Steve's Soliloquy

[Steve Wright]

Well not really...but hello Final 3! Congrats on making it to the end and doing what all of us Jurors have not done. You prolly all know who I'm voting for but for curiosity's sake I just want to know a few simple things coz it puzzles me.

Grant, why was I the one who had to leave and not Burton? Did you think you can beat Burton over me? Or do you feel threatened of my presence? Or did you just want to make Aras feel happy enough before you vote him off? I'm not even sure if you were ever genuine with me and I know I prolly haven't but I just want to know what went on with your mind there and why I was the one that needed to leave when you promised Burton and I the same deal or so I think?

Brandon, I don't have a question for you so congrats since you really didn't do anything bad to me. You did an awesome game of tagging along a snake with you.

Burton, congrats on making it to the end! So proud of what you have accomplished and if I weren't in the end at least I know that someone I have worked with from the very beginning is in it

That's all and I look forward to your answer Grant. Good luck!

[Grant Mattos]

The reason that it was set up for you to get the most votes the round was two fold for me. First off I was more connected with Burton in the game and got to know her more than you, I felt like we were kinda just "nice" to each other because we both had ties to Brandon and Burton and we needed to be social with each other, in order to keep things going. I was shown an IM that Burton had told Brandon that you were sketchy of me because I hadn't use my idol avoidance (this wasn't the first time I was told that you didn't trust me and mostly it was because I didn't use the avoidance in previous rounds). That sent up a red flag to me that you had wanted me to use it early in the game so if it got to you, Burton, Brandon and I in the final 4 you two would use your idols to be guaranteed a spot in the final 3 and more than likely it would have been me to go. So at the tribal council that you left, I set it up where you would have the most votes so either you left with your idol in hand, or it would have tied between Aras and Ashley and we had the votes to vote out Aras and the idol would have been gone. And then if you were still in the game and we did get to the final 4, I would have used my avoidance then to make it an even playing field for all of us.