Board Thread:Survivor: Chile (Season 7)/@comment-26059974-20150429213335

Hey guys! First off I just want to say how much fun this game has been from start to finish, and it has been an amazing experience for me. I'm grateful to have been able to meet new people and make new friends, and I hope we can continue to be friends outside of this game! :D

So first I'd like to talk about my strategy in this game. I came into this game wanting to be as social as I possibly can, and try my best to form solid relationships with people. From the get-go, I formed a great relationship with Tyler F. I really wanted to work with him deep into this game, and I had full intentions on doing it until I realized how threatening his alliance was, just because to me it seemed that him/Ali/Fitz were a tight three. At that point, I knew I needed to make a move if there was any form of swap. Fortunately, there was a mutiny, and I knew I had to take the opportunity if I wanted to have any shot in this game. I also told Heather to mutiny with me, since she was my number one ally. After the swap, we managed to make it to the merge together, and that was when I really started to put my strategy into motion. I knew going into the merge people would most likely perceive Heather as a threat, just from watching her Cape Verde game. That gave me the perfect opportunity to use that to my advantage, and use her as a shield for my game. Using Heather as a shield helped me in a way that, as long as she was in the game, people would target her before they targeted me. People would rather vote Heather out because she was a more obvious threat, giving me an extra 2 or so days to socialize and work my way around the problem had it come up. I always knew I would have to vote Heather out, it just had to happen at the right time, and I had to know I would have a backup alliance for once she left. I had full intention to vote Heather out at the final 4, as long as she didn't win immunity, because she was one of the biggest threats in this game, if not the biggest.

Now, about my social game, I made sure I had connections with people on both sides all throughout the game. From the very beginning, when the game first started, I had bonds with Tyler F. & Ali from one alliance, and bonds with Jessy & Jordan from the other alliance within Patos. After we mutinied, I had bonds with Jessy & Heather on one side, and Jace & Xavier on the other side. Once we merged, I tried to make sure I talked with people from different sides and tried to hear everyone out on what they thought about the game. I was very self-aware in this game, every tribal I knew who was getting votes and who was (most likely) going. Talking to different people from both sides gave me a lot of useful information to help me know when and when not to make a move. I made strong relationships with people that Heather didn't necessarily have the strongest relationships with so I could get information from every angle. It also gave me general information on who's targeting who and who really is my biggest threat. For example Fitz, he was such a big threat to win this game because a lot of people generally liked him, and he would have had an amazing underdog story to tell. Every vote I made had a reason, and that reason had a plan to follow afterwards.

I believe I played a better game than my fellow finalist because I made those connections to help me move forward in the game, and I knew when and when not to make moves. Not only that, but I literally had no upper-hand in this game.(aka nothing from the auction & I didn't have individual immunity to protect me) I had to work with what was given to me, and it ultimately brought me to this point. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I look forward to answering any questions you have for me! :) 