Board Thread:Season 50 - Kingdoms Collide/@comment-10584014-20181221235822/@comment-24114312-20181223023426

1. Your best social move

My best social move was setting up people on the other side who would look out for me in the case that votes went against me. This is perfectly exemplified by the final 11, when (as far as I know), the only person who wanted me gone over Sydney was Jenna. At the start of the merge, I had unofficial deals with Dani and Jenna that we wouldn't vote each other and would keep each other at least somewhat informed, which is also why I think it didn't require that much persuasion to change Jenna's mind onto Sydney (based on what I've been told). I also had this with Jakey at final 12 and final 11, and actually kept to it by not voting him the round he went home. I was also close to you and Chelsea, and then eventually Jess, which stopped me from getting votes when you guys flipped. I think this kinda got fucked up due to twists, like if the final 10 tribes are shaken up then I think the final 8 could've included Szymon, myself, Jared, Sydney, you, Chelsea and 2 others, and at that point in the game then I believe I would've been safe for a long time. I think my social positioning was done correctly, but kinda undone by the final 10 twist and it sucks because I was always trying to make sure that my close allies made up 50% of the tribe, but no more, because if I had more than that then I would've been booted for being TOO well connected. Then at final 10, 2 of them left and instead of it being 5/10 were close allies, it was suddenly 3.

2. Your best strategic move

I'm gonna make two here, one that was long-term and one that was short-term becaue I find it hard to know what people would classify as a 'move' or what is more just like, a general strategy.

I think my best strategic long-term move was my positioning on Culzean. The tribe was set up 3-3, with Sharky, Grace and Trace on one side and me, Tyler and Sydney on the other. Through speaking to Grace, I managed to find out she was willing vote Sharky and then embellished some stuff about his game which made her think voting Sharky was better for her than voting Sydney. From there, I was the swing-vote, and then made sure that I was Tyler's number one and Sydney's number one so that if we lost twice more, then I would've survived and made it to the fire-making had we lost literally every challenge. This set me up with two solid allies moving forward. I also think this is maybe an underrated move because only four people would've survived their original tribes had they lost every single time, and I was one of them (granted, I may have lost fire-making but I don't think I would have because of my physical game), so for all the discussion about luck like, people aren't really factoring pre-merge immunities into that.

But, I think my best move in the traditional sense was the final 11 vote. The difference in messages I received the round before and that round was so startling, the only people who weren't acting differently were you and Chelsea. Even Jakey confessed that he knew he was getting votes and people were targeting him, so I was like 'uhhh wtf…' Sydney had also said to me how people were responding weirdly to her, and I felt of everyone she was most likely to get votes against her, so I played the double idol on myself and her. BUT I think the best part of this was me voting Cali. My reasoning was that, if Jakey had an idol played on him AND I was right that people were voting me (or Sydney), then everything would be negated and Cali would've been sent home with just 1 vote. It didn't work out that way, but had Jakey passed the maze in under 2 minutes, then it would've stopped Szymon or Jared from being eliminated. Imo it was a really genius throwaway vote and definitely my best strategic move!!!