Board Thread:Season 22 - Similan Islands/@comment-25303209-20150103092820/@comment-1524497-20150103144309

Hi Hugo, so when I talk about big moves they don't all have to include me standing up at tribal to play an idol. Managing to get everyone on board with voting out Erlend when nobody but me had any reason to do it, that's a big move, I didn't want Red, Erlend and Rick to get together because of being perceived as goats and take out the rest of us.

I do know I didn't play a loyal game, I'm not trying to cover that, I liked that you and Diego were such a good duo and I knew you would never throw him under the bus, I can appreciate that about you.

I know I said F5 with you or Diego after Nick went home and believe or not I considered it, but then at F6 Tom told me (as soon as it was happening) that Diego was sending screenshots of my conversations about getting rid of Tom, making a case to vote me out and I decided I would be better off staying with the remains of the Fab 5.. But even then, that never made me get angry at Diego, I was able to separate my feelings from the game and even though I knew we were both trying to get each other out, I think we still had great conversations before tribal time despite that.

I know Katie was considered a goat by some, but there was this perception (which I helped enforce) that she would be unbeatable in the end, I used that to my advantage, and when you told me you were voting for either Katie or Tom if they were in the end, I used that to let the others know never to think of going with her to the end. I guess it was a lot of "Guys, she was 8-2 at the merge and she's still here, she's the biggest underdog ever!", "See how Hugo talks about enjoying talking to her about math, he adores her and Nick has no animosity towards her, Trevor would want a Miyang to win, guys we can't go to the end with her!" , and things like that, letting Red stay would mean there was no reason why I shouldn't be a target and since I found out through Rick that Tom was starting to put the target on me I don't think my move was only "flashy", it was effective as it let me keep the mentality of "Katie biggest jury threat ever" going.

I guess I can see why you would want Tom to win, but this is ultimately a social game at its core and the truth is that every ally that Tom had was more loyal to me than to him, probably because he was making questionable moves like calling out Rick at the first post-swap tribal, making Rick hate him even more and trust me even more when I would agree with him that it was uncalled for. And I wasn't Tom's pawn, it was my strategy to hide behind his shadow, and it helped me get here without anyone taking a hit at me. Also not pissing people off with personality traits is a good strategy that he didn't follow.