[Jeff Probst]

This is Elizabeth's Final Tribal Council Thread.

All other Jurors should remain in their own threads. Final 3, remember... this is not for you to address each other, but to talk to Elizabeth. In-fighting amongst the Final 3 should be reserved for the Live Final Tribal Council on Sunday.

Elizabeth, you have until Saturday at 8c/9e to post your statements/questions to the Final 3. Remember not to take up too much of their time as they have 10 other jurors to get to. Please no listing or questions requiring novels for answers. You should post all of your statements/questions in your opening post in this thread. There is a live Final Council on Sunday where you will get to address everyone live about the statements they have made as well ask follow-ups.

[Elizabeth]

I’d normally add gifs and be all theatrical but I’m at hotel with my kids, just cause we needed a change of scenery and a pool. I’ll be Mobile all weekend.

So, I’ll make this quick.

Hello you fine pieces of aces.

It’s been one hell of a ride and I’m happy to have this long journey almost over. Congratulations on making it to the final 3!

Sherri, I have so much respect for you and all you have done. You have played a solid game. You won a ton, found idols and were able to play an exquisite social game. I knew this was going to be the outcome and no one believed me. Lol
With that said, Is there anything I don’t know that you did?

Michael, not sure what you did other then smooth talk half the jury. Your fanboy charm doesn’t fool me. You didn’t win much or find any idols. You’re a try hard. Your jokes aren’t that funny and they’re getting old. Had you not done so much homework maybe you’d have been your own person. You have the absolute wrong view of me. So personally, I think, why bother asking for my vote? That “group chat” Hope made and I didn’t even remember wtf you’re talking about, Irrelevant.
But please, enlighten me. Other than trying to be the next Tanz wannabe, what did you do that out shined Sherri? At any given time?

Matt. Just don’t. I’ve heard enough blah blah blah.
Sit back, be the good lap dog you been.


All game aside. I think you’re all amazing humans. I adore each of you on a personal level! Can’t wait to laugh about this all later. Hope my honestly doesn’t turn you into cry baby pussies.
Liz out.

[Sherri]

Hey hey Liz! Firstly, I'm mega jealous that you're on a little staycation. We did that during the pandemic too but that's also because we had a rodent problem lmao ANYWAY hello! I really, really appreciate the respect for my game even when things went a bit south for us. I'm glad we could hash it out though...and I'm glad no one was listening to you when you said that this would happen lol.

So for the most part yeah, I think my game is pretty out in the open. You saw or at least heard about pretty much everything that was going on with the idols and the social game and the wins and all that. I don't think there's anything major that you missed so I want to instead give you a little behind the scenes tidbit about that final immunity challenge.

Obviously after winning those last two challenges and seeing who I was going to go up against, I was a favourite to win that last challenge too. That was no secret, I discussed with some of the others and they said it was pretty likely. However, I also knew how badly I wanted and needed this challenge win. I totally could have just gone in there unprepared and really worked hard for it but I did not want to leave this last challenge to chance....so I did some research! I really wanted to know what the last challenge might be so I went and found some old Stranded boards and it seemed that the most likely challenge would be the dreaded Box Gauntlet challenge. It seemed to vary from season to season but it made sense that this would be the final one, bringing together several challenges from this past season.

Most of them included the unscrambling challenge so I made sure I had the wiki page for the Tuamotus ready to go. I also read through that page several times just so my brain could pick up on certain things. Most of the past challenges also included the word search and finding coordinates from that, so I made sure I read how all that worked in advance. I also had an image editing software ready in case we needed to do The Box match challenge that Allie won (I took a screenshot of the board and then used the software to cross out my matches).

But the BIG thing I did was take notes. Lots and lots of notes. I thought there might be some riddles or trivia or what it did end up being, one of those puzzles where you had to link each jury member down the line using things they had in common (both won immunity, bid for an idol clue etc). This is where my preparation really came in handy for me. I spent that final day studying the board and making notes of all the information I might need. I wrote down the full boot order, what day everyone went home, which tribe or person won immunity and what the vote count was when they were eliminated. I had all the names of the challenges, who bid on idol clues and for how much, what days we swapped and merged and who had the idols in the game. Even things like what numbers everyone had in that number challenge or the coin breakdown in that first tribal reward. Every little detail I could find.

All of this information was contained on my own page of notes and it's with this information and the research I did that really helped with that final win. I sped through that final part because of this and I was fully prepared for the early parts of the challenge too. I know this might just seem like a real minor thing to people but I want to show that my endgame wins were not just me being good at challenges. I won them because I worked for them and fought for them and prepared myself the best I could. There was no way I would risk losing that last challenge so I made sure I was 100% secure there.

Thank you for the question!

[Elizabeth]

We just had breakfast in bed ;)

Anyway, I do believe all your research and note taking paid off. You’ve played a near perfect game and you should be mighty proud! 2 more days!

[Matt]

Woof! Hope we get to talk outside the game, I really enjoyed our personal convos. Hope you enjoy your weekend!

[Elizabeth]

If I can speak words to missy after Tanz, you and I will be besties. Lmao

I was hoping you’d say something regardless.
1 more day!

[Michael]

Michael, not sure what you did other then smooth talk half the jury. Your fanboy charm doesn’t fool me..

That “group chat” Hope made and I didn’t even remember wtf you’re talking about, Irrelevant.

Hey Liz,

So I'll start by saying I didn't know what Stranded was until maybe about two days before I applied. So I certainly wasn't a true fanboy coming into the game. But I know that a lot of people who play these games have large personalities and large egos. So being able to connect with people on their previous games always seemed like a good idea to me. I knew by the end of original Pukaroa that you weren't buying into the Tanzania fanboy schtick which is why I cooled it with you and started talking about mutual things we had in common, and the chat you don't remember with Hope is super relevant to my relationship with you and how I approached you later in the season. Even if gameplay wise...that chat lead to nothing.

I do think my research paid off with building relationships with Missy and Jessica, along with their styles of play. Which I do think is important.


Alexis and Matt both told me about the chat that was made with you and Hope. They both separately told me that you didn't want me to know about the chat either. Because "that's part of the game". That's totally fine, but it's a risk you took to try and exclude me which really told me where I stand with you. It showed me that you didn't value me enough to share that information, and at the very least it showed me that Alexis and Matt both valued me more. I think this was the first real piece of game information both of them shared with me and it's really what solidified my trust with both of them as friends and allies.


I didn't see you for about another two weeks, and by then my impression of you was that I never was a real factor for you in the game. You didn't try to reach out to me much after we merged, and I felt like I needed to start the conversations between us.

But please, enlighten me. Other than trying to be the next Tanz wannabe, what did you do that out shined Sherri? At any given time?

I am confident that I had some of the best reads in the game. I had a lot better of an understanding of the tribal dynamics than Sherri did. I believe my immunity challenge win of "The In-Crowd" is solid proof of that as well. I had a strong understanding of where people fit and how people perceived me and others around them.


Also, not for nothing, but I did have to earn my partner idol as well.


Thanks for the question Liz. Can't wait to talk to you after all of this is over

[Elizabeth]

Your trust with them was built with horse shit and lies then. Alexis and I both agree, this didn’t happen.
IF anything, all I can think of was, trying to make sure you didn’t feel excluded due to something that meant nothing.
Thanks for replying, none the less.
We shall chat tonight