Board Thread:Survivor: Skye Islands (Season 12)/@comment-25615280-20151017034606/@comment-25270574-20151018010631

Thank you, Will!

I know that my game was not flashy. There are many people who were front-runners to win, made power moves, and gave everyone reasons to root for them throughout this game. I was never one of those people, and I am well aware of this. What I was was a strategic player, a player who knew what had to be  done in order to put me in the spot that I'm in. I have been in every position there is: I was on the bottom, the next person to go. I was in the minority. Then I made a statement and added myself onto the bottom of a majority. I worked my way up into being a secure position in my alliance. By the last vote, everyone wanted me to vote with them, and nobody wanted to vote against me.

I set out to play this games with the mentality that allies and friends are not the same thing, and I feel that I proved that I kept that philosophy throughout the game. I made tough decisions, made myself vulnerable, and took risks. I definitely did not play a perfect game, but if I was given a chance to start this game over, I feel I wouldn't change anything I've done, because everything in this game had led to me being here, in my first ever final tribal council. with a true, fair shot at potentially winning this season.

In a matter of time, you will all be casting your votes for which of us in the final 3 you feel played the game most deserving of the win. I hope that your perception of my game, my answers to each of these jury questions, and the ways we've interacted with the game will be enough criteria for you to choose to write my name down. I'm not expecting anything, Nuno and Sarah are fierce competitors and they've each played good games for their own reasons. I have done all I can do at this final tribal council to lay my game out for your clarification and your scrutiny. All I can do now is hope for the best and expect the worst.

Thank you all for making this season on of the most fun games I've had the opportunity to be a part of. I'm grateful to have had a chance to meet and get to know each of you, and for those who I have yet to get to know, hopefully we will get a chance to get better acquainted in the future. Whatever happens happens, I had fun and at the end of the day that's all I can ask for!