Board Thread:Season 45 - Molise/@comment-28340190-20180222031416/@comment-33629256-20180222175723

My response to Marty's response to my response.

At no point did I say Marty should been on the forefront of every vote. Jordan and I controlled a large portion of the game without taking any credit for it, subtler moves could have made which would have guaranteed Marty further power and control but, despite being given almost all the options at his disposal, he did not have the ability to use any of them.

Saying "Jason and Trey were not interested in working with me" is simply a synonym for saying Marty did not use his social bonds effectively. Yourself and Trey were both active players that were ready to make moves, for example, willing to work with Elias because Elias had a strong social game and your decision to vote out Nat at the final 8. Yet, Marty's arguably weaker social game prevented him from having the options to use these bonds effectively.

This is the same for the Nat and Juliette votes. Voting Nat at final 10 was in my opinion the better plan, and Elias was right for attempting to get a 5th vote (because 4 is not enough in a tribe of 10, Harrison only voted Aaron at the last minute to save himself and otherwise it would have been 5-4-1). And while Marty says that his biggest mistake was not voting Juliette, I was arguing that was a symptom of his larger problem, his inability to take his social bonds and use them for strategic value. Not voting Juliette is only one example in a long list of failed votes that Marty contributed to and which could have been prevented if he had created stronger social connections and been able to use them effectively to get his own way.