So far on Survivor Gabon, the female numbers has been dwindling. After Michelle, Gillian, and Paloma all had their torches extinguished, Jacquie Berg of the newly remixed Fang tribe became the fourth player to be voted out of Africa. After a last ditch plea to her new tribe members to keep her in the game instead of Kelly, Jacquie found herself on the outside of a new alliance that became her undoing.

The day after Jacquie made the lonely walk from tribal council, we set out on our expedition to join a conference call with the latest Survivor Gabon castoff to find out how she felt about being barely beat out by Kelly, what criteria should get someone voted off the show, and how she felt about being subtitled during a conversation with Kelly.

THE DEADBOLT: What were your thoughts when Jeff told you guys about the merge?

JACQUIE BERG: I was so upset because I had the whole game, I thought, planned out to the very end. So I knew it couldn’t be good unless I was in a tribe with the majority of Kota members. Then I’m sure it would’ve worked out in my favor, but...

THE DEADBOLT: What was your strategy going in?

JACQUIE: Having as many genuine alliances as possible, having multiple alliances, and not letting everyone know about them.

THE DEADBOLT: Can you explain again Fang’s reason for not eliminating Kelly? It didn’t make sense to me.

JACQUIE: Yeah. One of the biggest things when we were ranked, it was obvious that none of us liked Kelly. So they were fearful of Ace, me and Sugar having an alliance, and also after a merge I’m going back to former Kota, because I have the alliance with Markus, Charlie, and Corinne. So they were thinking way too far ahead. They weren’t thinking how they’re going to win the next challenge, they just knew Kelly would be genuine.

THE DEADBOLT: After all of the work you did in the water challenge and G.C.’s past performance, are you amazed that he’s still around?

JACQUIE: Yeah. You know, it’s funny, and Crystal. I can’t imagine that they’re still in the game. Just because I felt like they were horrible in challenges, like they would just stand around and do nothing and basically give up. And not only did that hurt them in the challenge, but it’s just their whole energy level just dropped. We had one weakling and they have three weaklings.

THE DEADBOLT: What was the toughest part of the adventure for you personally?

JACQUIE: Just dealing with such unique people and not being able to trust anybody. Every conversation and every move you made had to be strategy.

THE DEADBOLT: So the elements and the weather didn’t really give you any problems?

JACQUIE: You know what? No. I’m the kind of person who likes to rise to the occasion and I had a blast out there. I was soft but I actually didn’t feel starving. I didn’t have any bug bites. I was happy.

THE DEADBOLT: I found it weird that in an American show with everyone speaking English there were subtitles. Do you find that embarrassing at all?

JACQUIE: [laughs] Exactly. See, she [Kelly] talks in computer lingo, like LOL and BRB. It was so annoying and we would teach her vocab all of the time. Half the time she didn’t make sense. So when you have that type of person on a show, it’s hard to not constantly roll your eyes at somebody. So I thought if I would’ve had just one more day before that tribal, I think her true colors would’ve shown just like it did at Kota and she would’ve easily got the boot over me.

THE DEADBOLT: In your opinion, what should get somebody voted off? Too weak, too strong, too obnoxious?

JACQUIE: Personally, I think the person that should get voted off is the one that’s not strategizing and isn’t thinking about the game is not in the game. Kelly didn’t care, she stayed there purely by luck. She has no strategy to anything and I had the whole game figured out and it was a lot of luck that I lost the game.

THE DEADBOLT: Do you have any favorite past survivors?

JACQUIE: I would have to say Earl. I thought he played a cool game and I thought he was very genuine and naive and he found a tight alliance and got to stick with it until the end.