OMG, I am SHAKING IRL RN O M G, my arms, my head, I'M LITERALLY SHAKING.MY ARMS ARE WEAK RN AHHH. I felt sick whenever Link said, 17th person voted off and 7th member of the jury.. omg I've never felt that way. I have been through so much in this game to get where I am, and to actually make it... unbelievable. I am so PROUD of the game I've played and to see it make me to finals.. unbelievable. I have done SO MUCH in this game.. I'm shocked..
I'm still shaking as I type this.. but I wanna tell you my whole game.
Day 1, I joined the Egil Tribe wearing blue, I instantly clicked with my members and had a great run in challenges.
Then the swap, wearing red I joined the Njal Tribe, and again showed my teamwork and dominance in challenges.
In the pre-merge game, I was the only contestant to never go to tribal council.
I used Exile Island to my advantage and almost EVERY TIME I went, avoiding tribal councils strategically as well as being the giver for idol clues.
It wasn't until the SECOND merge tribal council, that I went to my first tribal, and by then, the game REALLY started.
The first tribal council I attended, the game changed. The girls alliance wanted Drew to be voted off. How did I know? Screenshots from one of their members! (giggle) I knew that couldn't happen. As I gathered numbers, as well as forming "The Boys Alliance", Tirstin went home instead.
When the unmerged happened, my numbers were there and kept me safe, eliminating Drew on my own terms~
When Egil went back to tribal, Tris was my next target, because he seemed to be playing a great solo game, strong, and straight-forward, and I like that. I knew that tribal, he was my biggest threat. After that, the tribe was Jarl again.
This is when my game started to truly blossom. I considered Brittany my biggest threat since the beginning, I see her as the leader of the Girl's Alliance, and I knew she had an amazing ability to get votes her way. I knew that I had to blindside her. After I suggested the vote, people voted my way and my biggest competition went home. The only thing I regret is not straight-up telling Brittany, I respect her so much, and I should've had the balls to tell her I was voting her out, I pray you can respect my move and know where I'm coming from~
When it became the final seven, it seemed alot of people started to become inactive, but not I. I had my head 100% in this game, and even got an immunity for being the only one to show up! At this point, I knew I had to start voting out inactives.
When Thaddeus was voted off, he was on 5 days ago. I love him and his personality really shined, unfortunately, inactivity got the best of him. Madison, I wanted her as my final three originally, but she was on 4 days ago when I voted her off, inactivity got the best of her. <3
Mike was under the radar. I wanted to stick with the final four I made of Me, Grace, Mark, and Drew, and Mike was gone. UTR KING!
Final 4... was tough. This is the challenge I won immunity when no one else showed up.. I think that says how much I want to win. In the final five, I formed a final 3 alliance with me, Grace, and Jake, because I knew Mark would be my biggest threat to win, him being 1 minute late was truly tragic, but I had to keep my strong mind together, and vote out the biggest threat to win this game~
Final 3.. It was crazy. Me, Grace, and Jake. I wanted it so bad and you can see by how close I was how much heart I had to win the final immunity challenge. Regardless... my social was so great with the both of them... I had a great feeling I would make finals. Grace was an amazing player, my ride or die, the double agents, and was so close on making finals. One day, you will make the finals, I know it~
Me gaining a relationship with Jake while he said others weren't even talking to him regularly, and strategically giving him the clue to an idol to gain his trust, that he MISPLAYED... were factors and choices I made that ultimately got me to where I am today.
I would say this was a vacation, but it wasn't. I had to work so hard to put myself in the position of #1. In my opinion, I played an AMAZING social game, played a great physical game, winning challenges for my tribe and won multiple individual immunities at merge. My strategic game was 100% everyday, was always on my mind, even when I was not online! I feel proud saying I played the hardest, and that I think I deserve to win.
Please let me have the opportunity to have my first Survivor group game win, let this be the game that I get my first.
Thank you to Link for hosting a great season! Thank you to everyone who played, this truly was a great experience.
Thank you.