Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-30978190-20171215223253/@comment-27992076-20171216013426

Hey Rhys, I think you're honestly the most accurate at calling out my flaws this game and I agree with most of those stuff you said about me. Here's the thing though, most of them were completely intentional.

Yes you may had noticed that I ran my mouth and have leaked stuff, but I leaked them in a very specific way. I believe that I see things in this game very very differently than you do. I gather information by doing this tactics. Let say I recovered this little bit of information, and decided to leak to A. Then if anything come back to me from anybody else, I immediately gather really valuable information. I immediately in my head connected the social bonds between A and the person giving me the same information, aka pairing them up. For example, let say I gave Layla a certain information that I wanted to vote out X, and Jon came to me about voting out X, I would immediately know that there is a bond somehow between Jon and Layla. I would repeat this kind of process multiple times throughout every tribal and gather so much information that way.

Think of as me sending a message to certain people, I learn where it travels between people, how fast it travels, and if I should be worried about anything.

I also learn from the same tactics where it doesnt travel to, and anybody who is uninformed is most likely not connected to the person I gave information to. That's why I excel at figuring out who is at the bottom and who is at the top, and work my way around things. It also made me very wary of certain people who leak it like wildfire, and give me trust toward certain people who doesnt spread it around.

Also the way I leak it, I always absolutely made sure I did not leak to more than 1 people. If I wanted to spread information to more than 1 person, I would go to someone who I think is really good at spreading information, and see how well connected they are.

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Now I know what I said earlier sounds really complicated and it may not fully make sense or fully answer what you were looking for.

I give you props that you managed to get yourself into this position but I don't think you got into it on purpose.

I would like to say that yes, I did get myself into that position on purpose. Why did you think I decided to vote out Layla so early? It forces you, Jon, and Nadine to limit your options but to work with me. I use this same exact tactics on Ry and Hesh by voting out people like Zak, Willow, and Conor. Ry and Hesh also have very limited options but to work with me.

My vote off almost went horribly wrong, as the votes weren’t split when you KNEW there was an idol in play.

Here's the thing, Joanna was a wild card at this tribal, she immediately said to us right off the bat that she was voting for Jon, and then disappears for the rest of the tribal, only coming back and leaked what I said to you and Jon and disappears again.

Hesh, Ry and I had absolutely no idea if she was lying about her vote or not, and we were afraid that Joanna was voting with you guys and vote one of us out. I knew you guys were voting Hesh, my main intention was to mainly flush the idol, and I was perfectly fine if Hesh was idol'd out as it would probably not change the final 3. My point is, I was completely avoiding Joanna voting with you and Jon making it a 3-2-1 vote if we decided to split. At the very least, 3 votes on you meant the worst outcome was 3 votes on you, and 3 votes on Hesh, and with me/Joanna having 50-50 chance to get out by rocks, I just knew that Joanna would probably not risk her life for you two, especially after almost getting voted out by you two.

This is why we were against splitting the votes. Joanna was a wild card and was not online majority of the tribal.

Also keeping Joanna over Nadine seemed stupid

It may seems stupid, but it was probably the smartest move for me. I wanted you three to somehow split up and become alone and vulnerable. Let say I voted out Joanna, Nadine would've worked with you guys still, and Hesh/Ry wouldve just left at final 6 with no choices, unless I decide to force rocks with them. Since you guys almost voted out Joanna, I knew that she would hesitate to work with you guys the next tribal, and it gives me more power in the final 6, which I was intending for.

''' What you thought were blindsides and stellar moves I don't necessarily agree. '''

It probably isn't and I think I probably have a bias on this because this was my own move. You're probably right that it wasn't the most stellar moves, but I am proud of what I did regardless, and it was the right moves for me.

I want to ask you yourself, considering the way I played the game up to final 7. Do you think I have a better chance at winning this game had I just simply stuck with voting out Joanna, then Hesh at final 6, then Nadine and Ry at final 5/4 depending on immunity? I honestly think I would be perceived as a sheep playing for you and Jon, which is something I want to avoid. I'm here to win, and if I don't win, that's fine with me, at least I tried to win.

List the jurors in an order of who you would most/least want to sit next to during the final tribal.

This is a very difficult question to answer because it completely changes every single tribal. I try my very best at bringing the people I think I would have an easier time beating in the finals. If I'm being honest, everyone in the final 4 was the people I wanted to sit next to in the finals. Every tribal I usually make a blacklist for myself. A blacklist, a term that came from Epicmafia, is like an order of people who I believe had the best chance at winning the game, and I was intending to bring the people at the bottom of that list. But the list changed every single tribals because the moves made would always bring people to the top, or if it backfired, it would bring them down near the end.

At the very start of the merge, my initial thoughts were: bring 2 newbies to the end no matter what. But as the game progress, I knew that it wasn't the smartest decision as some of the newbies played so much better than most of the returnees.

If you absolutely want an order, I can give you one. Had it been a final 2 tribal, I was most likely bringing Joanna to the end. Joanna > Hesh > Ry > Jon > Rhys > Conor > Nadine. The others were just simply voted out a bit too early for us to even start thinking about the jury game and the bonds I had with them was still a bit too premature. No offense to CJ, Zak, Layla, and Willow.

Also a second one, why did you run your mouth so much , when it could have easily blown up your game.

I was absolutely careful about certain people who I decide to give information to, starting off with harmless information, and see how fast and where it would travel to learn the social connections between people. I would then do everything I could to make sure that knowing who they have a tendency to spread to, make sure it doesn't happen. It did blew up two times when I was not intending to, but it was nothing too critical. For example, telling Joanna about voting her out in the final 6. I was too fast to assume that she would no longer try to work with you and Jon after almost being voted out by you two. The other example was having everyone telling me about Layla trying to blindside me at final 9, and I decided to tell Jon about it, not assuming he would go ahead and tell Hesh. But at the same time, the information was very valuable as him telling Hesh immediately made me think that there was actually a plan going on to get me out, which lead me to vote out Layla.

I hope this answered what you were looking for, and I just want to apologize for being such a pain in the butt to work with.