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Post by Christopher on Oct 5, 2014 21:35:20 GMT -8
Hello Jury, and hello to everyone else watching this. I would like to begin by saying thank you sooo much to Sandy for allowing me to play this season. Labeling me as an All Star in your eyes, and giving me this chance. I, from the bottom of my heart, will forever be greatful for this experience. Now, I would like to say I made friends. That I have these long lasting relationships that I hope to carry to the future of my real life thanks to you Sandy and this game. But I have to be practical. Something that I feel like I was this entire game, in my eyes. And I have to realize that just because I have loved people in this game personally, they may not love me after how I played this game stragetically. How I manipulated these said people that I would like to remain friends with. I have to realize that not everyone can seperate game, and stragety, from personal relationships like I can. I am someone who has played many games, and therefore I feel like I have the ability to strictly look at this like a game, and not everyone else can do that.
I am sorry if this ends up being long. But I do want to go into my game, I want to go into my lies and manipulation. I want to go into why I lied or decieved in some way every single person that I played this game with but sitll managed to make it to the final tribal council.
A quick note, I am not a cocky person. but this video, and my moves in this game are going to be cocky. Anyone who knows me, knows I am literally the 360 of cocky. But after playing this game for two months, and preceiving everything that I set up, and everyone that I manipulated doing what I wanted for them to do. I have a hard time not being a cocky bitch. Or a shady bitch. Haha. I will also note that before the game started, I told myself that I would come into this being as social as I can with everyone in the game. Regardless if I was alligned with them or not. Now you are going to say, social? everyone is going to be social. But I was social personally, and emotionally with players to gain their trust on a stragetic level. Something that happened in Japan mid-merge, was I lost my main allies and my main social circle when Robbie left, and 2-3 people betrayed me. I knew coming into this that I needed to know everyone, and that anything can happen at any time. That will later develop into a web of lies and web of allies that i formed and played off each other like you will see, but started with just the prevention of what happened in Japan.
So, lets get right into it. I think because of how shady I was in this game, and how many lies I did tell. The best way to clarify what truly went down is to go through everything. Watch this, get the background you need to ask questions, analyze my game for what it is. To choose to vote for it or against it. But you need to hear it all in my opinion for it to be a fair choice to make. I don’t want to spend too much time talking about that original Zeus tribe of ten people. I will quickly note that I was setup in an alliance with Sassy and Drew Turner. The reason for this alliance was a previous probaords game that I played with them. We were a tight trio, and therefore wanted to try and attempt to stay together on that tribe. I didn’t fully trust them, because I seen them knowing a lot more people in the game then I would have. We later added Fei into this, I believe. Not sure if it was an offical group of four. But it was an ideal start. I also knew Kyle Newman since I was about 12 or 13 years old playing proboards games in school, and therefore also knew he would be loyal to me in this game. I made a deal with Fei on, I believe, Day 2/3 of this game. Maybe Day 3. It was to become #NOSHADE alliance, funny thinking of how shady I would later become. But it was my first offical final two alliance, if you don’t count Kyle. And would develop into what my ideal game would center around pre-jury. Something that likely people figured we were together, but at times maybe not to this extent of a F2 deal and alliance. I didn’t trust Drew and Sassy to the extent that I could trust Fei and therefore was happy to have her as a 1-1 person, for someone who I truly felt would work wtih me in this game, and not have people in the future like Sassy/Drew might.
Skip to the new Zeus. 5 person tribe. Fei/Me tight, Obviously Drew Turner/Me tight. We became a three group (Fei/Drew/Myself), and I would talk to Drew Turner a lot more then everyone else did in text, etc when he was away from Skype. Solidify my social bond with them, and then bonding with Nikki who was on skype a lot, and Mike during challenges. Socially getting around to all other 4 people on this tribe. Nikki wanted to work with Drew Turner, who then added me into that alliance. Nikki/Me/Drew, Fei/Me/Drew. I felt like Drew/Myself were 100% set on this tribe between two different final 3 deals, with a push for Mike to go first. Mike later would approach me for a deal to work together, after the first round or so on this small Zeus tribe. I remember saying my confessional how I literally had an alliance with every single person on this tribe, so early. But what was I suppose to do? They all approached me. All I could do was to keep them separate, and keep people trusting me. Like so many others, I figured we wouldn’t have been on these tribes for super long anyways. Plus, Mike was still that easy boot regardless of him approaching me for a deal to work together. But this was the first moment, when my alliance with Fei was kind of trusted and grew. I remember telling her how Mike approached me, how he would want her/me/him together. And I remember talking to Fei about how we might want to do Nikki, so we could have both groups of three. Literally setting myself up to have Fei/Drew both thinking they had me as their #1. Fei wanting Nikki out first because she didn’t really have a deal with her, and Drew wanting Mike out first for the same reason. I got to see Fei more as a player so early on, where so many people would come up to me and say she never talks game to them. I trusted her, and I trusted her with information and us as a duo more then I ever would trust Drew Turner. I questioned telling her about Nikki/Drew/Me as an alliance, and don’t believe I ever did tell her. Ideally I trusted her and Mike for reasons of also not knowing people in the alumni, we were all afraid of pre-games and pre-bonds. I felt like Fei and Mike didn’t have that, and was super paranoid of Nikki and Drew for the future, that I wasn’t with Fei and Mike. Ideally having them with me would have been the best bet, but Mike was such an easy boot to prevent him from leaving if we lost may have been impossible without betraying Drew/Nikki too soon. I mean on that original Zeus tribe, Drew/Sassy were talking a ton to Dru Hillard, someone who I seen as a big player in this game. Little things like that made me want to work with Fei/Mike over people like Drew/Nikki long term if I had my choice, but I wasn’t going to screw Drew Turner/Nikki on that original small group to save Mike. It was too risky that early. Thankfully a swap happened.
Skip to the swappage after Zeus, and me not wanting to win that challenge for tribe picks due to everyone on that Zeus tribe likely wanting me to pick them if I did win the challenge. So yes, I didn’t want to win it. I wasn’t going to do much in that tie breaker to win it, because it would have been more damaging to my developing social game to choose between 4 people who trusted me, then it was to just let it be setup to fate. I thankfully was taken out really early on in the tie breaker after doing Joey’s puzzle.
Agamemnon, or Gay Moms tribe. 7 people. 3 original Zeus. I had Fei, I had Kyle. But they were both Zeus people. fiesta. It was obvious that we were going to have one of us go, because in any situation it would be dumb for them to not take out a Zeus person. I had to make myself marketable, socially wanted for the game and also for challenges. I talked a ton to Joey, a ton to Ryan, and really tried to develop one on one bonds. Which I feel like I succeeded on that early game over Kyle and Fei. Joey and me said we would have each other’s backs like a F2, I also told Ryan we would be able to watch eachother’s backs etc for the future of the game.
Everyone thinks Kyle didn’t try and do anything during his round of departure. I would like to clarify that I have known him for years, and I was telling him what people were saying that entire round. I told him to talk to Joey/Ryan and try something, to maybe turn it on Fei leaving, to maybe get Kurtis/Joey out with Ryan/Alyx or Kurtis/Me/Him/joey/Fei anything, but that he had to do it. That I couldn’t stick my neck out because of the things that I was also trying to do. As someone who knows me super well, he tried everything he could and developed a strong bond with Joey at the end. Which I told him it was working, to keep going with it. That Joey was telling me he loved Kyle, etc. Joey was telling Kyle a lot about his original tribe, that Kyle would obviously relay back to me. About possibly not trusting Kurtis. The issue at this moment, with 7 people on Agamemnon was how shady I felt Ryan, Krutis, and Joey were going to be. How unsure I was of Alyx possibly wanting Fei out because of her knowing Ricky, and Ricky hating Fei. Their was so much to play on, so much mystery at this point. That the shadiness of Ryan/Kurtis/Joey to me was too much to save Kyle/Fei, it was more needed for me to implement myself, figure it out, and observe what people were doing and saying.
At one point in this round after Kyle left, Ryan did mention to me that he would like Fei/Him/me/Alyx as a group of four down the line. I didn’t know if he was legit wanting Fei here or not, but I think it was a huge start to get me into Ryan’s game, and maybe for Ryan to see that he could use me strategically down the road. I played with Ryan years ago, and we were 100% against each other. I always felt like we were both tip toeing around each other in this early game due to not knowing if we could fully trust one another.
I am an observer, and I am a social player. I was able to implement myself where Kyle and Fei weren’t at this very start because of those qualities. I am able to come off as nonthreatening, and not as smart as I am socially in conversation. I believe that helped me on every new tribe I was put on to implement myself as well as I did as you will see coming up. People would ask me for deals, I rarely had to go to someone to ask for one.
As soon as the fourth round began, and we lost the challenge. Fei was the target, both Ryan and Joey told me this. The issue with voting out Kurtis or Joey, in Ryan’s head was pissing off the other one. Joey re-stated to me during this round that he would do everything he could in his power to keep me safe, and make sure it wasn’t me that left. That him and I were 100% together in this game. I think Ryan and Joey made sure the target stayed on Fei over myself, regardless of what Kurtis or Alyx would have wanted during that round. My social bonds playing a key role from a more outside perspective after Zeus was under such attack on this tribe.
Ryan ends up putting Alyx/me/him in a message together, talking about the future game, etc. I didn’t tell Fei this, because I felt like I may lose her during this round. I did tell Fei I heard her name, similar to how I told Kyle. That I think Ryan wants her out over me, but that I wasn’t sure..even though it did seem pretty certain she would go. Kurtis approaches Fei about who she wants to vote for, and Fei..knowing she is the target plays off with him a bit and copies everything over that she is doing. She bitches to Alyx about Kurtis, someone who she was gaining a closer bond with..as my attempt was to get closer to Ryan. I shared the conversations Fei was showing me to Ryan/Alyx, and told them that I do think Fei would be loyal to us as a four and it sucks to lose her and I would be sad but I am 100% down to take her out if I need to. To really implement my trust with Ryan and this group if that was the way he saw the round needed to go. As much as I don’t think I would have left that round because of my bonds with Ryan/Joey, I did know I wasn’t in a controlling spot like other people were. I needed to stay in a wanted spot for them in the future.
Now from my eyes, these messages made Alyx/Ryan see Kurtis in a different light. A more shady light. Alyx always likely wanted Fei to stay over myself, because I feel like Alyx clocked me early on as someone she had to be wary of. I feel like she wanted Fei to stay, and thought the best way to do that was to take Kurtis out at that point. They pulled Joey on a call who also agreed to wanting Kurtis to go. I know Joey feels as though that started the plan to then take him out. However, I feel like Fei talking to Kurtis, and also having that bond with Alyx also played a huge role in Kurtis leaving/being blindsided. I felt like at this point it was a key moment for Alyx, or in my eyes which could be wrong, to save Fei who she felt like she could work with. From talking to Fei aorund this time, I saw them as having a bond that I couldn’t have with Alyx. I felt like this made Ryan need me more, because he didn’t have that bond with Fei that Alyx had. With Kurtis leaving it opened up more of a controlling atmosphere for Fei/Myself. All at the same time, I knew Joey was with me/wanting to work with me and had my back. Another person in the group that wouldn’t write my name down, and a bond that would furthur grow over the coming rounds.
The last thing I want to mention on this Agamemnon tribe is the muses. I want to talk about how Kyle had like 3-4 of them, that I gave to Fei. I then sneakly gave 1-2 to Ryan here and there. Eventually Fei found out about the idol already being found, and therefore when Agamemnon as a tribe was looking for it, we already knew it was taken by someone on the Greek side. I was able to gain more of Ryan’s trust by giving him muses here and there that I said Fei gave to me (not Kyle).
Skip to top twenty, and that Ellada tribe. This is when I was able to act upon more then the Quintz 5 group that Fei/Ryan/Alyx/Joey/Myself were. I knew from Fei, that she was close to Dave. I knew that Dave and me having previous history could also add to being happy to play another game with him, etc. And to potentially do something in the future with a cross-tribal agreement. Obviously Ryan felt close to Craig which freaked me out, I knew that Joey said he talked a bit to Nicole beforehand, etc. I was super worried coming into Ellada because I didn’t know how I was going to fit with all of these people, other then maybe Drew/Nikki who seemed to be the ideal people to leave. I wanted to control things, and I didn’t know how I would play a game with everything being put in one big basket: Quintz. How can I rely on one alliance like I did in Japan? That wasn’t going to work.
So, as the round went on. Quintz ideally didn’t want to let anyone know who was 100% truly leaving the game. This was because of the idol being out there/us all knowing someone else had it. We were suppose to tell people Nicole/Craig’s name or leaving it up in the air. I didn’t do this like everyone else did. I wasn’t going to put my eggs in the one Quintz basket, even though I didn’t want any of us to go. I couldn’t lie or deceive people like Nicole and Craig too early. Or people like Dave who I would potentially want to work with down the line.
So here is a big moment for my game, and everyone is going to say well Drew Turner leaving..that round was huge because of the tie, but that was really it, right? Wrong. This was a huge round for Chris’s game. For me to expand myself as taking control of my own position. Therefore, this section is going to be a big longer then likely expected. When Ryan would lie to Craig, and tell him Nicole was going. I told Craig that I couldn’t tell him how the vote was going to go, and I didn’t want to lie to him. But that I could talk to him after, and that I wasn’t going to vote for him. This key moment with Craig, and also telling Nicole that I wasn’t voting for her 1-1 on skype(so she couldn’t copy shit over) and that I wanted to work with her, and how I didn’t trust Ryan/Alyx and how shady they were. But that I feel like Joey would have our backs and how much I liked Joey, and that Nicole/me/dave/Fei could be a thing or Craig/Me/Nicole, etc. So much trust was put into Nicole. I told her majority of my game, and about the 5 of us being tight. About where the vote was landing and how she was safe, but everyone was scared of an idol. Etc. This showed me how much I was able to trust Nicole in this game, and how much I really truly wanted to work with her. I couldn’t play a stupid quintz-only game, Not that everyone else was. But everyone else was lying to these people before the game even really developed. I couldn’t do that. If I was going to lose Drew Turner, someone who would have had my back. I needed to implement something more for the future. That was bonds with Dave, bonds with Nicole, and bonds with Craig. Following the tribal council, I talked with Craig about how close Ryan said they were. Craig talked to me about how he did trust Ryan, but was turned off about how he was lied to by Ryan, etc. I told Craig I would work with him, and I mean 100% work with him. Like I told Nicole, and then us three should watch each other’s backs. I told him how close the 5 was, etc. Craig trusted me, which would come into play later. This got lost within the tribal swap, but was a key point to F13 which I bet some people already know..but some people are going to be surprised to find out what really did go down/confirmation on the truth.
To sum up what was happening at this point, as Quintz was celebrating and trying to get Dave/Craig with us as numbers to then ostracize and take out Nicole/Nikki. I was playing a solo game. A game with my main ally being Fei. Joey with me as a duo, Nicole with me as a duo, Craig with me now after gaining a bit of his trust instead of lying to him like Ryan did.
I remember being shocked with how much I was doing, and telling myself that if I was going to go out of isurv1vor macedonia, I was going to go out playing my game. Not Quintz’s game, not Joey’s game, now Fei’s game. My game. I had to relay a lot of this information back to Fei post-the round, because of it all happening so fast. I believe I told her everything other then maybe how close the bonds were with Joey/Craig/Nicole. I trusted Fei, and I knew that her knowing everything was a way for me to also sort out my information in our classic #NOSHADE group calls.
Now, this was around the time after Nikki left that I went to go meet Ryan in Orlando with Kirin/Cody Lasso. This was when my game had to kind of be tested, and the bonds I had with people. I had it worked out where Nicole/Craig were ready to take out Ryan or Alyx I feel like. I had it where Dave/Fei both were down with us working with Nicole, and maybe doing something down the road. I had every intention of flopping this entire game on it’s side and blindsiding Ryan or Alyx instead of having Nicole leave after Nikki.
Nicole was bonding with Alyx when I left, and forming a truce to try and get the target on Craig over her which i feel like was also working, and Ryan may have been the key person wanting Nicole out. I remember telling her to keep on doing that, because I feel like it was going to be easier to take Craig out if we couldn’t flip it onto Ryan. But that I did feel like we could use Craig in our game. Ideally also having her/me/joey would have been badass during this Ryan vote. We won the immunity challenge when I was with Ryan in person, so I thankfully didn’t have to be shady bitch and try and betray him when also in person (how awks would that be, but i honestly was in the mindframe of being ready to do it).
As we continue into the swap now, which I was put on a new tribe the last day or so I was in Orlando. I was unable to bond with everyone initially, but was able to talk here and there to Joey/Alyx/Dave/Allan, and I thought it was going to be an ideal group on this new tribe to grab Allan and have a majority on this tribe against Debbie/Joanne/Dru Hillard.
I was wrong, obviously. Coming onto this tribe, I told everyone I was with Ryan on vacation and thats why I was so absent, etc. I couldn’t start out on this new tribe lying, just like I couldn’t start out on original Ellada lying to Nicole/Craig. I had to open myself up socially, and talk to everyone I could. Dru Hillard said he wanted to work with me. Alyx said she wanted Dru/Herself/Me/joey to be together, and Debbie/Joanne with us as 6 to then take out Dave and Allan from the game.
I was iffy from the get-go about putting votes on Allan, in a split vote, lying to the person I was just forming a close 1-1 bond with. Who had so much potential down the road to be my ally, etc. To play Dru Hillard’s game. Joey and myself came up with the plan to act like we were splitting the votes but in reality voting for Dru with Allan/Dave. But Joey shyed out of the deal and didn’t want to then relay this info to Allan and Dave.
I told Dave I had his back 100% on this tribe beforehand, and he knew for a very long time how much Fei/Myself were close and how much I wanted to work with him to potentially take out Alyx/Ryan, etc so I think he trusted me. And I did trust him as well. And wanted to work with him. I remember behind Joey’s back, telling Allan/Dave about the entire plan that everyone else had. That Allan was going to get 3 votes, Dave was going to get 4. That we needed to do something, and convince Joey to want to do this. Dave mentioned he had the idol, and we knew we had majority with or without Joey. Dave could idol out his 4 votes, Allan would only get 2 votes with Joey/Alyx, and then I could vote with them and we could take out Dru Hillard. But I wanted Joey in on the plan. I knew Joey trusted me, but I also knew he trusted Alyx. So I had to convince him to do this with us. I had to fight for him to tell Allan/Dave himself. Which he eventually trusted me and wanted to do it. I had Allan act as though it was the first time he heard the plan. I also told Dave to act like it was the first time he heard this plan.
Allan and Dave trusting me 100%, they also trust Joey since he wanted to swap. but me first. I had those bonds with Dave and Allan that were going to carry into the merge that were super strong, and then I had Joey with me 100%. I was able to take out Dru Hillard. Someone who I deemed as having control over other people in the game that I wanted to get closer to: Debbie. I couldn’t trust Debbie in this game as long as Dru Hillard was here. I also felt like Joey could get Alyx back a bit without Dru in the game.
So it worked, and I won’t take more time dwelling upon that move. Or really going into Joanne leaving. It was obvious that she needed to go, as I had more potential with Debbie in the future. I didn’t jump in to go after Debbie in the challenge with Alyx/Joey because I felt like a merge was going to come up, and I felt like I had potential with her for the future.
I played this game socially and strategically, I never let any bond or possible bond go to waste. I didn’t want to ostracize people. I could land on a tribe with people the very next round, and be screwed if I did that. I had to always keep my options open. Which I did with Debbie. The last thing I will add is the small bit of Dave/Allan/Myself throwing shade Joey/Alyx’s way with Debbie, and telling her that they wanted her to go but that we really pushed for Joanne to save her.
I will just add to my groupings of allies at this point that on this tribe Joey and me got closer, and I trusted him a ton more. Was always wary of him/Alyx though.
I got closer to Dave a ton, and we trusted each other so much more. I really bonded with Allan, and trusted him 1-1 and told him I would watch out for him. And proved that with my actions on that small tribe, keeping him in the majority, and telling him everything that was truly going on with joey and in the game for me. I had an ally going into the merge, and I knew a ton about Allan’s game and his bond with Debbie that was going to help us for the future.
We will move on to the infamous Final 13 round now. I feel like everyone should know at this point about Fei & The Gays: Myself/Ryan/Fei/Allan/Alex Rico/Dave being in an alliance. I remember talking to Ryan about the potential to join up with Joey in the future, maybe needing to let Alyx go eventually but that this alliance is a good starting point for the game. I, however, knew what needed to truly happen which was the control I had on the original Ellada tribe needing to take point in the game. Just like Dru Hillard was a key player in the game with a hold over people. I felt like Ryan was a key player in the game with a hold over people like Jared, Rico, Craig, etc.
I felt like with this merge, I had a huge chance to have lost Craig to Ryan again. I had to re-implement myself with Nicole which wasn’t tough, and also with Fei. But with Craig it was a lot harder, our bond was strong before but I feel like he had time to bond with Ryan again, and I could easily have lost him.
I remember early on in this round having a #NOSHADE reunion with Fei. It would be our last episode. Where I told her, “Fei, Ryan has a hold over people. A bond with people in this game that is going to make it super difficult to take him out down the road. I almost feel like we need to do it now.” She said we should wait, that we should ride this alliance out a bit first and then decide on doing something against him down the road. I looked at my bond with Allan having Ryan jeopardize that because of how close they were. I watched how close Rico/Ryan were. I watched how the Quintz group of 5 was starting to implement itself back together with Alyx/Ryan together again. I would find out from Jared later on that he was close to Ryan/Rico and felt a bond there as well. I needed to do something drastic to gain control, because I was losing it to one person: Ryan. I was losing this game to you in my own head. I wasn’t going to play anyone’s game, I wasn’t going to play a group game. I was going to play Chris’s game. So I told Joey abotu the alliance. JOey and me gained so much trust for one another during the Dru Hillard vote, and during the game thus far. I saw the game the same way he did, and we both saw Alyx as potential threat against me, etc. I also told Nicole about the alliance. Alyx/Nicole/Joey were on the side-bar in another chat as Fei and the Gays decided to talk about the vote between Nicole/Alyx/Craig. I would say my piece here and there, but a lot of it was relayed back to Nicole/Joey/Alyx directly. I was risking everything for a huge gain in this game.
Nicole/Alyx/Joey ideally wanted to leak this alliance and blame it on Rico because of how he was talking to both Nicole/Alyx. I, however wanted to gain allies with people. I told Jared about the alliance to gain his 1-1 trust. I told him what was happening with Nicole/Alyx/Joey in side chat, and how they were going to leak the alliance to him/Mike/Debbie in the future, and I was trying to hurry it along. He trusted me and wanted to be apart of it. We sat impatiently as we waited for Alyx/Joey/Nicole to approach Jared/Debbie/Mike about the group and then to form the Hope 7. People can say Jared formed it, people can say Joey formed it. People can say what they will. But I told Jared prior to the alliance being formed, and I let Joey/Alyx then tell Jared like it was brand new information. Just like Joey telling Allan/Dave about the plan to take out Dru Hillard.
Hope 7 was formed. But the alliance wasn’t going to be leaked out furthur. I had trust in this 7, of course. I mean Mike was back who left off with us being a possible bond on the original Zeus. Debbie/Jared seemed to trust me. I felt like Joey/Nicole had my back. I felt like Joey was getting the info needed from Alyx if she was going to ever come after me.
The problem was Allan--the bond I made on the previous tribe. My main ally Fei being excluded Dave who I bonded with on the new tribe. Craig who I wanted to still work with, and had such a bond with in past to take out Ryan.
I talked to Nicole about Craig, and she thought we lost him to Ryan. How they got super close, etc. And maybe I was stupid to think differently, but I wanted Craig. I was being greedy and needed another ally. Even if he wasn’t going to be apart of Hope 7. So, as many guessed, and as many were shot down by me lying. I told Craig about Fei and The Gays. I leaked the alliance to him, in hopes that he still wanted to work with Nicole/Myself as a Japan three.
To quote Katie from Palau, when she talked about an all girls alliance with Caryn. “We couldn’t do an all Japan alliance because Craig sucks.”
Sorry for the frankness, because I love Craig outside of this game. But ultimately he didn’t take the information about the alliance, the Hope 7, and everything that was going on with the possibility of Me/Him/Nicole working together legitly. He didn’t trust me, which likely was from a lot of him trusting Rico/Ryan, and he did what he would do with that info and kind of go to those people in Hope 7 about it, and I just had to deny deny deny. I wanted, so badly, to then talk to Craig at Final 12 to explain what went down and why I had to say he was spreading the alliance, because he couldn’t keep his lips shut during Final 13, and I was on damage control. But that I still wanted to work with Him/Nicole. But I felt like he was avoiding me, and I felt like he didn’t want anything to do with me. So, so be it. I lost an ally, and a F2 deal that I created a long time previously. Something that I wanted to work with, and keep open for Nicole/Me to have. Because ultimately, Nicole/Me/Fei/Dave working together wasn’t going to work unless I had Joey or Craig with me in on it, so I had an out when I needed to. Because Dave would always have more control in that situation.
Debbie and me leaked a bit to Allan. Alyx/Joey then went around leaking as well, because everyone figured it was already out: Craig already knew. I blammed Rico, I blammed Ryan telling Craig. I avoided telling the truth to even the two people sitting next to me. Until right now.
I won’t bore you with everything in the future that went down. I will say that I had a deal with Mike 1-1 to work together. I had a deal with Debbie that also extended to Jared/Debbie and a strong relationship with Jared. I had my bond with Joey. I had my bond with Nicole. I had my bond with Allan, something I didn’t lose in this mess because of how much I told him in the past. I told him how iffy I was about the Fei and the gays when it first began anyways, and Allan trusted my word even though it was a lie about the leak. I wanted Allan in the game.
Joey told me as Alyx wanted me out, and her suspicons of a Japan alliance. Alyx clocked me as a huge player early on this game. And to have Joey there to kind of hear about her fears and what she wanted to do before it could even be done, was a huge bonus to my alliance with Joey. It added to him/I bonding and my trust in him.
I worked to try and get Dave/Fei back with me. I knew Nicole still wanted that to happen. But it was difficult because of Dave not trusting me the same. That Fei doubted me, that #NOSHADE could ever be the same again between us. I lost my main ally, but I had so many more.
Ryan left. Rico left afterwards.
A group of four was formed with Debbie/Jared/Me/Joey
At one point in the game, Joey went to Debbie/Jared and told them how close him/I were, how were were a duo and he figured they were a duo and how we should be watching each other’s backs as duos. I remember being shocked by this, because I didn’t confirm that we should 100% do this. I told Debbie/Jared afterwards I 100% have their back, and I was always telling them things that Joey told me and they already knew I was close to him. So it wasn’t a huge shock but i was nervous it made our bond lessen as a trio.
That is another main moment to kind of point out here. Every person in this game that I ever have said I was close to. I acted like I was close to them by showing conversations. I would show Jared/Debbie conversations of Joey or Nicole. I would show Nicole conversations I had with Joey. I would show conversations to Allan that I had with people. Everyone likely believed I 100% had their back until they were voted out to some extent. Nobody mingled which shocked me a ton, and it really gave me this big head after awhile about everything that I was doing with each and every person in the game and in the merge game especially.
Then came the Allan boot round. I wanted Craig to go at this point, if not Alyx who I knew was gaining momentum to try and take me out. I know now, that Alyx lied about things regarding Allan to get him out over Craig. Because she was forming a strong relation with Craig at this point. Basically saying that Allan told Dave that Alyx wanted Allan out of the game. Trying to blame it on Debbie being the leak that told Allan who then ran and told Dave. Funny thing was, I actually did tell Allan he was being targeted. Therefore I thought this was complete truth that Allan did tell Dave.
I did tell Allan a lot about what was truly going on this game as a 1-1 ally. I lost Fei, and I had Joey 100% with me. But until Alyx left I could never trust that. And I ultimately was playing for me, so to keep Allan with me 100%, to keep Jared/Debbie trusting me. To keep Nicole trusting me was all ideal for my game. I could never put all my eggs in one basket.
Now we move onto Alyx leavng. I would like to say that I was challenged multiple times in this game by being targeted. Alyx targeting me didn’t come as too much of a shock due to everything I was hearing earlier in the rounds prior of her wanting me out from Joey. About how she thought I had a Japan alliance, etc. She clocked me early on, something a lot of the players during the middle/late merge did not do until it was too late. She clocked me for the shady motherfucker that I was and going to be. People think Mike struck too late, and I think even Alyx struck too late to ever take me out of this game. Who did she go to to get me out other then craig/Dave. Fei? the girl I was with 100% since like Day 2, who even though she didn’t trust me 100% anymore b/c of f13 still had some trust in me. She still wouldn’t have wanted me out of the game. She wouldn’t have jumped on the get-Chris out train like Dave/Craig would. Joey wouldn’t, we were together and did so much for so long. Jared who she also went to, didn’t want to vote for me. Him/Debbie wanted to work with me at this point and had no interest in taking me out. Mike didn’t, Nicole didn’t(Even though she wasn’t approached). Alyx attempted, and it was a really good attempt to take me out. but it failed, because everyone she wanted to get..I had already. It was too late for anyone to do anything. Alyx left. Craig left.
I will say around this point, I was cocky as fiesta at times in my own head. Thinking, how the hell will I not be in the finals at this point. Everyone trusts me, I am playing so many people off of each other. This is crazy.
Around the time Dave left was when the sketchyness of Mike was coming to head for me, so this was at Final 8. After Alyx/Craig left, I had a lot more conversations with Mike about the future. ABout how he had Debbie in his back pocket, I would then talk to Jared a ton. Jared would say how both him and Debbie have deals with mike, and how sketchy he was being. I talked to Nicole about wanting to join up with Dave/Fei again like our past would have wanted. Dave/Fei were painted as such underdog in my opinion that to let them get to the end at that point wasn’t a smart decision. I also knew that Jared was a huge threat in challenges, but also to win the game because of how much of this game I did not play with him. Dave left. It was Final 7. Which became the choice now. Should Mike go, Should Nicole go, should Jared go. The risk of Jared leaving too early, was the risk of Joey/Myself becoming a minority with a pissed off Debbie. A Crazy Mike. Fei/Nicole easily grabbing a majority. We had to let Nicole go when Mike won immunity at Final 7. Final 6 was the round for Mike to go. Final 5 was the round for Jared to go.
I didn’t expect Jared/Debbie to vote for me. Obviously they thought JOey/Myself were going to vote for Fei. Fei either was going to vote for Jared or Debbie. This would have made a tie between Fei--Myself, Where Debbie/Jared could have taken me out. Again, bravo. Amazing move. Something that I didn’t see happening, and a crazy end game move that would have been amazing. if it worked. Move on to 4. I went 11 hours in the immunity challenge, which wasn’t enough to beat the 13 hours Debbie went, or the 15 hours Joey went. Fei left, because of her underdog status and likelihood to win in the end game over debbie.
I am sorry for taking up so much time, but I needed to incorporate everything I did. Not just parts. And I hope with this big picture you can analyze my game for what it was, ask questions, and make a decision.
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