Chris' Questions/Statements

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Chris, please post your Questions/Statements to Sam & Tomas here.

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[Chris]

It's Chris Brown, bitch! <3

Um, anyway, congratulations guys! It's quite an accomplishment to make it to the end of such a wild ride. In true Chris Brown fashion, I'm going to lighten this up a little bit and approach this question a little differently. I've gained more than enough insight into strategic play. The fact of the matter is, no matter what strategic moves you made in this game, it worked (wave to all yo' haters)! The best player doesn't always have to be the most strategic person in a literal sense, but has to have an understanding of who they're playing with and playing accordingly.

Moving into my question: Personality has always been key to my successes and failures in these games. It's an underrated attribute, but is important and can be highly influential to your success/failure in this game.

At any rate, how would you characterize your persona and how do you think it benefited you strategically? How do you feel I perceived you as a person? How did you find a balance between your persona and strategic gameplay? Be honest and creative!



Kthxbai <3

[Tomas]

Hey CB, nice to talk to you again... now to your question:

At any rate, how would you characterize your persona and how do you think it benefited you strategically? How do you feel I perceived you as a person? How did you find a balance between your persona and strategic gameplay? Be honest and creative!

Characterization of my personality -

To describe my personality in real life i have to use word competitive. I'm in sports till my born and I really really enjoy it like i enjoy games. I think that from its i have also another good character sides, like loyality (playing for my people-teamates at ice hockey, ballhockey, everywhere..), like trying to be honest and fair and also being outgoing and open to another people.
As everybody i have also my bad characters sides, which is that i am a lazy little bit, specially after sports when i have to do something and sometimes my head is really heat, and i just BOOM. That's also from sports. Like i cursed at very first times in this game on Brandon because our argumentation lol.

To compare this to the game - i wanna act like here like in real life. Which means:
- my competitive is same (at very first part of the game, later i dont think that my immunity results was good lol, but i still was competitive)
- i was trying to be honest in the game like in real life. Yeah i lied once or two times. Like in real life im not lying to not lie in real life (i hope my GF never get here...lol just kiddin)..
- i was trying to stay loyal to my team
- and i was open to everybody

i know that there are also bad habbits on my behaviour but i hope that you at least for less enjoy having me in this game and you will appreciate my character
Also i am not proud on my english lol

How it benefited me? And how i found ballance between personal and strategic gameplay

I think that most people in this game appreciate being loyal and honesty. Also lot of people talking that people like this are weak, but who is better one that player which is honest and making to the end. I am not talking that i have played unbelievable strategy game, i am not talking that i have played unbelievable honest game, i just tried to be as honest as i can to my people, and i tried to be as good as i can to other ones, which maybe were on a bottom. I really enjoyed it here, and i really enjoyed my tribemates wherever i was. It was fun. Nobody can say that my strategy to be good on people i know, but no like fake Lisa or whoever in Survivor history. I am trying to be strong person, not somebody naive or someone like that. I am trying to be strong one, with strong values and play strong social game but not only blindside everybody. It was really hard time to connect survivor tough strategy to survive and still try to being honest just for a little. I think, yeah i have a little bit luck maybe sometimes, but also i had to do something from my strategy good to make it so far

How do you feel I perceived you as a person?

I don't know clearly Chris. I guess you probably like more Sam, because he was on your side from the start of this game and it's definitely okay. I just hope that you appreciated my honesty when i voted for you and say it to clearly that i'm gonna vote for you. I know that back there, you have to be mad on me that i have no feeling for big twist, but i hope that i convince you (maybe just for a little) that there was some kind of plan in my head and that it worked.


Good luck with your decisions, thanks for your questions

[Sam]

Moving into my question: Personality has always been key to my successes and failures in these games. It's an underrated attribute, but is important and can be highly influential to your success/failure in this game.

At any rate, how would you characterize your persona and how do you think it benefited you strategically? How do you feel I perceived you as a person? How did you find a balance between your persona and strategic gameplay? Be honest and creative!

Hey Chris.

I'm a bit of a strange person. I'm a gay mathematician. My gay friends don't want to talk about math and my math friends don't want to talk about dance music and reality television shows. Now, I spend all my time in optometry school where there is one other out gay person and one other out mathematician haha.

Unfortunately, I didn't have the luxury of being born as part of the majority. I have a really good friend who is a 24-year-old tall white Christian man. We bond because he's as sarcastic as I am and I think he's a really respectful and good-hearted person. He looks after other people and always considers others before himself.

Anyway, he always rags on me for being so weird haha, and that I should close my mouth about reality tv shows and math equations. I take it well because my favorite way to interact with guys in person is for us to make fun of each other lol. I make fun of him all the time. I love it!

But even though I'm a white male American, which is a huge advantage which I recognize, I never have the luxury of being normal. I don't fit in the majority. Growing up I always kept my love of math to myself because the other kids would make fun of me for it if I opened my mouth. And god knows I kept my homosexuality to myself under threat of complete social isolation in southern Texas lol.


But when I was 18 I decided I was going to stop holding my personality in. And when I went back to optometry school I relaxed even more. Now I act as gay as I am - and my friends still like me. I talk about math equations - and my friends still appreciate me. It is an absolutely amazing feeling that I can't really put into words. It just freaking rocks.


Anyway, that is my personality and why I am kind of brash and blunt so often. It's probably why I've been a bit of a know-it-all and arrogant here at Final Tribal Council lol. I just feel like I held every single thing about me back for 18 years, that I don't feel like holding anything back anymore. Sometimes that comes off as tacky, or arrogant. I'm willing to say what I think - and be corrected if I'm wrong.


I just love these Survivor games so much. I don't know what it is about them, but I just feel like it's the ultimate game. The ultimate test. Mental and physical. Social and your power from within. They are just so freaking epic lol.


As to how I used my personality strategically, I feel I played up the dumb, ditzy part of my character lol. Being seen as dumb is usually an advantage in Survivor. I don't know if that worked or not though. I mean.... I am in medical school and I have 10+ years of ORG hosting experience lol. So maybe that dumb thing didn't work, I don't know.

I tried to keep a balance between that and playing Survivor. I mean you can't reveal all your cards in the game. I didn't brag about the games I've hosted before, or design essays I've written. I was hesitant to even bring up that I wanted to host a real-life Big Brother game this winter, as I didn't want people to see me as an experienced threat. So I tried to downplay all that a little.


But at the same time, I was always going to be me. I play these games to have fun ultimately, and if I have to pretend to be someone else the whole time, then I'm not really having any fun am I haha. So I have to take who I am and work with it the best I know how. That's the best I can do!


Thanks a bunch Chris. You are an amazing person with a superstar personality who I loved talking to each and every day. Thank you so much for just talking to me about our lives and reality tv shows and things we both enjoy all the time. You and I both know that sometimes in these games friendships kinda stop after the game is over unfortunately. I am hoping that me and you keep in touch, as often as our busy and fabulous lives allow us! I'll always be here to chit chat about whatever.