Greetings jurors!
Helloo, it's your dear freind Zach. First off I want to say how fun of a season it's been and how honored I am to have been apart of it, and being able to sit here in the finale. Thank you Linus for making sure I had a spot in this game, I am so happy I decided to return to this community and play again. Now, let us get down to bidness. I thought about what I wanted to do exactly in this statement for a while. And I decided to just completely lay down my game for you guys to nitpick at. Maybe this will answer some questions you guys have about something I did that you don't understand, maybe this will let you guys get to know me more since there's pleny of you I don't know very well. So here it goes.
I started out in the Atsion tribe obviously. Right away I start clicking with Matt G. I also befreinded Erik, and Jp. We win the first couple challenges, which is great because once we merged the numbers would be on our side if it became a tribe war thing. Also Gabby quit, which didin't impact me too much because I feel like she wouldn't have been super active anyways. She seemed nice though. At some point early in the game, Erik confronts me about a possible alliance between me, him, Matt G, Jp, and Chris. I was 100% down for that because that meant I would have some allies I could trust to not vote me if we ever lost. Everyone discussed it and we all agreed it would be cool, we ended up naming ourselves the 5 guys. It was a pretty trusting allaince early on I feel.
The double tribal happens, Harold swaps with Pory and whatnot, I'm introducd to Pory. We could already tell he was sort of the ring leader of the other tribe because he was the best in comps and probably the most active. My tribe all agrees to vote Lawrence because he is a very very strange man, and he just seemed to not get a lot of things.
A merge comes out of nowhere and surprsises all of us. Right off the bat, I'm offered another alliance. Consisting me, Matt G, Joey, Jp, Pory, Big Z, and Chieko. At first I was Like "okay, let's see hwo this goes." It was at the time a great idea because it was a way for us to bring info back to the 5 guys. Then some weired shit happens, and Pory is caught up in some lies. (I'm pretty sure LMAO I'm still confused about what exactly happened with him.) So me, Jp, and Matt G form a 3 person alliance to discuss what we should do going forward. We end up getting Matt G to agree to vote with us to get out Pory, since he has been throwing his name out to the fake alliance. We also got Matt B. Then ANOTHER alliance is formed between me, Jp, Matt G, Matt R, and Matt B. We named ourselves the Terminators. We end up getting the votes to get Pory out, Pory's side voted me though which kind of shook me up.
At this point Erik is gone entirely. Still no idea what happened to him, but I hope he's okay wherever he is. Because he really was an awesome dude. But glad the whole tribe was able to agree on voting him for the tribal where our votes were revealed. The next vote the Terminators and most of Atsion (this was a very confusing vote for me and tbh I don't tremeber much about it) voted Josie, because she has been very inactive and we had no idea where her head was at, also she's not very good at cahellenges so we knew she probably wouldn't win immunity and save herself.
This next week was surpsingly easy. It was the Big Brother week, and Big Z won HOH. This was his oppurtunity to take out a big competitor from our side, but luckily, he decided to just nominate people who didn't talk to him. Chris and Harold, 2 extremely confusing people in my opinion. Chris wins veto and uses it on himself, perfect oppurtunit for Big Z to backdoor someone. He nominates Joey. At the time, I thought Joey was not on our side. So this wasn't a huge deal to me. But we did decided to take out Harold because of his inactivness and general confusingness.
So this next vote is definely a low in my game. I had thought the plan was miss Chieko. But Matt B and Matt G pulled a quick one on us and instead voted Joey. So me and Matt G voted Chieko, Jp and Joey voted Big Z, Chris voted Matt G (didn't confess to that for a LONG while) and the rest voted for Joey. I wasn't TOO upset because Joey has also lied about a couple things. But because of the next vote he ended up helping us out so then I was kind of upset.
Next vote, Jp and Matt G are steamed at Matt R and B. I kind of understood why they voted Joey, because it did kind of look like Matt G was protecting them. So when they wanted to vote Matt R I was very hesitant because I wasn't sure if they were actually againt us. I ended up agreeing, and it didn't matter anyways because Chris used an idol. I guess it was the best move at the time though. And then next tribal of course was dear Matt B. Another hesitant one for me, but I knew it was the best move. We managed to convince Chieko and Matt B our target was Chris, becaause we knew that was the best way to insure our allaince of 3 was safe.
Next week was the big void week. Nobody was supposed to know who won what. Chris however, told me he won reward. And Matt G won immunity. Chris' award however had nothing to do with him being safe, he got to pick one contetstant and find out if they won or not. He picked Matt G. And bam. At this time, I knew Matt G and Jp were bigger threats and more likely to win than me. I did attempt to make a deal with Chris to vote Matt G, but you know. He was immune. I probably would not have done it anyways because I knew then I would slowly be at the bottom. I voted Chris, and I'm sure so did everyone else.
At this point everyting is coming into formation. I went to Big Z and asked him a very imprtant question. "Who do you think, out of everyone left, would most likely win the game?" He surprised me and actually said JP, I thought the obvious answer was Matt G. His reasoning being he didn't make anyone mad. I kind of fell for that not thinking that there's obviuosly people in the jury Jp didn't necessarily get along with. So I was like ok I'll wait to see who wins immunity. Matt G wins immunity, which means I can't vote for him no how, so I go along with Big Z and vote for JP. I tried to convince Chieko but obviously she didn't agree, and voted ME. Honestly, that's probably the best thing that could of happened, because when the tie happend, Jp and Matt G convinced me why Big Z needed to go, and they were right. Looking at it, a lot of the jury was close with Big Z. And he has played a great game, managing to avoid being the target every week yet being on the other side of the tribe. And I guess Chieko agreed, and we all sent Big Z packing.
Final 4, the most important compeititon yet. Surprise surprise I did not win, I tried my damn hardest though. Jp ends up winning, which opens a huge oppurtunity to finally send Matt G out. Chieko however almost put a wrench in that. She wanted Matt and Jp to vote her because she wanted to go agaisnt Matt G so if she won the tiebraker comp, she could use that in the finale. Jp didn't fall for it however, and Matt G was sent home. It was crazy because Matt G was my best freind in the compeition up until top 5, but I knew he had to go because he would have completely smoked us.
And here we are. Now that I'm done with the history of my game, I guess I'll explain why I should win. Obviosuly, I'm not a fucking comp beast LMAO. There were times where I threw comps because I didn't want to win, and there were times where I just plain sucked. There were some real competitive beasts in this competiton, so it was hard for someone who isn't good at many things to fucking win one. I had the ability to, I just had bad luck. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I think I was definitely the most willing to make a big move out of the 3 of us in this game. I mean if say I won immunity or if Jp won immunity, I compleley doubt Jp would have wanted to take out Matt G at the final 5. And Honestly I just cared about this game more than the other 2, Jp memed a lot of the game and Chieko was out of it all of the time lmao. Also I like to think I have a good social game, I tried my best to talk to everyone and stay active for as much as I could.
Honestly it would just mean so much to me to walk out the champion. I don't neccisarily expect to win, but I don't want to be counted out just because I never won a compeititon. An official competiton that is. So yeah, I'm done. Good luck to my fellow finalists and if there's anything else I should clear up ask away. Can't wait to be roasted. Hehe.