Board Thread:Season 23 - Greece/@comment-24553600-20150120024228

Well jurors, its been a long long long tribal council, and I think it's time we bring this to a close, so im going to keep this kind of short or shorter then the rest of my speeches, simply because you've heard my game, I've answered your questions, we know how this works and now I'm simply going to just make my points.

I mean you've heard us all talk about our games, you know how all know how the game works. The overall agenda of this game that we have to do: Survive. We all did that, but in my opinion if you can survive and be proud of the way you play by playing how you wanted to, that is the most important thing. I played how I wanted to, I played an honest clean game that didn't require me having to lie, manipulate, deceit or use people to get here. I used my social skills and position in the game to make myself seem like a nonentity and someone who wasn't a major threat under any circumstance in this game. To quote a not so unknown and unmentioned winner that I feel applies to my strategy, "To me the reason I got to where I am now is because other people had other agendas, they had other fish to fry. No one worried about (Sora) because (Sora) was weak." I feel like that applies so much to my game that I didn't realize it. I played up on the perception I was giving to the people calling the shots in this game, while trying to undue their positions and work on my social bonds with other people. I didn't rely on immunity wins because I didn't need it. I didn't rely on strategic moves because I didn't need to make them, although I would have liked to. I didn't need to be in complete control of the game because I knew I could get to the end just as much as I could've how I did. I didn't have to play a game where I had to hurt people to get ahead, I didn't even have to slander other people in my jury speechs for votes. Hell, the two people on the jury who were closest and played the most similar to the two I'm sitting next to both said it, they had a huge advantage in the game, they knew they didn't deserve to win and both said neither do the two I'm sitting next to. I got here with the hand I was dealt with, I used what I had to get here. I didn't have a super unbreakable alliance with three idols that had my back the entire merge, I didn't have people looking out for me or telling me what to do. I didn't have power but I fought to be here, I fought harder then anyone else in this game to get where I am. I mean even know, at final tribal council I'm up against the mega alliance still. Look at all the answers they gave, I don't disagree with saying a few things here and there about another finalists games, but both of them are actively rooting and playing for each other to win, their alliance still exists in the final 3, there both friends don't forget that either. I played with the utmost respect for every single one of you, I treated everyone the same way I would've wanted to be treated. I think if we all put 100% in this game, I put 150%. I worked to get here, I wasn't in anyones endgame, but I made it. I wasn't in power for pretty much a whole half of the game, but I made it. I went up against a mega alliance, who no matter what anyone says was a mega powerful alliance. I made it here on my own terms, I could have been taken out 37 days in this game. I was immune for the one time people were looking to cut me. They didn't because they thought I was a weak, or I was a goat. I didn't have anyone to help me, I made it here on my own. I'm proud of the way I played, and I think I played a game, worth a million dollars. This decision is yours and yours alone, I respect what ever decision you all make, thank you.  