Board Thread:Season 21 - Salvation/@comment-7785749-20141204064305/@comment-24776269-20141205013450

Thank you for the opportunity to answer your questions, Mitchell. I'll start with the general questions you gave everyone. '''You are the only person voting for a winner. Out of everyone in the game, who wins?''' It would be a really tough decision, but I think you'd be the front-runner to receive my vote. You played a strong, competitive game and would have been a shoo-in had you won a couple more immunity challenges. The dominance you displayed throughout this game certainly gives you a powerful case for the victory.'''At what specific point do you think I lost this game? '''When you lost the immunity challenge at the Final Five. After displaying such physical power at the challenges, there was no way anyone would have allowed the opportunity to vote you out to slip away.'''Based on what the other jurors have been saying, how accurately do you think you perceived your games and your chances at being the Sole Survivor? '''I never pictured this to be a cakewalk, so I'd say my perception of how this Final Tribal Council is playing out has proven to be pretty accurate. It's been tough, but I hope I can pull through.'''What were the three biggest moves made in this game? They can be strategic, social, or physical, as long as you feel that they had a significant impact in the game. '''After surviving Esjan, I came to Sulur and helped form a tight bond in the tribe with Perry, Tyler, and Ted. So the first big move was a mutual effort to keeping Sulur solid as a group. The next major event was when Tyler was blindsided. It changed everyone's game plan, forced new alliances to form, and set the stage for the events of the post-merge. Finally, the last major big move was voting off Trace and Eden at the double Tribal Council. After blindsiding Trace, we wanted to vote off TJ, but he was immune. So I was forced to vote off my only remaining alliance member by sending Eden home. That was the price I had to pay. It was after that TC when I realized I had to find a new partner, and George fit the bill because he had a lot of friends. I recognized that having a lot of friends also means that you're bound to make a couple enemies.'''Name one finalist who you don't think should be at the Final Three, name two jurors who you don't think should be on the jury, name three people you think wasted their spot in Salvation, and name four people that you don't think deserved to be cast in Salvation. '''I don't think anyone doesn't deserve to be where they ended up because that's illogical. You're where you ended up because you played the way you played and that's how it happened. That's why I don't like arguing about "which Survivor winner was the best" because they all did what they had to do to win. If I had to choose, I'd pick Steve, because I was the one who decided to take him to the Final Three. George and Steve can talk all they want about how strategic they were and how I did nothing, but George and I were voting with Jino until I decided Jino was a bigger threat than Steve and told George we should get rid of him. That was MY decision. So Steve can thank God that I decided to save his ass at the last minute.Ted and Matthew should be on the jury because they earned their spots, but I can't ignore placement. If I had to pick it'd be those two.Brian wasted his spot because he was unfortunate enough to be the first one out, Alex wasted his spot because he had a chance to force a tie but chose not to trust me and went out way earlier than he should have, and Julia wasted her spot because she stopped trying and seemed to have given up (no offense, Julia, I just haven't heard otherwise).I am not going to bother speculating on who "deserved" to be cast in Salvation. The hosts made their decisions and the cast was chosen based on fair and deliberate judgment calls. I don't know enough about past seasons to declare one person more worthy of being cast as another person. The cast is what it is, and that's my final answer.'''Which contestant made the biggest improvement in their game, and which contestant took the largest step backwards? '''Again, I don't really know enough about other ORG seasons to make an informed judgment on this, but objectively speaking, the player who beat his original placement by the most places was most improved, while the player who fell the biggest number of spots took the largest step backward. So whoever those two people happen to be are my answers. Rate my physical, social, and strategic games, on a scale of 1-10.Physical: 9/10Social: 7/10Strategic: 8/10'''Who do you think, from Salvation, should return for a third season? '''That's a good question. Jino really has a great case to be brought back for a third season, because he came so close only to fall just short once again.'''Compare my own game, or myself as a player, to both a real-life and an ORG Survivor player. '''Your game this season was really reminiscent of Wes' game from Sardinia, for me. Both of you had great challenge performances and proved to be formidable opponents. As for a real Survivor player, your game reminds me of Darrah from Pearl Islands or Terry from Exile Island.What are your favorite songs at the moment?Take Me to Church by Hozier, Half Light II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire, and O Holy Night. I change favorite songs every 6 seconds anyway so this isn't saying much, haha. '''What was your defining moment in the game? You can take "defining moment" to mean whatever you want to. '''Obviously, my asking to be voted out has come to define my season. Whether or not you see it as a positive or negative, it's defined my game for better or worse. Now for the specific questions. Do you think we should give you the title because you decided not to quit and were carried to the Final Tribal Council? See, I don't think I was carried to the Final Tribal Council. Just because I didn't win an immunity challenge doesn't mean I didn't influence the game. Steve wouldn't be here if I hadn't made the decision to keep him. I strategized and socialized along with everyone else. Just because I wasn't as visible as some other players doesn't mean I didn't have a plan. I did not idly float through this game.You shouldn't vote for me because I didn't quit, though that is something I definitely view as a positive. You should vote for me because in the end I played the best game. I laid low, played the social game, stayed loyal to my close allies, cut ties when I needed to, and dodged bullets to get here. '''Is your perception as a goat fair or not? '''Not at all. Steve certainly can't claim he carried me here because it was George and my votes that gave him this spot in the Final Tribal Council. I didn't just sit around not doing anything. I put myself in an alliance and stuck with that alliance until I could no longer benefit from it. That isn't what a goat does. A goat lets the game flow around him. I played my part in controlling the flow of this game and influencing its outcome.