[Jeff Probst]

This is Kellyn'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 Kellyn. In-fighting amongst the Final 3 should be reserved for the Live Final Tribal Council on Sunday.

Kellyn, 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.

[Kellyn]

Well this is going to be kind of weird.

Don and Seb screwed me and lied to me since day 1 and I barely spoke with Davie at all. You guys aren't really giving me much to work with in your opening statements -Davie didn't even acknowledge me in his lol. So I'll just get to the questions.


Seb - You were a pretty big scumbag to almost everybody you worked with. How the hell can you expect to get any of their votes with that kind of jury management?

Davie - Your game was extremely passive and you didn't even bother to show up or let the hosts know you wouldnt make the last IC. Talk about a low-effort. Do you think your best shot as winning is because the other two fucked up more or do you think you just played better? Please don't answer with a combination of both, just pick one and explain, please.

Don - I feel like you are probably a combination of Davie and Seb's game types. What do you consider your single best move that you initiated by yourself ? if you can think of one.

[Kellyn]

Ok, I just double checked and Davie never missed a challenge, Just ignore that guys -apologies Davie.

[Sebastian]

Well this is going to be kind of weird.

Don and Seb screwed me and lied to me since day 1 and I barely spoke with Davie at all. You guys aren't really giving me much to work with in your opening statements -Davie didn't even acknowledge me in his lol. So I'll just get to the questions.


Seb - You were a pretty big scumbag to almost everybody you worked with. How the hell can you expect to get any of their votes with that kind of jury management?

I know you aren’t a bullshitter or an emotional type Kellyn so I’m not going to give you any bullshit. On day one your 4 person alliance ostracized me and don for both making a joke at a truth or dare game. I screwed you because I wasn’t involved in your plans. That is nothing personal, it is strictly game.

The second time I screwed you was the first vote of the merge when I voted you out. This may have been seen as a brutal betrayal because we had a final two- but I have a couple reasons for it. First of all, you were a pot stirrer and a strategist. On the first vote you wanted to make a move (understandable, I wish the other 90% of the cast had the balls you did). So I was already pinned at the merge between two final two deals either Chelsea or you. I chose Chelsea over you because you had way more dirt on me. Along with that you immediately snagged steph up as a number for you! That is terrifying to me! Your gameplay scared me and I told a couple people I thought you were the star of the premerge. Another reason for this decision was I had heard you had made a final two deal with mike so I felt that you were preparing other options besides me to get to the end with. That was just a personal feeling, whether it is true or not I am all ears to hear about how dumb of a decision it was.

In regards to jury management, some of the things I did were very unintentional and very dumb of me without a shadow of a doubt. Some was intentional (Towards the end I would joke about how great I am at the tribal councils to get enraged jury responses. I did this to ensure that more people wanted to take me to the end). My hope was to come here to explain and justify my actions. I expected some bitterness and even started my speech under the assumption that I had hurt all of you (as you have all made abundantly clear). My game doesn’t end as soon as I made final three. I still am here to play and explain my actions, along with me wanting to justify any ways I hurt the jurors emotionally.

[Davie]

Kellyn, we really never spoke with each other, outside of our short discussion when you were Nomad. I'm sorry about that. Also, I can't express how bad I felt for missing the Final 5 challenge and tribal. I think it's a huge mark against me, and deservedly so. Excuses aren't good enough, I should've been there, and I'm sorry for missing.

To answer your question, I think I am a better player. I identified the style of gameplay that would work for me in the merge and I stuck to it. I identified a solid Ahmar alliance of Gabby, Mike, Alec, Clay and Sebastian, and rather than sticking my neck out and publicly declaring war against them, I worked on integrating into them. I rebuilt my relationships with the OG Fenassa and worked on building a relationship with Sebastian.
I knew I wasn't a huge social player, but I worked to come off as non-threatening.This helped me not only gather information, but also really stay off of people's radar for much of the game. I didn't want to be the type of player who got some information and immediately told someone, I kept a lot of the things I learned close to my chest.
I believe I'm a better player because I always knew where my position was. I didn't falsely think I was some huge mastermind, or that everyone loved me. I knew people weren't paying much attention to me, and I also knew that I could use that to my benefit to make it to the end.

[Donathan]

Don - I feel like you are probably a combination of Davie and Seb's game types. What do you consider your single best move that you initiated by yourself ? if you can think of one.

Hi Kellyn! you are L I T E R A L L Y a goddess to me... literally all I ever talked about was how iconic I think you are and I've apologized to the hosts for playing a role in depriving the world from the gift that was your existence in this game I am SO excited to be in your presence again I'm going to DM Sia on instagram and ask her to give you $14k for being fan favorite because I'm obsessed with you. Okay I could go on for hours but I feel like it's starting to come off as disingenuous so I gotta stop.

Now for your question I'm gonna sit here and take full credit for any one move in particular. Nothing in this game can be done alone. Every vote required a majority. Everybody was playing their own game and sees it from their own perspective. For me to point to one single move and say that I initiated it myself and take sole credit for any specific moment in the game wouldn’t 100% match up with how the members of the jury remember how the game went down and it would make it very easy for you guys to just write me off as being delusional and incorrect about how I view my game. I really wouldn’t gain much from sitting here trying to act like there’s something big that I can put a giant ribbon on with my name on it to serve to you. But, what I can say is that every move I made in this game was thought out and I have the highlights of what my version of the story is as I've outlined my perception and rationale behind the conversations I was having and the game that I was playing in my opening statement and Pat asked me a similar question so I don't want to be redundant and annoying. All of the little things I did in the game added up to make the right equation that led me to being here at the end so every move I made was the right move for me to make it to this point even if those moves didn't include me being the person who had a strategic choke hold of control and power over every action in this game.