Austin's *Hardcore* Questions

[Austin Carty]

*Stands up from the jury section to approach the Final 3*


Well well, hey guys. Nice to talk to you three again. First of all congrats on making it to the end. I commend you for that. But that doesn't mean I'm going to be all nice here.


I want you three to work for my vote, because right now my vote is currently set on one person. I need good answers to help me sway.


First some comments I have for each of you.


To Darrah: I will say I commend you for making it to the end with having a past winner status. That's a huge target and its impressive that you were able to work all these people without worry of that. But that comes with a flipside too. Now some may consider me shallow for this, and they can think what they want. But the fact is you have won before. Leslie and James havn't won in this series at all before coming into this. So a part of me feels like I should give the prize of Sole Survivor to one of those two sitting next to you, because to me they played just as hard as you, but without the winner status, they should get it.

So now for my question Darrah. I want you to give me reasons why I shouldn't vote for the two non winners next to you. I don't wanna hear a word about how I shouldn't base my vote on this, because I am, that won't change. So convince me, even if going as far as bashing the other two's gameplay, so as to shatter my thinking of "Hey, this girl's won before, she doesn't need another win."


James: James, well you did what you wanted to do. Get farther. But reading your opening statement, I honestly couldn't help but chuckle. You put on this facade to me of being friends with everyone and yadda yadda. But appearently when we were on Chapera together, you already had this big allience, that the few chats we had I guess didn't matter. And when you mutinied, man, that was just like a spit in the face to those of us who remained on Chapera. Basically that told me that you were like "Fuck Chapera, I could care less about them. I gotta get off this loser tribe." Maybe you didn't think this, but that's how I felt. I felt you took the coward way out by running to the other tribe when you weren't in much danger. After all, you had your buddy buddy Amanda too. But whatever, appearently Chapera was below you.

My question to you is: I want to hear a clear sense reason why you would abandon Chapera. Because I can't stand mutiniers to be honest. Some call it strategy, I call it chickening out. Make sure your answer if honest, because right now your the Finalist that my vote has the least chance of going to, but it isn't set in stone, so you can change it easily with your answer.


To Leslie: Hey girl. Congrats on making it here. With only two votes recieved the entire game thats I think the least anyone has against them, which is impressive. Leslie, I'll be honest in saying that right your, your the one I plan on voting for right now. So what your doing for me right now with my question is to secure that my vote doesn't change.

My question to you is: When I was voted out, my plan was a 4-4 tie to oust Amanda by having you, me, Aras, and Darrah tie. I trusted you more over Darrah since we had some friendly chats. I can understand you voting me out, but what I'd like to know is since I figured I was going anyway, why didn't you just honestly tell me that you were voting me out. Because between you and Darrah I felt more hurt and betrayed from you than her. So I just wanna know why you chose to lie and say you were with me instead of just tell me I was going. I would've accepted it fine had you done that. That's all I wanna know from you


I want complete and honest answers from all 3 of you or you lose my vote period. And again congrats to all 3 of ya

[Leslie Nease]

Sept 26, 2009 21:06:37 GMT -5 Austin Carty said:

Why didn't you just honestly tell me that you were voting me out.

Austin, I didn't tell you I was going to vote you out because I didn't want you staging something to oust me. If someone told me, "hey, I just want you to know I'm voting for you to leave," I would do anything I could to turn people against that person, and keep myself in the game.

At that time, you and Aras were still tight, and you could've possibly pulled Sydney or James in, and I could've been in danger of leaving. So I stuck with my old alliance and yes, I did lie to you, but I did it out of self-preservation. If I told you I was going to vote you out, I would've expected to see some votes for me, but instead I kept myself safe by lying and, yes, sacrificing you.

I'm sorry it stung you more that I lied, and in the end I hope you can forgive me for it, because you really are a great player and you were a big threat to me, and I had to do what I had to do.

[Darrah Johnson]

So now for my question Darrah. I want you to give me reasons why I shouldn't vote for the two non winners next to you. I don't wanna hear a word about how I shouldn't base my vote on this, because I am, that won't change. So convince me, even if going as far as bashing the other two's gameplay, so as to shatter my thinking of "Hey, this girl's won before, she doesn't need another win.


Well Austin while I think Leslie and James both played good games I was deff in control from the beginning and u have to admit I played both sides pretty well and only received one against me all season long. I played an incredibly social game on top of having control. While I think Leslie played a good game I think besides Amanda's blindside she didn't do anything game changing at all. And James honestly relied on our alliance the whole game. And if u don't vote for me its fine but just so u know I played this game harder than anyone in a very discrete way.

[Austin Carty]

Thank you Leslie and Darrah. You both gave me satisfying answers. Good luck to both of you

[James Clement]

Yes, you're right. I was a coward. The reason why I want to move to other tribe at the time was because the mogo - mogo tribe has Leslie, Sydney, Darrah and Burton. I feel more secure when being with them. If I did not move from chapera at the time, i could just have been on the pre - jury right now. Who knows? The only person I trust in the tribe was Frosti because we were playing together in pearl islands and China. Plus, he never voted for me.
Well, at least i'm telling you the truth. ;D

[Austin Carty]

Thanks for the answer James