[Jeff Probst]

This is Stephanie's Final Tribal Council Thread.

All other Jurors should remain in their own threads. Final 3, remember... this is not for you to address each other, but to talk to Stephaniie. In-fighting amongst the Final 3 should be reserved for the Live Final Tribal Council on Sunday.

Stephanie, you have until Saturday at 8c/9e to post your statements/questions to the Final 3. Remember not to take up too much of their time as they have 8 other jurors to get to. Please no listing or questions requiring novels for answers. You should post all of your statements/questions in your opening post in this thread. There is a live Final Council on Sunday where you will get to address everyone live about the statements they have made as well ask ask follow ups.

[Stephanie]

Congratulations to you all. I would like to start with Davie. Davie, my man, you probably should've been gone before the merge since you really didnt start playing until then, and even when you did make it, you were a paranoid little rat, but I must say, you were my favorite. It truly was an underdog story. Donathan, did you even play? I swear you never showed up? When you did, you barely made a splash and were truly futile. I never once thought "oh what way is Donathan going to go?" It was more "is this dude even here?", but for an AFK you surely made it far. Finally, possibly the biggest asshole in this game, Seabass. I truly have nothing nice to say to you. You were a shit person and only looked out for themselves and not those were tried to help you and make your game good. You treated people like shit and never really made a big move. You went a long with your little posse flexing your public idol like you have a big dick. Thank you all and congrats. If you want to convince me why you should win, go ahead.

[Donathan]

Hi Steph nice to meet you! I was busy during the merge time but I also knew that you, Kellyn, Mike & Chelsea were the 4 biggest names coming into the merge and that the target was going to be on you based on the shit that went down premerge. I didn't want to attach myself to a sinking ship and from multiple people I heard that you were smart and devious and I decided to completely steer clear from you so that when you left early I wouldn't have any stake in you or your game and there was no way the inevitable fallout of whatever you were doing could come back on me. From a personal level and from the point of jury management, I do now wish that I approached you differently and gotten to know you and let you get to know me, but it just didn't make sense and there wasn't the opportunity to do so. As someone who doesn't know my game first hand I hope that you take the time to read my opening response and answers so that you get my point of view on the game that so that you don't have to rely on preconceived ideas of things that you never got the chance to be aware of. I look forward to reading your confessionals because I just know that you are someone that as a fan I would LOVEEEEEE but as someone who had to play with you, it just couldn't work out with us.

[Donathan]

I know that probably wasn't a very convincing argument directly geared for me to get you to vote for me to win but I know that you have no personal connection to me so there's no foundation for you to take the words I say and realize the person that I am and what it truly means. I hope that it doesn't translate as I don't care or that I am writing you off, I just realize that there's not much i can say to you personally to have that wow factor that says STEPHANIE NEEDS TO VOTE FOR DONATHAN TO WIN THERES NO OTHER WAY AROUND IT!!!! But I really do hope you give me a chance and open up your mind and your heart to all of the effort I'm putting into this in all of the categories of this jury situation

[Sebastian]

Seabass. I truly have nothing nice to say to you. You were a shit person and only looked out for themselves and not those were tried to help you and make your game good. You treated people like shit and never really made a big move. You went a long with your little posse flexing your public idol like you have a big dick. Thank you all and congrats. If you want to convince me why you should win, go ahead.

Thank you Stephanie for these words. I think this gets to the core of why I should win. I was an ass, I was a smug little bragger, and I was self interested. The first two are examples of my bad jury management, but I’m somewhat ok with being called self interested. I think that I was always playing this game for myself and I don’t consider that a bad thing. I think out of the finalists I was the most concerned with what I did, and the most willing to do things without direction from others. I don’t mean this as if I’m the mastermind or godfather, I just believe I had a lot of personal autonomy in my own game that I don’t see in the other finalists. All I can do at this point is apologize for being so self-absorbed and hope that I can earn your vote.

When it came to “big moves”, I don’t think making moves would benefit me in any way. The big moves would be people like Gabby, Chelsea, people that were shielding my game and protecting me. It isn’t the most exciting gameplay to hide behind people, but it is effective. I didn’t make big moves, I just made decisions that removed the most threatening people to leave me in the final two with the least threatening people. That’s my pitch to you, that this game isn’t all just flash and show. It is a lot of careful planning.

On a person level again I can’t stress enough that I didn’t want to hurt you. When you came to me with a final three I didn’t want to reject it and reveal my loyalties. It isn’t the nicest way to play (clearly), but you were a savvy player and I was worried that you would have revealed all the stuff I had told you to help you campaign against Kellyn. If people started figuring out I had anything to do with that my spot would have been blown up because I was trying to blame others for that move. It was just game decisions, if I could do it over again I would have told you no to the proposed final three with gabby me and you.

[Davie]

Thank you Stephanie (I think lol). I was extremely paranoid in this game but I think for the most part I was able to manage it and prevent it from getting the best of me as opposed to looking like some crazy person. I do feel like a bit of an underdog story, I know nobody probably expected me to be here in the end. But I want to emphasize that I played, and fought to get here! I hope you feel my gameplay is worthy of your vote.