Beth's Speech (World Tour)

I quite frankly didn't expect to make it to the Final Two, let alone the Final Four, and quite frankly even the merge. But, I did and I'm extremely proud of the way I played! Not only did I make strong social bonds, old and new, but I also played a very good strategic game and had a hand in a lot of people's elimination. I also shockingly won two immunity challenges in a row (which, in case I remember, were mostly social-based challenges so that further proves my social game) and I think I was making the Final Two regardless, simply because I truly believe all three were more on the side in wanting to be in the finals with me because our close relationship. Obviously th,e challenge came down to strategy, but Lindsay still stuck with our goal code and helped to get rid of Duncan. I love you Lindsay!

As for my gameplay throughout the season, I wanted my strategy this time to be more subtle compared to my last two; it started off pretty well as I had obvious allies on my team in Katie and Lindsay on my original team, but then s word hit the fan when Sadie of all people targeted me. I honestly thought that Heather was leaving solely due to her reputation, but once I saw that Beth vote, I had to go to work. I aligned myself with Owen since I figured his vote was up for grabs, and we didn't have the most positive relationship, so I wanted to be better, and through Owen, I got Heather due to their alliance. However, that was both of their mistakes; I'll get to that soon. Anyways, all of this snowballed into Sadie's boot, my first technical strategic victim. Then came Team Amazon's lengthy streak. At this point, I was aligned with everyone but Courtney, but I still sought out to get her just in case. Initially, I was going to stick with Owen because I thought I was his primary ally, but once I was added into his chat with Heather and saw the rest of allies (and let's just say in the canon universe, I overheard Heather and Owen scheming together in economy class), I knew I was going to be on the bottom of our alliance. With that said, I decided to align with Izzy. They were targeting Izzy next, so I thought it'd be easier to expose this in order to secure her loyalty. We mutually agreed that we needed each other, so I quickly brought in Katie and us all together convinced Lindsay. That began the start of the majority Amazon alliance that would later become indirectly the women's alliance formed later on. From that point on until the swap, I knew I was fine because none of them was willing to force a tiebreaker in order to save Heather, and if we kept losing (which we kept did), I was never leaving because Katie and Lindsay were more loyal to me than Izzy. Also, at the point of Heather's first ouster, me and Izzy decided to bring Duncan and his allies in order to secure a solid majority come a looming swap and hopeful merge.

Then came the dreaded swap. The swap was one of my scariest times in the season. I didn't have a single solid ally except Katie and due to previous seasons, my relationships with the majority of the team wasn't super great. That didn't stop me! I worked extremely hard to rebuild a better bond with Geoff (we agreed to have the couples stick together), who I might add was an AMAZING player and completely had the power on that team, as well as Leshawna (I offered her my allegiance before the Ezekiel vote in order to save me and Katie because I was worried Ezekiel might get Bridgette and Geoff to save him using the argument that we needed each other in order to combat their potential trio). I vowed to save myself and Katie, and it worked. I will also that I was most worried at the Leshawna vote. I knew both she and Geoff were stellar players and worried they'd come together to get rid of this other rising stellar player. I decided to wait for Leshawna to vote before I voted to see where she'd side and luckily, it was for our agreed decoy boot, Bridgette. From that point on, I knew I was making the merge whether we kept losing or not due to Bridgette's tie blunder and me and Katie's loyalty to each other.

Finally, the merge! This was my third consecutive merge and I vowed myself to outlast being the second voted out of the merge. At this point, I was in the technical majority alliance with Izzy, Katie, and Lindsay, and we had Duncan, Geoff, and Justin with us to make it a 7-3 against Cody, Eva, and the newly returned Heather. I also brought up the women's alliance idea to Katie and Lindsay at the start of the merge and promised my absolute allegiance to solely them. I can't remember if I told them both or even one about bringing Cody to the Final Four with us during the chats, but I definitely had in my head the idea. I figured that us 3 and he were the most evenly matched physically, socially, and strategically. I know for sure though that I told Lindsay about it eventually and she agreed rather quickly. I planned to vote off Heather because we didn't have trust with each other, but that got thwarted with her immunity. So that left Eva, and by proxy, Izzy since for me she was technically the most expendable because she wasn't as trustworthy and she said she was. She was playing HARD and I did not need her in the game exposing my plans, undercutting me, or even potentially taking my numbers. Once the threat of Izzy was disposed of, I was on cruise control. Not only did I accomplish my minor goal of making it to the third round of the merge, but I was also never leaving and was going to be in the Final Four regardless due to my multiple alliances and relationships, Katie and Lindsay having stronger reasons to be voted out (possessing a relationship and lack of better relationships respectively), and Heather being an obvious boot. Losing Cody sucked because he was in my Final Four plans, and I and Lindsay were really hard to save him by trying to get Katie, Duncan, and Geoff to vote with us, but we just couldn't do it. Geoff and Justin were my planned targets after Heather due to their combined challenge strength and relationships with Duncan and Katie respectively. Thankfully, their threat statuses and Katie's loyalty got me to where I wanted to be in the point. Then the girls 'alliance stuck together to reach the Final Three. We all didn't reach it, but Lindsay's loyalty to me was huge because she planned to bring me to the Final Two, so her picking to sabotage Duncan was vital in me getting to the finals. And now I'm here against my very good and close friend Katie. I'm proud of us both and I wish us the best.

To conclude, I played a very well rounded game. I was sociable and likable, but not to the point where I'm laying down on my sword, strategic and got my way a lot of the time, and surprisingly physical! I won crucial immunities that aided my goal in ending Geoff and Justin. I feel like I should win and I hope you guys have the same mindset. Thank you for your time.

Individual Jury Accolades:

Noah - Very formidable rival. You made the entire pre-merge stressful, but I actually thankful because that made work even harder to get where I got.

Eva - We never had the bestest relationship, but I respect your gameplay a lot. I think if the first vote wasn a double, you would've been on my list of threats due to your shifted UTR gameplay and relationships with Cody (I believe), Duncan, Geoff, and Heather. It would've been very troublesome for me to get you out.

Izzy - My, oh my! You were a whirlwind force in this game. You were definitely one of my biggest threats, but also nuisances because you exposed a lot of our strategy early on, lol. You stayed loyal though to our core alliance, and I liked that you were so strategic and someone that I could talk to. I'm very glad the majority of the mergers agreed with me that you had to go.

Heather - We've had our ups and downs, but I still admire your gameplay. Your reputation alone scared the hell out of me and I wanted you gone in the beginning, but it faded because of Sadie. However, it did come back due to your dealings, and it was almost...cathardic for me to be the primary reason you left both times. I wanted to outlast you since you got me out the other times, and I'm really glad it happened. I'd say we're even; you got me, and I got you.

Cody - ):. I'm not sure if you noticed but I upped you a lot during the pre-swap because I thought we'd well together if we were ever on the same team. That never happened unfortunately, but I REALLY wanted to work with you because I think we shared similar interests and could've been a force in the game. You already know that I tried very hard to save you, but I just couldn't get that fourth vote. I hope you're proud of the way you played this time!

Geoff - What can I say? You were my absolute biggest competition. You had connections with two of my core allies, ran the swap, and won very clutch immunities. You were I think my biggest rival, but I don't think you know that, lol.

Justin - I actually think that you and I were pretty similar this season in the fact that we aligned with completely different people we didn't think to. I was threatened by you even more than Geoff because of your impeccable social game. If you would've been able to round up the boys and Katie against Lindsay at Geoff's vote off, I think my path to the end would've been harder, so I'm very glad you left.

Lindsay - You already know how I feel about you. You were my true right hand and I knew I could trust you 100%! You played wonderfully and I'm very honored to have gone so far with you. If I wasn't in this spot, I wish it would've been with you.

Duncan - My boo. My guy. My loyal little delinquent. I'm not truly sure what happens if we don't come together honestly. But it doesn't matter because we're together and you're such a good boyfriend! You're so easy to talk and strategize with and I'm extremely glad that our differences mesh so well. You're the best ever, and I love you!

**Winning Speech? Yes (1st)**