Board Thread:Season 13 - Anarchy/@comment-24207073-20140214033434/@comment-24251579-20140214041829

Jordan -

First of all, I really really appreciate you saying what you have about the whole incident that went down. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pretty steamed about it at first, but as time has passed and now especially, I feel a lot better about it. Basically, I understand where you were coming from and I can respect that.

As far as my gameplay sans Jerby, the obvious answer here for me is yes. I absolutely believe I could have, and would have been equally strong without Jerby in the game. I didn't know Jerby prior to this game.. it was a relationship that I built entirely from scratch. I built it up to the point that he was so trusting of me that he was willing to execute any plan I would come up with. That's serious levels of trust. Do I think I could have established this kind of relationship with someone else, if I hadn't hit it off with Jerby? Absolutely. Richie and I got on famously and I could have given him all of my trust.. had we been working on that kind of relationship from the beginning. Kaffe was one of the more strategically savy players in the game, and also one of my best friends in the game. Tyler and I were peas in a pod for quite sometime. My point is that, I feel my social game was strong enough to overcome any obstacle in this game. Even when my name was being thrown around as THE target.. I was still only realistically targeted at a grand total of 3 tribal councils, 2 of which I still controlled. This wasn't because of Jerby. Look at the people that remained in the game. Nokomis, Noah, Sam, Tyler were all original allies of mine.. and had the game played out differently (as you suggest in this hypothetical) I could have worked with one of my other final 3 alliances ( me, Sam, Noah / me, Tyler, Nokomis) to get the job done. This is a tough hypothetical to cover though, because if I'm not with Jerby than I'm against Jerby and that changes the whole landscape of the game. Either way, I know how flexible I am... so yes I think I would have still be largely successful in this game.

As for the idol play that "saved" me... that entire tribal council was engineered to appear that way, and to be more exciting. I actually threw the immunity challenge that round so we could put this whole thing together. You can check out the answer I provided to Nokomis on his jury speech, wherein I go into great detail about his elimination. The gist of it, is that Jerby and I worked together on the 2nd half of the idol. It was 50/50 odds as to who was going to be the one to get it (I laid out spreadsheets of all the possible answer combinations, sent half of it to Jerby and told him to work his way thru his half, I'd do the say with mine), but the agreement was that we would let whoever it made more sense for, play it. It just so happened that it was going to be much easier to convince Nokomis to flip on me, than it would have been to convince him to flip on Jerby... and we needed him to flip in order to convincingly "idol" him out. The second idol play was just for funsies.

Hopefully this is an adequate rundown of everything. Thanks again Jordan.