Board Thread:Survivor: Chile (Season 7)/@comment-5001881-20150430024626/@comment-26059974-20150430201801

Hey Evan! I just want to address 2 things before I move onto the questions.

First off, you're right, fixing up my social game and talking to you more would have been the smart thing to do, and I definitely should have done that when we played together.

The other thing, I realize me voting out Heather most likely seems like the "Oh shit Jace won immunity" thing to probably everyone on the jury, however I approached Jace before the immunity challenge was even up (or maybe right after, there was some confusion with the challenge at that point). But anyways, Jace approaching Ali wouldn't have worked had I not made the decision to vote Heather in the first place. I truly believe Ali was loyal to us both, as I was to him, and in the end he most likely would have voted with me. (I realize that might not make sense so basically: Had Me/Ali won immunity that round I probably could have convinced Ali to vote Heather out with me, whereas Jace could not just because Ali had more trust in me than Jace.)

Now onto the questions...

1) What were your best strategic moves aside from voting out Heather? Does that in itself even count as a ‘strategic move’ or was that just an obvious vote?

Well yes, me voting out Heather was a strategic vote and I planned to do it before immunity was even up.

(Here's picture proof if you want it? http://gyazo.com/7ee618e14cf090096138dab167a98fb8)

Anyways, my next best strategic move was probably voting Fitz out over Tyler P. during the revote. I know, it seemed obvious that Fitz would go since he was on the minority, but I really considered saving him over Tyler P. in the revote. In fact, I almost decided on just originally voting Tyler out and blindside him/Jace. However, I think it was one of my best strategic moves because Fitz was a HUGE threat for me. My next biggest threat next to Heather, because he was just so damn likable! Not only that, but he proved to everyone he could win competitions. Everyone always told me Tyler was a beast, but I didn't have an proof as to how he's this amazing competitor. He may be, I just didn't seem him as the best at the moment. Also, had I taken Tyler out instead of Fitz, it would have gave Fitz/Ali more shifting room to flip this game around. Jace would have for sure approached them, and they may have even gotten Heather out, with my following her in 4th.

I'd also like to take into consideration mutinying was another good move for me. I wasn't exactly comfortable with how close Tyler F. seemed to be with Fitz/Ali, and obviously how he was targeted Jessy, who I think of as a good friend of mine! I made Heather mutiny as well, just to make sure she wouldn't get picked off over at Patos. I think it was a good strategic move for me because it got me into an alliance from Cerro, but I was also still in the alliance at Patos, which put me in a pretty safe spot going into the merge.

Another great move, which people probably won't take into consideration even though it really helped keep me safe throughout the game, was taking out Gavin at the very beginning of the game. I was put into a swing vote position that tribal, where 2 separate alliances were targeting each other. However, I managed to get most of Gavin's alliance (Tyler F., Fitz, & Ali) to end up voting him out with us because he was "weak in challenges." That move helped my social game because I didn't piss anyone off at that tribal, but I was still in the middle of the tribe!

 2) Had someone rarely talked to you on an individual basis for the entire game, would you even consider voting them if they ended up at final tribal?

Okay, I admit that was... not very smart of me to not talk to you. And I do see where you are coming from, but honestly I would have to hear what they had to say at FTC. I think knowing someone's game is very important when choosing who to vote, so I would definitely consider them if they did end up playing a better game than their opponent(s).