Hey, I donât want to prolong this any longer than it needs to be, but even so, for those of you wanting a quick recap or a TL;Dr..
- Not a single vote casted by somebody else towards my way counted, with my accidental self vote during the swap being the only vote against me.
- 4 immunity wins.
- 2 successful idol plays.
- The person I voted for at every tribal council left; with the exception of Aaron, who should have stayed had Rachael not self voted.
- A clear course of action that led to me making it here, with little to no opposition.
With that out of the way, I think I played an incredibly strong game, and all my decisions can be explainable.
The early game was very much smooth sailing, with the only noticeable thing happening was me finding the first idol, the grimoire one, I never told anyone until I told absol at around right before the final 6 vote.
I think during this time I build pretty solid bonds, I was preparing myself for what the merge had in store, keeping myself integrated within my original tribe while also beginning to form what would become the majority alliance at merge, I knew who I wanted to work with way before we got to a point where weâd all be together, thatâs why during the first days of the swap, I created the majority alliance which JB talked around 90% of his speech about, this alliance essentially controlled the game, with 3 of us sitting here at the end.
However, during the early merge, I did have a couple of hiccups, all of them coming from Rachaelâs sudden inactivity, the alliance, naturally, began a battle for numbers outside of it. I had my extra vote that I earned during that immunity challenge, and I used it, and it would have worked, but I cannot control real life things.
Moving past this though, I needed to rethink my strategy, it was made blatantly obvious to me that those that were opposing Absolâs and my ideas were closer together than to me. I found the merge idol, and I knew what I wanted to do.
I was able to gather the votes onto Allthat, I canât say it was me specifically targeting Allthat, but it was more so trying to weaken a possible olive branch for the original Hortus members from the alliance, once Allthat left.
I then let go of Rohan, an important number (and frankly, the life of the season, lmao) that had been with me from the start. I was reluctant at first, as I considered Rohan to be my sort of âPlan Bâ should I want to side with him and his alliance of him, myself, Joey, Aaron, Rachael and Absol, but after the whole fiasco of the first 2 rounds, I couldnât risk the social consequences Iâd have to face for pushing to save him, sorry Rohan.
But it wasnât the end of the world, having Rohan left mean a couple of things, it put the biggest bullseye in the game on Danny, for being the only person not in the alliance, at this point I knew my course of action was to make final 6, idol myself, win final 4 immunity, and make final 3. And thatâs actually how it went.
As JB said, yeah, Brittany WAS saved by Deshonâs self vote at final 6, at the end I switched to Deshon as I did not want to face rocks between Absol and Austin.
Then I threw the f5 immunity to JB, I wanted him to be at final 3 with me, because I believe his gameplay revolves greatly around the very alliance I created. I decided to vote Absol for different reasons, with the biggest one being he would have beaten me in the final immunity, easily. I did not want Austin to go at final 4, but I think that was also out of my control, as I think he wouldâve lost the fire making against either one, regardless if we voted together or not.
I said Iâd be short and this got SUPER long, I apologize :/, any questions please do be sure to ask me, good luck to my fellow finalists and thank you to Chandler and Ali for hosting.