Board Thread:Survivor 27: Bora Bora/@comment-27941254-20171013022434/@comment-27482030-20171013133822

1. Who was I a goat to specifically? Was I just like the general tribe goat?? Everything I’ve done was for my own game. If you want to see what peak goat gameplay of mine looks like, look at Kerala, where I basically helped Tucker win B,^)

I’ve done a lot of things differently this time and just because I gave an idol to someone does NOT mean I’m a goat. If you’re thinking that I was the goat for Aromal, he’s not even here in the final tribal council, so what’s your rationale. Maybe giving the idol away was a mistake, but I personally never needed it anyways, and I wanted to help him because he was the last one in my split post-mutiny Motu tribe that I felt the closest to besides Ting Ting, who had subsequently left before merge. Also, the only reason I told you that I was close to Aromal instead of I don’t know, lying, was because I trusted you. To be honest, I think you’re perceiving it all wrong, as I actually talked to Aromal less than say Toby during the merge, and Toby was booted out before Aromal. Maybe if I wanted to be a goat, I could have brought Torsa to the end. Everything I’ve done I had conscious thought put into it, I played a UTR strategy through and through, letting others get distracted by the players that were more threatening than I, and made it to the end with only one vote when there were opportunities to vote me out.

2. Not mutinying with you didn’t mean that I dropped you for Aromal.  I trusted that you’d be fine being on the other side, and accepted your decision wholeheartedly!! I wanted you to feel safe and I totally understand why you mutinied, I never took you mutinying as you abandoning the group. While sometimes I think about whether or not I should have left as well, (I even coined my staying in Motu a ‘possibly sinking ship’) I wanted to stay in Motu because I wanted to help my allies that were there. Not even solely Aromal at all, who I wasn’t even particularly aligned with at this time . I wanted to stay because I felt remorseful for Violet leaving, I liked working with my girls Tata and Ting Ting, and I wanted to get to know everyone else on the tribe better so that I’d have a solid connection going into merge. Obviously, this failed because the tribe split and Tata and Ting Ting left before merge, making Aromal the closest person to me as the merge came. I don’t understand where you’re coming from saying that I was closer to Aromal when you never even talked to me about it as if it were a problem? I told you who I was closest to at the time and I’m sorry that I didn’t say it was you. Naturally I couldn’t say we’re the closest because we just didn’t talk because we were in separate tribes? There is no solid proof to what you’re saying that I wouldn’t flip to save you if you were in the minority. Also, the only reason I was seemingly “attached” to Aromal was because he had a big target on himself and I clearly used it to my advantage as a sort of shield because I was able to get the end and he didn’t. I believe that’s a strategy in terms of UTR gameplay. I don’t know whether or not you were forcing yourself to try and make an alliance work with Aromal and I, like I was touched but I wouldn’t have minded if you presented something else, but you didn’t. I’m not a mind reader. I’m sorry that you perceived it this way and I hope that this clarified some things.

3. Survivor is a game with almost infinite possibilities, and every player affects the game in larger ways than one would think, just like how the people that you see in your daily life affect you. If someone were just completely replaced, how big of an impact do you think it would have on you? Just some food for thought. In terms of this game, let’s do some math. There were a total of 17 tribal councils the entire game. I did not attend 5 of these, so I was in 12/17 tribals. This means I point-blank affected 70.5882352941% of the game in terms of who got voted off, because if I were to be replaced with someone else, who knows how the tribal councils would have gone. If anything, the Asa-substitute would have maybe won the immunity challenge for the team! Maybe me being replaced would have caused that same replacement to go home on that day. Maybe they could have been first boot. The entire boot order and immunity challenge wins could be altered, as well as where everyone is in terms of tribe swap and what items people got in the auction and who the finalists are. Everyone impacts the game in larger ways than one would think, and that placing a percentage value on one’s impact can be grossly inaccurate.  Anyways, to give you a plain answer, I’d like to say my impact was 24%. My impact comes from my contribution in challenges during pre-merge, working with people in a failed attempted blindside, finding the Motu idol, working with the Order of Holy Doggos alliance, and winning the last two immunity challenges.

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Music -

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://youtu.be/UMJm_97QXHA

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I chose the song “Francis Forever” by Mitski to represent my game in Bora Bora.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The overall vocal tone of this song is mellow, capturing my UTR gameplay. At times, it even sounds spooky - over the course of the game I had my fair share of fear and worry. The strong guitar riffs encapsulate my challenge ability.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Some notable lyrics: <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I’ve been trying to lay my head down, but I’m writing this at 3 A.M.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">It’s 4 A.M. while I’m writing this jury response, so that’s applicable. I stayed up multiple times over the course of the game.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I don’t need the world to see that I’ve been the best I can be.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Playing an under-the-radar game, I understand not everyone will be able to see the whole picture of how I’ve played.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“But I don’t think I can stand to be where you don’t see me.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You being the jury, I think this makes sense for me because I want to be able to convince the jury that I have played a game worthy of the win!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">To end it off, my game was vastly different than the other two for a few reasons. Firstly, my physical game was better than the other two. I won three immunities, they each won one. That means my physical game was three times better than each of them. Secondly, my social game revolved more around the group dynamic. It wasn’t floating, it was being likable and using that to my advantage to get this far. When I couldn’t do that anymore, I won immunities because I knew I could.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">☆ Asa ☆