<@576945955530735617> I think the strength in my game didn't come from convincing people to not vote for me, but rather in the fact that up until F5, I didn't need to convince people to keep me safe, I just needed to know that they wanted to vote for me to play around them. For both F10 and F7, I didn't convince people to not vote for me and Katie, I played around them by thinking that one extra step ahead.
In F10, while Virgo might have had an incentive to simplify the vote (he told me he was not very active at the time), Faye had no such incentive. Why flip to a minority when you can take out or weaken one of the biggest threats in the game? No matter how you cut it up, Faye, and by extension Virgo, would have to weaken the Katie/xSoul duo eventually, and the longer we stayed, the more momentum we would gain, and we exploited that by flipping onto Faye, someone who would not have an idol, who no one would play an idol on, and who no one would suspect was the vote.
In F7, I was fed exact information on how the vote was supposed to be Mike, Corny, and Mateo on me, Lezaria and you on Katie. You were a direct victim of Mateo's flip on Syn, and I heard murmurs of others calling Mateo unreliable. Knowing that this was the perception, it wasn't a massive leap in logic to say that either you or Lezaria would flip onto me as insurance, either out of your own accord, or from Mike trying to make a move for himself again. However, this would have left Katie vulnerable in a 3-3-1 tie had you used your idol (which that was insane, kudos to holding it, I was expecting the play), so to override the 1 vote being the decider, we flipped it onto Corny, who at that point had said he wanted nothing to do with us from F7 forward, and nobody would have expected it.
It's only in F5 where my strategy was to let Mike and Lezaria talk. Katie and I had been proclaiming about how I would be most likely bittered at the end for a while as I explained in the video, and out of their three options, I looked like the most attractive one due to my "low" win equity and potential to beat you at the challenge in F4. At this point, I didn't even need to convince anyone to keep me in, since I was certain that even in the event of a revote, the vote would go onto Katie.
I didn't need to convince people to keep me safe, they kept me safe without knowing it, either by falling into obvious plays, or by misdirection of my threat level.
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