Board Thread:Season 41 - Bali/@comment-31124935-20170703174013/@comment-27985501-20170704191327

1. Why did you not try and get in with the brawns earlier?

When I entered the merge, I had just come out of the triple tribal successfully voting out Julia and making my first proper move in the game. I had built good bonds with Nadine and Ting and my original state of mind and plan was to bring together the beauties and the brains, however that plan quickly fell apart as Jenna and Elmo trusted Tyler (yet ANOTHER example of his far too good social game) and wanted to work with the brawns. Because I had already built bonds with Nadine and Ting and was aware Danielle didn't trust me, that made me think that since she was allies with the brawns that I couldn't trust all you guys and talk much game with you. That was originally why I never really tried to get to know you all well, except Tyler who completely played me with his near-perfect social game. And after that first messy merge vote, I felt since some of the brawns voted me, yet again I couldn't trust you all, which lead to me not speaking to you all that much and getting to know you again. From there I was always not really working with the any of the brawns except Tyler until Jenna's blindside. I fully admit I should've gotten to know all the brawns from the start so that I'd still possibly be able to work with you all throughout the merge, and it's another flaw my game had, with my social game being weak at the merge. As I said, the big reason I believe why, was that I never trusted you guys enough to get to know you, when I should've of gotten to know you all anyway to build relationships and trust with you, I am glad I was able to get to know you better at the final 5 though David, and even if you don't vote me, I hope we can still be friends and talk after this, as you are a really great guy, and you were correct in the fact that myself and Nadine were unaware in a lot of the merge, and that we didn't build good enough relationships with everyone, including you, which I wish I had done sooner.

2. Who was most influential in each juror going home?

I completely admit I was highly unaware throughout the merge David, but please know thats I did know about that four person alliance between you, Jenna, Tyler and Alexandra, as Jenna did tell me that, I was close enough with Jenna that she did tell me some things. Here is what I believe from my knowledge who was largely influential in each vote:

Juror 1 - Hannah - Jenna & Tyler/You - I'm not sure if I'm correct, but I believe that the brawns originally wanted Hannah gone, especially you, as I think you and Hannah didn't make up after the swap and you didn't trust her at all, so I think you and Tyler both pushed for her to go, and also Jenna pushed for her to go a lot to over me, as when my name starting coming up when I was asleep, I believe Jenna was pushing for people to vote Hannah instead of me.

Juror 2 - Elmo - Alexandra & Tyler - Alexandra I believe spear-headed this vote, and rallied up numbers to blindside Elmo, both of them didn't trust each other hence why Elmo was targeting her as well, vice versa. I also do know that Tyler knew about Elmo's Idol, and pushed for the vote to happen as well I think because of this, and got Jenna to vote out Elmo as well, Alexandra rallied the numbers, and Tyler solidified that Elmo went home.

Juror 3 - Christina - Jenna & Ting Ting & Tyler - Jenna I know gathered up numbers to save me, and originally it was gonna be a 5-4 vote, and we needed Ting Ting's vote, Ting Ting wanted to vote out Christina, and that seemed to be the only name she was willing to vote, so she shifted the vote to Christina, but she also told Tyler (another example of Tyler's amazing social game) and in turn Tyler told the rest of the brawns except Christina, and since no one was really really close to Christina everyone decided to have a simple vote and vote her out, from my knowledge this is how this vote happened, and it was mostly caused by Jenna, Ting Ting and I believe Tyler.

Juror 4 - Jenna - Tyler - From what I know this was mostly Tyler, Tyler successfully pitted Jenna and Alexandra completely against each other and I think he pushed the rest of the brawns to vote Jenna, while telling Alexandra she may not have the votes, making sure she wastes her Idol and Jenna went home. I believe he completely masterminded this vote, and made sure that Alexandra got rid of her Idol, while displaying his beautiful social game, having both beauty girls trust him, even though he was completely playing them and me as well.

Juror 5 - Alexandra - You & Tyler & Danielle - I think from my knowledge at this point in the game, Alexandra made a final 4 alliance with myself, Nadine and Danielle. But since Danielle was much closer with you and Tyler she told you both the plan, and you both pushed to get Alexandra voted out, while also convincing Ting Ting to as well, I believe both you and Tyler solidified this vote and made sure Alexandra went home.

Juror 6 - Tyler - Myself & Nadine - Nadine was able to bring me and Ting together to take out a brawn with her Idol, but I made sure it was Tyler who we took out. I convinced Ting and Nadine to vote out Tyler over you, because as I've said Tyler was the biggest threat in the game, he had played the best strategic and social game left, and if he hadn't gone home at this point I believe he would've made the end, my one biggest move since the Julia vote and in the merge was voting out Tyler and making sure he left over you in this Idol play, as it took out the one person who was guaranteed to make the end unless I made sure he left at this one golden opportunity (I believe Tyler would've convinced Ting to come back to him at 5, and that he would've made sure Danielle wouldn't of flipped, his social game was that good in my opinion).

Juror 7 - Ting Ting - Mostly You & Slightly Me - You spear-headed this vote David, and you were right when you said I should've spear-headed it. I knew I wanted you and Ting to be the next two to go, and I was really torn at first. But you convinced me to flip, and I apologise for trying to take full credit for this move, when it wasn't fully mine. You made sure Ting went home this vote over you, by convincing me to flip, and my flip was only slightly my own decision, since I decided it was better for Ting to leave over you as she had a better chance at winning final Immunity where I needed the one of you that stayed to lose, but I only realised this once you convinced me, so this was mostly your vote.

Juror 8 - David - Mostly Danielle & Slightly Me - Danielle deciding to cut you at the end was the main reason you went home. She did approach me and Nadine about voting you before the final Immunity, and I also did my best to convince her to make sure that you went home after you lost the final Immunity. I also did my best to mend bridges with Nadine after voting out Ting Ting, which I successfully did, and made sure to convince Nadine to vote you out, but Danielle solidified your demise by also talking to Nadine about voting you, and ultimately making the decision to betray you.