Board Thread:Season 50 - Kingdoms Collide/@comment-25087748-20181222022516/@comment-25624731-20181223235136

Hey Bryce! I definitely knew you’d leave with not the best impression of me and it was one of the reasons I really didn’t want to vote you that first round of the merge. I touched on this more in my answer to Tyler, but I was hoping that the mid-jurors would know enough about how I was playing to fill you in and inform you about my way of thinking. Although Jake and Audrey weren’t my ideal 3rd and 4th jurors, it actually ended up helping me out because they probably knew the most about how I was thinking at that point in time.

Gabby was DEFINITELY not meant to be shade! I didn’t realize that so many people disliked her last season, I loved Gabby. She was hilarious and super fun to watch on TV, but that wasn’t why she reminded me of you. I thought she was like you because it seemed like everyone underestimated Gabby’s ability to be strong and play independently and I definitely think I underestimated your gameplay at the start of the merge. Audrey had told me she’d barely saved you at the last tribal you attended, so I assumed you were struggling to get by in the game. Obviously that wasn’t what happened at all, and I was really impressed to hear so much about the alliances you’d been a part of later on!

I was pretty sure I would be in the F3 once Jared left at F7. I was in the final 6 of the game with four people who had promised to take me to the end (Jamie, Chelsea, Dani, and Cali), and these four people were extremely unlikely to work together against me. I did my best to present myself as a person everyone would be able to use to get to the end: I told Jamie that if she didn’t have me in F5 or F4 she’d be voted out, I told Chelsea that we needed Sydney to go so that Cali/Dani didn’t become the swing vote at F5, I told Sydney I’d work with her against Jamie in the event she lost immunity, and when Chelsea asked me if we should vote Sydney or Dani at F6, I wanted her to vote Dani at first to create an even deeper divide between the two at F5. That way, Cali and Dani would almost have to count on me to vote with them at F5 because the other two had lied to them so much in the past. Of course, this could have backfired if Chelsea was extremely adamant about sending Dani home, but I was hoping that my relationship with Chelsea would be stronger than her desire to get rid of Dani, and it was! I also found the idol grid shortly after immunity results were posted and sent it to Cali, Dani, and Chelsea so that each of them knew I wasn’t keeping secrets, I genuinely wanted to work with them in the final stages of the game.

Thanks Bryce, sorry I got to your question so late!