Renee's Questions/Statements

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Renee, please post your Questions/Statements to Sam & Tomas here.

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[Renee]

First let me congratulate both of you for making it to the Final 2. It's quite an accomplishment. This was one of the most challenging games I have ever played. Nearly everybody was active and determined which makes you two getting to the final 2 that much more impressive.

Sam, contrary to what you think, I was NEVER aligned with Kim and Jeb. I only worked with Kim for the 1st tribal council when Dylan was voted out. I had never even spoken to Jeb. In fact, I had spoken to no one except Kim. This was my first game on proboards and I was slow in getting the hang of how things are done in these games so I was slow in making contact. However, none of you tried to initiate contact either. I enjoyed our Skype chats and felt that you were being sincere. Boy was I wrong. Kudos to you for pulling the wool over my eyes.

Tomas, you and I really didn't have the opportunity to talk much. The time difference made it difficult to be on at the same time. I did enjoy talking to you and I still think your command of the English language is excellent. I wish you had gotten to know me better because that might have made it harder for you to vote for me when you did. I had always been on the outside of Kwele and really wanted to work with the Mbochi boys.

Since both of you had a hand in voting me out, you are even in my mind at this point so your answers will be very important to me in making my decision on a winner.

Sam:
-Did you know in advance that Hash was going to give me his idol?
-Why didn't you have the balls to talk to me (Chris did) after voting for me?
-Why should I forgive and forget and vote for you to win?
-If you had the power to picked anyone who played the game to take to the final 2, who would it have been?
-Most importantly, why did you choose Tomas to take to the final 2 instead of Joe?

Tomas:
-Why didn't you trust me? Did I say or do something that made you question my sincerity or was it simply because I was originally on Kwele?
-You were under the radar much of this game and seemingly happy to let Adrian take the lead and the heat while riding his coattails. What specifically did you do in this game to deserve my vote?
-If you had one that last challenge and had the power to picked anyone who played the game to take to the final 2, who would it have been?

That's it. Thanks guys. Good luck to both of you.

[Sam]

Hey Renee,


One of the biggest things I regret in this game is how I acted in my relationship with you. I am sorry for acting the way I did. I felt absolutely terrible after I voted for you after the switch. I think it was just really bad luck that the tribes ended up how they did, and how the idols started getting played, and my own paranoia. I wish I had acted differently.


If I may explain... in the first two episodes, most of us talked to each other on AIM. We had group chats on AIM where everyone was talking about the challenges and such. Just from my experience, the games I've played people talk on AIM. I have never played a game where people talked on Skype, so I guess I was just waiting for you to come on AIM? I guess I wasn't thinking about Skype unfortunately. =/ I think that was just an unlucky thing where we didn't see each other very early on. I did go onto skype after that first vote we had to come talk to you. I think we got off to a bad start there.


But once I started talking to you I really, really enjoyed our chats. They were quite long, and they were totally genuine. The more I started to talk to you, the more I was like, man, I like talking to Renee, this is a woman I want to work with. I think Hash had the same thoughts I did.


Then the unfortunate thing happened when we were split into tribes. =/ I guess I was looking at it like this. At the end of it all, it was unfortunately going to be me, you, or Hash who was being voted out. Otherwise, we would have had to guess what two people we had just met would each vote for. Then gamble our two idols on that uncertain possibility. We could have played two idols and still have had one of us be voted out. =(


I thought Hash was going to use his idol on himself. He did not tell me of any plans to use it on you. If Hash used his idol on himself, and Adrian and Ryan used their idols like you thought they would, that means it would be me versus you.


I wanted to save my idol for later. It turns out I desperately needed my idol at the very next vote, or I would have definitely lost this game lol. So I think that was a good decision.


But because it was me versus you at this vote, I thought, that meant I had to vote for you. =/

I actually thought you realized this yourself, and were going to vote for me. I thought this because our group of four, in our Skype chat, did not come up with a plan for how to use our four votes. I actually kept pressing us to come up with a plan on how to split our votes 2-2, just in case Adrian or Ryan didn't use their idol. I thought this was a good plan.

[11/24/2012 2:57:26 PM] Renee Morrissey: Please don't vote for Quanz. We can't split our vote. If we do and Quanz DOESN'T play his idol, he would be the one going home and we would be screwed.
[11/24/2012 2:58:35 PM] Sam Burkett: wouldn't quanz going home be a big victory though?
[11/24/2012 2:58:51 PM] Sam Burkett: right now they are both using their idols and unless we magically guess who they are voting, one of us goes home =(
[11/24/2012 2:59:25 PM] Renee Morrissey: No, not really. He only has one idol and he's not nearly as good at challenges as Adrian is. If we don't get Adrian out now, we won't have the opportunity again to get him out before the big merge.

But our foursome was not coming up with a plan. In fact the whole day of the vote, no one talked in the group chat about our plan. We only talked about it a little the night before which I wasn't around much for. Secondly, and this might just be my paranoia, but during the last two hours of the vote you couldn't get in contact with me, and I couldn't get in contact with you. Then Hash started telling me he was voting for Ryan, which went against what you said of all of us voting for Adrian. (I guess Hash was lying about voting for Ryan, but that's what he told me he would do).


So I was thinking you realized what was going on, and were making the smart choice to vote for me. That's why you weren't talking to me in private chat or in the group chat, and why we hadn't all agreed on a plan on how to use our votes.


I think I was right about you being smart... because the very next vote, you did the smart thing and fooled me haha. I did not know you were working with Mbochi when you came to our group asking us to vote for Tomas. I went along with it anyway because I thought it didn't matter that much either way, but I didn't know about your plan at that point. You did fool me that round lol, that was a good move. I think it might have worked too if the Mbochi had trusted you and thought you were with them. I'm not sure why they didn't think that, given what had just happened.


I should have talked to you after I voted for you at the switch tribal council. I think I was bit embarassed by what I did to you. It didn't feel good. I was busy at the time. At that point, Kwele had gone from a 7-5 lead to a 5-4 loss, and it looked like we would be picked off one by one. I assumed you would be doing the smart thing and going over to Mbochi, which meant it was actually 6-3. So I guess I was just lazy and feeling down so I didn't come to apologize. I should have though.



-If you had the power to picked anyone who played the game to take to the final 2, who would it have been?

I would pick Tomas. That sounds like a copout lol but it's what I did and how the game played out... who am I to say it should have played out any differently?


-Why should I forgive and forget and vote for you to win?

Your vote is your vote to cast, and I'm not going to tell you what you should do with it. It would be completely understandable if you felt hurt by what I did to you and did not want to vote for me to win. No one would blame you for that.

But I feel like the people of our original tribe have come so far and so long in this game, and it was such an epic battle. We had highs and lows, me, you, Hash, Chris, Kim, Jeb, and Sagar. Some of us got lucky, others got the short end of the stick. You did. That wasn't fair. But despite that, you played hard and you never gave up, even with things looked bleak.

But I feel that after you left, I was trying to do the same things you had done Renee, as you fought tooth and nail against all odds. My odds were equally as bleak against a united, fearsome Mbochi fivesome. It looked like I had no hope. My allies kept getting voted out one by one. I kept surviving round by round.

You developed an amazing relationship with Hash who became your ally and worked with you. You tried to form one with Mbochi, which would have been to their advantage too. Using this fighting spirit I think we both had, who knows how far you would have gotten in the game if they had believed you? Maybe I would be the one voting for you to win if that happened lol.



-Most importantly, why did you choose Tomas to take to the final 2 instead of Joe?

I voted out Joe because I felt this game was all about intelligent plays, strategic players, and smart choices. Almost each and every round, people put intelligence above emotions and made the right decision to get themselves farther. People worked tirelessly episode after episode to ensure their place in the game and work to get themselves farther. Joe did all these things. I feel I did them as well. I thought that, in the end of it all, people would vote who played the smartest game and put emotions aside. Because of that, I thought I had a better shot against Tomas. Rather than Joe, who I thought would win.


Thanks for your questions, Renee.

[Renee]

Thank you for your answers Sam.

[Tomas]

Hey Renee


Why didn't you trust me? Did I say or do something that made you question my sincerity or was it simply because I was originally on Kwele?

First to say it clearly : no, it wasn't because you was originally from Kwele. I would really enjoy to working with you, the whole thing just happened so quickly. For the first time, at tribal switch i was thinking that, yeah maybe the whole Kwele is together and it's only their strategy to made us comfortable. (Like i typed in Adrian's question thread i wasn't sure with that whole things that JEB/Kim and you are on other side). But... after that double council i knew that there is probably you and who can flip to us... There was really nothing what you said to me, you were definitely kind person to talk..
Our doubts came from before experiences and it was something which we all talked about and we all decided to split the votes for whole original Kwele. We all were counting with you but it was one of the councils where we still worked together (i mean original mbochi) and we realized that we had to split the votes: between CB, Sam and you because Sagar won immunity. There was something more in air, we wanted to get rid of the idols and also to stay safe. We were lucky and also i was lucky because Joe played idol for me. My vote sent you home, but it was something which we were talking about and which we strategically decided, i was the one who was voting for you. So sorry about that :/ I am not gonna hide behind my alliance that we all did this decision, but it was with my strategy to vote with my alliance, and to stay safe and destroy all idols...I wish we could vote someone other and regroup like 6 (but not me lol )

You were under the radar much of this game and seemingly happy to let Adrian take the lead and the heat while riding his coattails. What specifically did you do in this game to deserve my vote?

This question is same like Joe asked me, dave asked me so im gonna answer in similiar way. I have to say that my strategy was based on having good ally and for better having a group of likeable and active people as alliance. But this not mean, that i did nothing to get me in this situation. I was talking with them daily, to Adrian and Dave about strategy daily and about our game options. About all big opportunities in this game me and adrian talked together and we also made a decision together (for example first blindside on Danielle, then Ian's boot because he was talking to others and also things which happened after tribal switch).

I was not threat in challenges i know it, but at pre-merge part of the game i think that i worked with my tribe well. I guess that there were 3(maybe sometimes 4) who were better sometimes, but i wasn't like i am floating with my alliance to the merge.

And also after the merge i was talking about strategy and making decisions at the end. I know that it looks like i wasn't open to any opportunities from Kwele members till my first blindside, but it was something what i called my strategy, i was faithful to it, and i am faithful to it till now... all in all it brings me here

If you had one that last challenge and had the power to picked anyone who played the game to take to the final 2, who would it have been?

There are 2 choices for me -

First is strategic - I will pick Brandon because i will win toward him easily. Or at least i think so.

Second is my favourite - I will pick Adrian because he really deserves spot here, he's strong personality in game with lot of strong personalities. But of course i wanna try to beat him here lol


So Renee i hope you are satisfied with my answers. All i wanna say is that there was nothing personal about voting you out, i can't say that i was sure with you loyality, but it happens in this game, so in afterward i'm saying you - thanks for your loyality and sorry. Whatever your decision will be - thanks for your questions and good luck in another Survivor seasons!

[Renee]

Thank you Tomas.