Opening statements

[Host]

The final three will post opening statements in this thread, after all three have posted, Jury may post questions/statements.

[Stephenie]

Hey guys! Remember me? It's Stephenie!

I've had a heck of a time out here. I've learned things about myself that I didn't know and I feel like I gave it my all in the game. I had a huge journey in the game.

In the beginning, I was on the outs of my original Koror tribe and I struggled to get through the first few votes. I managed to survive and an opportunity quickly arose: the chance to mutiny. I took the risk and mutinied and I was welcomed by open arms in the Ulong tribe. From there, Ashlee and I (the two mutineers) made a pact that we would stick together.

Life on Ulong was really unsettling for me. I always knew I was on the bottom of the totem pole there but I knew if I tried to make a ploy, I'd find myself taking the walk of shame. So I took a backseat. Whatever people told me, I did. I told them what they wanted to hear and whenever someone approached me with a new plan, I was always very open to listen about it and go along with it. To my good fortune, I gained trust with many members and was able to move up in the ranks.

I've made it here because I was able to take the less aggressive side, which is not my personality, and all myself to have options. I think I played a great game and I definitely feel like I did a lot of things to get here.

Thank you, jury. I look forward for your questions.

[Kim]

Hey guys and gals!! So happy to make it here!!! This has been such a fun season and I'm so glad to have gotten to know those of you that I have. While I can't really say that I made any major game moves in this season, I sure tried. Had Ashlee not been a criminology major, I may have pulled off the biggest blindside/upset in the series history... But she is and I didn't... I can't really take too much credit for most of the gameplays this season. But I can tell you all that I played an honest game (except when Ashlee asked me if I was voting her out... duh, I couldn't tell her she was the target).

I was active in every challenge and tried hard every week to stay safe. Which obviously worked cause I am here. I may not have played the most social game, but I was true to those that came to me and we had a pretty good thing going with Ulong. I was told in the 11th hour about Ian's change of heart, which I still don't know if it was true... Jonathan was always good to me and very much communicated, which is so important in this game. I don't know what happened to the 2 of them.

All I can say is that I really tried hard to make it to the end and here I am. My history in this series is good and I've never played a bad game.

[Ashlee]

Hey everyone! I would like to start by thinking the jury for making this a fun season. From the first tribal I attended, Janu was voted out which left me in a shocking blind side. I quickly had to find new footing and get back into this game, it was a long and hard journy but I did it. Bobby Jon went home, and I switched to the ulong tribe. I quickly formed an alliance with Jonathan, Ibrehem and Angie for final four, and another one with Stephenie. The alliance with Angie, Ibrehem, and Jonathan prove to work out for me in the short run as Katie went home, and again after the shake up as Willard went home. Once in the merge I saw ulong was quickly falling apart, I took advantage of that and sat back. Ibrehem and I filled in ulong on what Ian was trying to do and Ian soon went home. It was really hard to do as I actually liked him but I wasn't sure that I could trust him or Tom. At final ten Stephenie and I had a shot at taking out Gregg or Jeff. I let Stephenie know that voting out Gregg would keep us safe for a bit more and got the numbers to take him out. From here I found the merge tribe hidden immunity idol and told no one. I knew the game was getting bad when Jonathan wanted Angie, Ibrehem and I to vote for Jeff incase Tom played the idol. I went along with it in hopes that it would cause some indifference with Ulong, also knowing that it would keep me good with my alliance. After Jeff went home, I told Stephenie about the idol to make sure I still had her trust, plus she is someone who I really liked. I also told Kim and Tom about myself having the idol so they would trust me as well. That trust came to my advantage when I was told by someone that Jonathan wanted me out. When I won immunity his plan couldn't work and so he targetted Ibrehem. I filled Ibrehem in on the plan to have his trust and used the trust of Tom and Kim to make sure I could get Jonathan voted out. I just knew I couldn't trust him at this point.

Things fell into place more and more as I used my criminal justice class studies and info from a friend to learn I was on the chopping block. Everyone told me they were voting Stephenie but I decided to take a gamble and play my idol. Knowing Stephenie was the only one I could trust I told her I was playing the idol and got her to vote Jenn with me. Once Jenn left, I knew I was next to go, I made a lie saying I had a second idol and only told Kim and Tom becuase I knew they might go and tell other people. I knew every time they would see the idol unplayed it would buy me another round of thinking they knew I had it. I formed a four girl alliance between Angie, Kim, Stephenie and I to take out Ibrehem followed by Tom. After Ibrehem left, Tom quit so everything fell into place from that point. The hardest vote I may of had was writing down Angie's name as she was super awesome.

I hope you guys see that I had every move I made planned instead of just sitting back and hoping to get lucky. Ask away!

[Gregg Carey]

Hey Final 3! Congrats on making to the end. My vote is really up for grabs, so my question will determine who I vote for. My question is the same for all three of you.

I would like you all to compare each juror to a country and tell me your reasoning behind your choice.

Congrats again ladies! And Good Luck!

[Angie Jakusz]

Hey ladies. First of all, I want to congratulate each of you for doing what the rest of us couidn't and getting to the final 3. I ask that each of you answer her question honestly, because it will determine where my vote will go.

Ashlee - You and I have been close since the season started, so I'd be lying if I said that I didn't wish you luck tonight. What I want to know from you is why you feel that you deserve to win over both Stephenie and Kim.

Kim - You're someone else I enjoyed getting to know as a person, but I don't feel you did enough strategically to get to this point. Your task tonight is to prove me wrong and tell me a bold move you made to get you this far.

Stephenie - I wish I had gotten a chance to get to know you better, so I want you to give me a brief biography of yourself to let me get to know you.

All 3 of you - Compare everyone in the jury, your opponents, and yourselves to a Survivor castaway. Only stipulation is that it can't be the one that the person is playing in this game.

Good luck and may the best girl win

[Jonathan]

Congrats Final 3

Stephenie - you basically stated your participation in this game with your opening sentence....

Apr 2, 2012 0:19:26 GMT -5 Stephenie said:

Hey guys! Remember me? It's Stephenie!

What did you do in this game besides what Ashlee told you to do ?


Kim - I believe that you were a bit more active than Stephenie was, but what big moves did you make in this game ?

Alligning with Ashlee is not a move by the way.


Ashlee - Loved you from Day 1, but I also knew that there was no way in hell that I was getting to let you get near F5. I knew that you had won the 3 previous games in this series & was determined to make sure that you didn't do it again. I figured my best bet was to align with you to keep an eye on you. I must congratulate you, you're good, real good.

My question to you is if the F4 of me/you/Angie/ Ibrehem had happened who were you loyal to ?

Who would you have taken to F3 & F2 if there was one ?

[Host]

So it doesn't get messy and confusing, Each juror will need to make thread for their question. I will move Gregg's, Angie's, and Jonathan's to different threads and the final three may answer them in those.