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Post by KC on Jul 22, 2012 9:32:10 GMT -5
Westman & Monica - please post your opening statements here.
Once the final two have given their statements, the Jury can continue with the questioning process. Please put your questions and/or statements in a separate threat individual to you.
Do not waste people's time. If you already know how you're voting, I will ask you to please post a statement. Also please try to refrain from asking questions that have nothing to do with anything. Nobody cares how each player compares to a color.
Do not discuss your vote with anyone. Keep it private both from the final two as well as the Jury.
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Post by Tom Westman on Jul 22, 2012 13:01:48 GMT -5
Hello Jury, hello everyone. First off, I'd like to tip my hat off to the host for hosting such a great game, I really enjoyed the challenges, the players were well casted and definitely one of the few games I will always remember. My opening statement might be kinda long but please bear with me while I cite how I got to here and why I believe that I deserve to win this game. I started this game trying to build relationships with everyone in my tribe. I hit it off well with everyone and the bonds that stuck out to me the most were the ones with Brandon, Tom B, Dreamz, Fairplay, Chad and Tyson. Just from the first week of getting to know everybody, I already knew Tyson was gonna be a prominent threat down the road. I tried feeling out people and found out Brandon, Fairplay and Tom B felt the same about Tyson, so I confided in him and the others what I felt about him and started this campaign to keep watch of Tyson. I wanted to be the Father but I knew there wasn't enough room for that when people wanted to put the burden on Tyson instead. I realized this was a better route after discussing with Fairplay that it was safer to put this target on him and befriending him than be that person people will want to overthrow. By the time we had that overthrow round, Tom B included me in this plan to overthrow him and so became the first major shakeup in the game. I found it disconcerting that Tom B chose Brandon and Matty as the new brothers but I kept my mouth shut and pretended things were fine because he said it was to avoid people from thinking I was close to him. I get that but there was still doubt in my head at that point. The swap also came at a perfect time because we got two people that I felt I can work with in Cirie and Monica. Monica and I hit it off really well and from that moment on I started building some trust with her which proved to become useful down the road. Cirie even confided having an idol to me which was huge because I knew even if she was gonna play it, I will not be her target. Pre-merge was pretty well set up for me and I was safe from being a target because I proved my challenge skills to be helpful to the tribe plus people had that trust in me that I am good for my word so no one ever thought of getting rid of me. The biggest move I could say I was a part of pre-merge was deciding on taking out Dreamz instead of Fairplay. I think this was a pivotal part of the game and had Dreamz stayed we would have been in trouble in the merge. I followed my gut instinct and with Brandon's help we were able to convince Tom B that Dreamz had to go. When merge hit, a lot of struggle happened in the first vote as we (Tom B, Brandon, Monica, Matty, Fairplay) were trying to figure out as a group how to avoid people from the nuHahajima to figure out how we're voting and eventually use an idol to blindside one of us. I tried to keep changing the votes from Hatch to Brianna and back to Hatch when I realized how everyone seems to be talking. In the end we stuck with going to vote Hatch as we believe he was the least expected to be played an idol with and we were right and he was gone out of the game. The next round became another hectic week as my alliance decided to target Kelly who I was getting close with and when I gave the idea to Fairplay he fought hard to make her stay and started naming random people like Monica which was not good because I wanted to keep Monica since she was loyal to our side. I ended up giving in to vote out Kelly because I got cornered and if I helped her out, I knew my alliance would turn on me the next time they get the chance to and that was too early for that to happen. The next round was my first round of nervousness as I heard from Brandon, Monica and Tom B (who officially became my final 4 alliance after Matty went rogue on us) because he found out I was involved in getting the other side to vote for him the previous round. But with the help of my final 4 alliance plus Fairplay who was very close to me, we were able to take out Brianna and even prevented her to play an idol saving me for another round in the game. The next round that followed was another hard week for me as my final 4 alliance was forcing me to vote out Fairplay. I strongly felt that he did not deserved to go that round but I was outnumbered. Even then I told them point blank that voting Fairplay was not an option for me and even though I knew this would have been something that would set them off to come after me next, I convinced them that I was still with them no matter how the vote turns out. But with my gut feeling saying something wrong was gonna happen, it immediately was answered with what happened on the next round. I was not prepared to see that Tom B was voted out. It didn't make sense to me when I thought Matty was coming after me and that there was still Matty, Tyson and Alexis who may or may not be together against us three. Even though Brandon told me by PM that he was gonna get rid of Tom B with his reasoning that Matty and Tom B might still be close. It just didn't add up that Matty was willingly voting out Tom B. So this is when I started to doubt Brandon's motives but I kept cool about it and pretended I saw nothing out of it because he did tell me about his plans and as far as I'm concerned if Brandon was making sure that I do not get voted off the next 2 rounds I didn't need to freak out on him. So I kept cool and still was making sure I have got Brandon's good side. The next round was another week that I could have gone home but luckily Tyson didn't play his idol as well and I stayed another round. The next round became the ultimate test for Brandon to see whether he was flipping on me and Monica or keeping with us and in the next 2 rounds he stayed true to me and Monica which propelled us all into the final 3. Final 3 then became the point that it was anybody's game and since I feel like I didn't really commit to any final 2 deals with both of them I had to take matters into my own hands and strive to win immunity for my own safety and the power to decide which of the two to take. As much as Brandon not believing it took me a day. I did have difficulty deciding who to take as I have two people who have been my allies and have had my back since when I first met them in the game. But also it came very odd to me that Brandon didn't seemed focused in the challenge and gave it up to me to try and win for immunity for the both of us. I don't even know if Monica would have taken me to the end but what I do know that Brandon seemed like he threw the last challenge so he doesnt have to decide and I felt like had Monica won that Monica would take him to the end. At the end of a long day, I felt like since the day I observed Brandon, he was building up this great gameplay that didn't go unnoticed to me and prolly even to the jury. He did more big moves than I did and literally shaped the game how it would be from the beginning. I knew going up against him would have been a tough battle whereas going up against Monica meant I have a pretty good chance to show to the jury I deserve to win. Now to put my gameplay in perspective to the Outwit, Outplay, Outlast theme. I believe I outwitted a lot of people thinking that they thought I was not as involved as I was with the votes but I feel like I always knew what was gonna happen and then when I happen to dont know I always have someone telling me afterwards about what has just happened. I feel like the flow of communication was very open to me despite closing that communication with the nuHahajima early on because there was nothing good for me there that would benefit me especially since they were gunning for me and looking at me to be the bigger threat. I think that I outplayed a lot of people by narrowly escaping tribal councils where idols would have been played and yet I kept surviving each week when people thought I was the one that was gonna go home. And also getting that last immunity challenge that gave me the much needed chance to assess the situation. And lastly, I believe just standing here before the jury meant I outlasted a lot of people who would have gone farther than me had they just made the right decision to do what they needed to do to get rid of me. All of this I did in the game, I don't want to take away what is there for Monica. But I hope that I do get the votes to win. Because I felt like I was always fighting for my life to stay no matter how safe I think I was because of how unpredictable this game came to be, I was always mindful of what was gonna happen next. Anyway, that's all I have for now, but jury if you have questions for me, then I will gladly answer them so that I can convince you that I deserve to get your vote. If you have come this far to read my statement I thank you if not, then I hope there's something else you would want to know anyway. Thanks everyone and good luck to Monica
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Post by Monica Padilla on Jul 22, 2012 21:58:14 GMT -5
Alright, well my statement is going to be a little bit shorter then that. lol. I first want to say that I'm extremely honored to be sitting in one of these Final 2 chairs. I wouldn't ever say that I never saw myself getting to the end, but it certainly wasn't an easy road for me at all. lol. I always fought hard in this game to make sure that I was safe from the very beginning to the very end. I think that you always have to keep in your head that you can get to this point otherwise you'll lose focus of the end goal and end up being voted out. You need to believe you can actually get here for it to happen! So my faith in that really did propel me to this point.
I know that you all probably have a lot of questions to ask Tom and Myself. I look forward to answering them because I think it is important for us to work for your vote and let you know what we felt our game was about. I don't want to leave anyone on this Jury feeling like they're not satisfied with my answers, So I embrace the questions whether they're easy or hard.
I want to start off this entire Tribal Council by saying that at times in this game I was a Hero and at times in this game I was a Villain, but ultimately the entire time I truly felt I was myself. So expect me to continue to be that way throughout this entire Final Tribal.
Thanks!
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Post by KC on Jul 26, 2012 23:10:34 GMT -5
Let's get these votes in. I have a few, still need a few. Preferably would like this wrapped up by Sunday.
The traditional URTV Skype finale is out of the question for the time being, but we can still do one on AIM if enough people are on.
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Post by KC on Jul 29, 2012 8:46:02 GMT -5
Votes will be revealed tonight. I get home around 10 EST.
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Post by KC on Jul 29, 2012 21:23:28 GMT -5
Nobody is on, so I'll wait a bit.
If there's not much of a crowd by around 10 or 11 MST, I'll go ahead and post it up quietly.
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