[Jeff Probst]

This is Sydney's Final Tribal Council Thread.

All other Jurors should remain in their own threads. 

Sydney, you have until Saturday at 8c/9e AM to post your statements/questions to the Final 2. Remember not to take up too much of their time as they have 8 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.

[Sydney]

Voce: Name one move that you made that was completely your own. Your idea, your execution, your win. 

Stephanie: Do you view Voce as a goat?

Both: What was the main problem with the other person's game?

[Voce]

Hi Sydney. So I will not claim that I was running the game at anytime, especially at the beginning. The main thing that I wanted when the game started was for Rodney to be voted out so that I could get my mystery box.  I did ask people's opinions about him and it was just really a no go at the beginning.  With people so focused on getting James out early, it made it harder to shift the target to Rodney and really, I just had to be patient.  With James winning immunity, people, really wanted to take out his "queen" Morgan.  Then with his fake idol play he survived another tribal council, and once again people were super focused on James for the 3rd tribal in a row.  Once James was finally voted out, and with some help from his totum pole analogy, I started talking to Rodney about grouping some of the lower people together.  I had to make a decision weather to actually go with him and lose my mystery box (which I was willing to do if I felt strong about a new alliance) or somehow put his name out there. The real breakthrough came when he told me Stephanies name, and it wasn't looking like he would get enough support anyways to form a new alliance. As soon as people knew Rodney was  saying her name, it took very little for the whole tribe to decide to do a vote split on with Rodney and you.  

[Stephanie]

Hi Sydney!

Do you view Voce as a goat? 

I’m gonna be honest here. Yes, I do think that Voce is somewhat of a goat. If anyone from the Final 7 was sitting here instead of me, I’m pretty sure they would’ve won against him at the Final 2. 

What was the main problem with the other person's game? 

One thing I didn’t like about the way Voce played was the fact that his social game wasn’t all that good and he was also completely unaware of the relationships in this game. He thought that Hali and Mike were closer than me and Mike.  He also told me (these were his words), “I had the balls to use my idol on someone else.” No one asked him to play it though and you didn’t even get any votes that tribal. So, really, in my opinion, it was a waste.

[Voce]

I forgot to answer your second question.  I think the big thing that Stephanie messed up during this game was that at the tribal council where I was supposed to be blindsided, she had an amazing opportunity to blindside Mike instead and make a huge move.  Had she told me about the plan, she must have known I would have voted with her. Sydney and Michelle would have also voted with us.  Mike and Hali would have been left out, and it would have been completely Stephanie's move.  Instead she was ok with voting out me, who she considered the biggest goat at the time along with probably Sydney.