Board Thread:Season 46 - Kariba/@comment-20483335-20180413231154/@comment-34704154-20180415191145

"I underestimated Hals’ social game and the hold she had on Roisin and Vincent” - I blindsided Hals multiple times, most notably when I voted Becky and Matthias without telling her, so that’s a lack of awareness on Jake's part I think.

"Roisin was unable to save both Dovile, Louise, and Hals, as well as directly set and execute targets” - Dovile yeah, I couldn’t manage. Louise I really made no attempt to save though? And Hals I gave a chance partly as a jury strategy? And I voted out both my merge targets (as well as personal targets too) but even though I was Jake's target and he wanted me gone, he couldn’t manage to vote me out.

"I ultimately didn’t need mine, whereas she relied on hers to survive rounds where her target management, the trust she built with others, and other factors, failed her.” - Again, my target management did actually work out! Trust was why people believed I was playing it, and no one was ever able to betray my trust if they wanted to, and they always voted the way they said they were going to!

"Matthias - I legit explained this so hardcore in my Dan response, so I’ll just summarize and if you want more details, they’re there!” - I responded to this there too, and explained how the conversations he used as evidence of his control actually explicitly point out my own. He literally used a conversation with Vincent where he said “so Roisin wants to vote Matthias” and then they decided to vote Matthias, not Jack because it was the “easier” to vote. I really don’t want to focus on little things, but I honestly cannot help feeling that that translates to “We’re voting Matthias because Roisin said she is so now that’s the easiest option."

"contrary to what she believes, Roisin lacked the trust / bond with others to make it work herself." - this may be true; but the excerpts used on Dan's post explicitly link me with Jake and Vincent deciding to vote Matthias.

I definitely do not want to overstate the social game I had; speaking directly to Jack, although we worked together often, I certainly feel that I only spoke to you a lot during times of strategy. However, I do feel like we had a good relationship and I feel towards the end of the game we certainly became closer. My social game may not be stellar, but there's no point pretending Jake's was either. And from a strategic point of view, I feel my clearcut  game can be considered better than Jake's; ultimately I am here today because of what I did to get myself here. I am here because I gained trust with people so that they believed I really guessed Fei Long when I didn't. I am here because I bluffed an idol play when people wanted to get me out, thus evading elimination. I am here today because I got through the final 5 with that idol, and I am here today, sitting with the people most advantageous to my game, because I won the crucial final immunity, denying Vincent and Jake their chance to get me out which I know they wanted to do. Jake is here because he was not in control like Louise and didn't have close enough relationships to have the jury threat status of Hals; ultimately, he's here because he wasn't considered a threat not because of any gutsy strategy he pulled. I know all this back and forth between us must be tiring ahaha, I just hope that you can appreciate my strategy Jack because I really feel the independent, underdog style it has carried on from both you and Dovile during the swap and early merge. I hope therefore you can find the benefits outweigh the positives, ily xx