Board Thread:Survivor: Tokelau (Season 14)/@comment-26376587-20160115020240/@comment-5098907-20160115043020

Hi Yannick, I'm going to address some of your remarks first cause you had some questions in there, then I'll do your real questions.

You're right when you said that I took a real opportunistic approach to my gameplay. When someone needed my vote, I jumped to their side. It's unfortunate that they were the same people who kept being voted off one by one, but I knew I needed to stick with them because I felt like they wouldn't cross me later in the game and that I had a better chance if I wound up next to any of them at FTC. That vote when TSN went home was not one of my finer moments. I knew you guys were going to vote for either TSN or myself and I chose to play the idol on myself because I'd rather have wasted it than have gone home without playing it, so I don't regret having done that. I also wasn't expecting Hunter to have given Jake his social vote during that vote either.

And the reason why I did not offer you that same grace I did Sora was because I knew I didn't want to sit next to you in the end. This ties in to Question #2, but Sora was not gonna win the game if he continued to do shit and followed you straight to Day 39. You quickly shot it down whenever I brought it up, but you and Sora were a pair whether you like it or not. And in this case, you were the Alpha while Sora was the Beta. You were more likable and were more strategic. That's why had Sora not had that idol, you would have gone home in the revote. But yeah, I offered Sora my vote because he had everything to gain. He had the opportunity to step out of your shadow. You were golden just as you were.

Now onto your questions.

1. I think what changed between seasons was that people were more willing to commit to a group in IDS than in here. In IDS, I had a tight group and we actually stuck to it which is how I think I play the best, but in Tokelau things were more interchangable. I'm not gonna be like motherfucking Stephen Fishbach and say that there were voting blocs, but people were more willing to flip in this which caused me to play from the bottom for most of the late game. And when you continiously have to grasp on to anything that could take you another day further, you lose that power position in the game.

2. So after Sora refused to do anything with me that vote, Jake came to both Kim and I with the idea of splitting the two of you up. I had immunity and shortly after that Kim told me she found the idol (thx to goddess Katie Collins) so we had nothing to lose by joining up with him and Hunter for that vote. So yes, it was Jake.

3. It's been a secret fantasy of mine for years but I've never found the right person. So everytime you mention it I cry a little because I haven't been able to enjoy one of life's greatest pleasures like you have :'(