Board Thread:Survivor 41: Phi Pan Nam/@comment-38878628-20191010161657

Hello everyone! I briefly wanted to take a moment to say thank you to each and every one of you. Every single member of the Jury and Pre-Jury made this game something I'll never forget. One of my top favorite seasons to compete in because of you all! I honestly enjoyed getting to meet every single one of you and make so many new friends that I look forward to playing in future seasons with! Although this game requires us to all turn on one another and vote each other off, I'll always respect the people who play these games and dedicate so much time and effort into performing and competing in these amazing online competitions! You are some of the most genuine and hilarious people I’ve had the pleasure to meet. You’re all a huge reason why this community keeps getting better and better every year. I’m very thankful I found this group of people and look forward to creating many more memories with you all along the way!

Let’s get back into the gameplay. Coming into this season, I knew I wanted to play hard and keep myself surrounded by people I could trust moving forward. However, I told myself that I wouldn’t be making any major alliances early on, as I’ve learned from my mistakes. Instead, I immediately went around and introduced myself to my Karon tribe members, taking the time to build real and genuine relationships with as many people that I could. This came in handy when it was time to head to Tribal Council, since I had everyone informing me on where they wanted to vote and who they didn’t trust. The only vote that I got to cast on my original Karon tribe was for Dylan, who everyone ended up voting for. Dylan and I never talked in the game, so I knew it was an easy vote when everyone else brought up their name too.

Then came the dreaded tribal swap. I got swapped onto the Phra Nang tribe, where it became a 4 to 2 OG tribe standing, where Kyle and I were in the minority against Fathan, Jason, Chris, and Tyler. I immediately knew I needed to put in work to keep my ass and Kyle’s ass safe, so I reached out to all four of these players and formed whatever connections I could. Fathan said he’d fight for me to stay and flip the vote onto Jason, so I knew that’d be my chance to keep Kyle and I safe. However, after chatting around more, I learned that Fathan was lying to me about helping keep me safe. I then took this as a solid opportunity to flip the vote onto Fathan, telling his OG tribemates that he was being way too confident and felt like he was running the tribe. This concerned the rest of the tribe, sending home my new rival in the game. Dan was the following boot, which sucked for my game. Dan and I grew close to one another early in the game and I wanted to work with him moving forward. I knew I was in trouble at this point if I were to make it to the merge. I knew Kyle was my closest ally at this point because we were currently fighting for our lives in the game together and had been extremely close in the early game too. And then comes a big move, convincing Tyler and Jason to flip on Chris and send him out before the merge. I recognized Chris as a future wrecking ball that would have destroyed us all in the game had we not voted him out. I personally went face-to-face against him in a challenge and he destroyed me! I knew this was a perfect shot and an opportunity too good to turn up, so I pushed hard for Chris to be eliminated, making is a solid 4-1 vote and taking out a huge threat right before the merge.

Now comes the hardest part of the game…the merge. We all worked hard to make it here and fought our butts off to ensure we’d have the opportunity to play for individual immunity and prove ourselves. Now was my time to build up my army of loyal tribemates. This is where the game got complicated…the first merge vote I pushed for Maynor to be the vote off. We hadn’t spoken a single word the entire game. I knew it wasn’t in my best interest to have him remain in the game, so I pushed my agenda for Maynor to be the vote. The vote resulted in a 6-4 vote, which is when I knew this would only mean more chaos to come in future tribals. Then came the Derek vote…I had just won my first immunity challenge and figured it’d be best one to win seeing that the previous vote was too close for comfort. I realized it was time to win and keep myself safe. Kyle engaged me on the vote for Derek, and at first, I was open to it since I was informed that’s what people were going for. Soon I realized that it was better for my game to keep Derek, since we had built a good relationship early on and I felt I could trust him more than others remaining in the game. I tried my best to get the vote to flip onto Evan, but Kyle had already submitted his vote for Derek, resulting in it being a 5-4 vote. I had lost one of my allies and was worried I’d be next.

The next two votes, Evan and Chloe, were strictly game moves for myself. I knew my relationship with Kyle was slowly slipping away and I could tell he was growing much closer with those two. I took every opportunity I could to keep the focus on these three as a power trio, which worked to my advantage when Kyle asked me to join them and take out Alex on this next vote. I knew this was a golden opportunity to weaken Kyle’s new found alliance in an attempt to get him to come back and work with me. Evan and Chloe were both strong players that I knew wouldn’t benefit my late game, so I struck when it the timing was right. I used this alliance offer to keep the target on Evan, Chloe and Kyle, establishing them as a power trio to take out while we had the chance and…it worked. Everyone saw this as a perfect opportunity. I even managed to get Alex on board with the plan of taking out his original alliance member(s), since they were targeting him. This new relationship between the two of us was something I knew would help my game moving forward. Id built a new level of trust and respect for Alex and moving forward, we worked together until I knew I had to cut him from my game to make sure I remained in no one’s crosshairs.

Alex’s vote off wasn’t something I wanted at this stage in the game, but a plan arose to take him out in an attempt to make Kyle and Anthony appear as though they had Jason and I flipping on Tyler. This was when I knew in order to keep myself safe at the Final 5, I’d need to do this. Tyler and I debated on voting with Alex to take out Anthony, since we knew he was a strong player and bringing him to the F5 was a risk. However, going into the TC with a 3-3 vote wouldn’t help my game, only risk me being sent home had we gone to rocks. Tyler, Jason, and myself planned this out and agreed to act like we’d all go after Tyler the following TC, but this is when everything got crazier.

Anthony become the following vote, after the vote came out to a 2-2-1 tie. Tyler and Jason saved me and kept me solid, making this my perfect final 4 situation that I had hoped for. Anthony and I had played in a previous ORG together, where him and I also worked together for a small amount of time before he got the boot. I tried my best to protect him that entire game and am so happy I did because he’s become of my best friends in the ORG community. When we hit the merge, I freaked out at the fact we finally got the opportunity to play together again. However, I knew I had to move forward with caution as you just came out hot with a recent ORG win. I know you have what it takes to win this game and it’s nothing but respect to have played with you again. I’m sorry we couldn’t make it to the end together, but I knew you were coming after me too. You played one hell of a game and I didn’t expect you to stop now, not over our friendship. We both know this was nothing personal and I seriously love you so much.

Final 4. The moment I had been waiting for. I had made sure to keep my closest allies with me the entire game and here we were. We came into the merge as 4 and we made it here as 4. Jason, Tyler, and Kyle. You all are a huge factor as to why I’m here in the final. Jason…you saved me three times in this game and I appreciate you more than anyone in this game. Yes, Tyler and Kyle did so much for me too, but without you, I’d be out pre-merge! I owe you. Seriously. You were one hell of a player and taking you out was only to better my game in the sense the I had never voted for Tyler or Kyle before hand. I had made a deal early in the game with Kyle that we would never vote one another, no matter what. Kyle broke that promise, voting for me in the F5. I understand that it’s a game and everyone does their own moves, but I protected his name every single vote I could. When I put the target on Evan, Chloe, and Kyle as a solid trio, I made sure the focus was on Evan and Chloe. Never Kyle. I kept my promise, even after Kyle voted for me, I was wiling to keep that promise until the very end if it hadn’t been broken. Tyler very well would have been the final member of the Jury had Kyle never voted me, but I understand it was his game move and a risk he was taking. Tyler and I bonded and agreed to work together until the end and I mean the very end. We were always honest about the game and open about everything, which I respected so much from his game. I hope you understand that voting you out only meant I’d be keeping my promise to these two individuals and bettering my chances of making it here, to the finale.

And finally, the F3. The two players I worked closest to all season were sitting next to me and I had managed to keep us all together, regardless of how drastically different our games were played throughout the season. I kept my promise to you both, but the game brought upon us a Final 2. Winning the final immunity just guaranteed my spot here, but I had to break one of the deals I made with you both, but the choice came fairly easy considering how the F5 vote played out. I knew I had kept my promise to you Kyle for as long as possible and I remained loyal to you all season, even after you betrayed me. This was only in an attempt to better my chances of being taken to the F2 had either you or Tyler won the final immunity challenge. I played a loyal game to those who protected me and proved that I could play risky by bringing Kyle along with me, even after he had flipped on me early in the merge by voting against me with others who weren’t in our alliance. I also felt as though some Jury votes would have been secured already under your name had you been sitting here in the end next to me. I love you to death and respect you and your game. We made it as far as we could together and I’m so thankful to have met you this season. Thanks for your drunk messages and always rooting for me when I was busy at work. I can’t wait to talk more after the season in over.

Tyler. We made it as far as we could. I remained loyal to you and you remained loyal to me. I have so much respect for you and appreciate you beyond words. We’ve created so many memories in this game and I can’t wait to continue to build our friendship outside of this game. I honestly hope the best man wins! I love you man.

Please feel free to ask me anything and everything. I am an open book and will be completely honest about everything. I want you to understand my gameplay and my reasonings for my votes.

Also sorry for such a long essay…I just had a lot to share and talk about. Love you guys! 