Board Thread:Season 9 - PNG/@comment-13794814-20131019062601/@comment-4379763-20131019163859

I would say, that between Blake and JR, JR might be more deserving. The two had similar games, but JR talked to people in the game and didn't constantly throw people under the bus at the Final Tribal, then try and blame them for it.

There are many aspects of the game that many of us miss. Not every aspect in the game is required to get to the finals. The aspect that you missed, is the ability to play a strong and hard game, and be subtle about it. I had to play hard, as well. But I was never too open about it. A huge mistake you made, was playing the idol without a plan for afterwards. Allow me to reference back to the Revival season, Luke played an idol and eliminated Duy because of it. But he also made himself even more of a target than he already was by doing so. If he had scrambled a lot afterwards and been able to convince people to keep him, he might have had a chance at reaching the finals. So when you eliminated Kim, who was lead to believe that you were tight with him the whole time, you didn't try and save yourself. Because relying on trying to get more idols and winning challenges didn't work for you, to take the social game level to the maximum would have been best. Then you wouldn't be perceived as much of a threat, and might have been sitting here. Also, from the beginning you made yourself stand out among others. That is a huge key to becoming a target.

To answer where I outplayed you to get to the final three, I voted you out before you could vote me out. I was seen as a threat by everyone, and had to stay in.

Now for the questions to me:

Lying has always been a part of this game. I never meant to lie just to make myself sound ruthless or careless. I lied because I felt that you wouldn't want to know if you were going or not. I, personally, would not want to know. Because then I would be just constantly thinking about it afterwards and just waiting to be voted off and feeling more defeated than if I didn't.

However, in retrospect, it may have been wrong to lie about that. If I had known that you wanted to know, I would have told you. I truly apologize if I hurt you, because I want everyone to have a good and fun time playing this game. No one deserves to feel sad afterwards. I am very sorry, Uli.

For the next question, I didn't know that you would be going next. I had spoken to you a bit before, but it was always about strategy rather than personal things. I knew that many others said good things about you, so I wanted to know you better. And I actually had a really good time talking to you.

The reason I took Andrei over you, is because both of you are great players. You both had great social and likable games. It would have been impossible to win against either of you. The reason I brought Andrei over you was because JR was still in the game, and I knew that you two had a tight alliance. It lead me to believe that you would eliminate everyone else to ensure that you two were in the finals. You can formulate well, and could convince others to bring you to the end and vote for you to win. I knew that I couldn't beat either you or Andrei in the Final Tribal Council, but you struck me as being the bigger likability threat.

Thank you for those questions, Uli. You had a great run in this game.