Morgan's Madness

[Hosty Bo]

Firecracker Morgan McDevitt takes the Stage.



Good evening, boys! First and foremost - despite how bitter and hurt I may be, I'd like to congratulate the three of you in making it to the finals. That in itself is an accomplishment. However, the different avenues each of you took to get here, I don't necessarily respect in the least bit.

I'd like to first start off with Mr. Burton Reynolds. - Hi! One thing I respect about you is that this for sure was redemption for you. Coming into this game as a previous contender, put a huge target on your back. Yet, you managed to make it to the finals. I applaud you for that. I would have to disagree with you on the fact that you said you got here for being strong socially... I don't recall you ever going out of your way to get to know me or to have conversation with me. That in itself, could potentially hurt you in receiving my vote tonight. I think if you were strong socially, you would've branched out to everyone a bit more than you actually think you did.

My questions for you are quite simple:
1) Why didn't you view me as a valuable asset to your game play?
2) Why did you never go out of your way to talk to me? And please don't say "it's a two way street" because I did reach out to you on several occasions.
3) If you could pick three members of the jury to be in place of you boys, who would you pick and why?

Thank you Burton. Good luck to you.

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Brandon. I'll go to you next. Once we merged. I was excited to finally get to meet you. I respected your competitive drive and the more I talked with you and got to know you, the more I wanted to go far in this game with you. I told you many times that I was 100% with Grant and you. That was no lie to get me further in this game, that was 100% genuine truth. However, you decided to disregard what I said and put a knife in my back. You said every vote you made was a strategical one, but I'm having a hard time understanding how voting me out was strategic for you. Once I was voted out, I could tell that you were a deceptive lying bitch. Which saddened me.

My questions to you are:
1) Why did you not try to keep me in this game, when you knew I was in your court the whole entire way?
2) You knew I was 100% with you, yet you decided to vote me how. Please tell me the strategic mentality you had with that.
3) If you could pick three pre-juror's and three juror's that would be in place of you boys, who would they be and why? On top of that, please explain who you'd vote for in the end and why.

Thank you, Brandon. Best of luck to you.

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Last but not least... Grant. Since I'd rather not waste my breath on you. I will have video to explain how I feel - Please answer the questions and respond to the statements that are in the alloted time stamps. Thank you.

Please start watching at :59 and go till 1:10


One more for dramatic effect.
Please start watching at 1:16 and go till 2:20


Last but not least, Grant. I want to like you so bad but I heard you did the same shit to everyone that I just don't know what's real about you. Please tell me what you respect about me and admire about me, as you got to know me through this game.

Best of luck to you.

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Good luck boys. This wont' be an easy Tribal Council to say the least.

[Hosty Bo]

Note: Moved by the host because you Jurors are to create new threads of your own. ^.^

[Morgan McDevitt]

Sorry Boo Boo!

[Hosty Bo]

No biggy.

[Grant Mattos]

I knew you weren’t going to go easy on me and I feel that I deserve it for hurting your feelings and hope I can show you what I felt was going on in the game at that point when you left and how I felt for you. So thank you James for at least addressing me.

I admit that when I first did IM you (when I hosted the image for you where we choose the stumps for a tribal swap) I did have the agenda of trying to get in good with you so just in case we ended up on the same tribe I would hopefully have one person I could work with. But that night when we talked and got to know about each other, we found we had many things in common, be both like the outdoors, going to the gym, spending time with friends and that family is very important to us and of course our love for Big Brother. We started talking a lot and became closer over time and while we were on the NuZapatera tribe my goal was to work with you, Brandon, Natalie and Ashley.

During the first merge vote when everyone on NuZapatera was talking about splitting the vote between Steve an Burton, Aras IM’d me and told me that they both had idols (which I knew) and suggested that Gary, him and I throw stray votes just in case they both used their idols. Aras asked if I had thoughts on who I wouldn’t mind losing but I wouldn’t throw out any names and he said if he had to choose he would like to throw them towards Ashley, well that didn’t sit well with me and didn’t want Ashley to be a victim of an Idol. So that is when I tried to get things turned to get Gary voted out, because Aras was immune that round. You weren’t online to talk too and I didn’t know how you would react to him getting voted out, so we just did it and I was going to explain it to you later and hope you would understand how I felt and why I did what I did.

Before I even had a chance to talk with you, Burton showed me the text’s that you sent him while he was at work and was telling him that you wanted to be upfront with him and that you only voted for him because no one told you exactly how to vote and the last thing that you heard was that Brandon came up with the idea of splitting the votes between the two of them (which I don’t remember who actually came up with that idea). You told Burton that you didn’t see any way that Ometepe would turn on each other and all of you should just act like you are scared, team up and come after us four. And told him that Jim, Steve and Aras had already talked about the six of you getting together (Jim, Steve, Aras, Burton, Rafe and you) teaming up against us. That had Brandon and I really scared that you were against us even though at that moment we weren’t against you. So when you came online and told me “so if we just keep hush hash target Jim –make it seem like Burton… then bam”, then you told me that you think Aras and Jim are voting Natalie. That put up a red flag because of the text’s that Burton showed me, and I wasn’t for sure if Jim told others (Aras already knew because he was on RI) of his second idol to make this plan work and Natalie would be gone but I didn’t want that to happen to Natalie. That round, Jim had another Idol, Aras was immune and we knew that Jim, Aras and Rafe were tight and I didn’t know if Jim would use his idol himself or give it to Rafe, which only left you as the vote that round because Steve and Burton also had idols. At that time in the game I felt that if we did go along with you and vote out Jim and Natalie went, Brandon or I could have easily been next. I do regret now not coming to you personally and talking to you about this and how I was feeling at that time.

So with all of that, I hope you can see where I felt that you were against me on a game level (at the ending part) and why I did what I did in voting you out. I am sorry that it happened the way it did but like I told everyone in my opening statement, there are times when I had to separate friendships from game and this was one of them. I know I hurt you and you think I used your friendship in the game just to get further, and for that I deeply apologize if you felt that way, but if you give me the chance after the game is over no matter who you vote for, you will see that is not who I am. When I care for someone it goes deeper than the game. Just like playing Monopoly, poker or any other games that I play with my buddies, it doesn’t matter who takes my money, makes me mortgage my properties just to have enough money to stay in their hotels, it does get heated at times, but we always know that once it’s over, we are going to have a beer and do it again the next week. I know we didn’t have the pre-existing friendship before the game started but I am hoping we could continue the one we started.

I didn’t mean for this to be this long and I hope I satisfied you with my answer or at least understand what was going on in my head at this time in the game and know that I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings.

[Brandon Quinton]

1) Why did you not try to keep me in this game, when you knew I was in your court the whole entire way?

The problem was I wasn't 100% convinced you were in my court the whole way. We didn't talk that much besides for a minute or two each day and I knew you talked to other people in the game more then me. You were also not around as much as I would have liked where if I needed to know something or needed to tell you something you likely were not around. Sure you told me you were with Me and Grant the whole way a few times, but at the same time you never gave me much feedback on game matters other then saying that. Then after we voted out Gary, you tried going to people attempting to break up Ometepe and since I was considered part of Ometepe that wasn't something that would make want me to stick with you. I had a lot more trust in Ometepe at this point (Grant, Nat, Ash) since we had been together a while in the game and then also with Burton/Steve who I had been talking with about working together in quite a few detailed conversations. It wasn't that I didn't want to work with you, it was more that I had a better feeling of sticking with the people I felt I could trust more moving forward and that's why I voted you out when I did.

2) You knew I was 100% with you, yet you decided to vote me how. Please tell me the strategic mentality you had with that.

I didn't actually know you were with me 100% and you would only say that you were with Me and Grant all the way, but wouldn't say much else about anything in the game. The strategy for the round where you left was to flush out Jim's second idol. I knew he had 2 idols because of how the twist on redemption island worked and with most of his old Nakum tribe on redemption island towards the end, there wasn't a doubt in my mind he has a second one. Someone was going to have to be victim to the boot that round and it unfortunately happened to be you. I felt like you were causing problems this round talking to people about me and trying to break up Ometepe. I had Burton show me chats and texts he recieved from you and it was alarming what I had seen, there was a lot of my name involved there and also more about Ometepe. At this point you were trying to be everyone's friend at that time and I wasn't sure how much I could actually trust you moving forward. At that point I trusted my Ometepe group along with Steve/Burton a lot more then yourself and my objective was to make sure they all stayed long as possible since I didn't think they would try anything against me where I thought maybe at some point down the line you possibly would. I don't see how you can blame me here when you voted Jim who had an idol and if the rest of us did that, meant someone was going to be idoled out and I certainly wasn't willing to take that risk.

3) If you could pick three pre-juror's and three juror's that would be in place of you boys, who would they be and why? On top of that, please explain who you'd vote for in the end and why.

From the pre jury I would select the other Brandon, Judd, and Mike. They were all on redemption island for a while and tried to get back into the game, even knowing they were not successful getting back into the game their effort and competitive drive to try making it back was there. Out of those 3, I think I would have voted for Brandon who I felt was one of the better pre merge boots and he stepped up at the very first challenge trying to win immunity for his tribe which was a long draining challenge and anybody willing to put their tribe on their back gets points with me.

From the jury I would select Steve, Natalie, and Ashley. Steve who was a force in challenges, always giving me a run for my money, and an all around solid player. He was another that stepped up on that very 1st challenge and tried carrying his tribe all the way to immunity. He wasn't in the greatest position entering the merge but he was able to join up with Ometepe and make the most of it. I'd also select Natalie who I felt was a very loyal allie that sticks to her alliances and principles, she is a very kind and sincere person and it would be nice seeing somebody like her at the very end. Finally I would pick Ashley who I was allied with very early in the game and we had fun talks and talked about the game quite often, so i knew her head was def in the game. Voting for a winner would have been very difficult between these 3 because they all played different games and I respect them all. I'd of course like to see how the final tribal council played out but more then likely I'd vote for Steve, he was an all around great player that was good in all aspects of the game and be hard to not vote him at the very end.

[Morgan McDevitt]

Brandon, I appreciate your answers even though I'm still not a fan of yours.
Grant (Scott), I still hella adore you. However, it doesn't mean I'm going to vote for you.

But thank you both!

Burton, I'm still waiting for you.

[Burton Roberts]

I apologize its been a very hectic couple of days and will post it as soon as I can.

[Burton Roberts]

I hope these answered your questions, I was just as honest as I could be. If you have any follow ups I will gladly answer

1) Why didn't you view me as a valuable asset to your game play?

It wasn't that I saw you as a valuable asset, but I saw you as a threat. I knew you were good at challenges because of the tug of war and knew that you were probably with rafe, jim, and aras, which I knew right when you hadn't told me who was the the vote the first week. I know you knew who teh vote was because at that point I made alliances with Brandon and Grant. I know you apologized for voting for me, but my motto is if you can vote me once you probably can vote me twice. So yes I wrote you off as an asset when I knew you thought you didn't need me and also knew that you were going to have to go at some point. I would have never been able to be confident I could trust you.



2) Why did you never go out of your way to talk to me? And please don't say "it's a two way street" because I did reach out to you on several occasions.

Yes, your correct it is a two way street and i feel like i did the best i could to be respectful and play a critical role in my alliance. You are correct maybe socialite isn't going to be my title, but I feel like I was at least somewhat social because I was able to make it this far without having to stress out over winning challenges and holding immunity, even the immunity I had I didn't need. I would like to say the reason I didn't talk to you as much was because I felt lying and misleading anyone wasn't the way to go. I enjoyed the conversations we had, but I wasn't fully confident that you would have stuck by my side especially after you voted for me for whatever reason it was. It was nothing personally toward you, but it was just best for me to keep it limited converstations with the people that I knew were threats.

I would like to say that, I was able to surround myself with people I knew I could trust and they were the people I discussed every vote with and they let me know how people were voting so then we could make a decision on who needed to go from round to round. I know maybe I Should have been more social, but I have been really busy with my life with work/moving/friends/etc. I was around and made sure I didn't go from round to round and did what I knew needed to be done. I was an important piece of my alliance and I was able to help us stick together and make our way to the end.

3) If you could pick three members of the jury to be in place of you boys, who would you pick and why?

I would have to say Aras, Steve, and Natalie
Aras was a challenge beast who beat everyone in RI and even gave me and my allies a run for our money in the game. Natalie was a strong compeetitor she showed she was willing to go 24 hours and showed she was awesome socially because I loved talking to her. Steve because he was socially strong and even dominated in challenges especially the ones that counted.

Sorry Ashley. but I never really got to talk to you or even saw you around a lot. When you were around I enjoyed talking to you, but I felt your heart wasn't in the game as much as Aras.


Thank you Morgan for your questions. I apologize for not posting them sooner.