Board Thread:Survivor 23: El Salvador/@comment-27985501-20170328133509

Hello to all 7 jury members here tonight. I do want to start of with thanking all 7 of you, and Ryan also, as without all of you I wouldn't be sitting here right now. It's been one crazy ass season, and I truly believe I have a much stronger overall game sitting here next to Miguel. I'm going to start off with my physical game, as I know that's probably going to be used against me tonight, so I do want to address it straight away, I WASN'T awful at challenges at all, I may of never won an Individual Immunity challenge, but I came second in the Individual Immunity challenges SO many times, I ALMOST won Individual Immunity SO many times, yes Miguel may of had a better physical game as he won these last 2 challenges, but I wasn't useless at challenges at all, so please realise that when it comes to my physical game.

I think I had a pretty impressive social game this season as well, I was able to make key social bonds, and it carried me to the merge, and from the merge onwards I had a good working relationship with I feel everyone except Liam and Bran, I made sure to never get into fights, and I was always trying to make sure I was on good terms with people, after the whole first tribal blowup I wasn't actually targeted until the rock draw, and I found out the only reason I was targeted at the rock draw was to actually keep me safe as I wouldn't draw a rock, so I think that really does show how good of a social game I played this season.

But overall I feel my strongest asset is my strategic game. I played an extremely hard strategic game this season I believe. I was the one who CREATED the Febrisa Four alliance at the start of the game with Gevonte, Miguel and Ryan, and that was able to easily carry me to swap and merge, I was able to paint an easy target on Tae at our first tribal council as well, and I talked to everyone outside of my alliance about voting him, hence why he was voted out unanimously. At the swap myself and Miguel made a new majority alliance with Aidan and Bran in order to try and keep the numbers, but we never had to go to tribal, and my true loyalty was to the Febrisa Four so I left them at merge. When we first hit the merge I bulit good relationships with Dean and JJ, and I was able to get the numbers to form a majority. My first target right off the bat was 100% Liam. At the swap, I realised Liam was the one person who I didn't have a relationship with what so ever on my swapped tribe so I successfully convinced the majority alliance to target him, now I fully know it was super messy at this first merge tribal council, and I understand a lot of you may criticise that I almost got voted off at this point, however that's not neccessarilly true. When Liam started asking people to vote for him I realised he may of had an Idol, and I spoke to the majority alliance about changing our votes to Jay, if not everyone had voted yet we found out we could do it, but then Drew messed up and it all blew up, causing everyone to have to vote again, and confirming my fear of Liam's Idol, but as you can see, Jay most likely would've gone home had Drew realised not all the votes were in. On the re-vote we all knew we weren't gonna vote Liam, and the targets fell on Jay and Aidan instead (At this point, the Febrisa Four had found out Aidan/Bran were working with Liam). I originally wanted Aidan to stay, but after I promised him safety, I realised that if we all voted Aidan that it was unlikely he'd have an Idol played on him if he told this to Liam, therefore I pushed for the majority to vote Aidan, and that's what happened. Aidan, I'm really sorry I broke my promise and lied, but it was just a strategic move, and nothing personal. After Aidan's blindside I wanted to do the obvious thing with us now having enough numbers to split the vote 3-3-3, placing 3 on Liam and 3 on Jay, but even I admit the majority got SUPER lucky when Liam didn't play his Idol a second time in a row, as both Ryan and JJ self-voted and it didn't go as planned making Ryan NEARLY go home, but thankfully for myself, Liam was finally voted out of the game. Liam please know you have my respect as you could've easily been sitting here had Drew not royally fucked you over revealing your Idol, you played a strong game. After Liam's blindside, the majority stuck together and we easily took out Bran, who at this point was a complete wildcard as he hadn't been voting with Liam for the past 2 votes or so. At this point I was fully aware that the majority was gonna have to be split up, with the Febrsia Four in the majority of the alliance I was convinced that both JJ and Dean knew they were at the bottom of the alliance, so I thought for sure one of them had an Idol and they were gonna make a move with Jay. When JJ told the Febrisa Four to start targeting Dean, I thought he originally wanted us to vote Dean as Dean had an Idol and was gonna use it on himself and make a move and take out a member of the Febrisa Four, because of this I pushed hard for the Febrisa Four to vote out JJ instead to hopefully flush Dean's Idol and blindside JJ, turns out Dean never had an Idol, and JJ truly had turned on him, but afterwards that made me realise JJ was a big threat as he was in this to win it, therefore in retrospect I was happy I was able to blindside him. Sorry I lied to you JJ in telling you I was gonna vote Dean, please know it was all just strategic and game. After JJ's blindside, I was fully hoping I could get the Febrisa Four to the final 4, and that was my plan. At the rock draw I found out Miguel didn't want it to be a tie at the final 4, so he flipped to force rocks in order to have a solid final 3 with me, him and whoever survived the rock draw, unfortunately Ryan got screwed over and I hated seeing him go, but I was just relieved it wasn't me. As for the aftermath of the rock draw, I was able to convince Gevonte to still work with Miguel, and I had my final 3 on lock. At final 5 I knew Dean had to go as he was such a good talker in this game, he'd been able to partly covince Miguel to flip at final 6, therefore I decided that I couldn't be honest with him like I had at final 6 and tell him he was gonna get voted out. I knew I was gonna have to lie to him this time just incase he was able to talk Miguel into doing something different again. I then lied to Dean, and got him to think Jay was gonna get voted out and that him, myself and Miguel would be final 3, and blindsided Dean at final 5. Dean I'm truly sorry I lied to you, but I only did it as you are SO good at this game, you were the best talker this season HANDS down. When it came to final 4 Jay's fate was sealed when he lost Immunity, but I wanted to be honest with him about it, so I told him he had to go. I originally thought it was gonna be a final 3, so when I found out it was final 2 I was shocked. I thought my best chance to win this game would be sitting next to Miguel, so when he won Immunity I was actually happy as I didn't want to have to vote Gevonte in the end ( Gevonte please know you were probably one of the best allies I've ever had and it was so much fun playing this game with you). I was able to convince Miguel to take me to the end over Gevonte, and here I am now.

I believe I deserve to win because I played the strongest game I could, I did lie, but in the end I feel we all lied at some point in this game, I do believe overall my game is stronger than Miguel's and that is why you should vote for me.

Thank you for reading, and I'm open to answering any questions you have for me. 