Board Thread:Season 12 - All-Stars/@comment-6011150-20140218023400/@comment-4062486-20140218062823

I don't think I just voted with my alliance til final five. As I told you, I wasn't just a passive member of the alliances I was in. I told people to vote someone several times and they listened to me. I was a much more powerful person this time around than I was last time. I wasn't just a vote in this game, I was an active strategist and a social player.

Yes, I admit I did pull off quite a few moves with Adam but I wasn't just simply doing what he wanted. I was always open about what I wanted and also convinced him to go on a different route several times (like keeping Lloyd over Mike, keeping Andrei over Ash etc). I think you, Ben, saying that I merely voted with my alliance til final five is the same ignorance you have been accusing me of since the beginning. You accuse me of several things and then do the same right back to me. Weird, don't you think?

Yes, I did have a tough time in final five, but I wouldn't say I completely fell apart. In the end I decided to go with my oldest ally in this game, which was you. I had been with you since day one like I had been with Adam and I knew I could trust you. I also could trust Andrei, which is why I felt bad that he wasn't safe in the end. At that moment I didn't trust Lloyd so much anymore because he had kept information from me.

As I've said before, keeping several allies is as much of a strategy than is voting them out. I knew that in the end it was either Taylor or Ben who was going to go, and I wanted to stay true to Taylor. I also knew that there was a possibility of a final two, or at least it seemed like that, and I knew that in that case I would have been a lot more safe with Taylor because Ben would have chosen Lloyd over me and vice versa.

Yes, my gameplay this season wasn't perfect but whose was? Ben and Lloyd certainly didn't play a perfect game either. At final five I did have to make a really difficult decision, but since I held all the cards at that point and it was up to me to really determine who was going to go, I think it did show I was a powerful player too.

I'd say my most defining moves as a player (without Adam) was getting out both Zac and Uli. Yes, voting out Zac had already been in the agenda as had been voting Uli, but after we lost Adam our alliance was damaged a lot. It was me who brought Taylor, Andrei and Lloyd together to vote against the same person, and me who built the bridge between them (because Taylor and Andrei both had wanted Lloyd out and Uli had told him about it, which is why he was unsure about trusting them). I convinced both sides that they could trust each other and ultimately convinced Lloyd not to take out Taylor, but take out Zac. Lloyd himself told Ben about our vote too so in the end he joined us. I also kept the alliance together and made Lloyd vote for Uli at final six.

I know final five was a weak moment for me but I honestly think we all have had our weak spots in this game. If you are going to judge my game, don't judge it based on just a few tribal councils: judge it as a whole. I think it's the whole game that really speaks about what the player and their potential.

At least whatever I did, I am being honest about it now. Ben however as you have seen is trying to take credit for moves that weren't really his. In the end Andrei's elimination was caused by me since I gave Taylor an idol and later convinced the rest of the final four to vote for Andrei. I had to fight more to get here than did Ben and Lloyd, and had to deal with greater obstacles. They were never in any real danger of being voted out. I was, but I still came out of it and I think it says something about me as a player. I used my social skills at the time, saying to Ben and Lloyd what they both wanted to hear so they would keep me around. I didn't merely beg.