Amy McCoy Felt ‘Really Good’ Beating Boston Rob Mariano in Final ‘Deal or No Deal Island’ Challenge

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00:00 It feels really good. I admire Rob. I think a lot of Rob. I know on this show we are arch enemies

00:08 and I look like the biggest jerk to America and he's the hero. But what people don't understand

00:13 is this is a game. Like when you walk onto a game, because this is a game, you walk onto the

00:19 island and you see Boston Rob who has been doing this for 20 years, who's been on Survivor multiple

00:24 times, one Survivor, almost won the Amazing Race. It's like this man knows what he's doing. He has

00:29 a rule book. So I knew right off the bat I didn't want to partner with him and kind of like ride his

00:38 coattails to the end. And I'm not saying anybody rode his coattails. I just know that if I would

00:43 have allowed him to take me under his wing and teach me, I would have looked weak. He carried

00:47 me and I didn't want anybody to control my game. I wanted to control my own game. So it was crazy

00:56 seeing him on the show. And I'm like, the longer we keep him, the higher his chances are of winning.

01:02 He's done this a lot. A lot of times I've never done this. So I was probably more vocal than a

01:10 lot of people about he's got to go or we have no choice. But seeing him in the maze and getting

01:15 down to it and knowing that when it came down to a mental comp, like something I feel like I could

01:20 shine in, knowing that I got it first and that he absolutely went and looked at my answer to try to

01:26 stay in the game. At first I was kind of annoyed. But when I look back, I'm like, you know what?

01:33 He had to look at my answer. That's actually impressive that I got the answer before him.

01:39 A lot of people say that he didn't mean to cheat. He would never do that. He didn't know he cheated.

01:46 I don't know the reason and I don't care why he did or didn't cheat. But the fact that he had to

01:50 look at my answer, I was like, good for you, Amy. I was so proud of myself in that moment. So Rob's

01:58 a good guy. I have nothing negative to say. It was an honor to play beside him. He's literally the

02:04 GOAT in my opinion. So I was flattered. I was flattered that he looked at my answer. And then I

02:10 was even more proud of myself that I beat. The thing about it, I beat him out of the maze,

02:15 but I also ran the maze like three times longer than the other people because I hit every dead

02:20 end. I crawled through the low value cases obstacle. Then I found the high value cases.

02:26 I ran the whole maze and still came in third out of people coming out. So I was proud of myself.

02:32 I got some cardio in that day, some unwanted cardio. But it was an honor. It was an honor

02:38 playing beside him and the other 11 people that I met that I'll be friends with, most of them for a

02:45 a very long time.