Board Thread:Survivor 22: San Marcos/@comment-24207263-20170208162752/@comment-26864283-20170209001131

Thank you Austin for all the kind words! Deadass I don’t know how tf we haven’t just talked shit out before this, because we both basically enjoy the same things so I’m SO happy this season happened for this reason. I don’t wanna make this sound too kiss ass-y because I truly enjoyed my time with all the (real) players this season, but I think this specifically will be what I take away from this season most of all just because of how well we got along and worked together, our alliance is one of the biggest reasons I’m here now or there’s a good chance myself or both of us may have been premerge. But lets get into the question~

My three biggest moves in this game we're getting out Jenna, Claudia and Chris (I know this sounds like a cop out since I mentioned those 3 in my speeches, but they are truly the moves I felt like I had the most significant on and had the most impact in the game, but if you wanna hear other moves I made I can talk about ones besides these three lol). So let me go into detail for each:

The Jenna vote was so stressful, we knew Claudia had an idol and at that point we all assumed Ellis was one too so Chris had one too. Up until the round before I wanted the final three to be myself, Sim and Jenna, but once we found out Jenna was playing both sides(really well) she shot up as a threat in my book because to me we seemed to be playing a somewhat similar game. While me and Sim were the ones who bounced back and forth the idea to target Jenna, I feel like I was a bit more vocal and the move itself had much more strategic gain for me. Getting out Jenna enabled me to become the swing vote between Chris/Claudia and Nathaniel/Shea because I had the social ties and relationships with Chris/Claudia that I knew that Sim didn’t. Getting rid of Jenna also broke up the trio of Jenna/Chris/Claudia which could of easily gone to the end together, and basically made me and the new Jenna to them, in which more people needed my vote and wanted to go deep with me instead of her.

Getting out Claudia was also huge, probably the biggest and hardest move for me. I was stuck right in the middle as the sole swing vote that round with each side pulling me really hard. Originally, I was leaning towards keeping Claudia because of how great we were becoming friends and because I saw Chris as an equally big threat, but I’m being honest here (I made a confessional that I believe was a VL about this) the way Nathaniel was campaigning to keep her was really off-putting to me and steered me away from it, he basically tried to threaten me and Sim to vote his way and kinda made up lies that made no sense (ex: wanting us to vote Chris and telling Sim if the vote tied on him he wouldn’t save him). I also knew she would beat anyone left in the game and it could of possibly been the last chance to get her out, so as much as I wanted to on a personal level I just couldn’t. As a friend, if I thought I had no shot to win I would’ve 100% not voted her out and took her to the end, but I had to make a game decision and not a personal one, even though I love her.

Finally getting out Chris got me here, and actually having a shot at winning. Chris was Claudia's partner in crime the entire game and I knew that if the jury was pulling for her, they were definitely pulling for him. I was planning on targeting Chris for SO long and towards the end of the game the target I had on him momentarily started to fade away and was legit considering a final 3 with him. However, during the final immunity challenge I came back to starting to realize that Chris really was the biggest threat because of his game and the way he can just talk to people. I was debating what to do after the immunity, and it was my decision alone to take him out, I had to convince Sim to do it and Nathaniel didn’t talk to me until like an hour before results were due.

So hope that answers your question good!

ALSO I just wanna address one thing in Nathaniel’s response to you:

“F6 tribal, he wanted to be voted out, but couldn't get people to not vote me out, so I talked to Chris, Claudia, Nick and Sim, and got 3/4 of them to vote him out with me, and Nick not doing it was because he wanted to save himself in case we were voting for him (which he, if he had had game awareness during that vote, would have known wasn't gonna happen, and he also ended up being the sole vote for me).”

First, the reason for Nathaniel’s survival that round wasn’t because Nathaniel campaigned and convinced all of us to do Shea instead of him, while that may have been the case for Chris he was the actual reason he stayed because he had told us all he was playing his Ellis on Nathaniel (which to our knowledge, was the same Ellis idol that was in the original Tokelau season). We were ready to vote Nathaniel regardless, but the fact that there were only 3 people eligible for the vote just made it too risky. But second, the vote and awareness, I voted for Nathaniel in the event that something changed and he idol’d Shea with a rehidden idol and him and Shea decided to vote for me, the pearl would tie the vote 1-1 and Nathaniel would leave, I knew I would be the only Nathaniel vote that round. To our knowledge, he wanted to take Shea to the end for an easy win and had already played an idol on him to do so, so I would say it was an extra precaution and not something crazy or out of left field doing it, but yeah just wanted to clear up that last part.