Board Thread:Season 12 - All-Stars/@comment-3966394-20140216170807/@comment-4062486-20140218054233

In this season, I was from early on a much more strategic player. In Hawaii all my alliances were pretty much created for me and I just went along with them. This time I created alliances myself and helped my allies in other tribes also find their alliances. Early on I already saved several allies of mine such as Alejandro from being targeted. Unlike last time, I had connections with pretty much everyone and I knew well what was going on in the other tribes as there was always someone giving me info. I do feel I did around the same when it came to challenges, maybe a bit more dedicated. I do think the fact that I won immunity over several challenge dominators still proved I am good at challenges too.

But I didn't want to be a noticeable threat such as Ash who we had our eyes on early on. I knew that since I was a winner, I needed to be more careful. I wanted to do good in pre-merge challenges, but post merge I knew that I should win immunity only when I had to. Had I for example won immunities a lot more and then not do that at final six for example, I could have gone out. I know Ben was thinking about doing something against me and had I been more of a challenge threat, I'm sure there would have been some more people doing that.

My strategy indeed was to get to the end with people who were loyal to me. But I didn't want anyone as threatening as Sole there. Already last time Sole would have beaten me had he gotten to the end, and I felt it was probably so this time as well (because according to rumours he wanted me out). My goal was to take out the people that were dangerous in my opinion before the final five. On that point, Taylor, Andrei and Lloyd were all good options for me as they were all really loyal players. I felt that having someone there who I couldn't trust would have been much more of a disadvantage for me. People have fallen right before Final Tribal and it's something I wanted to avoid. It sure is a very painful way to fall, especially when you get so close. So keeping your allies and especially going with your older alliances (such as me going with Taylor in that case) can be just as much of a strategy as voting them off.

The reason why I think I deserve to win this season isn't because I am nice. Being nice - sure it can be a strategy you can use on Survivor to backstab people, but it doesn't really make you a great player. I think that people should vote for me because I played the best game out of all the three remaining players. I socialized, I strategized and I also did well in challenges. I feel that Ben and Lloyd didn't really do as well in those three areas as I did. I don't expect sympathy votes, I really want people to vote for me cause I believe I played the best game.