Board Thread:Survivor: Skye Islands (Season 12)/@comment-6943700-20151016212545/@comment-25270574-20151017184856

Hey Sam!

I feel there is a lot that I've done in this game. Granted, most of it was not out there, big and flashy, but it was enough to help get me to this point! Here's a little more brief of a summary than in my jury speech, because if I typed that out again we'd be here for ages.

On the original Brains tribe, I was not in a favourable position and I knew it. The round I was kidnapped by the Kilbride tribe, I used this opportunity to form an alliance with Wes, and then I was able to return and keep allies on the now-fracturing Brains tribe that were against each other after Miguel left, namely Szymon versus most of the tribe. I was able to turn myself from being next out the door to potentially a better position. That is hard to test since that group of people never all went to tribal with each other again until the merge, but that's how I was perceiving things.

During the swap, I was building my alliance with Wes stronger while observing the dynamics of the new tribe. Perry appeared to be top dog, meaning that as a fellow Brain who Perry didn't have reason to distrust, I was probably relatively safe on that tribe. However, I soon noticed that my position with this side was probably still not favourable for a long-term game, so at the double tribal council, I voted for Perry with Wes instead of voting for you as everyone had planned. This vote didn't send Perry home, but it set me up beautifully for the following merge, where the members of New Kilbride welcomed me with open arms. It was a risky move if we didn't merge, but I took the risk and it paid off.

From that point on, my game became about making sure that I would survive, move up in my alliance and stay a key role in the game. Luckily for me, the people in my new alliance always targeted people that were either a) coming after me specifically, like Perry and yourself, or b) were preventing me from going after the people that had been after me, like Alex. Because of this, I was able to focus less on each individual vote in the early merge stage and instead work on moving myself up in the alliance ranks.

At about final 7, I started going after Domonique, who had emerged as the front-runner to win. She pulled big moves at final 7 and final 6, and both times I was able to socially maneuver the situation so that I wouldn't go home, and I was set up well in the next round. by final 5, everyone was set to vote Domonique out, and everyone in the final 4 was aligned with me.

I knew that if Evan didn't win the final immunity, I would have to make the tough decision to vote him out, or else he would've likely been the winner. I struggled with this decision a lot, but in the end I did it.

Hopefully this will give you a bit of a clearer image of the game that I've played. I never made a giant, flashy move or anything aside from maybe the first Perry vote, because I never really needed to.

Thank you for your question!