Board Thread:Survivor: Skye Islands (Season 12)/@comment-26479581-20151015220042/@comment-24207263-20151016010216

Hey, Dom.

Right off the bat, the people I saw as big threats to the game, aka people who probably would be really tough to beat by the end, were people like you, Miguel, Perry, Wes and Alex. You all scream big threat when you are in the cast of a season, since people have played or seen what you can do, and it's really impressive stuff, so those names came out to me at the start of the season.

Honestly, though, when I told you I was gonna vote with you, I really meant it. I felt really bad that tribal, and I still do, even if you think it's bullshit, I was a mess that day because of the vote, I was super sad and I still feel bad. I'm not going to feel fakely sad just to get jury votes, that's freaking awful. If I said I felt bad for people when they went home, I really meant that. That's just the personal side of me trying to deal with the game side of me. It sucks to vote people that you like out, but sometimes it has to be done. I know I failed with you when I didn't vote with you, and I can only say I'm sorry. If you wanna know why I had to vote you, here's why. After talking to Sarah, and knowing Tyler would be necessary at the F4 to vote Evan out, I couldn't have voted Tyler, since that would just make him think that I was going for him that round, and then he could have voted with Evan at the F4, causing a tie, which I'm pretty sure Evan would have won. Was it a dick move to go back on my word? Yeah, 100%. And for that, again, I am sorry.

Now, for the 10 questions:

1) I don't think I'm a goat. Did I play an astounding, stellar game? No. Was my game flawless? Heck no. I feel like I was here like everybody else, trying to take care of themselves, and the games of the people who were on the jury were better than mines, that doesn't mean I'm necessarily a goat. If I were a goat, why would people want to vote me out, if they knew they could beat me? I feel like what the jury has seen as to why I'm a goat is because the jurors played games that had more sass and wittyness to it than mine. Doesn't mean I'm a goat just because of that.

2) You. 100%

3) You only lost this game because you didn't win immunity at the F5. Other than that, you were set to win.

4) I feel like most people that left didn't see me as winning material, and they probably don't, but I can't count that 100%. I don't feel like I can read people's minds or what they are thinking about the situation, but from the speeches that were posted, I'd say they have had a negative reaction to my game, differently from how I perceived it.

5) I think I'll count moves as decisions. Aligning with Boo, getting me a trustworthy ally; Aligning with you, which did save my ass; trying to get Tyler voted out. Even if it didn't work, it DID IMPACT MY GAME; trying hard in challenges, pre-merge and merge; using Perry as a shield at the merge. I feel like I could count some other stuff I did as moves, but since I'm not completely sure about them, I'll have it be those 5.

6) I feel like this is a hard question to answer, since I think we all deserve to be here, but since I don't wanna to throw out names, I'll answer myself, since as people thought, my time to go was a long time ago, and if things didn't turn, I wouldn't be sitting here. For the jurors, I'll say you and Perry, I think you shouldn't be sitting in the jury, I think you guys should have been sitting in the F3. For the people who wasted their spots, I will take in consideration more of, they didn't do what they came here to do. Those'd be Kaeden, Aaron and Lukas. Not that they took the spot of other people, it's just they didn't really get to do much with this chance. And for the non All-Stars, I'll use the same criteria, and say Aaron, Lukas, Kaeden and Liam (sorry), since they didn't really come out to their full potential.

7) I hope I understand this question right, but the person who I saw having done better than the last time they played was Evan, since he got voted out in Chile early at the merge, and here he made it very far. For the step back, I'll say Jace, since he is a well known, good player who made it far both times here, and this season, he just went pre-merge.

8) Physically, a 8. Socially, a 9, since you did reach out to everyone. Strategically, a 10, since you always had plans that came through and worked out, and you had a whole dimension of the game going in this, so very definitely a 10.

9) You, Evan and Alex could probably return for a HvV or Generations season the most, I'd say. Just my opinion.

10) I feel like you define yourself as 703 player lol, but I'll say Heather for that one, since she was also very self-aware in Chile and could have won the whole thing with it. For Survivor, I'm gonna say Natalie Anderson, since she was balsy and wasn't afraid to make moves when she needed to, and still managed to be likeable, which kinda describes your game this season.

11) I don't think there is a defining moment for me this season. This season was just high and lows for me. There was not a point I had done something that defined me as a player. But (and yes my answer is gonna be corny as shit), signing up for the season, knowing I had to go through a lot of difficulties in real life during it, probably could be chosen as a defining moment, if you think it can be called that.

12) I feel like I tried to make moves, even if they ended up a trainwreck, I tried my hardest in challenges, I was a target for the vote offs a lot more times and someway, somehow, I got here, and I'm still trying to keep a positive attitude about it.

And I think thaaaat's it! Thanks, Dom, this was a neat speech ^_^