 100% between Social/Strategic/Physical. For example, 40% Social, 40% Strategical, 20% Physical. Is this in your mind what a winner’s percentage should be?'

Social 40%

Strategic 40%

Physical 20%

'''I don’t think there’s one winning formula, but I do think that you need to know your balance of the formula and be able to play to your strengths while minimizing your weaknesses. I knew that with my not great 20% in physical I would still be able to contribute in team challenges but not be seen as a huge challenge threat. I never relied on it to carry me through the game. Instead I leaned on my social and strategic abilities because I knew that’s where I would be able to excel. '''

'It’s cute and all that we are talking about why you deserve to win. Why do you deserve to win OVER the other person? What did they do wrong that you did right?'

'''This is gonna have a little bit of overlap from the part where I talked about the times I saved Jordan, so forgive me for that. '''

'''If we go back through the game and tweak any number of events, then Jordan Pines in sitting in the jury instead of in this final 2 chair. If I don’t give him the information that Abi is blowing up his game to Natalia, Jordan could have gone home. If Jordan doesn’t beat me at the asylum duel challenge and get his idol for F5 he goes home (because I would have told Jackson about it if I had it). If Jordan doesn’t win the final 6 immunity there’s a chance Natalia rallies the votes against him and he goes home. If I don’t save his ass at final 4, Jordan goes home. Jordan played a game where his flaws were covered up by lucky saves and allies covering for him instead of his own social and strategic prowess, but his vulnerabilities were many and very visible. '''

'''I didn’t have such a smooth road getting to the end. I lost allies, I risked rocks, and I worked my ass off with no advantages, and I couldn’t rely on immunity wins to bail myself out of sticky situations. I had to use just my brain and my heart to form the connections that helped me get to the end despite all of the hardships that I had to overcome. There were paths and choices for me all the way up until the end (more detailed in my answer to Natalia) and I could have gotten to the end with any number of people, whereas Jordan could only get to the end this one way. In that way I feel I am the more well rounded player and have a game that’s more repeatable and frankly more relatable. I don’t claim to be some mastermind in control of every vote, but I used the information and the bonds I had to make sure that I was always safe and able to get out who I needed to get out to get to the end with a shot to win. '''

'Lastly, I would like you to rank the jurors AND yourselves on a list for the following category: “Played at their full potential”. Not rly a question moreso. A command. :x'

Jackson

John

Devin

Jordan

Scott

Natalia

Alex

Abi

Jino

'''PS I don't know why fandom is making all my shit bold, I can't seem to unbold it. '''