Andy’s FTC Speech: WakaRanger’s Survivor

Hey jurors,

I am so delighted to be a part of the final three alongside Pokeboy and Dumb

after a great season! Coming into this season, I wanted to have fun, make friends, and
obviously win the ORG itself. I have completed the first two things already, and
hopefully after reading this, you might consider making the winning part true. Below, I
am going to give a detailed rundown of how my game went and what made it stand
out from the other castaways. My speech is pretty lengthy. If you do not want to
read the whole speech I have written, then I will also have a TL;DR at the end for
you to look at with my main accolades. I have also written some personal
messages for every juror just because the jury is on the smaller side, and it feels
genuine doing it that way; it will be at the bottom after the main speech. Without
further ado, let’s get into the speech!

Starting this out, I just wanted to say I appreciated playing with everyone here.
I did have my doubts about this ORG at first, but the gameplay definitely picked up,
and it was a very fun season to play. Every ORG I have played in the past, I have
always had the same things happen to me. I play herolike, loyal to a fault, and it
always ends up the same; I get voted out before I can make the FTC, or I make it to
the FTC and get overlooked. Coming into this season, I wanted to try something
different, and that is exactly what I did. Maybe playing a super villainous game was
not exactly what I had in mind, but that is what happened nonetheless. I personally
feel like, other than the jury management portion of the game, this is the most
dominant game I have ever played in an ORG. I always knew what was going on, as I
was the person that people ran to with information, and with that, I was able to steer
the game in the direction that I wanted it to go in. And I was able to do it without
ever being a target, as I never received a single vote during the merge. If it wasn’t for
a throwaway vote by Ghoul at the joint tribal where at that point I had not met him
once in this ORG (aka I couldn’t really do anything about it, especially when we
couldn’t even talk 1 on 1), then I would not have received a vote the entire season. And
it’s not like I never went to tribal either; I went to 12 out of 15 throughout the season!
Anyways, let’s start from the beginning, shall we?​

Mallory Tribe

Starting off, we have the Mallory tribe which was quite an… interesting… tribe.
The tribe seemed fine at first, and I would not necessarily call it an inactive tribe, it
was just full of people who did not want to talk very much. I would carry most of the
conversations I had and then get ghosted after a while. This was not EVERYBODY,
but there were a decent amount of people like that. Regardless, I wanted to quickly
make as many connections as I could with the people on my tribe. Therefore, I was
constantly reaching out to people and trying to start conversations because if I didn’t,
it isn’t like they would message me. On day one, the person I trusted the most was
Ollie; however, as days passed, we just stopped having good conversations, and I
ended up getting closer with Courtney and Riley. They were definitely my top two
allies, and eventually we would make a trio between us three. I kind of think that I was
closer to them than they were to each other, but that is not a bad thing in my case.
Outside of that, I was in a 5 person alliance with Rosen, Ollie, Riley, and Courtney
which made up the majority. I tried to work hard on my 1 on 1 relationships outside of
that, and Jordee was somewhat up there on my trust rankings because she talked to
me quite a bit and everyone else always said she never talked to anyone. Jordee asked
me to help with the idol hunt, and I pretended to help her but I was too dumb for that
to be honest. I also had a decent relationship with Cameron, but she was not around
too much. So they were solid allies outside of the 5 person alliance, which put me in a
good position I would say. But I could never get a read on Marto or Oliver. I didn’t
really know if they liked me or not, which put them on the bottom of my trust rankings
for sure.

F18: Cameron Boot

The first vote was a simple unanimous vote on Cameron, which was not really
my ideal first boot, but there is not much you can really do at the first tribal of the
season. However, I did get red flags from this tribal, which might have influenced my
next course of action if we ever went back to tribal. Basically I was messaged by
Marto and he was saying “oh I’ve heard that people wanna vote for Cameron” or
something along those lines and it’s weird because we are supposed to have this 5
person alliance, and there’s no way I am the first person inside of this alliance to hear
it. I think Oliver might have mentioned the Cameron boot too but I’m not 100% sure.
But basically Riley went into our 5 person alliance and was telling us that she heard
the same thing from Marto that I had heard, and I said that I was told that people
want Cameron from Marto, too. And then Ollie says that he heard that from him last
night. And that was just a red flag in my mind because I am thinking if you heard
that, then why wouldn’t you tell your main alliance? So from that moment forward, I
was suspicious of Ollie and wanted Marto out. I thought Oliver might have been with
them. This was confirmed later on when Courtney told me that Oliver asked for an
alliance between Marto, Ollie, him, and her. Saying all this, if we went back to tribal, I
probably would’ve wanted to go for Marto, but we never went back and that takes us
to the swap.

Irvine Tribe

This was my favorite tribe other than the merged tribe I’d say. I think being on
this really demonstrated how well positioned I was throughout the game. So we
swapped into tribes of 5, and I was with Riley and Rosen who were part of the 5
person alliance, and I genuinely trusted them a lot. Then there was Dr Blaze and Pace,
who I had not yet met until that point. Long story short, Pace was really inactive and
did not care to talk to me until tribal came around. Dr Blaze, on the other hand, was
someone I hit it off with so quickly that it wasn’t even funny. It was probably the
easiest connection I made this entire game, and he instantly became one of my top
allies. Saying all this, the first tribal we had to go to was a no brainer, and I am not
even going to make a section header for Pace because there’s just not a lot to say
about it. I trusted Dr Blaze at this point and was in an alliance with Riley and Rosen,
which made the decision super easy. And so Pace went home unanimously.

F13: Rosen Boot

Now, the Rosen boot is where things got interesting on this tribe. Being well
connected with everyone on the tribe made me the swing vote if we went back to
tribal along with Riley who was obviously well connected too. Riley (who was my
number 1 on this tribe) and I talked it out and we really just wanted to win immunity
so that we could take both Rosen and Blaze into the merge with us because Rosen
would have been a loyal soldier we thought, and Dr Blaze could help us with making
connections on the other tribe. Unfortunately, this did not happen, and we had to go
back to tribal again on our already tiny 4 person tribe. At this point, Riley and I were
put into two separate alliances: one with Blaze and one with Rosen, and we had to
decide what we wanted to do there. Blaze was the person we connected to most
socially and since we thought he could help us at the merge with the pre-existing
relationships he would have with the other OG Hillary tribe members, we decided it
was in our best interest to go through with voting for Rosen. The only road bump here
was that Rosen was the captain and could send us to a joint tribal with their
emergency powers, but we were able to pull it off as a blindside so that Rosen didn’t
do that. While I was elected captain due to sending a cute picture of a kitten, I like to
think that I would have become the captain anyway due to how well positioned I was.
After that, I knew merge was coming up, and I wanted to ride into the merge with
Riley and Blaze, as well as reunite with Courtney and whoever she felt good with.
Blaze did voice some concerns that he had with Riley, however, which kind of
reassured me that he considered me his #1 on that tribe, and I hoped that it would
continue to be that way at the merge.

F12: Ghoul Boot

However, the next round wasn't a merge, it was a joint tribal council with 2 of
the lowest scoring people on each tribe. And, of course, since I was on a tiny 3 person
tribe, the chances of going to tribal council were very high. It was okay, as it was a
pretty simple tribal; however, I was attending a tribal council with 3 people I hadn’t
met until that point and there were only 6 of us. And we couldn’t talk 1 on 1 to
anybody! Luckily, Blaze had a good relationship with Dumb, and Marto seemed to be
happy to see me, so us four quickly decided we would vote for one of Adam/Ghoul
from the Norgay tribe. We pretty clearly put in the chat that we were voting for Ghoul
but somehow Ghoul and Adam did not see it. Adam asked who to vote and I was kind
of just joking but I was like “don’t vote for me I'm nice” and that got him not to vote
for me somehow and he voted Marto instead. However, those two didn’t even vote
together, and Ghoul threw his vote onto me, the first and last vote I would receive all
season. For some reason, Ghoul acted mad at me when voting for him wasn’t even my
idea and it was very clear what was happening in the chat but it’s ok. But that’s when
he said that Adam had an idol which would cause people including me to think he
might have one and we have to be careful with him, but it turned out to just be a lie.
Anyways, after this is when things would get interesting as I had reached the merge,
but I had plenty of work to do! I only truly trusted Riley, Dr Blaze, and Courtney going
into the merge, so I had to quickly make as many connections as I could and hopefully
get people to trust me.

MERGE!!!

​ After the joint tribal, I had officially made the merge! Woo! But this is where my
game was just beginning; the warmup rounds were over. From this point forward, I
wanted to play as dominantly as possible and take the merge in the direction I
wanted it to go. Not only that, but I wanted to set myself up so well that I was never
the target at any tribal council. I feel like I did a great job at doing just that
throughout this season. I might not have technically made every single move, but I was
a part of everything and if somebody went, it is because I wanted it to happen. The
only exception I would really give to this is Riley because I would not have actually
wanted to vote her out so early on when she was a shield of mine and overall just
someone I trusted a lot. But even then, the Riley move wasn’t made in an attempt to
go against me or anything; it was a move made by my allies thinking that’s something
I would want to do, but I was not there to do anything about it that night (like tell her
to play her idol). I will go in more detail in the Riley boot section, but for now let’s go
more in detail about each individual round.

F11: Marto Boot

The first boot of the merge was the Marto boot. I was perfectly fine with this, as
I kind of hinted about earlier on in my speech. I did not trust Marto at all on the
original tribe and nothing was truly different here. To be completely fair, I didn’t really
trust anyone from my OG tribe other than Courtney and Riley. I had no reason to
either, as they tried making an OG Mallory tribe alliance at the beginning of the
merge and they didn’t even add me to it until Courtney said something. In terms of
real alliances that I trusted, Courtney, Blaze, and I had a “core three” alliance from the
start of the merge because I had gotten close to Blaze, and Courtney and Blaze had
played an ORG before so they knew each other. Riley, on the other hand, was very
close with Ollie which she pretty quickly made known to the whole tribe. Like I noted
earlier, I was suspicious of Ollie on the OG Mallory tribe and I didn’t really know if he
trusted me a whole lot, but Riley told me that Ollie and I were her top allies and
saying this, I was thrown into an alliance with them two. I had no reason not to go
along with it because I was sure that Ollie would listen to Riley, but I never trusted
him with any super duper important information like what I got from the auction and
stuff like that. However, I did choose to share my advantages with Riley, Blaze, and
Courtney. That auction, I got an idol that expired at the F9 tribal council and an
advantage that let me see into somebody’s inventory. Knowing that Marto got a
secret item from the auction, I used it on him and it said he lost his vote at the tribal
council. I sent this information around to the same people I told my advantages about.
So at this point, Oliver’s name was getting pushed as someone who was more on the
inactive side from the OG Hillary side, and I want to say that Courtney suggested to
Marto that we vote out Pokeboy. But then she thought that Marto leaked that to
Pokeboy because Pokeboy started talking to her a lot when he previously didn’t. I
don’t know if he did or not, but I did feed into it since they were on the same swapped
tribe and whatever, so Courtney really didn’t trust Marto at all. At the same time as
this, Oliver told me that Dumb suggested to Marto that we vote for Oliver, which I
had already known, but I used this opportunity to use this ammo against Marto and
gain some trust with Dumb. I told Blaze the situation since he was close to Dumb
already and had him tell Dumb the same thing that I did so that Dumb didn’t think I
was lying about it because until that point, we weren’t the closest of allies. I want to
say that this is about the time that we decided to make a 5 person alliance with
Courtney, Blaze, Spec, and Dumb where I wasn’t very close with Spec and Dumb, but I
was trying to build those relationships. So while I don’t think I was the main person
who pushed for Marto to go in the end, I think that I had a good influence on the vote
and that this was the tribal council that I used to get in with people who I had just
met. Whether I was trusted a little or a lot by people, it laid a strong foundation for
me to build upon with everyone while also being in with the most influential members
of the tribe, Courtney and Dr Blaze.

F10: Riley Boot

Next, we have the Riley boot which in all honesty was not an ideal boot for me
in this game. Yes, Riley was messy and all over the place, but that’s what I loved about
her, and I trusted her with my life up until that point. She would have been yet
another shield for me in the game that I could have taken far with me, as well as just
someone to keep me sane on the tribe, but she would go rather early in the merge.
Basically, the first plan that we came up with was voting for Adam because he didn’t
talk that much and nobody inside our 5 person alliance really trusted him. I knew that
I wasn’t going to be available during the night of the tribal, so I just went ahead and
submitted my vote for Adam. Long story short, Riley was being a bit chaotic from
what I understood, and Blaze (who had already expressed concerns about her to me)
as well as Courtney decided they wanted her out there. This was discussed in our 3
person alliance chat and I saw a tiny glimpse of what was going on but I had no time
to talk and wanted to enjoy my night, so I just suggested that they ask for an
extension so I can talk a bit about what’s going on. I think the extension was granted
but it didn’t matter because everyone submitted their votes, so Riley went home and I
was down a very strong ally of mine early on in the merge.

F9: Spec Boot

Thanks to the previous tribal council, I did realize how much pull Blaze and
Courtney had on the tribe, and even if I was both of their number ones, if I didn’t start
making stuff happen, I would be labeled as nothing more than their goats at the end
of this game. After I got home, there were 3 people VCing in camp chat: Adam, Spec,
and Pokeboy, and I decided I was going to join that to see what was going on.
Basically they were acting all confused about how the Riley vote came to be, and I
knew since I voted for Adam, that would make me seem like I knew nothing about
what was going on. In reality, Courtney and Blaze did keep me updated on what was
going on, but I wasn’t really able to catch up until the tribal council was over after I
got home. Saying this, I just asked them if they knew what happened and who
switched the vote to Riley, and it was there that they talked about how they think it
was Courtney and Blaze who wanted to do Riley, recognized how threatening
Courtney and Blaze were, and pointed out how much pull they had over the tribe. I
was so glad to have joined this VC because it showed me that they had no idea how
close I was to Courtney and Blaze, and they trusted me enough to say this stuff in
front of me. I want to say this is where I truly started playing the middle. After this,
Adam proposed an alliance with Ollie and me, even though both of us voted for him.
The reason for this is because he thought there was a majority alliance, and while he
was right about it, I was a part of that alliance. But basically he was just pointing out
that we need to stick together or we’ll all be picked off one by one where I just played
along. This is where Ollie told us that the only people he trusted were us two and told
us about his idol that expired at f6. Trying to gain some trust with them, I just went
ahead and told them about my idol from the auction that expired this tribal council. I
only told them because it didn’t mean very much since it expired this round. This
round, it was Oliver who would be targeted, but at the same time, Ollie and Adam
wanted to make a move to weaken Courtney and Blaze. At this point, I had made a
duo with Pokeboy and had gotten close to him, and he was basically saying we were
playing in the middle, and we could go either way; but either way, we would be
making people mad. And that’s where I just flat out told him “what if I told you that I
have an idol that expires this tribal?” This way, we could make a move, but also keep
the blood off of our hands for now. The problem is that, until this point, I had no
relationship with Oliver at all. Don’t get me wrong, I liked talking to him, but I don’t
think he trusted me at all. So I pointed that out, and basically Pokeboy offered to just
give him the idol instead since they had a decent relationship. Ollie and Adam were
aware of everything going on because we were in a VC together the whole time, but
they didn’t understand why I was so worried to directly give my idol to Oliver. I just
didn’t want anything to be said and then Courtney and Blaze not trust me, so it was a
big risk. Long story short, we went through with it and told Oliver to idol out Spec with
Ollie putting a second vote on Spec to weaken Courtney and Blaze, but I still retained
my relationships with them two, which is exactly where I wanted to be. I was heading
into final 8 with alliances with literally everyone remaining in the game, so I don’t
think it was very possible for me to keep everyone happy with me as the game
progressed.

F8: Oliver Boot

​ After the previous tribal council, I had to make sure that Courtney and Blaze
didn’t think that I gave away my idol to Oliver because I had previously told them
both about my idol that expired there. I knew this could be a problem in the future if
anyone ever snitched on me, so the round before I had edited the idol message that I
had sent to Courtney saying that the idol was non-transferrable. This would help me
later on when Ollie told Courtney about what I did at the Spec vote-out. In terms of
the tribal council here at f8, there is not much to say about this boot because
gameplay really didn’t impact this vote at all. Oliver wanted to leave the game, and
we all respected his wishes. I was a bit bummed out because before he left the game, I
did end up telling him how I indirectly gave him the idol to save himself, and I was
hoping that would build some trust with him. He probably still would have trusted
other people over me which makes sense, but it did suck voting out someone who I just
laid the groundwork with to possibly go far with.

F7: Adam Boot

​ After the Oliver vote, it was getting down to the wire. This is really where I get
into strategic Andy mode and figure out the best path of FTC I could possibly pave
for myself with the people I wanted to sit next to. I knew those people were Pokeboy
and Dumb. The reason for this is Adam would have support as someone who had
scratched and clawed his way to safety tribal after tribal. Ollie seemed to be someone
who was likable and a jury threat, as I felt like many people would want to vote for
him as someone who has a good underdog arc. Then Courtney and Blaze I just
couldn’t go to FTC with because of how well respected they were. Even if I came into
FTC and listed a thousand things I did better than them, the perception of them was
so strong that it wouldn’t matter; I would still lose. Saying this, that is why I had to get
Pokeboy and Dumb on the same page as me. While I was on the same page as
Pokeboy, Dumb had plans of his own. We still had this 4 person alliance of Courtney,
Blaze, Dumb, and me just without Spec since they were voted off, but I learned pretty
quickly that Dumb was flipping on that alliance. Knowing this, I knew it would be a
bad idea to do Courtney or Blaze this vote, so I was going to do what I could to make
sure things went in my favor this tribal council. Luckily, during this time, there was an
idol hunt, which is what I assume was my idol being rehidden after Oliver used it.
After tryharding it, Courtney was able to get it which was such good timing. Adam
was suspicious of me because Dumb had told him that I was in with Courtney and
Blaze, but both Ollie and Pokeboy trusted me and told me exactly what was going on,
so I had no reason to keep Adam if he didn’t trust me and it gave me a valid excuse
as to why I voted out Adam. Apparently, Adam decided to tell me the vote was Blaze
in our alliance chat, but in reality, they were voting for Courtney. Both Pokeboy and
Ollie relayed this back to me. Because of this, I was pretty certain the vote was on
Courtney. I had told Courtney and Blaze about Ollie’s idol, so they were worried that
Ollie might play it on Adam there, so they wanted to idol Dumb out. But that went
against what I wanted my final three to be, so I kept pushing to do Adam and just
asked them to trust me. And they did, and it worked out after we did a 4*-2-1 split in
case of an idol play. I would say the idol play was all Courtney’s doing, but being able
to recognize who they were voting for due to my connections and keeping the vote on
Adam instead of doing Dumb was because I had trust that Ollie wouldn’t idol Adam
without telling me. Therefore, I feel like while this looks like Courtney’s move, I had a
lot to do with it, and I was the one who ended up deciding that we should stick to
voting out Adam and getting someone out who kept surviving every single vote tribal
after tribal. I felt like it was the start of my downfall in my relationship with Ollie, but
it allowed me to be set up very well at f6.

F6: Courtney Boot

​ At the final six, my ideal boot order was Courtney at F6, Ollie at F5, and Dr
Blaze at F4. Saying that, F6 was a very precarious situation for me and my ideal final
three. The reason for this is because Blaze had won the challenge, and Ollie had an
idol that expired here. So out of the three that I would have wanted to go for, at least
two of them were immune. I took an interesting approach to this tribal council, and it
was one that burnt my relationship with Courtney quite a bit. Since I betrayed Ollie at
the previous tribal, Ollie had revealed what I did at the Spec vote-out (the passing of
the idol to Oliver), and I had to pretend like he made it up because if I didn’t then it’s
quite likely that Courtney and Blaze would have wanted to go for me there for
betraying them. If they got Ollie on their side with the idol and one of Pokeboy/Dumb
clues him on the vote, then I could’ve been idoled out. It might sound a bit unlikely,
but in the game of Survivor, anything is possible, and if Ollie wanted me out that
badly because of my betrayal then he had all the power in the world to make it
happen. That is why I took the approach that I did at Courtney’s vote-out. I knew it
wouldn’t be something that she was happy about, but I hope you can at least
understand my reasoning. The regret I do have was pitching the 3-2-1 plan to
Courtney. That was over the top and, looking back, I shouldn’t have done that much. I
truly didn’t mean for anything to seem personal, and I apologize if it felt that way,
Courtney. So I flipped there and the vote ended up being 4-3 on Courtney after her
safety rope worked for an extra vote on Dumb and Ollie used his idol on himself. This
left us with a final five of Blaze, Ollie, Dumb, Pokeboy, and myself with what I
assumed to be no advantages left in the game.

F5: Blaze Boot

​
After the Courtney vote-out, I was a bit sad just because of Courtney’s response
to getting voted out, but I brought that upon myself and she has every right to feel
whatever way she does. But I still knew that I had to keep my head in the game and
finish strong. However, due to the recent events, I wanted to be a bit more open about
what I was doing with my vote so I didn’t burn anyone too harshly. I can’t say that I
did not lie at all because right after the Courtney vote-out, Blaze was like “I still want
to be in the f3 with you” and I didn’t blatantly say the same thing back but I did
arguably imply it in order to make Blaze still somewhat feel good with me after I just
betrayed him. But I did quickly backtrack on that in a VC with Ollie and him where it
was suggested we break up the duo of Pokeboy and Dumb before F4 where I
admittingly said that I was on the fence about it. The thing was that I had a final
three deal with Pokeboy and Dumb (as well as a f2 with Dumb), as they were my ideal
final three. But I was suggesting to Pokeboy and Dumb that we do Ollie at F5 and
Blaze at F4 because Blaze was worse at the challenges, and I was shut down so
quickly it wasn’t even funny, so it had me thinking whether or not Dumb and Pokeboy
would actually take me to the final three with them instead of Ollie. For that reason, I
was contemplating what I actually wanted to do because I did not want to make F4
and then get voted off because I did not break up a potential duo, but in the end, I
just trusted that they were with me. I told Blaze what I decided right as I submitted
my vote, so if you were mad at me for voting you out, I understand; but if it was
because I said it right before tribal council, it is because I truly was considering the
best move for me there and the votes were read like 15 minutes after I submitted my
vote. I would’ve wanted Ollie gone here at F5, but unfortunately Pokeboy and Dumb
would not budge for anything else. And just like that, Dr Blaze was voted out
unanimously at F5, leaving a F4 of Ollie, Pokeboy, Dumb, and myself.

F4: Ollie Boot

​ Here we are, at the last boot of the season. There isn’t much to delve deep into
because it was a pretty self explanatory vote at least in my eyes. Luckily, I had won
final immunity guaranteeing myself a spot in the final three: my third individual
immunity win of the season! I felt like Ollie was the biggest threat to win in the final
four, and I was pretty open when it came to telling him that. When I did that, it wasn’t
meant to make him feel bad; in fact, it was to try to do the opposite. But I think doing
that just made him more upset with me, and I understand because I was voting him
out after all, but I just didn’t feel any need to not be real with him. But yeah, I
discussed how I felt with him and ended up going through with voting him out, as did
Pokeboy and Dumb. Like that, I had reached my end goal!

Final Thoughts

​ I do not think I played a perfect game. Nobody can. But I do think that I
played an impressive one. One where I was set up amazingly to succeed, and one that
allowed me to dictate where I wanted the game to go. I took risks, I made moves, and
most importantly, I survived until the end. In the social aspect of the game, I did very
well making connections all throughout the tribe, which helped me never get targeted
and only receive 1 vote throughout the season in a span of 12 tribal councils. As for the
strategic aspect, I do believe that I thrived throughout the season. I was always set up
perfectly for success and where I never got my name written down. And I barely even
mentioned this in my speech, but I did great at the challenges too. I won three in total
at the merge and got close finishes in the other challenges. At the end of the day,
removing personal aspects of the game, I am very proud of the game I played, and
I’m not afraid to admit it. I hope this speech has helped your decision of choosing who
to vote as the “sole survivor” of this season; either way, I’ll be content with however this
FTC goes! Thank you, everybody.

- Andy
 TL;DR

In case you all do not want to read that all or simply want a shorter recap (BELIEVE
ME I UNDERSTAND LOL), I will just list some points below:​

KEY MOVES:

- Voted out Rosen unanimously at the last Irvine tribal after having much control
of the tribe alongside Riley
- Planted seeds in order for the tribe to turn against Marto, someone I wanted
out on the OG Mallory tribe
- Used Riley’s vote out where I voted for Adam as a way to get in with the other
side and start playing middle due to them thinking there was a majority alliance
which I was actually a part of
- Gave my auction idol that expired at that tribal to Oliver to idol Spec out
- Convinced Courtney and Blaze to idol Adam out despite concerns about Adam
being idoled
- Flipped and voted out arguably the biggest threat of the game and close ally
of mine, Courtney

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

- Received one single vote throughout the season

- Won a total of 3 individual immunity challenges
- Went to and survived the most tribals out of anyone else: 12
- Was able to sit next to the people I wanted to sit by at FTC
- Had complete control of my swap tribe; also became captain after Rosen’s
vote-out
- Played a strong, consistent game in the middle being the one people came to
with information and was constantly pulled into many different alliances/plans
 Messages to the Jurors

RILEY: You were my main ally all of premerge, and I could not have asked for anyone
better to do it with. I was so sad that you went so early on in the merge, and honestly
if I would have been present that day, I probably would have let you know to play
your idol or have given you my idol. I knew that Courtney and Blaze were wanting to
pull a move on you rather quickly, but I did not think it was going to be that vote. I
think things would have been different if I was there to intervene, but unfortunately
that is just how it went. I think that you were thinking that I had a part in getting you
out when it happened, but if it was up to me, you would have gone a lot further.

SPEC: I enjoyed briefly talking to you and getting to know you, but I think we were
mostly connected to each other through our own personal connections (Courtney and
Blaze) kind of similar to how my relationship with Dumb was until final 6. Despite this,
you seem like such an awesome person, and I wish we would have talked more than we
did! I loved playing with you… hopefully we can talk some after the season!

OLIVER: I never really understood why we weren’t close allies because you actually
came off as such a funny person the first time I talked to you, and I even wrote that in
my confessional that you can check after the season. However, I just felt like I annoyed
you or that you did not trust me which is okay, but I wish we would had worked closely
with each other! After the whole passing the idol around situation, I hoped that would
be the start of us working together FINALLY after half the season had already
passed (and I hope we would have done so), but you should always prioritize life over
these ORGs so I totally understood you having to leave the game. All in all, I think we
would have been a cool duo….

ADAM: One of my favorite things about this season has to be how Ollie and I voted
for you at the Riley tribal and then we turn right back around and create a trio
between us. While it was a short lived alliance, it was still a highlight for me. I don’t
feel like we had a whole lot of in-depth personal conversations because we were
focused more on the game, so the only regret I have between you and me is that I did
not get to know you a bit better. You were still a great person though, and I am glad
to have played with you. You played a great game!

COURTNEY: The reason I am writing these is basically just because of you. Since
looking back at the season, I am very aware and able to admit that I was wrong with
the approach I had at your tribal. Of course, it all came down to gameplay and like
you said “Courtney = threat,” but I should not have played into the getting Ollie on
board stuff and all that mess. The reason I did that was because of the advantage
you had and the idol Ollie had, and I did not want the vote to turn around on me
because of that or I get idoled out or something. Even then, I am sorry for betraying
you the way that I did. You were very good to me, and I did take advantage of that
for sure. The way I went about it was wrong, and it was truly never meant to be
anything against you. I don’t want to write a whole novel or anything, but I just hope
you can forgive me for that. I just think you are a much better person than I am and
that’s why everyone adores you so much versus me sitting here with a jury that
probably wants me dead. I enjoyed getting to know you throughout the game since
you were, of course, my #1 on the original tribe and after we reunited during the
merge, but I was playing hard in this ORG and was part of many things I did not
include you in. I tried to use that to our advantage in spots like the Adam vote-out,
but I can admit that I was out for myself in many ways throughout this game. The next
ORG I play, I will make sure to play a lot more with my heart than just my head as I
was really good at separating the game from personal relationships this season. That
helps when you are navigating the middle in a tough game like Survivor, but it is not
always the best way to play the game, especially when it comes to jury management.
But when I signed up for this ORG, I decided that I wanted to truly play the game
with no boundaries, and while it might have burned bridges with people, I think I
played strongly. Saying all this, I hope that you would consider possibly giving me your
vote but I understand if you don’t; I just hope you won’t hold anything against me and
that we can be friends outside the game! I am glad we were able to play together,
and I hope you can somewhat understand my point of view and position in the game.

DR. BLAZE: Meeting someone who had such a similar personality to me was
awesome, as you were just one of those people that I talked to not just because of the
game, but because I thoroughly enjoyed talking to you. And playing Roblox with you
was one of my favorite things about the season overall. Genuinely, you were one of my
favorite people that I have met in an ORG before, and I wish I knew more people like
you IRL. I understand if you are mad about me voting you out, but I will admit that I
was kind of bummed when I read what you said after your vote-out because I was
banking on your support. After what happened with Courtney at the tribal previous to
yours, I tried to be open with you and not try to burn you; that is why I never
committed a plan and said I was on the fence even before I had immunity because
that was the truth, and I did not want to hurt you. And I genuinely pushed to do Ollie
there and have you at final 4 with me, but Pokeboy and Dumb would not consider it at
all. I wasn’t always honest with you for sure, but I appreciated our friendship
throughout the season. You have every right to feel any way you do towards me, but
just know outside of this game, you are an amazing, funny person and I’m glad to
have met you! And I hope that I wasn’t too annoying to talk to this season.

OLLIE: I feel like the conversation we had before I won the final immunity challenge
was truly blown out of proportion when it comes to the points that we both were trying
to get across to each other as we were tense about the game situation, knowing our
fates, and having differences of opinions, but I do apologize if I did anything to
hurt/upset you. Like I tried to tell you, I just was truly just trying to be open and
honest about where my vote was going that tribal before I had immunity or you
possibly won immunity because that felt like it would be more genuine than waiting
until you were immune to pretend that I was voting with you the entire time. I mean, at
the end of the day, I did not expect you to be happy about me telling you that I think
you’re the biggest jury threat and that you’re someone I did not want to go to the end
with, but at the same time, I think you would’ve been 20 times more mad at me if I
lied to you about it. I don’t know. What I do know is that I did enjoy having a
friendship with you in this game, as you were very fun to talk to, but I was playing the
game hard which meant I wasn’t always the most honest person. I tried to be in the
later rounds but ya know once people get a certain perception of you, it kinda just
sticks. I hope we will still talk after the season! Edit: This was written before I watched
your video, so I just wanted to add to this and say that I’m proud of my game, but of
course I do feel bad if I made you feel a certain way. I always play these ORGs with
the intention of carrying on a relationship with people outside the game, and I hope
that we will have that. Thanks for playing with me, Ollie.