Board Thread:Survivor: Isla Del Sol (Season 10)/@comment-25901093-20150726214246/@comment-9698908-20150727213215

Thanks for the questions Minke :)

Alright. So I'll start with the Will tribal. I've said this a few times now in other tribal answers but I'll say it again here so that you can get a better understanding. So for that tribal, I did vote for Tom. I voted Tom for a few reasons. The first was that I simply was so overwhelmed by him and Andrei coming at me to vote for him that I really just got so flustered and angry with the whole thing that I hoped it would send him packing. Another reason that I did it was to try and gain the trust of Zane, which I knew I would need later down the road. Let's remind ourselves that my ideal final 6 would've been Will, Grace, Blaine, Casey, Zane and myself. I figured that almost everyone would be with me with the exception of Zane. So when Zane came up to me that night and told me that if I voted Tom that he would be loyal to me to the end, I felt like it was the smartest personal move for me to gain that trust and to vote for Tom. It ended up kind of sabotaging one of my greatest allies, but ulitamately it removed the biggest threat, solidified my alliance and put me in a better place in the game. So that night I was devastated to lose Will, but looking back it was a better thing for my game and really propelled me into a stronger alliance.

Okay now for the Andrei vote. After Will was out I knew that I had to solidify my alliance or else I would be the next one packing. So, I, along with Blaine and Grace, created a tight final 3 alliance that would be my core alliance for the rest of the game. Along with those people, I also drew in Tom (who I knew would vote with me because he kind of had nobody else to turn to at that point), Casey who I also trusted a ton (but nobody else did) and then Zane who now was locked into a really tight deal with me. The six of us, as far as I know, were the ones who voted Andrei. A lot of names were thrown around that tribal but I made sure that it stuck to Andrei because I knew that he was the biggest social and strategic threat in the game at that time. Andrei was the one who voted for Blaine. He was trying to eliminate Blaine's light pearl from the game, but Blaine confused everyone when he decided to give it to me. This was also a big turning point in the game for me because I became the target of the minority alliance. I knew I had to play the game super safe because if anything went wrong it was my neck on the line. That's why I think that I deserve to win this game because I was the target that was never ultimately shot at.

Your vote was also an interesting vote. Once again, people were going crazy (mainly Grace and Blaine) who wanted Tom out, then Ivan, back to Tom. It was all over the place. I was the one who made sure that the target stayed on you Minke because I knew that if we didn't get you out final 8, you would've made it really deep into the game because people with big egos would've started gunning for each other and you would've slipped through the cracks. I recognized the threat, and I did everything in my power to make sure it was eliminated. And in this case, it was... Sorry :(

Okay now I'm just going to close it off. It is true, we didn't talk much. If you go back to look at our few messages, I was the one who attempted to initiate. It was maybe not the best attempt but really it was at least an attempt. Quite honestly I put the blame of our lack of a social basis 50% on you and 50% on me. I should've taken the time to talk to you more, but from a game standpoint I quite honestly viewed it as a bit of a waste of my time. I knew that I was your target, so I thought that talking to you was only going to make matters worse for me because it would only further put me on your radar. So some of my inactivity in our personal chat was strategic, and other parts were just business. I was on vacation for the last 10 days and had very limited connection. I couldn't play any of the challenges because I didn't have a laptop on the cruise ship. I was so so so so worried that it would affect my game that I would sit next to the router some days and just sit until I got a slight connection and tried to play my game. I admire my own perserverance in the situation because I tried everything to make it work, and was able to even with limited connection, still survive 4 votes. I've been to the most tribals, taken a lot of heat and I'm not ready to give up anytime soon. I hope that even if you don't give me your vote, you at least consider the moves I've made in this game because I really do feel as though I was an integral part to the grand scheme of IDS. I thank you for your questions and please let me know if there's anything more I can do to help you get a clearer picture.