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TheWizard wrote:

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caseydillas wrote:

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Stephen do you really believe that you'd have won had you taken Erinn over JT? I mean, I understand you'd win easily if she took you but how do you talk your way around betraying JT, considering the cult of personality surrounding that guy? You don't think Coach would have been all over the 'duplicitous wizard stabs the noble warrior in the back' imagery?

There was a pretty nasty undercurrent to the way you were questioned at your actual TC and that was at the mere suggestion that you might not have honored an F2 agreement with JT.

Well the jury is told to amp up the hostility for final tribal. It's a funny experience - they attack you and then you go back and they're like, "Congratulations! Welcome home!"

(And then they come up to you and confidentially pull you aside and desperately seek the reason that you voted them off, like it has something to do with them and not the game.)

I mean I can see the argument that they would have voted against me for betraying JT. But not if that meant voting for Erinn. Believe me, those people hated Erinn and for the most part liked me. I don't know why this is shocking to people. The REASON we took Erinn to the end w us was because they hated her and she could never win a jury vote. It's not like I'm saying this about Taj, who was our partner from day 1. I can see Taj winning a jury vote against me. I don't think she would have, but I absolutely believe it is feasible. Timbira -hated- Erinn. They thought she always underperformed in challenges - and even though I was no challenge champion, they like respected my nerd effort. And even the things she did well, like puzzles, they didn't give her credit for - they always gave Brendan credit for solving the puzzles. (Even though one of the puzzles - the staircase with the giant blocks - Brendan actually lost for their team. Erinn had it right and Brendan messed it up. But there was some cognitive disconnect at Timbira). I swear to you, if they could have voted off Erinn every vote of the game, they would have. And it wasn't strategic. It was purely personal. I talked to Tyson about this post-game. I said, "If you had just been able to be nice to Erinn, you could have won." And he said, "Yeah, well, that was an impossible task." I mean, Tyson and Erinn are now friends. She's friends with all of them. But during the game - forget it.

The other thing is, it was hard for me to differentiate myself from JT because we pulled off all the game's moves together. But had JT not been sitting there, I could have both given him a shout-out - "yes, JT deserves this, that's why I had to vote him out" - and been the only person of the two of us on the mat.

ETA: Just so you don't think I'm like overestimating my jury-winning abilities. Some people on the jury have told me that if I had won the F3 challenge and taken JT, they would have voted for me. I 100% believe this is -not- the case. I think it is easy to say out of the heat of the moment and after having watched the show. But I am positive I would have lost to JT.