Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-30692190-20171216023126/@comment-4387136-20171216040624

'''Your speech didn’t give much for us to read honestly - it left a lot of holes in your game that needed to be answered. '''

''I left a lot out of my opening speech because I didn't want to give a step by step rundown of every tribal or have you all read a novel. I've lost at a FTC because I did that before. I wanted to give y'all a chance to ask questions that weren't already answered and anything I felt I missed I can say in my closing speech!''

'''Did you not consider that winning immunities early could peg you as a challenge beast and put a huge target on your back? What is your logic behind winning immunities, other than safety?'''

''I did consider it. The first immunity I wanted was because we were all coming together from 3 tribes and 12 people and everyone had their own agenda. Plus I wanted to see if there was an idol clue I could get my hands on!! (Which there wasn't any for the first immunity)''

''I thought about throwing the next challenge (the scav hunt) to tone down the thought of being a threat in challenges (I even talked to Willow about throwing it tbh), but I said fuck it and went for every immunity challenge. I would regret going home and not even trying for that rounds immunity rather than the target it painted on my back.''

''I wanted to win the F6 immunity because it was rumoured Jon had an idol. If Jon/Rhys won immunity then they could play the idol on the other. To me they were HUGE threats in the game!! Winning immunity was way more than safety for me, it was so the people who could really win this game could go home and give me a better chance! Same with the F5 immunity I won, I needed to get the threats out. It broke my heart that Jon couldn't compete in that immunity because I know how much effort he put into this game, but I still had to stick by my decision. ''

''But honestly no one really cared about immunity threats. At least it felt like that to me. You performed well in some of them, and had your Bali record (which I'll talk about later) and you weren't eliminated because of that. And I got 1st or 2nd in several challenges but I was never targeted (that I know) solely for being a challenge beast. ''

'''Your meta-gaming mindset was brought up as part of the jury discussion, particularly in regards to Zakriah/Willow. Has my main/703 record (i.e. immunity runs) influenced your decisions to target me later on in the merge? (I’m asking this because while I was still in game, I heard others mention you targeting me for such reasons)'''

''I still feel if I was here to play with friends I would've kept Steffen in this game. The people I knew prior were Zak, Willow, and Steffen I didn't base my decisions to work with or against them solely because our past game. Hell I wrote down all their names!''

''But I never targeted you originally because of 703/Bali, I targeted you because CJ didn't trust me and you were close with him and I had several other people I wanted to try to work with. There were obviously a lot of attempts to get you out and I didn't want to take a shot at you unless I knew I could get you out. I always campaigned tho! And no one wanted to get rid of you for awhile!! I had to pull out any reasoning out of my ass and the biggest reason was your Bali performance, winning those immunities at the end! I tried to scare people into thinking you'd do it again!''

''And we are returnees! Our original season should be something everyone is looking at. They do it on Survivor all the time! (Heroes VS Villains spoilers!) Courtney going home instead of Sandra in HvV because they were scared she'd flip to Amanda, who were both from China)''

''It just so happened that you won the last two immunties in both Bali/703. Also tbh I wanted a better chance to win immunities because I took awhile to find my footing in the merge.''

'''Pick one word to describe your overall strategy - risky or cautious? And why?'''

''Cautious! I didn't have the luxury to be risky. I had to look out for myself. Looking out for yourself isn't risky. I didn't want to go down with my original allies at the start of merge. I wasn't risky until the end game, I made myself a big target at F4 but still stayed. But to get to that point I needed to be cautious to make sure I was there. I needed to get to a point in the game where threats are taken out and everyone wants to flip and they'd see me as a number. Voting off my allies and going with the majority was me playing up to everyone. I cautiously awaited for the round that I could finally strike back (and I tried every single round to save my allies but it never worked until F7).''