Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-30692190-20171216023126/@comment-27992076-20171216204650

'''You weren’t specific when you said having me around wasn’t good for your game. Please explain why, and keep it detailed.'''

Alright. As long as you live, you endanger my game. Let say I decided at final 7, I got rid of Joanna. It would basically be 2v2v2. With Ry and Rhys alliance slowly building up, there was a very good chance the 4 would just band together and try to get rid of us. Let say had you won any of the last few immunities, I was in danger of going home. Even if they got rid of you, without me trying, my game would just be dead in the water. I wouldn't be able to get Hesh and Ry to listen to me, Jon and Rhys would do their own things, etc. I could make it to the end, but with absolutely atrocious jury game because I was dragged there. Another situation could happen was that Jon and Rhys could vote with us and vote out Hesh/Ry, but in the final five, if Ry won immunity, which he did btw, Jon wouldve used the idol to get one of us idol'd out. At the time I thought the idol expired at final five, not six. Then in the final 4, I would have to completely depend on the immunity in order to make it to the end, and I would have to go to the final 3 with Jon and Rhys, which I believe is the worst case end game for me.

I just knew that you would be gotten rid of eventually in the game, unless you somehow won the last 3 immunities. The numbers would never be on our side. I would make to the end by either being dragged or get voted out.

Not to mention people were constantly telling me that you would win the whole thing, I mean I don't mind losing to you, but I just would rather have a better shot at winning the FTC. I believe even though my current jury situation doesn't look as good as I would like it to be, it would still be so much better than if had I kept playing for you.

Now as you can see, there was too many possible situations where things could go wrong for me, I mean it could all work out in the end, but for me, it was way too risky, and voting you out was the safest route, and at the same time, gives me power and dominate the end game. My jury game went from dead in the water to barely struggling to win. If I lose, so be it, I wasn't going to win anyway had I kept you alive.

'''What is your strategic reasoning for keeping Joanna into FTC? Why are you better than her in all aspects?'''

I kept her around because I felt like she was the easiest to beat in the FTC. Even though she played a really good game, I felt like some of her flaws would turn off a couple of jurors to not vote for her, like her being voted out once already. Her disappearing completely during the final 7 vote, and again she disappeared most of the final 6 vote. Not to mention, she constantly told me in PM that she wanted to quit the game. As soon as she told me she wanted to quit the game, she completely lost my vote for her. I would never ever vote for someone in the end who told me they wanted to quit the game because they were bored.

'''At the start of the game, which aspect did you prioritize first - social, strategy or physical and why? (think of the experiment where a toddler picks between 2 items that represents 2 values in life: money or love)'''

Strategy. It is EXTREMELY underrated in ORG. Why do you think some of the best players from Epicmafia constantly make to the finals? Why do you think I kept constantly make to the finals? Cosmo from Sri Lanka made to the end, Highspace, aka Emile, made it to the end, HardCarry made it to the end and won the Ganges, etc. ALL of those people had one of the best strategic games.

Physical is also completely overrated in survivor, so I just completely threw out the physical aspect entirely, and try my best at the final immunity challenge. I wasn't as worried if I was against someone who won multiple immunities in the final immunity, even then

Social, even though they definitely a huge factor, I just simply view it as: Even if you have one of the best social game, its still very easy to get voted out. You just need a very good strategic game, and a social game that is GOOD ENOUGH, and it would become very hard to get rid of you. I wasn't aiming for a perfect social game, I was aiming for a good enough social game.

Did you prepare for a F2 or F3 scenario?

Both, you can never be too careful. I was 90 percent expecting a final 3 FTC, because jury started final 12, the way the Day numbers added up and having Day 38 land on Final 4, etc. But I made absolutely sure that I was also able to prepare for a final 2.