Board Thread:Season 56 - Mongolia/@comment-33330384-20191229203252/@comment-44142702-20191229225224

Tal- First of all, I just want to say thank you so much for those kind words. I know that my gameplay and my moves might not seem as obvious because I wasn;t like Carlo or Logan, who had big flashy moves, and I wasn't like Evan, who had such a huge and dominating personality. And I pretty much had almost the same question from Ruth so I am also going to tell you what I told her about my "biggest moves". My biggest move that I made throughout this game was making sure to come off like I wasn't making any moves. Since the beginning of the game, I wanted to play differnetly than how I normally play. I normally play games very strong, very hard, and very fast. I am a strong competitor and I usually dominate challenges, have a big personality, and make very visible, very big moves. And my usual type of gamplay is great, and I feel comfortable with it, but there's one small problem with it: it never gets me to the end. I am usually the Evan's or the Logan's of games and I make it just short of that final tribal council. So in this game, I played up the role of the ditz. I dumbed myself down, made myself seem more confused and stupid than I really am. I actually threw many challenges....I did not want to seem like the intellgient, physical powerhouse that I normally am. To put this into perspective, the last game I played I won 7 challenges throughout the entire game. So the biggest move I made throughout this game was AVOIDING those big moves that I normally take. I played more under the radar, I played a little more sneaky than I normally do, and so yeah....I may come off a little snakey, or like I was playing the middle. But I knew that this strategy would get me farther than I normally get in Survivor games, and look. Here I am at the final tribal council. Like I said in my opening speech, I made sure to come off as so much of a non-threat that I BECAME a threat, having never received votes until the final four, making many alliances and connections, and sliding my way into the final three. The moves I made weren't big, flashy idol plays, or orchestrating huge blindsides, or selling fruit....I adapted to this crazy game, I changed my strategy each and every round, I thought very carefully about when to open my mouth and when to keep it shut...and that's how I was able to fly under the radar and make it to the end. As for telling Logan things about the idol, well, I was working with many people on trying to find the idols. There were so many numbers to go through and I knew that I needed help from others to find those numbers. So I didn't only share numbers with Logan, but Logan is just the one who benefitted from it because those were what helped him to find the idol first. But I do not regret that decision because Logan was on my side and he and I worked very closely- so if an idol was with an ally of mine, then the idol was not with somebody who I *wasn't* working with, and I knew it would ultimately help me more than hurt me. An idol with an ally is almost as good as an idol in my own pocket. Actually, sometimes it can be better, because then I don't have the added stress of knowing when to play my idol and who to play it for! So yes  I did strategically share my numbers with Logan- one, to prevent someone I wasn't as close with from getting the idol, two so that I always knew where the idol was, and three to build trust with Logan even more and have him have his full faith in me and know that I didn't lie to him about the idol numbers. thanks so much, Meggie