Papa Gary Can You Lick My Ass?

[Gary Hogeboom]

Yeah lick my ass bitch!

Congrats on final 3!

I've checked out and haven't been watching the end game. So I just have 1 question for you all. Keep your answers to less than 300 words, I don't want to read too much.

Simple question, why do you deserve Gary's vote?

[Burton Roberts]

Simple question, why do you deserve Gary's vote?

Hello Gary, A super breif story for you,

Let's go back... It was four zaps, 2 nakums/ yaxhas. Me and Steve (Secret Buddies Alliance (SB)) knew we were working together to the end, but we created a rift with Julie and Krista (The Girls (TG)) at a tribal. We both wanted to pull either 2 nakums/yaxhas, so I talked to everyone and tried to create relationships. I had a great conversation with Jamie involving our opinions on the game. I knew we could work well together because we clicked. He posted the converstation in his confessional. Now, I understand him and the host weren't on good terms, but the host was concerned even more about Jamie. When the host confronted Jamie, He finally got fed up and quit. Had he have stayed, I felt there could have been potential between us, but who knows, I could have been screwed. He did talk to me and posted it, which caused him to quit.

SB knew we needed to correct our rift with TG. I talked to TG and created a bond with them. SB had a plan to create more past votes for Julie so if we did lose and it was a 2-2 tie we would of won. There we were the last two Nuometepe.

This is why you should vote for me because although it may not be apparent, but I was actively playing and in the decision of every vote. Everything may have not worked with Jamie, but I did make moves to set myself up to get here by being with trusted alliances and making the moves required to make it to the end and that started very early in the game including pre-merge. This was just an example. (294)

[Brandon Quinton]

Simple question, why do you deserve Gary's vote?

I was a returning player entering this game with possibly the largest target in the game. The target got larger after the first immunity challenge where I stayed up 24 hours posting, same with the last pre merge tug of war challenge and continued when I competed in every single immunity challenge, didn't sit out once. I always had my teams best interest first and did whatever possible giving us a chance to win.

On a strategic level I've played the best game I can play. This is the second season in the series I've played and I haven't yet had even one vote cast against me. I made moves I needed to make to ensure my safety and alliances safety like bringing Ometepe and Zap's together at the merge to vote together to ensure numbers on my side, flushing out idols, and making numerous alliances for safety and knowledge of people's plans. I was always thinking ahead and constantly was running scenarios in my head to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing.

I had to overcome obstacles. There were the Phillip pm's to the other tribe member where they said to not trust me and I had to offset those. Then at merge I was one of the few without an idol, where there were 5 idols in the merge. I did my best to ensure they were all wasted or at the very least not used against me. There was never a bailout for me if I ever got into any trouble, I had to rely on my own ability to ensure I advanced. I haven't had access to the pm system since the first merge round, they were disabled which made communication tricky and limited for me.

[Grant Mattos]

I came into this as a newbie to this series and didn’t have past connections and had to fend for myself while others could go to the safety of old connections. I found people early in the game that I felt I could trust and made alliances with them. I did every challenge I could to help the tribes win immunity to keep my alliance safe, some challenge I had to work and since we had to sit so many out I didn’t want to be pushy and demand to play in them all. I was social with everyone, which is just me, I like to get to know people and not just treat them like pawns and don’t give a crap about them unless I need their vote. Yeah I did vote a lot of them out, but its all part of the game, and I know how to separate personal from game. Every vote I made was for the person leaving except Steve’s, but the way I set it up I had to vote Aras to make sure it would tie if Steve used an idol and we had the votes to save Ashley. I always had a plan and a backup plan. I had an idol avoidance to use if I needed, but didn’t want to use it to further my game if I didn’t have to, and was able to do that and navigate things so neither me or my allies were in danger of an idol. A lot of the cast got pm’s from Phillip telling you not to trust me, so I think I had to work harder to stay in the game and keep votes away from me so if a tc ever tied I wouldn’t be in danger from past votes.