Board Thread:Season 51 - The Caribbean/@comment-37911756-20190225200030/@comment-30289320-20190226013833

Hi Ethan,

I'm glad you decided to bring this up, because I re-read after and did want to elaborate on this point. When I say 'mistake', I don't mean when considering how the events unfolded afterward, and a mistake doesn't mean it's a terrible move. Obviously you still made it to the end, and kudos to you for that. But at the time, Elmo and Yousef both were available as viable shields for you to use if you did end up losing one of those final challenges. If your plan all along was just to win out then hey, the plan worked, but to me looking at things realistically, it's unlikely for a person to win out, and so it makes sense to have someone at 4 who will take the fall before you. For me this ended up being Karsten when you won the Final Immunity Challenge, and I was still able to make it here despite losing.

Again, if your whole plan was "Win every challenge" then more power to you, but if you lose the final one to Karsten, it definitely would have helped you out if Yousef were still around, or Elmo managed to stay around and made it that far. Having a realistic Plan B ready to go for things go to shit is a big part of the game. Just my opinion, I'm cool if people have different ones.

I was more-so talking about Yousef playing one of his idols for Elmo, regardless.