Board Thread:Season 27 - Alsace-Lorraine/@comment-26346571-20150728005450/@comment-26347699-20150728075817

Thanks Jimmy :)

I agree with you that Survivor is ultimately a social game. No matter how good a strategic/physical game you play, if you're there at the end sitting in the Final 3 you're nowhere near the win if the jury despises you and likes the other two people.

In my opinion, every jury member should vote for the person they personally want to see win the game. They can have various reasons for that and decide for themselves what those reasons are. Some jurors vote for the person they like the most (or hate the least), some jurors vote for the person whose gameplay they think was the best and some jurors simply vote for the person they'd prefer losing to over the other two people.

If I would be sitting on the jury, I'd vote for the player I respect the most. This would be the person who I think played an independent and strong game, taking care of themselves and making sure to get to the Final 3 themselves, put much effort in it, but above all I do have to like this person. If I think their personality sucks but their strategic and physical game was amazing, I'd still have a hard time voting for such a person. Because even though we're not really handing somebody a million dollars, we are giving somebody the honor of being the Sole Survivor which for us Survivor nerds is a big deal.

That's how I think a jury decision is made and that's why I played how I played. I think I did a good job at every aspect of the game including the social game so that because different people have different perceptions of who should win the game, I'd have done well at every aspect I knew of that the jurors could base their vote on.