Board Thread:Season 27 - Alsace-Lorraine/@comment-26376587-20150726225807/@comment-26347699-20150726234823

'''Jesper - Jesper, the ass eater. You're a funny dude and I must say I think you were the superior player all season long. You had allies all over the board and knew when to cut down people. However, some of your moves still confuse me and your speech didn't do a good enough job addressing those points. The moves I'm talking about was the Gaston vote, my own vote, and the Simon vote. I really don't understand your intentions behind any of those votes (my own being the most because well I didn't really do anything to warrant being eliminated at that point). I would just like you to clarify what you were doing in the early merge phase. Personally, I don't hold anything against you, but your speech has holes in it that I just want clarity on, then we can proceed with more pressing matters. I don't know if you were expecting a roast or not, but I couldn't figure shit out from your jury speech because you gave me nothing to work with so please just give me the information I need to make this vote. Also, what's this talk of an Anti-American Alliance? That's not a good justification to vote people out. '''

Thank you for your questions.

First off, I'd like to clarify that there was never an Anti-American Alliance, at least not one that I was part of. There was a Dutch alliance and I stayed true to that because I thought that was the best for my game. The fact that there was only 1 American in the Final 6 had nothing to do with him or the people voted out before being American or Melca and Jimmy also being not-American.

Alright, so what happened at the merge. When the merge hit I wanted to reunite the alliance that was made during the Anarchy stage, Mantis and the Mantisettes. Max, Amber, Mantis, Jack, Simon and I were the people in that alliance still in the game at that point. I also knew that Navneet would vote for who I wanted him to vote for since he didn't have any allies and thought I had saved his ass many times.

So those six people couldn't be my target. Because I felt safe the Anthoine people would stay with me, I wanted some Duchêne people out after the merge first. Because Amber and Jack were still tight with Melca and Jimmy, I wasn't sure they would agree with voting one of them out. So that left you and Gaston as my targets. You and I were both in that Mantis' Angels alliance and even though I did not want to go all the way with that alliance I wanted to keep my options open and keep Jack on my good terms. So Gaston had to be the first one to go. For some reason nobody wanted to call a name so I figured I'd be the first one to suggest voting Gaston out. Then I told Navneet about it, Amber and Jack told Melca and Jimmy about it and that was that.

The tribal after that you were basically the other one I didn't want to go far. At that point I had many options to go with strategically and I simply wanted Anthoine to have a majority because I trusted them and was afraid of Duchêne wanting to team up together again. You I was always afraid of because we didn't talk too much and I just had no idea what you had going on strategically. The only thing I knew was that you were friends with Max. And I did not want Max to have any power after he got upset with me about the Danny vote. I did not trust him 100% anymore and I wanted to make sure he did not have numbers to make a move against me. The only other person I knew you had something going on with was Jack, and Jack was another very dangerous player. I knew he was very smart and probably did not want to go to the end with me, so he had to have less numbers to take me out too. So basically you seemed like a dangerous player yourself, you were on Duchêne and you were on very good terms with people I did not want to have too much power.

The Simon vote was a tough one. At that point in the game everybody was willing to work with me, and so I had to pick the people that were gonna be loyal to me to the end and were also not gonna be threatening to me in the endgame. Melca and I had a very good connection and we liked each other, same goes for Jimmy. Jimmy was my initial target but then he won immunity. However, before him winning immunity I had already convinced Amber to vote him out so I knew she was willing to vote Melca and Jimmy off and that I did not have to break up those three instantly. Navneet did what I wanted him to do and was no threat whatsoever and Max and Amber were my closest allies. Simon was also a good ally of mine but he is very smart and I didn't think he would take me to the end, and at the endgame he could have become a challenge threat. So voting him out seemed like the best thing to do for me at that point.

Thank you for your time and good luck with your decision.