Board Thread:Season 56 - Mongolia/@comment-43903595-20191228172512/@comment-25005834-20191229083122

Hey Randy! Long time no see, man :) Thanks for your questions, and for the congratulations :D

Q1 – If I had to replace one finalist with one jury member, who do I pick and why?

Ooh tough hypothetical. There’s a lot of choices here that would be adequate, and choosing between Carlo and Megan to replace is difficult. But from a game perspective, I would replace Carlo with a juror who hasn’t really displayed much of an awesome game and thus, wouldn’t get enough votes as Carlo might. And this could be the juror who was voted earliest out of the game, which unluckily is you, Randy. Carlo because of reasons below in my answer to your second question, and he is possibly the bigger threat. And you, who never got to make that many moves physically, socially or strategically, and also does not have much of a game to win over the jury in the end. This is not demeaning you in any way, as this would be the same for mostly anyone who got voted out early, even Kyle. Therefore, the new F3 configuration would help me (and Megan too) in having a relatively better game than the other two. But it also gives you the chance to experience the endgame you couldn’t :)

Now obviously, this answer and the reasoning is flawed. This is my decision based on the situation and the factors as it is now, but it discounts the whole game that would occur in the alternate scenario. Realistically of course, the outcome of the FTC would all be left up to the circumstances of how you (or any finalist) personally got here, and the game would be absolutely changed by HEAPS because everybody will for sure have played a better game than they did at F12.

Q2 – Why should Carlo win this game?

Carlo is a deserving winner for a number of different reasons, the most predominant one being that he voted correctly in the merge the most out of all of us, while he was in a very close alliance. Even if the jury isn’t pleased with that, it is still an amazing feat to reach the end with this dominance, in a crazy, unpredictable season such as this one.

He was incredibly perceptive and aware with what people say, as he demonstrated at F9 Tribal Council. Putting Ruth’s message and Megan’s answer together, he correctly realized that he was the target of the opposing alliance, correctly played the idol on himself, also masterfully sending a vote towards Jacob which ultimately sent him to the jury, weakening the opposing alliance. He had a move of his own here.

And I also agree with what Carlo said for his last point about me, except it’s his determination to vote Megan that I totally admired. It was really beautiful that he and I were able to disagree calmly and understandingly, while agreeing that we both had different agendas at that stage of the game.

And as he has answered in Kyle’s speech and as he shows by his quick responses to the jury’s answers, Carlo’s extremely dedicated to being active in this game, because he loves it and he wants to win it. Simply put, Carlo’s awesome!