Board Thread:Season 36 - Tikal/@comment-29404679-20161016035746/@comment-28511285-20161017190126

Hey hey Michael! So I'll start this off since its I feel it's important for people to read, make sure you read the first blurb in my speech to John about how I strategically set up a f6 I was confident I could go on an immunity run with as physical strategy is something that can't be overlooked in my game.

Now, onto the question. I'll be honest this scenario I wouldn't be prepping myself for at all as Claire is self admittedly not a great challenge competitor, however, if she were more a comp threat as I told Christine I would have played differently at final 7 and the final 6 would have looked different. However I'll try to answer this as if some crazy fluke happened. Final 6, as weird as this sounds an initial play of mine would have been to get Claire to give me her immunity necklace since she had the pearls and Christine had her hidden idol. Although it's a stretch, I feel like Claire being one to talk y and make big moves could have done it since it would completely kill her game for me to go at 6 since she was certainly gone next and most likely couldn't win out. If she didn't give me immunity, my next play is just to try try try to keep get Christine on bored. Because of a few odd things that happened in previous rounds and her insistance on "voting Claire" at 6 I knew she was working with Marie and you. If Claire and I could sway Christine, which I think could have easily been done since as early as the round before she was saying how she needed the power to shift in the game. I would have asked Christine to tell you and Marie that I got an idol at the auction, and try to force a split vote. Keep in mind here it's also in Joanna's best interest for me to stay since if Christine is gone that means she's f3 with Marie and you, so she likely tries to push the vote that way. Not wanting to lose an ally there's a chance you two go against Christine. Keep in mind all of these things have lowish chances of success, however because I have so many options I'm going to try and push them all and combined the odds are lookin pretty good for me :D F5, Claire wins immunity. I push the notion hard on Christine that if she votes me out she is cutting ties to Claire, and is forced to win final immunity or she will be voted out unanimously, whereas if she keeps me and anyone but me wins, I'd be the one going, and those odds are much better for her. Claire helps me push home this message. This round has the lowest chance of success I believe, however I would hardly count myself out by any means as with my statistical arguement, and the fact that Marie and Christine were in a fight, I think I have good odds at safety. F4, Claire wins. Claire and I have our final 2 deal, if she breaks it I'm gone, she holds true I'm safe, it's as simple as that. I push to her that we are friends and it would hurt to be voted out, I think she would likely vote with me and force a firemaking from what I could tell and her reaction to me betraying her :( . I'm likely safe. This happening is somewhat a stretch in the first place as I did win every single leg of the final challenge by quite a bit though because I didn't want my fate in other's hands.

And there you have it, my third attempt at answering very similar questions haha. I'm glad this one specified "if Claire won" though so I couldn't just copy paste my whole speech to John :P. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you'll consider voting for me!