Board Thread:Season 22 - Similan Islands/@comment-25453818-20150103084016/@comment-25421620-20150104012545

Voting you out wasn't a big move of mine, I never claimed that is was. If somewhere it says that, then I apologize as I misspoke.

Here's essentially a copy/paste from my reply to Diego's speech with names swapped appropriately.

The perceived abandonment of my alliance at New Payang was not out of disloyalty, but part of it stemmed from the fact that everyone seemed pretty sure Diego had control of Solar enough to gain the numbers (which did happen). With that in mind, I was also nervous of being voted out because I was literally in the same exact situation with another ORG running at the same time. Everything running smoothly, my alliance split at swap, throwing 2 challenges where the first one we successfully voted out the opposing tribe but then the second one I was blindsided. It was way to similar for my comfort and I felt pretty confident in Diego's control over Solar based on what others were saying. As a precaution, I tried to convince you to play your idol since you was the apparent target of the Miyangs. I felt bad that it was wasted, but knowing we would definitely have the numbers at merge and the tools to advance in the game, I wasn't terribly worried about you losing your idol. I was not trying to abandon the alliance, I had to take a risk and play a different hand in a situation that I had just gotten screwed over in the day before.

This is one of the two moments I truly became paranoid and felt unsafe and it was obviously a clear mistake. I never looked at you as a threat until the touchy feelings results. I stated this in other threads, but those results made it appear that you, Diego, Hugo and Miguel had your own little alliance going. Which proved to be true. Miguel showcased that he turned on that alliance to follow what was created after the swap so I stuck with the Final 2 deal i made with him. It wasn't a big move to vote you out. It just became a standard "pick off the players not in your alliance" move. You happened to be first to go because that's what the majority of the Fab 5 wanted. Didn't matter to me which of the three so I just rolled with that.

After you got voted out, you stated " Oh well I should've been smarter and worked with you". I didn't make that claim. I tried to be positive about you making the jury as a lot of people find that as a solid accomplishment.