Board Thread:Season 18 - Heroes vs. Villains/@comment-5810529-20140819205349/@comment-5051226-20140821134009

I'm not going to go through every instance of me perceiving you to be hypocritical because I've already listed them to you in the Watubela chat, so I'll just refute an incorrect statement that you made: saying that "I need to prove that I didn't need Luke to win the game" does not make me a hypocrite, that just means there's a gap in my logic, and that I didn't tackle the issue with the right approach. I can't tell you what would've happened if he didn't play his Idol with certainty, so I'm not even going to go there.

So you're right, there is a gap in my logic: I did need his help, and I claimed multiple times that he probably should not have helped me as much. But that's hindsight. At the time he played the Idol on me, we were both convinced he had a better shot at going to the end and win if Miguel went home than if I went home, and our common goal was to beat the Yin tribe, so it's still consistent with how I used mutual benefit to convince him to keep me and everything that I've said in my answers.

And as I said multiple times, the one time I actually led Luke to do something that probably hindered his game by keeping me was when he kept me over Topher. At that time, his dilemma was either keeping Topher and having to beat Adam himself at the FIC, but possibly going home if he lost, or keeping me and have a guaranteed spot in the finals, but a worse chance of winning. I knew I still benefitted his game to an extent, but I was also aware that keeping me could be detrimental to his chances of winning.

So I did prove to Luke he needed me to go to the end and improve his chances of winning, and that's the point I was trying to make, and that's how I should've presented it. Shanking him at F4 would have meant I betrayed our loyalty, and that would have been inconsistent with how the commitments I made to him. So the question is: if I win, do I owe it more to myself for convincing Luke to help me, or do I owe it to Luke for accepting? That's for you guys to decide as jurors.

So there you have it: there's a difference between hypocritical and being wrong. I was wrong, and I can admit it, but I can still prove that my intentions in saying what I said were consistent with how I defended my game.