Yung - Gera id like to ask you, what was your best move in the game?
Hi Yung. I made small moves throughout that got me to the end, and I do not know which I'd consider my very best. I could say that sticking with the Haiti 5 was a move. Was it flashy? No, but it was effective. We all ended up doing that so it's not my answer, and much of what I did was not visible and I tried to explain it all in my speech. People on every side wanted to work with me, Scott and Curly especially, even though they knew I had the Haiti connections. I was able to successfully convince Curly that I wasn't going to work with Haiti long term, instead I was with him until the end. This bought me time in the game and gave me some insight to the other side which was valuable. I did string Curly along, saying that once the numbers on each side dwindled down, we'd make a big move. It was best for my game that that DIDN'T happen, and it was the biggest lie and most important lie I told in this game. I don't play this game in a flashy fashion, most of my best moves are socially-based and in the end I hope that can be respected.
Jake - "Gera - I think people are vastly underrating your game once again. I know you like to hide in the shows a bit, but I think you're a very good player. My question for you is: I'm assuming you think you played the best game so why should I vote for you (who in your mind believes you played the best game) when last season you voted for (with all respect) the weakest person in final 3 to win? If you disregarded gameplay, why do you think myself and others should vote for you?"
Hey Jake, thanks for the very kind words about my game. Regarding last season's vote, I don't feel like I disregarded gameplay. I consider the relationships that people make with me, and the moves that were made for/against me to be very much part of the game. I absolutely could've voted for you, and perhaps I would've if I knew that jury vote would've been closer, because I also considered you to be a friend. What was different was that I was playing that game (and this game) with Jeremy as my #1 and you had Nick as your #1. He did everything he could to sit with me in last season's final 3 so how could I not at least pay him back?
Jake - "My question for all of you is, in a mythical universe where the auction doesn't happen and the Haiti alliance theoretically prevails and makes it to the final 5, how do you envision the final 5 would have played out? I'm not asking your ideal final 3 or what you wanted to happen, I want to know what you think would have happened."
My goal would've been to get to the final 3 with you and Jeremy. Things could've changed along the way and maybe I'd have tried to take you out for being such a big threat, who knows? What I really think would have happened is that I would've gotten 5th place once again (barring any immunities which we can't speculate on) because you, Nick, and Abel would've teamed up. I think you would've convinced them that I was more of a threat at final 3, and it would've been Haiti all over again for me. This was also why it wasn't the worst thing for my game that you and Nick left when you did. Which goes into the next question...
NotNicky333
Congrats to all of you!! I'm very happy
#HaitiStrong made it to the end. Proving it was the best season!! (And the season I won!!). In this game we sort of acted like a cult. So I want to know what you did outside of Haiti. What makes you *UNIQUE* from your finalists. I won't lie, JB/Gera y'all have some work to get my vote, but it's definitely possible. Good luck and lots of love for all three of you!! :)
Hi Nick, and thank you very much. I see the answers to your question and I'm scratching my head as we're all sort of thinking along the same lines. It seems that we all were good enough players to branch out from the Haiti 5 and make connections with people. I also think I had to change the way I played. But in my experience in this game, it was proven that I DID branch out probably more than the others. Look, we all had people who we were connected to in this game outside Haiti. On Malahat, I was in an established alliance with Curly, Scott, and JJ that was planning to go deep. At the merge, I was in a chat with those 3 plus Yung. Yes, I only voted with them premerge, but they included me because of how willing I was to separate myself from the Haiti alliance. I was the only one of us who came into the game without a Haiti member on my tribe with me, so I really made that part of the game look easy seeing as I actually had to go to tribal a few times. They could've easily saw the threat of Haiti long term and voted me out early, but I was only 1 of 2 from that tribe of 7 not to receive a vote in those first 3 tribal councils. I understand if you didn't want to hear about premerge/preswap stuff but as I'm reading these answers it seems like nobody is actually saying anything unique about their game. My game WAS different and I had a tougher path to get here, albeit slightly, but I did have to maneuver this game without any help from Haiti and I did have to get blood on my hands at the merge which is not usually how I try to play this game.