Board Thread:Season 34: Romania/@comment-24215409-20180825193137

Hey everyone! I’m pumped to be here in the final 3 of Romania! What a great season. It’s been a pleasure meeting each and every one of you. It wouldn’t be an ORG finale speech without thanking the hosts for giving me the wonderful opportunity to play this season! You guys did great! Thank you!

This game was a lot of fun. It’s kinda sad that we reached the end but here we are at Final Tribal Council and I’m going to be fighting really hard for your votes because I want to win this game, not because I think I deserve it, but because you do.

Now I would to plead my case to you the jury on why I believe I should be declared Sole Survivor.

Right off the bat, I went right into socializing. I thought to myself, I need to set up a strong social game for myself I want to make it through to the end. In my original tribe. I just started talking to everybody. I got myself involved in an alliance of Austin, Julia, Kailyn, and myself. It was to establish a majority. Even though I already had a majority, I also continued talking to the people outside of this alliance to maintain a strong social game, so it won’t bite me in the butt later on. It also led to Rob into making an alliance with me and Julia. I felt like my relationship are strong with my original tribe members.

When I got swapped, I saw Connor in the tribe, and he had recently blocked me due to unfortunate OGI circumstances. I knew I had to quickly shift gears if I were to make it out of there alive. I decided to be much more aggressive and went to Dakota and Anthony: “Hey, I’m going to be straight up, do you guys want to make a fucking alliance” and I formed a final four alliance of me, Rob and those two. I was also trying to keep up my social game with Izzy and Ellie hoping those two understand where I was coming from. The Connor’s tribal was the test to see where the people’s loyalties lies. Julia joined us, and I felt like we had more than enough numbers to survive another tribal in case we ever went to one. I just kept up my physical game a bit to make sure that we don’t have to go to another tribal.

Once merge hits. I was thrilled to make it far and I was counting on making new relationships with new members of the tribe and my old relationships as numbers moving forward. I  The first vote was just everyone agreeing to vote out Austin due to several people being upset with him. I knew it’s just smart to lay low for a bit. I wasn’t as thrilled voting Austin out because I knew it meant losing a number, but I couldn’t stop it. The next vote was supposed to be an easy vote. People originally wanted to vote out Ellie for several reasons. However once Dakota started leaking things straight to Ellie, Ellie came to several of my alliance members, and they all started panicking a little. Brian and Nick came up with an idea to secretly blindside Dakota. So the alliance of 7 was formed with those 2, Izzy, Rob, Julia, Anthony and myself. They had this idea of splitting up the votes between Ellie and Dakota. I felt like something was off, but i couldn’t place it. Like I thought it was just a scheme to trick me and my allies into voting one of our alliance member out. I still trusted Dakota at that point and I didn’t exactly want him to leave.

That’s when the blindside happened. I was so shocked. Not the fact that they blindsided us, but more of the fact that they blindsided Izzy out of everybody. I immediately found myself in the minority 5-4.

I knew in order to save myself, I went ahead and tried to make an alliance of everyone who was on the wrong side of the votes. My phone was glitching out so I told Rob to just make it. Us four consist of Anthony, Julia, Rob, and myself got together. 1 by 1, we all blurted out our advantages in the game. Julia told us that she have an extra vote. Anthony told us that he have the last premerge idol. I knew I had to tell them that I found the merge idol. I was originally gonna keep it a secret so I could protect myself later in the game, but the situation is a lot more dire.

Our plan was to win immunity, idol 2 out of us 3, and pray. If we were successful, all we had to do is stick together at final 8 and use the extra vote to avoid rocks. Unfortunately for us, Brian bested all of us and won immunity, leaving us with 50-50 odds. I decided to be really aggressive, and tried to flip people in such an obvious way that the other side might be annoyed with me. I was hoping they would redirect all of their votes to me. I straight up told Brian that I was voting out his closest ally Nick to see how he would react, and I knew it would spark something behind the scenes on the other side. I tried to pull in Dakota and Maya, knowing that Anthony was in an original tribe with those 2, I also pulled in Anthony to help my case. Out of nowhere Dakota decided to add the entire f***ing game to the alliance chat. I simply shrugged it off and stopped wasting my time and energy on Dakota as it seems like a lost case. The results was us able to convince Maya to flip, which I actually had no part of. We were very lucky since we idol’d out the wrong person.

The numbers shifts in our favor again! Brian won another immunity… again. It kinda threw a wrench in our plan. We all just decided to vote out Dakota since some of us are tired of his antics. I told Brian what was happening, and he wanted to get something started with me and Anthony. I didn’t want to straight up tell him no, so we told him we can get something going after Dakota’s vote. The vote went smoothly, with Julia casting her extra vote to ensure we don’t go to rocks.

One of my biggest influence in this game was being able to get a group of 4, and make all of us stay together through rough times, and making sure that we get out of the minority unscathed. Once we became the majority, things gotten a little bit more complicated again.

It was final seven, and Anthony won immunity. I was actually relieved Brian didn’t win this week. He wanted me and Anthony to do something about the vote, and I suggested an idea of what we could do. After talking it out to Anthony, we ultimately decided that it’s a much better idea to stick with the alliance we had. This was my first and my only tribal this entire game that I straight up lied to someone. I felt bad and I actually regret this decision. Anthony told me that Brian had some kind of advantage of sort, and I was worried that it could backfire if I told him the truth. After he got voted out, he willed his legacy advantage to Anthony.

Final 6 came, my alliance was starting to get a little bit paranoid. We all knew that all 4 of us were potentially bigger threat than the people outside of it. I decided to take another immunity win. To my luck, Rob told me after I won it that people were planning my blindside and I apparently thwarted that. My original plan was to stay loyal to my core alliance of 4, but our members already started plotting against each others. Rob wanted me to vote out Julia. I heard him out, and I went right into strategizing it with the remaining players. In middle of it, Rob told me that he thought I was voting him out. I had no idea how to react to it. We didn’t end our conversation well. I even asked everyone if they were voting Julia, and none of them told me they were. Anthony told me he was voting Maya out, so I went for it. I admit that I never had any intentions of voting out Rob. I voted out Maya here and I got played. It might be my biggest downfall, but my other qualities this game should redeem that.

At final 5, knowing I was on the outs, I gunned for immunity, and ultimately lost. I knew that if I were to get out of the mess there, I have rely on my social game. I spent the entire day campaigning to Anthony. I spent the entire day campaigning to Maya, and I spoke to Ellie the very first time since Austin’s vote. I ended up making a final 3 alliance of Maya, Ellie and myself called the underdogs. I managed to convince them and Anthony that Julia was huge threat and none of us were winning if she sat next to any of us in the end. I even put a doubt in Anthony’s game and told him that he could also easily lose final tribal council if he sat next to Julia. I survived the vote 4-1, which meant my hard work paid off.

Final four came, and I knew I had to make sure Anthony does not win final immunity. I felt like he was the biggest obstacle between me and winning the whole thing. I went HARD for this immunity, staying up longer than 24 hours. I was so much more dedicated to this than Maya and Ellie ever were. Plus safety and a guaranteed spot in the finals are huge plus!

To sum things up: I played this game hard, I socialized like never before, I constantly got myself involved in multiple alliances, and even creating some of them. I was loyal to an extent, lied when I needed to, won multiple immunities, found an idol, participated in blindsides, was blindsided myself, like everything is there that fits the resume of a winner.

I know that my speech is a bit long, and can seems gamebotty at times, but that’s just who I am. Some of you already know that I have a history of constantly losing the jury votes, nearly missing out the wins. I really hope that I win all of your hearts and your votes. I really want to win this game. I really think I do deserve it. All of the reasons I stated above, but not limited to, are reasons why I should deserve to win the title of Sole Survivor of Romania.

Thank you! 