Board Thread:Survivor: Resurgence (Season 8)/@comment-24086799-20150518182033

Hi guys ;33



Ok, so I’m going to try to keep this short, since I know y’all are probably ready to be done.

I’m here to talk about why you should vote for me.



Starting the game, I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to be able to play under the radar. Too many people would probably come after me, and if I wasn’t set up and prepared to handle it, I would definitely flop again. So I decided to play aggressively.



Using Counterstrike/Tom/Qin as a common enemy, I was able to bring together 6-8 people who I thought would make good allies. I picked the allies I did because I thought they would 1. Keep their mouths shut about important plans, and 2. They would give me important information that our enemies would have liked to keep private.



I’m actually really appreciative of the allies I had, because the 6-8 of us worked together really well pre-merge, and manage to get rid of all but 2 of the Qin members. The Platypus Squad voted out everyone else on Qin 2.0 setting us up to take numbers at the 2nd swap. Sean and I coordinated a double idol play to take out Eddie, our biggest strategic threat.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When the merge came around, I knew I was going to be in trouble, since I would probably be viewed as a threat early on. Max worked to get rid of me, and it might have worked, but my allies (Emma, Jordan, Sean) told me about it. Gavin tried to start something, but that also failed when people came back to me with the scheme.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I was safe because of the effort I put into immunity challenges, but I maintained control of the votes because of the loyalty of my allies, even though I wasn’t always loyal to them. Ultimately I made it to the end by eliminating all my strategic challengers.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">It’s tempting to accuse me of relying on my immunity, but at final 5 my allies still didn’t choose to flip on me (they didn’t know I had the idol when they voted).

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I don’t by any means want to take credit for everything myself. Survivor is such an interesting game because it is collaborative in nature, but it can only be won by a single person. I was only able to accomplish what I did because of the allies and friends I had, and to them I owe a lot. Usually, this game is won by the person who best uses the people around them to their advantage.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I backstabbed a lot of people, but <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">most <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> of the votes were pre-emptive; the people who I backstabbed would have come after me. A few people, especially Sean, didn’t do to me directly, I just needed them gone for the game I was playing. I won’t apologize for playing the game, but at the same time, it wasn’t fun voting my friends out.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I think you should vote for me for a few reasons. I worked hard from beginning to end to take out anyone who was threatening to me. Every vote I participated in went exactly as planned, and I always voted for the person who went home. Despite my reputation, I was able to build trust with a number of people, which helped me to gain the numbers in the premerge and to learn about other people's plans and take them out postmerge. If for no other reason, I think you should vote for me because I worked really hard to be where I am. I coordinated many of the eliminations, socialized fairly consistently with most of the cast, and won 7 individual immunities.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I am grateful for your time, and I would love to answer any questions you may have.

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