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[itswhatiam]

I already know who I'm voting for. I'm not going to say here who it is, and I'm not going to share it with anyone else. Not even my fellow jury members. The reason for that is that, after reading opening statements, it is actually possible that the other person could sway my vote with how they answer the jury's questions. I think that's the first

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[bwlrbry]

I don't regret taking Ben over Drew. From the way that I see it there was very little that separated the way that the two of them played the game. They were together from the very beginning and every move they made was together. The thing that made me choose Ben over Drew was pretty small. I know that I had issues communicating with Ben due to time differences and schedule differences and thought that others may have had this same problem. I saw Drew as more accessible to the others on the jury which could increase the chances of forming more personal bonds. I may be wrong about that but that was what my gut told me to do and I had to stick with it. If that ends up costing me the game I will be upset for a bit but knowing I lost to someone who played a good game is not as bad if it were against someone who did not.

Yes, I did vote for KJ the week that she was voted out. There were two reasons that I did this. The first being that I made a deal with Ben after Donna was voted out that was essentially to give me KJ's place in the final four. Having no alliance members left and not knowing at that time that I was going to win immunity I would have been a fool if I did not take that deal. Even though I did win I felt that I should keep my word and still vote for KJ. The second reason that I voted for KJ was that I knew that the only way that I was going to advance from that point forward was to win challenges. KJ proved to be a force to be reckoned with in the challenges and I had to take out the person who I saw as my biggest obstacle preventing me from getting to the end.

My biggest regret in the game was getting too comfortable in my alliance before the merge. I wish that I would have taken the initiative to talk to KJ earlier than I did rather than rely on Maggie's word that she was our fifth person. This is not to say that I regret trusting Maggie as much as I did because she could have easily sided with Ben and Drew like KJ did and gotten herself much further. I just wish that I would have done more on my own to sure things up. I don't know that it would have helped or changed what happened after the merge. That would be something you would have to ask KJ.

As for the most surprising moment it is a toss up between two things. The first is you being taken out by Rain and then learning immediately afterwards that you requested to be kicked out because it seemed like such an un-Mark-like move. Knowing the reasoning behind it now, it makes much more sense because I know that you love these games and that if you aren't able to give it 100% you feel it would be much better for the game as a whole to remove yourself instead of someone who is in 100%. The other most surprising moment was when Nick was the first person picked off out of our alliance. I don't know what intel the fivesome had but in my opinion Nick was far from the biggest threat in our group. This isn't saying that I don't think Nick is a good player but there were others that I thought were a much bigger threat than him.

You should vote for Ben to win this game because he assembled an alliance of people who were incredibly (and frustratingly) loyal to him to the point where there were members who were content with finishing in fifth place to help advance the others. This alliance allowed him to make it through the game with, to the best of my knowledge, no votes against him which is an impressive feat and something that I can not say that I was successful in doing.

I will have to post the picture tomorrow Mark. I am laying in bed and really comfortable right now so I will post it tomorrow.