First, off I want to thank Leli for the opportunity for this second go around it has been a pleasure playing with all of you this season. I came into this cast knowing I had some bad blood with people from either voting them out of very recent games or I was going to be labeled as a “Brovivor” by some which is in fact a very disgusting name (blaming Cole91 aka the Roob) and that coming in I really didn’t want that to be associated with my strategy and effect my game. Unfortunately it did and I admit to it (Ruben is going to pay), but I had to work with the cards I was given since really not many people outside of them wanted to work with me coming into merge and was pretty much an outsider. After the AJ vote where the lines got literally drawn in the sands like the separation of North and South Dakota instead of being one big Dakota.
That’s when really the swap brought the actual “Brovivors” came together and where the virtual alarm clock woke us up where we pretty much forced to be a unit similar to how the fantastic 4 (probably a lot shittier/duller) formed by getting exposed as we were separated from actual society or we were going to be voted out come merge time and, we had all backstabbed each other at one point (Ryan and Rhys). Rob although he wasn’t necessarily associated with the group he was Rhys’s duo from the start and my closest ally and my technical tribe duo which we kept pretty good from our tribe by distancing ourselves so naturally he was the middle man and he brought his age and wisdom to bring us together.
During the merge, I was in the minority I knew the sides were already although at one point I thought Stephen would side with me but, quickly realized he wasn’t as he was on the other side of things. So what I did was run with the alliance of Rhys, Julian, Rob and Ryan instead of just flipping to the majority at Final 11 since people wouldnt believe I flip. Also, I royally fucked up on the Ryan vote by not playing my idol on him.
After Ryan going I thought my side was going to be picked off one by one however, I am not taking any credit from this since this wasn’t me but somehow, Julian and Sydney managed to convince Stephen and Mariah that Nikki and Adrianna flipped and I chose to go along with the story knowing the actual truth what happened because I found the merge idol pretty much the next day and knew if the target could not be on one of the four of us we could attempt to bring the numbers back at eight which was the case as Nikki went out and I managed to idol Sydney out however, I did not necessarily have to play my idol that night as we could have easily just voted Sydney or Stephen that night with Paul and Adrianna and I told Rob to vote me in order to keep lines of communication open with the other side so we weren’t isolated by others and would keep getting the scoop. I kept my lines of communication open.
When, we finally got majority I had assumed Rhys would eventually go for me we both had issues with one another and I knew I had to find the merge idol again because Rhys always likes to pull a party trick out of his asshole like a homeless Magician on Finale night even if his moves aren’t necessarily logical and did by trying to keep Mariah in the game which I thought wasn’t necessarily wasn’t a good move because Mariah had friends on the jury and was considered a bigger threat. That basically finished the downfall of the former majority (Mariah, Adrianna, Paul and Stephen). Final four Julian was going to go 100% 3-1 had I not tied it. However, Rob came clean on certain things throughout the game to me and only confirmed most of my suspicions throughout the game like him telling Rhys about my idol and was basically going to be okay with letting me go at an earlier point in the game. I was mad yes I had felt betrayed and hurt because in summary I felt like Tom being betrayed by Ian in Palau that situation and it was very hard to write his name down but, I wrote his na
