Board Thread:Season 50 - Kingdoms Collide/@comment-26852922-20181223012114/@comment-25624731-20181224001908

Hey Jenna! You’re a cutie!!! Sorry this took so long, I literally stayed up until 2AM writing answers last night and I wasn’t able to get to yours, I wanted to make sure it was perfect though which is why this is a bit late.

I know that Jamie commented on it below on how getting you out wasn’t solely her move and I actually touched on this pretty in detail in my answer to Audrey of how this was kind of a move that we all made. The round before, Jared and Jamie had both spoken to me about wanting to align, and once Audrey got voted out we realized Chelsea would be our ideal fourth person in the alliance. I was happy about this, because it left me at least sort of aligned with almost everyone in the game and gave me a lot of options for how to handle the next few votes. However, Chelsea not showing up that round really left me to do a lot of heavy lifting in our new alliance while also balancing what move I wanted to make and keeping my alliance with Cali a secret. Targeting you ended up being my ideal choice as you were the person most likely to have an idol but least likely to play one due to Chelsea’s absence, something I worked hard to exploit. I don’t think that voting you out was solely my decision but I do think it was a decision I helped make and do not believe Jamie was the driving force behind this at all. I cannot comment on why she thought this was a good idea, though I’m sure her answer to you explains why she was adamant that you leaving was best for everyone.

The reason that I blamed you for things being leaked early merge was definitely because of Jake! I was super frustrated because I felt like the first round of the game, nobody kept anything a secret. It seemed like I may as well have strategized in the tribe chat because even my closest allies were leaking everything. It made it super hard to build trust because I felt like I’d tell people something and there was no respect for keeping things quiet. I understand why this was the environment, everyone was afraid of being caught withholding information and it being used against them, but I felt it was a bit… unprofessional in a sense. I believe Jake told me something like you had said I thought it was everyone on the tribe vs Dani at F12, and I was really annoyed because I felt like me telling you that was an attempt to get a strategic discussion going and like you weren’t really taking it seriously. I figured well, if that is what’s going on, I’d like to stop it now because I’m not going to play the game with people who tell my secrets to everyone (I was already sticking with Chelsea, who’d told everything to Cali at F13, I didn’t need any more information leaked!). I definitely am sorry for how I came across in that moment though, honestly I just let my frustrations get the better of me when what I should have done was just let it slide as either misinformation from Jake or not a big deal if it was true.

I listed my best strategic move in my answer to Audrey, but I’d like to mention another one here. I feel like another one of my better strategic moves was the F5 vote. It’s funny that Jamie thinks this was all her, because I think that I was doing a lot more of the strategic driving that round. I already had promises from everyone at that point that we’d be working together, but I was fearful that Jamie and Chelsea would realize this was their ideal time to take me out of the game. I was honestly almost hoping Chelsea would do this, I thought it’d be super badass and I would have been really impressed if she’d cut her ally that close to the end. But as impressive as that would be, I didn’t want it to happen, so once Jamie won immunity I sprung into action. Dani had already spoken to me about wanting Cali out, but I was fearful of voting for Cali unless I knew Jamie and Chelsea were already doing it. I did not want to vote Cali only to have the vote tie 2-2-1 between us as it would mean I’d be voted out on a revote. Instead, I suggested to both Cali and Dani that if we worked together and voted for Chelsea, we’d all be guaranteed Final 4. I was pretty set to vote Chelsea early on in the day, and although I would rather have had her and Dani both in the F4, her lack of communication with me was sketching me out and I felt like she was certainly going to make a move. But… then she didn’t target me! Instead, she showed up and said she was down to still vote for Dani or Cali. I figured that was fantastic, and that if we voted for Cali, I could get Dani on board and we could just make it a unanimous vote. Alas, Dani had already voted at this point, and I was then forced to make a tough call between which of my close allies I wanted to save. I felt like both were loyal to me and I had a decent job of beating either of them in the end, but ultimately I had to make the call to cut Cali due to the fact that I was certain Chelsea would vote against Dani in the F4, whereas I was not as confident that Dani and Cali would vote for each other. The nice thing with this move is it shows that not only was I correct in thinking I was essential to everyone’s plans at this point in the game but it also shows that I had my bases covered and would have been protected in the event Jamie or Chelsea had wanted to move against me. If I’d heard even a whisper that they were considering voting for me, my vote for Chelsea would have been locked.

I also mentioned my ideal F3 in another question (I forget who at this point) but it was Jake and Audrey at the start of merge. I felt like I got along with both of them really well and like they were the perfect level of daring and smart that we’d make a pretty killer team. They also both trusted me more than they trusted each other, and you know that’s my kind of alliance! After they both got voted out back to back, my ideal F3 was honestly any one that involved me. I didn’t really have a set end game plan, I was planning one or two rounds in advance but I was fine with going to the end with anybody as I felt I would be able to stand on my own and talk about the merits of my game. As the game progressed, different people emerged as ideal or not ideal for me to be at the end with, and I feel I countered appropriately. I hope this makes sense, honestly at this point I just don’t want to post at the last second, enjoy!