Board Thread:Survivor: Chile (Season 7)/@comment-25270574-20150430190056/@comment-1775521-20150430204601

1.) If you could relate your gameplay to someone from the CBS show's gameplay, who would you pick and why?

This question is really cool. Alright, so I believe two contestants from the actual show define my game. Pre-merge it is Shirin, post-merge it is Kelly Wiglesworth.

Shirin: Like Shirin, I was a part of a super fan duo that everyone knew about, and everyone talked about. Xavier and I would just talk about the game all the time, and I can only imagine our names were brought up a lot for the vote. I ended up surviving, though I believe I fought more to stay in pre-merge than Shirin and actually made some moves. If I am Shirin, Xavier is Max, and like Max, he was taken out before me. After he was taken out, my gameplan changed and I had to readjust a lot.

Kelly: Like Kelly Wiglesworth, I was oblivious to the true power pair in the game (Rudy-Rich/Seth-Heather) which caused me to stay loyal after being approached many times by the other side with the idea of flipping. Towards the end of the game, when I realized just how low I was on the totem pole of the alliance, I kicked up my physical game to win a string of immunities in a row, and made it to the end.

2.) Name one way that your gameplay was more deserving of the win than Seth's, and one way that Seth is more deserving of the win.

I think one thing that everyone is over looking is how much I had to overcome in this game. As early as day nine, I was already backstabbed, but literally talked my way out of it by convincing Alf, that Zach was lying to just break the alliance we had. Then I distanced myself from Alf and formed another alliance to take out one of the biggest threats in the game. Knowing your bond with Alf, I didn't let you in on the plan, and it worked out exactly as I wanted. So I worked my way from the bottom to the top, not to mention (refering back to my Shirin comparison) people knew Xavier and I were a pair, and that was another hurdle to overcome because it increased the size of the target on my back. Then after the mutiny, I ended up being put back into the minority, but I survived, and fought my way to establish a spot at the merge. After Evan was the merge boot, you and I were the only Cerros left. We could have easily been taken out, but weren't. Whether that be your doing, my doing, or neither of ours, I overcame that mega-minority with the game I played. If I hadn't won those immunities I would've been gone. I had to work and spend so much time on those challenges to keep myself in, while Seth hid behind Heather until he HAD to take her out.

3.) Do you think you played a primarily mental game, physical game, or social game? Which of these 3 was your weakest?

Similar to the first question, I think my game differs from pre-merge to post-merge. Premerge I believe that my game was more social. Like I said earlier, I talked my way out of a failed move I tried to make against Alf, and he believed it. I tried to make bonds with everyone, but I'm kind of emotional so when I felt as though the other person wasn't really interested in talking to me, I wasn't interested in talking to them. Even with the target I had from being with Xavier, I was still able to gain allies in Evan, Nick, and Cali (Cali to a lesser extent). I feel like the people I worked to be friendly with, actually ended up connecting to me, and is a large part of how I made it this far. After I was betrayed, I honestly did not see myself even getting to the mutiny, but I made it this far. My weakest aspect would be my physical game, as obviously Cerro wasn't exactly amazing in challenges. Even though I did try, if I had the same amount of drive to win like I did in the last three individual immunity challenges, I feel like we could have won more, or at least make the difference in scores smaller. Ironically, during the merge I see a complete 180. The only person I worked on socially was you, and I believe that working with you helped my game a great amount, though it wasn't very smart to solely put effort into you. I was stupid to rely on bonds that I thought were established (Jessy, Heather, Seth), which caused me to be aloof when it came to what was going on around me. Also, I thought that it was a better idea to act wishy-washy to moves with the minority, than to lie and say I was working with them. This obviously was not the smart thing to do. Clearly my physical is the strongest portion of my merge gameplay as I would not be here without the final three immunities. Me being immune forced the other three to cannibalize as I was obviously the next one out.