Mike's Musings

[Mike Dutz]

Alright, I'm going to be pretty boring. I contemplated writing a story similar to Sofia's F6 nomination ceremony but...

I'm over my eviction.  I wanted to be in the F2 so badly and I really felt that I would be in the F2 and that I would win this game.  All that needed to happen was myself or Sam needed to win that final HoH.  But Sofia, challenge beast that you are...you won parts 2 and 3.  Good job.

I'm really not convinced that challenge wins should warrant you the win though Sofia.  You've talked up a good game and all and it could very well earn you the win.  It's been argued time and time again that Sam made foolish moves.  I really don't see it that way.  I truly believe that Sam was guaranteed a spot in the end for quite some time.  That may be because he was perceived as the easiest to beat, and that is fair to say.  But he did make decisions on his own and no one can go and say that THEY convinced him to do something.  The ultimate decision on the Brian and Neda evictions was the sole ownership of SAM as he was the tiebreaker vote. There may have been things said to him but ultimately he took everything in and made the decision that he felt was best for him.

Sam, your social game was poor but at least you were respectful.  You held your own in the challenges.  I believe you played this game and I don't mind the decisions that you made.  They benefitted me but I feel they totally benefitted you as well.  So if I vote for you, it wouldn't just be because we ended up being great allies.  It would be because I respect your game, no matter how awful the social side of it was.

Sofia, I was absolutely disgusted by your behaviour from the F7 onwards.  The person you've turned into is absolutely appalling.  Eat some God damn humble pie and ease it with the ego.  You've also admitted that the only person you were really yourself with was Brittany.  That makes sense because you have honestly been one of the fakest people I've ever come across in ORGs even while you've tried to portray being "real" anytime you've said anything.  If I vote for you, it will be because you played a good game and you were the strongest challenge competitor in the game.  I won't be able to say that I respect you or your game though.

I really don't know who I will vote for.  I'm really torn.

If you have anything to say to me to try and sway me, feel free.  If not, whatever.  I'll just continue thinking on this though.

[Sofia Valentine]

Oh Mike you're so funny. I respectfully disagree.



Because I don't care to get into it with you I'll try to be as respectful as possible for you. You had a big set of balls in your last nomination ceremony too and shared some words with me but then shut up when I responded to you. I told you that if you wanted to talk and wanted to see where I was at and what was happening, to message me and we could talk about whatever your tiny heart desired. You chose not to and that was your call. i knew you were after me and that's fine! But don't come out of the wood works and say you had a problem with this and that when you couldn't be man enough and say it to my face in private and actually shoot the shit. Neda and I had problems and addressed each other. Zach and I did too. So did Sam and I. Even after it was public knowledge you still chose not to. You can make excuses to why you didn't but you never cared to so.

Sam did NOT make decisions on his own. If Sam made decisions on his own then you'd be sitting at 7th place on the Memory Wall. Sam was very much booting you and without the constant push of Brittany and I to sway him the other way, you'd be gone. Sam was easily persuadable in this game and he didn't have his own mind. He was able to be manipulated more than anyone else. He would always say before how he was so loyal to the UN and would risk his life for it by being a pawn and then he goes and flips on it after one sudden chat? LOL Yeah he was the vote that was needed to make the move a reality but he did NOT do it by himself and it took effort from me and Brittany to get the job done. Without us you would not have lasted as long as you did and that's just the cold hard truth.

To me the only reason you think Sam made the right move and "don't mind" his decision in booting Brian and Neda is because who was sitting next to them at the time? You. And if we're being honest with one another if I ever let on in any of my answers that I respected your game AS A WHOLE then please erase that from your mind immediately. I respected your ability to go hours in endurance but that was it so the the lack of respect on gameplay is mutual doll.

You can say that you're mind isn't made up but your words tell a different story. Thanks and nice knowing you.

[Sam Robertson]

Hey Mike! Thanks for taking the time to write out your thoughts and giving us details inside your deliberations. I know that I wasn't the most social player and I've been berated and had it thrown in my face many times. I still can only follow up with if it was such a big deal for everyone earlier in the game then why was nothing done to get an "inactive" out? Isn't that why Gina and Wil left? I was liked enough then by everyone to never be nominated but the moment I was involved in a move against some of these players they decided to sing a different song. I don't blame them for that but it feels like everything else I've done and my journey here has been discounted because of it.

I don't know what I would have done without you the last few days of the game. You were a great ally to have because when I'd feel down in the dumps you'd come right back and try to get us both in the fighting spirit. I wanted to kick myself over and over when I saw that I didn't beat Sofia in Part 2. I know how much we needed that and I feel I let you down. I hope that despite me never being online all the time like some of the other players that you did think of me as a dependable and strong ally because I did always try to give my best in the competitions and I'd like to think that I was rather loyal in some of the relationships I had. You being one. Brittany being another. It's impossible to keep all the promises you make with everyone in a game but I always tried to do the best I could.