Board Thread:Survivor 39: Poveglia/@comment-33856301-20190604003055/@comment-38856411-20190604130157

'''First off I want to say that I prepared a much longer speech that went in to a lot more detail about each specific round of my game, but I came to the conclusion that it was too verbose and I thought it would bore the jury. I figured I would have plenty of opportunities to explain my game in more detail in response to the questions, and I plan on doing it now. '''

'Why did you vote John out at F4? I want a lengthier explanation because I feel like the reasoning you said to me contained half-truths. '

'''I’m not going to lie and pretend like I had my mind made up 100% the entire round at final 4. I know juries hate it when you try to claim things that seem like revisionist history. I wanted to vote Jordan out for at least a bit of the time I was there, but I considered my options carefully and I came to the conclusion that it was better to keep Jordan. There were several reasons for this.  I came to this conclusion BEFORE I talked to Jordan about it. I decided to see how he would react if I told him that I was voting him to see if my suspicions about his potential bitterness were justified. It turns out they kind of were, as he was laying the emotional manipulation on thick. By pleading for his life I ensured that he knew that he was only in the game because of me and in doing so I secured that if he won the final immunity that he would take me to the final 2. '''
 * 1) I asked John who he would take to the final 2 and he “didn’t know” and didn’t want to give me an answer that seemed “too fake.” I do respect his frankness on the subject, but this answer did not fill me with confidence. 
 * 2) You made it pretty clear that you wanted to vote Jordan out. I knew that after a certain point that it would be difficult to change your mind.
 * 3) I figured that if it I voted Jordan out he might spread to the jury that he thought it was a dumb move and carry back bad sentiment about how he perceived the move to be dumb. I had always been straightforward with John that I wanted to vote him out so I knew he would be less bitter about the whole ordeal. 
 * 4) If I voted for John there was still a chance that Jordan would go home anyway, in which case I would have an advocate on the jury and I wouldn't have had to vote him out myself and risk potential bitterness. 
 * 5) Jordan guaranteed me that he would take me to the final 2 because that was “the story he wanted to end the season with.” (Scott, was this something he told you too? Because he probably wasn’t as loyal to you as you might have thought)
 * 6) I had established with you earlier the idea that our best chance at the final 2 was against each other. 

How did you manage to survive over Alex and Abi?

'''There’s no denying that after the rock draw that the three of us would be seen as an unbreakable unit. I worried that it would be me that took the fall for it because I was person that Jino had been targeting, but there were a few factors that I believed help me sneak by. '''
 * 1) I made it a point to never win the reward challenge and go to the asylum. I knew that part of the reason Jino was a bigger target was because he had gone to the Asylum twice before the merge. Advantage paranoia was a huge factor in who people thought they could trust. The same was true for idols. Alex found the spot where the idol had been hidden (which had apparently already been found). At the time we thought it was Jino, so we tried to pin the blame on him. After Jino was voted out, the growing suspicion started to loom around Alex, who was the next to last person to see where it had been. That combined with her obvious challenge prowess made her a bigger target than me, and the first person people wanted to strike at to split up the three. 
 * 2) This one is purely from my interpretation of the events that happened at the final 7. Natalia was the ringleader of the flip against Alex and wanted to bring all the numbers over to her side. As one of the two people on the bottom, I believe that Natalia felt better about our strategic and personal connection than Abi because I was better able to move on from and mask my shock and resentment of the blindside. The way that I saw that vote, Natalia wanted to get rid of the person that she felt like had the least possibility of working with her in the future, and because I had actually reached out to her and wanted to start something, she felt like she had me in her back pocket and could use me going forward. 

'Choose a jury member. Describe all of the positive attributes of said member's gameplay. How did they succeed in the first place?'

'''I’m going to pick you, and not because I want to pander for your jury vote, but because I feel like the subtleties of your game might not have been appreciated as much as I feel like they should have been. I think Natalia did you dirty on her way out by saying you needed to step up your social game so I want to highlight the player that I saw.'''

'''Pleasant: You just had this chill vibe about you that put me at ease. I never felt awkward talking game with you because you didn’t seem to get too emotionally wrapped up in the ups and downs. Not to say you didn’t care, but I felt like I could always get an even opinion from you. '''

'''Smart: I could tell that you absorbed a lot more information than people thought you did. You picked up on a lot of things that I’m sure someone as scatterbrained as myself would have missed, and you knew when to hold on to that info and when to share it. '''

'''Position: Outside of Jino, I didn’t know any of the Este people who wanted to target you first. I think this goes with you knowing when to move and when to lie back, because you let the other two Padua people take a lot of the heat while you laid in wait to be the person (like me) came to to make a move. '''

'''Conviction: Usually you expect the chill person to flow with the game and not really care much about the outcome, but I don’t feel that you were like that. You were careful with your words and didn’t commit to anything you weren’t sure about, but when you did commit you stood your ground and spoke your points eloquently. '''

'''These were the reasons I think you succeeded in the game and made it within one competition of being in the final 3 selling a frankly underrated game. You were the person I was most surprised with coming in to the merge and the person who I didn’t expect would become such a valuable ally to me. We came together and decided that we needed to take the game in to our hands and away from the people who felt like they were controlling the entire thing.'''