Board Thread:Survivor: Japan (Season 6)/@comment-5990272-20150315192135/@comment-25615280-20150316014315

First off I’d like to say I’m sorry it has taken me so long to answer. I know I answered a couple speeches in a row and left you hanging. Right off the bat, and I have been saying this in every other answer, I confess. I cheated. When I did it, I honestly believed I was working within the ruleset but now that I look back on it, I broke the rules pretty clearly. If I could go back I would change it. The sad thing is that I didn’t even need to cheat. But I confess I cheated, and that was the ONLY time I did it.

As I said in my rites of passage with you, I enjoyed our relationship throughout the game. It was no secret that you wanted me out and because of that I wanted you out. Yet we still worked together at points in the game. You saw what I was capable of and as much as Joe hates to admit it, so did he. I will do anything I can to prove to the jury that I was a triple threat as you said in this game. First and foremost, my physical game, I believe speaks for itself. Pre-merge, I was the highest scorer on my team for every single tribal. This led to the 5 man advantage that Shika had going into the merge. I was a physical asset for my tribe and helped us all as a team to make it to the merge. In the merge phase I won the most individual immunities and was in a close running for the ones I didn’t. I would gladly skype with anyone here or live stream me doing any of those challenges again to show that those scores are in fact legit.

Second, my strategic game got me to where I am now. As I said before, I had to constantly deflect and dodge. I didn’t have immunity more often than not, and besides when Joan self-voted, it was not luck that got me here. It was my work and the foundation I layed in the very beginning of the merge. Yes my alliance and I flipped from working with Zaru and Okami in the first two tribals. It was because I wanted to stop any problem before it even existed. The reason why I wanted to flip was simple. You, Austin, wanted to bind people together to take down Shika. Had I stuck with one tribe or the other then that would have happened. It would have only been a matter of time before the Zaru tribe joined up with whoever remained from Okami and picked us off one by one. Also saving Richie in the second tribal was probably my best move in the game. It earned me his undying trust and loyalty. So it may have looked like I skated by all those tribals with no immunity due to luck, it was really because Richie and therefore Martin would not vote for me. Then came when I had to stop another problem that was beginning to crop up. Richie made the rounds going to everyone that he wanted Wes out but yet everyone, and I mean EVERYONE left in the game at that point said it would have been a better idea to take me out. Including Martin. So then it was only a matter of time again before Martin and Richie split so I had to vote off Martin. Then in the final 6, Joan thinks he masterminded everything but he’s wrong. He thinks he planned everything in advance. Had Richie not self voted, my plan would have actually worked. Then at the final 5 tribal, I was completely honest to you Austin, I said I would vote you out. Joan was dead set on getting all four of us to vote for Lucas so his negator wouldn’t even matter. Better yet, he was lying about ever giving it back to Lucas in the first place. It wasn’t until I pressure him into showing me proof did he actually do it and said he “forgot” to do it the night before. Then he changed his vote to go along with Lucas and I. Not to mention I saved Lucas that tribal because everyone else wanted to vote for him. So I think this all proves that my moves all had an impact on the outcome of this game. I laid the groundwork to get near the end, and then executed when the time came. Also once confessionals come out, it will be made public how far ahead I was thinking and how close things came to my vision.

Lastly, is the social game, my weakest point. I know I nevered talked in depth with some of you guys about you personal lives. I think I fall under the “gamebot” category a little too much. But you said it and Richie as well, I seem to have a knack of talking with people about the game and even I don’t know how to explain it. I guess it comes down to respect. For example, I knew you wanted me out the whole time Austin, but I never got mad at you for it. In fact I expected it. I betrayed you to further my game so you have every right to gun for me.I never said your way of thinking was wrong, or anyone elses for that matter. We are all here to play a game and the best thing to do is to not take things personal. Yes I could have been more friendly to some of you jury members and I apologize, but I was just playing the game.

I this whole soapbox sounds standoffish but that is what we, as the final three, are here to do! I want to sell myself to you guys, the jury. I want to show you that I played the best. I would do anything to show that. I have a huge passion for the game and it was my top priority. I did everything I could to make it here, I lied, I betrayed, I even cheated. But I was penalized for cheating and my cheating incident is not the reason I am sitting before you today. The reason I am here is because I worked my ass off to be here and besides that one blemish, I’m proud of what I did and I will own every bit of it.