Board Thread:Season 45 - Molise/@comment-31624573-20180221201739/@comment-33629256-20180222163754

Ok I'm finally back home so I can begin replying to questions again but I wanted to start here first because of Marty's reply!! I really did not want this to become a mud-slinging contest but some of what Marty said in his response is really not a fair representation of my gameplay.

My strategic game was not dependant on other people or not well-rounded. My strategic game definitely used my social bonds but it was definitely independent from it. Like I said in my speech, I had the most information of anybody in the game and I used that to my advantage by deliberately not sharing it. Marty shared information and that made him a target of multiple people multiple times, Harrison was targeting him the whole way until the end after his confessional was revealed.

To give a run-down of my strategic game, Jordan and I formed a secret alliance at final 9 that gave us almost total control of the game. At final 9 I subtly made sure Jerry was eliminated while deliberately letting Harrison take the credit for it. Nat can attest to me messaging her about flipping it against Jerry when she first agreed with Trey about voting Jerry before Harrison had even come online to discuss the vote.

At final 8 I knew where all the votes were headed and managed to position myself where, despite remaining loyal, I kept the potential for strategic relationships with the entire cast. At this point in the game I was aligned with everybody apart from yourself Elias, and we certainly had the potential to align.

And final 7 to final 4 has been covered extensively already. Even before that at final 10 and 11, I noticed that people who brought up names were big targets so my strategy was to rat people out and spread information about who was being brought up by who, so that the target was not on me.

I suppose I don't know why my game is being criticised for what I consider to be strengths. Winning immunities is an element of the game and even though I was only at risk for 5 votes, I don't consider that a bad element of my game at all ya know. Tom Westman was only at risk for 3!!

I was immune pre merge but during that time I created social bonds and then was able to use those later in the game. As my speech outlined, I did not turn it on at final 7. I was playing the whole through.

Marty mentions me "turning it on at final 7" and hiding my skills but I think the difference between Marty and myself is the concept of perception. Marty let his perception be crafted into a goat, I deliberately made it that way. Marty may have put strategic input into the chat you were both in, but he never took strategic initiative. I took strategic initiative at almost every single vote, I had secret alliances and was trusted by almost everybody. From final 9 onwards I controlled every vote (even at final 8, a large element of that vote was down to mine and Jordan's planning), and I just don't understand how Marty can then say he had a better strategic game than me ya know?