Kyle Fraser is feeling like one million bucks.
The 31-year-old lawyer solely spoke to The Publish about successful “Survivor 48” and defended his choice to by no means betray his alliance with Joe Hunter — regardless of the 45-year-old fireplace captain being the obvious greatest risk all season.
“I felt like that final tribal council was me owning my game and being like, no, no, no, look at what I did,” Fraser defined. “When I got to the merge I had just played an idol. I was in the majority alliance. I won the challenges. My threat meter was off the roof and I’ve just seen players like Kaleb get popped, like in my archetype. So I don’t wanna do anything.”
“People are telling me like, ‘Hey, we can all go to the end together.’ Yeah, sure. I was really patient and kind of fine until people started telling me, ‘Hey, Joe’s going to run away with this game.’ And I’m like, ‘What the hell? What more do you need from me?’” he continued. “But I’m glad they told me that because I just knew I had to give them one more notch.”
Fraser defined that he deliberately “played both sides” and acted patiently as an alternative of constructing an enormous transfer for the advantage of others.
“I kind have used the analogy of I told everybody, ‘Get in the Trojan horse, come on.’ And then I’m the guy at the gate. I promise I’ll open it for you. But it’ll be tomorrow. And then it’ll be tomorrow, and then I make a move when I need to, but it’s at my discretion. Because I’m not going to let anybody make me the biggest threat out there just because I made a big move to do it. Next thing you know, I’m going home at five because I’m, like, the threat of the season. Absolutely not. I wanted to go with the end and I wanted to plead my case.”
Watching previous seasons of the present influenced how Fraser performed the sport.
“I saw all the New Era seasons. I saw Jesse, I saw Omar, I saw Ricard,” he defined. “I’ve also seen other players who are very threatening. The David Wrights of the world get close to the end, but people want to pop them.”
“And I had a group of people who said, ‘I will go to the end with you.’ And I’m very glad that I had that group of people because I felt the same way,” Fraser added. “And they were just as threatening as I was. But that’s the beauty of it. You have to trust it.”
Moreover, Fraser expects that the gameplay of Season 48 will have an effect on future seasons.
“Maybe this will make people put more stock in alliances,” he informed The Publish. “I think if there’s anything, it’s alliances work. Maybe people will be looking over their shoulder about if there are these secret alliances popping up. I don’t know if that could ever be replicated between Kamilla [Karthigesu] and I. I think that might be the takeaway in a lot of ways.”
