Board Thread:Survivor: Resurgence (Season 8)/@comment-25923976-20150520171028/@comment-24086799-20150520184150

Thanks for the kind words regarding my game ;3

So I'm going to start by going through how I worked to eliminate the players that went home at the tribals I attended:

Xavier - I was (arguably) the leader of the platypus squad. The platypus squad controlled the votes on Qin 2.0, and no one really saw us coming, because we mostly got the minority to vote against itself. With Xavier, I convinced him that we were voting for you, because we were trying to avoid an idol play. It was, I think, originally my decision to vote out Xavier, because I didn't trust him (since he was in Counterstrike).

TJ - Similar to Xavier, I worked to make sure no idols were played, but I took more of an active role. I made a fake alliance chat with him and the rest of the platypus squad, and (maybe) convinced him we were going to adopt him (since he was in the minority on original Qin). He voted against Shannon (not us) and left as expected. I also coordinated splitting this vote between TJ and Shannon.

Shannon - I cared less about splitting this vote because I was immune, but I still regaind Jaylen's trust (after lying to him about the TJ vote) and got him to vote for shannon (and vice versa) causing the 4-3 vote between the two, effectively splitting the votes again.

Jaylen - This one I worked extra hard because there was no one to split against, so I concentrated my energies on convincing Jaylen that I wasn't with Gavin. I basically told him that I would vote with him, giving him the opportunity to be a leader (as we know he likes to be). He ultimately fell for it and he left 5-1.

Noah - There was no real trick to this one, especially because I was immune. I just had all my allies vote for Noah because he was our only option.

Max - This one was probably the most stressful for me, because I was being targeted and I wasn't immune. Initially, I was considering voting you or Bryce out, but Emma came to me and told me Max was targeting me. Then Jordan told me about the 'Blades of Rage' alliance, and I set about taking Max's plan apart. I started by voting myself, then getting Jordan, Sean and Emma to vote (those 3 were pretty loyal to me at the time). This created an almost-majority, which prompted Ian to vote with us (since he just wanted to vote with the majority). I talked to Bryce and told him I knew about the alliance Max made, and because (to my knowledge) Bryce didn't really care for Max, he was willing to vote for Max as well (now that he knew people weren't going to be loyal to whatever alliance Max had). You voted after we all sent screenshots, and there was a clear minority. Norbert voted with me on loyalty (to my knowledge). This produced an 8-1 vote, when I really should have left. It was everyone's last opportunity to get rid of me, and you guys didn't manage to get it together.

Gavin - Jordan and Sean kept me consistently informed about schemes, which proved to be very useful. I had already been working on Emma and Sean for a good amount of time (final 14 or so), talking about voting you out first from the alliances. I had a lot of receipts of you saying sketchy things which would suggest you flipping. I used those to my advantages, and turned the alliance against you over Bryce.

Bryce - Because I wasn't an option, by final 7, Bryce was the clear option to go. Turning everyone on the last Qin wasn't difficult. It's not really even a move, it was just finishing what we started.

Emma - Emma probably recognized that Jordan and Sean were telling me shit, so she wanted to get rid of my more loyal allies. I had proof of her targeting Sean and Jordan, and used that against her. I also pulled in Norbert, on the premise that Emma wouldn't take our Africa-pair to the end. That made 4, and I didn't care what Ian did after we already had a majority.

Norbert - My original intent was to vote Sean out at this vote, since he threatened me at challenges. (Sidenote: I would've won this immunity, but I accidentally turned in the wrong score, my original score was 90k at tetris; Sean had 22k). But when Sean won immunity, I had to change plans. One aspect of my strategy this game has been staying in good standings with everyone left in the game. Sean was a loyal ally to me, and I didn't want to risk pissing him off by pulling something on him. Sean wanted Norbert gone, and my only real move against that would have been to force a tie between Jordan and Norbert, and I couldn't think of a good reason to do that. Also, another sidenote, I didn't do any extra work this vote to keep votes off of me, people just naturally stayed with me :33 (even though they didn't know I had the idol).

Sean - This vote was a little more complex than it appears. I started by getting Sean to vote for Ian, which I suggested to him after I won immunity. Once he had done that, I went ahead and voted for Sean. Jordan, who wanted to work with me as well, was willing to make the move with me to take out Sean, so he voted Sean. I knew he would vote Sean with me; we had discussed it previously. The beauty of all of that, is that we still didn't have to care about what Ian did (because Ian was strategically dead this entire season, and needed plans spoonfed to him if you wanted his vote). Ian's only choices were to vote Sean or to vote Jordan. Either way, Sean ends up with 2 votes, and it's either 3-1 or 2-1-1. Sean went home.

Jordan - I worked my  ass  off to win the final immunity challenge (although it turns out I didn't need to :P). Jordan would have done a better job at FTC than Ian, which is why I voted him out.

That's the role I played in all of my tribal councils, and all of my voting strategies explained. (If something needs clarification, let me know).

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