Board Thread:Survivor 42: Mexico/@comment-35875691-20200111021721/@comment-36835108-20200111044459

Hii landen. while i do agree some aspect of game was luck, i believe there is luck in everyone’s game. to answer your question, I believe i initiated conversations by going to the people that i heard were saying my name as a potential target during votes because that opened more roads than just standing idle, so in a way, i took my fate into my own hands and never let go without a fight. Also by talking and connecting to multiple players with strong social games themselves, i was able to open pathways to more alliances than what i could have done personally myself. This way, in the event that anything got exposed, it never really fell back on me as being the instigator in said alliances, and that helped minimize any potential target on my back. on that note, an example i can say is that I think i initiated talking to michelle a lot and checking in with her when it had been a little while because i knew she would stick with me till the end and be loyal, regardless of the situation, and i love her for it. this is why i felt secured at final four and even final five, and also, i used that connection to get my way (such as the angel vote). another example was monty vote. i reached out to angel who was someone i wasnt super close with and created an opportunity to rid of a big threat (monty) when there may not have been another chance afterwards. that is one example of a social bond i encouraged that had significant strategic value. so i think bonds and alliances were, in a way, how i thrived in this game. i connected with the right people, which included both social awareness and strategy, and utilized that to my own benefit in ensuring i’d be sitting here at final tribal.

in short form, each connection i made or encouraged had strategic insight. i saw michelle as an endlessly loyal ally that would go to war for me, and that was helpful to my game. i saw monty and you as strong social players that could allow me to be indirectly interconnected and have shields to my game. while some of it was on the behalf of others obviously i feel like i did think strategically when it came to the bonds and alliances made, and i tried my best to enable multiple paths and opportunities.