Board Thread:Survivor 22: San Marcos/@comment-27281906-20170208211451/@comment-9755360-20170208214136

" Why didn't you try harder to garner a relationship with me, did you feel that I was disposable to you and that you didn't need a relationship with me to win?"

Hi, Brandon. I do agree that we never got to know each other, and that is indeed a shame. I talked to you the least out of everyone I was on a tribe with, but I do think that your critisism is a bit skewed - I asked you about yourself, which you ignored, so I think it does go both ways.

As for not attempting to know you harder, I do admit that you were on the bottom of my list when it came to talking. I felt like we never really got an instant connection, like I got with quite a few others, so there's that. You also kind of jumped back to Quetzal pretty immediately, and the other Catarinas talked about how you were a rat and snake and whatnot, and I know that shouldn't affect my thoughts, but it did in a way - I'd rather get to know people I actually could work with in the future, than someone I knew probably would never work with me. I know how loyal of a guy you are, and that you wouldn't flip on your Quetzals, so from a game PoV, I didn't see many reasons to talk to you, when I could talk to Sim, Shea, Chris and others instead. I didn't really have much time to talk to people, so I had to prioritize, and you just fell back at that. The other reason as to why I didn't try to get to know you, on a more personal level, is really selfish, actually. I've talked about how much I hate voting out people, and when it's someone you know and have become friends with, it hurts so much more, and I just... I knew I wanted you gone sooner rather than later, and I also knew that whatever I did, others would always have much closer relationships to you anyway, since we didn't meet up until the merge, and almost everyone else had spent lots of time with you prior to that, so I unfortunately just never focused on getting to know you, since I thought it'd only bring me unnecessary pain and wouldn't achieve anything game-wise (but I forgot about Jury votes, and I'm paying the price for that now, I guess). Had the pre-merge gone differently for us, there's no doubt in my mind we'd've gotten to know each other a lot better.

But yeah, to make things short, I think we both felt a bit of distance between us, and I didn't see any clear benefit in spending time talking to you compared to others, and I believe that's why we never talked a lot.