J.P.'s Response to Christy
I dont however see how any of you did anything besides be loyal to each other. So I want you each to name TWO moves that YOU, not anyone else made in this game. Explain how your moves show that you played this game for yourselves and not for anyone else. I am pretty sure of who I want to vote for to win, but at the same time, I want to see if the other two can convince me with their answers that they should be the winner of Surv!vor Amazon.
Hey Christy.  Now I know the three of us had an alliance from very early on and it looks like we were really close, I think if you really knew the dynamics of the Jaburu alliances you'd know that the word loyal really doesn't apply to this alliance whatsoever lol.  I compare us to Ian/Katie/Tom or Dreamz/Earl/Cassandra where, while we agreed from very early on that we'd stick together, the game took so many turns and trust was broken along the way.  So while yes, our alliance did ultimately end up as the final three I'm not totally sure if I could say we were loyal to each other- it was simply just how the game ended up.

Simply put, my main alliance in the game was to Brad, and my other alliance was with Todd.  Outside of those 2 people, I really didn't care who left but Brandon was high on my list until I realized he valued Shambo more than myself but I did try to keep up the facade that I wanted Brandon to stay in the game because Brad expressed that his ideal final 3 was myself and Brandon, although I knew it was because Brandon was closer to Brad and Todd was closer to me and he wanted my side alliance out.  I also was pulling for Ryan to stay, because I did ultimately feel bad about the whole final 10 debacle that split up the Tambaqui votes, but that's really outside the point.  I was absolutely willing to work with Tambaqui but unfortunately the situation never presented itself early in the merge and when it did, the plan fell through ultimately due to something I really couldn't control.  However, since you wanted moves that were based purely on my own, obviously the final 10 move that gave us the momentum to take over the game was a combination of myself and Brad working on Ryan to flip, my sporatic finding of the HII and playing it and small part to Shambo for making it seem like we were going to turn on each other immediately.  I did attempt to make another big move when I realized my ass was against the line that ultimately failed, I think I was constantly thinking of ways to keep myself safe especially after being labeled a threat for whatever reason.

I think one move I made was to try to work with Jenna and Heidi at the final 7- which ultimately flopped due to situations outside my control (shock, Surv!vor Samoa haunts me again).  My goal was simply to ensure that if I didn't win immunity, that nothing would happen to where Brandon or Shambo would turn on me to vote me out.  Ultimately I ended up winning both challenges, which put me into a really tricky position.  Based on the dynamics of the Jaburu alliance, I knew Brad was going to be the swing vote at the final 5 Tribal Council between Brandon/Shambo and Myself/Todd.  While I wasn't worried that Brad would betray me, I was worried that Shambo would end up winning everything and I wanted to put a stop to that.  After talking to Todd, we made the decision to vote for Shambo.  The real decision was when.  I really did want to keep Heidi in the game, but after Todd disclosed the information that he had found the rehidden immunity idol and after Brad was suggesting for me to make the move while he still voted for Heidi (which I could only assume was to try to put the blood on myself and Todd, while he would get a better chance at Shambo's vote in the end), we ultimately decided keeping both Jenna and Heidi in the game at the same time was risky and the plan would work at the final 6 as long as Shambo didn't win immunity.   Heidi was voted out, and the IC came down to Shambo and myself.  I whored my ass off to win the IC to ensure that the plan would work... and then Todd disappeared and self-voted, which forced me to go to plan b and vote for Jenna which I really did NOT want to do.  It was completely annoying to spend all that time strategizing for something that would probably never happen on the real show but I realize that's what online gaming is about- trying to find reliable people.

Which brings me to the second move I made on my own which was the decision to cause a tiebreaker at the final 4 TC.  At this point, Brad was immune and my vote had to come down to Todd, one of my most loyal allies from day 1 and Brandon, the ally who turned on me and wanted me gone.  Had I won immunity, my decision would have been easy and the tie would have continued because I was really pissed off at Brandon that he just tried to vote me out as cop-out to get her jury vote and would have rather lost to Todd.  I did initially cause the tie to basically ensure that I was going to make the final 3- I knew for 100% that Todd was going to vote for Brandon over me, so I voted for Todd to make sure that at least there would be a tie in case anyone else felt I was a threat at that point.  Afterwards, I realized that strategically, Brandon never would have considered voting for me in the final 3- his vote would have gone to Brad.  Todd, I believe, would realize the situation was out of my control and the possibility of him voting for me was much higher than the shot against Brandon.  I hate to keep comparing this group to Survivor Fiji, but I felt very much like Earl having to vote out Yau-Man at the final 4- it wasn't because I wanted to do it, it was because it was what was best for me to give myself the best shot at winning this game.   I feel like crap for doing it, but no one signs up to play these games to get less than 1st and that's how I look at it.

I know my first move might not really count because it fell through, but my point is basically yes, we were an alliance united by our sexuality we were not a solid unit from start to finish and I was constantly evaluating and reevaluating my situation so I don't think anyone can say I was carried here.  I hope that gives you some more insight into my mindset throughout the endgame (and sorry this is posted so late, these last two weeks have been extremely shitastic).


- J.P.