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survivor-uluru · 5 years

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NIKIAS’S ANSWERS

Sammy- Thanks Sammy for asking me a question. Well that’s a hard question but I appreciate it. It is hard because I did have plenty of options for the end. I didn’t rely on specific people to get in the end because I was having working relationships with almost everyone and I got many suggestions for the end, which ended up others relying on me instead of me relying on them. So I guess I would say myself, but if I can’t say myself, I guess I will go with Corey. We are friends and when you are Friends with someone you feel like their going to protect you, as long as its not going hurt their game individually.

Bo- As I said, they were plenty options for me to go to the end because I was offered by a bunch of people going to the end with so I think I would have found my way on different directions. I just choose to eliminate the people who were the stronger option game-wise most of the time. I could have chosen to vote out weaker players and still get to the end but I choose not too. I could easily just float someone and get to the end with out getting any blood in my hands but I just feel I should play this game as strategic as possible and with out any emotions. I just think that I flipped on the right time, I was calculating how to not be the next person vote out and how to avoid being a target deeper in the game and how to cover myself on every side(since I knew I couldn’t rely on immunites) while taking out big threats. I think in a different direction, I would haven’t have been able to play in the middle, I would have just being a target. I feel like we connected strategic wise at your last moments on the game and you were someone who I wanted to work had you stayed longer. I definitely believe that had you stayed that round we could have done good moves together. I gotta say, when you told me that you were putting your judgemental votes on Drew that gave me confidence that the move would work.

Veni- My strategy was to make moves utr. I was always trying to make people to not see me as a threat in the game but I was making sure that I was in the best spot possible. I was always trying to present myself as a weak player when I was not. The strongest aspect of this strategy is that you can make the moves that you want to make with out anyone noticing you ( for example only Corey knew that I was the main reason that Drew was voted out). The aspect that its weaking on this kind of gameplay, is that its hard for jury to shows appreciation when you are playing it unless you are a super fan, because they wouldn’t expect it from me to play that way or they would consider me weak, and they would reward the person who you choose not to vote out, because they would think its someone who you were getting influenced by, when instead you just choose them because they were weaker game wise compare to the other option.

Maddie- I love you too<3 . We both made it so deep this time compare to our last time and I am so happy for that haha <3 . I am so happy that you are in a better position than you were in the game, now that you are out of the game. Cant wait to talk to you when this is all over. I miss talking to you.

Corey- Well I guess they didn’t even had a map at the first place? ( i couldn’t think something more creative). Corey I get it, if you are mad at me, but you know really well that I am not a bad guy,( you have seen that, you don’t have to let a game judge that). In your vote-out, I freaked out and I legit spend money to have internet for a few hours just to talk to people about the vote( I was on vacation). Monty and Gage even try to lie to me (didn’t work out) to vote out eddie and have a 3-2-1 vote, that’s how much I tried to protect you. I just got freaked out and I wasn’t perfect about it, that’s true. I just wasn’t willing to vote out myself for someone else. It was beneficial for me to vote you out because I could have still play in the middle (which I did after you were voted out) and I still try not too. Monty, Eddie and Gage can confirm that I did try to protect you, but Eddie let them know about your plan and they saw you as the biggest threat (which you were). I am not perfect and I guess I should have let you know at least, but I just got so freaked out so I didn’t make the right call on this one of not letting you know. I hope you can understand my point of view. One of us already lost the game, that doesn’t mean it has to be both of us. I love you no matter who you choose to vote, and I just don’t want to lose your friendship for a game.

Drew- Well that sucks. Not taking it personally though, I get it that you want to help you friends to win it, can’t blame you for that.

Eddie- Do me, do me, do me like that Hurt me so good, make me wanna be bad. Well thank you for everything even if you are mad at me. You were someone that I had a lot of fun talking in this game and I hope we can be friends after. I know you are mad at me game-wise and that’s fine. I just hope we can be good after the game.

Lukas- I guess my biggest regret was not letting Corey know about the f6 situation. Even though, I did try to protect him, I looked out for myself (too much) in a way that I was paranoid if I spill everything to him, it could have ended me being voted out at this point of the game. So yeah my biggest regret would be letting my anxiety issues get the best of me in f6. That’s the one thing I regret. Other than that, I think that I played dirty but I was respectful to every one of you.

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MONTY’S ANSWERS (PART 2)

RESPONSE TO EDDIE:

This is a lot like Corey's question, but I can reiterate and expand a little bit more. My game was not just voting with the majority, because I was often guiding the majority to where I wanted the majority to land. There was only one round where someone came to me and said "This is the plan" and I said ok, and that was Corey's vote. The rest of the time, Jose, Bodhi, Glo, Bo, Veni, you, and Lukas, I was helping get the numbers to go onto those players. Jose, I worked with Corey after Jose tried to create an out of control alliance, to get him out. Sammy and I worked together to flip from Bodhi's mega alliance to the alliance of 7 I proposed to give me the most power possible and vote out a huge threat to my game. Corey and I worked to ensure a split vote plan during the 2nd Dreamtime tribal to get out Glo, someone I specifically knew wouldn't be good for my game moving forward. During the merge vote, I furthered idol paranoia to get the vote onto Bo instead of you, Maddie, or Lukas, all people who talked to me more and/or were bigger shields. I worked with Drew and info he gave me to quietly flip our alliance against Veni without shenanigan chats created or extra paranoia. And then in the home stretch, Gage came to me for the Corey vote, and I managed to flip Nikias to avoid rocks, and then I helped make sure Gage and Nikias were on the same page despite voting against each other the round before to keep solid and bring the alliance to the end. As to why I didn't reach out to the minority, I wanted to keep this game simple, with no extra lies or plans made on the side with the minority. I knew that I wanted to keep plans with the people I had 100% trust in and had 100% trust in me, and I hadn't built 100% trust bonds with people not in the alliance of 7. I knew reaching out would be one big awkward mess for everyone involved, and I didn't want to have conversations where both parties knew they were lying but kept on anyways. That has always felt fake to me when I've been in the minority position, so I didn't do it. If this came off as rude, or uncaring I'm very sorry, and let's start a snap streak that I can break in 3 weeks so we can talk more.

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RESPONSE TO LUKAS:

1: Sammy - Sammy was my OG #1 ally in this game. We made an early alliance not just with Drew and Nikias, but with each other first and foremost, my first ride or die in this game. We worked together very closely on the swapped tribes, making sure we had each others' backs and no votes coming our way, and then kept that up all the way through him getting voted out in the tremor. Towards the middle of the mutiny abomination, he started to be online a little bit less, but we stayed on the same wavelength voting wise, and I knew as long as I had his best interest at heart, he'd have mine as well. I think because of our closely played game right from the beginning and his decreased activity halfway through, he would have been someone I felt I would've had a better shot against and someone I could say I played the entire game with. 2: Drew - From how the rest of my FTC has been, this shouldn't be a shock. He was one of the first people I connected with on day 1, part of my OG Maverick alliance, and one of my closest allies in this game. Especially when Sammy went out, he was one of the people that really helped me mentally and strategically make it through the early merge. PLUS! I think we all can agree that judgement was an UGLY ass twist, so I'd love to have the person who got taken out by that by my side here at FTC. I think he'd be a hard FTC opponent because he's so likable and well spoken, but I've beaten him once at FTC after working against him the whole game, so I'd love to have the chance after working with him the whole game.

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MONTY’S ANSWERS (PART 1 BECAUSE I CAN’T FIT ALL THE VIDEOS)

RESPONSE TO SAMMY:

Drew, for a lot of reasons, was the biggest part of how I got to the end. The first being that he was a MASSIVE shield for me, right from the get go. Being one of the most old school players in the cast, I knew that right from the beginning with the judgement twist, some people might be looking at me (like TJ) as someone to potentially vote, but I also knew that no matter how big my judgement threat level would be, Drew's would always be WAY bigger than mine, so I knew I needed him to be one of my closest allies. Second, if anyone has watched Drew play a few times before, you might have seen him use the same pretty basic, boring, but incredibly effective strategy of get a tight alliance, get extra safety either through an advantage or challenge wins, and keep your allies close and your head level. I took notes from his game that is a proven winning formula and applied them to my own. I had my allies that I kept close until I couldn't trust them, made the hard moves like voting out Corey who was at the time one of my closest allies and friends left, and found my idol early to have that extra layer of protection. Lastly, how Drew helped me get to the end, is he became a close ally that I was able to bounce ideas off. We were rarely on the same tribe so how close I looked to him was kept to a minimum, despite him being an incredibly close ally, and I gained a lot of info from him, such as the possibility of Veni flipping with his vote steal, a few judgement votes that cam from TJ, and a few alternate vote plans from Nikias that didn't make it off the ground. I really leaned into him as someone who I could bounce ideas off for the best way to move forward, and an invaluable asset to help secure votes I was less confident in my ability to sway.

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RESPONSE TO BO:

Talking to you, Bo, changed my game by putting me on the defensive right during that merge round. After loosely working with you during the Dylan and Jose votes, I knew we had some bit of game sense about each other, and then the merge round, when neither of us were giving up any info, a first in our chats, I knew something was wrong. This was the first and only time I called out anyone, Veni, in the now 6 person alliance chat, making sure he was still on board with the plan I had been pushing for, to get you out. If I had gone with Bodhi's plan of an alliance of us, him, Maddie, Sammy, Eddie, Lukas, and Glo, I think there is no way I make the end. While I had talked to and worked with all of you before, I didn't have the same level of trust in any of you that I had in the people I did work with instead. I knew that I would be labeled as a pair with Sammy, and have allies with other people prioritized over me. I think I might have made merge, maybe judgement, but not much further if I hadn't acted to bring together the alliance of 7 and vote out Bodhi. After that vote, my problems with the people on that side increased, especially through the early merge, where you were one of the people primarily trying to get me out that first round

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RESPONSE TO VENI:

As I stated in Sammy's question, I really stuck to the idea of keeping it simple, and keep info flowing. I wanted a group of allies who I knew I could have significant pull with each and every one, and vote out people who were, if not directly working against me, trying to leave me out of their plans and games, no matter how briefly. It started with Jose's vote when he proposed an initial alliance of me, him, and two others. Then he wanted to add two more people without telling the half of the people in the initial group. This was too messy for my liking, so I went to Corey and made the info about this alliance known, and together we got the vote nearly unanimously flipped back on Jose. The next round, I did my best to unite the allies I most trusted at that point to form the 7 person group that first took out Bodhi (who I had targeted for setting up an alliance that didn't directly prioritize my future), and then staying in the majority for the remainder of the game. I kept myself at the center of the alliance, doing my best to keep up all together, urging the tremor group to stick together thinking that the other 3 might split, which they did, only turning on you and Corey after hearing from Drew and Gage respectively that there was talk of you either outright working against me, or leaving me out of a vote. So with the help of Drew we got the alliance flipped on you, and then the vote flipped on Corey for a 3-3 tie, and I had enough pull with Nikias to make it a 3-1 revote. The whole time I had my allies giving me as much information as I could get, from the workings of the tremor vote, and plans to leave me out, and stayed aligned to those who showed complete loyalty to me.

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RESPONSE TO MADDIE:

1: BO - A) Bo goes to a school that starts ridiculously early in the year. About a week in he started complaining about having to go to school, which was like the second week of August...not a cute look for a school. B) Bo love stingrays. Their little faces so precious! He's got a few toy ones even. C) He'll (hopefully, I've got faith) be a fully licensed driver by the end of the year. He's in driver's ed right now and then onto his license after that. 2: DREW - A) Drew doesn't like deadlines, and it gets him in trouble sometimes oops. It's that tendency of if I can do it later, I will! And it almost got him screamed at bad oops. B) Behind his well put together presentation, a secret crackhead is waiting. The amount of times we ranted on call or in pms is RIDICULOUS! I'd never thought Drew would be one to complain all that much, but here we are, and it was good to see a less diplomatic side of him. C) Also, I learned Drew knows when to pick his battles, specifically not against 10+ women in love with a book he hates. 3: COREY - A) Coret is a GAYMER. He just got a switch and is/was playing Mario Odyssey and BotW and making pretty good progress in both. B) Corey loves that Gay™ music that everyone loves to hate but is actually like...good. He pulled out the TSwift references OFTEN! and always seemed like he was off seeing someone in concert and I was jealous yeah. 3) He's SUPER funny. I'd talked to him a little bit before this game, but here I learned just how much our humor bounces off each other. It's not really something I can explain too well, but just talking with him is fun and funny, and that's partially because he's naturally charismatic and fun in general, but also just a great back and forth with similar typing styles which I've never realized can make messaging a person about literal NOTHING just flat out fun.

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RESPONSE TO COREY:

I think there are mixed opinions on my game, because I didn't play an obvious or loud or exciting one, instead an effective one. I rarely caused drama outside of votes to purposefully keep my name from coming up and giving anyone any reason to vote for me. I found very early on in the game people that I could trust, and I mostly stuck to them. I knew the people that would be most beneficial to my game and stuck with them. People outside of this probably don't see as much the work I put in to the alliance, keeping it as strong as possible and voting how best suited me and my game. Even within the alliance, I made sure to vary who specifically I would work with each vote to keep the numbers in line, and keep people feeling like they weren't being left out. Drew on the Veni vote, you on the Jose and Glo votes, Sammy on the Bodhi vote, and the only time that script was flipped was with Gage on your vote pulling me in instead of the other way around. By varying who specifically I was doing most of the planning with, I made sure that the most amount of people felt close to me and trusted me, thinking I was always working with them above others, and this lost a bit of the visibility, because I did my best to make sure nobody knew the full extent of my game. While I may not have been the number one driving force of every vote, I was always at least number 2, and the vote ended where I wanted it. And that's why I think I deserve to win. I kept the votes going the way I wanted every round except for one, your round, and kept in the people who benefited not just my making it to the end, but how I made it to the end, including your vote.

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GAGE’S ANSWERS

Sammy: Hi Sammy! In my opinion, I feel like the person who played the biggest role in getting me to the end was Veni. While I had very strong relationships with individuals I knew before this game such as Drew and Monty, Veni I feel like played a more impactful role in why I am here speaking to the jury. On the Moral tribe, Veni was able to connect with a lot of original tribe in ways I feel like I honestly couldn’t in the beginning. Veni I felt was my way to make a lot of base connections that help propelled me further into the game. Veni was also always helping me with the idol searching on the skull, as well as with dreamtime searches, especially once he told me that he found a vote steal. On top of that, I knew that while Veni was helping me out, I knew that Veni was always a jury threat and that was always clear amongst the rest of the competitors. Once Veni was voted out, followed by Drew getting out by the judgement twist, and Maddie unfortunately having to leave due to personal circumstances, I was left at F6 with a group that was composed of individuals who were seen as bigger jury threats than me, and individuals who were seen as not as big of jury threats, and I don’t believe I’m able to even get that far, let alone FTC, if it wasn’t for Veni.

Bo: Hi Bo! Even though we didn’t talk that much throughout the game (something we both discussed towards the end and that we were both aware of), I do feel like there was one conversation that we had that significantly impacted my game and the game as a whole. This happened during the final 10, where the numbers were seemingly 6 (Gage) vs 4 (Bo), and you came to me saying that it was actually 5v5 and that you someone was going to flip and asked me to flip too. You wouldn’t tell me who this individual was at first, but once I was able to convince you that I couldn’t flip unless I knew the specific person, I was able to get you to tell me that it was Veni playing both sides. Knowing that it was Veni considering this move, I knew I needed to do immediate damage control if he was telling the truth to you because I knew he had a vote steal and could easily control such a closely contested vote. I was able to successfully get Veni to vote for you this round by saying that it was you that ratted him out, and Veni opened up about exposing the Uwuwu Uwuwu alliance, etc. I know that me you and Maddie always talked about working together at multiple points in this game, but unfortunately that never came to fruition, but I don’t think I would have gone as far as I have if I did decide to do that. I feel like the reason I am here today is because of the tighter bonds I had with other people who in turn had connections to the rest of the tribemates, while I always knew that Maddie and yourself were never really that tight with me and never had gone to the Final 3 with me. So overall, I don’t have many, if not any, regrets about the decisions I made and the people I decided to work with, because I truly believe that I would not have gotten to FTC if I had taken a different path.

Veni: Hi Veni! I know this sounds basic and very cliche, but my strategy coming into games is to play on the idea of “groupthink” and that if the majority of the people have a certain perception (whether that be a specific person is a jury threat, if someone is playing harder than others), than it is technically reality, while also incorporating the strategy of making sure there is always a shield/a bigger threat left in the pecking order to make sure that it will not be you (well me) that goes home. This is how I was able to play and win in my first season, and I knew I was gonna have to play this lowkey/social-esque game strategy to an even more effective manner if I wanted to have any shot of getting far into this game, considering the reputation that I had coming in as a past winner, as well as a twist being implemented where someone was going to be just straight up yeeted at Final 8, so I knew I had to go under the radar ASAP to avoid getting jury votes. I always tried to keep myself in people’s eyes by always trying to have 1 on 1 conversations with everyone while also doing the public dreamtime tasks to show that I was putting in an above average into the game, but at the same time I never wanted to have to rely on an advantage from the dreamtime that would possibly make me seem like too big of a threat as well as give me a distorted perception of my position within the game dynamics. I feel like I was able to accomplish this at different opportune moments of the game, such as the Bodhi vote, where I was being targeted by a vast number of people still left in the game, but I was at that point able to get my threat level below a certain threshold, as well as that point forming strong enough relationships that people were willing to keep me once my name had been thrown out as the target for that round. However, there are of course some weak points to implementing this kind of strategy. Since this game is lowkey, it’s hard to actively articulate what you did since it’s not a very visible/outright strategy. It’s also not the most exciting, and I know you guys as a jury (as well as myself being a former jury member) want to be exciting, innovative gameplay! So I know on that end my gameplay may not seem that effective, but hey, I’m the only person out of the others that can say that everytime I went to tribal, the person I voted for went home, and I feel like I came into this game with a larger than average target on my back in comparison to the FTC and other tribemates that were in this game, and the fact that I am able to sit here plead my case due to the maneuverability and the strategy that I implemented in this org? I can sit here and say that I am proud of myself, which is something I don’t say quite often.

Drew: Somebody broke me once Love was a currency A shimmering balance act I think that I laughed at that And I saw your face and hands Coloured in sun and then I think I understand Will I understand? Will we fight, stay up late? In my dreams I'm to blame Different sides of the bed Roll your eyes, shave my head Now we're stuck in the storm We were born to ignore And all I got is a chance to just sit (I'm in love and you've got me, runaway) You steal the air out of my lungs, you make me feel it I pray for everything we lost, buy back the secrets Your hand forever's all I want Don't take the money Don't take the money I slept on my own those nights Was still in my parents house And I cut off my t-shirt sleeves And claim a new continent Til I saw your face and hands Covered in sun and then I think I understand Will I understand? Will we fight, stay up late? In my dreams I'm to blame Different sides of the bed Roll your eyes, shake my head Now we're stuck in the storm We were born to ignore And all I got is a chance to just sit (I'm in love and you've got me, runaway) You steal the air out of my lungs, you make me feel it I pray for everything we lost, buy back the secrets Your hand forever's all I want Don't take the money Don't take the money You steal the air out of my lungs, you make me feel it I pray for everything we lost, buy back the secrets Your hand forever's all I want Don't take the money Don't take the money When you're looking for your shadow Standing on the edge of yourself Praying on the darkness Just don't take the money Dreaming of an easy Waking up without weight now And you're looking at the heartless Just don't take the money You steal the air out of my lungs, you make me feel it I pray for everything we lost, buy back the secrets Your hand forever's all I want Don't take the money Well, don't take the money (I'm in love and you've got me, runaway) You steal the air out of my lungs, you make me feel it I pray for everything we lost, buy back the secrets Your hand forever's all I want Don't take the money Don't take the moneyJust don't take the money Just don't take the money Just don't take the money Just don't take the money

Maddie: Hi Maddie! When I was first recruited for this season by the lovely Andrew, I knew that I would almost certainly be casted on the moral (because Andrew thinks I’m a cinnamon roll yeah), but I also know that in my regular life I come off as someone who is really is to the nice, to the point where if I do something that may come as mean or irritating, people tend to take a lot more offense if I make a move in a game in comparison to another competitor because most people don’t believe that I would cut people in games (To put it in perspective, I’ve been told that I am the equivalent to Dawn Meehan if I was ever to play real life survivor, so take that as you will). And plus being put on a tribe literally called the “Morals” ,people already expect to you play a certain way due to a tribe designation, and breaking away an already moral association that people expect me to play “loyal” and “nice” game in comparison to maybe a more “wild” and “cutthroat” game, which was expected from the mavericks and the merciless. I do think throughout this game though, I did stay true to the “moral” moniker. I feel like a played a more social and loyal game throughout my time in Uluru. Kind of stated in my previous answers, I always tried to have genuine 1 on 1 conversations with everyone in the game just about their daily life, not only just because I’m trying to build a game relationship, but also a big reason I play games is to just meet new people and make new friends. I feel like I stayed true to my moral roots this time around in terms of how I played the game, as well as treating everyone with respect on a personal level (Also omg Maddie on video? Amazing. Revolutionary. Iconic.).

Corey: Hi Corey! I feel like the move I am most proud of in this game, and not to be cheesy or cliche, but it would have to be getting you out (ripperoni). In my eyes, you were always the biggest threat up until that point, whether that be jury threat, physical threat, strategic threat, social threat, you were everything my dude. I knew that I did not stand a shot with you if I was at the end with you, and it didn’t help that I knew that you were making F2 deals with a good amount of people left. I knew you needed to go home at F6, and this was before I even found out that you were targeting me that round. Plus, not to be shady, but Monty, Eddie, and I having the #Coreyexposedparty was kind of iconic? Especially once we found out that Nikias was lying to all of us and was doing whatever you wanted him to do. And I know this game seemed very straightforward and there wasn’t a lot of necessarily bold and exciting moves, the vote going 3-3 and on the surface seemed like it might go to rocks was I’m sure pretty fun to watch from a viewer perspective, and having a significant hand for this vote means I was able to bring some sort of memorable to this game, and I’m glad I can take ownership for that (also watching Lukas’s face drop as soon as he saw the first Corey vote was a hoot and a half). (Double also I’m very obviously Meghan McCain A.K.A. Andrew’s hall pass if he was straight).

Eddie: Hi Eddie! So when it came to making sure that I was always the one staying at the all the votes (kind of stated before in previous questions), but I always had to make sure there was a bigger target in front of me at every vote, especially in a general/straightforward game where a lot of the time, the person that was picked off tended to be the overall biggest jury threat. As you can relate, coming in as a winner, we both had relatively large targets on our backs at the beginning of the game due to our reputation beforehand, which meant that we had to both be lowkey and doing well in our social relationships a lot more in comparison to the rest of the cast since we came into this game basically put under a magnifying glass, especially due to the judgment twist. As stated before, I knew I had succeeded in getting myself below the perceived threshold once I was targeted by Bodhi, but I was to survive what is considered the vote that drew the line in the sand. Same thing with the tremor tribal, Lukas had the opportunity to vote me out with Bo and Maddie and cause a gigantic riff within the majority alliance, but instead once he stuck to his word and said he would vote however I told him to since Veni and Sammy were targeting each other, and I decided to keep Veni because Veni would always be a bigger threat and would be targeted before me, where as if I kept Sammy, I would for sure be on jury and Sammy would be here at Final Tribal Council, and I really do believe that. Same goes Corey, you, and Lukas, who all had better underdog stories and more exciting components to your guys game in comparison to mine.

Lukas: Hi Lukas! WHEW. First off, I would like to apologize if there is still any sort of personal “beef” if that makes sense. We love a good feud, but never if it goes beyond the game, and I personally don’t think it did, at least for me, but if there was any point where you felt like that then I truly apologize. But yes, the big, overarching question and the reason why us 3 are pleading are case: Why do I deserve to win (a memoir). First off, I know that my gameplay wasn’t the most “captivating” and I didn’t really bring a new innovative strategy to the (dare I say) hellhole that is Tumblr Survivor, but I did what I could do with the cards that I was dealt. Coming into this game, I already had a bigger target on my back than Monty and Nikias, not only because I came as a former winner, but because there was a judgement twist, which meant people that already had big reputations such as Drew, Eddie, Glo, and myself had counteract by being lowkey and relying on a more social heavy game to be able to go further while also not racking up judgement votes, which is something from my understanding that Nikias and Monty never had to worry about. I was also placed on the Moral tribe, which I know may not seem like that much of an issue, but as I talked about in my answer to Maddie, it meant that I was already placed in a label that I was “loyal”, “kind”, etc., Which meant that if I performed a move or action that did not associate with being a moral, then I was going to get more of the brunt of the blame as well. This was evident when you were mad at me or lying to you about the Bodhi vote (which we talked about extensively already) but the reason I did that was because I found out you were voting for ME that round and lying to me first so I had to do what I had to do to survive, but this also happened at Final 6 when Nikias yelled at me for lying to him about me telling to throw his vote at Eddie to cause a 3-2-1, but once again, he was targeting AND VOTED FOR ME that round, and I only lied to him once I found out that he was doing such. As stated in your “Jury Questions Video”, the game play from merge on didn’t necessarily have that many shifts in power, but one thing you stated to me before you left was that the Corey blindside at Final 6 was the most exciting tribal council of the season, which I believe I played the largest hand out of everyone involved in orchestrating that particular vote. I feel like another vote that was also very exciting was the tremor tribal (thanks to you of course!), but once again, I felt like I had a large hand in deciding the outcome for that exciting tribal since you stated that you would however I said I would vote, and since we both knew that Veni and Sammy were targeting each other, it meant that we were the kingmakers for a very shocking and dynamic tribal council for the beginning of the jury phase. Also in comparison to Monty and Nikias, I made sure that I was not having to rely on advantages to try and propel to this point in the game. For example, if Monty did not have the super idol (and it not been public knowledge that he had it), then in my eyes, Monty would have been voted out, because to be quite honest, my ideal F3 at that point in the game would have been to be sitting next to Eddie and Nikias, but once you won immunity, Monty was safe, and nobody Nikias because everyone perceived him as someone that would be easy to beat in the end, Eddie and I unfortunately had to target one another. And just because this just popped in my head and I personally like thinking about the story of a season (because I love survivor seasons that have awesome narratives in comparison to seasons that were just filled with gamebots), it’s kind of iconic that we were always against each other from the beginning of the “Chrissa-less” tribe on, and everyone knew that this was public knowledge, and it lasted all the way until Final 4? You have to admit that it’s kind of cute. Overall, I really do think I deserve to win this game. I know I wasn’t the most strategic person on this cast, I don’t think I played the best social game. I don’t think I was best player out of this cast of 21. But the one thing I could be was the most determined. I was determined to get to the end despite being a target and receiving votes at a majority of the tribal councils, to play a good game that at least I could respect at the end of the day, and to make new friends (Go follow Maddie on tumblr before she starts live blogging Survivor Island of the Idols!), and I’m determined to win this game.

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JURY QUESTIONS

Sammy:

Who do you feel played the biggest role in getting you to the end and how?

Bo:

How did you talking to me impact your game, and how could things have changed had you decided to do other things with other people, would you have made it to the end, why or why not?

Veni:

Hello to the three of you congratulations to you all for outlasting us! My vote will be based off a few factors - your relationship to me, your game and how much I personally liked it overall, your FTC performance in general and most importantly my upcoming question to the three of you. What type of game/strategy did you play and how did you accomplish it. To add to that, what's the strongest and weakest aspect of you incorporating that strategy. I'm looking to see who played their own strategy the best. Better strategies will of course earn more respect from me but I'd like to give all of you a chance.

Drew:

What up boys, congrats on making it here. I'm late and lowkey disengaged with this as a coping mechanism many moons ago, so I don't have any questions for you, I'll get any extra information from the other jurors' questions. I love you, it was a blast to play with you again, and i wish you luck in how this plays out, except nikias who made me very sad, you complete jerk. Probably won't read his responses to people.

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Eddie:

Monty: Some people feel like your game is boring and I feel like you saying you worked with me is bullshit because all of that is through gage, who worked with me at the final 6 and then clued you in. Please explain to me how your game wasn’t just a basic game who voted with the majority and didn’t really reach out to the minority at all.

Gage: hi cutie, my vote is most likely goes to your cause you’re ummmm kind of everything, (makeup)

But in what way did you make sure that you weren’t the one who left out of all of those votes where your name was written down?

Nikias: I’m good luv enjoy

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I believe Bo, Drew, and Eddie didn’t submit anything but I guess in the mean time, the final 3 can answer these. Because we’re waiting on questions, I’ll say the answers as of right now are due at 10 PM EST on Sunday night. Anyone who doesn’t submit a jury question/statement may be in jeopardy of losing their vote at FTC. So submit. Thank you.

UPDATE: EDDIE HAS SUBMITTED

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OPENING STATEMENTS

GAGE:

Hello Friends! Local Cockroach Gage speaking. I hope y’all still remember that this game exists and that I do as well! I first off want to say thank you to the hosts Andrew, Johnny, and Adrian for hosting this game. Despite the ups and downs and trials and tribulations of this game, you guys were great hosts and I wouldn’t trade you guys for anyone else. I would also like to thank Monty, Nikias, and the rest of the cast for this experience. The main reason I play games is to meet new people and build stronger relationships with people I may have already played a game with, and I’m glad I got to make some new friends, rekindle some old relationships, and overall just have a good time interacting with y’all throughout the game. I’m gonna try to keep this short and simple, but I feel like my game can be defined by 3 main aspects: Making relationships, self-awareness/perceptions of others, and luck.

When it comes to playing games, I try my best to make relationships with everyone whenever I’m able to find the time to (mostly just because like I stated before, I like to meet new people and forge stronger relationships I may have already interacted with in the past. I was very thankful to be put into a game with new people I have gotten to talk to before, as well as meeting people from my past (including Monty, Drew, Corey, Sammy, etc.). These new and old relationships I feel like are the reason I was able to get to this point. Monty and I worked together throughout the entirety of the game, as we voted together throughout the entire game and are the only two people (and also Drew rip) to vote correctly throughout the “merge”. My relationship with Drew from previous games I feel helped me out significantly as well, especially when it came to the infamous judgement twist. Working and building with a relationship Corey however was probably the most important relationship I knew I could have. Ever since we were put on the moral tribe together, it became very clear that Corey was able to build relationships with castaways in which I could not, and I knew sticking with this social icon was my best to not only keep me in the game, but also to make sure I was able to get information from others that I did not have such a close bond to. At the same time, I do feel like that the social bonds that I personally made as well is what kept me here to. At the tremor tribal and we were subjected to Lukas’s rules, Sammy and Veni targeted each other and Lukas promised to vote wherever I told him to vote. Lukas could have easily gotten Bo and Maddie to vote me out 3-2-1 which would have inadvertently caused the most cracks in alliances and chaos in the gave up until that point, but instead he kept me in the game, and I was able to stay since I had closer relationships with Sammy and Veni than they had with each other.

I also feel like I got to where I’m in this game by being self aware of the situations I’m in and trying make sure to where my perceptions of my castaways. As stated before, I knew that Corey was always the most interconnected tribe member throughout the game, and the round where we had the infection immunity challenge during the beginning of the “merge” solidified this belief. Once people were also aware of how Corey was interconnected to the slowly forming jury, I was able to get him out at Final 6, which is insane because I think Corey played the best game out of everyone this season. Winning touchy subjects also helped me build confidence in my perceptions as well. When I play touchy subjects, I always make my personal list the same as my “majority think” list. Touchy subjects revolves around the idea of groupthink and if you guess what the majority said, then you most likely have a good read on tribe dynamics. I was able to win this iconic immunity challenge, something that I have been able to do in the vast majority of games that I have played. I knew coming into this game that I was going to be a big target because of being a big winner, and I made sure to align myself with people who would always be targeted before me. This was a big reason why at the tremor tribal, I decided to vote out Sammy over Veni. Sammy is known to play UTR and be very good at this strategy but I would always be targeted before him, Veni was someone up until that point had already played a great game and was very clearly trying his hardest to win. I knew Veni was always a bigger jury threat than me and this was a perception that was also carried by the rest of the tribe by the time of this tribal, and I feel like this decision was a catalyst for how I was able to sit here at the end in front of this lovely jury.

And last but not least, I think the BIGGEST reason why I am here today is because of luck. I was lucky to be casted in a game where I played with certain people already before coming into this game, which a lot of individuals did not have this privilege that I had. I was lucky to be cast in a game where I knew that people would always be bigger targets than me, and then have a twist implemented where a twist was meant to keep these big targets in the game. I was lucky enough to be able to avoid tribal during the majority of the game, as well as lucky to be able to survive in scenarios thanks to unpredictable circumstances.

Like I said, I want to try and keep it short and sweet (mostly because I have been so busy) but please please please please ask me questions about my game or anything in general and I would be more than happy to elaborate. I do a lot better answering questions from the jury where I can be open and honest about my game and thoughts, point of views, and purposes of doing what I did throughout this game. Once again, thank you so much for this opportunity hosts and jurors (because I would not be here if it were not for your help as well), and I hope we get to talk more during FTC and after this game <3.

MONTY:

Sup yall! Long time no see, too long yeah. Before I go into the meat of this, I wanna say that all this info is covered in the video as well so take your pick lol. Beyond that, I wanna start off by saying thanks to the hosts for putting up with this shit show, Gage and Nikias for putting up with my BS and having my back from the get go, and also to all of you on the jury. I've had a good time getting to know you all as people and players. I have nothing against anyone in this game, and I hope the feeling is mutual or at least enough to hearing me out and considering to vote for me tonight.

I think my game was fairly well rounded. Most people break Survivor into three parts; social, strategic, and physical (I consider four, adding advantage management in there too) and I think I had a good grasp on all three (or four) aspects of the game.

I think my social game, was very strong throughout the season. I made several early connections on the original Maverick tribe, as well as using the One World twist to make some early conversation with people like Lukas, Gage, Corey, and Chrissa. I only had three votes against me, one that I decided to give myself, and two from a plan that half the members changed before tribal. I was only blindsided once during the TJ vote (and I thank Maddiesus christ ever day for that). I even was able to work with people who had I had worked against in the past, such as Eddie during the F6 vote. In addition, I knew when I could and couldn't take voting risks, such as when to abstain my vote for Dreamtime, and when to give myself a penalty vote for an advantage. However, the strongest aspect of my social game was my positioning of myself in the middle of my alliance so that I had all the information about who was wary of who, who was throwing out alternate plans, who the members of the minority were trying to flip, and what advantages people had.

I've already gone a bit into my strategic game, but I do think this is where I shone the most. As I mentioned before, the only time I voted incorrectly was when Maddie played her idol, and during a split vote plan. That's 9/10 tribal councils I voted for the person leaving, and 10/10 I voted in the majority. My most bold strategic gameplay came during the mutiny abomination with the Jose and Bodhi votes, the two tribal councils with the most people to navigate. During the Jose vote, he was trying to put together an alliance of himself, me, Lukas, and Bodhi, then also Corey, then also Eddie. At that point it was too messy for my liking, so I turned it around and got the votes on him with Corey, and Sammy. During the Bodhi vote, Bodhi was trying to make an alliance where he would be in the center of his original tribe, and swapped tribe being connected to everyone. I made this information know to the the people who would be in my alliance and simultaneously helped get out someone who would be a threat to my game later on, and quietly put myself in the very same position that he got voted out for trying to be in. During the merge, I took to my maverick roots and stayed loyal to my alliance until they weren't loyal to me. I got information that Veni had an extra vote and was on the verge of flipping, so the next round I gathered the numbers to eliminate him instead. Several rounds later, I found out that Corey was trying to go behind my back on a vote so I made the tough decision to vote him out instead. I kept around people who wanted to keep me in the game and be honest with me, both in my alliance and not, and that allowed me to have influence at every tribal I attended, and a key role in some of the most influential votes of the season.

Physically, the statistics might not seem like I was all that great, but in a season full of challenge beasts, I wasn't a slouch. On my tribes, I was a key challenge player during the early letter number and scavenger hunts, and I won the Jeopardy challenge for my tribe. I eased up a bit during the merge, but then lasted over four hours in the final immunity challenge to win the last, and most important, immunity of the season and give myself complete freedom with the final vote. While there were many other beasts this season like Lukas, Drew, and Veni, I definitely held my own when I needed to to either prove my physical worth to my tribe, or win important immunity challenges.

And now onto my personal fourth category advantage management. As I said earlier, I knew when I could take the voting risks that came with Dreamtime, and I took them early to ensure that I was the first person to search the Dreamtime. In the dreamtime, I searched all 4,000 pages to find all 8 possible advantages. (a judgement legacy advantage, Veni's vote steal, a light round, 10 judgement votes hidden twice, a rock block and Lukas's tremor) as well as a Super Idol. I put in the work to make sure I was the first person in Dreamtime, and once there I put in more work to make sure I got the best advantage I could. To get the Super Idol, I had to incur a penalty vote at the tribal of my choosing (Jose's) and I had it ever since. I kept it a secret until final five, and I still never needed to use it due to the strength of my social and strategic games. Then the one round I didn't have the safety I was able to win immunity and guarantee myself a spot here. I knew about all the special advantages from the early effort I put in, and was able to the secret of the best one to myself.

In conclusion, I do believe I should win Uluru because I put my heart into it right from the start. I put in early work to make sure I was in the best position I could be coming into the merge, working with those who wanted to keep me around and tell me their thoughts and plans, no matter which side of the game they were on. During Touchy Subjects, I was labeled as the one actually in control of the game, and that is often a death sentence, but I had made early bonds and alliances and taken early risks to ensure that even though I in that powerful position, I controlled my own destiny as much as I could, and I pushed this game in the way I wanted it to go (even while moving half way around the world). I have more I could talk about, but I'll save the rest for questions and I'm looking forward to any you have for me; I'll answer them all openly and honestly. Thank you all again for such a fun season love you all.

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NIKIAS:

Hello folks

I would like first of all to say a big thank you for this fun experience, this was a cast that I personally really appreciated it even if we were messy with timezones, I feel I could take stuff from all of you. Maybe some of you don’t appreciate me game-wise, and that’s fine. I would like to address that if you don’t appreciate my gameplay, I won’t take it personally, and I just hope you won’t take personally the fact that I was a gamer and I was willing to do whatever it takes to make beneficial moves for my game. I would like to ask you all before you make a decision to be open minded and read and make questions instead of just assuming who should be the winner. I feel each and every one of us in the F3 deserve to be heard.

So in general statements I would like to present some facts from my game.

- I had zero votes all game even though I haven’t had one single individual immunity. I manage to protect myself and fly utr in the middle and making decisions that would benefit my game long term. The reason that I am mentioning that is because I believe some of the jurors believed that I was doing whatever benefits others people gameplays, though I think when you are the only person who hasn’t received a single vote in this game (again, without invidual immunity or a super idol) it was me that was most benefited from every decision that was made.

- Second I believe that I was open to every suggestion and I feel like I gave an equal opportunity to every single one of you to work with me. Some of you maybe call it shady. Maybe it is. That’s fine by me, I just wanted to stay open-minded and have open bridges and make the decision that would ended up to be the most beneficial.

- I wasn’t ever disrespectful to anyone. I played the game hard, but I was always friendly to everyone. I was cutthroat, and I was never afraid afraid to cut someone (with the expection of Corey) if I felt that I had to do it in order to put myself in the best position that I could. Game wise I was very selfish- I own it because I would want everyone to do whatever is best for their game. I think you have heard me saying that a lot of times.

- I was the reason that an alliance of me, Monty, Drew and Sammy was created. I knew Monty created this alliance typically but I was the one who suggested to him and Drew, and I just ask Monty to ask Sammy and to create the chat so incase something goes weird I want to make it look like it was Monty’s idea and not mine.

- In Jose vote, I choose not to vote, only for the fact I wanted to enter the Dreamtime and I wanted to complete my first task. I saw that everyone was pretty much gunning for him, so I decided to find the benefit in it.

- The moment that someone came for me (Bodhi) in an immunity challenge and throw my name to people, I immediately learn it, and I decided to attack him on this immunity pretty obviously and make him vulnerable for tribal. Not only was the person who threw my name voted out of the game the moment that he threw it, he also didn’t have the numbers from his side to come after me. Which ended up moving the target from myself to Gage. So incase something went wrong, I wasn’t gonna be voted out. It was obviously that I would be one of the people who would vote for Bodhi so I decided to complete my first task obvious.

Then a twist came. 6 people would be immune and 6 would go to tribal council. I literally wasn’t good at this comp no matter how hard I tried. After lying to almost half of the cast, I was afraid that I would be vulnerable for tribal if I didn’t have the numbers with me. Though I considered that it was a very good opportunity to get rid of Gloria, she wasn’t very active in challenges and I figure out she would have been on the bottom 6. Knowing that my number one ally Corey wasn’t doing well either, I decided to ask Sammy and Monty to throw the comp, not only to secured my safety but to also to orchestrate a 2-2-2 split vote and securing the safety of the people that I was working with, all while keeping my word to Maddie. I did that. It was beneficial since I already have put 2 judgemental points to glo in order to enter the dreamtime.

Then Jury started (YAY) a lot of you know how excited I was because if I wouldn’t have made it to the end I would have loved to be on the jury and have a word on who should be the winner. Lukas wanted to have more fun with the game, so he decided to work on this twist and separate the merge into tribes. Unfortunately that ended up being the demise for Sammy’s game- however I would like to say that I was one of the people that was saying to (Veni, Gage and Sammy) from what I remember that if Lukas had an idol, he wont play it this round and that they should just voted him out. (I know that’s easy to say since I was immune) but I ended being right which shows my game instinct I believe. This should be evident to those I spoke with.

-I turn my back on Veni. Literally I didn’t believe that I had the guts to do it, because Veni I like you so much, but you were way too strategic to be beneficial to my game. I don’t feel you were coming for me at that moment, but I did believe you would have seen that I was in a very good spot- and the kind of player that you are, you would have realized it, and I know if you gotta take out someone who is a threat to you, you got the guts to do it. It was way more beneficial to keep Lukas at this point of the game because I still needed the Lukas vs Gage situation so I could stay in the middle and the focus would have been there, instead of on me.

- I manage to use my advantage correctly. I was the reason that a big player (Drew) in this game was out of the game. He was one of the most skilled players here, with a lot of connections. I remember the influence that he had in one vote on Monty and Gage and I wanted them to be my closiest allies, not Drews closiest allies. I gain the 10 judgemental votes advtantage from the Dreamtime and I put them on him, WHILE I knew people were putting judgemental points on him, and I was trying to get Corey on board to make that move and get him out of the game when the time was right at F8. I used the twist to my advantage the most of anyone.

Seriously, Corey was an incredible player and I have a friendship with him from before, but he is a gamer so he understands that in this game we work together, but I did what would get me to the end and I had to make a tough decision on the revote and take out my friend. I knew it was the best move for my game but I vote with him at first to make sure it was the move I wanted to make, and to give him a chance to change other people's minds. Corey, I hope you understand how well I played and that I did what I had to do to give myself the best chance to win.

I did betray Eddie: Omg that is another heartbreaking one. Eddie I love you so much but legit I don’t think our cast saw how charismatic you were with your moves, you played a big part on some moves and I saw it and legit and I didn’t wanna sit next to you because you were a very good underdog player and I do believe that you would be one of the players that would surprise us with your speech in the end. I chose to evict you over Gage, clearly because I saw you more as a threat. You were clearly the only other person that hadn’t received votes at this point and you played a huge part on some of the votes.I was the swing vote here, because I left my options open, and I decided to end Eddie's game and benefit my own.

- Lukas I choose to evict you over Gage because genuinely again you were a bigger threat than him. You had a very good underdog story (which a lot of juries seemed to reward in this community) and also I know you can articulate very well which was something threating and I honestly find you bigger threat to my game than Gage.

Obviously it may not seem as though I have a lot of control in this game, but I hope you read everything and will see that perception is not reality. I was always in the know, always making decisions to benefit me, was always respectful, and played as hard and as smart as I could. I appreciate your questions and hope you can see me as the gamer I am and the heart I play with to win this game.

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