Board Thread:Season 22 - Similan Islands/@comment-25044207-20150103120427/@comment-1524497-20150103152538

Thank you for your words!

 1. If we didn't try to blindside Tom how long would you have worked with us?

To be honest, by then my mind was already made up and I didn't want to sit in the end with you guys, but I initially wanted Erlend out at F9 since he was the only person I could not see myself working long term with. The touchy subjects challenge accelerated things and made the target fall on Nick but I would have work with him, and with you and Hugo, probably until F8 or F7, I don't think you guys trying to blindside Tom was really a factor on my decision since I felt like Hugo and I could have talked with you guys about changing the target, the less power Tom had over people the better for me.

What really made me pick the other alliance at F9 was when I followed your advice and kept trying to talk with Red, because coming into the merge I knew Los Ornitorrincos were, as Nick and I said, the normal people from Payang that would be harder to beat, but I didn't feel good about allying with the Fab 5 at that point because I didn't know if Erlend and Red would be loyal to me and I wasn't sure if Rick and Tom would be able to play together till the end. So I felt like it would be better to go to the end with you and Hugo since I had a bond with you guys and I trusted you. But then Red finally responded to me and after some conversations I felt like I could trust him moving forward and that made me stick with the Fab 5 over Los Ornitorrincos... And if I had decided to go to the end with you and Hugo I knew that I would have to take down Nick at F7 or F6 because I sure as hell wasn't gonna wait until F4 to find out if I was the 4th in that alliance.

 2. Why did you vote out Red over Rick?

There were a few reasons, Rick and Red were both loyal to me but my relationship with Rick was stronger as I knew by then that he would never write my name down, with Red I knew he wasn't after me but I also wasn't sure if he would vote for Rick over me at F4, I guess it had to do with me having more conversations with Rick about going to the end together and he told me Tom was starting to put the target on me at F5 and even offered to fall on his sword if I was cornered at F4 and that's a big thing to hear. Also by the time I made the choice Katie had already her vote casted against Red because Tom told me he didn't want Red to sit next to him at FTC having no votes against him (Yes, he told me that even though I also didn't have any votes against me) so if I wanted Rick out it would have to be during a revote. I would have forced a 1-1 tie had Katie voted for Rick instead of Red, he was just too loyal for me not to have at F4... And also a part of me wanted Rick sitting here because I knew he didn't think he had a shot at winning and was already pissing the jury off with things like posting gifs at the tribal results thread and all that, while Red was playing an UTR game where he wasn't getting too much backlash from the jury.



I hope that answers both my quetions and if you have any other then fire away!