Dorothy's Final Quiz

[Dorothy Hui]

Hello, finalists!

Congratulations on making it all the way here, no matter how it is you got here. I think all of us on the jury would love it if we were in those spots, but whether we like it or not, you outplayed us this time. Own that and feel good about it, no matter what anyone says about you here at this Final Tribal Council or what you read post-game.

This final three is actually a lot more fascinating than I thought it would be. If you told me a couple of weeks ago that it would be the three of you together in this FTC, let alone that I would actually find myself facing a difficult choice, I would have probably laughed. But here I am, and there you guys are, and we've got a cute little tri-color going on with one representative from each of the original tribes!

I'll start with some comments for each of you, and I'll leave my questions below. If you want to respond to my comments about you as well, feel free! In fact, please do! Remember, FTC is the REAL final challenge, and I'm going to take everything I read to heart. If there was ever a time to make a good impression, it's now. This game is NOT over yet, so I better not see ANY of you going on autopilot.

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Jaclyn, I'll start with you, because in all honesty, your game impresses me the least out of this F3. You mentioned in your opening statement that your strategy relied on floating. It's not that I disrespect this strategy at all, but even floaters have some degree of agency. I don't think you've demonstrated that at all in the time I've known you, and I think between the three of you sitting here tonight, you depended the most on luck.

I can't speak to anything that happened on OG Luxembourg, but if NuBruxelles ever lost a challenge, I think you would have been in serious trouble. If I hadn't sent you to exile in F8, you were an easy target that could very well have gone home instead of Natalie. You got exiled again, this time at random, when again, you could have been in trouble. It got to the point where voting against you was counterproductive, because why wouldn't anyone want to sit next to you here?

Your social game was flat out robotic in my eyes. I tried multiple times to get to know YOU, the person behind Jaclyn, and you never gave me anything to work with. What you DID do was talk about nothing but ORGs for the entire first week I knew you. Even when I asked you FLAT OUT if you had any other hobbies, you gave me a vague non-answer and kept talking about ORGs. I don't recall a single moment I was in the game with you that you asked me a single question about myself, so clearly you didn't seem to want to get to know me the way I tried getting to know you.

Right now, my vote is a much closer race between Carrie and Tim, but you have the rest of the week to change my mind. Good luck!

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Carrie, you're next. The True Queen of Bruxelles! For a long time, I was really dismissive of your gameplay. I thought for a long time you were just kind of along for the ride, voting however Julia said you should vote. I definitely did notice your activity drop, which was a shame because you and I got along really well on OG Bruxelles - once we swapped, I thought you got a little complacent, especially as we won a bunch of the time. We lost a bit of the connection we made early on, and I felt distant enough from you that I probably would have voted against you if I was pressed by other allies. I can't be too upset you voted me out, because we did drift apart a little bit, and you probably heard from Julia that you didn't factor into my original endgame plans.

If I look at your game from a distance, it looks awesome. You went to Exile more than anyone else in the pre-swap stage of the game and could easily have been targeted, but no one ever wanted to go against you. You snagged the Bruxelles idol and kept it completely secret from almost everyone - I was so confident that you didn't have it that I was more willing to believe Shelli or Ricky found it than you. You drafted the most dominant swap tribe I've ever seen. Even after we had to start going to Tribal Council again, you laid low, allowing the big threats to go after each other even as you worked with one of them. People underestimated you, which made them trust you, and that allowed you to vote them out one by one so you could get to an F3 where your game could really shine.

What sucks is that when I put your game into context and I realize just how much of your game post-swap could be attributed at least in part to your inactivity, it makes it look like you kind of stumbled into your position without making much conscious effort at it. That doesn't mean I can't reward it as the best game, but it does make me question if I can call that game better than one played by someone who was comparatively more active. What I'm looking for most from you as I figure out who to vote for is your active thought process in the game. If I can see that you really had your head in the game the whole time, that's going to make you look a lot better in my eyes.

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Tim, to save the most confusing one for last. I really don't know what to make of your game at all right now. I think it says a lot about the way you played this game that you're sitting in arguably the best F3 you could have asked for and you STILL haven't gotten my vote in the bag.

Your social game was almost as bad as Jaclyn's was with me. You are quite possibly one of the worst small talkers I've ever met. Engaging you on a personal level was really difficult because you were really fond of one word answers and non-responses. The only time you could really get talking was on a game level, which says a couple of things to me: you didn't care about getting to know me as a person, and all you cared about was getting further.

And then on a game level you were incredibly frustrating and hypocritical. During the swap phase, I felt like I had to constantly reassure you that you weren't on the bottom, that I valued you as an ally and as a person, and you most definitely weren't some flop. After a certain point in the merge, you complained to me about how you felt everyone was pissed off at you and how you felt you would be targeted. You were a professional at playing the victim even as you constantly lied through your teeth. As it turns out, I was RIGHT about you having an idol and totally justified in Burnie and I's plan in wanting to blindside you. You swore up and down you didn't have the idol, even dramatically offering to screenshot your confessional. And then YOU got mad at ME when I decided to send Jaclyn to Exile at F8 because you thought I was keeping secrets. Of COURSE I was keeping secrets. SO WERE YOU. And YOU got mad at ME? I didn't understand it and I still don't. You told more lies in this game than I ever did.

I'm not upset you voted me out, because in a perfect world where Burnie survives past F9, you were at the top of my hit list. But I'm having a lot of trouble respecting your gameplay right now, because despite how well you were able to play the middle and actively execute your strategies, the way you treated people along the way was REALLY poor. From a pure activity standpoint, you have Carrie and Jaclyn beat. From the surface, I think you played a more active game than Carrie did. But in my eyes, Carrie played a lot cleaner, whereas you're covered in bullshit up to your neck.

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In The Mole, the Final Three compete in the Final Quiz, a twenty question test spanning knowledge from the entire season on the identity of The Mole. I only get three questions, though, so I'm going to give each of you one personal question each as YOUR Final Quiz from me. I'm sure you'll have enough to work on from eight other jurors, anyway, so you luck out this time.

Jaclyn: Why do you think so many of the jurors had such a difficult time bonding with you?

Carrie: Why should I give you my vote when your activity level compared to Tim's is considerably weaker?

Tim: Was being a professional victim an act to earn people's trust/sympathy, or were you being your genuine self?

[Tim Dormer]

Sept 28, 2016 2:31:53 GMT Dorothy Hui said:

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Tim, to save the most confusing one for last. I really don't know what to make of your game at all right now. I think it says a lot about the way you played this game that you're sitting in arguably the best F3 you could have asked for and you STILL haven't gotten my vote in the bag.

Your social game was almost as bad as Jaclyn's was with me. You are quite possibly one of the worst small talkers I've ever met. Engaging you on a personal level was really difficult because you were really fond of one word answers and non-responses. The only time you could really get talking was on a game level, which says a couple of things to me: you didn't care about getting to know me as a person, and all you cared about was getting further. 

And then on a game level you were incredibly frustrating and hypocritical. During the swap phase, I felt like I had to constantly reassure you that you weren't on the bottom, that I valued you as an ally and as a person, and you most definitely weren't some flop. After a certain point in the merge, you complained to me about how you felt everyone was pissed off at you and how you felt you would be targeted. You were a professional at playing the victim even as you constantly lied through your teeth. As it turns out, I was RIGHT about you having an idol and totally justified in Burnie and I's plan in wanting to blindside you. You swore up and down you didn't have the idol, even dramatically offering to screenshot your confessional. And then YOU got mad at ME when I decided to send Jaclyn to Exile at F8 because you thought I was keeping secrets. Of COURSE I was keeping secrets. SO WERE YOU. And YOU got mad at ME? I didn't understand it and I still don't. You told more lies in this game than I ever did.

I'm not upset you voted me out, because in a perfect world where Burnie survives past F9, you were at the top of my hit list. But I'm having a lot of trouble respecting your gameplay right now, because despite how well you were able to play the middle and actively execute your strategies, the way you treated people along the way was REALLY poor. From a pure activity standpoint, you have Carrie and Jaclyn beat. From the surface, I think you played a more active game than Carrie did. But in my eyes, Carrie played a lot cleaner, whereas you're covered in bullshit up to your neck.

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In The Mole, the Final Three compete in the Final Quiz, a twenty question test spanning knowledge from the entire season on the identity of The Mole. I only get three questions, though, so I'm going to give each of you one personal question each as YOUR Final Quiz from me. I'm sure you'll have enough to work on from eight other jurors, anyway, so you luck out this time. 

Tim: Was being a professional victim an act to earn people's trust/sympathy, or were you being your genuine self?

Hell Dorothy, I will start this off by responding to your statement before going into your question if that is alright. I will admit, I had a really hard time connecting with you. Small talk is not something that I am very good at. You talked virtually no game with me for the first two weeks of the swap. I know you spoke to other people about plans during that time. In that moment, I figured wasn't important to you for end game, despite knowing I was a valuable asset to the tribe in the interim. During those two weeks that you didn't approach me about game, I built relationships with other people and would be able to help me out in the game. It wasn't that I didn't want to get to know you; it was just hard for me to find things we had in common, especially with the thought in the back of my mind that you didn't really want me in the game. There were people I feel like I connected with on a personal level, and honestly it took me a long time to warm up with you. I saw you as a threat and getting too invested in you personally, I feel would have made the decision to get rid of you hard. In my opinion, we did get better at communicating in the later rounds of the game, and I would love to try again without the pressure of the game weighing in. 

I feel like now would be a good time to address your question. The "professional victim" was absolutely strategy on my part. Whether or not it worked, who knows? I used it so people would underestimate me. If people thought I was weak and emotional, people could pray on that. I did have some personal feelings come up in the game. I found it very difficult to vote off Natalie, Ian and Julia this season. I am human I can have genuine emotion. I am not a robot, despite feeling like one when i made voting decisions. But this is a game and if people think they can get closer to me by helping me out when I’m down, I am going to use it to my advantage. Outside of this game, I am relatively easy going, not much bothers me. Truth be told, not much mattered me in the game either. Like I said in Natalie’s thread, perception is reality in a game like survivor. Knowing how people it see you, it makes it easier to predict their moves and how they will react. I am not claiming to be a strategic mastermind for this strategy, by any means. Reading people is an incredibly important aspect of my job and it is important for me to be good at it. I sit back and observe, and then I make my decisions. 

Back to your statement. You were absolutely 100% right in wanting me out. I didn't get mad at you for keeping secrets, and of course I was keeping my own. I used it as reasoning when I was talking to you. I 100% told more lies then you did in the game, and I stand by every lie i told. It helped me get where I was in the game. Also, the logical move for me after sending Burnie out was having you leave. I told you people wanted you out when you got back from exile. That is the truth, it was certainly in conversations that I had and I know it was at the forefront of a lot of people’s minds. You saw how you came off in the survey. Smart, leading the tribe, socially savvy player. All of that made it very easy to get people behind making a move when there is a walking triple threat in our midst.   

You may decide that you don't respect my game. I will respect that and move on from it. It is your vote to give to who you want, for the reasons you want. I really admired how you played the season, that being said if I played like you, I would be on that jury. I had to be a snake in the grass and play a very cut throat game. It isn't a strategy that wins games these days. So much emphasis goes to this who wins lots of challenges. I hope that you can look at this from strategic point of view and see how every single move I made was for my benefit. This has to be a solo game because at the end, only one person can win. 

[Carrie Underwood]

Sept 28, 2016 2:31:53 GMT Dorothy Hui said:

Carrie, you're next. The True Queen of Bruxelles! For a long time, I was really dismissive of your gameplay. I thought for a long time you were just kind of along for the ride, voting however Julia said you should vote. I definitely did notice your activity drop, which was a shame because you and I got along really well on OG Bruxelles - once we swapped, I thought you got a little complacent, especially as we won a bunch of the time. We lost a bit of the connection we made early on, and I felt distant enough from you that I probably would have voted against you if I was pressed by other allies. I can't be too upset you voted me out, because we did drift apart a little bit, and you probably heard from Julia that you didn't factor into my original endgame plans.

If I look at your game from a distance, it looks awesome. You went to Exile more than anyone else in the pre-swap stage of the game and could easily have been targeted, but no one ever wanted to go against you. You snagged the Bruxelles idol and kept it completely secret from almost everyone - I was so confident that you didn't have it that I was more willing to believe Shelli or Ricky found it than you. You drafted the most dominant swap tribe I've ever seen. Even after we had to start going to Tribal Council again, you laid low, allowing the big threats to go after each other even as you worked with one of them. People underestimated you, which made them trust you, and that allowed you to vote them out one by one so you could get to an F3 where your game could really shine.

What sucks is that when I put your game into context and I realize just how much of your game post-swap could be attributed at least in part to your inactivity, it makes it look like you kind of stumbled into your position without making much conscious effort at it. That doesn't mean I can't reward it as the best game, but it does make me question if I can call that game better than one played by someone who was comparatively more active. What I'm looking for most from you as I figure out who to vote for is your active thought process in the game. If I can see that you really had your head in the game the whole time, that's going to make you look a lot better in my eyes.

Carrie: Why should I give you my vote when your activity level compared to Tim's is considerably weaker?

Hi Dorothy! Actually we were very close in the original bruxelles and I also felt that we move away from each other and you get more close with Burnie, but I know that happened because I actually was not around like I was in the beggining, I only managing to enter briefly what that made us lose some of our connection. What led me to vote for you, was that I realized that you were no longer so attached to me as Tim, Jaclyn and Julia were and I'm sure you would prefer vote with Burnie and the others against me than with me in that phase of the game, that plus the fact that you were a wonderful competitor led me to vote for you. And also I did a good working hiding I had the idol, since no one suspected and it has not made me the target in the game. 

My head and my heart were always in the game, even though I work all night and having to work all night again in the other day, I always fought and made my little time the best to have at least one real conversation and also to always be on top of everything It happened in the game. I never failed to enter or do some activity, even though I was tired and I know that's no excuse, but I did what I could with the bad time I had. 

My level of activity compared to the Tim is much smaller I know that, but I always voted for the right person, showing that I was inside of all CT plans and game strategy, even with the little time I had I think for what I read on your questions I got connect more with people personally than Tim, since I always tried to talk about everything really get to know the person I'm playing with because not everything need to be strategy.