Board Thread:Survivor 26: Chaos/@comment-31555005-20170827104526

So I’ve read/watched all of your speeches so far - I haven’t replied to Eve’s and David’s yet but I’m on that. And I have a few things I really want to reply to when it comes to David’s speech and a few things said by all of the jurors here. As Elias also has an Act II speech, I figured I’d make one as hell just for the heck of it in which I respond to some of the things said by the jurors so far. This is more of a general reply to things, so don’t be surprised if you personally haven’t mentioned it in your speech so far!

I’ve been told by people that I’ve had a weaker strategic game than Elias, that I haven’t been in control as much, or that I wasn’t in the loop with votes? I simply don’t get how that can be true. Elias is getting praise for his strategic game - but I believe my strategy going into this has been just as much if not better than his.

David has said that my under the radar game is a cop-out because I’ve been inactive? Yet how can it be a cop-out - I’ve been active every single day, talking to you guys, getting to know you, sometimes really working on challenges and stuff. It makes sense to say that I’ve also tried to actively apply my strategy here, at least during the merge portion.

Pre-merge it’s been said that I’ve done nothing, even though I’ve been positioned rather well, never got in trouble once, all of this despite literally being away from home for the whole pre-merge. I still managed to talk to people, I still managed to be a presence here even without the time other people in this game had. Look at the tribes I’ve been on - it’s true that I haven’t been to tribal a lot but honestly, on most tribes I was on I wasn’t going home anytime soon.

But the merge is the more important part of the game right? Yet my strategy here has been “poor” according to David. All of that despite:

 
 * I’m one of the only three, maybe four people to have played the middle this merge. And I’m the only one out of those three-four to have not gotten any stick of it. Why? David would probably say it’s because I’ve been “inactive”, I’m gonna say it’s because of my under the radar strategy - at almost every single point in this merge, I had a meatshield in the form of my closest ally, Aras.
 * I think some people keep forgetting that Elias’s game would have suffered without the unmerge twist. Kyle and Wendy were voted out, two people he didn’t really work with at all. However, I was prepared for anything. Not only I was safe in my tribe and able to get to FTC regardless (as I’ve shown), but I believe I would have also been in a great position if Wendy and Kyle stayed in the game (Wendy at least would have likely avoided a vote-out without the unmerge twist).
 * Elias “dominated” the game from F6 onward. I fail to see that, given I played just as much of a role in the David/Aras boots and in what happened after as he did. The only difference is, his moves became straightforward at the F5 since I went on my immunity run.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Furthermore, he’s not the only one who had a F3 with Jake and Emily. I had that, I had our Final 4, I was able to keep myself in the loop.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Apparently, I also didn’t “need” to do anything - but I avoided becoming a target week-in, week-out, because of what exactly? I’d owe it to my social game, and to my strategic game. I’ve been in the loop and knew where the vote would go every single day, perhaps barring the Eve vote (I expected a vote on Jake, which was of course the majority vote, nulled out by an idol play).

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ultimately, all of this is subjective. We all have our own beliefs about what really happened this game - but I think my strategic game has been criminally underrated, especially by David. <ac_metadata title="Vote for Luca, Act 2."> </ac_metadata>