Board Thread:Season 12 - All-Stars/@comment-13794814-20140216144930/@comment-4062486-20140217192516

1. What is it mainly that hindered you in making the rationally right decision and go for the emotionally right in a game that is about numbers? At final five, the numbers were for sure not working for me as well as I had hoped. Either way an ally of mine was about to go home. At that point I had to choose between three people, one of who could possibly have an idol. What made me choose Taylor at that point was that he was the oldest ally that I had in the game and I didn’t want to lose him. As for final four and why I didn’t eventually vote him out was because I understood that this game is also about emotions and feelings, not just numbers. Say you only play the rational game and you end up towards the end of the game with people you don’t know if you can trust – it could really work against you. At that time there were rumours about a possible final two and I wanted to be ready for anything. Although in the end we had a final three, I am 100% sure I would have been voted off if I didn’t have immunity or Taylor still in the game with me. In this game you must take people who you love and trust further with you, because that will also mean you will be safer yourself in the end.

2.     Is the sentence “It was purely strategic…” only a lie to help yourself get passed bad feelings about voting someone of or is it only a thing you say to calm down the voted of jury member and why didn’t you stick to that principle any more at final 5? I feel that this sentence is what described most of my game. Since I voted off people, a number of them being my allies too – it was what it was all about. Strategy. I voted off people such as Sharky and Sole because I felt it was strategically better for me. It wasn’t a lie – for me all the votes in this game were strategic. I didn’t vote against anyone out of malice – I voted for them for strategic reasons. Still, at final five I felt emotionally that what I was doing wasn’t right and fair. It was more important for me to keep Taylor than get another strategic move. In the end, we all have got to stay true to some people, and that in it’s own way is a strategy too. If one simply betrays all their allies, they can’t expect to win and could go out before they even reach the end.

'''3.      In case you go into a Final 2 against everyone in jury. Do you believe you could have beaten anyone?''' To be honest, it really depends on the game. But I think a number of people such as Taylor, Andrei, Uli, Sharky, Jhet, Gerard, Adam and Hickman could have done it. All of them are in my opinion really awesome players and definitely would have done well in the Final Tribal Council.

As for your comment about me not playing my full potential, think about this: as I said in my speech, as a winner I had a big target on my back. I knew that I wanted to play differently than last time, but that I also had to think each action through very carefully. Therefore, I used as much of my potential as I felt I needed to. I had a big enough target and I didn’t want to make it better – which is why I stayed partly in the shadows. Being an obvious threat is never good. This didn’t mean I was anyone’s goat though. As I said before, I partnered with strong players in the game. I wasn’t controlled by anyone. But I still felt it would be good to stay a bit further away from some of the obvious threats such as Adam. In the end it paid off as I am still alive in this game. Overall I still feel that I played a better game than in my original season. I was more of a social player, I strategized way more and was equally as dedicated in the challenges (having a bit more luck with them this time as I won immunity twice). As I said, I played the best game that I was able to play, and although I didn’t play like you wanted me to, I still hope you see some charm in my gameplay too.