Ehn.

[Brenda Lowe]

Alright, before I say anything else, I do want to sincerely congratulate you two. You guys absolutely fooled me. I never saw your final two deal coming, and that final vote provided probably the only actually shocking moment of the entire game for me. You guys played me brilliantly, and believe me when I say that I have only had the opportunity to say that honestly two or three times in the entire ten years I've been playing. I'm legitimately impressed.

Now savor that compliment, because it's the only one you're going to get.

I thought long and hard about what I wanted to say to the two of you, because I'm really not sure how to feel. But nobody else has said anything yet, so I guess I'ma open the show.

The first bit is gonna be statements. I really honestly don't want responses to this part, so unless you think that you have something to say that's automatically going to make me love you forever and always, I would recommend against replying to it.

Let's start with Pete.

Pete, I told you when I left that I appreciated your honesty, and that I'd absolutely vote for you if you made the finals. What I didn't know was that your "honesty" was actually just another lie, and what seems in retrospect like a laughably misguided attempt to suck up. You didn't "change your mind," and you didn't actually wrestle with the decision. You couldn't possibly have been more eager to get me out of there, and it's completely mind-boggling to me that you would step up with a bare-faced lie like that when you should have known full well that your entire strategy was going to get outed at the final TC anyway.

Plus... honestly, I don't mean this to be insulting, but that opening statement made me cringe. I've read it a few times now, and try as I might, I can't find a single mention of anything that you, Pete Yurkowski, did. You did things with Parvati, sure, but I have yet to see any evidence that you did a single goshdarn thing on your own. And, when it came to recapping your strategy, you basically just told us to go read what Parvati wrote. It's the final TC, Pete. Don't tell us what "you and Parvati" did. Tell us what you did. And let's not even get into "You all helped her and I to get to this point". Regardless of how you meant it, that comes across as the most unbelievably smug thing that you could possibly say to a group of people you deceived and lied to for two months.

Now, let's move on to my favorite person in the entire world.

Parvati, you got me. Oh, girl. You got me good. I always suspected that you were full of it, and I told you that to your face, but you kept right on insisting that you were Little Miss Loyalty, that you wanted to be up there with the best, and you were all about honour and you would never vote me off, no matter what. It got to the point where I actually did start to believe you, if only because I couldn't believe that you'd risk disrespecting and pissing off a juror that badly. I honestly don't even have anything to say about you, because I'm pretty sure that I never once talked to you; I only talked to a cardboard cutout who fed me all the things I wanted to hear so I wouldn't vote her off.

And, honestly, I'd be okay with the duplicity, except for the bizarre fact that you decided to draw the line at voting Pete out of here. You would have clobbered Malcolm in the finals, and everybody knew it, so why on earth would you take the person who stood a much, much better chance of beating you? Don't even bother telling me that it's about honor or loyalty or anything like that. I've heard that song before, and it's garbage. Based on the lines you crossed with me, you were willing to do and say anything in order to win this game, and I have a hard time believing that a player as smart as you could be stupid enough to think that "I was willing to cross every moral line and royally bitchslap all of you, but not Pete because he's my bestie" would be a good sell to the jury. If you were gonna be that much of a snake, you might as well have gone all the way and voted him out. It's easier to respect someone who says, "I'm legitimately willing to do anything to win!" than someone who says, "I'm willing to do anything to Brenda, and Kat, and Jerri, and Cochran, and Malcolm, and NaOnka, and Brett, because I really don't want them to win. But I'll never do anything to hurt Pete, and if he wins, that's fine."

To put that simply: If you legitimately cared about winning and nothing else, you'd have kept Malcolm. If you legitimately didn't care about winning, then why on earth would you go out of your way to be so nasty to me and the other jurors? It just doesn't make sense, to me.

Unless, of course, you knew Pete was going away, and you took him because you thought he'd be easy to beat since he'd have to answer all of the jury questions on his phone. It'd be a pretty terrible thing for you to do, but it would certainly make a lot more strategic sense.

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Honestly, this is a weird situation for me. I don't have any reason at all to vote for Pete, and I just kind of legitimately don't want to dignify Parvati's malicious gameplay with a win.

So I guess my mind isn't made up, and we'll have to go with questions. Give long answers, give short answers, I don't care. Answer it better, you get my vote. Simple as that.

Parvati:

1. Literally nothing you say or do is credible. You lied about everything in this game, including how you feel about lying. Because of that, it seems pretty much a given that you're just going to tell every single one of us jurors whatever you think we want to hear in order to get our votes. Is there any reason that I, or anybody else, should believe that anything you say is genuine, and isn't just you telling more lies in order to win?

2. You spent an unbelievable amount of time griping about how much everybody on the jury hated you. Was that to make yourself seem less threatening, or did you actually care about that? And if you did care about that, why didn't you... try to do things that were likeable, ever?

3. It's not like anybody forced you to tell the lies you told. You came to me for a final two deal, which you had no intention of ever keeping, so why do that? Moreover, why shouldn't I vote for Pete, because he was able to get to the finals without doing nearly as many self-damaging things as you did?

4. Was there anything in our conversations that was genuine? Ever? Did you actually like me, or was I just a pawn that you enjoyed using?

5. Why didn't you tell me I was leaving? The votes were locked, Pete PMed me to let me know it was happening, and all you did was PM me a . If you had enough courage to jerk me around for two months solid, why didn't you have enough to admit it?

Pete:

1. I wanted to vote for you, bud, but I'm seriously struggling. Did you do anything, and I mean literally anything, in this game that you didn't either discuss with Parvati or get her permission for? Is there any way in which you played a game that was distinct from hers? If not, why should any of us vote for you, when it seems like she did all the dirty work?

2. Similarly to Parvati, you came to me talking a whole bunch of stuff about how you were thinking of a final two deal with me. Was that just kind of to control me, or were you jealous that Parvati was having so much fun lying to me, and you wanted to try it yourself?

3. If you had gone to the finals with Parvati and NaOnka, would you have backstabbed Parvati and taken Na to the finals for an easy win? Why or why not?

4. Was there anything in our conversations that was genuine, ever? Did you actually like me, or was I just a pawn that you used?


And that's about it. It's a lot of questions and stuff, I know, but you got here more or less unopposed, so I figure you might as well work for it.

[Pete Yurkowski]

Hey Brenda! Glad to see that you're still the gung-ho princess I knew and aligned with! and I'm sorry about my opening speech, but I am on my phone so it kinda sucks a lot lol and I do feel like Parvati and I shared a brain and everything, so a lot what she said in her opening speech woulda just been repetition, sorry. Anyways! onto your first question!

I wanted to vote for you, bud, but I'm seriously struggling. Did you do anything, and I mean literally anything, in this game that you didn't either discuss with Parvati or get her permission for? Is there any way in which you played a game that was distinct from hers? If not, why should any of us vote for you, when it seems like she did all the dirty work?

Parvati and I made a final 2 on day 1 and from there we outsourced. She brought in you and I pulled in Malcolm and then we both thought NaOnka would be a great pitbull to have as a fifth member and thus giving us majority very early on in the game.

I had my side alliance with Abi from Lindquist who helped us a lot and told me she had the idol and told me how Penner was the one pulling the strings on her side. Knowing where both idols in the game, as you know, is a huge advantage because absolutely no one could fool me or trick me with secret weapons. I could vote care free without an repercussions. Also, pushing for the Penner vote before Colby was to ensure that the head of the snake was gone, too. Penner was a much bigger threat in that aspect. Parvati saved my ass with Stephen, absolutely, but I also protected her, too. When you felt nervous about her or anything I always calmed you down and told you not to worry that she's good and that we'll "get her" down the road. I think Parvati and I kept each other afloat and helped each other out. We discussed every single plan and motion with each other, but I guess we both execute it differently. NaOnka came to me a lot as well during the tribal swap and asked if she was good and everything. I feel like I developed a closer bond with NaOnka than she did.

Similarly to Parvati, you came to me talking a whole bunch of stuff about how you were thinking of a final two deal with me. Was that just kind of to control me, or were you jealous that Parvati was having so much fun lying to me, and you wanted to try it yourself?

lol I wasn't jealous that Parvati was lying to you at all, it was definitely the former. I had to do damage control and make sure everything was slotted into place. Our strategy was to make close bonds with everyone in the game and report back to one another and keep each other in the know, and that's what we did. I wasn't trying to control you, Brenda, it was more of just keeping options open and making sure that you trusted me.

If you had gone to the finals with Parvati and NaOnka, would you have backstabbed Parvati and taken Na to the finals for an easy win? Why or why not?

100% I would have taken Parvati. She was my #1 and we weren't sitting next to each other in the final 2 then everything would have been in vain. I never wavered, ever, about not bringing Parvati to Final 2. My strategy was to find my partner in crime and let it come to fruition, us sitting in the end together.

Was there anything in our conversations that was genuine, ever? Did you actually like me, or was I just a pawn that you used?

You weren't ever just a pawn to me, Brenda, as much as you're not going to believe that. I feel like we developed a legit bond and if circumstances would have been different I would have gone to final 2 with you. I want to win the game, yes, but if I brought someone to the end who didn't deserve to win and the jurors hated me, I'd much rather bring someone I'd rather lose to. Every conversation we have ever had was sincere and I never lied to your face. I said things about going to the end with you and technically, we did go to Final 4 together and you can even ask Parvati, I wasn't PMing you just to suck up, I literally felt it was dumb to lie to you when you were going home.

I hope this answers your questions, Brenda, and if you have any other questions please let me know and I will post them to the best of my ability!

You named our alliance, though, 5Alive, yay!

[parvati]

Get it, girl! I was expecting something like this and you definitely delivered. Since my opening statement was the lenght of a short novel, I'm gonna try to keep it a bit shorter this time.

1. The Final Tribal Council is when all the dirty laundry is aired. There's 7 of you sitting in the jury and at this point you have no need to withold information from each other. You can share stories, compare notes. If I lie now, there's no doubt I would get caught immediately and that would pretty much guarantee that I get 0 votes.

2. There was definitely a strategic element to it. I always had a back up plan in case my plans fell apart, so I wanted everyone to feel like they could beat me in the Final 2 so they would never think to vote me off.

3. I sensed that you were a good player from the moment we met. I needed people on my side that I felt would be solid allies. I made a final 2 with you, because if I hadn't made it with you, you would have made it with someone else. I needed to know where your head was at and what you were planning and I could not have achieved that if I weren't aligned with you.

Very early on and throughtout the whole game Pete had told me that he didn't talk with Stephen, he didn't talk with Cochran and he didn't really talk with Brett until we swapped. I kept the lines of communications open to those three players and made them feel safe enough so they wouldn't flip. I was the one who convinced Stephen not to turn on his old tribemates when he wanted to, I was the one that talked to Cochran and made sure he was still with us, I was the one that reached out to Brett and I told Pete he should make a secret alliance with Brett so Brett would feel like he was in a good spot. If I hadn't made those efforts to keep all of Magnetic united, I'm not sure both of us would be sitting here right now.

4.

Of course there were genuine moments and I liked you a lot. Still do, even though it's clear you don't feel the same way about me. I just couldn't let you get to the end.

5. I guess I'm a coward. =|