Optimistic Alec Takes The Stage

[Alec Christy]

Hey guys! Nice guy Alec here, here to be nice, and self-deprecating, and chill, an-hahahha.

OK, I can’t keep it up. Voting for this F3 is just...yeah. Some people may be sugar coating it, but five of us don’t want to vote for ANY of you. And in my head, I’m really tossing it up between two people, and maybe not the two you’d expect. But, I’ve got some remarks and questions for all of you. Let’s see if any of you can be fucking honest for once.

Courtney: Of the three finalists, your the only one I have no reason to have a grudge against. At the same time, I...got a whole lotta nothing from you in this game. Talking to you wasn’t bad per se, but it was dull. I had to carry any conversation we had, at least from my perspective, and in groupchats you were always the one who was on, but not talking. To an extent I can understand if this is your strategy, and please do comment on this, cause as it stands, even if the other two were fake as fuck with me, at least they were willing to engage in casual conversation.

Brenda: Would you say your a sociopath? Not cutthroat, not strategic, but a legit sociopath? Y’see, I keep thinking back to the round Kenney left, where we were all kinda hesitant to not bullshit him, aside from me anyway. But, more than anyone else, you kept giving him false hope. Not only that, but you posted it in the groupchat, and you and Morgan were cackling about it. Like, seriously, what in the actual fuck. Explain this to me. You led a guy we were already HUGELY swapfucking until the last second - what did you think he was gonna do?

In a similar vein, before I idoled our chats were chill and fun, but by the time I had to idol, you were basically a robot to me - when I confronted you about the betrayal, what you said sounded like a stock answer on a company’s FAQ or something. How can any of us know if you were genuine, with all this proof piling up?

Morgan: You betraying me fucking hurt, because I thought we were tight. I knew we’d have to cut each other’s throats eventually, but going after me at F10 is effin’ ridiculous. Maybe we were getting a bit more distant, which was probably more your fault than mine because I tried to keep lines of communication open, but I thought our deals were legit, until Jaclyn of all people had to tell me I was getting blindsided. You KNEW how much I wanted to make merge, and we had three likely candidates for the win (Bob, Jax, and Court) in the minority.

Why you wanted me out as early as you did, both personally and strategically, fucking baffles me. Explain to me why you decided to preemptively strike and rely on someone like Pete, who we all know would eventually flip-flop, over maybe someone a bit smarter who was 100% loyal. Because I was going to F5 with you guys, and while I intended to try and flip Hope/Elyse there, based on what I’ve heard I would been a goner then. So you owe me an explanation, Morgan, and it better be longer than ANY of these things you guys call opening statements.

EVERYONE: Tell me everything you learned from each juror. Let’s see how your social game stacks up, and how much you really knew about them. Talk about what they like, their philosophies on Survivor, their personal game, all of it. The longer the better, because contrary to what your Opening Statements may say, I DO want to read a bunch of stuff.

Sincerely looking forward to your answers ladies, let’s see if you can own up to what you preach.

[Alec Christy]

Oi, side note since no one's answered it yet anyway. PM your response to the everyone question, I'll post it later. Don't want any copying, haha.

[Brenda Lowe]

Brenda: Would you say your a sociopath? Not cutthroat, not strategic, but a legit sociopath? Y’see, I keep thinking back to the round Kenney left, where we were all kinda hesitant to not bullshit him, aside from me anyway. But, more than anyone else, you kept giving him false hope. Not only that, but you posted it in the groupchat, and you and Morgan were cackling about it. Like, seriously, what in the actual fuck. Explain this to me. You led a guy we were already HUGELY swapfucking until the last second - what did you think he was gonna do?


I pretty much answered this in Bob's but, No i am not a sociopath. I do remember you laughing about this too, and you thought it was kinda funny. Yeah it was "fucked up." I did it for a reason. To keep our alliance safe, and make sure that if he was going to try anything he would tell me about it first so I would know. He wanted you out, as you know. But yeah...

In a similar vein, before I idoled our chats were chill and fun, but by the time I had to idol, you were basically a robot to me - when I confronted you about the betrayal, what you said sounded like a stock answer on a company’s FAQ or something. How can any of us know if you were genuine, with all this proof piling up?

I didn't want to vote you out. I liked talking to you, i really did! You were one of the main people who talked to me. I tried to talk to Morgan about not voting you at all. I think everything was already set, and there was nothing I could do about it. Than i found out that you were already going behind our back by Jaclyn, who was one of the leaders in voting you out. This was when we were part of this girls alliance bullcrap. I showed you the chats she showed me about you, and how you were playing us. And how you wanted to be in Final 3 with BOBDAWG and JACLYN. So yeah...that is when I was like wow, he needs to go, and I don't feel bad about it. This doesn't mean I don't like you and didn't enjoy talking to you and Alec's BB Mini's Which i sucked at!  You are a cool person, I said this in my RITES OF PASSAGE that you were a cool person and that i liked you alot and you were a hard vote (twice) not so much the 2nd time...But yeah. Sorry if I made you mad, or hurt your feelings about John Kenny. I own up to it. 

[Courtney Yates]

Courtney: Of the three finalists, your the only one I have no reason to have a grudge against. At the same time, I...got a whole lotta nothing from you in this game. Talking to you wasn’t bad per se, but it was dull. I had to carry any conversation we had, at least from my perspective, and in groupchats you were always the one who was on, but not talking. To an extent I can understand if this is your strategy, and please do comment on this, cause as it stands, even if the other two were fake as fuck with me, at least they were willing to engage in casual conversation.

When it came to socializing, I was pretty lackluster. It shows from how you and other jurors have responded to my being in the finals, and not knowing much about me. That is almost entirely my fault. A lot of you made an effort, and I fell flat. I think if Pete and I changed aim names, it would fit for me too. This all pertains to one on one situations. I drain myself just turning AIM on sometimes. Like I'm not ready to socialize, but I feel like I have too because I am playing the game. And even when I have too, I have a hard time getting started. This could be social anxiety, I don't know. It is not because I'm not interested, I promise.

As for the group chats, I was quiet for a majority of it, until a topic would come up I felt comfortable putting my two cents in on. One of my favorite things about group chats is I don't feel the need to chime in when a conversation is going well, so I can do what I love to do and sit back, observe, and laugh to myself if I think something is funny. If there is drama, I would rather stay out of it and watch it play out. I don't consider myself to be a confrontational player. When confrontation comes my way, sometimes I apologize profusely, sometimes I ignore it until it goes away. Occasionally, it is hard for me to stand my ground, but I try my best.

[Morgan McLeod]

Morgan: You betraying me fucking hurt, because I thought we were tight. I knew we’d have to cut each other’s throats eventually, but going after me at F10 is effin’ ridiculous. Maybe we were getting a bit more distant, which was probably more your fault than mine because I tried to keep lines of communication open, but I thought our deals were legit, until Jaclyn of all people had to tell me I was getting blindsided. You KNEW how much I wanted to make merge, and we had three likely candidates for the win (Bob, Jax, and Court) in the minority.

Why you wanted me out as early as you did, both personally and strategically, fucking baffles me. Explain to me why you decided to preemptively strike and rely on someone like Pete, who we all know would eventually flip-flop, over maybe someone a bit smarter who was 100% loyal. Because I was going to F5 with you guys, and while I intended to try and flip Hope/Elyse there, based on what I’ve heard I would been a goner then. So you owe me an explanation, Morgan, and it better be longer than ANY of these things you guys call opening statements.

I'm sorry you were that hurt about a move I made to advance myself further into the game but you also pulled moves that I didn't agree with or were someone that I loved a ton but didn't want anything to do with much end-game. I don't think going for you at f10 is that ridiculous, actually. Especially when I had pull on the game when I was on the opposite tribes, I was able to get you guys to throw when it was allowed, vote the direction I wanted and instances like that and it was because I had Elyse and Hope's votes over there along with Brenda's to sway in a majority for my game. I wanted you out at f10 because I had connections with the girls mostly and I knew that Hope would be more loyal than you would be to me during the later portion of the game.

Hope was more valuable to my game, but that is because you found people who were more valuable to your game than I was. You made a deal with Jaclyn, you had one with everyone on our original tribe pretty much and then you made one with Hope. The number of people you were trying to sway to you were climbing in numbers and you didn't divulge all of this information to me, so why could I trust you completely? Plus, you were becoming a threat. Bob telling Jaclyn to use the idol on you (this is just what I think happened) during the round you got idoled was because of the relationships you started to build with 'the other side' and I wanted to make my own and just slay everyone that way. So yeah you could say it was my fault that our communication dropped but it's nothing but respect that this happened and even after you stayed with the idol you were too stubborn to flip and I felt like Pete would be easier to flip away from Jaclyn because it seemed like you were in love with her, lol Jax remember

I wanted Jaclyn out at the beginning when I had the talk with Shane but there was never an opportunity because Cao ruined everything lol with targeting Shane and then the mess happened. 

Making moves for Morgan to climb her way into a possible win isn't me backstabbing you for no reason. Plus when you show someone you're staying where you're at, even when we voted you... you wouldn't pretend to not even be upset for a strategic moment. That is when I knew it was impossible to flip your vote IMO so I thought Pete would be easiest to work with moving on.

I don't see how I went about going after you so wrongly. You weren't having the same game plans and agendas I was laying out so for your game (and rightly) you kept doing something different. Wanted to keep my enemies but vote out my allies and even though you were from my original tribe didn't have me as your #1 like Hope and Elyse did for me, so that is why I went to bat for them. Them leaving over someone like you to my game obviously would suck worse and be harder for me to get to the finals. You were a threat and that is why you are there. If you were going to flip at some point it really shouldn't matter though in my eyes because there is still an incentive and chance of flipping. Which is scary.

[Alec Christy]

Morgan, are you going to answer the everyone question? I've had the answers from Brenda/Courtney since last night.

[Morgan McLeod]

I'm mobile at work. I'll be home in a couple hours to finish, sorry! Been checking on my break.

[Morgan McLeod]

Sent.

[Alec Christy]

Just hopped on, here they are:

Brenda:

Cao – No idea.

Sandra – We both had a mutual excitement for winning challenges. She and I liked each other and mainly talked about working together. She wasn’t online as often as I would have liked 

Hope – She is from Australia, she and I liked to talk about watching Friends, and how she thought my job was kinda cool working with kids at a hospital. She goes to college, and she likes to run. She just got done with being on a break after a relationship. But she was ready to start dating by the time we started talking. She was a a bio/chem major in college. She wasn’t sure what she was going to do YET but wanted to be perhaps a Pharmacist and get a masters in that.

Alec – You are a huge survivor fan, it is a Ritual in your house! You watch this with your sister, however she is not as huge of a fan as you are. You talked to me about having a fucked up schedule with sleeping lol. You said you played orgs and were pretty good at them. I think you said you were in your 20’s, or 19 or something. Maybe 24? Idk, but you were always hilarious and made me laugh a lot. Which I rather enjoyed.

Elyse – She is in college! We both had struggles with the new version of AIM…lol. She loves to go to the beach. She is from Boston but goes to school in Florida! I don’t want to give away the school she goes too, but its in Deland, which is about 45 min from Orlando, FL.

BOB – He is in College. He’ watched the Superbowl…that’s all I remember.

Pete – He helps his friends with yeast infections…he bought her yogurt! He has a grandpa in the hospital. He was depressed about this.

Jaclyn – She had something happen to her that made her sad, she was very private. I don’t know much about her. I do know that she was actually fun to chat shit with. We called each other out and laughed about it.

Courtney:

I'll be honest, this would be so much easier for me if I had kept IM and Chat Logs. As un-luck would have it, I didn't do that for this particular game so I am going to try my best by memory. Sorry in advance.

Cao Boi: What I learned about Cao I learned from his jury statement. That is pretty awful, I know. But the one time we did talk, he was aggressively trying to get the vote to go his way. He then dropped off the face of the earth for a day or so from my perspective which I'm totally guilty of doing myself. Then another tribe switch happened and we were separated. The reason I did not reach out to Cao is because I honestly did not feel it was necessary. I do not think anyone particularly felt like they wanted to work with him and it made me feel sorry for him a little bit, but mostly relieved that I wouldn't be first on anyone's list over him. What I learned from Cao is that sometimes bad people happen and there is nothing you can do about it.

Sandra: I know she was absent from the game for a couple of days because of work. I immediately wanted to talk with her the instant she came back if only because she is playing Sandra Diez-Twine, one of my favorite all time survivor bitches ever. I feel like we bonded a little over English and literature, but I honestly cannot remember the specifics of what we talked about, just that I encouraged Jaclyn to try to talk with her as well. The night before she was voted out, she was watching a sport on television. I want to say it was football because the Superbowl was coming up, but it could have been basketball as well. Tbh, I'm lost when it comes to sports. Gamewise, I just don't know. I feel what I learned from Sandra is that acting like a sketch artist will get your ass votes. It was definitely a statement that woke me up to how little I was thinking of other people when I made decisions.

Hope: This is killing me. I feel like it has been so long since we had talked about anything other than the game that I don't remember. I have a shitty memory. I know for a fact I love Hope because I felt we were game soul-mates. I was given the impression while talking with her that we were on the same page the entire time and I cherished that I never had to work to get her to trust me and for us to come up with a consensus on what action to take. What I learned from Hope is that everything can be going perfectly, but you can't always expect the unexpected and then it fucks you over completely.

Alec: Man, you are absolutely right. You carried our conversations, and I appreciate it. I felt you were very close to Shane, and I still have no idea what he exposed, but it must not have been enough for you to turn your back on him. From a game standpoint, you and he were on the same page as far as I know, and so I counted you both as crazy nut-jobs in the best way possible. It was what made me want to work with you in the first place. Your personality just clicked and I feel like you were genuinely interested in what I had to say personally. I wish I had opened up more. What I learned from you is that you can have all the signs on your side, but if there is something about you the other boys don't like, it won't save you unless you have an idol given too you.

Elyse: Omg. I am pretty sure Elyse and I only talked about other players, but specifically about Pete. How he was invisible, and we forgot he existed multiple times throughout the game. The second time we talked, it felt like a scolding, and then she voted against me. Elyse scared me the most of what I call the Sirens (Brenda, Elyse and Morgan), and I can only pin-point why that is by how I felt she did the best putting two and two together. What I learned from Elyse is being more observant in a Sherlock Holmes kind of way is awesome until no one is talking to you.

Bobdawg: He puts on a very funny, very goofy persona in the group chats, but one on one I felt Bobdawg took every conversation he had more seriously. It was the biggest part of the reason I did not want to vote against him the round before merge. I don't remember what I learned about him because those memories are clouded over by how he responded to me and my personal drama that was going on at the time. Bobdawg was the hardest vote I made in the game because I felt I needed to detach myself personally from the player I felt the most threatened by in a finale scenario. I was already feeling detached when he left me out of his plans with Pete to vote you, Alec, out and when he chose Jaclyn and Pete for Treasure Trove over me. What I learned from Bobdawg is the line between blindside and unnecessary bullshit, which I'll get into when I answer his question.

Pete: I honestly think Pete and I could have gone the entire game without talking with each other at all, and we pretty damn near did. I remember I initiated our conversation, and at the time I thought we were both similar players so I offered to work with him. I knew he had reservations about working with you, Alec, but was willing to work with Bobdawg and Jaclyn. Pete's game was... bizarre. He flipped, he flopped, he flipped again, he was basically Magikarp. I have no idea what was going through his head and after our one and only conversation, I didn't see the point in trying. What I learned from Pete: Do the opposite of Pete.

Jaclyn: The girl is a rock star in anime. She is a rock star in perception. She might possibly be a rock star in real life, playing in a band I love. Our favorite sport together was being annoyed with every other player in the game and talking about how we were fucking awesome in comparison. I think I learned the most from Jaclyn because her social and strategic game were so on point the entire time it was staggering. She knew when to tell people things, she knew how to press the right buttons, she just knew man. #hippymoment I also learned that you can know everything, but it won't help unless people listen aka me.

Morgan:


Bobby:

From California

Just switched jobs/career

In college

Is a cook now!

Used to work at a recycling place

Fan of the SF 49ers (go Pats!)

Loves Pixar movies

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

That ‘70s Show

Loves video games


Pete:

Loves to get wasted and booze, yum

Tequila especially

I think he is obsessed with girls having guy names, his fetish!

Also thinks Victoria is a Princess <3

Loves Haycole!

Worked night shifts

Is an amazing friend and there for people when they get heartbroken even if he feels it’s awkward to step in and doesn’t deal well with tears


Sandra:

Hates the New England Patriots [booo]

Loves reading

HATES job applications like me lol

Works in an office

Had long meetings

We would eat cereal for dinner because #brokecollegebtiches #cinnamonlife rofl

Oldest child

Would sing Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s theme song with me because she said she’s a bad bitch IRL and I believe it


Jaclyn:

Claimed to be from AZ

Was sick a lot lately

Never finished the Inferno 2

Goes to school

We both have our degrees in “we’re all lying fucks” lol <3


Alec:

Journalism major

lol this made me laugh, his hands are too big for his “Damon” phone lol

Likes The Walking Dead, likes Darlyn

RIP his laptop on NYE

Doesn’t really love HvV but loves himself some JT and Colby

Compassionate/passionate feller


Elyse:

Goes to school in Florida

From Boston

Studying education

Is single but has a crush on a really hot guy, name starting with a C <3 (no, not you Cao)

Use to work at an Office Max/Depot place

Best friend’s name is Lexi

Has a roommate, but they have separate living quarters

Obsessed with American Idol [or was]

Loved Jeremy from SJDS

A scorpio

Loves the beach


Hope:

Loves Stephanie V from RI

Lives in Australia

From Perth

Born in Sept <3

Majoring in science (chemistry/bio)

Wants to continue on with school for it

Pretended she lives in Florida to a couple people


Cao:

I think all I know is he is from Canada? He didn’t open up with me a lot.

[Alec Christy]

Thank you all for taking the time to answer me. Maybe I bitched you out, but for what its worth, I had a fun time with y'all during the game, and John runs a good ship here. Your answers were very interesting, and I think I've made my choice.