Board Thread:Season 40 - Argentina/@comment-28431903-20170520160038/@comment-30516037-20170521221009

Hey Mackie! I would probably say 26%. Most of the game was impacted by bigger players who are all in the jury, but if I wasn't there there were definitely some things that would have gone differently.

Yeah Premerge was definitely not ideal, I slept for a while bc ngl, I knew I was being for lack of a better word - well looked after. I didn't do absolutely nothing, I was forming really good relationships with a couple of people like Ally and really trying to patch up things with Syd a few times. Obviously this is definitely no more than what anyone else was doing, but it wasn't that I was making literally zero effort. Normally in the beginning of games I tend to try to take a back seat as far as decisions go & just have subtle input, but yeah this game it was definitely not deliberately strategic it was just being busy with real life shit. Although - I started to get comfortable with it and the people being voted out were people I wasn't as close with so I was fine with how things were going in that aspect. I know I definitely owed you guys a lot for how you included me & everything.

My argument would be that when we did merge, I worked harder than ever to make sure I was safe every vote, and not only that but safe if plan A went wrong and safe if plan B went wrong etc. Sometimes this didn't even turn out to have an impact and sometimes it did. For example- at f7 I was messaging Justin things like "i guess it's me or you" to hopefully get him/you to play an idol incorrectly if you had one. Although this ended up not even mattering it made him paranoid and promise me that they weren't voting for me, and it was little things like that that I tried to put in place as back up plans whether they worked & were noticeable or not. I didn't have an idol or immunity during basically all of the merge although I tried pretty hard to get it, but at the same time other aspects of my game were good enough that I didn't need these. I didn't play an amazing game to get just short of finals, but I did play a decent game with the intention of actually making finals. I spent so so many hours on that final challenge bc it was so vital. So yeah Premerge was obviously pretty bad but the merge I put in much more effort than was noticed & it paid off.

Thanks Mackie, & I've loved hearing your take on game dynamics and everything