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Id really like to here some justification for her being deserving when she asked to be voted out? I mean to me giving up and asking to be voted out should out weigh everything else. So many people try so hard to make it to the end and for someone who didnt want to make it to the end and didnt care about the game to go on and win drives me insane!

It's not that Jenna didn't care about the game. She was having physical problems at the end-game which is understandable. As she has also said here, a lot of other people tend to have those kind of melt-down moments and sort of want to leave the game during the game at some point even if it doesn't make the air. Since she didn't really quit and clearly showed enough determination when she beat the men in the following challenges, I think she is quite justified since her actions of winning speaking louder than any words of quitting

The thing about Jenna's win is that she did very little in order for it to kind of fall into her lap. She was never the strategic lead for her alliance ever in the game with the possible exception of the Deena vote, and that was probably bad for her game.

She won, more or less, because her allies got voted off before her and then she won immunity into the final vote, and then she had the good luck to face a player who had spent the whole game reducing others' perception of him in order not to get voted off as a threat but who by jury time had no respect from the jury as a result.

Jenna was not the leader of the "cute girls". That was Heidi, who actually is an underrated player (not the least because of the horrific editing hatchet job she received). Jenna did not lead her tribe of women to an early lead against the men in the competitions. That was primarily Deena, Heidi and Joanna. Jenna was the one who basically gave away all her tribes' information in the meeting with Dave (although he apparently did the same thing). Her choices were virtually forced by Dave's, but then Dave's were so badly made, it didn't come off too badly for her except the loss of Heidi.

Among the new tribes, it was Heidi, who managed to cut off Jeanne, an enemy of the "cute girls" and began potential negotiations with Dave that might have made things really interesting if that tribe had returned to TC. And it was Deena who laid the foundation for success at the merge by bonding with Rob. The loss of Shawna was probably actually a bad thing for Jenna individually, but she let it happen.

While sometimes given credit for booting Roger at the merge instead of Dave, that was actually Heidi's idea.

By the merge, Jenna was in enviable position, but it was almost entirely because she was not viewed as any kind of threat. Rob, Deena, Alex, and Heidi all had her in their endgame plans primarily because she shouldn't win immunity and because she wasn't all that likeable to the intended jurors (primarily Matt, Butch, and Christy). Jenna is usually touted as a great social player, but that's really only half right. She got along great with those she liked, and she did not with those she didn't. (Of course, compared to Matt, everyone looks like a good social player.)

Despite her good position, she did balk at Alex's boot in order to help turn the tables on Deena, and as I state above, this may be the only move all game where she took the lead. Still, how did booting Deena instead of Alex help her? It didn't really. Both were her allies. It was more or less a sideways move, but it put Alex in a position of power, and that didn't prove to be a good thing considering the events that followed.

Jenna basically gave up and pouted after Alex's boot. It was Heidi who bargained with Rob and Christy to try to avoid the inevitable, resulting in Christy's surprise boot instead. Jenna, instead, whined about going home. Her gift of immunity to Heidi that round was because she didn't want to play anymore and thought Heidi had a better chance of sneaking through. In any other light, it was a really stupid move. The pity act continued as Heidi fought unsuccessfully to stay.

Finally, Jenna just resigned herself to her position, but then she won immunity, giving her unexpected power. She traded her vote for Matt's promise of F2, and Butch went home, and in this, Matt basically snowed her since he had no intention of winning the final immunity. In the finale, you can see both Rob and Jenna mutter when Matt drops out since each were counting on Matt to win it. Of course, once Jenna realized she could probably beat Rob anyway, her confidence grew, and she really wanted to make sure Rob did not win. Deena, at least, has said that it was her performance during the final immunity that earned Jenna her vote. (Then again, I think Deena was looking for any excuse to vote against Matt.)

In review, then, there's hardly any strategy in her entire game other than the basic strategy of making allies. She rarely took the lead, basically followed others, and wound up at the end on the basis of others' actions, her own lack of threat and timely immunity wins. Her jury performance was not stellar, but competent, and it was certainly better than Matt's, who really did dreadfully. Based upon what actually occurred in the game, Matt deserved to win over her, but if you can't make a case in front of the jury, you are not going to win. This season proved it.