Board Thread:Season 49 - Newfoundland/@comment-32469668-20181016203825

'''Hi everyone, I promise to try and keep this as brief as possible (i don’t) and just stick to the main things and the main reasons why I think I deserve to win, if there’s anything that I don’t cover or anything someone wants me to go over in more detail or corroborate and compare sides of the story, I’ll be happy to cover that in any replies. '''

'''For the pre merge portion of the game  I mainly focused on staying safe, I wanted to keep myself in a good position in whatever situation I was in and keep myself in a good place heading into the merge, also I tried to focus on winning immunities and being active within the tribe. In this first section of the game I feel there were two moments that I think are worth noting. The first of those moments was organising a loose alliance between myself, Matt, Vilma and Ain at the first tribal, this wasn’t a huge move but it helped solidify my place in the game and also set me up with an alliance for anything that happened in the near future. The other event worth noting was the tribe swap round, I didn’t ask to be the person in charge of that but in the end I was chosen to do it, my strategy for choosing the tribe swap was to have my main allies back with me, those being Matt, Ain and Vilma, after that I took Rob as I had grown closer to him, and then for my last choice I took Simon, one reason being that I felt we had connected a lot while we were in the Anarchy period, another being that he would be an easy boot if we lost the immunity, which we did end up losing. '''

'''Going into the merge I felt I had succeeded in creating a good position for myself, at the time I still had my alliance of Matt,Vilma, Ain and myself together, and had was on good terms with Edvin and Rob. My game plan at the start of merge was to keep my options open and try to stay out of making any big decisions as I did not want to be targeted early merge. It was during the tribal where Elsa eventually went that I decided it was time to start taking control of the game, ideally at the next tribal I would have targeted Matt, but he had used his exile to skip that tribal. I would have preferred to get him out as it was what the consensus of a lot of people was and I could have solidified my place with them, but as he wasn’t there I thought Edvin would be a good secondary target as it would still leave my alliance in place with Vilma and Matt, even though I was planning to flip on them that tribal, and wouldn’t anger people, most people. This vote helped mine and Vilma’s bond as well as it was perceived to be me saving her and helping her survive. The downside to this vote was it ended up with me and Rob not talking to each other, but by F5 we were starting to talk again so all’s well there. '''

'''The next tribal was when I decided to go after Matt, with idol paranoia high, me working closely with Tom and Conor and Rob not on good terms with me and Tom, it seemed like the perfect time to go after the biggest threat that was left in the game, which was Matt, since I voted Edvin last round and ‘saved’ Vilma, they were both willing to work with me to come up with a plan on how to avoid one of us three going, it was also this tribal where Tom confided in me about his idol, this was extremely useful as I whatever I decided to do in the future, I would be able to take the idol into account. The vote was fairly simple, get Matt and Vilma to agree to vote one of the other three with me, while I flip and vote with Tom/Conor for Matt, this was the first tribal I thought I was going to get a vote but I didn’t, and never have received a vote against me this game, which is something I’m very proud of whew. But in the end everything went to plan and Matt left in a 3-2-1 vote.'''

'''That tribal was the last one I was vulnerable at, from then I put a lot of effort into the immunity challenges as I knew I was becoming an increasing threat. The next vote was my first time voting in the minority this whole game, my thinking was that if I kept Vilma, who was perceived as a threat at F4 then it would give me more room to manoeuvre at F4, but obviously it ended up with Vilma leaving, and the idol being a non-factor. '''

'''Winning the FIC was also a crucial part of my game, and resulted in me being here, without it I know I would have gotten 4th. My reasoning for the F4 vote and voting out Tom was that he was taking credit for a lot of moves and being the reason that him and Conor had survived until the end, I felt that he was more of a threat then Conor if these claims were true, I also didn’t want Rob to have to go to fire making and wanted him to make FTC as he has said himself his social and strategic games have basically been non existent. By telling Conor that Tom would overshadow him at FTC and would take credit for all of his work, we were able to get a 3-1 vote, with Tom voting Conor in the end.'''

'''This is already like way too long BUT there are some sort of miscellaneous kinda things I just want to touch on, one of my concerns early merge was that a Demasduit could easily build themselves an underdog arc that would be impressive to the jury, this didn’t concern me later on as I realised that I planned to flip, it was my decision and choice and one I stick by, early merge I just kinda stuck to what was expected of me to do, and then when I flipped it was when I wanted to do it and when I thought it would be good for my game and me position in the game, it wasn’t the result of any manipulation. '''

Furthermore, I feel like people might say to me that I don’t deserve votes because of my jury management, or the way I treated people in game, to that I have to say that my jury management and social game have been good in this game, I used my social game and connections to build alliances, and be able to flip safely without being back-stabbed, anybody who has been angry at me hasn’t just disliked me for my personality, they’ve disliked me because of a move I made that benefited myself  and not them, which I think is necessary and not a bad thing to do in games.

Finally, I believe I deserve to win as I have had a good balance of the three main components of Survivor, my aforementioned social game was good, my strategy in terms of knowing when to start playing more aggressively was good, and I feel like I can justify everything I’ve done in this game and I can also say this is my first ORG where I have been proud of my physical game, to win the most individual immunities and at the most crucial times of the game, it’s the first time I can say I’ve done that.

'''Anyways, this is too long i’m being conditioned to write essays in school so this is unfair but yeah that’s basically my long overview on this game, as I said before I’m more than happy to answer any responses and any questions. Thanks to the hosts and the cast for making this a definitely interesting season. '''  