Board Thread:Season 51 - The Caribbean/@comment-35624472-20190225211204/@comment-33171823-20190225223742

Hello Karsten! Before I get into your questions, I would like to defend your perception of my game. First of all, I don't expect to change your mind, I respect your decision not to vote me. But I want you to decide to vote me or not based on how I actually played, not how you think I played.

1. our social connection- totally accurate. For whatever reason, you and I never connected. It happens. I feel like I did make a couple of efforts on my end and I'm sure you did as well, but it simply wasn't meant to work out, and I apologize for that.

2. my self vote- I have already discussed this once in my speech, but I will discuss it again now. I have been acting manager at my company for the past 2 weeks. I was one of the people who asked for the extension until 6, knowing I got off at 5:30. However, managers often work late, and I walked out of work at 6:20. You can call this not caring all you want, but that's simply not true. As a manager, I am not thinking about the game I'm playing while I'm on the clock. I'm running around the building dealing with issues and making sure $6000 in revenue gets inserted into the company. I do not feel like I deserve any form of flack for my self vote, as it has absolutely nothing to do with how I feel about this game.

3- FIC- Once again, your perception is very far from reality. I spent 15 hours on FIC. 3 hours on the flag. I.. played that goddamned game over 200 times. 1.5 hours on that logic puzzle. I put in SO much effort, and it pisses me off when people say I didn't care about winning. Being horrible in challenges is my biggest downfall when it comes to orgs. I SUCK at challenges. The flag was the first ever flag I made, and you know what? I'm proud of that motherfucker I spent 3 hours on. No, I did not just slap names on a paint canvas.

I care so much about this game. The amount of time and energy I put into it is immeasurable. I understand we didn't have a social connection. I understand that mars how we react. I had no idea of anything about your game. That is my fault. But my effort in this game is just as much as the others, and I will have that seen.

ok now for your general questions.

1. piece of bad/good luck: I would say a piece of good luck for me was the first swap. Being swapfucked out of the game is a real issue, as many of the prejurors can attest to. As someone's who's been swapfucked out of main before, I was terrified going into the swap. However, having the numbers was beneficial for me, especially since the first swap typically relies more on OG numbers than the second one does. I was very scared of being swapped onto a tribe

2. Why others don't deserve to win: Ethan: I don't think that a physical game gives you the automatic authority to be a threat. A physical game doesn't give you a GOOD game. If Hunter hadn't gone off the way he had, and everyone hadn't thought that Hunter had the advantages, I feel that Ethan would have gone home instead, since he had the better social game. I cannot count the number of times that Ethan would leave me on read then reply hours later.(If I had a time for every time I'd be rich) In addition, he didn't START truly playing the game until Hunter went home. Jake:Jake honestly played a similar game to me. Since ya'll seem to hate me, that seems like the worst insult to me. He left people on read, him and I personally didn't even talk until after Bradley left. He played an under the radar game but nobody even knew he was playing. I personally do not feel like his strategy was strong, and I felt like he hid behind Ethan, waiting to take him out at a time that never came, and in the meantime going off of what he said.

3. I'm going to go off the rails and say Natalia. In my opinion, swap 3.0 would have gone entirely different had she been replaced with anyone else. She was who was closest to Nick on 1.0, and it was with her bond to him that I figured out how he felt. Nick flipping and voting with 2.0 was a very real possibility. Her social game pushing Nick with Ethan and Hunter as well as making sure that we didn't go home in the meantime with Nick flipping was very smooth, and I absolutely credit that tribal to her extreme skills.