Stephenie's Questions

[Jeff Probst]

[Stephenie LaGrosa]

Hi girls, Congrats on making it to the end!

My questions will be the same to you both, since I did not get to know either of you during the game. I reached out once and neither of you bit. So since I don't know either of you from a hole in the wall, I don't know anything about either of your strategies or game play, really. So you will have to seriously earn my vote.

I would like each of you to describe to me what your strategies were, what you set out to do in the game and accomplished (besides getting to final 2!), and how did aligning with certain people further you in the game?

What I want to know is why I should vote for one of you over the other.

Thanks, Ladies!

[Sydney Wheeler]

Thanks Stephanie

I really dont remember hearing from you this entire game, but I could have reached out to you as well and I didnt! So my bad After the merge I talked alot with Aras and Todd about votes to see where their thoughts were since the came from the other tribe... because my goal was to vote each member off of the other tribe, leaving me and Sugar and Ken in the end and thats exactly what happened for the most part...monica flipped to the other side so she went first, then Erinn, then you, then Aras and well, Ken but thats only becuse todd won immunity and sugar had HII so had Todd not won that immunity challenge, he would have gone instead of Ken.......

<3 Syd

Both Ken and Erinn asked about game play.....

So here are some thoughts about my game play......at the start of this game I intended to play under the radar so that I would not be seen as a threat and to not have a target on my back. Yea I won a few challenges and could have won much more but I did not feel that I needed to win immunity challenges to be safe. Sugar's name was being thrown around in what seemed like every round, so she needed to win to ensure she stayed to the end. Id id win challenges when I THOUGHT the vote might be for me. I was able to get to the end of this game with NO votes cast against me til the round when Todd won immunity, and Sugar had the HII so you really had no choice but to vote for me .

I was also able to get Aras to change his votes a few times using my beauty and sexiness to get him to vote how I wanted him to. (JK) The round Monica went home Aras and a few others wanted you out, but I was able to get him to vote with me and vote out Monica instead. I also lied to Todd and told him I was all in for a F4 alliance with him and Stephanie and Sugar to try and get him to vote with me, and Erinn went that round...Aras was not happy about it, but he did ultimately vote with me (sorry girl, u know i <3 u ) The round Stephanie went, the vote again was going to be for you and I knew that Todd was working with Stephanie so we made it seem like we were going to vote for you but we all were voting for Stephanie because I knew Todd would never vote for her.Todd also came to me and begged to vote Aras out to keep him safe so I figured once Aras was gone Todd would be an easy next vote but he won Immunity that round and that messed up our whole plan. I blame myself for Todd winning that flag challenge because I did half of it and went to bed figuring I would finish in the AM but my alarm did not go off and Todd was almost done

Lastly, I sit here in the F2 with an incredible player!! Actually, I played in this game with MANY incredible players!! Being this was only my 5th game played EVER I have watched many players in both this game and past games come out hugely strong and cut throat and get voted out early or make moves that put targets on their backs, or just plain lie to everyone and then ultimately get caught up in their lies and get the boot! I was loyal to my alli first and foremost, and I felt by being more social and flirty and nice and not playing TOO aggressively, got people to trust me more and I was able to get to the end of this game against some really awesome players and that, I feel is a pretty great accomplishment!!!

[Jessica "Sugar" Kiper]

Steph,
I actually don't remember hearing from you either, I checked my PM's and don't have any from you, I do remember talking once on AIM about the girls alliance possibly, other than that And yes, as well, I could have reached out as well, honestly I felt our alliances were so set at that point.

My allies were Brett in the beginning and Sydney. It took me longer to trust Ken as much as I wanted to because Aras was always talking about how he "had this one or had that one" Ken and I have talked about it, once I trust Ken though, I trusted him and together, myself, Syd & him became a solid force. Aligning with Aras served me well as he did all the scrambling even before the challenges were even over and I knew he would keep me safe for quite awhile when I didn't have immunity. He did the work for Sydney and I, and we agreed the vote would be a Jalapao/Kota kind of thing with him after Monica went, but as Sydney said the round you went we changed the vote to keep Ken, or at least made Aras believe he did. When we knew we didn't need him anymore, along with Ken & Todd decided it was his time to go. It was bittersweet as I've said before, I liked Aras, but I was done with him the minute he lied to me about Brett, which FTR the knew he was lying about. I hope this helps you with your decision Steph!

[Aras Baskauskas]

Wow i shouldn't have listened to either of you apprently

[Erinn Lobdell]

nope Aras, never trust girls

[Brett Clouser]

never love girls, heart breakers.

[Sydney Wheeler]

Awww Brett...not all of us are Heart Breakers <3

[Jessica "Sugar" Kiper]

Jul 6, 2010 10:00:24 GMT -5 Brett Clouser said:

never love girls, heart breakers.

Sugar <3 Brett

[Aras Baskauskas]

PEeople learn the hard way Brett hahaha

[Erinn Lobdell]

Oh Hai Brett, I believe we're never met.

[Stephenie LaGrosa]

Jul 5, 2010 10:43:00 GMT -5 Sydney Wheeler said:

Thanks Stephanie

I was also able to get Aras to change his votes a few times using my beauty and sexiness to get him to vote how I wanted him to. (JK) The round Monica went home Aras and a few others wanted you out, but I was able to get him to vote with me and vote out Monica instead. I also lied to Todd and told him I was all in for a F4 alliance with him and Stephanie and Sugar to try and get him to vote with me, and Erinn went that round...Aras was not happy about it, but he did ultimately vote with me (sorry girl, u know i <3 u ) The round Stephanie went, the vote again was going to be for you and I knew that Todd was working with Stephanie so we made it seem like we were going to vote for you but we all were voting for Stephanie because I knew Todd would never vote for her.Todd also came to me and begged to vote Aras out to keep him safe so I figured once Aras was gone Todd would be an easy next vote but he won Immunity that round and that messed up our whole plan. I blame myself for Todd winning that flag challenge because I did half of it and went to bed figuring I would finish in the AM but my alarm did not go off and Todd was almost done

Sorry, Syd, this really confuses me.... Did you forget you were talking to Stephenie??? You refer to Stephenie as someone else, I am confused can you correct the above paragraph so I better understand what you're saying!

Thanks!

[Stephenie LaGrosa]

Wow, Sydney, I just read Erinn and Ken's replies from you and you copied and pasted this entire thing from one to the other to the other.

Huh - Now it makes sense why your reply didn't make sense to me - you didn't respond to *me*...

Nice effort though........

[Stephenie LaGrosa]

Thanks Sugar for the personal response! <3

[Stephenie LaGrosa]

Thanks, girls....

I asked you to give me a reason to vote for one of you over the other, and I think you accomplished that. I appreciate your help in making my decision.

Steph <3