Tyrone's Opening Statement

[Jeff Probst]

This is where Tyrone will post his Opening Statement !

[Tyrone Davis]

I sit here today playing one of the more difficult games I have played. All of you on the jury were great competition and made this game that much more difficult. I have the utmost respect for each and every one of you in your own regard.

I am not going to write a long, drawn out opening statement for all of you because I feel some of the things I say might be asked in questions so I will save them for your questions but I will give you a brief overlay.

With that being said, I'll just say a bit. Since day one this game I had an agenda, like everyone does, which is to get to the finals. Early on in the game I felt as if I was on the outs as almost all of my tribe members outside of Jimmy Johnson were never on AIM and I was let to believe that alliances had already been formed, so I did what I could best, work my butt off in challenges and just build a bond with everyone as best I could.

I slowly built bonds with the majority of La Flor, and closer to the merge, I got to know Chase better and we made a pact to get to the end, little bit later on the merge, we brought Shannon in, and when we merged, Sash's vendetta against Jimmy T helped La Flor gain majority for the rounds to follow, the round Na Onka left, I was hearing things left and right about her trying to get me out and I asked her and she denied. Now I did believe her to an extent but at this point, it was a bit late, as Dan, someone who I grew to trust a lot as he was a real stand up guy and I wanted to gain his trust more too, so we stuck to voting Na Onka out. However the round Fabio went, I don't know what happened, that is the only round this entire game I had no idea what happened, I thought we'd get Yve out but a 4-4-1 vote and loss in tiebreaker for Fabz changed it. Anyways, after that we decided to stick together (La Flor) and Yve (And Dan, cause of Self Votes) went in that round making it easier for us. Once final 4 hit, it pained me to vote for anybody, but I wasn't sure if our deal was still on (with Chase and Shannon) cause things change, but it was.

I have had my head in this game since day one. I have played a strong social game, a strong physical game and I think overall, just played a smart game to get to where I have. I hope, you, as the jurors can see that, and ask any questions you may have.

I look forward to answering your questions, thank you.