Final Tribal Council
Jury, now is your time to address the Final 3. You may make a statement or ask questions. Make sure you use this time to decide who deserves your vote to win the game.
First up we have Bran.
“adam i do not know you at all how do you think this has damaged both your game and your life
greg i also didn’t talk to you or play with you at all in this game what’s your opinion on that
mario how do you feel knowing that i’m gonna vote for you to win the game”
Adam’s Response: Dearest Bran, Since you've made it clear that I'm not getting your vote, I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you how annoying I've always thought you were. I didn't like the lettering you used in your name was confusing and I thought it was stupid how you always made a big deal about what a toxic and venomous (your words) person despite not doing anything. But anyway, to answer your question, yeah not knowing you has probably severely damaged my game, seeing as you're not voting for me. However, my left will definitely go on as normal. I'll probably never think about you again, except maybe if someone mentions your name and then I'll go "Oh yeah, he was in Kugawa, I didn't like him" Your humble finalist, Adam
Greg’s Response: Bran I just remember how I voted you out and you got mad and stuff :)
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1l50XQ0emlF
Next we have Simon.
“Well, Congrats final 3. This was a crazy game and you all did what none of us could so give yourselves a pat on the back because all your backs do not have knife wounds in them….
Greg...
http://prntscr.com/872sa7
Cool moving on…
Adam…
I think you are an amazing guy. I mean I don't know you but from what I have heard. In this game I don't think you are all so great as people are making you out to be in this game.. I hate to say it but if you win this game its PURELY on a bitter jury. In no way do I want to bash your gameplay but there is an obvious person who deserves this win and im sorry but, I REALLY dont think its you. But I did get 15th and you are on in FTC so I did miss a lot but as I watch people come into Ponderosa no one ever mentioned your name and i’m not going to lie I JUST realized while I was typing this up that you were in this game. Good floater strategy? Sure. I just do not respect that gameplay.
I do want to give YOU the opportunity to get my vote if you can WOW me and earn my vote. I want you to give me 6 relevant things you HAVE done in this game.
Mario....
Mario, I have no questions for you im just going to actually talk to the jury right now if you dont mind…
Jury, I have seen in the Ponderosa chat that yall are being BITTER. AS. HELL, For Mario playing the game. So I want to convince you all on why Mario played the better game. Because TBH I would rather someone win this game who deserves it than someone who might win by a bitter jury…
Mario, won the most individual competitions… Mario, was NOT afraid to cut out people who he saw was threatening/in his way of winning the game…. Mario, showed at the VERY start that he was going to play the game and play it hard. He saw that I was in danger in the game early on and he made the move to give me the idol to save myself…. Mario, obviously showed he had a vengeance in playing this game ANYBODY who crossed his path he took out and why some of yall are IN the jury in the FIRST PLACE.
Anyways, Jury its now up to us to vote to cast for the WINNER of this game. You all did not play this much to just throw a vote to someone who is likable than someone who played the game and played it AMAZINGLY. Anyways… *takes my 15th place seat*
Adam’s Response: Dear Simon, Thank you for the compliments, I always thought you were an alright person as well, even though we never did any real strategizing together. It very much does seem like you have your mind made up on who to vote, which I feel is often the way with jury and asking questions is just a formality/chance for people to yell at eachother. I think the only way for me to win your vote is if I totally knocked your question out of the park and Mario utterly fucked it up, neither of which seem very likely. HOWEVER, I do appreciate your kindness and your saying you would give me a chance, so I will definitely take it and address you seriously. While I can agree that maybe I wasn't the most active participant like Mario or Jess, it wasn't for lack of attempt. I think floater strategy is marginalizing me a bit. After all, you said yourself that you hadn't paid attention to much going on in the game so it seems unfair for you to claim that I've done nothing. So with that said let me go ahead and try and tell you what I believe to be my relevant contributions to the game. 1. I'll be real, I didn't start playing the game until your vote out. I remember it because it was late at night and I was on vacation about to go to bed when Greg had basically begged me to keep Isaiah. My Bunia alliance had wanted to vote Isaiah already, but talking with Greg got me into gear. You were a much bigger threat than Isaiah since Isaiah had nobody but Greg and you were in a much better position than him. So after talking to Greg I went to talk to Jason not voting with Catherine Casey and Matt. I also spent time talking to Rhea and Britt about voting you instead of Isaiah, which eventually led to an alliance between the 3 of us (which didn't last long since we ended up on opposing sides of the vote later one) Point being, I stayed up most of the night that night talking with people, some of which for the first time, about the vote in an attempt to get you out and keep Isaiah. I think I was a big part in making that happen, since Jess Mario and whoever else was in your alliance plus my old Bunia alliance were voting Isaiah. 2. Immediately following your vote out, I spoke with Jess about creating an alliance. We were both on opposite sides of that vote, however with both of our former alliances weakened we needed a new group so that we weren't picked off one by one. So since I had worked with Greg to save Isaiah and Jess was close with Mario we agreed to create an alliance between the 5 of us (Casey was there too for a bit but she left, I'll talk about that later). This was the alliance that I went to the end with, which eventually fell apart because there was we were at the end. But I was a fair part of that alliance, and I think it's unfair to assume Mario was the leader just because he wins all the immunity challenges and won an idol. 3. Now I'm not sure if you remember but somewhere in between votes Matt quit, and apparently Casey was very upset about it. However, instead of confronting us about she turned on our alliance and attempted to vote me out. First of all, that was ridiculous because Isaiah and Mario were the ones who had the argument with Matt, it was only me and Jess discussing it with Casey which got Casey upset. so in an attempt to keep the peace and not just vote her out which the others in our alliance wanted, I confronted Casey about it all. Despite doing nothing wrong I felt, I apologized to Casey to address her feelings on the issue and reconcile with her. However, even though she told me she was fine with everything and that it was just a misunderstanding, she continued to vote for me and we went to rocks, so we had to vote out Casey later. 4. Speaking of rocks though, I'd like to point out that I was part of both plans to go to rocks. To be in an alliance that was willing to put their necks on the line to save me I think shows true strength in our alliance. And I feel I returned the favor when it was tied against Mario and I was willing to sacrifice myself as well for my alliance. It ended up not being necessary since someone flipped, but I was more than willing to put my money where my mouth was. 5. During Isaiah's vote out, it was a sort of individual immunity challenge where 4 people would get immunity and 5 people wouldn't, but only the 5 who didn't would be able to vote in the tribal. So it was my idea to have 3 of us to throw the challenge in order to control the vote and make sure we stayed in majority. If I had just not cared and posted my real score instead of my low one, I could have won immunity as well but then since we had a 5 person alliance, someone would have been left in the dust. I mean it turns out both Rhea and Catherine were given idols, but there's no way I could have known they both had one. We were prepared for one, but it didn't matter. I would also like to point out that, I originally had a score of 0 to post, like Isaiah, but then Jess posted a score that was sorta high, I think it was like 3150. I was worried that she had done something with the others to make sure she was higher than the lowest people on their side, so I quickly went and got a score of 3150 as well, so that in case she actually was betraying us it would tie and then I wouldn't be hung out to dry and could save myself in whatever tiebreaker there was. Please check our scores if you don't believe me. 6. At final 4, Mario approached me about voting out Jess. He told me that he was going to talk to Greg and that he would obviously have his vote against Greg because Jess had wanted to vote out Greg. But I told him no, because Mario taking me and Greg to the end is a bit of unfair odds. Mario is smart, but I can tell when I'm being manipulated. He would tell me things like "It sounds like you want her to win over yourself" despite knowing that he, and more importantly her, had a far better chance at winning. So I told Mario that I wouldn't be strongarmed by him since for that vote he needed me (apparently he didn't but neither of us knew that) I voted for Greg so it would tie and, let's face it, in any challenge that wasn't luck (Jess has always been shit at Rock Paper Scissors) Jess would have won. But the point being was I fought for my friend and ally to get to the end, and despite it not working it wasn't for lack of effort of my part. 7. I realize this is the 7th and you only asked for six, but I'm going to add it in because I feel like it doesn't count anyway but I wanted to mention it. When I won individual immunity during final 5, I was going to give Rhea my immunity necklace. It would have forced our alliance to dissolve and turn on eachother one vote before hand, and honestly I wanted to spice things up a bit. However, Rhea had not even submitted for the challenge so I was worried she wasn't even going to vote and that I would have given away immunity for nothing and possibly gotten voted out. So I can't count it as a relevant thing I've done, but I just wanted to express that. So as I hope I've shown, I didn't just sit around being carried to the end. I was a part of the plays going on. And although my plans didn't always follow through, it certainly wasn't because of apathy. And if I do win on a bitter jury well I hate to say it but that is A-okay with me. That's how Sandra won on Heroes Vs Villains. And when a jury is bitter, they're usually bitter for a reason, so if they're bitter then people need to address that. So if I'm able to take advantage of a bitter jury well I would be a fool not to. So thank you for your time. Most sincerely, Adam
Greg’s Response: http://prntscr.com/87dxrp Remember that Simon? I do and I also see how I stopped talking to you after Robert and Jeff lost because then I basically voted you and Bran out back to back, so? Thanks.”
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0zh6eybvGZ9 Oh and to support what you've said: http://prntscr.com/87ch22
Next we have David
“Final 3! It was such a long journey! I think its pretty obvious who im going to vote for but still maybe the other 2 could sway my mind. I think The jury stage was pretty obvious as to what happened so, so Pre-jury did you do anything that made your game super well rounded? Something that says “I did this so early that it helped me in the future to make final 3″
Adam’s Response: Dear David, Although I don't think there's anything I can do to sway your decision, you granted me the courtesy of a question so the least I can do is grant you the courtesy of an answer. I don't think there's anything I did pre-merge that affected anything I did post-merge. The first few votes I didn't have to do anything. Katie was voted out but I really had nothing to do with that. Then after when I fled to Bunia with Jason, we really didn't accomplish a whole lot over there anyway. Pre-merge I just sort of survived, because even when a whole bunch of people came from other tribe, they were too focused on their own problems to deal with us, so we just helped them vote out their people. I don't think anything that happened pre-merge affected me because I didn't even continue to vote with Bunia following the merge. So yeah. Pre-merge is almost always pretty irrelevant anyways if you ask me. Yours truly, Adam
Greg’s Response: I slayed.
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0fdltgqXLcr
Next we have Casey.
“Hi guys, I can sit here saying this might have been the worse final three i could have ever hoped for, but then I remember Isaiah could be there, and I feel a little better. Honestly now I'm torn between two. I am not voting for Mario, because I really don't give a flying fuck about the game you think you played, you're a shit person for badgering Matt until he quit, and he was very upset, so don't try to tell me how he felt, or that it was stupid that he felt that way, because how do you fucking know how he feels, when he told me HIMSELF how he felt????? You could be the fucking Sandra of tumblr I don't give a shit, you're a rude, arrogant, disrespectful excuse for a player, and I hope I never have to play a game with you for as long as I live. Don't respond because I don't care what you have to say and I won't read it.
So adam and Greg, you guys are the lesser of two evils for me. I thank both of you for reaching out of the way to check in with me after the Matt fight. Adam, this was expected from you as weve known each other for two years almost. However, you dropped me, and I kinda think you wrote me a rude vote-off, though I could be mistaken. Greg even if it was just false hope tried to give me info and cut a small deal even if it couldn't save me. Also I didn't expect greg to approach me and try to explain the actions of his peers in the Matt fight. So for this greg I thank you.
Adam, I feel your heart wasn't in this game, and besides being my friend or offering me a cork, why should I vote for you? Also if you admit your pink hair is stupid it'll boost the odds of me voting for you.
Greg, you are accused of not doing much, tell me what you did? Also tell me why I shouldn't vote for adam.
Thank you Greg and Adam, I can't wait to hear your answers.”
Adam’s Response: Dearest Casey, I just want to say that of course I would have confronted you about the issues with Matt. When I first asked you about it you said you were fine and I just took you at your word. Mario kept telling us to vote you and and I was so convinced that he was trying to antfarm us that I wrote this really rude confessional yelling at him. But I meant what I said when I wrote that our friendship meant more to me than another one of Ryan's stupid games. But I think you're wrong about when you said I just dropped you. Because after I talked to you about it I apologized for not realizing you were upset, I thought we were squared away. But then you still voted for me and I was like, oh. So of course I took that was we're on opposite sides now and voted you out. And I can't remember exactly but knowing me your vote-out message was probably rude. If I had to guess it probably said "Bitch" or something like that because I know you wrote that to me when you voted me out first on Jack's Skype Survivor the first time I played. Fuck you, I will never get over that. And you're probably right, I don't get into these games as much as I used to. I don't think I tried as hard on some of the challenges as I knew I could have. I remember I used to spend hours playing them in Panama and now I just do them as quickly as possible. However, I do feel like I was an active participant in the social aspect. I would constantly talk to people like Catherine and Rhea and Britt, despite them voting against me, in the hopes that someone along the line we would be able to work together. But the only times they wanted to work with me were when they had nowhere else to go, and at that point there was no reason for me to flip on my alliance. Though I agree I was less active than I could have been. There were some people who I just never wanted to talk to so I just didn't. But I think if I need to I would have. I just didn't. Also I will never ever ever admit that my pink hair is stupid. I look cute as fuck and I know it. I'm retouching it up this weekend and it will be pinker than ever and there's nothing you can do to stop me! Forever pretty in pink, Adam P.S. For a limited amount of time I can offer you two corks for voting for me. Offer only valid this game.
Greg’s Response: As I've said, prejury I played more aggressively flipping between tribes and throwing challenges to save allies to have in my back pocket. (Robert, Isaiah, Jeffrey) But clearly that ship sunk and after Bran lost and I managed to get Simon out I found myself in an alliance I felt I could trust. I still worked on my relationships with you and Nic the most from the other side and to a lesser extent Catherine. I don't know why people feel that me seeing the obvious in that there was nothing to do in the game except vote and potentially go to rocks makes me useless. It was very unlikely someone was going to flip and it was never because of any of the people actually in our alliance, it was their own decision. Sure, I could've still talked more to the other side on a personal level but they never did that with me and for a large part of the merge it was unclear that I'd even be here. Anyways, Adam shouldn't get your vote because of all of our alliance members he was THE most useless one. Even more so than Isaiah and I'm sure Adam can't answer with one vote that he actually managed to get done himself and not have other people do it for him whereas we all know at least Isaiah got Bran out, so!!!!
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0fyezLesTtW Casey doesn't have to listen to it but I wasn't going to let her disrespect me and slander my name for some bullshit like Matt quitting its gone on long enough I was just having a conversation with Adam last night and I said she would do this which you can see in the screenshots below shes so predictable. http://prntscr.com/87cfzn http://prntscr.com/87cgd4 It was going to come down to who she knew and thats how she would base her vote bye girl you're a flop.
Next we have Isaiah.
“okay i don't really have much to say i'm happy you guys are the final three and i think you all did good and deserve to be hereokay so my question for greg is a lot of people in this game have called you useless and have said you didn't do anything here's your chance to explain yourself to the people in this game what did you do in this game that people aren't giving you credit for?now my question for adam the other people on the jury may think greg was useless, but i actually think you take the cake when it comes to who did the least amount of things but i'm gonna give you a chance to prove me wrong as well what decisions did you make in this game that were solely your own, and not influenced by anyone else?lastly it's time for mario mario, we all know you played an amazing game you had a target on your back from day one and you managed to make it to the final three almost unscathed due to your challenge scores and gameplay i have an interesting question for you since we know the difference in your play style vs theirs, i want to know do you think you would have been able to play similarly to greg/adam? why or why not? and where would you be right now if you had played like them?”
Adam’s Response: Dear Isaiah, First of all I think you're totally, wrong, Greg was way more useless than I was (no offense Greg (heart) ). I also think you're being unfair with saying I'm not allowed to be influenced by other people. Like if Greg hadn't come to me and asked me to help you I don't think i would have, but I still think I deserve credit for spending that whole night gathering people against Simon. And you stayed so it worked. But I'm not sure if that counts since Greg asked me to help. But anyway, the first thing that comes to mind was the decision to throw the challenge when it was only 5 people going to tribal. That was my idea, I suggested it, and you Jess and I all volunteered to do it even though Mario and Greg were against it. Though, in the end it totally sucked for you since you got voted out. My b. Also I think I can grab credit for being willing to go to rocks for Mario. We didn't end up going to rocks because someone flipped, but I made the decision that I was willing to take the chance for him, since they all took chances for me. I could have easily been like "nah, fuck that, ima do me and make sure I'm safe and flip" But I was pretty fond of that alliance so I wanted to stick with them. So I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for but yeah. Another thing is when Mario came to me about voting out Jess. He really tried to like strongarm me into voting her since she was his biggest threat. But I don't give a fuck, so I wasn't going to vote her out, I'd go into the tiebreaker. But he tried voting her out anyway, and then that dumb tiebreaker happened and Jess lost because she sucks at rock paper scissors. But when we thought it was me I was totally willing to go for her. I could probably try harder to think of other things but they'd just keep getting more and more obscure and I don't think it'd make a difference anyway. So yeah. Yours truly, Adam
Greg’s Response: Isaiah, I've explained what I did in this game and if they want to feel that once we gained the majority that me being nonchalant about the order in which the others went home makes me useless then they're a bunch of idiots. If me realizing there was no way we could get them to flip, why am I criticized for not even speaking to people who don't even bother to hold up a conversation with me? I kind of just want to ask the jury what would have actually been appropriate for me to do during the game that would make me not be considered "useless", because frankly, as far as I'm concerned, just because I didn't speak to a couple select people doesn't equate to me being useless. Just because I was smart enough to realize flipping would never have worked out for me also does not add up to me being useless. And I go back to how I am not fake like Jess. If I was talking to you it wasn't to just try to get your jury vote, I just feel it's kind of stupid to expect a jury to like me because I said some encouraging words or whatever as I voted you out. Cough. But yeah. Maybe I was wrong on that regard because it was working for someone.
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s049IlGv6YvZ
Next we have Brittany.
“Greg: I don't know what to ask you honestly lmao I have no idea what you did so if you can explain that'd be great thank u
Adam: You should have been here long ago lmao sadly I got really unlucky. Would you have been loyal to me if I hadn't flipped?
Mario: Do you think if you hadn't won all these immunities, would you be here right now?”
Adam’s Response: Dearest Brittany, I sort of disagree. I definitely didn't expect to make it to the end, but that's because I felt like Mario and Jess would have voted me out and brought Greg instead. I think "long ago" is pretty unfair assessment. After all, I had a good alliance that I stuck with until the end. I don't think you got unlucky, I just think it was stupid of you to flip. I mean, I kind of liked what me you and Rhea had going on. But then you stopped talking to me, and I stopped talking to you, and we just weren't talking to eachother. And then we were voting on opposite sides and it was just not good. But I think if we had continued to work together, I would have stayed with you. Me you and Rhea could have worked something out with Greg or Cat or something to maybe take out Mario. I remember when we first started talking we didn't even talk about game at all, and I felt like we really hit it off. I liked you, and it's always easy for me to work with people I like, so yeah, I definitely would have been loyal to you. But sadly that's not how it went down. Very sadly, Adam
Greg’s Response: I just know I did more than you, girl. :)
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0vnWiWQ9BVg
Next we have Dan.
“Adam, congratulations man. Unlike others, I do believe you deserve to be in this f3, you aligned yourself well and anyone who makes it all the way does deserve it at least a little bit. The one thing I wish had happened that didn’t was you and Jess coming together with me and Brittany to form a solid f4. Had the plan to get out Mario worked, (the week that Jason quit and Nic forgot to vote) would you have considered jumping ship and coming to my true side from the beginning, or would you still not have trusted me and come for me? Again, congratulations!
Greg, hun... I’m not going to apologize for giving someone crocodile tears. You are not winning this game, so I’m just going to leave it at that.
Mario, you played a spectacular game, and it’s no wonder you’re sitting where you are right now. I feel like you did get a little lucky because you were supposed to go that one week, but hey, you survived and I have to commend that. I think that you played a very strong game competitions wise, and until you made your speech, I didn’t really see your strategic game. My question for you is why play such a loyal game? Why did your whole alliance just stick it out and not outwit anyone. Outwitting is a big part of this game for me. I understand that me flip flopping was my attempt at outwitting, and it failed, but that’s because the people I aligned with decided to quit and not vote. Why make the game so boring and predictable all the way until my elimination and then subsequently the rest of my alliance members? I see how you outplayed and outlasted, but how did you outwit exactly?”
Adam’s Response: Dear Dan, Thank you, that means a lot actually. Because although I realize someone like Jess or Mario deserves to be here more, I definitely feel like I gave s good amount of deservability (is that a word?) So I really appreciate your sentiment. I think that if your plan hadn't really gucked yo due to Jason quitting and Nic not voting, Mario would have gone home, and my alliance would be useless. So I would have totally jumped shimp, and Jess losing her final 2 (or what she thought was her final 2) would have probably come with. Cuz I never not trusted you, cuz you're the one who came to us about Casey. I was a bit shocked when you flipped back though. I didn't really understand what was going on. But I really liked Britt, we used to talk all the time and not even about the game. I think me you her and Jess could have done well together. But I guess things just didn't work out that way. So, in sorry that things didn't work out. I can't promise that I would have switched if you asked me to vote Mario instead of rocks, because my alliance went to rocks for me. But if you had succeeded I would have been all over a new alliance. Thanks for your time. Your could-have-been ally, Adam
Greg’s Response: OMG!!! WAIT A MINUTE, I'M NOT WINNING THIS GAME??? Wow!!! What a surprise, Dan. Thanks. If you don't want to apologize for that you should apologize for getting so mad that someone called you stupid. Like you made stupid game decisions so get over it because the word stupid is not that big of a deal you big baby.
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1TBvOC5QWEp
Next we have Catherine.
“Hello everyone, and welcome to the end, while you all were dying on an island ive been sitting in ponderosa having a nice smoothie. now I will make this short. All of you need to do the same thing for me.
Easy right?
First, you need to say why you think the others should be here over you, I don't wanna hear even an under tone of you talking about yourself or your game play.
Second, and this is the big one, I wanna see you all Lip Sync for your Life. You may pick any song you want but you will get extra points if it is a song I like. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3dENEF6RE1U/maxresdefault.jpg
Gentlemen start your engines and may the best Survivor WIN!”
Adam’s Response: Dear Cat, I'll start with Mario since he's easier: He got himself into a majority alliance that was big enough to take out the other alliances but big enough that it split into smaller alliances to turn on each other. He was able to win multiple individual immunities and gain idols to further him in the game. He's also not an idiot. He's very manipulative and able to talk you into getting the outcome he wanted. I really do respect him as a player, even if he sort of annoys me. And then Greg: A lot of people will claim Greg did absolutely nothing, but to be fair they didn't see what I saw. The night of Simon's vote he came to me, and asked me to vote Simon instead of Isaiah. He was the one who got the ball rolling for that vote. He is very capable of networking and accomplishing things. He just... Didn't a lot. That vote proves to me he wasn't s nobody, and that he does deserve to be here. He's also really fun to talk to and I don't know about you but it's way more fun to work with someone friendly. Greg got himself a safe spot in an alliance that was able to carry him to the top where he is now. So there. Although I wish Jess was here, I disagree when people say there are people who don't deserve the spot. Anyone who can make it to the end deserves it, because everyone did something in the game. Also Cat, this is for you. Let me know if it doesn't work, because I have to original video. Sorry if it's a bit blurry, that was my first draft and I kept trying to reshoot but I had no space on my phone. http://youtu.be/rGIIwmGrp5o Your friend, Adam
Greg’s Response: What others? The jury? They don't. I'm not making a video for you, bye.
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0tgKOJwzSCq
Next we have Rhea.
“I want to start by saying congrats to Adam and Mario making it to FTC. You are the only two who even have a shot at getting my vote. I’ll get to the both of you later. I promise, I’ll be nice because neither one of you did anything to wrong to me. I’m not mad at you for voting me out, I totally understand why you did it. I wasn’t part of the alliance and it made sense. You both did what was best for your games and I respect that. I don’t have hard feelings toward you.
Greg, you don’t have to read this, but I just need to say it. This is a GAME, therefore any fucking comments you made toward me should have been about MY GAME and not make such personal comments. First of all, you don’t a thing about the game I played. I tried talking to you, and you barely made the effort. So please. If you had taken a chance to get to know me, then you could pass judgement on me. What you think of my game means nothing to me, so critique and hate on it all you want, I truly don’t care. BUT DO NOT MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT MY RACE OR MY SEXUALITY. It wasn’t your job to broadcast my sexuality to everyone. I NEVER gave you that right! You took it way too fucking far and that really pisses me off. Regardless if people know about my sexuality or not, we’re not friends, so we can’t joke about these things, it’s not up to you to broadcast it like that. I’m absolutely disgusted that you had the fucking audacity to say it’s because I’m a minority. That’s low and that’s hurtful. Joking or not, I don’t care, I was truly hurt by it. You can be a villain and not attack someone personally. It’s also being suggestive about Ryan’s casting decisions and I don’t think that’s fair. This was not the place to just say that about me. Critique my game, call it crap, I don’t care. You think I have no personality? Fine, I can handle that. Just don’t fucking go down the sexuality and race route because that shit isn’t cool with me. We aren’t friends, and won’t ever be, so shit like that isn’t a joke. Frankly, you didn’t seem to have a stellar game either. All you can say you did was outlasted, so frankly, just stop. If you played an amazing game then cool, but truthfully you didn’t. You have some nerve though Greg, you have some fucking nerve to sit in FTC and say what you did. I don’t stand by it. If this is the reaction you wanted out of me, then great, but I don’t put up with people saying personal shit about me. Sexuality and race are pretty sensitive issues. While I am open about my sexuality (NOT a lesbian by the way), to who I chose to be open about it with, and even if everyone knows, it still was not your job to put it on blast, because there was no relevancy. My sexuality or my race has NOTHING to do with my game! Greg, your opening statement was clearly you trying to make yourself stand out because your game was completely lack luster. The only reason you’re sitting there is because Adam and Mario know you’ll be an easy beat. You’re trying to show that you’re this tough, villain, please. Greg, get over yourself, your game is nothing to be proud of, so your attempt and bringing the jury down just makes your game that much worse.
Adam, we sort of worked together in this game, and I enjoyed it. I did have trust in you. I wanted to come talk to you more, but I was aware of the alliance and I just felt like no matter what it would have gone back to everyone. I genuinely did trust you at the start. So, I want to know, what do you think is the biggest game move you made? Why do you think you’re sitting in FTC? And why do you think I should vote for you over Mario?
Mario, congrats on those immunity wins. You rocked it and you did it. You needed those wins, and even when you didn’t have them, you still skated on by. Your opening speech was killer and it did compel me to vote for you. So answer me this, is there one thing you wish you had done differently? If yes, what? If no, then why? List your 3 best game moves. And finally, why should I vote for you over”
Adam’s Response: Dear Rhea, That's upsetting that you thought about talking to me but didn't, because I was going to talk to you but also didn't, because I felt like you were inactive. But that's my fault, I'm not blaming you. I don't know if you ready anything else I wrote, but I really did consider giving you my immunity necklace, but after I saw you didn't submit I decided against it. But you don't want to hear about what I almost did, so let's get to it. What I feel was my biggest move was the Simon vote. It's not because Simon was some incredible threat (he was a little, but that's not the point). When everyone was voting Isaiah, it was really for no reason. Isaiah was a nobody at that point with only Greg. So that was the night I did a lot of networking. That was when me and Jason agreed to split from old Bunia and vote Simon. I even talked to like Nic and Dan and David for that vote, who I really didn't spend a lot of time with before or afterwards (except for Dan for a little) I also talked to you and Britt, and we created a little alliance (which sadly did not really last long) it broke up the old Fizi (was that the tribe?) with Mario Jess Simon etc. but after Simon was gone that whole thing broke apart, and I was able to get into my main alliance which we went to the end with! If I hadn't been in that alliance I doubt I'd be here. So I think that vote was a huge achievement in my game, and I truly believe I had a lot to do with that vote, Cuz Jess and Mario and like Cat and Casey (my Bunia alliance at the time) were all voting Isaiah. So that's what I think is my biggest move. The cutest finalist, Adam
Greg’s Response: Oh Rhea... you seem... angry? I was simply confused as to WHY YOU WERE CAST. Because you know how on the TV show Survivor they always have to fit a minority quota and a queer quota as well. YEAH. I KNEW it wasn't because of your potential spectacular game play or your vibrant personality, so, basically what I'm trying to say is get over it. Me saying you have no reason to be cast in a game other than to fit a quota isn't me attacking that you're a minority of any kind I'm saying you're a boring stupid flop. More than anything that would be me attacking Ryan's or Survivor in general's casting lol. Casting people simply for their sexuality or race. Yes, that was low and hurtful for you and then you continue to say I can attack your personality. Rhea... that is essentially what I did and I'm not sorry. :)
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ootUY2qxjV
And last but not least we have Jess.
“Hello final 3!! Congratulations to all of you for making it to the end. This is already long so lets get going!
Mario! There are no hard feelings because I would have won if I made the end so you made a good choice. Buuuut there's a problem. I know how highly you value loyalty. In the past, you would refuse to respect people once they'd flipped, declaring that liars and fakes weren't worth your time. After we've been working together since we were put on a tribe, after we've spent two or three rounds telling each other that we'd never vote each other no matter what, what do you do? You go and do the very thing you've hated so many people for in the past. It's hypocritical that you burn Dan's game to the ground because he flips yet when you had to be loyal, you weren't. You didn't even have the decency to tell me you were voting for me (or talk to me at all…. RIP) and that just doesn't really fit the Mario that I've always known. Unless all of that is an act and you were never really mad at Dan for flipping, to me it seems like loyalty is only important when it benefits you. So Mario, if the roles were reversed and it was I who betrayed you at final 4 (pretend you don't have immunity in this scenario), do you honestly think that you would be voting for me to win? If no, then why do you think you deserve my vote now?
Adam, god damn it you finally beat me. After a year and a half of playing games together, you finally placed higher than me. Well at least you didn't vote me out, I still have that over you. Anyways Adam, my question to you is what about your game sets you apart from Mario and Greg? What did you do differently that warrants not only my vote but everyone else's? And secondly, if I vote for you to win will you get rid of your stupid pink hair??
Greg, oh man. Originally I was just going to ask you the same question as Adam (mins the hair) and I was going to write a short jury speech for once. But then you wrote that speech so here we go. Please do not answer any of these questions. Unless you're apologizing, I'm not interested.
Firstly, I'll commend you for what must be some amazing telepathic abilities. You really do have that psychic intuition! You seem to know so much about everyone on the jury even though you've never spoken a word to most of us. Holy shit Greg, that's really impressive. I wish you'd brought up these skills sooner so you could've put them to use in the game instead of being mine/Mario's sheep the entire time.
Also Greg, I'm so sorry. The entire time we played this game, I was under the impression you had seen Survivor or at least knew how to play. My apologies for not explaining sooner - I'll give you a quick overview now. Survivor has challenges, tribals, all that fun stuff. But in the game, there's a thing called the jury. This is comprised of people you've voted out in the game. Are you listening, Greg? You might want to write down some notes. The jury gets to pick the winner. Not you. Not the people next to you at the end. The jury. They pick the winner for a reason: it tests the finalists' social skills. It takes good social and strategic skills to vote people out so that when they get to pick a winner, they still think of you positively. Greg, I think you may have forgotten that the jury is a thing. If you think you played well but didn't have a social game, you did not play well. You didn't do half of what was required to win.
You chastise me for having jury management which is how you win the game. That's like telling Mario "man Mario, you were a really shitty player because you submitted scores for challenges and tried to win them" (another thing you failed miserably at, my dear Greg). You're asking why was my game considered good? It's because I made people want me to win. Because I am likeable, Greg. If I got to the end with Mario, both of us could say we outplayed everyone, but people are more willing to admit that I did because they like me. Because I get to know people as people, not just players. Is that partially so people vote for me when they're on jury? Uh yeah. Because that's the point of jury management. If people don't like you they don't want you to win. Not in life, not on reality TV, and definitely not in an online game.
You also said I spoke to people with false promises of flipping. Holy shit Greg, you're a mind reader as well as a psychic? Man, you get more impressive by the day. Fun fact: I don't think I ever once told someone I was keeping them when I wasn't. No false hopes. I never told someone ever I would flip. The only time I can recall lying to someone as they went home was Brit when I said I was voting for Cat. But guess what? All of us did that. So I just don't get it. Why do you have this weird sense of entitlement where you think you have any right to be this rude? Especially considering I have never done or said anything that remotely warrants that type of behaviour. I’d also like to point out you and Mario were the ones who gave me false hope at final 4, not the other way around. Did you just conveniently forget this or...?
Also… were you not aware of the fact Adam is one of my best friends I've met here? We've known each other for almost two years and literally met up in person for a week in July and hung out. I told you this fact when we made our alliance. There are literally photos of us together on my blog. I'm cheering for him not because I dislike Mario but because Adam is someone who means a lot to me and I want him to win. It's not bitter to want to see your friend do well. That's like saying - oh nevermind, I forgot you haven't seen Survivor so I won't make the reference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Now (finally) onto your statement.
First of all: don't you EVER call ANYONE a bitch ever again. That type of sexist, rude language is unwarranted, especially towards someone who was never rude to you. Your psychic intuition failed you because I never said a bad word about you personally until I saw your speech. Even when I came on jury, all I said was:
On 20-08-15, at 6:46 PM, Jessica - 제시카 wrote: > Okay well Greg is useless don't vote him
You were useless gamewise and there's no getting around that. It's almost laughable how you think you're being relevant at all. You "slayed" this game? Honey, are you serious? What on earth did you do that wasn't something me and Mario told you? Half the time I forgot you were even in our alliance because you were that irrelevant and useless. You were nothing more to either of us than a free vote.
You aren't a psychic, just a psycho. I proposed multiple "stupid plans" throughout merge? I won’t even touch how incorrect that is, but… funny, I don't recall you ever starting any plans. Or taking charge at any vote. Or doing well… anything? I'm not quite sure why you feel it relevant to tear apart my game because I'm on jury, I'm not at the end so no one gives a shit about how I played because they cannot vote me to win. Again sweetie, the jury is the people you voted OUT of the game. You want our votes. You want to be likeable. So next time don't be so fucking rude.”
Adam’s Response: Dearest Jessica, You know me the best out of everyone here. Even Casey, because I feel like I've spent more time with you. So in seeing my other games, I think you can tell I played A LOT differently. In other games I've been known to go very power-hungry and become threatening and I always go early. But this time I was able to sit back and make my way to the end by not becoming a threat. So what I feel sets me apart from Mario, is that although yeah he's more powerful than me, a lot of people really hate him! Like damn, he's pissed so many people off. However I laid back and made no one mad. I actually feel like I've made a few friends, while still being a part of the alliance that voted them out. So I don't think I have any real enemies, the only people who won't vote for me is because they think I haven't done anything. But I disagree. Which brings me to Greg. The complete opposite of Mario, he really did hardly anything (very sorry Greg). However, I think I can claim I had leverage. I had moves, they just usually didn't work out super awesome. Like the idea to throw the challenge to control that vote was mine, just turned out they both had idols. But the Simon vote I can really say was a big deal for me. You were there with me that might, trying to get people to vote Isaiah, while I was trying to get people to vote Simon! That was the vote that broke your alliance and got us in an alliance together which we went to them end with! I think that was a really big deal. So that's how I think I'm different. And to answer your second question, fuck no, I've got enough hair dye for another month of pink hair so I'm going to get all I can out of it. I just got a haircut and I told the lady keep as much pink as possible. I look cute as fuck. Your fellow wiggle, Adam
Greg’s Response: Okay Jess, I am sorry you were offended by the word bitch. I didn't think you would actually get offended by that, but you were rude so there I'll use that word instead. First of all Jess you were Mario's sheep from day one up until the end so stop it. I voted against both of you on multiple occasions so stop girl! Jess, I know exactly what Jury management and yes it is my fault I didn't realize how stupid this jury would be when it came to people so blatantly coming up to them just as they're about to lose just to be fake for a vote. That's why I didn't do that, but yes, I was wrong, the jury members were stupid enough to like your fakeness so congrats on that. If you didn't actually make false promises you just brought it up in our alliance chat as a stupid pointless plans on multiple occasions. That is true. Yeah telling the jury I'm useless and not to vote for me when I did nothing against you is definitely not rude at all. Okay. Honey, are you serious? You literally did nothing in the game that Mario didn't tell you to do. That's totally fine that I was a free vote because the free vote outlasted you in the end :) Oh no it's ABSOLUTELY correct. You proposed lots of stupid plans that Mario shot down and you listened like a good little doggy. I can tear apart your game because you felt the need to insult my game to the jury for no reason at all. I wasn't winning before that Jess so it was pointless. And I am trying to help people realize your game was Mario's game in a nutshell you made no decisions on your own but y'know. And that's okay, I'm content with my final placement in this game. I promise :).
Mario’s Response: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Z9JHh6vFO1