Board Thread:Season 39 - Morocco/@comment-30945643-20170402204203/@comment-30945643-20170405154118

'' I was just informed by Trent that if Kristen ends up not posting a speech, the voting deadline of 1am est tonight (around 13 hours from now) is going to stay in effect, so I’m writing this in the event that I don’t get a chance to say anything else. ''

 Kristen, I’ll keep refreshing until the deadline in hopes that you do post your speech because I would like for the chance to apologize for the way I acted during the F9 Immunity challenge and Tribal, I have something written up that I would like to get the opportunity to say to you. And if you do choose not to write a speech I’d be really offended that you couldn’t even take the time to type two sentences because that would be pretty disrespectful to me and Tate, to the other jurors, but moreso to the players that would have loved to be here like Scott, Ben, Malik, Dalton and Gevonte. I know that you would still have a vote and I should be diplomatic, but being minimally active after your torch is snuffed is an extremely important part of the game, and I’m not going to act like I’d understand because I absolutely would not.







 This is is very likely going to be the last thing you all hear from me in Morocco, so I want to take a moment to address the last two or three people that haven’t made it clear where their vote is going...and it’s probably obvious who I mean by that.

 When I came into Morocco, I definitely didn’t know what I was getting into, but more than anything I was going to make sure that however things ended up, the last thing anyone would call me was “passive” or “forgettable”. I’m new to this and I know that I’m not a truly great player yet, but here in Morocco I did my best to put in a performance that was more than just safe, but one that was great.

 Of course I fell short of perfection by a whole fucking lot, and we all know that Anna and Brett are the two people that deserve to be here over me and Tate, but I consistently took the risk of setting up and being a part of the season-defining moments that we all still talk about. I walked a high-wire from the merge onward, I played with aggression and every single one of you wanted me gone because of it, but I’m here because every chance that I took paid off and I was smart enough to capitalize on that.

 Tate said he overcame a lot because of the swap, but let’s be real, I overcame much, much more adversity, and when I did my solution wasn’t to go under the radar like his was (no knock on UTR gameplay). I had to fight my way here. Tate went to one tribal at Najma (because Anna and I threw two challenges and personally I tried to throw the third) and in that one tribal, he misplayed his idol and lost his only ally, which was the worst possible outcome for him. Just like I got lucky at Final 4 against Brett, Tate got lucky that Najma won the first two challenges, otherwise it’s doubtful that he would have made merge at all. Brett had flipped me (which was because I miscalculated) and I was the biggest target at Final 5 in a 2-3 minority. Even Anna was ready to vote me out at Final 3, and I fought through it when all of you wanted me gone and none of you, especially Tate, wanted to be at FTC next to me. My game from F5 onward had to be perfect, because I couldn't beat Anna or Brett, and I knew that Romain wouldn't take me to the end. This matchup with Tate was the ideal situation for me at F5, and I worked so hard to get it. I convinced Anna that she needed me at F3 to be her meatshield (when in reality she was the threat), I personally made the strategic decision to target the two people Tate would take to the end over me (Brett and Romain) and I made it happen with this season's only successful item play and then by killing it on the tie breaker (yes there was a big element of luck because Brett killed it too, but keep in mind that we both tied the highest 20 questions score in the ORG’s history, and the only reason that the tie breaker was not between Tate and I was because I decided that it would be Brett). Building up a big résumé  (french word for Romain) in this game isn’t easy because it draws attention to you, but I welcomed the challenge and I pulled it off. I had more influence on the game than anyone, and I still managed to outlast everyone.

 Every round, the person I wanted to target went home because I was creative and aggressive enough to make it happen. When Whitney finally lost immunity and people wanted her out, I felt like it was better to pit her and Aras against each other and I didn’t want Kristen to be used as a number so I sabotaged the split vote to get Kristen out. At F8 I wanted to take out Zak because without him Aras would never be able to get the numbers to blindside me (I had the idol anyway), so I spent weeks planting information to Brett, Romain, Tate, and Aras about how untrustworthy Zak was and then he went home. Tate, Aras and Zak had a final 3 so it broke that up and took out someone who wanted to work with Anna which made her even more loyal to me. When Aras started targeting me I decided t was time to take him out and I gathered the numbers and rallied all the people that I already turned against him a week earlier and so he went. Then I decided to take out Romain, so that Tate had one less person he could take to the FTC over me (because he certainly couldn't take Anna, and taking Brett would have been a blowout as well, it seems). Then I decided that Brett should go next because I knew that without Brett, I was almost assured to go to FTC no matter who won FIC. This isn't even including the premerge votes that I controlled, or the vote steal that I didn't need, the idol that I had no use for during the first 5 votes of the merge. The boot order was almost totally how I would have wanted it because I made it that way. I went to more tribals than any anyone (12) didn't receive a vote until the tenth, and I got my my target out every single time. I haven't voted incorrectly once, even with vote splits. I orchestrated all of those votes but the last, and when I finally wasn't in total control and the numbers were stacked against me, I squeezed my way through it in super exciting fashion and that's why I played a controlling game, a strategic game and a winning game.

 When people look at this season, I don’t think that the highlight for anyone is going to be all of the times that Tate or anyone else managed to go with the numbers without drawing attention to themselves...I think people are going to remember, among many other things, the risks that aggressive players like you all and I took because that’s what made this season lit as fuck . People are going to remember Aras and I gunning for each other, they’ll remember Whitney scaring the shit out of a 7 person majority with just a few items, they’ll remember Brett scrambling his way off the block for almost the entire merge, or the Zakriah blindside that Aras, Romain and myself all orchestrated together, and they’ll sure as fuck remember the idol plays, the blindsides, and the all-around high level of gameplay that I was directly or indirectly responsible for. You’ve all spoken to me during the season about how important it is to attack the game and to be proactive, not reactive. Well if you want a winner that’s going to represent Morocco with the ambition, the creativity, and the courage that we all valued in our gameplay, then with all due respect, I’m your guy.

 This shit is almost done and it’s been a fucking mess, no doubt. But I hope that in spite of whatever, that you vote for the person that you think played the best game. If that’s Tate in your mind then that’s how you should vote 100%, but I think that even Whitney is objective enough to know that between the two of us, the game that I played was better. Not perfect, but better. I hope you think so too.



I'm fucking pooped but if anyone has anything else to ask I'm down.

It's been the time of my life playing with all of you, I'm fucking exhausted at this point but it really has. Thanks for giving me a run for my money, Tater.



See you all later!