Board Thread:Season 40 - Argentina/@comment-26896797-20170518222843

Hey guys! I would like to thank all of you, Claudia, Tymeka and the hosts for making this season as incredible as it was. Now, I'm gonna tell you how the hell did I get to Day 39 and why I should win.

PRE-SWAP

On Cordoba, I made social connections with almost everyone. My social game is my main point in these games so I knew I had to use it to my advantage, and it worked since it got me into the majority alliance of Cordoba, named the Stripes & Solids (it was me, Alex, Brandon, Amanda, Rhone and Carson). I also made a girls alliance with Catherine, Tymeka and Shannon so I had connections everywhere.



At our first Tribal Council, the S&S settled on Bronson being the target and it benefited me a lot since he was the only who I didn't have an alliance with.



At our second Tribal Council, I figured Carson and I were never talking privately so he was the one I had least connection with, so I tried my best to save Catherine and I entertained the idea to Alex who agreed. It got the flip to work and Carson got blindsided. I told Brandon that his partner was getting voted out because I didn't want to leave him out of the loop and wanted to strenghten our relationship.



POST-SWAP



This phase is a pretty easy one to understand. Cordoba stayed strong and got rid of Jake, I played the middle and lied to the Formosas about flipping because I didn't want to be targeted, then Tymeka/Shannon flipped and blindsided Rhone. It kinda lit a fire under my ass like I said in my Rites of Passage, because my partner got voted out and the jury started so I knew I had to strenghten my game.



POST-MERGE



The merge hit, and I connected back with the Cordobas pretty easily, I knew I had to stay with them because they were big threats and shields for me. I also started to build relationships with the Formosa girls, and we instantly clicked, especially with Sydney.



<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Our plan for the first Tribal Council obviously didn't work, but I knew Sydney was itching to get rid of the Formosa boys, and thanks to our relationship, she told me about the alliance between Mackie, Justin, Tymeka and Shannon, which was pretty obvious after the swap so I had no problem  believing her.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">After Catherine got out, and Justin called me out on the tribe chat, I knew I had to play up the goat card because people wouldn't target me thanks to that. In real life, if someone would've called me out like that, I would've been crazy about it and yelled at him harder, but it's a game and you have to separate the brain and the heart. Thanks to that, I wasn't targeted at Final 9, and maybe targeting me would've made Ally flip, I don't know, but I managed to stay in the majority.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">At Final 8, I found an “idol” and didn't tell anyone until Brandon shared his guesses with me, so I had to fake find it and then I told him. He found another idol though, so we both figured out they were fake.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Thanks to the relationship I've been carefully building with Claudia the last days, she told me and Brandon about Ally planning to flip back, so we blindsided her.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Final 7 was a low point for me, since I was left out of the loop. I was told at the Final 6 that Brandon wanted to vote me, which I don't blame him for, since there would've been no way I would've allowed him to go to the Final Tribal Council, since he was too much of a threat.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Final 6 was a complicted round with a bunch a lies going around. I easily figured out that Sydney had the idol since she's the one who won the most immunities, so when I asked her she immediately told me. I lied to Mackie about having an idol, so he and his alliance wouldn't target me and target Sydney. I knew they weren't voting Claudia since they approached me about voting her, and I know they didn't trust me at all. It allowed Sydney to play her idol on the right person and the plan to work.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Final 5 was an easy decision since Mackie and Tymeka were voting me. Final 4 was not though, I knew Sydney was the biggest threat and we were really close on a human level, but like I said, I had to separate the brain from the heart and I voted her out. I left words on my parchment because I couldn't tell her I was voting her out since the vote results were at 3 AM where I live.

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">CONCLUSION

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<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">My game was mainly about social relationships, and thanks to those I was able to have shields which helped me a lot to get this far. I made sublte strategic moves and I didn't make “#BIGMOVEZ”, which was the right thing to do, since all the people that made those got targeted.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Jurors, thank you for reading, and good luck to the lovely ladies sitting next to me who deserve it as much as I do, and may the best woman win.

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