okay, so I guess I will post mine tonight.
hey, guys, how are y'all? I'm just gonna talk about post merge because that's all that matters anyway. I'm also not a real good speech writer, so bare with me. I will answer your questions better :)
I wasn't a huge competition threat, I will state that straight up. However, I made my game up with my social and strategic games. I obviously had my core alliance of Myself/Ronnie/Chris, but I still occasionally talked with almost everyone throughout the game. I was loyal to these three until the end, until Ronnie clearly blindsided myself and Chris. I thought I was done for because it felt like everyone was against me. I decided that no, I'm not going to lay down and die, I'm going to work my ass off to get myself here, and that's what I did. I talked with Ronnie, Adam, and Christian and basically controlled their votes. After 7, they voted how I said. I had the idea to vote almost everyone off.
another thing I worked my ass off on is always keeping a plan for different scenarios down the line. for example, I had a boot list that I made that would get me to the end and potentially help me win. unfortunately, this obviously included some of my alliances. but being voted "easiest to talk to" and being loyal and admittedly a good liar, that went off without a hitch and here I am.
tl;dr: I had everyone's trust and managed to get them voted off when it was time to further myself. I was also a good liar and managed to control just about every vote (minus the rocks) or at least know where the votes are going to lie.
thank you guys for a stressful, but amazing season :)