Board Thread:Season 24 - Cape Verde/@comment-25270574-20150404040926/@comment-26030880-20150404193541

Thanks Tyler :) I outlined how I outwitted people in my opening statement, but in short, I outwitted people by never advertising my relationships with people to others. By this I mean I would never tell people that I was really close to someone or had a great relationship with them unless it was beneficial for me strategically. I used this strategy so that I would be included in several alliances, and by the time we merged, i was aligned with everyone in some way, so no one believed that I was coming after them. One misconception that I want to clear up is that Josh was the strategic mastermind who was leading us to the end and I wasn't doing anything to get there except for winning challenges. I was strategizing just as much if not more than he was. I came up with the plan to vote off Emma followed by Lindsay at f5; Josh's plan was to vote off Lindsay straight away which would have meant that he would have probably been playing in a tiebreaker challenge had I won immunity at f4. I was definitely doing more than just relying on immunity to get myself to the finish line.

I feel that one way that Josh's game was better than mine was that he played very under the radar. He never got a single vote cast against him.

One way that Josh played a worse game than mine was that he did a bad job of keeping it a secret that he thought we were close. He was open about his relationships with people, which made his strategy more transparent.