Board Thread:Survivor: Skye Islands (Season 12)/@comment-24207263-20151015181327

(I'm sorry if this turns out to be extremely long, I have no control when I write, but I promise it's worth the read!!!)

Hey everyone! Just wanna start off with a big thank you to the hosts, the finalists, the jurors and the rest of the cast, this was a really wild season. It was a blast playing with you guys, the votes were crazy and things couldn't have been more fun. Now, greetings apart, I feel like I should get to the point.

Now, what most concerned me since I won the Final Immunity Challenge other than the vote, was probably how I was going to start this speech. I thought of a lot of things, but I came to the conclusion that the best approach I can give is telling you my point of view of the game, since there are a lot of misunderstandings flying around. There may be people who think I did something, and others thinking I didn't. I'm here to clear the doubts you might have.

During, practically, the entire game, the biggest concern of mine was surviving, and that was something really difficult to pull off. I always wanted to be 100% sure about the vote before voting (e.g. I didn't want to vote right off the bat sometimes like other people wanted to), and I had to talk to people to try and catch up on the small singularities that spell mistrust. If I felt that when I was talking to a person, they were uncomfortable with the vote or they just didn't wanna tell much, I had to go out and think of a new plan.

The fact that I talked to a lot of people pre-merge allowed me that possibility, since I could have voted Bjorn out on Dunan with Boo and Diego, or voted Perry out on New Torrin with Sarah, Wes, Tyler and Sam if I wanted to. I chose not to; since I had other plans for the future. Such plans involved me putting bigger threats on display that would be targetted before me, and that strategy saved me at F10, considering Perry went home then.

Now, to walk you through some relevant parts of my game. Pre-swap, I was in a good position, but as you all may know, Dunan was not the beeest tribe at challenges, and we had some casualties because of that, and obviously, we were dissolved. I was put in a tribe that I really liked, since everybody was nice there, and we could talk to everyone without feeling intimidated. After some strategizing, the Beauties aligned with Perry to try and make a Brain and Beauty alliance. At that point in the game, it was basically the majority alliance getting Brawn people out. On our tribe at least. Here, I already have set in mind that I needed allies in game, allies that would be loyal to me for the bigger run and such, that is why I talked to practically everybody. Then came my second unlucky moment of the season. Boo got blindsided, and I was left there in a minority. Sure, we got over it and worked with the brains after that, but losing Boo was really bad for me, because I had lost ally #1 and an idol.

New Torrin, where it was me, Perry, Sarah, Wes, Sam, Tyler and Luke for the bigger part, won a lot of challenges, which was a nice change of habit, and during one time, I got to bond with Tom and we had a one hour talk about the game, and he was telling me all this stuff about his tribe, and I was letting it all sink in. Sadly, Tom got out, and we never worked out an alliance, but I had all the info that Tom had told me about his tribe, and that helped me a lot when I was making plans, since now I had a better dimension from the other tribe, alongside stuff Joe had told.

After Will went, though, that's when the game took its messy shape and made everybody hold on to their own weaves for safety. The BrainBeauty alliance we had was gonna stick together this time, and we were gonna vote for Sam or Wes. Me and Sarah wanted Sam out, because we needed Perry and Wes in the merge as leverage for us to get farther, since they'd get targetted before us. However, Wes kinda opened Pandora's box and released the mess among the tribal, even though we still stuck to the plan (even with Tyler going like "screw yall im going commando" and voting for Perry after talking to Wes). Me, alongside Sarah, tried to push for Sam to go, but considering it would be very hard to get Perry's trust if we voted Sam, we just voted Wes. Then we merged! And that's when things got.... interesting.

I am still concerned by the events of the tribal till this day. But if you wanna know what I wanted to do, I wanted to get a majority, since the alliance I was in didn't have numbers. Who did I go to? Sam. Sam could have totally just ditched me and tried to get me out, but considering we were two peas in the same pod, it was a risk I could take to strategize with him. We came up with a pretty cool alliance and we had people we could trust in it.

We thought the split vote plan was gonna fail, so we decided to pull a fast one on Tyler, using Sam's double vote. Y'all thinking "Oh you counted wrong". Thing is, we didn't know Szymon wasn't going to be with us, we just assumed. Szymon was really in the Death Machine, and he was playing a good strategic game, which we weren't in the mix of. However, had Szymon voted with us (and Zane not voted early), we could have gotten majority in the game and boom, we'd be doing fine. Sure, that didn't happen, Zane got blindsided that vote, just like me, Sarah and Sam did, but that already proves people wrong when they say I didn't try to do anything or pull a move. I had my ideas, I had my plans, they didn't get to happen, but I always adapted and was being flexible in the given circumstances. I had to work with what I had, and I was able to make the most out of every situation.

I could go on and explain my entire game to you guys all day, but if you guys understand how I see things, then the rest will go through. I have come through so many obstacles and things in my way, NOBODY would have thought I'd be sitting here today, even considering I got the "most likely to go next" in the Touchy Subjects challenge, and a lot of stuff that hinted me just being another extra on the jury.

But things didn't go the way everyone wrote them out to be. I actually got over being on the bottoms of the bottoms and getting nothing good on the auction to a favorable position in game in the F7. Sure, I had an idol played on me by Dom. Sure, I used Alex's key. But what difference of safety would they have been had I won immunity those rounds? I did what everyone else would have done and I gladly took them, since they were the best case scenarios for me.

And, I worked really hard to get here. During the F7, I had to talk to people and try to get them to vote this person, then if that plan didn't work, we'd talk to another person and vote this other person. A good thing I did was having aligned with Dom, since Dom is smart and she knew she'd get targetted by that alliance. The fact she had an idol and saved me was just amazing, and there's not really words to describe how well it turned out to be. I still feel bad for voting her out, since she is one of my best friends, and even though it hurt, it had to be done.

As you can see, I played a game for myself the entire season and I talked to people trying to get as farthest in game as I could have gotten. Was I the mastermind behind every vote? No, I wasn't. However, my determination and my motivation to keep surviving was what got me here. It wasn't no immunity. It wasn't no idol. Those helped me a lot, and I probably wouldn't be here without them, but what really got me here was myself.

You saw how hard I worked to get here. I did my best in challenges, always among the highest scorers for the challenges, pre-merge and merge. Even though I was put in the Beauty tribe, doesn't mean I can't be good at challenges or be a good strategist.

I came to points in the game where most people would have just asked to be voted out, and I didn't give up. Heck, my alliance was exposed, people didn't trust me because of Bjorn trying to start shit, I nearly got voted out and I got blindsided on pre-merge. And I still didn't give up. I worked hard at it, I talked to people, I aligned with the right people when I needed to, I voted the right people out and I worked extra hard to win the Final Immunity Challenge. I was put in a roller coaster that had no clear path, but I turned it up and got to the end of the station. If the name of the game is Survivor, I accomplished my duty.

Hope you can understand my journey here, the target I had on my back nearly every tribal at the merge, how I got over it and the things I did that got me here. After all, my plans of getting to the end, even if most were Plan B's, worked in the end!

That is why I think I should win. That is why I think I played a winning game. That is why I think you should vote for me. I'll be glad to answer any questions you have for me with as much honesty as possible.

Thank you all for reading this! And again, thank you hosts for making this a great season! And good luck to Sarah and Tyler on this FTC <3 