In the event of a tie, Jared will vote for the winner of Survivor: Archetypes.
CONGRATULATIONS BRETT!
YOU ARE THE WINNER OF SURVIVOR: ARCHETYPES!
You played VERY well and should be very proud. Congratulations.
It's time for the PLAYER OF THE SEASON REVEAL!
We had a very tough race for Player of the Season because we saw a lot of really good players that deserve the title, but of course we have to give it to only one person..
There are three players we believed were in the running for Player of the Season.
This player was seen as the leader of their alliance, but still managed to make it very far with very strong bonds that kept themselves safe for a long time. They showed that they were not playing the same game they played in their previous season and was seen as the biggest contender to win at one point of the game.
This player was one of the most craftiest players in the game and created rivalries in the game with deception and knew how to keep themselves safe. Despite their alliances going home really early, and being left with only themselves, they managed to survive very far and give the majority a run for their money.
This player was constantly targeted but used their skills to evade ever being voted off, and despite their controversy in the game, at one point they were literally being shit-talked by an entire tribe yet sill survived 21 players in the game. They made up for their social nuances in challenge domination and strategic moves.
The winner is...
JAMIE!
Congratulations Jamie! Even though you were not favored by the jury, you played a really strong game and should be proud of the way you played. You wanted to play really differently early on, but was forced into a position where you had to adapt quickly and use your challenge skills to survive, and then we saw you blossom into a strategical player who used their biggest qualities in order to overcome the biggest target in the game.
Chris and Alexa, you both played REALLY well, and you should also be proud of the way you both played.
Chris' description was first, Alexa's was second and Jamie's was third.
Here is the EDGIC!
To see how the first episode of Survivor: Archetypes played out, Click here!
I'd like to thank the players, my co-hosts and viewers for everything this season! It was really great, and I'm sure once the confessionals are released, you'll all know what I'm talking about. Thank you again, and once again, CONGRATULATIONS BRETT!
Hey guys, this took a bit longer then I would've liked it to but finals would happen during the finals of this game, but I'm here now so let's do this.
I wanna just start out by saying a big huge congrats to all three of you. I got to play first hand with each of you, both separately and together as a group, so I feel like I have really good grasp on how each of you worked and maneuvered your way through this game. I'm proud of each of you on a game level and a personal one because I know each of you worked your asses off to get here, none of you were dragged, none of you got here because of different people, you all made moves to get here and you're all equal in my eyes, you all played a hell of a game to get here.
Not everyone is gonna like you, not everyone is gonna think as highly of you as you may like, but don't let that get you people down. Some may have an easier road then others tonight, things may(and probably already have) gotten heated, which is to be expected, it's final tribal council in an intense game where A LOT, of people got done dirty. You may not have all played the same and you all pissed off people getting here in one way or another, but regardless of what happens, we can all agree that this is a game and things may get personal at times, but it's part of a very personal game that leaves people at their most vulnerable. We all said shit about each other behind each other's backs, and i do mean all of us, we all didn't get along 100% of the time, and that goes for everyone even the jurors, the only problem is is that you guys have a chance to win and ours is gone. It is 10000000% a two way streak for a lot of the criticism all of you are getting, but because we failed and you guys didn't you're gonna have to answer them and take responsibility for the shortcomings people are seeing in your games, even if its other peoples faults too because there not here and you are. But again, you all played your own great way and got here, which is something 21 other people in this ORG can't say. So please don't take a lot of criticisms too hard.
In my opinion you three were by far the best players this season, you all got here your own ways and while it may not impress everyone and get everyone's respect, you all have mine for whatever that's worth.
I don't have any questions for any of you, just statements, so no tricks or crazy questions, my vote is really undecided (and I mean that) but I'll be reading speeches and responses to them before I make the final nail in the coffin of my archetypes ride. Also I wanna add that this is an awkward position for me since I genuinely wanted us four to be the final four when I was in the game, so in a cruel sense of irony it's really ANNOYING to me to see you three as the final 3, but let's get on with it.
Jared
Jared, coming into this game and I saw you cast, I really did not know how you would do. My initial impression was you would probably not make the merge. But here you are, the only former winner here and one of like idk 4 people to ever to make FTC both times you played, and if anyone on this cast should be proud of how they played it's you. Barely anyone on this cast made it to FTC either of the times they played, but here you are, a known winner from a really known season, sitting here again. I know how you played in the past, and I know how you played here and you should honestly not feel any sort of disappointment in your game because I think it was great. I think a really big reason why I fucked up was with you, after the Ally vote I really thought Jamie was like rubbing off on you and if you got power you may have wanted to yolo blindside someone again so I was a bit afraid of you and told Jamie and Brett things before I told you (not that it mattered because of Jamie, but I'll get to that later) which shouldn't have been the case since I had really no reason not to fully trust you. It's sad that I was just coming around to it, and then I got my head chopped off. But people both times you played kept saying "Oh Jared's just gonna keep skating by because no ones gonna vote off Jared", people both times KNOWINGLY knew this was gonna happen and yet here you are because it did happen again. You had the perception of being less of a threat then other people, when I think you were a really big threat, especially in your end game set up, you were basically 100% set on making it here based off of the connections you made with the people left in the game at that point. You also had me, someone in power, ruin there game for you; so in my opinion you had a really good social game, the people you were close with you kept close and you had me and Jamie basically have no intentions of ever voting you out. But that's not the full case which I'll mention below. You never relied on people to get you here or let yourself be dragged for a second.
You didn't have to make super moves to get here, you were able to use your image and how people thought of you as a way to do it. It's a really great way to get to the end, but now comes the hard part in explaining yourself, and there's a lot of people who didn't get to the end who may not listen. But I do think you knew what you were doing a majority of the whole time, you weren't just sitting around, you found an idol, won an immunity, planned a blindside and were pretty much in on the majority for every single vote sans mine. There were two parts where you really fucked up with, one was as far as I can tell is your social game with the other side, which also goes into this perception you had. While yes, I know the argument is they may not have tried either, that doesn't mean you couldn't have. But then again if people made up names and were making fun of me behind my back I sure as hell wouldn't be too pleased in having a conversation with them, but being fake is also a big part of the game. The other part is, you needed to stand out from Jamie a bit. I don't think you were her sheep or she dragged you and I know it was a full partnership between you two, but I was like the 3rd in that. It's part of your perception and I know you were attacked about it for no reason a lot in the game, it's not even voting her out but going to people individually and talking to them. But even so, I think you had the best endgame out of the final 3, you made your spot here loud and clear and you did it on your own. The perception may have been you were a sheep or goat, but the reality is sitting here in front of us, the reality is is that you're sitting here again with two other people and that means whatever you did worked just as well as it did with them. The perception from some people is you didn't do a lot, but the reality is reality, it's just up to you now to show everyone. I don't know if you'll win tonight, I'm still considering voting you, but even if you're not Sandra you still played a hell of a lot better then soooooo many people and getting to the end twice is nothing less than legendary. I really am proud not only on a hosting aspect because of Azerbaijan making it to ftc (haha suck it wiki poll who's the best season now), but I see a lot of how I played in Greece and Rome in you. No matter what anyone has to say to you whether they're in the game or not, you played great and that's the reality.
Jamie
If someone told me Jamie Franzel was going to be sitting in the Final Tribal Council of this season when this season started, I would have been skeptical about what drugs they were on. I literally cannot believe you are sitting here because, quite frankly, there was no one who came remotely close to the giant bullseye you had on your back when this season started. People who didn't interact with you for one second and didn't know who you even were, were against you. You had such a huge target, which some of which you caused yourself, but a lot of it had to do with your reputation as well. To say you were a legitimate force in this game, would be an understatement. Strategically, you were in power for a large majority of the game especially the merge. You didn't rely on people to get yourself into majority, you found yourself there because of your game. You sure cozied up to people, but you never relied on anyone but yourself. Premerge Hizoku I'm not even gonna bring up because, the story seems to change every single time you ask anyone about what happened there so I'm just gonna leave it at, you can't always start off on the right foot and you fought to get out of that situation and you did. You fought harder than anyone in this game to get where you're at, even with a string of bad luck haunting you. Socially, I told you, you have to tone down the attitude with some people or a situation like this happening, it doesn't matter how great a game you played because if you piss off people enough there straight up not gonna vote you. I hope that's not the case with some tonight because it would be a damn shame for your whole game to be overshadowed because you turned into MegaBitch sometimes. Not to mention you were a straight up BEAST in challenges, literally there was never ever any sort of challenge that you could've been counted out of. But you didn't even need to rely on it after original tribes, which you may not have needed either according to some??. Every tribal council this merge you had immunity for, you would've survived without it. I don't like voting for people who rely on physical game to get them where they are, but you didn't which is sooo impressive. Your social game sucked with the other side, but you had people willing to fall on the sword for you here too, so your social game wasn't total shit it just could've been better because most people agree that nongame Jamie is great to talk to.
Out of everyone on this cast even I think we had the most history. We played in Rome and were a dynamic duo on that season, I threw challenges to save you then and was the Trish to your Tony when you pulled all kinds of shit there. Even outside the game we had this friendship, that I'm not even sure a lot of people on this cast know about, that I thought was sacred. However it really sucks to find out that you were probably one of the biggest reasons and factors to my demise. Please note that I'm not saying this to you without already recognizing my own faults in this but, I wanna bring this up since I don't think you yourself quite got this. No, you didn't vote me off or were involved in it, you weren't the one who shot me but you were pretty much the one who gave the shooter the bullets. I don't think there was a single thing I hid from you in this game, I told you pretty much everything because I thought you knew that a majority of what I was telling you should not be repeated. It's one thing to go to Jared, because I was likely telling him stuff as well later, but that's not the problem. You told me premerge Chris was probably gonna come for me at some point, I told you stuff that I worried about as well and you told me "Don't worry I'll make sure he doesn't.", and the sad thing is I believed you. People on YT always say vote Jamie out she's crazy, but with us I thought like there was this trust barrier, I didn't tell people a lot of stuff you told me, and if anyone ever brought you up to me I would go bananas and go out of my way to make sure you were safe, until I found out this wasn't a mutual thing. But it's really :/ to hear and find out not only were you like you told me "pitting me and chris against each other so that we would both have you as our #1", but also giving Chris every piece of info I would tell you. I don't understand lying to him saying we were thinking about coming after him at 10 when I told you we weren't, telling him about my idol and then lying to me about telling him, telling him about Brett's fast pass, I told you all of this thinking you would keep it safe and not run off to Chris. You threw me and all of my connections under the bus for no reason, and this was alllll before the Emile vote, which was set off by you telling Chris. I was so loyal to you, and told you so many times how I wanted to help you get to the end because, I got what you were saying with the last org stuff, I got it. I don't know what I did to make you suddenly doubt this trust, I was always straight up with you in saying I wanted the Fucket Four as the final four. So flash forward to hearing in ponderosa that "oh yeah Jamie was soooo happy you were gone she celebrated quite a bit, because she was so upset with how you talked to her after the Emile vote". Wanna know what's actually upsetting? Coming to the realization that someone you care for doesn't actually care for you as much. As far as I'm concerned in this game, not only did you bullshit me with 'i didn't pick chris over you' but you backstabbed me as hard as you did Chris or anyone else. I don't know what kind of mindset you had thinking you were totally innocent like 'oh i didn't know this was gonna happen!!' Really, what do you think is gonna happen when you tell someone that this person has an idol, is really close with Brett, shit Brett told me and no one else, parts of my game specifically, and pretty much everything else, oh and that they were gonna come after you. You gave out every bit of info I had and shockingly, it got turned against me. At the end of the day, I would have done anything for you and we talked multiple times about how in Rome I would've gone to the end and willingly lost to you, and although it's just a game and there's no bitterness inside me, it really does suck knowing that maybe with the tables in position to be reversed that it's not the case at all. You made your choice crystal clear in this game in who and how you were gonna play, even if you didn't do it directly. But to end this on a positive note, it's not over yet, so don't give up. It's 100% not decided who is gonna win yet (I've been wrong before though), but you didn't give up in the game so don't give up now.
Brett
The fuckface himself, you've been someone I wanted to talk to for awhile and I didn't really think you'd get to final tribal council so good job on avoiding me so far. It's funny because, the night of my elimination before I was like kicked out of the chat and such I was like quickly trying to message the hosts about passing the idol to you and I was about to message you like "DONT LET THEM GET YOU TOO!!" or something along those lines but, I took a second, and I realized that you actually were in on it also, which was well ouch, but I'll talk about that in a bit because I wanna start off with good things.
You sitting here, it surprises me and yet it doesn't because I knew talking and playing with you how good you were. I think it's fairly clear that you by far had the best social game out of the final 3, and probably everyone else this season as well, and I think a lot of it has to do with your personality just because you are a really genuine person. You had some strategic move blunders in my opinion, but you're also here at FTC so they worked out for you regardless and because you're here you now have a counter argument to anyone who points that out also. But I just wanna say that your speech and responses have been good so far and I am getting a bit into the mind of Brett when I think about some of these moves. The only thing I could possibly flake you for isn't your strategic game as a whole, but your strategic foresight in the cases of me sorta and the situation of a F2 instead of a F3 when voting out Alexa, which we all assumed it would be at that point. But you're still here, it may have to do with other people making mistakes but you also fought for your spot here and I'm really shocked anyone but me actually wanted to go to the end with you, I figured you'd be the person no one would want to sit next too because I would imagine you'd beat anyone, including me. But that was the friend card in me wanting to go to the end with you, which I doubt worked on anyone else but you got yourself and other people to get you here on a game base which is incredible.
I also wanna mention that in one of my first confessionals, I believe I said something along the lines of like "I'll do anything this season, I don't need anymore friends I'll vote out whoever", so I think that should be a testament to your social game in being able to break my stance on that.
But here comes the personal part, which is something I don't think you received yet tonight. I just wanna say that, I get it, I didn't fully understand why you did it at first, but after some perspective I get it. Nothing I say to you is not without me already realizing where I fucked up and how, but I still have some things that have been kinda building up that I might as well let it out. At first I was really confused and concerned when talking to you when first talking to you, I really didn't connect that well with anyone on here on so much stuff that I figured you were stalking me and keeping notes on me or something batshit and were just really good at buttering me up, but I soon realized that it wasn't the case. I'm not really a personal person, I don't really talk about myself outside of this game to like anyone, but I did with you. I told you stuff about me that I haven't told anyone on here, and it didn't feel weird for once? I typically don't talk to people a lot of the times after seasons are played, just because of idk I'm lazy and shit, but I felt like you were an actual friend and it felt like things were really natural like I had known you for a long time, which is stupid when putting in the perspective that it's Survivor. I think a really big part in why I was drawn to you in the game and why I was taken so back after, was because I just see myself in you a lot. I kinda lost sight in the finish line and my emotions got in the way of wanting to go to the end with you and be JT/Stephen, but now it's this weird Rob/Lex or Kathy kinda thing. I get what happened, I trusted Jamie to keep stuff about the 4 to the 4 because I trusted her too, which was wrong and it sucks knowing that's a really big reason why you lost trust in me. I'll be honest I didn't take being voted out too well at first, especially by your hand after talking about how "we have to beat Chris in this game" and talking about how neither of us wanted to lost to him only for you to turn around and do just that. It's been said tonight that you can control your moves and such in the game, but you can't control how people react and I honestly felt really used and abused by you. I don't know what's the case of how genuine things actually were but, I really did the whole time want to go to the end with you and would've played the idol on you, especially after I learned Jamie was leaking stuff, I would have (and don't sell yourself short because I think you would've beaten me anyway) and I guess that's where we differ in games which isn't a bad thing, it's a cold game. It also doesn't feel good to know after you get voted out by the person you considered your 'best friend', that they were really happy about it and were talking a lot about you after the fact. It's a game, we both know that, it sucks how things ended between us but it won't effect how I vote tonight. So yeah, I just wanted to get that out there, I'm not bitter about it because after seeing things from your perspective I can't say I wouldn't consider the same thing, I would just probably feel worse about it. You don't have anyone in the jury actively campaigning against you like the other two, but it's not locked up yet so don't fuck up.
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So that's it from me, I'm still very pleased with this final 3. I know at a lot of points in this game you all were taking out the people you couldn't beat in the end, but I just wanna say that if any of you three were sitting with any two different people in this game you would've had my vote locked regardless of who you were against probably (except queen Christine). Regardless of who wins or loses this season, I think you all played phenomenally and that this final 3 is one of the best as a whole. And maybe this is the delusional reality I live in, but to see you three as somehow being the final 3, makes me feel like I got 4th, so even though I didn't reach my goal of getting to the end, I'm happy it was you guys who did so my soul can rest easy knowing one of you three is gonna win.
So good luck to you all and congrats, I don't need any responses to this but if you want to respond feel free to.
p.s.- we still should've picked a better show to base our alliance picture off of.
I decided to do a video mostly as an excuse to practice my oral english! Also because I figured you guys might be more thrilled for a video than a wall of text. I managed to forget half the things I wanted to say anyway, but the important stuff is there (almost) and that's what matters. ALSO MY CAMERA IS WAY TOO LOW FML SORRY IF YOU JUST SEE A MOUTH MOVING.
A question I forgot to ask you Jamie is, were you trying to build a path towards an immunity run by blindsiding Chris? And to Brett, what was your plan at final 4 if everything still indicated towards this being a final 2? Also a question for Jared I forgot: How do you survive a vote where people want to vote against Jamie, but she's immune? She wins a lot of immunities so this scenario isn't exactly unlikely.
And here's a multiple choice question for everyone, which does matter too:
What was the best part of this season?
When Alexa sabotaged the gif challenge.
Hunter making his confessionals accessible to the public.
Chris' mangatar, with his middle finger and smiley face combo.
First off, I just want to say congratulations for making it to the Final Tribal Council. You all made it here in a variety of different ways and I applaud you for doing what 21 other people couldn't. However, I just want to make one thing crystal clear. I'm not one to sugarcoat things and anything I say to you here is completely based off your game. I don't know any of you as people, I know you as the game players thus I cannot judge your character outside the game so all I ask is do not whine about being "personally attacked" because I'm not going to filter my words to preserve your feelings.
Speech to Brett:
Brett! God, you sneaky little fucker. First off I just want to make it crystal clear that just because I had fabricated my little rivalry with Jamie doesn't mean my vote is set in stone and to think you won't have to work for my vote would be stupid as a whole. I'm coming into this with my perceptions from the game but I need you to justify what I ask.
For starters, I think you tried pulling off the "chill, mellow, airhead" strategy in the beginning of this game and you pulled it off pretty decently in my opinion. You tried to make people feel like you were the laid-back, relaxed player. From my perception, you tried to make people feel like you weren't going to be excessively confrontational and I totally respect that, but I feel like you made a good amount of moves that could've ended up hurting you badly if you weren't careful but your small handful of stupid decisions is arguably overshadowed by the moronic decision to allow you to even partake in the Final Tribal Council over the person who was booted for 4th, stupid decision on your fellow finalists' part but anyways.
My biggest issue with your game is just the mere fact that you kind of did leave your alliance to die at certain points in the game and you kind of played a bit impulsively and didn't really think too deep into what you were doing. You completely obliterated your trust with multiple people after using that vote skipper and it definitely is working against you a bit but we all make mistakes, so I'm looking past that. In all honesty, I can't really blame you for voting me out at the Final 5 because I would've done the same at the following vote so no hard feelings there, I just kind of find it annoying that you automatically assumed that by taking Jamie/Jared to the FTC that you would get my vote because most of the things I said to you about them to begin with was to make you believe my disdain for them was so strong that I wouldn't turn on you, sadly that narrative didn't come true. But this is a game about doing what's best for you and not others so again I totally get it.
We worked really closely together for a good portion of the merge so I feel like if anyone really got to see in depth into your strategic mind it was me and I really respect your desire to make moves, something a good deal of this cast severely lacked so I appreciate that. For you to earn my vote I need you to justify the following moves and answer some questions to the best of your ability.
Questions for Brett:
1. What was your biggest loss in this game and how did you recover from it?
2. Can you please explain your logic for voting me out? Did you ever consider it a big risk considering that Jamie would probably win the final immunity and possibly vote you out?
3. What was your weakest portion of the game (Challenges, Social, Strategic) and how do you think you could've improved?
4. Find a song (from 2014 on only, modern pop would be preferred) that describe each of the jurors' games/personas and find one to describe yourself and your finalist's games, please justify why.
Speech to Jamie:
Warning: This is going to be very lengthy as I have many feelings and thoughts to get off my chest.
Jamie, where do I even begin. I just want to say that none of what I'm about to say is a judgement on your character, it's on your game which I am planning on breaking down piece by piece.
At the beginning of this game I had a good vibe with you but things went sour quickly and god you made so many horrific mistakes back at Hizoku that I can't even put it into words at how poorly executed a good amount of your actions were. Your intentions might've been well thought out but the execution was just horrendous. You had Ash, someone who was willing to be loyal to you over me your enemy at the time and you pushed her right on to my side and you let me absorb her and use her as a vote in my lane and not yours. When she went to you ratting out the whole Jamie/Jared is a duo shit you did exactly what you shouldn't have. You confronted me and spilled the beans about Ash ratting it out thus pushing Ash over to my side the same way Abi-Maria Gomes pushed Lisa away which ended up costing her the game.
You also had a really negative attitude on Hizoku and quite honestly were playing arguably one of the worst social games I have ever seen and all you ever did was whine about it. You isolated your game with Jared and although you did make attempts to gain people's trust, again VERY poorly executed. You pushed Matt away, you pushed Ash away and you put yourself into the dreaded position on Hizoku and had we lost a single challenge, you or Jared would be long gone. And that brings me to the first part of your game, entitlement. You felt as if you were entitled to every golden opportunity in this game because you feel as if you don't deserve to be in the minority, you felt entitled for people to always let you know what was going on when you NEVER returned the favor. You kicked people when they were down and it didn't help your case on Hizoku, not for a second. Instead of being a positive leader in the challenges pre-merge all you did was be extremely pushy towards your tribemates and making me out to be some terrible person for wanting you gone?
A perfect analogy of your game to me is a five-year-old child throwing a bitch fit at his/her parents because they decided not to buy them a candy bar while in line at the grocery store even though 90% of the time they GIVE IN. You were a brat in this game and acted like a spoiled princess and that is why you're going to have a rough time swaying the jury, when you got angry you lost all class and decided to treat people like crap and that is something Brett and Jared did better than you, they controlled themselves.
You felt entitled to survive this game over others and whether that was your intention or not that is HOW it came across.
Moreover, you truly were one of the most paranoid players in this entire game and it's the reason why this became the season of missed opportunities for you and it's also why you are receiving so much backlash.
Now on to the second stage, begging. You begged people to do what you wanted instead of providing them with logical arguments as to why they should partake in the move you were trying to make, instead you rolled over and begged them to do what you wanted because poor Jamie never gets what she wants. That isn't Survivor sorry to break it to you! Survivor is about manipulation, making people believe that what's best for you is also best for them and you didn't do that! You again felt entitled as fuck and pleaded multiple people, myself included to save you because it's your "last ORG" like why should I give a fuck about whether it's your last ORG or not?
You really think you were the ONLY person at the bottom for a good portion of this game? I was on the bottom for a great deal of this merge and I didn't blame you for it, not once. I focused my frustration into my game to keeping pushing further and all you did was blame others!
And then you say people pushed you into a corner and that they are the reason poor innocent Jamie didn't get a chance to play Survivor the way she wanted, which was to be the head bitch in control which I'm sorry wasn't going to fly with me. Did you ever even consider that you being disliked on a social aspect isn't because everyone else is bad, maybe it's because YOU were the one in the wrong. Because all I've ever heard from you is how I'm the reason you were so isolated in this game and all you ever did was blame others and I am not rewarding a sob story with a jury vote, unless that sob story owns up to all the moronic things they've done.
And now on to the third stage of your game, lackluster social abilities. To say your jury management skills were atrocious is an understatement. Even in the game all you could ever say about people was the negative, you always treated them as if they were inferior to you because you had gotten your way that vote, yet how funny the tables turned at the next vote and you were on your knees begging them to spare you. You walked around like queen Jamie right after you blindsided Charley and then when I rallied votes to get rid of Sora you came crying back about how you never get a chance to play this game and sent me over 17, maybe 18 at this point false apologies. You could NEVER be straight up in this game and ironically decided to call me untrustworthy when you were the juxtaposition of trustworthy, hell Russell Hantz is more reliable as an ally than you are. And I'm not saying it's bad to be a flipper because we all flip but god you always told everyone the complete opposite of what you were doing and then you have the NERVE to complain about being on the outs? Like please get a reality check and get down from whatever cloud you've been riding this entire game because this is not the Jamie show.
Not to mention how many times you needed to win a challenge because your social game couldn't save you.
Your idiotic moves regarding social unawareness include:
Confronting me and blowing Ash's game up thus pushing her away, running to Matt with information that immediately returned back to me, blaming Ash for the gif challenge and destroying your relationship with her because of it, editing Ash's wikia page thus showcasing how petty you were in this game at times, making a remark to Charley about not wanting her to have most days, telling Chris he was going home at the Sora only to be blindsided to see one of your closest allies go home, begging me to save you when you were voting me out regardless and the list goes on and on.
This all should serve as a major wake-up call to you Jamie as to where you major fucked up in this game because not many other people have the guts to be blunt and say things straight up.
Questions for Jamie:
1. Why did you always go to other people freaking out and making yourself look like a paranoid mess? Do you understand how different this game would've been had you avoided that?
2. With logical arguments only and no pleading, please justify your actions in this game if you choose to do so.
3. What is your biggest regret in this game?
4. Find a song (from 2014 on only, modern pop would be preferred) that describe each of the jurors' games/personas and find one to describe yourself and your finalist's games, please justify why.
Speech to Jared:
For starters, I just want to say congrats on never being voted off on the main ORG, that's a big accomplishment so well done.
In all honesty, I think you have perfected the Under The Radar strategy but god your game is extremely underwhelming and it revolved completely around Jamie, there was no independence, no effort on your part to disprove the belief that you were her mere goat, not once.
You didn't really have to fight that hard to be here because after the second merge vote you established yourself as the goat of this season and the only reason in which you were ever targeted was to WEAKEN Jamie. You were a background character and didn't even try to socialize with the other side opposed to you and I'm honestly very disgusted at how little you tried to disprove people's terrible perception of you, Jamie's social game was bad but at least she had one. While I don't doubt that you have decent strategic ability, you never put it to work with anyone besides Jamie and Sora, you played perfectly to get dragged to the end but not to win, so unless you pull out something other than "I wanted to be a non-threat!!" then I don't see you swaying that many votes honestly. I personally am embarrassed because I would have done anything (along with many jurors, pre-mergers and people who weren't cast) are horrified that someone who let one of the biggest challenge threats/biggest characters stick around even though they know they were being viewed as their sheep and never did anything to disprove that. No independence whatsoever, other than having partial influence in Ally's blindside you didn't really do much and didn't really try in the social aspect of this game and getting my vote isn't impossible but unless you prove this theory wrong somehow then it's unlikely you'll get it.
Questions for Jared:
1. Why were you so reluctant to make a move without Jamie's permission, where was your backbone this whole time?
2. With logical arguments only please justify your actions in this game if you choose to do so.
3. What was the biggest hurdle for you in this game?
4. Find a song (from 2014 on only, modern pop would be preferred) that describe each of the jurors' games/personas and find one to describe yourself and your finalist's games, please justify why.
This was truly an amazing experience for me although it did have its up and downs I'm so grateful to have been given a second chance to make things right in this game. I'm proud of how I played and am happy to have met such amazing people and I truly hope you see that I'm not one to sugarcoat my feelings and that this is not an attack on your personas just your games. I wish you all the best of luck. May the best player win.
Local bitch here. Time to ride the karma train to hell, because I am giving you exactly what you have given.
Brett
Brett, you made quite a few mistakes in the game. But you did better than these two, so congrats. You actually had a social game. You treated us like human beings. You made the effort to talk to us daily, and you were always kind and open, even if we weren’t on the same side.
You didn’t have the same preexisting connections that Jamie or even Jared did, and I think you played a really spectacular game for what you were given. We all made mistakes, some of us, much much worse than others, but you took your game into your own hands.
I definitely can’t say the same for Jared, and Jamie took her game into her own hands, by attacking people and using her previous connections in pretty hardcore fucked up ways.
Brett, I know a lot of people think that voting Sora out was one of your mistakes, but I genuinely think voting out Sora was a good move for you.
Sora might disagree, but with Sora having an idol, and Sora seeming to be much closer to Jamie than you, there was no reason to stay loyal to someone who could potentially idol you out on accident, and someone who had other priorities in mind. Sora was very dominating, and he overshadowed your game, and it’s definitely a great decision, and was definitely a factor to you being here right now.
Sora being out of the game opened up new paths for you, even if they did or did not work out.
You decided to make a lot of decisions that could have been prevented if you had any foresight.
Your fast pass was arguably the stupidest thing you could have done, from a strategic standpoint. But I might not know everything.
It shows that you did not care about your allies, and you did not have enough foresight to see that it was a bad strategic move, that it could affect your game because it could eliminate one of your allies because of the lesser numbers.
And it did.
My question to you is, why didn’t you calculate this into your decision? You had a group of loyal allies, and you turned on them for your own benefit for ONE vote. Did you really think you would be in so much danger? Or did you simply just not care, or even think of the consequences? Just explain to me your reasoning.
Be honest. I’d rather you tell me what was going through your mind, than some jury pandered bullshit.
Another question I have is, why didn’t you trust me with Emile? I told you that we still could have gotten Jamie out with Emile. There would be no reason for Emile to not want to save himself at that point, and I told you that he would be okay with it, so why didn’t you trust me? He hadn’t voted, and he literally would have been willing to save his ass, so why did you immediately trust Sora’s judgment on Emile?
I’ll probably have a few more questions to elaborate after you reply, so just keep watch.
Jared
Jared. I choked through your speech, and the only thing I have to say is?
It’s easy to stick to the same alliance all through and through, to do what’s “best” for your game and stick to the “easy” moves, but it’s also easy to ride coattails to the end. Goating is a great way to get to finals, but a terrible way to win. You say you were aware, but you were given options to move forwards and improve your game, rather than just stick to the easy path that you knew would get you further, but you never swayed.
You know why you got far? Because you and Jamie had your premades protecting you. Not because of your games. You both had horrific social games, you acted like terrible people, I mean, sure, staging a fight can be a strategic move but you come off as a FUCKING jackass.
I have zero respect for you. You kicked people when they were down. You had a fucking shit social game, you refused to talk to people on the bottom, and as far as I’m concerned, you didn’t do anything.
And just to be certain that you know this? I never made up fucking NyQuil. That’s a fucking dick move. I might play these games and I might come off as a bitch, but I don’t go personal.
But honestly, you did kind of press “snooze” throughout the entire game.
Jamie
Jamie, I've got quite a bit to say to you. Specifically regarding your actions throughout the game.
You played the victim all throughout the game, and it all started on Hizoku.
You cried and whined that you were on the bottom of Hizoku from Day 2 because of me and Alexa, and honestly, you’re delusional. I tried to fucking save you Day 2, which literally turned Alexa against me, so don’t pull that crap.
You may have been targeted from the start, but you were given the chance to repair this, but instead, you treated the people who could have helped you like crap.
I liked you.
I wanted to work with both you and Jared.
And you made the conscious decision to make me feel inferior, like you were so much better than everyone else, to tell me that I wasn’t as good as you, that when I tried to help, I was going to ruin everything.
There was no premerge Ash/Alexa “GET JAMIE OUT” parade. There never was. I wanted Alexa out, and she wanted me out.
I wanted to protect you and Jared because I didn’t see the point of isolating you if you weren’t really a duo, because it sucks to be screwed throughout the game. But you screwed me more than I screwed you. You say you were isolated, but you isolated yourself, and you forced people on the bottom and disregarded them, treated them like shit, and then pretended to be their friends when you thought you might be in trouble.
You say I went personal against you, when honestly, all that I bitched about was how you treated me, and everyone when it came to challenges.
You were the Challenge God Jamie, and we were inferior. You may have been good in select challenges, but that didn’t give you the right to act like you were better than us.
I tried just as hard as you, and I did better than you, but you still treated me like shit. You forced your way into a challenge saying that “Oh, I’ll be better than you in this” and then nearly lost it.
You seemed to disregard the fact that we were supposed to be a united tribe. Instead, you acted like every immunity was on you, when honestly, it wasn’t. Uli won us that 3 part challenge, and I won us the first immunity challenge.
In the gif challenge, (which I was not the one fucking throwing, fuck you, why would I throw it if I put in so much effort to all the other challenges) you treated me like fucking shit, even though I was just trying to help. You told me that I was trying to sabotage the challenge,, you insulted me, you told me that my efforts were wrong, and didn’t fit.
There are kinder ways to say that. Like, “Sorry, Ash, I’m worried that if we change the format, then it won’t seem consistent enough.”
I’m a perfectly rational person, I am an artist, I understand how important consistency is.
But you didn’t do that, you acted like a bitch because you were upset that you had to do everything “alone.”
You complained that nobody helped you, but you didn’t LET anyone help you. You just did everything without saying anything. You can’t just play the victim if you never asked for help, and rudely rejected any when given.
After the swap, you were insistent on editing my page, and then you ATTACKED someone outside of the game because they were reverting your edits. You called them an idiot, a freak and I’m pretty sure you tried to call them retarded as well (before your edit description cut out).
Who the fuck says that’s okay, Jamie?
To treat people like shit.
For no reason.
To personally attack someone, who ISN’T EVEN IN THE GAME, over a stupid fucking edit.
That isn’t fucking okay.
And that’s just premerge.
Merge, you faked and cried apologies, and played the victim, like I hadn’t been apologizing enough to Perfect Jamie. You were never honest with me, and even when I tried to genuinely work with you, you rejected it. I can accept the fact that maybe the game turns me into a shitty person, but at least that way I can try to change it.
You made that parchment. Attacking multiple people, because you couldn’t hold back your rage at your “terrible position.” You couldn’t control yourself. And that’s the basis of your entire game. You felt safe, with immunity, so you lashed out.
You don’t think we wanted to lash out? You don’t think we were angry?
But we didn’t go there.
We didn’t take it personally. We didn’t laugh, when you failed, but you laughed at us when we did.
How is it fair that you’re allowed to act this way, and get away with it? Who gave you that right?
Oh, and “I will be personally offended if Ash and Alexa make it further than me?” You say I went personal, and then you go there.
You told that to multiple people, to convince them, and threaten them with that, just because you had such a fucking hatred for Alexa and I, when you were just as much of a bitch as we were.
We never took it to the personal level that you did.
You say you secured your position in Final 10, but you could have easily gone home. If people hadn’t voted early, you STILL would have gone home, no matter what you say, because I could have gotten Emile to vote you out as well, but due to Alexa and Brett, I didn’t.
You whined that you were at the bottom of your alliances, which, you weren’t, because all your previous connections protected you, cried “idol! Idol!” to keep you safe.
You treated your allies like crap once they weren’t “useful” to you, you treated your enemies like crap and then went crying to them when you were on the bottom, pretending to be their friend when you had no other intention than using and discarding them.
The reason why I went home was because Chris trusted you over me because of your pregame. Shut the fuck up, because that’s not a game move, that’s a “I have friends!”
Chris trusted you, Jamie, and you USED your friendship with him to benefit yourself, without considering that it might harm your actual relationship. Without considering his feelings.
Sometimes, it isn’t about the game. Sometimes, you have to think about what you’re doing as a person, and realizing that what you’re doing is wrong.
A big part of this game is obviously the social aspect, and making people feel the way they did about you, that isn’t a good thing.
There comes a point when it isn’t just about you, Jamie. That’s why Survivor is such an intricate game, you can’t just keep your game in mind, you have to think about others and their perceptions of you, and what you’re doing to others.
You have these misconceptions, as you stated, about people. But you don’t even see your misconceptions. I would have worked with you, I wanted to work with you from the start, but everything you did just made that impossible.
Jamie, you and Jared survived because half the cast either used the tactic of idol fear, or were victims of it. You arguably had no life, and you just won immunities. It’s far more impressive to make it to the end without winning nonstop immunities, like Brett or even Jared. The point is, you would have gone home, they had to maneuver their own safeties.
So don’t pull that crap on me. You didn’t play a good game. Sure, you made “moves.” But you let Chris, Sora, and everyone else protect you, and then you heartlessly backstabbed them. You didn’t protect yourself, you didn’t make those necessary moves to keep yourself safe. Your allies did.
The only reason why anyone in this game would have talked shit about you, is if you deserved it. If you instigated it.
And you did. Multiple times. With the parchment, and the challenges, the name-calling, and the fights. We’re supposed to act like adults, not middle schoolers.
You seem to forget that this isn’t a game of fucking robots, it’s a game with people, who have feelings. Fuck you for just calling us “bitter.” You fucking insulted us, just because you could. You neglected the fact that we are human, we have feelings, and that THIS IS NOT JUST A FUCKING GAME.
It’s not that we’re bitter. We’re hurt. Because you chose to treat us badly, and now you’re backpedaling, pandering and bullshitting for our jury votes. You can’t erase what you did, Jamie.
Survivor is a social experiment. You, sadly, have failed it.
And fuck you for calling me a fucking freak, and saying that you would be personally fucking offended if I went home over you, when I trusted you in the start, when I genuinely thought we were friends, when I trusted you with personal stuff, fuck you for treating me like shit.
Fuck you for treating Chris like shit too. He’s your friend. He’s the LAST person you should be treating this way.
So don’t count on getting my vote.
You can apologize all you want, but that doesn’t change how you acted through the game. You can’t go back and redo it.
But for the sake of your friendships, own up to your fucking crap and learn to be a better fucking person.
Learn from your mistakes. So you don’t fuck up more than this stupid fucking game. That was so fucking important to you that you decided to act like an immature twat, and treat every single person in this game like they were inferior to you.
Final Thoughts
In an online Survivor game, a very important portion of the game is the social game. Two of you have failed it, in completely different ways. I must give congratulations to the three of you for making it, but I don't think all of you deserved it.
If any of you are personally offended by what I have said, feel free to confront me about it, but nothing said here has been intended to reach beyond the limits of this game, and to question your motives.
Sometimes, the games reflect who we really are, showing us the dark, cruel, aspects of our psyche. The importance in life is to know your boundaries. It's important to understand who you are, and what you are capable of, and most of all, knowing when to stop.
It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been real fun.
First off from the bottom of my heart I want to sincerely congratulate all three of you for making it to day 39. You beat twenty-one 2 time, 3 time and even 4 time players in this game and no one can take that away from you, and for that you all should be very proud of yourselves regardless of the outcome of this vote.
However, that does not mean every juror feels the same way, and that does not mean each individual game the three of you played was fantastic by any means. You all had your faults, and the last thing any of you should be thinking is that you're going to run away with this, because you all fucked up in many areas of this game to be honest, and yes that might sound hypocritical coming from me being that I'm no angel myself when it comes to playing survivor the right way due to how I played in java, but I have changed and I truly don't believe I played a terrible game socially/strategically/physically this time, so I don't think it's hypocritical of me to say that.
For my speech I'm going to be giving each of you three a different segment, I'm going to be giving each of you some statements and questions, and one final question, and it's your choice how you want to respond!!!
Let's start with Brett!
BRETT:
Brett I can honestly say I am very proud of the game you played myself, I think you played a great game and got all of the people out of this game who would've beat you in the end, and you went with the two people in my opinion that will give you the best chance of winning this game, so I congratulate you on that. I do have issues and questions for you that I need to address though, so let's get to it !
Firstly I'd like to address the fact that you've been criticized a lot for some of the strategic decisions you made along the way in voting people out who were loyal to you. For me I don't really see it as an issue being that the moves you made have sat you in the end and the people you took out would have beaten you in jury votes, but a lot of the jury does see it as a problem, so you're going to need to defend your decisions and really explain it well to people, and if you don't do that you might not win this game !
Next I'd like to address our history. Obviously we both played in the bbcan org together, obviously we both were a bit of rivals in that game and in my opinion I believe it had an affect on this game. I've heard that you said that the one thing you want to do in this game is outlast me because of our history, and I want to know why exactly you came into this game with that mindset of letting our past history have an affect on the game, and if you didn't, explain to me why my perception is wrong, because I genuinely don't believe you formed a relationship with me and I believe every conversation we had was completely fake and it was because of you allowing our past history having an impact on how you wanted to interact with me.
FINALLY, the last thing I need to bring up with you is a comment I heard you made about me. I'm not going to say who told me this, but I was told after I was voted out that you had made a comment about how I was using my anxiety/panic attacks as leverage as a way to move forward in this game and gain sympathy. I want to make it clear to you that I've been officially diagnosed with multiple anxiety disorders that have had a large impact on my life and I've struggled for 10 years with anxiety. Not once was I ever faking having anxiety or a panic attack as a way to move forward in this game, and it genuinely doesn't feel good to know something you suffer from was being used as a way to target you. I want to know why you felt the need to make an assumption like that on me, and if you didn't and your comment was misconstrued, please explain the context of the comment you made so I have a better understanding of what actually was said.
JARED:
Jared I'll tell you that as of right now I can't see myself voting for you. However, I will say you are one of the best UTR players I've ever played with and I'm not surprised you're sitting in the end because of it. So while I don't know if I'll vote you unless you can sway me, I will applaud you for being the only winner left in this game and for never being voted out on the main org!!! I do have some issues with exactly how you got here and why you think your game is deserving of a win, so let's get to it!
My first issue with you Jared is that in your opening speech you claimed that you yourself were able to not put a target on your back by your gameplay which is why you were never perceived as a threat, and that you used your "sheep" status to your advantage. I want to make it clear that I don't believe you yourself were actively making it so you weren't perceived as a threat or a target, because you rarely talked to people and I heard you went days and days without talking to some people which I know was also true with me in that you rarely spoke to me. Not talking to people is different in my opinion from making yourself out to not be a target by actively having conversations with people to do that. I don't know if you really should be rewarded in an all-star game for the UTR game you played and for making yourself so closed off from having conversations with anyone other than your alliances and people you were working with. Closing people off is never a good idea, so I want to know for my first question why you believe that by not talking to people you should be awared with the win against two people who actively tried to talk with everyone.
Next I'd like to bring up the arguments I've seen you getting into with people, and while they were entertaining to see shit going down in game, I want to know if that was really entirely "strategy" like you claimed part of it was in your speech, or was it mainly just you having had enough with people and wanting to speak your mind and go off on people you've had problems with. So for my second question was it partly strategy like you claimed, or was it entirely personal like my perception of it is.
Last but not least, we're going to discuss your relationship/alliance with Jamie. There has been a perception on you for quite some time Jared that Jamie was leading you around and playing the game for you. I mean, I know for me at least I had no relationship with you really because you always were so closed off whenever I tried to talk to you, and all of my "conversations" with you in trying to find out what you were doing were always filtered through Jamie. While it's a strategy to be perceived as a sheep so you don't get targeted, I feel like you were well aware of the perception of everyone that you were her sheep and you did absolutely nothing to try to get that perception away from you knowing that a jury is going to be rewarding someone with the win of an all-star season. You didn't have to target her or get rid of her to have that perception be taken away from you, simply talking to other people and making yourself available and letting it be known you are your own player would've been enough, and you didn't really ever do that in game when it counted and I don't know why you expect people to be so willing to just be like "oh it was his strategy whatever he deserves to win!" with a jury speech. It's hard to break through perceptions and it requires time and a hell of a lot of effort to do that, and perception is reality to people and unfortunately for you Jared votes are due on Wednesday and you don't really have much time. You had all merge to break that perception and you simply ignored it, so my question to you is why you chose to enter a final tribal council with that perception still attached to you.
Jared If you can COMPLETELY convince each and every juror why you allowed that perception to stay with you and why you chose to ignore the social part of this game and expect to get votes in the end, you may get my vote and others.
JAMIE:
Jamie I've saved you for last because I have a lottttt of issues with you not only personally, but how you played the game overall, so let's just get to it.
I first want to address your opening speech in which you referred to me as "bitter" two times. I'm not bitter with you Jamie, in fact you made the right decision to get both yourself and Jared to the end so strategically I cannot be bitter with you. I was openly campaigning to you with what I wanted to make your perception out to be which was that Brett would flip to Alexa/Claire if you didn't save me as it was the only chance I had at staying in the game, you made the right decision to get rid of me strategically so I cannot be bitter and was never bitter over it, however you calling me bitter when I'm not isn't really a great way to try to get my vote.
Next while we're on the topic of my boot I want to talk about my issues with how it went down. You shared with me something very very very very personal which I'd never repeat and I also shared with you something very very very personal which I hope you would never repeat either. A lot of my personal issues with how my boot went down is the fact that I feel like you shared something with me to try to get ahead in the game and not because you genuinely wanted to share it with me on a friendship level. I took what you said Jamie and I literally cried over it because I was so touched and honored and I never would've voted against you personally because of it, and I feel like it was all just you trying to forward yourself in the game and not because you wanted to share it with me because I'm your friend, that's the part that hurts. The other issue I have with how my boot went down is the fact that you wouldn't even allow me the opportunity to campaign for myself to stay in a game I cared about so fucking badly. The night that it happened you basically sent me to bed with false hope that maybe you would be swayed and think about it, and the next day while I sat for hours trying to campaign to you on facebook, you ignored all of it because you didn't want to deal with me. Do you know how much THAT sucks? Do you know how hard it is to not even be given a chance because you refuse to listen to me because of your own personal feelings over it? You're the one who voted against me, I did everything in this game for you I removed the target from your back multiple times and always helped you out, and you couldn't even give me the chance to plead for my life and instead I needed to run to you on skype in the last hour because I had no choice, and to know that in that last hour you wanted to try to save me because I was actually getting to you and convincing you sucks because had you just been a friend and respected me as a player you would've allowed me to campaign to you on facebook and would've read it earlier and I might've been able to save myself. I feel like I did everything I could to help you knowing how much this game meant to you by saving you multiple times and helping you move forward, and the last thing you could've done in return is allow me to plead for my life. That hurts, and calling me "bitter" because I personally was upset over how it all went down does nothing to help the situation and in all honesty only digs yourself into a deeper hole with me.
The next thing I need to talk about is the self-isolation that I feel and a majority of the jury feels you and Jared both did. You play the victim and victimized yourself constantly, but when you make it out that you/Jared are together and against everyone else, is everyone supposed to be running back to you to try to help you or are they supposed to work against you like you basically are implying they should by isolating and victimizing yourselves? Playing the victim doesn't work especially when you're far from it and got yourselves into the position you were in with Jared by making people against you. I mean I can recall countless times that you would rant to me about how mean Alexa/Ash were and all of the petty bullshit you would say about how you'd be "personally offended" if they outlasted you in this game and all of the little comments you would make about how you wanted to steal alexa's vote so she "couldn't have the satisfaction of voting you" and wanting charley gone so she couldn't get the most days played and all of the shit about Ash being a freak like it wasn't fucking necessary and because I couldn't do anything but appease you I couldn't tell you how I really felt and how I actually didn't think they were all that bad. You made this game personal with them in my opinion and you put yourself and Jared in the position where they were against you by constantly making yourselves out to be the victims, yet you would go off and attack them publicly when you had the power because you weren't in danger of going home and they were which was just rubbing salt in their wounds.
Finally the last thing I heard that I'm not too fond about is how you basically pleaded with Alexa at the final 5 that she shouldn't vote you out and you can't win and all this crap about how this is your last game and you want to make it to the end so badly, meanwhile you already knew she was going home. Like I don't know why you felt so entitled to basically say "don't vote me even though im voting you because I deserve this" which is how it came across to her. In fact that's the attitude you had with me for a large portion of the game in my opinion how you felt you were more deserving than anyone else of making it to the end and how people should hand you a seat at the end. I'll have you know I wanted this badly, I'll have you know everyone on this jury wanted this badly, and I'll have you know all 13 pre-jurors all wanted this badly as well, and just because you played three times prior to this and didn't make it to the end any of the times doesn't mean everyone should automatically hand you this or should hand anyone else this. We were all here for the same reasons, no one is better than anyone else and should act like they deserve it more.
Now I know I've been harsh with you Jamie but I can say to you I respect the amount of effort you put into this game not only in strategizing, but in every challenge, I respect the fact that you made it to the end in your 4th and final game, and I respect the fact that you outplayed me. It's the ways you went about all of these things is where I'm not pleased and other people aren't very pleased with you, and you shouldn't sit here and say in your speech "if the jury isn't bitter I played the best game and should win" because the social component is vital in getting jury votes and the way you make people feel game wise and emotion wise is what votes are going to be based on. Human beings are emotional people, and when you add a game like Survivor to it it just amplifies those emotions, and if you're not delicate and don't go out of your way to make it so you aren't pissing people off, then they will be pissed off with you, and I know that from first-hand experience in almost losing Java because of how I treated people. You cannot sit here and act like people shouldn't be "bitter" which is not the case at all when you give people reasons to be upset with you and Jared both. I love you as a friend, we will always be friends even after this and I'm so proud of you for making it to the end and regardless of what I said on an emotional day of me trying to plead for my life, I swear I will always be your friend even after this is over. I'm not happy with you in some of the things you did, but you will always be my friend Jamie.
I don't have any specific questions for you Jamie, if you want my vote you need to really work for it at this point and seriously sway me by responding to everything I've said.
FINAL QUESTION:
The last question/thing I want you guys to do is redo your rites of passages for all 21 boots of this game, and I don't want you to half-ass it, I want you to be real because I wasn't very pleased with how you guys did yours, it all seemed very fake and none of it was real. I know what you three have all said about other people in this game, and your rites of passages wasn't it. Make real true statements for all 21 people who were voted out, and if they're not real and from the heart whether it's good or bad statements, I'm telling you right now you will not have a chance at getting my vote!
The last thing I want to say is thank you so so much to the hosts for bringing me back to play again, we know all of the shit szy did against me and how he didn't want me here and I really do appreciate you guys for giving me another opportunity to prove I'm not the same person I was in Java, and I hope I was able to do that so thank you again for this chance.
Thank you also to the viewers for watching, I don't know how active the vl is but I'm very excited to read the supportive/negative comments about me and everyone else when we're all added!! I hope you've enjoyed watching and please regardless of how you feel for the final 3, congratulate them on a good game because they did what 21 people who were cast and like 80+ people who applied but weren't cast couldn't, they made it to the end so congratulate them!!!
To the players both jury/pre-jury I so enjoyed playing with and getting to know everyone I had the opportunity to play with < 3
Aaaand finally to the final 3, once again, congratulations on making it to the end!!
Hey guys, congrats on making it this far. Start out with some positivity because this is an all star season, they are hard to get to the end in, so in that sense congratulations. I’m not going to waste time and write a novel long speech (thank you for those) and I’m going to jump right into it.
First to address all of you, I think it would be stupid for me to base my vote off of strategy. I have been out of this game for so long and I don’t think I played pre merge with any of you, and no offense to the other jurors, but what they have told me from the game is naturally bias by their perspective, so it is really pointless of me to do so. That leaves me to base my vote off of social game, which at this point may point to how I’m going to vote.
Jared, congratulations for getting this far, but I’m not going to vote for you. We just didn’t talk in the short time we had together, and that’s all I can base this on.
Jamie. You and I played in generations together, and we had both messed with each other that game, so when I saw you on the cast I figured that there was no chance in hell we were going to work together. And that’s fine, sometimes you just don’t work together. I can respect people that I don’t work with. We talked a bit in the game, and it was slightly strange because we hadn’t talked in so long, but it was fine. You voted me out, and that is fine. I have voted for people in ftc that have voted me out before, so whatever, right?
And then the parchment happened. Yeah, you referenced in your speech, and I appreciate you saying that it was a really bad move because holy crap was it a really bad move. In a game like survivor you need to be so aware of social game and how the jury in the end will see you, and you blatantly ripped into not only me, but several others that would also end up on the jury (if your parchment really was the one I’m assuming it was). That is something that you cannot do in this game because it is beyond a game move. If you had just voted me out Jamie, I wouldn’t have cared.
To clarify, I’m not holding this against you as a person. I don’t think you’re a bad person because of that parchment. We all mess up and do things like that. But when you mess up in the game, it comes with consequences, and for you that consequence is losing a jury vote because there’s a good chance I am not voting for you in this game.
But just like Jared, congratulations for making it to the end. Strategically you obviously did something right because you’re sitting there and we’re all sitting here.
Brett, we only played one round of this game together, and like Jamie and Jared you wound up voting me out. We were even in a weird alliance together for about an hour before results game up, but we talked a bit the night of the merge, and it was fun. I have no problems with you, and for me your social game was totally fine.
Because of that, there’s a good chance that you get my vote. And just like the other two, congratulations on getting to the end.
So, that’s it. I don’t have questions because I don’t want you guys to waste your time responding to me basically. If you have any response, or anything to say, I’ll read it with an open mind just like I read your speeches with an open mind, and maybe something could change. Congrats on making it to the end, and good luck to everyone.
Hello Brett Jamie and Jared! First of all congrats on making final 3 and giving me 4th place in back to back seasons...not bitter I swear <3. I want to say unlike a lot of the jury I really don’t know where I want to vote so here I am going to give you all a brief question on how the jury sees your biggest fault in the game
Jamie: The jury thinks you had such a bad social game and rubbed them the wrong way what do you have to say?
Jared: Your lack of social with the other side made everyone think you were too much of Jamie's sheep and you did nothing to try and stop that little tittle you had thoughts?
Brett: There were a lot of moves you made in this game that were quite questionable almost game breaking a few votes that come to mind are Sora Alexa and Emile
Thanks for taking your time to read this and I hope all 3 of you talk to me outside this game because I truly enjoy you all and no hard feelings <3
Hello jury! Firstly I just want to say thank you to the hosts and thank you to the players as well — I’m really happy that this will be the season I leave with and I just want to thank everyone who had a part in it! I also want to apologise that this is very long and like an essay, I have a lot to say! (Writing this at the end: If jurors want a shorter one then just comment at the bottom and I’ll provide one but I wanted to express everything I’ve been feeling and the words just sort of… flowed. So yeah here’s the speech)
Pre-merge:
Okay, now onto the speech. When joining the game, I knew I’d be a really big target. I had 3 people in the game who had voted me out in my previous season (Mihai, Molly and Charley) and my reputation isn’t very good here, so I knew people would be wary of me from the start. To combat that, I tried to form a group with people that I gelled with right off the bat, primarily Jared and Alexa, and then also Ash. Just to add something here, me and Jared were NOT a duo and we did not have a pre-made — any relationship that we have now was formed off of this game because before the game, we actually disliked each other. We had mutual friends, but any time I’d spoken to Jared, we’d both not liked each other. Anyway, that alliance plan obviously blew up and by Day 2, the whole of Hizoku was against me and Jared — however, that was no fault of mine. To the best of my knowledge, Alexa decided to blow that up because she thought me and Jared were close friends and like I said, that wasn’t the case, so I don’t know what I could’ve done to prevent that blow up from happening.
After the blow up of those plans, I found myself on the bottom of Hizoku (which is how it pretty much remained the whole time), and started to campaign to people that I thought would flip, which were primarily Ash and Matt. Uli and me never spoke game, and I was told that Alexa was adamant in getting me out, and so those seemed like the smartest two to go to. With Ash, I kept it much more personal and emotional because I thought that she seemed like out of the two, the sort of player who was much more likely to play with emotions and then with Matt, I kept it very strategic and numerical because I perceived him as being someone who voted solely on numbers. Based on what Matt and Ash have both told me, it seemed to work and if Hizoku went to TC, then Jared would’ve gone over me. However, we didn’t go to TC pre-merge, and a BIG part of that was due to my challenge efforts (helped by Ash as well).
Then the swap came along and I found myself with 4 rebels and 2 underdogs. Obviously, having been at the bottom of Hizoku since Day 2, I flipped with Jared and formed relationships with Ally and Brett. Ally was wary of me due to our past experiences, but through my social game I managed to mend that relationship. That tribe only went to TC once, and Matt would’ve gone but he mutinied, leaving Uli as the only viable option. Also, during this portion of the game, me and Alexa reconciled and decided to work together in the future, and I genuinely wanted to do that but it never quite panned out.
Come the second tribe swap and I was with my previous tribe (Ally, Brett, Jared) as well as Sora, Alexa and Hunter. I was really happy for this swap because I thought that for sure, I could work with most people on this tribe. When the individual immunity came around, the plan was to vote out Hunter but he won, leaving me with two real options: vote out Alexa, who had been against me but we’d realigned and decided to put everything behind us, or vote out Ally, who I thought would be against me in the future. Jared came to me with the idea of voting out Ally due to how good she was socially and how me and Jared would always be bigger targets than her, and Alexa confirmed it was the right choice by telling me that Ally spoke to her on Day 1, telling her to get me out ASAP. After that, I went out campaigning and made sure the votes were on Ally to go. I campaigned to Sora, who wanted to back-out last minute, as well as to Brett who also had expressed doubts. Sure enough, even though it really suited no one’s game at this point apart from mine and Alexa’s, Ally went AND she left with an idol and without my campaigning, that blindside wouldn’t have come into fruition.
Merge:
The merge came next and I won individual immunity for the first round, so I didn’t have to worry about leaving, but I wouldn’t have left anyway had I lost. I got told this round that many people were making lots of alliances and targeting me in them, such as Alexa and Hunter, so at that point I was pretty angry that even after I saved Alexa, she still didn’t want to work with me. I was also angry due to hearing that I’d been targeted on other tribes, and it was bottled up for ages because I could never address the issue. Anyway, for the vote, the plan was to vote out Charley and split it on Charley and Hunter, which I didn’t object to and followed along with as at this point, same as the pre-merge, I had minimal power. I will admit that though, that at this vote I made the one true bad move that I made throughout the game — the parchment at this tribal. It was a build up of anger, but I definitely shouldn’t have done it. I was angry for the fact that I’d been targeted since the start and no matter what I did, people did not like me or want to work with me, and I was angry that many people’s impressions of me had been altered (which Claire stated had happened to her — although she did tell me she wanted to give me a chance so ty for that Claire <3), which meant that I had no options come the merge. The parchment was wrong though, and I own up to that, and truly hope it doesn’t affect votes tonight. HOWEVER, I do believe that parchment was my worst move in the game (which didn’t even affect the votes), and I believe that Brett has made significant worse strategic decisions in regards to vote outs — voting out Sora at Final 9 made no sense to him, as Sora was loyal to him. Same with Ally, and same with Emile. Even keeping me at Final 5 made no sense. Brett engineered a really bad position for himself which isn’t justified by him reaching FTC; the only reason he’s here is BECAUSE of those moves, which is why I wanted to keep him till FTC over Claire, because I truly believe that if this jury isn’t bitter then they’ll see that Brett’s game wasn’t as great as it’s been made out to be. If my worst decision was notes on a parchment, and Brett’s was actual strategic votes, then I can sit here and say that my gameplay was superior.
Anyway, the final 10 vote came around and I was supposed to go this round, but Hunter voted too early. While many of the jurors may justify not voting me because of this, the same thing happened on my side of the vote which would’ve prevented me going: I could sense something was up and tried so hard to get me, Chris, Claire, Jared and Emile to all vote on the same page. I asked Jared if he’d change his vote to Hunter, and he had voted too early, and I made sure Chris told Claire to vote Hunter (because I had to sleep), but she had already voted too. If EVERYONE had both waited though, the vote would’ve been 5 on Hunter, 4 on me and 1 on Emile (Sora voting Emile), and so Hunter leaves then. The argument that people voted too early therefore makes no sense, because if we apply that for everyone that TC then I would’ve survived! Regardless, Emile going was sad because he was definitely someone that I envisioned myself working with, and so I continued on into the final 8 without power.
At the Sora vote, I told Chris that he was going and this enabled me to work with him going into the future. While I partially did it because we were friends, I also knew that by telling him (if he left) I’d guarantee his jury vote if I made FTC. He didn’t leave anyway, and Sora left with an idol which was a great move for everyone who made it — minus Brett. Here is a crucial reason as to why I believe I should win over Brett: the move made absolutely no strategic sense to do at that vote. Sora was loyal to Brett over pretty much everyone. Brett had just as much control as Sora did at that current point too. By voting Sora, he gave up an ally and an idol (which he’d already done with Ally!). Voting Sora out made absolutely NO sense for Brett, and sure enough, he found himself in the minority the next vote he was in. In my opinion, a huge strategic blunder like that shouldn’t be rewarded. I’m not saying he should never have voted out Sora, but voting Sora out at that point in time left him without any control and in the minority. Before this vote, he was in the driving position and like he even addressed in his speech — he had complete control. Yet he threw it away.
For the Ash vote, this was really the beginning of where I started to take ownership and actually gain control for the first time. The plan was Brett, but he used the Rishiri item he got, and so we were left with a choice of Ash, Hunter or Alexa. Everyone wanted Hunter, but I kept pushing for Ash and sure enough, she went. My reasoning was that I honestly thought me and Ash would never be able to work together and I knew she was coming after me, and for that reason I wanted her to go over Hunter. It made no sense for me to vote out Hunter, who I could theoretically see myself voting with if I had to in the future, over someone who I perceived to really strongly want me gone. Also, Ash: I’m sorry that I thought you did the GIF deletion! Alexa has told me it was her and she did it to drive us apart and it worked, although we did have more issues than that between us :P. Regardless though, I do owe you an apology for that.
Once Ash was gone, I set my sights on getting rid of Alexa, but everyone refused so I settled for Hunter. Hunter, I know you’re mad at me for not telling you that you were going, but I knew that you were voting me and so I saw no reason why I should have to tell you. Moreover, if I did tell you then I would’ve potentially gone had you played an idol, so I’m still not sure why you’re mad that I didn’t tell you when it made no sense for me to. Also at this TC, Brett voted me (which is important, and I’ll cover in 2 paragraphs time).
For the final 6, we had Chris and Claire, Jared and I, Brett and Alexa; pretty much 3 duos. The plan was to vote out Brett, but if Chris was kept in any longer then he would’ve won. This vote was really hard for me because Chris had protected me the whole game, including this very vote. However, he was by far the biggest threat to me physically, strategically and socially, and I genuinely believe that had he survived another round, he would’ve won. He could’ve easily won both the F5 and F4 immunities, and had Brett gone then I wouldn’t have had anyone to make the move with. Claire was loyal to Chris and Alexa had wanted me dead for ages. Moreover, Chris was planning on voting out Jared at F5 so I would’ve been fucked at F4. Therefore, Chris, I truly don’t understand why you’re so bitter against me! You said I was making the wrong strategic move, and yet that’s been proven to not be the case. If I had kept you in you 100% would’ve won the last 2 immunities, and I probably would have placed 4th… by being bitter, you’re basically telling me that you expected me to just let you win and let me place 4th? I’m sure I’ll hear more about it in your jury speech but I don’t see how you can be angry that I made the right move for my game and actually got myself a seat here. Regardless, I believe the biggest move of the entire game was made at this TC, and I believe that I made it by voting out Chris. Although Brett pitched the idea, it was my vote that truly was the deciding vote and the one that determined who was going.
Going onto when Alexa was eliminated, this was the closest I ever came to elimination. However, I’d been hyping up for days how much the jury disliked me and how I could never win, and I thought that it’d be the only way Brett would consider keeping me over Jared. Me and Jared also put plans into motion to make it seem like we were somewhat against each other — Jared told Brett that he would vote me out at Final 4 and I told Brett that I would vote Jared out whenever he wanted, as long as it kept me in the game (sorry Jared for not telling you that lol). I definitely judged it right, and had managed to turn around someone who, at Final 7, had stated that I would ‘definitely win at FTC’ to believe that I was hated (and I somewhat think I am disliked, but I don’t think the jury is actually that bitter because it’s full of All-Stars, and so it really shouldn’t be). Sure enough, Brett voted out someone that he could easily have beaten at the Final Immunity Challenge and in my opinion, he made the WRONG move here. It made no sense to keep a solid duo like me and Jared in, and it made no sense to keep an immunity threat such as myself in, but this Tribal proves that even without immunity, I could manoeuvre a way to keep myself in through speaking to the right people, making the right pitches and forming the right bonds.
Come Final 4, I won FIC and Claire left. The reason Claire left is because she was so good socially, and she is the antithesis of me. She’s calm, not very good at challenges, great socially, under-the-radar. I knew that I stood more chance probably, against someone who was more similar to me like Brett, because I truly believed Claire would’ve easily won this season had she been in FTC. I knew she was close to Ash, Chris was rooting for her, Alexa and her were very close, and she was close to Emile. Immediately there, she could have had 4 votes.
So yeah, that’s my game summarised. I'm also not playing I played a perfect game, it certainly had flaws. My main ones were my jury management and poor social bonds with many people, but I believe that I made up for that in other areas. Moreover, Brett's mistakes are much worse - he voted out people who were REALLY loyal to him, quite early on in the game, which made no sense. I may have made rude parchments, but I don't think that's comparable to poor strategic votes.
Why I Deserve To Win:
Okay so I’ve (lengthily) summarised my game, now onto the main points of why you should vote for me:
1) Target — I was a target from DAY 1, I know that expression is used a lot but it’s the truth in regards to me this game. Pretty much by Day 2, my whole tribe wanted me gone and then throughout the merge, I was consistently targeted. However, I managed to survive the WHOLE 39 days despite having this target. Unlike Brett, I wasn’t lucky enough to chill throughout the pre-merge, instead I was fighting right from the first episode and have continued to fight all the way to the end. Moreover, the reason I was fighting from the start wasn’t even my fault, it was due to a misconception about me and Jared. Sure, I also had help from immunities in keeping me here, but I survived without them too — there was a 3 TC long stretch in which I never had immunity and really should have gone, but I survived every time due to my strategic and social gameplay. I also fought HARD for those immunities, and don't believe they should be counted against me. I truly believe though, Brett had it easy in this game and never had to really fight for anything, whereas I had 2 season-long rivalries with people (which I did attempt to resolve), had many people dislike me and target me, and yet I still made it here.
2) Misconceptions — People think I relied solely on challenges and items this season, which Alexa told me about a week ago. It’s simply not the case: had Hizoku gone to TC then Jared would’ve left over me, meaning I could’ve afforded a loss. After that, I might have even been able to survive another, who knows. So the tribal immunity argument doesn’t make sense. As for at the merge, immunity helped me a lot but again, they weren’t needed. For the first merge tribal council, I was safe regardless of immunity. As for the tribal Sora left in, the votes weren’t there to get rid of me then either. For the Ash vote also, I wasn’t going if I lost. I then lost 3 challenges in a row and survived EVERY time, despite getting votes at 2 of them. And last TC when I won, even if I hadn’t and Brett had, I still would’ve been here. As for items, I used a vote steal (which I didn’t need to — I was safe regardless), and had an idol played on me (once again, was not needed). So I didn’t NEED the items that I gained. Therefore, the argument that I relied on immunities and items is unfounded. I may have won them, but I certainly didn’t NEED them, and my gameplay was much more than just immunities and idols.
I also don’t even see why immunity is considered a bad thing? I fought HARD for every immunity I earned and even if I would’ve gone had I lost (which isn’t even the case), immunities are a part of the game which you can factor into your gameplay. I don’t see why I should be penalised for being good at challenges, when every single person in the game WANTS immunity.
3) Strategic moves — For a lot of the game, I never really had any power (which makes it even more shocking that I made it this far). However, when I did, I managed to use it effectively and do moves which actually benefitted me. Voting out Ash, Chris and Alexa were all moves which benefitted me way more than anyone else, and they were my moves. Ash and Alexa both wanted me gone right from early on, and voting them out gave me more options going forward. As for Chris, he was by far the biggest threat left and I managed to judge it correctly that I would be safe even without his help.
4) Archetypes — Relating it back to the season, I feel like my game truly embodies every aspect of the season. Underdog: I’ve been an underdog ever since the first day; the likelihood of me making it was minimal. And yet I’ve fought the whole game and earned myself a spot here. I truly believe it was not in anyone’s plan really to see me get here, and yet I’m still standing here strong at Final Tribal. Rebel: I flipped at the swap on Uli/Matt, and once again at F6 on Chris, and those moves definitely contributed hugely to me being able to sit here. Leader: I’ve been a leader in regards to me and Jared the whole game, but since F6 I do feel like I led the game and decided who would be sitting here. I truly think I had the options at F6 to hold whichever F3 I chose, and I believe I chose the only one which gives me any shot of winning.
Thank you, and if you have any questions then please ask!
Holy shit, hi y’all, this is so surreal to me that I'm sitting here! First I want to say thanks to the hosts for putting on an amazing season and putting in a ton of hard work. Second, I want to say thank you to the entire cast, everyone was playing HARD and it was no easy feat to make it to where I am sitting right now.
I want to begin this speech by letting you all know that I completely half assed my rights of passage and inserted some false statements and for that I am sorry. I did this because I wanted to downplay my relationships and decrease my threat level thus making Claire seem like a larger social threat. That being said, if any of you would like me to create a proper statement about you, just let me know in your speech.
I don’t want to ramble in this speech so I will try and keep it as short as I can so that you don't have to read a treacherous essay, but no promises haha. Below I have broken my game down into three phases, pre-merge, merge, and the end game. And I will finish with a "why you should vote for me" segment.
PRE-MERGE:
This was probably the least exciting part of my game so I will gloss over a few things. My entire plan for this phase was to do what I do best, charm people and make them feel comfortable around me both as a friend, and as an ally. Last time I played, I was way too aggressive in the early part of the game and because of that I ended up with a huge target on my back for a majority of the game. This time I was able to correct that mistake. On Makeinu I was apart of the majority alliance and made subtle moves to gain trust. An example of this was at Molly’s vote off, I volunteered my name to give to Molly and by doing so, I hoped to create this perception that I was someone who was a team player and could be trusted.
Things changed at the first swap, I was able to meet up with Jamie and Jared who were on the bottom of Hizoku, I quickly bonded with them and together we formed a tight alliance with Ally. On those days I never once got comfortable, I was always actively trying to better my position. There were talks of an old school alliance and I realized that there were definitely going to be two competing factions at the merge, the Ash/Matt side and the Jamie/Jared side. I made sure I made a tight bond with Berk, because I knew he would end up on the Ash side and I would be able to use him to get me in with the Ash side if they took majority at merge.
Then came the second swap, which is when the game really kicked into high gear. I met one of my closest friends/alliance members Sora. I immediately I knew he was the perfect person for me to work with as he was strategic and someone I bonded with personally. The way the swaps worked out, he had been able to meet players that I hadn't had a chance to meet yet. I knew he had a ton of connections and a lot of information about the dynamics of the game and I wanted in on that. Together we formed a tight partnership. Some of you may knock me for easily being willed into voting out my close alliance member Ally, but that was the best strategic move for me. The moment Jared threw out Ally’s name to Hunter and Ash I knew she needed to go. I knew that Sora/Jamie/Jared and myself needed to be going into that merge tight as fuck and if I resisted the Ally vote it just would have caused cracks to form, giving Hunter and Alexa more wiggle room/power (as well if Ally survived she would have found out her name was thrown out and flipped on us). I wanted a tight group going into the merge and for everyone to see me as a somewhat trustworthy person they could work with, and I believe I accomplished that.
MERGE:
Come merge time I had a ton of options, for that first vote I was literally included in every single alliance chat but one, a testament to my social game. Sora and myself had an omniscient presence at that vote, and had complete control. This was around the time when I began to see how controlling Sora was becoming, so I just shut up and agreed with whatever he said. I did this so I could continue to gather more information from him while having a huge meat shield in front of me. I agreed to vote Charley that vote because we never had a relationship and as well it would weaken Hunter and Alexa.
Then came the second vote, it was clear that it was shaping up to be Chris vs Sora/Myself. I also began to notice that people seemed to be pairing Sora and myself together, which was not good for my game. This was probably one of the biggest moves I made in the game as I was the one who got the ball rolling on the eventual Sora blindside. I went to Alexa and I revealed what I saw was going on, she had seen this as well and her and I immediately bonded over this new found trust and realization. We talked to fellow people such as Hunter and Ash (both of who I assume were already aware) and us four formed the “brainless goats” alliance to take out the big threats. This alliance was crucial for me because I showed those three that I could be trusted with information and was not just Sora’s lackey. Together we almost blindsided Jamie, but Hunter had sent his vote in early so we stuck with voting Emile to weaken Chris and prove our loyalty to Sora.
The third vote was definitely a hard vote for me because Sora and I were super tight, but it had to be done he was blatantly running the game and everyone was too scared to make a move against him. Chris was obviously in need of allies and he knew what was up, the brainless goats didn’t need to manipulate him into voting Sora and together we pulled off the biggest blindside of the game. This move was a turning point in the game as a lot of people became free to talk game without the fear of it getting back to Sora. Suddenly Jamie/Jared/Claire were talking game to me again because I was no longer viewed as Soras bitch.
Luckily at the F8 I had my tribal council skipper and I took the opportunity to use it because who would really turn down a free safety pass? Yes I was leaving my alliance out to dry, but I definitely sensed that I could be a potential vote off because Jamie now knew I was after her. Sadly Ash suffered from me skipping.
END GAME:
Not going to lie my game almost completely fell apart after I used my tribal skip. I took a day or two off from the game and it completely fucked with my psyche, my head just wasn’t in the game and I wasn’t thinking strategically. I listened to Alexa about pitting Jamie and Chris against each other but had no facts to back it up and it was a mess. After that mistake (probably my only real mistake in the game) I got my head back in the game and began trying to strategize my way out of the bottom. Luckily I had decent bonds still with Jamie and Jared because I had told them the truth about what I had been doing and I believe they spared me over Hunter at this vote because I could still potentially be worked with.
Now it was the final 6 and this was where I made my second huge move. I did not feel comfortable at all, Claire was telling Alexa and myself how she wanted to make a move and take out Jamie. I did not trust Claire as she had already lied to me twice, and Chris was being shifty all day, I wasn’t going to let them decide my fate in this game. I took matters into my own hands and spilled the plan to Jamie and Jared (who both already knew because of Chris) and by doing so I proved my loyalty to them and flipped the game against Chris. This was a crucial point in my game as I was part of the reason for the second time that one of the biggest players in the game was voted out (Chris). During the revote phase Jamie almost flipped on me but I provided her with constant reassurance that we were solid with our F3 with Jared. It worked and I was able to place myself in the swing vote position at F5.
It was around this time I saw that Jamie and Jared were probably not really liked by much of the jury, I won’t necessarily call them goats because they were playing the game, but they were definitely people I felt like I could win against in the end because they had a lot of bad blood. I capitalized on my relationship with them and turned on Alexa/Claire. Voting out Alexa was super hard because we had a great strategic partnership going on, but I knew if I were to vote Jamie out I would be a big target at final four and would solely have to rely on immunity to get myself to F3 as Claire and Alexa would not have taken me to the end. As well, by voting Alexa out I removed a huge threat (Alexa had a great story if she made FTC) and placed someone who would go back to ponderosa and further taint the jury’s perception of Jamie/Jared. The final immunity challenge came and I lost like I suspected I would (I was busy with exam finals). Luckily I had planned for this situation and I had already painted this picture that Claire was going to be a huge jury threat because of her social game. As well I had a good enough relationship with Jamie and Jared that they decided to spare me and honor our final 3 deal; so that is how I ended up sitting here.
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE ME:
I'm not going to sit here and shit on Jared and Jamie's games, but I will say that I believe I played exponentially better than the both of them. You should vote for me because I played a cutthroat strategic game while creating genuine social bonds with each and every one of you. I rarely lied or played maliciously, everything I did was with strategic purpose. I came into this game with zero clue about what kind of pregame connections everyone had so I really had to gather information and bide my time before making #cierabigmovez. I feel like I was able to socialize with you all and make you feel comfortable around me, and because of that I was able to gather the wealth of information I needed to succeed. At one point or another I worked with all of you in this game, I always had my options open and was able to fluidly move from alliance to alliance without losing too much trust. I also voted correctly for the person who went home at every single tribal council I attended except for one, which is pretty impressive considering how much of a cluster fuck this merge was. I was never blindsided by any vote, I always had my finger on the pulse of this game. I was always thinking two steps ahead and figuring out where I fit within the dynamics of the tribe and positioning myself accordingly. If someone was a threat or didn't have the same interests as me, I smiled and agreed with them and immediately went and found other people who wanted to do the same things as me. I never was manipulated into making moves I didn't want to make; I was always somewhat in control of my own fate. I genuinely enjoyed playing with all of you and I hope you see that I really have played a great game and you honour that by writing my name down on your parchment.
So, first off I wanna say thank you to the hosts and all of the players for an amazing and intense season! I came into this game not knowing majority of the cast so I didn't have this set gameplay I was planning on doing but there was a few things I wanted to take in this game such as self-awareness and doing what's best for yourself independently. Awareness was my biggest and main strenth in this game because it helped me to get to this point where I am. I knew how people felt about me, what position I had in the tribe, and what moves I had to make at certain points to survive in the game.
On my original Hizoku tribe I didn't connect that well with most of them so right away I knew the first chance I got I had to flip on them which I did with the first tribe swap. I connected more with Ally and Brett than I did with Matt and Uli so thankfully I was quickly able to get into an alliance with them along with Jamie. On the next one that alliance stayed and added Sora but there was something I wasn't comfortable with as we were approaching merge and that was a target on my back. Mostly everyone already knew about Jamie and I being a duo along with Ally and I being close friends out of the game and I didn't want that so I started the ball to get Ally out to make that target smaller which was successful.
After that the merge came and something I strongly believe is that you don't always have to make big moves if you're not in trouble. I knew there was much bigger targets in my alliance than me so I wasn't gonna risk that and I laid back for the first vote. After that I got into a fight with Ash as both a strategic and personal move. It was personal in the sense that I wouldn't have just done it with anyone I did it with her because we didn't have the greatest history so it made sense but it was also strategic because I wanted people to know that they could use me and trust me to not backstab them while I still had "enemies" in the game. The next vote I gravitated more-so to the alliance of Chris, Claire, and Emile for obvious reasons. We were in minority with that vote but I knew I was safe still because Sora had already told me about his idol so I was using him and his idol as protection because he had promised to use it on me if I was ever in trouble. The Sora blindside was the only vote where I was truly blindsided but I was able to prove my loyalty to Chris by voting Hunter and he was key player at the time because he could've either stayed with the group he just voted with or vote with me and Jamie and he chose the latter option.
The next couple votes were "easy" because after the whole game so far I didn't trust the trio of Ash, Hunter, and Alexa and I was clearly against them. Meanwhile I knew Brett was someone I could work with long-term even though we weren't exactly on the same side. He backstabbed Sora because of him running the game and being a bigger player than him so I worked and used my "sheep" status as a way to make him trust me and make him think he could easily control me. During this time Alexa and I got into multiple fights and the obvious vote would have just been to vote her out but I knew Chris so far had been running the game and was a huge threat in the end. I brought the idea of getting Chris out up to Jamie and she was hesitant but my relationship with Brett worked out because he told me about the Jamie plan and also wanted Brett out so I knew this was the perfect chance to get the soon-to-be winner out of the game. I won immunity so right away I knew as long as I used the idol it would either flush out the other side's votes or prevent someone from my side at the time getting rocked out. After that I made sure Jamie voted Chris because I knew he clearly would've came after me while Brett would either stay loyal or get Jamie out at least before me. After Chris went Alexa came up to me with the idea to get Jamie out. On paper that would've looked good because for some reason I got this image put on me that I was her follower. But even tho it had some perks, it was too risky and wasn't worth it. I didn't feel safe being in final 4 with Alexa, Claire, and Brett and Alexa had a huge shot at winning the game, way bigger than Jamie so I went with the safe move and voted out Alexa. And since I'm on that topic, even though it could look that way from some perspectives I am not and never have been Jamie's sheep. At the start I didn't like Jamie from pre-game situations but I was pushed to work with her because we were both on the bottom, after that we were able to build a lot of trust with each other and a strong bond. We did become a duo and were an equal one. She was the person I was most loyal to but there was never a time where I would've ruined my game to help hers. A key example of this is around final 7 Brett told me he wanted Jamie out and I kept that a secret and with the Chris vote at the time it looked like getting Brett out would've helped her but I stopped that because I knew even though he might not have been loyal to her, he would've been loyal to me. And if there was ever a point where I needed to vote her off to save myself, I would've 100% but that time never actually came and I wasn't gonna do it if there wasn't a situation like that because she was someone I knew would 100% be loyal to me, she was always a bigger threat to me(almost like a shield) and it would've been a dumb move just to be "iconic." The last part of my history in the game was voting out Claire which was hard to do because I really liked her as a person but she played a great social game and with the slight chance that it was a final 2, both Jamie and Brett would have taken me because they were bigger threats to each other than I was to them.
I didn't play this spectacular 10/10 game this time because I wanted to be more honest and open this time. I wasn't completely honest because I did tell lies but I tried to only do it when I felt like it could affect the outcome or put me at risk. I also didn't want to try to be someone's best friend when I was planning on voting them out the same round and I spoke up more often than I did the first time. I did try to use this to my advantage because I wanted the people that I was with to know that I was with them 100% and that they could trust me. I always knew what position I was in the game and I used that to make the bonds I needed to make at different times and made sure I wasn't the biggest threat to anyone's games. Overall I think I deserve to win because I played in this game specifically for myself, I made big moves when I needed to, and I was self-aware enough to put myself in the right spots to get to the end. I would really appreciate it and loved it if you guys voted for me but we all have different opinions on what kind of game "deserves to win" so no hard feelings. Thanks!
Please welcome the jury, Charley, Emile, Sora, Ash, Hunter, Chris, Alexa and last voted off Claire.
Here's how final tribal council will work
Each finalist will make their own thread for their opening statement titled; "Vote For (player)".
In your opening statement, you will state why you think you deserve the virtual million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor.
Once all three finalists post their opening statements, we will hand things over to the jury. Each juror will make their own thread titles "(Juror's) Jury Speech". The jury can ask a questions, make a statement or do both.
The Q&A between jurors and finalists will last until Tuesday, December 13th. After that the jurors may cast their votes for a winner. The deadline to vote is Wednesday, December 14th.
We ask that jurors only comment on their own threads and not the other jurors.
21st person voted out of Survivor: Archetypes and the eighth and final member of the jury...
Claire.
Claire, the tribe has spoken.
Congratulations on reaching the Final 3. Brett, Jamie, Jared, you have outlasted 21 other all-stars, but now the game rests in the hands of the people you each had a hand in voting out. Grab your things and head back to camp. Goodnight.
Let's just take this all in... This is the last time I'll ever post a challenge for you all!
This challenge will be Trials. For each trial in this Immunity Challenge, there will be a certain number of points awarded to the top two finishers.
Your goal is to receive the most points in this challenge.
Trial 1: Endurance
In the Hand on a Hard Idol thread, you will all post every hour, "I keep my hand on the hard idol." This will start in the next 24 hours. Once the 24 hours have started, you can start whenever you want and end whenever you want.
5 points for 1st place, 3 points for 2nd place.
Trial 2: Mental
Complete this jigsaw puzzle in the fastest amount of time possible.
Complete this flash game with the highest score possible. http://www.kongregate.com/games/jayisgames/lock-n-roll You can also play on mobile app, but it must be "Lock 'n' Roll" and not "Lock 'n' Roll Pro", "Lock 'n' Roll Deluxe" or any other kind of version. If you don't use "Lock 'n' Roll" when playing, you will be disqualified from this trial.
6 points for 1st place, 4 points for 2nd place.
Trial 4: Memory
When you are ready to complete a 12 question quiz based off Survivor: Archetypes trivia, please notify your confessional chat. You will be scored on time. If you get a question incorrect, you will not be allowed to move onto the next question until you get it correct.
If you tell anyone the questions, you WILL be removed from the game.
4 points for 1st place, 2 point for 2nd place.
You have 48 hours (until 8:00 PM EST on December 8th) to complete the Final Immunity Challenge, and send all screenshots with the date/time visible and the name in the HTTP bar.
For some reason it wouldn't let me reply to the other post so here is it is
Ben: You seemed nice but timezones weren't really in your favour so we never got to have a proper chat
Mihai: N/A
Christine: N/A
Brittany: N/A
Molly: You were so fun to talk to, we bonded over alcohol which was lit, but sadly you were outside of the core alliance so yeah
Alietta: My fellow Svalbardian, still so sad you went premerge and we never were able to meet up and do some damage
Emma: Bob's burgers bitch, you were so robbed and I would have loved to have continued working with you had the swap not separated us
Miguel: N/A
Uli: You were fun but we ended up on opposite sides and that's a shame
Alex: N/A
Jessy: N/A
Matt Berk: We connected personally but you were a little too paranoid and all over the map strategically, was sad to see you go premerge and I could have seen us working together
Ally: You were one of my favourite people to talk to in this game but strategically it wasn't in my best interest to keep you that round and I'm sorry
Charley: we never really got to speak much or work together for that matter so I don't really know much about you, but you survived a ton of premerge tribals so good on you
Emile: We had fun together premerge on makeinu but post merge we had different interests, I still have kaiji bookmarked on my laptop and will watch it soon lol
Sora: I know you're probably pissed at me and for good reason, we had a genuine connection and I threw that all away. You were running the show for too long and I had to take matters into my own hands
Ash: You had some really harsh words for me on your way out but you can't be bitter at me for skipping tribal council :/ we didn't get to work together as long as I had hoped but yeah I had fun talking with you
Hunter (The Koch): Sopping wet ham
Chris: We never clicked personally but we both were able to work together strategically for a few votes which I am proud of, you were one of the biggest threats in the game and had to go when you did
Alexa: You were such a fighter, I always had your back and enjoyed working with you when we did, sorry it had to end that way and I hope you aren't actually mad at me #brexa
Congratulations to you four! You have done what 20 others could not do. Today you will honor their memory, as you walk the Rites of Passage.
You will go down the path to closing of your journey in this game. Collect each torch as you go, and pause to reflect on that person and how they impacted your journey. Once you collect the final torch, you will set the torches ablaze, in a final act of honor.
One you have all posted your ROP, we will move on to the next part of this game. Take this time to pay tribute, take in your surroundings, enjoy the moment. Head on out. You’ve got a busy day.
Ben.
Mihai.
Christine.
Brittany.
Molly.
Alietta.
Emma.
Miguel.
Uli.
Alex.
Jessy.
Matt.
Ally.
Charley.
Emile.
Sora.
Ash.
Hunter.
Chris.
Alexa.
Brett, Claire, Jamie and Jared, you must reply to this thread with your rites of passage. You have 24 hours to post, making the deadline 11:00 PM EST tomorrow, December 6th. Please notify your confessional chat once you have posted.
(Edited by JessyPop)
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