Board Thread:Season 2 - Hawaii/@comment-4136655-20150225204010

''I'm sorry if I am not active the past days. I started work last February 11 and I am only available at night and at weekends local time.''

To my fellow finalists, the members of the Jury, I greet you a good day! I’m Zion, a former member of Popoki and a member of Ohana, and I would like you, the members the members of the Jury, to vote for me as this season’s Sole Survivor.

This season has been a rollercoaster, from bonds made and bonds broken, to brave moves and interesting accomplishments. And after all of has been said and done, I have managed to get to this Final Tribal Council with mostly strategic and social play, with the help of the relationships and alliances that I have built in this game.I have been a help at tribal challenges, listening what the castaways wanted during the Merge, and also doing what I can in individual challenges even though it might not be good enough for the win. I never made serious commitments that would have serious complications (ex. I only said to DB that it would be Final 6 of me, Alex, Gerda, Tommy, Kaaitlyn and him; talked to Kaaitlyn about who is she voting against without any commitment), maybe with the exception of Tommy & Zach (who we tried to get to Popoki’s side), because I know that I might not be able to fulfill if I just say to everyone that I would take them to the end.

I would also apologize to the following: To Sole, if I didn’t talk to you much, but because you are my rival and I know you are an aggressive player that would try things to survive, I have to be careful what I say so I didn’t talk to you much. To Tommy, that I didn’t do enough to protect during Final 6. I am also sorry to the others who felt I did wrong to, but there times that I have to do those moves cause that is what I think would help me go forward to the game, which I did.

If I looked like a floater that always followed Alex’s moves, I hoped that the following statements would clear some issues up, and show that I have made decisions on my own during the game. I try to be strategic but make sure that I am at the background so I don’t get targeted, which I didn’t except for 2 instances (the supposed idol blindside and Sam’s vote). I have to clarify that the decisions of the Popoki Alliance that were made were talked about by the members in which I contributed, and there are really no leaders.

To summarize my game (although it's a long one), I have done the following things:

1. Said “Yes” to the majority alliance.

2. Made a sub-alliance (Gerda) on that alliance.

3. Obtained an idol.

4. Made an “outsider relationship/alliance” in the tribe (Chris), and eventually make him part of the alliance.

5. Helped in Immunity Challenges to strengthen the tribe and the alliance.

6. Built relationships and alliances to keep the numbers post-Merge and also to open options.

7. Used the idol at the 1st Merge TC to be safe among the uncertainty. Also voting against Yaniv (and telling Alex who voted late that time) to vote against Yaniv in case the Manu idol is used on Sole too.

8. Targeted someone that would benefit my main alliance and keep the swing voters in my side (Gerard).

'''Alex disagreed to it due to having an alliance with Gerard & Tommy, which I warned him that there could be an uprising against Popoki as the last votes have been always Manu, making DB fear for his standing in the tribe. I thank Tommy for voting already before Alex tried to convince the others in voting against Sole when I already said to the others to vote against Gerard, and I only voted against Sole (I voted late to check everyone’s activity) in order to strengthen the vote, and due the belief that DB wouldn’t give the idol to Sole because he would be in trouble if he did.'''

10.  Obtained another idol to prevent being obtained by the main target (Sole), and shifting the focus to him and the person who assisted him previously (DB) by splitting votes in order for self NOT be the target.

11. Made sure that due to having a relationship with DB, saving him by telling to vote against Sole to prevent a tie and make him trust that he won’t go home (which he wouldn’t if all followed the plan).

12. With no “enemy” left at Final 8 but Sole who got Immunity, eliminated a member from the original tribe to show that it is not necessarily a Pagonging, and also to reward the loyalty of Tommy & Kaaitlyn who was loyal earlier to Popoki than Zach (David34).

13. Eliminated the person who I have the least commitment with (Kaaitlyn), trusting that all Popoki members would unite (Misread Sam siding with Kaaitlyn than Alex, due to Sam’s earlier statements about Popoki Pride).

14. Doubting that 2 trusted allies didn’t follow the plan (Tommy & Sam; in voting against Kaaitlyn), followed the plan of the person who is least likely to go against me & Gerda (Alex) to at least force a tie at best. Also used the idol for self for being the likely target (With the rivals thinking that Gerda had the idol and Alex being the obvious threat, I could be the least possible person to have the idol used).

15. Eliminated the person that I have the least connected among whose left (Sam).

16. Tried to win the Final Immunity Challenge in order for Sole not to get it (while not the highest scorer, I still got a higher score than Sole which means Sole would still not get Immunity even if Gerda didn’t).

If there are other questions that might relate to the previous statements, just ask me and I would oblige. Thank you and I hope you would consider. 