Hello jury!
I really enjoyed playing this season with all of you, and I hope you take the time to listen to what Ali and I have to say about our games.
I started the game in a relatively comfortable position. I performed good in the early challenges, and I had connections with lots of people on my tribe. When Ashley went home (I formed an early final 3 with Jay and her), I sensed there was a small group of people trying to control the tribe.
That’s when I made my first big move: I was the first person to approach the mutinied Zach for an alliance, and I had pull over Logan/Emmett on him. I also formed a final three with Hufus and Ali to get people on my side, and pulled in Ross and Zach to form an alliance of 5, and I established a plan to get rid of Emmett, because he was such a strong player.
After this, I made another final three with Ross and Zach, just to ensure my bases were covered.
Going into the merge, I was concerned about Logan, Ikah and Jay flipping to the old Inieri’s, leaving me in a 6-5 disadvantage. However, the old Inieri’s and the outsider Arawak’s were going after each other, and I tried my best to reel Logan, Ikah and Jay back in.
Voting out Kyle and Kailah in the first two votes put me in a really good position, as I had connections with everyone, besides Brandon.
I used these connections to organise Logan’s blindside. And despite betraying them, Jay, Ikah and I formed a final three alliance. This was a testament to my social game. I used this alliance to take out Ross.
Brandon and Zach kept winning immunities, so I decided to go against my new alliance and suck up to them as much as possible, as I was afraid that they would see me as too much of a gamer. I convinced them to vote off Ikah instead of Jay at the last minute, because Jay was inactive and self-voted.
Ikah was a big asset to my game, as he was a glaringly big target. Brandon would never vote for me over Ikah, so I tried to keep him in the game for as long as possible until he wasn't useful to me anymore.
Ali and I had a very strong working relationship throughout the game, but I do feel like she came to me asking me for plans. I was definitely more strategically/socially dominating than Ali.
I also won four challenges, and was only vulnerable (technically) three times post merge.
I never received a vote against me, I always voted (unlike Ali), and I ALWAYS voted correctly.
Good luck Ali!