Board Thread:Season 10 - Côte d’Ivoire/@comment-13493331-20131221205037

Hey Everybody. Let me just start by saying thank you to all of you for making this one hell of a season. It was an amazing opportunity to be a part of Season 10.



Now I just want to take a little bit of time (and by a little bit I mean a lot because Lord knows I have a whole lot to say about this game) to tell you why I think I should win the title of Sole Survivor.



In this game there are several things you have to do. You need to be able adapt. You need to be able to socialize and make friends with people. And you need to Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast.



Now I spent my entire 39 days adapting my game plan in order to make sure I was in a good position to make this Final Tribal Council. At first my plan was to stick with a loyal majority alliance (Mike, Isaac, Emma, and Cass) and just work our way through the game together. However, that plan was shot as soon as Cass convinced Mike that we had to get rid of Isaac. So I then adapted my game to playing with loyalties to one person and one person only: Mike. Next we had the tribe swp and I was forced to change my game again, shifting to a “lay-low” approach. Then when we merged I shifted my game plan again to taking control of the Nerd Herd alliance with Connor, Tyson, Zach, and (of course) Mike. From the moment this alliance formed I helped command the boot order of the game, while still working to let Mike and Connor feel like they had power. After Emma cleverly idoled Connor out, I once again had to adapt my game by making sure I won challenges so that I could send Mike to the idol cave and thus keep control of the idol game. I then continued on with my alliance with Mike allowing the two of us to command the boot order, convincing people to vote for who I knew needed to go, while still trying to make sure Mike felt like he had some control, so he didn’t flip on me.



I also made sure to never forget the social aspect of the game. I made sure that I was friends with every single member of the jury (except for Sam, we just didn’t have a chance to talk much). I was constantly talking to everyone, not even about the game, just about random stuff so that they felt like they could trust me and be my friend.



<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">As far as Outwit, Outplay, Outlast goes the fact of the matter is I controlled 5 out of 7 of your vote outs, I won 6 individual immunity challenges, and frankly I outlasted all of you despite being the player who attended the most tribal councils this season.

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Now, I’m not going to sit here and trash Mike’s game. The fact is we worked together from Day 1 and he did play a good game and he was a good ally for me, but my game was better. We wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t worked my ass off in those challenges. We wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t sent him to the idol cave time after time. We wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t made sure the post-merge boot order went the way it did. Now, Mike is my bro to the end. He is the Gervase to my Tyson, the Stephen to my JT, the Amanda to my Todd, the Chelsea to my Kim. But the fact of the matter is in every power duo there is one player who commands the game more than the other and in this season that was me. So please vote for the player that was constantly adapting, vote for the player that took the time to become friends with you, vote for the player that dominated in the challenges, vote for the player that controlled this game. Vote Sharky for Sole Survivor. (And that sounded way more politiciany than I thought it would :3) <ac_metadata title="Vote for Sharky (Rawr)"> </ac_metadata>