Tyson

[Tyson]

Hello and congrats to you three,

No fancy pictures or long rants about how betrayed I felt by each of you. I feel pretty unbiased coming into this. All of you guys and I had decent relationships, though I will say I did appreciate you telling me I was leaving Fabs, though it may have hurt you in the game. 

I think based on my fellow jurors questions I should have enough information so I won't ask you questions upon questions but I do have one I am curious about...


This game requires a lot of skill, but it also requires a fair bit of luck. However sometimes you get lucky but fail to take advantage of it, and end up getting voted out because of that. Give me one moment that you got some luck and how you took advantage of it.



Thank you guys, good luck to you and the rest of the jury with their decision and thanks again for the game Jeffrey.

[Fabio]

This game requires a lot of skill, but it also requires a fair bit of luck. However sometimes you get lucky but fail to take advantage of it, and end up getting voted out because of that. Give me one moment that you got some luck and how you took advantage of it.


I think the only example of true luck I can think of is the auction. Brandon and I both got decent rewards from the auction -- an idol and a double vote. However, I managed to take advantage of it by suggesting that we say we got each other's items. Ultimately, this prevented me from being the target of the four's votes, and if Brandon had kept his idol, would have kept us both in the game for another round.

Besides that though, I think I had to work through almost every round, and no opportunities of pure luck showed up in my lap. Everything I did, from convincing people that someone else should be the target in a round, to winning the ICs I won to keep he here, was done purely on my own and without luck.

Thanks Tyson!

[RC]

This game requires a lot of skill, but it also requires a fair bit of luck. However sometimes you get lucky but fail to take advantage of it, and end up getting voted out because of that. Give me one moment that you got some luck and how you took advantage of it.



Hey Tyson, I agree with what you said and will share with you what I personally feel was my luckiest moment in this game. As you may have heard I was in an alliance with Reynold/Sierra/PG called the COVEN. When we were split up tribes we were put into a very shitty situation. Being low on numbers is never good...EVER...this is ultimately a game about numbers. Well my luck happened when Sonja talked to me about how Joe and Lindsey ran you guys Original tribe (BTW Sonja said that you and Andrea were amazing and deserved Temple every single time) But yes Sonja coming to me was super lucky, because if your original tribe was tight it would have be PG/Brandon/and I on the chopping  block. Not only that but Marty and Andrea were also super open with working with us. That was probably my luckiest moment in this game. 

Thanks Tyson. 

[Peih-Gee]

Hey Tyson!

I agree that everyone requires a bit of luck to make it here to the end. I think that can be said for all of RC, Fabio and myself! Yeah, we can argue about all the things we did and why we should win because of that. But there are many sitting on the jury who played well too, maybe just didn't have as much luck as us. I can definitely acknowledge that and admit that it it helped me reach this point. If I were to pinpoint a moment, I'd say the tribe swap.

I've talked about this a few times in this Final Tribal Council, but the initial Wuyi dynamics were Fabio/Brandon/Corinne and RC/Reynold/Sierra, with me in the middle, playing both sides and filtering every bit of information I could get from both alliances, trying to get Todd into whichever group I ultimately decided to go with. Well, because of the swap, I never had to blatantly make it obvious which side I was on, which I would've been forced to if we had to go to another tribal council after Corinne quit.

I used that to my advantage by making all of Fabio, Brandon, RC, Reynold, Todd and Sierra thinking I was in a close alliance with them by the time the merge hit, and I don't think they doubted me for a moment. I was able to get a lot of information out of them which helped me successfully plan my road ahead, be in the know of every vote, where the loyalties were and what peoples plans were. Had we not swapped and I had to pick a side, I might've had a target earlier in the merge, rather than at the final five or so when I was recognised as an end game threat.

Also, the swap allowed me to connect with the likes of Andrea/Marty, who were willing to hear me out, give me a chance and strategise with me, despite the fact that my original tribe were outnumbered 5-3! The tension between Sonja/Joe carried from your tribe to ours, but I took advantage of that by being very social and working to expose those cracks and pit the two sides against each other, agreeing with Joe/Chris to vote out Sonja, but then telling Sonja that plan and rallying the votes against Joe with the help of Andrea/Marty and setting myself up in a perfect position, both on swapped Huaiyu and through to the merge, where I had a plethora of numbers and alliances working in my favor.

Thank you! <3