Board Thread:Season 56 - Mongolia/@comment-28512126-20191228160025/@comment-25005834-20191229083031

Bradley!!! Really miss you, pal. Apologies for the late response, long, busy day and then long answers to many questions. But aww, thank you so much for your insight, thank you for rooting for me, and thank you for the very interesting question! Let’s get to it.

What did I do differently from Bradley while he was in the game?

Note that I’m not referring to you as “you” in my answer, but as Bradley because I am also speaking to everyone on the jury as you asked me to :) Okay, I admit, Bradley and I did a lot of things together, but they are the things that you do in a strong alliance to stick together, such as voting together, talking to the same people in the tribe and then coming back with the information for the info to be compared and the vote to be discussed, looking for idols together, etc. There’s no doubt many people in this game have done the same. However, there are many other things I did in this game that Bradley didn’t do, or didn’t even know about, while he was still in the game.

I hid myself as a physical threat which Bradley was not able to do. I got 826 compared to Bradley’s 428, but I ended up choosing not to become the highest score for that challenge. And in the merge, I didn’t win the first two individual Immunity Challenges, but Bradley did, lifting Bradley up as a physical threat and factoring into his vote-out. I should mention I did win Individual Immunity but I was never mainly targeted because of it – I stayed under-the-radar enough. But my main actions that you didn’t do were in the social aspect, where, for example, I secretly told Logan and Carlo about the OPPE alliance to make it easier for me to work with them in the future, before the votes occurred. And then at F10, while you still weren’t voted out of the game, I talked with Logan to find out you were the vote, and I actively stuck with Logan and talked to others so I already had allies I could work with before votes could even be announced. Keeping my options open. Preparing for any loss. Moving forward despite any adversity. Not taking the credit for most early votes and moves. That is essentially what I did that Bradley did not do.

I am completely aware that I appeared that I was in Bradley’s control. But the key word here is “appeared”. But as I have said, I wasn’t being controlled by Bradley. I was controlling myself.

I also want to add how these things I did that Bradley didn’t were a strategic benefit to me, and how.

While the appearance of being controlled may have continued in the game with Logan, being in control of my own game like when Bradley was still in the game persisted. At F7, I voted Logan to purposely flush his idol, getting Evan and Ty to trust me while also allowing myself to work with Logan and Carlo for the next Tribal, similar to how I made myself open to OG Tarvaga and OG Sarlag while Bradley was in the game. And this appearance of being controlled allowed me to make the move and play both sides at the Ty vote, being the biggest impactor at that moment, without subsequently being targeted, despite a powerful move that I have with me. That’s not being a goat.

So what I did that Bradley didn’t do, was a strategy that carried on to help me in the game, and it enabled me to get myself in this spot at the end right now, without needing any idols. Because I’m here with a move and Bradley is not, I think doing what Bradley didn’t do was ultimately the better approach, and I utilised it.

Alright Bradley! I hope that made sense and it was, at least, the “little more” that you needed, that it was enough for you <3 If not and/or you did the things that I said you didn’t, then that’s unfortunate, but that’s okay. Really looking forward to catching up with you again soon, man!