Danny Gokey's Opening Statement

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Danny, please post your opening statement here, you have 24 hours (give or take 2 minutes since yours and Dexter's thread are not posted at same time) to do so.

[Danny Gokey]

Yay! We're at the end of this game!

Hey everyone, it's been a long time coming, but here we are at the Final Tribal Council. I'd be lying if I said it was my plan to be here with Dexter this whole time, but in the end, it is appropriate since we did work together for the majority of this game.

I started off this game trying to make myself out to be an asset to my tribe by being strong in challenges. However, once I started hearing "Danny Gokey will win this game" when there were about 20 people still left in the game, I decided to tone it down to not be taken out for being a threat. I still kept my lines of communication open and I anticipated possible upcoming scenarios at all times. I made sure I stayed in the majority voting block on all my tribes (I avoided making actual alliances, for the most part, in case of tribe swaps). When we were getting close to the merge, I made sure to form a voting block to have the majority and to put myself in the best possible position I could.

This game had many people who didn't quite care and didn't put as much time and effort into as they could have, but I started this game on Day 1 intent on winning it and I kept that attitude the whole game. I made the moves I felt I needed to, to get myself here and now I can only hope that the jury feels it was enough to award me their vote.

Good luck to Dexter (but not too much luck ) and I will answer y'alls questions as promptly as I can.