Board Thread:Survivor: Isla Del Sol (Season 10)/@comment-1582230-20150725004346/@comment-9698908-20150727140510

Hi Will :). Thanks for the questions, I'm super excited to answer them all. Alright let's do it.

1.  I did vote for Tom that night. Part of that decision was complete confusion and voting with my heart instead of my head, and the other part of that was hoping that a move would come together that would end up helping me in the future. So as we all know, Tom was driving everyone up the wall. Zane had come to me and told me that if I voted for Tom, he would be loyal to me until the end, and any way that I wanted to vote he would vote. So I saw this as an opportunity to lock down a number that may not have necessarily been voting my way from the beginning. Where I made the mistake was when I underestimated the ability of Ivan/Andrei/Minke and others to confuse us into voting different ways. Do I regret voting for Tom that night? No. I don't. I am so very sorry that it screwed you over and put you on the jury bench, but ultimately taking you out of the game was somewhat of a blessing in disguise. It was from that point on that I reorganized my alliance and really got us all on the same page so that we could take out our next biggest threats (Andrei, Minke, and eventually Ivan). It also made Zane and I much closer which ended up paying off as we approached the end. So I hope that clears everything up (i'm still super sorry about how it all went down because I do love you as a brother as well).

2. I think the clear delineation between my game and Grace's game is simply that I didn't piss anyone off as I sent them to the jury bench. A lot my game was behind the scenes, which I know may not have been the best strategy, but I knew that it would get me to the end in a timely fashion. Some people say that Grace did my work for me, and maybe she did, but that was always a part of my strategy. I knew that coming into this game, I had a slight target on my back only because some people may have looked at me as some kind of ORG veteran who was coming to prove himself. I knew that if I was going to make it far into this game, I was going to need an alliance member who people were nervous of, so that the votes headed their way while I made the plans in the background. That's why I think I played a better game than Grace, because all my plans (other than Casey and Blaine's vote) came to fruition and I watched everyone go out the way I wanted to.

I think I did a better job than Zane at simply creating and staying in an alliance that carried me all the way to the end. Zane was always kind of a wild card, we always just assumed he was voting for Tom and nobody really cared or payed attention to him further than that. I knew that he was never going to vote for me, which is why I was okay with letting him get to the final 5, the final 4 and then eventually, the final 3. So I think that as far as control goes in this game, I definetely had more influence and control over people than Zane did, so in turn I played a better game.

3. Okay I feel like I already answered this question in number one, but I'll talk more so about the aftermath of that vote. So after the vote went down and all of us were kind of dazed and confused as to what happened, I immediately went to Grace and told her that we had to reorganize our alliance because our numbers are diminishing and we need to restructure or else we're not getting to the end. So, we made the group chat again with Casey, Blaine, Grace and myself and we really solidified a strong 4 that was able to then take out Andrei and Minke immediately after. I also somehwat got in an argument with Ivan where I ended it with telling him "whatever" when he asked if we were still in an alliance. At that point I was fed up with him and knew that I was getting nowhere. So that night was somewhat a blessing in disguise because it allowed me to develop a stronger and more defined alliance that would send me to the final 3.

4. Alright. So after you left I really do feel like I was the only one who stayed level headed. For the Andrei vote, people were coming to me left and right freaking out about where Tom was going to vote, if Andrei had an idol, this and that. I kept a level head, touched base with the 4 other people that I knew I could control their votes, and saw Andrei leave which was a huge repreieve. Basically the same thing happened for the Minke vote. A lot was going on, Grace came to me wanting to vote for a million different people, Zane and Tom doing the same. I once again had to calmly remind everyone that we need those numbers out or else we'll just end up where we started. So I kept reminding everyone to vote for Minke and eventually Minke was gone. The Casey vote was out of my control. I was flying to Italy that day and tried my best to keep my alliance together, but for some reason Grace really had a thing against Casey and decided to vote for her. So I was kind of impedimented by my travel plans from that point on. The Ivan vote was also just what I wanted. We were actually going to vote for Tom, but Zane thought he was controlling the vote so we had to go along with him and vote Ivan. The Blaine vote was out of my control, plain and simple. Tom made a great move and I didn't see it coming at all. After that vote I knew that I had to take Tom out. I was afraid that the jury would like him for defying the odds and making it into the end, and I didn't want to take that risk. He also told me that he would vote for me if I was in the finals and he wasn't, so I had to capitalize on that investment (even though he apparently said the same thing to Grace). I hope that gives you a bit of a clearer vision of what happened.

Thanks will! If there's anything else you need of me please just let me know!