Natalie Needs to kNow

[Natalie Tenerelli]

Well hello boys, I want to congratulate you three on being here in the Finale. I've worked with two of you since the beginning of the game and I worked with the other during Merge. I obviously wanted an Ometepe Final 3 with three of myself, Ashley, Grant or Brandon but that didn't happen. But I don't want to take away from Burton making it here because he definitely worked hard to get here, so I give you credit for that.

GRANT
- I viewed you as a big brother and good friend in this game. I appreciate you looking out for me that Top 11 round because you know how nervous I was that I was possibly going to go that round. We definitely had a great number of chats and conversations over the weeks we've gotten to know each other. I really hope those were genuine. I know you lied to and hurt many people in the game with your moves and I did feel bad for you because you told me people sent you mean and negative IMs to you. But after reading everyone's thoughts, I can understand why they felt so hurt by you and I hate seeing others get hurt in the game. Although I know that's how Survivor is played but I can't say I loved that you did that, but I guess you did what you have to do make it to the end.

The moment I felt most hurt was obviously my elimination. Just the previous few days, we discussed a Final 3 deal with you, myself and Ashley but that didn't exactly go down. While I am not mad at you for eliminating me because I understand it was gameplay and I don't want to take this game personally and I do value our conversations and friendships, I did feel bummed and was disappointed by that move of yours. I felt so betrayed because I was always honest with you but that moment you weren't honest back. So I was really letdown and hurt most by you that week. I really wanted our original alliance to go to the Final 4 and I thought you wanted that too. I even voted out Steve that Top 7 round who I was closest to outside the Omepete 4 so we could make the Final four. Although he wasn't the person I wanted to go out first between Aras/Burton/Steve but I just took it for the team and looked out for the best of us, I guess. That wasn't a decision I felt completely comfortable with but we did that to flush his Idol which I understand. You told me, you wouldn't care which three of us Omepete members made the Final 3 together as long as we got to the final four and you would have been fine with getting 4th. I would have been fine with getting 4th if the Final 3 were Omepete. Now was that actually true, which I find very hard to believe, or would you have been mad had you not get to the Final 3 and if it were me/Brandon/Ashley? I know you also told me you have a competitive side as well that took over you.

I remember that Top 7 round that Me/Ashley/you were supposed to vote out Steve and Burton/Steve/Brandon were supposed to vote out Aras. From what I gathered up, Steve/Burton voted out Ashley, Me/Ashley/Aras voted out Steve and You/Brandon voted out Aras. I am curious why you changed your vote without letting me know? I would also like to know what else you kept from telling me.

But back to Top 5 elimination night and the Top 3 deal, when Ashley won the immunity we were excited for her and told me that we gotta celebrate our "Omepete Final 4" on AIM that night. I can't remember if I signed on that night but if I did, I didn't see anyone there so we couldn't celebrate. I'm just wondering why you didn't actually take us to the Final 3 with you and just take me through your whole thought process that night of my elimination. I know we discussed this a bit because I wanted answers but I want you to post your thoughts here and further explain yourself. And explain why you think you have a better shot of winning over Brandon & Burton than myself & Ashley, which you also told me. Lastly which should I give you my vote when I ended up being your biggest supporter to being most hurt from you by the end?

BRANDON
- I also viewed you as a big brother and good friend in this game. I also think of you as the challenge killer in this game. It amazes me how you were able to put in all that effort into the 24 hour challenge. From what I can tell, you didn't seem to hurt people as much as Grant has, so I respect your gameplay more because of that. I'm also a bit surprised people saw you as scummy but reading through people's thoughts I understand their points, although you've been nothing but nice to me. We had great friendly conversations throughout the weeks. And I love how you looked out for me and I looked out for you.

As I said to Grant, I was disappointed and sad when you voted me out but I suppose I understand because you made it here to the Final 3. I'm not AS upset with you because we never promised each other a Final 3 deal at that time. I'm curious as to why you never offered me that deal though. I just want to know your thought process of the vote the week of my elimination and was it really like a last minute decision process where you went back and forth. I know we discussed this a few days ago because I really needed to know, but you can further explain your thoughts here for everyone to see. Like why were myself and Ashley the two targets that week and anything else you wish to share. And also explain why I should give you my vote over Grant or Burton?


BURTON
Hey Burton, I like you and the time we worked together, although I know we definitely weren't the closest of our Six person alliance. I knew you were closest with Steve but had no idea you were super close with Brandon and Grant as well. I appreciate what you said about me in Morgan's thread and love how you saw me as a game player. I really enjoyed our conversations we had although I didn't have as many conversations with you as the other two guys, but I wished we did. I also have no idea about your gameplay before merge either as we were never on the same tribe or worked together before then. I just want to know your gameplay step by step, round by round because I am curious to know. I know you had the toughest journey getting to the Final 3 as you were the underdog over the other two, so I give you so much credit for making it here. Also how did you win over Grant and Brandon to take you to the final 3 over myself and Ashley? And tell me why I should vote for you over Grant and Brandon who I have worked it?


Once again, congratulations to you three Grant, Brandon and Burton. You're all great game players for making it this far and I whs you all the very best.

[Burton Roberts]

BURTON
Hey Burton, I like you and the time we worked together, although I know we definitely weren't the closest of our Six person alliance. I knew you were closest with Steve but had no idea you were super close with Brandon and Grant as well. I appreciate what you said about me in Morgan's thread and love how you saw me as a game player. I really enjoyed our conversations we had although I didn't have as many conversations with you as the other two guys, but I wished we did. I also have no idea about your gameplay before merge either as we were never on the same tribe or worked together before then. I just want to know your gameplay step by step, round by round because I am curious to know. I know you had the toughest journey getting to the Final 3 as you were the underdog over the other two, so I give you so much credit for making it here. Also how did you win over Grant and Brandon to take you to the final 3 over myself and Ashley? And tell me why I should vote for you over Grant and Brandon who I have worked it?

Here is round to round what I did:

Week 1: Zapatera

This week we won second place because Steve the best ally did an all nighter up bat with brandon. We had to vote out one person at that point I Hd talk to everyone except for Stephanie. So when the vote was brought up and she was suggested we all knew it would be an easy vote. So many of us voted for Stephanie.

Week 2: Zapatera

I sat out the challenge because I knew I wouldn't be around and didn't want to hurt my tribe.In the end I probably should have played because challenge was very luck based and we lost because Ralph had not luck lol. He could have never chosen the right number. We didn't blame him and he had a lot of heart in it so we decided to save him this round and try for someone else.

This week we had to vote out two people. At this point alliances were made. One with Krista Julie me and Steve and then another with Me, Steve, David, and Mike and possibly ralph with both of them. The problem was that Mike was talking to a lot of people and a few of us were concerned on how controlling he was and how many alliances he was in. So me and Steve thought that would be the best option. So we talked to the rest of the tribe. Steve focused on gettin Julie and Krista and I focused on David and Rafe to see how they felt about it. We got the votes and Mike was voted out. Then Sarita was next because she wasn't around a lot and we needed to have someone who was strong at challenges.

Week 3:zapatera

This round was the wall challenge. Me and Steve stayed up all night trying to blacken squares. No one was around to help. krista and Ralph did a few but not enough to make a difference. Steve and I filled in more then half of the wall which garunteed us second place.This is one thing I did to help garuntee my position work my but off at this brick challenge so then we didn't have to vote off two people. If it wasn't for me and Steve who know what we woulda done.

This week we had one person to vote out at tribal council. At this week I decided to keep with the alliance Krista and Julie and Also keep with David because I really enjoyed talking to him. So We knew that Ralph was the next one to go especially since he wasn't aroudn for the challenge or even helped except filling in one square. So we went around and made sure ralph was the vote.

Week 4:Zapatera

The challenge was a good one and I really enjoyed it, but we lost because Julie took her time to complete the challenge. It took me no time or so it seemed to finish tryign to make sure to do my part. This is why I wanted Julie to go this round.

This was a tricky vote because I knew that Steve was close with Krista and Julie,but I was closer with David because I felt he was someone I could trust more. We had the votes we thought and bam there was an idol played. Then there was a tie between me and David.I talk to my ally Steve and he told me I needed to just stay quiet and allow him to do what he needed to do to garuntee me to stay. So I did was I was told to do and was kept.

Week 5: Nu Ometepe

Well I ended up on a tribe with Steve, me, you, aras, jamie, vee, julie and krista. We had bad blood with krista and Julie because of how the vote went down trying to vote out Julie idoled out David. So me and Steve knew we had to try to sway two of the people from the other tribe. We went around and chatted with everyone. I enjoyed my conversation with you, aras, and Jamie, but I knew if I outwardly spoken to anyone about wanting to go against the girls that could kill my game and make me get voted out because I knew the girls would have pounced on it. The person I thought I coulda worked with the most was Jamie we clicked really well, but since our conversation and the host wasn't happy about it he ended up quitting. This was key in a way althought I didnt want him o go he was the reason I ended up having the chance to stay.Then me and steve knew it was enivatble we were going to be stuck with Julie and Krista and knew we had to. So I talked to them when I could and tried to garuntee myself at least final 4 on Nu ometepe if we lost.

We tried hard on the challenge nad lost AGAIN. So we had to vote out two ppl. The first one was easy we had Jamie quit and the second. Steve was concerned because he knew who Aras was and knew he woudlnt be someone to be trusted so we voted him out next to ensure we didn't have to worry about him being a player.


Week 6: Nu Ometepe

Another challenge we had lost because of the activeness of our tribe and "people" not showing up that being Julie and Krista, which annoyed me the most out of everything because I really wanted to get them out, but knew the time wasn't right. SO we had to vote out two people again. We knew brooke and Vee were going to go because we needed to let Julie and Krista knwo we trusted them. So we did a 2 2 2 vote in order to garuntee no one was idoled out or anything. Then we voted for Brooke and then vee. When vee was going Steve was close with her becaue he knew her from another game. So we had talked and decided we would try to get vee to vote out Julie so we had more past votes against Julie so if we had to end in a tie we would be garunteed not to leave. Thus that was another step we took in order to keep ourselves in teh game thinking ahead.

Week 7: Nu Ometepe

This was the tug of war challenge. Me and Steve knew we needed to win this challenge or else. Luckily so did Julie, but Krista on the other hand didn't understand that. We knew we have to vote out two people and didn't want to somehwo be out because of another idol or possibly not counting past votes correctly. So we all stayed up all night and in the end I was the only one who got the point for my team lol. We knew it was inevitable that we were going to lose again which is why me and steve were thinking ahead.

SO since there is four of us we have a live tribal because there arent that many people. I had krista talking to me telling that she's going to stick with me and steve. Then she was also telling me how she can't beleive we lost. Any way we go to tribal and it ties Steve 2 and Julie 2. I am holding my breathe at this point hoping she leaves. And we have to do another vote. 2-2 again. Then Julie leaves and well it's a breather because then Krista getting voted out was a breeze. Then there we were the last two standing.

Week 8: Zulonkioana

First week of MERGE, which I was stoked about lol. I knew that me and steve were already seen as an alliance so I decided not to hide it. The first person I talk to was Brandon and we clicked right from the start and decided to create an alliance. I had a feeling I could trust him and he seemed open to working with me. I knew that in order for that to work I needed to bond with the OMETEPE. So i went out of my way to talk to Natalie, Grant, and Ashley ( when she was online at the same time as me). I actually clicked with Grant soon after as well and knew he could be someone I could potentially ally with.

Also the reason I knew Brandon and Grant would be a good final 4 with me and Steve because of a pm that Phillip sent to Steve how about how they would do anything to get to the end and to watch out for them. I knew that If i could get them to trust and work with me then I could be good because I knew they woudlnt go after eachother. So i knew when I clicked with Brandon I could also do well with Grant.

This round we had the auction. I came up with a stratgey to allow the money get up to 98 and tehn I post at 99 and let my allies know as soon as I posted they could get it up quick. The first tiem I did it my allies (grant, brandon, and steve) weren't prepared. That is why Aras got the immunity that week. lol. Then I made sure Steve got the mystery prize and grant got the idol avoidance. I told him and brandon I had an idol and wanted to help them and tried to get them to trust me even more . Then Brandon helped me get the advantage giving everyone else a disadvantage. It was actually a good strategy and worked well.I wanted to make sure that Brandon and Grant knew they could trust me.



So I had a few chats with morgan, jim and gary, but they seemed to not be talking ot me or wanting to talk to me for some reason. THen I talk to Brandon and come to find out everyone is trying to split the votes because Aras told everyone we had idols. I knew that Aras and Jim had idols as well and was laughing in the back of my head because they were trying to put the attention on the two people who fought there butt off.(I knew because of the method Grant mentioned).

I knew right then and there why the conversations ended with morgan, jim and gary with the words I don't knwo who the vote is and we should keep eachother updated.It kinda put me in my place and showed me who I can trust right away. I had Natalie AND Grant also tell me how the vote was going down and this week I decided to lay low and just vote with the numbers. I knew Gary was going and was happy it wasn't me. I also know Gary wasn't planning to work with me because he kept the split vote from me. So Gary left this round and Jim used his idol which was great!! I knew he had two and kinda went of my way to let him know he could be the vote and it was just funny because to me he didn't have any reason to play it especially if the split work. I really couldn't believe they were going to split the votes with me, ashley and steve because if we did play our idols ashley would have left and that didn't look good with grant and brandon who clearly was working with her.

This is a big round a lot of stuff went down and set me and steve up well for the end.

Then we had a surprise second vote Aras and Steve were immune which was fine with me, which mean I would probably get votes again. I knew at that point I had votes with you, steve, brandon, grant and ashley.I talk to the guys and we decided morgan would be the best vote because she seemed to be more active and more of a threat then Rafe. We knew Jim had another Idol and wasn't going to vote him. So I had every one on me in this vote. I had morgan telling me she was sorry and I had Jim telling me that I shoudln't trust ometepe and Aras tryign to get me to allign with him. I decided to just try to not say as much as I could, but be semi honest on what I was thinking. Im not very good with lying, but i didn't want to tell people hey im not working with you because of certian reasons. SO i decided to avoid what I could by changing the subject and to not get myself in trouble by creating alliances I didn't need to. I did lie and tell Jim I heard he was the vote becasue I knew he had another idol and loved to see him waste another idol. I knew I talk to youa little and I knew taht grant and brandon were good with you and ashley and made sure those votes went through. SO morgan left and jim used another idol TOUCH DOWN lol.

Week 9: Zulonkioana

This week we had teams and I saw that rafe, aras and jim all decieded to split who they were on teams with. I came online as soon as I could and had tried to help with strategy. We wanted to get Aras out the most because we knew he was a challenge threat. He won regardless because I had to work and Brandon was all alone. Then we knew that we wanted Jim to leave, but had a feelling that Aras could give him his idol. So we did the 3-3-3 vote lol. This allowed us to pick who went and let us make sure there was nobody in the alliance idoled out. I beleive the idea was mutual because we all seemed to have it. So we did 3-rafe 3- jim and 3 ?. I ended up being the 3rd of course lol. So then I had to sit back and trust my allies to vote out jim. He left that round which was nice. It wasn't that hard of a week.

Week 10: Zulonkioana

This was actually a good challenge and one that I had a challenge advantage in. I was excited because I had the night off from work and knew I could make it. Then of all things I fall asleep and the challenge you can only join if you come an hour before . I came an hour and five minutes later and was out of the challenge. It sucked. So I sat around and rooted on my team, which you saw and even created a chat so then people could communicate better. I tried to be as active as I could. It was a good round because Aras lost and we wanted to get him voted out that round. That meant we could out his idol and get Rafe to go home. SO that was exactly what was done. Aras played his idol and Rafe went home.

Week 11: Zulonkioana

This was the card stacking challenge. I came in late because I had a long day at work and also had spent a whole day out of the city to get ready for the move and HARRY POTTER was going on so I had to see that. lol. SO by the time I came online I knew I couldn't do much and I was super tired. Steve wasn't online so I decided to give all my cards to Brandon because he was online and able. I was glad to see Grant won because that meant Aras didn't win. The plan was to vote out Aras that round, but of course I got all paranoid and thought what if he has ANOTHER idol since Idols seem to be so popular in this game. So we decided to split the vote. I know that was the wrong idea because Steve left this round. The second vote in the entire game, I had no say in or even had a play in. I had a feeling it was Grant or Brandons doing since they probably he knew that me and steve were close and wanted to break us up. I knew I had a final 4 with them and talk to them every single day and had a good relationship with the both of them so when steve left I wasn't worried. I was more sad that my ally was voted out because they wanted to get closer to me. I decided to look past it and make sure to keep my relationship with Brandon and Grant because I needed them.

SIDE NOTE: I found it was Grant who did it and he told me it was because he thought he only make final 4, which was true since I felt close to brandon and steve. In the end, keeping my relationship with grant screwed and helped me make it to the end.

Week 12: Zulonkioana

This week, was all trivia. I was around for the challenge, but didn't really have a chance since it was 3 against me and well aras had a similar experience. I was in a chat with brandon and grant and we worked together to try and help eachother out in the end. I was glad that Brandon ended up winning. I also was glad that the vote ended up working out for Aras to leave. I knew that the girls would vote me I was surprised that aras voted for ashley. It kinda surprised me. I played my idol this round because I didn't want to have to worry about a tie, which I didn't need to, but it was nice to know I was safe.

Week 13: Zulonkioana

This week we had a challenge, we had the maze to do. I had to work and everyone was way ahead of me by the time I came online. I decided to try even though. i supported both grant and brandon when they were online and todl them they could do it. I was up all night and in the end ashley won. I thought it was a good thing because I knew you were willing to do what you needed to do to win and knew you would be a threat next week if you didn't leave now. I talk to grant and brandon they both were on board and you ended up leaving. It was a hard vote for me, althought the lines were drawn between me and you when you had knocked my vase the week before, I still enjoyed talking to you and liked you as a person.

Week 14: Zulonkioana

This week was a really tough posting challenge. I explained in the tribal council why I didn't have the time to finish it because i was super busy that weekend. I also knew that Brandon planned on spending a good amount on it. I even was texting him on my phone through aim to push him to keep going lol because I wanted him to do well and beat Ashley. It sucked because I would have been able to win it and show that I could do well in challenges and it was a challenge I knwo I could have posted a good amount in. Then I talk to brandon and grant and made sure the vote was the way it was supposed to be and they both said I should be good. So then there u have it that is how i made it to final 3.


I hope this fulfills what you wanted, if you have any questions, concerns, or comments just let me know.

Also how did you win over Grant and Brandon to take you to the final 3 over myself and Ashley?

I can't personally explain why. Maybe they were loyal to me becaue I talk to them every night.I talked to them on a friendship level and not all about game. They turned out to both be good friends. I worked together with them every round on the challenges and the vote and I felt like we made decisions together. For some reason, I clicked with them both really well and we seem to work together well. I was able to talk them openly about my opnion and I felt there wasn't any barriers between us.I kinda just put all my trust in them. So I don't know the specifics but I do know that I had a very strong relationship with both of them and they stuck by me just like I stuck by them until the end.

And tell me why I should vote for you over Grant and Brandon who I have worked it?

I feel that you should vote for the person you believe played the best game. I understand you worked together with Brandon and Grant for a long time, but I feel that me and you worked together in the beginning of merge. I was able to take a situation I was given and make it my own. When David left, I was able to somehow fix my relationship with the girls. Then when we came into merge without knowing anyone, I was able to create relationships to help me get to the end. Even when steve left, I still was okay and able to make it to the end without my closest ally. Not to say I wasn't sad he left, but I was able to make it without him. I am here because I was actively in teh game and able to make it to the finals with a huge target on my back most every round I was here. I got a vote the first week of tc I was in. I even tried to be respectful and although it may have hurt me I made sure to create relationships with the people I knew I could stick with and not lead on anyone because I know I have been through that and it is not something I would wish on anyone. Overall you should vote for me because I had my back against the wall most of the game, I was mobile and made the right moves to get me to the end, I tried to be respectful to people's feelings, and I'm still here and still standing and fighting to win.

[Brandon Quinton]

BRANDON- I also viewed you as a big brother and good friend in this game. I also think of you as the challenge killer in this game. It amazes me how you were able to put in all that effort into the 24 hour challenge. From what I can tell, you didn't seem to hurt people as much as Grant has, so I respect your gameplay more because of that. I'm also a bit surprised people saw you as scummy but reading through people's thoughts I understand their points, although you've been nothing but nice to me. We had great friendly conversations throughout the weeks. And I love how you looked out for me and I looked out for you.

As I said to Grant, I was disappointed and sad when you voted me out but I suppose I understand because you made it here to the Final 3. I'm not AS upset with you because we never promised each other a Final 3 deal at that time. I'm curious as to why you never offered me that deal though. I just want to know your thought process of the vote the week of my elimination and was it really like a last minute decision process where you went back and forth. I know we discussed this a few days ago because I really needed to know, but you can further explain your thoughts here for everyone to see. Like why were myself and Ashley the two targets that week and anything else you wish to share. And also explain why I should give you my vote over Grant or Burton?



This might sound clique but I always thought of you in the game as a little sister in some way or another and def a very good friend which I hope lasts outside this game. You were always so sweet and nice and I truly enjoyed talking with you about anything and also working with you in the game from early on. I knew I had to be a challenge killer in this game, especially during the tribal stages since those rounds where you have to boot 3 people or even 2 are a disaster waiting to happen. I wanted each tribe of mine to stay safe much as possible and especially for You, Grant, and Ashley to stay safe. I knew when we were on Nuyaxha that it very well could have been split 4-4 and with you having the most past votes out of anyone, that spelled major trouble. It's a big reason why I worked hard on all challenges but especially that tug of war one to ensure we all made the merge because when we got there I was fairly confident we could get Steve and Burton to join up with us and have majority rest the way. I tried not to be overly "scummy" in the game but there were situations where I had to play both sides and mislead some people to ensure things broke our way. The biggest reason I had to get a little scummy were all the idols in the merge, Ometepe had none and there were 5 in the merge where we had to be crafty and work around them which we thankfully did. I just tried to not get too wrapped up in personal things and befriending people to the point where they would be so hurt after. I appreciate you looking out for me in the game and I did my best to do the same for you, whether is was Phillip trying to split the vote between you and Andrea early or in the merge when you were targeted and I made sure we had the numbers for you to stay. I do feel bad how you went out and feel you deserved to at least been told beforehand, for that I'm sorry but I had to do what made the most sense for my end game.


The reason I never promised you anything for the final 3 was because early in the game I had made alliances with Grant and Ashley before I did with you and thought there was a chance the 3 of us were going to possibly go to the final 3 together. I didn't want to mislead you if I didn't have to, but there was a time around the final 7 or final 6 I was highly considering asking you for a final 3 deal and we could take either Grant or Ashley (whoever you felt more comfortable with) I just never did that since I would have felt bad promising you that deal when I may not have been able to deliver on it. I did mislead a lot of people during the game and I didn't want to do that to you because you were a very nice sincere person and I thought you at least deserved not having that also happen to you.

The week you were voted out was a long thought out process on what I felt was best moving forward to the final 4. I knew that the jury was considering You and Ashley for their final votes as they were rooting for you guys, like when Rafe was voted out he mentioned going for Aras, Ashley, and You. This obviously meant that Grant, Burton, and Me held the least chance of getting votes at the very end. I felt going to the finale with Ashley or You would be very difficult and thought going with Burton and Grant gave myself a much better chance. Another factor that I took into account was the final 3 between Grant, Ashley, and You. Going to the final 4 with 3 people that have a finals deal didn't seem like the best idea and I needed to make some changes where at the final 4, I wouldn't have to rely on immunity even knowing I did want to win it. Talking with Grant, we decided that Ashley would go before you in this situation but what happened was Ashley won the final five immunity and that pretty much took that idea out of the equation. Then that just left you open for the votes, Grant and I discussed this for a while and we didn't end up voting until 2-3 hours before the deadline. We just thought there were more pros then cons sticking with Burton over You/Ash for the end and that's why we went ahead and voted you out, followed by Ashley the next round.

I think you should vote me over Grant and Burton because I was far more dominant then them in the challenges. I never sat out even one challenge where I believe they both sat out a few. Neither of them even attempted the final challenge which as we all know is the most important challenge in the game. I feel like my challenge ability was the saving grace for Ometepe in a way because had we lost the first challenge 2 of us wouldn't have made the swap and instead ended up on redemption island and had we lost a challenge after the swap, I could have seen the same thing happening. I pushed those buttons at the challenge not only for myself, but also for us (Me You Grant Ash).

The thing with Burton was he was always in trouble in the merge and there were 3-4 times he could have easily left if I had not stepped in and taken over a situation. I think he relied on me at times to get him through rounds especially at the end instead of taking over a situation himself. Then with Grant, he broke that final 3 deal with you when he could have still stuck with it. I didn't break anything with you with maybe the exception of not having an all Ometepe final 4. I feel like I've done far less damage then he has not only to you but to others in the game.

[Grant Mattos]

Natalie you are one of the sweetest persons I’ve met to play these games and I’m truly sorry that I hurt you with my vote. Yes the me that you got to know was truly genuine and really thought of you as a good friend that I could just chit chat with for a long time to come, and I hope that you still want that just the same.
The reason why I presented you girls with a final 3 was because Ashley came to me a few weeks prior saying she wanted to be in the finals with me, and I asked her who she wanted to be the third person, she said that Brandon would be a huge threat in the finals because he is a returning player and wanted you. And when she stated the chat that night while we were in the other chat with Brandon it felt kinda uncomfortable that we were in there for so long and she hadn’t brought it up so I did. My final three idea at that time was Brandon and you, and if Ashley won the final immunity it would have been Brandon and Ashley. I made an alliance with Brandon very early in the game and I wasn’t about to break that deal, we put so much trust in each other throughout this game and told each other everything. I wanted one of you girls to be with us at the end for sure, but when we started hearing that the jury was rooting for you two to win, my game side took over and that is why I voted you out, because I was scared to loose against you both. Brandon had known of the final three that Ashley wanted and said he was going to present you both with a final 3 as well to see what you girls said to him, but I don’t think he got to it.

In the final 7 vote where it was suppose to be Me/Ashley/you were supposed to vote out Steve and Burton/Steve/Brandon were supposed to vote out Aras. That round was so hard to get things to work out the way I wanted them to keep us all safe. What happened there was I wanted Steve out or to use his idol for sure. After we all agreed to vote out Aras (all 6 of us). You, Ashley, Brandon and I talked and decided to split the votes to make sure Steve went or used his idol that round). Brandon and I had talked with Steve/Burton and they came up with the idea to split the votes (because they thought everyone was voting Aras that round for him to go 6-1). They were afraid that Aras could have had another idol and wanted to split the vote just in case Aras voted one of them (Steve/Burton vote Ashley and Brandon and I vote Aras) just in case he did and Ashley would have went home with the majority vote. So I told Brandon that I was going to vote Aras (I told Aras to vote Steve), so the votes would come out exactly like they did. And IF Steve had played his idol it would have tied between Ashley and Aras and Aras would have went home due to us having the votes to keep Ashley (you, Brandon and I would have been the majority). The reason I didn’t say anything to you was that you weren’t online at the time, and was afraid that if I had pm’d you and Ashley that it may have scared you and you two could have possibly changed you vote to Aras leaving 2 idols in the game, that would have hurt us in the end, because with my idol avoidance I could only keep us safe from one and not two. So I did it to protect us 4 and sorry I had to be sneaky about that and that was the only thing I didn’t tell you in this game besides that Aras promised to vote how I told him to that round, which was another way to protect us. You knew that Brandon and I were working with Steve/Burton to help us in the game; we had all discussed that a couple weeks before. I have been honest to you every other time in this game, but didn’t want things to fall apart that round so we could get one idol out.
I would hope that you vote for me because I have been nothing but honest with you in this game except for the one time that I did what I did to make sure that we were safe that round and could navigate through the last idol if we needed to use my avoidance. I never wanted to vote you out and I hope you understand why I did it. And even if you don’t vote for me that will not change how I feel about you one bit and still want to continue the friendship we started in this game.
I’m sorry if this is so short and if I missed anything but I’m having internet issues right now.

[Natalie Tenerelli]

Thank you so much for your answers, Burton and Brandon and Grant.

Burton, I really loved how detailed your responses were. I was not expecting that but thank you. I felt as if I was living through your gameplay. Excellent answers. I also loved your answers about me in Jim's thread, haha.

And of course I appreciate you sticking up for me through the majority of the game, Brandon. I forgot to mention that in my writings to you but we definitely looked out for each other. And I do appreciate that you didn't misleading me about the final 3 thing because if you did, I would have remained loyal to you at all causes, lol.

And thank you Grant for your answers. I was really curious about that Top 7 round because I was busy that day and could barely have made it online. But I understand and am glad all 4 of us were safe. I had no idea you and Ashley were both talking beforehand about a Final 3 plan with me. And I do agree that chat did feel a little awkward at first since Brandon wasn't there, since we had one with all 4 of us.

Again, I enjoyed playing with you guys and I wish you guys the best with this upcoming vote.