Board Thread:Season 30 - Svalbard/@comment-27299215-20160127033919

Before I begin I would like to give a big thank you to all of you. Whether or not we have seen eye to eye, you guys have made this game one of the most exciting games I have played online. When I joined this game, I didn’t know what to expect. Everyone was making deals left and right, and me being completely new to orgs had literally no prior relationships to anyone in the cast, and at first went with those deals. For the most part I assumed that this would be like an every day group game or frookies that I have played on tengaged, but it was Eva’s elimination that proved me wrong. At that moment I came to realize that being too nice can be seen as threatening, and when Aren went mainly due to an innocent mistake of giving an ally of mine a friendly warning, I suddenly realized that I had to change my strategy. At that point in the game, while I had been talking to virtually everyone who was on my tribe, the only one that I was close too was Wouter, and I knew that one ally wasn’t going to get me far. I decided to lay low, and play dumb, and it worked for a few days and culminated with Marco (who I was not on good terms with) being voted out. However what happened the next vote is what led to me doing a complete 360 on my gameplay. Going into tribal council 8 I was convinced that it was either Thomas or Brandon going home, with me being sent packing also a possibility due to my anti socialness with some of the cast at that time. However, Wouter was eliminated with four votes. I didn’t even know he was a counter vote at that time, and it truly made me realise how in the dark I was. I then came to the conclusion that if I wanted to stick around, I needed to give them a reason to keep me around. In comes my fight with Tatianna, in which I basically spewed BS to intentionally make myself look bad. As much as I didn’t want to take that route, I needed to do the one thing to make myself appeal to you guys, and that was make myself someone that you would love to sit next to in the final 2.

Now to say I didn’t make some moves would be a lie. I’m not going to pull an Ella and lie and take credit for 20 moves I did not make in this speech, but there are a few I want to explain. The first game-impacting move that I made came in the final 8 when I voted for Thomas. Alietta had convinced me (no convinced isn’t strong enough, drilled it into my brain is more like it) that she had a Tyler Perry Idol (hidden idol that could be used after vote. She also convinced me that Rhiannon also had an idol. While the plan was to blindside Rhi so she wouldn’t be able to use her idol, I (correctly) predicted that Rhi wasn’t as stupid as everyone was telling me that she was. She knew we were coming after her. So I came to the conclusion that she would play her idol on herself, Ali would get 4 votes (Someone was bound to flip, this move did not benefit everyone that was involved) and play her Tyler Perry Idol on herself, and the vote would be 0-0. Despite the strong possibility of a re vote, no plans had been made on who would go if both (non-existing) idols had been used, so I figured, why not give my vote to Thomas and if both idols are played, he would go home with my soul vote. My second move came during the final 5. There were two duos going into the final 5, Tatianna/Thomas and Brett/Brandon. I knew that they were each voting for the other, and who went home was completely in my hands that day. While Brandon, you were a great friend and it was an incredibly tough decision to send you home, I knew that by final 3 both duos needed to be broken up, and that Brett and I would have a much easier time convincing Thomas to flip on Tatianna, than Tatianna and I convincing Brett and Brandon to flip on each other. This leads me to my third move, Thomas’ elimination. Now I will go into this in my third/final paragraph, but we had beaten Tatianna. She lost the final 4 immunity and just as I knew we would be able to do, Brett and I got Thomas to flip. However, Tatianna had won a special idol (power, but it's basically like an idol only it makes the game even more confusing for the viewers) that for some not so unknown reason, could be used in the final 4. With Tatianna now safe, and me winning the immunity replay, I was left with Thomas and Brett as my choices. Now there are two reasons why I decided to eliminate Thomas. Reason one is that Tatianna voted for me over Thomas in the first f4 elimination vote, and I knew that due to her friendship with Thomas, there was a strong chance that she would take him with her out of loyalty to the final 2. The second reason, and as awful as it sounds is truly what Mitch and his co-hosts (mainly his co-hosts) led me to believe, is that these hosts-producers would never let me get into a position to win this game. Me winning would be their worst nightmare after all of the drama that I caused. To be honest, Thomas I respect you for going so deep into the game, but you kind of just latched onto Tatianna and enjoyed the ride. If you and me went to the finals, I’d have a really strong case against you. However, after what I had just seen with the f4 special idol, I knew that if it was me, Thomas, and Tatianna in the final 3, these hosts were going to do anything to get bff into the finals to avoid me possibly beating Thomas.

This leads me to my final part, why you should vote for me over Tatianna. If you are going to base your vote on who made more moves, I’d say we are both even. I spent the entire first half of the merge with my alliance taking orders from Wouter and Brandon, Tatianna spent her first half of the merge with her alliance taking orders from Rhiannion. The main difference being that she was more respectful about it and nicer about it in just about every single way, however you really need to take this season into scope, this is the perfect season for a villain to win. Judging by all of the comments in the org main page on fb, I am probably the most dislikable finalist in the history of this ORG. I caused fights with the cast as with the viewers of next season. Now one thing I want to go into was the fight with the Retribution viewing lounge. When I made that post I never intended to cause drama. I didn’t know that seasons tended to overlap and I just thought Retribution was starting because some people were getting impatient. When I made that post I wasn’t even expecting more than two comments. I thought someone would agree, someone would disagree, and that would be it. I did not expect 25 members of the org literally firing pistols at me, basically insulting me to their hearts content. In fact I thank three of you guys for commenting on the posts, you were the only comments that weren't insulting me. At first my instinct was to let the hateful comments go, but they just piled on and on. Normally when someone insults someone and you agree with it, you like the comment. But everyone just kept throwing insults at me and some of them got personal. That is when I decided to fight back. I've gotten into fights with some of you, but for the most part our fights never crossed that line, but in that post a lot of them did and you guys know that I’m not the kind of person to just bite my tongue and let it go, so I fought back. It was a side of me I really regret showing, however, I used it to my advantage and used the argument as a distraction from the game, ultimately putting myself in a position to have sole control of the final five vote.

One point I want to center in on was the special idol (power) that the hosts gave Tatianna at final 4. If you give Tatianna the win, the premise for this season will be, “This season was highly criticized by the community for its slow pace, boring challenges, and unlikeable powers that were viewed unfair by the community and played a large part in deciding the winner, leading to several rigging accusations.” Both Sandy and Rene (Hosts of ISurvivor and Online Survivor) were messaged by me about the final 4 special immunity idol. Sandy cursed about it in his response claiming he would never think of allowing one being played at final 4, the other called it ridiculous. It doesn’t really help when Tatianna and Kaeden are best friends outside the game (did a little fb stalking), and it especially didn’t hurt that Tatianna’s biggest enemy (Brett) lost his immunity necklace due to this.

The one thing you guys need to focus on is Tatianna is Lilian from Pearl Islands. She was voted out, only to be saved by the producers. Me winning would have a different effect on the synapse. While yes, the pacing and the challenges will be criticized, and I’m sure the power will be heavily criticized as well, but at least the winner won't be one that's described as someone who got to the end due to an unfair power. The winner instead would go down as a villain who defied the odds to get to the end (ok too much?). Well, at least the winner would be classified as a strategic villain. I know I am hated by the community, and I know I need to work on my personality, but as I explained in this speech, my personality allowed me to become very active in the votes and ultimately have complete control of the entire end game. My strategy worked. Rhiannon was eliminated in sixth place, and one member of the two remaining duos received fifth and fourth.

With that being said, in my hand are seven sticks of solid wood shaped like a cain. Please take them and feel free to beat me relentlessly with them. I know I’m in for a good jury beating here and you guys have every right to attack me (though I have stapled my weave into my head, so no one will be snatching that off today). Say what you want to say, come at me with your strongest attacks and I will give my honest response to it. I will not call anyone on the jury bitter. You will receive my honest response, and hopefully through my response, you will see that I played a game worth of winning the title of Sole Survivor.  