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Responses to Austin

Hey Austin... sorry to hear that. When I was making the video, my mindset was that you guys would have more fun watching that than reading twelve minutes worth of text. Looks like I was wrong... whoops!

Our alliance was definitely forced, only because I identified you as a huge target to align with in the early stages of the game, and I wanted to jump on that as soon as possible. As for you not trusting me... your intuition was right. I HEAVILY considered flipping on you at the Final Thirteen, and only changed my vote back at the last minute.

I have to 100% disagree with you saying that I had no idea what was going on. From the Final Twelve onwards, I never voted in the minority, and went the longest without having votes cast against me. The only vote that completely surprised me was the Final Four deadlock... and I’m still here. I do have a strong perception about this game, and how I’m portrayed by this jury, and I know that this will be an uphill battle. But I’d just like a chance to plea my case: I was a key vote in two huge late game flips (at F7 & F5), I successfully feigned owning a Super Idol, and I beat one of the strongest challenge performers this season in a flash game tie breaker.

I don’t believe that I’m a floater, especially to the extent that Michael was, while I also didn’t have to win immunities to stay in the game as Kage had to.

I know that twelve minutes is a lot for just one video, but I hope that if you’ve got that time, you’ll watch it over. Thanks for reading this, and I’ll hit you up after this whole thing’s over with. Peace!

Thx for your kind words. I really appreciate it. Since you didn’t rly ask a question and tbh I miss closing speeches, I’m using this opportunity to speak to each and everyone of the jury members, especially the ones that did not send in questions.

You all know that I played a better physical game than my 2 opponents. I hope you can see how this game was really split into 2 completely different sections for me. The first section was Day 1-Chaos Idol Tribal. During this first section, I was “on the top” of this game. I was making moves, I was making alliances, I was making real honest friendships. I was a big target but I wasn’t the biggest target.

The second portion would be Chaos Idol-Now. During this section of my game, I was on the bottom, I had to work hard in the challenges, I had to work hard to try to rebuild relationships. During those 13ish days I was on the bottom, I had to pull out nearly every strategy in the book, even some that I’m not proud of. I never stopped fighting, I never gave up, I never backed down. I hope you can all respect that and I’m just glad I got to play with all you wonderful people. Nothing in this game that I did was personal, I love you all. I’ve truly made some real friendships in this game. Thank You.

that’s a shame because I thought we did talk a bit but every conversation I had with you seem to me that you were bored with talking it’s sucks you forgot about me but what can you do

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Responses to Julian

Hey Julian, can’t say that I really blame you for thinking that. While you were still around, I was just laying low, focusing on staying on the right side of the numbers while the bigger personalities took out each other. I knew that making a huge move or flip that early on would just seal my fate as another Austenzo or Nehe, so I hope you understand.

This worked out well on its own, but it sucks that you left when you did, because that’s when I felt my game became “vote-worthy”.

I came back from the clinic the round after you left with a very situational advantage that I probably wouldn’t even have the chance to use. So instead, I told Nehe that I had the Super Idol. Why I chose to tell him instead of anyone else at first was simple: since Nehe was the game’s front runner at that point, the information would have a sort of trickle effect in getting down to the alliance’s lower members. Basically, Nehe would tell them about it instead of me, which would make the story much more believable. Given that this idol was actually made by the hosts, it was incredibly authentic looking. As far as I can tell, everyone who I showed it to believed me. Although I don’t think that I would’ve been in a position to be voted out WITHOUT my “Super Idol”, it was a huge reassurance that I would stay in this game.

I was also a major force in two late game power swaps. At the Final Seven, I was the vote that sent Jared home, while at the Final Five, I flipped back to Kage’s side (before he had even won immunity) and ultimately voted out Nehe that round.

At the Final Four, I tried my best to win that Final Immunity Challenge, besting Michael and Ashlyn to make it all the way to the final round. In the end, I fell short to Kage, unfortunately, but I can say that I was at least proud of my performance. When the votes were deadlocked and it was me against Ashlyn in that tie breaker, I thought that I was done for. I surprised myself that night when I beat the self-proclaimed queen of flash games at a flash game I had never even touched before.

I feel that to judge my entire game on the first half of it would be silly. After my clinic trip, I was a huge player in this game, and I feel that I finished very strong. I know that coming into this, the chances of getting your vote were very slim. I hope that I gave you the answer you were looking for, man. Peace.

The reason you shouldn’t vote for Michael is because it would be doing an injustice to the game of Survivor. Your job as a jury member is to vote for the person who has played the best overall game, with all the elements that come with it. Michael has only shown his social side in this game. He has not had any hard strategical decisions to make, I did. He didn’t win any challenges, I did. I made moves, I had to fight to save myself and try to save my allies while Michael floated his way to the end, safe, deep within an alliance. I was at the forefront for nearly the entire game. There was not a round that went by where my name wasn’t discussed.

The reason you should not vote Kage is because in a game that’s heavily dependent on social dynamics I can count of number of times where Kage has openly mocked players as well as be rude at times, kages social games pales in comparison to mine and I think that a social game is the most important thing.

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Responses to Connor

Hey Conner! First, thanks for the question, I appreciate it, man! No, I don’t think that’s true at all, but I can see how you would get the impression that I just cruised through this game, so I’d like to explain myself about that.

With the earlier votes, I do admit that I always tried to keep a low profile, and never pushed too hard to sway the vote in a particular direction. But everything changed when the fire nation attacked- I mean, after Austenzo was blindsided.

From that point, I feel that I DID have a lot of sway and input on who went home. I had a very strong connection with both Kage and Nehe, and this allowed me to have a large say in who was eliminated. We would always talk the vote over before it went down, and I felt like I was the stamp of approval for every elimination after that point. I think that this is proven by the fact that from the Final Twelve onwards, I never voted in the minority.

By the time the Final Seven rolled around, I found myself as this perpetual swing vote between my alliance with Nehe and my sub-alliance with Kage. Ultimately, I went with Nehe to eliminate Jared and yourself.

At any moment, I do believe I could’ve flipped Ashlyn on Nehe if I chose to, and at the very least I could’ve gone to rocks, but I felt that the you and Jared would be harder to take out down the road, because the three of you would all stick together, so I had to do it when I could.

At Final Five, I was already talking with Kage and Ashlyn about getting Nehe out before Kage even won immunity. Probably the most important thing I did here was tell Michael about it; Michael was planning on sticking with Nehe until I filled him in at the last minute. So, even though Ashlyn casted a self-vote, Nehe went out 3-2.

The deadlock vote at the end was a surprise to me, but ultimately, I still secured my seat here by my own merit.

I would NOT say that I just floated. I think a better analogy would be that I “surfed”. I wasn’t always the one creating the waves, but I rode & traversed them, doing a totally tubular “flip” every now and then as I made that wave my bitch!

Again, thank you for your time and your question. Hopefully, I can get your vote, but at the very least, I hope I gave you an answer that you’re satisfied with. Peace!

The very simple answer as to why I should win over the other two is that I played a better game. Since you want some details, let’s take a trip, on the story of my journey in the Virgin Islands.......

On the first day, due to past relationships, I had a FTC deal with Karen. And I had separate 2 person alliances with Austin and Enzo. I also made a really good friends in Ashlyn, Julian, and Noah. Now apparently, my name came up on night 1, I’m not to sure on who brought it up, but that’s what i heard. So right off the bat, people wanted me out. During the first round, Austin brought up Jordan’s name to vote out. To this day, I’m not really sure why he picked Jordan but, it was the first round and I just wanted to not be first boot. So I helped Austin spread Jordan’s name around to everyone. Even after Shoib was willing to fall on his sword, Austin remained set on Jordan. I am one of the driving forces behind keeping the vote Jordan. The reason I was so set on being Austin’s lackey that round was to build trust with him. Knowing that Regan was very paranoid, I threw a vote at her just to rile her up. Noah/Regan/Anne’s eliminations were a blessing that saved me from having to play in more rounds, leading to a bigger target early on.

Going into round 2, Austin had cemented himself to pretty much everyone as the biggest target in the game. This is the round where his name began to come up as a possible target, started by mostly me. It was the simple case of befriending Austin and then hiding behind him until I could really bond with everyone else. That being said, our relationship was still very real and I had no set plans as to when to take a shot at Austin. It was also this round that I started talking more to Nehemiah, Connor, Michael, Jared, and Andrew. I bonded with Andrew, Jared, and Michael but no real duos or alliances were talked about. This round is the round where I made a F2 deal with Julian. During those first few round, I do not think we had that strong of a bond Connor. You weren’t as active as most people and when you were, I was having a hard time sparking a conversation with you. We still became good friends, I just didn’t really know where I stood with you. Nehemiah and I immediately noticed that Austin’s 3 closest allies were himself, myself, and Ashlyn. We also knew Austin had firm friendships with Jaylen, and Joshua. Nehemiah and I decided to take out Jaylen that round because of her being too close to Austin.  This worked successfully. This also bonded me really well with Nehe. This was the spark of a relationship that would carry out through the game.

Round 3, Austin drew the line in the sand. There was his side consisting of myself, Austin, Nehe, Ashlyn, Julian, Andrew, Joshua, and Connor. And Coles side consisting of Cole, Timmy, Michael, Shoib, Karen, and Jared. This round, Nehe or Austin (I’m still not sure which) came up with a plan to vote out Karen for being Coles ally. They went around and got nearly everyone on board to vote out Karen. I did not like this because Karen and I had our F2 deal. I told Karen about the plan and then I helped her flip the vote onto Joshua without Austin’s knowledge. Austin eventually found out, and then used his sway in the game to flip it onto Shoib. I fought for Shoib to stay. I wanted Shoib to stay in this game because we had a good relationship and he would be a good backup plan due to his unwillingness of wanting to be in the game. So I worked hard enough to where i got it to 6-5, 6 being for Shoib, 5 being for Joshua, leaving Julian and I out of it. This is where the Joshua vote became solely my move. I got Julian to vote out Joshua with me. We then told Austin that we were locked into Joshua and we would’ve switched if we could. That was a lie.

In round 4, I went to the Clinic and found my hidden immunity idol. This was a regular idol. While I was away, some shit went down that ended with Austenzos elimination. This was hella lucky for me as it sparred me from having to vote out Austenzo myself. If I had been there and helped with the Austenzo vote, the target on my back would have increased exponentially.

Round 5 was the Shoib vote. After the big move of Austenzo I decided to hide down. The original plan that round was to vote out Jared, I worked hard to save him. I can honestly say I had no say in this vote. I simply listened to Nehe, and voted Shoib, didn’t ask questions. This was smart on my part as it only grew the target on Nehe while letting me hide for another vote.  This did not stop Nehe from spreading Austin’s theory of this game was going to turn into “Kage vs Nehe”. That’s where the target on my back grew.

Round 6 was where things went to an absolutely complete shit show. After Cole got removed, the game was split again. My initial thoughts on the divide were myself, Andrew, Julian, Jared, Connor, Karen on one side. On the other side would be Nehe, Ashlyn, Michael, and Timmy. The original plan I heard going around that round was to vote out Jared and Karen. I busted my ass to get the votes off them. My plan that round was to vote out Michael and Ashlyn. I wanted to vote out Michael and Ashlyn because they were closest to Nehe and they both had phenomenal social games. I told everyone about my hidden immunity idol to try and deter anyone from voting me. My real plan with the idol was to stand up at tribal and throw it into the fire to prove my loyalty to Nehe. This completely changed when Nehe pulled out the Chaos idol, saved Michael and Ashlyn, and scared me into playing my idol. That is where I learned that Julian was not on my side, that he was more aligned with Nehe. In the end, my 2 closest allies Karen and Julian were robbed.

Moving into the Final 8 Round (Round 7), I knew I was in trouble. This is where I kicked my ass into gear, went out, and won immunity. Connor got sent to the Clinic, Timmy got robbed, which left Jared, Andrew, and me vs Michael, Ashlyn, Nehe. I fought to try to vote out Michael. It unfortunately didn’t take and Jared was voted out. This is where I learned that Andrew was also Nehes loyal ally, goat, sheep, whatever farm animal you want to use. It was around this time Nehe and I talked, determined that we were the biggest threats, and made a deal to go to Final 4 with each other, I didn’t know that this was just a joke. I honestly truly believed it and was loyal to it.

Going into Round 8, it turned into everyone vs Connor and me. This was the round where I asked Nehe if I hadn’t of won, would he have voted me. He said he would’ve voted me. This broke our Final 4 deal in my mind. Connor and I’s goal that round was to create as much chaos and paranoia as we could to save Connor. I won immunity for the second time. Unfortunately once again, I couldn’t get anyone to turn on Nehe. They were all too loyal to Nehe even though they all admitted to me that Nehe was the bigger threat.

At the Final 5, I started to become confident in myself and in my challenge ability. I counted to nearly 14000, and I made sure everyone knew it. I flaunted my challenge ability as a way to try to intimidate Nehe and his allies into turning on each other. At this point, everyone but Michael took out idols/advantages, I called Ashlyn’s and Nehes bluff. I wanted to cause as much chaos as possible to try and get the vote off me. I confided in Ashlyn about my past with mental health issues because I was upset after having to be a cocky dick. Indirectly I think that put Ashlyn’s loyalty away from Nehe and towards me. I also managed to somehow convince Andrew to turn onto Nehe. Michael however was not so easily turned. Michael admitted to me that if I had not won the challenge, he would have voted me even though he admitted that Nehe was the bigger target. You can call this loyalty, and it was, but it was unnecessary loyalty.

At the Final 4, Michael was wrong in saying I was targeting him. My plan that round was to vote out Ashlyn as I get she was the bigger jury threat. It wasn’t easy for me and I understood how my wavering could be misinterpreted into me targeting Michael. Michael to my surprise voted Andrew with Ashlyn. I am glad Andrew won the tiebreaker because I know that Ashlyn was a much larger jury threat.

So there’s my game, I hope I went into enough detail for you. If we’re breaking Survivor down to its most simplistic elements as Michael did, physical, social, and strategic, i obviously excelled at the physical aspect. I do feel Michael played a strategic game but tbh you don’t need much strategy float through the first have and then Pagong an alliance in the other half. Michael also voted with Ashlyn at the Final 4, this showed poor strategy as Ashlyn was a much larger jury threat than Andrew. I will be the first to admit however that Michael played a much better social game than I. I did play a very good social game I think, I had good relationships with nearly everyone in this game. The only difference is I had to rely on my social game to help get me through the game. By hiding being Nehe, Michael didn’t really need his social game.

So to summarize, out of the 3 finalists, I played the best physical game, I played the best strategic game, and in some aspects, the best social game. That’s why I deserve to win over my 2 opponents. Thank You for your question, and sorry for making you read all this.

thank you so much my mum and dad gave me the looks and the accent

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Responses to Timmy

Yo, Timmy, sorry that you didn’t like the video, man. Just a little fun fact, the vid was actually 20+ minutes before I actually began editing it, so I tried my best to trim out as much as I could.

Yes, while going to the clinic was part luck, I did everything I could to increase my odds of getting it.

I actually did the challenge ten times, since there were ten people left in the game. I then calculated my average score (I believe it was around 6.3-6.7), which I figured would reflect the average score of the challenge(5th/6th place). This was incredibly close to my actual 6th place score that I got, which I think was 6.5, so I figured that all of it checked out, and I submitted that score. It worked out, and I was able to send myself to the clinic. Basically: 9th Grade Math = Clinic Trip.

As for why I had no votes cast against me for the longest time, I don’t feel that it was solely because I was a non-threat. I do think that WAS apart of it at first, but that was what I was going for in the earlier stages of this game. By the time I returned from the clinic, I feel that the combination of my “Super Idol” and my social game is what kept anyone from voting for me. I think this is why I deserve to win over Kage, because I didn’t have to constantly win challenges to stay alive in this game. This was because he revealed his cards WAY too early, something that I was very cautious of. The only challenge I DID have to win was that tiebreaker, and even then, I was able to get Kage’s vote, so even then my social game and lower-profile saved me.

As for why I deserve it over Michael, I feel that I actually played a game, while Michael just clung to whoever was his best bet. He rode Nehe’s you-know-what without a second though while I kept my options open, and he was the last one to know about the Nehe vote (yes, even after Nehe himself). To top it off, he abruptly made some ill-fated last ditch attempt at the Final Four to get me out, in the process just making himself look like a fool. If I was gonna do something like that to him, I would have made sure that I had the numbers, like I had been since the Final Twelve.

I was a key vote in two of the season’s biggest flips, I always had positioned myself on the right side of the numbers since the Shoib vote, I fooled almost everyone with a fake super idol, and while I didn’t have to claw my way here like Kage did, I did have to work hard to get here. I earned this spot the second I won that tiebreaker challenge.

I hope that this answers your question. I know that the chances of getting your vote probably aren’t the best, but I hope you will at least consider it after what I had to say.

Thanks for your time, and it’s been great playing with you, man :)

Robbed icon. You were done dirty by that challenge elimination. To answer your question, for most of those days, I tried to play as if I didn’t have immunity. I was scheming and talking and trying to turn you all against eachother even when I was safe. My plan in case I lost was to continue to stir the pot and create enough chaos to make you turn on eachother. I’m sorry that sometimes my methods became too harsh but I was desperate. Ily

thanks it only took me 3 hours to write

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Responses to Nehemiah

Nehe, what’s up? Thanks for the question! I’ve got a lot to say for this one, so I’ve divided it into two parts:

A. Why I wasn’t Austin’s, or ANYONE’s sheep.

and B. Why I feel that the move to take you out benefited me.

As Austin said himself, me and him weren’t too particularly close to begin with, other than the fact that we were aligned. However, I will admit that I purposely stuck with him to keep the target off of my own back in the earlier stages.

Although I voted to keep Austenzo the night he had went, I had only planned going only a round or two further with them anyways. They were becoming more of a social liability than anything, but I had just felt that it was a cycle too early to pick them off.

As for why I was no one else’s goat, I feel that my move made against you exemplified that perfectly.

I had flipped on Kage and co. just two cycles earlier, and I was firmly aligned with you and Michael. However, it was clear that you were running the show, and Michael was clearly not going to take any initiative on his part. I feel that I was the key vote in making that happen, and breaking away from the herd of us you had amassed.

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Alright, now for the hard part...

I understand that you didn’t want fifth, and I’m sorry I had to do that, but so what? You and Ashlyn would have just swapped places, so why even take the risk to begin with? I know that you’re a gamer, and that you wouldn’t have been content with fourth either, and we would be having the same conversation about how I should just let you get third.

Come the Final Four, I could imagine you and Michael teaming up against me, and just forcing another tie breaker anyways. And who knows if I would’ve been able to beat you, honestly.

I find it really ironic that while you criticize me for being Austin’s sheep for the early stages of the game, a lot of the ill will you hold against me is due to the fact that I wasn’t a part of your heard in the end.

I do not regret my decision. As bad as things look for me right now, they would’ve been a WHOLE lot worse if I were possibly sitting up here with you, because I truly would’ve been nothing more than your sheep if I let you get to this point.

I’d totally understand if I’ve lost your vote, but please, just look at it from my perspective. I hope that there aren’t any hard feelings between us, and that you understand that I did what I believed was best for my game.

I’ll talk with you again, soon. Peace.

Nehe, you know I have nothing but respect and love for you. I can swear that, true or not, I believed that F4 deal. I had no idea you were joking. My paranoid, gullible, desperate brain took it and believed it. That’s why I felt betrayed. After I thought you broke the deal (which apparently was just a joke), I knew how much on the bottom I was. I’ll admit I was being very rude and I apologize for that. I was just trying to intimidate you and your allies as a tactic to convince them to flip. It did work as Andrew did come to my side at the Final 5. So I’m sorry that I had to do that but I had to do that to get here tonight

A Move a made specifically against you was to vote out Shoib, while yes I had initially targeted jared that round I quickly realised that as you said to me earlier Shoib was your sheep and would vote you, I realised that in a final 4 of you me shoib and Ashlyn it was a real possibility that Ashlyn would win immunity meaning that youd either have to vote me or shoib and at that point in the game I did know for a fact how the votes would go and didn't want to take the risk of getting 4th And about usinging you as a meat shield, I would say that that strategy came later in the game specifically after Karen said you were winning, by keeping you around I guaranteed that you would be a person I could throw out there under the bus should we ever lose control, you have my thanks for saving me those times without you I wouldn't be here and I hope we can remain good friends after this game.

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Responses to Ashlyn

Well first, thank you for the backhanded compliment! ...Just kidding, you know that I love you, girl! 😘

Okay, moving on to your question. After I returned from the clinic, my vote had a lot more sway in this game than it previously ever had before. I was able to flip back and forth, and basically call the shots on who went home when.

At the Final Seven, I had ties with both Kage’s alliance and Nehe’s alliance. My vote that night would determine that Jared went home, for the fact that I saw the threesome of Kage, Connor & himself as a huge threat.

The next round, I was once again in a swing vote position: I could either side with Kage and Connor to possibly take out Nehe, or take a chance and vote out a huge UTR threat in Connor. I chose again to side with the former, and Connor was sent home that night.

The Final Five is where I felt that I was basically running this game. I had already reunited with Kage before he even announced that he was beasting the challenge, with the intent of taking out Nehe. We got you on board, and then at the last minute, I swayed Michael to our side. This ultimately saved you that round, as what would’ve been a 3-2 vote with your self vote against you became a 3-2 vote against Nehe.

At the Final Four, while Michael flipped on me, I had convinced Kage to stay loyal, and deadlocked the vote between us. This saved my ass, and is why I’m sitting right here at this very moment.

I do think I had more control over my own game and my own fate than Kage and Michael did respectively. From the Final Eight onwards, the person who I wanted to go home that night went home.

I’m sorry that I’ve rambled a bit, even though you only asked for one vote, but I do feel like that I was always the one controlling the boot order behind the scenes. Thanks for the question, and I hope you’ll seriously consider voting for me!

First, I’d just like to say that just because I won immunities, doesn’t mean I fought any less. I played every day like I didn’t have immunity. I tried just about every strategy in the book during those days. It may not have worked, but I did put up a fight. I feel like I fought a lot harder than my opponents because they both had an alliance to help get them through the game. To answer your question, I feel that every vote helped me advance further on my way to increase my chances of winning. If I had to pick 1 specifically it would be the Joshua vote. That was the first time in this game where it was solely my move. That’s what out such a big target on my back that I had to carry throughout the next 20+ days.

A move I made was to take out Nehe over you at the final 5, there’s no point making the FTC if you’re just gonna get second, by taking out nehe it removed a power player from the game and secured that I had the best possible chance to win, Andrew told me at the f5 that he would go with whatever decision I made and I made the decision to take out Nehe an incredible strategic threat who would’ve won in a landslide against the vast majority of the players in the game

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Responses to Jordan

Well, idk what to say, you didn’t give me much to work with. I’d just like to say sorry if you were hurt by me helping to vote you out. I loved the memes you sent me and I hope that we can be friends after the game.

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Austin’s Jury Questions

Michael - You barely spoke to me and I have no idea what you did this season. Honestly forgot you played. Whoops

Andrew - I didn't watch your 12 minute vid because it was super long, and I wasn't bothered. I liked you a lot, but I felt like you coming to me was very forced. I never truly trusted you because you seemed to be playing me 90% of the time. You always made me feel conflicted because we had no connection prior to you asking me for an alliance, and it all just seemed out of place. I did catch in your video that you mentioned no one that was with me is currently in FTC...but Kage is right there. Y'know...my original (and first) alliance member (as well as my original final 2). I just feel like you didn't add much to the game, and maybe I'm at fault for not watching your video, but from the little bit that I saw it didn't seem like you knew what was going on either.

Kage - MY SON!! I am so proud of how much you've improved as a game player. I came into this game 100% sure that we were working together because GL cult is still a thing, and I am so glad you didn't become the messy Kage everyone knows. Honestly, your growth as a player, alone, earns you this win and I cannot wait for GL to have its first trophy. Usually GL turns on me, so thank you for not being Bodhi. I read your speech, and my only criticism is that you said you took out my numbers (Josh/Jaylen) to get me closer to you, and that sounds like a stretch. Mainly bc I was never with Jaylen, and had 1 convo with him this entire game. I don't hold that too much against you though because no one understands my relationship with Cole. Everyone thought we were against one another even though we weren't at all. Anyways you slayed Nehe (KING!) and you showed everyone that you can play the physical, social, and strategic games without issue. You inspire me, Kage Hamilton. I remember Isaiah birthing you from the realm of twitter, and you intentionally threw the first challenge on Odawa. You went from complete flop, to Virgin King! Bless your soul xoxo

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Julian’s Jury Questions

Andrew: No offense but I forgot you were in this game half the time. Why should I give you my vote?

Kage and Michael: Both of you played insanely awesome games in your own way. Why should I NOT vote for the other person?

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Ashlyn’s Jury Questions

Michael - You no I love you <3 I think it's unfair how a lot of the jury are saying you where a sheep of " Nehe " which wasn't the case you used your bonds to get further but at the same time I do see why a lot of people seen you as a sheep but that wasn't the case at all. My only question for you is please tell the jury in my question one move you made which significantly increased your chance of getting further

Kage - I like you as a person and I wanna continue being your friend my only problem is you didn't really have to fight as you won immunities if not you would of been gone sooner at final six / seven. So please explain to me when vote which changed your chances of winning this game.

Andrew - I like you as a person but your gameplay was very poor, you seemed to not make many moves or call any shots what so ever so I want you to explain one vote where you were calling the shots than maybe you might have my vote.

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Nehemiah’s Jury Questions

Kage: you keep saying we had a final 4 deal but in all honesty that deal was never ever true nor ever discussed about. You wanted to make a deal asking to go after me and I rebuttalled “lol how bout we don’t go for each till final 4”. I’m not an idiot I’d definitely would have still voted you out and you would have most definitely would have to but my question is why did this “deal” make you think you could resort to the behavior you treated me with. I did not respect how you handled power. It was fairly rude.

Michael: best fren!!!!! My little sheep (not)! Michael you played on hell of a game but my question for you is this. Name one sole move that you did that was not of my benefits? Because all I got from your speech is you trying to turn me into a meat shield when it was nothing of the sort it was a twosome loyalty alliance. As well as you got your ass targeted over me multiple times because your “meat shield” was more connected to people you and protected you from their votes. So name that move?

Andrew: I still think you made a pretty dumb move not letting me getting 4th. That’s something I don’t appreciate. You preached about taking Ashlyn to the end then you just vote her out when you could have sent her home for 5th ensuring that I’d get 4th and you’d be in the final 3. But nope you legit risked your neck and went to a 50/50 chance against someone who’s won more comps than you to get here. So in my opinion still a bad move but oh well. My question to you is why did it take you so long to start playing this game because if anything you were Austin’s sheep?

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Timmy’s Jury Questions

Andrew: 12 minutes is too long for a video, yikes. I did listen though, but I honestly still have no idea who you are. You claim a great move was getting 6th in a comp to go to the clinic, but you can’t really plan to get exactly 6th, that was in part luck so don’t claim that as a great move. Honestly, I zoned out for half the video because it bored me. So, my question is: Explain exactly why you deserve to win over Kage and Michael, like why you are there with no votes because you played the game rather than what it seems like where you just floated, and nobody cared to get you out because you wouldn’t win anyways? Kage: Your name came up a lot and yet you are still there, which I think is impressive. What would your social plan have been if you did not win all of those challenges towards the end? Michael: You don’t bother me. But also I can’t think of a question and I liked your speech.

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Jordan’s Jury Questions

My question to Andrew is for him to send me his best meme Micheal I want him to say his top 5 drag queens (god help me if Trixie Mattel is anywhere near this) Kage. Meh

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Connor’s Jury Questions

Micheal - you’re cute and your accent is nice. Because of that, you are most likely to get my vote. That also depends how kage answers.

Andrew - Based of what you say in response to the other jurors, you may win me over, but it is unlikely. I believe you floated through this game and had little to no impact in the decisions of who to eliminate and when. My question is: is that true? If not, prove me wrong.

Kage - my son. Robbed in Japan and you managed to do what I have been trying to do again for two years. congratulations, I am very proud of you. That being said, why should you win? Why should the others lose? I want D-E-T-A-I-L-S. Not a sentence or two, like a page. Go into depth. Prove you deserve to win and own up to everything. EVERYTHING.

Best of luck to most of you.

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Opening Statements

Hello Everyone! I would first of all like to congratulate my fellow finalists, some of us played amazing games. I’d also like to thank Monty and Billy for hosting a sometimes messy but wonderful season none the less. Thank you to all 17 eliminated contestants for each having a role in getting me where I am tonight.

Coming into this game I had the mentality of redeeming myself and changing my legacy from a Villain to a Hero. I do think I accomplished that to at least some degree. I was a lot more honest and forthcoming this game than I was in my previous seasons. I’m not saying I didn’t lie and backstab, because I did, but there was a lot less than before. I remained loyal to the people I pledged my loyalty to, until they were no longer loyal to me. So in that sense, I do think I played a much more heroic, underdog game this season.

Day 1 coming into this game I had immediate relationships with Karen, Regan, Austin, and Enzo. I also bonded quickly with Ashlyn, Jordan, Nehe, and Julian. These real friendships are what would help me later in the game.

Cole and Austin were an obvious duo early, but somehow found themselves on opposite sides of the game. They planned on picking off each others allies all the way to the end. Knowing that Austin had the most sway in the game, I helped weaken his numbers by voting out Jaylen and Joshua. I had no intention of Austin leaving in the round he did. I just wanted his allies gone so he’d be loyal to me and only me.

Flash forward to Coles abrupt end in this game, Nehe and I quickly became the “new Cole and Austin”. In the sense that we were working together but we’re on opposite sides. I tried to make a play to vote out his 2 closest allies, Ashlyn and Michael at the Final 10 tribal council. This however, did not work as Nehe played his Chaos idol sending 2 of my closest allies home, Julian and Karen.

It turned into everyone vs Connor, Jared, and Me. We tried to make another move to vote out Michael, but Nehes allies were too strongly alligned to flip. The reason why I wasn’t targeting Nehe at this point was because we had a Final 4 deal that I was 100% loyal to. After Jared’s voteout, Nehe admitted that he would’ve voted me out had I not won immunity. That is what turned me against him and made me go after him. Connor and I attempted to vote out Nehe at the Final 6, it didn’t work. I luckily had success at the Final 5 tribal, after working for “countless” hours.

You may be wondering why you should vote for me, or why I deserve to be the sole survivor considering I had to win 4 challenges in a row to get here. In all honesty, I had to win every single one of those challenges or else I would not be sitting in this seat tonight. After the Chaos Idol was played, all day every day I had to scheme and come up with new angles as to why that alliance should turn on eachother. I never stopped working on trying to flip it, cause I know that if I lost the next challenge, I needed a plan.

I’ve played harder than then Michael and Andrew. I worked harder than Michael and Andrew. And at the end of the day I fought harder than Michael and Andrew. That’s why I deserve the honour of receiving your vote.

Please feel free to ask my any questions and I’ll look forward to answering them honestly.

Thank You!

Hello Jury, for my opening speech I’m just going to explain in general terms my social, strategic and physical (or lack thereof) games. It’s been a long ass game and it sucks it’ll come to an end, but I’ve worked hard every single round to get to this point in a position where I honestly think I can win. To start with the weakest aspect of my game. The physical. I sucked at challenges especially when compared to Kage who was the challenge beast in this final 3, but I will say that I tried my absolute hardest every single challenge to win and even though I didn’t win I didn’t lose easily I fought to win immunity but unfortunately, I came up short. I was very lucky in this game that there was no tribal immunity as I would’ve been picked off for being weak but by being weak in challenges I was able to move through this game without being targeted for being a physical threat. Because I messed up in challenges I had to work extra hard in the social and physical aspect to be able to make it here. Strategically speaking, I basically had my hand in the cookie jar of most votes, I was only on the wrong side of 3 votes and the rest of the boots were either from rock draws, elimination challenges and quits/removals. All in all though it may have looked like I was sheeping Nehe I can say that it is not the case, yes me and nehe worked in lockstep to control votes using our connections with different people, I didn’t just show up find out the vote and go to sleep, I was up until the early hours of the morning to get the votes down. Part of my strategy was to use Nehe as essentially a meat shield, it was nehe who took all the blame for the votes and nehe who got a target on his back, this allowed me to make it through the votes controlling things from the shadows while Nehe was targeted. Socially speaking I do believe that I was very strong, I had connections with most people in the game and this allowed me to always have a solid grasp on who the votes were going to, I was never truly blindsided. Being so social allowed to gain information such as Andrews “super idol” and allowed me to put myself in a position where Nehe would play the chaos idol in order to save me when he could’ve saved it for himself and let me go, I only got votes at 2 tribals and was never in any real danger until the final 4 where kage wanted me gone and could do nothing about it but by using my social connections with Andrew and Ashlyn I was successfully able to get them to vote each other rather than me. In conclusion, I believe that I am deserving to win because ive worked hard every single round to get votes together and keep myself safe, ive been social and strategic and I have fought to stay, I have not had an easy time getting here I have had to fight, I didn’t have idols or the clinic, every vote it has been me saving myself, I want to win this so bad it hurts and I have worked for it.

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Alright guys, let's get to the vote First vote . . . Ashlyn (self Vote) Second vote . . . Nehe Third vote . . . Ashlyn Fourth vote . . . Nehe Fifth vote and the next member of the jury . . . Nehe Nehe the tribe has spoken.

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Here's a recap, because there weren't any posts made. Kage won the Sudoku immunity, and by a vote of 5-1 Connor was eliminated and became the next member of the jury. The next immunity was counting, and Kage blew everyone out of the water and won. Tribal council will be later this evening.