Board Thread:Survivor 29: Hallasan/@comment-32233167-20180109071557/@comment-33311709-20180109193848

Hey Jake, great seeing you buddy. I love that you brought up some solid points, so I'll try and answer these the best I can.

1: Have you ever considered a career in stand-up comedy, because I got a pretty big laugh when you claimed your strength was in your social connections. What exactly was strong about your social game when you never attempted to talk to anyone outside of your alliance? Sure, you got to the end, but why are you not then just seen as a goat because you never bothered to interact with anyone?

As I noted prior, my beginning relationship with Felipe and Ally is what gave me an advantage over all others from the start. From day one though, I messaged everyone as much as I humanly could, and that's not even an exaggeration. If I saw someone online, they would most likely see a message from me.

In terms of you personally, the only reason I didn't reach out to YOU as much as others is because I got word from Felipe and others that you had it out for me, and I felt that by attempting to talk "game" with you, it would come back to haunt me. Even when I knew you were out for me, I still attempted to reach out multiple times throughout the season.

My connections outside of the alliance were enhanced as well. I connected with Blake, Sam, Zach, and others pretty well in my eyes, and I also had the ability to fall back on the alliance of myself, Ally, Cam, and Felipe as insurance at any point.

BECAUSE of my connections, it allowed me to find out who had idols, who had F2 deals with who, and it gave me the option to lean individuals one way or another.

To say I didn't reach out to anyone outside of my alliance would be false though, because I really did attempt to connect with almost everyone in the entire cast.

2: I’d like you to tell me something you know about me that you learned from a conversation we’ve had. It can be anything. I am not allowing things that other people told to you or things said in tribe chats.

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe you told me you worked in retail. It was around the holiday season and I noted that it was a busy time of year, which opened up that route.

Although we didn't connect as much as I had hoped, I still think I did my absolute best to reach out to you and others (even when I was told you were gunning for me).

3: Where exactly did you play as hard as you could? You claimed to have all of this information, but you never bothered to do anything with it, so why should being in-the-know matter when it looks like you got dragged to the end by someone that’s better at the game than you?

I would disagree that Ally played a better game than me to be honest...Had it not been for me, she wouldn't have been included in the alliance chat, and it would have opened up a limitless amount of scenarios to occur.

Where Ally and I differ is that I knew I would struggle against "vets" in flash games, so I knew I need to talk to everyone as much as possible, and make them feel as though they could come to me as their "go to" guy.

Winning comps and finding one idol is somewhat impressive, but I was a huge part in the boot order, and was the glue that allowed the four-man alliance to even arise in the first place.

As I stated before, in every waking moment, I was attempting to connect with people, simply because I contained a killer instinct to win this game. There is no way on earth that Ally played a harder social and strategic game than I did, and that's the truth. I applied to win the game.

I used all the information I received to the best of my ability though. When I found out Juliet and Felipe were close, we split them up. When I found out you had an idol, I waited until the right moment to target you. When Sam and Cam were on hot streaks in comps, it was me planting the seeds into others heads.

4: Are you satisfied with knowing that every vote you get won’t be in your favor, but just votes against Ally?

I came out and played the best game I could. I had some of the most powerful weapons in the game: Knowledge and numbers. I was one of the only individuals attempting to get to know everyone, and I'm sitting here for a reason.

If there are votes against Ally, I can see why. On the other hand, I think my game is being severly underrated, because I had a large part in the success of MULTIPLE others in this game. I hope that the truth comes out and the jury can listen to what I'm preaching.