Board Thread:Survivor: Antarctica (Season 17)/@comment-25934083-20160607021318

Hello, jury! It has been such a pleasure playing with you all! You guys made this season so fun and challenging!

This was only my second org on FB and no one knows me or knows of me. I tried to play under the radar however, my initial strategy coming into the game was thrown out the window as soon as I stepped up and performed the best on the first immunity challenge that Ferrar won. I had been labeled a challenge threat and I adapted to the situation at hand. I was always in the top performers in Immunity Challenges. I worked hard and gave my everything in every challenge (except the winterbells one lol) and in result of that I won individual immunity three times, the most out of everyone in this cast and have tied with the most individual wins this season and because of that I was always a name that got brought up to be voted out ever since the John vote. There’s a total of 15 votes cast against me and I still managed to get to the end. I was ALWAYS in danger of being voted out. In each step of the game I was able to adapt and maneuver myself into the best possible position for me and I always made sure I had options.

In the social aspect of my game, I came into this game alone, with no pre-existing relationships with anyone. I tried my best to become the person everyone else was comfortable enough to talk to me and tried to have a genuine connection to people I’m working with and just to be likeable. This is the aspect of my game where I relied on the most and it played a key role on how I made it to FTC and how I was able to have so much options on who to work with down the line. I didn’t have a solid alliance that I intend to ride it out the end until post-swap where we formed the trio of me, JR and Mihai.

In the strategic aspect of my game, it goes hand in hand with my social game. I tried my best to see where both sides were voting and I positioned myself where I would have options in the current vote we were heading and the next vote we were going to. That being said, I tried to be always one or two steps in advance and I’ve thought about all moves I made thoroughly to make sure if I was making the right choice for me, and me alone and it worked out well because I’m here right now.

There were different phases of my game in each phase of the game. On original tribes, I was neutral. I needed to size everyone up to see who I can potentially work with in the future and lay down the foundations. I was brought in on an alliance, with one of the members of it being a big personality which was perfect for me because I wanted to lay low in that phase of the game. On post-swap, this is where I decided to test out the waters of the bonds I made back on my original tribe. This is where the alliance of me, JR and Mihai started. While that was my longterm alliance, I also felt secured knowing I still have a side-alliance with the ill-fated OG Ferrar on NuFerrar (which obviously did not end well). Come merge, I found myself on a good position as multiple people came to me asking for an alliance. Every single vote this merge has been very crucial and the timing of it was simply perfect. Down to final 9, more options were shown to me as Jamie asked for an alliance with me. This was my social game acting as Uli was already out for me after leaving him out on the Ivan vote and Jamie threw her vote because I was “nice to her”. This was the start of the OG Ferrar alliance in which I was intending to go to the end with but unfortunately Jamie had been medevaced. It was a different alliance that I tried to keep hidden and was always downplaying. Once Ci’ere was voted off the path to FTC was becoming clearer and clearer. I was in the best position being in multiple alliances and in those multiple alliances i was in the middle of it. The only obstacle standing in my way was Andrew and his supposed idol. Voting out Andrew was crucial and that was the moment where I know that i have a good shot at getting to FTC with the cards I was dealt with. From that point on, I was confident to know that I will make it to FTC.

No matter what happens tonight I hope you all take those into consideration while voting for someone to win. The game is outwit, outplay and outlast and I feel like I’ve done those things and that’s why I’m here. I’m looking forward to answering everyone’s questions! Thank you for your time.  