Board Thread:Season 25 - Rome/@comment-24114312-20150407121316/@comment-25724930-20150407153841

• Do you think that you guys had a lot of luck to get here (for example; Brit would’ve gone home in Koror’s place had Josh not voted early accidentally; Ricky’s RI judges were bias against Tyler F (I’m screaming that’s a joke Ricky we all know they weren’t); Dom survived because of luck at the auction)?

I said in my opening speech that I had a lot of luck getting here and I do think it played a role, however strategy also played a role into my game play as well. Luck did play a part in it, however I got here by my own strategic merits as well.

• Dom: Why should I vote you even though you made no attempt to get to know me?

I will admit that you did start the majority if not all of the conversations we had together. However, I did try to get to know you on a personal level & open up to you by not talking game with you when we were on the New Titus together. However, I was more guarded toward you because Josh wanting to align with you after we already had numbers and me thinking you had an alliance with Ethan because of what you said on the season page's comments. I felt I couldn't trust you and when I can't trust someone, I become more guarded toward them so they can't use anything I said against me.

Also, everyone saying that I was rude to them is a false statement. I got into an argument with Grace after Ethan left & that was it. I was never rude to any of you except for the time Grace and I had the argument. In terms of me brushing people off, I didn't brush you or anyone else off. We were in opposite alliances & most of you didn't want to talk to me because you all thought the game was being rigged for me & my alliance, so none of you wanted to speak strategy or talk to me period and everyone is trying to put it off on me being a complete and total bitch and that's not what really happened.

You should vote for me because I feel like out of the three here, I played the strongest overall game. I wasn't doing anything extra, I was strictly doing what I felt I needed to do to survive, when it came to playing idols, making deals with other people to keep myself safe in the long run, etc.

Also, why vote me lmao (everyone said you were the vote against me and don’t kiss my ass in this whatsoever, I’m just wondering since idek why)?

I voted against you because I wanted to break up the alliance you, Ethan and Josh had, plain and simple. At first, I thought Ivan had the idol and was going to play it on Ethan to blindside one of us, which is why I told Ricky to play his and I played mine and I voted for you for the reason I said above and because I didn't trust you.

Finally, how did you know to make those moves — I want a long answer for this one because saying ‘everyone was shady’ does not cut it?

Ok, I literally said people were being shady ONCE & it was referring to Ivan at the F7 tribal and I told him we were for sure voting Ethan and (he could've been working or busy idk) I felt like he was taking too long to answer me back, so I felt that was shady and he was voting for me.

In terms of my idol plays, like I said in my speech, I knew you and Ethan had some sort of relationship, when you made it clear in the comments of his history of being a challenge threat, plus Josh wanting you in the alliance really bad when we already had numbers and didn't really need you as a number if we were staying Fans strong. Then we spoke about the vote and you said it's between Ethan and Brittany. Like I said earlier, I thought at this time, Ivan had the idol and you would convince him to play it on Ethan, which is why I asked Ricky to play his on Brittany. I played mine on myself, simply because I was paranoid.

For the second idol play, I was going to always play an item anyway, whether it was my orb or my idol, whichever I felt was necessary at that time, so either Ethan would've ended going home 3-2 or he would've went home 3-0. Either way, whichever item I had already planned to play, I would be safe that round, anyway.

I also wanna let it be known, tribal council would come and my alliance had a game play already in place beforehand. It would take nothing but us confirming with each other and then we would vote because why wait and draw tribal out any longer than it has to be? Every time I played an idol, I played it almost immediately after tribal came out.

I know this part of your speech:(even though I don’t know how you knew to be, a lot of your moves worked but you really should’ve had no idea they were even gonna happen) is referring to the rigging rumors that are out there so I want to address it now, so thanks essentially for bringing it up. I'm here at this FTC, yes because of luck but also because I worked hard to be here. I played both idols at the right time, not because I had help but because you made it obvious, you, Josh and Ethan formed some sort of relationship that I needed to watch out for and I was going to play an item/idol when Ethan left, so regardless (as I explained above), he would've left anyway. Like you said, I played a strategically strong game. I made sure I was always in a somewhat safe position so I could move on to the next round, then to the next, and so on.