Hello everyone! 

First, congratulations on making it to the F3. All in all, this is a great accomplishment, and no matter what kind of game you played, there is a reason why the seven of us are here, and you're there, waiting to find out if you have been voted for the title of Sole Survivor. What that reason may be is up for debate, but nonetheless, congratulations. 

However, I'll be blunt - I have no allegiance to any of you, and think the best players of the season are in the jury. I think two of you played an underwhelming, and truthfully, a poor game. To the third finalist, I actually somewhat enjoyed your game, and your speech only solidifes my opinions of you. Now even though it may seem clear that I have a favorite in mind, I want to give everyone a fair chance since at this point I'm quite indifferent to whomever the winner may be. With that being said, my vote is up in the air. 

I can go on and on about the importance of relationship building and getting to know your fellow contestants, but I'll save everyone the trouble. I have one question for the three of you:

We matched on Tinder (or any other dating app, take your pick), and we made plans to spend the day together. You wear the pants in this blossoming relationship, and have decided to take on the task of coming up with the most perfect first date. What would you plan for us? Where would we go? What would we do? 

Again, congratulations to each of you. This season has been a blast, and I think it's fair to say that it's anyone's game right now. Good luck.

Hello final 3! Congrats on making it to FTC, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't insanely jealous of all 3 of you. Looking at the jury right now this seems  set up to be a super close vote so if I were you, I'd take every question you get very seriously! Every answer matters at this pont :O Aight, lets get to your games

Joey : The one thing I really wanted to hear from you was how you played a better strategic AND social game than Christine and Asa. Because the only thing your opening speech and your jury answers have convinced me of so far is that you played a slightly better game than I initially thought you did. My main problem with your game in comparison to the other 2 is that you just don't stand out. Strategically Christine stands out because she flipped and flopped  and made key moves to get herself to the end. You had a good strategy going until the final 6: where you decided to send people you could've beaten home and put the biggest threat in the game one challenge away from winning the season. Socially and physically Asa stands out because she talked to me a ton(I know that alone doesn't make for a good overall social game but this is MY vote) and she carried Motu during pre-merge. Meanwhile you never talked to me except for during merge and one other day, but yeah.

Question - How did you play a better social AND strategic game than Christine and Asa?

Christine : Tbh I don't have a lot to say, you played a good game and I just have questions lmao

1) Name your 3 most important pre-merge moves

2) If you had the jury removal advantage, who would you have eliminated and why? 

3) What was your worst move of the game?

Asa : First of all you're the sweetest person ever and I just wanna say thanks for being on my side whenever I got into a fight LOL even though it was detrimental to your game I appreciate it a ton. Questions

1) How did you play a better strategic game than Christine?

2) If you had the jury removal advantage, who would you have eliminated and why? 

Questions for all 3

1) Compare every juror to a fictional character

2) Rank the PRE-mergers by gameplay

SORRY IF THIS SPEECH MADE NO SENSE AT TIMES IM SUPER SLEEPY

So, congrats to all of you for making the final tribal council. That's a big deal and I'm definitely jealous I'm not up there. First off I just want to say that my vote is still completely up in the air. As of right now out of the 3 of you there isn't one person who really has my attention so this could be your chance to get into it. I have some questions/tasks for all 3 of you but only a "statement" for one of you so lets get into it.

Christine, I honestly don't get your move in voting me out and for the most part turning on me what felt like right away at merge. It was a "big move" but I don't think big moves mean anything if there isn't logic behind it and I don't see yours right now. I had just saved you 2 tribals in a row right before the merge and there was only one vote after that. And I'm not saying you owed me anything because this is a game but why would you be so quick to go to someone who constantly fought for you to go and voted you off twice right before that versus someone who fought FOR you? I personally just think that's not a smart move because it right at the start of the merge where you still had like at least 6 more tribals to survive. In the end yes or maybe even middle, but not that early. And what I'm even more mad about is your reasoning from what people told me in the jury. You said I acted like you were just a vote and that it had to be told to you and you couldn't discuss it which is a flat out lie. If you look at our chats I asked you how you felt about voting Rhys out, how you felt about voting Tate out, and I specifically told you that if you had a different opinion or wanted to vote someone else out. Along with also telling you about my alliance to make you feel more secure in the group. It's just so frustrating that you said this to people when it was YOU who made it so you were at the bottom or just a vote. You didn't try yourself to get the target off of you or start something, it was me doing all the work and I'm not going to pretend like it wasn't for my personal benefit too but I don't see a winner as someone who just sits there and constantly makes people come to them when they know they're getting targeted. You would never even attempt to speak your mind(since apparently you had different opinions I guess?) but even then I don't understand who else you would have wanted pre-merge since if it wasn't you it was basically only another possible choice and at the merge you didn't even try to tell me you didn't want Tate even when I asked you if you were alright with that, you just ignored me. So I simply just don't get what more I could have done to make you feel safe or whatever when you never once tried to with me. I just want you to reply to this and try to make sense with your thought process, if you prove me wrong it'll take away my negative thoughts about voting you because right now my problem would be voting for someone who didn't try. 

(I probably didn't make sense at some parts but I'm tired and don't want to re-read but the main idea is clear lmao)

So for all 3 of you I have 2 tasks:

1. I'm a big fan of the UTR/social strategy to win the game but I feel like overall the opinion of the jury is that you guys were more-so floating and just there rather than having a strong UTR strategy so in however you want explain how you weren't just a floater and you did have a strong game, because what I'm thinking is that the sad part of the UTR game is that it's behind the scenes which means not a lot of people are going to see it but I'm completely willing to read and listen to what you guys have to say.

2. Write a few sentences or so as if I was in the the end and you were on the jury and you were a hard-core fan of me that was campaigning for me to win so basically just my strategy and why it'd make me worthy of winning basically (This is 100% me just liking to read about me so I'm not going to hardcore judge it lmao but who knows, if nothing else really gets me then maybe it'll come down to this)

Good luck guys! ^_^

Evening ladies,

Congratulations on reaching Final Tribal Council! This has been an incredible season, full of high level players and strong play, so you three should be proud of yourselves for surviving. My two fellow jurors who have spoken so far have done wonderful jobs picking apart your games, so I will likely not be doing the same. I think that, although you are deserving of congratulations, none of you played as strong a game as multiple jury members. So, I do want a little bit of insight into your games - I firmly believe there is more to Survivor than just 'controlling votes' and 'making moves', so this speech is your chance to prove it!

So, with that in mind, I have three questions for each of you;

(1) - Would you please do a Rites of Passage?

(2) - If you were to summarise your game in one word, what would that word be? Without justification, please.

(3) - For Asa: Would you characterise your game as being loyal or disloyal, and why does your choice show the strength of your gameplay?

For Christine: What was your favourite elimination cycle of this game to play, and why?

For Joey: Out of social, strategic, and physical gamplay which one was your weakest and which one was your strongest?

Thank you very much!! Have a good time, and best of luck to all three of you <3

Sup dudes. Congrats on making it to FTC! Going into this, I wanted to keep an open mind and I will say that I am still undecided. I don't really have any questions for you three, I'm just going to comment on/criticize your games. If there is something you feel is incorrect, feel free to respond!

I want to start this off by saying that I really like all of you as people. Any criticism that I may make is only related to this game! I feel like all three of you had a similar philosophy when it came to strategy, which was to hide behind the power players. From my point of view, none of you really did anything strategically to put yourself ahead of the other two.

Joey: I wanted to root for you going into this but your speech was easily my least favorite. Starting your speech with an excuse that you work 40 hours a week is honestly laughable. Everyone is busy. Everyone has shit to do lol. In this cast we had people who worked like 3 different jobs, went to university and worked at the same time, I myself work 60 hours a week. Not a fan of the excuses. Secondly, you did not convince me to vote Jake that round lol. I had planned to target him at 6 for awhile anyways, and when you wanted him gone too it just worked out. Saying you had 100% control that round is just factually incorrect. In my eyes, your game was very transparent. It was obvious to everyone that you and Jared were a duo. It was just really obvious what you were doing each round. You basically backed out of social interaction with me in the merge phase until Jared was voted out. The biggest flaw in your game is the decision to vote Christine at final 4. Letting Torsa get to FTC would have guaranteed a loss for you. Even if you were sure that Christine would win the tiebreaker, even giving Torsa that chance is probably the worst game move all season. All in all you played a decent UTR game, I can't hate on it too much because you made the FTC!

Asa: I don't really know what to say because I don't really know you at all lol. We didn't talk once all merge phase. I always say that relationships are 50/50, so I went and checked out our messenger history. We had 3 short convos all season lol, and I initiated every single one of them. It's really hard for me to vote for someone who literally couldn't have cared less that I was there. People in ponderosa are saying you had a decent social game, but those people are people that you were friends with (or at least knew) prior to the season. I know you said you struggle with approaching people, but this isn't your first org, and you didn't even try. You game does have some highlights like only having 1 vote against (due to the Reset Plan) and some challenge wins, so I give you props. You also had the correct opinion to vote out Torsa at final 4 so lmao. All in all you played a decent UTR game, I can't hate on it too much because you made the FTC!

Christine: I wanted to get my speech up quickly so I could tell you this before you answer everyone else' posts. You have an uphill battle here, but you CAN come out victorious. You have to fight for it. It seems to me that people don't like your game for whatever reason, so make them like it. I thought your speech was the best of the three. You didn't make excuses for a poor social game. You were the only person who knew who was going home every tribal. With that said, your overall social game was pretty lackluster. I'm not 100% sold on you as a winner, but if you FIGHT for this win, you will get my vote. All in all you played a decent UTR game, I can't hate on it too much because you made the FTC!

Good luck to all three, I had a blast playing with you all.

Hey guys! Sorry about this being up a little late, midterms are coming up and my building just started doing construction so the internet connection (and myself for that matter) have been a bit of a mess. With that being said I’m so happy to have a chance to plead my case to you guys. This season had a whole bunch of twists and turns and I’m so happy to have experienced it with you all.

Coming into this season I knew I had to change things up from when I played in Caracol. Throughout the course of that season I played extremely loyal only for one of my closest allies to stab me in the back so entering this season I knew if I wanted to get far, I’d need to make myself more of a priority for my own game for once rather than just trying to get my allies further along, and I believe that’s exactly what I did to ultimately get here.

Things definitely were a little slow at the start for me as Vaitape won challenges however once the swap hit things started to pick up as I found myself as the only original Vaitape member to swap until Ally mutinied and I was honestly terrified. At this stage in the game I was a little more on the quiet side as I was still trying to get to know everyone and figure out where I stood and when I began to become targeted I found myself being approached by Jared, Torsa and Joey who all wanted to keep me which I was extremely grateful for as at this point I was still seen as a more trustworthy person to keep around rather than Mikey or Rhys.

With that being said once merge hit I knew I needed to step up my game as I was being told Toby was out to get me, so I chose to adapt the “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” aspect to my game as I needed my name to stop floating around so I decided to better my relationships with those who previously wanted me gone. The first merge vote was definitely an eye-opener for me as well as I had a firm stance on keeping Tate around as he was one of my closest allies, however when I expressed this to Joey he never cared to fill me in that the plan wasn’t Tate but was instead Jon. This made me realize that I was pretty much just a number for the group and that I necessarily didn’t have much of a say in anything so going into the next round I knew I needed to make a big move so as I was discussing the possibilities with Toby as to who was more likely to be a threat. We established that there was a powerful group in play which allowed me to start tossing Jared’s name around, as he was definitely a power player willing to make moves as I saw from a first hand experience with him willingly going out of his way to save me. I also knew by getting Jared out I could form a better bond with Joey and Torsa as I knew they were all pretty close but Jared appeared to be the more vocal and influential of the group. This was a lot easier with Torsa using her advantage for the round as I didn’t have to worry too much at the time and once she returned I reassured my loyalty would always be with her as I willingly gave her the idol clue I got the round she was gone.

As I mentioned earlier, this was the part in the game where I knew I couldn’t be as loyal as the Christine in Caracol was as I saw taking Jared out as a huge advantage for my own game as I would gain more trust between Toby and the others with a more open door of connections with Joey and Torsa as they couldn’t rely on Jared anymore. This shows that I had the strategic ability to know when to cut my ties with people, and although Jared mentioned I flipped to people who had no interest in working with me, I believed this was a risk that I needed to take to better position myself, which worked in my favor as I was left in the know with Ally’s reset idol. From that point on I became more focused on taking out the bigger threats and began working alongside Torsa as we formed alliances with Jake and Joey. Despite me trusting and adoring her to death though, I knew Torsa had the best shot at winning this game because whenever you talked to someone, they would always say they wanted to work with Torsa and never did her name ever really come up. I even tried proposing it to Tate at final 5 however he expressed wanting to go after Joey more so when final 4 came around I knew I couldn’t play loyal, the biggest threat needed to go so when she came to me saying she was voting Joey I went to Asa saying that getting her out was the best move for essentially all of us and thankfully we were on the same page as it went into a tiebreaker, which it highkey shouldn’t have if I’m being honest because Torsa said it herself, she ran this game. But with that being said with my life in this game being on the line I put all my effort into the tiebreaker challenge spending a consecutive 5 hours torturing that poor armadillo and it ultimately worked out for me as I’m sitting here now. I was seconds behind winning the jury advantage but despite that I’m confident I played a well enough game without that.

Ultimately, I put a lot of effort into getting myself into this position, I never gave up even if the odds were against me, I made the risks I needed to to ensure a better position, won challenges when I needed to and even had advantages that I didn’t even necessarily need with the legacy advantage. All in all I think I played a strong game and I can’t wait to answer any of the questions you guys might have for me!

☆ Introduction ☆

Hey, it’s me, Asa Kusuri! I'm very happy to be here.

I’m sure you have questions for me and I'm eager to get to answering them, so I’ll keep this fairly short and sweet!

The three main aspects to Survivor is playing socially, physically, and strategically. In order to play a successful game worthy of the win, a person must have a good mix of all three, and I think I've done that.

☆ Social ☆

Socially, I always want to be as nice and honest as possible, which I believe got me where I am right now.

I tried my best to talk to people, which is definitely something I struggle with in my day to day life. I won’t deny that sometimes I had a difficult time communicating with others, or failed to talk to people at times, but despite this I was able to be likeable enough for others to want to work with me as well as not vote me out when I didn't have immunity.

Starting in Vaitape, I think I got along well with all the girls. Luckily, since Floreal lost challenges until the tribe swap, I didn't have to stress with voting anyone out. In the new Motu tribe, I had three out of four of my original allies, as well as new tribe members that I liked! However, I was in the minority a good amount of times throughout post-mutiny, after Ally mutinied and Tata was voted out. At merge, the dynamics shifted, but still many who I considered my allies were voted out, like Toby, Aromal, and even Jake. While the alliances I found myself involved in fell apart, a notable favorite in merge being “The Order of Holy Doggos,” I managed to get to the end voted only once, the sole vote being part of Ally’s reset idol play.

☆ Physical ☆

I’ve always excelled in the physical aspect of ORG Survivor thanks to a mix of having a lot of free time as well as video game experience. I'm hardworking and capable when I try, so winning challenges isn’t particularly difficult for me. This made me a valuable asset when it came to pre-merge. When merge hit, I had a lot of nights where I lost a lot of sleep working on challenges. Some of these challenges I didn’t even win. However, I worked hard to win three specific individual immunity challenges - ones that I feel really counted in terms of getting me to the end of the game. The first one at the double tribal council got me into the merge unscathed. The second one got me to the final four, which I believe was a crucial point. Had I not won, I believe I would have been voted out. The last one, two if you're counting the tiebreaker challenge after Torsa and I tied, got me to where I am right now, Final Tribal Council.

☆ Strategy ☆

Under-the-radar gameplay is one that best fits my personality, as well as how I've played this season. Playing games before, I often find myself trying my best to coast to the end with as little conflict as possible, in the end having done nothing. This game however, I stepped out of my comfort zone a lot. While I did do my best to be nice and honest to people, I wasn’t as afraid to take risks and do what I thought was best for my game. Even if the risks I took ended with little reward, I was able to fall back onto my social and physical game. My strategy was centered on keeping myself as balanced a player as possible while not making too flashy moves and getting voted out.

A quick summary of the game in my perspective:

There wasn't much strategy entailed in my original tribe Vaitape other than forging bonds with girls! After the swap, I found myself in Motu. I was with former tribe mates and new people that I all liked, making it difficult for me in terms of voting as time went on. Post-merge, Ally had mutinied and Tate appeared. After a failed attempt at a blindside and Tata was voted out, a dispute erupted in the tribe chat about Aromal lying, to which I felt bad about because he had flipped on the alliance consisting of the guys but tried to pin it on Tate. We thankfully won immunity after that, but it was still tense around the tribe. During the double tribal council when I won individual immunity, I found the Motu idol. Deciding that I didn't need it and thought Aromal was in trouble, I gave it to him and he played it, but Ting Ting was voted out. My judgement was incorrect, but in the end, I made sure no one else had the Motu idol, I solidified my working with Aromal discreetly, and evidently I never needed the idol anyways. Merge was a great change of pace, allowing me to get to know the other players that I haven’t interacted with before and putting me in a fairly decent position at first. The auction put a twist on things as people were able to use their advantages to vote out everyone that I happened to be working with. I slipped by and began to win immunities because of the escalating danger I felt I was in. At final four, I was split between voting for Christine or Torsa. Torsa, who had become my number one ally and newfound friend at the time, seemed to me the bigger threat. Because I had seen her game and thought it was wonderful, even though it pained me to vote her because I really liked her, I made a game decision for myself and tied the votes.

☆ Conclusion ☆

I'd like to say vote for me because against all odds, I still managed to make it to the end through my social, physical, and strategic game. I believe deserve to win! I put my heart and soul into this game, I sacrificed a lot of sleep, and grew a lot as a person. I got to the end feeling on the bottom for a good portion of the game with only one vote against me, solely because of the reset idol play, and won three individual immunities that were pivotal to my game.

If you’re still not convinced, no problem. I'm happy to clarify as well as expand on any of these topics, definitely feel free to ask me anything! There's a lot of game summary I may not have mentioned but it's only for the sake of readability as well as the jury's ability to discuss the events of the game as well.

I'd like to thank the hosts for managing such an enjoyable and interesting season, as well as the cast for making it as fun as it was! Regardless of what happens, I'm proud for making it to Final Tribal Council again.

Hi everybody! I just wanna preface my speech by saying that I had such a great time playing with all of you and really couldn't have asked for a better cast.

That being said, I do believe that I played the best game of this final 3 and deserve your votes to win. I'm worried that some of you may view my behind-the-scenes gameplay very underwhelming, but I'm hoping that by the end of the speech you'll see how it was the best choice I could have made.

One thing I would like to make clear is that I do have a hectic full time job that I work 40 hours a week in and only rarely can I use my phone while I'm at work. This made it very difficult to balance things in this game, since plans changed so frequently and often I would leave work to find a new voting plan in place or even my name on the chopping block. I had to adapt very quickly to these new plans but I think I accomplished that well because I'm sitting here.

Coming into the game on the Motu tribe, we won both the immunities so I laid low and just tried to chat up my tribe mates as much as possible. I clicked with Rhys the most and made an alliance with him that continued into the swap. On Floreal, I made an alliance with Jared and Torsa who ended up being my main loyalties throughout the whole game. This was a perfect set up for me, as I knew that if we ever didn't have the numbers, my two allies would be targets before I was. We brought in Rhys and voted out Dana for leaving everyone on read.

The next vote was the Mikey vote. Now, I'm worried a lot of you might think I was just a vote to Jared and Torsa, but that truly wasn't the case. I was fine with taking a backseat and letting them get the blood on their hands because I knew that they weren't going to betray me. They would constantly tell me information about what people were saying and for this vote, they had told me Mikey had mentioned me as a potential target. This, coupled with the fact that me and him didn't have a good relationship AND we all thought he had an idol, made the decision to take him out much easier.

We left Rhys out of the Mikey vote because I was convinced he had allegiances to Toby and Mikey and started to distrust him. When the double tribal came along, me, Jared and Torsa knew we controlled the vote because Ally, Toby and Rhys were voting Christine and obviously Christine would vote with us to save herself.

I made the strongest case to get Rhys out because I did not trust him one bit. Toby approached me asking about a 4-person alliance consisting of myself, Rhys, Jared and Torsa, and immediately I knew that my suspicions of Rhys working with Toby were true and that Rhys had to have told Toby about our alliance. Toby also tried to blame Christine for telling him, but I made sure I told Christine of this to ensure she was on my good side. Me, Jared, Torsa and Christine voted out Rhys and we sailed into the merge.

Very quickly into the merge, Toby asked me why I voted out Rhys when he had plans to include him in the alliance that he formed. This confirmed to me that Rhys was the best option to get out last round as he would not have been on my side. I was asked into an alliance consisting of Toby, Jake, Tate, Torsa, Jon and myself. This was not an alliance I was comfortable with as I didn't trust anyone besides Torsa. Together we flipped and took out Jon after we found out Tate had an idol he was playing. This is another example of how I adapted even with my busy personal life, as the Jon vote surfaced last minute and I had to get on the same page as everyone very quickly. The round after this was the only time I didn't know who was going, but it's the perfect example of how I positioned myself to almost never be taken out. Jared was a very close alliance to me but also a big threat, so when the tables finally turned on my alliance, the move was made against him and not me. This is when I really stepped up my game. Me and Torsa began frantically looking for the idol. Christine told Torsa the idol clue and Torsa told it to me, so I made an idol chart and we started guessing every 8 hours, on the dot. I eventually found it, giving me a huge advantage in the game!

After being on the outs of the last vote, Ally formed a 3 person alliance of me and Torsa since we were outsiders. I had started working on a plan to take out who I thought was the biggest threat, Toby. I had talked to Tate about it and was about to talk to Christine about it when Ally mentioned her reset idol plan. Immediately I went along with it because I knew it would make Ally a future target and not myself. However, Torsa showed some apprehension in voting out Toby because of their close relationship. I knew she could sway some people with her influence, so I convinced her it was in our best interest to vote out Toby, and that’s exactly what happened. I also was fortunate enough to win a clutch immunity during that round, the riskiest tribal of the whole game.

After this, me and Torsa wanted Christine and Tate to be loyal to us, so we decided to take out Aromal because Tate's been wanting him gone since the merge hit. This allowed us to scoop up their votes during the Ally vote, who was the biggest threat to win the game. The Jake vote was the vote where I had 100% complete control. Out of everyone left, I had the worst relationship with Jake and I didn't trust him as far as I could throw him. I systematically approached Christine and Tate and convinced them Jake was a huge jury threat, and had each of them on board very quickly. I then convinced Torsa it was the best move to boot Jake and got her to secure Asa’s vote. And just as an added sense of security, I played my idol on myself to ensure Jake would be the one leaving. This is just one example of how I stood by myself and made my own moves, as my main ally Torsa wanted Asa gone but I knew Jake going was the best move for me. This was also the same round I made a final 3 chat with Christine and Torsa, to ensure that me and Torsa couldn't be voted out the next round.

The following round, Asa won immunity so we had to go for our backup plan which was Tate. I definitely didn't want Tate anywhere near the FTC and when I heard he was trying to vote me out, it made the decision for me. The next round the plan was to take out Asa until she won final immunity. This is another instance of how my "align with strong players so they get taken out before me" strategy pays off. Immediately Asa and Christine targeted Torsa, guaranteeing me my spot in the f3. I voted with my alliance since Day 6 of this game, but she was taken out in the tiebreaker. I then was able to pull out a HUGE win for the advantage and take out a juror I know wasn't voting for my ass.

All in all, I think I played a great under the radar game and should be crowned Sole Survivor. I was the last person to have a vote cast against them. I always made sure that if the vote wasn't going my way, the person going home wasn't me. I won two of the most important individual challenges this whole season, the reset idol tribal and the remove a juror advantage. I made moves when I needed to, such as taking out Rhys, taking out Jake, and forming the alliance of myself, Torsa and Christine at final 6 to protect myself. Despite not being the best socially, I made allies that were able to pull strings for my benefit and when the time came for people to look for big threats to take out, they were looking at THEM and not me! The people that made the big, flashy moves were taken out right away so I had to play lowkey to get this far. I always thought about myself in this game and all of my decisions have brought my here, to the final tribal council. Thank you guys for reading and I look forward to answering your questions.