Board Thread:Season 14 - Madagascar/@comment-5810529-20140502200744/@comment-24112421-20140503002515

I think my game was almost the opposite from Adam's. The two things I did the same as the winner of my first season was I tried to bring the people I thought I could beat to the end and that I was immune more times than anyone else in the season. Beyond that I think my game was completely different:

1. The fact that I didn't wait for the times I was immune to make moves, I was ready to make them regardless if i was safe or not, I wasn't hiding behind my immunity wins. I think my biggest move I made in the whole game was when I got Sam/Craig to flip to my side and vote out Taylor, during which I was not immune and I didn't hide behind my idol.

2.Yes, the two people I tried to get to the end with I thought would be easier to win against, BUT they were NOT easy to get there with. It took more effort to make sure I got to the end with the two people I wanted to than if I just worked on getting here myself, and if not for Sergiu's personal issues I 100% believe that I would have accomplished that goal. I put a bigger target on my own back because of the people I aligned with but I was still able to get myself and them (kind of) to the end. I wasn't in a majority alliance that could just coast to the end like I was up against in my first season, I needed to work every tribal to make sure it went the way I wanted.

I found my idol VERY early in the game and again I didn't use it as a way to hide myself behind, I used it as a way to counter act the worst luck I had in the game- the auction. That auction fucked me up like I was Rihaana and it was Chris Brown. But I didn't just take the easy way out and use my idol to make sure I was safe, or even save my idol by ruining the split vote that was trying to get me out and vote Sergiu myself- I kept playing to make sure my allies were safe with me.

So did I play like a past winner to try and be up against people I thought I could beat? Yes. Was I safe a lot during the game? Yes, but I think that is everyone's goal in the game. But it wasn't the immunity that got me to where I was, because my alliance wasn't immune together. Instead I had to play a tough game and use whatever advantage I could get, like immunity, as best as I could to get the results each tribal I needed.