Board Thread:Season 34: Romania/@comment-24064520-20180825154107

Hello everyone! First of all, I'd like to thank all the hosts and castaway for an incredible season since the start. I am honoured to be sitting here along with the amazing finalist. Moving on, it’s my time to plea my case to the jury I’ll try to keep it as short as possible and explain every details of my game. I will separate it into two phase, pre-merge and merge.

Pre-Merge

I was placed on Izolare tribe, the first thing I do obviously make sure I talked to every single one and cautiously making deal with people. Then, I will separate of whom I felt comfortable with and it was Anthony, Dakota and Craig. All of us were in majority and we all felt the good vibes from each other. From the four, I made a deal with Anthony and Craig separately about making to it to the end. It was easy during the first two boot on our tribe since Samantha and Alex were on the outs and it’s much wiser to stick to a group and make sure we are strong enough to be together for a long run.

Then, swap struck upon us. I was placed on Razbunare tribe together with Craig. Obviously, us two stick together. We thought we are going to be in minority but we managed to overcome it and eventually stuck in the middle of the two sides go against each other. We managed to camouflage it with Jason votes since he’s the public enemy at the time. It’s beneficial for us to go with the majority as it won’t bust our plan. During Kailyn votes, it was Kailyn and Austin on one side and Brian and Nick on the other side. Both of the sides are the one invited us and I’m pretty sure it all happened because of our talk and how we convey it. Also, both sides thought we had their back and not in one time they questioned about it. I talk with Nick and make sure he knew we have theirs and Craig with Austin. During that time, we both strategized on whom will feel less bitter and who is easier to come back needing us after the votes and we decided on Kailyn to make Austin still needing us for the votes and he had a bad blood with Nick and Brian. It worked well as it was a blindside for one (1) side and Austin coming back to us for the next votes. We thought we are on a great ride as Austin is with us so does Nick and Brian. Moving to the next tribal, (we still lose..) thought it’s going to be easy peasy since Austin is the easy target and we still have the options to choose for. *Thunder struck* Austin had an idol. Not in a million years we even thought about that possibilities. I’d have to give Austin the credit for it. I was shocked, dumbfounded and devastated seeing one of my best ally leave the game. I guess Austin saw how Craig being playing and he knew Craig is smart. Nevertheless, I still have Brian and Nick and if we still go to tribal we’d be good.

Merge

Merged!!! Reunited with Izolare members, Dakota and Anthony! I also know I have Nick and Brian as my alliance. So that’s solid. But the bad thing is not all of them are in a good term with each other and I thought that it’s best not trying to convince or push all of us to be in one single alliance as that will make me seems as the controller. The idea is to be in the middle and make sure things go within my way. Trying not to be apparent as the middle as possible and while making decision still maintaining the relationship with my allies. The beginning of merge, my loyalty has always been with Anthony and Dakota. They are my number #1. Austin votes. It was almost a unanimous vote. He was the public enemy and words spreading around very quickly about his gameplay and further he dug his own grave. Izzy vote, this one was honestly really hard and turned out to be the biggest blindside of the season. It was also the first time me and Anthony voted differently. He wanted Dakota out but I myself personally see Dakota as my number my not with Izzy. Dakota is loyal and the fact that they wanted Dakota out is not in my favour. I talked about this to Anthony but he thought we won’t have the numbers but I also need to keep it as low as possible in case of idol/advantage being played. I sided with Nick, Brian, Ellie and Dakota and voted Izzy out. We voted her out was 100% based on what we saw as she is flying under the radar right now and no one really care about it. She has her own original tribe trust and they are very loyal. We need to get her out. Aftermath, I explained about my moves to everyone who were not voting with me and surprisingly they still wanted to work with me. They see me as a number they need. Perfect. No one knew who am I solid with.

Nick and Brian. They became the hot topic after that. Everyone knew they are together and they are a vote together. I need to separate them. Brian won the immunity so the only one I could get is Nick. It was a very hard decision as Nick and I bonded a lot during the swap. At that time, I also made a suggestion to Anthony and Julia about a final 3 alliance. I feel like it’s time to draw the line and prove my loyalty to this group. **DISCLAIMER: If you think I flipped flopped all the way till the end that’s wrong. I stay loyal to Anthony and only flipped to other side once**. We voted together and get Nick out. I knew I had to deal with the alliance with Brian, Dakota and Ellie after that. I told them that it was because of the duo thingy and basically using my ‘sad’ cards saying I’m scared of the power they hold and feeling at the bottom etc.

Dakota. Had to get him out because he was being messy about the Morgan made an alliance thingy and I knew it might come back to me. He has been loyal to me but I know it shattered a bit after the Nick vote, I need to vote him out as to prove myself more to the group. Same with Brian, it was definitely a group decision, everyone sees him as an overall threat. Brian and Dakota are out and the only person left is Ellie. It was supposed to be an easy vote for Ellie but Rob decided to turn Anthony and Julia against each other which was a terrible idea because three of us are working together as a group. We voted him out as he’s our only option since Morgan won the immunity. That also the voted where only 3 of us voted together and in the majority. During Julia voted, we are going to vote Morgan out but because of the incident of Julia threw my name off to Morgan before it made me feel skeptical Anthony felt the same too. Morgan and Ellie are voting her off too. Her paranoia made me and Anthony feel the need to get her out. Last tribal council, the hardest vote for me ever.. voting my best ally off. It was hard. I was contemplating about it. My hearts said no but my head said yes. He would overshadowed me in everything from our stories to the challenges is what made convinced me to write his name down. He is the epitome of good survivor player and I won’t stand a chance of winning sitting next to him.

In conclusion, I believed that I play a strong aspect in social and strategy. I always have people look around for me every single tribal and knew which vote are going to play during out the tribal. All the tribal in merge, I’ve been in majority and receive the least vote among the finalist. Lastly, I’d like to say sorry to all the host and castaway for being inactive or not really be here most of the time because of the incident I never expected. Thank you for reading this long ass plea.  