Board Thread:Survivor: Sumbawa (Season 19)/@comment-28768770-20160901202835/@comment-27761891-20160902004832

Convince me why you deserve my vote for second place when you relied on backstabbing everyone to get you to the end. In this game, I made one deal from day 1, and that deal was to stick with Ty all the way to the end. I accomplished that and fulfilled that deal. The Ash blindside simply had to go down because with Ty came allies in Dani and Lex. When Ash started to go after Lex, I took action and spearheaded her elimination. When Zak came after Dani, I did the same thing to him. Both were some of the stronger players in this game, so I did what I had to do even if they were my allies. Zak and Ash never added me to any alliances in the game. Zak had told me that if the Lex vote went right, I would be getting loads of alliances with them, but... I stuck true to that alliance I already had formed with Ty, Lex, and Dani, and I didn't plan on backstabbing any of them until we made it all the way together. Come final 7 time, our 7-man (now with Linus, Josh, and Jess) is the only group left in the game, and so backstabbing NEEDS to happen. You have to vote for who you think is the biggest threat in the game at that point in time, so I tried to get in on a plan with Linus and Ty (as well as Lex and Josh) to vote out Dani. It seemed like the best option considering the next biggest threat in the game for a jury seemed to be Linus. It's not even that Dani was playing the best game, but I find Dani to have this amazing aura to her that just makes me want to be friends with her and talk to her, which is why I knew her blindside had to come. I couldn't tell Jess because the two of them were very close, and that would've messed up everything. What I didn't expect was for Josh to come to me and Ty and say, "They're voting for you. Linus flipped. Dani has a 'secret.'" Dani had now been exposed for lying about not having the idol when I had told Jess and her about it being found when we were still supposed to be close. With Dani playing her idol and Linus having immunity, that left one option with Jess. It sucked ass to have to vote for her, but she was the only one that was now working against me in this game, and I did what I had to do. I had, throughout this all, stuck true to my closest ally and best friend, and although I had to backstab, it's how the game, unfortunately, has to work.