Board Thread:Season 57 - Laguna Colorada/@comment-38618213-20200216040945/@comment-44735465-20200216103311

Hi Phoenix! Thank you for the questions. I’d like to start by saying that being flashy is indeed not always necessary, and when it comes to everyone saying I always did what TC told me people have to realize that me and TC were working together the whole game and even though someone is a bit quieter than the other doesn’t automatically mean they just float. The another thing is that this season had clear divisions when it came to alliances, and once they shifted a time or two, everything was pretty much set in motion and there was no further flipping, so people don’t really have individual moves this game as opposed to a game where you’d have actual free agents. And the thing is, me and TC didn't even talk after we merged up until the final 7 when I went to him and got him to spill all his anger towards Toby to me, which gave me the green light to bring in Luca and together figure out how to execute the Toby boot.

One very flashy move that I made was indeed the rock draw at 6. What happened was that me, TC, Luca and Nicolai were supposed to vote for Abi, but after immunity Nicolai came to me and I led him to believe I was interested in making a move and he spilled the beans to me about potentially voting for Luca. I went along with it, but also questioned why he would prefer doing Luca over Abi. He was telling me we’d work together until the final 4. There were 2 things wrong with that. Firstly, he tried keeping Abi in with such resistance that I knew I’d screw myself over if I now let Luca lose and had the potential to be voted out 5th instead should TC win immunity. Second of all, I’m not gonna work with someone who only promises me final 4. You could at least lie and say final 2, but that was when I was at my personal crossroad, deciding my lategame faith. Had I gone with Nicolai's plan and indeed once followed someone's decision blindly, I was dead in the water at 5 with TC winning immunity. Micah and Nicolai were extremely tight, and I needed to separate them as soon as possible (which is something I already tried doing at 8 but I'll get back to that soon). It was also crystal clear that everyone was taking Micah to the end over anybody else, so I couldn't risk going to the end with Micah and someone else, which is why the rock draw needed to happen. Nicolai also spilled the beans to me about him possibly having an idol, because he was convinced I was now working with him. I wanted the idol gone so some hours before the deadline I brought the whole Nicolai thing to both TC and Luca's attention and convinced them that voting for Nicolai was our only option, because that way we'd have me with immunity, Luca with immunity on the rock draw, and TC having the safety of the guardian angel. I thought Abi or Micah would've flipped on Nicolai on the revote, ensuring their own spot in the game, and that way flush out the idol as well, but that didn't happen, and honestly, it didn't even matter if they flipped to begin with, because one of them was going to leave if Nicolai didn't leave, so it was up to them if they wanted to draw rocks, and I needed both of them gone anyway, so it was one big win-win situation to me.

Another move that failed big time I'd like to talk about is when at the final 8 I had the Adam and Eve shit given to me. I knew I needed to use it in some way or else I might screw myself over, which is why I paired myself with Micah. Micah was really wishy-washy, so I needed to ensure he wasn't gonna try to get me voted out or anything, and considering he indeed did try to, I wasn't wrong to choose him. When I found out Micah was trying to get us to self vote in order to get me voted out, I immediately turned the tables on him and came up with a plan to vote either him or Nicolai out (this is the part I talked about previously, because they were honestly a duo). For some time, I did have everyone voting either Micah or Nicolai, but like we all now know, Luca had his personal issues with Phoenix, resulting in him going behind most people's backs and getting Phoenix out, but that's not what matters now. Before that, the plan was indeed to get rid of Micah or Nicolai. That was my move. I gave Micah either the option to vote for Nicolai or we'd self vote, and we did indeed self vote, which is what I wanted anyway, because it piled a vote on him at the cost of me also receiving one, but I knew I had the tide turned so I wasn't going anywhere. Yes, this move didn't happen, but it was on example of me being in control.

Some statements I have regarding other situations: - I don’t know why Luca keeps talking about a trio of me, you and TC because I literally told him on a multiple occasions that I was willing to write your name down just so he could stop being worried about you. I was willing to make that move in order to have him working even more closely with me.

- Luca can say whatever he wants to say about the Kamen boot and how it was just a decision between voting for one of them, and yeah, him flipping was a move, but orchestrating the boot was a whole different thing. He flipped on my side, so don’t I get credit for managing to pull him over? Every coin has two sides, and flipping it will always leave one of the sides unexposed, but it's always fair to look at the full picture.

What I think each of the jurors excel at over me and vice versa:

- Liam is definitely a better physical player, because I struggled in all the challenges throughout the season, whereas he didn't. However, I think my social game outshined his, because a lot of people were complaining about not being able to reach him and how he'd ignore them for multiple hours.

- There's not much to say about Zeebem, because I only knew him for like a day, but from what I saw during pre-merge he was a great physical player as well. I definitely think I was better both strategically and socially, because unlike Zeebem, no one wanted to vote me out unanimously.

- Phoenix was definitely a better physical player as well, because winning challenges seemed like a walk in the park for him. I do think I was better socially, though, because people didn't feel the need to target me even if they saw me and him as threatening together.

- Toby definitely had his strategic game sorted out. Like come on, everyone was charmed by him and he had everyone wrapped around his fingers. If it wasn't for the move he made at 8 and leaving a lot of people out of the vote, a lot of people would've still wanted to work with him. Taking in count post-merge challenges, I definitely won more than Toby did, surprisingly, so I'd say my physical game was indeed better than his.

- Abi shined socially, and she was the social butterfly of the season. No one ever said anything bad about her, and always wanted to work with her and protect her. I was definitely more a strategic player than she was. It always looked like Abi was just there in the corner waiting for someone to come to her, asking for her vote for a move.

- Micah was a better physical player than I was. For most of the challenges this season, he was always in the top 3 and was close to winning a couple of times. My social game was a lot better than Micah's was. A lot of people came to me and talked shit about him and how unorganized his game was.

- TC was definitely better physically, and he gave me a run for my money at the final immunity challenge, being really close to winning it. I do think I was better strategically than he was, because I was able to hide my threat level, because no one wanted to empty their bullets on me before taking a shot at TC.