Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-32203428-20171216145710/@comment-4387136-20171216234955

''I am getting a lot of heat for my speech but I didn't want to write essay's worth of stuff. I want to keep it short and sweet and answer questions like yours in great detail and leave everything else until closing speeches. ''

And the reason my speech probably told people less new information is because I played my game more open than the other two and still managed to make it here.

"Every winner has one move that was theirs, that separated them from the bunch and put them on a path toward success"

''I don't think every winner has a move that was solely theirs. For sure some do! But I worked well with several different people throughout the game to get people out. People never just used me as a vote, I put myself out there wanting something done and people had similar ideas so we came together.''

''There are Survivor winners who didn't rely on moves to win. Sandra (HvV), Mike, and Sophie to name a few. Hell Sophie's last move in South Pacific was to win Final Immunity to get a big threat out and I feel like I did that with my last two immunities. Sandra's biggest move in HvV was getting coach out pre-merge!''

''That being said my biggest moves were also pre-merge. Being able to decide in my first tribal between Steffen/Zak who goes, and I chose Steffen. Morgan was blindsided but I still managed to keep his trust all the way until F4 in this game. The tribal after that I could've chosen any of Alice, Zak or Morgan to go. I chose to keep Zak around so I could have his allies and trust at merge to work with and I kept Morgan because I knew he was close to alone and I could keep an eye on his power. Choosing to keep these two people in the game is a really subtle move that payed off because I had Morgan by my side through-out this merge.''

''And I'll say it again, another move was to be the only member of my original alliance at merge to vote off Zak. I wanted to prove I was versatile in my game and I'm able to work with different people.''

Which of the other finalists deserves to win more than you and why?

''It's tough because I like different things about their games. But I'd go with Morgan! I feel like I got to know Morgan as a person more than other people did and he's been really sweet & nice for the last month to me. I don't think either of us could've done well in this game without each other. But he was given a lot of control in this merge and I respect that. He was here and actively doing something for every single tribal. He was a real driving force. He was social with me, he won the last immunity and tried to get me out which was part of his physical game, and his strategic game was better than Joanna's, especially when she lost power at F7. ''

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Tysm for listening, Jon!