First of all jury, I'd like to say that although I won't suck up to you and talk about how you were all strategic and physical behemoths, I beleive that this season was really fun for me because almost all of you were interesting people, who had different perspectives and strategies in this game. For that reason I'd like to offer anyone who wants it a spot in my next survivor group game in July.
Now to the actual speech. I personally believe that I earned the title of sole survivor through a solid physical, strategic, and social gameplay. Physically, I played probably the best game I ever have. BHD can attest to the fact that I was seriously lacking physically and socially in the season I played with him, which I tried to fix this time around. Through sheer effort I managed to win individual immunities and become a major player in tribal challenges this season, a major improvement over my typical game. I gave my all in challenges, even giving up a jury vote and my avatar designs in order to further myself and my allies in the game.
My social game this season I believe was my main asset. I set out to purposefully be a more social and likable player than I often do. I avoided conflict over voting and challenge dispute while other put themselves on the chopping block for radical, passionate actions. Because of my social game and attempts to speak with and work with players from both tribes, Allan came to me when he was considering making his gamechanging move, and I was able to engineer an alliance between him and my own tribe.
Strategically I also believe I made game changing moves to solidify my position and my opportunities to make it to the end. In the premerge, I found my self in a 3-2 minority within my 5 person alliance, with Nick as the sixth member of the tribe outside of our alliance. In order to improve my prospects, I brought Nickbrad, myself, and NJdevil together in order to make a powerplay. In the end, I flipped a member of the 3 person majority to take control of my own fate. Throughout the game I continued to align myself with strong player and make moves behind the scenes to ensure that players I waned gone went home, culminating in my position before you.
I will attempt to answer all of your questions truthfully and completely and I hope that you all agree that my game was deserving of the title Sole Survivor.