I for one am not a massive fan of long jury speeches, so I’ll try keep this short yet get across important facts.
So coming into the game I knew very few people. This instantly told me I’d have to strongly rely on my social game.
ORIGINAL TRIBES:
Not long into the game, I formed an alliance with Hufus and Raul. We voted Nicole who was at some days intact, made logical sense! Then boom boom, we won next immunities up until the swap, sitting pretty.
SWAP TRIBE:
Here was the swap. Literally most our tribe were still together. My trio of Hufus, Raul and myself still intact. We lost. Jasoi may have been confused, but made for a simple vote. Badda bing badda bo.
MERGE:
Then merge arrived! Nick joined our trio which allowed us to have a solid 4. At the auction I got a vote steal, and ultimately the entire merged tribe agreed on the vote, and November left.
JURY STARTS:
This is where I feel my game really got into action.
Second merge round: I had just been in a game with GP where she voted me off, and I was concerned she’d do it again. I’d heard Natalie and Nick’s names, but they were both allies. We thought it was going to be like 4-4-1, but I was firm in saying if I played my advantage I wanted it on GP. My alliance agreed, though ultimately it wasn’t necessary, but I got my personal target out.
I can admit to my faults, and I do think playing my advantage that round is one of my only regrets this game.
Third merge round: I got immunity! I discussed with Hufus first, as we were at immunity, and we agreed on doing Honey. We then took it to our core 4 where they agreed. Relatively simple!
Fourth merge round: Ok yeah this was a mess. Complete mess. I was told Natalie was getting votes, told her to play the idol, then she only got 1 (no idol play), a total mess. Max was someone I considered a decent ally, and therefore I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome of this vote.
Fifth merge round: My second immunity win!! Ok so I said to Natalie I’d get votes on her, told my core 4, then immediately she told Raul I said he was voting her. Unsure if she had an idol, I then came up with the plan to split 2-2. We did so, 2-2-1-1 revote between Natalie and Victoria, to avoid risk of idol we sent Natalie out! Tho rocks was being considered lmfao.
Sixth merge round: Ok top 5 was our core 4 bar Victoria, relatively simple vote. However, it was a tragic thing was me receiving my first vote of the game :)) partially due to me not saying a vote to her, but I saw no benefit in lying when she suggested Raul, as that’d be unfair and unnecessary.
Seventh merge round: Hufus and I had a cute F2 we made to counter Raul and Nick’s kinda obv one ahaha. Voted together, but unfortunately my king lost the tiebreaker. Grats to Raul though.
Eighth merge round: Ok my main fear was now here. That it would Raul, Nick and I in F3, and I KNEW Raul would win immunity, as it was non live, in this scenario, which was another reason I tried to give him fourth. I sent a small campaign to him, and, well, evidently it worked!
I think I played a strong game overall. I helped my tribe win immunities, and then went on to winning a couple individual immunities myself.
My strategic game was there, I tried positioning myself so I was gonna be someone everyone wanted to work with, and felt like they needed. I tried thinking for future what I needed, whilst not thinking too far ahead and actually considering that round.
And my social game was certainly there, which was partially represented due to the fact I received just one vote all game
Enjoyed the game, thanks to Jacob for hosting! Icing on the cake would be if you guys, the jury, could reward me for my hard effort put in, and give me my first survivor group game win! :)
Ask any questions, please :) gg guys!