Board Thread:Season 36 - Tikal/@comment-29109855-20161015213304

'''Hi everyone! '''

At the beginning I want to thank our dear hosts who made a lot of effort in this season to everything goes smoothly and everyone could have a lot of fun taking part in Tikal. Blake, Chris, Domonique, Grace, Jace i Sora you are amazing. Next I want to thank everyone who played in this season. You did everything what you could to do to make for me and the rest of finalists the game a big challenge. Mary, Linus - congratulations. You have done great work! I hope we are going to make this final tribal council something exciting and full of entertainment for everyone. Dear jury and the rest of contestants! I believe that you all could be here in my place, dealing with this speech. Unfortunately survivor is a harsh game and the winner is only one. And today I'm sure that I should be this person. Please, give me a chance to persuade you that my hard work is worth to be prized by your votes for me. Maybe do you think that I failed and someone else should to win this season? Give the person your vote. It's all up to you. I only hope that I was good enough. I'm sure that I was good enough but you can have different opinion. Let's start.

I played very strong game under the radar and it could be a reason why you could think that I'm an underdog. In my opinion the title isn't something what could be appropriate in describing my game. My goal was simple - to pretend a person who absolutely isn't a treat or involved in the game and I'm not someone who is dangerous and you have to have me on your mind because I can try to beat you.

Simultaneously I wanted to be a helpful friend for as many people as it was possible. Make an impression that I can help them to win the season. I wanted to be totally secured and in a good position what no one would want to change. No matter what side or alliance would win next tribal council, I wanted to be always in a win-win situation. Have as many possibilities as I could gain. Never burn my bridges and be away from the radar. I'm proud that I did it perfectly because I'm here now.

I decided to take part in Tikal to win. Simply. Main direction of my strategy I showed the hosts in my first confessional, telling them about my lie in the questionnaire.

"Why do you think you will be the Sole Survivor: I don't think too much. I simply enjoy life.

I resisted the temptation to put in the two last ones the true. They shouldn't know what kind of player I'm. I'm going to be sweet, naive and friendly. And... like always. Think only about myself and killing all em with kindness... : )"

Yes. I'm a villain. Ready for everything to survive and win. But of course I also wanted to play for pleasure because I really love survivor. It's something wonderful about sitting in the front of your screen and having a lot of fun with people, meeting new ones, enjoying chatting together. It was nice to fight against each other together. Everyone showed here his best.

I don't want to make you bored so I won't describe all the season day after day from my perspective. I'm going to be focused on this what could show you my point of view.

In my original tribe I decided to be a friend at the same time with Felix, Linus, John and Tucker. I tried to make everyone of them think that he is my closest friend and I have the greater trust in him. It seems unfair, don't you think? It's lousy charm of a villain. Despite all bad villain's behavior people often love villain. I hope that it's a chance for me, too. To be liked by you all. It was only survivor strategy for me and I honestly like all of you.

During a talk with Scott I began the topic of a majority alliance what next we made together. I told people that it was Scott's idea, I wanted to target him in their eyes. In the same time I kept good contact with Mel and Mary to have more possibilities. Also Scott offered me an alliance when I told him that I really have no one to trust here. Sorry, again, it did it to survive. I remember how I loved to make Mel suspicious about "boy's" alliance. I love adding fuel to the fire. Mel was more and more paranoid. It was good for me that she was in the centre of people's attention.

I love challenges in life so I also wanted to make the game harder for me and I didn't decide to choose a tribe and waited what is going to happen. It's always good to set in life oneself a high target.

The second tribal council after the swap was something what made me really glad. My internal villain could enjoy and I wanted to make people divided. Drive a wedge between my three allies - Linus, Tucker and Felix. Don't judge me wrong, please - I simply don't believe in alliances in survivor game. Every single person is my enemy, who need sooner or later be eliminated. Likewise, in this moment I am fighting to the death with the other finalists. Going back to the topic. Each of the boys I wanted to persuade that he is my closest ally, and I wanted to have their loyalty. I wondered who is the person what should be eliminated and bring me best benefits. I chose Tucker because he was for me the biggest threat. Witty, outgoing and with his head on his neck and confident. In addition, people in the opposite tribe really wanted Felix to be voted out because he was annoying for them. Why on earth would I help them to do it? Besides, I liked the situation with "nasty, shady" Felix and the rest who were annoyed because of his brave behavior and I decided that he should stay in the game and cause more chaos in the future. Felix, I adore you. You really shouldn't care what people think... The game is to have fun. And you were great!

Second time I wanted to get to the temple and gain the advantage for myself at a time when the tribe was divided against itself and in no way we could come to an agreement. I managed to convince everyone that I should go there and I promised to come back with an advantage for all of us. Later I brazenly lied that I couldn't take advantage for the tribe. I think that it was obvious lie for all of them and  once again I had an opportunity to show them how miserable kind of player I am. As usual, I left myself ace in the hole - I said that I only have one pearl but I didn't use the lie in the future.

After the merge for some time I couldn't be present because I traveled around the Europe and I hadn't access to the Internet. However, I had already good position in the game and no one wanted to eliminate my person. It were the consequences of my hard work from the beginning of the season. And when I had time, I talked with people, starting new contacts and gaining better position to have more place to move.

At the council, when Felix was eliminated, I could talk with everyone honestly and know what all they plan. And I could choose a side to vote with. I felt like a swing vote and decided to betray Felix, knowing that keeping him in the game and close to me sooner or later will lead me to the bottom. And I could gain the trust of others only making this decision. Especially Michael's with whom we started cooperation. I needed one more closest "allie". It was good to work with him and we wanted together go to the end. Honestly I planned to do it. I knew that Linus was the one who people saw as a person to eliminate but in this moment I wanted him to stay in the game and be my shield. I could be safe in its shadow and use it in the danger.

<p class="MsoNormal">In F8 I found out that people were planning to vote out me out and Linus. I could turn against Linus but I decided I'd better nip rumors in the bud and for purpose sent in tribe chat accidental confessional about the chance to use the immunity and that I and Linus know about the blindside. It worked. But people had plenty of ideas who to eliminate during this tribal council and all of them were telling me about the plans. The idea of voting for Anna was the best for me because I hardly ever talked with her. In the meantime I and Marie started the time zones alliance and were closer and closer with every tribal council.

<p class="MsoNormal">In F7 I had a difficult decision to make - to betray John and Linus or my new allies - Michael and Marie. I wanted to make a tie and don't vote but our hosts didn't let me to do that because I would receive 2 strikes and it would be my end in this season. This day I told Michael twice that he really should use the idol and next I voted for him. He used the idol and survived. I was really surprised when he accused Claire that she betrayed him and they believed me that I voted with them.

<p class="MsoNormal">Next days were difficult. During every tribal council I was active and talked with everyone. I did my best to make everyone sure that I'm the person who should help him to go to the end. No one voted for me, I was secured even in the moment when my best allie - Michael were voted out. I had no immunity idol and I could be in the danger when Linus had the one and the rest of the players were from the opposite original tribe. I survived because I planned all it well and knew what to tell to who and when. I'm sure that Linus wouldn't be here without all this immunity idols in the row. I could also without special effort persuade Linus to vote for Marie during last tribal council. I'm happy that people often trusted me, listed to my ideas what to do next. I should thank you all, guys! I'm grateful. And I can't say that I controlled the game. I didn't need to do that. I only chose with the rest of people who to vote out next with small amount of manipulation or persuasion. We all were here to enjoy. I'm really sad that it's the end of the season. I would love to spend with you all more time.

<p class="MsoNormal">The goal of this game is to survive. I chose my own way to survive. Maybe I didn't talk with people for hours, make friendships... But I was focused on the game. Strategy and carefully observing were my routine. I pretended and acted most of the time. Of course it was tiresome. But I was ready to sacrifice a lot to win this season. I was voted out as the last person before the final tribal council about 6 times in different seasons. Because I had done a big treat. So in this season I did my best to don't show people that I'm a tricky opponent. I cared about my every sentence. I'm a perfectionist.

<p class="MsoNormal">Much more difficult is the game without winning challenges and having special powers. I could be voted out during every tribal council. But I didn't wanted to gain people's attention. And I worked all the time to always have a choice what to do next so no idol or a special power could destroy my game (no votes for me). I believe that I owned a greater impact and opportunities in the game than Marie. And I was better than Linus because people didn't see a treat in myself and I hadn't a big chance to be blindsided or betrayed.

<p class="MsoNormal">Dear jury. You know better who deserves to win, choose the one who you think should be the last survivor of Tikal. I will respect your decision whatever you decide to do.

<p class="MsoNormal">One more little thing. I have never really talked with anyone in English before the Tikal. It was really difficult for me to talk to one person at a time, repeatedly drew on vocabulary and sometimes as in the case of slang phrases it still didn't help. And when it came to embrace many conversations at once ... it was a nightmare. I have been learning English since I was 14 so I hope you forgive me all mistakes I made here and during talking with you. In the application to the season I wrote that the greatest enemy here is English. And it was true. I'm glad that the season helped me to improve my skills. You know what? I have never written such a long text. Try to do something like that in other than your native language... You'll see. : ) I'm exhausted but I'm not complaining. It was worth it. It's about 11:30 PM... you know different time zones. One more annoying thing. It didn't help me in playing the season a bit. When people had time to talk in their late afternoon and evening it was 2-6 AM in my time zone. Horrible, don't you think?

<p class="MsoNormal">Okey. It's going be boring so I should probably finish. Thank you for reading my speech. I'm waiting for your questions. And the roses... it's from my garden. I wanted to catch butterflies but I found only flowers. 18 like the number of Tikal's contestants. : )

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