Board Thread:Season 14 - Madagascar/@comment-9698908-20140504015053/@comment-24112421-20140504023046

The first person I told I had the idol to was Lincoln. I told him I was going to be telling everyone else and he tried to talk me out of that. I trusted Lincoln the most and he was the first and for a little while only person I told.

I stopped skyping anyone bc I just didn't have the time. I don't like to skype when I am not home and a bunch of the game I was on my phone or at someone else's house. I didn't really even realize I became socially detached from you during the game and looking back I will agree with you. I'd have to think about it more but I think the reason may be because I really thought of you as my biggest threat. You were the smartest person in my opinion and I was worried that had I kept trying to be social you may pick up on some of my moves too early and it wouldnt work out for me.

I agree with you 100% about the Sam/Craig point. When I pitched the idea to them I wanted them to believe it was in their best interest too, if it really was or wasn't I can't really say. I knew that they didn't want to work with me all the way to the end but I was fine with that. My initial plans got taken away when Kaeden was voted out so I had to quickly improvise a plan B which included Sam and Craig. I knew they would flip back to work against me at some point but I was prepared for that because I had already found my idol. The biggest problem happened when the auction took place bc that just made it 10x more confusing. But in my head my goal was to use the votes Sam and Craig would work with me for and once I thought that was over I could use my idol to take out another of my targets, which I believed I could pull in a 4th at final 6. To answer your question directly- I think 100% of Craig and Sam voting with me at the time was free will on their part. They could have easily chosen to vote against me but I pitched them the best thing I could and hoped that I was able to pull it off.