Jimmy: you鈥檝e stated several times that you wanted to get Tim out of the game because he was a threat. You said you were waiting until the end of the game to do it, you were waiting specifically until he was on jury I guess. Despite this, Tim is still sitting in the final three. I know for a fact that you鈥檝e had ample opportunity to pull the trigger. Yet the gun is still sitting on the table in front of your fully loaded and stone cold. Instead it seems you completely content voting out whoever TIM needed you to. So, I guess my question is, what benefit did letting the single person in this game who had any chance at beating you in the final vote get so far, let alone the final 3?
Due to the information I had, I was one of the few who actually knew when the right times to take Tim out would be. Tim was ready with advantages to play them at opportune times and I knew what the outcomes would be for those who tried. I chose to stay in a majority alliance through much of the game, allowing me to focus my deception on people outside of it. It was an alliance i was a founding member of, and as it was advantageous to me, I did not want to break it up.
The best times for me to have turned on Tim was at F6 and F3.
At F6, I hate to lay blame, but for my plan to work, I needed Oliver to communicate with me. Unfortunately, he ghosted me at the exact time I needed him most. He did not believe me that I was more aligned with him than Tim in our core alliance, and decided to make moves without me. Had I played my steal on anyone but what Tim expected me to, his idol would be played. Wenders vote would not be counted and koko and my vote alone would not have carried the vote. People chose to fear my relationship with Tim at a critical juncture of the game and they paid the price. At F5, had Tim not won immunity, he would have been safe via idol. At F4, he would have beaten wender in a fire making challenge.
I had planned for a good long time to beat Tim at F3 and not take him to the end, and I was wholly convinced it would be a F2 after so many back-to-back F3s.
Unlike many of the people on the Jury, I was not going to vote for Tim until I was sure of the numbers.