Meh, I still kinda think it was an accident.
I can tell you that he never influenced me, in fact I might be the person with the smallest personal connection out of everybody here, considering how long I played with him. Sooo his "insanely good social game" is lost on me, and I never truly worked with him besides the Mike and Alec votes, and he wanted Gabby gone both at F7 and F6 before changing his mind, so where's that amazing social game for him to get his way?