Board Thread:Season 56 - Mongolia/@comment-28512126-20191228160025/@comment-43356541-20191228211443

Hey Bradley ♥️ thank you for believing in me and my game, your question has a lot of interesting points, so I’ll try to break it down and give you all the info.

Q1: Why did I vote for Jacob at F9?

I mostly answered this in Jacob’s jury speech, but basically the plan was to get rid of one of the Yellows because they had an idol, and I changed the vote to him rather than Megan (the only other Yellow besides Ruth) because Megan had made a mistake revealing precious info in her TC answer, so I hoped that maybe she would do that again in the future.

Q2: Why did I not vote for Logan at F9?

There’s a lot of reasons why I didn’t. '''Q3: What do I think would have happened had I voted Logan out? (work with other people)'''
 * 1) Logan was my #1 ally, and F9 was way too early for me to think of FTC when there was so much game yet to be played.
 * 2) TRIBAL LINES were still very active so I would’ve complicated my game way too much.
 * 3) I would’ve been considered unreliable and unpredictable. Jerome, Tal, Ty were all working with me and Logan so they congratulated me for the Jacob vote. They would have been absolutely blindsided had I voted for someone that was so close to me and them. So basically no one would have trusted me anymore…
 * 4) It was still early so the perception of the jury that Logan was controlling me still didn’t exist, or at least no one had mentioned it to me.
 * 5) I wasn’t 100% sure the move was going to work, I sent a vote as plan B because I was pretty sure an idol would be played on Ruth, but Ruth could have gone home and I would’ve had to explain why a stray vote on Logan of all people was sent.

I think my game would have ended a lot sooner to be honest. The options I had were: Q4: My physical game.
 * Working with Ruth, Megan, Jacob and Evan (who had just voted me lol, so I didn’t trust them and they didn’t trust me)
 * Working with Ty, Tal and Jerome (which would have meant making the game a 4-4 rather than a 5-3 like what happened at F8). Ty would have been skeptical of me for going against the Purple alliance, and I think everyone would have voted for me at F8.

In the scenario you described, I would have had to win a lot more immunity challenges than what I did (which is… zero).

I think everyone has their own strength, mine was NOT the physical game, it was the social and strategic one - you’re clearly great at challenges but look where that got you.

I don’t really agree with you when you say you would sacrifice social game for physical. I think it’s a great accomplishment of mine that I never needed immunity to get to the end, and I’m proud of it.

That doesn’t mean that I didn’t try to win. I loved playing the challenges (if they weren’t flash games): at the F4 immunity, I did the endurance challenge for 17 hours, I tried my hardest to make a cool flag and have a decent flash game score.

I tried. It just wasn’t enough.