Memphis' Statements

[Memphis Garrett]

Hey guys. Congratulations on making the final two! You both played very different games but arguably you played the two best games as you're both sitting in the final two. Most of the questions I was going to ask, you've already answered so I'm not going to make you repeat yourselves. So I'll just post statements. While I'm leaning towards one of you right now, my vote is still very much in the air. I need to do some thinking and see how you answer the other juror's questions. 

Heaven, there have been multiple times during this game where people have said to me that you were fake but I always disregarded it because I thought you were genuine. But after reading some of your jury answers and your opening statement, I'm starting to see that I may have just been naive. Knowing that you were the one who was HOH during the blackout round, I think back to you telling me that you would use the POV on me if you were to win. What was the point of that? At that point, I didn't even suspect that it was you. You knew I thought it was Kaysar or Keith. So you didn't have to throw me off. All you did was give me false hope of coming off the block. At that point, I would have never put you up and I'm kinda bummed that it was you who threw me in the line of fire, even if I wasn't your intended target. Then at final 8 when I was thinking of voting you out (because at that point, it was obvious you were with Kaysar/Hayley), you told me you had always "had my back," when that was the furthest thing from the truth. But it's a game, so I'm not going to be bitter. You outplayed me and manipulated me and that's a big part of the game. Although I do think you made one fatal error: taking Keith to the final two over Hayley. You would have had a much better shot at beating her than you do with Keith.  

Keith, the fact that you were able to make it to the end with a target on your back since week two is super impressive. We had not been in the same house until merge so everything I knew about you during the pre-jury stage was based off of hearsay and speculation. All I knew was that you were unpredictable and I assumed you would be evicted very early on. But here we are.  I knew that you were a major player in the pre-jury weeks but then, from my perspective, it looked like you had fallen out at merge. Your opening statement and jury answers have definitely helped me fill in the blanks of your game. I'm glad that we were able to connect a bit towards the end of my game.  

Good luck to you both and may the best player win

[keith]

Thanks Memphis. I've always appreciated your candidness, and I'll keep your words in mind in the rest of my answers. Check out Benedict's thread if you're looking for shameless jury pandering

[Heaven Afrika]

Hey Memph! Thank you overall for your words of congrats! I am a lil taken aback by peeps telling you that I was "fake" with you. I hope you didn't feel that way? I was never "fake" with you at all in this game or I at least didn't mean to put it across that way. The times that I told you how much I liked you and even near the end when I had wished we had made a deal or an alliance earlier on.. I meant all of it. I did get on well with you and Lane REALLY well even though we weren't on the same side and I said it so many times in my DR about the both of you.

In my defense with the blackout round I wasn't allowed to say that I was HoH or even lead anyone to think I was (that's how I interpreted it). Me saying those things to you was just a strategy on my part to blend in with everyone and leave me outta contention of being the possible person that was HoH. I know that you had said you thought it was Kaysar to me but this is BB and you coulda said in your DR that you thought it was me too.. so I was just trying to cover my bases. I saw it as me being better safe than sorry. It was not meant to be anything like "hey I'm gonna lie to Memphis for the hell of it" and it seems that it came across that way to you and it was not my intention. I am very sorry if that's how it looks. I was only trying to conceal my identity as blackout HoH.

I do admit that I threw you in the line of fire but you were never my target. I knew you were well liked and my intended target was Jon like I said in his thread. When Jon got removed (darn you Nick xP) I still wanted to nominate a guy and someone who I believed coulda been in the speculated guy alliance BUT also someone I knew would go over you b/c I DID still want you to stay. I didn't put up Lane b/c that woulda meant you or Lane could've left and I still wanted ya both around and I didn't put up Nick b/c he had been hiding his allegiance p well and I didn't think he was part of a guy alliance then. That left Benny who I was feeling a lil weary about.

If what you are telling me is that you were not in a big guy alliance and wasn't a well liked member of it then that is a misjudgment on my end and I should not have put you up. I looked at you as a core guy as you were always on and social and someone that would allow me to originally get Jon out but then Benedict when I had to name a replacement. You also served as a tool to throw peeps off thinking it was me which looks like what happened as both you and Benedict seem surprised it was me. Me telling you that I woulda voted to keep you and also save you with PoV was just to keep me as HoH under wraps. Again I am very sorry Memph.. b/c I did get on with you in this game and enjoyed you very much and I don't want you to think other wise, with or without your finale vote!