Hello jury. So I'll start off by thanking all of you for having a set on the jury, because I couldn't be in the Final 3 if each and every one of you were sitting there right now, so thanks for helping me out there guys.
I'm gonna keep my speech short since I think there will always be someone who asks what our biggest move was, and all that stuff that normally goes into a speech, so I won't waste time on that right now.
My game from the beginning was always about not being the biggest target. In a season like this, where is the last chance before all winners, I knew coming in everyone was gonna be playing as hard as they could to get that winner title finally, and lose their best to never win title. Laying low at the beginning is always the best strategy in my opinion, because otherwise you become to much of a target later on.
I was in the majority right away on my original tribe, but after a tribe switch, I did find myself on the wrong side of the numbers, and then Adam voting for me to save himself (which was totally a smart move for Adam btw, I don't "blame" him for doing that in any way because he was going home otherwise, as he was the main target that first torch snuffing for me).
While I was on Occulus I formed a strong bond with Darcy, who I was aligned with previously in the game, and he really helped me get a footing very quickly. I won 2 challenges during my time on Occulus, one as soon as I got there, and one during the "challenge every day, last place is out each time".
Coming back into the game, I immediately regrouped myself with Adam and Tyler, as they were my main allies at the time, but coming back in from Occulus with Andy allowed me to form a bond with him.
When I got sent to Redemption, it was entirely based off a misunderstanding of the rules, when Gaia read the votes while Adam was offline because we all voted early, and Adam was gonna play the idol on me but wanted to do it live, but it worked out for me in the end because I knew I could win my way back from redemption because I was good at challenges, and I did, and it allowed Adam to use the idol the next tribal to eliminate Jake, giving us a chance at Final 6 to turn the game for us, and we did thanks to Adam winning the fire making.
Final 5 is when I think its the best time to stop trying to be good with everyone, and really pave your way to the Final Tribal, which is what I did by taking out both Adam, arguably the biggest and one of the best players of this entire game, and Andy, someone who is extremely likable, and could've easily won this game if he was here.
I've been preaching for rounds upon rounds that having been voted out twice and returning would make me an easy goat, but I hope you all can see that with such fierce competition this seasons cast, winning my way back into the game from both Occulus and Redemption Islands, is not something that is easy by any means, and it took a lot of work. And I will point out again, I was never voted out because I was perceived to be a threat who could win. I was voted out the first time for being aligned with Adam, and the second time I was voted out because I was the least likely to have an idol, as I just played one the previous round to save Tyler.
I've never deviated from my strategy this entire game, and by playing that kind of game, I'm sitting here and not on the Jury or pre-jury.
So I hope you all don't rule me out as competition in this FTC, because it'd be a true shame in all honesty to not even give me a shot