Adrian's Questions/Statements

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

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[Adrian]

Hey, guys.

First off, I want to congratulate the both of you on a game well played. You both pulled off the insanely difficult task of reaching the final 2 in a highly unpredictable season with a ridiculously mental twist, competing against one of the stronger crops of players in the run of this series. Both of you deserve to be sitting there for very different reasons.



TOMAS

I am so proud of you for making it to the end. I knew you were going to make it. Your loyalty was admirable. You were my right-hand man since day one of this game and we bossed that first vote together in order to set in motion the events that transpired in this game. I also loved how you used slightly less diplomacy with Brandon than I did when he was constantly insulting us and bullying the tribe. You stood up for everyone in your alliance like we were your buddies.

What many people won't know about your game is that I would always devise the crazy strategies that got us far and you were always the first person I would run them by. I would sometimes use your input to refine them and then we would tell the group while pretending that we hadn't talked prior. You stuck with me from the beginning, right up until my demise. When I was gone and you were on the outs, you did what it took and made the moves to get to the end without me.

While you were my strongest ally in this game, you also grew to become my friend in the most genuine way and I am honored that I got a chance to play this game with you and meet an awesome friend from Slovakia. Hats off to you, my friend!



SAM

Sam, when this game started, I had very little knowledge of you. You never stood out on Kwele. All that I had to go on was that you were weaker in the tribal challenges and that your cast photo - with all the heavy editing and filtering - kinda resembles Ben Stiller.

Then we got to the tribe switch and I got to know you a little bit. Sure, you didn't have the social grace of Chris Brown to help lift my spirits in a crappy situation, but you tried (albeit haphazardly) to make a social connection with me.

When we merged, you blew all of my perceptions of you in terms of challenge performance out of the water. It was like you waited until the last minute to UNLEASH THE DRAGON and left us all standing around, saying: "Well, shit... I did not see that coming... Did you?"

What impressed me most about you was that you hung in there and you never gave up. You were always trying something to further your game in a hopeless situation and you beat the odds and made it to the end. You should be proud of yourself and hold your head up high.



I look at both of you and I see two UTR players. It always seemed like there were bigger fish to fry in this game, but once I was voted out I realized that it was not the case. The two of you were very big fish with a superior ability to camouflage yourselves in the depths of the insanity of this game. You guys have taught me more about how to play this game than 25 seasons of the actual show ever did.

That being said, it is time to move onto business. They say that there is no such thing as an undeserving finalist in this game, but one is always more deserving of the title. In order for me to decide on a worthy winner, I have to be extremely blunt and thorough. Here is what I want to know from you guys:



SAM:

With your back to the wall, a lot of your game centered around lying in order to save yourself. That is perfectly okay in this game. The only problem is that you were so incredibly obvious and bad at it that none of us took you seriously.

If a lot of your game centered around lying and you sucked at lying, is it fair to say that a lot of your game-play sucked and or was it strategy yo make sure we never took you as seriouslyas Sagar?

(Obviously we, on the jury, played a game that sucked more)


While I really appreciate the fact that you tried hard to establish a connection and rapport with me, a lot of our conversation came across as fake and insincere on your part after all of us on Mbochi compared notes. You seemed to keep it business-like and vague and had an air of caution and detachment in our non-game conversations. It seemed like you were just telling us what you thought we wanted to hear - and all of us were aware of that.

Is that an accurate and fair assessment of the time we spent getting to know each other or did I misinterpet and erroneously misunderstand the kind of person you really are? Please also provide me with some examples of complete sincerity during our chats. Also, please tell me something I didn't know about you.


You said so yourself that you had zero idea about what was really going on at tribal councils until afterwards.

When I was voted out instead of you, which was when the tide of this game really changed for you, did you have any part of that prior to the challenge or tribal council and have any strategic hand in it at all, or did that just fall into your lap because of Dave and Jose's hunger to get rid of me as soon as they had a chance?


Lastly, here is a fun one:

Compare all members on the jury, as well as the person sitting next to you in the Final 2 to a mythological creature, complete with attributes they share in common to the creature of your choice.

I know this seems ridiculous, but it serves a purpose.





TOMAS:

For most of the game, you were happy to let me take charge and call the shots, yet you took equal heat when Brandon called us both out publicly in front of Kwele.

Which active steps did you take in this game to convince the original members of Kwele that you were "less of a threat" than I was in this game in order to keep the target off of your back?


I am a little hazy on the details of what really transpired over at NuKwele and would like some insight.

I know Joe did practically nothing to rope in Sagar and form a temporary alliance with Kim and J.E.B. and that it was all you and Dave that played both sides. What were the key moments you played in that whole crazy part of the game? What did you contribute and how did you execute it? What were your plans going forward at the time?


We had an agreement to go to the final two from the very beginning and from what I have been told, people thought I would win the final vote if I made it to the end (which I am still not so sure about). This leads me to believe that everyone brought it up and you probably at some point thought along those lines as well.

Had we sat in that final 2 seat together, what would you have said to the jury in order to convince them that you deserved to win just as much as I did, why you were worthy of the title of sole iSurv1or, why you would have felt that you deserved to be there and how would you prove to them that you were not playing for second place in that situation?


Lastly, here is the same fun question I asked Sam:

Compare all members on the jury, as well as the person sitting next to you in the Final 2 to a mythological creature, complete with attributes they share in common to the creature of your choice.

I know this seems ridiculous, but it serves a purpose.






Guys, thank you for the time you took to read this. I will be looking forward to hearing your insight.

[Adrian]

^ Just edited the colour of my questions, a few grammatical errors and elaborated on my one question for Sam more so that it makes more sense to him.

[Sam]

Hey Adrian!


Before I start I really just wanted to say I enjoyed talking with you about your life, goals, and future travels. I feel with you you were willing to share more of your life and I really enjoyed just chit chatting and hearing all your stories. That's one of my favorite parts of this Survivor game. It was really cool to talk with a game developer from South Africa with plans to travel the world!


Also I know you were good friends with Tomas, and that is really cool. You guys had a great partnership and you got really far. I feel like though you only saw me in the game at my worst point, and that's greatly to my disadvantage. You didn't see me on Kwele when I was doing pretty good for the first four episodes. And you didn't see me after you left in the last three episodes which were another highlight. You saw me for four episodes in the middle in which I was pretending to be very stupid and lame so that y'all wouldn't vote me out lol. I remember specifically laying it on thick with you because you were so dominant and well-connected. I didn't want you to think I was trying to take control of the game or something.

What impressed me most about you was that you hung in there and you never gave up. You were always trying something to further your game in a hopeless situation and you beat the odds and made it to the end. You should be proud of yourself and hold your head up high.

Thanks Adrian. :-) That means somethin' coming from such an awesome player!

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Your questions revolved around our chats. I'm really confused about your questions actually. I didn't get any of that impression at all. In fact talking about non-game stuff with you was one of my favorite things because you have such an interesting life. And you were asking great questions to get to know me which was very courteous.

Is it because during our first conversation I spent a lot of time talking about my passion for hosting these types of reality games? I know I was going on a little too long lol, but it's seriously my favorite thing to do ever and you kept asking me questions. I thought that was nice of you. Maybe you thought I was weird right off the bat for that? lol.


I'm reading our Skype chats and they are just really cool. I remember enjoying all of them. Gosh I'm so confused as to why you think all of what you said! It looks like I opened up to you more than any other player. We talked a lot about our goals and dreams. All of that was sincere.


During our time together on New Mbochi, my goal was to get you not to vote for me. Because likely one of us 3 (me, Renee, or Hash) was going home, and Hash might use his idol. I wanted to save my idol for later on.

-This was the most key part of our first strategy conversation, which I wrote about in my confessional.

[11/23/2012 6:37:04 PM] Adrian John Dias: you see!
[11/23/2012 6:37:23 PM] Adrian John Dias: all you guys would have to do is prevent [Hash] from playing his idol
[11/23/2012 6:37:53 PM] Sam Burkett: oh i forgot about that lol
[11/23/2012 6:38:15 PM] Sam Burkett: i was wondering why you brought this up b/c y'all could just be voting for him on his own
[11/23/2012 6:38:53 PM] Adrian John Dias: if he plays his idol, it becomes a revote between you and Renee
[11/23/2012 6:39:24 PM] Adrian John Dias: now you see where i am coming from
[11/23/2012 6:40:06 PM] Sam Burkett: i see the hash idol part but i dont see how it would then be me. vs renee in a revote?
[11/23/2012 6:40:12 PM] Sam Burkett: sorry all these idols confuse me so much lol
[11/23/2012 6:41:00 PM] Adrian John Dias: because we would be immune from the vote for playing an idol
[11/23/2012 6:41:30 PM] Adrian John Dias: that means it falls to the people who did not play their idol because they are not immune in any way and someone has to go home
[11/23/2012 6:42:21 PM] Adrian John Dias: it makes no sense to have a revote between 3 people who played idols, otherwise, what was the point of the idol then?

In short, I needed you to understand the 0-0-0 tiebreaker rule, to protect myself. This is from my confessional that round:

here's what i think it boils down to.

adrian and ryan can vote for one of three people:

-sam
-hash
-renee

adrian and ryan are quite scared. if all of their votes are nullified, one of them goes home.

actually, they might not realize this, so i will have to pm adrian about it before he wakes up.

Adrian and I talked a lot.

[here i posted the same convo that i already posted above]


it seems to me he doesn't understand the 0-0-0 rule. at the moment, I'm thinking I need him to understand that.

because if he understands that, he'll be more scared of being voted out.

if he's more scared of being voted out, he's more sure to play his idol AND

he and Ryan are more sure to throw a 'safe' vote onto Renee.

Which is what I want.

I think I can trust either Adrian or Ryan to vote for Renee, because they think I might use my idol, and I'm pretty sure they think Hash will use an idol (if not, I will try and make them think that too).

So if they think Hash and I are both using an idol

the least they will do is throw 1 vote on Renee

because otherwise all votes could be idol-nullified.

Because in their minds, if it's 1-1 Renee/Sam, well that's fine by them.

But if they try 2-0 Sam, well, I could use my idol so they could lose.

But 1-1 is safe.

So I think that's the plan. Make them scared enough so that they throw one safe vote onto Renee.

Also, to get you not to vote for me, I played a little dumb and I 'went along' with your plan to confuse Hash. I mean I tried doing that, but not very hard (at all) lol. I don't know how you wanted me to accomplish that for sure anyway.

- Then you told me you told three separate people to confuse Hash into not using his idol. That's a plan that would never work, somebody is going to leak. I straight up told you that:

Adrian: but as long as hash has no idea to play his idol, you will be golden
[11/23/2012 7:00:01 PM] Sam Burkett: i can see that for sure
[11/23/2012 7:00:10 PM] Sam Burkett: but you told everybody about this plan, now you have 3 people who need to not tell hash to play his idol
[11/23/2012 7:00:22 PM] Sam Burkett: whereas if you just told one of us then they could just get hash to do it alone and it'd be a lot better
[11/23/2012 7:00:45 PM] Sam Burkett: more and more it seems hash is going to find out and then me = screwed lol

Then we got to talking more about our lives. I actually feel like I told you more about me than I told anyone else in the game.

Also, please tell me something I didn't know about you.

Sure. I got my undergraduate degree in mathematics. I absolutely love math haha. All my biology friends at optometry school think I'm a math nerd. Unfortunately I didn't want to teach or work with money, so I switched careers.


We didn't have too many chats after that. I did offer you a "partnership" in early merge, which was genuine. I thought maybe we could work within each of our groups to keep ourselves safe. You didn't respond positively to it or take it seriously so I just let it go.

At the final six we had a phone call where I said I would be interested in working with you if the chance ever came up - and I was. I mean at that point lol Joe had just betrayed me, and all I had was Sagar. That was genuine, I wanted to try making an alliance with you because you were one of my good friends at that point who I had talked game with before who hadn't lied to me.

You again weren't interested and were non-commital. Understandable, I wasn't a part of your future game. So I didn't pursue it. You then voted for me afterwards.

[Tomas]

Hey Brother!
I enjoyed playing this game with you as well. Thanks for nice words at the beginning, now i'm ready to answer your questions:

Which active steps did you take in this game to convince the original members of Kwele that you were "less of a threat" than I was in this game in order to keep the target off of your back?

Well at very first moment, i was so sure about that you will be that threating one from us, because i didn't know you. I just noticed that you are friendly and active one, and being around so i wanted to have you as my closest ally. To have around somebody who is online and with who i can work with and cooperate with. But soon I realized that you are really strong personality which helped me a lot. After Brandon's public talk, there was no easy way how to put my target off my back, because everybody cleary knew that we 2 are together

But i made that steps -

1. I was communicating with you mostly about strategic and Dave. Ryan and Joe were my another allies but i don't want to act to them like i'm riding our alliance, specially after that Brandon's thing, so we generally had only talks about life and stuff. I didn't want to come with strategies till i really hadn't to do so

2. After tribal switch, JEB/Kim are contacted me soon, as well as Sagar did because like everybody knows there was some kind of showdown back there. But i didn't rule things like yeah JEB, yeah Kim, yeah Sagar we are gonna to do this... I have to be sure about that they are not gonna vote me (and i won't because i used an idol) but i guess that they had me lower then Dave and that was also my objective. Because i thought that one of JEB or KIM are gonna work with us after the merge and there will be deadly to show to the other tribe that we want to run the things, or that me are gonna run the things.

That's only my examples. I can say that there are lot of examples. Someone can say that it's low play but it isn't. I worked with you as well and i enjoyed it, i just wasn't so in like you and dave were. But i was still prepared to take responsibility also on me just in case. Like i did at the end.

I know Joe did practically nothing to rope in Sagar and form a temporary alliance with Kim and J.E.B. and that it was all you and Dave that played both sides. What were the key moments you played in that whole crazy part of the game? What did you contribute and how did you execute it? What were your plans going forward at the time?

So NuKwele time What a nice part of the game lol:

1. Firstly Sagar messaged me the PM about taking out KIM/JEB. That he's gonna be out (thanksgiving i think) so he won't be able to answer soon, but he wanted to check me sooner then others. -well played
2. In a little while, Kim contacted me on skype where we have a little talk about everything and in really really short time she asked me about alliance. I agreed of course.
3. Me and Dave agreed about not letting know to Kim/Jeb that we're together. But soon she asked me about my reason about Dave's join. So soon we were 4 in our alliance.
4. In a meanwhile, we were talking about perfect opportunity to kick of two strong members Sagar and Hash. What is the most epic, i wanted to go with Sagar for first, because other side hadn't 2 idols and i saw JEB like big threat. Dave just changed my mind to join Kim and did a research about...is this real or it's all fake to just make us feel comfortable?
5. Whatever, we decided to stick with first plan. You are gonna try to vote Hash (what an epic job) and we are gonna try to vote off Sagar to blindside him that we are gonna vote with him.
6. But yeah Sagar is not an idiot he did what he had to and what everybody from us would do. He used his idol. Me too.
7. But we finally confirmed that Kwele are divided. And we voted off Kwele member and erased Sagar's idol. Pretty good council for us.
8. Even more epic when we realized that you voted off Hash, and JEB's decided to quit.

I think that this double council was key for all of us. Who knows how game gonna look like in another way of this council, lol.

Had we sat in that final 2 seat together, what would you have said to the jury in order to convince them that you deserved to win just as much as I did, why you were worthy of the title of sole iSurv1or, why you would have felt that you deserved to be there and how would you prove to them that you were not playing for second place in that situation?

Lot of people can say that in case that we are gonna to reach final 2 together I am dead like 2nd survivor. But i was really thinking about me and you in finals. I'm not retreating person so i'm gonna find my reasons:

-In case you will be focused on strategy more than me you will probably have more enemies, so i'm gonna focused on them and to prove them that you weren't only one who is gonna work on strategy and that we worked together

-I would try to prove them, that my under the radar strategy really worked. (same like i am doing in this case). I would try to prove that was not only my luck, but my skills.

-I probably would compare my play to my playings in last. Where i played with lot of different strategies and values. And to prove that it worked now finally.

Compare all members on the jury, as well as the person sitting next to you in the Final 2 to a mythological creature, complete with attributes they share in common to the creature of your choice.

Oh love this questions Well i am not so good in mythology, but i am gonna try my best:

(You all are gonna hate me for that ) There is no way how mythological creature can be good lol.

Renee - Sirenes : Likeable - like Renee is But also can do what they want, they can sing irresistible song to sailors and people at the sea. To bring them into water. Metaphor of Renee got Hash's idol.


CB - Taraxippos : Mythological ghost which was able to scary horses. My methaphor here - CB can play social as well and gave that reasonable ideas which can either convince or scare others and realize that he had great strategy.

Ryan- Creatan Bull : Strongness in challenges is similiar to this guarding bull .

Adrian - Centaur : Half human - half horse . But my metaphore here is that half human represents great social skills and half horse being power player.

Sagar - Minotaur : Great in challenges, powerful one who never retreat.

Dave - Egypth Sphinx : Way better then Greece sphinx believe me Guardian. My metaphore - Guardian who answered him good he is going forward, who bad he's dealing with dead. Dave was in charge for most of the game.

Joe - Ipotane : Grand horse, who is not so on the eyes of everybody, but it's really big part of the game.

Sam - Teumessian fox : Gigantic fox that has never been caught. My metaphor is that Sam was also "on the shot", and he was also destinated never to be caught in this game till F2, even if he is original Kwele.

Sorry everybody it's not personal

I hope that you are satisfied with my answers Adrian. I like the way how we played this game. It's pity that you are not sitting here with me, but whenever this is gonna end it was hell of a ride!! Take care!

[Adrian]

Thank you, Tomas. Your Mythological creature answers were awesome! I especially loved your reasoning behind comparing Renee to the sirens! That was pretty cool.

I would have loved more for you to really challenge me more and be more defiant about the scenario of you and I seated in the final 2, but your answers were great and I appreciate you trying so hard in a language that isn't your 1st language.

It has been an honor!

[Adrian]

To Sam, the reason why I feel you came across as insincere was because at first, you were cagey and I had to ask a lot of questions to get answers out of you. Another reason is that I feel you used the normal chats as a cover to segue into strategic talk. Through many years of running a business, I have learned to gauge when people are only talking to you when they want something - and even if it were not true, it felt like that was the case.

Don't get me wrong, but I loved hearing about your love of hosting ORG's and I still think your BB house ORG is going to blow the minds of the people who sign up - but we never just had a conversation that didn't turn to strategy with you saying stuff like:

[11/28/2012 12:32:58 AM] Sam Burkett: yeah
[11/28/2012 12:33:34 AM] Sam Burkett: major apologies for bringing back this great conversation to the survivor game we're both in lol, but i know it's getting late over there and i just wanted to hear your thoughts on this current votel
[11/28/2012 12:33:50 AM] Sam Burkett: i was wondering if maybe you wanted to continue our good working partnership from last round?

That last part especially got to me as you gave me no indication we were working together at all and then after the vote didn't go your way suddenly we are partners. I was only as non-committal to you as you were to me. When the roles were reversed, you didn't give me a concrete agreement, you didn't vote how you said and you didn't play your idol like you said you would, so I thought you were playing me.

Also, you would lie to save yourself without any substantial proof, like this convo Ryan shared with us:

[11/27/2012 5:52:27 AM] Ryan Quanz: He wants Adrian out
[11/27/2012 5:53:10 AM] Ryan Quanz: [10:50:59 PM] Sam Burkett: yeah he really is
[10:51:16 PM] Sam Burkett: you should have seen how Adrian was talking to everybody on our tribe last round lol. he was working of all us
[10:51:39 PM] Sam Burkett: now that I think about it I think Adrian even said he wanted to vote you out Ryan, because he said you didn't deserve to be in the game =/
[10:52:09 PM] Ryan Quanz: WHAT!!
[10:52:16 PM] Ryan Quanz: Why dont I deserve it
[10:52:42 PM] Sam Burkett: i know that's what i was wondering myself
[10:52:54 PM] Sam Burkett: I guess he thought he was like running and doing everything over on Mbochi?
[10:53:08 PM] Ryan Quanz: What a lunatic

Then you come to me all buddy-buddy and want sudden partnerships, etc.


Understand that game aside, I like you - which is why I am giving you a chance to earn my vote by being as honest as you can. This is just how I perceived thing and you have a chance to prove me wrong, here

[Sam]

Thank you for the follow-up comments. I see where you are coming from.


I guess I feel the situations were the same. When you were in the minority on New Mbochi, I didn't make promises to you I couldn't keep. I never told you I was using my idol, I said I was thinking about using it. Of course I didn't answer your probing questions about who in my tribe I didn't like. Everyone said that round that you were laying it on thick to everyone and trying to pump them for information. That's good, that's what you should have been doing! I didn't tell you my in-depth voting plans yes, but I don't think you expected me to. We had just met three days ago.


Then the situations were reversed next round, and you told me all of your group was voting out Renee which wasn't true. Suddenly you weren't interested in working with me or my welfare, which you seemed awful concerned about the round before.


It seems to me like we both played smart on both sides? Lots of people lied to me in this game.... I took a mental note of it for the future, but it didn't stop me from working with them.


Thank you for sharing that Ryan conversation. =) I feel that is a good example of how I tried to break up the Mbochi group as best I could. I think little things like that were a good try. Ryan probably didn't believe me that Adrian wanted him voted out, but he might have believed that you were a player in complete control. That was important for me to solidify for use in the future. I had to do something to try and survive amidst a fearsome group of five strong players, all banded together. I am not the player who will just sit around aimlessly for 4 episodes, praying I don't get voted out, and hoping that someone comes to me with some plan to keep me in. I don't play Survivor by crossing my fingers lol.


I take action and I do the best I can to develop relationships, ask pertinent questions to get information, and drop a few things like the ones you mentioned to potentially create cracks. Did it work? I don't know, maybe it didn't that round, but maybe it did down the line. I didn't have the luxury at that point to only take actions which I were 100% sure I knew would work. I had to throw things at the wall and see what sticks.


You have to remember, none of us knew a whole lot at all about you five because you were smartly tight-lipped about your group. Our backs were against the wall - things looked very bleak. We had no idea that any of you would ever flip. We had to make guesses and inferences about your group which we had known for less than one week. It was a tough task, and a lot of what we did didn't work. I am not claiming I was the ultimate cause of the breakup, because I don't think I was, but I think little things I did hear and there, as well as putting myself in a position to benefit from a breakup if it did happen, helped me a bit.

[Sam]

Compare all members on the jury, as well as the person sitting next to you in the Final 2 to a mythological creature, complete with attributes they share in common to the creature of your choice.

Hey Adrian, time is short and I think the voting period has started early so I am going to make this shorter than I would have liked. Sorry about that!


Renee: Selene, Goddess of the moon.

Chris: Bacchus, God of wine, parties, and festivals.

Ryan: Tritan, Prince of Atlantis.

Adrian: Cratos, God of strength and power.

Sagar: Zelus, God of dedication.

Dave: Nike, Goddess of victory.

Joe: Athena, Goddess of wisdom, the arts, and reason.




When I was voted out instead of you, which was when the tide of this game really changed for you, did you have any part of that prior to the challenge or tribal council and have any strategic hand in it at all, or did that just fall into your lap because of Dave and Jose's hunger to get rid of me as soon as they had a chance?


Hey Adrian, let me go through the whole Final Six part from my own perspective.


Kwele was in a good position pre-merge, then disaster hit at merge due to a lot of bad luck with Kim self-voting, Jeb quitting, etc. Then Renee + Chris went. At that point Kwele had gone from 7 people to just 2. We had been trying to break Mbochi for awhile now without success.


We thought we had a workable plan with the screenshot, but that didn't work completely either... after Ryan left, now we just thought we were in even a worse position. And that no one would jump ever for sure. Dave/Joe never gave us any indication that they would.


So basically we thought we were sitting ducks. The live challenge and tribal council came very quickly. I thought I might have time to regroup at the Final Five and see if someone wanted to flip then. After all, Sagar was still around, and you guys were going to vote him out first. So my plan was to just play nice until final five, when maybe something could happen. Now that I know more about the inner Mbochi dynamics, I think something might have happened there for sure, with Dave/Joe being on one side and Adrian/Tomas on the other.


Anyway, besides all that, I had one huge plan: don't win Immunity! Remember I always play Survivor trying to make a winning strategy, or some path to victory I can find towards winning the game.


I had won the previous two Immunities, and if I won this one, I was good as toast. There's no way I could win this game because I'd be voted off the second I didn't have Immunity. What if Tomas used his Immunity nullifying ability on me next round after Sagar left? I'd be done.


So this is actually a hugely critical point in the game for me. The Final Six Immunity Challenge starts. Sagar has a computer program that automatically finds all the pictures for us. Hash had made one for our tribe at a pre-merge challenge.

First I'm thinking, crap. Sagar is onto round two. If Sagar wins this challenge, I lose the game, period.

Then Sagar gives me the answers for me for my part of the challenge. And that's where it gets dramatic.

In the back of my mind, I'm like.... I can't accept these answers! If I do...

1) Mbochi will know that Sagar and I are working together. I had been spending a lot of time the past week trying to separate Sagar and I in their eyes. If they thought Sagar and I were together, then they thought Sagar would vote for me to win on the jury, along with Chris and Renee, and I'd be absolutely screwed. Plus I'd be revealed as lying about not being close to Sagar.

2) I'd be seen as an Immunity threat even if I lost round two. Total disaster.


But then again at the same time, Immunity is very tempting in a game where five of my allies had been voted out in five of the last tribal councils, you know?


So I had to make a critical choice, and the clock was ticking...

[12/4/2012 7:18:27 PM] Sagar: um i have the script for this
[12/4/2012 7:18:34 PM] Sagar: from the first challenge
[12/4/2012 7:20:37 PM] Sam Burkett: oh wow
[12/4/2012 7:20:38 PM] Sam Burkett: nice!!!!
[12/4/2012 7:20:45 PM] Sam Burkett: is it gonna work w/ this ?
[12/4/2012 7:20:46 PM] Sagar: i'm asking rob if i can use it
[12/4/2012 7:21:36 PM] Sagar: i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o668/iSurv1vorChallenges/0139.jpg
[12/4/2012 7:21:41 PM] Sagar: i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o668/iSurv1vorChallenges/0202.jpg
[12/4/2012 7:23:32 PM] Sagar: i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o668/iSurv1vorChallenges/0399.jpg
[12/4/2012 7:25:36 PM] Sagar: i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o668/iSurv1vorChallenges/0673.jpg
[12/4/2012 7:25:57 PM] Sagar: i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o668/iSurv1vorChallenges/0833.jpg
[12/4/2012 7:25:59 PM] Sagar: boom








~five minute pause where I think to myself: what am I going to do?~

[12/4/2012 7:28:48 PM] Sagar: SAM
[12/4/2012 7:28:50 PM] Sagar: gooo
[12/4/2012 7:30:49 PM] Sam Burkett: this could bite me but
[12/4/2012 7:30:55 PM] Sam Burkett: i think i want to lose this challenge
[12/4/2012 7:31:05 PM] Sam Burkett: so i want you to do your best good luck my friend
[12/4/2012 7:31:14 PM] Sagar: what!!
[12/4/2012 7:31:22 PM] Sagar: do you think you can stay
[12/4/2012 7:31:24 PM] Sagar: if i win immunity
[12/4/2012 7:31:26 PM] Sam Burkett: no
[12/4/2012 7:31:30 PM] Sam Burkett: not at all
[12/4/2012 7:31:33 PM] Sagar: LOL then why
[12/4/2012 7:31:40 PM] Sam Burkett: but like...... if they know me and you are working together (so that you'd give me the links)
[12/4/2012 7:31:47 PM] Sam Burkett: and then think im an immunity threat
[12/4/2012 7:31:52 PM] Sam Burkett: i will never win 1st place in the whole game
[12/4/2012 7:31:55 PM] Sam Burkett: that's a double whammy
[12/4/2012 7:32:17 PM] Sagar: but what's the point if you think you're leaving anyway
[12/4/2012 7:32:22 PM] Sam Burkett: i always say i'm playing for 1st place and not 3rd or 4th lol
[12/4/2012 7:32:36 PM] Sam Burkett: i feel like im guaranteed 4th or 5th if i win this
[12/4/2012 7:32:53 PM] Sam Burkett: but i'd be happy if you get to go along and compete so by all means go for it
[12/4/2012 7:34:19 PM] Sagar: ughhh
[12/4/2012 7:34:22 PM] Sagar: don't leave me alone in here
[12/4/2012 7:34:34 PM] Sam Burkett: im going to lose 4 sure if you win but
[12/4/2012 7:34:42 PM] Sam Burkett: i feel like either of us has a tiny tiny chance otherwise
[12/4/2012 7:34:44 PM] Sam Burkett: to win the whole thing
[12/4/2012 7:34:56 PM] Sam Burkett: so i'd like that to happen. i dont care about the difference between 6th and 4th lol

That was a tough choice to make. But I figured it was not for sure that Sagar would win the whole Immunity Challenge. I could still have a shot if Sagar lost!

Then Sagar won the whole Immunity Challenge.

Then Sandy announced we had 10 minutes for Tribal Council.

And I was pretty sure I was screwed.

Dave or Joe had given neither of us any indication that they wanted Adrian out at any time, so I did not know of their plans to do that. I had tried to keep lines of communication open with Dave and Joe prior to this.


Then Joe came to me asking me to vote you out and the rest is history!


This is partially why I'm still fighting for your vote, Adrian. I thought there was a 0.005% chance of me surviving the Final Six Tribal Council, but I did. I didn't give up. I thought there was a less chance of me getting to the finals, but I did. I never gave up.


Maybe there's an even tinier chance of me getting your vote to win the game against Tomas, but as has been my theme in this game... I'm not giving up.

Thanks for your questions Adrian!

[Adrian]

Sam, thank you very much for your time. I would have been a little more impressed if you had more to do with my demise, but from what I can see you took a huge risk at the final 6. You got very lucky on that one, but show me one Survivor finalist who has not gotten to the end without some luck. It paid off for you and you did a great job getting to the end. Thank you for the time we shared in the game as well. Good luck