Board Thread:Survivor: Australia (Season 4)/@comment-24207263-20150108032504

Hello jury, I know I probably am not the contestant you most hoped would make it to the end, but I did mostly due to my strategical gameplay which might sound cheesy but really got me through all 38 days and to today day 39 at final tribal council. For you to understand my game play I will be describing my game in detail from start to end and tell you what moves I made, why I made them, and what my perspective of the game was like.

So day 1 cast reveal....I literally thought I was going to be first boot, so I knew I needed to do two things. One of which was kick as at tribal immunities which I would like to say I think I did a pretty well job of that, I think I was usually one of the top scorers for the original bimberi except for one time when I had to sit out do to having a back to back track meet literally giving me no time to physically do the challenge. The other part was do what's best for the tribe and get involved. Which I did I tried talking in group chat multiple times when I started talking it would get silently awkward so then later on I switched this to making some good personal ties, not only for any upcomings switches but maybe possibly avoiding being a pre-merge boot. Some of the people I talked to were Noah, Wesley, and Luke but there were two people who I really clicked with and formed 2 partnerships with. One was with Red who also felt like he was near the bottom of the tribe so we definitely had the realization that if we wanna be powerful in this game we have to somehow take majority when the opportunity shows itself. The other ally I made was with Miguel, Miguel I had seen playing in Turkey and was actually quite pissed when he beat Tyler Jessie and Marco because I was pretty good friends with them but then I got to meet Miguel and I have to say he is an amazing guy, he might be listed as a villain on the org but he is still a nice person who I really liked talking to. Miguel had also told me he felt like he was near the bottom so at this point I had 2 people I know I could rely on if I needed. Anyways we keep winning immunity until the 4th tribal when we lose, I stated from day 1 when cast reveal first was shown that Luke would be the controller of the bimberi tribe because of his social and strategical plays so I knew I would wanna be talking with Luke maybe ally with him, Noah, and Wesley and make an alliance so I could keep Miguel and Red safe while also having this new alliance of people but with a suspected switch coming I thought there would definitely be some mixed gender alliances made so I knew better than try and make an alliance but rather just have good connections with all those people and keep bimberi strong and have numbers over the girls.

Swap finally comes and I'm thinking YAS, SWAP! WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! because now the new bimberi tribe was me, miguel, wesley, luke, jessy, and tata. (Sadly Red had swapped ;-; because Ik I would be able to rely on him aswell as Miguel but the swap kind of took us apart for a little making us play our own games. ) So as I'm starting to get a feel for this new tribe I'm thinking yeah bimberi strong! Until I notice how much Luke and Jessy are talking which really made me nervous because now Luke is yet again back in power because there was the 4 majority with guys but then we had Luke talking with 1 of the 2 girls, and I also thought Wesley was more loyal to Luke than anyone else on the tribe, meaning had we gone to tribal 1 time Tata would have most likely been eliminated but then had we gone again I don't know if Luke and Wesley would flip with Jessy and take out me or Miguel so again I work my ass off in these immunities and so did everyone else and we won (except for the last tribal before merge in which Luke and Wesley were debating in the guy's chat to throw the challenge, I'm personally not a big fan for throwing challenges but I knew I couldn't go all try hard on this challenge but still submitted a decent score since the other tribe planned on throwing it. Luckily we the switched bimberi tribe never went to tribal.

Then came merge, 5 boys and 5 girls, it was intense. Power shifted so much the first few merge votes which scared me half to death, also at this point Red hadn't contacted me so I had decided to give him time to get to relax or settle in a little bit and then talk to him. So at the moment my allies were Miguel (who was my biggest ally at the time since me and red kinda hadn't talked since switch) and Red who I let breathe a little. I also had good ties with Luke and Wesley, and started a new relation with Jessy but it wasn't an alliance or anything. Eventually first tribal comes and Jenn wins immunity and shit hits the fan, Jenn then comes and messages me and Wesley that Luke and Jessy were conspiring to get one of us out, and in my head i was thinking "oh crap, luke has better ties with wesley I'm such roadkill." but Wesley made one fatal mistake that I didn't, that was as soon as Jenn told him this he ran to Luke and Jessy immediately while the only person I told was Miguel because we were telling each other pretty much everything, and what I did differently than Wesley was I stayed on Jenn's good side and didn't say one word of this to Luke or Jessy because then word would get around that I can't hold a secret and get targeted. So staying on Jenn's good side actually made us a partnership which was necessary and Jenn definitely took the aim off me that tribal and put Wesley on full blast. I then talked to Red at the vote to start rekindling our partnership and told him about the Wesley vote which he complied to. So in my head at that point I knew Jenn, Tata, Red, Miguel, and myself were voting Wesley so we'd at least have five votes but then Jenn decided of maybe taking Luke out and started a rumor about that which I heard Jessy tried spinning it back to Wesley (not exactly sure) but anyways luke's name started getting talked about so Luke came to me and said make sure you vote Wesley, (which I already was but needed only 1 more vote to have majority) so then tribal comes and boom Wesley is gone, which I didn't want to happen. I wanted to originally get rid of the girls first so there were more guys but obviously that didn't work out so well but I knew I would survive another three days which I was grateful for because from day 1 I thought I would be first boot.

Now we are in the final 9 and I have majority, me, miguel, red, jenn, and tata. Everything is going well between me and miguel we are exchanging info left and right but around camp it starts becoming a luke and jessy vs. jenn show which I wasn't so happy with because the last thing I want is to somehow get involved in this so I pretty much tried not getting involved with it, but then Jenn wins immunity and I'm thinking to myself well who is jessy and luke gonna target now and they want out tata, and im thinking to myself jenn isn't giving me a decisive answer as to who she wants out sending a red flag in my head telling me, me and miguel should vote with luke, jessy, mikayla, and marco to take out tata, also tata hadn't talked strategy to me or miguel so we were definitely open to the idea of getting rid of her so without the slightest clue that miguel going me and miguel both vote tata, while people are still submitting votes I start talking with Marco and get her viewpoint on the game and seeing if I can possibly make another good relationship (not alliance at that time) so we talk and she slips up like 5 minutes before all the votes are in and tells me that luke voted miguel and im like "oh wow", but marco says tata is going and that she voted tata and so did mikayla and jessy (which happened not to be the case once results came). Then results come and it was like feeling multiple daggers into my back, I was so angry Jenn, Luke, and Jessy had all went for Miguel and I was so upset because Miguel is an awesome person and definitely deserved to stay in longer, so then Miguel leaves and I'm pissed at Jenn, Jessy, and Luke but mainly Jessy and Luke because they said the vote was for Tata and never told me otherwise, so then I knew I needed revenge.

Now we are at the final 8! Prettty much the sides were Me, Jenn, Tata, and Red vs. Luke, Jessy, Mikayla, and Marco but the best connections I had at that time were with Marco and Red and I knew this tribal was going to affect the outcome of this game, so Jenn wins immunity for a third time and Luke and Jessy weren't the happiest about that so they tell me the target is Tata and all I'm thinking in my head is "you really think i'm gonna be loyal to you after you just took out my ally without even telling me." but of course I play along with it all along but secretly I was persuading Marco to flip to our side which I knew would be huge for our games and would definitely strengthen our partnership. So at tribal marco did vote jessy which pretty much sealed my safety for a while in the game without anyone else really knowing. I will say I am sorry for leading you Jessy but at the time we had our last convo in the game I had to make sure you felt secure that you wouldn't talk to marco one on one so I could fully convince her she was making the right decision which worked out. Then that made the dynamic 5-2 Jenn Tata Red Marco and myself vs. Luke and Mikayla.

Final 7! So I think Marco won immunity that round and then tribal came around and Mikayla used the artifact making sure she would be safe from tribal pretty much leaving Luke for himself, so we then took out Luke due to him being the only eligible person in the minatory

Final 6 then comes and things get a little twisted due to the auction coming into play, Jenn's somewhat threats for me to stay committed to the final 5 alliance or else, and Mikayla coming to me and saying that she needs a miracle. So I was thinking about who I had connections with, I had a partnership with Marco and Red, a relation with Jenn, and Mikayla offering me an alliance. The only person who hadn't ever talked game with me was Tata so I planned for Tata to go at final 6 UNTIL Jenn pretty much threatened me to take her or else and that was the last straw I wasn't gonna get passively bullied to take you to the next round, this actually made me really upset so then I switched the target from Tata to Jenn. So this ultimately got Jenn out.

At final 5 it was pretty obvious for me that we would take out Tata the bigger thing that happened was Jenn messaged me after she was out and I replied to her messages which she told tried saying I tried getting her to talk and accused me of saying Luke and Jessy told me to eliminate you while they were out, which didn't happen at. What happened was I had, had convos with Luke and Jessy prior to their eliminations and like any player would I looked through past convos of stuff we talked about and connected it with new information that I had obtained through mine and Jenn's convos which I connected the information and pieced a lot of information for me in the game.

Final 4 I was given a penalty for replying to Jenn's messages which left me very vulnerable and Marco had won immunity that round so I didn't really have any say of who went home because if I tried getting to involved with tribal politics it might of been me, it ended up being Red ;-; which I was upset about because he was my last ally from pre-merge and he had just been eliminated.

Then final 3 I knew I wanted to take Marco because of her loyalty to me from the final 8 vote when she switched her vote to Jessy and ever since had my back, while Mikayla on the other hand I took a chance on but it wouldn't be right of me to take Mikayla because of how strong and long mine and marco's partnership. I will say I did feel really bad about eliminating Mikayla because you did fight like hell to make it too but it came down to loyalties and who had my back at the end of the day.

I know I haven't played the most honest game as I usually like to but under the circumstances I had to do what I had to do to survive. It would mean a lot to get your jury vote. Please if you have any questions for me do ask away.I'd like to say thank you! and I hope we all can get along and be friends after the game! 😄 