[selene's questions]

[Selene]

Hey Final 3! Congrats to you guys so much for being here. There will be something at the end of my questions for you called the DEAL-BREAKER. If you say the 'Deal Breaker' in your jury answer, you will lose my vote immediately.

Anna: You know what question you're getting. I congratulate you on your challenge wins because you did own shit and you tried hard. Convince me that you betraying me was the best decision for you. Also tell me why the other two do not deserve to win.
**DEALBREAKER: Do not say that me giving Caleb my vote nullifier was why you thought I was aligned with him. He gave you immunity and you wanted him out.

Caleb: You are fake and you played everyone here into thinking you were someone who wasn't in power when you were. But, you are the most impressive person here and you had to do that to get to the finals. You are the most deserving winner in my eyes and how you got me to trust you so quick is ASTOUNDING considering I don't think of myself as naive. However I've seen people win without manipulating, backstabbing, and covering it with a smile. So tell me WHY you chose that strategy to get here.
**DEALBREAKER: Saying that wasn't your strategy.

Peter: You always seemed to be a little bit...naive. Like you just made a few alliances, said HEY I LIKE YOU to a few folks and coattailed your merry way to the Final 3. You need to change this perspective because right now you have a 2% chance of getting my vote. I do like you though <3.
**DEALBREAKER: Saying that you were some secret manipulator or some shit like that. You are a ten-cent version of Natalie White and you need to own that.

[Selene]

Also Peter after that opening statement you're down to 1% after that opener. I'd put Caleb at 65% of getting my vote right now. Anna at 34%.

[Caleb Danvers]

Caleb: You are fake and you played everyone here into thinking you were someone who wasn't in power when you were. But, you are the most impressive person here and you had to do that to get to the finals. You are the most deserving winner in my eyes and how you got me to trust you so quick is ASTOUNDING considering I don't think of myself as naive. However I've seen people win without manipulating, backstabbing, and covering it with a smile. So tell me WHY you chose that strategy to get here.
**DEALBREAKER: Saying that wasn't your strategy.

Well, you almost answered it yourself, Selene. I played that strategy because I kind of HAD to to make it here.

I made myself almost too big of a threat. I saw that other people were very hungry to win this game -- people such as yourself, Stefan, and John (and eventually, Anna). People wanted to take control of this game and wanted it to go there way, and to do so, these big power players would need to exit the game for it to happen.

Having found the three hidden Immunity idols and made the good social connections I did (and in some spots, alliances), I felt that in order to get ahead, I needed to play as if I was going to the end with those alliances, hence leading John on. Because the connections I built were so strong, I needed everyone to believe they were on the right page with me, or else it could hinder me in the end. If I told John I was not actually taking him to the end at any point in time up to the Final 4, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be sitting here right now, for example.

Other times my ways seemed deceitful, it wasn't fully me. For example, when you told me to get Anna to vote with you (or at least ask her to) in order to get your idol nullifier. I actually did followed through with my end of the deal -- however, I also filled her in that you asked me to do this and whether or not she went through with voting with you was her choice. I just wanted the idol nullifier in my hands. So, I sent her a PM, and even told her to send me a fake one back in response to that PM in case you asked for proof. I didn't really bother to find out what she was actually doing because I was concerned with my side that round and doing what I had to do while under a lack of time, and I accomplished me goal. As we saw, she did not, in fact, end up voting with you.

As far as covering it with a smile goes, regardless of my gameplay, i'm a pretty social and friendly person. Some people I did not lie to in this game at all, while some people I lied to quite a lot. Regardless of how much I lied to you regarding the game, any of the personal relationships I developed were real. If I told you stuff about my personal life, it was true. I consider those to be genuine, aside from the game. I am someone that will love you as a person, get pissed like anyone else would when you backstab me because we were so close, but still vote for you in the end because gamewise, you did play the best, and we can still be friends after. The initial shock of something like that hurts, but if you were a friend in this game, I did truly consider you a friend, hence still treating you like one.

In conclusion, while with some people my game was not the aforementioned at all (for example, I was completely true to Peter and Micah, or those I did not have an alliance with), with others I definitely used the strategy you mentioned because it was necessary to get to the place I wanted, with (at least one) of the people I wanted to get there with.

Thanks, Selene! Pretty creative question.

[Selene]

Anna you are up to 69% chance right now. Peter you're up to 20%.

[Caleb Danvers]

Ouch. lol

[Peter]

Jul 18, 2011 13:20:10 GMT -5 Selene said:

\Peter: You always seemed to be a little bit...naive. Like you just made a few alliances, said HEY I LIKE YOU to a few folks and coattailed your merry way to the Final 3. You need to change this perspective because right now you have a 2% chance of getting my vote. I do like you though <3.
**DEALBREAKER: Saying that you were some secret manipulator or some shit like that. You are a ten-cent version of Natalie White and you need to own that.

You can call be naive that is fine with me, but I would have to disagree. I do not believe being trust worthy and keeping your word to people and finding the best in people is naive, instead I believe its being more optimistic than anything and that is what I am, but if you want to call me naive so be it.

As well I did not have many alliances, and the people i aligned myself with were people I thought would have my back and I would theres, which i did, as well I aligned myself with people who i thought would help me further my game. And obviously I did something right by aliging myself with the people I did as well I did participate in the challenges and won a couple during the duration of the game, and i did make it to the final 3 so I am proud of myself for playing with honor and integrity which is more than some people can say.

And I know this was not kiss ass answer, but i dont kiss anyones ass, and if you did not like my answer that is fine with me because I dont need someones vote who would put backstabbing infront of being a good person, because when it comes down to it its a game and people play with many different strategies and exhibited by the 3 of us left in the gam

[Anna Ivers]

My answer's coming tomorrow. I'm not forgetting.

[Anna Ivers]

There, after so long! xD

Convince me that you betraying me was the best decision for you.

I think that me betraying you was the best decision for me for multiple reasons. One of them
is that everytime I would talk to somebody about you, they would "like you", they "would
not vote for you", no one wanted to vote you. You were in a pretty damn good position in
this game, and if I did not take you out early, you could of became a serious threat
along the way. Who knows what could of happened had you won that majority rules challenge
(double tribal council), it could of messed up everything.
And who knows if that could of been me going home during
that double tribal council had you stayed & won!

While voting for Abby would not have been a very good decision for me. In the next
couple of rounds she ended up being somebody that I trusted more than anybody else
in this game. So had I voted for Abby at that time, I think it would of been a bad
move for me.

Caleb did not trust Abby or Stefan. (Because he kept trying to vote
them off over and over and over.) So I believe it was a lot smarter for me to keep those
two people because they could of been on my side a lot easier for that reason.

Not just to get rid of Caleb, but just in terms of keeping myself safe, to have
people I could sway around if my name was to come up.

So that pretty much came down to you or Eric. I sorta saw both of you as in a similar
position in this game, and I think Eric was a lot less of a threat than you were and
a lot easier to eliminate from this game. In fact, everyone in that tribe could easily
be eliminated, in the exception of one person... you.

The fact that we were in a tribe of five, it was a perfect timing, waiting to be back
to like 6, 7 or 8 people was risky. You could very easily get people on your side more
than on my side.

And as a side note, it's not to kiss ass or anything, but during a good part of our
conversation, I was on board with you until I sat to think after our conversation
and decided "No... I just can't keep Selene, that would be such a blunder I will regret!"

Also tell me why the other two do not deserve to win.

If my previous answer did not appeal to you, then this one should. I don't think either
Peter or Caleb deserve to win this game.

It's clear to me... Peter was nothing in this game but a parasite, sucking up to Caleb
the whole time because he had no guts to sniff around and play on his own. That means Caleb
was pretty lucky, as he had someone sucking up to him and he didn't have to do anything to
keep his vote locked and Peter was not even a threat so he didn't have to cut his ties
with him.

While on the other hand, I think that I deserve to win over Caleb because of multiple
reasons. One, his arrogance and attitude of "I got this all in the bag" when he clearly did not.
I think me and John were directly, and at times, indirectly controlling the outcome of this game,
and I did not need any of that cocky attitude to advance in this game. Did he do anything about
you going home? No. Is he the reason Eric left? No. Did he want Micah to leave? No. Did he have
a hand in choosing if Stefan stays? No. Was he the swing vote that was necessary to vote off
Abby? No. And if you have read John's statement, you would see that Caleb had done nothing
genius to vote John out of this game. But guess what, despite all of that, he was still
cocky and overconfident about his game, lied, and faked smilies. I don't think someone like that
should have the title of sole survivor.

Two, I had a lot more of drive to win this game than either Caleb or Peter had. Did they
even TRY in challenges? They're like the two players in the merge who have
participated the least in challenges. Like if you truly wanted me gone then maybe should you have
at least tried the best you possibly can. They certainly had the time to do challenges...
I only had 2 hours on my hand to do the final challenge and I still gave it a try... and it
paid off. I had the drive, they did not.

Three, what is their ONLY argument against me? That I needed
immunities? That's the one of the very few arguments they can come up
against me. I was targetted because I was threatening,
they refused to stick to me because they saw I was not a
sheep like Peter was. In those circumstances, having to win
so many immunities is respectable and not degrading.

In an environment of "be the last one standing", I think I have much more what it takes to be
the sole survivor than either of those two does.

[Caleb Danvers]

Actually two things to clear up, 1) I really did NOT have time to participate in the challenges. I knew your score already won you the final Immunity so no, I wasn't going to waste my time. I worked all the time or was away and couldn't attend live challenges, by the time I got on for others I didn't have time to do them because of work. So that shouldn't be held against me.

Secondly, I actually did have a hand in Stefan staying or not, because I had two idols to give away -- I CHOSE to give one to Peter knowing we would both probably be here the next round but as a safeguard just in case and because he would have been getting one the next round regardless. However, I was not entitled to give it to him, it was still a choice, just like it was a choice for you to give yours to Abby and not Stefan. You were not the sole decision maker, so don't pretend that you were.

[Anna Ivers]

Caleb who could of voted off Peter. That's just too funny. xD Get more cocky.

And for your first statement, you couldn't know if I did only one attempt or more, so if you truly had drive to win, you would of gave it a try regardless of my post counts.

[Selene]

Alright I've got everything I need. Good luck you two.