Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-30978190-20171215223253/@comment-4387136-20171216003219

'''What did you do, besides win immunities that kept you in the game. '''

''I only won 3 immunities. I went to 11 tribals and I was only immune for 3. In previous competitions I showed that I was strong in challenges (getting the first merge immunity) but never got voted out because of it. I lost by only 3 seconds to you in the immunity you won, I lost by a couple points to Jon the tribal Nadine left, but again I wasn't sent home and I went on a lil run of two immunities. I worked hard for them to make sure bigger threats went home and I had numbers going into the future. I never hid behind bigger targets, I let myelf be a target at F4 and only relied on the relationships I built. And it got me to do that tiebreaker. The tiebreaker was snip-its of confessionals the jurors made and I got to make educated guesses because I talked to people, I got to know their thoughts on the game and it helped out.''

''But what really kept me in the game was also my social game. I was extremely close you, but I felt close to many other people. It is a game so maybe they're one sided and they secretly disliked me but omg I hope not.''

Zak and I disliked each other A LOT before this season and we changed that and had a beautiful relationship for our time in this game together.

''I had a strong relationship with my fellow finalists, I probably got to know them better than anyone else in the game did. ''

''Hesh & Conor I also talked too. A lot of it was game but we still had a lot of trust. And yes, there was Willow. I knew her before the game started but I still got to grow to know and love her even more throughout this season. ''

''I will admit, I never had a strong relationship with CJ, Nadine, Jon or Layla. All for different reasons, but I never avoided talking to them and I never went to them just so I could tell them lies to make them comfortable. CJ was only here for the one merge round where I found out he lied to me a lot. Nadine was inactiveish at the beginning and CJ told her to not trust me so it was hard to build on that. Then Jon/Layla I only met at merge. Layla lied a lot straight to my face. Even the Zak vote I had to BEG for her to tell me the truth. Jon, I really like him but we were always on opposite sides of the game, from what I did get to know from him is he's a good guy but we both knew it was hard to work together in this game.''

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''Also I know I didn't get a lot of say in every tribal, but it wasn't for lack of trying!! I was always there begging for Willow to be spared or Conor to be spared and for Nadine to go home, even knowing I wasn't immune and I was making myself look easy to vote out and for it to all get back to Nadine. Eventually at F7 I started to get my voice heard by people and stopped being on the bottom.''