Gina's Questions

[Gina Crews]

Congrats, Final Two! I really don't have much to say...I mean, I didn't talk to either of you in this game outside of maybe once or twice, so I've got a pretty open mind coming into this thing.

I have three questions, and they're for both of you.

1. What was your biggest move in this game that you made and why?

2. Rank the jury from strongest to weakest.

3. Why do you deserve to beat your opponent?

Good luck both of you!

[Natalie White]

1. I think the biggest move I made was at the final 5 with Brendan and Brandon to take out Yul and then make plans to take Lindsey out next. At that point, I was pretty secure with Lindsey and with Yul and Brendan and I had never talked. So once it was out in the open that Lindsey and Yul were in this together, deciding to eliminate them was the best decision to swiftly move me into the top 3 with two boys who both had intentions of taking me into the finals.

2.
Lindsey - She controlled a lot of the votes, using people from both tribes to do so.

Yul - He was doing the same thing as Lindsey but had a tight knit seperate alliances with me, Rob, Brandon and Lindsey.

Gina - So many people were deathly afraid of you and were too scared to vote you off first and when they didn't, everyone just kept waiting for the moment you lost IC to take you out because you were a threat.

Rob - I think he was in the drivers seat for bits of this game and had a lot of support from people.

Amanda - She was kind of a sidekick to a lot of people and used that to get to the merge and used those connections to get to the top 8.

Brendan - He was very quiet and just did a lot of moves people asked him to. As far as power, I don't think he had a lot of any until the final 5.

Matty - I'm placing him last because I really never talked to him or knew anything about him.

3.

I think I deserve to beat Brandon because I think I was always placing this game with a lot of heart and integrity. I wanted the strongest people to be able to play in the merge and I wanted the people who did give a lot of dedication to stay around longer. I could have just been like any other org player and said let's get rid of all the strong people right from the bat. I could have made this a lot easier for myself. But I didn't. I stayed true to my friendships and loyalties and got to this point with barely any votes or targets on my back.

[B Quinton]

Thanks Gina for the congrats!

1. What was your biggest move in this game that you made and why?
The biggest move I made was right after the Final 6 vote. Up to that point I was closest to Rob, Yul, and Lindsey. At the Final 6 though, Rob got blindsided and I felt betrayed by Yul. I had always known that Yul and Lindsey were very close, I had suspected them of having a pre-game, but I believed Yul when he told me that he would go to the Final 3 with Rob and myself. So basically after Rob's blindside I blew up and made it my goal to get Yul out immediately as I couldn't let Yul and Lindsey go to the Final 4 together. Natalie thought the vote was going to be Brendan, Brendan thought the vote was going to be Natalie. Hence, I had to convince both of them that 1. It may be you who goes, and 2. Yul and Lindsey will stick together until the end. I laid everything out on the table, sent both of them a long PM explaining everything, and showed Brendan some conversations. In the end they both went along with voting Yul and that's how a very strong pair got split up. Sure, both Brendan and Natalie were part of this move, but I initiated it and I made them aware of what was really going on.

2. Rank the jury from strongest to weakest.

1. Lindsey ~ She controlled everyone until and including the Final 6 point. She was an extremely strong social player and was very upfront about all her moves and plans (to me at least). She made it almost impossible to turn things around as everyone believed her (like Natalie believing her that the F5 vote was going to be Brendan).

2. Gina ~ You were the strongest in challenges, you did way better on most challenges than everyone else. Had we not voted you out at the Final 7 then you may have gone on an immunity streak.

3. Rob ~ Rob was extremely loyal, and while almost all my tribe mates aligned themselves with me, Rob was the one I have trusted the most from start to end. His efforts were usually crucial in winning tribal immunity pre-merge.

4. Yul ~ Yul was a very strong player, both socially and in challenges. He made a strategic mistake in voting Rob out at the Final 6 though. He gave me the opportunity to turn things against himself and Lindsey and that became his downfall. Had he turned on Rob at the Final 5 then he would have made it to the Final 4 and possibly the end.

5. Brendan ~ Brendan has been used as a vote for a long time and wasn't the most active. However, his end game was very strong and he basically had a 2 in 3 chance at being Final 2 as I think Nat would have taken him.

6. Matty ~ I don't know much about Matty's game, but he came off as a very strong player in challenges pre-merge. He was usually on during the nights and did a lot of work it seemed.

7. Amanda ~ Amanda didn't really contribute much pre-merge and would have been voted out if it wasn't for the tribe swap or the unexpected win in the last pre-swap challenge. She had a strong ally in you though, so had you had more numbers then Amanda could have made it very far.

3. Why do you deserve to beat your opponent?
I feel like I did more than my opponent. I spent an enormous amount of time on some of the challenges (the Final 6 one and the free rice one in particular), I won some very crucial immunities (F6/5, F4, F3), and I waited for the right time to make that one crucial move at the Final 5 when we voted out Yul. I could have just stuck with Yul and Lindsey as they told me they would go with me to the Final 3, but I knew they were very hard to beat and might stick together. I dug really deep and saw what they were capable of, and had to turn the game around. I succeeded.

Also, I may have lied at times, or twisted the truth, but I can safely say that I never told an unnecessary lie and that I never made any deals that I wasn't going to stick with. Whenever someone asked me for an alliance or proposed some Final something deal, of course I wasn't going to turn them down. That would be dumb. However, I never went up to someone to propose something like that myself even if that could have won me their trust and loyalty. I hate lying, I hate backstabbing, and therefore refuse to do such things. I play smart and strategic, I do my math and make sure I know where everyone stands. I gather information, and keep it to myself for as long as I find that necessary. I hope you can respect that in me as a player and see that I played a very strong game.