I gave you a pretty long answer man lol!
Question to Ziggy: How do you feel like you made it to where you are gameplay wise?
Coming into the game, I wanted a solid alliance and that was the alliance of 4 that we had on our original tribe. It was me, Luca, Taco, and Waffle. So our alliance controlled the premerge on our tribe, but we entered the merge down in numbers.
I originally thought we would be able to find cracks in the other tribe, but after getting four votes at the first merge tribal, I realized I needed to make some changes.
I reached out to Tyler and Jack to play both sides of game. Staying connected to Luca, Taco, and Mark by extension and gaining new trust with Tyler, Jack, and Drew. Initially, Tyler told me to vote for Taco and I honestly had no problem losing you because you had become inactive.
By voting for you, I proved my loyalty to Tyler, Jack, and Drew while not openly betraying Luca and Mark.
Then I worked with Tyler, Jack, and Drew to take out mark, but unfortunately your inactivity caused you to go home.
So that left me in the middle between Tyler, jack, and Drew on one side and Luca and Mark on the other side. I feel like my other two finalists didn't have the options I had.
Tyler was tied to his alliance from the beginning and so was Luca, so they had the necessity to make sure their alliances stayed together.
I was in no situation! The alliances could break apart stick together, anyone could honestly go home as long as it wasn't me and I would still be in good standing in the game I had connections to everyone by final 6.
At 6 I wanted to make a move against Tyler, Jack, and Drew. Tyler had immunity and Mark had gone to Jack trying to get out Drew so if they played an idol they would probably play it on Drew. So I wanted to put the votes on jack and have Luca play his idol, but neither of the people in my alliance followed through.
Basically, my gameplay allowed me to make moves not out of necessity, but because I had the opportunity to do so. I was the only person in this post-merge that strategized with both sides and made sure that everyone in this game had connections to me so after that first merge vote I wasn't targeted anymore!