The Hobbit Crackwhore Speaks

[Stephanie Valencia]

HAI GUYZ! ^_^

I want to direct your attention away from the finalists for a hot minute. My confessional is going to open when this game is open and be very offensive to some of you. It's basically something right out of a South Park episode. PLEASE do not take it seriously as I did all my jokes in there in jest, I said that in my DR many times, but thought I'd say it AGAIN before I got hate mail for what's in there. ANYWAY...back to where the attention needs to be...On our awesome finalists!

First of all, congratulations to all three of you. I feel to make the finals in a game of this magnitude deserves even more credit than normally so. I have mad respect and adoration for two of you as both people and players, and zero respect or even remote like for the other. HOWEVER, that said, I'm leaving my vote open for this final tribal, so tell me what I need to know and fight for my vote.

I would post pictures and make this all colorful, but it's 7 in the morning, and I'm quite tired and have to mow a lawn soon, so...LOL! Anyway...Let me get to it.

Chelsea, being open and honest, you are the frontrunner for my vote tonight, and it's not because of the personal reason, although personally I was closest to you in this game and talk to you a bit more than Sydney outside these games, but because I feel you played the best game. From the minute you told me you knew my alias and that you were hiding within the walls of this game, I knew I was playing against, in my opinion, the greatest player in all of ORGs, and that I had to bring my A-Game. I knew that you would be sitting in the finals unless someone wisened up toward the end of the game and took you out, whether that be me, my alliance, or someone else, and that you were completely guaranteed to reach at least Final Six, because you're that good in my opinion.

I got close to you in this game when I landed on NuChorizo for one very simple reason: I knew you had my life in the palm of your hands. If I was good with you, I was good with the rest of Old Salchicha, it's like being the tagalong friend of the popular girl who's now accepted by the group, albeit potentially begrudgingly.

However, I do have some issues with voting for you. For one, I knew you were never going to take me to the end. I was never put under enough of a spell to believe that you would take me to the end. However, you did tell me when I was going home that you would vote out Tom, but about two hours before deadline, told me you couldn't go through with it and gave me a reasoning of that Sydney had two Idols, which she did. One of my questions will ask you point blank if you ever were serious about keeping me in the game or not. I'm honestly led to believe no. Not because you dislike me or anything like that, but because your position was too good to put on the line like that. Know, however, that I would never have put your name down until at least Final Five. For one because I like you as a person and for a second because you were untouchable until that point.

Therefore, my questions for you are:

1. Point blank: Were you and Matt ever serious about teaming up with me, Mike, and Savage, at least for that vote, and booting Tom? Know that if you lie you may get my vote, but if I find out after reading your DR you were never serious, you'll lose a lot of respect from me as well as possibly a friendship. I'm out of the game, no reason to lie. So, again, were you ever going to go along with it and vote out Tom, or were you stringing me along?

2. I was clearly a pawn in this game once I was separated from my Bayonaca alliance(s), especially once they left the game before I could reunite with them, so what made me a valuable pawn to you specifically?

3. If you had to replace Sydney and Tom with two people on the jury, who would it be?

4. Why do you deserve my vote over Sydney?

5. Why do you deserve my vote over Tom?

Sydney, I didn't speak to you until I landed onto NuChorizo with you. I immediately tried to warm up to you because I could tell that you and Matt had control on NuChorizo and were reporting all of the goings-on to Chelsea. I also enjoyed talking to you more than most. I probably made a mistake in opening up too much and trying to get you to take pity on me by showing how nervous I was. Yeah...not too smart. I will say I commend you for being able to keep yourself basically invulnerable and impervious for the entire game, and I think you played well and somewhat took the power from Chelsea by taking out Matt, which gained you a lot of points for me personally. Mick and Tom blindly did your bidding, so good work there.

My questions for you are:

1. You stated in your response to Chase that my biggest error in this game was warming up to the Jury, but I want to address your second reason, because I'm a bit confused. Did going balls-out for that Individual Immunity that I, allegedly, didn't need, and went 10 hours for, put an even bigger target on my back, in your opinion?

2. Who did you feel threatened your position most in this game and why?

3. If you could replace Chelsea and Tom with two people on the jury, who would it be and why?

4. Why do you deserve my vote over Chelsea?

5. Why do you deserve my vote over Tom?

Tom, you are an AIDS-infested rat that grates on my last fucking nerve. I love how you talk in your Opening Statement like you're something to be feared in games. You're not. At all. You won a few challenges and got an Idol spoonfed to you, but you did nothing special in this game. At all. I find you to be a hypocritical, two-faced little snake who goes by a double standard and also has the audacity to call me a bully. Now, I take very serious offense to this. ANYONE who knows me at all in the ORG world knows this! As someone who has been cyberbullied in the past, I get incredibly angry when I am accused of such. All that said, however, you DO have an outside shot at my vote. So let me get to it, albeit with gritted teeth.

1. I was told by Chase that you went to him when we were still on Bayonaca and trashed Penner and I, saying I claimed to be in control when I wasn't and that I bullied people into voting. First of all, asshole, I never said I was in control. However, I was in a VERY enviable position with F2's with Steph, Misty, and Penner, as well as friendly connections to Savage and Tammy. If I wanted you out, I could've done it without Steph and Misty's help. And believe me, if we had lost again, I would've. But I'm just rambling now. What I want from YOU is an apology for calling me a bully. It may sound silly, but anyone who knows me would understand why I want one. I do not bully people, I simply ganged up on your brainless twat of a best friend for throwing me under the bus to you and got him voted out. CRY ME A RIVER! Apologize for calling me a bully, and make it sincere!

2. Why did you find it necessary to poison my name to other tribes? I never came after you, and it's not my fault I can be charming.

3. Do you actually think you have a chance at the finals?

4. Why do you deserve my vote over Chelsea?

5. Why do you deserve my vote over Sydney?

That's all, good luck, Final Three!

[Tom Westman]

Well first of all Steph I do not recall I actually used the word bully, if I did I am sincerely sorry as I am against bullying too. I was bullied myself and I wouldn't want anyone being called like that if I know they weren't. What I remember with my conversation with Chase though is that YOU did control the votes. That is how I perceived you because everyone was willing to tell you what I know, well must have been Penner. I am not trying to be fearsome, I am not trying to be some proud asshole. I am just trying to say that I wouldn't want any trash talk because I have had enough of that already. You're the one calling names here, I don't think I have said anything offensive to anyone in this game and if I have then I must have forgot. It's not like I brood all day thinking about this game. So if you are hurt, I am sorry because that was not my intention.

Poisoning you to the other tribes was my last ditch effort so that people will want to align with me and let them know I was never part of any Bayonaca alliances except maybe with Stephenie and Misty which I also hid because during the swap I was left with Penner and Savage and numbers wise we were outnumbered and I was so sure Penner was gonna gun for me so I needed to distance myself from anything Bayonaca.

NO, I don't actually think I deserve to be winning this game. I knew that going on. I know I am gonna get all the heat for being the lamest player here. But I already know that. All I ask from each one of you is respect me enough not to trash talk me because I am still a human being and if you yourself said you are against cyber bullying trash talking someone can still be considered cyber bullying. It's stressful enough knowing I'm not gonna win this game moreso than having everyone gang up on you for what you did in something that is just called a GAME. I tried to be as respectful as possible to anyone of you and all I really did was vote. It's not like I spat at your faces or anything or called you cunts, whores and bitches. I am not like that and I never would change that part of me no matter how dirty a game gets. That is just not my style. I would lie yes but that's as far as I would take it.

For hilarity's sake, I deserve to win against Chelsea because I did not come into a pretense of an alias and suddenly outed myself to anyone I know. I didn't need to hide. I was open about who I was to anyone that was asking so it was up to them to take me out or not.

I deserve to win against Sydney because Sydney had a smooth sailing ride into the finals, I actually had to work my butt off pre-merge and had I not become her soldier none of this dream final 3 would have ever happened.

Again my sincerest apology if you felt I was attacking you personally. Not my intentions.

[Chelsea Meissner]

Chelsea, being open and honest, you are the frontrunner for my vote tonight, and it's not because of the personal reason, although personally I was closest to you in this game and talk to you a bit more than Sydney outside these games, but because I feel you played the best game. From the minute you told me you knew my alias and that you were hiding within the walls of this game, I knew I was playing against, in my opinion, the greatest player in all of ORGs, and that I had to bring my A-Game. I knew that you would be sitting in the finals unless someone wisened up toward the end of the game and took you out, whether that be me, my alliance, or someone else, and that you were completely guaranteed to reach at least Final Six, because you're that good in my opinion.

I got close to you in this game when I landed on NuChorizo for one very simple reason: I knew you had my life in the palm of your hands. If I was good with you, I was good with the rest of Old Salchicha, it's like being the tagalong friend of the popular girl who's now accepted by the group, albeit potentially begrudgingly.

I really appreciate all of that, Stephanie, seriously. It means a lot. When I had found out who you were, I did approach you about it, because I wanted to see how you’d react. I wouldn’t say it was a test or anything, but I wanted to see what you thought about it. However, at the time, you denied it at the start and then eventually gave into the fact that your alias was able to be discovered by a simple Google search. I do remember our Skype call near the beginning of the merge when you told me you thought I was one of the greatest players to play in these games in general. Honestly, that took me aback a little bit. I was really flattered, lol. I didn’t know if you had just been saying it at the time because you wanted to stick around and knew I had ties to help accomplish that, but the fact that you’re saying it even now while sitting on the Jury shows me that you mean it, and that means so much to me. More than you know. I do try hard in these games and I may take them a little seriously than others. Especially when the games are this long and are difficult and challenging. I never want to half-ass anything. I always want to give my everything.

When you ended up on NuChorizo, I was aware of what everyone had been saying about you. You had been coming across too controlling and bossy to the others on the tribe, most of which were my allies. When they had told me that you would probably go if and when you lost, I knew I had to tell you. At the start of the game, you and I didn’t really have a working relationship because we were never on the same tribe. However, when I knew we were getting close to the merge, I knew I needed to start to acquire some more allies. I figured, I like Stephanie, she likes me, I want to help her out. I told you what my allies were saying about you, just to watch out. I had also spread good about your name to them so that they would want to keep you around prior. I looked out for you, for sure. I guess the example you gave about the popular girl, her friends, and you as the tagalong is somewhat true, but honestly, I wasn’t upset by it at all. Truth is, I wanted you to stick around as long as possible. When the option came to take out Jay because of his intentions, saving you was half the reason I went for it, with the other half of ‘course being that he was coming for me. This move prolonged your life in the game another round.

1. Point blank: Were you and Matt ever serious about teaming up with me, Mike, and Savage, at least for that vote, and booting Tom? Know that if you lie you may get my vote, but if I find out after reading your DR you were never serious, you'll lose a lot of respect from me as well as possibly a friendship. I'm out of the game, no reason to lie. So, again, were you ever going to go along with it and vote out Tom, or were you stringing me along?

I’ve told you this numerous times, but yes. It was a strong consideration. Matt can vouch for me on this because we had a semi-long discussion about what was smart for our game at that time. However, we were in the Careers at that point in time with Mick and Sydney and that whole alliance seemed solid, and I didn’t see any wavering. However. Matt and I both knew of the connections Sydney had going for her, and we figured what would the harm be in taking out Tom? It could advance us. But it wasn’t that easy. The fact of the matter was that Mick and Sydney had acquired an idol from earlier in the game and Mick had one from the auction. This meant that we’d be saving you, backstabbing Sydney and Mick, both of which had idols, which could have sent Matt earlier than he left.

It was a huge risk to take. You of all people should know that I wasn’t “stringing you along”. Yes, you were a huge asset to me, because with you came Savage. I wouldn’t say I was stringing you along though. Had I just been stringing you along, I wouldn’t have told you almost everything going on in my alliance. I had told you about Sydney and Mick’s idols, some of the inner-dynamics of our alliance, and when people were targeting you. I gave you a lot of inside information. I wanted you to know that I did want you in this game and that I would have done what I could to keep you here. But signing up for this game, I joined to play for myself and make it to the end. Risking my game against a duo with two idols to save you could have cost me a seat in the finale right now, and I hope you don’t hold that against me for having that kind of mindset about the game.

2. I was clearly a pawn in this game once I was separated from my Bayonaca alliance(s), especially once they left the game before I could reunite with them, so what made me a valuable pawn to you specifically?

Your connection to Savage was one of the bigger reasons. You connection to Savage counted as two votes. If I needed a vote, it would become, “can you tell Savage to vote this way?” Savage didn’t like to talk to many people because had had mentioned to me and a few others how it made him nervous to talk to other people in the game, but you seemed to have that open line with him, so he was accessible through you. Another reason you were valuable to me, was because I instilled a lot of information about the game in you. I felt like this was a way for you to cement your loyalty to me as opposed to say, Sydney. I was telling you things she was saying, other people were saying, and I was telling you about the inner-workings of the game that you didn’t quite know about from first glance.

3. If you had to replace Sydney and Tom with two people on the jury, who would it be?

Okay, I’ll do this answer in two ways. I’ll do it based by other people in my alliance for one, and then I’ll do it based as a whole from anyone on the Jury who I think would deserve it. If Sydney and Tom couldn’t be here in the finale and instead it would be others from my allies, I would replace them with Matt and you. My reasoning for Matt is pretty straight-forward. He was my number one ally in this game and I trusted him more than anything. He was the one person I could 100% count on always, and he’s the only person that I don’t think would ever backstab me. Him in the end is also deserving, because he tried hard in this game and played hard. He was a good competitor, he socialized, and he was a great asset to the season. The reason I choose you, is because out of the other people left, I feel that you deserved to be in the end out of my allies. You were alone but did what you had to do to stay alive. You proved that you could go countless hours in endurance immunities, and you cared about the game.

If I had to pick outside my alliance as well and just do it as a whole, I would say Matt again, and Shawna. The reason that I pick Shawna is because she was the last of core of her original Chorizo alliance. She was the main fear of mine, to really go deep and cause some sort of trouble. I feel that she had the ability to go far in this game, and her getting Immunity those times really stumped our plans in taking her out. Her reaching the end of this game would be an underdog story because she was the underdog at that point, facing off against the Capitol forces. And as I’ve already said with Matt, I wanted him in the end no matter what. I respect him so much as a player and a person and would have wanted him in the end regardless. I wanted the best in the end, no matter what. I don’t believe in goat endings and have never been a fan of them.

4. Why do you deserve my vote over Sydney?

I feel that I deserve your vote over Sydney for many reasons. I don’t consider this a personal reason, but I think I deserve your vote over her because I kept you in the loop of everything that was going on. I told you about her idols, I told you what was going, I told you how the majority alliance were perceiving you, and I was pretty straight up in everything I told you. When I came to you about the Jay vote, I told you, if you want to stay in this game, then you need to do what I tell you, and that is to vote Jay out of the game. It was the only thing that was going to save you that week. Had you not of done that, you would have left. When it came down to the round you did leave, I did consider flipping with Matt, but ultimately it didn’t work. I explained why to you and didn’t want you to leave thinking I played you, because those weren’t my intentions whatsoever, Steph.

5. Why do you deserve my vote over Tom?

Steph! This is a silly. A handful of people on the Jury deserve a vote over Tom. Now, with the mean joke aside, I will say that it was impressive for Tom to win three immunities in a row. However two of them were easily escapable. It really came down to strokes of luck that he benefited from. If you look back at his game, it really wasn’t impressive past that. He was safe the majority of the game because of his relationship with Sydney. When the merge started to play out and the Jury were disliking his posts and everything, it became clear as day that he would be an easy one to beat in the finale, which is why he made the finals instead of Matt, in my opinion. Sydney didn’t have that bond with Matt and she didn’t want to face off against someone who could have done well at the end. I think that both Sydney and I deserve the vote over Tom. I personally deserve it because I played this game leaps and bounds over him; facts support this.

[Stephanie Valencia]

Thank you, Chelsea and Tom. Just waiting on Sydney now.

[Sydney Wheeler]

Sydney, I didn't speak to you until I landed onto NuChorizo with you. I immediately tried to warm up to you because I could tell that you and Matt had control on NuChorizo and were reporting all of the goings-on to Chelsea. I also enjoyed talking to you more than most. I probably made a mistake in opening up too much and trying to get you to take pity on me by showing how nervous I was. Yeah...not too smart. I will say I commend you for being able to keep yourself basically invulnerable and impervious for the entire game, and I think you played well and somewhat took the power from Chelsea by taking out Matt, which gained you a lot of points for me personally. Mick and Tom blindly did your bidding, so good work there.

Thanks for the compliments, Stephanie.

My questions for you are:

1. You stated in your response to Chase that my biggest error in this game was warming up to the Jury, but I want to address your second reason, because I'm a bit confused. Did going balls-out for that Individual Immunity that I, allegedly, didn't need, and went 10 hours for, put an even bigger target on my back, in your opinion?

Yes, it did I feel. When you were deciding to go 10 hours during that challenge, a lot of people questioned why you wanted it so badly. The plan was already in effect to boot Cochran or Sekou, and it was already to the point where you were "inducted" into our side. Nobody was considering booting you at that stage and while I never throw challenges on purpose, it did seem over-board to go that length given it shouldn't have been do or die in your head. I think your comments about really wanting it triggered the reactions "does she think she needs it?"

2. Who did you feel threatened your position most in this game and why?

Hmm, good question! Two answers to this. The people that threatened my safety were the ones trying to flip the game on me: Power Rangers alliance. They saw me as part of a three-headed snake and I knew they would continue to threaten may safety the longer they were in the game. The second answer is more about threatening my position to win, which would be from within my alliance - Matt. Typically one would think that you, Andrew, or Jay - the people I was less secure with from our group - would be the obvious choices. But I wasn't worried about you guys at all in terms of taking me out. Chelsea and myself already had our determined final five which was us two, Matt, Mick, and Tom. I knew without a doubt we could make that stage if I wanted it. On top of that I had two hidden immunity idols in my pocket. But I had no power over Matt, despite being very close with him. He did anything and everything Chelsea asked as all he wanted to do was make it to the end with her. It's all they really wanted and "would of been happy with any of the three of us winning." My position in the game in terms of winning was more slim with him.

3. If you could replace Chelsea and Tom with two people on the jury, who would it be and why?

In terms of who I would also like to see win if I couldn't? Matt and Semhar. Matt I feel has the strongest "winning" game in the Jury right now based on him playing alongside Chelsea and myself. He was very social and very respected. IF I couldn't win and someone on the Jury had to, it would be him. But if this questions means I still have a shot to win, I still stand by my decision in removing him. In that case I'd switch him with Mike, because taking out Matt was an important part of my game. The second person would be Semhar because I got to know her game better than her alliance. I'd feel partial to vote for her for our exchanges in the game. I wouldn't mind seeing her, Shawna, Mike final three if it was their alliance that got the upper hand.

4. Why do you deserve my vote over Chelsea?

I feel I played the better game and made more moves to set myself up in a more valuable position. She saw the finish line as a straight path of getting her two closest friends there and using other relationships as a means of numbers. She keeps harping on pre-relationships, pre-relationships, pre-relationships, when she is just as guilty as anyone - which I feel is unfair to myself. My game was not smooth sailing naturally, it was smooth sailing because I made it so. I set myself up to bring all the people who wanted to take me to the end of the game....to the end of the game. That is no easy feat considering this was known to Chelsea. She mistakenly didn't try to vote out people who valued ME over her, opposed to someone like yourself who she took out before them. You may not have wanted her at the end, but BOTH Mick and Tom would of voted her in seconds as they didn't care to not. In terms of # of friends, absolutely nothing separated me from her as we both knew these same people. We also both have reputations as big players. In fact, two of our allies - Jay & Sandra - had better relationships with her than myself before the game. The plan was to take you out - Matt actually considered the idea of taking out Tom but it was Chelsea who disapproved, as she states, because of my idols. Personally, as for YOUR vote, I was up front about voting you off, whereas Chelsea was happily on board with the idea and kept it a secret until late. I kept my alias from you despite knowing it may get me somewhere as you've stated to me outside of this that you wanted to play a game with me. Chelsea lunged at your identity as a means of cushion. Chelsea coming to you during the last minute Jay move was NOT to the benefit of you, it was out of spite for Jay. Because had I not got the ball rolling, (she wanted to wait another round) you would have left in the double Tribal Council. So if you put your longer existing relationship with her aside, I think I deserve your vote over her for those reasons because I never led you astray. I personally don't think your friendship with her should come into the equation as you weren't really treated as such.

5. Why do you deserve my vote over Tom?

I deserve your vote over Tom a lot more easily. Tom was in no way part of the decision making throughout the merge. He'd ask what the vote was and I'd tell him. He was just not his most active standard this game and he did feel like a goat. Obviously you two have huge beef with eachother as well, which means he didn't handle his relationship with you as he left the game. My Jury management was better as I don't really feel like I have a single enemy. Maybe someone might not like me, but inside the game, it didn't get personal for me.


Thanks for your questions Steph and the chance for your vote

[Stephanie Valencia]

Thank you, all three of you.

I'm still undecided on my vote, but I am very satisfied with your answers.

Tom, I'm not voting for you, but not because I already was likely not going to, but because you acknowledged in this thread that you don't feel you deserve to win. If you don't feel you deserve the title of Sole Survivor, then I see no reason to vote to reward it to you.

Sydney, Chelsea, mad respect and liking for both of you outside this game. I still have a lean, but it's very even and I will be watching your every move for the rest of the FTC before I make my final decision, you've both played excellent games and I wish we could award you both as winners. Good luck to both of you. Whoever I don't vote for, please don't take it personally.