Hello, congratulations to the three of you for making it this far. It's an amazing accomplishment. I won't sit here and bs, my vote is leaning towards one direction but it's totally open at the moment.

Julia, you have been an amazing ally to me this entire game. You were the first person I had a connection with in this game and I fell in love with your personally in seconds. Your social game is extremely flawless(I am jealous) because I am polarizing as fuck. Anyway here's my questions for you. I want to improve the way I play. I feel like you know me the best in this entire cast so I would like you to tell me 3 things about my game that are amazing and 3 things that I need improvement on. Thank you. I LOVE YOU.

James, from what I gather you are one of the nicest people in this game but niceness does not win my vote. My criticism to you is that I don't quite understand your strategy. In my opinion you followed other people and here's why.. You had a legit ally in me, I felt very close to you, I wanted to go far with you and I protected you a few times when your name was brought up but for some reason you didn't give a crap about keeping people in the game that were loyal to you instead you did whatever your alliance wanted and that to me isn't playing this game. I get that you didn't want to appear as a threat and what not, but letting others control your game, isn't strategy. So my question for you is. Why was it beneficial for YOU to vote me out of this game when I was loyal to you? Specially when there were so many other people left that could've left instead? Specially people that didn't care for you.

Spencer.. Everyone that knows me, know I am the type of player that once I am with someone, I ride or die for this person. You and I were together for such a long period of time and I completely trusted you over everyone else EXCEPT for Julia and you threw that away like it was nothing. I feel like you used my emotions to your advantage(so props to you) however if there's a type of player that I COMPLETELY hate is a player that uses people's real emotions and takes advantage of them, i understand that this is a game but there isn't 1Mil on the line and I think the way you treated me was awful on my way out. There's two different types of lies, the first one is a lie that it's done to benefit your game which is completely understandable and then there's a lie that it's just a lie with no type of reason behind it besides evilness in my opinion. For example even after the voting deadline you continue to lie and say that I wasn't the vote, it was almost like you wanted some type of satisfaction of getting the "big dog out" which is frankly just mean because I totally protected you so many times. My questions for you are, was our alliance ever real? When was the point that you decided that you needed for me to go when I was loyal to you no matter what? And why lie After the deadline? How did that benefit your game?


To all 3 of you: Also just to point out, I realized that I said "I protected you" to a lot of people but I was in a position of power for some time and I did have a say and when I say I protected some of you, I truly did. Unlike some people, I decided my destiny instead of letting others chose it for me and that's what my vote will mainly be on(some people call this stubborn, I call it running shit and leaving people in the game that are beneficial for MY game). I want to vote for someone that treated me nicely, that played this game from begging to end, someone that stood strong with their decision and didn't let ANYONE persuade them to do other wise. Also someone that had strategy since strategy it's one of the most important things you need to have in survivor. Prove to me that you're some what near this player and you have my vote.

Good luck to you all.
Xoxo

I know I wont get your vote so I have no reason to lie now, but outside of game talk, I really did enjoy talking to you. I'am sorry about hurting your feelings. I'm pretty ashamed that I pussyied out of telling you I voted for you and it's the thing i regret most in this game. Generally, I really didn't shy away from making difficult choices but in that moment I thought you were going to go mad and I didn't want to deal with it. So, sorry for being a pussy.

You're right there no million dollars on the line, but the reason I signed up to play an online survivor is because as a Brit it's the closest I'll ever get to playing the real thing. I came to enjoy the experience of playing the game I love but also to win. Everything I did was ultimately about winning.

My questions for you are, was our alliance ever real? When was the point that you decided that you needed for me to go when I was loyal to you no matter what? And why lie After the deadline? How did that benefit your game?

Yes it was real, the beauties alliance is still my favourite alliance even if it ultimately failed. However, I quickly realised that our games were no longer compatible after the second swap. I'd had my doubts beforehand, the way you initially refused to vote Sugar sent out red flags. It really shouldn't have mattered who went and especially shouldn't have be any objections to taking a threat like Sugar out.

Again the same thing arose with the Jefra vote, I felt like you tried to force me to vote JFP. No offence to Jefra, I liked her a lot, but I didn't think I was as close to her as I was to JFP.

Ultimately I decided that we could no longer work together as I didn't think you'd vote Kat out over me when the time came to it and the people you allied yourself within the game did not want to work with me either. I was not going to put my game in your hands by siding with you, Julia, Eliza and 3 people who wanted me gone. Ultimately relying on your mercy to stay in.

The reason you were the target because as you said you live and die by your relationships. If we had targetted Kat or Julia, it would have been the same as targeting you and we'd never have been able to work with together anyway. So that's why I decided you should go, I felt I had a better shot of working with anyone else after betraying them. Not voting Julia out paid off as she flipped to vote Dana out at the f5.

Everyone vote I made was my own choice, I didn't let anyone dictate my votes not even you and you are very good at pressuring people. That's why JFP went over myself at the F10. I do believe i took my destiny into my own hands, all the strategic choices i made, rightly or wrongly were mine.

I didn't want to vote out sugar because I felt extremely close to her more than I did with a lot of people. And also I agree about the Jefra vote thing, I acted like a jackass and was so mad at myself for it!
Anyways Well answered. Thank you.

Hey there Caleb!

Thank you for your comments and questions! I totally understand your thinking on my game and the events surrounding the part of the game where you were voted out. I would not expect for you to cast a vote for me based on my personality alone, as nice as it is. ;)

My strategy for the game did not imitate or follow most of the other player’s strategies. I figured out early on that I would not succeed if I was perceived as a strong player or a strategic threat. I needed to work behind the scenes, influencing people that I was working with, and try to get things done without drawing attention to myself. My strategy was to appear as friendly and honest and non-threatening as possible to as many people as possible, use my relationships to get what I wanted, and get to the end of the game so that I could explain and defend it all.

This entire strategy only works if I am able to get to the end. If I am voted out early, I become a forgotten, weak, coat-tail rider that couldn’t quite seal the deal. I assure you, as much as Spencer wants me to appear as such, that impression couldn’t be further from the truth.

You and I formed a bond pretty quickly around the time that I mutinied to your tribe. I already knew that you had made an impression on many of the other players of the game as being overly threatening and hot-headed. When we met, that’s what I was expecting. You didn’t show me that side at all. I found you to be wonderful to talk to…not personally threatening at all. We did form an alliance that I actually considered as a possibility for a time.

The reason that I was unable to stay with you deep into the game was that even though I really liked you and enjoyed talking to you… I couldn’t trust you. Other players told me very early on in the game when we were on separate tribes, that you had a hidden immunity idol. After we began talking, and after we had formed a final-2 alliance, I asked you if you had one or knew about anyone else having one, and you denied it. I knew that you had one from multiple sources, but when I was trying to build trust, I asked you….and you said no.
When you finally told me, you must have been thinking that I was the last one to know. I acted as though I didn’t know, and pretended that I was happy that you told me.
Then … you told me about your idol’s secret power…which was that it could be played after the votes had been read. I wanted to believe you, but I knew that I couldn’t.

It was at that point that I began exploring the vote. I pitched Jonny as a possibility to Kat and Sydney, and then switched to see how they would feel about voting for you to flush your idol. They both agreed that it was the better plan…and along with the Ki support, we began targeting you. So, at that point you had deceived me about the idol On top of that, players that I thought that you had on your side were telling me that they were okay voting for you.

The fact is Caleb, that while I love you as a person, and would have been stoked to see you get further in the game because of the love you obviously have for it, I could not trust you or put my faith in you, as much as I wanted to. I knew that we had a connection, a real connection…but as far as the game went, I quickly found out that you were not a viable option for me in the game. I felt horrible about seeing you go, but it really was the only option that I felt that I had.

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Julia, you have been an amazing ally to me this entire game. You were the first person I had a connection with in this game and I fell in love with your personally in seconds. Your social game is extremely flawless(I am jealous) because I am polarizing as fuck. Anyway here's my questions for you. I want to improve the way I play. I feel like you know me the best in this entire cast so I would like you to tell me 3 things about my game that are amazing and 3 things that I need improvement on. Thank you. I LOVE YOU.

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CALEB I LOVE YOU.

You were my rock this entire game and your blindside really shook me and left me kind of wondering if anyone in this game was trustworthy. I could tell you anything and know that it would never get thrown back around. You were my confidant and my best friend here and if anything I know I've made a genuine friend. One of my all time favorite moments in this game is when Caleb's Angels was birthed and us four were able to get that Ukiyo idol round one. The first swap was the best and us fighting with Debbie and Sash and you dragging her was one of the funniest moments for me. Ahhh, you're the best. I could list all of our inside jokes and times where we just acted like idiots and laughed together but I'd be going into the next day. I love you, boy! And I couldn't have asked for a better ally. :)

ALRIGHT.

Three things you're great at:

1. Competitions - I think you were the brute force in the tribal stages of this game and I think had you gone deeper in the merge you would've snatched a few immunities under your belt. This is a skill I envy you because I suck so hard at ORG challenges. So you should teach me how to kickass at them. I'll find a different teacher for Sudoku though. :P

2. Your Confidence - Now THIS is something I genuinely need to get on. You have this wonderful ability to never second guess yourself and go with your gut. You're a decisive person who knows what they want and who's going to get it no matter what. I think this is an awesome quality to have for a game with this sort of caliber and considering how quickly things change you need to have that confidence in yourself so you're not left behind.

3. Humility - There's always a time and place to be serious and to be funny and you had the special sort of balance that truly helped you develop friendships and still keep your eyes on the prize. I think to be a good Survivor player you need humility and you need to be able to laugh at yourself. You messed up? No worries, laugh it off and let it go and go on your merry way. People who get hung up on grudges or being miserable and personal NEVER do well in these games. So you have this down to an art.

Three things you need to work at:

STOP GIVING RATINGS TO RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE.

jokes, okay let me be serious.

1. Releasing control - You commended my social game and I thank you for it and if I can help improve yours this is where I would start. Getting on the same page as people is easy without being forceful. Telling people who you want to vote out and telling them to do it always leaves a bad taste in anyones mouth even if they did want to vote that way. I find asking others how they wanna vote and then agreeing with the one you want out always works out. It never comes back to you as the originator if the plan blows up, you'll remain in the loop with everyone and people will be more likely to tell you time and time again who they want out if you act like that. Giving up a little to gain a little is a rule #1 for a social game.

2. Too Trusting - It's no secret that your idol was the worst kept secret in the game and I say that with love. It seemed by the round 5 everyone knew you had it and it was growing a concern for people. I think you felt connections with certain people and used the idol as a way to embed trust with others. I think that's a brilliant strategy, but it exhausts itself when you do it a second, third, fourth etc. I also think, because this is how I play my game, one amazing talk with someone shouldn't equal to you blindly trusting them. I think if you spent more time feeling people out instead of falling in love after one conversation, you'll be able to see their true colors and you can make an educated risk in trusting them or if they're full of it.

3. Paranoia - I think there is a time and a place to be paranoid and in this game it's all the time, but not to the point where it creates a wedge between you and your allies. For instance being paranoid as much for me to use my double vote at an obvious vote, but I did that because I didn't want you to feel like you were going home. I didn't think you were leaving and neither did any of the Mountains and I just think trusting your #1 ally at the time would've benefited us down the road. This does go in conjunction with trusting your gut on certain things, which you did well on, but the constant paranoia and worry sometimes was just a bit much for people to handle at times. Sometimes you needed to just chill and let it go.


Alright Caleb, that's it! I hope I answered these exactly how you wanted. I can't wait until we can catch up after this is over with.

Thank you everyone for answering my question. Spencer I am sad this is how our friendship ended up, although we had different agendas as you said, I believe time after time I was still loyal to you so matter what which is something you didn't value. James you are Great and an amazing father which I loved about you but the fact that you say you couldn't trust me it's ridic, yeah my idol thing was such a mess lmao another thing that concerns me(no offense) are your Survivor Comparisons, to be quite honest, they're atrocious and it makes me wonder if you were really aware of the people you were playing with. Julia you are my BFF and I love you so much, I completely agree with the things you said I need to change and hopefully I can work on them on the next game. It's just really hard for me overall to play without emotions because I am a pretty sensitive guy and after talking to you some of the people in this game and building what I thought it was a good friendship with some people and then being backstabbed or lied to by those people isn't the best feeling ever but I guess that's something I need to learn to cope with. Anyway lastly if you don't win this game then it's prolly one of the most ridiculous things ever, I have never seen someone dominate the social aspect of this game as much as you did and you were also very strategic as we both talked a lot of strategy throughout the game, you never fail to know the dynamics of the games and you were amazingly self aware of everything that was going on around you. And the best thing about your game was that you were literally messy one round and then the entire game you completely slayed, even though you were a huge threat you were still able to slip by and this is by your meat shield strategy which I think it's a legit strategy you had, I remember telling you early on the game "I am most likely going to be your shield" and I am pretty sure you knew that from early on. Anyways enough about this haha. I love you. 💜

JAMES YOU ARE GREAT 💜