Hello jury, first off I want to thank everyone who played this game for making it one of the most entertaining seasons of survivor I have played. I think I am deserving of winning the title of sole survivor because since day 1, I had my back against the wall, 1st, I was assigned the god power Aphrodite, in my eyes and many others the power of my god was not the best and didn’t really do much in comparison to other gods, many players had the reassurance to stay safe in the game with the power of their god whereas I didn’t. 2nd I was in a terrible position in the beginning of the game because I was a player from last season, Kyushu, everyone was targeting my season and tribal after tribal Kyushu members were sent packing. I had to immediately make sure I wouldn’t be sent home packing and I had to squash any plans I had with Kyushu members. Thats when I aligned myself with Mud and Marto day 1 and trusted them with offers that Kyushu members came to me with. In doing this I was hoping that I can build trust with them and reassure everyone that I wasn't working with Kyushu members.
I think I played a better game then the other 2 players because I was able to keep my strategy a secret and made it hard for y'all to be able to read me. I was able to manipulate many of you and deceive you all by making you guys think I was going to vote one way but actually do the other. I did this to benefit my own game and not someone else’s game. I played a clean game, never did I take the game personal and bash anyone. I was always in the position to vote every single one of you out and it was my vote that ended up sending a lot of you home. I downplayed my strategy throughout the game and always went to others for advice to make them think they had influence on me, but in reality I did that to figure out the social dynamics of the different tribes.
I wanted to stay loyal to a group and on Day 1 when I assigned myself with Mud and Marto and created “the big 3” alliance I committed myself to stay loyal to them until I had to let go of them. During this time I was talking to Noah which told me to talk to Mud in doing this I knew the two were friends and aligned because stuff I only told Mud and Marto through private conversations, Noah would come back to tell me that information was being leaked. At this point I put things together and knew I had to be careful with people I talked to.
Since the start I committed to stay loyal to Brittany and never vote her because I trusted her however I did not tryst her alliance and it was unfortunate that things played out the way it did.
The biggest reason why I decided to vote Dana out and not align myself with the corfu alliance was because I knew I was going to be in the bottom of their alliance and be voted out next. Despite this move I was added by Brittany to their alliance chat and saw that Absol wanted to get rid of me, so I knew that I was always going to be targeted by Absol and was always questioned their deals.
Right before the merge, I was put in a tribe full of people that were strangers and I had no past connection with. I knew I was on the chopping block so I strategized and lied to my tribe by sending and starting different group chats with them about my idol and scared them thinking that i was going to be the sole voter that tribal. My plan worked out and everyone believed me at some point that I had an idol, and I didn’t get votes that Tribal and I was able to send home tyler.
I was able to get everyone paranoid and gun after each other saving my own ass if it wasn’t for this move I would’ve been gone pre merge.
I was also able to paranoid everyone and make them trust me to the point that they went to rocks for me when they could've easily flipped and send me home but instead Alan went home that tribal
I knew that I didn’t want to go to the end with mud however, I wanted to stay loyal to him as long as possible. I decided to stick to the big 3 alliance and always looked out for them. I was also always on the right side of the votes and was always reached out to for a vote making my vote the deciding vote at tribal. I made a lot of people feel safe and made them believe and trust me and outsmarted a lot of y'all such as Jake and Jay I was also able to send home someone with an Idol by deceiving him. There was no point in saving them over Mud and Marto because we did not have a strong established relationship. I also stayed loyal to Marto and Mud because I did not want to have their god powers used against me so i made sure their powers would benefit me and not hurt me.
Despite what y’all think I don’t think I was kept In The dark during the majority of the merge Garret came to me at final 6 trying to get mud out I did not want to keep Jordan because I was scared he was going to save his idol for final 5 and also because I knew I was better aligned with mud than with Jordan, Garret told me Jordan did not have the idol and showed me proof that he found the idol. I used this to my advantage and didn’t tell mud about it because I didn’t want him to know that I was planning on voting him out next tribal. I was able to lie and make Jordan feel safe the whole time. I convinced Garret to keep mud and vote Jordan and after votes were read I knew Marto was the one trying to vote mud out, I just didn’t think Marto played this move smart because mud was on to him but I helped calm mud by trying to deflect the heat off of Marto to keep our alliance of 3.
Keeping mud to final 5 was a gamble but it was a gamble I was willing to take. I made sure I won the next challenge to seal mud’s faith. I was told by Garret that he was going to be inactive for this portion of the game and knew how votes were going to fall and that he was playing his idol at final 5. After Mud went home I had to plan to send Garret home because he was a great competitor.
In summary, I feel like I was more strategic and was actually able to make big moved in this game and made it to the end despite always being on the edge. I respect everyone’s decisison and I hope you can acknowledge my game and vote for me. if you have any questions feel free to ask! Thanks!