Emily's Opening Statement

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[Emily]

Dear jury,

It's been a long and exciting game for sure, and I'm honored to have made it to the very end in a game that started with 24 contestants. First of all I'd like to thank the host Morgan and the PWs who contributed to this game for all their efforts and commitment. I enjoyed this game a lot <3

Coming into this game, I just tried to fight hard in challenges and talked to my tribe mates whenever I saw them on. I just kind of coasted as I saw no need to make any big moves and trusted the people that I had gotten to know. One of the flaws in my game was that I wasn't too social when we hit the merge and I believe my lack of conversations with the evil side might have resulted in this tie vote at the Final 12. After the tie, I was just thankful towards those who kept me and continued to coast for a while.

My strategy changed at the Final 9 though. My closest allies at that time were Annie and Faith, and I kind of just followed them until that point. I wanted more control over my own destiny and more power in the game. So when Faith was trying to change things up by voting Henry out, I didn't feel like that was in my own best interest. I didn't really know the girls she had on her side, and decided to go against it. I told both Ingrid and Henry what was going on (yes sorry it was me Faith :/). As a result, I gained Henry's trust AND Henry played his idol so that I wouldn't have to worry about that later. On the downside, this cost Faith the game. It did work for me though as it put me higher up the ladder with Henry and Ingrid and showed them I could be trusted. Then at the Final 7, Annie and Murphy aligned, and Annie and I decided to use that to our benefit and eliminate Taylor while we had the chance. First of all we believed he had the idol. Second, it put us in a position where both sides would still need us to move on. In a way, we made a move with the two evil first, before a move could be made against us (whether that was going to happen or not). It also kept a big threat, Wendy, in the game. Part of my strategy was to always keep a bigger target (Wendy, Henry) still in the game, so that I wouldn't become the target myself. At the Final 5, the vote was between Wendy and Henry, but I was never planning to vote Henry out as opposed what some might have believed. And since Wendy seemed to have quite some jury votes, it made sense for me to target her. Henry was the bigger challenge threat, but for me it didn't really matter if Henry won the Final 4 challenge, since I trusted both Annie and Henry enough that they would take me no matter what.

I've been a ruthless devious lying bitch, I very well realize that. I've always tried to put myself in the best possible position at every instance of the game and pretty much screwed everyone outside of Henry and Annie over. I pulled some big game changing moves that have brought me to this point. I know that my game wasn't flawless and expect some heat to come my way. It's a game and I played it to the best of my abilities. I'd like to thank all of you for being part of it and being awesome players, friends, and competition.

Good luck Annie and Henry, I love you both dearly <3 May the best win!

[Emily]

Just want to clarify something that Henry said about me, before getting to the questions, and I guess this thread is the right place for that:

Somehow, Annie and Emily decided that Wendy was more of a threat in the Final 4, and that Ingrid was more of a jury threat than I.

I never really thought either of these things or made decisions based on them. Yes I think Wendy would have had more jury votes locked, but in terms of a general threat Henry might have been more threatening. I never thought Ingrid was more of a jury threat. I did however USE these two things as arguments to convince Annie to keep Henry. I did that out of sheer loyalty to and respect for Henry, and did all this work to keep him in the game, not for my own benefits or chances at the end.