Opening Statements

[Pete Yurkowski]

Kat, Rupert, and Rachel will post there Opening Statements here!

[Rachel Foulger]

Wow it's been a game hasn't it? From the beginning of this game I had technical difficulties as in not having my laptop to work with and phone usage dangerously close to being maxed. To me self-voting twice to being graciously put in Redemption Island, to coming back from that with my laptop and making it here to where I am. This game was my return to ORGs from a break. Do I feel like I've done the most this game, no do I think I deserve to be here yes. I had won the most important immunity challenge and talked Kat into voting out Tina. I depended a lot on Kat throughout this game, but I couldn't think of a better person to be at FTC with. Could I be considered a floater probably. But I played how I played and I'm here now.

[Rupert Boneham]

This was a very unorthodox game for me. I can say that normally I am bit more social than I was for this game. I had absolutely no social aspect of my game and I acknowledge that. I do think I played a somewhat strategic game with a uphill climb to get here. In the pre-tribe swap portion of this game I was on the chopping block at each tribal council Galang went to and I had to publicly plead my case to stay. Post tribe swap is when my game picked up and post merge I felt that my game was on course. I knew that when merge happened that if I laid low and act as a pawn/vote that would get me further in the game. I pretty much followed what our group of 4 (Kat, Tina, Gervase, and myself) decided what to do. I knew that the real threats would target each other and be taken out one by one and me being in the background would be able to get further in the game unnoticed. I was active but wasn't outspoken, I answered every single question I was asked at tribal (there were 2 tribals that Pete forgot to ask me a question, I only brought it up at one of them), I always voted every round so I never received a self-vote, and I at least participated in most challenges unless it required a huge amount of time to complete it like the couple of endurance challenges we did post merge. My strategic game kicked into high gear at F6. By the first F5 I had two separate F3 deals and I felt very secure with my place in the game. So with the cards I was dealt and various obstacles in real life that hindered me in this game (original Galang knows what I am referring to) I played the best game I could and made it to the end. So I do feel that I earned my space in this F3. I could have gone more in depth about my game but decided that maybe it would be best to answer that in your questions. So please ask away.

[Kat Edorsson]

Man, this has been one hell of a game. It had it's ups and downs, but I played it for what I could from start to finish.
At round 1, I attempted to make bonds with every player on Galang to socially dominate as best I could, in particular, forming a tight alliance with Tina, and splitting up people to keep in our respective pockets.
We kept it tame at first, only mildly shifting the votes onto Tyson and Aras (Tyson was more of a 'people are unsettled by him' call then a 'this would benefit us specifically' call. Aras was someone who went inactive despite neither of us wanting him in with us.)
But at the swap, my game kicked into gear. When it happened, I became worried about Laura M declaring Marissa and Ciera allies of us, and found it to be suspicious, so I pulled Monica, Candice, and Colton together to turn on Laura.
While it was a mildly sucessful blindside, I hadn't anticipated Ciera swapping for Laura, and had to scramble to grab the reigns of tandang once more.
Sadly, Candice's activity wavered, and Colton was taken out by way of idol.
Even sadder was Monica switching for him, whom had she not done that, would likely have found herself sitting here at the finale.
Tyson returning to the game was, for me, a good thing. He was a powerful player, and easily found himself on the oppossite side as Tina.
I aligned with him and made moves that would have benefited my alliance with him, while in the background sharing information with Tina to cooperatively control both sides of the game. If Tina had actually been targeted, I would have voted for her and informed her it was coming so she could use her idol.
Candice was voted out to benefit Tyson, myself, and Rachel. She wasn't active and would have been med evac'd if we hadn't.
The following round, Tyson was a huge target. Sadly, he missed the immunity by a sliver, and I ended up with it.
Seeing Laura M as a bigger threat then my ally of Tyson, I handed him immunity to make her the primary target, and with him winning the following challenges lead to the elimination of Colton and Caleb, whom had ended up a bit of a tagalongs on the outside of a core alliance for Tina.
The following round, I had to make a call between my alliance with Tina and my alliance with Tyson.
Out of fear of being seen as Tyson's second in command, I chose to turn on him before the others turned on me, and when he eventually returned to the game, he had become too big of a threat to not be voted out again.
It was a very close call between Gervase or Rupert for fifth, but in the end, the alliance I had formed with Rachel had become strong enough and with the options of teaming up with Rupert to take out Tina or teaming up with Tina to take out Rupert had become too tantalizing and too risky before the redemption island came into play, and Gervase ended up out by being the odd-man-out.
At the Final 4, I was too busy irl for the challenge, due to being endurance posting in the middle of the week. Rachel won and decided Rupert was the better to take here, and Tina agreed.

This has lead me here, to answer your questions, and I am very excited for them.