Board Thread:Season 36 - Tikal/@comment-24603302-20161015215638/@comment-28511285-20161017045639

Hey asshat, good to see ya again :P.

First off, I believe my strategic game was vastly above the level of these two. Joanna was under the radar sure, but half of these moves she tries to take all the credit for were either blatantly obvious that it was the move she should have made, were more harmful to her than helpful, or wasn't even her move to begin with. An instance of a blatantly obvious move was voting with Vatanchu during the swap. Literally her only alternative was be at the bottom the round after, I was in the same position and made the move because it made no sense to hand the other alliance the keys to my fate in the game. I know you say Felix that it was in Joanna's best interests to cut you and not John at f9, but how exactly did that help her. You were both in a position where you were in desperate need of numbers, both ways she ends with new allies who were previously on the other alliance. The only major difference was John was much more of a liability to bring forward in the game since you were pissing a lot of people off. Next off, as for the moves that didn't hinder her, I can't point to many, if any, things that she orcastrated did that improved her position in the game. Her and Marie acted like they convinced me to flip at f5 and take out Christine simply had nothing to do with them. I knew Claire and Christine were bigger threats, but if anything they almost made me not turn and vote one of them off. Joanna acted like a nervous wreck that round and seemed shady as can be repeatedly pleaing for me to not vote her off because she's trustworthy, a move which ironically made me trust her significantly less than I already did. Marie on the other hand basically told me she didn't want to work with me simply because she was whiny about the previous tribal. Keep in mind she told me this while I was hinting that I'd rather keep her that round. I also can't see  how someone who abstained from so much, including a vote, thus making them look like a goat could should be considered the better player to those who  always submitted and worked  their ass off. It's like saying  Natalie should have won Redemption Island because  no one was targetting her ever xD.

I'll leave the bashing the others sitting next to me's game with this. It's all well and good that after all is said and done Joanna can sit there and say how she was a mastermind in the game, and I give props to her for how well she could speech, but unless that speech actually reflects a good game that she played, it's little more than a fantasy.

Now to end my hit piece on the other two sitting here, let's look at my strategic and social game. Keep in mind people could vote for me plenty of rounds throughout the game, but they didn't, so why is that? At final 8 I was clearly a threat, Michael saw this, but I stayed anyways over someone who was in Marie's freakin alliance (up until this point at least). Everyone knew I had voted for John and not you the previous round so it made all the sense in the world to cut me, but they didn't. Here's the reason for it, I could always make it look like I was someone who could be used as a number if I were kept. The fact that I could convince people to keep me round after round despite them seeing me as a power player speaks to how well I could play the social game hugely to my benefit and get me to where I am now.

I know I've been asking a lot of rhetorical questions, so I'll end on one final one. Why I ask did John so quickly side with me again not even a full round after I attempted to vote him out? Why did everyone target Anna at final 8, despite knowing I voted for John too and in all logic would have been the more diplomatic and strategic vote? Why, even after you spilled to Claire that I lied to Anna, did that whole tribe vote for Scott and not me at final 10? The answer to all these is obviously that despite my high visibility that people believed they could use me as a pawn later, and they thought that because I never got into fights with them, never made it seem like I was firmly against them, and always strategically positioned myself in such a spot where they figured "meh, we can keep him one more round, what damage could it do?  I convinced them of that, but now I'm here because thy kept saying later so many times, that eventually later became never.

Eat a dick and have a nice day!