Board Thread:Season 36 - Tikal/@comment-26896797-20161015205941

Hey guys! Firstly, I would like to thank the hosts for this amazing season, it was a great journey and it wouldn't have happened without them. Okay, now let's get to it.

I'm going to defend my game by dividing it in three parts, the three aspects of the game of Survivor : physical, social and strategy.



PHYSICAL ASPECT

I won two individual challenges, and I've never won one in my previous ORGs. At the final 7, I had to win immunity because I knew I was getting votes at the Tribal Council. Linus did win the most individual challenges in this Final Three, but Final 6 onwards, I never had to hide behind a necklace to save myself, Joanna and I had to survive by ourselves and we did it without immunity.



SOCIAL ASPECT

I always had to build social connections to stay in this game. Aguateca was a really social tribe, we had little to no strategy, so we needed to have these connections to stay, and I had. Thanks to these relationships, I wasn't voted out even though Andy was targeting me. In Vatanchu 2.0, I was supposed to go at the Tribal Council when Tucker went home, but I built a strong relationship with Joanna and she saved me by placing the target on Tucker. At the merge, I started to form relationships with John and Linus because I knew I needed to make a move against Anna/Claire at some point and John/Linus would help me with that. It worked because John immediately told me that he had voted against me at the Final 9 tribal council, then he voted with me against Anna. I tried to keep my temper and when people were calling me out in the tribe chat, I never answered because I didn't want to add fuel to the fire and I don't like fights. The only time I got into a fight in this game was with Christine, after she flipped on Michael/Joanna/myself, but we apologized.



STRATEGIC ASPECT

My strategy pre-merge was to stay under the radar and play the social game and that's what I did. When I went to the Temple of Toj at the switch, I chose the tribe advantage because I knew it would help me being the last one to enter Vatanchu. At the merge, I decided to stay loyal to Aguateca in the first rounds, then Michael and I saw that everyone was thinking that we were sheeps, so we formed a Final Three deal, and we included Christine in. At the Final 9, Christine, Michael and I wanted Felix gone and Anna/Claire wanted John. They wouldn't budge so it was obvious they had a deal with Felix, we couldn't trust them anymore. So, we pulled Joanna/Linus/John in and, even though only Joanna voted with us, we succeeded to vote Felix out. At the Final 8, one of Anna/Claire needed to go because they were social and physical threats, we were originally gonna vote for Claire but we realized Linus was with them, and with Claire's light pearls, we couldn't afford a 3-3 tie, so we switched the vote on Anna. At the final 7, Claire was supposed to go because of her light pearls, but then, via some chats with him, we figured that John had flipped on us, so we couldn't vote for Claire or else it would've been 3-2 with Michael going (none of us knew he had the idol) so we swayed the vote on John for being a threat and having flipped on us. I'm not saying my strategic game was flawless, because it wasn't, I was out of the loop at the final 6, when Christine flipped on us. I mean, I had a feeling that somebody was going to flip on me, so I used my idol but Michael was the target. At the final 5, Joanna and I had to get Linus on our side, and the only person he wanted out was Christine so we had to vote for her to stay. In conclusion, I think I played a good strategic game, not the best, but I always did what was best for me and my alliance, and I hope you guys will respect that.

Thanks for reading, and may the best player win! :D

  