Chase's Opening Statement

[Jeff Probst]

This is where Chase will post his Opening Statement !

[Chase Rice]

Hello everyone. It has been a fun game ever since the beginning. I came to this game not really knowing what to expect. My initial strategy was to become very helpful in the challenges so my tribe can see how useful I am to them. By finding the immunity idol on the first day I knew I needed to come up with a plan to protect myself and be able to use the idol to get myself some leverage. So I talked and approached a few people to watch my back, these were Jimmy J, NaOnka, Shannon, Jane and lastly Tyrone. With Jane not performing well in the challenges and Jimmy J quitting I thought it was the end of me as I felt like I just lost all control of the tribe. But my alliance with NaOnka, Tyrone and Shannon is what proved to be the most beneficial to me as Tyrone always kept me in the loop and NaOnka was always someone most people listen to and Shannon was just very loyal.

When merge came, we were fortunate enought to find out that the Espada was not a happy tribe. We took this chance to figure out who was on the outs and old La Flor decided to stick with each other. This was also the time I had my second Hidden Immunity Idol when Brenda left as no one knew I was secretly communicating with her and this proved very beneficial to me as she decided to pass me the idol she found. With 2 Idols in hand, I was never more comfortable than ever with only 1 of my Idols known to everyone as I decided to keep the other idol unknown to everyone. We were able to take out Holly when we figured out that she was deemed as the leader of their tribe and thanks to Dan's help we knew what exactly was going on with his tribe. The following tribal councils was then a lot of crazy unexpected events and even though my name came up in some of them Tyrone and I were able to secure the votes to send the people that we wanted gone. In the end, I was able to achieve what I wanted from the very beginning without having to break deals and keeping to my word. That is sticking to the people I gave my word to and making sure I get them to the end. With 4 individual wins i was able to achieve the outplay part, getting here to the end i was able to achieve the outlast part, and making sure that I knew what was going on and making the right deals and talking to the right people and not breaking the deals I have made and just be straightforward I was able to achieve the outwit part.

So if you are not satisfied and want to know more of how I was in this game please feel free to question me and I will answer with as much honesty as possible

[Chase Rice]

PS. Sorry for the delay I was just so busy last night with work and all and I just woke up