Board Thread:Survivor 22: San Marcos/@comment-4603998-20170208013253/@comment-26864283-20170209201658

Hey Chris! It’s great to hear that you’re not bitter towards me because that is something I was worried about. I’m glad you were able to recognize voting you out as being a power move for me and I’ll explain why it was within my response. I really hope that after this game, we continue to talk because I feel like our relationship was one of the best ones I had. So let’s get to your questions.


 * 1) I feel like my alliance with Sim was a partnership, but I would say I had a little more pull over him than he did me. It took me a while to realize it, but with me having my social ties to you and Claudia, I was able to persuade Sim to want to work with you guys. Even during the early stages of the merge, Sim would express how we might need to cut Austin because he was getting too close to Claudia and I would always hear him out on the idea, but knew it was a bad idea to act upon. He was always dead set on getting rid of the two of you, as was everyone, but because I told him that we could trust you and Claudia, he was a little more open to wanting to keep you guys around. This played a pivotal role in voting out Jenna. Since, I was in Sim’s ear about being able to trust you and Claudia, he was definitely more open to voting Jenna out and keeping you guys around. Sim expressed his distrust for the two of you a lot, so by me telling him that I had good strong relationships with the both of you, he was more open to sticking with you guys over Shea and Nathaniel once we got to final 5. Another time would be at final 4. Sim actually wanted to finally get Nathaniel out, but I was able to convince him that you were a bigger threat to go. Nathaniel gave me and him the same exact case word for word, which did not sway either of us. What made Sim want to get rid of you, was me in his ear for about the entirety of the final four round because I knew that you probably would of had a better shot at winning than Nathaniel. I know that Sim did say it was a last minute thing, because it literally took up until the deadline to convince him to actually vote you out. I do think that Sim knew he needed my vote throughout the game because of how close we were and because of my social ties so he never really thought of crossing me, I never thought of crossing him either, but I used this to my advantage. Since Sim had a little bit less of a social game than I did, I knew that he did not necessarily have anywhere else to go besides work closely with me. I realized this, and made it so that way I had to stand out in this game more than he did in case we both made it to final tribal. I believe that I did so since I was a bit more vocal than him in expressing my opinions and feelings in the tribe chat, as well as just to people in general.
 * 2) The reason why I decided to go with Nathaniel to the end of you was actually pretty difficult. It was something I had put in motion for a while, before final four, with Sim by expressing how I thought you would sweep the jury if Sim and I had gone to final three with you. The reasons why I decided to vote you out over Nathaniel is because I knew that you had a lot of people pulling for you in the jury. The way I looked at it was if Claudia was the #1 jury threat, who would they be rooting for once she left? Obviously her main side kick Chris. I knew that you would of had Claudia, Nathaniel, Malik and probably all of the Quetzal members. So that left me and Sim to battle it out for second between the last few remaining votes. I knew that if I were to take Nathaniel to final three, I had a better shot at winning since his attitude was starting to piss people off, whereas your attitude was becoming more like able to people. I never had any ill-will towards you in the game, but I knew that others did and as final three came closer and closer, I knew that those same people were probably now rooting for you. You also would express your hatred towards Nathaniel to me in PMs, so I figured that if I were to vote you out, your vote would be a lot more open than if I were to vote out Nathaniel. If Nathaniel had gone and got fourth, there was no way in hell he would of voted for me or Sim, even in his speech he expressed how he’s still bitter over Canada which happened 20 months ago. You respected the game, and hated Nathaniel, so I knew that if I were to vote you out, you’d at least hear out my speech and give me a chance at FTC. Whereas, I believe that Nathaniel would of been extremely bitter towards me. Another reason why I decided to vote you out was because throughout this game, a lot of people were very anti-vets. So, if the final three is all vets, they HAVE to vote for one of us to win, so it gave me a better shot at scooping up more votes since all the people who did not want a vet to win, would of voted for you, the last newbie standing. So, in conclusion, voting you out opened up my shot at winning a lot more than it would of been had I brought you to final three.

Questions for me and Nat: 1. Shea - Shea, honestly I’ve had it with his bullshit in and out of the game. Throughout the game all Shea did was live inside of Nathaniel’s intestines. Whenever anyone mentioned voting Nathaniel, Shea would have a crazy over the top meltdown and threaten to quit. There was even a part in the game where I was trying to push him to quit just so he would leave already. Overall though, I was never nasty to Shea and than for him to just come at me like that in his jury speech was completely uncalled for. Then after I clappedback, he decides to PM me saying that I had no right saying that to him and that if I wanted his jury vote that was not the way to approach his speech. Well guess what, PMing me is against the rules since you’re on the jury so bye. I am so glad I was the one to get him removed since all he did was threaten to quit the entire time and he didn’t even deserve to be on the jury.

Malik - At the time of me typing this, Malik hasn’t even posted his speech but I already know he is still bitter towards me. The issue that happened with me and Malik was that he believed that we were extremely good friends outside this game, which may of been true to some extent. However, Malik voted for me the round that Ryan left and I never wrote his name down. He had heard rumors that we were voting for him the round Ryan left, which were nothing more than just rumors. Word spread that Ryan could of had an idol, so my alliance falsely targeted and made Malik believe he was getting the votes instead of Ryan. Now I know Ryan had the idol, so I know Malik fell victim to the illusion that he was leaving. His attitude in the game got nothing but negative after that, I tried reaching out to him and he would just shut it down or not even reply. It was at that point, I knew Malik was against me and realized there was nothing I could do so I just gave up trying to talk to him. Malik was also the one that was the most anti-vets, simply because we were vets. I found this extremely annoying because almost everyone has returned to a game before and targeting us simply because we’ve played a first time and flopped, which was the theme of the season, was absolutely stupid.

Renz - I honestly never had a personal problem with Renz, it was mainly others. The one issue I had with Renz was that I felt like he tried to threaten me on multiple occasions. He would try throwing hints at me that he had more information than he would reveal, kind of like a scare tactic. This was just absolutely annoying to me, because if he really wanted to gain my trust threats was not the way to do so.

2. My favorite moment of the season was definitely winning final immunity. I feel like throughout the game I was extremely underestimated, especially when it came to challenges. I had never won an individual one (ever even on other orgs) up until the final four. You can even back me up here since you were at final four, the top two challenge competitors were the two that everyone was expecting to win. Even I was under the impression it was you or Nathaniel who would be winning. That was definitely my most favorite moment of the game as well as my most proud. It gave me complete control of who I went to final three with since I would easily be able to get Sim to vote my way.

3. I am extremely proud of my second chance. As I stated in my speech that my goal coming into this game was to not make any enemies. From the looks of it, it doesn’t look like I made any, but rather friends. This was exactly what I wanted to do. I feel like in Socotra I was very loud and tried picking fights in order to create movement in the game but this season I had a completely different approach. I wanted people to create movement without having to start drama but rather by people trusting me. Looking at my Socotra record I only voted correctly one time, when compared to my San Marcos record I voted correctly almost every single time. I definitely think I redeemed myself and showed that I am a very smart player in this game.