Parvati's Opening Statement

[Natalie White]

Where Parvati will post her opening statement.

[Parvati Shallow]

Hi, everyone! Before I get to anything big I just want to thank Tom and Natalie for hosting the end to the first chapter of this amazing series. This has been one of the most intense and challenging All-Stars games I have ever been apart of. It was a crazy ride for everyone involved and there were a lot of amazing players in this game, which makes sitting here at the end of this game bring a sense of serious accomplishment. Everyone that took part in this game left a mark on the series and made a mark in this game whether good or bad. I know that while a lot of the stuff that was said and done could be taken as a personal attack, it really was just all a game for me. Things said in confessionals, things said in private conversations, and things said on the board were just a reflection of the game taking a toll on me. I understand that I might have lost friends after this game, but honestly if I did, then I don’t think they were really friends to begin with. It’s a game, I played it as such and I did what you were supposed to do .. play to win and make it to the end. So, I just want to say thank you to all of you for playing the game with me and it was a fun time. This game will always be one I’ll remember.

Upon entering this game, I thought that I would have a target on my back .. being the first winner of this series, someone that knew a lot of people that played the game, and for being a decent player. My first plan over anything was to relight my relationship with Kelly and work with her on Villains. However, that wasn’t the case due to the Neutrals twist that threw a lot of people off and split and cut off a lot of planned alliances. Having Kelly separated from me meant that I needed to formulate a new plan for survival. I knew 2 or 3 people previously on the Villains tribe but my relationships with them were not the best. Dreamz and I were okay, but I didn’t know how loyal he was going to be to me in this game. I knew Terry from Prediction Writing, but again, I didn’t know how loyal he was going to be to me. And then you had Russell, who was clearly one of my enemies in this series and in Season 1. However, both him and I made a pact to not gun for eachother early in the game but instead have eachother’s back for the sake of the survival of Season 1 in this game. I believe this was one of the smart moves I made in this game. Russell became an “ally” more so than an enemy as predicted.

Other people in the game that I knew was Heidi, who is a very close friend of mine outside this game, Yasmin who wanted to work with me if we had gotten the chance, Amanda who she and I never really had a great relationship, Gabe who I knew but never really worked with before or spoke to often, Nate who was a close friend of mine, and then Benry and Ashley who were people I spoke to form time to time. Everyone else was fairly new to me and I didn’t know who they were. I had never played with anyone else or knew them personally. I think the fact that I played in Season 1 and then followed almost every season except Niue was very helpful. I think when you play an early season and follow it through all the other seasons, you get an idea of who is who, how they play, and how they operate .. this giving you the opportunity to learn how to approach them and manipulate their game. Now, from all the people that I just mentioned knowing, my plans were to work with them all at some point. I knew that if I worked with Dreamz, it would keep the negativity that I knew he was capable of .. off of me, working with Nate would allow a friendly bond that you would think couldn’t be taken advantage of but also allow access to votes that he could get, that I couldn’t .. ie: Candice. And lastly, working with Benry secretly why everyone though we were against eachother would also be brilliant.

The start of the game was rocky because the Villains really blew at challenges. There was always someone not picking up their slack and it weighed the entire tribe down. Terry was the first casualty of the game because he was horrid in the challenge with what, 77 posts? Someone who didn’t bother wanting to give anything in the first challenge didn’t deserve to be here in the game. Cutting Terry loose was an easy first boot, and from what I recall, I think a lot of people pegged him as the first one to leave the game. The eChallenges returned and early on, I saw Heidi leave the game, someone I would have definitely worked with in this game and would have been 100% loyal to. DMI had it’s first duel and I was paired off against Yasmin, who I wanted to work with, but when it comes to the game .. I was playing for myself and not her, sp eliminating her was the only option. Aras was someone that I despised. He was a joke in every sense. He survived off Chase with idols galore and he did not deserve to stay in as long as he did. Harsh, but very true. Dreamz’ vote off sucked but it a reality that had to be faced. Dreamz, Sally, and I had an alliance on Villains as did Sally, Courtney, and I. The reason Sally and I then stuck to Dreamz was because Courtney began to be paranoid and start to want to vote separately from Sally and I, so finding a way to split the votes and send her out had to be done, and I’m glad I was able to do that.

The first time that Boo was voted out, I had made a deal with him to keep Kelly safe in the game as much as he could. However, when the Neutrals lost their challenge and Ozzy began to devise a plan to flush Chase’s rumored idol and also send Boo out in the process, I instructed Kelly to go back on the original plan and vote Boo out of the game. I had caught on to how Boo was playing, talking to everyone daily, and not just the people on his own tribe. He was a social butterfly and sending that out early would benefit mu game. And everything went according to plan. When the swap came, it was the round where Sally, Russell, and Ozzy were in a great deal of trouble if I recall. Why would I let my debaucherous little Villains get picked off by these Heroes? I handed off one of my prizes to Sally to get the job done in getting Chase out of the game, and he headed off to DMI where he lsot and was sent to Pre-Jury. I think that was the first real hit to a big player in the game. More casualties followed, Sandra, Courtney who I beat in the final DMI duel, and she never had even asked for me to throw it to her. She must have thought it was expected, but it really shouldn’t have been in any sense at all.

Then we reach merge. Oh fun! Merge was something that I had been kind of dreading, but it actually became something easy. I had the liking of Kelly, Sally, Russell, Nate, Benry, Ozzy, and Ashley and I didn’t see any of them coming after me. I think it was Boo and Candice that came back from DMI? It’s hard looking back on this game and getting everything correct because so much happened! When they came back, they weren’t targets at all because there were bigger fish to fry. My #1 target was Amanda because her and I didn’t get along. While it was personal, it was also strategic because I know she wasn’t with me at all and I couldn’t have her in the game if she wasn’t with me. Shane was next to follow suit because he, Ozzy, Gabe, and Boo were all apparently going to form an alliance, which included Russell. But Russell didn’t seem to like that idea and instead ratted all of them out to myself and Benry, and we ended up cutting Shane at the neck, especially since Benry thought he was loyal to him. Next followed Ozzy because I was really pissed off at him for trying to attempt that. I had saved him while we were on new tribes, and his plan was to harm my game? I couldn’t have it .. cut off at the head. Then to follow was Gabe, who stepped up his social game at the end hours of his life in the game. Everything he was telling Sally, I saw from her, and I knew that he could immerge as something strong.

After this round was when everything got difficult, because it was time to cut people you had come to love and got to know. Nate was a hard vote but I knew above anything else his loyalty was with Candice and that’s the only person he was genuinely going to watch out for. I had also learned that his plan of me, him, Candice, and Sally going to the finals involved me getting cut off at the F4 even when he spoke to me about it, he stressed~ that he didn’t know what to do or who to vote at that point, but seemed very confident in telling Sally that I would be going at the F4. That was a big reason in voting him out, and while you may still take it as a personal attack Nate, it wasn’t. It was a game move, and I apologize if you took it any other way. The final eChallenge came after, and I wasn’t surprised to see that I got eliminated. I had been sick that week and had been bed-ridden with a severe cold. I had missed a minute in my posting. However, with my accomplishment of knocking Courtney out of the game came a reward .. the reward to have a second chance on entering the game just like Boo and Candice did. I had to post 3000 times, a different post every 10 posts, and I had 24 hours to do it. It was exhausting, but throwing away all my hard work until that point was not an option, so I followed through. Candice following Nate the next week was easy because she had somehow disappeared and no one knew where she was. I knew that the girl had a prize so cutting her quick and easy at that round when she was MIA would be smart and send her out, eliminating a “fan favorite” and Jury favorite to win the entire game.

One of my best friends in the game, and seriously like one of my top allies was next to leave. I honestly didn’t see it coming at all. I really didn’t. Benry had an idol in his pocket and gave it to Ashley, saving her in the game, because everyone else was apparently going to be voting her out. Russell had tried stirring the pot to me, saying that Benry and Ashley were voting me out right before the deadline, but after confronting Benry close to the deadline, he had told me that Ashleyw as saying because of “something”. My immediate reaction was, who’s going? And he replied with Sally. It was a blow to an ally of mine and I hated seeing her go out the way she did, but she played a great game. During these votes, Boo was being a challenge whore and winning one after the other, which I give him kudos for. He would have been gone early had he not fought to stay alive. The next round, I wanted Russell out. Him trying to turn me against Benry and Ashley was enough of a reason for me to want him gone, so I sent out the hit and we all followed through, his “lover” Boo had even voted him out. <3 The next competition was something that I knew had to be won from someone besides Boo. I was able to pull it off, and after winning Immunity, I immediately started talking to Benry to make sure Boo was the target and the one going. Ashley didn’t want to vote Boo because Kelly had voted her twice in the previous rounds, so that was understandable on her part for voting personally. However, in order to make sure Boo left, I promised Benry I would cut Kelly loose at the F4 to prevent a tie. The deal was made and I kept my deal to him and cut Kelly, which I’m sorry for, but it had to be done after everything was said and done with Benry.

Being put on Villains is something that I was grateful for. I’m proud to say that I’m a Villain, and I think that everything I said and did was something a Villain would have done. I backstabbed, I manipulated people, I lied to people’s faces .. all to make it here to the end of this game. I don’t have a problem saying that I did those things. I played the way I was intended to and I did the best I could in making this game one to really remember, not only for me, but for everyone else. I made some amazing friends in Sally, Benry, etc .. and I wouldn’t trade those friendships for the world. And while I may lose people like Nate, I can’t stress it enough that it was all done for the sake of my game. I realize that throughout this speech I may have left out or not gone in depth in some things, so when you ask your questions, just ask for clarification on something you want to know, and I’ll be happy to answer it for you. I’m looking forwards to your responses and questions and all I ask is that when your done and ready to cast your vote, vote for the person you truly feel deserves to win this game based on the way they played during this crazy, crazy game. Everyone up here played differently to get to this point and I think we all should get a fair chance in stating our case. Thanks Jury and good luck Benry and Ash! <3