Board Thread:Season 31 - Retribution/@comment-24207263-20160313233913/@comment-25087748-20160314005625

Bryce, which were some of the best decisions you took during the game?

UHM, I believe all of my decisions were good decisions! But to clarify...

-First was getting Austin to vote out Evan instead of me, since I was going for the perfect game (AND HAD IT UNTIL VACATION.)

-When I 'mutinied' to the other tribe, joining an alliance with Taylor (Because for all of the other vote outs, I wanted him GONE) to take out Sam unanimously. This worked in both of our favors down the road.

-Me deciding to take out TRENT. The youtubers wanted to take out Taylor JUST AS SOON AS I ALIGNED WITH HIM, and I was not going to allow that to happen. I stepped my foot down and told them I wanted Trent gone and to basically start the war between the alliance we had to counter the 15 person alliance in the very first vote.

-For the Yannick vote, working with Nick to get all of that to happen. It was 100% Nicks idea, but we ran it through with each other and agreed to do it together (Nick gets ALL credit, but just going with it was a good decision.) Good because Yannick was close to the people in the middle, and I knew later on down the road, I would want to try and get these people to work with me and not him. I knew Yannick wasn't going to take me to the end, so I saw Nicks plan as the PERFECT opportunity.

-Ensuring that the Dani vote stuck. Youtube all agreed that Dani was to be voted out (not sure who started it, but I think I was one of the main ones who got it going) but Nick wanted to get Jordan out instead. We had A LOT of back and forth because Nick was so dead set that Dani had to stay when the other three of us wanted her out. It definitely made me very suspicious of NIck and why he wanted her to stay so bad. It took a VERY BAD conversation between the two of us for me to convince him Dani had to go, but I got what I wanted since it was best for my game. During this time, I also told Evan and Ethan about Nick coming up with the entire plan to vote out Yannick, which gained more trust to do the next move...

-GETTING NICK OUT. Nick was the person who I trusted most in the game from the very start, but after all of the plans Nick was coming up with, I felt like if I went with ANYMORE plans with him, I would have been seen as his goat. He was a true mastermind this season, and came up with the brilliant plan for Yannick, and was getting ready to do the same with Ethan in the same vote. The reason I ended up going for Nick instead of Ethan was because I heard from Ethan that Nick was telling Evan that I was the sole reason the Yannick vote went down. He threw me under the bus even more, and I saw this as him getting ready to take Evan further than me. I made the move with that information AND to get away from the stigma I was following Nick.

-Getting Ethan out was also a BIG MOVE. I had just gained Ethans trust 100%, I swayed him to use his idol during the Nick vote (even though he was more so offering), and I knew later on down the road if I didn't get him out NOW, my chances to do so later on would be VERY limited. Ethan would of had Grace, Evan, and Boo on his side for people I could NOT have campaigned to get him out. He had more allies than me at the time, so I took this chance to get at him now rather than later.

-My 'fight' with Grace. That fight was actually going to be VERY LIT AND BAD, but luckily me and Grace made up and came together to realize we needed to go after Evan. Yes, it ended up looking like a VERY BAD FAIL on my part, but that's only because halfway through it I stopped and talked to Grace in my private messages. We were both about to start getting very dirty towards each other, SHE EVEN GAVE ME HER SPEECH SHE WROTE ON POSTCARDS FOR IT, but we joined together, so this was a huge moment that came from me wanting to take her down.

-Getting Jordan out. I was on call with Grace for over 3 hours, and between this call, me and Grace were comparing notes on what EVERYONE was telling us. Jordan, Scott, Taylor, and myself were in a chat and we agreed to take GRACE out while Jordan, Scott, Evan, Boo, and Grace were also in another chat that Jordan made, and they agreed on Lucas going, but then Jordan came on it and said 'Maybe we should go for Bryce.' We read all of our conversations, even another 5 person alliance chat with Evan, Michelle, Lucas, Taylor, and myself that Jordan was saying other names there. He got caught with working between the groups of people, and it was me and Grace who figured it all out, and eventually got EVERYONE to turn on him and Scott. We went from hating each other to creating a huge ass plan to turn everything around, it was GREAT.

-Getting MICHELLE out. During the rope cutting challenge, Michelle had told Chris to chop all three of my ropes and make sure I was out of the challenge. Chris chopped my first rope, and I immediately went to him and asked why. Finding this information out, and being shocked because we were in a five person alliance together, I immediately knew she was going for me sooner rather than later. Everyone was on board to get Evan out, even Michelle, but I wanted to use Evan for two more rounds before I would go after him so I told Evan the plan and told him to use his idol. If it wasn't for me, Evan wouldn't have played his idol, so I did get him to waste it :). Well, I told everyone else that Evan was using his idol because of how everyone was acting, so we needed to come up with another plan. I wanted Michelle out, Grace and Boo wanted her out aswell, but the problem was Taylor. I knew he wanted Evan out REALLY BAD, and I know he thought me and Evan were really close together, but I did NOT expect Taylor to vote against me in this vote, simply because Taylor had done everything I told him too so far. Once the vote was revealed, and it was a tie, I had to do damage control to make sure that Michelle went and not Boo. So, I called Taylor out to ensure that Evan voted WITH ME on this vote, and got on call and explained everything. I had just wasted his idol, then managed to get him to vote with me after a long call. The vote ended up being 5-1 with EVERYONE besides Taylor on this vote.

All of the decisions I made in this game were to benefit me and make sure I made it to the FTC with a perfect game record, but this was ALL RUINED because of vacation, thank you and goodnight.