Final Meeting, Final Two - Fiya vs. PaShun

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Welcome to the Final Meeting! This is it!

I will first ask you to post your opening statements...and then, the jurors will ask their questions/make their statements, in this order :

Wayne
T-Basco
Flamz
Incendia
Laava
Pom
Elle


We'll finish with your closing statements...and the jury will vote! It takes 4 votes to win!


Please post your opening statements! Good luck!

Here we are. The end of the game. I can honestly say I expected a much different outcome in this game, but from the beginning, I saw myself doing well. As I advanced forward, I saw my goal of getting to the end becoming more and more real.

My initial strategy consisted of a few things:

1. Being flirty- By acting flirty, there are a few benefits that I personally saw developing from this: people want to keep you, people don't see you as a threat, people are more likely to trust you or approach you. I think this quite clearly worked because I was approached by a ton of people early on in the game. In the first few days I had alliances with Brix, Elle/Pom, Flamz/PaShun, Synn and Wayne. These connections went a long way in this game, and the fact that Elle, Pom and PaShun were in the final four with me is a testament to that.

2. Establishing connections with all active players- I've learned in past games that it does not pay off to only socialize with a part of the group. I made an effort to communicate and maintain connections with every active member of the game, up to the moment of their eviction. This may not have been possible with everyone, but I tried. I think this quite obviously paid off though, because I was never nominated throughout the entire game.

3. Making my closest alliance with 1 person- This is always a thought of mine when entering games, but my early interactions with Brix allowed me to employ this strategy. We just hit it off, and we had no trouble trusting each other from a very early time in the game. Later on, PaShun became this person after I lost Brix. I was extremely careful in selecting my person, and apparently I chose right.

4. Be adaptable- This is by far the most important aspect of my strategy, and should be for any strategy. It is so important that you allow yourself to adapt as the game progresses, because the game demands it. And this game certainly did that.

I've gone through this game making the best out of every opportunity I had, and capitalized on moments I had to gain the upper hand. I won the competitions I wanted to win in order to get rid of the people I wanted out. Sometimes I had to screw people over to do this, but in the end, I was loyal to Brix and PaShun, the only two people I ever intended to remain loyal to. I vowed to myself that after Raw and Brix were evicted that I wasn't going to let other people make the crucial decisions in this game, and from that point on every eviction (besides Laava's) went the way I wanted it to, whether I was voting or not. I may have had influence over the voters, or perhaps their interests were in line with mine, since I was aligned with most of the power players in the second half of the game.

I can go into much more detail about how I got here, and I intend to answer that if that's what you'd like to know. Please feel free to ask anything you wish. I am ready and willing to answer anything you'd like to know in a completely honest manner. I have nothing to hide. At this point, I feel I have the cards stacked against me. I urge you to speak your mind, I certainly will. All I ask is that you give me the chance to prove myself worthy of your vote, because I really have worked diligently to get to this point. I've been here every night we had challenges, not to mention the countless hours I've spent on the board PMing people and organizing my thoughts in my confessional. I feel I deserve the chance to change your mind after all I've done in this game.

Thank you and I look forward to your questions and comments.

Oh, and good luck to you PaShun!

PaShun's Opening Statement

Hey jurors, it's been a hell of a game, and it's been great playing with all of you. Looking back, I'm just amazed at how far I've come and how things worked out so well for me to get here to the finals.

My approach to this game was more of a machiavelian one because I had the intention of having no real loyalties to anyone but myself. I didn't come here to make friends, and I didn't let myself get too attached to anyone like my opponent did to myself and Brix. I was willing to do whatever it took to get to the end and maximize my chances of winning.

In the beginning of the game, I purposely decided to stay more low key, throw challenges, and build some alliances for protection to avoid being nominated. My initial alliances were with Wayne and Pom on one side and Fiya and Flamz on the other. I ultimately became closest to Fiya and became her #1 ally as she did more than enough to prove it. Around mid-game, I began to try in some challenges and took out threats when I had the chance. When my tight alliance with Fiya was exposed by Flamz, I finally decided to go all out in competitions since I was confident that Fiya and I were probably the strongest ones left.

For anyone who might think that I mainly got this far because of my challenge wins, I'd like to point out that most of my wins were for manager and that the DJ never nominated me in those instances. An obvious key goal in this game is to be allied with or be in good standing with people who will not nominate you or vote you off. Like Fiya, I was never nominated (if you don't count the F3), so I made the right choices in my alliances and relationships.

An integral part of my game was the very tight relationship I built with Fiya--how I got her to trust me so much even when I was willing to backstab her all along. My plan was to build up the trust and loyalty of a strong player, so we could protect each other throughout the game, and she'd take me to the F2 in case I lost the F3 challenge. And it worked. She DID take me to the finals when I wouldn't have taken her. In essence, Fiya was a softie, and I duped her.

I am now open to answering any questions that will better help you make your decision. Hopefully, y'all already read my Fallen Clubbers Tribute to get a more detailed idea of what exactly my game was (there's the link in case you haven't).

Good luck to you too Fiya!

Okay, Wayne doesn't seem to be here, we'll skip to T-Basco for now and Wayne can just jump in later.






T-Basco is not there either...but he did leave a comment and a vote :



"I dislike both of you, however Pashun was at least always honest. Fiya just sucked up to everybody in the most obvious of ways."

So next up is Flamz! Go ahead, buddy.

PaShun- 1
Fiya- 0

Flamz said he needed a couple of questions to get ready, he got back here in a hurry...



So we'll just go to Incendia right away. Go ahead, babe.

Hi girls. Congrats on F2 and all that stuff.

Fiya - First of all you should know that I was onto you from the very beginning as someone who was sneaky, devious, manipulative and would do anything to win this game. I made many references to in my confessional and it turns out I was right. As usual. And T-Basco's comment was TOO perfect just now.

When I talk about you being fake its because you were. I caught you in so many lies and you were very transparent and quite frankly it insulted my intelligence. Like all of the times we were bouncers together and you'd do the obvious pity PM about "omg who should we vote for? I'm so torn " and EVERY time I already knew how you were voting because you had discussed it with PaShun and she had the guts to just be honest. I hate that about you, its cowardly and I don't respect it.

My question for you is do you think its more respectable to spend an entire game lying to people even though you know the truth will always come out in the end, or would it have been better to just be straightforward about everything AND do you think you still would have made F2 had you been totally honest?



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PaShun - I must say I'm very shocked to see you in the F2. You and I got off on the wrong foot which caused me to have to call you out in public because you're not very good at communicating with other players unless you need something from them.

In your case I really am torn. I see you as Fiya's little puppet, who just did whatever she wanted the entire game. I even asked you to give me a chance the night I left and you flat out refused and just said you'd go with the majority...which is fine, but it still makes you a sheep.

On the other hand, and unlike Fiya, you were honest with me in this game. That is something I can appreciate. Is it worthy of a vote? I'm not sure yet. My question for you is as follows - which TWO jury members would you replace with yourself and Fiya to be the most worthy F2 and why? That's it.

GL to you both.

I definitely do not think it's respectable to lie to people, but we must remember the setting we're in. This is a game, not a setting where morals are of the utmost importance. You're right, the truth will come out in the end, but that's after the fact. I did everything in my power to keep my cards close to my chest, and that's precisely why I lied and why I would send you PMs like "omg I'm so torn" as you stated. My objective in conversations like that is to get information without giving any out, and I lied to you and countless others in this game because I knew I'd eventually have a hand in voting them out. If I was straightforward and honest about everything in this game there is absolutely no way I would be here. It's one thing to come clean and let someone know why you're evicting them when you vote them out, but to be honest with people who had little or no place in my game serves no purpose and it would have screwed me. I couldn't have told people about my close alliances like Synn, I couldn't have admitted that I was worried about you as a threat from the first few days of the game, I couldn't have been honest with Pom and Elle in that they were my secondary allies for most of the game, etc. It was vital that I lied to people in this game as a means of them not targeting me, if I had been upfront and honest, I would have lost allies and been targeted. I never had to fight for my life in this game because I didn't allow myself to be in a vulnerable situation. And I was able to achieve that by lying. It's an ugly truth, but it's the truth.

k im here now.


have me go when you need me, buti havent seen the board for 2 days and need to catch up so i might need s couple minutes.

Wayne, just tell me when you're ready in the Jury Forum or on AIM. Thanks.

Thanks Fiya. PaShun you gotta speed it up sweetie. Damn.

Hey Incendia,

From the jury, I would pick Pom and Wayne as the most worthy F2.

Pom's many alliances with pretty much everyone proved how devious and sneaky she was and how she was trying to cover all bases. I was amazed at her relentlessness and her endless deals in trying to stop me from targetting her. She played so hard and was willing to try anything to get to the end, and her downfall ultimately came down to me being better than her at challenges.

For the second person, I'm torn between Wayne and Flamz. But I'm gonna have to go with Wayne even if he was the first juror because I did feel that he was played very hard and was a risk taker during his entire stay here, whereas Flamz' game in the later rounds was a bit more lacking and subdued.

Also, I hope after reading more about my game, that you see me now as more than just Fiya's puppet or sheep. If anything, Fiya trusted me while I was using her. I didn't always do the same thing she wanted, like when I targetted Flamz instead of you against her wishes. The night you were evicted, you were simply the bigger threat than Laava, and taking out threats was a major objective of my game.

Alrighty thanks. GL