Board Thread:Survivor 21: Kerala/@comment-30289320-20161208093141/@comment-27707100-20161209225239

'''Tucker - While I said before that a safe, less-flashy game can win effectively, do you think it can win against one that IS flashy and more-so risky? Why?'''

Before I answer your question, I don't think I played that safe. It's not like I just voted in the majority every time. I voted for people that I thought needed to leave for my game, every time. There's never a time where I thought I should vote for someone who would not be beneficial for my game, because what would be the point?

To answer your question though, the appearance of the game is a lot less important than the rewards of playing the game is. If you take a lot of risks and have the same benefits as someone who doesn't take as many risks, then you can weigh those games equally. However, if you take a lot of risks, and they don't pay out in your favor for the most part, then I think you could claim that the risky, flashy game is just being played to hide the fact that they didn't make many moves that benefited them, as if they were trying to hide the fact that they played a weaker game.

By turn of the same coin, I don't think I ever took any risks in this game where I would have not benefited by the success/failure of that move. The best example of this is at the thanksgiving vote where I got Violet/Julia to vote for Catherine over Nicolai. I would have the least bloodshed at that vote, because me and Catherine never talked strategy at this point, but Violet created an all-girl's alliance that Catherine seemed to be loyal to, since she wouldn't tell me about it, and Catherine also thought she had a f2 with Julia, so that was a massive betrayal for her. Even though I voted out Catherine and she stayed, she was much more likely to be turned against Julia or Violet, than me, so even in  not succeeding in the move, I was able to benefit from it.

If you frame Kon's to be the flashier, riskier game, can you tell me how he benefited from some of the risks he took?:

Here's a few examples:

-Kon makes extremely racist and prejudiced comments about potential jurors at f4. He had won immunity so there's no real benefit in risking losing their vote. He also insulted the intelligence in a grandiose, condescending way, and refused to tell either of the two who he was voting in f4, in an effort to try to blindside one of them.

-Kon plays his Shield of Deception in f6, and still loses the challenge. He just looks like an asshole, since he would not have won the challenge anyway.

-Kon makes a side alliance with Jake and Catherine just to break it in less than 24 hours. As a result, neither Catherine/Jake trust him as much in the following votes, and take initiative to try and flush a potential idol.

-Kon votes out me over someone who would have destroyed him in jury, in order to diminish the thought that he was my goat. But if I had gone out, you would have beat him unanimously in jury, and the fact that he coudln't try to prove that he wasn't my goat until the f4 vote just kinda highlights that he thinks he ate my ass for 38 days and works more in my favor, I would think. It also shows how his lack of awareness really affected his endgame, since he thought that you were a floater and would lose to him 8-0.

Tucker - If you didn't win immunity at 6, played your idol, and slipped into F5 - what would your plan have been to make it through that round after I somehow stopped sucking ass at challenges for once and won an immunity? I had to think about this a long time, but it really kinda depends on who gets out at f6. If Kon doesn't turn against y'all at f6, I think he definitely would at f5. If he thinks he would have won any situation with you at the end, I think he would be sorely mistaken. I think he was also concerned with Catherine's connections in endgame, and was really paranoid about whether he would have her vote going further than f5. I would try and use that to get him to play his idol on me maybe and take one of y'all out (i.e. Cathy, since you would have won immunity). I think he would also have the prerogative of trying to get Catherine out so that he could have more confdience in winning out in challenges, since that's one of the biggest contributors of him being here. I kinda answered this in Nic's question, but I would have tried to get you or Kon out at 6, and then whoever lived, would be the automatic next vote. And if you won immunity somehow then I guess I would be in a PICKLE (if I didn't vote you out at f6). Maybe I would try and turn you against Julia, since she was really prone to vote you out earlier. I'm not sure how effective that would be but it would be the move I would be most likely to try and push for. All - Why do you think your game warrants this win more-so than the others?

Well! I think for playing an UTR game, Asa just kinda played in a way that benefited my gameplay over hers. She became more of a target than I did, since people wanted to vote her out twice, even though the reasons behind both votes were due to how she was viewed as a vote for people, and not from her own gameplay.

As for Kon, I don't think there's very much substance to his gameplay. I think he made a lot of crucial mistakes towards the end of the game, where you're supposed to show the most cognitive awareness, in the vote offs of Catherine, Julia, and the tie on me. All three votes were moves that were obstructed by his narrow view of the game and his constant paranoia. I don't think that he was as much of a swing vote as he claimed, because, in order to be a swing vote, you have to be a necessity to someone's game. A required presence, as some may say, but I don't think Kon was that to anyone. By switching which side he wanted to play on, all he did was alienate himself to members of each side. Kon was never the highest on anyone's totem pole, and as a result, I think he was kinda on the bottom pole of both ends. The only thing that really got him here was his idol and immunity challenge wins. I don't think he controlled as many votes nor had the say in what to do most of the time. IN FACT, I was the swing vote at f5 to vote for Julia. He pushed for her to leave, and I waited to be the last vote to make my decision. All - Has anyone really been far even as decided to go use want to do look more like? Yes. '''All - I'm not sure any of you three are Star Wars nerds, so this should be fun! If each juror was either a famous Jedi or infamous Sith Lord, who would they be and why?'''

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;">I've always been more of an anime nerd, but I'll try my best.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;">Daulton - Mace Windu; Cut too early, and I think he would like the purple lightsaber

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;">Jacob - HIS PICTURE FOR THE LONGEST TIME LOOKED LIKE AN EWOK FOR ME, and I love Ewoks - I know they're not Jedis either, but they're on the good side and i love them let me live

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;">Anna - "<span style="color:rgb(51,52,53);font-family:ars-maquette-web,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;">Barriss Offee betrayed her fellow Jedi after she became convinced that the Order was on the wrong side of the conflict. She eventually coordinated the bombing of the Temple, causing the death of several Jedi." - this was the most badass female jedi that I could find and I laughed really hard reading the description.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;">Nicolai - R2D2; speaks in a language that no one understands from the outside (Russian), is hesitant and skeptical of everything - I know he's not a Jedi but it works ok

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;">Violet - Darth Cognus - "<span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">named for her instinctive ability to  perceive<span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> and influence the future"; I don't think that could better represent a female strategist in this game. And she's a girl!!

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Catherine - Obi Wan Kenobi - Unfairly backstabbed by a lot of her friends; Has a strong affiliation with the heroic side, had a real and undeniable strength in challenges

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Julia - C3PO -- I know also not a Jedi BUT HEAR ME OUT! C3PO is an eccentric, social personality in the movies, is closely tied to R2D2 (Nicolai and Julia were close in the game) and he talks incessantly. He's also probably one of the more famous characters in the franchise, and I think after the game the one person most people will remember is Julia and the impact she made in this game, even if she didn't have a "starring role" (aka winning).

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jake - General Grievous - I felt like you were the optimal strategist of all the Thekkady's, and frankly of the game. You were set up so well and had all your bases covered as long as I did. Having to get rid of you is what I imagine fighting someone with 4 arms holding 4 lightsabers would be like. Grievous is also a military strategist and I think the way you went through this game is the way I kinda did. You were willing to sacrifice some Thekkady's to get further in the game, so I can't fully put you on the hero side,  but I can give you one of the smartest characters in the franchise.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;">In response to my long tribal council thing, it's what I usually do, and I wanted to have people understand everything I was thinking. I didn't claim that I completely controlled the game or anything, but I was calculated in every move I made, and that's kinda what I wanted to portray more, rather than I was controlling everything.

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I know though, that it's really long. i can't expect everyone to read everything of it, but  if there are any issues in how you interpret it or how I worded something, point it out to me and I'll support it or say what I was trying to say a little better!!

<p style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;">Hope you enjoyed the answers and that I answered everything for you!! Thanks for the questions -- yours were the ones I had to think the hardest about, and I hope I answered them in a way that you can agree with!