I have a tendency to write super long speeches, so I apologize in advance. I'm gonna keep this one kinda short.
So as you all likely know by now; I entered this game along with Kolby to try and see who could get themselves voted off first. Kolby was clearly the better at that competition and was quickly booted. After that, I decided I was gonna try to turn my game around and actually try to win.
I played dumb throughout the first couple tribals of the merge. I told people I was too busy to talk a lot of strategy. Acted like a noob. Acted like I had no idea what was going on. But I was always paying attention and figuring out how I was gonna make a stream of quick moves to get to the end and win. I did my best to make any target on my back down as low as possible.
At f8, I decided it was time to come out of the shadows and start making some moves.
I wanted to break up the alliance of (myself) Kyle, Will, Sergio, and Renny.
So I started to push for Kyle to go. However, in order to move forward with the plan, I realized I needed Wills vote. Will told me he would be good to make a move if we could get the votes, but then when I tried to figure out who he specifically would be good voting against he stopped responding until the vote reveal. So I decided to scrap the plan and vote for Sergio to try and cause some paranoia.
The next vote the alliance began to splinter. I had the choice between going after Sergio or Renny. I preferred Renny to go, since he was better at comps. However, Brien at first told me that he preferred Sergio. I thought I couldn't get the votes to take out Renny if I didn't have Briens vote. So that morning I locked in Sergio since I had to leave for my flight before I could confirm with Brien what he wanted to do. I figured, hey, I should land by 2pm which gives me plenty of time to strategize! I'll send in a vote anyways just to be safe, I can always change it later, right? WRONG I forgot to tell Pat to not read the votes early and by the time my flight landed it was too late. Luckily Renny still left.
The next vote was when I finally was able to position myself in a spot of real power and finally get a plan through. I built a great bond with Sergio, I had Will and us 3 were ready to make a move against the other 3. I wanted to take Dan out here, but he won immunity. So then I originally planned to vote for Kyle and get Brien or Dan to flip on the revote. But long story short Kyle eventually was on board to vote for Brien. Which gave me a lot of power. I could now take out Kyle 3-2-1 or take out Brien 4-2. Ultimately, I decided to take out Brien. I decided he was a bigger threat in the end game, plus he was voting for me and Kyle wasn't. I had been playing super dumb to Kyle so I figured that if I kept that up Kyle may want to go to the end with me. So really the decision was a pretty easy one for me.
At F5 I once again wanted to take out Dan, but he once again won immunity. I originally went into this vote planning to take out Sergio. I knew I couldn't beat him in a FTC and I was worried it was a f3. I figured my best shot was against Kyle and Will. However, that plan all changed when I heard my name come up. Immediately I knew I had to act fast to take out Kyle. So I went to Kyle and sent him this
http://prntscr.com/ihm5sy
I showed him quotes of Dan throwing him under the bus and that he also can still get Briens vote in the end even though Brien publically said he wouldn't vote Dan. Kyle responded telling me to vote Will. I then sent a screenshot to Will showing him that Kyle threw his name out there. Sergio then also sent stuff to Will showing how Kyle was throwing him under the bus and such. And together we flipped Will to take out Kyle.
At F4 I finally beat Dan in the immunity. Here once again I had to make a crucial decision. Either vote off Sergio, the bigger final tribal threat, but risk it being a F2 and me having to face Dan in another comp. or vote off Dan and risk it being a F3 and me obviously losing to Sergio in the FTC.
I was confident it was a F2, because I was pretty sure that if it was a F3 then pat would've said that the F4 immunity was the final immunity. So I took out Dan and convinced Will to do the same.
At F3 I won immunity and took out the best player.
And that is how I turned my game from one that could've gotten me first boot to one that could get me a win.
I won 2 individual immunities. I laid low and played dumb when I had to. And I kicked it up big time towards the end by making big strategic decisions. I also didn't get any votes until F6. I do believe I have played a good game. I do believe I played a winning game. And I definitely believe I played better than Will. And I hope you agree with that by giving me your vote.