Board Thread:Season 57 - Laguna Colorada/@comment-32237110-20200216163220/@comment-31555005-20200216194306

I love Timi to death and I'm proud to consider him one of my closest allies throughout this game but not once throughout this final tribal council have I tried to paint him in any negative light - I believe in the idea that if your game is good enough to win Survivor, then you don't need to shit on the people sitting next to you. Since FTC started, I have solely focussed on what I did this game, how I perceived things, and why I made the moves I made. Timi has, on the other hand, repeatedly taken pot shots at me and my game, mostly for invalid or valid but massively exaggerated reasons. I ask the jury to consider whether you want the winner of this season to be someone who is confident in the game and in the moves they've made, or someone whose resume is so limited that they feel the need to actively hurl shit at the person standing next to them. With that said, and I genuinely mean it when I say I had ZERO intention of painting his name in a bad light until he did so first - I can't sit here and take the brunt of these accusasions without standing up for myself at all. Timi threw a stone at me, so I'm gonna throw one back.

Timi has repeatedly taken credit for moves within the TC/Timi/myself trio for which he had limited influence in. He has tried to mention moves that the 3 of us made together as his only. He has repeatedly mentioned things about my game that are verifiably not true, he has drawn far-fetched conclusions about stuff I have said throughout the game in order to paint me in a poor light in front of you. In his opening statement, Timi dedicated two whole paragraphs to shitting on me, feeling the need to point out that I was "careless" and that he paid attention to every little detail whereas I didn't - funnily enough, Timi's details fail to include any knowledge of one of the biggest votes of this game, namely the Phoenix boot. Taking things up a notch, Timi describes me trying to reassure him about TC's strong game at F3 as PARANOIA - lol, what was I supposed to do, not say anything at all for the duration of the 24 hours in between him winning the challenge and voting TC out? Then he goes on to link this with the fact that pre-merge, I threw a vote on Phoenix during the Will vote. He says in his opening statement that my throw vote there made Phoenix completely distrust me, but he says in his reply to Toby's jury speech that Phoenix actually didn't want to take me out? So which one is it, Timi?

Some other of Timi's cheap shots include the self vote, which happened because I literally didn't hear my alarms (and I woke up 20 minutes after the deadline anyway) - regardless, the implication is that I didn't do anything, when in fact I was most certainly active throughout that 24h period in setting up the Phoenix vote. He also mentions the 2 strikes, what does that have to do with anything, lol? The three strike system exists for a reason - besides, Timi only found out about it after I told him in the time between reaching FTC and writing out the opening statements.

"Luca said that Toby might've still been at the final 5/4 had Toby not done the mistake he did, which just goes to show that both TC and Luca were sold on Toby and that they weren't gonna turn on him, but since TC felt betrayed and couldn't trust Toby anymore he wanted Toby out." - this is what Timi notes about how TC and I felt about Toby. This is factually untrue. I said Toby might still be at the Final 5 or 4 if we didn't take him out at F7 because he is a strong challenge player and had the idol - the chances of him making it to that point if he hadn't been cut at F7 were astronomically high.

These are just snippets of the stuff Timi has been trying to say/claim in order to sway you to vote him to win this game. My take on Timi's game? Unlike him, I won't go on about recklessness or paranoia (which I could certainly also accuse Timi of at points, but that's another story) and I won't misconstrue what him and I have talked about during the game. I will leave that to the jury, while at the same time urging you to consider that a player that feels the need to talk shit about his FTC counterpart maybe doesn't deserve the win after all.

