Hey

[Angie Layton]

First off, congratulations to the three of you for making the final three!

Unfortunately, I never really got the opportunity to know any of you throughout the game ~ Andrea and Mike, we were on the same tribe for some portion in the beginning, and Rodney, I never knew of you until the merge. While I was on a tight schedule and wasn't always online, others (Courtney, Erik, Parv, Spencer) were able to connect with me so just as much as it is my fault for not establishing any relationship with you, its equally all of your faults as well.

But, because I don't particularly favor any of you over the other, my vote is pretty much a tossup 

Since I was a non-factor for the majority of the game, I won't act like I'm qualified to sit here and critique the moves you made when it clearly delivered you to the final 3. Instead, I'm going to address social awareness and how you treated people (mostly me). 

I'll start with you, Andrea

I reached out to you from the very beginning, your dialogues with me were short, concise, and you seemed disinterested in me altogether. I felt ostracized by you, and I was extremely happy to find out you and I ended up swapped and far away. Come merge, I yet again threw myself at you only to be fooled and left for dead. I'm a little confused as to why you consistently did that to me when I genuinely wanted to work with you. Please explain that.

Secondly, during the tie-vote. You were quick to call me out for being a megabitch but you were also a pretty damned hard-flapping thundercunt and you know it. So much so that I figured the reason you're being a bitch is because you knew at that point you had the numbers to be a bitch. I even addressed the fact that you're being a bitch and you were like "mm a little"

So why criticize me and talk shit about me being a bitch to you when you were embracing your inner cuntress?

Why did you choose to ignore when I made blatant efforts to speak to you starting day 2 in this game?

Rodney, 

I try not to judge people based off the characters they pick but considering you decided to play as a chauvinistic, bigoted misogynist, I should have known that you have lapses of judgement.

First off, I don't really know your game, so if you want my vote, give me a quick summary.

Secondly, you called me a "goat" during the one conversation we had. it wasn't nice, I don't give a fuck about your perception in the game, because it was flawed, and that on its own is standing as the sole reason I'm having a hard time voting for you. Then, you responded to my sass with "get on all fours and make goat noises"... 

If I had done the same to you, would you vote for me? 

Mike

Of the three finalists, I interacted with you the most so its kind of tragic that I'm least inclined to vote for you to win. I don't think you were a good game player. When I was invested in the game circa the Burton boot, I thought you were a tragic idiot for legiterally cross-referencing everything when I was protecting you.

Also, I thought it was poor gameplay on your part to lie about not being approached during the Shirin boot. I knew you'd been approached. And that's why I asked you three times. And you lied all three times and said nobody talked to you. Which meant you had effectively flipped.

I don't have questions for you, I'll vote for you if I find that both Andrea and Rodney are fraudulent flops. 

[Rodney]

Angie,

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First off I want to say that Mike Holloway was my hero from World's Apart. I was rooting for him the entire game and his passion, determination, and humanity were huge reasons for that. When he came up with the 'Murica tribe I instantly fell in love but seeing how proud he was when he found the idol was a great story, his immunity run had me cheering, but most of all, the reason I connected with his story so much was during the auction. His actions echoed my conscience exactly. When everyone agreed to buy the family letters and he put himself in the back of the line I instantly saw what he was doing and admired his passion, then he started having second thought about buying it, and being as invested as I was I was trying to make the decision for him and I was hoping he would go through with it and not buy it. I felt his struggle. When he saw the reactions though he realized how much he hurt others with his decision and it clearly effected him much like I felt in this game on way too many occasions. For the record I was so proud of him for standing up for Shirin as well. It is exactly what I was hoping someone would do. I only picked Rodney because he made me laugh. 

Also

We definitely lacked a bond of any sort in this game. I tried to connect with you a couple times, on the occasion you are referring to you called yourself "a ghost" in this game so I offered an edited version and asked if you meant "goat." I was only joking to try to start a conversation, Anyone here can probably vouch, that is the way I am, but you took it the wrong way and stopped talking to me. When I had the vote tied on my you started gloating with me, and when I made it through and the plan was foiled, naturally I had to gloat back. I'm sorry if you saw it as anything but a joke, I have nothing against you, we really never talked for me to. 



As for a summary of my game, I typed out a 6 page summary as my opening statement, but if you would like the short version, here it is.

I submerged myself inside the brawn alliance. They believed I was one of them, they trusted me, and they gave me the information that they had an idol.
I turned on the brawns, flipped back to the brains and began picking them off.
Shirin flipped on me and tried to idol me out. I used my well earned social connections to maneuver my way out of the tied vote and the idol was wasted.
After enough brawns were picked off I collaborated with the Andrea/Mike/ double vote voting block to idol out Erik and secure my spot in a smaller majority.
I safely cruised to the finals with my majority, not ever worrying about my own skin from that point on.
I was voted for 15 times.
There was an idol attempt on me
I survived a revote
I successfully flipped from the brains, to the brawns, to the brains, to the beauties, always having the majority, and always having a #1 ally wherever I was
Anybody who ever wrote my name down, even once, is on the jury. I worked hard to make that happen


I hope this was what you were looking for. My FTC theme is not to tell you why you should like me but that I played the most dominant game and for that I deserve your vote.

Thanks,
Rodney

[andrea]

Hey Angie. To start off when we were on our original tribe we never got to talk a lot. I never got to talk to you a lot before the first vote so we tried to vote you out. I had already formed an alliance at that point, and for the first vote I did make sure we voted out Malcolm over you. I'm sorry if you felt like I never wanted to work with you, but I did at that stage. At merge when we met back up I never wanted to lead you on but I knew my chances at making it to the end were better with other people. I couldn't exactly tell you "I have no plans of working with you ever" or you would have came after me. I'm sorry if I led you on and made you think I wanted to go far with you, it just was never my plan. 

I never wanted to be a bitch with you Angie. That round you approached me calling out the chat I had with the brains. You then accused me of getting used by them. I knew what I was doing, but I couldn't tell you about my final two deal with Rodney. I wasn't being a bitch because I had majority. I still stand by my statement that if you wanted my vote you shouldn't have thrown shade at me to get it. The way you approached me had a tone and it was bitchy. I never planned on keeping Shirin that round anyway. Sorry if you thought I was being bitchy I wasn't trying to be at all. I did get a little mad because I couldn't explain to you how I knew what I was doing at the time, and it just appeared I was being a goat. 


I never went out of my way to ignore you. On our original tribe I had an alliance, and when we met again I was in one. Yes I could have done a better job at talking to you in case it went bad and so that you wouldn't hate me in the Jury. I accept responsibility that I didn't talk to you enough. I tried to talk to you where I didn't give out too much information, and I see how that comes off as being "short" with you. I apologize for that, but when I was planning out the game I just didn't have you in my end plans.