Hey guys, I can't say during this game that I was going through the most lovely of times hence why I think I've played differently than what I usually do, I think I was jumpy and cut people more than I usually do, but what I did do was stick to my philosophy of being straight up about as many things as I could without it destroying my game, all in all I'm not proud of my behaviour outside the game but I'm happy with the game I played.
As you all know the game was merged from very early on, once we had dissolved the tribes I was honestly in a very open-minded mood, I was down to anything, even voting 2 of my former tribe members in the first 3 dissolution votes, when tribal lines were still considered more than in the early game, I think this helped me and my tribe as it did take a target off of us for a little while, being nobody from my tribe was voted out until the final 9 with Patrick leaving.
But anyways, I think most of my gameplay started becoming more dominant around final 12 with our new tribes, at this point I focused on winning immunities so I could concentrate on cementing my various relationships I had formed once the merge started, and at merge that's how it was, Latisha was the target and a big group was being formed in which I was a part of, however a big part of my game this time arond was loyalty, Patrick wanted to do Kyle so I decided to vote Kyle with him, whether he had the votes or not were not of interest of me as I knew Patrick and I were fine and I wanted to stay loyal, I thought moving forward this also helped me because out of the 2 Patrick would have been targeted before me.
At F9 it was a very clear disadvantage for me, my name was starting to get throw around, however I was spared when Patrick was a bigger target than me as I expected, of course I was hoping Patrick would stay with his newly found idol, however some things were just too good to be true, and I'm happy it was him and not me.
Once Patrick left I was in a slightly better position, I had yet to start winning immunities so my name was being thrown around comfortably, I think this round worked for me as I was able to finally officially group Drew, Brittany, and I, as well as adding Billy to this too, and together we orchestrated arguably the biggest blindside of the season when Kyle left.
After Kyle left I was able to finally step up to the plate as the dominant force that I think I had the potential of being, with our new strong 4 + Cameron we were able to vote out Logan, somebody I unfortunately could not see myself working with much as we had closer relationships to other people than each other, and at this point I was trying to have people that would stay loyal to me than having to rely on hope.
Cameron also fell into this category, I did consider saving Cameron, however there was many actions Cameron had done in the game that made it clear to me that he would have probably targeted me rather than take me to f2, I think voting Cameron here was also the right move for me because it left Grace being a more important character in the final 5-3, and I felt confident I could convince Grace over the rest.
The next 2 votes was exactly that, being able to convince Grace to vote Brittany for us was great for my game, Brittany was a strong competitor and had she stayed and win immunity at f4 I was gonna get 4th, I think being straight forward with this vote and leaving little to no filter from my part made it easier for all 3 of us to band together to take majority for the last part of the game.
Once again I decided at final 4 to attempt to stay as loyal as I could, Drew was a close ally of mine throughout the game and it felt right to give him my vote to let him at least have a chance in the FMC. And at final 3 all I had in mind was winning that immunity to make the correct move for me, which in my opinion was to evict Grace, I believe had Grace been in final 2 she would have the votes to win almost instantly, I was threatened by her likability, hence why I voted for her in the final 3.
It's not my cleanest game, but I think my social and physical game shined through, I think with my personality I was able to make people trust me despite them knowing they needed me out, I wanted to be immune whenever I could so I did just that and won the immunities I wanted to win, I didn't show my cards too early nor too late, I think I deserved to win! Good luck Billy.
