Board Thread:Season 49 - Newfoundland/@comment-33549651-20181019064749/@comment-35919983-20181019124334

1.    After we lost the first immunity challenge, I would’ve preferred to vote out Simon over Nam simply because I liked Nam more. I found Simon to be a bit annoying and he would send me rather unsettling messages which would heighten my paranoia that he was throwing me under the bus to others. When I came online after the first immunity challenge loss, everybody was already pretty much set on voting Nam so I decided to just go along with it because I felt solid in the newly formed “Challenge 5”. After that, I knew that Simon and Mason would be easy boots if we ever lost again because I was confident in our alliance so I felt less threatened about his presence.

2.    Honestly, I do not feel guilty for Jordan (even though I love ya Jordan!) leaving because I disagree that Jordan would have stayed even if I hadn’t forgotten to submit my vote. Jordan was voted out in a 4-3-1-1 vote, with Ain and myself both self-voting. None of us knew that Ain wasn’t going to submit. We all thought that one of us four was going to get five votes from the opposing alliance. As you know, people like Jordan tried to get Rob and Edvin to flip. He was successful in getting Rob to vote Matt, however Jordan failed to relay this information to me, you and Elsa. If you, Jordan and Elsa had all voted Matt, then I would have been 100% guilty for Jordan being voted out, but that didn’t happen. We failed to recognize that Rob was the flipper and voting for Matt, which is ultimately what resulted in Jordan. Even if I had vote Rob with you, Elsa and Jordan the vote would have tied 4-4-1-1, with Ain likely coming online for the revote and voting out Jordan in a 5-3 vote (Jordan would not be eligible for voting this round).

3.    No, I never threw your name out before F4. Around F7, I realised that I actually stood a decent chance of winning the game, so when I said to you that I wanted Matt, Vilma and Alex gone after Edvin in favour of a final three of me, you and Rob I was being honest, because I felt that being in the final three would increase my odds of winning. I only began hinting about taking you out pretty soon after Alex won final immunity because I knew you would vote me out over Alex, and honestly, I felt taking you over Rob, especially with Alex guaranteed a spot at FTC, would severely reduce my odds of winning. I knew that you, like myself, wanted to bring Rob to the end and that avoiding a 2-2 vote, which could ultimately result in us being eliminated by a challenge,was our ideals. Initially, I was told by Rob that Alex was leaning towards voting me off and that Rob himself was contemplating it too, but I believe through talking with them I was ultimately able to get them to set their sights elsewhere. I received info that Rob had told you I was probably going home and you replied saying something along the lines of “ok that’s good but I’m surprised considering I told him where to vote pretty much every round” (which I very much so disagree with). Using this info, I was able to play up how big a threat you were to others which I believe greatly contributed to you being voted out over myself.

4.    Yeah, I addressed the misconception in Matt’s speech that our games were similar, which I do not agree with. Sure, we voted with each other on multiple occasions, but that’s because we literally needed to stick together in order to survive in the game. You and I voting together as a duo was essential to our advancements in the game, otherwise I believe we would have been taken out much sooner after Edvin’s boot.

I believe that our games different in multiple aspects. Obviously, I’m not aware of all the moves you carried out behind my back, however I can talk about what I did by myself. There were mutliple social moves I made throughout this game, which you weren’t apart of for. For example, as I’ve said before, forming a close bond with Rob after the Edvin’s boot was an extremely beneficial to me as the game moved forward as I was able to use this relationship to find out multiple bits of information that helped me progress further - such as deciphering that Rob was voting for you at the F6 and getting him to tell me that you were gunning for me at F4 / using the information he gave me to emphasise that you were a bigger threat to take to the end over me. I believe our games differed in our relationship with Rob because you two were often at odds with each other (or at least according to Rob).

As well as this, I would even say our games differed slightly because I played with more paranoia than you. From the F8 onwards, you had an idol in your back pocket. If you ever came into danger, you could save yourself. If I got myself in to trouble, I was most likely screwed. I think our games differed in this regard because since I didn’t have a back up plan with an idol, I had to invest more times into my relationships with certain people, such as Alex and Rob, that would ultimately lead to me making it a bit further than you, which shows that there was definitely a degree of differentiation in our game. If you want to know moves that I feel differentiated our games, I recommend you have a read of my response to Matt’s jury question, where I got into detail about how another move I made that I don’t think you necessarily did was throwing Matt under the bus hardcore.

Juror rankings:

1.    Vilma – she’s basically the complete package. She’s good at challenges, decent strategically and she’s super likeable, which is a credit to her social game. I believe she did a great job positioning herself behind a shield like Matt to reduce her target, she was just unfortunate we got Alex to flip.

2.    Tom - I think I played a decent role in getting Alex to flip, but I believe you also had a crucial role in that. The move to get Alex to flip was the game-changing move of the season, and I think you (as well as myself hopefully lol) deserve to be credited for it

3.    Matt – Matt played a really good social and strategic game. He made some great moves like pulling off the beautiful 3-3-3 vote split by feeding us misinformation about Edvin being the target at F8. My only criticism of his game is that he should’ve tried a little bit harder to try hide how big a jury threat he was

4.    Elsa – I think Elsa is a really solid player and she was just dealt a really bad hand coming into the merge. She’s really easy to chat to and super persuasive, which is ultimately why she got voted off. I think if she had laid low at the start of the merge she would’ve stood a really good chance of getting to the FTC and even winning.

5.    Jordan – Honestly, the only reason I have Jordan at fifth is because he wasn’t around as long as the others. I really enjoyed my chats with him and despite being in a tight trio with Tom and Elsa, I really think he might’ve been able to get me to side with him if push came to shove. He probably should’ve laid low at the merge but hindsight is 20/20.

6.    Edvin -  Edvin is a super nice guy and easy to chat to, which speaks volumes for his social game. I put him at 6th because until the F7 I didn’t see much of a strategic drive from him and he didn’t really have the opportunity to fully blossom because as he was beginning to he got voted off, but I think he had a lot of untapped potential in this game.

7.    Ain – Super nice girl but I never really spoke game with her, it was just little chats here and there to get to know each other. She seemed to be positioned well before she quit so kudos to her, I guess.