Hello Jury!
Coming into any game, I have a huge target on my back. I have been on Tengaged for over 10 years, I have played tons of group games and I’m not always known for the positive things. It’s difficult me to enter any game because I have to play the second the game begins. A lot of people have the luxury of sitting back and waiting for the game to come to them, I don’t have that luxury.
Immediately, I see 5 people in this game who don’t like me on Day 1. Ben P, Woah, Sam, RickDev, and Alex all do not like me and are pretty vocal about. (Rick and I are okay, but his friends despise me) Michael I had just played recently with and we weren’t on the same side, Andrew I just screwed over like last week. It’s safe to say that I did have too many good relationships. Nicky was the only person I feel like I came in who I had a really good relationship with. Nicky and I are friends and I was always open about that and used it as an advantage rather than a disadvantage. Jimmy I also have known for a while, but we are up and down so I didn’t know where we would be at coming into this game.
On my tribe, we won a lot, but I was still talking to people. I made early relationships with Jeremy (who I have had issues with in the past), Gera, and Tim. Tim was so hard because he was always causing chaos, but I knew I wanted to keep him around because though he wasn’t the greatest player ever, he would always put a target on his back.
The tribes swapped and immediately I said Rick has to go. At this point Ben was still in the game and I anticipated him being a big player and Ben/Rick were an obvious duo who would target me. We easily took out Rick and lucky for me, Ben gets idoled out the next round.
We got to the merge and this is where my relationship with Nicky and Jimmy really helped. The OG Faustin Tribe and The OG Jacques Tribe came together and we easily could pick off our targets, but this alliance was bound to crumble soon and it did. I knew no matter what I would be okay. I had a F4 Alliance with Nicky/Jimmy/Cam and I had a F3 with Jeremy/Gera, I also had Tim who I was always in communications with.
I think one of my biggest strengths is getting people to really trust me. Tim and Nicky were making a big move against Jeremy and I basically allowed them to be my mouthpieces while I was the brains. They kept getting information and giving it back to me. I was surprised by the amount of information people were giving me when they knew I didn’t want to vote Jeremy. I knew Michael didn’t trust because he told me to my face so Michael had to go. Jeremy wanted to vote Tim, but Tim was important for my game because he was big target. If we didn’t take out Michael now, he could slide by. Michael made the biggest mistake by telling me to my face he didn’t trust me. Anyone in this game who thought about taking me out, got taken out. Michael was the first victim.
The next round was the double tribal, which was very pivotal for my game. I knew that Rubes wanted Sam and he was sending me people hoping I would send Sam to his tribe, but that just wasn’t going to happen. Sam and I do not get along, but the conversation I had with him in this game was very genuine and I do think he’s a kind person. However, we just weren’t going to be on the same sides. I made sure Sam was on my tribe so I could take him out and it went exactly as planned and we purpose didn’t talk to Cam much in hopes he would waste his idol. Unfortunately I lost Jimmy, but I managed to be just fine.
Rubes was someone who I was weary about. I know he was the one doing a lot of talking and trying to rally votes and I told that to Jeremy/Gera, but the main reason I wanted Rubes out was because I knew Rubes was going to take a shot at me when he could. Rubes was telling people he thought I had the idol (which I did) and Nicky let me know that Rubes was saying that. Rubes was just someone who was going to pick everyone else over me. Gera used both of his idols and instead of Gera picking who went home, it was me who chose to vote Rubes.
Next was my boy Timmy. I like Tim a lot, but he’s not stupid. He’s crazy, but not stupid. He was trying to rally the votes against me and pretty much everyone told me. So I said okay let’s vote Tim and it was as simple as that, Nick/Jeremy/Gera all voted Tim with me.
At this point, I’m in an amazing position. I have my alliance of Jeremy/Gera, I have my final 2 with Nick, and I have a relationship with Cam even though I knew he voted me out. The only person I didn’t have a relationship with was Abel so Abel had to go. I pitched that Abel had a lot of jury votes (which he did), but I do think at this tribal Nick should have targeted Gera and Gera should have targeted Nick. Luckily, everyone said okay and Abel was out.
Finale night was hard for me because I genuinely love Gera and some of my favorite moments in this game were my calls with Jeremy and Gera. However, I looked at Gera as the most well-rounded player aside from me. He’s good at challenges, he’s smart, he’s social, and he was making flashy moves. I knew he had to go. I set myself up as the swing vote at Final 5. I could either go with Jeremy/Gera or Nick/Cam, I knew even if I lost I would be okay. I played my idol, but I knew i wasn’t getting any votes. I just wanted to know if it was real because there were so many idols out there.
At final 4, I won final immunity, but once again I didn’t think I needed it. I wanted Cam out because he voted for me and Nick wanted Jeremy out. We went our separate ways for this vote and Cam left.
I know that a lot of people probably aren’t overly joyous to see me because I was the only person here who every single time I voted someone out, they went home. Every single time. If I wrote your name down, you were out. I played a hard game. I was always making the decisions. Even if people were talking without me, they were always feeding information back to me. I saw myself as the center of everything going on and on top of that I did win 5 challenges. Even when I lost, people didn’t take a shot at me when they definitely should have.
I hope you guys can reward my gameplay and I’m excited to answer any questions you guys have.
Good Luck to Nick and Jeremy, I seriously adore you both.