- Sun May 15, 2016 7:39:52 pm
#7509
Sorry for the length of this.
Hey jury and hosts! Thank you all for such an incredible season to participate in. This is, as a lot of you know, my first ORG game. To reach the end, I think is pretty good for my first time haha. I hope that most of your minds are undetermined as to who to vote for coming into this, because
I think everyone here deserves a fair chance to win your vote. Now, I know that I am gonna be facing an uphill battle, and I am ready to answer any and all of your questions and concerns.
I will be completely honest in my answers, because the lying cheating and stealing part of the game is over. If you are not considering giving me a fair chance, all I ask of you is to read what I have written in this opening statement because it may shine some light on things. That is all I ask, that you read this. If you want to bitch me out afterwards, or ignore me completely, go for it. Good luck Val and Jac!
I guess I will start from the beginning and work my way from there. So on original Yali, the first coupe of days of the game, I built a relationship with Nadiya, Jaclyn, Reed, Missy, and Drew/Keith. I was never close with Val or John, and I honestly had no plans to work with Val,
for the plain reason that she barely talked to me and she refused to let me in to her personal life, which I saw as a way to build a bond. We never got to build that bond. My main alliance was
Nadiya and Reed on original Yali. My plan was to work with them. If there was no swap, I was originally planning on sticking with them for the majority of the game. Of course, that didn't go according to plan, but fortunately my main ally, Nad, was still with me at the swap.
Once Keith went home, Me, Nad, Jac and Val planned to throw the next immunity challenge so that we could vote out one of the Asmat's. We were worried that Missy was in tight with Kelly/So/Jenn/Joe and that Drew or Reed would be gone next and we wanted those two to survive. That plan didn't really work out as the Asmat's managed to do the majority of the word search puzzle, and got help from Val and Jac as well, while we were
trying to throw, resulting in another Yali win. Thankfully, Missy went home next.
The next vote was going to be Joaquin, and when we heard that it was a double tribal, I was ecstatic. But, Joaq ended up winning that immunity which forced the vote onto Sierra, who we thought was the next big target. I could have flipped and voted out Jaclyn at that vote, and part of me wishes that I did because the game would have been much more fun. Unfortunately, Sierra/Dan/Joaq were way too close and letting them enter the merge as a threesome would have been way too dangerous. Me and Nad were actually weighing out the pros and cons for keeping Sierra about three or so hours before tribal that night. We both decided to keep Jaclyn as she was a safe vote with us, instead of Sierra/Dan/Joaq, who could turn on us.
This is where I saved Jaclyn. This can be backed up by Nadiya, who was the person I was discussing the plan with.
Dan and Joaq, you can back me up on this next part, but I believe that I was in control of all the strategy talk at that Sierra vote. That might sounds insane, but hear me out. As soon as the challenge ended, I was the first one to message all three of you and organize the Jaclyn vote with you. Jaclyn suggested we throw her name under,
but she isn't aware that even before Joaq won that challenge, the night before, Sierra and Dan had both told me that in case of an emergency where we had to vote someone out, they would be willing to vote for Jaclyn and that Joaq would be cool with that.
So even before the challenge, I was already organizing the next move with Sierra and Dan and a bit with Joaq as well. I was the messenger between Asmat and Yali, and
I put myself in a position where most if not all, information about the next vote went through me. All three of them had sent me messages saying they would be voting for Jaclyn. So I knew, even if we lost, there was no way I was gonna go home. Jaclyn getting those 3 votes wasn't by mistake, or because she suggested her name, her name was gonna be written down by Sierra/Dan/Joaq way before she had any say in it. I did that all throughout the game, shifted the game in ways that I wanted it to go, so that I was not gonna be targeted, and also where I was able to know what everyone was thinking. When I did get votes at the merge, I was never the main target.
The only time I did not know what was happening was at the Dan vote. This might make me sound a bit delusional but I will explain any concerns you have regarding this statement. No one can know everything about everything in this game, but I think I positioned myself, and maneuvered myself at the appropriate times where I was able to get information from people.
This brings me to the merge. The plan going into the merge that Me, Dan, Joaq, Val, Jac, and Nad set in to motion was to vote out Kelly/Jenn/ or So for the first vote. Basically, we wanted us 6 to stick together and take out any of the original Asmat's and bring Drew and Reed in with us. The moment we merged, Drew/Reed/Jenn sent me messages basically telling me all about what happened over at Asmat.
I was able to get a lot of info on how the game went from their side and what I learned was that Kelly and So had been blindsided at the Joe vote. I saw that Reed and Drew were very willing to work with me, which was good news for me. I also learned that
Dale and Dan were not very liked by the rest of the Asmat's which I found funny. The first vote was pretty simple. We had to keep Kelly from winning immunity and if she won, So would go instead. Kelly didn't win and Kelly went home with 7 of the 11 votes against her. This is where I turn my attention to Kelly for a second. Out of all the votes at the merge, I had the least to do with yours (besides Dan). I tried to be honest with you as much as I could. I told you that your name was being thrown around day 1 of the merge. When you told me you would vote for Jacyn because you didn't talk to her much, I told that to Nadiya, who in turn must've said it to Val or yourself. I am sorry about that little rumor, but I promise you,
that had nothing to do with you going home. The Dan vote is where I felt like I had no idea what was happening in the game for the first time since we started. That scared me. The plan about that vote was to vote out Val because she was getting close with Jenn. That is what the rumor had been.
This was a mistake in my game. Going back to when I mentioned that me and Val were not close on original Yali, this played big into me targeting her. I heard from Nadiya and a couple of other people that Val was thinking of flipping and voting with the Asmat 4 (Drew, Reed, Jenn, So) and taking out the guys one by one (Dan, Joaq, Myself) After the Kelly vote, Reed swore to me that he was aligned with me to the very end. The friendship we had at original Yali made me believe him and I trusted him. I organized a vote against Val which involved myself, Dan, Joaq, Drew, and Reed. Nadiya knew about this vote because we were allies and I wanted her not to be blindsided. She told me she was not gonna vote for Val and that the vote was going against Dan.
So even though I knew the vote was against Dan, I figured that the 5 votes I had was enough and that the vote would end up 5-4-1 or 5-3-2. I was mistaken. Dan went home, and I got another vote,
this time from Jenn. After that vote,
Drew and Jenn both decided to tell me that I was on the bottom. Drew told me that me or Joaq would most likely be going home next. Now, of course they would think that. The entire day before this, I was telling Reed how I was on the outs with Val/Nad/Jac and that I wanted Val to go home. In organizing the Val vote with Reed and Drew, I had them convinced that
I was on the bottom with the 3 girls. So of course, I was expecting for Drew and Jenn to tell me the things they did, that I was gonna be going home next. Acting like I was going home next and giving up was all
part of my strategy. Drew felt safe in his position and I played my hand carefully. I let him believe that I believed I was gone next. And it worked like a charm. To their knowledge, Nadiya and Jaclyn would vote against me no problem. That was not the case, because as I stated before, Nadiya had told me the vote was going to be Dan, the moment I told her the vote was going to be Val and I knew that
however Nad was gonna be voting, that is how Jaclyn and Val would vote. So when Drew and Jenn told me that I was next to go, I knew that wasn't gonna be the case. When Jenn told me that she refused to work with me or trust me anymore, that is when I decided I
no longer wanted her in the game. As Russell Hantz once said "If you ain't with me, you're against me." So I played the card I was dealt, which was the "betrayed alliance member" and I played that perfectly with Val and Nad, who ended up pleading with me that they were with me.
I used Dan going home, to have everyone clawing for my trust. This is how Joaq started to trust me as well. At the same time, Drew was freaking out thinking that he was going home next because of that challenge where we answered questions. So he and Reed came to me and Joaq wanting to vote out Val. Joaquin at one point, was seriously considering voting out Val. But I saw right through Drew and Reed at that point and I knew that they had no intention of taking me far in the game, and with Jenn telling me she didn't want to work with me, and So never talking to me about strategy,
I had no intentions of voting with them. Nadiya, Val, and JaclynDID NOT know about this plan. Me and Joaq agreed that not telling Nad and Jac was smarter because the less people that knew about the plan, the less chaotic it would be. I was locked on voting Jenn, but Joaq was more open to voting out Val. He was worried that the girls were lying and that they would actually be voting for him instead of Jenn. I knew this wasn't the case, because, unlike everyone thought,
I was never on the outs with the "Yali girls". Like I've said already, I positioned myself so that I was in the centre of information. Everything would go through me. So messaged Joaq right before tribal council and told him that he was going home, He messaged me saying he might vote for Val because he was worried she was telling the truth. I knew there was no truth to her statement and that is why I said "Stick to the plan" to Joaq at tribal council that night.
This is where I saved Val. So to quickly recap, I knew that Dan would be getting a lot of votes that night, I just didn't think he would go home. After that all happened, Val and Nad both wanted to earn my trust back. I used this as a way to get as much information about the game as possible so that I was caught back up. Nad sent me message threads after message threads with people she was talking to. Joaquin saw me as someone who had no allies and I became someone he could trust and "drag to the end." That's how I used the Dan vote to get in with Joaq. I had him as an ally from that point forward, which would help me manouver my way in voting out Jenn, and then Drew and Reed as well. Playing the "I've got no one but Joaq" card to Drew and Reed helped them feel like they were in total control of the game, meanwhile I was setting up the Jenn blindside with Val/Nad/Jac/Joaq. This is just an example of how I was able to adjust my game, and move and dodge at the right time to position myself in a perfect position in the game. I had the opposing alliance thinking I was on the bottom, therefore having no need to target me, while I had my alliance believing that they needed to win my trust back and therefore willingly working with me. Jenn, I would just like to say to you that I enjoyed talking to you quite a bit. When we were at 11,
I was arguing with Dan about you. He was trying to vote you out in the group message and I was doing everything to say that voting you out was a mistake. I had told you that I would lookout for you and I did. You returned that by voting for me. And then, when I tried to get you to vote against Drew, you told me there was
no way you would work with me. That saddened me because I liked you up until that point. I'm sorry that our games could not be played together and I hope that you understand WHY I voted you out.
It was not because I had something against you, it was because you had something against ME. Right before that tribal council, I asked you, "Who is getting voted out tonight?" and you told me "Joaquin" when really the vote was Val. You didn't let me play with you. You made your choice to play with Drew and Reed instead.
With Jenn gone, my attention turned to voting out the second biggest liar in this game (behind me) Drew. After I voted out Jenn, Reed and Drew were against me. Voting out Dan was Reed and Drew's way of getting in good with the "Yali girls". So once Drew got scared that he wasn't gonna be the winner of Indonesia, he decided to use the two people on the bottom, myself and Joaq and try and take out the "Yali girls." The thing about assuming people are goats or on the bottom is that most of the time, assumptions bite you in the ass. Now with Val nearly being voted out, Reed and Drew had voted against myself, Joaq, Val, Nad, and Jac. At this point, Drew started to scramble. He was trying to organize a vote against me. What he didn't know, is that
Nadiya was my closest ally and trying to use her against me was not a smart move. Right when we merged, me and Nadiya agreed that
we should keep our alliance secret and we did that very successfully. If someoen was gunning for Nadiya, I would know and if someone was gunning for me, she would know. So when Drew tried to vote me out using Nadiya, I knew about it and Drew was the next to go. I do not know much about this point of the game because I was away for that whole weekend, but
I had positioned myself in a good enough place in the game where I was able to place my vote, log off for three days, and not worry about missing info because Nadiya would tell me afterwards. Drew, I am
NOT expecting to win tonight, and therefore I am not expecting you to vote for me, but I would like to say, you were the cause of almost every rumor that I heard and everything managed to trace back to you. That was your flaw in the game, and I was able to extort it multiple times.
That was another part of my strategy, using people's flaws against them. You put me on the bottom with the Dan vote, and I let you think I was on the bottom. Nadiya showed me messages that you and her had about me, and you were not with me, and never planned to work with me. I hope you understand that I was only advancing my game when I voted against you.
Reed my brother, I would like to apologize to you. I feel like you had a solid gameplan. You were very social and likable at original Yali, and you managed to build a relationship with myself, Nadiya, and Val. When you got taken to Asmat, everyone was upset. That should show you how incredibly you played at the beginning. I understand that you became super close with Drew over there and I honestly believe that was the downfall of your game. You asked me to trust you and I told you that I needed you to vote for Kelly and I would be with you 100%. That is what happened.
You voted for Kelly and I became close to you. You were the first person that I told about the Val vote. I asked you to vote with me against Val, which was a mistake because you and Val, unknowingly to me at the time, were super close. This is another example of how I was out of the loop for that whole Dan vote, and I am not gonna claim otherwise. But, you decided to vote against Kelly and earn my trust only then to lie to my face for the next two days and then betray me with the Dan vote because you had a final 4 deal with Drew, Jenn, and So. I was really upset that you chose to do that, and if you had chosen to go with me instead, I think you would not have finished in 7th place. Regarding the Jenn vote, I told you that I wanted her gone.
Even though you had betrayed me, I STILL trusted you enough to tell you that I wanted Jenn gone. I was not gonna budge on that. You told me that
you would vote Jenn out. Then, Drew says Val, and you follow suit and say Val with him. I understand you had no plan on voting out Jenn, but I did. So when Jenn went home, I really tried to explain to you that me and you
DID NOT have a problem. That me and you could still work together. We agreed that we were taking this game
vote by vote and I was willing to prove my trust to you that next vote but unfortunately, you went into scramble mode and told everyone different things, which made everyone vote against you. You told me you were voting out So, but then told Val you were voting me, told Nad you were voting me. It sucks that you went out at 7, but I tried to work with you after Jenn went home, and instead you and Drew voted for me. You stuck with Drew till the very end, instead of going with me. I believe that me and you could have run this game together if you had just trusted me after Jenn went home. I hope you understand why I voted against you. You don't have to give me your vote tonight, but I want you to know why I voted against you.
Jaoquin, you wanted to vote out Nadiya and make a "big move" at F6 and even though Nadiya was never in my F3 plans,
I did not want her to go home on someone else's terms. You told me you got So and Val to vote against her with you and you needed me as the 4th, but I never wanted that. Nadiya did have two idols, but I honestly don't know if she would have played those idols that night,
unless I told her that she was a target. When you told me that So was freaking out and messaging the girls in a group message, I knew I had to tell Nadiya that she was being targeted. This is another example of me being in the center of information and being able to
control the game how I wanted it to go. Voting out Nadiya at F6 would not have been good for me (if we pretend she doesn't play an idol). Once So started messaging the girls and they came up with the 2-2-2, I got you and Nad to vote for Val. The original plan was to vote out Val that night.
Val winning immunity forced the vote onto you, who I planned to vote out at F5. Nadiya playing those idols was just as a precaution of things going our way. Once again,
I positioned myself in the game to where someone gave up immunity for me, instead of vote me out. I believe that shows how good I was at building bonds with people throughout this game. I never planned on going to F3 with you Joaq, simply because Drew and Reed seemed to love you. I'm sorry man, but you yourself know that the only reason you were aligned with me was because Joe, Sierra and Dan all went home. I lied to you about the Final 3 deal, and for that, I fully expect you to vote for Val or Jac tonight.
So vote.
Okay, so my original plan was to vote out Val at F6, vote out Joaq at F5, and then vote out Nadiya at F4, taking So and Jaclyn to the final 3. But So, vote after vote, you kept lying to me, you kept not trusting me or giving me a shot to bond with you and even though we would talk throughout the merge, you did not let me get close to you to the point where I felt safe enough taking you to the F4 and knowing you wouldn't turn on me. I was having a bad episode that day, I was upset and angry with real life things, and hearing you keep being fake with me just pushed me over the edge and I did call you a lot of names, which is ironic considering at F10 tribal, I told you that "Jury management is part of the game."
clearly I did not follow my own advice. I do not expect a vote from you tonight. I am an emotional person, and an emotional player at times, which is not a good quality to have but I am admitting my faults. I'm sorry if I offended you or made you upset. I will gladly answer any of your questions or if you plan to give me an earful, I am gonna let you do that as well.
I am not here to fight with anyone. I am here to explain why I should be the winner. Really after Joaq went home, there was not much gameplay left. Taking out So needed to be done because I truly believe that if she made it to the F3, Asmat would give her the win for getting to the end. Reed himself said she had the vote. I would have voted for her too, if I was 5th and she was here. Once we voted her out,
where Val voted for me, thinking Jac would vote me as well, may I add, the last thing to do was take out the biggest threat, Nadiya. I group messaged everyone and told them that I was voting for Nadiya, that if I got voted out at F4, my vote was going to Nadiya to win. I believe that gave Val and Jac not much choice but to keep me. Yes, they also kept me because I am the goat in this F3 for pissing off everyone on the jury, but I'd like to say that just because I pissed everyone off, doesn't mean I deserve to win any less. Do I think you should all forgive me and let me win? No. But do I think I deserve to be heard out and given a fair chance? Yes.
I built relationships with every single person on this jury. I took the time to message everyone, and talk to them about life, the game, the next move, whatever. Kelly, me and you talked about my gf and your gf, and you were the first person that I did that with.
No one else really knew much about my relationship until I talked to you about it. You were a really cool person to talk to and I hope that you can look past me voting you out, and look at the fact that I took the time to get to know you and at least try to be friendly. I told you day 1 that you were one of the names, and I was not lying to you about that. I did not lie to you that entire weekend, and I hope that you can take something from that when considering the vote tonight.
Jenn, me and you talked in depth about a lot of stuff,
probably even more than I talked to Nadiya. I was very sad that you turned agaisnt me so easily because you thought i was untrustworthy when I was honest with you the entire time as well. I told you I was voting for Val that night and that you weren't gonna get votes, and you told me Dan was your vote.
I wish we could have continued that line of communication. Dan, I don't really know what to say to you, I was myself with you quite a bit. We talked about how annoyed you were with Kelly and So and Jenn, and when everyone was condemning you for calling people retarded, I still wanted to work with you. I told you that you would be getting votes that night, and you knew that yourself.
I was honest with you, apart from voting out Sierra.
Drew, me and you could have been a dominant duo if we were able to work together more. Instead, you were never with me and I was never with you. It sucks, that you kept telling people rumors about me, and it
really sucks that you wanted to vote me out after Jenn went home instead of working with me. But I understand. I just want you to know, that you are a great player and I would not want to be against you again.
Reed, I already said my piece to you in the above paragraph. Joaquin, I was with you from when Dan went home up until you went home.
I did lie to you, when I said I would go to final 3 with you, but I did not plan to do that. F5 was as far as I was willing to go with you because
you are an incredible player. You're able to switch it on and off whenever you need, making you be able to not piss off anyone, and yet be lethal. So, I'm not gonna sit here and ask for your vote.
Nadiya. You are my first ally and probably the only person here that doesn't hate me.
I'm not gonna ask anything from you other than a friendship. If you want to give Val your vote tonight, please do. I just want to be able to talk to you after the game. You of all people know my game the best. Me and you played this game side by side. I don't need to explain anything to you because you already know everything. I just want you to know that I enjoyed playing with you more than playing this game at times. When I was feeling down and upset, you were there for me and I thank you for that. I will always be here for you if you need me.
In closing, I would just like to say that
this season deserves a good winner. Did Val play an incredible game? Yes. She was able to build bonds and not lie to people, while at the same time, making the right moves to get here. Did Jac play an incredible game? Yes. I don't know much about her game because she was in active. She did things to get here and one move that I made involving Jac would have to be at the swap. I built a bond with Jaclyn at Original Yali, so that at the swap, she put Me, Nad, Val and herself together. That was not a coincidence. It was also not a coincidence that she sent Missy to Asmat first.
Do I believe I played an incredible game? Absolutely. You guys can call me a goat but I truly believe that
I deserve to win this game because of the moves that I made. I've pointed out two cases of where
I saved both Val and Jaclyn from being voted out. I was involved in every single vote at the merge, besides the Dan vote. Every vote after the Dan vote, went exactly how I wanted it to go. I voted correctly 7/8 merge votes. That is the best voting record, besides Nadiya. I was able to move through this game in a way where I was making the moves to better my position each vote. Did I piss off people in the process? Yes. Did I lie cheat and steal? Yes, but so did all of you on the jury, only I did it that little bit better. People can claim that I was dragged to the end but I don't think that is true. I received votes at 4 merge tribal councils. That is 50% of tribal councils where my name was written down, yet here I am. I believe I made moves that got me here, all by myself.
Val and Jaclyn both relied on the majority to keep them around at various times, and both were out of the loop multiple times when it comes to strategy. I honestly believe that I am the most deserving person here tonight of the victory. Do I expect to win? I don't. I would compare my game to Russell Hantz, and the Russell Hantz game is not a winning strategy, but I believe it is a deserving one. Thank you for all those that took the time to read through all of this, and I am ready to answer your questions.
