Board Thread:Survivor 21: Kerala/@comment-1928659-20161208015417

Hello everyone!!!! This is SuperBeard speaking!! I am digging this name so hard. I wil use it for the next 3 months that I will have my beard. I have to join the army afterwards. Bye bye facial hair!!!

So, Survivor Kerala is finally reaching an end. I can' t lie, this has been stressful. I would like to start by thanking the wonderful hosts (Yes Jaylen, you too) for accepting my barely on time application and giving me the opportunity to play this wonderful game, all the co-players who made this season a thrill to be a part of and for some reason they didn' t vote me out until Day 39 and my mother for making me such a cute sob! Also a huge thanks to my partners, Tucker and Asa. This game would have been very different without you 2 here, and my life expectancy would probably not have been burdened by a million heart attacks or a handful of hours playing Endless Lake!

I' ll make this easy and jump right to the good part. Why should the 8 of you vote for me to win this season. I have a very clear answer to this. Because if you take the game step by step, and analyze every vote that has been cast, every thing that has been done, you can find my hand pushing towards this direction. Was my game flawless? No. Definetely no. I made a million mistakes. But for every mistake I did, I fixed it with 2 things correct. I was exposed ALL THE TIME, one day did not pass that my name was not seriously passed around. Things could have switched in any given minute with just one wrong word, with just one bad comment of mine but that word was never said. I sat comfortably in the middle during this whole game and saw the chaos I helped create develop in front of me. Let' s take this step by step. I will try to analyze the general idea for this game, not every single move because we will die here slowly and possibly painfully.

Life in early Periyar was booooring. We were devastated to be losing challenge after challenge, but as a curse and a blessing we had inactives. That was when I started creating social bonds. Asa, Tucker, Jacob, Sim and Violet were the only active people in the tribe and we all formed good relationships. I thought i could play this game easily then and created a majority alliance, but the swaps and inactivity and the constant target on my back wanted things to get ugly. After the swap and Michael quitting, Periyar was down by 3. I was stuck in a tribe where fortunately the Periyars were more and 2/3 Thekkadys were inactive, but 2 of my closest allies on the other side were going to be picked one by one. I tried throwing challenges to save them, and saving Asa proved to be a turning point in this game.

So merging down in numbers and with a big juicy target on my back was not looking very good for me. I needed to avoid people voting by tribal lines, or I would be 12th. I had gained new friends in the faces of Julia and Vikram and the new Thekkadys thankfully didn' t really seem to be willing to work with each other. The relationships were blent, a few dictatorships appeared and several cross-tribal friendhsips loomed over the first unanimous votes. Daulton targeted Nicolai and then you all targeted him and Vikram was laying too low so those 2 tribals gave me time to make myself necessary for everyone. By then, I had started my chaos strategy. I was leaking information everywhere. Most secrets that I was supposed to keep, were out. And apparently, keeping secrets was not something a lot of people were doing this season. I would give random info to a random person just to have it come back to me. I could see it spreading slowly,and there was a lot of weirdness and mistrust. With this situation, every plan that was ever forged to get me out, came right back at me, so I could change my approach and see 3 more days. I was aware of groups forming around me without me in them, and I could see when I was on the outs and when I wasn' t. I was able however, to sway the plans from me to the person targetting me every single time.

The Anna vote was a very significant moment in the game. There were a bunch of failed plans people would never follow through. But after that vote, by getting Anna out I positioned myself as the swing vote for every single vote till the very end. I could decide to get Nicolai out because he targeted me, and then quickly went for Jake only to have my social relationships keep me safe during the idol play I was planning for. Then once again I formed new trusting bonds with Catherine to get the target off my hairy face and before our work even started I had to adjust to new findings and use my powers to flip and get her as a huge challenge threat out of the game, even though it was really difficult to cast those votes Then aiming for a good spot at the FTC and seeing huge threats, I tried to overthrow the 2 remaining jury threats, the social player and the person trying to dictate.. I ended up in the F3, having won the most immunity challenges and practically without having received any votes that would put me in danger, even though I was usually in the main discussions to be evicted

During all that time, I was insistent to maintain an alliance with the people from the original Periyar,. Tucker, Asa and Violet. My time zone has been a mess all game long and when everything started playing out I had to sleep. I missed important conversations and developments, and as a result I found myself outside of the loop multiple times.Knowing very well how this group worked, and the fact that I was at the bottom of it I knew that I had to keep the most obvious member of it, Tucker, in, not only because they (we?? :P ) were all moving as a solid block, obvious in the difficulty to maneuver and with him cocky as fuck by the small numerical advantage, but also Tucker was informing me about things I wasn' t 'supposed' to know, was giving me his name to use as an amazing target to bring up and was actually not going to vote me even though he was talking about it. I could take my time doing my dirty work, while learning all the dirty work of the others, staying safe behind them and looking for the perfect moment to strike. Sometimes you expect people to finally make the last move they need to own their game. I made that move. I foolishly expected Asa to rebel and finally make that move too. That was one of my few miscalculations in this game. Overestimating my opponents is a mistake I make often. In this case, it shouldn' t make such a difference.



I have a played a game that has kept me off the chopping block for the whole duration, while being able to force a vote towards the direction I needed. I realised who was calling the shots and who people were following and used them in my advantage. I used everything I could use and did everything I could do. I found a Hidden Immunity Idol in the first days of the merge. I found the Shield of Deception that made me confident in challenges and a Double Vote to make me unvotable in the later stages of the game. Everything that was available to be used, everything that a player could find, every power a player could have, I HAD IT. Everyone knew what I was doing and everyone wanted to do something about it, but it never happened. You let me fly to the point where I could predict every vote and win the challenges with ease. I hid 3 Fake Hidden Immunity Idols to make people confused and ruin their strategies and in the last rounds I was safer than I ever was, while watching the people who were too loud to express their leadership struggle.

Tomorrow you are voting for me because I grew stronger as this game went on. I kept gathering information only to use it when others fell apart. I stayed always in the spot to make decisions but kept in mind to never be an obvious vote for someone. If you are bitter for someone who may have flipped on you, then I get it, I may not get your vote. I still bare a lot of respect for all of you. But if your intention is to vote for the best game, the game that grew stronger and ensured decision power and safety, you only have one choice...

This season deserves a great winner, to represent all the great players that played it. A winner who owned the game, played it as it should be played, and is t'''he ultimate creator of the Kerala bootlist. '''

That player is me! And I can explain everything you need in your questions which I will be very happy to answer.

Once more I had an amazing time playing and thank you for a great season! It was a pleasure meeting you all and I hope I will be keeping in touch with most of you.

With great respect,

Konstantinos  