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Why does so much Elena of Avalor choreography consist of Elena being tossed around and falling? Are they trying to give me a heart attack?
Final Vote
Thanks to the contestants for making the season possible. I wanted to host this season because I wanted to gain hosting experience, and I can definitely call this season a learning experience.
Reyn, Danny, tonight you want to see your name.
I will now read the votes.
Josh’s Jury Speech
Josh:
“Hi guys! I’m happy that you two are in the final 2. Danny you’ve been my ally since Day 1 and Reyn, my adversary from Bonin ( @ possible adversaries hosts!!!) it’s very nice to see you go farther than your original placement in Bonin. I only have two simple question for both of you.
Being aligned with both of you my perception of you two is that you two were kind of playing the same game. With my short time playing with you in the merge, I really have a limited view of your gameplay. I want you two to tell me how your game differs from each other and why yours is better.
The next question is, well not really a question, more like a request. I’m going to pull a #ChaosCasey (no i wont rip stuffed animal heads) and ask you to lip sync a Taylor Swift song. Just a few seconds will suffice. If you’re not comfortable with showing your face..idk use sockpuppets or something. This is really important to me so please….Here we are now (the jury), Entertain us! (I’m being serious do the lip sync video)
Thank you and good luck!“
Danny: “This is my answer to your question.”
Reyn: “Thank you Josh, I’m very happy to have done better than Bonin! Being in the same alliance since the tribes swapped, Danny and I did play very similar games but I think I did play a better game. I spent my time getting to know and befriending the stronger players and didn’t really hold issues taking them a little bit farther where it seemed Danny would have been more comfortable taking people we had better chances of beating in challenges further into the game. We were in an alliance so there was definitely compromise there on who went home in what order but I gave myself options which I believe was why my name didn’t get written down this season. I really do think I played a way better social game and had a lot of fall backs I think Danny heavily relied on our alliance to get him here, as far as I know. By giving myself more options if my alliance were to crumble I was also giving other people options of working with me and I think that not only worked well to get me here but to get Simon, Danny and I to the final 3. Without trying to downplay Danny’s game too much I think I did better than him as a whole. I outwitted him by insuring that you went home (more so passively than actively, I will admit), as I figured that if I wasn’t his number one person in this game then you were. I managed to convince him to bring Duncan into the final 4 instead of Laure, allowing me to be sitting with three people I thought had chances of taking me to the final two. I also outplayed him, winning more challenges than Danny throughout the season. We played different games, but I sort of felt I had Danny in my pocket throughout and that might have been the biggest difference. Danny gave me a hidden immunity idol after all when he needed it more. So, I think those were biggest difference, my social and challenge game play. Sadly Josh I must apologize. I’ve not had the time or energy to make a video much like our Bonin finalists! Danny and I came to the agreement that we wouldn’t do it, so hopefully he holds true to his word! I’d gladly snapchat it to you and any other jury member who would like it though. I hope this does not affect your view of my game or your possible vote. Hopefully my idol The Rock lip syncing it will suffice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3tUOJ9yv4 Thank you for your questions Josh! And apologize about the video!”
Thanks Josh.
Jason’s Jury Speech
Jason:
“Alright guys, first I want to say congratulations on making it to the end. I know you both did whatever it is you had to do to get here, and you should be able to pat yourselves on the back for that. Now I'll keep this next part short and sweet: Danny, the first time we ever talked in this game was when you updated me on the scores for the live challenge. And you only talked to me once more telling me who you were going to vote for at the subsequent tribal council. Why should I reward you my vote when we've only had two conversations during my time out here? Reyn: I know I stopped talking to you the closer we got to the merge but communication is a two way street. Around the time I was voted out, I was super inactive, but you could've always just dropped a message once in a while just to see how I was doing. Why should I vote for you given that you weren't able to continue our communication while I wasn't able to? Okay, that's all you'll hear from me. Once again, congratulations, and good luck.“
Danny: “This is my answer to your question.”
Reyn: “You’re right, the further this game went on the less we spoke to each other but I think I deserve your vote anyway because I actually did try and I think I played a very good game. While we were on our tribes I always tried to keep you informed or see where your head was at as I tried to do in merge. I think I deserve your vote because I did genuinely try to communicate with you while you were being inactive, I won’t pull up screen captures or anything unless you’d like me too because I respect you more than that. However, I initiated most of our conversations leading up to the merge and once we made it to merge I tried speaking with you twice only to never get replies. It became clear to me after the second time that one of two things were happening, you weren’t being very active or you just didn’t want to work with me. I didn’t know which at the time but I moved on with my game. I tried speaking to you when I could and I guess you weren’t around so I had to put my attention elsewhere for my game. I always tried to be friendly to everyone in this game including you, chatting to them despite alliances. I cannot go back and talk to you more than I did but I think I put in some effort, and if communication is your deciding factor in this vote I do hope you really consider the effort I made into speaking with you. But I also hope you will consider the game I played, it was throughout and I think I really earned the title and would appreciate your vote. Thank you for your questions Jason, and sorry about our lack of chats near the end.”
Thanks Jason.
Simon’s Jury Speech
Simon:
“Well,, congrats to the final 2 I enjoy seeing you both there. If you did not know I did throw this game for the both of you to experience a FTC because I am a kind person and I really do think I made good friends with both of you in this game. With that, some people know my jury questions to honestly kill and I want you both to experience sometime like that. Failure to do my tasks or answers questions HOW I WANT them answer. You will automatically lose my jury vote. Lets get started!
Danny
PART 1: I’m going to give you an opportunity to show the Jury, what YOU did throughout this game. I want a week by week analysis of YOUR GAMEPLAY, not anyone elses. Moves only YOU did, Decisions YOU did, and ONLY YOU. I want a week by week analysis of this, even weeks you had immunity. I want every week and I want every week in detail.
PART 2: Along with that I need you to give me 10 reasons why you SHOULD win and 10 reasons why you SHOULDN’T win.
PART 3: Write me a 3 paragraph essay on why you love me.
Reyn
PART 1: Reyn in this game and out of this game I have seen you are a very nice person. I dont think I want to send my vote to someone who played the nice card in this game. For every person that was voted out (You don't have to do people premerge you didn't know) I want you to explain their FLAWS in their gameplay. I don't want anything nice said. Only things they did WRONG. I don't want “Sorry.” I don't want “Its only game bullshit” I want you to drag deep and claw out some eyes and I want you to rip out weaves.
PART 2: Along with that I need you to compare everyone in Jury to a human body cells/ Microscopic anything in the HUMAN BODY. (IE, Nephrons, Neurons, Electrolytes, ETC) and explain why. I need at least 2 details for each reasoning (You may be nice in these)
PART 3: Write me a 3 paragraph essay on why you love me.
Just a reminder: “Failure to do my tasks or answers questions HOW I WANT them answer. You will automatically lose my jury vote.””
Danny: “My part 1 response to simon
Week 1. Kyra. I assembled a team of Scott, Josh, Laure, and I think Monty to vote out Kyra. The 5 of us came together and voted out the silent, deadly, queen. Week 2 I did not attend tribal but I made deals with Duncan, Josh, and Scott. All people I knew I could trust moving forward. Week 3. Scott. I got blindsided losing Scott. Josh, Scott and I tried to get Tommy out and keep our trio together. We fell a vote short, but it opened my eyes to what I had to do to survive in this game. Week 4 and 5 Kenny and Adrian, I did not go to tribal but when we swapped I instantly made a deal with Simon, Reyn, and Josh to make sure I could go far. The four of us were the majority in case we did go to tribal, but we won back to back challenges. Which brings us to week 6. Tommy left in a 5-4-1 vote. I pulled majority together and got out a very dangerous player. Week 7. I went with the flow. Everyone wanted Jason out, so I sat back and voted. I don't know why he was such a threat, but I wanted to stay under the radar for the week. Week 8. Nobody saw Josh leaving. Nobody but the sometimes inactive mastermind that is Matt FREAKING Summers. Monty's Sapphire Idol caught everyone off guard and when a vote like that happens and 7 out of 8 votes don't count. Anything could have happened. Everyone was freaking out, and I was so worried it was going to be me, I transferred my idol to Reyn before tribal ended. Week 9. Monty. Because of Monty playing his idol, I knew he had to go the next possible opportunity, he was the biggest threat left in the game. Week 10 Matt Summers. If you hadn't been med evaced, you would have been my target, but you made all of our lives easier. Week 11. Laure. Laure had quite a way with words and it was a group decision to get rid of her.”
Reyn: “First of all Simon, as a friend I really respect you for allowing us to have a shot at a final tribal council. Secondly, as an player of the game I respect you even more for giving us your all with your jury questions.PART 1:Maddie’s biggest flaw in this game is your lack of game play until it was too late. In order to be an asset premerge you have to have something going for you and in this season Maddie did herself no favors. She didn’t turn in the challenge, and her social game was clearly lacking. She’s not a good scrambler and she waited until the last minute to scramble for her spot in this game and ultimately lost itJack came into this game with what I would assume to be a lot of connections and perhaps that was why for what I knew he made very few strong connections in our tribe. He could have been a threat and he didn’t do anything to keep us from voting him out. Kenny’s biggest flaw was not just his inactivity but his lack of seeming to mind that he was inactive at times. I could only assume that was why he was voted out after the tribe swaps.Adrian is a person who seems like a threat whether he is or not by being good in challenges and (from the time we were on a tribe together) he seemed to do absolutely nothing to build alliances to keep himself in this game. He was saved by you and I alone when we sent Jack home after all. Ultimately, I would assume that lead to his downfall but like Kenny, I wasn’t on the tribe when Adrian was sent home.Tommy and I didn’t play together long but he seemed to not be aware of where people were in the game at merge and that’s all I’ve got to go on! He tried to get my to vote out a member of my own alliance simply based on me possibly being able to work with him after with little to no mention of his possible alliances or who he might be working with. He also showed little concern of who I might be in an alliance with. Additionally, whoever voted with him that week never even asked me to vote Josh so I guess he didn’t pick the right people to work with. Though, having heard Danny’s answer to Laure perhaps Simon fell victim of being the stronger member of a pair.Jason didn’t play a good enough social game which I believe is shown by his unanimous vote. He was inactive socially, at least while talking to me, and as I said in my Rites of Passage it seemed people just voted him out to have a break that week. Of the people who left at merge it didn’t seem any waves were caused by his departure.Josh seemed the most distant from me in our alliance of four and I think that was his biggest flaw, I mean three of us four made it to the final three and as you know I certainly had the power to keep Josh in this game. I had an idol I could have played on him, I could have not voted Matt to tie it up or literally done something else with my vote but I felt closer to people outside of my alliance than I did with Josh and was willing to lose numbers going into the final 7 than keep him. He’d already proven that he was good at challenges and wanted to win by choosing to take the advantage in the immunity challenge with me and it made me reconsider his place in the game.Monty, like Adrian, lacked the social game play to make up for his good performances in challenges and ultimately put his eggs into the wrong basket. Monty quickly became the biggest threat to win and without a proper and strong alliance he went out as seven.Matt’s biggest flaw was his lack of activity clearly but even if he wasn’t active he kind of just did his own thing which would have led to his downfall anyway.Laure found herself in a final 5 being the odd girl out, like many before her she just didn’t build the relationships to get herself farther in this game. It doesn’t matter if you’re a threat or not, if you go up against a tight alliance that works you’ll end up getting picked off.Duncan was too trusting in the end and I selfishly believe that his biggest flaw was trusting us. We needed a forth, we got Duncan and took him as far as we planned on taking him. He really sealed his fate voting for Danny instead of Laure in the final five though.Simon I believe your biggest flaw was that you did sort of throw this game for Danny and I to make it here.I will finish Part 1 off by saying that I did speak about the social aspect of the game a lot but I believe that was a major flaw in the majority of people’s game. You, Danny and I made it to the final 3 because we played such great social games because of that.
PART 2:
Just for consistency purposes I will just compare everyone to a part of a cell. You said small and I figured I’d go smaller than a cell.
Tommy – Mitochondrion: (Breaks down sugar molecules to release energy, site of aerobic cellular respiration). The first reason is I felt like we all put in a lot of energy into Tommy’s vote, everyone trying to find their way on the right side of the numbers.
Jason – Ribosome: (protein builders of the cell). First of all, all cells no matter the type have them and I think seasons always have players like Jason. He was a relatively easy and unanimous vote despite the tribe being nearly split the week before. The second reason is because Ribosomes are actually very important, building the proteins and I think Jason leaving was the step that really solidified my alliance’s strength in this game.
Josh – Cell Wall: (A cell wall is a very tough, flexible and sometimes fairly rigid layer that surrounds some types of cells providing structural support and protection). Josh is like a cell wall because he was the target at merge, he was the one getting votes and thereby protecting our alliance from getting votes in the beginning. But a cell wall is permeable which did allow us to bring other people in after Josh’s departure.
Monty – Cytoskeleton: (Strengthen Cell & Maintain the shape, move organelles within the cell). Monty was a very strong player, having him on our tribe definitely helped with immunities and
Laure – Cilia: (short, but numerous things that are in charge of movement). Laure seemed to be able to move around a lot in this game, voting one way then flipping the next week. The other reason is that Laue was very candid with who she was voting for which offered people a chance to move over to her side. Cilia could be a forgotten part but are definitely useful!
Duncan – Cytoplasm: (supports and protects the cell organelles). Duncan had options in this game and I think that’s why he’s like the cytoplasm, he could have supported any alliance or any player because the cytoplasm touches pretty much everything and I think Duncan had those kinds of bonds. He was in a unique position. The second reason was that as cytoplasm the job is to support and protect and that’s exactly what Duncan did for our alliance. He supported us until we got majority and protected us.Simon – Nuclear Membrane: (controls movement of materials in/out of nucleus). You did a great job getting information for me throughout this game, usually if I didn’t come to me directly then you told me. Secondly, you were always right there with me, who I believed to be the nucleus in this little scenario.
PART 3:
Coming into this game you were one of the people I was most intimidated about playing against. I’d heard of you, and in this community there are only a few people I can say that about outside of those in my game (and more recent games, truthfully). When you asked me to work with you and be a part of your alliance I was a little shocked, like me? Really? But I think that’s one of the reasons we were so close. I was very nervous coming into this game and you were almost like a security blanket for me. I knew I could trust you in our first tribe, I knew I could trust you in our second tribe and when we got to merge despite me trusting Danny and Josh you were the one who I knew I could trust most. Playing the game was an absolute joy with you.It’s not just the game play that makes you so great, but your personality in general. You’re very funny and charming but don’t seem to have any issues calling people out when it’s necessary. Whenever a link was posted by you in our tribe chat or alliance chats I knew it was going to be something that would be entertaining. I think sometimes you can be a little polarizing but in reality I think that’s because people are intimidating by you because you are a really likeable guy and to top that off you are going to tell it how it is. It’s remarkable really. Both the Simon I played with, and the Simon I spoke with outside of the game play are great but this is all just leading up to what’s best about you.You’ve got a really good heart I think. In the end of this game I stood next to my two best friends and had to choose between them and you didn’t pressure me to choose you. In fact, from what I took out of what you said it seemed you’d support me for taking Danny. Neither of us had made it this far before and you’d won, and as you said you threw this game so we could experience the Final Tribal Council and I have to say I believe, and anyone else who reads it should as well. It’s a game and I don’t think any of us would have taken it personal if you’d done the exactly opposite, campaigned against Danny and what not but you didn’t and I love you for that. But, in true form you came out here and are making us work for the vote and I think that summarizing why I respect you so much. Thank you for your questions Simon, I really hope I did a good job answering them!“
Thanks Simon.
Duncan’s Jury Speech
Duncan:
“To both: Please explain to me your position at the final 5 vote and what during that tribal was fact and what was crap bc there was a lot of unnecessary lies told that tribal. In addition, had I won the f4 immunity what would have been your plan of action and the result of said tribal.
Danny: From before the first tribal I knew I wanted to go to the end with you, but you lied to me at the first tribal I went to, putting me in the minority with Tommy who tbh was not my first choice of an ally. Because of that I had no faith in you and worked with Tommy all up until merge. I would have been with you, Josh and Scott solidly, but I put my eggs and yours and Scott's baskets and you both burned me, that's why Scott went home. Matter of fact, I didn't even play with Tommy, I played FOR Tommy bc I didn't trust you anymore and I didn't feel like putting in effort. Then after Tommy left I went back to you and was excited to play again. I really thought you had my back, especially after Josh left. Apparently Simon and Reyn were easier to beat at the FTC than I, so you voted me out, and I can respect it since its a game. I can totally understand why you would do that if you point out why Reyn played such a shitty game in comparison. I want to hear every flaw you can come up with, and if you what you provide I deem sufficient evidence, than maybe I could bring myself to vote for you.
Reyn: I hate that you're such a nice guy, like it seriously bothers me. I need to be shown that you're a real human being capable of more than one standard emotion. I require three tasks of you:
1. You explain how you went through the seven stages (I know you didn't lose anything, but im curious on how you'd answer this) of grief throughout the game with specific examples.
2. Explain your highest point and lowest points during the game and why
3. Which two jurors in your opinion do you like and dislike the most and why (and don't make the dislike answer something like "bc I didn't talk to them a lot" or "I never got to know them too well", bc that blows)
To Both: Since I forgot to say it in the beginning, Congratulations to the both of you on accomplishing something the rest of us couldn't do, you've certainly earned your spots. I wish you both the best of luck in trying to collect votes and I can't wait to see how you answer my questions as well as the other jurors ^_^“
Danny: “This is my answer to your question.”
Reyn: “During the top 5 I tried to make it very clear that I was voting Laure and while I would have entertained the idea of voting off Simon or Danny it just wasn’t something I felt was a good idea having such close bonds with the three of you and not with her. I had my heart set on a final 4 once I started to align myself with you and nothing was changing that. Which brings us to the final 4, had you won immunity I would have done whatever it took for me to not be sent to a fire making challenge or home. I played my whole game leading up to the final 4 knowing it would be a crucial vote and I like to think I would have been in a place where I wouldn’t have had to worry about my name coming up. So, if I’m going to be truthful here I will say I likely would have voted with you in the Final 4 had you won immunity in order to solidify our alliance further and hopefully make it to the end, as I believe you would have been a real contender in the final immunity as you were in all of them. So, to the rest of your requests! First is the stages of grief, I must apologize as some of these might seem like a stretch but the game worked out really well for me up until this point. 1. Shock/Denial – when I found out Monty had the Sapphire Idol I actually shocked as I assumed Danny had it, maybe they both did as Danny transferred me something. It made my really have to think about my decision and my game play as I knew a single stray vote could send me home. 2. Pain/Guilt – Winning the final immunity I believe was imperative, no matter how much I talk about how safe I felt with not just the final three but the final four I knew it was the only thing that was guarantee my spot here in the final tribal council. Voting Simon off was super hard, I felt super guilty and it kind of hurt. I played with him since day one and genuinely thought we’d be in the end together. But I also thought it was a final 3 for most of the game. 3. Anger/Bargaining – Something that actually pissed me off in this game was inactivity. I hated it because some of us were playing hard and every time my alliance wanted to vote off someone over an inactive person it genuinely upset me. I mean I tried for a while to get Matt out simply because I didn’t think he deserved to be here over people who did. 4. Depression/Reflection/Loneliness – When I started this game I was incredible nervous. I just got off of my first ever game where I felt alone nearly the entire time and I still didn’t know very many people so to be put on a tribe with people I had heard of (Matt, Jack, and Simon) and people who might have had it out for me due to my actions in Bonin (Adrian and Maddie) I was worried. I figured I’d be one of the first boots and I kind of really doubted my ability to do well. 5. The Upward Turn – I had a few of these actually, the first was making an alliance I thought I could trust. I felt calm and in control and that maybe things could work out especially after the tribes swapped and we didn’t go to tribal council. Knowing that I would make the merge was incredibly encouraging for me as I really had a lot of self doubt in the beginning. 6. Reconstruction and Working Through – I knew when Josh went home things could go south for my alliance and I did my best to stay calm and work through it. We only needed one number and I thought that I could work with either you or Monty to get numbers. In my other game Bonin, when things looked bad I simply would ride it out laying low and just hoping for the best but I felt like I attempted to take an active role in reconstructing our game play without Josh. 7. Acceptance and Hope – I won my first ever immunity necklace in the final 6 and felt like I was in a strong 4 alliance and a stronger 3 alliance and I felt like things might actually work out. I could see the light at the tunnel and I had this final in my sights. I kind of could look around and realize that not only had I done way better than I thought, I could look around and think that I actually had a chance at getting to where I am now. And I can only hope that after this game I have a chance to earn enough votes to be the winner.My highest point in this game was actually winning the final immunity challenge. I’ve mentioned before I think that I was hesitant about trying and having to backstab one of my friends but it felt really good to not only know that I am a finalist but to have earned it myself despite how I played the rest of the game. I had previously won immunity, but Matt was evacuated so I never really got the same rush of immunity before and it felt really good. My lowest point actually came in choosing between Danny and Simon to bring to the end with me. While trying to be optimistic I’d like to think I could bring in some votes and maybe beat them but realistically I knew either could easily beat me as well. I felt in so much control for so much of the game and each decision I made helped me get here and it’s disheartening to know that I could have made the wrong choice. That said; I am very happy to be experiencing this with Danny for the first time and to just be here. Everyone seems intent on making me the bad guy here! So, for the final part of your questions I will answer in truth as I have with all the questions. The jurors I like most are honestly Simon and You. Simon is one of them because he’s genuinely a good soul and I think we became really close throughout this experience. You are the other one I like most because you were always fun to talk with and forgiving. I kept things from you and I am sure I got caught in a few idol lies with you in this game and you could have easily turned on me and you didn’t and I really appreciated that. Since you’ve asked me to not base my decision on not getting to know people I will answer this question from a purely game point of view. The jurors I dislike most are Tommy and Jason. Tommy is one of them because he and his alliance stood in the way of mine doing well plain and simply. Had Tommy not gone home I don’t think I’d be sitting here. Jason is the other because I felt like his heart wasn’t entirely in this game at the time and I did my best to try and keep active players in. Thank you Duncan, I do hope I answered these questions to your satisfaction and that my niceness doesn’t get in the way of my game.”
Thanks Duncan.
Tommy’s Jury Speech
Tommy:
“I'm going to make this simple. all I want is one thing, that is make a video of yourself doing the chicken dance, failing to do this can cost you my vote, if both of you do this it'll come down to who did it better."
Danny: “This is my answer to your question.”
Reyn: “Just like with Josh’s video, Danny and I agreed on not making one for various reasons in our person lives. I hope in the lack of a video you consider our actual game play this season, rather than our ability to dance or make videos (which I didn’t do!) I hope this gif will at least make you feel not so robbed! http://rs556.pbsrc.com/albums/ss3/musashi1987/chicken_dancing_chicken_dance.gif~c200“
Thanks Tommy.
Monty’s Jury Speech
Monty:
“I’m going to take this precious time that I have and talk about social games. There were only ever two people that I was completely loyal to. One voted out the other, promptly turned around and stabbed me in the back, and then rode along to where he sits now. We spent the better part of a month just talking and forming a bond that I trusted, which logically should have made me angrier when I was voted out, but it didn’t. I’d rather be swiftly stabbed in the back by a friend than tormented from the front by someone I know doesn’t mean well. That brings me to the other half of the final two. The last time you acknowledged my existence, weather via PM or in the tribe chat, was the day of the swap. Then nothing. I didn’t get ONE. SINGLE. WORD. Even Josh (rip) didn’t ignore me in the tribe chat, and I flipped on him, just as much as I flipped on you. I’m not saying I’m not partially responsible, too, but I’m not the one trying to convince seven people that I’ve played a good game. Ignoring someone makes their respect for you shrivel up and die.
Moving on, this is Survivor: outwit, outplay, outlast. Survivor isn’t out compliment, out admire, out applaud. You are the FINAL TWO! Show some fight. DRAG EACH OTHER! RIGHT NOW! This is a game, and right now, your only job is to convince US that you’re the more worthy winner, not to tiptoe around the other’s feelings. Hopefully you both understand that and don’t take it personally. I want you to spill all of the tea, air out all of the dirty laundry and drag each other as hard as you can. If you can’t think of anything, make something up, and make it believable. You can apologize to each other after everything’s over. You’ve already beaten all of us. You are each others’ worst enemies, now. Act like it.
On a lighter note, when Simon came to Ponderosa, he said that you three compared the jury+Matt to the Micronesia jury. Give explanations on all of the choices, and add yourselves, and Simon, in there also. I have the original list ready to go, so don’t try to pull a fast one and change the first seven.
As people, I do genuinely like both of you, but gameplay wise, it’s a mixed bag. The game is most definitely not over yet. My vote can still go either way, depending on your answers over the next few days. Good luck and good job to both of you!“
Danny: “This is my answer to your question.”
Reyn: “So, I’ll start with what you wrote presumably about me because I think it was a good starting point. I don’t know if you saying ‘rode along’ means I sat back and did nothing because I was actually a very active decision maker and not only that but I earned my place here with a great score in the final immunity and was always in the conversation of who we needed to vote out. Did it always go my way? No, specifically your vote. I wanted to keep you one week longer and go ahead and get Matt out but I made a vote I wanted with Simon, Matt and believe I might have successfully managed (or at least attempted) that I made that vote thinking it was best for us, both us being me and you and us being Danny and me. After that things went exactly how I planned. Danny did what I asked of him, voting Laure out and keeping Simon and voting Duncan out after that. I might have played some Villainous amazing game but I gave this game my all and I don’t think Danny can say the same thing. I don’t think he tried very hard in the final immunity; he sort of gave up on what he wanted in the end which was why the order went Laure then Duncan which wasn’t Danny’s plan. He really did play into my hand this entire game even to the point where he allowed me to give him a disadvantage in hopes I could convince people we weren’t close, something I did to try and build relationships with people on the other side. I can’t say for sure whether Danny, Duncan, or Simon would have actually brought me here had they won the final immunity (and made it to the final 3 in Duncan’s case) but my perception was that they would and I think I made that clear to Danny and he let me play the game anyway. I don’t know if this was as dirty as you wanted, but Danny played a passive game and frankly I don’t think earned the title of sole Survivor.
MICRONESIA Actually, I was the first to post that list which Simon actually agreed on posting moments after! So I will be sticking to it! Eliza – Tommy: I decided Tommy would be Eliza because he was a first boot and frankly in my perspective it was widely seemed that Tommy couldn’t stay in this game without possibly stirring the pot. Ozzy – Josh: Ultimately, Josh was robbed by an unfortunate stray vote and idol play but more so than that because he had alliance members that knew about his downfall and didn’t do anything about it and actually, encourage it a bit because of how much of a threat he was. Jason – Jason: Jason got Jason firstly because of the name but also because he wasn’t the most relevant player this season, Jason on Micronesia played a great game but isn’t highly remember and I think our Jason was somewhat the same. When he was active I think he was doing alright but just didn’t have the social game much like Micronesia Jason James – Matt: They were both Medevaced, and I actually don’t know about Matt but I have heard of him so I kind of figured he’d have been a favorite to do well this season much like James. Alexis – Laure: Laure I think might have been surprised by the way her tribal went down much like Alexis but more so I think they kind of played similar games. Neither doing the best but both doing pretty darn good! It could have gone either way but the prevailing alliance was crafty! Erik – Duncan: Duncan had such a huge chance at winning, he was great at challenges and I think thought he was safer than he was until that moment he realized, “oh crap, I am not safe” but it was too late. Much like Natalie did, we brought Duncan in to use him and get rid of him ultimately because we wanted to win! Natalie – Monty: Monty got Natalie because I think looking at this season Monty was the biggest threat. He wasn’t easily played, he was good in challenges and had anyone given him the chance he would have one much like Natalie. In the end though he was cut out. Cirie – Simon: Simon is Cirie because in my opinion he’d probably have won is making it to the final this season. As a former winner he could have been a huge target but made very good social plays early on to keep himself safe despite being a target. In the end though, Simon came in third. Amanda – Danny: Danny was a target more often in the season than me, much like Amanda and while I assume he’s like I also don’t think he’s been the one in control. He even found idols! Parvati – Reyn, me! I think I was in a lot of control of the game, much like Parv. I think I was more strategic and hopefully the one to win!I guess with Danny and I it could go either way. I could have sat up here and figured out ways to compare me to Amanda and him to Parv as well but ultimately I think that will be decided by the winner. Thank you for your questions, and thank you for allowing me to share this list!!“
Thanks Monty.
