Boston Robs Question

[Rob Mariano]

First off congrats to the 4 of you.


I got caught making to many alliances( even though I did not initiate the cross-tribal alliance).

Russell.. Thought I sometimes have to read you statements 3-4 times to figue out what the hell you're saying, my hat is off to you,you were the challenge beast in this game. Obviously Jaime, Brendan & Aras were aligned. My question for you is how long do you think you would have lasted in this game if you didn't win as many challenges as you did ?

Aras.. though we only comunicated once & awhile my impression of you was that you did what Jaime told you to do. Tell me 3 moves that you made that affected the game & that you did on your own without having to check with Jaime.

Jaime..like I said in my initial P.M. to you " I'm taking a big chance aligning with you & i know it could come back to bite me in the ass." Well it did, but that was a chance i was willing to take ( sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't). Obviously now I know that you had no intention of aligning with me & " YES you bet your ASS I was going to take you out first chance I got. So congrats to you for figuring me out.
My question for you is.. you had an advantage in this game by aligning with Brendan before-hand. We all know this happens a lot in these games but do you think that you would have made it this far in the game without brendan telling you what he knew ?

Brendan..First off I didn't exclude you from the cross-tribal alliance. James was the one who initiated the cross-tribal alliance & before I even had a chance to mention bringing you in he asked me about including you. Obviously this was the biggest mistake in the game because you in turn blabbed to everyone else. But that's fine, you did what you had to ,to get where you are now. My questions for you are...

1. I was told that you Brett & Jamie had a pre-game alliance is this true ?

2. The same question I asked Jaime.

3.What was your plan if Jaime had been voted out before the tribe-witch ?

[Jaime Dugan]

Rob, first off happy birthday & welcome back.

Hats off to you, I found you to be a huge threat in this game from the beginning and I did not need Brendan to tell me that. The cross alliance with Yul, Peih-Gee and Rafe became apparent and that was something again I just figured out. Getting Yul out was my move, along with Russell's help. Many things in this game had a hand because of Brendan, I would in no way deny that, however in reality what game does that not happen? ANY game I ever play, I always make a cross tribal contact and alliance, much like you did. You gather information this way to make moves and further your game. It is all in the way you are able to carry them out that matters. For example I was MVP 3 times in a row, and one additional time, yet only you seemed to see me as a threat. I believe because I balanced my game out in other aspects. I didn't need to rely on winning challenges in the merge because I felt fairly safe. Never completely, that would have been foolish of me. Their is NO DOUBT in my mind had I not had Brendan and figured out you cross tribe alliance you would have been my main cross tribal person to make contact with. You were a good player, I could recognize that. Your refer to the PM about us aligning "I'm taking a big chance aligning with you & I know it could come back to bite me in the ass." after my reply to you I followed it up in my confessional with: The question is, who's gonna get to toss the other out first? LOL, I figured you didn't mean what you said anymore than I did and you were a huge threat to me. So, I hope this answers your question, there is no doubt in my mind I would be sitting in this spot right now. Thanks for your questions Rob and for making my game challenging and interesting.

[Brendan Synnott]

Actually the only person i told was jaime, so everyone else who found out, didnt find out from me. not sure but i have a feeling jaime already knew about it before we talked.

1. I was told that you Brett & Jamie had a pre-game alliance is this true ?
Not true. I do no both boys out of this game and were close but i never agreed on any pre alliances. I did talk alittle about alliances with both around the time we made the all male hodari. But i was so keen on that allaince going far that i didnt count on indiviual allainces with them till later.

2. The same question I asked Jaime.
Jaime was a major help and a big part of me sitting here, but games ive won i havnt played with her, so i have it in me to do well without any pre alliances. But if i had to pick bewteen playing with her, or without her, then i would pick her.

3.What was your plan if Jaime had been voted out before the tribe-witch ? I always intened to be faithful to the all male allaince, if jaime had left i would have kept that going. i knew 3/4 of the other members and for alwhile you had me wrapped around your finger (while jaime was saying she didnt trust you i was say, no he's cool). But us 5 could have dominated the game because what we started with could of got so much better.

[Russell Hantz]

how long do you think you would have lasted in this game if you didn't win as many challenges as you did ?

I don't think that I would have made it a long time. I thought that when i got to final 7 or final 8 it was going to be the end for me.. I remember that people always tried to vote me off before the merge because they knew that I was strong so when I made it to the merge
I knew that it was going to be really important for me to win challenges. First, because immunity is the only thing that guarantees to you the safety of survivor , and second because I knew that my alliance was going to be loyal to me until one point and Alicia was really strong and so was Brett and they could convince my alliance to turn on me because I was a threat so I didn't want to take the risk of getting eliminated so thats why I wanted to keep my strategy going as usual but also i wanted to keep winning challenges.
But this is really important. Don't get me wrong, I always felt safe at the beginning even though I got votes sometimes but I felt safe because I had good deals with people but when you make the merge you know that everything is is going to change because if you are strong you know that you will be a target.

Thanks Rob for your question and i can also say that my hat is off to you too because you played a wonderful game . Yes i voted for you but that doesn't mean that i can figured out that you were one of the strongest player of this game

Thanks again and Good Night

[Aras Baskauskas]

Aras.. though we only comunicated once & awhile my impression of you was that you did what Jaime told you to do. Tell me 3 moves that you made that affected the game & that you did on your own without having to check with Jaime.
mmm,NO!Sorry that you don't know anything and you're just guessing..I never followed what she was saying.Actually we both strategized together alot and decided many votes together.Some times It was my idea,sometimes it was hers.
However I did alot of moves without Jaime even knowing about it,and I made my own moves that benefited my own game.

1-Getting the votes to get rid of Darrah who had 2 idols and was a huge threat to my game.I'm the one who convinced Jaime and the others to vote for her.It not only benefited me,but it benefited the whole alliance.She told me about having an idol,which I thought was going to make it difficult to vote her out and she was really laying low despite being really threatning so it was time to wake them up and get rid of a hidden threat.

2-Making a side alliance with both Alicia & Darrah.Jaime never knew about those alliances.Making those alliances with them would make them comfortable with keeping me around and not voting for me.


3-Voting for Alicia in the round she was voted out.Brendan,Jaime,Russell & Nicole "who were my allies" wanted to vote for Brett.I didn't just follow what they wanted because I wasn't convinced with what they were thinking.I voted for the one whom I thought was a bigger threat to me,and to me keeping Brett was a good move because I could use his vote and get him by my side if I needed to.Alicia seemed shady and stopped talking to me so I was worried about that.Also I was thinking like "when they all vote for Brett,and I become the only one who didn't vote for him,I would gain his trust and he would work with me"

and Rob..I don't think we communicated just ONCE?we actually talked alot,and exchanged many messages.

~thanks,good luck with voting