Hey there, Jury! It's been a long, hard-fought battle, but tonight it's going to be coming to a close. Throughout this game, I've made some friends, possibly some enemies, but we all played this game together & I want to personally thank you all for making this game what it has been.
Now, coming into this game, I knew I might have a sort of target on my back. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm definitely not bad at competitions & I'm a pretty strong social/strategic player. Luckily, I was put on a tribe with people that I figured I could work with. The beginning of this game was very slow & it was sort of like "Let's just vote this person" & then a bandwagon effect. I quickly established an extremely strong relationship with Easton, which helped me when I found out people wanted to vote for me right before merge. I also built a bond with Jerry who was someone that I wasn't really sure where we stood because we had just played another game together & been against each other, but luckily we worked it out & became allies. JJ was also someone that I decided to align myself with & I basically made sure that those 3 were going to be the 3 that I looked to.
My game really started right before merge when I heard people wanted to vote me out. Dante was trying to get people to turn against me which he told to Jerry & Easton. Easton immediately told me & we worked out a plan to flip the vote onto Dante. When he talked to me, Dante said to vote for Jerry, so I used that to my advantage to make sure Jerry was 100% on my side & after pulling JJ in as well, Dante was voted out.
Going into merge, I knew my ass was on the line. I was already seen as such a big competition threat that I knew if I didn't win the right competitions, I'd be a goner, so that's what I had to do. Throughout the entirety of the merge, I won 6 Individual Immunity Challenges. The only Challenge I didn't win was a spamming one & I barely lost by just 1 vote. If I didn't win enough, I knew I wouldn't be able to lock myself into a solid alliance & people would just immediately take shots at me.
I was able to not only win competitions, but I was able to manipulate people into trying to use me as a weapon as opposed to seeing me as a threat. That's why Jerry didn't vote me out at F6 & actually used his advantage to make sure we were both safe & blindsided JJ, who we assumed to be Kathy's right-hand man. Also, I was able to convince JJ to throw his vote as Evan so that we'd have a 3-2-1 majority with Jerry's stolen vote & it worked.
I only received votes at 1 Tribal the entire game & that was at Final 6. I won competitions, I played strategically, I made social relationships, & I was the biggest threat in the game since Day 1, yet I still made it all the way here as far as I could possibly go. Any moves that I made in this game were 100% strategic & 0% personal. Anything I did was to advance myself & that's the only reason I did it, so I'm sorry to anyone I may have backstabbed or turned against, but I only did it to propel myself all the way here to the Final Tribal Council.
I'm open & ready to answer any questions the Jury has! Good luck, Evan!