Board Thread:Survivor: Antarctica (Season 17)/@comment-26156957-20160609042005/@comment-25934083-20160609132205

1) Well I expected to see you sitting here tonight and would you look at that! I wrote your name three times and you managed to cling on every single time and I salute you for that. But is this what you intended? You received votes starting from John's boot every single time you weren't immune and to me, making yourself such an obvious target for being a challenge beast isn't exactly a great strategy. So why would this style of action be awarded over JR and Mihai's much more smarter, social, and strategic gameplay?

Receiving votes every time I wasn't immune dosent necessarily mean that I don't have a great strategy. Mike Holloway for an example, he was a huge target and was always a name possible to be voted off when he wasnt immune but still ended up winning at FTC! And no that obviously wasn't my intention and I wasn’t making myself a target by being the challenge beast that everyone thought I was because I never was a challenge beast from the start. People put that target on me. It can’t be helped if people thought I’m a challenge beast the moment I stepped up on the Flood Runner immunity challenge. Luck played an important role on my challenge wins and as I’ve told a couple of people time and time again that I am no challenge beast and the stigma of that just never came off of me so I had to become the challenge beast that everyone thinks I am and adapted my gameplay into that and after people kept referring to me as a challenge threat I had to do a complete 180 on my strategy.

I’m not a one dimensional-player where I only have to rely on challenges to get far. That wasn’t my game and I think people miss out on my social and strategic gameplay as well which I highlighted on my opening speech. I would still play the same game that I played have I not been labeled a challenge threat.

I don’t think JR and Mihai played a much more smarter, social and strategic gameplay than me. Granted that Mihai depended on his social game, his biggest flaw was having too many “#1’s” only for him to backstab him when he no longer needs them. I didn’t make as much enemies as Mihai did. I wasn’t “forgotten” as much as JR was. I had no fixed #1s in this game but multiple people still wanted to have an alliance with me, and wanted to bring me to FTC.

2) Which tribal would say was a moment when you managed to turn votes on someone else through your own social interactions?

This would sound cliché but my answer would be your vote out. I know how most of the people would vote that round and comparing notes with JR, I just know that Mihai is playing “both sides” and I was thinking to myself “why would Mihai never ever vote off Andrew it’s so odd”. But then, Mihai came up with this split votes plan this was the chance to take Andrew out without needing the help of Mihai.

There were so many confusing variables on that tribal council due to auction items, alleged idols and splitting of vote. JR was tossing out the idea to vote out Mihai that round but I had to convince him to vote out Andrew and Jamie wanted Mihai gone, like very badly at around Final 8 so instead we then put our 3 votes on Andrew. We still don’t know if your idol was real, or not so I took the risk and pin 3 votes on you. Play an idol on yourself then Chrissa would still go and Andrew would still be vulnerable at the next vote.

3) Without a doubt the two most robbed players this season were Toby and John. Had they not been swapfucked and made the merge instead of you and Jamie, create your own bootlist of the Aurora tribe and give a small sentance summarizing each voteoff.

There’s so many variables in this hypothetical bootlist but this is actually fun speculating so:

11. Uli - Uli has been somewhat became the “leader” of Ferrar and without me and Jamie being there Ferrar will be overnumbered way more than we were in this game and he would be the first to go leaving Ferrar scrambling.

10. JR - JR could be interpreted as Uli’s right hand man seeing as he was on the same post-swap tribe with Uli.

9. Ivan - I think he would get the same placement had me and Jamie not make it to merge.

8. Mihai/Marc - I’m not sure about this considering your and Mihai’s relationship and Mihai’s challenge prowess. He would not place this low had he find an idol like in the real thing. If Mihai does end up playing his idol this round someone like John, Ci’ere or Toby would probably going in this placement. This could also possibly the boot episode for Marc considering he’s Ivan’s ally.

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<p style="margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:0px;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;outline:none0px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);">In that scenario the F3 would have been John, Toby and Andrew. No matter which scenario happens I think John and Andrew would make it to FTC. Mihai could be one of the finalists considering his relationship to Andrew. It would’ve been a real interesting Final 3 is that happens. John and Andrew would have been a constant while Mihai and Toby’s spot on FTC would be a variable.