by Jeff » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:10:10 pm
The difficult thing here for me is to separate my perception which is that I am the favorite to win this game from the perception of the jury.
Putting myself in their seats and trying to put myself in their minds.
Stacey saw herself get voted out in a, what, 8-4 vote? She knows or thinks that the Rai tribe voted with her which was correct and she was friends with Kimmi.
Ramona was angry at me for flipping and then consequently went home. She knows Debb and I flipped from her alliance into the Kirati alliance and she went down without much of a fight. Hayden and Rich piled on with her and let there be a unanimous vote. Ramona voted for Hayden despite feeling betrayed by me.
I needed Ramona to go because it took enough away from the Rai-alliance so that when we went after the Kirati alliance and got rid of all of them, there were few enough of them to waltz past them, them being Hayden and Rich. I needed her to go home for my game and she made it incredibly easy for me by blowing up at me and trying to get me out - which she hit a brick wall.
Hayden went home because I thought I had the troops to make the swing at the Kirati alliance. As it turns out, I didn't have the numbers I thought I did because Tina didn't flip with us and Rich flipped back. That is the only vote in which I didn't know where all of the votes were going (except Ramona but hers was one vote so it didn't really matter).
I immediately was like "omg I'm so sorry guys pls forgive" and they forgave me apparently because they didn't even come after me or Debb for flipping from their alliance back to the Rai alliance. They went after Kimmi instead, while we went after Denise. Denise apparently grabbed Rich and got him to flip which is an easy thing to do, he is even easier to flip than me which is saying something. She thought she was running things a bit and she decided to try and lie to me about what was going on, especially because I was acting like I was going to go home (despite having an idol). She went home.
Chris of course flipped over to our tribe which didn't really have anything to do with me but rather Tina, but I do think that I really clinched Tina pre-merge that she was waiting for me post-merge and reeled her back in while she was floating around in space waiting for an alliance. Once he did, it pretty much clinched the end of the Kirati alliance.
At this point I made an alliance with Angie and wanted to work with her and much preferred Richard go home. He was a shady little fuck and we both burned the ties against each other yet tried to fake that we are still good. I voted out Stacey and Ramona and he flipped to vote out Kimmi but continued to lie to me about that, and he was generally slimy (like me) and that made him more of a threat than someone like Angie. I wasn't expecting Tina to vote for him as well but I am damn well pleased she did because it sent him home. If she had said she was going to do it, I probably would've done it anyway because I wanted Rich to go.
That brings us to tonight, where Angie went home. I didn't trust her enough to leave her in the game any longer and while it was a tough decision because I liked her personally, it was pretty easy for me strategically. Not to mention that she was a bullet in Tina's gun trying to turn against Kimmi who has a F3 deal with me so I couldn't let that happen because it hampers my chances of making it to the finals.
