Okay, I'll try to make this quick as I can.
Hello jury, I know a lot of you are hesitant about voting for me tonight, and I completely see where you're coming from.
Last time I played this game I isolated myself from everybody in this game, and in the end what costed me the game was not making stronger social connections which could have gotten me into better alliances, I knew if I had to play again I needed to play much more socially.
When I knew everyone on my tribe I started to talk to everybody right away, I wanted to make good bonds with everyone and put myself in a scenario where I was always in the majority, everything was going perfect for me and I really hit it off with several people on my tribe, Jeremy, Will, Andrea, Ollie...I really had a lot of good things going, but I was sent to exile and one of my allies, Andrea, went home and then we faced the tribe switch.
At this point an early alliance was made consisting of myself, Ollie, Nathan, Chloe, and Matt (Mika may have been in there, excuse me if I am incorrect) and the plan was to vote out Nick, until Mika called out Chloe on something (once again, excuse me if I am wrong) and I wanted Chloe to go home, but she was at exile, so I did strategy talk with Matt and Mika and we decided just to go with the plan and vote out Nick, when we lost again this is when I started the long trail of being put in the Swing Vote or aka backstab people position, and it was between Matt and Nathan that night to go home and Mika and Matt wanted Nathan gone (Chloe was at exile, btw), I was originally going to go with Mika and Matt and vote out Nathan but the more I thought about it I trusted Nathan a lot more and decided to stick with my tribe and vote out Matt which left Mika upset, so I needed to explain I couldn't trust Matt and she was okay with that and we agreed to vote together next time, when Nathan was sent to exile I was stuck between causing a tie or sending Ollie home, as much as I liked Ollie we didn't talk much as our alliance went on so I decided to go with them and voted out Ollie.
When the merge kicked off I went back to my old bonds with Nick, Jeremy, etc. and I also had a spot on the Future Tribe alliance, and everything went well....and then we went to rocks, Dinkle got out and I received criticism for lying to the veterans so I needed to go make a play to keep myself safe and promised I would stick with them, and at that point I was kind of just not talking to Mika and Chloe was my only attachment, which had me vote out Sagar.
Honestly since I can't explain EVERYTHING (like Jacob said, so I'll make this next bit quick), Ryan's closest ally was Sean, and he kept on getting paranoid, so I decided to save Chloe (whom I did trust) and I voted out Sean, which sent him home which this is when my emotions started tugging with my logic of the game.
Then the DUOS came in and this was a big round for me, where I was stuck between sending home Chloe and Nathan OR Ryan and Jeremy, and I was really stuck on my situation, but after a lot of thinking I went with my gut and sent Chloe home and from there I did get some defense from a couple of the players and me and Mika were able to fix our friendship, you could say.
At the finale, I was stuck between Will and Mika and to some people's surprise...I didn't vote out Mika, I voted out Will and was ready to go to the final four with her...but Ali flipped, and I don't know what happened with them, but w/e.
Then the final challenge ensued, Will won, and I knew NONE OF US had a shot at beating Ryan, I was worried that Jeremy and Ryan we're voting together because Jeremy said he might have voted me, so just to keep myself safe me and Will we're on the plan to make the vote a 2-1-1 and have Ryan go, but Jeremy then voted with us which made the vote 3-1.
Overall, I know a lot of you who say I played out of fear, and was a tool, a coward, and I know you're going to say that tonight, a lot of you will.
But with this second chance