Elyse's Examination

[Elyse Umemoto]

Hey there, ladies! Congratulations on making it to the final 3.


First and foremost, I'm not gonna lie... it really sucks to be on the Jury. I don't want to be on the Jury at all. I want to be sitting in the final 3 next to my girls Brenda and Morgan. I imagined myself sitting in Courtney's position right now, and for that to not be the case, it feels really shitty. That isn't meant to take away from Courtney making it there, either. Kudos to her for that. But you know, I'm on the Jury, and I have a job to do, which is really important to me. I am one of eight votes which will determine the winner of The Survivor Games: Tuvalu. It is my responsibility to vote for who I feel played the best game, and not who I liked the best, so we can have a deserving winner. I want to remind my fellow jurors of the gravity of your decision, because each vote is so important and you really need to understand that importance, because this fight is not over yet. This is the most important moment of this game. It is deciding who wins this game, what they have done, their track record, their resume, the way that they got to where they are... they need to be totally 100% upfront and honest if they stand a chance of winning. Now, I really think that it's gonna come down to Morgan and Courtney (sorry Brenda, but it doesn't seem like the jury loves you as much as I do). However, Courtney hasn't played a good game in Survivor at all. She for one was incapable of making any moves on her own. She's been the biggest paper dragon that I've ever seen in this game. I mean, she talks a lot of smack, but she was absolutely worthless when it came to strategy. That being said, it's gonna come down to her and Morgan. It really is. The only way Morgan is gonna be able to win this game is if she comes forward and says that she has been manipulating everybody from the very beginning, and that's the only way people are gonna respect her enough to give her their vote. Courtney on the other hand is gonna have to somehow really own the fact that she is this self-righteous, pretentious little brat, and that is the bottom line. But this game is really for Morgan to win or lose. If Courtney wins, it's because Morgan lost it. This game is totally for Morgan to win or lose. She has a really distinct possibility of winning tonight if she says that, "Yeah, I tricked everybody. I duped you all, you guys fell for it and haha, the jokes on you. I'm sitting in the end, and I fooled you all." That's the only way people will respect her enough to give them her the win. We'll see if Morgan goes down the path of least resistance, or takes the hard road and admits that she's been a deceitful, lying, treacherous bitch the whole entire game (but I love her for that <3). She hasn't played this game as a Hero, that's for sure. She owned her Villain role. If she tried to play it off like she was a Hero, then she would lose the game, and would probably lose my vote. I would rather give it to the spoiled little brat Courtney than that, because I believe that if that was the case, Morgan would be absolutely delusional and wouldn't deserve it.


I just want a bit of closure to this game. I want to set the tone for who should be the rightful winner, the most deserving winner out of you three. This Final Tribal Council is sort of a mirror of how this season has gone so far. It has already been full of ups and downs, highs and lows, and it's really colorful. I'm looking forward to see who will be the winner of this crazy season. It's been a wild ride, and I'm really grateful to have been able to play, even if I wasn't able to devote as much of my time to it as I would have liked to. John is a wonderful host, and I quite adore him.


Brenda: Are you even trying to win? Pissing off the other jurors surely isn't the way to do it, hun.  They already weren't even considering the idea of voting for you in the first place. Did you realize that and just wanted to stick it to them one last time, because you knew you wouldn't win?


Courtney: The round that Sandra left, you told me that you really liked Sandra, and connected with her on books or something, and wanted to keep her over Bob Dawg. Then all of a sudden, you changed your mind. Jaclyn claims that it was always going to be Sandra from the get go, but it doesn't seem to match up, especially the way that Bob Dawg has been bragging about his *amazing* move to get you two to vote out Sandra instead of him that round. Did you actually want to keep Sandra, and if not, why would you even bother making yourself look incredibly shady?


Morgan: I definitely respected your game for the most part, but there is one thing that I am curious about. You decided that you wanted to target Alec before Pete the round that Hope left. What pushed you to go for Alec before Pete? I know that Alec was the bigger threat, but do you not feel that he would have been more loyal than Pete ever would? I mean, as shown, Pete flipped on us to vote me out at the final 7. Do you feel that had you not targeted Alec that round, Hope and I would have made it further and possibly be sitting there in the finals with you right now?


That's all for now. Thank you, and may the best lady win!

[Brenda Lowe]

Brenda: Are you even trying to win? Pissing off the other jurors surely isn't the way to do it, hun. They already weren't even considering the idea of voting for you in the first place. Did you realize that and just wanted to stick it to them one last time, because you knew you wouldn't win anyway?


Hey Elyse,  I am being 100% honest and having fun with my answers. If they find it to be "pissed of" worthy that is their problem I suppose. If they wanted to vote me or not. I don't think that me saying anything to them would make them want to vote for me anyways. They can say "Oh this person doesn't have my vote" or whatever, I didn't like a majority of these people. At least I will be honest with who I liked and who I didn't. They can go into the confessionals after and see the same stuff, I was honest! I liked people for like 1 or 2 rounds. You were one of the people i adored in this game. I just started to like Courtney and Jaclyn at the final 6 point in the game. So I am not really sticking it to anyone. I said I would give you Honesty, and I will. I could have been super fake and given everyone what they wanted to hear but I didn't do that. It's just not me in this game. Plus I would look kinda stupid doing it, Too little Too Late. I was surprised at how pissed of people were at me though. Honesty here, that stung. But what are you gunna do? You do what you feel is best, I think you are a smart girl. No matter what though, just know that you were part of my favorite moments in this game. I will NEVER forget the 2nd challenge, u had me rolling laughing. I love you. Sorry if I am making you sad or upset, its not my intention. 

[Elyse Umemoto]

You were one of my favorite people in this game as well! I love you too, girl. You are not making me sad or upset at all. The only thing that upsets me is that you are not being given a fair chance with the rest of the jurors for their votes. I feel that you deserve it just as much as those two.

[Hope Driskill]

Feb 10, 2015 4:51:30 GMT Elyse Umemoto said:

You were one of my favorite people in this game as well! I love you too, girl. You are not making me sad or upset at all. The only thing that upsets me is that you are not being given a fair chance with the rest of the jurors for their votes. I feel that you deserve it just as much as those two.

I couldn't have put it better myself!

[Courtney Yates]

Courtney: The round that Sandra left, you told me that you really liked Sandra, and connected with her on books or something, and wanted to keep her over Bob Dawg. Then all of a sudden, you changed your mind. Jaclyn claims that it was always going to be Sandra from the get go, but it doesn't seem to match up, especially the way that Bob Dawg has been bragging about his *amazing* move to get you two to vote out Sandra instead of him that round. Did you actually want to keep Sandra, and if not, why would you even bother making yourself look incredibly shady?

I normally answer questions as they come in, but because this question is short and easy, I'm going to answer it now. Elyse, everything I told you about Sandra was true. At the time I said it. I will be the first to admit this was the one time in the game I voted based purely on emotion. After I told you I was all in for voting for Bobdawg, he hit an emotional nerve with me just by listening to me vent about personal stuff. It was nothing he did to manipulate me, it was that he was there. I can't explain it any better than that. I talked with Jaclyn and told her I changed my mind. Regardless, I went to bed and decided to sleep on it. I woke up and heard from Jaclyn that Sandra was throwing me under the bus to Bobdawg. It only stiffened my resolve to vote for Sandra, and I told Jaclyn to spread the word. I went off to do things. I came back and was called shady. I understood the reason behind it, and even agreed that I was shady. I offered too late to change my vote in an attempt to not get votes myself. I recognize my mistake that round was not coming to you myself and telling you I had changed my mind, I had Jaclyn do it for me. I own up to my mistake that round. The point I'm trying to make is that it was MY decision and MY mistake. I was not up Jaclyn's ass at any point in this game. She was the more social of the two of us, but I was still playing my own game and Jaclyn agreed with me, not the other way around.

[Morgan McLeod]

Morgan: I definitely respected your game for the most part, but there is one thing that I am curious about. You decided that you wanted to target Alec before Pete the round that Hope left. What pushed you to go for Alec before Pete? I know that Alec was the bigger threat, but do you not feel that he would have been more loyal than Pete ever would? I mean, as shown, Pete flipped on us to vote me out at the final 7. Do you feel that had you not targeted Alec that round, Hope and I would have made it further and possibly be sitting there in the finals with you right now?

Hey, Elyse! I missed you and thanks for all the kind words about my game. I did want Alec out before Pete because I did think Alec was a huge threat but also because I felt like the biggest threats in this game are never people who win every challenge, but the person who is able to build a social army around them. Everything is about politics in this game and Alec had tons of lovers and then people who were meh on him in the game. During the late portion of the game, a lot of people were jumping on the like wagon since he just received an idol and the momentum was flipping. Pete also flipped at final 7, which Alec could have done on his own too. He voted you too, on his way out. So it just makes sense why I targeted him. Why would Alec flip back to people who tried to vote him out over someone who gave him the idol? Maybe he wanted us to be the final 5 before the whole idol incident began to unfold but I think after that it was never going to happen so I targeted him. It didn't end up hurting my game either. I stood my ground and fought like a tough bitch throughout the entire course of the game. It was like Vegas, gambling on who would flip, odds please, lol. I don't know what would have happened if I voted Pete or someone before Alec but I think the momentum was just there. My gut told me it was the right decision and with all this flip-flopping it's hard to say if anything would have changed.

[Morgan McLeod]

And also the round I targeted Alec over Pete (the round Hope left) just to clear it up since I think my last response in general was labeling points of why I'd target Alec over Pete. It really just has to do with I was feeling a drift from Alec, he was making different deals with people and I just felt less comfortable with him in the game. And who knew Bob would talk to Jaclyn and she would use the idol on Alec? I mean, sure, it's smart to gain numbers before a possible merge coming together but I always took Jaclyn for a selfish bitch that round lol <3 Plus if we did Pete that round then Jaclyn would have known about it anyway with the one world twist and who says she wouldn't use it on Pete if she was so crazy she didn't save it to use on herself but Alec.

Thanks