Board Thread:Survivor 39: Poveglia/@comment-72.141.7.170-20190604000111/@comment-38856411-20190605020757

First off I wanna say I love that you put the max effort in to dunking on us with that diss track. But here are the answers to your questions.

'''1. If you had won final immunity, who would you have taken to the end? '''

'''I would have taken Jackson. I was confident that I would have a decent chance against either of them, but I did feel as though Jordan would be a more difficult person to beat because of his visibility in the later part of the game. Even though he was my ride or die … I would rather he have died.'''

'''2. How exactly did your game "open up" after I left? '''

'''I would say that the point my game opened up was actually the round you were voted out. I knew that was the point I would have to play more aggressively so I went to you and tried to establish myself as someone that you could “scoop up” and use to your advantage. I knew that if I occupied you with a fake blindside (voting out Scott) that I could divert your attention away from me and towards something else. I thought the best way to blindside someone was to occupy them with another blindside. '''

'''At the same time I was working on Jackson and developing the bond to make sure that when he did flip on you and John that he would be more loyal to me than to Jordan. And if Jackson was gun-shy and didn’t want to make the flip happen, I could still go with the fake plan and vote out Scott, someone who for sure didn’t want to work with my all the way to end (and also make Abi and Alex happy by getting some sweet revenge.)'''

'''The point was that I had options about how I wanted to move forward. After you left, I was situated as the swing vote between Jordan/Scott and Jackson/John. I was the person who could control who would go home in that round. Now obviously John played his idol this round but I had the numbers on my side and I was still in a good position even if John didn’t leave. '''

'''When Jackson won immunity at F4 I once again had options about who I wanted to vote out. I had framed the entire round as “whichever one of them wins we have to vote out the other,” and “we only stand a chance at the end against each other.” If you want more details on my thought process on why I voted Jordan, you can look at my answers to Jackson’s question about it. '''

'''At the final 3 I was guaranteed to make it to the final 2. Jackson thought we both couldn’t beat Jordan, and Jordan wanted his story book ending of an hour 1 alliance making it all the way to the end. I didn’t need to win the final immunity. I had options. '''

3. If you were to self-analyze your game this season, do you believe you have been playing to win or mostly just to get to the end?

'''I have always been playing for the win. If I’m reading in between the lines correctly here, I’m thinking that the subtext of this question is that perhaps I was a bit foolish for saving Jordan when I knew he was a big threat? Here’s why I don’t think this is true. '''

'''There is nothing that more valuable in this game than a good ally. Not an idol, not an extra vote, not a trip to the asylum for some trinket. Jordan was a good ally to me and I knew that he would be loyal to me to the end. If you had an ally that you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would take you to the final 2, would you vote them out? I would take a person who was slightly difficult to beat in a final 2 scenario vs getting voted out any day of the week because I have a chance to stand in front of you all and explain why I deserve to win. '''

'''4. What were your thoughts (rational) and feelings (emotional) reading Jordan's speech? And is there anything you'd like to challenge from what he said? '''

My rational reactions My emotional reactions '''Apart from feeling a bit rambly and unproofed, I think Jordan attempts to take too much credit for everything in his speech. He acts like Scott, Jackson and I were just pieces he moved around on a board, to say nothing of the rest of the players. I think he does have a lot to be proud of, and he did play a good game, but the game he’s describing makes me feel expendable and kind of cheap, and I was the least expendable person to him. I can’t imagine how y’all felt after reading it. '''
 * Its convenient that he’s using Fred as evidence of some of his strategic acumen when Fred isn’t here to confirm or deny that this ever happened. 
 * It’s true that Jordan did have access to a lot of information but didn’t always know how to utilize it effectively 
 * “Jino, who also had connections with both sides” How exactly is this true? Jino burned all the bridges with Este 2.0 (except for with me, strangely) and certainly wasn’t trusted by the Padua people (who immediately votes him out), so I don’t know where this take is coming from. 
 * I’ve explained multiple times in other responses how Jordan didn’t actually save himself at F4. 
 * Jordan’s lie at the final three was impressive, but ultimately it didn’t matter to me. I was going to the final two either way. 
 * I would feel seriously dissed if I was Scott and I found out that Jordan only aligned with me because he thought I was the “outsider”
 * Also Scott, if Jordan was telling you that he was your number 1, then I’ve got news for you hun. 
 * To this day I don’t understand why Jordan made the move to vote out Alex. He claims it was all part of some master plan of his to keep the sides at war, but something still doesn’t add up about that. 
 * Jordan was “very active in targeting Natalia at F6” but couldn’t keep a good poker face to her at all the entire round so I had to play go between to keep him from being too obvious. She was super suspicious of him the entire time and didn’t believe what he was saying at all. To act like he could’ve done this without me is kind of disingenuous. 
 * I came up with the plan to win immunity at F5 and he just sort of agreed, but go ahead, take all the credit for that too.