Board Thread:Season 51 - The Caribbean/@comment-37911756-20190225200030/@comment-33171823-20190226152223

Ok I am here!

A- You said you fought “tooth and nail” to get to the end. Can you please explain this? From my perspective, you had a very easy ride. You were never a target, you always voted with a majority, you had an idol used on you, and yeah ngl some people did see you as riding Yousef’s coattails. Where in the course of the game did you have to fight tooth and nail?

I first off want to say that even though I wasn't the target, doesn't mean I didn't fight. I don't mean fight tooth and nail in that sense, but in the sense that I gave it my all. I never gave up. I fought tooth and nail to save Yousef f5, but it didn't work. Tooth and Nail fighting for me was also subtle in making sure who I wanted went home. Just because I voted majority doesn't mean that vote was good for me. The Lex and Su vote in particular really hurt my game. For me, I see fighting tooth and nail as never giving up. Right now, after everyone basically called me a goat, I'm not giving up, and still going to push for a win, which I in my mind feel like I deserve. If that doesn't make sense please ask me to clarify I'm aware that's super confusing.

B - You said you pioneered moves on all your own & drove them to victory, can you give the jury one example of a move that was strictly your own that you personally worked to convince people, including your closest allies, to go with?

Elmo. I knew Elmo had to go i I wanted any shot at Yousef leaving. I convinced Yousef that Elmo going was good, because he was a threat and had to go. Yousef didn't want Elmo to go because he wanted someone who could beat Ethan in challenges, and he also had some kind of deal with Elmo. That's not to say that it wasn't in other people's best interests, such as Ethan. But it was very important for yousef not to play an idol on Elmo. I feel like alot of my conviction helped in ensuring that didn't happen.

C - At the beginning of your speech you said you kept Yousef as close as you could because you wanted him with you at the end. Then during the elmo paragraph, you said you got rid of Elmo because you “knew” both Yousef and Ethan would not make FTC and you wanted to give yourself a chance at FTC without Yousef. But then at the end again you said tried “so hard” to save Yousef because you wanted to be at the end with him. Can you please clear up what your intentions actually were with Yousef and back those intentions up with your actions? I don’t know about the jury, but I myself would have seen taking Yousef to the end a Woo and Tony level mistake.

Yes, so I have now explained this elsewhere. I would have lost to Yousef. In my opinion, he was a deserving winner. But, I didn't want to lay down and win to him, as I felt like I was doing. My solution to that was to take out Elmo, and take Yousef's chances down a little. They weren't 0. It was like 50%. But it helped me out immensely for Elmo to leave, and gave me a shot without him. Had Ethan lost, there's a good chance it would have been me Yousef and Karsten/Jake. Probably Karsten. And I would have been ok losing to Yousef.

Also for what its worth Ethan was gone F5 on the second he lost there was no saving him. We all would have voted him out.