Board Thread:Season 42/@comment-24603302-20170908201045/@comment-1775521-20170908214124

Julia!! Thank you for the compliments! I agree that you and I did become good friends in this game, and I definitely saw you as a very close ally of mine. Now to answer your questions:

1. The reason I didn't tell you this plan was honestly me being rash. I knew that you had already voted, so I felt that there wasn't a point in me going to you and trying to discuss a plan with you as it was too late to change anyway. I was afraid that you were not going to like that votes were being put on you, even though in a 100% worst case scenario where Jake and Rhi didnt go along with the plan, Priscilla would have been gone. I thought that it was easier for me to just get the vote rolling. Looking back, this was stupid on my part and I should have respected our alliance together better and let you know what was happening. I completely had our alliances best interests at heart and thought that it was the best way to move forward and put us in a majority position with the Plastics alliance.

2. My intent was to completely stick to Phalap. The Phalap group was one of my favorite alliances that I have ever been a part of in my ORG history. I think that you, Maya, and myself had a great dynamic and when I promised my loyalty to you two, I meant it. Outside of the alliance, Priscilla was someone that I really liked in this game, and I really wanted to actually work with her because our game-relationship was so strained by betrayals. This does not mean that I wanted her in the end instead of you. I wanted the Plastics to be an alliance of people that I felt I had a strong relationship with, and also would be the majority after the final 8 vote. I doubt that anyone was going to expect Priscilla working with us which is why I thought it would've been a great alliance. At the rock draw vote, I felt that if we lost Priscilla, then Yannick and Clifford were going to flip to Jake and Rhi to take out one of us in the Phalap group as it was no secret we were a tight three person sub-alliance in an alliance of 5 people. I thought that if Priscilla stayed in this game, and stayed loyal to us, the Plastics would have the majority at the final 7 and could run the game from there on out. Unfortunately, this didn't end up being the case and Priscilla flipped, resulting in almost the exact same result that I was afraid of happening if Priscilla left at the final 8. I had complete intent to make it to the final three of this game with you and Maya which is why I was so crushed when you two were both taken out of this game.

3. The move that I regret not making the most, since hindsight is 20/20, is not voting for Jake at the vote where Chris got idoled out. Had I done that, Jake would've been out in 11th, and Phalap would have all four members completely solid moving forward. I was so torn on where I was going to vote at that tribal, but as usual, I was at work when everything was going crazy, and had to just go with my gut and vote for Rhi. Now that I know that Jenna and Priscilla actually voted for Jake, and Clifford stayed loyal to our alliance, so if I voted for Jake I would have been safe, and we would have saved Chris, I would have voted for Jake in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, paranoia that I was experiencing after hearing that Jake-Rhi-Sim-Jenna-Pris were working together with Clifford in the middle, and were torn between voting for Chris or me, caused me to vote otherwise.

4. I personally like Jake a lot in this game. He never lashed out on me, and even though we were literally trying to undermine each other basically since the merge started, I think that we were able to maintain a mutual respect and friendship with one another. If I lose this game, at least it is to Jake who also played this game well.