Board Thread:Survivor 26: Chaos/@comment-26394150-20170826205039/@comment-31624573-20170828032938

Hey Kyle, thanks for being pretty reasonable with this and I’m sorry this response has taken a while, I appreciate that. I think you can make the call that my social game was lacking in a few areas, but saying I never made the effort to speak to certain people isn’t true. I did make an effort to talk to you pre-merge semi-frequently until our trust dropped off due to the screenshots thing and we started fighting. Social game goes both ways, however, and when I’m getting messages from Eve in the main chat such as the whole “Eli’s going to be voted out 5-1 loveheartemoji” and I’m getting roasted by you (you’re actually pretty good in the heat of a fight) then building a bridge back again isn’t exactly what I’d be thinking you want to do. Also, many of my allies who I made a thorough effort with who weren’t in my core alliance left pre-merge or very early merge (Bradley, Gabe, Christina, Mikey) which sounds like a copout but it is what it is.



I think I did alright socially, not terribly – I had a network of allies telling me information and vica versa, the “even your own allies thought you were shady” thing from Wendy’s speech is probably referring to Aras, who I lost trust between not exactly for social reasons, but due to strategic observations and how we both found out we had that stance on each other. Also the Nic vote and bonding with Emily on the tribal when Mikey went home are significant social moves. The main issue lies within my communications with the minority alliance, which were not exactly the best and perhaps due to being in the position of being starkly on one side, which isn’t exactly a positive I will acknowledge.



I orchestrated the Matthias blindside (not extremely impressive in a tribe of 3 but given that Alex and him had both been on a 2 person tribe together previously and Jake was simultaneously encouraging them to vote me off I think it is of note) and like you said I was a large part in David and Aras leaving. David has since said that he had no intention of voting me out, but I believe that is because I was in his shadow and like Luca, I would’ve voted for him at the end over anyone else, so in order to distinguish my game from his then him leaving at the f7 was a necessity for me, even though he was my closest ally I was confident in my connections with everyone else left in the game that I could pave a path to the endgame. Other than that, I was integral in the strategizing for most of the post-merge votes and no one can claim sole responsibility for orchestrating those votes.