Board Thread:Survivor 22: San Marcos/@comment-30202274-20170208161700/@comment-9755360-20170208224753

 "Nathaniel: You have played pretty solid overall game! I'm going to admit, I wasn't really happy when you blindsided me with that idol especially because four hours prior you messaged me by saying that you want to keep working with me. Oh, and I also want to say that I was one of the people who campaigned for you to stay as well. Regardless of that, you have played your idols wisely and used them to get rid of threats and keep your alliance safe, so good job on that! "

First off, I'm sorry about that. When I said that, I really did mean it, but when I then read up on the Catarina chat and saw that everyone felt closest to you, I realised the connections you had, and how you were in the best spot of the game at that moment, and that you needed to go. I felt incredibly bad doing it, and if I could, I wouldn't have said the things I said when I did - but if I talked to you after I convinced the others you needed to go, I know I would've made it obvious something was up, because I'm horrible at lying when I feel bad, and I feared you had the Quetzal Idol, so... Yeah. It was a bad situation.

As for you being one of the people that campaigned to have me stay, I feel even worse now :( I just always assumed you didn't trust me completely in the game due to keeping things like the Catarina Idol finding from me (for as long as you did), and for the fact that you were completely fine with me voting Malik when I told you I was planning on doing that, despite asking if there was anything else you'd rather do, since I knew y'all were actually going after Austin. So yeah, I felt like you were one of the people I could talk to the very best, but that you from a game standpoint didn't trust me enough to share your plans with me.

And as for the Idols - please, try to look beyond that when it comes to my game. I did so much more, and I think things like the Austin vote and the F6 get overshadowed because of my Idols being my most "visible" gamepoint. Thanks for the compliments though!

'''What is your biggest mistake in the game? (and how do you wish you would have handled it)'''

I thought about this for quite a long while, and I think I did all I could in the pre-merge, and everything went as I wanted it to during the merge (I see getting votes as a positive thing rather than a negative one, as long as you survive and carry them with you), but there's one moment where the game slipped out of my hands, and my gameplay sunk by a lot. And that moment was the Shea vote. Shea was my rock, in a way - he kept me grounded, he was amazing at spotting lies, and having someone I knew I could trust was a huge help. But when Shea was voted out, I lost control - the Claudia vote was my only time voting incorrectly, and I almost went home at the F4. I also lost my ideal F3 of me, Sim and Shea (they were the ones I'd gotten to know the best, and also felt like I had a decent chance beating), so yeah, that vote was pretty bad for me. So if I could change one thing, I'd go back and have me and Shea secretly believe Claudia and vote for one another. That'd cause a 2-2-1-1 vote, Claudia would play her reset Idol, Nick would go home, and I'm fairly confident Sim, Shea and I would've made the FTC - that's the perfect way the game could've gone if I could change one thing. And I just realised I read the question wrong XD But yeah, my biggest mistake was have me and Shea not trust our guts and vote for each other, and I wish I'd handled it so that we'd voted for each other instead.

Who was the biggest threat for you in this game?

This actually changed throughout the season, but overall, one person stands out clearly: Chris. Chris had a special ability to talk to people, make them trust him and do things he wanted them to. Chris and Claudia worked together for much of the season, and differentiating them is a bit hard, but to me as a person, Chris was the more threatening of the two. A lot of it comes from the fact that I talked to him a lot pre-merge, and he was the Tacana I felt closest to during the season (granted, there were only four I met, and I barely got to talk to Malik and Andrew, and Claudia I connected to more later on in the season, but still XD ). Chris was also very good physically, which he showed through his challenge wins, and that was something that was dangerous to me personally. He used the fact that he had Ellis masterfully, and avoided being targetted due to fear of him playing it. I think he was amazing at building bonds, and using them to his advantage, and to me, he was more threatening than anyone else because of the way he did it. Yes, others did the same thing Chris did, but what seperates him from, say, Claudia, is that Claudia built personal bonds with people, and saved herself that way, whereas Chris more manipulated people through his talks to them, which I think was more threatening, since that meant he could potentially turn my own allies against me. Sorry, I feel like I'm kinda saying nothing in a way, but yeah, I think Chris' way of talking to people was more threatening to me since he could turn people against me, whereas Claudia and others more protected themselves, combined with challenge abilities and good use of Ellis (who ended up doing nothing) and finally, the fact that I was close to him, which meant he could get into my mind easier too, and it'd also be tougher to vote him out.

'''1. If it was a Final two and you were the final juror, who would you vote and why?'''

It'd depend a bit on Jury answers, but I'd likely vote for Sim. Nick barely ever talked to me, while I was close to Sim, and in alliance discussions of who to vote, it was always me/Sim/Austin making decisions, while Nick always felt like an afterthought. That might be me remembering things wrong, but the Malik vote was all 3 of them, you were all me, Brandon was Sim/Austin with me changing priorities from 1. Renz 2. Brandon to 1. Brandon 2. Renz, Renz was just a big mess, but Sim was the one who got us into the whole change votes from Claudia to Renz mess, and in Jenna's, it was actually Shea (Nick wanted to go for Claudia, and I think Sim wanted to go for Jenna too, as well as me, since we wanted to have Claudia play her Idol), and finally, Nick was out of the loop a bit in the F6 revote, so with all that combined, I'd probably vote for Sim.

'''2. Why should you get specifically my vote?'''

I think I should get your vote because I think we connected the best. We're both from the same part of the world, and we could connect over that, but I also feel like I got to know you better than just geographically. Jag vet att du kom nära Sim och Nick också, men jag tror, och hoppas, att vi kom ännu närmare varandra. I was also the one that was behind your vote-off, and I think that's the single most important vote in the merge, because it set up both sides with an equal number of players, and also took out the best player of the season that didn't get to the F5, and finally, I think that in some strange way, your vote-off meaning so much to me, both in a personal and game-sense, is why your vote especially matters to me.

'''3. Compare each jurors' and finalists' games (and personality if you want to) to a real survivor player and give explantion why you chose that survivor player.'''

I haven't seen a lot of seasons, and I want to give a good answer, so I'm going to do some research and answer this tomorrow (it's really late here), if that's fine!