Board Thread:Survivor 41: Phi Pan Nam/@comment-43593892-20191012073852/@comment-43601271-20191012134651

Hey Derek, ITS BEEN TO LONG WE WERE ABOUT TO START SHARING VINES!!!

I think people calling me out for not having a strategic game is, well, kinda new for me. In the other games I played it was the exact opposite, and I came into this game with a goal to downplay a little bit, because I thought I’d be an early juror again if I didn’t. Maybe I downplayed too much? During the pre-merge I felt like I was failing at this goal, because I got my way every single tribal I went to, and I told a lot of people how I felt the vote should go and most people went along with it. With this swap I know Shane says he flipped me to his and Kyle’s side, but I never trusted Fathan, and had no problem voting him out when we did. I had connected way more with Shane and Kyle in 2 days than I had with Fathan over 8, and y’all know how annoying I can be in your DM’s trying to chat, but Fathan just seemed disinterested. I personally wanted to reward to effort they put in, and Fathan casually coming up with a weirdly complex plan after the swap was a good reason to rally people against him, but I wanted him gone either way. Once merge hit, I think I started off very vocally and pushed for certain people to go, but I think why people may think I didn’t was because Shane and I split up who we were sharing our plots with all the time. For instance with the Maynor vote I mainly talked with Anthony and Jason, since I was already close with them, and Shane talked to you and Kyle for similar reasons. If anyone else came to me and asked I was usually very honest with them, unless I thought honesty would come back to bite me, but it didn’t happen that often. But, maybe to my detriment, with some of the game talk I let a lot of people who I knew weren’t voting with me come to me. I would always be open to talk but I didn’t want to open a can of worms if I didn’t have to. Also I had the mindset that if I did go around and talk hardcore game with everybody and do nothing but lie or overthink, that it would all just lead to me become the next big threat that needed to go. However, I always was part of game talks where I felt I was needed. I was always trying to get my way throughout this whole game and, for the most part, I succeeded in doing it. If I had to boil down everything into a single reason WHY I may not be seen as doing as much strategically, it’s because I didn’t PUSH as hard as I usually do, because I had a fear in the back of my mind it would end my game. Maybe I didn’t get as much recognition because of this, but the upside is I get to plead my case to the jury, and if I played harder, most likely I don’t think I would be sitting here in the Final 2. Hopefully that answers your question Derek! Hopefully we can get back to talking after the season is over because I was having a lot of fun getting to know you! Thanks for being so nice to me when we first met, it was really sweet of you!