Board Thread:Season 8 - Korea/@comment-11497002-20131020082612

Aston, Amir and Aaron: congratulations on making it to the final three. I came into this tribal council with no partiality towards or against any of you, so my vote is very much winnable by any of you. I’ll be basing my vote purely on who I believed played the best game. For me, that means the person who best assured themself a spot in the final three and the most jury votes.

I’d like to get one thing out of the way, and it concerns Amir and Aaron. A jury member claimed that there was a pre-game alliance between the two of you, plus Alejandro, Miggy and Hunter. Did you have a pre-game alliance? If the two of you did, and with Aston managing to make it to final three without any pre-game alliance (as far as I’m aware), do you think it fair that I give you my jury vote when you came into this game with an unfair advantage?

To Aston: 

I don’t have a problem with people lying in Survivor; however, I do have a problem with people lying badly. If you’re going to lie, don’t get caught out in your lies because it makes you look a fool. You voted me out and I don’t have a problem with that. You lied about me in Rites of Passage and trashed my game. I have a problem with that. Let’s revisit your words:

“Ben: I worked with you pre-merge, and then we just stopped talking, I took that as a sign, and I guess the others did to[o].”

That’s a bad lie but I’m going to give you a chance to rectify it. Aston, what I would like from you is the truth or a better lie. I’d like you to explain why I was voted out. You and I know it wasn’t because I “stopped talking”. I’m not looking for apologies or justifications. All I want is the truth or a better lie.



To Amir: 

<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Amir, right now I don’t care. For the 45 days we were in this game together, we never once communicated. I don’t know who you are, I don’t know what game you played and I don’t care.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi">Make me care.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi">To Aaron: 

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi">I think you played a successful under-the-radar game. You had people believe you were merely a follower. I don’t care about ‘big’ moves. The successful moves are the ones that get you further in the game. But the problem with under-the-radar games is that they can often go unnoticed or unappreciated by others. So I would appreciate if you could explain your game a little more. Let everyone know how you played the game. How did you make it to the end? Why are you sitting in the final three and not any of the nine jurors? What makes your game a winning game?

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi">If you’d all be so kind, I’d also like to hear who you ideally wished to sit next to in the final three and why.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi">Thank you and good luck! <ac_metadata title="Ben&#039;s Jury Speech"> </ac_metadata>