Board Thread:Season 21 - Salvation/@comment-7785749-20141204064305/@comment-10697197-20141204184717

Your questions are answered for the individual portion, when I get the time out of school I'll answer the others :DDD

Mitchell,

Bar none, my biggest move in the game was creating the Corre and getting out of TJ’s web of allies. You and I found ourselves pretty quickly at the bottom of the tribe, because we’re threats AND TBD members. But I saw Jino, Steve, and Zane all come up to me due to my social game, saying sincerely, let me help you and save you from this. I decided that the game needed to be shaken up in my favor. I wasn’t going to rely on idols and challenge wins because I simply couldn’t at the time. So, I rallied the troops together despite some distrust between them, moved through my obstacles and made a move that would determine things all the way until the Final 4. To me, that’s the biggest move I’ve made, and one of the biggest moves in the game because its implications lasted were so long-lasting.

My two greatest strengths are that I’m strong in challenges and that I feel I can be a bit disarming. Even when people don’t trust me necessarily, I’m not a threat to be removed until later on, ever later on. Oh George? He’s a threat and I don’t trust him, and I want him out at some point, but not now, not just yet. Let’s vote for Matthew, or Mikey, or Trace or Eden instead. Let’s let George get to the final 4 in a secure alliance, that’ll work out well.

My 3 greatest weaknesses are: I can sometimes be too cautious, I’m terrible at non-flash games and I’m sometimes a bit of a worry wart.

Worry Wart: Inside, I was probably even more of a nervous wreck inside than even Perry was for most of the time, which caused me to feel rather paranoid of things I shouldn’t be worried about. I knew when I was in danger, and I didn’t make moves until I knew exactly what was going on there, but sometimes I felt like Don Quixote, fighting imaginary dragons in my mind.

Non-Flash Games: I got 2/30 on the flag challenge even when I tried my hardest, enough said :P

Strategically Cautious: I often was too worried about whether my closest allies would accept a move or whether it would hurt my game. During the final 13 and 11, I was really worried that maybe Steve/Zane who I hadn’t talked to all that much (which sets me apart from few people, I might add) wouldn’t go through with the plan until we talked it out with Tyler. I need more assurance than most that one will go through with a plan, which causes me to underestimate how much I can do in the game, and take things tentatively.

Social Butterfly: This, imo, is both a strength and a weakness, more so a strength but the weakness needs to also be addressed. I feel I get along with a lot of different types of people, not through any effort on my part, just how it goes. But often times, I will like someone as a person but not really trust them all that much, and my heart will pull me towards them, which keeps them locked in but it also makes it more likely they’ll blame me personally for it. The thing is, your friends and your trusted allies can often be 2 different sets of people, that’s just how personal relationships intertwine with the game. To anyone who felt I betrayed them personally, I apologize, and I hope y’all know none of what I did was intended to hurt any of you, and often I just couldn’t bear to tell you what was going on because of what happened between us personally over the course of the game. And I’m sorry for those individuals, I hope we can fix things and move past this.