OPENING STATEMENTS

[Matty Whitmore]

Hi All. Its been a long jury to get to this point.

Im going to start off Pre-Merge.
Well I wa son teh dominate tribe. Before the swap, i believe we only lost one IC and we were saved by the tribe that won. I really did not have to do any strategic thinking since we never went to tribal. My main thing was being active and doing good in challenges. I believe I did that.

At the tribal swap, I still ended up on a good tribe and we continuously won so there wasnt much strategic thinking there.

MERGE HITS!!!!!!

Thats when my serious gameplay started. I started going to the people I talked to least, and seeing how they were voting. This way, they might assume i was voting with them when I wasnt. Well the first merge week, i won IMMUNITY so i wasnt woried. The first merge vote out was for Alex. I did not vote him out due to the fact that i liked him and he had done nothing to me. We sorta made an alliance adn iw anted to stick to it. the next two vote outs, i voted out Brian. I did not talk to him, so i thought that that would be the best move for my game. At this point, we are at final 7. I have Ace, Michelle and Erica who i am really close with. Then Erica quits. i go :-O. I was so sad and ughh...Then Ace goes.......:-\ That gets me really kinda mad and i have to figure out how to make final 3 with 5 people left and im only aligned with one of them...

At Fianl 5, I make a deal with Jed not to vote each other out. I am a man of my word and DID NOT LIE and votedd out Kim, as I told him I would. But he betrays me when him and Darrah vote me out. Luckily, Kim self votes herself out of the game and I live to see another day.

Final 4, I know its me and michelle vs Darrah And Jed. I realize that there would be antoher tie, and i had to make sur it wasnt me caught in the middle. I tell Darrah that i wont vote her out if she doesnt vote me. That is the ONLY LIE i told this ENTIRE game. So the vote comes around, its 2 michelle and 2 Darrah. The Revote is still 1 for darrah and 1 for Michelle. That gets me into the final 3 due to Darrah and Michelle having ot battle it out to stay.

I think i played a really good social game. I also think i played good strategy wise. I DID NOT have to win many immunities. I won the first one (with Michelle's help) to prove to peopel i am a threat and that I deserve to be in this game.

Also, just think. I made final 3 and I only had 2 votes against me THE ENTIRE game. That shows how well i was underestimated.

So as you can see, i was not a floater, i was a strategist. I palyed this game with heart, desire, and the will to win. I was also very active.

Thanks for reading that and I believe i deserve to the title of SOLE SURVIVOR!

[Matty Whitmore]

and i didnt know whjere to post this so i posted it here. lol

[Michelle Tesauro]

I am freaking eager to do this Final TC.

[Jed Hildebrand]

Hey everybody,

I am extremely proud to be sitting here in this final 3, it's been a really long crazy road to get here and I feel I've accomplish a lot along the way. I came into this game just knowing a few people since I play very few games and I didn't play any of the previous seasons in this series. I felt like a lot of people knew each other from other games or from previous seasons and that made me work a lot harder to try and blend in and getting to know people. I tried playing a complete game from being social, being a good strategist, and working hard of the challenges and I feel I've executed that. I did have to tell a few lies here and there to keep people off balanced, but that's just the nature of the game and all my lies are justified.


Starting the game out on the Gizo tribe gave me a extremely huge disadvantage in the game since there were more inactives in the tribe then active players. I still did my best to try and pull the tribe together and win some challenges and we did that. I made alliances on Gizo that I planned to stick with to the end with Dave, Darrah, and Brian. Ultimately Dave was removed for his incident but I still wanted to work with Darrah and Brian until the end since I felt like we were the true underdogs in the game as we would enter the merge without the numbers and I trusted them both fully.

When the merge occurred, I knew that I needed to really step up the social game and talk with as many former Aitu members as possible. They held the power at this point and I needed to try and make them think I would do whatever they wanted to do. I started talking with Michelle, Erica, Ace, and Matty and build some much needed connections there. This is also the time I decided to concoct my plans for the fake idol and have it ready to be played if I ever felt I was ever in danger of going. I felt if anything else, I could throw a scare into everybody and they could avoid voting me for a round thus buying myself more time. I played the fake idol at the Final 5 even knowing I wasn't in any danger, I simply went to all the trouble making it so I thought heck may as well use it.

The real merge strategy revolved around the final 6. Darrah and Myself discussed voting with Kim to make the vote a tie at the final 6 to give ourselves a chance. I knew if we voted Kim out this round how some people originally wanted then Ace/Michelle/Matty would stick together and Darrah and Myself would be on the outs the following round. Everything came down to fate and the purple rock, I was comfortable taking that chance and Ace left which I believe was a huge turning point in the game for me. At the Final 5, Kim and Matty were the targets, I had trust in Kim at this point since she voted with Darrah and Me the previous round, I was extremely surprised she self voted considering she was on the board that day. I knew I wanted to win the final immunity challenge to ensure my final 3 spot which I did. The plan was voting Michelle over Matty this round, I knew the vote would turn out 2-2 either way we voted and I wanted to make sure Darrah had a chance at least of getting to the final 3 with me.

Now I'll look forward to answering your questions and seeing what you all have to say.