Ace & Tanya's Opening Statements

[JEFF PROBST]

Jury, please do not post any questions until after Ace and Tanya do their opening statements.

Ace and Tanya, well done. The two most unlikely players to make it to the end.

Ace, an outcast that brought back into the game. Will that hurt you in F2 since you are already labeled with a second chance, or will the jury actually see that you've stepped up and play the game?

Tanya, you were considered a floater all the way to the end. Never winning any challenges and even not participating in a couple. Did your social skills help you along the way?

Guess we will see what the jury has to say. Ace and Tanya, you may post your opening statements here.

[SlutTanya Vancefromhell]

I guess most peoples think I was lazy and didnt give a crap most of the time.
I was just flying under the Rader gathering information and was just a fly on the wall.
I didnt do some of the ic because I didnt want to seems like a threat in the game which in
Reality I would of rocks the ICs.I was align with Kelly,Sally,Jamie,Syndey and at the end ACE.
I think I should Win because I was great at talking to peoples and being good at socailty and good at talking to peoples and working out deals.

[Ace Gordon]

Hey guys.

This game was very different from the usual grind of games I play. I'm normally a pretty aggressive player, but when I first came here I knew I would have to change that up a bit. There seemed to be a lot of people with strong personalities that would turn out to be a big threats. My goal in the early goings was to do my part in challenges, remain social enough not to remain a target, but to keep my mouth shut about alliances and try to show I wasn't much of a threat. Basically I wanted to make myself appear to be a puppet. I wanted someone to come, pick me up, and try to see if they can use me. In actuality, I had loyalty to no one that attempted to do this.

The strategy was working fine for the first few weeks. My name was brought up a few times as a target, which is to be expected. I always made sure I had the votes to stay, and I always did. Even the week I left, the only reason I left was due to a Hidden Immunity Idol. I only had one vote to leave. At the end of the day, I'm still here and I barely missed much from being a pre-juror on the short-term.

When I came back, the game was basically a warzone. Ozzy & Jamie were always big targets of mine from my original tribe, so I sought to see if I could maybe get in good with the women, thinking they were still together but much more crackable than the men. A little shine of hope came through the cracks when Sally approached me for an alliance. The week she left, I was planning on orchestrating a blindside to Ozzy or Jamie. But I was told that the women were targeting me. So, that was a complete no go and I had to side with the men. When it came down to a tie, Kelly & Sally shot themselves in the foot with their public campaigning posts, meaning I didn't even have to lift a finger to break it. I was assured I had the votes right after and Sally left.

After Sally's defeat, Tanya started to PM me and that was the start of our very subtle alliance. Me and Yasmin also grew close at this point and we both decided to shoot for Ozzy again. But, after Tanya was approached for the deal, I started getting PMs to vote out Yas. This started to make me feel Tanya was conveying messages over, so I just kept my mouth shut and threw a hinky as Yasmin was sent home. I was, once again, going to attempt to orchastrate something the next week as I know felt very low end on the totem poll, but I came home too late and figured everyone probably had already voted. So I hopped onto the Kelly bandwagon as well.

I was feeling like I was next, but I was approached by Ozzy & Sydney about a blindside on Jamie. I knew this would likely be their downfall as this was the first crack in the drywall that i needed. Jamie was blindsided, Jaime was left outcasted, and I was feeling a lot better about my position.

The next week, the discussed target with Jaime, which I disagreed with. In actuality, I wanted Adam gone that week as I felt he, Sydney, and Ozzy were close and needed to be separated so I wasn't fifth place. But after last week, I didn't want to spoil the chance I had. So I kept my mouth shut and to my surprise, Adam went home anyway thanks to Sydney using her prize.

With Adam gone, I once again toyed with the idea of blindsiding Ozzy. Tanya seemed to be down with it and I was about to contact Jaime, but it turned out to be a no go. Sydney won IC and Ozzy had a HII. This left me with no choice but to take out Jaime.

Now it's final four - Ozzy, Sydney, Tanya, me. At this point, I knew it would tie no matter what. I pretty much threw every single one of the individual immunities throughout the merge. I wanted to make myself feel like a minimal threat for this purpose. Sydney had already told me at this point she thought Tanya was useless so I knew her and Ozzy were likely taking her to the F3 for an easy place in the Final 2. The tie came down to me and Ozzy and for the first time in this game, I went all out for the tie-breaker and defeated who I believe was the biggest and best threat of the game.

The next week, I once again went all out and took out the second biggest threat, Sydney.

Tanya and I had very similar strategies. The difference is, she didn't have to lift her finger at all in this game. I wasn't planning on being the guy who sucks throughout the game. This game is all about timing and making the right moves at the right time. When there are smart players like Ozzy & Sydney who know who the right person to target is, you can't look like a threat. But even though my attempt at competitions didn't come out until late, it was the reason why the two favorites to win the whole game left back-to-back.

But in any case, this game was really fun and will be my final ORG. Win or lose, I'm glad to be ending my run in these on a high note. That said, let the bygones be bygones, let the peace spread with love, let the handpounds lead to hugs, and let us all just kick it when this said and done.

I now bounce the ball into the jury court. Good luck Tanya.

[Ace Gordon]

Well, thanks Adam

[JEFF PROBST]

Ok, jury, keep your questions in the jury threads that I made up so not to confuse questioning and answers. Thanks!

[SlutTanya Vancefromhell]

is Adam done being a Jackass:)