Board Thread:Season 6 - Nepal/@comment-4896231-20130722202530

Hello jury, today with my opening statement, I wish to explain as much as I can about what I did to get here so that you can ask about the more finer details of my gameplay, and what got me sitting here today.

Coming in to this game, I knew that to get to the end of Survivor, and win, you have to have three essential things down:

I. Challenge Performance

II. Social Performance

III. Strategic Performance

I believe the reason I am sitting here today is because I excelled in all three categories. This opening statement will explain in detail, why I think I did. I will leave the strategic performance for you to question me about.



'''I.  Challenge Performance '''

I’ll start with challenge performance, since it is easiest to explain. I have won the following challenges:



1. Episode 2 Tribal Reward

2. Episode 3 Tribal Reward

3. Episode 3 Tribal Immunity

4. Episode 4 Tribal Reward/Immunity

5. Episode 6 Tribal Reward/Immunity

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">My challenge performance was essential to getting me here today. The most blatant example was the fire making challenge, in which it literally allowed me to continue on. The less blatant examples being the tribal challenge wins, as my participation allowed me to not be perceived as weak by my tribe, but also allow me to stay under the radar by not being too strong. Had I been too strong, I believe my tribe would have wanted me out due to being a physical threat. I also believe it is worth pointing out that my challenge performance was consistent. I never went two episodes without winning a challenge.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">For this category, I will be explaining which alliances I had, and how I kept them. As for moves I made with them/individually, that will be explained in the strategic section.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">Right away, I knew I would have to start talking to people. I had arrived to the game a little late, and had a fumbling start. I simply began talking to everyone on my tribe that I was able to. This allowed me to gain good relations with Charlie, Charley, Des, Eli, and Wesley. I had not been able to talk to Alex, and Jason was an inactive. I formed the Canadian Trio, an alliance between Charley, Eli, and myself, which didn’t last very long. However, the three of us pulled in Charlie, Des, and Wesley to form the Khaptad Six. When we lost the first immunity challenge, we voted out the obvious target, Jason. There was a little miscommunication between us though, which lead to a 6-2 vote. Alex had voted with us.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">Now the Khaptad Six was 6/7 members of the tribe. This gave me a guaranteed three days more in the game, whether we won or lost immunity. However, myself, and other members of the Khaptad Six knew that if we lost another two immunity challenges, one of us would have to go. I was very aware of that knowledge, and wanted to make sure I was safe. I kept close contact with everyone on my tribe to make sure they liked me, and wouldn’t want me to leave. As well this round, I started talking to members of the other tribe to get on their good side. Mainly Trace, Ash, and RP. This was also the round that our tribe started suspecting Eli of talking to the other tribe. Knowing that there was discontent with Eli due to this, I made sure that my tribe was aware I was talking to the other tribe. Honesty is sometimes the best approach. When we lost the second immunity challenge in a row, we voted out the only non-member of the '''Khaptad Six, Alex. '''

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">The Khaptad Six’s time had ran out. We were down to a tribe of six, and we knew if we lost again, one of us had to leave. I was well aware of this. I knew that there was a lot of discontent towards Eli due to the belief of him socializing with the other tribe. I figured for the benefit of my game, despite me talking to him the most up to this point, I would have to cut my alliance with him. Of course I did not tell him I wished this, but it also seemed that we were either online at different times, or he was slowly losing interest in the game. Our tribe had finally won an immunity challenge, but that didn’t mean the socializing was done for the day. To make sure I was safe at the next time our tribe went to Tribal Council, I formed a duo alliance with '''Charley. I had talked to Charley the most, after Eli,''' up to this point. I asked her who she was close to, she said '''Des. We formed the Three Fates''', the three people who would decide when you would leave the game. We were a highly dominant alliance throughout the game.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">I actually didn’t do much this episode. Just continued to talk to people to make sure that I was still on their good side.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">My tribe was highly confident, coming off of two immunity challenges in a row. We were sure we could take the tribal phase by storm. Then it happened, we lost again. We would be down to Chitwan 6-5 in numbers. What we thought, was that merge was going to be close. We were scared of being pagonged. However, after talking to Charley and Des a lot during the past few days, we decided to bring in Charlie and Wesley to form the '''Khaptad Five. With this solid five alliance, Eli '''was voted out from our tribe.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">This round mainly consisted of me preparing for merge by making sure everyone from our tribe was close, and that no one would flip at merge. By this point, I had convinced RP that I was with him, just so he wouldn’t come after me at merge. Throughout the tribal phase, I also tried to convince Trace that I was also low on the totem pole, so he also wouldn’t come after me at merge. A while ago, the Three Fates had also found out that Wesley was in possession of the Khaptad HII. We were paranoid of it, we knew Wesley was close to Charlie, so had the idol been used, it would most likely be used to take out a member of the Three Fates. We started planning to blindside '''Wesley. I formed a final two deal with Charley '''at this point of the game.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">I gained a Cursed Idol this round. It was helpful in making sure people wouldn’t want me out just in case of a bitter vote against them at the next T/C. We were expecting a late merge at this point, but were once again denied it. When we won the tribal immunity again, we knew we were going in to merge with a 5 vs. 3 number advantage over Chitwan. This was great. This round when RP was voted out, everyone sighed a breath of relief. He talked a lot, but he was also dangerous. People constantly look over the fact that he was actually aligned with a good portion of the people in the game at one point. That’s the exact thing that bit him in the bum though.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">At this point, the Three Fates controlled 3/8 votes in the merge. This put all three of us in a great position. I was in an even better position, as Charley looked like the leader of our alliance. This made people scared of her, and made her a target. This allowed Des and I to play a more under the radar game. The Three Fates were still weary of the idol Wesley had. So when Charlie approached all three of us to blindside him, we were all for it. Of course there was paranoia that this was a plot so that they’d be the only two non-nullified votes. We decided to take the risk anyways; I was especially pushing at the chance. Wesley had an idol, and was also a very good challenge performer. We convinced Ash, Trace, and Jhet to vote with us as well. This took out a huge threat from the game.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">I knew that this round, either Trace, Ash,  or Jhet had to leave this round. If those three had equal numbers to the alliance I was in, at this point the Khaptad Four, who knows what would happen. I formed a pecking order, which was the same as many others. If Jhet won, Trace would be our target. He was playing a quiet game, and if we didn’t watch out, he would suddenly be a lot farther in the game then we thought. However, if anyone but Jhet won, Jhet would become our target. Jhet was a strong physical competitor, and very charismatic. We knew if he got far enough, he could probably immunity run to the end. As luck would have it, Jhet won immunity. The Khaptad Four stuck to our guns, and we voted out '''Trace. Charlie made a final three deal with Des and I, we decided to keep this from Charley. '''I was beginning to have suspicions in her, and was a little weary about if I could really beat her in a final two scenario.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">After the survivor auction, paranoia was abound for everyone. Ash and I had both won an HII of some sorts. This really did no favours for Ash. As the criteria we were told, was that she would have to play it on someone else. We knew the only person she’d play it on was Jhet. So, we thought that Jhet was yet again, untouchable. When the immunity challenge was finished, we were supposed to split our votes between Jhet and '''Ash. The whole plan fell apart though, and Ash''' was voted out unanimously.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">Up until recently, my final two deal with Charley was unquestionable to me. We were going to get to the finals together no questions asked. However, I recently began noticing, that I had not been noticed. Normally, this wouldn’t matter, but I was wondering, if I wasn’t being noticed, did the jury think I was doing anything? So I just talked around a bit, and found out Charley had a lot more deals then what I originally thought she had. Originally, this episode should have been clear shot. Des wins immunity, Jhet goes home. Now the original motive for me wanting to take out Charley was because of these deals I had not known about. I was loyal to the Three Fates, and her. I told them about all deals I made, save the Charlie/Des one. I knew that the jury was not in my favour at this point either. I decided to take out a big physical, jury, and social threat. I voted for Charley to leave, and played my HII to make sure she would go. With Charlie’s double vote, it was successful.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">I had made it, the final episode. There were still a few obstacles to handle, but I felt like I could do it. However, I found out me voting out Charley had a huge effect in Des’s trust in me, despite, what I felt like, a clear explanation of why I did it. He told me that his vote in the last tribal council was to spite me, and honestly, I believed it. I tried to do some unsuccessful damage control. At the final four tribal council Des yet again voted me along with '''Jhet. I consider this the official point at which the alleged final two deal I had with Des '''was abolished. Luckily for me, I won the fire making challenge and went on to the final three. This is where I was almost 99% guaranteed a spot in the FTC. Despite us both betraying each other, Des would have rather brought me then Charlie should he have won the challenge. Charlie brought me, as you all saw after he won the challenge. Had I won, I of course would have been in the final tribal council. If that didn’t demonstrate the social game I set up, I have no clue what will.

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<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">Now that that long explanation is over, I am ready for your questions. I believe the social portion of my game will be better explained if you question me about it. I wish my fellow finalist Charlie good luck in this final tribal council.

<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:.75in; mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center">P.S, not sure about why my bold and italics are seemingly randomized in the headlines. Haha.

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