Hello Jury,
I just wanted to start off by thanking Ben for hosting this season, it was truly a blast! I’d also like to thank you all for making this a season I’ll remember fondly of. Also special congratulations to Ikah and James! Regardless of how we made it here, we still got here.
As far as my speech tonight I’m going to try and keep it simple but highlight keeps points in my game:
IDOL HUNTING:
I’m assuming that Keith told you all but idol hunting was a HUGE PART OF MY GAME! When my tribe was winning challenges in the pre-merge, I was making alliances but I was also searching for idols, and I put in the time to search for hours knowing how valuable an idol is to your game. In the Tribal Urns Challenge, I lied to my tribe. While everyone else took the public vote, I lied and said I took urn 1 when I really took the urn with an idol clue. With the extra idol clue, I was able to find my tribe's OG idol the next morning!
When Sag went home, that was probably my lowest point in the game. However, I said you know what I’m not giving up and I’m going to bounce back from this. That night, I ended up winning the immunity challenge, giving me the sixth idol clue. I combined the clues that Sag gave me, as well as Keith, with mine to look for the idol in hopes it’d still be out there. Again, I searched for hours until I came across it and from there, I had 2 hidden immunity idols at the F7!
However, nobody knew about any of my idols unless you were Keith or Sag. Sag I told about having my OG tribe idol while on a call. Keith, I had to tell because he was the person I played both of my idols on! Everyone thought Keith played two idols but I played both idols for him and I didn’t even have to get my hands dirty for it.
Down below is the location to the hidden immunity idols as my proof (I’ll go into my strategy behind using them later)
https://tengaged.com/blog/JeyCeePina/9469008/good-morning-p
https://tengaged.com/blog/Coral/6596297/fight I believe that I possess all the qualities it takes to be crowned Sole Survivor and I’ll break that up into Social, Strategic and Physical:
SOCIAL PLAY: In the beginning of this game on my tribe, I was making many connections. I had an alliance with Dar and Keith, I talked a lot with Deena, I had an alliance with Sag, and I was close with Logan. In fact, Logan sent me the advantage clue and we looked together for that advantage which was safety without power (that I ended up getting) but Logan felt good enough with me to tell me. Early on, I made a cross tribal connection with Charl as well. Later in the endgame, I had a chat with Keith and Charl along with Ikah and James and yet that was the F5. I was able to vote on both sides and use my social prowess to get what I wanted in the end game and that’ll be explained in my strategy portion. I also didn’t get any votes cast against me this season.
STRATEGIC PLAY: In this game I think it’s always beneficial to think two steps ahead and let’s be real I wasn’t a strategical mastermind but I did enough well, thought out strategy to secure my spot here. Even when I lost some alliance members in Dar and Sag, I was ADAPTABLE and found a new path. Voting Ali out at F7 ensured that Charl would vote with me and Keith with her extra vote at F6. Voting Jordan out ensured that I’d keep my ftc alliance with Ikah/James and my alliance with Charl and Keith heading into F5. From there, I took matters into my own hands. I gave my idol to Keith and that caused a huge threat in Charl to go home. Then at F4, I made a big strategic move to vote for Keith. I freaking hated it as I love Keith but we had similar friends on jury and our game connected in a lot of ways so I made the smart decision to cut him as I felt I had better chances to beat Ikah and James in the end. Also idoling Keith and transferring it to him both times had people believing Keith was the bigger threat than me and I was able to hide any idols being associated with me through that.
PHYSICAL PLAY: Everyone may have thought at the beginning that I was a terrible competitor but when I needed to turn it on, I did. I won individual immunity four consecutive times from F7 to F4 and these were hard challenges. Winning immunity allowed me to play harder because I knew I had idols in my pocket and my aggressive gameplay in my immunity rounds was what caused me to get to F3 with my best possible combination in my opinion.
Overall, I’m very proud of my game. I feel I was very well rounded to where I possessed all the components of a worthy Survivor winner. I encourage you to ask any questions and I will answer them honestly and in more detail. I have a lot more things I’d love to discuss with you guys but I didn’t want to bombard you with an essay (as this is already long enough) Thank you for a great season!