Austin's Turn

[Austin Carty]

First off Congrats you two.... I have to say.... I never got to know you very well so I will be basing my decision fully on both your answers here tonight as well as my fellow-jurors opinions of you from what has been discussed by them to me.

Lets start with Brendon....

I have to say... it amazes me how I can have so many different one on one conversations with people in this game and yet all of them seem to have one word in common they associate with you...

Coward...

As I started to write this... I realized I needed to go read your opening statements first to have a bit better idea of what happened and how it came to be.

I have to admit... your opening statement probably lost you this game.

You used the phrase 'dead fish' or 'cold fish' or something like that I think to say basically that you emotionally cut yourself off from people in an attempt to not feel as bad when you vote them out. Not wanting your personal feelings to interject with your strategy.

This is a social game... SOCIAL... I mean I have to say.... the one thing you did have going for you I would think would be that everyone in this game would of wanted to take you F2... you were the easy win...

Then I see that you were actually just a pawn in the 3 way girls alliance and won your way here.

Now although I respect fighting yourself out of a hard position... I always go back to what I just said... I think games like this are social games and so I judge them on the fact of that more then challenges.

When sitting on the jury I like to imagine 'if we had hit the merge and there was no immunities... would this person have an actual shot at making the finals if we just took turns voting each other off one by one with no one being safe and it's clear you would of got 4th.


Lydia....

You seemed to play a strategic game.... although I was really rooting for anyone from your tribe to be in the end and win over you at the time I left.

Although you will most likely be receiving my vote.... it will be less about me thinking you deserve it currently and more about being anti-brendon simply because your entire tribe was pretty hush hush and didn't allow us to get to know you so I have no reason to really learn anything about you to make me want to cheer for you.


So my question is simple and open ended


Brendon: Right now... my vote is most likely going to Lydia... this is your chance to say anything and everything that you haven't been asked yet, or haven't said yet to convince me that you deserve to win over her. Prove to me that you should get my vote.


Lydia: Right now.... my vote is most likely going to you... this is your chance to say anything and everything that you haven't been asked yet, or haven't said yet to convince me that i'm making the right decision and that I shouldn't change my mind to root for Brendon!

Best of luck you two!

[Lydia Morales]

Lydia: Right now.... my vote is most likely going to you... this is your chance to say anything and everything that you haven't been asked yet, or haven't said yet to convince me that i'm making the right decision and that I shouldn't change my mind to root for Brendon!

I think you should definitely stick with voting for me because, like you said, I did not need immunity challenges to be here. Had Brendon not won, he would not be here. Simple as that. I did make it here without receiving a single vote cast against me this entire game. I think this proved that I was not only #1 with Brendon, but I was also #1 with my female alliance. I was able to set myself up in a position of ultimate safety, and it wasn't just luck that helped me do that.

I stayed in contact with all members of my alliance throughout the whole game to make sure they were on my side. I had Brendon feeding me information about what John was thinking. As soon as he told me that John was thinking about voting off myself, Stephenie, or Jenna to cut the load, I ran to both Stephenie and Jenna to tell them the news. This is what resulted in John leaving, and even Brendon who John thought was his biggest ally went along with the plan.

I maintained my social status throughout the entire game. I did well in all of the challenges without having to rely on them to get to this point. I got here without a target on my back even though I was playing the game and in a position of power.

This is a social game, and I played it exactly right, and that is what got me to this point.

[Brendan Synnott]

It is a social game, and let's face it, Lydia had a better social game than I did. I did rely on challenges. After all, I spent 10 hours in final 4 competing in an immunity challenge knowing there could have been a chance that I was voted out. I showed my dedication to this game and trying to make it to the end, and I did. I can only defend how well I did in challenges.