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After some 60-odd days, 15 vote-outs, 1 medevac, countless blindsides, and twists at every turn, Mike and Kate, your time in the Canary Islands is about to come to a close. The jury has voted for a winner. Good luck to the both of you, and for the last time, I’ll go get the votes...

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Unlike previous tribal councils, you want to see your name come up. The person with the most votes will be crowned the winner of Tumblr Survivor: Canary Islands. I’ll now read the votes...

FIRST VOTE

Mike. 

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SECOND VOTE:

Kate.  obviously i’m going to vote for my girl kate to win, queen icon legends only.

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THIRD VOTE:

Kate.  ;) you played amazing game girl!! Hope to see you in another one.

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FOURTH VOTE:

Mike. i honestly don't want to vote for either of you and i know that me voting this way is not going to be looked highly upon tbh. what it comes down to for me is since y'all both lied to me half the game, i'm going with the person who i feel actually made a social connection with me. simple as that. http://i.imgur.com/wjEuhFN.gif

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FIFTH VOTE:

Kate.

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SIXTH VOTE, AND THE WINNER OF TUMBLR SURVIVOR: CANARY ISLANDS...

Kate: We have had a final 2 for most of this game and I am so glad to have been able to play with you! You completely deserve this win and if you don’t get it then I am high key calling this the biggest bullshit of the century. However, I may or may not already have the add button waiting for you in the winners circle. Make me proud queen!

Kate.

You both seemed to praise yourself in this game with your speech but are you willing to point out/admit any flaws you had and how it effected you?

Kate:

I think the time I had dwindled as we kept moving forward in the season. Therefore, I did not have as much time as I would have liked to speak with people so there were a few people I would have liked to build better bonds with, as well as making the ones I already had stronger. I think this effected me in the way that I could not keep the large target off my back because if I had been a little more social, I may have been possibly able to prolong being seen as an asset to the people who wanted to target me.

Mike:

Mike: Why do you deserve the win over Kate? Also, how does it feel to be such a king? Any suggestions on to as legendary as you?

Kate: What was 1 thing you regret doing in this game and what was your proudest moment in this game? Also, out of these queens: Alyssa, Tatianna & Katya, who was the most robbed?

Kate:

I regret not being able to bond with people more, I really wish I had looking back on it. I believe my proudest moment was causing the tie vote at the very first merged tribal, it was difficult getting things in order and then making sure nothing backfired. Katya?

Mike: 

Hello to the questionably deserving winner of Canary Islands and Mike! Congratulations to the both of you for making it as far as you did in this game, as it’s certainly no easy feat if you’re actually working for it with a chance to win! So, do with that what you will! I’m going to go easy on y’all since there’s really no reason to pretend where my vote or everyone else aside from Zack’s votes will be going! With that said, let’s go. 

Kate - I gotta say, you?? did that. I say you? because myself and a couple of other people are questioning your actual identity. With the revealed twist in this game, I’m just left with quite a few questions about who you actually are. A catfish or nah? So one of my tasks for you, I’d just like a selfie with you holding up a piece of paper that says “Hey Kait! ``/ “ on it. That being said, my major issue with your game is your very apparent lack of jury management. While there’s no lack of flashy moves on your resume, all that kind of gets lost if you don’t actually put in work with people. So, it seems like from your ROP you were much closer with other people in the game in comparison to me, but I still matter don’t I? Did you just not like me as a person and not want to be my friend? I’ve played a lot of these games and one of the big things for me is always making new friends, and I can honestly say that I don’t know anything about you other than you not feeling well during the week that I left. Any conversation that we had I initiated, and you only talked about your likes and interests if I brought it up. That just leads me to believe that you’re a watered down version of Spencer Bledsoe’s Cagayan gamebot style of playing – and while I love that little pissbaby it’s not a playstyle that should be strived for in my opinion. So tl;dr, please tell me why you’ve earned my vote and why you just did not give any shits about establishing any sort of social connection with me? In addition! After Trish’s vote off when you were explaining how you felt so threatened by Kiersten’s presence based off of your studying the wiki. I’d like you to compare your game to hers and mine and how you think your winning game compares to ours?

Mike – i? just wanted to be able to walk away from this game with at least one good friend made. So regardless of your blatant attempt to get a rise out of me, I did notice you mentioning that things that happen in games stay in games so are we friends or not? Also, how was your trip home?

Kate:

I hope the video was acceptable, I’m a tad bit awkward so it felt odd and I almost began to ramble at the end but I just noticed it may have sounded bitchy so I apologize if it did. I did try my best of course to work on jury management but as I have a fault that I deal with in my day to day life, it may have translated into this game as well. My social awkwardness and to a small? degree antisocial behaviour makes it quite difficult for me to open up and/or make friends, as well as the way I say things can be a bit off I’m aware, it is something that I have tried to work on immensely in my every day life. It has also always made me remarkably anxious thinking that I am irritating people if I happen to talk a lot, therefore I most often keep my conversations short in my actual life and it is apparent that it reflected in this game as well. However, it is a huge struggle for me for which I hope to keep working on. I believe I should have tried harder to get past it and for not successfully accomplishing that, I apologize.

Of course you matter and I do not want you to think otherwise. I did try to show you that I cared about you as a person, as I did enjoy speaking with you which began for us on day one. As there were not many people I had the chance to have long conversations with on that first day, you were certainly the person with whom I spoke with most. I believe the considerable amount of time we spent apart may have influenced me unconsciously in a negative way in the way that I had a hard time reconnecting with you possibly. I did assume we were on good terms during a large portion of the game but that isn’t the case if we don’t feel it mutually so I may have misinterpreted.

I had actually stated that I would like to be friends with you after the season, if not in my confessionals then possibly to another cast-mate but I do remember saying that somewhere. I had been excited to play with you from the start but unfortunately, we drifted apart a bit and our games went in separate directions. I hope you do not take that to mean I did not like you because that is certainly not the case. I hope we can both start anew after this game but only if you would like to.

I legitimately had only hinted at her winner status being a threat. I did say I read a few seasons on the wiki since I do not like to go into anything blindly. The wiki is quite brief so as for her specific gameplay from that season, I have no idea. As much as I could pull out from it was that she had been a social threat as she only had 4 votes cast against her all season, a challenge threat due to her four individual immunity wins, and clearly a strategic threat as she had made it to the end of the season while also accounting for how the vote offs seemed to turn out. The stats from your wiki seem to be similar as well in terms of only receiving 5 votes which is impressively only from one tribal, and always voting in a large majority (most likely leading a large group without having them turn on you) while finishing off the season strong, with 3 immunity wins. Strictly comparing our games on these basic terms without having knowledge of the specifics of what you both did, I believe ours were similar, however, I have less individual immunity wins. If I could get more information on the specifics, I most likely would be able to describe it more in depth and I can assume your games were very solid as I know you both played quite strongly this season. <3

Mike:

Hey rats, catfishes and Zack. It’s Michal here. First off, I’d like to say thanks to Jason and Connor for hosting this legends only season that everyone seems to hate. Despite being interrogated 24/7 by Cora, I’ve sure had a lot of fun.

So just let me quickly introduce you to my wig-off gameplay called #AFSCGAC = Alliancing - Floating - Snaking - Coasting - Gaming - Aggressing - Collaborating. Coming into the game, I didn’t know ANYONE. Not a single person. No premakes for me. For this fact, confirmed by me, alone I think I already deserve votes, but let me continue just to clear things out.

During the first week of Canary Islands™ I used to be very vulnerable and very open with people. Rapports were being built between the contestants. That’s when Cora PMed me and we became close. I truly believed in my heart that she was going to be like my little sister that I never had. So we have fun and then she whispers into my little ear: “Mike, let’s align with Ashley and Bubba.” So I was just like… “Yes.” And this was the start of the ~Alliancing step of the #AFSCGAC strategy. Step 1? Did and done.

So over the next few weeks, Cora is whispering into my ear during each tribal again and again: “Mike, let’s vote [insert name].” So I do. And each time this person gets voted out. And I mean… I was raised in village, I KNOW bullshit when I see it. So I was venting in my head to myself: “She clearly controls the game as of now, but joke’s on her because it’s pre-merge.” So anyways. I stay calm and go for the second step of the #AFSCGAC strategy: ~Floating. It consisted of me using my social skills and patting Cora’s ego, so she keeps me around. I didn’t have to talk to anyone but her to be kept around, they didn’t matter – I was under Cora’s protection. A wig-off moment if you ask me.

So I continue and skip ~Snaking step, since Cora is doing all the hard job for me, and go straight to ~Coasting step. This one? I’m the most proud of. It’s pre-merge, ~Alliancing and ~Floating steps are set in stone and it’s time to do what? “Nothing” – but still everything. This step was THE hardest thing to do. I WILLINGLY had to not submit a competition, get a strike for it and suck at other competitions, so others WOULD believe I’m a goat, and that I’m inactive more than Trish and suck at comps more than Brandon. Little did they know I was doing this charade only so I could have a good headstart during merge. This step was all thought through and for the people who say: “Oh, well you have no social game, you’re a floater, you’re ugly and do nothing.” No bitch! You don’t know. So until you google what coasting and floating REALLY means, shut the hell up! I’m so sick of people not understanding that this game is about being in the best position possible – which I clearly was in – and set best positions for yourself during upcoming changes (e.g. merge). You don’t know… so until you educate yourself about this stuff… shut it down. Have a seat and listen!

Merge starts and I’m all set. Time to use ~Gaming and ~Snaking steps. I had a choice. Stay loyal to Cora/Ashley/Trish/Brandon or go with Zack/Kate/Stephany and get rid of the four. I was literally in the BEST position possible. I was gambling and I had to thought through the best direction I could go for. Stay with Cora and her minions and let them control the game AND be low on the totem pole or go with the legends only™ people who take you as an equivalent player and person and REVOLT against the other side. I just had to choose and metaphorically press the right button. So I did and voted with Zack/Kate/Stephany.

0.1 second after tribal post and Cora comes up to me and says “WHY. THE. FUCK. DID. YOU. VOTE. ASHLEY. SARAH. OUT. HOW. DARE. YOU. TO. NOT. OBEY. ME… LIAR. SCAM.” This is how i felt at the very moment BTW:

And then she chills out and says: “Lmao whatever. Do whatever you want, we’re cool right? I just have trust issues when it comes to you right now…” So she tells me that… YOU??? CORA??? KAIT??? CATFISH??? YOU??? are the one with trust issues. The one who lied about her name and life story, has no shame.

So me and Cora? We are DONE. She questioned me again and again. At that very moment, I thought I applied for whodunnit for a second. At this point I was just tired of her ~attitude. So I ratted her saying she wants Brandon out, out to Brandon, and you know what Brandon did? He sent it to Cora in 0.1 second and then in next 0.1 second Cora told me that Brandon told her I told him that she said she wants Brandon out. I mean… who does that.

So I go for the 6th step of my #AFSCGAC strategy = ~Agressing. I call Brandon publicly out. And then he gives me a speech about bullying and asks me in PMs what he did. BOY………… get outta my PMs. Everyone knows you are a rat. Be gone. Disappear.

This step may seem very personal and controversial, but it was part of the ~plan. After getting all of them out one by one, It was time to apply the very last step – ~Collaborating = find the loyal person you’re going to stick with no matter what until the end – Zachary. Unfortunately, but still good for me, he got voted out and it was between me, Kate and Stephany. And I knew DAMN well they weren’t going to take me to F2, even though I seemed like a GOAT (which I OBIVOUSLY wasn’t). I’ve seen them and I’ve seen how they act around each other AND I was told to they wouldn’t take me. They were simply loyal to each other. Young love. Just like me and Zack.

So after fulfilling all 7/7 steps of the mastermind #AFSCGAC strategy, I won the final challenge and assured myself a spot in F2. Wig? Off.

Hey everyone! First, I’d like to start by thanking you all for making this game truly enjoyable to play. I’d also like to thank Jason and Connor for running this season smoothly and giving us all a great experience. As we know, becoming the sole survivor is based upon having the balance in gameplay overall in terms of outwitting, outplaying and outlasting. I believe I have proven myself in all three components in this game.

Outplay may be the smaller factor in my game out of the three. I won challenges when I needed to and tried to throw most of the rest since I did not want the wins to hinder how I was seen in the game. I was particularly only good at certain challenges and not so much others so I made sure that I relied heavily on the other two aspects more so.

Outlast was one of the stronger parts of my game, since I voted in the majority in every tribal. I was not only voting in the majority; I created a majority during most rounds and made sure the person that I wanted to go was leaving that tribal each and every time while also making sure that there were people who would throw their vote in case of idols or I got them to throw to make sure that the person I wanted out was not leaked and actually left. I ran scenario after scenario to make it possible for my target to leave each round and to avoid any unpredictable factors, such as that if there was an idol played that the secondary target would leave or if there were two idols played, advantages, someone flipping, the possibility of someone lying to me, etcetera, I made sure to account for every variable to ensure that the person I wanted to go, went. I also adapted a lot, one specific moment would be as to when people figured out that I was playing the middle and did not trust me as much and I had to change the direction of where I wanted my game to head and the people I wanted to work with moving forward. It was absolutely making me insane from all the stress of thinking out every possible scenario that could potentially happen but it helped get me to where I am now, which is at the end of this game, with technically no votes cast against me while being a huge target for a large part of this game.

Outwitting was also one of the better parts of my game, I played dumb and made sure people believed that I was a lost puppy during the first few days of the game. I solidified two alliances of 3 during the original tribe phase and two strong allies in Zack and Trish. Then the swap came around and I was in the minority. I made sure to gather enough information to make sure I could get two people to flip on their original tribe members so I did not have to vote out one of my two closest allies at the time. I kept making sure that every move I made left me in a better position than I was in before by thinking a few rounds ahead, and made strong enough bonds as to where my allies would not flip on me.

When merge arrived, I knew it would break off into two sides and I had a good bond with people from each side. I knew I had built genuine connections with Trish, Stephany and Zack as to where they would want to keep me around and worked from there to make more bonds. As I had already figured out the twist of the season earlier on, I knew that there was one side that was a tiny bit less threatening than the other. I knew that both sides were less likely to vote me out as they had it out for each other, predominantly after the first merge vote which was orchestrated by me. I knew that the one side had four votes and then made sure the other 4 of us voted differently and made Jerome throw his vote to ultimately end up at a revote. I had made sure to align myself with Jerome long before that, as I knew he was on the outs with most of the cast, I planned to save him and more so deplete the tight-knit group’s numbers.

After this tribal, both sides still needed me as a vote and that dependence on my vote left me to play the dangerous position of the middle as I had wanted. I had to lay out several plans which was not only for the vote, but also for people to make alliances with others from outside our alliance to gather information. It was a trial and error thing for me to see if we could actually pull in votes but as a way of making sure that none of it backfired towards me. I am thankful I had an alliance who would listen to my crazy ramblings about each situation that was possible even if it was on the rarest of chance it would actually happen, so I could foresee which was the optimal plan to go with each tribal.