Board Thread:Survivor: Canada (Season 9)/@comment-24114312-20150625163005

Hii everyone reading! I just wanna start by saying a few things before I'm inevitably bashed by them in speeches lmao. Firstly, for a portion of the game I was inactive and didn't compete (and got strikes) in 2 challenges for different reasons - I went on holiday and was out the whole day for one, and for the other one I had personal issues happening which I don't really wanna go into detail for in front of everyone :P. But despite this, I always had my head in the game mentally, and whether it was through talking to allies or winning 2 immunities, I was always thinking about how to progress myself further, but I couldn't talk to people everyday like Tyler could or keep up a really strong social game like I try to do in every ORG for reasons out of my control. If you don't want to vote for me because of that, that's totally cool because it's your vote and you can do whatever you want with it, but I just wanted to clarify that before going further :P.

When the game started, I saw 4 potential close allies in Brian, Szymon, Ryan B and Sora. I knew if I merged with all 4, I'd be able to ride it out and end up here, but end up here having controlled a large proportion of the game. I started speaking to Brian and Szymon to make a 3 person alliance, which we did, and I gave my word to them as well as Ryan, setting up a four person majority on the tribe. It was clear that Szymon was running the tribe too, but I had no issue with that because he was my #1 and I was his. From looking at Okak, I was pretty sure that Sora would be on the bottom, as well as someone like NJ and so I ruled off the possibility of merging with all 4 of them, but if only 3 merged I'd still be fine.

However, after Nain's 3rd TC, I woke up to find Ryan had been blindsided. I'd spoken to Szymon the night before, and I saw that he potentially was gonna make a move (which I tried to talk him out of), but it was to no avail obviously. I'd voted in the minority but I'd stayed loyal to Ryan and despite single handedly losing the tribe's immunity challenge, I didn't receive one vote against me, which shows the position I was in on the tribe. Even after voting in the minority, I was fine bouncing back.

Sure enough, Sora was voted out next, and then Brian was blindsided at the next TC. I was pretty angry at that point, I'd voted in the minority twice and my #1 ally had blindsided two of my other allies, but despite voting in the minority twice in a row, I came out of the tribe portion of the game in a pretty solid position - I hadn't been voted against once even though I was in the minority twice and lost my allies, and I was in a good position in my tribe with good relationships despite voting against both Scott and Lukas.

When the merge came, I was pretty sure Nain was gonna be a sinking ship and in typical Jamie fashion, I spoke to Jack and basically asked him to save me in return for me flipping (since Nain had taken out two of my strongest allies without me knowing). I was ready to make a huge move and save myself, but then I couldn't continue the conversation and didn't make any promises because I had to take care of ~personal issues. When I returned, Ryan had flipped in arguably the biggest move and I brought up the idea of attempting to get Dennis' alliance to vote me (as I couldn't vote) which would make the revote 4-3 and send Dennis home. I'm pretty sure they were already gonna do it, but I suggested to my alliance (mainly Ryan) that they should try and get them to vote me, and so I helped this by ignoring the Okaks and not offering to flip like I'd previously planned on doing. They voted me and then Dennis was voted out 10th.

I contemplated about flipping for the next few votes, but my position in the game was pretty good. I was confident that Szymon would take me far, and I was also confident that if the Okaks had to make a move, it'd be against any of Scott, Szymon or Lukas before it'd be against me. Because of that, I decided to do something quite shocking and very unlike me, I decided to be loyal!

When it came down to Final 6, I knew with 4 Nains and 2 Okaks that the Okaks would try and make a move and because of this, I asked them to vote me off. At this point, I knew how much Szymon, Scott and Lukas (as well as Bjorn and Tyler) cared about the game, and due to personal issues I couldn't be as invested as they were. I felt bad because I was pretty certain that I would outlast them (due to being on no-one's radar) and I knew how much they wanted to be in the game. Despite this, I offered Szymon the chance to try and rally troops to vote Tyler, and instead of voting someone I thought the Okaks would vote, I threw it to Lukas, leaving my fellow allies with my fate. I wasn't voted out, and Szymon was blindsided.

After Szymon's blindsided and Lukas voted with the Okaks, I wasn't sure who was aligned with who but after they didn't vote me out and I gave them the chance to, I decided that I wouldn't give them the chance anymore and I'd attempt to win my way to the end. I won 2 immunities in a row (the only person to have an individual immunity winning streak) and decided to find new allies since Szymon was voted off. I referred to my original Nains but they were both voted off in a row (me/Scott voted Bjorn at the F4 since we thought Bjorn would be more likely to lose than Tyler), and then when I was left alone with Bjorn and Tyler in F3, I analysed who I thought would be more likely to win immunity and aligned with them - Tyler.

I was gonna offer Tyler a F2 but was wary of the fact that he could've beaten me and that he could've told Bjorn, which would ruin any chance that Bjorn would take me. However, Tyler approached me and straight up asked me who I was gonna take, at which point I said him. That might seem foolish, but in F3 I was pretty sure I was gonna lose either way and figured I would give my word to the person who was most likely to win immunity. Tyler won, and took me like we agreed, and now here I am.

I've tried to be as honest as possible here, and tried to stray away from sugarcoating or denying anything. Tyler's played a great game, but I feel like my game hasn't been too shabby either. I lost all my allies and still managed to make it here, winning a couple of immunities along the way. I was on a losing tribe but survived it, even though I only voted in the majority 50% of the time on the tribe. I didn't lose my cool like I did in Rome, and was actually loyal to people, such as Ryan B, Brian, Szymon, Scott, etc without turning on them which is not something I'm known for. Whether I win or lose, Canada's been a valuable lesson for me in ORGs that playing hard isn't always playing good. I haven't played hard, but I've got here and that makes me just as deserving as Tyler.

Thank you all for playing with me, I hope I get your votes but if Tyler does, that's cool, he's great <3. Thanks Luke and Jessy too, you guys rock [: . 