Board Thread:Season 16 - Turkey/@comment-24524010-20140708035212/@comment-24524216-20140708064323

'''1. Was the self vote at Final 7 strategic? And why did you self-vote, considering we talked about who to vote for earlier and I'm pretty sure you told me who you wanted to vote for? '''

You are right, I was the one who made the plan to vote out Topher since we had been targeting Bartley and Topher could had played his idol on him but not himself. It would be a great blindside and I knew that Topher was a threat. BUT... the true is that that was a difficult choice... Tyler wanted to vote out Topher. Bryce wanted to vote out Bartley and I wanted to vote out Thang at the moment to keep the big targets so no one could make a choice. We decided (Actually I decided ) to vote out Topher and I told you all to vote for him at the bazid chat. But I waited and I did it in case I changed my mind at the last minute such as I did when I voted out Jessie. Later that day I was actually thinking on flipping on you guys at that moment. I knew you would have the votes from Idir and your self-vote you just needed one more... and you would be my personal fourth blindside victim (Alex, Jessie, Rasheid and you). But flipping at that time was too risky. I couldnt let the Bazid guys believe that I wasn´t trustable... But there was another option...

I DID SELF-VOTE on purpose so Topher, Thang and Bartley could still "trust" me and of course none of the Bazid left would think I actually flipped but I just missed the deadline and felt so bad about it :c

Tyler lost his biggest ally which secure his loyalty 100% to me. Bazid still had a 4-3 advantage over Idir and the big threats would still be around as my fake piñata strategy kept working.

Of course, Karma is a BITCH as it had always been to me and Bryce´s self-vote could potentially had ruined my game because from your Boot it was only Bazid´s downfall but actually Bryce´s self-vote was the perfect smokescreen so you wouldn´t think it was an strategic decission.

'''2. What was your strategy? What strategic moves did you make? Notice the plural, so that means more than one move. '''

My strategy wasn´t just one move of course. That wouldn´t take you to F2 or give you the title of sole survivor

(Oh wait... it does bring you to f2 because Bartley´s only "strategic" move was to idol out a great team player over an inactive player when they needed the numbers the most #NoTeanoShade)

So anyway.. I had lot´s of strategic moves during this season... Of course some of them were bigger than others or had an immediate effect but I would like to rank my Top 10 moves from this season :)

10.- Getting advantage on the fights between Bryce and Jessie to make a stronger bond with both of them

9.- Blaming Tyler for us flipping at the Tung vote.

8.- Convincing you all to send Bartley to exile multiple times

7.- Had a secret F2 deal with Tung and a "not so secret" one with Tyler since the beginning of the competition.

6.- Convinced Rasheid that Tyler was the one who wanted him gone  and not me right before he was eliminated. That way If Rasheid was at the jury he would vote for me instead of him if we were up against each other at F2

5.- Being part of many pre-merge alliances. (The United Nation Alliance, the 5Bazid strong alliance with David, Tyler Alex and Bryce, the "Mega-Alliance" ,the f2 pact with Tyler and Tung, the bond I had with Bartley and Thang at the tribe swap and Bryce´s loyalty after Alex´s boot.)

4.- Voting Jessie over Bartley.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">3.- My layed down strategy at the beginning of the merge days to keep the target on whoever wins the challenges. ( I don´t think it´s a coincidence that the first half of the merge I only won I reward challenge (And ironically at that one I didn`t submited any score), and the last 9 days I won 5 out of 6 challenges played. The BIG threats were still around... how was that possible?)

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">2.- Alex´s boot. When I found out I was potentially at the chopping block I made an immediate reaction and voted the person who wanted me gone before he even think about actually writing my name down

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">1.- My self-vote. It cost me my "0 votes against" record but It took my game to a whole new level.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">I´m sorry you were on the wrong side of the move. I AM really sorry because you were a loyal ally and a great player but I needed to be the best and I needed to ensure at any cost that I would be sitting here.