Board Thread:Season 23 - Greece/@comment-24206786-20150117031439/@comment-24553600-20150119022834

Missy I apologize for the lateness of my answer, but I felt as though you guys deserved a good response I could actually type out and wasn't rushed on my phone.

'''We didn’t say a single word to each other during this whole game so why should I give you my vote? '''

Well Missy, I do apologize for never talking to you. It's just when I thought I was in an actual alliance that took out who I was told were your two close allies on Laconia, I wasn't sure if I'd be a welcomed ally. But from what I've heard from you and what I know, your like me in a way. I value loyalty very high, if someones loyal to me, then I'm loyal to them til the end, but if someone has other plans that don't include me then I do too. But you value honesty which is something that's very overlooked alottt but its something that I find very impotant, a lot of my game has been about honesty. I was never deceptive, and my whole strategy in the game wasn't revolving around lying and using people. I think we had similar values in this game, and both weren't willing to break them for who we are just for an online game of survivor.

'''What move did “you” make that was better than the others? '''

Well this one is kinda hard, since I didn't play a game like the other two. But a similar move we all made or at least attempted, was integrating myself into an alliance. Now I know this sounds weird, they had the dominate alliance for most of the game not me, but lets take a closer look at one that started, when the game officially began. I was in a dominate alliance on old Attica because I was able to put myself in one, the Elders were myself Will Marty and Renz, we were the original Elder alliance, we even had a seperate chat before and after MJ joined it, because we were still the ones in control. Once the tribe swap happened, MJ was able to be with Hanne, who could convince Erica to vote with her, but I also had Marty telling me to help him vote out Hanne with Shannon and Tata. I went with the side which I thought would get me further and I felt safer with. Even post merge I was in an alliance from NuLaconia, one with Renz Amelia and Eoin, had ties with Jace and Jessica, and had close bonds with people I was aligned with. I was always able to get myself into alliances that were formed inside the game, and even be included in one that started before the game. I was able to do this better then the other two because, Amelia had admitted to being on the outs on Laconia, and MJ wasn't even a totally official member of the Elders, just another number that may not have even been in this game had a tribe swap never happened, seeing as people wanted to take Jace and Eoin further in the game.

haven’t had a conversation with you so tell me what was your strategy throughout this game?

I'm glad you asked this, it's like I said in my jury speech, I had no one in this game I could rely on other then myself. I had to make people like me, while also want to go far with me without feeling as though I would hinder their end game. I made myself seem like this player who was horrible in challenges, didn't have a backbone, was somewhat goat-like, as well as someone who did nothing in the game and a perfect goat to take to the end, all the while being the complete opposite. A goat is someone who was dragged to the end who never made moves, I was never dragged despite what other finalists may think, and I always was trying to make moves under the radar. I used this sort of euphoric personality to allow myself to grow close with many, all the while staying under the radar and not anyone's target.

Besides yourself, who else sitting next to you deserves to win?

Well, despite some things said, I feel as though Amelia and MJ both deserve to win in their own right. For awhile I had thought of Amelia as a sort of Caramoan Brenda player, an under the radar strategist but someone who was beyond sweet, but as the game went on I learned she was more savvy then I had thought, being this sort of Dawn Caramoan person, who would make these relations with people to further herself and her alliance until they weren't needed anymore then severed them as quick as they were formed. I would say MJ would deserve it less for foolishly taking Amelia to the end over Jessica, thinking Jess would win, but his reasoning also became clearer. MJ wanted Amelia in the end with him over Jessica because he knew if people were going to be bitter at him, they'd be just as bitter at her in their sort of Russell-Parvati alliance, which would give him wiggle room. Jessica was more of a Jerri, someone who he thought no one disliked enough to not vote. They both played savvy ruthless games, and made it to the end with me.

Do you think your gameplay was better than Amelia and MJ's?

As a matter of fact I do. I think I played a good game, I accomplished the game I wanted to play, and played it without breaking many ties in the game. I wanted to play honest and a clean game, because that's ultimately what this game comes down to, how you treat people. This is a social game played on social media, I wanted to play based on a social strategy of having people underestimate me, which is exactly what happened. Even the attempts to try and disprove or make my game seem less valuable then the other two's have benefited me by showing they still don't comprehend the game I didn't want them knowing I was playing. It's like they both said in their answers "Sora was dragged to the end" "Sora is only here because our alliance didn't take him out" "Sora made no moves to deserve the win", it just goes to show how little they knew of my game. They never took me out, I never had immunity until the last tribal council, they could have taken me out whenever they wanted to, but they didn't. Regardless if they knew about the moves I was planning, or the bonds I was making with people, they never thought "hey Sora is actually playing this game, we should take him out!" it was always "oh sora didn't do anything, Sora's a goat, Sora will never win immunity or win the game anyway". It was exactly my goal, get here the way I did. I didn't have to or want to lie and manipulate people left and right to get here, I got here using social skills, perception and bonds made I in the game.