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🌙 $urvivor 19: $audi Arabia (EoE) ~ Moon Mode
📺 Episode 15 (Finale) / finale
$eason 19(M) Episode 15 : The Finale
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$pecies ⚖
06-Sep-21 09:45 PM
$eason 19(M) Episode 15 (Finale)
$pecies: 39 days ago, 20 castaways began the adventure of a lifetime in $audi Arabia. Completely isolated from the real world, these 20 personalities would battle it out for the title of $ole $urvivor. It was clear from the very first day that these castaways were here to play, and one by one 16 torches were snuffed, ending their chances of winning this game.
Shows footage of Jordanne’s to Borges’ torches being snuffed.
Along the way, we witnessed idol plays…
Simon: I think that most people make decision in this tribal but I'm not going to let that happen. I want to combine my 3 tokens please.
Sophie: Scratch my back, I scratch yours!
Borges: Well, of course I wouldn't volunteer to come here without having an idol, so I don't know about you guys, but I'll be here to see day 31.
Master manipulation…
Nerf: This manipulation can make sure people GO AGAINST each other and make sure I'm not the one people focus on.
Moss: I totally played Vikram. I played the act that I have no one and that I have no clue how the last vote happened. I'm gonna keep playing this “I'm on the bottom” game with him to gain trust.
Valiant sacrifice…
Kasnoy: I’ve already made it official — I will volunteer to go to the Edge of Extortion.
$pecies: 7th person voted out of $urvivor: $audi Arabia...... Kasnoy
And intense drama…
Jonas: I want to put a bounty out. 1k to each surviving tribe member if whoever goes to tribal happens to send home Bloody or Kasnoy.
Vikram: Did I spend like a stupid [bleep]? I’m pissed right now. I’m gonna lose my mind.
Now, just four are left. They each have a different story to tell, and all have a chance to become the $ole $urvivor.
Bloody started the game in a good position on the OG Sajid tribe, however her game took a turn after sending a vengeful Jonas to the bloodbath at the Final 19. Despite a bounty on her head, she managed to stay integrated into the tribe socially and has won several immunity challenges. Now, will the target on her back become too great, or will she manage to make it to the end and plead her case?
Jessica got off to a slower start in the game. She quickly formed a bond with Deaze, but they split up at the swap and Deaze was sent home after the merge. She got close with Joe at the swap, but then was blindsided when he was sent home. With no close affiliation to any sides, she’s managed to make some moves of her own, but will it be enough to sway the jury in her favor, if she can even get there in the first place?
Moss has remained an ever-present but at the same time under-the-radar threat. Her gameplay has picked up stealthily post-merge, and she’s been involved in sending home friend and foe alike. But after flipping on Jonas at the re-vote to avoid rock draw and not using her idol to make a visible move, will Moss be able to put some respect on her game, or will she fall short of the goal?
Vikram has been a chaotic force throughout the game. From the very start, he was not in a good position but he has never given up. He was willing to call people out and has constantly pushed his agenda. Now, with the end in sight, will the chaos be able to carry him all the way to the end, or will it all come crashing down at the edge of victory?
Soon we will find out which one of them will win the million dollar prize and the title of $ole $urvivor!
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Find out tonight which one of them will win the million dollar prize and the title of $ole $urvivor!
Intro plays.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 12:21 AM
Bloody, Jessica, Moss and Vikram return to camp after voting out Borges at the Final 5 tribal council.
Jessica | @Alqamar
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I honestly was really sad that last tribal happened because Borges is a great guy but it was what was best for my game as he wins in the end and I just think it went as good as I wanted it to go. Yes it really did go well for me. What Moss said to me before last tribal really sealed Borges’ fate. She told me she wouldn’t vote for Borges at Final 4. So I decided I was not going to play scared, the biggest threat had to go home and that’s Borges.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Holy shit! I’m glad I played that micro idol even though I originally thought I wouldn’t need it. Did tribal go as planned? No, I mean yes but no. You know like, was I planning to get two votes on me from Borges and Moss? No, was I planning for the potential? Yes, that was one of my worst case scenarios. In fact I planned far enough for potentially Jess or Vikram to flip in that initial vote or for Borges to play tokens. So I think that I wasn't expecting it but I was prepared for it. It went well but I don't know if you can call that I successfully used an idol. I feel really good that I actually got votes in the way that it justified my idol play and it showed that me keeping that idol a secret was good gameplay. I'm genuinely surprised that more people didn't pretend to have idols last tribal because I feel like that's a pretty good way of getting me to not use my vote on you, like if Borges told me that he had even a micro idol, I think I would think about the last vote completely differently.
Moss | @Alqamar
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That was really hard. My closest ally of the $eason is gone. If I had known Borges wouldn’t be bitter, I would’ve taken him to Final 4 then cut him, but I don’t know how true that is cuz he was quite mad with me back when I did that to Simon. I got the result I wanted but it still is not ideal. I basically could have saved Borges and guaranteed Final 3 but then increased the odds of him in FTC with me where I’d lose, so I took the much less safe route as this next challenge is basically 3 vs 1. The only thing I can hope for is convincing Jess to vote with me to send me into fire-making. Even if I do manage that, it will be hard to beat either Bloody or Vikram as I suck at these challenges. I feel my chances of winning are really low. I have to first make FTC. Once I'm there, it's again not that high, my only chances may be against Jess but that would be a Final 2 situation.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Last tribal went perfectly as planned and even better that Borges had to vote Bloody and I didn’t receive votes. Yay! I think I do have a good shot at winning this game, I'm just hoping I can prove them well and use my words correctly in order to appeal to the jury. I’d say my chance of winning is 33%. I just hope there won't be an all girls alliance to take me out now.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I’m super proud of my game as I feel like I have had a great journey so far and have also been able to make moves. I’m just really proud of it but I’m not sure if it’s as acknowledged compared to others, but either way I think that if I can get this Final 4 to go my way that I might have a good chance as I think I’ll be really convincing at the end. I’ve played dumb towards other players to manage my threat level when really I knew what happened at most of the tribals so yeah it will be fun to see how it goes.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I'm bummed that Borges just got out of the game of course because he was a really great ally and he was a really great friend but this has really opened me up for this end game. It feels incredible to be here. Not me tearing up right now... That’s so cool to have made it this far. It doesn’t even feel real. My best path forward is making sure that Moss doesn't win the immunity challenge tomorrow. I'm gonna just pray I guess. I’m gonna become spiritual overnight and pray about it because Moss winning immunity would then mean that I would have to make some sort of pitch to Jess about getting rid of Vikram because I really don't see Vikram getting rid of Jess. I don't know, it's a messy situation. So Moss literally can't win and we're not even gonna give it a thought, we're not even gonna manifest it by accident.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 02:18 AM
DAY 40
RITES OF PASSAGE
After the last four remaining castaways receive the new edge mail, they hop on the boat to visit the Edge of Extortion one last time before their next immunity challenge.
Bloody, Jessica, Moss and Vikram arrive at the Edge where they go through the Rites of Passage to commemorate their 16 fallen comrades one by one.
Moss: This is fun! So we just start?
Moss picks up Jordanne’s torch.
Jessica: I never got to meet you, which is sad as you look like a bomb ass woman. I hope you're doing okay and I wish I got a chance to meet you.
Bloody: I never got to meet Jordanne either but she was the person I was most excited to meet.
Vikram: Jordanne, I didn't get to talk to you 1 on 1 but I was shocked by your elimination.
Moss: She was a lot of fun! We shared shopping tips.
Vikram: I wish I had met her. She seems so nice.
Moss: Yea, you would have loved her, big personality, went out way too early.
Vikram picks up Krikkit’s torch.
Jessica: Next time don’t whisper to every single person but me and leave me thinking I’m about to go home. Omg, that was the worst tribal for me.
Bloody: Krikkit was fun to talk to, even though we only knew each other by chatting at the same camp for two rounds. Comp science queen.
Vikram: Krikkit, I talked to you a bit and you were so nice to talk to. I was sad you got voted out at EoE.
Jessica picks up Lars’ torch.
Jessica: I’ve not heard a thing about you other than you and Clink were blindsided.
Bloody: Excel spreadsheet king, never knew you, but you seemed like a wonderful person from afar.
Moss: He was cool to talk to. I’m still confused by his vote out.
Vikram: Lars, I’m glad you got out that early to be honest. I met you in the negotiation room and you came guns blazing. It was so bold and I was like, hope you are gone before another swap. You’re a threat and that’s a compliment I meant.
Moss: Oh wow, I had no idea.
Jessica: It would have been funny to see him and Jonas go at it.
Bloody picks up Greg’s torch.
Moss: Greg is such a sweetheart! After we swapped, we talked a lot. He’s a really nice guy.
Bloody: And he is a teacher!!
Vikram: Aw.
Jessica: This guy is honestly really sweet but dude next time don’t base your reason off targeting a person because of their age. He told Jonas he wanted me gone because I was 16.
Moss: Oh really? That’s weird.
Jessica: Yeah but he’s sweet and an amazing parent.
Moss picks up Sebby’s torch.
Jessica: OMG SEBBYYYYYYY! He’s so nice. I was so so so sad when you went.
Bloody: I literally pictured a pug talking to me every time we messaged.
Jessica: He had an excellent social game on our OG tribe and he was my bestie.
Vikram: Aww poor Sebby. I trusted him so much and vice versa. We talked in Zufaf+Sajid and he was happy to be swapped with me. Definitely one of the sweetest persons and hardest votes.
Jessica picks up Joe’s torch.
Jessica: NOOOO! This was the saddest elimination for me this entire $eason.
Bloody: The only thing I know about Joe is that he and Jonas formed an alliance called Joe Jonas and it is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
Vikram: Joe, I talked to you just a bit at camp. We were in the same negotiation room AND I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU GAVE LARS BIG BAR AND YOU CHOSE SMALL FOR 2K. But you still won. You were nice though.
Moss: I didn’t really know what happened with him and Sophie and Jonas. We talked a lot about music.
Jessica: I love Joe so much. I’m so sorry king, you deserved better.
Vikram picks up Kasnoy’s torch.
Jessica: I never met you and 3/4 of my convos with Jonas in pre-merge was him shit talking you and Bloody.
Bloody: Kasnoy was an incredible guy. We hit it off immediately, just genuinely such a nice and warm and positive person.
Vikram: Aww Kasnoy. He is so sweet and he even taught me a few emoji stories. Kasnoy, you’re awesome and sorry for voting you out to stop you and bloody being a duo and also Jonas sealed your fate. I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU VOLUNTEERED TO EOE and got out! Love ya.
Bloody: I would have loved to have been able to play the game longer with him.
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Moss picks up Zach’s torch.
Jessica: Zach was nice to meet. We didn’t talk much but he just kinda got screwed over by Jonas and Sophie. He just seems so sweet. I feel bad he got first juror.
Vikram: Zach, you were cool. Met you at the merge. I wanted to use you to vote Borges but well you were voted before that.
Moss: Zach was a nice guy. Him and Jordanne had such a cute friendship.
Bloody picks up Deaze’s torch.
Vikram: Aw Deaze. You were the first person I talked game with. No one knew about us two but it's a shame it got down to us both in the vote.I would've loved to play with ya. You were such a cool dude.
Bloody: DEAZE was sweet but wild. We barely knew each other and he totally snaked me BUT he really gave it his all in the end there that tribal and I have to give it up to him for that.
Jessica: I loved Deaze so much. He was such a great and easy guy to talk to. He always calmed me down and was amazing but when merge happened he just seemed to be out of it and if I continued with him I knew I’d be joining his sinking ship so I sadly had to vote him out.
Jessica picks up Goose’s torch.
Moss: He has a great photo.
Bloody: MY TRIO! Goose was such a great dude. He was so easy to talk to. I wish I got to spend more time with him.
Jessica: Damn I never in a million years expected you to go out that round. You were so sweet. If you weren’t idoled out, I bet you would still be in.
Vikram: Goose was such a nice guy. I’m glad he came back from EoE the first time. I still feel bad for targeting you for being a part of the Qummah 3. Sorry for that.
Vikram picks up Clink’s torch.
Jessica: This guy was the funniest person of the whole cast. I was so sad when he was idoled out.
Moss: Very funny.
Bloody: The funniest. We got close fast, though he lied to me so much but I didn’t even care. He was so fun to talk to.
Vikram: Clink, you were so active in things. You didn’t trust me so I had to vote you over Jess and I wanted the vote to go adamantly my way. You were so fun.
Moss picks up Nerf’s torch.
Moss: He was easy to talk to.
Jessica: Omg this guy. He wanted me out at the start of merge I think but me and him quickly became besties. We made our duo official right when he went home. I pushed so hard for Sophie to go. I’m so sorry it didn’t work out. I hope we can be friends after this as my view of you has changed so much.
Bloody: My sweet monkey puppet. He was sweet when we worked together, but Jonas and him got so tight and we just grew more distant as the game went on. Bummer.
Vikram: Nerf, I loved getting to know you and my number 1 at many points. When I felt so down in Qummah, you were the one that kept me going as I was like "wait till merge, you will meet back Nerf whom u can trust". I was super excited to meet you again. You dug your own grave though.
Jessica picks up Sophie’s torch.
Jessica: I don’t even want to talk about her. She manipulated me many times even when she didn’t need to. Anyways I did have fun talking to you but honestly you hurt me a lot.
Vikram: Sophie, you were one amazing person that I loved talking to. It’s funny and sad that I voted u twice both because of Jonas. I loved getting to know you.
Moss: She was nice to talk to but I was always a little cautious. I liked hearing about her cupcake shop.
Bloody: She was super close to Jonas so we never really got a chance to open up to each other, but I did enjoy hearing about her work. And I mean she correctly played an idol so she was a badass, can’t be mad at that.
Bloody picks up Simon’s torch.
Moss: I liked hearing about stories in Poland.
Jessica: You were funny to talk to and I really did like meeting you. Sorry that I lied to you so much.
Bloody: Simon recommended me to watch Dark and Blacklist, which, usually when I say I’m going to watch something I’m bullshitting, but the way he talked about those shows made me genuinely want to watch them.
Vikram: I loved getting to know you. You were awesome and played well. We were a duo all along but didn't trust all along. I’m so glad to have met you. Can’t wait to catch up with you later.
Moss picks up Jonas’ torch.
Jessica: Mmmm this man was something else.
Bloody: Sweet man.
Vikram: Oh man. Cat with 9 lives.
Bloody: He was so laser focused on me.
Jessica: Jonas, your game was really iconic, not gonna lie, but dude you need to learn some respect.
Bloody: Guys really be getting comfortable with gendered insults.
Jessica: There’s some boundaries when it comes to stuff.
Vikram: I loved you as a villain sooooo much and it was great playing with you. Lots of game happenings revolved around you. Fun to play with you cautiously.
Jessica: Sometimes it just felt uncomfortable talking to you as I knew whatever I told you was going to someone else’s ear and if I got you mad you would yell at me.
Bloody: Though can I say, at the same time, I admired how he’d immediately put out two names like every round, like just immediately put sides against each other.
Jessica: Yeah the take out the middleman strategy was really smart. Moss, you can share your opinions, we won’t judge.
Moss: There’s not much to really say, he was nice to talk to. I never had those experiences but I feel badly you all did, like yelling and talking disrespectfully is not ok.
Vikram picks up Borges’ torch.
Jessica: You were so hard to vote out. You were a sweetheart, my Brazilian bestie. I voted you like twice but we will ignore that as I really admired your gameplay.
Bloody: I’m not going to sugar coat this but Borges was such a genuinely incredible ally. He was so smart, perceptive, and trustworthy.
Jessica: If I could I would’ve taken him to the end but he easily wins over all of us.
Moss: Ya he was great to work with.
Vikram: Aw Borges, our relationship was the ROCKIEST whole $eason without a doubt. From me calling you out to both threatening each other to trusting each other and targeting each other. I guess it’s safe to call you my nemesis. You were such a nice dude and player.
At the end of the torch walk, the Final 4 exchange sweet words for each other before heading off to the challenge arena.
Jessica: Awww... I don’t want to vote anyone out after this. Make it a Final 4!
Vikram: Same.
Jessica | @Alqamar
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I was really hyped to have done the Rites of Passage. It was super exciting to be able to get here. I got sad seeing some of the people eliminated as they really were icons and some of my favorite people.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
It was wildly sentimental. It was also so interesting hearing from my other tribemates what their impressions were of folks I barely knew like Zach, Lars and Krikkit, particularly assessing their personalities and relationships.
Moss | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
It was okay. I like to talk to people and give compliments individually, not through public displays, but I also understand the importance of the rites. I used it more to get information from other players on who they’re close with and they actually divulged quite a bit of information that I could use if I made FTC.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I enjoyed RoP with knowing what the other 3 felt about the voted off players. It was fun but my main eyes went on things like what these people said about jurors. Example: Jess said she was forming a duo with Nerf and things like that.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 03:16 PM
DAY 40
FINAL 4 IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
$pecies: Come on in, guys!
The last 4 Alqamar members march in.
$pecies: Jessica, I'll take back the immunity necklace.
Jessica returns the necklace to $pecies.
$pecies: For potentially the last time, immunity is back up for grabs!
There are 4 parts to this epic challenge. You’ll get through each stage to score as many points as you can. The player with the most points at the end of the course will win this almighty immunity necklace and cannot be voted out tonight. Big $take on the line!
$urvivors ready... Go!
Before the start of this crucial challenge, Moss is the richest with $35k left in her account, Bloody and Jessica are in the middle with around $14k and Vikram has the least amount of money left with $7.5k.
Bloody | @Alqamar
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In this Final 4 challenge, I feel like Vikram and I might go head to head or even me and Moss but it won't be to the same extent of a person like Borges. The fact that Borges on his way out said that he hoarded 17k while I’m sitting just under 17k in my bank account right now, I think I'm going to be okay.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Bloody is super sweet. I wish I worked with her sooner. Now I think I’d like to take her out here but she will probably win immunity. I think I’ll go for Vik if she does. Either way I want Moss to stay.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I want to win this immunity, not because I am feeling vulnerable but because I want to feel safe for once in this game finally! I only have approximately $5000 left after spending in the challenge. I do think I have done well, and I really hope I can win this.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 04:23 PM
Everyone tries to best to excel in each part of the challenge. No one is trying to throw it.
$pecies: It's time to find out who wins a guaranteed spot in the Final 3!
In Part 1, you're asked to bid on the 16 photographs of your fallen comrades. If your bid for a photo is the highest, you will gain 2% boost per photo to the total points you gain from Part 2 to 4. Since photographs are so important for memories, we're gonna reveal the bidding results last.
Let's move on to Part 2 - Legacy of Love. You were asked to list down which 2 players you think each fallen comrade gave their legacy of love to. You will score half a point for each correctly identified legacy recipient.
No one really stood out in their performance in this part. It's fairly close.
Moss got 9 points and Vikram got 9.5 points while Bloody and Jessica are tied with 10 points each.
Now for Part 3, it's a throwback to the second challenge of the $eason where each player in the Final 20 had to bid at least $1 for tribal immunity. The ranking in that challenge was never revealed after the challenge. It's left as a task here for you! You were asked to list down 20 players from 1st to 20th based on their individual bids back on Day 3. For each correct placement of the ranking, you would gain 1 point.
I guess this was harder part to score points from? Moss scored 2 points out of the possible 20 points, Jessica and Vikram scored 4 points each while Bloody did slightly better to get 5 points.
After Part 2 and 3, currently we have Bloody in the lead with 15 points, Jessica is one point behind, Vikram with 13.5 points and Moss has 11 points. It's still anyone's game at this point. You just gotta dig deep.
Moving onto Part 4, you're tested on how well you know the personalities of our first 9 jury members. You will score 2 points for each correct answer. Let's see how you all did here.
Jessica: Oh no, I had no idea who to put for what.
Bloody: The way I wanted to put Clink and Sophie for everything.
Vikram: I had a basic idea but look at me flop completely.
$pecies: Well, all of you scored at least 2 points here. Moss and Vikram got 1 question right, Jessica got 2 answers and Bloody got 3.
Summing up your points for Part 2, 3 and 4, we now have Bloody still in the lead with 21 points, Jessica with 18, Vikram with 15.5 and Moss with 13 points.
Because the maximum boost one can get from Part 1 is 32%, Moss and Vikram, you are out of contention. At least you didn't waste too much money in bidding for the photographs. Neither of you won any photographs. It comes down to Bloody and Jessica. A very close results between the two of them.
Jessica spent a total of $8000 in this part, while Bloody spent a bit more with $9298. But it depends how the two of you distributed your bids across the 16 photographs...
Vikram: I didn't even have 8k!
$pecies: Jessica put in $500 on each photo whereas Bloody made it less uniform. So it turned out that Jessica actually won more photographs!
18% vs 14%
After factoring the boosts, the final scores were 23.94 vs 21.24, which means...
BLOODY WINS IMMUNITY!
Congratulations, Bloody. Come and grab the necklace.
Bloody: Gladly.
$pecies: Jessica, Moss, Vikram, great efforts but one of you will become the 10th jury member and will hold the sole power to decide if they want to be the final juror or make another one of you to join them. Grab your stuff and head back to camp. Should be an interesting afternoon...
Bloody | @Alqamar
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?! Ahhh I feel so good! I was hoping to win, but was not at all banking on it. My gut was right. Borges would have 100% won this challenge. There’s no doubt in my mind, he would have taken immunity here. Getting him out last round got me into the safety position I’m playing from now. It feels good, man. I think I have a path forward in this round, I mean clearly I do but path forward to keep it to a Final 3 FTC because I really don't know if I could win another challenge. So right now my focus is squarely on just getting the [bleep] into FTC.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Mmm I really wanted to win the challenge just to assure myself that I would make it to Final 3. Sadly that did not end up happening which is kinda disappointing but in the end I’m still going to work my ass off to make it to the end and I really hope I’m able to do so. Yea I was really sad I didn’t win but honestly I didn’t really care who won it because if Vik won it I would have gone for Bloody and vice versa. It just would have felt good to get immunity.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Well, I guess I can’t win that. The challenge results hmm… I did pretty decent but could have done better. I’m glad Bloody won because she’s the only one I was sure I wouldn't vote at Final 4 and this now gives me a choice between 2 people - Jess or Moss. I have a good selling point in the fact that I have not been immune in any post-merge rounds but Moss needs to go so that I can fully claim it to myself.
Moss | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I wasn't surprised that Bloody won immunity. She has been the challenge beast all $eason. Saving up all this money and it didn't help me. I'm really bad at challenges that don't involve any skill. Now I will have to go to work and downplay my game and how I’m a goat. I just don’t think Vik and Bloody will vote off each other. I need something and see if I can at least get Jess to vote with me.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 09:35 PM
Back at camp, the Final 4 castaways are considering all possible options that they can take.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
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I can go two ways here - vote out Vikram to finalize my cutthroat game and take the obvious dominant position going into Final 3, but hope and pray that he doesn’t take us down to a Final 2 OR I could vote out Jess who has multiple times expressed wanting to retain the Final 3 FTC format, and knock her out of the running for a Final 3 immunity challenge, if we had to go to one. She certainly has the most money left and could easily buy her way into an immunity win. Either way, Moss stays I guess? Like the worst case about keeping Moss is that Jonas and Sophie will vote for her, maybe Borges, but I can’t imagine others doing the same.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I really want Vikram to go out here as I feel like with him gone I might have a better shot at winning and I just really hope I’m able to convince Bloody and Moss. I tried my best to reassure Moss all day that we’re doing Vikram. Ugh I hope this works out. My anxiety is at an all time high right now.
Moss | @Alqamar
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I wonder who would be more willing to cut whom here. Bloody just cut Borges last round but I also don't think she sees Vik as much of a player. I don't see either, but I'll have to work at it or else I'm going into fire-making. I'm gonna try to push Bloody to keep me but I don't wanna do too much of a hard sell right now. So far she seems down to go with me and Jess, but she hasn't spoken to Vik yet and it may change once she does and he goes full on in trying to convince her. I still kinda see Bloody possibly flipping back if Vik does the hard push, so we'll see.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
As of now, my plan is to vote out Moss - easy vote and she voted differently at Final 6 and she has relationships with Borges and jury. But I am thinking about it a lot because she could be an easy beat at the end while Jess could be playing a good game that I didn't recognise. So now, I'm leaning towards Moss but could definitely be swayed towards Jess. Jess could potentially get many jury votes.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
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Another path is Moss going home although I don't know if I necessarily want that to happen because I don't want to seem like I got conned into bringing Jess and Vikram into a Final 3 like if somehow it feels weaker to my game, like I go from piggybacking off Borges’ game to piggybacking off Vikram and Jessica’s game. So I have a couple things I need to think of. I definitely need to see where people are pushing.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I think I can win easily with Moss in the Final 2 but this $eason deserves a Final 3. Anyways, I’m kinda glad Bloody won immunity. An all girls Final 3 sounds iconic and also I think my game might be credited better with Vik gone. I just hope Bloody isn’t lying about being willing to vote him.
Moss | @Alqamar
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It sounds like Jess will at least vote with me to force me into fire-making. It’s so funny the way this game goes. Before the merge, me and Jess barely spoke to each other. It was so hard to talk to her but the last few tribals, she's been so supportive and really kind. And I think compounded with some difficult in-game moments for me, and for her to be there has really meant a lot. I love how she's all about women and supporting each other because oftentimes it doesn't always happen, so that's been great to see.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Maybe forcing Moss and Jess to fire would be a good move for me in case I’m not seen as a big player by jury, but I don’t wanna risk going out 2-1-1 and I don't want Jess being mad at me and not taking me to the end in case it’s a Final 2 FTC.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I feel bad for lying to Vikram about how I’m on board to do Moss. I just am doing it as a backup plan in case Bloody is lying about being down to do Vikram. I’m not that confident in this plan though. Lord, I don’t have a good feeling about this.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
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Voting out Jess is probably the path of least resistance but here's my weird thought process - if Vikram goes here I do think I could make a case or someone could make a case to Vikram about how important it is to have three femmes in the FTC. I mean I don't think I would necessarily push it too hard especially knowing how he can get when he gets frustrated but I do think that he would respect that and he would see “you know I did get outplayed here”. Vikram going here would solidify my story because Vikram being here is the only thing left that people can pin me on and say you were playing his game and I know Borges probably has questions about how much my decisions were impacted by Vikram versus my own selfish needs. I’m hoping I can be steady and truthful with Vikram leading up to his elimination and he looks out for me. That’s a wild hope.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Wait what? Dang. Am I going home? I was nearly confident I’m making it to the end. Ughh. What the [bleep], Bloody! She promised me Final 2. Are you kidding me? Now she has immunity and she breaks her promise that easily? I was thinking I made Final 3 already. Bloody, if you choose to vote me here, I'll work damn hard to make you lose. For sure! 100%. If she voted me without promising, fair game and good move, but after promising, that's cheap!
Moss | @Alqamar
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I have to be careful not to push Bloody too hard. I feel like if I hard push her with good points to vote out Vik, she may think I have a brain and then be more willing to cut me. She is still leaning to vote Vik, but she doesn't seem firm. It kinda sounds like a lie. I mean she could vote with him to force fire but that's risky because if Vik is in FTC, he likely gets votes from Borges, Simon, Jonas and Nerf. That’s 4 right there. I’m still worried Vik may go all out and scramble.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
This might be totally off, but I think I can pitch this as “Jess wants you out, I sort of agree but this was her idea” while also reminding Vikram that she has a bunch of money left for another challenge if she wanted to kick me to the curb. It's a delicate tightrope. I’m also toying with the idea of voting Jess out here instead, but want Vik to do the heavy lifting of justifying why I should.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Is Bloody trying to vote me out 2-1-1? I don’t think so but ughhhhhh! I’m working my ass off by saying Jess played a better game to Bloody. I'm trying to make her feel guilty. I reminded Bloody about her promise. I'm emotionally appealing to Bloody to keep me here. I can't believe she made a fake promise and now that she has immunity, going back on it. If you vote me out here, screw you!
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
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I think it’s easier for my story if I vote Vikram here. I really hope I'm playing this right with him. I want him to know this decision has not been easy on me. Truthfully, I don't know if I've agonized over anything quite as much as I have this one. I really am banking on him honoring a Final 3, whether that be in spite of Jess or in support of me. But I still want to be flexible to the possibility that I might need to switch to vote Jess if I feel like he'd most definitely take us down to Final 2 FTC.
Vikram | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I can't believe I went from 99% feeling safe to freaking out soooo much. I played this game so hard and that may be the reason for me getting voted out. I have the rockiest game without a number one ally and my number ones constantly broke my trust, just like now. Maybe I should just calm down and take the high road but it's hard. The fact that she promised me and now thinking about betraying and going against the word just cuz she has immunity is INFURIATING me. I know Final 4 immunity is so powerful but that promise alone is frustrating me. This is so stressful. I really hope Bloody voted Jess and Jess voted Moss but I don’t trust Jess on that. I hope it’s fire-making in the worst case. I am working my heart out to stay in this game. If it works, then omg how awesome would that be, but I feel like I'm getting voted off.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 10:28 PM
NIGHT 40
FINAL 4 TRIBAL COUNCIL
Bloody, Jessica, Moss and Vikram arrive at tribal council.
$pecies: We will now bring in the members of our jury - Zach, Deaze, Goose, Clink, Nerf, Sophie, Simon, Jonas and.... Borges - voted out at the last tribal council.
Zach, Deaze, Goose, Clink, Nerf, Sophie, Simon, Jonas and Borges walk in and take a seat at the jury bench.
$pecies: Hello again! The Final 4 Tribal Council in $urvivor is very unique because whoever eliminated here will have the sole legacy power to decide how many players will get to plead their case to the jury at FTC. Does that weigh into your decision making tonight?
↳ Vikram: It doesn't weigh in on my decision at all. I’m concerned about just surviving and making it to the Final 3.
↳ Jessica: Mmm not really. I have faith in everyone left here that they will decide what they think is deserved and fair. I am hoping for one over the other but I don’t mind that much, I just really want to get there.
↳ Moss: I think it's more about thinking one vote at a time because it's hard to predict what the eliminated person will choose, whether it’s a F2 or F3. So I wouldn't base it solely on that.
↳ Bloody: Of course, everything is weighing on my mind with this vote. I have the unique privilege of safety here, but even then, safety is temporary. However, regardless of what happens, I am so in awe of who we have in our Final 4 - three of the original 6 women have made it here. When does that ever happen? Not to mention, Vikram, a man who lives on the LITERAL other side of the world from many of us. We've all fought our hearts out to get to this point, overcome the odds and I could not be prouder to be a part of this crew.
$pecies: Bloody, congrats on winning immunity. Did you think you needed it? And do you think being immune at this critical stage of the game gives you more power as to who gets voted out tonight?
↳ Bloody: I have no clue if it was needed. All I know is I gave my entire all to that challenge and I’m so thankful to have won it. That being said, I think the blessing and curse of immunity is that you’re no longer really a piece on the game board. So do I feel like I have more power going into tonight? No, quite the opposite, but I will be going into this vote with the consideration of what is best for my game. At this stage, it’s really all you can do.
$pecies: Vikram, how confident are you that things will go according to your plan tonight? And what do you think are the odds of having a 2-1-1 vote here?
↳ Vikram: I was a lot confident before I got here but I'm not confident AT ALL now. I hope things go by plan here. I really hope so. 2-1-1... I honestly don't know, $pecies.
$pecies: Moss, from a scale of 1 to 10, how vulnerable do you feel tonight? Do you think this vote will be unanimous?
↳ Moss: I think 10. It’s hard for anyone at this stage in the game to be completely comfortable when there's so few numbers left. It's down to the end and it's very close so it makes sense to feel that uncertainty over the unknown.
$pecies: Jessica, how worried are you about tonight's vote? How likely do you think a 2-2 tie vote will happen here?
↳ Jessica: I’m not sure, $pecies. I guess we will see when the votes come in but I very well could see this going to fire which would be interesting I guess.
$pecies: Well, I guess it’s time to find out. Jessica, you’re up first.
One by one, the players make their way to the voting booth to vote.
Jessica (votes against Vikram)
I’m so sorry it has to end like this, Vik. I just have to cut you as we have played similar games and I’m afraid I will be called your sheep. Thank you for everything.
Vikram (votes against Jessica)
Lot of shit has gone down and this is my best chance at staying.
$pecies: Once the votes are read, the decision is final, person voted out will be asked to leave the tribal council area immediately. First vote...
Jessica
Vikram
Vikram
Two votes Vikram, one vote Jessica, one vote left...
No one yet!
Vikram: Love you so much, Bloody! You won't regret this.
Jessica: Oh damn!
$pecies: It looks like we're gonna go to fire.
Jessica and Vikram, please move over to the fire making station. Fire Money represents your life in $urvivor. Have you been practicing your fire making money tracking skill? Now your life in the game depends on it, literally.
First, you have to decide how much you are bidding for a 3-point advantage. The higher bidder will get a head start.
You will have to make your best guesstimate on the amount of money held by each of the 16 eliminated players as of the point when they got out of the game. If your guess was closer to the actual balance, you would score a point.
We will start with the most recent juror Borges and keep going until one of you has hit 10 points to "burn through the rope" and win this do-or-die challenge. Good luck to you both.
Jessica: Good luck!
Vikram: Good luck, Jess! ❤️
Jessica and Vikram submit their bid for the 3-point advantage.
$pecies: It's $3487 vs $5769. Jessica has gotten the head start with 3 points! Her fire has grown larger than Vikram from the get go! Can she keep the lead?
Jessica and Vikram submit their guesstimates on how much each fallen comrade held at the time when they were voted off.
$pecies: Let's go through the results one by one, starting with Borges' balance.
It was a very close one! $17010 vs $17050
Without revealing the actual amount, Jessica's guess of $17050 was closer.
Vikram: Damn.
Jessica: Slay. Love you, Borges.
$pecies: We will now check on the results for Jonas' balance. He had openly said he's poor. If that's the case, the question is, how poor?
Jessica guessed $5230 while Vikram did $9998. Jess' guess was just a bit closer to Jonas' number. Jess' fire has reached level 5 while no $parks yet from Vikram.
Jessica: You did amazing, Vik. You still got this!
Vikram scraps magnesium off his flint trying to make a comeback.
$pecies: Next we have Simon's balance. Wow this one is even closer! Vikram guessed $21002 and Jess said $21000. How?
Well, it wasn't $21k. It's lower than that, which means Jess has scored her 6th point, 4 points away from the rope. Vikram, you'll need to pick up. It's not over yet. Keep your flame alive.
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 11:12 PM
$pecies: Next we have $33000 vs $29000 for Goose's balance.
Vikram scores again! Catching up to Jessica's flame now. 6 vs 4.
Moving onto Deaze's. The guesses were $26000 vs $31002.
Jessica's 26k guess was closer. It's now 7 vs 4.
Next we have the guesstimates for our first juror, Zach's balance.
Jess and Vik guessed 33k and 22k respectively. Vikram's guess was closer this time. 7 vs 5!
Next you're guessing the money held by Kasnoy.
Both of you guessed above 30k. Jess submitted $33k and Vikram guessed $31k.
The actual was lower than 30k. So Vikram has scored his 6 points. 7 vs 6! This is getting closer.
The next one is for Joe's balance. $28000 vs $34002.
Jessica's 28k guess was closer to Joe's actual. Jessica has scored her 8th point.
Moving onto Sebby whom you both met in the game at different stages.
Jessica puts down a guess of $33k while Vikram changes his to $36k.
33k was closer, earning Jess her 9th point, just one point away from the rope.
However, the wind is getting stronger now and that could stop the fire from growing higher. Let's see how much you guessed for Greg's balance. $33k vs $31k again.
Vikram's guess was closer to score his 7th point. We're now at 9 vs 7.
Next, I will reveal your guesstimates for Lars' wealth. Jessica guessed $35000 and Vikram guessed $29002.
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Jess burns through her rope first! Congratulations, Jessica. You get to live to see at least one more day in the game.
Vikram: Congrats Jess.
Jessica: Great game, Vikram. I'm sorry. You did amazing.
Moss: Congrats Jess. Great job, Vik!
Bloody: GG Vikram. You’ve been incredible to play with. Brilliant performance, didn’t expect anything less.
$pecies: That was an intense fire-making challenge. Vikram, I'm afraid your wild journey in this game ends tonight.
Vikram: I'm proud of my game here. So I'm a winner for myself. This experience has been one of my best ever!
Vikram brings his torch to $pecies.
$pecies: Vikram, the tribe fire has $poken.
But before you go, as you already know, you have the most important legacy decision of the $eason to make...
So Vikram, which FTC format would you prefer?
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$pecies ⚖
07-Sep-21 11:53 PM
Vikram: Okay y'all lied to me many times. Moss, you didn't tell me you're voting me till last minute. Bloody, you thought of even going to break your promise of Final 2 with me. So why should I let y'all go to FTC? Screw y'all.
.... $pecies, it's gonna be a Final 3. Y'all I was just kidding earlier, enjoy FTC! Congrats!
Jessica: Thank the lord. Bye dude.
Bloody: What a way to go, man.
$pecies: Well it's official. Vikram, now it's time for you to go.
Vikram: Love y'all. Peace out.
Vikram leaves tribal council.
$pecies: Bloody, Jessica, Moss, congrats on making it as far as Vikram has allowed you. Just one last challenge for an important reward tomorrow and then Final Tribal Council will be opened where you will plead your case to our jury as to why you deserve to win the title of $ole $urvivor!
Grab your torches and head back to camp. Good luck and good night.
FINAL WORDS
Vikram | 4th Place
I'm really sad I got out but at least it wasn’t 3-1 and also I'm proud of the way I went out. I nearly had a huge comeback in the challenge! I was so damn close. Thanks for casting me. I had an absolute blast here and I’m so glad I’m part of this experience. I am excited to see and hope that the viewers will love my journey along with me. This $eason was so crazy and super messy.
VOTING HISTORY
2 votes against Vikram - Jessica, Moss
2 votes against Jessica - Bloody, Vikram
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$pecies ⚖
09-Sep-21 04:08 PM
The all-female Final 3 return from tribal council.
Jessica | @Alqamar
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OMG! I MADE FINAL 3! I made the Final Tribal Council! Oh my god! IT FEELS SO GOOD! I did not expect at all to make it this far honestly. Last tribal, I was so nervous that I was being sent to fire. I didn't have high hopes with fire. It was so nerve wracking but I survived! I’m so happy that Vikram went and he picked the Final 3 option for FTC. I’m glad it went the way it did.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
Last tribal feels a bit bittersweet. On one hand, I’m so beyond pumped to have made it to the FTC!!!! But on the other hand, my man Vikram got his torch snuffed. I guess that’s the funny part about this game - getting to the end means having to see a lot of your friends leave.
Moss | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
So how much of a goat do I feel like that they would rather vote Jess over me? I honestly don't get where this bad perception has come from. I felt I played a really strong game right up to the Jonas vote out. It did go bad there for me. Jonas vote - bad look, Borges vote - bad look. Although those are all perceptions of the jury right now, I think in FTC I can explain how it wasn't smart of me to be saving them cuz it would just look like I was playing their game. I took this root to differentiate myself in addition to my moves earlier in merge. But I don't get why they voted Jess over me? The only thing I can think of is that she's better at challenges than me and Bloody secretly wanted her to beat Vikram in fire-making, then Vik lost and he didn't make it a Final 2 but a Final 3 FTC because Vik was threatening her with F2 and she didn't want that. Bloody lied to me about the vote because she wanted it to go 2-2 and not 3-1 so that she could win favour with Vikram, which is smart. I hope the Final 3 challenge is purely money based cuz I can actually win that one.
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$pecies ⚖
10-Sep-21 12:12 AM
$pecies: Come on in, guys!
The last 3 Alqamar members march in.
$pecies: Bloody, I'll take back the immunity necklace.
$pecies grabs the necklace from Bloody and puts it down on the ground.
$pecies: Last night, Vikram chose to be the final jury member. So you won't be competing for immunity, but there is a crucial reward up for grabs today!
The final challenge of the $eason is called "The Price is Right". It's definitely worth playing for, because the winner of this final challenge will get to grant one of the jurors an extra jury vote which would only be read if there's a tie at the FTC. Whom the winner of the challenge gave the advantage would not be revealed. It'd be up to the finalist or the juror to reveal if they wish to.
Bloody: Wow, that is powerful.
Jessica: Oh damn! I ain’t winning this with my broke ass but good luck!
$pecies: This could potentially be a million-dollar reward challenge! Here's how it works - there are 17 rounds in total. In each round, you will have to guesstimate how much each voted off player store away at the first challenge of the $eason "$afe Deposit Box" back on Day 2.
Like many of the challenges you have faced, money can swing the odds in your favor. Alongside submitting your guesstimates, you will also have to bid at least $1 round by round. The highest bidder of each round gets to make 2 guesses. The player with the closest guess of the round will score a point.
The player with the most points will win the reward!
If it's all clear, let's start Round 1 by submitting your bid and guesstimate on how much money Jordanne kept in the $afety box. Round 2 will be for Krikkit, 3 for Lars and so on. Your bids and guesses for each round will be revealed before we proceed to the next one. Good luck, ladies!
The Final 3 head to their bidding station to lock in their bids and guesses for each round.
$pecies: Moss gets 2 guesses as her bid was the highest for Round 1 with $1,000. Bloody bid $309 and Jessica bid $1. For the guesses, Jess guessed 11k, Bloody guessed 14k, Moss guessed 11k and 15k.
Bloody scores the first point as her guess was the closest.
Next round, Moss easily gets the extra guess by bidding $1,000 while Bloody and Jessica did $3 and $1 respectively. The guesses were very close to the actual amount Krikkit stored away! Bloody - $5,201, Jess - $5,001, Moss - $3,000 & $5,000. Jessica's guess was the closest to score a point.
It's time for Round 3. Once again, both Bloody and Jess bid low with $1 while Moss gets 2 guesses with $1,000. These were the submitted guesses: Bloody - $12,002, Jessica - $12,000, Moss - $15,000 & $20,000.
Moss: These extra guesses clearly aren't helping me.
Jessica: Bloody, why you do this to me...
Bloody: Watch it be $12,001.
$pecies: Jessica was the closest again, earning herself her second point! Jess is in the lead with 2 points, Bloody with 1 and Moss with 0. Round 4 is for Greg.
For the extra guess this time, Jess bid $1 while Moss bid $500 but it's not enough here as Bloody's $1,002 allows her to make 2 guesses!
You all guessed relatively close together. Bloody - $10,502 & $11,602, Jess - $10,000, Moss - $11,000. Bloody's second guess here was the closest to score her second point.
For Round 5, Bloody and Jessica bid $1 while Moss gets an extra guess by bidding $500. Close guesses from all three of you again: Bloody - $5,010, Jessica - $5,002, Moss - $4,000 & $5,000.
Jessica scores her third point to regain her lead!
Moss: Jessica's guess was within a few dollars of the right answer? That's amazing.
Bloody: Like was it literally $5,003?
$pecies: Heading into Round 6. Jess and Bloody bid $1 again while Moss lowered hers to $10, enough to get two guesses. The guesses you all made very close again. Bloody - $5,006, Jess - $5,000, Moss - $5,000 & $5,100. Bloody's guess was the closest this time to tie it back up with Jess - 3 points each.
For Round 7, Moss won the extra again by a bid of $200 while Bloody and Jess bid $1. Here are the guesses: Bloody - $4,802, Jess - $5,000, Moss - $5,002 & $4,900. Bloody gets the point for this round to put her in the lead now with 4 points.
Heading to Round 8, it's the same bids as last round. Moss gets two guesses again.
Jessica: Moss is gonna get her Vikram comeback now.
Bloody: Omg, imagine!
$pecies: Bloody - $13,951, Jessica - $13,500, Moss - $18,000 & $19,000. Interesting different guesses here with both Bloody & Jess guessing within $13k, however Moss has decided to go on a different route with $18-19k. But who's closest to Zach's amount in the $afety box?
Moss is! Moss has won her first point!
For Round 9, you're guessing the amount Deaze locked away. Moss got two chances again by bidding $200 while Bloody and Jessica continued to bid $1. Now for the guesses: Bloody & Jess - $5,004, Moss - $5,002 & $4,900.
Interesting how both Bloody and Jess made the exact guess for Deaze, huh? Well they were tied here to score a point each.
For Round 10 and 11, the bids were the same. Bloody and Jess with $1 while Moss did $100 to get two guesses in each round. The guesses were very similar too. Moss' 10k guess for both rounds turned out to be the closest to score herself 2 points in a row to close the gap.
It's anyone's game at this point. Bloody with 5 points, Jessica with 4 and Moss with 3.
As we move on to Round 12, Jessica bid $1 again, Moss bid $100 while Bloody increased her bid to $102 this time to gain the right to make two guesses for Nerf's deposit amount. The guesses made were: Bloody - $4,702 & $4,902, Jess - $4,805, Moss - $5,010.
Once again, all relatively similar answers to one another. Bloody's $4,702 guess was the closest here. Bloody scores her 6th point!
Next, for Round 13, Bloody and Jessica both bid $1 and Moss gets herself an extra guess with a $50 bid. As for the guesses: Bloody - $10,102, Jess - $10,000, Moss - $10,000 & $11,000.
Interestingly, both Jess and Moss had a guess of $10k with Bloody adding in an extra $102! Well, we have a tie in this round. Jessica and Moss score a point each.
Moving onto Round 14, Moss was the lowest bidder here with $10. Jess has finally bid more than one dollar. She bid $80 but not high enough as Bloody bid $102 to gain the extra guess.
Let's go over these guesses: Bloody - $13,002 & $17,002, Jess - $14,001, Moss - $10,000.
The person closest to Simon's deposit was Moss! Moss has earned her 5th point and is now tied with Jess and just one point behind Bloody. Now we have a close race with only 3 rounds left!
For Round 15, Jess bid $100 while Bloody bid $300. Moss outbid both with a bid of $500 to earn the extra guess for Jonas' deposit amount. The guesses were interesting to say the least: Bloody - $6,969, Jess - $1, Moss - $5,010 & $4,900.
$1 is the closest to the actual amount! Jess is now tied with Bloody with 6 points, Moss with 5.
Round 16 is our second to last round. Moss has to score here or she's out. If Moss scores here, we will have a 6-6-6 point scenario heading into the final round! And if there is a tie in points after all 17 rounds, whoever bid more in total after 17 rounds of bidding will win. Let's see...
For the bids for the extra guess, Moss bid the lowest with $50. Jess bid $102 while Bloody won the extra guess by placing a bid of $800. The submitted guesses: Bloody - $10,001 & $8,901, Jess - $10,000, Moss - $17,000.
Moss got it! We have a 3-way tie now with only one round left.
Jessica: OMG!
Bloody: Iconic!
Moss: Fun!
$pecies: For the final round, you're to guess how much money Vikram stashed away in the $afe Deposit in the first challenge of the $eason.
Jessica: Vik is really sealing our fates, it’s not funny.
$pecies: What an epic challenge. Let's find out how much each of you bid for the extra guess. Jessica bid $1. So it's between Bloody and Moss. Bloody, you have decided to bid $2,627. That's the highest we have seen in this challenge...
until Moss put in a bid of $10,000 to buy a second shot in the final round! Moss gets to guess twice here. Will it be enough to snag the win?
Here are your final guesses: Bloody - $4,751, Jess - $2,600, Moss - $5,010 & $4,900.
All these guesses are once again close to one another, how interesting!
I can now reveal the person closest to Vikram's deposit amount and ultimately the winner of this reward challenge is....
$pecies: 7-6-6. This couldn't have been any closer. Congrats, Bloody. You will get to choose in private which juror you want to grant this FTC tie-breaking power to. Finalists, you may now head back to camp. Tomorrow morning, you will be served your final breakfast in $audi Arabia before I see you again at the Final Tribal Council!
Bloody decides to grant Vikram the FTC tie-breaking power.
Bloody | @Alqamar
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Now I can claim challenge dominance at FTC and really MEAN it. Even though this was a tiny reward challenge, it showed that I had a good grasp of the flow of money and social dynamics of each tribe. I was worried Jess would take this, she's had a few chances in this end game to be a highly visible challenge winner but this makes my strength undeniable, even with less money.
The Final 3 castaways take a moment to share what they have learnt from playing the tough game.
Bloody | @Alqamar
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I have learned a lot about myself through this game, and I've learned specifically in game scenarios that lying is not good. Lying is bad but being an over-sharer is perfectly okay. Not sharing enough is also totally fine and this is the beauty of a game like $urvivor. If I have allies on two sides of the game and maybe I throw an ally a little under the bus and maybe I tell my other ally that they're the closest thing I have in this game and if my supposedly ride or die goes out, suddenly that other ally looks at me and goes wow that's a game piece to pick up. I've learned that that's the ideal position in this game. I thrive in the ability to switch sides and stoke dissonance.
Moss | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I think I learned that I can be affected by emotions in games, which is new to me. This whole $eason was a lot of fun for me for most of it. I was working people, making moves, building fun relationships but Final 7 was where my game started to falter. I usually consider all options in decision making and then am pretty decisive once I've gone through all options but since Final 7 I've just been questioning everything.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I feel like something I learned about myself is that I need to be less trusting. I can’t just trust people right away, which really sucks as I hate that my trust in people were kinda broken this $eason but I’m still glad to have played. Another thing I learned is that I can really be smart at times. I feel like my strategic game has been very good this $eason and I’ve just enjoyed seeing it blossom.
Bloody, Jessica and Moss pick up a hearty breakfast set from the mail $tation to celebrate their final day in the game.
Bloody | @Alqamar
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Weirdly enough, I did expect to be here on day 42. I’ve been manifesting this since day 1. But regardless, I’m thrilled to be here. It feels incredible to see all your hard work finally pay off, you know? It finally happened. Ma, I made it!
Moss | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
It feels good to have made it to the end. I just don't want it to be a blowout, I took a risk and let go of Borges and an easy path to FTC in favour of a harder path but a higher chance of winning, so I hope it's at least close.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I have a bad feeling that no one is going to understand my game but I have a lot of hope for myself. I think I’ll be able to hopefully explain it well and prove all my haters wrong tonight. This journey has been the world to me and no matter what placement I get at FTC, I’m so proud of how I’ve done and I’m super glad I am able to experience this.
Moss | @Alqamar
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I'm gonna try to differentiate mine and Bloody’s game by me working all angles, working with people on all sides, whereas she only had protection from her group. She literally shielded herself with them and as those numbers went down she was the last one standing but didn't really have contingency plans in case that didn't work out. I won’t say all of this because sometimes it looks kinda attacky but I'll try to frame it in a way to make that distinction.
Bloody | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I’m looking forward to all that FTC has to offer me tonight! Seeing old friends again, answering questions and giving them my context! Making it to the end is so fun, but also kinda lonely. I can’t wait especially to talk with my Qummah 2.0 tribemates. Strangely enough though, I’m very worried to meet Borges again. From what Jess has told me, plus the fact I received no legacy of love from him, plus his final words before leaving the game, I really worry where I stand with him.
Jessica | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I’m really looking forward to the final tribal council. I’m excited to hear from the jury but I’m kinda nervous about Sophie. We will see how it goes. I have faith I’ll be able to do well. I'm going to give it my all.
Moss | @Alqamar ![MergeIcon MergeIcon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/869095314974470184.png)
I don't think anyone is really excited to see me at FTC. I just don't get that sense. I pretty much turned on everyone except Sophie and Borges. Borges said he won't vote personally and apparently he left a really supportive message to Bloody so I don't even think I can get his vote. Bloody has a ton of people she worked closely with whom she never had to vote out, like Nerf, Vik, Simon, Goose, Clink, so that’s 5 right there. Hopefully they'll be open to listening to what I have to say.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 07:08 AM
NIGHT 42
FINAL TRIBAL COUNCIL
The finalists enter tribal council.
$pecies: We will now bring in the members of our jury - Zach, Deaze, Goose, Clink, Nerf, Sophie, Simon, Borges and.... Vikram voted out at the last tribal council.
Zach, Deaze, Goose, Clink, Nerf, Sophie, Simon, Borges and Vikram walk in and take a seat at the jury bench. The Final 3 notice that Jonas is missing.
$pecies: Bloody, Jessica and Moss, for your information, Jonas is not here with us tonight. He has left the jury on his own. What? Why? Well, let's just say he had one too many drinks last night while partying it up at the jury villa. He drunkenly broke some rules, left the villa and that's it. So with that, you'll be campaigning to the jury of nine, instead of ten, to vote for you to win this game.
Congratulations to all three of you. You have outlasted 17 very fierce competitors to get to where you are now. You have gone as far as you can go in the game, and tonight the power shifts to the jury. Nine people that you voted out will now decide who wins. Their job tonight is to ask questions that will help them get the information they need to make a million-dollar decision.
Here's how it's gonna work. You'll make an opening statement, they will get a chance to address you, and then we vote. Shall we get started?
Jessica: Hey jurors, today I will be showing y’all the wild rollercoaster of a journey Jessica Esperanza was.
My pre jury game was pretty good. I had a really good social game on my first tribe and had a connection to almost everyone except Krikkit, which is why when we went to tribal I quickly took her out with the help of everyone else. Then we swapped and I got into a quick trio with Joe and Jonas. I was able to use this trio to take out Greg who was targeting me. I also got really close to Sophie at this point. So before it merged I gave Bloody an idol token but she declined so I used this in a different way. I went to Sophie and told her I gave it to Deaze as Deaze had a really good social game. So it got a target on her back and also a trust test on her which she failed. Deaze then ended up going home as well as Zach which was someone people mutually agreed on. At Final 9 I tried my best to send home Sophie even trying to keep Nerf and Borges together, but it just didn’t seem to work as they were really untrustful of each other. So Nerf went out. However from here on out I feel like everything went exactly my way. I went to Borges and worked with him to take out Sophie who I have wanted out for a very long time. It went successfully. Next I flipped on Borges and agreed with Vikram that we needed Simon out so I got Jonas and Moss on board to do Simon. I also told Borges that Jonas was targeting him and wanted him gone so he might waste tokens which he did. I needed Simon gone as he had played a pretty good game up to that point. Next I flipped on Jonas after working with him. It went to a tie but I was able to convince Moss to flip in the revote. Next at Final 5 I used up my money I had been saving to stop Borges from winning immunity. Then I knew I needed Vikram out as we had been playing a somewhat similar game. So I worked with Moss here to at least tie it and I even almost got Bloody to vote him out besides the fact they had a Final 2.
Overall I feel like I’ve been able to play a pretty good game. I managed my threat level incredibly well playing a dumb girl act to many people and act like they are taking advantage of me when really I was just using them. I managed my money incredibly well as well. So yeah I can’t wait to go into more detail on everything.
Bloody: I want to start out by saying that I literally could not be in this position without a lot of you on the jury. Please know that I recognize the generosity, wisdom and kindness that many of you have given me in this game. It feels weird talking about my accomplishments in this game without first acknowledging y’all. So thank you, those of you who I got to play, talk with, and get to know on a personal level.
I came into this game with one goal in mind: win. And every round, every move I’ve made, has been in service of that. I started with a modest plan: find my shields, play dumb loyal, and make sure I’m valuable enough to stay off the top of anyone’s hitlist. Of course, that all changed in the second round when Jonas returned from EoE…
I have had a literal bounty on my head since the beginning of this season. Jonas made you all well aware of my cutthroat game long before I got the chance to lay the groundwork. I could have rolled over and gone home, but I decided to fight that uphill battle, both winning safety in literally HALF of the rounds when individual immunity was up for grabs, while also working overtime to manage my threat level. It was a tightrope.
That being said, this game isn’t all about challenge wins. To be dangerous in a game like this, you need two things: 1) A steady flow of information, and 2) A good read on which info to trust. My ability to maintain deep relationships with multiple sides of the tribe, from Vik and Nerf to Borges and Goose / Simon, to even working with Jonas again, has afforded me a steady flow of info. But it’s my reads on the info I’m given that has given me the best shot at making it to FTC today.
Moss: Hello! It’s great re-connecting with all of you again and sharing my game.
I started off the game really trying to focus on my social game connecting with both shelters at our shared camp. Although Jordanne/Zach/Borges were in an initial alliance, I managed to work myself into that and we formed a group of our own with Borges/Simon which not only helped us on those first few votes but later in the game. Borges in particular I really connected with and I had wanted us to keep it secret to pretend like we barely talk so in the event we were split, we had information from all sides.
Heading into merge, I had worked my way into a position where I had Borges/Simon, Jonas/Sophie on another and I had good relationships with Goose/Clink, and Vikram/Jess later on. When Zach/Deaze were the general consensus for the first two votes it worked with my plan. During the Goose vote, the general consensus was Sophie would be the vote, but for me that didn’t work because even though I could have worked with the other side, I needed Sophie/Jonas in as a shield and I needed to have 2 sides to be able to work between. I agreed to vote with Borges and that side but I voted the other way and slipped my token to Sophie to make an idol for her to play.
During the Clink vote, Nerf told me the plan to blindside Borges and I leaked it to Borges and he played his idol and I chose Clink to go out because it allowed me to work the middle better. After the Nerf vote, the Sophie vote didn’t go my way, but I knew it was happening as Vik leaked the plan to me. When Simon lied to me about the Sophie vote, I had to vote him next as me and him were both playing the middle and I worried I couldn’t trust him moving forward.
Overall, I tried to really focus on my social and strategic game by creating triads and duos to have a flow of information and then make decisions/moves along the way to better position myself. I wanted to always have a contingency plan and something in place for each tribal in case votes went astray. Observing and collecting information helped me with my reads to make game decisions. It helped me vote correctly on most votes, except the ones I was intentionally voting off to prevent myself or an ally going out on an idol play. I am happy to answer more specific questions you have and to reconnect with all of you again.
$pecies: Thank you Jessica, Bloody, Moss. Jury, now is your chance to address our finalists. I'll give you a moment to think about what you wanna say.
Commercial break
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 07:54 AM
$pecies: Jury, some of you have waited a long time for a chance to address the three women that voted you out of this game. Let's get started. Zach will get us going.
Zach: (cracks knuckles) Bloody, I am curious as to what your pre-merge game was like. Specifically I would like to know about the Jonas vote at Final 19.
Bloody: At Final 19, I had made some pretty decent relationships with Kasnoy, Nerf and Jonas, good enough relationships for Jonas to pull Kasnoy and I into an alliance. The only trouble: Jonas was being so extra and unruly. He would dictate how much to bid for each challenge. He got everyone to agree to sharing where they’ve checked for idol tokens and I had a strong feeling that Kasnoy and NERF in particular were each other’s number ones at the time because they would each mention and reference each other a lot. Jonas turned to Vikram as an “easy vote” but in the course of those few days, I had started to have deeper meaningful chats with Vik. I was not about to go to the bat for a dude that no one cared for. Looking back, I could have been nicer about letting him know the vote was on him but I was worried for an idol to be played.
Zach: Jessica, I must say you definitely had the hardest time getting here being a vote at the very beginning of merge. I want to know what your thoughts were going in between sides and why it's more strategical and not flip floppy.
Jessica: I feel like it was more strategical to go the route I went as I was never in a solid group. So I wanted to go from side to side to make sure that not just one group had the most power... I didn’t just flip for no reason I did it with purpose and reason and it ended up getting me here and caused many of the most important rounds to go perfectly for me I believe.
Zach: Moss, something I recognized since the very beginning of merge is how reluctant you were in making big moves. Specifically saying I want to know if or when you did run things, whether that be for one or many cycles.
Moss: Part of my game is to keep it hidden during the game to manage threat level and then surface some of the moves during FTC. There were some votes I pushed for names because they were important for my game and others where I laid low because the majority of votes were already on that person. For example, when Deaze left, it was the consensus so I laid low, but him going was good for my game. However, when Goose left, the consensus was Sophie but I gave my token to Sophie to play to save her because her going didn't help my game. Same with Clink, I could have gone with consensus on Borges, but I leaked to him to weaponize his idol to take out Clink who I wanted out for my game.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 08:42 AM
Deaze: Jessica, please explain in detail what happened that round in which you "took Krikkit out" and what "connections you were able to utilize" because we both know that you were also on the chopping block that night.
Jessica: I actually had no clue I was on the chopping block that night other than I knew Krikkit was voting me. I believe if I’m remembering correctly I went to you first and we started talking and eventually I threw out Krikkit’s name and you thought about it and agreed. So I then went to Joe and Sebby and gave them the same run down. I was able to utilize our connection mainly as I think we hit it off the bat right away and I trusted you a lot.
Deaze: Bloody, I wish I got to play this game with you more but I do feel you are up against two very strong UTR games here. I'm specifically trying to get more closure about my vote out and why you just went with the crowd with it instead of targeting an obvious threat to your game in Nerf, who was playing a similar game as yourself, while also removing and freeing up the powerful duo in you and Vikram?
Bloody: I was looking for friends everywhere I could get, and at that point we just merged. Nerf and I were on the same original tribe, and he and Kasnoy were incredibly close. We both just lost an ally in Kasnoy, so he was in a vulnerable position. And quite honestly, I wasn't privy to how dangerous he was yet, and, at least from my perspective, I didn't clock him and Vikram as a duo then. That was not the round for me to push a vote. My vote had to retain what games I knew, what connections I could work with. and admittedly, my connections to you and Zach were a bit weaker. So did I hate voting you out? Yes, but it was very important for my game in that round to start to chart a path where I could retain my shields and numbers, and rebuild my connection with Jonas and his side.
Deaze: Moss, congrats on your very UTR game! I have to admit I have the least amount of info about your game this season. At some points I felt you were both sweet and bubbly, yet felt you always had an ulterior motive as if you were pressing me too hard for info when I was just still trying to figure out if I could trust you. Please provide examples of how your UTR game was better than Jessica's, as I need to determine which of you played a more thoughtful version of this classic strategy.
Moss: Ya I think me and you were doing a dance in trying to figure each other out and you were smart enough to pick up on it. In terms of 3 examples of my UTR game being better, I think mine was more planned and covert with opportunities to adapt as needed. I tried to hold my cards close to my chest because the less people know about my thought process, the harder it is to defend against it. During pre-merge I was always thinking about how to set myself up heading into merge. I also worked with Vikram during merge which was really important for getting other information that Borges wasn't giving me from that side. I frontloaded a lot of that work through social game at the start where I think Jess said she may have not connected with some of those people and then did later in merge. Also, I think my UTR game had some moves that were more mine where there wasn't a majority vote whereas some of her moves may have had consensus.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 08:57 AM
Goose addresses the Final 3.
https://youtu.be/gSsbhqzJMfA
Goose: Moss, between the idoled victims - Clink and I, which one of us was more robbed?
Moss: That's hard. Both of you for different reasons, but if I had to pick one, probably Clink because he was at a smaller tribal that was randomly put together and he had a lot less time to work through the dynamics of that group. It only took 3 votes to send him home out of a possible 6 people to work with, so I'd probably say him.
Goose: Jessica, what’s one move that you did from start to finish?
Jessica: I think a move that I did from start to finish was the Final 6 tribal as I went to Vikram and told him that we needed Jonas out here. He did not agree with that so to assure that I could get Jonas out here I went to Borges and told him that Vik is planning on targeting him to give him extra motivation to do it. Also I was close to Jonas at this point so he was telling me whatever Vik was telling him. I was able to easily convince Vikram we need to do Jonas now and bloody was also on board. I didn’t just stop there I tried to get Jonas to vote out Vikram as well which didn’t end up working but I still tried and from what I was told they only voted me to “protect” me if they actually wanted someone out they would have done Vik. I also talked to Moss and let her know ahead of time just to give her extra faith in me if it tied. So once it tied I right away whispered to Moss and convinced her that now is the time to let Jonas go and like I expected she flipped and Jonas ended up going.
Goose: Bloody, who was your most important ally in the whole game?
Bloody: I think from a game perspective, I'd have to say Borges. We had a great allyship going where both of us deeply trusted each other, allowing us to maintain our relationships with other parts of the tribe. We were able to keep ourselves off the parchments. We also shared idol clues, at least honestly, in the beginning, and told each other when we found tokens. Of course in the later game, that honesty and trust was broken quite a few times, but I have to credit that bond to a lot of the confidence I had from premerge going into mid game. (More answers in video: https://youtu.be/Ziac-qkAggQ)
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 09:28 AM
Clink: Okay!! I wanna start off by saying congrats, I hope you guys had fun and that you should all be proud of ourselves baes.
The finalists thank Clink.
Clink: Jessica, I noticed you were like suddenly really good at challenges late game. Was your strategy throwing challenges early on? Or did it just “click” and you suddenly just beasted these? Also props to the whole “I gave Deaze my token” lie cuz you helped put a giant target on that poor man!
Jessica: Okay, yes and no. In terms of money wise I threw most of the early challenges as I wanted to save my money for when it mattered most which is at the end. But I always put in my best effort to do it competitively, I just was a total flop at the start.
Clink: Bloody, did you and Jonas just like... not talk at all until the Final 6? What happened there, I wanna know.
Bloody: The funny thing is we talked a lot. If there's one thing I know about this game, it's that burning connections is a net negative. Plus, Jonas remaining in the game was incredible for my prospects. We were winning just as many immunities, but he was being a highly visible ass about it and doing the absolute most each round. There was still an understanding among the tribe that at some point he'd settle the score with me, so I think that lowered the immediacy that people felt they needed to get me out. That being said, when we talked it was like... very cat and mouse. We talked quite a bit and we were even able to work on some votes together. But dude tried to snake me every which way and NEVER could.
Clink: Moss, what was your favorite moment in this game? Something that made you laugh or made you proud of yourself, I wanna know what you’re gonna remember about this $eason.
Moss: I really enjoyed playing this $eason, everyone was so fun to get to know and learn about their personal interests etc., which is a big part of why I play. It’s just cool meeting new people. Game wise I guess I was happy the Goose and Clink vote worked out because you guys were big threats in my eyes and I think it would be harder to get out because of your amazing social games. But one moment that will stand out for me was something that happened during the first vote where I was having a tough time with something and Borges helped me and it was something that sorta went beyond game and it was really nice to have such human moments inside a game of lies. I don't think he even knows how much it meant to me but it was something I really appreciated.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 09:45 AM
Nerf: Honestly, I'm impressed with you all. Jess, you had to fight the entire way through this game and I respect the HELL out of that. Which leads into my question, where do you feel like you needed to fight the most?
Jessica: I feel like the point where I needed to fight the most was definitely the Final 4. That fire was the most intense thing I’ve gone through and my anxiety was at an all time high. Not only that but I spent basically the entire time speaking with Moss and praising her letting her know I have her back just to make sure she would give me at least fire. And the fire we all saw, it was super stressful and one of the most anxious moments I’ve felt within this game.
Nerf: Bloody, I do wanna say, I'm really glad I got to meet you during the season. You and I have a lot of the same energy. My question to you is, what did you do to guarantee you could safely land in a place, without having too much backlash?
Bloody: First and foremost, I aligned with incredible powerhouses in this game who were willing to name names and incriminate their own games. I also attribute a lot of my confidence in post merge to actually reconnecting with Jonas and not shying away from game conversations. I knew he would try to snake me, but it's kind of a keep your friends close and enemies closer type of thing. I told him, and meant this wholeheartedly: we needed each other in the game if we wanted to survive to FTC. That's why I was willing to work with him on votes. Him going out of this game meant my biggest enemy is out, which in turn makes me more likely to reach the top of the hit list for a round and go home. And finally, I kept votes on the middle men, the ones in the tribe who were playing my game. Every which way, I got push from Borges and Vikram and Jonas to vote each other out, but I needed them in this game to keep my game alive, because those three players would always go before me, and they would do everything to retain me as a number if they thought I'd vote with them, especially near the end game.
Nerf: Moss, though our conversations weren't always the best in my eyes, you were fun to just chill with at times, because of your rather chill personality from my perspective. Kinda expected to see you here in FTC. So, let me ask you this, Moss - what was the moment you had to utilize your connections the most?
Moss: I think in terms of my social game, I was swapped into a tribe where I was on the bottom with Jonas and had to work myself into a position of influence. But if you're asking about existing connections, it would be in the Clink vote where I was working with you, but also working with Borges and Clink. In a small tribal like that, it can be really risky and I tried to use my connections to not only keep myself safe, but also try to take out a target.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 09:53 AM
Sophie: If you had to replace yourself with anyone on the jury, so they’d be in FTC and not you, who would you replace yourself with?
Bloody: Apologies, Vik, I'd actually have to say Borges on this one. He played the most impressive game out of everyone here in my opinion and it would be wild seeing him make it to FTC and inevitably win.
Sophie: What’s your biggest regret from this game? Would you go back and change it if you could, or keep it as it played out?
Moss: I think my biggest regret was definitely the Final 6 vote and not doing rocks. It didn't play out as I intended and seeing the changing nature of mine and Jonas’ game relationship towards the end, I should have just voted him outright, instead of doing what I did.
Sophie: What was your favorite move you made in this game? Why? Was there any way you wished it could have gone better?
Jessica: I think my favorite move was at the Final 7. Everything just went perfectly for me here. Vikram threw out Simon's name to me so I put him, Jonas and Moss into an alliance, where we then voted for Simon but then I also didn’t stop there. I went to Borges and we agreed to put our votes on Vikram. We convinced Simon together and it ended up going perfectly for me with Simon going and Vikram getting votes instead of me. I think the only way final 7 goes better is if I was the one to throw out Simon's name first.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 10:09 AM
Simon: Bloody, I'm not going to lie, I adore your personality and loved our small conversations about random stuff like ice creams and High School Musical. People would say that not talking strategy with someone can hurt your game, but let's be real, we didn't really care about talking strategy with each other. Most of the people saw you and Borges as a duo. And then people like Jonas tried to tell others in the jury that you didn't really have a strategy game and that you were only listening to Borges, but there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes voting with the majority and being well liked is all you need. Being the mastermind is one way to win the game, but sometimes playing the game in the background works better. And the obsession with being the genius pulling the strings has done more bad to all of us in jury than good. Keep fighting because you 100% deserve to win this season. I don't have any questions for you.
Bloody: Thank you for your friendship. I will say though, that part of my game was to not talk strategy with everyone. 1) I really had no need to, I was well positioned with Vikram and Borges where I could effectively know where votes were landing without putting any names out there. 2) I already had a lot of heat on me between challenge wins and Jonas, and to over strategize would compromise my position in this game. I wanted to be seen as a piece to pick up every round, a player in desperation and need of guidance. So I'll say, it was partially game to not talk game with you.
Simon: Jessica, I would like to talk about a few things here. You claimed that your social game saved you a few times in this game, but I have never seen you playing socially. I started all of our conversations, and I felt that you weren't really interested in talking to me. You said that your connection with Moss saved you. But if your connection with Moss saved you, why should I vote for you over Moss? To me, it looks like Moss is kind of responsible for you being in FTC. I also need to talk about your good moves/plays because few of them deserve recognition. The way you got Borges to blindly believe what you said after you literally told him to not talk to you was impressive. And you putting a target on Deaze's back wasn't impressive, that was a genius move. Good job for winning a few challenges as well. I hope that you had a lot of fun playing this season and keep fighting because, for me, you have a chance to win the whole thing.
Jessica: Hmmm so I’ve learned a lot of things here and I've realized that my social game did need a lot of work on it but also I feel like even though I didn’t talk much to people, I gave off such a trustworthy vibe and never gave a person a reason to dislike which is why I was able to get people to work with me despite not having much conversation with them. I do apologize for not reaching out much though and that’s totally my bad but I feel like my strategic game makes up for it a lot and I was still able to work with people regardless. As for the Moss situation I feel like the reason why is because I was able to convince her aside from the Final 10 one. But as for Final 6 I let in moss knowing I was going to vote for Jonas before the tie to make her feel more comfortable during the tie if it happened. And then when it came to final 4 I took the whole day talking to her reassuring her telling her that I had her back. So even though Moss saved me that didn’t mean I didn’t put in effort as well.
Simon: Moss, how to start this. I loved our small talks before the swap, and I loved to share my passion for football with you. But out of all people in FTC, I'm most disappointed in you. You said that you hated when people lied to you, and you turned out to be the person who lied to me the most. When I talked to all the people in this $eason, I was always wearing that smiling mask, trying to put a smile on other people's faces. But when I talked to you, I was as vulnerable as I'm in real life. I exposed myself to you, telling you about my story, and how I have trust issues and how hard it is for me to be open to people. I basically served you my heart on a silver plate, and I promised you to not vote for you. And you grabbed your dagger, stabbed my heart, and twisted that dagger multiple times to make sure that this will hurt even more. You might not get my vote, but keep fighting because you might receive enough votes to win it. I don't need any answers from you, that was just my small monologue.
Moss: Hi Simon, I'd really like to talk to you after the $eason is over and I hope you would allow me to because I think there's been miscommunication in terms of things said. Much of what was said to you wasn't true or out of context. I can go through each one with you after when you want. I know I don't have your vote and I really appreciate and respect you telling me, I'm only telling you these things because I truly don't want you believing I never cared about you. All of the personal stories we shared, I never talked about with anyone, that to me was not game, it was all on a human level. I made the decision I made later in the game because of many things I heard over and over from different people, and looking back now after hearing your perspective, it was my fault for not coming to you and going through everything, but the game is a pressure cooker sometimes and you don't know what to believe and I think the Bloody vote just tipped it over the edge for me in terms of trust. Hearing you say though that I stabbed you through your heart affects me more than you know because that was never how I viewed our relationship. Thank you for sharing though and like I said I would really like to talk to you after the game.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 10:24 AM
$pecies: Borges, your turn.
Borges: Jessica, I do believe you have made moves in this game, but not everything was your move or something that happened only because of you. So phrases like “ I convinced her to” or “I took him out” or anything like this makes me think you think all of the stuff you mentioned you believe to be yours and your moves only, even on the Goose round that you weren't even there to vote. Was that intentional? Was that phrased wrong?
Jessica: Okay firstly I just want to apologize if my opening statement bothered anyone wrongly. I could have worded stuff a lot better so sorry about that I know not everything was about me and included others. For the Goose round I was just trying to add that even though I wasn’t there I did try to spread Sophie’s name around. Of course I’m sure that’s not even the main reason she got votes. I just wanted to point out that even though I was going to be gone I still tried to do something there.
Borges: Moss, why didn't you spend money on Final 4 immunity, what was your thought process of saving it all on that challenge?
Moss: Thanks for asking this question because I didn't wanna look dumb when all those amounts were shown, although I probably still look dumb because it had to do with instructions. The challenge was divided into 4 parts and the first part asked us to bid on a 2% boost and I remember thinking it's not much. When I saw only 2% I thought that can't be all to this challenge. Since we weren't allowed to go back to Part 1 and change our amount, I made a guess that there would be more bidding involved in the latter parts for an even bigger advantage. That's why I spent so little on the first part, because I was anticipating needing money in parts 2-4.
Borges: Bloody, how did you consider your relationship with me, Vikram, Goose, Kasnoy… or whoever was very tight with you, as to when was each person your tightest ally?
Bloody: My relationships quite honestly fluctuated a lot in the early game. I mean, between our first tribe, to then a tribe swap, to then a merge, they sort of had to by design. I would say I immediately hit it off with Kasnoy as a top tier ally, then once tribe swap happened, it got a bit complicated. Vikram and I weren't the closest pre-swap, but joining each other once again after I had saved him on a previous vote made our bond strong and deep, but you and I also hit it off immediately, and I could tell you really wanted a number to keep majority and I was happy to be that number for you. A bit after the swap, Goose quickly climbed up my trust rankings after our "trio" was formed. And finally Simon, I felt like Simon didn't like talking game, so I didn't push it, but our bond as friends was incredibly helpful. I don't think I would have been nearly as trusting of your reads on Simon if I didn't have such an active friendship with him.
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$pecies ⚖
11-Sep-21 10:38 AM
Vikram: Congratulations ladies! Getting to the end is not easy AT ALL. Y'all have worked hard to get here and be proud of yourself no matter who wins. I am not dead set on voting for anyone, so keep that in mind.
Jessica, you said you had a great social game at the start in your tribe, but why did you not even care about replying to my "Hi, nice to meet you" in Zufaf+Sajid? It may be petty but I targeted you in merge for that. I don’t know if I buy that you had a great social game in Zufaf.
Jessica: I put all my attention on my camp. They were my priority and honestly I didn’t take much advantage of the two camps at all. I could have done that much better. Mmm I think my social game with my OG members were pretty good but you can ask Deaze to confirm or deny that I may be delusional. I put in a lot of work with them.
Vikram: Bloody, when did you realise that Borges might outshine you at the end? Before or after I planted the seeds?
Bloody: Certainly before, though your words to me really cemented a worry I already had: that my strategy of working under him and letting him take the heightened visibility was working a bit too well. But knowing the path to the end game, it was critical that he stayed longer. I needed him to retain numbers on both sides. He was my way into Jonas and Moss. He was always top of the hit list before me. Without him here, Jonas would have had ample opportunity to settle his score on me and send me out the door. So yes, I was very aware of the perceptions of my game at that moment, but it also lit a fire under my ass to start planning big, highly visible moves as we got closer to the end.
Vikram: I think this might be the last one, but use it well, Moss in front of other jury members. Elaborate more on your one on one relationships/duos in this game that helped you advance and helped the other half too!
Moss: In terms of relationships that helped both of us, it would be my OG group with Borges and Simon and I think this mutually benefited us but in different ways, because even though we may have been going after each other's allies, I think we were still looking out for each other. Borges in particular would tell me important info at key points which would help and I would also share with him. Jonas and Sophie I think was also mutually beneficial as we were generally looking out for each other. I think with Jonas it started to change some towards the end. My "secret" duo with you was also helpful to both of us because I think even though we knew we were also working with others, we were generally honest with each other for the most part and I got some critical info from you at key points that I wasn't able to get from the other groups Also, Jess and I got close mid to late merge and I needed to bring someone else in as I knew I was distancing from Jonas and needed to be prepared for the end game without him there. I think us working together also helped Jess in the game as well.
$pecies: Thanks jury! Pretty healthy back and forth. I gotta say you're all pretty respectful given that you're voted out by the finalists. You have heard a lot tonight, gathered a lot of information that helps you to make a million-dollar decision. We'll give you a moment to think about it and then we'll vote.
Alright we started with 20 people in this game and we're left with Bloody, Jessica and Moss. The jury will now decide who gets the title of $ole $urvivor. For the last time, it's time to vote. Zach, you're up!
One by one, the jurors make their way to the voting booth to vote for one of the finalists to win the game.
Zach (votes for ?)
I find it crazy how no one even thought about taking you out and that is one of the major factors of why my vote is cast to you.
Clink (votes for ?)
This was a really hard decision. I went into FTC thinking only one person deserved to win, and after hearing all the pleas, I think you all played three unique games.
Nerf (votes for ?)
Even though you weren't individual the entire time, you still fought. And I didn't see that, and until you pointed that out to me? I can see the magic of your game. And how hard you had to fight, even if you were around everyone, which was intentional.
Borges (votes for ?)
Yes my vote even as a juror is strategical.
Thank you, Bloody, Jessica, Moss and the jury for a great Final Tribal Council. Thank you all for sharing your $tories here with us. Thank you for keeping this a $ecret project and not breaking our NDA. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this game... (pauses before tears built up)
Inside this urn there are all the votes from our jury of 9. Bloody, Jessica, Moss, for one of you, the votes inside this urn represents a million-dollar (virtual) prize and the title of $ole $urvivor.
I know you have waited quite a LOOOOOONG time for this moment but you're gonna have to wait a lot longer as these votes will be sealed now and transported back to the $urvivor Hub for the live reveal weeks later...
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$pecies ⚖
12-Sep-21 01:30 AM
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