Statements/ Jury Questioning

[Jeff]

Erik and Ken please make your Opening Statements, then The Jury may start with their Questioning.

Jury can Vote at anytime.

[Erik Huffman]

Opening Statements

Well first of all i want to say thanks to all the players and the host for a great game. I came into this game with saaying i will not make it far because i didn't know much people. I know i gave my very best in every challenge and led our alliance to make it to the end... and i can say that i brought 4 out of the 6 to the end. I tried to play as honest as possible but of course in the end we would lie to some and in the end take people out too. So Sorry to those who i have done those to. I want to say i did alot to outplay outlast and outwit. I made alliances, won challenges in fact alot, and talked with most of you. Sorry if i wasnt able to have alot of time to talk to all of you guys. I'll be waiting for your questions and will asnwer them to the best of my ability and as honestly as possible

[Ken Stafford]

Ken's Opening Statement
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Wow.. its certainly been an interesting game. It is a bit of a shock for me to be here as I did not have a final two with Erik and thought the Terry did. I supose he felt he could not posibly beat Terry in the final vote. So, the game as I viewd it.

When this game first starte we had twelve each on our tribes. I was aproached rather quickly by Erik infact about joining up in a masive seven person alliance. Given that he had names for all the people already I knew there had to be a core group within that I was not a part of, but strategicaly sticking with that group would work best and not being a part of the core group would keep the overthrow target off me. I did my best in all the team chalenges, but held off a bit in the early individual ones.

When we finaly hit merge, things outwardly looked good.. 6 men to 5 women. We should have had an easy walk to final 8 or so, before things began to break down. But it did not happen that way, and here is where my respect of Erik as a leader and strategist began dying. Unless this was part of a deliberate plan to shed some of his old allies by working with some of the women! He along with some others, self-voted.. then the following round when he bothered to start playing again he insisted on a target who did not have known previous votes of any kind rather than one we could have potentialy taken in a tie.. this even after prompting by me.

We then come two the TC where I nearly went twice, and the womans alliance imploded. People were trying to bring over various women.. and I strongly belived that as it had not worked last round, it would be another round at least before an internal break could occur. I was doing my best to just lay low. The fact that that alliance was ready to do a lot more than just crack saved me.

The men were then up 4 to 3, and despite ocasional wavering held it together to fianl 4. I knew heading into the final chalenge that I was the odd man out in the group, and would likely need to win it to be sitting here. I made a good run for it, as Erik was only 7 ahead. I played a rather clean game, stuck to my alliances for better or worse. I never failed my alliance, or betrayed anyone. I hope you will vote for me.

Ken

[Michelle Yi]

Okay, I have a question for the both of you:

List 5 things you've learned about me, 5 things that you did better than the person next to you, 5 things you could've improved on and 5 reasons why you should get my vote.

[Courtney Yates]

Hey Guys, I applaud you for getting Shii Ann on your side and screwing us over . lol
But Its just a game and I dont know who to vote for, so I have a lot of questions and I hope you answer them all. Thanks

Out of everyone on the Jury, who had the best Strategy please rank us from 1-11.
Out of everyone on the Jury who was the hardest to get rid of, again rank 1-11.
If everyone in this game was a Survivor(US) Who were they most like?
How Hard was this game for you?
Do you think anyone Deserves to be here over yourself?

Now I have one more thing I want you to do that is very Important, draw me a picture in paint, the picture has to represent the game.

Thanks!

[Kimmi Kappenberg]

Congratulations Erik and Ken on making the final two

Now to questioning time.



Darrah why did you have to lie to me, coz I knew I was going to go sooner or later and I would thought you would have told me, coz after all what could I have done about it....

I gave Terry the courtesy of telling him that I was voting for Big Tom, just out of respect for him as a person. So why couldn't you simply just tell me that I was going. HUH!!!

Now that I got that off my chest, I feel oh so much better ;D


Erik and Ken name the one person you thought was a real threat in the game and you had to get rid of early

Erik and Ken, can you tell me why I should vote for you, coz I normally go for the under dogs sorry Erik.... but I do.

So Erik it's up to you to persuade me otherwise

Erik and Ken are you two going to be playing in the Season Two, if so do you think the way you played this game will affect the outcome of that game.

[Erik Huffman]

5 things you've learned about me,
your AIM is kalikitsune thats all we talked about on the pm's
Sorry

5 things that you did better than the person next to you

I was kind of the one who formed our Big alliance so i think i did better at Outwit
I also did better in challenges coz i played in most of the games and when merge came i won some of it unlike ken who did not. so i guess i outplayed.
At one point I saw that the men were down by one and i did something to make sure we wont be going home.
I made sure our alliances were all on the same page... by pm'ing them or through AIM.
5 things you could've improved on
Better Social skills... i think i only got to know some of the people not all... including you shii-ann.


5 reasons why you should get my vote.
Coz i played hard in the challenges, i aligned with great people and stuck with them, i saw the need to strategize and i think i did well in it. Made friends with some that i plan on keeping and I think i played a damn better game than Ken

[Michelle Yi]

Aug 29, 2008 19:42:35 GMT -4 Erik Huffman said:

5 things you've learned about me,
your AIM is kalikitsune thats all we talked about on the pm's
Sorry

5 things that you did better than the person next to you

I was kind of the one who formed our Big alliance so i think i did better at Outwit
I also did better in challenges coz i played in most of the games and when merge came i won some of it unlike ken who did not. so i guess i outplayed.
At one point I saw that the men were down by one and i did something to make sure we wont be going home.
I made sure our alliances were all on the same page... by pm'ing them or through AIM.
5 things you could've improved on
Better Social skills... i think i only got to know some of the people not all... including you shii-ann.


5 reasons why you should get my vote.
Coz i played hard in the challenges, i aligned with great people and stuck with them, i saw the need to strategize and i think i did well in it. Made friends with some that i plan on keeping and I think i played a damn better game than Ken

Honestly, you didn't save the guys, it was me flopping that did. And the person who got me to flop was Rob.

[Erik Huffman]

Out of everyone on the Jury, who had the best Strategy please rank us from 1-11.
Lowest

1 Bobby Jon
2 Tom
3 Cirie
4 Jon

I placed those 5 becuase they were casualties of the tribe swaps except Cirie coz i wasnt able to talk to her.

5 Ethan
Coz at first you had a great plan... getting with the 3 friends with their pairs to make it to F6 but unfortunately we were able to counter that but overall you did a good job.

6 Becky
7 Lillian

Becky and Lillian 6and7 respectively coz they both had a great plan but the votes justs didnt go their way
8 Terry - coz he was aligned with a good Final 4 alliance
9 Shii ann - she tried to aligned with rob c and flip him over but Terry and myself saw it coming and prevented it from happening. Also she has the last girl standing
10 Steph - was a great alliance leader and played a great strategic game
11 Rob C. - unfortunately was eliminated at the final challenge but he had a great alliance with me, terry, ken, and the other guys. But on top of that he also tried working on Shii-ann which worked to our advantage.

Out of everyone on the Jury who was the hardest to get rid of, again rank 1-11.

Correct me if i'm wrong we rate them on how hard it is that i had to vote them out?

Lowest
1 Ethan
2 Bobby Jon
3 Tom
4 Jon
these four again i was not part of their elimination just the casualty of tribe swaps or self votes
5 Cirie - never got to talk to
6 Shii - ann - never got to talk to
7 Becky - at one point was my ally but had to go with my original allies
8 Lillian - at one point was my ally but had to go with my original allies
9 Steph - at one point was my ally but had to go with my original allies
10 Rob C - we both played a great game and he is a great friend
11 Terry - a great friend and ally


How Hard was this game for you?
This game was hard coz at first there was 12 on each tribe so if we want majority we had to get at least 6-7 people. Also from what i heard, Tom, Rob, and Colby were like friends pre-game, so there was kind of a threat early on... but we had to eliminate the threat and at the same time eliminate weak people. Then there were these twists that we had to cope with. Natalie coming to our tribe, we had to take her and eliminate her as well, then the changing of tribes... in our tribe we had 4 guys so we just stuck together. Also Ami was kinda inactive to when we swapped. Then when finally merge came, the guys at some point was down by one person. the good thing was we were able to overcome that and ended up in top.

Do you think anyone Deserves to be here over yourself? I think there are others who deserve to be here like Steph, Rob C but i think i deserve my spot here as well.. Steph because she was a great player and she was kind of the leader of the ladies alliance... When i was talking with Becky and Lill, they would always say... we have to ask Steph, or we'll see what Steph thinks... Rob C. coz we both were allies since the beginning becuase of the game and we both have won challenges and strategized well... While i was talking with Steph, Becky and Lill, He was working Shii-ann.

[Erik Huffman]

Aug 29, 2008 20:21:44 GMT -4 Michelle Yi said:

Aug 29, 2008 19:42:35 GMT -4 Erik Huffman said:

5 things you've learned about me,
your AIM is kalikitsune thats all we talked about on the pm's
Sorry

5 things that you did better than the person next to you

I was kind of the one who formed our Big alliance so i think i did better at Outwit
I also did better in challenges coz i played in most of the games and when merge came i won some of it unlike ken who did not. so i guess i outplayed.
At one point I saw that the men were down by one and i did something to make sure we wont be going home.
I made sure our alliances were all on the same page... by pm'ing them or through AIM.
5 things you could've improved on
Better Social skills... i think i only got to know some of the people not all... including you shii-ann.


5 reasons why you should get my vote.
Coz i played hard in the challenges, i aligned with great people and stuck with them, i saw the need to strategize and i think i did well in it. Made friends with some that i plan on keeping and I think i played a damn better game than Ken

Honestly, you didn't save the guys, it was me flopping that did. And the person who got me to flop was Rob.

Well yeah but i also convinced Steph and the others to vote for you and not one of the guys:P

[Erik Huffman]

Erik and Ken name the one person you thought was a real threat in the game and you had to get rid of early
i think the move we made to take out a threat early on the game was Rob M. Coming to this game with 2 people you previously know and have an alliance with poses a big threat and we saw that and decided we had to take one of them out early on.

Erik and Ken, can you tell me why I should vote for you, coz I normally go for the under dogs sorry Erik.... but I do.
You should vote for me coz I think i have Outwitted, Outplayed, and Outlasted all of you and that i have played a great game both physically and strategically. Coming into this game i didnt know much of the other players. i came here to play and meet new people and have fun... especially make it to the end. The friendships i've made with the people are true, so Lill the talks we had all are genuine but when it comes to the votes, those are the ones that i had a hard time doing coz i know in the end only one person will win and everyone will vote for each other. And i did what i have to, to make it to the end. So i may have lied to some of you but all i can say is Sorry and i hope you can see that i played a great game. Hope to talk and play with you in other games.


Erik and Ken are you two going to be playing in the Season Two, if so do you think the way you played this game will affect the outcome of that game.

I will not be playing on the 2nd season coz i will co-host the second season. But if i were to play i guess the way i've played this game will affect the one i play on season 2. Reaching F2 poses a big threat to the others and also seeing the sign-ups there are alot of season 1 players there and they may want vengence(did i spell correctly lolz)

[Erik Huffman]

i'll make the photo later steph coz i gotta go

[Adam Gentry]

How's it going? First of all, I just want to say after a long 39 days or whatever, nobody can ever take away from you for making it to the Final 2, that's for certain.

Erik, I'll just start with you. I know the only reason I'm standing right here is because of you, so I do appreciate that, I really do. But my first question for you is how proud are you of yourself of playing this game up until now?

Ken, I guess the same thing I wanna ask you is up until now, are you proud of the way you played the game?

That's all I got.

[Ethan Zohn]

I was a "Casualty of tribe swaps or self votes"? Erik, I was eliminated AFTER the tribes merged, after those tribal swaps, and just 'cuz I got voted out because of someones botched plan to vote for a girl who had no previous votes when the rest of the girls all voted for me in a tie, doesn't mean I'm the one that had bad strategy.

Don't worry, I've got questions coming too, just heading out for a little while.

[Ken Stafford]

Here you go, these may not be the best answers,, but they are honest.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Shii Ann Huang

Well, not so sure about getting 5 of each but here goes

List 5 things you've learned about me

- Like Erik I did not have a great deal of contact with you, certainly not enough to know things like your favorite color movie. I think you mentioned once that you were uploading artwork and stuff.. but I never followed up on it. What I learned about you was mostly due to actions not conversations. I know you are a risk taker, when unhappy with the people you were with you struck out to try and change things up.

5 things that you did better than the person next to you

- Well, I was always here.. no absences of self votes. I was tracking the votes I could. I was a definite team player, less concerned with personal immunities and more with keeping the group safe. Take for example the first after merge, when I PMed my whole group the answers I had.. in the chance that we might all get immunity. Turned out I had one wrong though.. lol. I played without betraying (shocking I know).

5 things you could've improved on and

- I think I was a bit overwhelmed to some extent by the number of people in the game. Not spending enough time getting to know them. It kind of felt like the game should be almost over and we were just getting to the merge. I know I was not playing a very good social game. I also, fumbled the last few immunities when I had a good shot at leaving. I defiantly should have been pushing my voting ideas more at the merge, but I went with not drawing too much attention.

5 reasons why you should get my vote

- I have a nice smile. More seriously, Erik should not win this. He made critical mistakes that cost the people who were depending on him immensely. His game was far from flawless. He took the position of leader early on and did not live up to it. He won the right to choose who he faced up here and turned on a friend, because he could not beat them.. and he had no chance of getting my vote.


--------------------------------------------------------------------

Stephanie Lagrossa

Out of everyone on the Jury, who had the best Strategy please rank us from 1-11.

Lowest
1 Jon – In group, but missing too often and poor performances (self voter)
2 Lillian - No Idea.. sorry L
3 Bobby Jon – In group, but missing too often (self voter)
4 Cirie – No idea.. sorry L
5 Ethan – Often out side early group (self voter, but only when immune)
6 Becky – No Idea.. sorry L
7 Shii-ann – Changed things up
8 Steph – Leader, but lost control of her group
9 Tom (came in with 3, bad it got out though)
10 Terry – Very involved
11 Rob C – turned things around
Best

Out of everyone on the Jury who was the hardest to get rid of, again rank 1-11.

Not involved in ouster?
1 Jon
2 Tom

Did not vote out?
3 Bobby Jon
4 Ethan
10 Terry
11 Rob C

Easyest
2 Lillian
6 Becky
7 Shii-ann – Was worried a bit
4 Cirie – This too was close
8 Steph – That was a close one
Hardest


If everyone in this game was a Survivor(US) Who were they most like?

- I honestly did not get to know many here to give a credible answer.

How Hard was this game for you?

- Not very hard.

Do you think anyone Deserves to be here over yourself?

- Yes, there are several who deserve to be here more than I.

Now I have one more thing I want you to do that is very Important, draw me a picture in paint, the picture has to represent the game.

- Well its not too pretty.. but here you go. Just don’t expect commentary
i37.tinypic.com/28s50z8.jpg

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lillian Morris

Erik and Ken name the one person you thought was a real threat in the game and you had to get rid of early

- I actually saw the Tom/RobM/Colby group as a balance. I thought Nat was a serious threat. When I realized we were going to loose despite being up 6 to 5.. I talked Terry into sandbag voting you Lill as you were constantly on and seemed to be flying below the radar.

Erik and Ken, can you tell me why I should vote for you, coz I normally go for the under dogs sorry Erik.... but I do.

So Erik it's up to you to persuade me otherwise

- I know, I did not lead or end up making any major moves in the game. Yet I was consistent and loyal. I don’t know how Erik can claim to have played well strategically with those first two merge votes.

Erik and Ken are you two going to be playing in the Season Two, if so do you think the way you played this game will affect the outcome of that game.

- Unfortunately, no. As it is no longer summer, I just don’t have the time to commit.. and would end up disappointing myself.


-----------------

Bobby John

How's it going? First of all, I just want to say after a long 39 days or whatever, nobody can ever take away from you for making it to the Final 2, that's for certain.

Erik, I'll just start with you. I know the only reason I'm standing right here is because of you, so I do appreciate that, I really do. But my first question for you is how proud are you of yourself of playing this game up until now?

Ken, I guess the same thing I wanna ask you is up until now, are you proud of the way you played the game?

- Not that much really, I always feel like I could have done something more or in a better way.

That's all I got.