Board Thread:Season 37 - Archetypes/@comment-29125600-20161211225708/@comment-24114312-20161212225537

I definitely rubbed people the wrong way and had a bad social game in regards to most of the jury. I had a bad social game with Alexa, Ash, Hunter and Charley mainly, as well as some pre-jurors such as Matt and Uli. I think the main issue was entitlement towards many people and my lack of bubbly personality this time. And although me and Ash don’t get on, she is right in her response to me where she says that people’s feelings aren’t invalid even if I don’t believe they shouldn’t feel that way. I obviously rubbed many people the wrong way, and that is on me and that is my fault.

However, I would also argue that it doesn’t mean I deserve to lose this game. The social game is a huge aspect, but I believe I played it quite well in regards to some people. For example Claire, we both got on really well and only towards the end of the game did that start to crumble. We bonded very quickly and very early on and if I’m not mistaken, you trusted me quite quickly, and I believe that’s evidence of a strong social game. Obviously that can’t be applied to everyone and in general my social game WAS poor, but it wasn’t a total fail. I also did have a few people against me for minimal reasons, which grew into huge rivalries.

I also think that it shouldn’t mean I deserve to lose as I still managed to make it extremely far with a lot of things stacked against me. At some point in the game, everyone in the merge voted against me or my plans (apart from Jared) and I was able to get those relationships back with those who I thought would be loyal to me long-term and move forward. I fought hard to even be at the merge, and I fought hard to be here. Albeit, I was fighting against issues I’d created myself, but I DID fight to be here and I fought harder than most people. I’ve been fighting since the first vote, which can’t be said for others.

I believe I should also win despite my social blunders due to Brett’s strategic blunders. Specifically, the Sora vote: Brett’s argument is that people lost trust in him due to his relationship with Sora and by voting out Sora, he opened up new avenues for himself but that just isn’t true. He voted out Sora, and yet remained with the people that he’d voted Sora out with sans Chris. Those were also the people who voted out Emile. It made no strategic sense, as he voted out someone who was loyal to him and put himself in the minority. The better strategic choice would have been to have taken out Chris at F9, then vote out Sora in a blindside at F8 using your vote, Claire. I truly believe that if he had done that then he would without a doubt deserve to win, but the move to me came off as impulsive and not thought through, and he gave up so much power and control. It put him in the minority, and it isn’t justified by him making FTC because a key reason that he’s here is because of those mistakes — I believe that I stood the best chance against him over you because you played a stellar social game, a perfect under-the-radar game and Brett made key strategic mistakes.