Board Thread:Survivor: Isla Del Sol (Season 10)/@comment-25901093-20150726214246/@comment-25097517-20150727181032

Hey Minke, I'll try and clear up some things for you.

In the first part that your addressed me in, you asked why Ivan and I didn't vote together. The answer is that it was to cause paranoia, and begin our pretending to hate each other, basically. I figured since all of premerge, Ivan and I were fairly close, that making it look like Ivan and I were having problems, at least to the side I did vote with would work out in the long run. The fact that it was Jake that took the blow wasn't in my control and I personally wouldn't have wanted Jake out as I am very close to him outside the game.

The second thing you address was, why Andrei. The answer to that is similar to the first, that I didn't really choose who went. I'm also extremely close to Andrei outside of the game, and you reacted more strongly to him leaving than himself (we just talked about how Quiznos sold soup lol). I believe that it was most likely Tom who wanted to target Andrei first, and I wasn't going to fight him on it simply because it didn't really matter to me.

For Casey's boot, Ivan had told me in the past that Casey was throwing my name out two tribals in a row. Whether that was true or not beats me, but she also lied to me initially about voting for Will, and that's why as Trace put it in another answer "I had something against Casey". During your vote off, Casey was complicating the strategy by trying to get the vote to tie by me using my pearl and among other things, it just seemed really sketchy to me. Since I wasn't sure if I wanted to side with Tom/Ivan, or Blaine/Trace for the long run, I told Blaine I was voting for Casey, and bought me time.

Ivan's boot was a mess and a half because I knew that once again, it was Ivan on the line, but Trace was also on the line, which are two people who I found myself really close to, and I thought really hard on it and just voted Ivan. Zane also went on a rant on how Ivan needed to leave after Blaine/Trace/I had already discussed it, and I bit the bullet and did it, no matter how much I wanted to avoid it.

The reason why Zane is here and not Tom is basically up to Trace. I asked Trace and he wanted Zane in the finals. Whether his intentions were to stay loyal to Zane for something, or simply because he didn't want Tom here beats me, I wasn't going to go to a tie over it because I wasn't entirely sure if people were still as bitter towards Tom than they were when they left the game, and his play on the Blaine vote earned him more respect. That's why I didn't really fight Trace on it, I'm sure you'll get a clearer answer from Trace.