Kimberly's Classy Criticism

[Kim Spradlin]

Erik, Abi, Sandra, you all got to the final three. The Brazilian mafia strikes again! Whoop-de-freaking-do. You three accomplished something us seven jurors couldn't do. I applaud your capabilities in this game. But that doesn't mean you all played an incredible game. To me, you all simply just got here under certain circumstances.

Before I question you three, I would just like to say I held my tongue alot around you two. It doesn't mean I'm a quiet person, it simply meant that I did not want you two sitting here at the end. These two being Abi and Sandra. Since Erik had such an impeccable social game. Erik didn't even need to speak to me that's how much of a talented player he is y'all.

Anyways I really don't feel like loading my statement with intelligence, long words, metaphors and parallelisms because I'm pretty sure none of you three would understand half of that. Once you read my confessionals, I hope you read it and weep, if you can comprehend it. Because seriously I don't hold back y'all just aren't worth my time right now. Even though I guess I'm obligated for one of you three to win the game.

I would just like all of you to know I will be reading your responses to all of my fellow jurors' questions and taking everything it into account. So definitely watch what you say to the other jurors. If you slip up on here, you better believe you'll be losing my vote. Now let's get to here are my questions, try to answer them to the most outstanding way you can. It's what I expect.

ERIK: Hi. How are you? What's up? Hello. Hey. I'm just curious up until now I just realized you were in this game. I never met you and spoke with you until the moment I was voted out. Flawless social game you got there. Pretty unbelievable. And you think it's acceptable to vote out somebody you don't even know? Even though you weren't even on their radar? Your reasoning skills baffle me. I've never seen such a ill-logical player in this game.

But enough of that trash-talking I mean business here. So here are my questions just for you!! Why didn't you make it a priority to get to know me in this game? What was your biggest contribution to this game? And your social game is an unacceptable answer to this question. What was even going through your mind during this game? Like who was your biggest threat, what was your strategy, did you even have a strategy, who was your top alliance, etc.? You get the point.

ABI: Honestly, you're kind of ridiculous when it comes to this game. You seemed like an enjoyable person but you were just too scatter-brained for me. When I spoke to you I knew you were just looking out for yourself and I was just a number in your game. It was all about you and I saw right through it. Therefore dropping you at the merge was what I wanted to do.

So whenever I got messages from you such as "why u betray me" and my personal favorite you calling me a snake from Pokemon after I voted for you again. I was laughing the whole time. I didn't wanna go to the end with you because you're an ignoramus and your arguing skills are flawless. I was definitely shaking when I got called a snake from Pokemon. What a joke. But you made it to the finals.

I'm also obligated to question you so here we go. When you used your HII when Shamar was voted off you messaged me 30 minutes before the deadline was. Was that just a coincidence or strategic to see if I was lying to you about my vote? I mean seriously I would like a detailed recap of how you decided this decision before that tribal council. Throughout the game you were all about the girls, was that your true intention? Or did you want to be sitting next to Sandra and Erik? And finally, explain to me in detail why you should win. I want the moment you joined the board to where you are now.

SANDRA: I'm really indifferent about you. You have something in common with your fellow finalists. You and Erik had deplorable social games. You and Abi were confrontational chicas in the game. Additionally, you were certainly a threat. I didn't really feel the need to speak with you any more just because I also saw that you needed me gone to get what you wanted. Even though we did speak on civil terms I knew the wheels were always turning.

However my main concern with you is the way you played this game. Every time I would come on the boards you were picking an argument with everyone. Prancing around like I'M SO INTELLIGENT I SPEAK PORTUGUESE YOU GONE HONEY IM SANDRA DON'T MESS WITH ME. All I can here is BLAH BLAH, you seriously need to calm down. Arguing with everyone for no reason is not going to get you anywhere. Except if you wanna be an attention seeker which is definitely how I saw you in this game. Sure you were a competitor but your tactics overshadowed your challenge performance.

I only have a few questions for you. Do you think arguing is helpful for your game? And how so? And who do you like to argue with the most? That's a legit question. Also, what makes you better than Abi's sidekick? And an obvious answer like I made my opinion be known by arguing and winning challenges is not a good answer. Give me three words to describe your game play and an explanation for each.

That's all I've got people. Good luck to you three.

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[Abi-Maria Gomes]

Feb 26, 2013 17:07:06 GMT -5 Kim Spradlin said:

Erik, Abi, Sandra, you all got to the final three. The Brazilian mafia strikes again! Whoop-de-freaking-do. You three accomplished something us seven jurors couldn't do. I applaud your capabilities in this game. But that doesn't mean you all played an incredible game. To me, you all simply just got here under certain circumstances.

thanks but just to made a thing clear this was the first time ever that I play with Erik and Ozzy.

Feb 26, 2013 17:07:06 GMT -5 Kim Spradlin said:

ABI: Honestly, you're kind of ridiculous when it comes to this game. You seemed like an enjoyable person but you were just too scatter-brained for me.

you just saw my point, here on boards I was playing as Abi, but I´m not that bitch.

Feb 26, 2013 17:07:06 GMT -5 Kim Spradlin said:

So whenever I got messages from you such as "why u betray me" and my personal favorite you calling me a snake from Pokemon after I voted for you again. I was laughing the whole time.I was definitely shaking when I got called a snake from Pokemon. What a joke.

the Seviper thing was a joke so if you laugh that was my intension and seviper is a cool pokemon look how cute she is:

Feb 26, 2013 17:07:06 GMT -5 Kim Spradlin said:

I'm also obligated to question you so here we go. When you used your HII when Shamar was voted off you messaged me 30 minutes before the deadline was. Was that just a coincidence or strategic to see if I was lying to you about my vote? I mean seriously I would like a detailed recap of how you decided this decision before that tribal council. Throughout the game you were all about the girls, was that your true intention? Or did you want to be sitting next to Sandra and Erik? And finally, explain to me in detail why you should win. I want the moment you joined the board to where you are now.

will be a little big but I hope u all read cause I´ll explain all my game from the begining till the end

Like every game in the beginning it is important you find some people that you can trust and stick with them, and that's what I did from the first round I felt that me and steph would play very well together ( ) and the same with Sandra and Leann and so we decided to stay together and make a F4 deal and I really had every intention of keeping my word on it so I understand why you and chelsea wanted eliminate me because I had no intention of going to the end with you, and I knew it you feel the same but we never gave our word to each other that we would be F3.

In tribal stage things were great, I had the majority in my tribe but I started talking to the men in the case of a swap happen and so I met Ozzy and ozzy told me that Erik was brazilian too, so we donpt enter in the game knowing each other like Chelsea think, we just getting to know each other here. And I ended up getting very close to Ozzy / Erik/ Gabe ( the other boy that I alway saw online on aim) so I knew it if something happened I would still be good, but Ozzy and his big mouth got me in trouble when he start say that we were all Brazilians and was exactly because of that he and gabe were eliminated from game cause people knew it they were close to me.

The merge came and we decided to stay together as a group( the girls) and eliminate Shamar, and that would be great for me because we could eliminate all the boys and then I would still have the majority with steph / Sandra / leann on my side, but Shamar came up to me and told me that Kim / Chelsea wanted to eliminate me, and he and the boys would go with them, and I had to have a great conversation to convince Malcolm and Shamar to keep me in the game and vote Chelsea, since Kim was immune, worked and Chelsea was eliminated.

Again I tried my best to make us girls stay together, because that would be my best strategy, and again they all wanted Shamar out, but I had just made a deal with him and did not want to break it so early because still need him and so I took advantage of the fact that I knew it Mike was against me and that he had a "HII" and I turned the votes against him, at the last minute.

In the next round once again I try make the girls stay together and eliminate Shamar, but then Erik showed me his first sign of loyalty when he told me that the boys and girls would vote against me, then I knew it I would be the target, but did not wanted to spend my HII for nothing, so I started investigating Kim / Steph and Leann to decide what to do and Kim was good at hiding the plan cause I no see sights of a possible betrail but steph and leann indirectly show me that I would be the target. Steph was talking to me in a strange way, without compromise avoiding talking about future plans like we always did and leann was online and when I said hi she just went offline and I'm not so bad reading people and I decided to use my HII and I keep my vote on Shamar becuase keep 3 men in the game for me would be worse than keeping steph / Kim at the time. It was in this round that I decided to test Erik loyalty, I asked him to not vote for me, but he told me he did not wanted to betray the men yet, so I asked him to throw his vote for anyone else, and that's exactly what he did voting for Leann.

After that war was declared between myself/ Sandra and Kim / steph with leann in the middle and the boys with a great strategy for getting out of that fight, and once again erik my informant told me that Malcolm was fooling myself telling me that he was voting Kim/ steph when in fact he was voting on me, I confess I was afraid it could be 5 against 2, and then I began my work to save myself one more time, I knew it that if I convinced at least one person to not vote against me and in fact vote for Kim I could survive because I knew about Sandra´s double vote and so I talk to leann because we had an agreement to not vote on each other and she promised not to vote for me, but I knew she was not going to Kim, but for Sandra and I didnt want Sandra out, so I work on Erik at first he was afraid of being betrayed when we got into the end, but with a good conversation I convinced him to help me, so I kept sandra double vote in secret because I knew I would not need it for that round.

At F6, I knew it my biggest competition would be Steph so erik / Sandra / Malcolm and myself had an agreement to stay together to eliminate Steph, I didnt put Leann at mix cause I knew it she would not agree with that, but I knew the most important thing would be Sandra being immune, so in the challenge she told me the number of pyramides that she did and I knew I could not do more than her, and i´ll explain why: it would be better sandra immune than myself because leann would not vote for me, but she would vote for Sandra, and I'm sure if Sandra was not immune she would have left that round. With Sandra immune I thought would be a easy elimination, but again my spy told me that steph / Malcolm would vote for me and that Malcolm would cancel my vote, and Erik was afraid to make a big move so he told me that he would vote against me, so I knew I had to change tactics, I started chatting with Leann again and she told me she wanted Malcolm out I thought great now its just myself and Sandra go with use our doubles voting Malcolm off, and so another plan worked and I was able to save myself.

Again I let Sandra win immunity because I knew erik / leann would not vote for me but they could vote for Sandra (later in this round I was surprised to see that leann voted for me), with Sandra immune I just needed to get Erik votes but leann told me she would vote for me and that steph and erik would too, I talked with Erik and we stay with me voting Steph out.

I knew the jury would be angry with me and Sandra for sure and started thinking with who I would have more chances at the end, thinking well of two finalists in the game I saw that Leann at least played a great social game and at least tried to go against me once , and the jury was going to reward her so this time I would never give the immunity and fought my Maximum ( so hard that I was banned from the forums ProBoards LOL) and I won. at the first moment I almost let myself be carried away by emotion when I let tie just for both have a chance to fight for survive, but then I thought I did not play hard, betray, lied and did it all to get here and listen to my heart giving away the victory without a fight, and so I had to eliminate leann since Erik not even bother to talk in the game.

Kim that was my whole game, I hope that after you read this you see that I played this game from start to finish, never being quiet or hiding following plans, I created my own plans and I put them into practice by eliminating all members of the jury at the time I wanted to eliminate.

thanks.

[Erik Cardona]

But enough of that trash-talking I mean business here. So here are my questions just for you!! Why didn't you make it a priority to get to know me in this game? What was your biggest contribution to this game? And your social game is an unacceptable answer to this question. What was even going through your mind during this game? Like who was your biggest threat, what was your strategy, did you even have a strategy, who was your top alliance, etc.? You get the point.

Ouch.

Honestly, I hate to make bonds only to disappoint people in the game. I prefer to vote out someone I don't know well than someone who I have bonded greatly with.

I always saw Malcolm as my biggest threat. He was always a great social and physical player. Simple as that.

My strategy was only to lay low for a couple rounds and then expose myself as a strategist. That didn't work out very well, so I tried to lay low during the whole game and let the other eat each other alive.

My top alliance was ALWAYS Abi/Sandra/Ozzy simply because they were making so many enemies that I knew no one would be mad at me when I got to the end.

=) done

[Kim Spradlin]

Thank you both! And for the record Erik I'm not a follower. Maybe you should look in the mirror and then you'll see who the real follower is. Looking forward to your responses Sandra!

[Stephenie LaGrossa]

Feb 27, 2013 17:20:57 GMT -5 Erik Cardona said:

My top alliance was ALWAYS Abi/Sandra/Ozzy simply because they were making so many enemies that I knew no one would be mad at me when I got to the end.

=) done

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Nothing pisses me off more than someone bringing someone to the end "Because they made so many enemies" Just because we might not like someone we STILL know when someone plays a good game. Like just because Abi voted me out I still really like her, she was my biggest enemy in the game and I still like her. So are you saying just because they made enemies we should just vote for captain america? (you) who didnt do anything cept piss people off lmao.

[Erik Cardona]

I think you should recognize that it's still a strategy Steph. I'm going to defend my gameplay as much as I can.

And Kim, I'm sorry. I never talked to you really but it's just I saw you and Chelsea. One calling the shots and the other sort of appearing only less-threatening to us.

[Shamar Thomas]

Its interesting those you name as your top alliance are all brazillian like you and you have voted against them all.

Erik you aren't winning stop bothering lol

[leas]

I'm going to jump in here and defend Erik's gameplay. Playing under the radar and not making too many enemies is a valid way to play the game, and if you had bothered to watch all the seasons of Survivor, most of the time the one who wins wasn't the most aggressive or out there player, but instead had a more subtle approach while at the same time getting along well with the jurors and aligning him or herself with the one person who was always going to take the blame for whatever decisions the alliance as a whole made. Go review Africa, All Stars, and Samoa for an example of how being an under the radar player will get you the million dollars. And for the record Shamar, I find it very hypocritical that you're going on about how the only people to not vote for Abi are bitter jurors when you still are holding a grudge because I lied about not voting for you, even after I sent you a pm and an AIM apologizing for leading you on. To quote part of Shii Ann's jury speech "People who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones."

[Kim Spradlin]

Erik wasn't even on a radar. UTR players usually speak. He was simply mute.

[Abi-Maria Gomes]

Feb 28, 2013 20:39:51 GMT -5 leas said:

I'm going to jump in here and defend Erik's gameplay. Playing under the radar and not making too many enemies is a valid way to play the game, and if you had bothered to watch all the seasons of Survivor, most of the time the one who wins wasn't the most aggressive or out there player, but instead had a more subtle approach while at the same time getting along well with the jurors and aligning him or herself with the one person who was always going to take the blame for whatever decisions the alliance as a whole made. Go review Africa, All Stars, and Samoa for an example of how being an under the radar player will get you the million dollars. And for the record Shamar, I find it very hypocritical that you're going on about how the only people to not vote for Abi are bitter jurors when you still are holding a grudge because I lied about not voting for you, even after I sent you a pm and an AIM apologizing for leading you on. To quote part of Shii Ann's jury speech "People who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones."

I respect that cause its your opinion, and yes I agree that Africa/All stars and Samoa winners were all UTR players but if you review you will see that they were also very good at social part, they were liked by everyone and thats way they won, but I don´t see Erik like that, if you want to play a UTR game at least you should have a decent social game and Erik was horrible on that too.

[Sandra Diaz-Twine]

Feb 26, 2013 17:07:06 GMT -5 Kim Spradlin said:

SANDRA: I'm really indifferent about you. You have something in common with your fellow finalists. You and Erik had deplorable social games. You and Abi were confrontational chicas in the game. Additionally, you were certainly a threat. I didn't really feel the need to speak with you any more just because I also saw that you needed me gone to get what you wanted. Even though we did speak on civil terms I knew the wheels were always turning.

However my main concern with you is the way you played this game. Every time I would come on the boards you were picking an argument with everyone. Prancing around like I'M SO INTELLIGENT I SPEAK PORTUGUESE YOU GONE HONEY IM SANDRA DON'T MESS WITH ME. All I can here is BLAH BLAH, you seriously need to calm down. Arguing with everyone for no reason is not going to get you anywhere. Except if you wanna be an attention seeker which is definitely how I saw you in this game. Sure you were a competitor but your tactics overshadowed your challenge performance.

I only have a few questions for you. Do you think arguing is helpful for your game? And how so? And who do you like to argue with the most? That's a legit question. Also, what makes you better than Abi's sidekick? And an obvious answer like I made my opinion be known by arguing and winning challenges is not a good answer. Give me three words to describe your game play and an explanation for each.

Hello Kim! I dont think arguing help me in the game, but I will not let anybody tell bad things about me. Who know me from other games, know that I'm not a bitch who only want to fight. I think I should fight less, but I cant go back, this is what its is.

I think that I'm better than Abi, because I think my game was better. I decide every vote, but I dont put a target on m back because of that.

Explosive: I think everybody know about that. I think I have to learn how to keep my mouth shut sometimes. LOL
Smart: I vote who I want without be the target because of that.
Strong I think I win more challenges than everybody here.

Thanks Kim!