Board Thread:Survivor 25: Resurrection/@comment-26362898-20170704150124

Hi guys, so I first want to start by saying that I have had so much fun playing this season and it was a pleasure playing with all of you. I would also like to thank the hosts for putting on an amazing season!! Now let’s get to my game, like any player who has made it far in this game there were aspects of luck that allowed me to get here. Looking at the pre-merge I was extremely lucky to not go to tribal but luck wasn’t all that saved me from tribal council pre-merge. I was an integral part of my tribes success but it was a large group effort. During the merge I did what I usually do in games, I try and build relationships with people and for the most part I did, and that is my view in the game, the personal relationships are the ones that tend to focus on and although I didn’t do that with all the people I was on tribes with I feel like I did that with most people. Coming into this season I didn’t know a lot of people, in fact I knew of 4 people, Ry, Hunter, Nathan and Aren. I had a strong relationship with Ry and that was one I wanted to keep secret because I didn’t want to be seen as a pair. I knew Nathan and Hunter and I have played with them before but I didn’t know where I stood with them and Aren and I played on a season where he was eliminated first so we never got to form a relationship back then. But other than that I knew nobody and nobody knew me, and that scared me! I was playing a game where everyone knew everyone so I was seen as an easy out and that is exactly why I was happy I never went to tribal until the merge. I was seen as an easy out as I knew people like Josephine were wanting me out at tribal. But thankfully I never had to go to tribal until the merge. At the merge I had been forging a strong relationship with Julia who had been giving me information about the other people in the game and I really was upset and shocked when Julia was voted out because I felt like she was what I needed to play my game successfully and she was honestly the only person I trusted. My vote for Joan at the next tribal came after Cali came to me and exposed the game Joan was playing. During this time Jenna, Charlie and I formed what I thought was an alliance and it was something that I was 100% loyal to, I never spoke to anyone about what was said in the group chat that we had. It then came to the Cali vote wherein I did vote for Cali, because I was assured that the alliance between myself, Jenna and Charlie was secure and then my loyalty was questioned and I realised that if they don’t trust me then I should take my game into my own hands. Jenna had to go, for my game it was the best decision for me. The next tribal is where Trent and myself really got together and along with George we sought to get out Aren who we thought was being being controlled by the Charlie/Zak contingent and unfortunately that didn’t go our way and George was voted out which really upset me because I didn’t want George gone and I felt like after Julia, George was one of the only people I trusted. Next came one of my biggest regrets in the Andy vote, I wish you an I stuck to our plan and voted for Zak! I was super upset when you left. Moving forward to the Nathan vote out, I struggled hard with that vote, I didn’t want to write your name down and that is why I took forever to send my vote in, from the merge I wanted to go to the end with Nathan, I genuinely didn’t want to write your name down. I was struggling with your vote off, I was essentially being forced to put your name down because for some reason Trent didn’t want you in the FTC. I was uncomfortable, I wasn’t being listened to and I, like most instances in the game I was shut down. Which led to me falling asleep before I could vote. People thought they could control me, I wasn’t controlled. I always voted in a way which benefitted me. I didn’t vote people out who were an asset to me. Once people show me they didn’t trust me or they showed me that I wasn’t a part of their plan I wasn’t working in their best interests. I knew that my best bet was to be that guy that people thought they could tell their plans to and just think that I would listen to them and be their little lapdog. People tried to control my vote throughout the game and I let them think that but nobody can say that I was someones puppet, I played my own game and sure I might have turned my back on people but I only turned my back on people after they did the same. I started this game on the back foot, I came in knowing next to nobody, I was seen as expendable and I was seen as wishywashy. I admit I didn’t play the best game and I didn’t play the flashiest game but I did play the game, my game was quiet and calculated, I focused on relationships as I knew those would get me far in the game and regardless of how I feel about some of the thing that have been said about me in game I do genuinely like all of you. 