Duncan's Speech (Island)

If there is one emotion I believe a lot of the jury is feeling toward me right now, it's probably betrayal. There were times throughout this game I had to make difficult decisions to cut the people who believed we were close. I will say right now though I played the most loyal game I potentially could. Not only was I loyal, but I believe that on every level I outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted my final two opponent, Heather.

From the beginning of this game, I aligned with Geoff and formed a final two deal with him. I thought we could be the good cop and bad cop of the Bass, and from the beginning, we controlled the votes while gathering our allies. I orchestrated a good number of eliminations here, but every time I never voted out a core member of my alliance. Sadie was a social threat and poor in challenges. Harold and Tyler each burned their bridges with me themselves. Cody was the only person on the Swapped Gophers to not be aligned with me. Leshawna, Beth, and Katie were all people who were not only never on my team, but a dangerous core trio. And lastly Trent betrayed me first and was in a couple. None of the people whose eliminations I was the main cause of was someone who had any reason to feel they should've trusted me. The only person I willingly betrayed was Bridgette, but that was for two reasons. Firstly, I was friends with everyone at the final five, so I literally had to betray someone. Secondly, Bridgette was the only person at the final five I didn't feel I could beat her in the jury. Furthermore, Bridgette was the only person I believed wouldn't want to sit next to me at the final two. i mean, if they didn't taking me out at five was clearly their best best. Woman's alliance people? The fact that I also was the mastermind for all these eliminations and were able to get enough key allies on my side to vote out my target everytime clearly shows I outwit all other players. In particular, Heather voted the same way I did during every vote. Not once does our voting record contradict one another.

When it comes tooutplaying Heather, I'm going to look towards my record in immunity challenges. Firstly, the only challenges Heather won were auto-elimination, both of which I also excelled at. Otherwise, I won immunity at the final four alongside Gwen. Statisitcally that's an extra win on top of what Heather has. Furthermore, I had a better social game than Heather, garnered by the fact I never left the game like she did. All of my allies were close friends and I even flipped a few enemies such as Gwen and Courtney back to my side. That's not including the fact Heather made herself a social pariah after reading Gwen's diary out to the whole world. Alteranaively Heather destroyed her only friendship going into the merge in the first hour after her return.

That's actually going to be my last point. To be blunt, who do you want to win the million dollars? Do you want it to go to the punk who earned his way to the final two by survivng 25 elimination rounds, or someone who got to return halfway into the game after being voted out by her own alliance in the fourth challenge. I'm not saying Heather didn't play well upon her return, but when your opponnen didn't need that second chance, you have to consider who is more deserving of the million. It's been a blast playing with you all and I hope you'll consider all the factors I mentioned above when deciding who you want to represent this season at the end of the day. Thank you.

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