Ok so coming into this game and seeing the cast I wasn't really intimidated by too many people because I knew how most of them played, so I suspected to be one of the bigger threats in this cast. However, I did try to be as active and social with my tribe early on to ensure that I made it to at least the tribe swap, and it worked like a charm. Now, at the tribe swap, I knew I was in a little bit of trouble due to the fact that all tribes were going to tribal and the tribe with Ryan on it was going to vote me out, but thankfully nels was on that tribe, and we were able to balance out the votes and take out someone who I don't trust at all to make logical decisions, Jerry. When Ikah offered up the chance to take an advantage or pick your team I honestly only cared about the advantage and this is where I got my bulletproof vest.
When merge hit and 2 ppl came back into the game, I knew I wanted to work with them both and take out Ryan, because Nels had previously informed me that Ryan was leading a charge to get me out on several occasions. When Alan got the boot, I changed my whole mentality, and that was to stop giving a fuck about pals opinions and do exactly wtf I wanted to do. And even better, I had found out that mart had the idol and tried to wake everyone up from kissing his ass, but ppl still were willing to sheep him until the final moments of his game. So then MC approached me saying he liked my style and wanted a f4 with me/nels/him/red and I said of course because I love alliances, and he kept me in the loop for the next 2 votes(Kevin and Tj). In f9 I decided to contact Ryan because there were a few ppl playing the middle and I wanted to see where other ryans head was at. He gave me interesting information that I lined up with mcs and I didn't truly trust it, so while everyone voted gamo out, I voted for mart because he was running the game and I was hoping that ppl would wake up from marto's spell and vote with me and game but they didnt, so I continued to bitch my way through the game. The next challenge was 100% the best for myself and for nels, because nels won immunity and sent me to exile, where I found the idol, and that point is where I knew I would be in the f4, I tried to put some pressure on some pals necks to stop following marto the shepherd, but I had an idol and a vest so I really didn't care, because at least one of them were going, and it was hufus first, which sucked because I liked him, but it was obvious that the f3 was marto/ryan/hufus seeing as though they kept sending each other to exile, and at the next tribal I played my vest and with a little bit of luck and great observation, we knew Mc wasn't online so he would self vote so yayyyy us. In f4 I was excited because I had a habit of asking moon about the votes and we would break them down so I knew most of how everyone voted. In the end Marto finally was eliminated losing to Nels in a fmc
Overall, Ive spoke my mind and did what I wanted to do and did what I wanted to do, I have only had none vote that counted against me and that was because of a cartel twist. I received no counting votes at merge and I never self voted. I put everything I had into this game and I fought like crazy to get here. I may not have been nice to everyone, but I surely was genuine to everyone. I was a target and a threat when merge hit and Im still here through savy strategic game play
Good Luck boys, may the best man win