First of all I would like to thank polabonez for hosting this game and making it so challenging and fun. I believe that I should be Survivor champion because no one else did as much to shape the game.
-- I had many potential rivals at the beginning of the game. I identified them quickly and directed many votes to remove these threats. These threats included livemike, dublinuf, da_goat, golfpro71.
-- I worked with my allies to disassemble two large multi-tribe alliances - wildpike's and onside's. I got the information regarding these alliances from my allies and directed the vote order to make sure that the alliances crumbled.
-- I won three immunity idols out of four possible idols and used them to keep allies in the game and to get rid of opponents. This fact alone indicates how strong my control of the game was. I used a 4th idol to eliminate the biggest threat from making the final (sorry stevedotdec). I also won several challenges.
-- I covered for team captains when they were unable to submit our entries on time. Both hardknox23 and arfy had problems meeting time deadlines and I stepped in and submitted entries. This shows that although I played this game to win, I was loyal to my fellow tribe members and a team player.
-- I would like to thank arfy, mr_mojo, nelsonba25, bfkfraser, csudak, texan123, nyaggie98 and stevedotdec. It was my vision that these eight players would form the final nine, including me, of course, and we made that vision happen. In fact, I predicted this outcome in a sitemail to polabonez when 24 players remained in the game. It wasn't random luck that I weeded out 15 players to come up with this final nine - I worked to make it happen.
-- Nobody wins this game alone. I worked with other people in an alliance, but I directed that alliance. When we reached the final nine, I relied upon the goodwill that I had generated, the respect that I had won from other players regarding my skill, and my ability to determine whether or not I might be at risk. I was a mastermind of this game, but I didn't have to rely upon backstabbing to be in control. The choice is simple. Do you vote for the player who dominated and directed the game, or do you vote for the player who only helped him?