Stranded in Sri Lanka

~*Christina’s Opening Statement*~

Wow! I cannot believe I am sitting here in the Final 3 tonight. When I joined this game, I came into it not knowing what to expect. I was told so many positive reviews on the Stranded series and was elated to finally take part. I wanted to join this and play a good, strategic, game. I wanted to be someone who was remembered, even if I did not come out on top. My thought was: I would still have a chance to return and try again. I never expected to have the journey that I did have here and make it to the top with Kim and Simone. This has been an incredible journey and ride with you all. I would like to highlight my views of the game that we have all just played. I hope this shows my strength and adaptability that got me here to the finale tonight.



On day 1 we were given the option to take a public immunity idol. I took this immunity idol as something I could use at my first tribal council for safety. It was a decision to keep me safe in a game that I was unsure how I would fair. I made some early bonds with Jonas, Leif, Kim, Julie. We ended up being successful in the challenges, but I had my strategic juices flowing, by feeling close to people on the tribe enough where I would be safe. I felt extra bonded with Kim and Leif. They seemed to understand the way I spoke and got my humor. I really was excited for what the game was going to bring.

When the Old Matt was replaced by the new Matt I was thrown into a world that I called “exile island” in various settings. I was with New Matt, Ali, and many people who weren’t around much socially. Michael was the only one who slightly showed up for challenges and then would disappear. I had to use this time to bond with New Matt and Ali. I had to get them on my side for the future and then hope that Julie/Jonas and Leif/Kim would be with me when we merged or had another tribe swap. I had to adapt without my friends and allies. I had to hope they wouldn’t have forgotten me. On this new tribe, I attended my first tribal council. I chose against using my idol as we were voting out inactive players. I had enough trust in Ali and Matt wanting me for the future of their games. Matt was still becoming accustomed to everything, and Ali sounded excited to work with me. I saved that idol for my merge game.

When we finally got new tribes, I met Simone. Simone was someone I clicked with right away. She gave me the same vibes that Kim/Leif gave me. I was excited to work with them. Ali and I were suspicious of Matt and the green tribe idol, but knew we needed Matt around as another vote to protect ourselves.



I entered merge with optimism. I thought I had a strong chance to play a strategic game as I got to know people I never played with before: Ryan, Chrissy, Patrick, Cole. To talk again to previous bonds: Julie, Jonas, Leif. I was excited. I still had my public idol, and I could use it at the first merge tribal council.
I started winning the challenges which prevented me from needing to use the idol. As I was winning the first 3 merge challenges, everything crumbled.



I started with Kim/Simone being great friends and allies. I thought I had a strong chance to work with them and Ali/Matt so that once Julie/Jonas would go—we could take out Patrick/Cole and get into a majority of 4, maybe with Matt or Leif as a 5th . It was exciting. I didn’t feel the same trust and bond with Julie/Jonas due to my new-found bonds with Simone/Ali/Matt. I thought I had to play a middle strategic game and oust both “sides” of Jonas/Julie and Patrick/Cole. Not realizing the entire story. I also found myself liking Chrissy/Roark, and they seemed like wildcards to play the middle as well.




As I won challenges, I felt trust break. Jonas/Chrissy went home fine—I betrayed Jonas/Julie to vote out Jonas because I wanted to play the middle game and get rid of that “side”, I was okay with Chrissy going because she wasn’t apart of my core plan either. She was all over the place and even though I found her fun and interesting, she couldn’t be trusted long term.

When Ali left I was stunned. It finally hit me that I was not playing the way I wanted to when I first entered the game. It hit me that winning the challenges were causing an issue and I was lucky that I did not go this round, when my electricity was out and lost the challenge. I had to play up my idols (fake and real), I had to cause chaos and adapt to the change. I adapted as much as I could to try and keep other people targeted as much as I could. I wanted people to fear me because that was the way to avoid having votes placed on me. My entire goal was to make others play the game and see me as useable. It didn’t always work. I was not able to shake having an actual alliance with Matt/Roark. I would hear they wanted me out from Simone/Kim, I would hear that Simone/Kim wanted me out from Matt/Roark. Ryan was back and forth with wanting to work with me, and then not wanting to work with us. The only person I could trust was myself.

I lied to people and was prepared to lie even more than I did. I was focused on playing a well-rounded game, but areas of strategy were a struggle with my challenge wins. Therefore, I had to focus on a different strategic game. My focus was solely chaos, confusion, and anxiety against other people in the game to get myself one round further.



The common denominator is going to be that I won 7 immunities challenges and had a public immunity idol to get here. Why do I deserve to win?
I deserve to win because I came out fighting from day 1 when I took that public idol. I wanted to play a strategic game but was forced into playing a defensive/underdog game throughout the merge due to fear of my challenge wins. I never gave up, I never backed down. I never surrendered to the inevitable. I never gave up on myself and my own ability to convince people to not sit back and let others’ play the game. I kept throwing wrenches in and surviving. Yes, with challenge wins, but also with tricks and lies of having one idol and acting like I had two. I adapted to the hand I was dealt. I stood my ground and stayed focused through the journey I had.



I will end with this last observation. When we look back on the journey we all have completed together. From Day 01 to today. I was constantly a visible player. I never lessened that, and I still made it here in the end. When anyone looks back at the Sri Lanka season, I will be a remembered character that played my heart out. I think my journey and story deserves to end with the crown and title of winner.



Thank you and I look forward to your questions.

So sexual…

So seductive…

So…










SIMONE!



Have you ever seen anything more perfect? A frumpy Asian dumpling on a Fijian island. This is also the best GIF I could find of myself and if I win the money tonight, I will invest it in flooding GIPHY with every frame I’m in during my entire 6 days on Survivor. When they do a “WHERE ARE THEY NOW” special on this cast, I’m most likely going to be shoeless and addicted to meth because chances are I’ll be unemployed after next week. I’ll be on Dr Phil with my ugly cry face talking about how this game RUINED my life and my ability to hold a part-time job. If you want to contact me after the game, you can find me on an escort website under the name Si-MOAN™.

My situation wasn’t ideal, I think everyone knew that and I explained that. I knew coming into the game I’d have to focus more on the social aspect rather than the 2 hours required to show up, puff your tits out and scream at everyone until your tonsils exploded. I was a stealthy UTR strategist and the social bonds I made with people and gaining their trust was my greatest asset in this game. I’m sure my mosquito bite boobs helped also -pushes up bra-. I was easily the most vulnerable person in this merge cast given my situation. I wasn’t able to compete for immunity 90% of the time which left me wide open for elimination at any time.

The pre-merge as we all know was a semi-erect graveyard. It is however where I formed my greatest bonds in this game. Cole and Patrick on Bambarun and then at the first swap, Kim. Cole and I instantly gravitated towards each other first and formed an alliance and then Patrick and I struck up a strong friendship and the three of us came together and stayed together at the first tribe pick. At the first swap I met Kim and I decided this was a good opportunity to form something one on one with her as a cross tribe connection. This wasn’t always roses and sparkles. There was a lot of paranoia on this tribe. I created the narrative using our tribe ranking that I was with Kim to make her feel secure while there was also a plan to blindside her before Bill because of suspicion she had found the idol. It was actually a mess, so I’m surprised we got as cohesive as we did. lmao.

Creating a side

Coming into the merge it was a public relations disaster for people I considered allies. Julie and Cole had just come off their pay per view fight and now he had merge boot written all over him. I knew this was a good time to make new friends and also reconnect with old ones. Chrissy and I caught back up and had some girl talk she had told me that she trusted Jonas a lot. We all know we considered Jonas somewhat of a threat and the suspicion was he had the idol. I used this entire weekend to plant little seeds to the people I wanted to work with like “Jonas is the glue holding certain people together, if we take out Jonas we can slowly take control of the game because the others will scatter.” The people I wanted to work with was Christina/Ali/Kim/Patrick/Cole and myself which was a mixture of the swap tribes I had been on. I don’t necessarily think there were solid sides at this point but creating the illusion there was helped. I know a big sell at that point in the game for voting Jonas was to weaken Julie. A lot of people had a part in this first vote, but I was pushing hard that Jonas was the glue holding people together and it worked to create the side I wanted to work with.

The next vote was Chrissy, and this was a tricky one because it happened so fast. A few of us had spoken about voting out Chrissy and Cole was cemented in it because of how she backstabbed him. It was close to the deadline and there were people who weren’t willing to do it. I said to Ali and Matt if they would vote Chrissy because I’d vote her. Christina and I had been talking about voting Chrissy and she had told me that Ali and Matt were against it but after I asked they had changed their minds. I believe her words were “OMG they changed their minds, you have PULL Simone”

Right after this vote, I had several people telling me that Christina and Ali were going around telling everyone that I organised the Chrissy vote and that it was all my idea. This is when my trust in Ali/Christina went downhill and Christina’s idol started to become more of a factor. All of us like Bambi on ice trying to play around that thing. I caught Ali in REAL TIME leaking things to Ryan. Ryan was telling me ev-er-y-thing Ali was telling him, so I decided to test her while we were all online. I told Ali that I wanted a F4 of Christina/Kim and her and it took her about .5 seconds to tell Ryan and then for Ryan to tell me. This is when I knew I had to get her out and that I couldn’t trust her moving forward.

After Cole left… voting out Patrick was the hardest move I had to make on a personal level in this game. Kim and I’s last conversation was to vote Matt with Patrick and Ryan. Once we got to tribal council and the way Ryan had been acting, I was unsure if he would really vote Matt, so I voted for Patrick to blend in with the vote. Turns out we both had that gut feeling and we both decided to make that split decision at the last moment.

Ryan’s Extra Vote

Leading into the F6, Ryan at this point had no solid allies left but I still maintained a solid relationship with him throughout the merge. Cole had told Patrick and I at F9 that Ryan had an extra vote and Patrick and I had kept it under wraps. Oh, btw thanks for telling us about that Cole and not your idol you knuckle head. <3 He was emotional about Roark and Matt selling him out at the tribal before which was the perfect opportunity to make sure he wasn’t going to vote Kim or me. He told me officially about his extra vote and I put on my best shocked pageant face:



WHAT?! An extra vote?!

Kim and I were debating what to do next, so I told her that Ryan had the extra vote. I said we could get him to vote Roark with us and play the extra vote to avoid a tie. Ryan was hesitant in telling Kim about the extra, but I told him that in order to ~convince~ her to vote Roark with us is to tell her closer to the vote about his extra vote so she can’t tell anyone. I eventually pushed Ryan into telling Kim himself officially that he had it. Kim put on her best pageant face as well and we secured the vote. Ryan didn’t end up using the extra vote because Christina tried to pull some whack ass shit to make it look like she had game where she’d get the votes on me and then save me with her idol and vote out Matt which allowed our three votes to be enough regardless. This is one of the main moments as an example of how I was using the trust I had gained from people to my advantage and the stealthy UTR game I was playing. Especially when Ryan was a known swing voter and gaining and keeping his trust.

I’m looking forward to addressing you all one on one. I’ve given you my perception so I’m looking forward to hearing yours and expanding on any questions you have to ask. I played a very behind the scenes game and it wasn’t as public as a lot of other people and that was due to me not being able to make a lot of live events. I know I didn’t sit on my ass and do nothing, I just had to take a different approach and that approach was the social aspect of the game and creating as much trust as I could to keep me safe and using that trust to make the necessary moves. Sure, I could have unnecessarily yelled at people but no one ever came for me or gave me a reason to get psycho and I think that speaks volumes to the social game I was playing.

This game has been wild. You all need to be studied. I don’t know what mental institution Jeff found most of you in. The scarier thing is he is MARRIED one of you. Oh well, I guess I am all for diversity after all.

Spradlin's Special Statement

Hey everyone! First of all congratulations to Simone and Christina for making it to the Final 3!


A little less than a month ago, this game began. I came into this game not expecting much and I was just excited to be a part of something that I had loved for so long. Survivor has been a lifelong passion of mine, like many of the people here, and it honestly gives me such passion and lust for life that my friends outside in the real world just do not understand. To be integrated and immersed in a world of people who share this infatuation for a reality TV show has allowed me to find those who really can empathize with something I truly love. It gives me so much self-confidence to see that I'm not this needle in a haystack and there are people who are as crazy as I am. I just want to start off by saying how amazing of an experience this whole game has been so far and how thankful I am that the hosts took so much time out of their lives to make this game as awesome as it was. In addition, I want to say that you guys have been the best group of people I have ever played an ORG with. I will admit, the number of inactives in the premerge was a little disheartening, but those feelings were short-lived as once the merge came, everyone hit the ground running.



I started this game on a tribe that was physically strong and we dominated challenges. Because of this, I was able to talk to my tribemates who shared so many similarities with me and not have to worry about making alliances or voting anyone out. Now I have played in a few ORGS before this one, but every one is such a new and fresh experience that I end up being impacted so differently every time. After the first swap, I remember being absolutely devastated that I was separated from my close allies Christina, Jonas, Julie and Leif. They were my rock, my home, my friends who I trusted even though we never had to put that trust to the test originally. Instead I got stuck with two borderline Natyaya inactives (Kat and Bill) and three very active Bambarun.



I remember thinking that I was done after that swap happened and that we would go on a losing streak and I would just be another long-forgotten player left in the shadows. When we lost that first challenge, my heart literally sank to the ground and I still remember the exact feeling of peril I felt at that moment. Never did I think I would feel such raw emotion for an online game. I remember collaborating with the enemy and voting out my ally Kat. It was the worst feeling in the world to vote out someone due entirely to a mistake I personally made in the challenge. She did not deserve to leave because of me and I felt like an absolute horrible person. I've blindsided people before in games, but not once has it been a straight consequence of my mistake. I kept telling myself it was a game and that it was no harm done, but I could not shake the feeling. It was at that point that I knew deciding to play this game was one of the best decisions I've made in a very long time. Feeling such pure sadness gave me a sense of what it is like to play real Survivor. Stranded was an opportunity for me to grow and prosper in an environment I felt so at home in.



After voting Kat out, I doubted myself and whether it was the wrong decision for days. I knew it was a smart move to assimilate into the original Bambarun tribe, but I couldn't help but feel I messed up. However, looking back now, I am sitting here which makes me believe it was the correct move to make. Coming into the game, the main essence of my strategy was to create as many social bonds as I possibly could and use those social connections to further myself in the game. Not only did I want to make those social bonds, but I wanted to experience genuine connections with people because at the end of the day, if you don’t get along with someone, it’s a lot more difficult to work with them and for them to work with you.

Beyond my social game, my main goal was to ensure that whatever actions I made, I made because they benefitted my game, not just because someone told me to. I was able to put my personal feelings on the back burner when it came down to making the strategic decision that would benefit my game the most. I wanted options for every vote where it wasn’t always black and white, but rather the vote could go a lot of different ways. In every tribal that I attended in this game, I knew where the votes were going. Not once was I surprised as to who went home (with the exception of maybe Cole). Both times I received votes, I knew it was coming because of my connections. Everyone was coming after Kimberthreat (thank you Simone for coining the name) because I was perceived as the biggest strategic threat and the most likely to win the game in the majority rules challenge.

I know everyone called Ryan this sneaky weasel/rat, but honestly I was a weasel going around to everyone making sure I knew exactly where everyone’s heads were at and sniffing out when people were lying to me so that I could guarantee myself a plan that would result in me not going home.



To close up my opening statement and allow for questions to still be asked, I just want to conclude by saying that I hope everyone’s eyes and ears are still open to voting for anyone in this Final Tribal Council. All three of us played very solid games in our own ways and I hope people can release their biases and inhibitions about certain events/individuals in order to vote for who they ostensibly think played the best game. I’m not here to bash Simone and Christina because they’re two wonderful people who I think are great on a personal level and both played great games. However, in anticipation of someone’s question, I do believe I outplayed Christina because I didn’t need those individual immunities that she needed. I won a single immunity challenge after the merge and I don’t even believe I needed to win it to stay safe. Everyone knows that going on an immunity run is not a surefire way to win the game. As soon as Ali was voted out, instead of doing damage control, Christina allowed the target to remain on herself. And if she hadn’t won those immunities or had that idol, her social game would’ve plummeted and she would have been out the door because she hadn’t created enough solid relationships outside of her Ali/Matt triangle to keep herself safe. The game is not about winning as many challenges as you can (Christina’s words). It’s about having an equal balance between your social, physical, and strategic games. I believe that I achieved that the best because I created bonds that kept me safe the entire game, I did win an immunity and I was consistently high up in the challenges showing that I wasn’t incapable of being a force, and finally, I was not afraid to make the moves that were needed to ensure my game stayed intact.



Thank you all and I can’t wait to answer all your burning questions and experience your burning rage.