Board Thread:Season 54 - Caño Cristales/@comment-38834507-20190818192343

'''Hello esteemed members of the jury! Before I get into it, I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made this game possible. I had such a fun time and win or lose, this was such a good experience. I don’t want to make this too long so I’m gonna keep this as concise as possible. '''

'''I played this game in two phases. During the pre-merge and early merge I was very much flexing my social game. My biggest strength is my personality and my ability to forge relationships so I decided to play the game as a social sweetheart. If anyone had seen me play games in the past, they knew that I had inadvertently established a reputation of being an overly-trusting nice girl who’s easily manipulated. I knew this coming into the game so why not weaponise it? Be a nice girl now and if I need to break bad, they won’t expect it. '''

'''So! I played the early game socially and it worked out well in favour. This can be proven by me being able to actually survive lmao. I was targeted SO much during those first few rounds (and for obvious reasons, I was flopping competitions for my tribe left and right) but I managed to survive because of the relationships that I developed. All I had to do to save myself was run to my alliance with Jayme and Matt, bat my eyes, say a sob story about being targeted and send along a few kind words and a sparkle heart emoji (haha jk it wasn’t that dramatic I’m very glad and thankful that I was deemed worthy of being saved) I knew that I had established these strong relationships that would let me be safe while having other people get their hands dirty for me. '''

'''Another reason for trying so hard to establish relationships was because I wanted to be able to take a step away from Andreas if needed. God bless his soul but Andreas can come on a little too strong and be a little messy sometimes. I realized that there might be a point in the game where I would need to distance myself from him (or he would get voted out rip) and I needed to be my own player with my own game. I really didn't want to be seen as Andreas’ little lap dog so I needed to make my own moves without him. '''

'''I think it’s also worth pointing out that everyone who targeted me during this period was taken out. I was able to help eliminate people that were threats towards me while “just going along with what other people wanted” and not getting the blood on my hands. '''

'''I’m gonna fast forward to when I entered into my second “phase”. The moment when I made a definite change in my play style was the Su vote. Leading up to this, I started realizing a lot of things. Firstly, Torsa seemed to be close with Su and I felt that if it came down to it, Jayme/Torsa would want to take him with them to the final 3 instead of me. I had also heard multiple times from other people that Su had wanted me gone in the rounds leading up to the merge. Even though I had no real beef with him, I knew that he wouldn’t be a safe bet for me to keep around. I had been getting very close with Matt at this point in time and we had a conversation about where Su’s name was thrown out. When we brought up the idea to Torsa and Jayme it was very apparent that they were not interested in that plan so Matt and I told them we agreed so we wouldn’t cause any drama. Realizing there was no way of convincing them to vote out Su, I brought up the idea of flipping on Jayme and Torsa and well, you guys know what happened. The magic of that vote for me came after though. I had played my early “social sweetheart” game so well during the beginning of the game and allied myself with Matt (who at this point had pissed off a few people) so none of the heat from that vote came down on me. Jayme and Torsa channeled most of their anger towards him instead of me and I left that vote mostly unscathed. And again during the Torsa vote a very similar thing took place. I knew that keeping Torsa would be a definite death sentence for either Matt of myself  during final 4 and keeping Brian would be a calculated risk where Matt and I could both possibly make it all the way to the end. We kept the power that we had by voting out Torsa and even though we came to that decision together, he took most of the heat for it. '''

(Also sorry Matt, it was never my intention for you to take all the blame for the moves we made together, I honestly was ready to Romeo and Juliet it with you lmaoo) 

'''So that was briefly my game! I know that I left a lot of stuff out but I figured you guys wouldn’t really care about every single detail haha. Thanks so much for reading and I look forward to answering your questions!! Thanks!!'''

 