Cochran: I'm going to stand by my assessment of you as a player. Pathetic, delusional, and entitled. "But hey! That sounds an awful lot like you, Mia!" you might say. I guess I can agree with tat, but the big difference here is that I fucking OWN it. You just really have this air about you where you walk around here and act like things that don't directly benefit you in this game are completely preposterous and alien and don't make any fucking sense, as if someone could DARE to try and take your win away from you! Unfortunately, I was reduced to a position in this game where I ALSO had to act like that. Hell, it seemed to be working for you, so maybe it would keep me in the game long enough to get myself closer to the end. And hey, it worked for me as well. It's disheartening and frustrating to see that this is the kind of mentality that works in this game, but the worst part is that you're just unaware of it all and you really feel like you were some big, important mastermind. Nope, you weren't.
When did I say anything like that or have any sort of ego that a move that isn't against me is unwarranted, and that it seems so ludicrous? Maybe I talked like it, but i understand that I am not completely controlling this game, I have NEVER implied that I was the sole reason for everything this season, and votes happening against me or my allies isn't something foreign to me so you must be making this up. Actually, this seems a lot like you, because you DID play that way you're right. I mean, telling me to fuck off because I tried to make a move to save my ally, you're right it sounds exactly like you, and you happen to be trying to portray what I dislike about you probably most on to me. I don't think that I am some amazing game running mastermind that is entitled enough to say anything like I deserve to win and anything otherwise is stupid, but honestly I see you being that kind of person. Please stop trying to push that perception on to me, because it's definitely not something I see myself to be, and if other people REALLY agree that is how I'm perceived then I have some work to do on myself. I think that I am a well rounded and smart player, not some boy genius who is as entitled as you are.
So here's where we're at. We had a lot of conversations about how regardless of win or lose, you shaped a big part of this season. That was just me trying to stroke your ego to stay in the game (well, okay, maybe it was...) but yes, it's true. Just not for the reasons you think it is. You had a huge influence on this game, just in such a weak and pathetic way that it wasn't even funny. You chose weak allies. Consistently went the safe route. You took no risks. And I guess it worked because you made it to the end. I don't know what else to say. Your gameplay was just weak and horribly uninspiring, as evidenced by the two people you're sitting next to here at the Final 3.
You calling my allies "weak" doesn't make any sense to me. What makes them weak? I don't consider Chad as a weak, Debb was my ally for a LOT of this game and I don't consider her weak. Katie and I had a good relationship up to her boot episode, and Sarah and I were good friends for most of this game, even though it didn't end that way, are you saying that all of these people are weak? I happen to also really like Carter and Ralph as people, so working with them for me was easy, and actually fun for me to do so saying that I have chosen weak allies just baffles me. I think I had a BIG part in shaping this game, you're right about that. I don't think I was the only one lol, but I did help. As far as not taking risks? What risk could I have taken in this game that would have benefited myself that would be GOOD enough for you, Mia? I wasn't trying to tank my game just so that you could accept what I did at the end of the day as worthy, because I don't think your blessing is something that I really need. I didn't just do nothing though, I made sure that you were still here over Ashley and Jo because you were hated by most (and for good reason), and I also flipped shit on Debb at F6, which I'm sure was a good enough risk for you at the time, seeing as you were able to stay in the game.
Unlike Ralph and Carter, you don't get a choice here. You have one option if you want my vote. If you choose to take it, you'll get my vote. If not, it's going to either Ralph or Carter. And again, this jury is VERY close to voting against you. VERY close. So I urge you not to ignore any opportunity for a vote tonight. Anyways, this is what I want. In LARGE, BOLD, CAPITAL LETTERS, I want you to declare the following:
"I was too scared to sit in the Final 3 with Mia. Instead, I decided to follow a weak strategy of taking two of the biggest goats in the game to the end so I could get an easy win. If I win this game, it is only because of this pathetic strategy.
Yeah, I'm not going to do that because I don't agree with that statement and I am not going to let you push me in to saying something that I don't believe, whether it makes me lose your vote or not. I don't think that the way that I went with this makes me pathetic because these two are people that I have been working with since early on in this game, so it isn't about me being scared, it's just why would I take some one who spent rounds being blatantly against me to the end of the game just to prove a point?? That doesn't exactly make sense to me.
There you have it. I've given all of you some pretty cut and dry options here. Like I said, my vote is LIVE for any of the three of you, but the only way to get it is to do what I've asked. The last thing I'm going to ask you all to do is to rank all 9 jurors, from best to worst. I don't want any reasoning or justification, I just want a list. Put some thought into it, because this could all come down to these lists. Again, follow my rules or lose my vote.
Best
1Chad
2 Katie
3 Lisa
4 Jo
5 Sarah
6 Debb
7 Ken
8 Ashley
9 Mia
