“Dreamz Has a Big Mouth” – An Interview with Survivor: Fiji’s Edgardo

In watching the alliance of Alex and Edgardo, Alex always seemed to be the front man, with Edgardo in the back. As it turns out, that was his plan! So what did he think of Dreamz, Stacy, Cassandra and others? Who is playing what kind of strategy? Read on to find out!

RealityNewsOnline: Hello, Edgardo, how are you?

Edgardo: Hello, good.

RNO: Let’s jump into it. What did you do to prepare for being on Survivor?

Edgardo: I watched a lot of past Survivor seasons and worked out a strategy coming into the game on how I wanted to behave and what kind of people I wanted to attract to be in my alliances.

RNO: That takes us nicely to my second question – what was your strategy going into the game?

Edgardo: My strategy was to find somebody that I really trusted – which I did – and then use that person to make it look like they were making all the decisions so I wasn’t put on the spot. For example, with Alex, I would tell him what we should do and then he would be the person who would tell all the other people. I wanted to stay behind the scenes because the more opinions you get in, the more you have a chance of people noticing you and getting voted out.

RNO: In general, do you think you succeeded in that?

Edgardo: Yeah, I think I did succeed. But Survivor is a game of strategy and a game of luck, and you need both of them to win. I had the strategy but I didn’t have the luck.

RNO: As was discussed at Tribal Council, your last few hours were crazy and chaotic. What did you learn by watching it on TV that you didn’t already know?

Edgardo: I knew all the time what was going on, because once people don’t start looking you in the eye, that means you are on the chopping block. I knew it was between me and Alex because they wouldn’t look at him either. It was 50/50 and we had the wrong person. The only thing [I didn’t know] was Dreamz actually told them Alex had the idol, which is what messed up the whole plan.

RNO: So did Dreamz have you all fooled, or did you suspect something?

Edgardo: Me and Alex had Dreamz measured up from the beginning. We knew he was a rat. We heard all his stories about being homeless for 27 days over and over and over. I knew that when people are trying to do that, they are really insecure and don’t know where they stand in the tribe. But at the same time, we knew he was a key person to the other alliance and our alliance, so we needed to have him on our side.

RNO: Do you think there was anything you could have done to keep him on your side?

Edgardo: Not really. From the beginning, Cassandra and the older people brainwashed him. Apparently, when he grew up he didn’t have a lot of family. If you analyze the show, you notice he was looking for somebody to comfort him.

The only move we could have made to change the outcome was instead of voting Lisi off, we should have convinced her to stay in the game and we could have voted Dreamz instead. Then we could have gone back to our initial alliance with Stacy and Boo.

RNO: Lisi told me that she knew she was going home that night and it was all play-acting for the camera. Did she know?

Edgardo: She asked me and Alex to vote her out. Once she did that, we talked to Dreamz and Mookie about it. When she came back to us, we already made the decision. We felt like if we changed at that time, we would have been compromising our alliance with the other people. We didn’t want to deceive anybody yet.

RNO: So then, did she know she was going at that point?

Edgardo: She had a last plea and I think she went to Tribal Council asking for forgiveness for what she said. I think she had some hope we weren’t going to vote her out. I didn’t want to vote her out but you don’t want to bring somebody to the merge if they are really unstable.

RNO: How did you deal with Lisi, who didn’t seem to play logically, then wanted out, then wavered on it, etc.?

Edgardo: Lisi and I had a good relationship on the island. She’s Cuban and a lot of her cultural mannerisms are the same as mine because I’m from Puerto Rico. Every day that went by she was cracking and cracking. A lot of people didn’t like her but I still felt we had a connection. All the things we talked about, we agreed. She didn’t complain when I told her who we were voting for. She was loyal.

RNO: I already asked about Dreamz, but did Stacy have you fooled?

Edgardo: I thought Stacy was going to be on our side, but once Alex had that meeting with her and she gave him weird excuses that only a spoiled girl would say, I told Alex she’s not in. What I didn’t expect was she gave the idea to me off. That was a surprise after we covered her butt for the first 15 days.