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Post by Jeff Probst on Jan 31, 2011 17:59:24 GMT -5
Final 3: Fabio, Alina & Danni
You will post your opening statements here. When you're done, each juror will get a chance to ask you questions that will get them information for the final vote
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Post by Judson "Fabio" Birza on Jan 31, 2011 18:13:56 GMT -5
Hey guys! I know i didn't talk to many of you and I do apologize for that but it was all strategy and i will explain how. As you know Mulege sucked... and obviously i wasn't getting anywhere on the tribe. THANKFULLY when the tribes swapped two of the people that showed up on my tribe were Alina and Danni, who i had talked to before the tribes had been divided. Unfortunately since i hadn't talk to them while we were on separate tribes i was worried they wouldn't stick with me. Thankfully, I made it to the merge and us three had a solid alliance. However there was still a 8 to 2 difference between Mulege members and San Quintan members so i felt in danger. To make matters worse the other orginal Mulege member dominated in challenges. I originally thought that I should scramble and try to make deals but then I realized that would probably deem me a threat and get me voted off. So I decided to stay quiet and seem like i was just there for the ride (high as a kite ) and just sat back and watch Danielle and Jenny leave. Then when i received the idol from the auction i was golden. I knew that if i would of talked to some of the other SQ members i would of been perceived as shady and someone who had to leave... but since i just kind of hung out and didn't seem to have any allies I was kept in the game. Now before you say... "We all knew you Alina and Danni were together..." think about it. For most of you admitting (well lying) about that would make you look much stupider because you didn't break us up. Thank you for your time and im excited for your questions... as nasty as they may or may not be.
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Post by Alina Wilson on Jan 31, 2011 19:57:12 GMT -5
Hello to all the jury members.
What a great and wild ride this game has been, i'm sure that a lot of you aren't happy with me but I hope you'll see that I played such a hard game because I didn't play this game to get myself here. I played this game from day 1 to get Danni here with me and since the shuffle to get Fabio here as well. I effectively. Until this point we have been a team, but every successful team needs a leader and my friends are now my opponents and i'm going to try and explain why I deserve to win over Fabio or Danni.
Danni asked me not to come on and say that she rode my coat tails... and I am sitting here trying to think of another way to phrase it but, I really think that's a good word for what the other two did to arrive here. Fabio is a great guy and sometimes you have to play with the cards your dealt, he wasn't ever really in a position to call the shots, he kind of had to be at Danni and I's mercy and hope that we got him where we said he was.
Then with Danni, she was my partner in crime from day 1, but I feel I was still leading her in a sense, she made a comment to me earlier today we made every decision together. But I disagree, the F3 plan that we rode to the end, she had nothing to do with. i alone formed that alliance with Fabio while she was out of town and I messaged her saying 'btw... we now have a F3 with Fabio.' I said at merge after Wendy won first immunity 'We need to team up with Wendy to help get numbers, and make a power move.. probably Edgardo first cause no one knows where he stands.' Danni refused to work with Wendy... Suddenly at F8.. Guess who says to me 'we should work with Wendy and get out Edgardo.'
So I felt a lot of Danni's actual strategy was turning me down when I had great ideas and then later spitting out what I said and trying to pass it off as her own. Which was part of my strategy was to let it happen to a degree. My goal was to always let Fabio and Danni feel as though they had as much say over the decisions as I did by asking them: 'What would you like to do' such as who Fabio wanted to target with his idol, or letting Danni make the final say on if we should vote out JP or Edgardo at the tie when Edgardo left, because if they made the decisions that I was gonna make, they got to feel like they were calling the shots. When in reality if they had tried to get radical and switch it up, i always had the #'s to flip the plan to my idea without them being involved.
Danni also told me yesterday that she had 'such a great game that I don't even know about... she had so many back up plans she could of taken and voted me out.' which I respect and assume she did. But Survivor is not based on the roads you 'could of taken'. It's based on the one road you did take and I feel that her game was to attach herself to me and like Tom said to Rob in All Stars 'try to ride me all the way to the end.'
While she was making back up deals to betray me but never acting on them... I was working my butt off to get my 2 closest allies to the end with me.
The last thought I want to leave you guys were is, i'm sorry if I hurt any of your feelings in the way I played the game, i've been told that I may of played a Russell game, but I would like everyone to remember the foundation this game was built on. Richard Hatch set the standard that strategy was the foundation of this game.
I wonder now if some of the original 'greats' such as Hatch, Rob C, Brian Heidik that played a strong social game could win now a days. I think they would be brushed off as being 'un winnable'. Even in Heroes vs Villains a lot of people feel Parvati should of won, but she was brushed aside for the person who was just the 'nice person and the least objectionable despite playing a game that many considered as good if not better then the game she played in Micronesia.
I just hope you guys keep in mind the foundation this game was set on and I may have been the snake of this season, but the snake was always meant to eat the rats in the end.
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Post by Danni Boatwright on Jan 31, 2011 20:24:49 GMT -5
Heyy Everyone. So i am doing this prior to reading the other statements because i don't wanna respond to what they have said.
So the first thing i want to do is just throw away all the things that you perceive me as. I know i am perceived as a coattail rider... a puppet... mick.... (that one annoys me) but i really feel like i have played an all around good game.
Coming into the game it was my first time back since like June. I was hesitant to play because i truly never am that good at games.. I am the kind of person everyone calls a bridesmaid. I am a great ally to my original alliance. but i always never seem to win. I have only one one survivor game of the 60 plus i have played.... I think it goes back to my attitude in real life haha i am the nicest guy in real life and i try to be "mean" and i really can't and i don't know it just doesn't work out.
I have a lot to tell you guys and i will be 100 percent truthful... I have been in the finals with Alina a lot. we are legit best friends in the gamer world... and she always claims she did all this stuff. and don't get me wrong she has done a lot but she never ever gives me credit and when i try to show people i never get it. she has won over 40 games and just has a professional way to get into peoples mind's and make them believe she is the undefeated mastermind.
Anyways to what i did. I played a game where my plan was to be aligned to that one person (alina) and make sure that no matter what it would be us in the end and i would do anything and everything to secure that.
I made the alliance of (Danni-Brett-Ed-Jp) as a sort of saving grace just to make sure that i had the numbers if me and alinia needed them. I am not sure how legit that was.... but i think us 4 were tight especially preswap and right after merge.
My next biggest move was with edgardo. I am sorry edgardo but i take the credit in single handily getting you out. I knew i was supposed to vote fabio that round but decided that i would make a move. I vote ed originally because i knew i needed to "accidentally" break of the alliance of 4. When it was a tie. I was the one who texted alina and said ed has got to go. i feel like that was the point wear me and alina decided to go with fabio and basically run the game..
The final thing i want to clear up to everyone is... I voted out fabio in the final 5 tribal.... I originally voted out Brady but decided to change it becuase i was worried about fabio in the end game and was confident in alina and my abilities in a final challenge. However i changed my vote and after the votes were read i found out your not allowed to change your vote. I completely just assumed i could and the host would check prior to reading them.
I voted out fabio and i feel like the game would have been completely different.
Anyway i have done alot more but i just wanted to preview... and i know i have said alot but i feel like people never listen to what i have to say and now is my time.
I truly want to win this game and feel like i have played a game that is deserving of the title.
I of course dont have that "bad@$$* persona Alina carries... or that underdog persona fabio is claiming...
I am Danni the perfect combo and someone who just wants to be heard out and not judged... Thanks guys and i cannot wait for the questions!!!
<3 Danni
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Post by Jeff Probst on Jan 31, 2011 20:38:57 GMT -5
Ok Jury you can begin to ask questions now
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Post by Jeff Probst on Feb 2, 2011 1:03:40 GMT -5
Danielle & Tracy need to post their questions also, you need to cast your final votes in your confessionals
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Post by Jeff Probst on Feb 2, 2011 17:51:54 GMT -5
Have only 1 vote
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Post by Jeff Probst on Feb 3, 2011 0:39:37 GMT -5
Have 4/9 votes plus 1 alternate
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Post by Jeff Probst on Feb 3, 2011 21:51:06 GMT -5
I have 8 votes and 1 alternate. Danielle is the only one left to cast her vote. If not, the final results will be posted tomorrow at 8 PM EST with winner revealed, voting history and also Season 1 All-Stars revealed. And the link of Season 2
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Post by Judson "Fabio" Birza on Feb 4, 2011 0:21:52 GMT -5
will be there
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Post by Alina Wilson on Feb 4, 2011 0:28:57 GMT -5
I'm nervous....
Best of luck Judson and Danni.... :-)
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Post by Danni Boatwright on Feb 4, 2011 11:22:18 GMT -5
exciting!
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Post by Judson "Fabio" Birza on Feb 4, 2011 19:07:12 GMT -5
1 hour
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