Fair warning, this is gonna be bloody long:

Alright. So were sitting here at the final tribal council where in theory the 3 remaining castaways should be the 3 best. And we have to prove to yall why. Outwit, outplay, outlast. Those are the 3 aspects of survivor and I’ve done all 3 phenominally. We will start with outplay. This season all 3 members of this jury were in the original crocodile tribe, this allowed us to focus on parts of the game outside of who to vote for. Following the tribe merge however I was on a tribe with only a 4-3 majority compared to a 5-2 majority however both sides having numeric advantage from the original crocodile tribe meant that even at this stage there was minimal play to be had. Obviously outplay has far less value when theres no camp-life activity to do but in terms of challenges I took 2 individual immunities (admittedly Ian took 4) however I wasn’t particularily bothered by whether or not I was immune because of my impact in the other aspects of this game. In my outlasting, it’s largely for you the jury to decide however I had strong connections with many of you as I tried to build bridges with everyone and have strong social connections. Yes I lied to many of you as you were leaving the game but I had to leave as little chance as possible for you to think you had to try to make desperation plays. As we observed with Bura towards the end of the sim, desperation can often save a player. I apologize if anyone felt offence at those lies however I felt it necessary to minimize the possibility that the votes would not go as planned. Which is a nice segway into the largest and by far most impressive part of my game, Outwit. This is going to be the hardest portion of my game to prove because so much of it is psychological. I want to be clear that I don’t claim that I controlled anyone. That isn’t what I did because thats to obvious and makes targets of people. What I did was quietly influence people to convince them that the person I wanted out was the person they wanted out as well. Was this always what I did? No. But often enough votes fell exactly how I pointed out to my allies because I suggested quietly to people that it was the best way to lay out the votes.

Ever since just prior to the merge I have been working behind the scenes to get the person I want out each week out. Early game I used my opportunity to build connections with the right people and come the merge I was able to use those connections to quietly influence this game. The first instance was having Ace evicted. I realised that Ace was a threat that could potentially be overlooked late game similar to myself so I started whispering to Bura that Ace was looking to get him out. When the merge came I amped this up that Ace was gunning hard for Bura and used Buras paranoia and fear of elimination to help convince the rest of the cast to evict Ace. Bura told his allies that Ace would be an issue for them and I whispered to others that maybe having someone so driven for a specific person may not be advantageous to their own game later. Ace went home. Week 2 when Derp went home was one of the hiccups in my game. I lined up what could have been a massive move in saving derp and sending Sasu out of the house. I had lined people up to be willing to make a move including a second flipper in the form of Bronson and thanks to the split we were guarenteed to have the numbers even if Bronson decided he didn’t want to risk the flip. Unfortunately Derp went to Bura and told him I was setting up a blindside. I knew immediately that they would no longer split the votes and I couldn’t risk the move any longer. I made sure Bronson wouldn’t do anything and followed through on voting for Ian in order to keep trust with both sides of the house.

Every week I was making these kinds of plays where I knew what each side was doing, having both sides vote where I would like them to, then positioning myself to pick who I wanted  to go home. Everybody trusted me because I told both sides I was double agenting for the other. This made sure that even if each side of each week spoke to each other they’d think I was simply double agenting for them. It also guaranteed me neither side would ever target me which made immunity largely worthless for me.

Tay going home was not my choice however I knew Ian would be using his idol to save vergi so I figured what the hell let it be burnt. By this stage in the game I had a phenomenal influence over Ian, Bronson, and Bura. Not to say it was purely business. I felt close to all 3. But I was able to pretty firmly control where they voted each week. When Vergi finally went home I really strengthened my trust with Ian by telling him beforehand that Vergi was going home and telling him we had the votes no matter what so if he wanted to stay loyal and vote with Vergi he was welcome to. Following this were perhaps the 2 weeks where my influence was most obvious and first sasu, then wesley, went home despite the initial instincts of both Bronson and Ian being to evict Bura. I needed Bura in the game as both a meat shield (sorry again dude) and another vote I could sway. I convinced both Ian and Bronson it was time to send sasu home (thanks in part to him taking the idol clue) and the following week when they felt Bura really needed to go, I swung em both to send wes home instead. I can’t claim that I was the sole reason those 2 went home, thats silly. But I was a big part of swaying to make sure those 2 went home and make sure I really did have control over everyone left in the game.

Enter the final 5. We had Bura, Bronson, and Ian all of whom were taking me to the final 3 and who I had sway over in voting, and Clasped. Who was the goat. No offence dude but u even admitted it urself. I felt very confident that no matter who won the last 2 immunities I would be going to the final tribal. Bura even congratulated me immediately after Bronson was evicted on making the final tribal just to signify how firmly entrenched I was. At this point it was time to cut Bura. Theres only so much influence you can exert and there was no way I was convincing the others not to cut him, and beyond that, he was the biggest threat to win. But Bura managed to hold on and I congratulate him for that whole heartedly xD I’m not sure how he got Clasped to make such a silly play but he did and it was impressive. Bronson went home. I suddenly felt a lot less secure in the final 4 because Bura had established he was incredibly persuasive. Despite this I held to my guns and made sure Bura and Ian both felt they had to evict the other going into the final immunity challenge. When Ian won the final immunity Bura almost pulled it off and got the others to evict me instead but my work to make him look like such a huge target, and a season of using him as a meat shield paid off as he was still sent home as the bigger target. Though not without ruining my run of 0 votes to evict unfortunately.

All this summarizing is to explain my mindset every step of the way and how exactly I played such an excellent game throughout. Ian obviously can’t admit to letting me influence him but I hope that both Bura and Bronson will be realistic enough to realize that my influence was there all game. To be clear, I do NOT take credit for every play they made through the game. Thats insane. I only take credit for my ability to use them to make what I wanted, happen.

I’m hoping you guys are able to recognize the game I’ve played here and that I was able to clearly explain it. I do think I’ve played the best game of the 3 of us and very early in my confessionals I was confident my game would get me to this position and all I have to do here is prove with my speech that I deserve this. Hopefully I’ve done so and yall are able to make an informed decision now. If you still have questions by all means hmu.