Board Thread:Season 49 - Newfoundland/@comment-24900484-20181017164130/@comment-32469668-20181018150518

'''Hi Matt, thanks for the video jury speech, I’m glad to hear you understood where I was coming from with my move against you aaa. I would do a vid response but no one should have to see tht. Before I answer the questions you left me, there are some things in your speech you said that I completely agree with, the timing issue in particular, I think I flipped the time I did as I had been putting it into action maybe too soon, I was worried that by implying I was flipping to people then not following through, people would lose their trust with me so when I had started to plant those seeds I felt I should follow through in the next vote, hence why I didn’t wait another round. Having said that I agree that I left myself in a tight spot in the end and did have to rely on immunity at final 4. I don’t think that acting too early should cost me your vote considering that, in my opinion anyway, it’s still impressive how I managed to control that move and flip and then have the physical skill to win the immunities I needed. But I understand what you’re saying in terms of making a move too early and putting myself in a position where I would need to win immunity.'''

'''For the question you asked me in the video, on the Shana tribe the only alliance I was aware of was the one between myself, you, Ain and Vilma, if there were any other ones I did not know about them either, my reason for making that alliance was that out of the tribe I felt we were the most active ones or the ones that I found easiest to talk to, this in turn meant at merge I would be able to rely on you socially to talk to people and gain their trust with me but yes also that you would be able to make decisions early in the merge so people didn’t pay attention to me. For me it just made sense to align myself with people that would make more ‘noise’ then me and attract more attention.'''

'''And then similarly to answer the question you left me, the reason for the loose alliance on early Shanawdithit, was just to solidify the fact that us four would make it to the swap, and then merge, I made it just so everyone felt they had something there and reduced paranoia. Going into merge I felt it was important to keep my options open, I didn’t want to close myself off to all the other players when there might be a better way to play that gave me a better chance of making FTC, then also winning FTC. So at merge I did realise that flipping on that alliance was an option for me, but I didn’t formulate a real plan until, specifically in the Elsa revote, which was when I felt I had stayed out of playing hard strategically. So tldr; I knew I might have to flip on the alliance if it came to it, but didn’t seriously come up with the plan on how to do that until the Elsa revote. '''

'''If Ain hadn’t of quit, it might have made my game more difficult to pull off, as I don’t know if Ain would have flipped with me or if she would have stayed loyal to you and Vilma, since I don’t know because I never asked or tested that with her, it’s hard to accurately predict what would happen, but I do feel that the outcome would be similar but maybe now with me actual waiting a bit longer if Ain wasn’t open to flipping. Also I feel I have proven that I could have won immunities to keep myself safe and also still could organise numbers to flip. I think my spot at FTC would be safe and I would still be in a similar position to the one I’m in now. '''