Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20160922075848/@comment-2142533-20161213094554

I think Bret is deliberately playing a UTR game. He IS playing because he had to lie about being a cop to not a paint a target on him, which is really his main strategy. He seems to be tanking challenges (observe the individual Immunity Challenges -- when someone he's closely allied with or the targets have lost, he typically somehow loses less than a minute after them) but seem to know when to go to the next level, in particular when he did well in the IC when Will got voted out (but of course Jay was just too good).

Of course the problem for him is removing the perception of being a plain follower. He has seen to be part of the decision making in strategies, but it seems he let the "alphas" too much power on their say. Like, I would've thought Sunday and Bret would've persuaded Zeke to vote out Ken instead, who is a challenge threat, rather than say yes to Hannah and paint Zeke as the mastermind. Maybe Hannah was like Will, and was volatile to keep?

But overall he's somehow wormed his way to a lot of alliances (Jay's, then Chris', then Zeke's). I think the only big error he made was voting out Will, where again he should've probably steered the ship a bit, and put stock on Adam's words a bit too much on voting out David on F7 -- he probably should've forced Adam's hand there and make him vote out David. They try to flush out Jay's idol next, and maybe split against Will at F7.

He's kinda playing practically an "as long as it's not me" with the role of being an assistant to the "leaders" of alliances, to show he knows strategy. He has to show some control of his game though (and I think he sort of exhibited some by making a deal with Adam to vote out Will then David) because I agree that I think just playing UTR game won't be enough for this jury. That being said, he possibly has Chris, Sunday, maybe Zeke (if no Jay or David), Jay and Will's votes so he's far from being a no-vote getter against Hannah or Ken IMO.