Sorry for this being all late, I wanted to sit down and dedicate a lot more time and effort into this but life is in the way right now....


Congrats to all three of you for making it to this point, it’s a huge accomplishment and I wish it were me sitting there instead. Good luck and let the best player win the game.

Erik-- You and I have talked and were more or less on the same side from the beginning. I honestly thought you were a weak player and I thought I could predict and slightly control your moves. This prolly sounds extremely arrogant and maybe it is but that’s how I perceived you. BTW I don’t think I ever told you but when you posted that public confessional I told you I didn’t read it and just wanted to help you out. In reality that was all strategy. I knew it would build some trust with you and having it screen shot, I knew I could use it if needed at any point.

So my question to you is, did that make you actually trust me? If so, did that factor into working with me and Zmanda for the Steven and Kim vote?

Kmanda – We really didn’t socialize with each other one on one in this game, both of us being at fault. Even in the 5-person alliance we had I really never trusted or believed you trusted me. Personally I don’t think you deserve to win right now, but I’m looking forward to reading all your responses and proving me wrong. I feel like you played a better game then I see from my point of view.

I want to ask more about the round I was voted out. You seem to take credit for that move. I applaud you on that, I even stated in my confessional that it would be a good move to blindside me that round. I wish I had listened to myself but I really didn’t know it was happening.
What exactly did you do to pull that plan together?
Were you nervous at all about approaching Jeremiah and or Zmanda with that plan? Did they agree right away or did it take some convincing?



Jerri- We had a lot of ups and downs from the Dick HOH round all the way til my vote out. We definitely started as enemies. I wanted you out so badly, the fact that you tried to get me out of the game made me want you gone at any cost. However they way things fell we ended up needing each other and began working together. Even to a point where I was considering for a minute of actually taking that F3 you came to Zmanda with seriously.

My question to you is, if I caught wind of my blindside and approached you to play your idol for me would you have done it? Please elaborate on it either way on why you would or would not have.

Last comment to you Jerri, I am extremely upset you brought kmanda and not heather here :-(. I think it was a move that could cost you the win. I was looking forward to seeing heather fight and prove she wasn't the goat most people saw her as.

Hey Sierra!

It is true we didn't really talk to each other much at all. Usually in games that ends up being my biggest regret (and I gues especially now if I made it to the end) so it is too had it happened that way. When the initial alliance was formed I did have a hard time just immediately trusting you, only because we didn't really have much of a prior relationship. Being lied to about the Mike pretty much just confirmed the whole "not trusting" thing and that was when I I decided to do something about it.

So to pull the plan together, I essentially just went to people who I thought I could trust and would get a majority. Eric had mentioned the possibility of getting you or Zamanda out for like the entire game so I knew he would have no issue with it. I was sure that I could go to Kim given how close we are and that she was also lied to about the Mike vote. Weirdly enough I wasn't too worried about going forward to Jeremiah about the idea. I was pretty close to Jeremiah up until this point, trying to fill him in on what was going on the last round with him being a target, he was filling me in about Mike becoming the new target. I knew Jeremiah was all about taking threats out, and I didn't think he would have any particular issue with voting for you, even though you saved him the last round. I would be lying if I said I remembered everything exactly the way it happened the round involving your boot, but I didn't THINK it required a lot of convincing. I mean I didn't just go up to him and say "Hey let's vote out Sierra this round because she lied to me." I did explain how you were in good with Heather and Jerri and then in good with us, how you seemed to be able to change a vote in a matter of minutes. Then Jeremiah had brought up how Heather told him something about how she never told him he was being brainwashed, something we talked about in the group chat (and was ironic because Jeremiah literally showed us the chat log of Heather saying she thought he was before the potion round). So essentially there was a leak in the group chat and he was pretty sure that was you. 

So that was 4/9 people. After being blindsided the round before getting Erik to vote for you also wasn't too too hard, he seemed to just want to go along with anything that involved him making it further. So that was majority. However, Kim was the one who brought up telling Zamanda so she wasn't going to get blindsided. I can't speak too much on this only because I didn't do the talking/convincing myself, but I was definately initially worried about Zamanda finding out about the plan. Had she told you then everything would have gone wrong and you probably would have somehow been able to save yourself (presumably with Jerri's idol?) and take out someone who was trying to get you out. However Zamanda did agree to the plan I BELIEVE because of the combination of you mentioning at one point that you didn't trust me and/or Kim and Zamanda didn't want us to be voted out, and also because of the fact you were possibly leaking stuff from our group chat to Heather (I'm sure Zamanda can clarify but sorry if I'm wrong with some of the details). I trusted Kim who trusted Zamanda, so it luckily all ended up working out.

Obviously I didn't do all of this myself, a lot of people had to be involved to make this work. I was just the one who got the ball rolling and started to get people together to vote you out. 

Hopefully reading some of the FTC can change your mind a bit about me being a deserving winner, but I do understand it'd be hard to vote for me, especially considering out lack of much social interaction. GL with your final decision and hopefully I had a satisfying answer and MAYBE am having you reconsider your perception of my game.

I was extremely loyal to that five person alliance. I was really wanting to go to the end with that 5 and then have us just battle it out in the end. Kim and Kamanda were shown chat logs of Heather telling Jeremiah things that were said in the chat. The only logical suspect was you Sierra because none of us really had relationship with Heather.

I felt like it was a backstab to the group, and Kim was becoming my number 1/2 ally in a tie with Sierra really. I felt like Sierra was going to pull another Brenda vote on me (from epic 2) and take out my main ally Kim. Since there was a leak we believed that Sierra was going to tell Heather the plan of us at first splitting the vote, that way jerri could use her idol and they could finally get Kim out, because they would have the votes in the split that we were considering. Sierra had been mentioning turning on Kim to me privately so I knew she could have been up to something behind my back.

Talking through these scenarios with Kim is what ultimately made me make up my mind, I felt betrayed by the leak and I was loyal to the 5 to a fault and anyone who wasn't going to stick to it became the enemy.

Heather, wherever you are come out from your cave and put this rumor to rest please k thx.

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Erik-- You and I have talked and were more or less on the same side from the beginning. I honestly thought you were a weak player and I thought I could predict and slightly control your moves. This prolly sounds extremely arrogant and maybe it is but that’s how I perceived you. BTW I don’t think I ever told you but when you posted that public confessional I told you I didn’t read it and just wanted to help you out. In reality that was all strategy. I knew it would build some trust with you and having it screen shot, I knew I could use it if needed at any point.

No, that's probably correct, but towards the later part of the game, you could see that my move-controlling wasn't as on a leash as you thought it was, with both the Mike boot and your own boot. And I had a hunch that you might have read it or something, but I didn't have any knowledge of what kind of player you were. But the bottom line is that you could have let it slide and watched someone that you didn't know crash and burn, but you decided to help me out (in my eyes), and that was good enough for me.

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So my question to you is, did that make you actually trust me? If so, did that factor into working with me and Zmanda for the Steven and Kim vote?

Yes, it did make me trust you a lot. For some reason, I never took into account that you could have made a screenshot of it, and there was no way that you had enough time to read it, so I was in good shape. It did play a part in getting to trust you more and it did play a hand in the next round with voting off Stephen/Kim, but I was going to try that move anyways, regardless if you were on the tribe or not. Had you been replaced by anyone outside of the Twisted alliance, I was going to go for it, unless that person wasn't around enough to talk strategy. Had you been replaced by Fabio or Eric or someone like that, I obviously would have stuck with the Twisted gang, but since I had a decent relationship with you already, along with Dolly and Zmanda, I figured I would go for it. To simply answer your question, I did trust you more after that, but I was going to go for that kind of move anyways if I could help it.

I wouldn't have played the idol on you in all honestly if I knew. That idol was my ace in the hole I needed to save it, and I think I put it to good use! As things turned out with my making the deal with Kamanda for Kim to go next, I think I made the right call.


And yea I know it seems everyone disapproves it? I thought it'd actuslly be respected or at the very least "that was awesome you stayed loyal, I'm still gonna vote Kamanda though". Instead it's been like how could you actually stay loyal to a competitor who could beat you in the end, what kind of terrible person are you!? It's been a depressing FTC but a great learning experience. I knew there was a definite chance she would win, I just didn't expect so much feces thrown on me for it. I'm not even really sad about losing the game but just the lack of respect and recognition from the jury when I've been trying my butt off, that saddens me.

I thought I orchestrated the Sierra vote so this is all news to me lolz

Kim Powers @ 29/8/2015 17:34

I thought I orchestrated the Sierra vote so this is all news to me lolz

I mean, I went and asked Jeremiah, Eric, and I think it was Eric who had initially talked to Erik about it before I was able to talk to you at length about voting Sierra. I was fairly confident you were going to be ok with it either way, but I am PRETTY sure I was the one who initially brought it up in conversation with a lot of the people involved, so that's why I was saying how I essentially started to get the ball rolling with the whole thing. I tried to look back into my confessional to double check (obviously it's my own confessional so take that as you will) and it was me saying how we were on the same page about everything so when I brought up the possibility of voting Sirrra you of course agreed and then went on to talk about how and stuff.

Added point (I guess?), Eric was fairly close to voting Zamanda that round instead of Sierra, which would have resulted in Zamanda going instead. I then talked to him for a while and he ended up changing his mind back, to keep the plan in place.

By no means am I saying this was all me, you were obviously the one who wanted to talk to Zamanda about the whole thing and you did which ended up being extremely important for keeping trust and everything. I was certainly the most involved though out of all the finalists.

I just want to say that I came up with the idea of Kmanda, Jeremiah, Erik, Kim, and I working together from F9 onwards about an hour after Mike was voted out. I was annoyed about all of us gunning for each other while the other four just kinda got through. I knew from Kamnda that Sierra and Zmanda were getting sick of Jerri and Heather and Jerri and Heather had come to me about voting out Zmanda the previous round so I thought while those two sides were gunning for each other, the five of us could start by picking off one from each side. I knew when it came time for Zmanda to go, Kim would be unwilling which is why I wanted Sierra gone first. Then Heather and Jerri would go and we would have numbers at 6 to just take out Zmanda without Kim. That's how the Sierra plan was initiated. I then made sure Kmanda knew (and she helped develop the plan a bit) and then she made sure Kim and Jeremih were on board. I got Erik. The idea was initially mine with Kmanda and Kim (to a degree) doing most of the leg work. I didn't do a lot of it because those two had better relationships and I felt like people might not listen to me (including Kim which is why I didn't talk to you as much about it). The plan almost worked had it not been for Jerri winning HoH next round and both Jerri and Zmanda having idols. Oh well. But I did just want to clarify this.

well tbh I'm pretty sure that *I* was the one who orchestrated the sierra boot.

lmfao jk

I can corroborate though that Kmanda was like the first person to actually mention it to me. :x