Hey Nick! Thanks for your question.
Liken each of the jurors to a Survivor player, and state why.
Alex- I am going to give you Chelsea Townsend because I didn't get to see much of you in the game based on us never going to tribal/being on the same tribe as each other but I was told that you were running some stuff.
Sag- I am going to give you Whitney Duncan (for basically the same reason as Alex) but also because you solely went home to somebody flipping on the original rats. You were loyal to it and so was Whitney in South Pacific.
Keaton- I am going to pull out Chris Noble for you. This is somewhat because of the rivalry with you and James are partly because you did have your group of people that you were working with but it just didn't work out in the end.
James- I'm going to give you Tyson Apostol but just him in WaW. This is because of the EoE return on top of being fucked over by an idol play. (granted it was incorrectly played but still)
Ami- For Ami I am going to pick Laura Boneham to have a callback to a comment made in the final 6 chat about how Ami was playing the game before her boot episode.
Natalie- I'm going to give you Heroes vs. Villains Sandra Diaz-Twine. This is because you were confrontational when you needed to be and Sandra was on the bottom of the tribe for a long time but kept slipping by.
Nick- I'm going to give you miss Desi Williams. I am picking her solely due to the fact that she came in 6th in your BrantSteele that I helped you cast. If I picked another play for a different reason I would give you like a Janet Carbin type. Nobody could really say a bad word about you and even when you were on the bottom you were optimistic and from what I could tell, really enjoyed every minute you were in the game.
Kevin- I will say that you are John Cochran from South Pacific. (DONT HATE ME I KNOW IT DOESNT SEEM FLATTERING) But when I think of somebody flipping from their side to a whole other side, I think of Cochran. The flip is the sole reason that I am saying this.
Chris- I'm going to give you Christina Cha. A winner in everybody's eyes and a martyr. </3
Some might say that Liv made flashier moves in this game and had a better read of the game. Why should I vote for you to win?
I think that in this game I was very much like a bridge. I was the bridge between different people and that is the reason that I got as far as I did and them too. With Liv, nobody worked with me solely because I was working with Liv. But I think that it's the opposite in some cases with me. Let me run you through some examples:
Liv saved Caleb from going home when we were split up at the second swap solely due to the fact that I was aligned with Caleb.
At top 9 Kevin was saying that Liv was the biggest target but I was able to put a group together, including Liv, that he would work with to flip this game on it's head.
I do think that top 9 is a great example of how I played this game. I was able to get somebody who I was not working with to flip to me because we kept a nice relationship even though we were on opposite sides.
And to bring up the point about a good read on the game, I would like to also mention that I had a pretty damn decent read on the game. I was not naive about what may happen but for the most part, I was the one who had a lot, if not all of the information about almost every vote. At the final 10 when the vote came out 8-2, I was the one to sniff out that something was happening when the vote came out that way. I went to Kevin and I told him (along with Chris & Caleb, later Liv) that I feel it in my gut that there is a group of four that is forming. Kevin would later confirm this to me when he told me about being added to a group of five with JB, Natalie, Tyler, and Nick. At that point, I had Caleb and Chris on the vote as well as Kevin (who had been working with JB & Natalie prior) I knew exactly what needed to be said to Liv in order to get her to flip and I made it happen. If my gut and my read on the game was not correct, I would not be sitting here, Caleb would not be sitting here, and Liv would not be sitting here. Me putting together that move confirmed all of us having a shot at being here. If it were not for me putting it together, the game was done for all of us because we would've been taken out one by one.
I was the bridge between these relationships with Liv and other people. I don't believe that any of my relationships were boosted because of her working with others, I did that myself.
I would also like to point out that in touchy subjects, I tied with Liv for who was going to win the game. The difference here is that even though I was voted for that, nobody targeted me. I was able to sit there and navigate my way around socially and strategically to where I was not the biggest target going forward even though I was voted who would win this game. I did not receive a single vote until final four where it only fell on me because I talked with Chris and we agreed that we are both okay with the outcome and if he didn't vote me. I'm sitting in the final 3 with zero votes against me.
I do think that I played the stronger game, it may not had been so loud, but it was stronger in the sense that nobody targetted me even though I was basically locked for final tribal at one point due to my relationships with everybody left in the game. I went from almost 20th place to having my seat in the end locked because I was close to everybody left and I knew that nobody would target me even though I was one of their biggest social, physical, and strategic threats left in the game.
I hope that this shed some more light into my game and feel free to ask more questions if you want to know more. Thanks for your question again.