Board Thread:Season 42/@comment-26376587-20170908162725/@comment-1775521-20170908183904

Hello again Yannick!

I wanted to just say that I completely agree with your statement about conversations this game with you going beyond what was actually occurring in this game. One of my favorite parts about this season was just talking with you late nights about whatever was happening at that moment. It made the experience really enjoyable for me. Now onto the tasks/questions!

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Anna vote/original Talap: I made an alliance of myself, Rhi, Maya, Julez, and Taylor called the Iconic Alliance. I also had a sub-alliance of myself, Julez, and Maya dedicated to finding the idol (which ironically enough the chat was made for this group like 10 minutes after I found the idol myself). Also, when Taylor never informed me of Kostas trying to make an alliance that included him, but not me, I began getting skeptical of his loyalty to me and decided to make a sub-alliance consisting of all of the Iconic alliance except for Taylor (this sub-alliance didn't really amount to much since it was created almost directly before the swap).

Kostas vote: I was aligned with you, Clifford, Maya, Taylor, and Priscilla in Sugar & Spice. Along with this, I also was in talks with Chris and Julia, but I don't believe at this point we had any official alliance.

Annabelle vote: Continued working with S&S, and now I believe is when myself and Maya formed the Phalap alliance with Julia and Chris.

Nathan vote: I was working with all of the NuSamsao tribe, along with Jake, Rhi, and Hannah. I also believe that Julez trusted me at this point, but after the rumor that she leaked the Miguel plan, I was afraid to full out trust her with what I was thinking.

NuNuTalap Pre-Tribal: I felt solid with the Sugar & Spice people that were on the tribe with me, and Jake and I also bonded and established trust at the combined tribal so I felt good with him too.

Taylor vote: I was a bit left in the dark in regards to the vote. I was expecting it to be a 4-1 against Sim with the people I mentioned previously until the day the votes were due. At this point, it was basically me working with Jake to figure out what was happening, and also sort of Priscilla even though she was trying to get me to waste my idol.

Hannah vote: The Sugar & Spice alliance and Phalap combined to basically form a solid NuSamsao alliance. Maya and I wanted to focus on our bond with the Phalap group so they would be a clear majority within the group.

Chris vote: After Priscilla flipped from the NuSamsao group, the group minus her solidified to become the 10/10 Alliance. Chris and I really bonded during this vote and I confided a lot of my thinking in regards to the vote with him, and vice versa.

Sim vote: I was literally trying to get a solidified tribe vote against Clifford at that tribal council. I was trying to involve everyone to get a move against him going. My main confidants during that vote were Maya, Julia, and Priscilla. I tried discussing with Jake where votes should be split because after seeing Rhi's disdain for votes on Sim, I wanted to try to have Jake make the decision so they both felt comfortable with the move. Once I was almost voted out, I realized that my only true 100% allies in this game were Maya and Julia.

Jenna vote: I begrudgingly reconciled with the 10/10 alliance even though I very skeptical of how trustworthy they were going to be moving forward. Julia, Maya, and I locked down a solid group of three and a deal till the end. I wanted to pull in Priscilla and Jenna to make a solid group of those two, myself, Maya, and Julia. I mistakenly added them to an alliance chat consisting also of you and Clifford as I knew that we needed your votes to split at that tribal, but this wasn't appreciated by Jenna. When I began to get skeptical of Jenna's true intentions, I decided to forget the idea of that alliance with her and Priscilla, and instead voted her out with the 10/10 group.

Your elimination: After the fallout from the Jenna tribal, I tried to reconcile with Priscilla because I did still want to work with her moving forward, and felt bad about my betrayal of her to take out her ally. I felt that taking out Jenna freed up Priscilla to form a tight pair with me like she seemed to have done with Jenna. This led to the creation of an alliance called The Plastics consisting of myself, Maya, Julia, and Priscilla. I was still working with the 10/10 group at this point. Once the reset idol was played, and I hesitated in voting for Priscilla since I didn't want to see her leave, and this turned off Clifford. I figured that at that point, even if I went with you and Clifford to vote for Priscilla, Clifford was already going to trust me significantly less than he did, and would try to undermine me. I decided to focus on keeping Priscilla in this game, and flipped on 10/10 to do so.

Julia vote: I continued working with The Plastics and I felt that we had a solid group. I wanted to just cleanly blindside Jake, but make him think that I wanted Clifford out due to bad blood from betrayals. Priscilla ended up flipping, resulting me myself, Maya, and Julia being in the minority. After Julia's vote off, it was just myself and Maya.

Priscilla vote: Clifford reached out to Maya and I with the idea of working together again and rekindling the remnants of the 10 out of 10/Sugar & Spice alliances. I decided that I didn't have much of a choice because if I won immunity, Maya would 100% be the target. The three of us worked together and I also tried to convince Jake to vote with us, which is what ended up happening.

Maya vote: I began by continuing to vote with Clifford and Maya to take out one of Jake or Rhi. After Maya accidentally messaging Clifford turned Clifford off to the group, along with the argument that followed, he flat out told out that he was going to be voting for Maya. I was also talking to Jake about getting a move against Rhi and he told me that he threw his vote on Clifford to allow Rhi to go home without having to vote for her. I decided to try to join him in voting for Clifford in an desperate attempt to save Maya. Maya ended up self-voting, and Jake was lying about voting for Cliff so the move failed.

Rhi vote: I felt sort of alone here, but once again Clifford and I reconciled our issues from the last vote and tried to work together. Everyone quickly voted in like the span of a half hour after immunity results and barely spoke to me. After they had voted, everyone came to me trying to get me to vote the way they wanted. I decided to stick with Clifford.

Clifford vote: I felt bonded to Clifford in this moment. Both of the other members of the final three said that they would take me to the end if they won immunity. This was before the situation surrounding Clifford occurred. Jake and I agreed to only submit once for the tiebreaker to speed up the process to just respect Clifford's situation.

Once again, it has been a great experience playing with you this season, and I do hope that our friendship continues once this season is completed. Thanks for being such a fun person to chat with!