Well, I’d like to first start off by thanking Purple for hosting such an incredible season. I would then finally like to thank the cast for playing this game it truly was an honor.
Coming into this game there weren’t a ton of people that I knew and I knew that in a game of Survivor like this if you want to survive you have to go and make bonds and connect with people. If you don’t you find your torch getting snuffed and you leaving the game. Usually I know at least one other person in the game where I can connect with them and forge some kind of alliance but since I didn’t know anyone out here I really had to start from scratch. ,
My original Kiwayu tribe was filled with inactive’s and non-factors in this game since every single one of them but Sandra and I went out pre-jury. There was no real connection with any of them except BrainJak and Sandra. My first few days on the beach I was really focusing on creating bonds with both BrainJak and Sandra because I saw them as two votes who would be loyal to me. And BrainJak would always be a bigger target than me because that’s just how his personality is. I was able to connect with the two of them and make some sort of make-shift alliance to get me through the Adam and Barn vote and safe while Leon was evacuated.
Those two votes brought Sandra and I closer together than I had previously thought and I was really upset when I saw that we had a swap coming up. But luckily I was safe and I stayed on Kiwayu with Sandra. Had I not stayed on this tribe with Sandra, I might not have been able to truly trust her and forge a bond with her as I did. On this tribe, I was also able to meet both Faia and Emily for the first time and I was able to start connecting with the two of them. While on the other side of the game we saw BrainJak get taken out along with Drew.
At the time, I thought to lose BrainJak was going to be a huge set back for my game because I didn’t know how I would have been able to replace a third like that. But in retrospect, BrainJak getting voted out and blindsided on Manda Toto was probably the best thing that the other side could have done for me in the long run.
Then comes the merge, and if you look at this season on paper, there is no way that I should have ever been sitting here tonight. There is no reason for me to ever have been able to make it this far just based on the original tribal lines of Kiwayu vs. Manda Toto. Myself, Sandra, and Yandree were the only original members of Kiwayu to reach the merge stage of the game. I remember telling Sandra that it’s probably going to be a pagonging of us three as the first three merge boots. But I was determined to not let that happen.
So I started going around proposing to people that we take out Yandree since he seemed to be inactive and it would be the easiest way possible to get one step closer to the end.
The next we saw Danni get medically evacuated, I didn’t know her and her leaving the game was kind of expected. She was leaving the game even if she somehow got on and voted as well.
The next vote was Raul. Raul was the first person I needed to take out because they weren’t loyal to me. I knew that I could get m own vote, Sandra’s, Faia’s, and Emily to take him out. But I needed one more vote to completely take Raul out in the 5-3 vote in which he ended up leaving. And that person was Steph. I promised I would take and help Steph get to the final 3 if she were to turn on Raul and vote him out. Thus betraying her alliance in hopes of a better one.
And was she all too happy too. On her other side, she was a solid #4 but with me, she was a #3 with a shot to go all the way. So since I was able to convince Steph to flip we were able to send Raul home easily.
Raul leaving and Steph flipping over to the majority 5 alliance that I constructed that consisted of Tashi, Sandra, Emily, Faia, and now finally Steph. We would be the majority alliance that would dictate the rest of the game. This then paved the way for the Sam and Ty vote offs.
Sam and Ty were the last hurdles I had to jump over before I could truly feel safe in this game. I don’t know if they knew at the time that I was the one pulling the strings and I was the one who truly was dictating who everyone should vote but I was. I knew that if Sam and Ty didn’t leave they could lead to my demise.
Which I wasn’t going to let happen.
Then comes the infamous idol round play where my alliance of 5 was finally forced to turn on each other. This is the round out of all of the rounds where I needed immunity the most. Without it, I would have truly lost all control over the game and what was happening. Having won immunity and having the merge idol in my pocket I knew that not only I was safe but Sandra was safe as well. And since I hadn’t heard from virtually anyone that whole day I knew I had to play it on Sandra and take a shot at Miss Emily, the second biggest challenge threat of the season.
But, Emily had plans of her own and she decided to save herself as well. Now I was faced with a dilemma, I could either break my promise to Steph and send her home at the F5 or I could flip on Faia who I had been close with since we swapped tribes.
I sadly had to keep my promise to Steph because unlike Faia I did promise her a spot in the F3 and I figured Faia would be 100% harder to beat than she would. It hurt so much to eliminate Faia but I know that if I didn’t I might not be sitting here today. So I did what I had to do.
After I flipped on Faia I knew that I needed to win immunity again and I had to prevent anyone else from winning immunity otherwise it would pretty much be a sure bet that I would be going home.
I deserve to win this game because I played the best game possible. I was able to control every vote to make sure not only I was safe but my allies and alliances were too. I was loyal and honest and didn’t try to go behind anyone's backs. I won FIVE individual immunities and found a hidden immunity idol that I was able to play successfully in order to save my closest ally.
Thank you and I look forward to answering any questions you all have for me <3