Board Thread:Season 14 - Madagascar/@comment-24112421-20140501013841

I am going to try and make this short so you guys don't have to read a book. If there is anything specific you want to know about my game play I will be happy to answer it.

Last time I played this game I got 4th after being in a position where I wasn't able to make a lot of the decisions that occurred after the merge. This time around I decided that in order to have a shot at winning I was going to have to take the game into my own hands and have as much control as I could, and since the re-swap I was able to accomplish that.

I was able to persuade players to do what I needed in order to accomplish my goals throughout the game. The only time I wasn't able to do this was when Kaeden was voted out, besides that every person that went out was done so in the order not that I wanted, but that I needed. I knew who was close to me, who was a threat to beat me in the end and who was most likely to do what I wanted. It was because of these reasons that I chose (aside from Kaeden) the order I needed each of you voted out of the game.

I know a lot of you are bitter towards me and to a sense I can understand that. Did I lie at times? Yes. Did I manipulate players to get what I wanted? Absolutely. But these were things I needed to do in order to give myself the best chance at winning. The one thing that I did NOT do throughout the whole game was make anything personal. I never told anyone I felt bad for a vote I was going to be making because I was never making a vote against a person, it was always a vote against a player that was a threat to my best chance at winning this game.

The control I had over the game to get what I wanted, the ability I had to get myself out of situations when I was in trouble and my ability to get to the end on my own terms I believe shows that I was the best player of the season. If you want to hold it against me that I needed to play this game as hard as I could and make it personal then that is fine, I think it says more about you as a player then me. But if you want to vote for the person who played the game to its full potential, the player who played the hardest and the strongest game, then I believe I should receive your vote.  