Board Thread:Survivor: Skye Islands (Season 12)/@comment-26137519-20151015231817/@comment-25270574-20151016044221

Hello Alex! Hopefully my answers will help clear up anything and maybe provide a little more insight into what went on from my perspective of the game.

You mentioned that your biggest concern with my game is that the main reason I am here is because I was adopted into the New Kilbride alliance as a number that would vote against Perry. I do want to point out though that this was something that I had planned on happening when I wrote Perry's name down the first time. I knew that by turning on my tribe-mates, I would need to ensure that I had a backup plan. I had already been aligned with Domonique and Szymon from our time together on the Brains tribe, And I felt I could rejoin with them even if I had voted for Sam like I was supposed to. Voting for Perry was important for me to build some trust with you, Joe, and Evan, basically making sure that any suspicions you might have about me wanting to work with your tribe were nipped before we even got to that stage. I agree that the main reason I was probably welcomed so quickly was because I would be a vote against Perry. However, if that was the only use I served  or role i played for this alliance, I would've followed Perry out the door. The fact that I'm still here I think should be credited to the fact that I was aware of my position as an outsider and managed to work my way into an insider position. I may have entered the alliance because I was a needed number, but I dion't feel that I stayed that way throughout the game.

You also want to know what ideas i had in this game were made by me without the influence of someone else. I would like to say that I was the one who really got the train to take out Domonique rolling. She is an outstanding player, everyone knew that, but she had allies that seemed very reluctant to take her out. I got Szymon and Evan on board with the idea at the final 6 after some hesitation about whether we should vote for her or Nuno.The plan failed and Szymon left. During that round, however, I realized that it wouldn't work out unless one of Sarah or Nuno was willing to vote her out as well. So I approached Sarah, who I had freshly rekindled a game relationship with, and began pitching to her the importance of taking Domonique out if we wanted to stand a chance. She didn't go with it at final 6, which is understandable considering she and Nuno would be at the numbers disadvantage, but at final 5 she agreed to vote Domonique out. I think that had I not approached Sarah to make a deal and work together on this, Domonique had decent chances to survive to final 4 as I don't think Sarah would've trusted Evan or I enough to keep us around to even out the numbers 2-2, and Nuno wouldn't have had any pressure to make the hard decision to vote Domonique out. Just by deciding to go to Sarah and ask her to vote with us, they didn't feel like they needed her to help them get out of the minority anymore and we got Domonique out. I did not play a flashy game, so I can't throw out bright bold ideas that I had in this game. But I still planned my votes carefully and methodically, and the small ideas are just as important as the big ones. Maybe this is just how I perceived things at this time, but it's what I can offer.

I hope that cleared a little bit up, if not let me know! I will respect whatever decision you choose to come to!