Board Thread:Battle Of The ORGs 2: Mount Yasur/@comment-24045334-20160527015155

Hello everyone! :D I would like to thank Koror, Tyler, Austin, and Nick for hosting an amazing season! While this season did have it's drama (lol) I had so much fun and I am so happy I could experience it all the way to the end! :D Thank you everyone! :D

Anyways, this seasons was Battle of the ORGs! I was very intimidated going to this season because I am still basically new to the ORG community. Since this was an all star season, there were lots of experienced, established players who already had many bonds with other players. From day one I knew that I had to quickly make connections or I would be booted quickly. The early swap was actually a very good thing for me, as all of the Korors on my new tribe wanted to stick with me, while on my old tribe I could tell I was on the outs (until Kaeden flipped out I heard I was Jaylen's original target). This early switch allowed me to further bond with the Koror's, but more importantly it let me be able to start bonding with the 703s.

My main strategy going in to the game was building strong relationships with both Koror's and 703s to become a swing vote in the merge. I made sure that even though the Koror's had the advantage on my first swapped tribe that I was kind to the 703s, something basically all the Koror's were not doing (because we were on a loosing streak on the original tribes they all really didn't like them). I did things like leak a little bit of info to Bryce (although Bryce believed everyone else who was lying to him so that didn't really work) and telling Jamie the vote despite the risk of an idol play by the 703s. The latter ended up leading to me and Jamie forming a bond, something the basically saved me early merge.

On our second switch, Alex (a 703 I was bonding the best with before Jamie) approached me with an offer to blindside Grace. Will said that was a bad idea, and that I should lie to him that we would do it and instead vote for Bryce. This was obvi because Grace formed a bond with Will and I do give her major props for that. However, I realized that if I voted Grace and stayed true to my word with Alex, Grace would go in the revote. This was a big decision, as I had to choose between gaining more trust with the 703s and staying loyal to the Korors. I decided to stick with Bryce after remembering what happened to Edward after he wanted to flip- all of the Korors voted him :/ This was for sure the right choice, because I am almost positive the other Korors would make me an easy first merge boot by teaming with the 703s or even voting me out on the 2nd swap tribe which we now had majority on. This in turn broke my bond with Alex which was really not a good thing. Going into the merge all I had was my two main allies (Aren and Micah) and a bond with Jamie.

At the first tribal of the merge, BOTH of my two closest allies left. It was by far the worse case scenario and I was left ally less. On the first vote, I sadly self voted due to a family emergency that kept me offline. On the second vote, Jamie told me the vote (Micah). I knew that there was no hope for him, so I voted Micah to try to slip in with the 703s. This was for sure the correct choice, as after this Dom approached me after hearing through Jamie and we quickly bonded and allied. I voted Will out at the next tribal to prove my loyalty to Dom. I now had a solid group alliance with Dom and Jamie, while still maintaining a connection with Zach. I also threw all of the early merge challenges to make sure I didn't become the next pangong target. Dom created an add-on group with Zach and Grace and wanted to get rid of Jake or Jessy. Then Jessy approached me and we quickly bonded and allied. She wanted to get rid of Dom. I was then put in the middle by two groups, Jessy's group and Dom's group. I wanted to stay loyal to both sides, but I didn't know how since I knew my vote would decide (it actually didn't due to Jamie's idol, but I didn't know about it before hand. This still applied as one side would realize I wasn't loyal). Then I thought of a solution- what if I self voted? I pretended to accidentally forget the submission time, therefore self voting. This worked perfectly, as both sides still trusted me.

After Dom was voted out, Jessy became my #1, although I still had bonds with Zach and Jamie. Although I was loyal with Jessy, I could tell I was not her closest ally. I also knew that she would probably be willing to vote me off if it meant protecting her allies. And I knew at Charley's vote, that time had come. After talking with Zach, I became part of a 3-way alliance with Zach and Grace. We all agreed Charley was Jessy's right hand man, and voted her out. My connection with Jamie also proved useful at this vote, as I knew that she was throwing her vote so the Charley plan would be solid.

After that vote, I was left in a position where me, Zach, and Grace had an easy path to F3. I was right about Jessy not being loyal, but I didn't let that ruin the bond with her that I had. I knew that Zach had played an amazing game, and probably had the most connections out of everyone left. If he made FTC with me, he would very likely get most if not all Koror votes, but also 703 votes. I also think that if I put Jessy on the jury at that point in time that there was no way she would vote for me. I didn't want to tell Jessy this, so I told her I thought Grace/Zach were close and I wanted to save her. I thought it was going to be 2-2-1 (as Jamie was voting Jessy) but I knew we would have the votes in the revote. It turns out Jessy also got Grace on board, but it didn't matter since I already knew it would work. I went from the bottom from the beginning of the merge, to controlling the vote at the F5.

After that, Jessy thought it was a straight shot to F3 with me, her and Jamie. In reality, due to the fact I was working on/off with her throughout the game, I realized she was a far bigger threat at that point. I also thought that if it came down to me and Grace, she might vote for me. Had Jamie's evacuation not happened, Jessy would of gone and the final 3 would of been me, Grace, and Jamie.

This game is called Survivor, and that's exactly what I did this season. Early on I was at a disadvantage because I am still new to the community. But because of the fact that I was able to make and maintain bonds on both Koror and 703 sides, lay low at merge by not appearing as a threat in challenges, and stay neutral with two major sides, I adapted to reach the end. I survived. I may of not made many big flashy decisions or moves, but that is because I was on defense all season. This is why I am asking you, the jury to consider voting for me. For quite a few of you, I don't think I really appeared as a real threat or player at all during our time on the same tribe/merge, but from this I hope you see there was a lot of strategy behind all of me decisions. Thank you! :D  