Board Thread:Season 42/@comment-24603302-20170906185803/@comment-1775521-20170906191944

Hi Hannah, thank you for the kind words!

I think the way I was able to know what was going on was due to two aspects of my game:

1. I had connections with people where they would come to me and tell me what was happening, and this allowed me to think of a way to retaliate.

2. I think that I just have a good instinct and a great ability of deductive reasoning.

A major example of this was at the Taylor vote where Taylor was trying to actively blindside me. The bonds I made with Jake and Priscilla made them prefer me staying in this game, and they decided to let me know that was going on behind my back. Knowing this information, I was able to begin trying to save myself and suss out what was going on. This same vote also showed my instincts and deductive reasoning. I was able to catch onto the way that Priscilla was acting to know that she was trying to get me to waste my idol. To my face she was acting as though she was regretfully voting me out, but Jake told me that she told him to vote for Taylor. I was able to deduce from this that there was no way she was going to flat out lie to Jake, and then blindside me. I don't even think that people suspected me and Jake being allies at that point. At one point Jake literally told me  "If you had an idol it would be a great time to play it!!" However, i nstead of succumbing to fear at that point, I poker faced my way into making Jake and Priscilla believe I didn't even have the idol.

In regards to your second question, I became a target soon after you left. The Touchy Subjects challenge had me pegged as the "person in control" and that would "win if not stopped." Right there is when my target exploded because it exposed something that people might have been thinking behind closed doors but hadn't gained traction against me yet. From the final 10 on I believe that I was the biggest target in the game. I tried to firstly turn the target on Clifford because at the final 9, I was hoping to lay low and let him take charge, but when he also decided "yeah I'm gonna lay low this vote" I decided "well fuck it, might as well stay in control." I think that Clifford was at least on people's radars after the seeds I planted at the final 10, along with just his general dominance in the game, but I wanted his target to increase to a size that eclipsed my target. I then kept trying to get one of Jake and Rhi out of this game, but after the Jenna vote it was either advantages, or people just thinking that going to the end with me wasn't in their best interest so they decided to try to weaken my game by flipping against me.