Kass Kan't Think of Anything Kreative

[kass]

So congrats to all 3 of you for making it as far as you have. My vote tonight is not locked in yet and I do have some questions for you.

Katie, you really hurt me with your vote at Final 4 when up until then, I had only gone out of my way to help you and to make sure you stayed. I essentially tanked my game at Final 8 so you'd survive longer and in retrospect, that was a really shitty decision on my part. So kudos to you for that.

Candice, I love you girl but I think your opening statement says it all. You floated on and stuck with the hand you were dealt. Admirable? Yes. Interesting? Not so much.

LJ, I commend you for being an "underdog" of sorts, but much like Candice, I didn't find to be all that interesting or dynmaic

With that being said, I do have some things I need answered so here it is...

To all 3 of you: Whose presence in the game (besides yourself, obviously) benefited you the most and why?

LJ: What strategic moves did you pull on your own, if any? If you didn't, why not?

Katie: If you could change something about how you played, what would you change?

Candice: Why is being UTR an effective strategy?

[katiecollins]

I'm sorry for hurting you like that. I do believe I made the right move for me, but I went about it terribly and I am very sorry for the way I hurt you.

Obviously the presence of Kass was the most crucial to me in this game. You brought me a ton of information throughout the entire game and you kept me safe in the early rounds of the merge when I didn't even know I was a potential target. Through pretty much every vote, you kept me informed and were a great person to bounce ideas around with. Even when I was flipping and flopping between alliances I made sure to talk with you because your advice and our gametalk together was crucial in my getting this far. There's no question that your presence in this game benefited me enormously.

I would have quit my job and been on AIM 24/7 to talk to people. But in all seriousness, I definitely would have tried to talk with more of the people in this game so that I wasn't just relying on other people to save me in certain situations. If I had had the time I would have gotten to know everyone much better so that I could have had my hand on the pulse of this game way sooner than I did.

[LJ McKanas]

Hello Kass, much respect to your gameplay, you were very dominant throughout the challenges and I commend you for that.

As for your question. I cannot just mention one person being the sole reason that benefited the most. There were a lot of people involved into me being here today. First off, there was Brian and Teresa. They were my solid alliance in the pre-merge phase and that kept me in the majority throughout that phase and even when we got to the merge since Brian was still there for me sort of in spite of Teresa's blindside. Then there was Yul and Austin who approached me to work with them basically becoming my shield since it seemed like they were already known to be duos. Jay for basically communicating with me and deciding to work with me in sorts despite the fact that I had no idea what his bootlist contained but I knew roughly enough that I wasn't first on his list. I could also not ignore the fact that Katie was open minded in helping me and Yul out when Brian was blindsided and lastly I could not thank you enough for not being good at cryptograms and Candice for not showing up to make my odds even higher for winning that last immunity challenge.

For your second question, like I said to Brian, the Brian blindside could not have happened had I not even considered approaching Katie to vote with me and Yul. It was the turning point in the game for me because it gave me a bigger chance to move forward knowing that I will have at least 3 other people backing me up namely (Yul, Jay, and Katie). And secondly, when you were voted out, it mainly happened because I talked to Katie about when you approached me that you were willing to vote out Candice just to stay in the game. I knew you were getting desperate enough that you did not want to be involved in a tie, so I informed Katie that she should convince you that we were both voting for Candice. I could have easily voted any of you out as I knew where votes were going by that point, you were voting for Candice, Katie was voting for you and Candice was voting for Katie. I was the essential swing vote in that round as I could have gone either way but strategically I opted to vote you out because like I said to you regardless how hated you might seem to be to the jury, you spearheaded most of the blindsides and you won a hell of a lot of challenges. I would really have voted you hands down if it were you, katie and candice in the end.

Thanks, Kass and good luck with your decision.

[katiecollins]

*glares at LJ* I already said this in Brian's thread but I approached LJ about the Brian vote because I had decided to turn on him pretty much during the Austin vote when Brian was being wishy-washy about choosing between Yul/Austin. Just setting the record straight. Again.