Todd Herzog / sizzling bikini
4th Place

Hands down the single hardest vote I've had to cast in a game probably of all time.  Todd, you really were the one person in this game I knew from start to finish had my back completely.  While I was always going to be 100% loyal to my alliance with Brad (even though our past history shows he's not the best at keeping his word) and my trust with Brandon was so on again-off again, I knew I could count on you in times of need which is why the vote to get rid of you was so difficult, but at the same time it was a necessary evil.  If I didn't feel like I had invested so much time into this game to the point where I didn't care about my position in the game, I would have forced the tie to get rid of Brandon because truth be told he pissed me off for being a bitch to me the entire game and turning against me at the end because he was threatened and because he wanted Shambo's jury vote.  But I didn't have immunity meaning depending on what the tiebreaker was, I could potentially be SOL and PRoD'd from the game right at the end of it.  And you know that as much as I am a nice guy, I'm far too competitive for my own good and I had to be selfish to ensure that I would make it here.  My entire purpose for playing this game this time around was to make the final three and prove to myself that I still had what it takes after disappointing myself last season, and to go out right near the end would have been my worst nightmare.  Had I won immunity it would have been a much different story because then I would have had nothing to lose from causing a tie.  But my paranoia once again got the best of me and I took the sure way out at your expense and for that I cannot apologize enough.  You were the Yau-Man to my Earl and I hope you know I treasure our friendship a lot.  I could literally write for paragraphs on why you're such an amazing person and friend but none of that will make up for the fact that I cast a vote in your direction and I understand that.  I just hope regardless what happens that we stay as close as we were before the game afterwards and that you understand my decisions in this game are strictly strategic to get myself to this point and I hope that my uber-competitiveness didn't ruin our friendship.