Board Thread:Season 35: Mount Olympus/@comment-28870548-20181017234029/@comment-28735114-20181018081832

'''OMG hello! I’ve been looking forward to your speech. I tend to be passive in my initial speeches, just because I guess I don’t want to oversell myself… IDK!! But I’m going to go into extreme detail for you like you asked. I appreciate your questions and am excited to dive in and hopefully quench your thirst. Sorry if this is too long!'''

'1. I want you to tell me the three gimiest moves or things you did during the course of this game, and explain them in detail. I want to hear about why they happened, and how they benefitted your game?'

#1: Brian’s vote out

'''I was going to go over this vote in my response to Ben’s question but I’ll go into more detail about other votes for his question and focus on this one for yours. This vote out was probably when I felt at my absolute worst but knew that this was the best thing for me. A lot of the details will probably be blurred because I was absolutely frazzled and gutted. I’ll set the scene. I was mulling this over all day but really didn’t think I was going to go through with it. Mainly because, I was going to vote Ben with Brian’s side just because I was in that alliance and also Charlie just flipped the previous vote and I didn’t want to put an unnecessary target on myself. I was busy that entire day and once I finally got home I knew I had to make a decision. An hour before the vote, I went through the Chick-Fil-A drive thru, parked, ate a couple nuggets, actually had a moment to think about everything and came the conclusion like 5 minutes before the vote what I had to do. A couple things happened though, which pushed me to make this decision.'''

'''1. Brian confided in me about his previous season. He told me that last season he found himself in a situation where he was a loud player, who had to go on immunity runs to stay safe and got voted out once he lost immunity. He told me he got advice from a host on his previous season that in order to be more successful this time around, he needed to make sure he had a solid group of people to help deflect his target, or at least shield him from getting voted. This alarmed me for two reasons: One, he was kicking ass in immunity already and performed extremely well in immunities premerge, and two, I realized I was in the solid group of people that were meant to shield him, along with Louise and Malik-- both of which I feel were closer to him than me. I felt he described to me exactly how he needed to get to the end and although I fit in his plans… it was HIS plan. It didn’t give me much room to grow as a player and I felt I would’ve been stagnant for a good portion of the game because of it.'''

'''2. Both you and Charlie were worried he had an idol. I honestly was super skeptical about that whole thing because I felt like you or Charlie weren’t being completely honest and were trying to figure out any way to push me to vote him, but the way Brian and I were talking about the maze paths at the time sketched me out and with where my thoughts were at the time, I really didn’t want him to have an idol. '''

'''3. My whole narrative at this point for voting out Elizabeth was because I wanted the “2 sides” out of the game. I was telling everyone on Elizabeth’s side that I voted her out because of the “2 sides” and I believed if I didn’t vote out Brian with them, my relationships on that side would have come across as fraudulent and become less legitimate. I was walking on really thin ice here. I knew voting out Brian could potentially make me… IDK I guess a Charlie LOL and have that whole side really dislike me and not want to work with me for a hot minute. I didn’t want to do that. But I knew my reasons were legitimate, outside of what was best for me. I luckily had the angle to spin that the game would be more of an “even playing field” with the 2 “heads” of each side out of the game. I broke down to Ben, Jerry, and Konrad that this move was going to be “really bad” for me but I felt it was only fair to follow through and get rid of the sides. I mentioned to Gevonte my worries about Brian, although I didn’t tell him I was voting him, he ultimately understood why after the vote. I told Nicole and she decided to not vote Brian because she wanted to stay good with our “Cute Shit” alliance. Pretty much only Louise and Malik were left out of the loop for my vote.'''

'''The grimy-ness of this move was ultimately really successful for me. I feel the only relationship I truly damaged was with Louise, but at the time we didn’t talk much at all so it wasn’t really too much of a loss for my game. I made a separate chat outside of the “Cute Shit” alliance chat and sent voice notes to Louise and Malik about why I voted Brian. Malik agreed with a lot of what I said and felt similar, Louise I think at the time was fed up with my shit. Malik after this ended up making the final 3 with myself and Gevonte. Nicole and Konrad knew about my vote and supported it. Obviously you, Charlie, Jerry, and Ben knew. My bonds became stronger with pretty much everyone left in the game because of that vote, I think because I followed through with my word with half the game, and broke down a wall of emotions with the other half. '''