Hey fellas. It has been a while, yet it also hasn't!

First of all, congrats to you three. Monica, as a fellow riser from the dead, I cant help but respect and applaud your ability to reenter the game, cause havoc, and still stick around with challenge wins. I think you're the real challenge beast of this season. Mookie, while we've had our differences all game, I must respect and congratulate your ability to make it to the end and play with your allies and your morals; something I tried to consider you to throw out the window. Clearly, if you had listened to me, you wouldn't be here. Finally, Rodney, another congratulations to you for sticking it out to the end and, in my opinion, dictating the actions of this merge and possibly even the premerge of your tribe.

Mookie and Rodney, not only did you two make it to the end, but you also got far with your initial alliance and your loyalties in tact. Meanwhile, Monica, you took no shit and you re-entered this game with your dignity at heart.

It was frustrating to play with two of you finalists while in the game, but that's just because I wasn't a part of your plans. I can respect that. I have questions for all of you. Some of you are more likely to win than others at getting my vote, but my vote is still up for grabs!

Mookie:

Mookie, playing with you this game was the most frustrating out of all three of you. I don't intend for that to be harsh, just true. Mookie, not only did you lie about my loyalties to other people and you lied to me premerge with what your goals were in this game... YOU ALSO HAD AN IDOL!!! Or well... Brice had an idol. I felt a bit cheated by you and Lue/Brice. I not only felt in the right when it came to you being scummy, lieing, indecisive, and shifty... but you got away with it. It's survivor, it's not always fair, but I just felt cheated! Then, you entered the merge, as did I.

I must say, you did continue to talk to me as opposed to some people (BRICE AHEM!) before I left, and I respect that. However, at the merge, you became the butt of the jokes for your alliance. Am I not wrong? Villainous, backstabby, etc. etc.. Remember all those awards that you won? REMEMBER? You were self aware at least, but your alliance probably loved you winning all those awards. It was easy to make you the scapegoat after that.

After that, well, I didn't last long after that and I dont know as much about what happened in the game after that. One thing that bugged me though... was the day I left. I pitched my case to you, and tried to save my game.

I'm not sure if you remember, but when I was campaigning for my safety, you did something that lost a lot of my respect as a juror. You made my plea to you personal. I was trying to save myself by stating what I thought: I thought you weren't going to win with the way you were playing. I also thought you were the least well-connected out of your alliance. When I brought up these cases in my plea, you took it pretty personally. You said snarky, passive aggressive comments such as "Oh then I guess I'm stupid", things similar to that. Yet... I can't help but think I'm right, and I can't help but think you did lose the game because you were a little too loyal to the people that you would've never beaten in the end. You couldn't handle hearing the truth. You took it pretty poorly, and you got snarky and passive aggressive as I left that round. It was hard to deal with.

I'm going to end with the nice things about you. You clearly mean well. I dont think you necessarily deserved those nasty awards, and you definitely weren't the villain this season. I also believe it was hard to shake off those awards, and you did it very well. You had a hard road to get this far, and I would feel bad for you if it was all for nothing.

My questions to you are...

1) In hindsight, how would you have handled both of my boots differently?

2) Can you give a few examples of how you were working the jury for jury votes?

3) Premerge, what are the things you did wrong in the round of JT's boot? How SHOULD you have handled that week?

Monica:

My queen of the dead, I felt like we had a great relationship while in the game. I FEVERISHLY feel that Colton made quite a few mistakes in this game with his idol, and one of them was not using it on you. I think that you weren't to blame for your own boot, and instead, you had some allies who couldn't stand up to the obvious.

However, that doesn't get rid of the negatives from your game. When you reentered, you weren't very political. You focused on challenge wins, and blasting the alliance still in the game for being a cult. While I want you to win, I'm not entirely sold that you deserve the win strategically. You accomplished something Rodney and Mookie didn't though: You have a good relationship with a large amount of this jury.

It's tough, I want you to win. As someone who struggled with re-entering the game, I think you KILLED your opportunity to relive and re-thrive. Was it enough though? I want you to sell me on it. I want you to tell me "No Lembo, I deserve to win strategically, and here's why". Here are your questions.

1) I, just like you, re-entered the game after losing. Please tell me your mindset when you re-entered the game. What was your strategy, your internal dilemmas, and your issues with the players still left in the game?

2) Give me one or two names that you wanted out of this merge when you re-entered the game, and tell me why you wanted them out.

3) I'm sorry if you answered this already, but please give me your proudest achievement when you re-entered the game that ISN'T a challenge win.

4) Sell to me that you deserve to win strategically.

Rodney:

My dearest Rodney, strategizing with you is like the sickest survivor version of stockholm syndrome, and I mean that in the nicest way.

"Hey Rodney! I want to make a move with you"

"Me too, let's put it on hold while we get rid of the lifeless Sherri"

"Hey rodney, I want to turn on Lue witchu"

"Me too, but is Colton interested?"

"Hey Rodney, we have the votes to turn on Lue or Brice"

"Yes but your leaving this round, sorry"

^^the abbridged version of Rodney and Lembo - the love story that never was.

I recognize that it wasn't the best for your game to turn on your alliance with me... however, keeping me hanging is something that doesn't exactly encourage me to root for you. Strategically, it made sense, but socially, I think you almost lost a jury vote. If you had told me "I'm sorry Lembo, but I have my six and I really dont want to make a move with you. I dont think it would help me", I would respect you more.

You never lied to me, but saying you were truthful with me would also be a lie, so what were you to me then?

I like to relate you to a mirage. You were a fake source of hope that just constantly got more hazy and diminished the closer I got. Finally, the vultures got me, and you ran away with the finale and maybe the win.

Saying you never lied to me, like you did in an answer (I forgot whose) is a HUGE technicality that makes me respect you quite a bit less. You led me on, and I think that is borderline just as bad as a lie. In fact, I believe many would consider you leading me on to be flat out a lie as well.

Now we're going to U-tern back to the stockholm syndrome bit, because after all this SHIT, I am still considering to vote for you. I simply think that you owned this merge, and that strategically, you deserve to win. However, I'm having some issues with you deserving MY vote specifically. I think your a good guy, smart, and social. However, do you deserve my vote? A vote that could decide your victory in this game? You dont need to sell me on your strategic or social game, I dont have issues with it. I need you to sell to me that you deserve my vote over Monica or Mookie.

1) I would like to know your mindset when you were dealing with me in this game. Were you simply harboring my opinion and making sure that I didn't run off to maybe other members of your alliance? What was your ambition with me when we spoke strategically.

2) Were you always loyal to your alliance, or was your loyalty ever wavering.

3) In a social game like survivor, I want you to tell me why leading me on is a good move. Please focus on a social game standpoint when answering this.

Everyone:

Almost done! I want you all to answer these.

1) I want to hear your FTC strategy with every juror. Tell me how you approached each one. Also tell me, if you were to win, whose votes would you get and why.

2) I want you each to tell me about how your strategy would change depending on the potential people who could've came back from the dead. List each contestant who could've returned from the dead (at the round Monica returned) and explain how they could've changed the game for you. So for example, explain how Sherri returning would've changed your game, then JT, until you get all the way down to Ami.

3) Finally, tell me your favorite memory about each jury member.

K GOODLUCK!!!

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Not only did you lie about my loyalties to other people and you lied to me premerge with what your goals were in this game

This one baffles me. The only person who I assumed (and communicated) that you were loyal with was JT. Was I wrong? Unless you're talking about the now infamous idol play which I'll address further down.

As for the lying about my goals premerge, I stand by that. I had a solid alliance that you were unfortunately not part of. Divulging all of that info would have been stupid of me.

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However, at the merge, you became the butt of the jokes for your alliance. Am I not wrong?

100% correct. Someone (Can't imagine who) drug me through the mud for not working with them. I'm not going to try to defend the shadiness as I believe it's part of the game. Never reveal your full hand. You said you held 0 ill will towards me and wanted to work with me, while here you are revealing that was a lie. Again, I will DEFEND that lie, as the only chance you had of me flipping to work with you was by you saying that.

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I'm not sure if you remember...

Trust me, I remember. You DID plea to me with what you thought. I get that. But what you thought was off base. It wasn't factual. The points you brought up were "There are 3 groups of 3, and Mookie isn't in any of them". That discussion with you were one of only 2 times that I actually lost my cool. From my end, it felt like you were implying that I WAS a fool for sticking to my loyalty, but at the same time you chastise me for NOT being loyal, and call me a snake.

Anyway, to the questions

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1) In hindsight, how would you have handled both of my boots differently?

If I remember right, we didn't really talk game at all on your first boot. This was pretty fresh after the merge, and we weren't exactly chatty with each other.

The second time you were booted out, I definitely should have taken a breath and not taken anything personally. But on the flip side, I didn't lead you. I listened to you plea, considered it, and flat out told you that it wasn't happening.

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2) Can you give a few examples of how you were working the jury for jury votes?

At no point did I (Intentionally) stop talking to people just because they were getting voted out. I had long, meaningful conversations with most of the people on the jury. I didn't cut those off just because they were going and they knew it.

I also never led anyone on (again, barring the JT boot. see below) when they were being voted out. I was more often than not straight up and sincere.

I treated everyone with respect when I was treated with respect.

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3) Premerge, what are the things you did wrong in the round of JT's boot? How SHOULD you have handled that week?

This was my "Keep your stupid mouth shut when everything is locked in" lesson. We had a solid 5 votes to 2 against JT. I thought it would be a good idea to lead you and JT on to avoid an idol play and say that we could take out Colton/Amber, when I had 0 intention on doing that. That almost got me booted right there. I think the idea of "faux working with you" made sense from an idol flushing standpoint, but I either should have A) Discussed with Colton/Amber what I was doing, or B) used Lue or Brice as the faux target.

Lesson learneded.

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1) I want to hear your FTC strategy with every juror. Tell me how you approached each one. Also tell me, if you were to win, whose votes would you get and why.

Sherri - Appeal to her sense of humour. If that works, I like the idea that I'd have her vote. (Favorite memory is that first day she got here and sent me epic novels. I'm about 99% sure she wore out my phones vibrate function with all those broken sentences)

JT - I think he respects solid gameplay, so I've been trying to explain my UTR strategy. I doubt I've got his vote though until I see his question. (Favorite memory is bonding over being the only two people in the game who knew what the CFL was. Also watching football games and keeping an eye out for him.)

Lembo - Again, just try to explain my gameplay and reasonings to you. I think I've done an okay job, but I imagine you're leaning more towards Monica with your vote. (Favorite memory is sharing R&M images at innapropriate times)

Colton - I'm again appealing to his sense of humour which is similar to mine. That mixed with gameplay will hopefully get me his vote. Gotta see a question first though (Favorite memory is you telling me that "Gears of War was your favorite first person shooter")

Ami - I thought we had a good thing going premerge, but apparently that was one-sided. Nothing I can really do besides attempt to hype my game to you. But I feel like I have a VERY low chance at this one (Favorite memory is when you revealed that I'm nosy and annoying like 2 days ago)

Mama C - Make. Her. Laugh. That's really all we did all game was fuck around. No reason to stop now. I feel like I got at least a chuckle or two out of her on my answer to her question, so I like my odds.

Amber - She wanted me to pitch my game, and I did. Also, if she votes for me, I'll never try to trick you into eating curds again. (Favorite memory is having a very hungover conversation while she chastises my poor life decisions. Only for me to tell her that I'm going out drinking the next night as well. I could almost FEEL the dissapointment)

Lue - I need to show how my strategy was better than Rod's. I don't want to resort to trashing his game, so I'm going to try to show mine in the best light. (Favorite memory is HANDS DOWN the Pocket Pussy story, and the fallout from it. That will never not be funny)

Vytas - Vytas straight up told me what I need to do to get his vote, and I'm trying my damndest to pry his vote away from Rodney. We played a similar game, but I did it better. Will it be enough? My Magic 8 ball says "ask again later" (Favorite memory is giving you underwear suggestions, and then blowing your mind. I think that alone is worth the vote)

Brice - Very similar to Lue, I need to show how my game is better than Rods. (I only have 43,000 characters left, and that's not enough to type out all the amazing memories I have playing with Brice. So I'll just say the season long game of trying to one-up each other in terms of terribleness was a highlight)

ALL DONE!

Mookie @ 5/11/2015 11:14

I'm not sure if you remember... Trust me, I remember. You DID plea to me with what you thought. I get that. But what you thought was off base. It wasn't factual. The points you brought up were "There are 3 groups of 3, and Mookie isn't in any of them". That discussion with you were one of only 2 times that I actually lost my cool. From my end, it felt like you were implying that I WAS a fool for sticking to my loyalty, but at the same time you chastise me for NOT being loyal, and call me a snake. Anyway, to the questions

I'm sorry, I respect your ability to stay loyal in this game. I respect that you chose to stay loyal to your friends. However, and this was my main point (not the 3 and 3 stuff), it would lead to your loss.

And I believe it is leading to your loss. I dont believe I was wrong.

Mookie @ 5/11/2015 11:14

1) In hindsight, how would you have handled both of my boots differently? If I remember right, we didn't really talk game at all on your first boot. This was pretty fresh after the merge, and we weren't exactly chatty with each other. The second time you were booted out, I definitely should have taken a breath and not taken anything personally. But on the flip side, I didn't lead you. I listened to you plea, considered it, and flat out told you that it wasn't happening.

You dont remember right, my first boot was before the merge.

Otherwise, good answer! :D

looking forward to Rodney and Monica's answer.

Sorry ive beeb awat for the night will get unto it

1) I would like to know your mindset when you were dealing with me in this game. Were you simply harboring my opinion and making sure that I didn't run off to maybe other members of your alliance? What was your ambition with me when we spoke strategically.


  My ambition with you strategically was to keep you as an option for myself. Did I know playing the game that way would potentially alienate you from me? Yes, but I really felt it was my best option.  I have always felt in order to make a big move with people in a game you need to have a relationship with them. The reason I talked to you was because I needed to build a relationship so if the time came and we could make a move there was trust already built and we both would feel good about it. Few things are more annoying than someone never talking to you in a game and then all of the sudden coming up and saying let’s make a move.    In order to make a strategic decision with someone I feel like you need a social relationship. That social capital is how moves get made.
 
However, the window on making my move was very small. It’s hard to take down an established group, especially an established group I was a part of. I felt like in my group the only person who could beat me was Brice.  In order to turn on your alliance like that I feel like you have one shot to do it. The second I do it I’m a traitor and all the bullets are coming at me. If I do it too early they will never vote for me because they will feel scorned if I do it at the exact moment and can justify it as the reason I won the game I can potentially win them back. It’s the biggest move in the game and I made it when I felt I needed to.  If I flip when you guys needed me too I feel like I lose 3 jury votes and still potentially can’t win against you guys who not only flipped me, but played a cleaner game than me. I also couldn’t tell you exactly when I wanted going to make the move. If I do that you can blow it out and then my relationship with the Pussy Patrol is in question and they can easily make a move on me and you could go along with it.

Either way I’m not in the best position and have to let you or the Pussy Patrol down. However, I wanted to play the best strategic game I could and keeping you as much of an option as I could kept the target off me and gave me the bullets in my gun if/when I needed to take a shot. I feel like given my situation as a perceived swing I'm damned if I do and damned if i don't. I don't talk to you and don't swing I risk myself being turned into a goat. I do swing and I spurn allies. If I was you I would probably be annoyed with my strategy. I will be the first to admit that, but I'm not sure what I could have done without risking myself being targeted. I wanted as few people saying my name as an option to vote as possible.

2) Were you always loyal to your alliance, or was your loyalty ever wavering.

My loyalty was really only to myself at the end of the day. I really did have two end game alliances. One with Mama C and Vytas and one with the Pussay Patrol. You can’t be loyal to everyone in the game.  If you consider being loyal 6 to be my alliance then I was loyal to them, however in order to make the move I wanted to make I needed someone from outside to rip it out from within. I picked off Mama C from one alliance, then Lue from the other in back to back rounds.  This was right around the time I knew I needed to betray people.  If a move would have benefited me strategically I would have done it. I had my hands in both pots and I was picking and choosing what was best for me. Both Lue and Mama C were with me, but at the time it was the best move for my game. Lue never made a F3 with me and Mama C became less and less reliable. Plus, I feel like C would have cut me if it was best for her game. Which, I cant blame her,  I was playing the same game.

I had no intentions to go to the end with you, Amber, Colton. I think you would have clobbered me at the end. Thats why I made sure to not make any set promises with you guys. Hence your summary of our conversations. That was incredibly spot on. I only wanted to work with you for one or two rounds to get me further.  After my deal at 8/7 wasn’t going to be the best move my next goal was to get to a F4 with Mookie, Brice, Myself, and Vytas. Monica messed that up by winning, but I knew if I could get to that 4 nobody would have voted me out and I would have a shot to argue my case.

If at any time anyone in either of those alliances would have targeted me I would have voted them out no questions asked. The fact that everyone was so loyal to me helped me in the have all the control in the world in the game, but hurt me here in the jury stage. I did a great job of building trust, I just never expected everyone to keep their word with me.  One person takes a shot at me the game is completely different, we make a move together and I don’t think everyone is as upset with me as they are. It is what it is though; I kept my relationships up for control and options. They didn’t pan out and now I have to face the consequences of trying to keep so much control. I guess them the breaks.

3) In a social game like survivor, I want you to tell me why leading me on is a good move. Please focus on a social game standpoint when answering this.


Survivor is all about building relationships. Everyone wants to feel good about the person they vote for to win. Some people are ok with you backstabbing them and others are not. In my opinion the people who are ok with you backstabbing them and screwing them over usually like you as a person and feel they established a bond with you. They don’t like your actions, but they like you. I felt like if we enjoyed each other on a personal level it would give me a fighting chance to get your vote at the end even if you didn’t like all my strategic actions. IMO if its close on gameplay, people vote for the person they like the most or who has made them laugh. That was the “survivor” related social reason in talking with you.
 
On another level it was for purely personal selfish reasons. The majority of the conversations I had in this game were non strategy related. There is an art to trying not to talk strategy, but if you have any sort of relationship with people it has to come up. It’s natural.  I’m genuinely interested in people, especially people who share a common interest with me. I come into these games expecting not to win, because let’s face it’s a long shot and you have to get kind of lucky. So I try to have as much fun and hopefully make a few friends.  I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s a rare occasion I don’t like something about someone who spends 40 days and nights on their computer playing online survivor. These are usually my people. Some of my best ORG friends are people I didn't vote with in the games I met them.



Sherri

Sherri was down for a good time and wanted to play hard. My strategy with Sherri is to be funny and show her I’ve played the best game. (Favorite memory is still when she told me watched Human Centipede with her Mom and recommended  this movie called “Teeth.” I’m still trying to get the Virus’s off my computer from just googling it) I’d say I have a 50/50 chance at getting her vote. I think it’s between me and Monica.)

JT

Show him my gameplay and be fun! I’ve had a great time playing this game and I hope it shows in my answer. He and I really didn’t interact much, so I wanted to give him an idea of my personality and explain the game moves I made. He seemed like a pretty chill guy down for a fun time and I feel like I have the gameplay and the fun down at this FTC so far. I believe I will get his vote.

Lembo!!!!!

My strategy for you at FTC was to be as honest as possible. I’ve been accused of being a bull shitter in the game and I wanted to show you what was genuine and what wasn’t about our interactions. Lying at this point of the game only hurts your credibility. You respect my gameplay, but ultimately it comes down to if you want me to win or not and If I’ve proved I’m genuine or not. If you don’t think so I don’t expect your vote. 50/50 between me and Monica. I think coming in you were going with Monica. Hopefully I have done enough though! ( My favorite memory without a doubt is when we talked about Rodney and Lembo on an actual season. Just watching them interact would be incredible. I was laughing so hard at my computer thinking about Lembo explaining how expensive his shoes were and Rodney being in awe of Dan’s hustle.)

Colton


My goal with Colton was to be as fun as possible. He and Amber were tight and she isn’t the biggest fan of my game, so I think it may be an uphill battle to get his vote. He might not vote for me, but any juror who sits through and reads these answers should be entertained! If I can get one laugh out of someone while reading my answers then I’ve done my job. (My favorite memory is us having the same conversation about potstickers nearly every day. I had them about 90 days in a row during the game. Then he showed me a picture of one and I knew that they were from Noodles & Company because of the picture. It was really one of my finest moments of the game knowing the potsticker by sight).

Ami

I don’t expect to get Ami’s vote. My strategy with her was to just answer my question to the best of my ability and hopefully shed some light on something in my game she didn’t see and potentially help my case with other jurors who were on the fence. (My favorite moment was in the dodgeball challenge when we dominated for our team and slayed Brice. I was running around my friend’s living room celebrating. He snap chatted me to all our friends and I got made fun of for a few weeks)

Mama C

My strategy for C was to make her laugh. I figured she wouldn’t be bitter and would vote for whoever she felt played the best game. (C and I had a lot of fun strategizing in the early rounds. She was really one of my rocks to start the game. I think my favorite part of talking with her was her take on each episode of Cambodia. We always clicked about who we liked and didn’t like. Minus the fact that Dave Ball is her all time favorite survivor. That’s C for ya)

Amber

I either had Ambers vote or i didn't. She has really strong opinions and votes forwhat she believes in. She's team Monica.. My strategy for her was honesty (My favorite moment with Amber was the mornings we talked while i was at work. It really helped made my work day more fun)

Brice

Talk about my gameplay. I think Brice will vote for the person with the best gameplay and someone he had a personal connection with. I really adore him so I hope its me. I think i will get his vote. (My favorite moment with Brice is not really a moment just more of a feeling he gave me. No matter how stressed i got, I always knew Brice had my back. That more than anything helped me get to this point)

Vytas

My strategy for Vytas was to be myself. Hes my guy. I will get his vote. (My favorite moment with Vytas was laughing with him when Mama C added him to an alliance chat last and Lue and Brice freaked. We were both laughing so hard)


Lue

My strategy with Lue was to be myself. He knows me we are boys and i screwed him over. I wanted to be honest and tell him why i did it. I think that I have a good chance to get his vote. (My favorite Lue moment is not just the PP story. its really any time he told a story. He was a fantastic story teller and made me laugh out loud literally every night I talked to him)


I will say in summary. Nobody had more fun in this game than me. I lied, I laughed, and I was lucky enough to make it to the end, whether you vote for me or not I got all I needed out of Sausage Island X.....please vote for me though <3