Board Thread:Season 47 - Heroes vs. Villains II/@comment-5357455-20180613003741/@comment-24553600-20180613211239

Hey Roberto, glad to talk to you again and answer some well needed questions.

''so what I am wondering is if you purposefully got this group together to seem like an alliance while you went out and made your own deals to ensure your personal safety? If not, what allegiance (if any) did you have to this group?''

- Well I guess it was a mix of things. I wasn't the one who assembled that group specifically, like Ally did on Kanaloa and Evan did once the merge hit. I had other plans involving other people not included within these alliances, but that being said I didn't push away or deny the benefits of the alliance. So yeah, while I did have some allegiance to those alliances, I certainly tried to go out and be the person people wanted specifically from that group as the person they could work with. It was basically moreso trying to spread my pieces across the board and getting in good with as many people as possible.

''I want you to go through every person on this jury and tell us what role you played in getting them out. I want to hear how these were your moves and show us how you executed them and benefited from them. From my perspective, some of these moves were carried out by others and you were just informed. Prove me wrong.''

- I keep seeing this as a problem people are having with my game so I'm glad I can talk about it, I would have went through it in my speech but I thought overviews of the game from my perspective was something people didn't want to read/seemed basic. And while I do think I had a major part in every vote, as I will explain, that doesn't always mean I did everything and called every decision and everyone who went home was my idea, I think I had an integral role in why every person went home, and did much more than just stand there and look pretty while other people did everything and they just told me about it. Votes may not have always been spearheaded by me, but I was the reason votes worked and happened almost every round.

Roisin- I at first, had intentions of potentially working with Roisin for a bit into the merge, seeing as Nick and Rob teamed up with her and Alexandra the round before. But, almost immediately I hear she's back to targeting the "pregame" group. At that point, I needed that argument dead because it was a way for people to justify targeting me and I was just sick of it. The group we pulled together was the heroes minus Declan and Alexandra, and Nick as the villain. I know Roisin tried to get that group together with screenshots of happy birthdays and stuff, so while everyone had different jobs, making sure people didn't vote with her, like me with Lexi. So I think while I was one of the people who had the firmest stance on voting budging away from this and locking in on her, I do think that this vote was a bit of a group consensus.

Jordan- Jordan wasn't my first pick for the vote, but the double tribal that got bombed on us kind of put everyone in a position that it was basically the last round part 2, with both sides staying together. The people who voted Roisin firmly, and those who were in her group but flipped when the numbers weren't there. Earlier that day, me and Rob compared notes and figured out Jordan sent us both the same message asking us to look out for each other on both sides of the vote, so that made me feel like our deal was disingenuous. As well as I heard he was the one who firmly wanted to get Nick out for the pregame rumors, so his name came as the one from our group that everyone was on board for at that time. But when the voting deadline came closer, a last minute plan to get Rob out came up and they had the numbers to do it according to Declan. Claire also let me know in the event of a tie that she wouldn't go to rocks for Rob and would vote him out. Rob was someone I needed for these next few rounds, so I went to work with Lexi making sure she didn't vote with them. Along with that, the other side was working multiple angles to get one of us to throw our votes, like Mackie with Nick, and I had to be the one to put my foot down and make sure we all voted together. Even if it was just throwing her vote, that's why Jordan went home and the vote didn't tie. I got Lexi to vote with us because of our relationship, had that not happened it would have went to a tie and Rob would have went home.

Evan- Like I said a million times, this was the first one that stung bad. Ever since the premerge Declan and Nick had been plotting with me to get rid of Evan. The premerge tribals Declan wanted to idol out Evan both times and I stopped it, Evan was a shield in a way for me that I figured if one of us were to go first it would be him over me. That round Maya immediately wanted to flip on the hero alliance on one of the bigger heads, which is why Evan was necessary for this part. I anticipated some sort of situation like this happening, since it happened in Archetypes, I prepared for it this time. Evan going would not only decrease the threat of me/evan as some two headed honcho that was leading the hero alliance, but my own threat status as well if I was just 'blindsided' by a vote. I said I didn't want to be involved with the actual campaigning, things fell into place and I kept up my end of being unaware, but the fact was it wouldn't have happened if I didn't want it to. Rob spoke to me about potentially him just voting Mackie and Mackie going home since we didn't trust him, Rob's vote alone would have been enough to flip the votes and for Mackie to leave, but I told him we were in too deep and to just stick with the plan on my call.

Mackie- This was the most unexpected for me personally, I had really planned for Alexandra to go then the next round to use my idol on myself or Claire and get Mackie out in a big move, while selling it was me "flushing my idol". Declan came to terms with her leaving, but when Rob mentioned getting out Mackie earlier I brushed it off, only when he came up with it again 20 minutes before the deadline did I have a serious talk with Declan like should we do it kind of talk. While I agreed to it initially, at the end I became the swing vote between a 3-3-3 vote. Nick and the villains wanted me to vote Alexandra with them, the hero girls wanted me to vote Audrey with them, and Rob Declan and Alexandra wanted me to vote Mackie with them. I was the one who was in the middle and the deciding factor in who left, other people knew but I was the only one involved with every option. It was my call to get rid of Mackie, as I saw him as the biggest threat of the three and an opportunity to separate him and Nick, as well as begin to start subtly turning Nick and Rob against each other.

Claire- This one broke my heart, but I knew Claire was one of those people who may forgive but never forgot and she knew I voted out Mackie for my own game. But Claire was starting to become straight out scary in the game. I felt like she had connections to pretty much everyone left and there were a majority of people I didn't foresee ever wanting to vote Claire out because her social game was that good, the vote was initially being split on me and her and by the snap of her fingers it went to Alexandra and Audrey. Her going was tough because this is one I teetered back and fourth with, I was close to Claire but I think she knew my game better than most, which scared me even more. It was more planned as a precautionary because of what people were afraid of what she would be able to do down the line. I had set it up so it was going to be a 5-4 vote on Nick leaving, but Declan would use his vote steal to steal someones vote and Claire would leave, thereby also flushing Declan's vote steal so he couldn't use it down the road. But Declan told Maya at the last minute and Claire was smarter and knew the better person to vote out that round for it's success was Lexi, which almost happened because Declan wanted her out since the beginning of the merge, but it took me convincing him to not do it. And even though I knew Nick wasn't leaving, I still took the opportunity with my vote to begin to publicly begin the narrative behind the Nick/Mackie relationship and tried to make it seem like Nick was in it based on an emotional call instead of strategic one with my parchment.

Alexandra- This round I believe there was a plan to get out either Audrey or Alexandra, whoever was deemed more threatening. I figured Alexandra should be the better choice because she flipped all over the place so much and was a wild variable. Alexandra was an easy person to get the votes on because she didn't speak to Nick, and Audrey and Rob didn't trust her. Declan also was getting into some beefs with her too. But people were starting to see how close me and Lexi were, and wanted to break that up with a plan on her which Declan and Rob informed me of. Rob told me he's just going to vote Alexandra with us instead of them with Lexi. But I do think I spearheaded the movement to get Alexandra out.

Rob- Throughout the merge Rob was a force who flip flopped and made moves happen in a much more flashy sense. While I did have thoughts about going to the end with Rob, I thought the jury wouldn't respect it as much and would have rewarded Rob the win potentially because of his game. Along with the threat towards the endgame Rob posed, people like Maya and Declan became so distrusting of Rob that they may very well have cut ties off completely if I didn't agree with him leaving. Rob was also starting to get lowkey shady with me, I know he mentioned to Nick he wanted to flush my idol numerous times, and didn't tell me when Declan told him he had the merge idol. It was all this that made me question going further with him if he was going to flip on me or not go along with who I wanted out in the future. There were points during the process if Nick/myself debated potentially blindsiding Declan instead of Rob, which very well could have happened if we didn't think that this was the best move at the time as it freed us up both to work with different people towards the end.

Lexi- This was the one I think I struggled the most with. People said they Lexi may have been an easy win and only wanted to go to the end with her because of that reasoning, I wanted to go to the end with Lexi because we had a genuine bond during the game and had been through so much together. But the prospect of people not respecting me if I did that popped up, as well as Declan promising me his vote at final 5 if she left at 6 which is why I debated this one a lot. This is also where I started to notice Nick was getting really shady with things he was doing and me and Declan quickly deduced that if he was given the opportunity we think he may attempt to blindside me, which is why once I was immune I made the move on him. I announced in the chat I was playing my idol on Lexi to not only scare the crowd, but also just for chaos lol, but maybe see where people would want to vote in the future if both me and Lexi were safe. I created the paranoia that both Maya and Lexi threw out Nick's name as the vote when it was really me, and pushed the idea of him potentially getting blindsided this round with the idol enough to get him to play it, knowing there really wasn't any threat of Nick leaving. Although I do have to admit, had Nick not been paranoid enough to play it and kept it there was a huge thought in my mind debating whether or not I should actually idol Lexi and take out Nick. But, with Lexi leaving it put me in the swing vote position even if it was obvious. With Lexi the prospect of us at a voting block at the final 4 was gone so I wasn't targeted as much especially with knowledge of my idol floating around.

Audrey- There was a lot of game going into this round, I knew I was safe no matter what with my idol and also Declan's promised vote. But I just wanted to secure his vote regardless and informed him of a plan made awhile ago. Throughout the merge I was subtly turning Nick and Declan against each other in a way where they would fuel their nervousness about the other and distrusting through me, and picked snippets to try and tell them and one of those things was a plan I made with Nick to take out Declan at 5. I twisted it in a way that it was Nick's plan, and that's what caused Declan to slightly blow up after he won immunity and tell me about the alliance chat the other four had. With Nick and Declan both giving me information and me saying I already played the idol on myself, I became the swing vote again. Nick and Audrey wanted to vote Maya as Declan/me were immune, and Declan and Maya wanted Nick gone, but Declan was ready to cut Maya as well. I saw Nick as a potential lesser opponent in the final 3, where I knew I didn't want Declan at, than Audrey so I switched the target to Audrey as she didn't speak to me at all during the voting period and in my eyes was a bigger jury threat. Declan talked about the potential of a bigger move being made if the vote was 3*-2 instead of 2*-3, so he voted Maya with the villains and made it happen. I think that was one of the biggest risks I took in the game, because it left me vulnerable and gave Declan the perfect opportunity to make a move against me and send me out instead but didn't.

Declan- This one sucked, I grew really close with Declan during the game and may have been my closest ally which is really ironic lol. But, I knew he would be the biggest competition left of the people not immune that round in a final three situation. It was really shitty though because we had talked about going to the end sooo much together that it was heartbreaking to see it come close. So once he said he would vote whatever way to stay alive, I reiterated this information to Maya kind of twisted that Declan was campaigning to vote her in a way or at least would. This along with the knowledge Declan was voting Nick, gave an easy and clear shot at him.

''yet you sat on the other side whispering sweet nothings. Why was that necessary? If your answer is so I would not ask you to use the idol, then my follow up to that would be, why not own up to the fact that you were a part of the plan to get me out?''

- This is something I wanted to address specifically to you because it was such a low point in the game for me. That day while things were being put into place regarding the vote, Nick and Declan did want me to vote with them against you. I at first agreed that I would but felt awful about it, I whined about it a lot to Nick and in my confessional thread that it sucks badly and I felt really bad about blindsiding you. Declan was one thing, but Nick agreed that we should tell you towards the deadline, only problem is Nick went to bed early because of work without saying anything, so that entire process fell onto my shoulders. I did intend to tell you, but once you made me get on call with you because of how worried you were, things just got complicated on call and is why I tried to get off the call numerous times but couldn't. I knew you were drinking and was afraid if I told you, you may pop tf off in the main chat and expose shit because you had nothing to loose or the target may shift to me if everyone didn't vote at that point. You were able to sniff out the shadiness from literally all 4 of the people voting you and knew something was up, I specifically remember trying to tell you and me stopping because you said quote on quote "If Nick really does this I'm never gonna be his friend again". So I felt that was also directed at me too since it applied to me too, which is where your guilting came in. I was 100% when I said if you wanted the idol at that point I would've given it to you because I felt that bad about it. I'm not some cold blooded player who can just lie to someone on call to them, so I genuinely voted with you at that point out of guilt and that you lowkey pushed me into a corner. I am sorry I didn't say anything to you Rob, I just think the situation I was put in kind of prevented me from being able to do it without getting backlash from it, whether it be you, lexi, or the otherside. So it was a really shitty thing to do I know, but I hope you can see the position I was in situation wise and game wise. I'm glad you're not as upset as before because I did just want to be there for you on a friend/human level, and hope to talk to you soon once this is all over.