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Post by Jun Song on Dec 23, 2011 1:26:10 GMT -6
Hey BITCHHHHESSSS!!!! It's Jun Song! The Liar, The Cheater & the cracked in the head Birthday Girl! -according to Renny-  Today is an actual special day for the both of you because, ITS MY BIRTHDAY!  I got me a stripper well for the finale night and for my birthday!  wanna see? He's soooo unfffff!!! lol  Wait till you see him shirtless  Fucking sexy right? You guys better fuckin agree bitches! Aside from that here's my actual opening statement: I entered this game as a rookie and played like a veteran (Ask Renny, she knows everything about my life huh?). I knew from the start I had to align myself with a main ally then have side alliances so I can get far and get to safety in the weeks. I first went to Nicole and asked her let's align and take Porsche as the third wheel. Honestly, that surprised me when Nicole, you & I stayed in separate rooms. When you said you had another alliance with Renny & Karen, in the "Cougar Room," I was like wow, Nicole outsmarted me and I would have never thought. Then we formed the Slayers consisting of Sarah & Renny as well! I was glad we were in control. Nicole, you said that you had to make moves to further yourself in the game, if I remembered correctly. You won the Diamond PoV and you were hesitant of either using it or not. That's when I first questioned your loyalty. Because when we both won the prizes, hands down, I was gonna use it to get Annie & Jordan out. Then when Steven was HoH I told you, let's jump ship and take our own fate into our own hands, well looks like you turned it against me and I got evicted. The reason why I put you as a liar for my jury question was because you said you would think about it, come to find out, you stated into your jury speech that you were tempted. I bet you would have if your ass was nominated that week right? Why do you deserve my vote over Porsche? Honestly, you're gonna have to convince some kind of God I worship to get my vote. Sorry hon, but Renny accusing me of "playing on the sidelines" don't better your chance. And she says it's a game, yet complains about pity stuff like her eviction? To me, that's not how an all-star plays. And honestly Nicole, I don't think you are All-star Worthy enough For Recycled. Your Social game was average and you as a competitor was average as well. Also, give the jurors a rate of 1-10 for their game play, and give reasons for each rating you give them. Also, give the juror a color they represent and why they deserve that color.Then, I want you to give me your impressions of me from the weeks I've been in the game, up until my eviction week. Lastly, I want you to create me a list of all your biggest moves, mistakes, and best strategies you've had made over Porsche. This last request I'm asking you can change my vote. If you say what I want to hear, you don't get it, tell me Why Nicole Nilson deserves to Win Recycled and be written in the History books. Good Luck and no hard feelings <3 Porsche! Honestly, you've been there for me than Nicole. I was able to go to you about problems in the game and even went to you when I wanted to jump ship. You obviously have won my heart over and I have a Best Friend that I met in this game. (Aside from Sarah, Parker, & Nicole.) You're a down to earth chick. And I've told you soooo many times how sorry I was during my eviction week. I didn't mean to and I was just soooo tempted and I wanted to advance myself further even at the cost of my own allies. (I'm such a villain). When I saw you winning HoH's left and right, I was able to feel safe with you in the game knowing I will be safe. Also, we both had common interests and ideas for Recycled. We were the masterminds behind everything; told Nicole, Renny & Sarah all the information we found against Annie, Jordan, Parker, Dustin & Steven. We knew them inside out and we were on a roll. I honestly have no dirt on you because (according to Renny, you were accused of getting leaked info from me? LOL! and you wanted info. from me when it benefited you LOL!) You've played the best Social game, and best strategic! You needed to win when it counted and when you wanted to get people out yourself. My questions for you are the following: if you were able to go back in time, and realize Nicole & Renny had some kind of F2 deal from one point, which week would it be and how would you have changed that week to make sure you had a better chance at the game? Next, I want you to rate the jurors on a scale of 1-10 on how they played the game; explain why and your reasons for this number you give them. Then, I want you to give me your impressions of me from the weeks I've been in the game, up until my eviction week. Finally, I want you to create me a list of all your biggest moves, mistakes, and best strategies you've had made over Nicole. Gathering this information can help me determine if Nicole should get my vote over you. I love you and let the best slayer win <3 Closing Statement: I love you two with all my heart and this is a bitter-sweet feeling deciding where my vote shall fall. If you guys are both All-Star worthy, convince me like "Jun, I'm this seasons winner of Big Brother Recycled: 10 you dumb bitch." I hope you guys choose wisely what you say to me and I was being nice today because it's my birthday and I have no bitter hate towards anything right now -Jun "Skanky" Song |
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Post by Nicole Schaffrich on Dec 24, 2011 17:44:51 GMT -6
Hi Jun, Thanks for writing up such a thorough term paper, er, set of questions. Before I actually get to the questions themselves, however, I want to start by bluntly addressing some of your other comments. Honestly, that surprised me when Nicole, you & I stayed in separate rooms. When you said you had another alliance with Renny & Karen, in the "Cougar Room," I was like wow, Nicole outsmarted me and I would have never thought. I’m not sure how surprised you could have been, considering I was the first person to claim a bedroom. If you were in a different room, that was entirely your prerogative. More importantly, we agreed on day one to be in different bedrooms so that we could relay information to each other about our respective roommates. At the start of the game, I had a fair amount of trust you—despite thinking that you were really shady—and I told you initially about forming an alliance with Renny and Karen. Once I realized just how sketchy you really were (which, to be honest, didn’t take very long), I completely stopped relaying any information to you about the Cougars. When we initially agreed to work together, there was no mention of Porsche. In fact, you never even consulted me about adding Porsche to our alliance; you basically told me that the three of us were going to work together from then on. That’s when I realized you weren’t a truly reliable ally and I put all my stock in Renny and Karen. The only piece of real information I ever shared with you about the Cougars was that Karen was wary of you because she believed you were playing too hard. Obviously, none of that ended up mattering because Karen became less active and then the Zombie Slayers were formed. My point is, don’t distort hard facts that, in actuality, have very little (or nothing) to do with anything. You won the Diamond PoV and you were hesitant of either using it or not. That's when I first questioned your loyalty. Because when we both won the prizes, hands down, I was gonna use it to get Annie & Jordan out. You had every right to question my loyalty; it was only week two and none of us had really had a chance to prove ourselves to each other. I was hesitant about using such an important power too soon in the game. I didn’t want to blow my load all at once (pardon my crudeness) and then be screwed over. We were absolutely on the same page. I wanted Jordan and Annie out of the game because I found them to be the strongest players and the most obvious threats. The reason why I put you as a liar for my jury question was because you said you would think about it, come to find out, you stated into your jury speech that you were tempted. I bet you would have if your ass was nominated that week right? Firstly, I was nominated that week. Secondly, I can’t tell what part of that makes me a liar. I told you I would think about it. And now I explained that I was tempted…which would confirm that I was thinking about it. In the end, I decided against it because it would’ve been game suicide. Why would I turn on Renny, Sarah, and Porsche (the three strongest competitors in the game, at the time) in order to side with you and Steven, who had only won one competition apiece? Not doing what you wanted doesn’t make me a liar, love. Sorry hon, but Renny accusing me of "playing on the sidelines" don't better your chance. And she says it's a game, yet complains about pity stuff like her eviction? As far as I know, Renny never once complained about her eviction. In fact, she exited with a significantly higher level of dignity and grace than you did. And don’t shit in my mouth and tell me it’s pudding, Jun. You have been playing from the sidelines; you’ve been talking to Porsche since the day you were evicted. I haven’t talked to a single juror after their evictions, with the exception of you and Dustin in another game. And, as Dustin can attest, I never brought up Recycled. You brought up Recycled, and you told me to take Porsche to the end or else you would “kill” me. And when I told you that what you were doing wasn’t allowed, you laughed it off and continued doing it. I have the conversation to prove it and I’d be delighted to provide it if you actually dare to deny it. You have a blatant disregard for the rules and that’s nothing to be proud of. And honestly Nicole, I don't think you are All-star Worthy enough For Recycled. Your Social game was average and you as a competitor was average as well. As I’ve said before, this game isn’t All-Stars, and it isn’t about getting chosen for All-Stars. Clearly, this was your only priority. You played a loud, erratic, and utterly sloppy game just so you would be “memorable” enough to be called up to All-Stars. Well congratulations, Jun. You came in seventh place. I’m sitting in the final two because my game, while not as flamboyant as yours, was precise, calculated, and methodical. I’m proud of the game I’ve played and if I don’t get chosen for All-Stars, I couldn’t give a shit. I came to win this game. That being said, I can admit to my own shortcomings. As far as social game goes, I’ll readily give the edge to Porsche. She was a better social player than I was in some respects. In terms of competitions, however, you can’t legitimately deny that I was the strongest competitor this season. Renny won six competitions, but one was a luck-based game and another was thrown to her by Porsche and myself. Porsche won three competitions and only one required skill. (The competition with the true-or-false statements was a crap shoot, and in the Mini Big Brother competition, Dustin and I were the only ones to answer any questions correctly and Porsche won because we voted for her to win.) I won five competitions this season, all of which were skill-based. To say that I’m merely an “average” competitor is a laughable claim that’s intended to weaken my appearance as a player in front of the other jurors; it holds no water whatsoever. Now that all that is out of the way, I’ll answer your actual questions. I have absolutely no clue how to rate the jurors on their gameplay because my knowledge of each of their strategies is, understandably, pretty limited. I’ll give Jordan a 5 because I think she came into the game with a big target on her back and should have worked harder on forming strong social bonds with the “newbies” in order to avoid being evicted as early as she was. I’ll give Parker a 6.5 because I think his social game was fairly strong at the start of the game but faded as it went on. Jun, I give you a 6. As I said before, I think your game was sloppy and more focused on making yourself a “character” than actually playing a solid game. Your social game, while fairly good, was also pretty offensive because you often forgot personal details and told a lot of badly covered lies. I give Steven a 7.5 because I found his strategy most difficult to decode. He played a very understated game and that’s something I like. I also appreciated his social game because it was mature and (I’ve said it a thousand times) respectful. Sarah also gets a 7.5. She was a very strong competitor with a fairly good social game too. Porsche and I basically screwed her out of winning, which isn’t entirely her fault. I give Dustin an 8.5. The reason for that is because he was labelled as annoying and obnoxious at the start of the game and seemed to be on everyone’s hit list, but he used his personal relationships to make it to the final four. And for a player who was last season’s first boot, I think that’s a pretty noteworthy accomplishment. Finally, I give Renny a 9.5 because I believe that, of the seven jurors, she played the strongest game. She was dominant at competitions, a fantastic social player, and a very smart strategist. Obviously, there’s a trend in my rankings: the farther you got, the higher the score. Realistically, though, I probably know so little about each person’s gameplay so these numbers are likely totally arbitrary. I’m not sure why I need to assign everyone a colour and Porsche doesn’t. Is this designed just to be a pain in my ass? (I have a boyfriend for that.) Jordan is pink because I think she would look pretty as a ballerina. Parker is navy blue because I think it would compliment his complexion. Jun, you’re teal because that’s the colour I used for your name when I posted our AIM conversations in my DR and it’s the colour of gangrene. Steven is orange because, again, that’s the colour I used for his name when I posted AIM conversations in my DR and it just seemed like a colour that matched. Sarah is lavender because it’s pretty and understated. Dustin gets yellow because he has a very vibrant personality. And Renny gets an assortment of animal prints…for obvious reasons. Then, I want you to give me your impressions of me from the weeks I've been in the game, up until my eviction week. If this isn’t purely an exercise in self-aggrandizement, I don’t know what is. To answer this question, I’m going to copy and paste excerpts from my diary room. Enjoy. Currently, my closest ally is Jun. We bonded right away, got to know each other, and agreed that we'd look out for one another throughout the game. Our first plan was to stay in separate bedrooms and relay information to each other; we agreed to use our bedrooms to foster alliances with other houseguests and sway them in order to keep each other safe. Now, I have to be honest: I like Jun a lot and I'm excited to be working together, but this bitch is playing way too hard, way too fast. She is pumping out one strategy after another after another; form a side alliance with A and B, but convince them that you'll also work together with C and D, then we'll get E to work together with......you get the idea. Jun wants to build an army but she's not leaving any enemies; that could mean some serious bad news for me. I want to continue working with Jun because I think she could be a very strong ally (and bigger target...or, as I like to call it, a human shield), but I need her to understand that coming on so strong to so many different houseguests might rub a few people the wrong way. Karen has already approached me asking my opinion of Jun because she finds her shady. The fact that Jun has already had serious game conversations with so many people makes me question my ability to trust her. There was a time when I considered Jun my strongest ally...and while that's still true (to a certain extent), I find my trust in her rising and falling every day. I know that she's speaking to everyone and I'm 100% certain that she's intimating deals (albeit in very subtle, discreet ways) to the people she claims she wants to evict. She's extremely paranoid and confrontational, immediately targetting anyone who says even the slightest thing that isn't in her favour. And when I encourage her to take it easy, she parrots my opinions as a means of placating me. Honey, I'm not a child; I know what you're doing. Jun has told me, point blank, that her goal is to play an immaculate social game because she wants to see if she's lost her touch since playing several other online reality games when she was in middle school. I really get the sense that Jun thinks she can play me like a fiddle. So I feed this notion by constantly posing questions and asking for advice. Jun needs to feel like she's the leader and, while I find that annoying and personally insulting, I'm more than happy to oblige her for the sake of the game. Jun warned me to keep the April situation under wraps from Sarah, since we weren't sure of how close she and April are. I disagreed, explaining that Sarah needs to know in order to a) foster a sense of trust and open communication within the alliance and b) prevent her from working with April on the side, and potentially screwing us over royally! Jun's response: Renny doesn't know either. Bullshit, mama! At the same damn time that Porsche was telling me about April, she was telling Renny. Want to know how I know? Because Renny told me as it was happening! I told Jun, point blank, that what she said wasn't true, and she laughed it off with a series of self-deprecating comments - "What?" "Where have I been?" "Was I taking cold meds?" - and then swiftly changed the subject. I play stupid with you, Jun, because you're threatened by intelligence and even the slightest semblance of an assertive attitude, but I have two degrees in literature...I can read between the fucking lines. After our conversation, all of my red flags were up. Jun can't be trusted and I need to make sure that she's evicted first once we make it to the final five. So I went to Sarah (who Jun suggested be the first Slayer evicted) and essentially told her everything. I confessed that I was worried about Jun's loyalty and I wanted to give Sarah the heads-up as we approach the last few weeks. [...] Firstly, Jun keeps reasserting how badly she wants to be an All-Star…which means she's going to try to make herself memorable by making big moves, even if they're completely stupid. Secondly, she told both Porsche and me that if she wins HoH, she'll need time to think by herself and won't invite us into the HoH room. Now, I don't save chat logs (I usually just copy and paste exchanges I find interesting) so I don't have the actual text, but I'll paraphrase loosely: Nicole: Why wouldn't you invite us? We've practically been there all season; why stop now? Jun: Because I need a place to think alone. I don't want people knowing what I'm thinking. Nicole: .....You realize it's a message board, right? Thinking happens in your head. In real life. Jun: But I want to post my thoughts so I can make it onto All-Stars. Nicole: So...like a diary room? Jun: Yeah! …Blank stare. Clearly, she's inviting someone; it just isn't me. But again, Jun seems to think I'm cognitively deficient. [...] I'm sorry; let me get this straight. You just suggested turning on the Zombie Slayers…but Dustin will create a rift in our alliance? It's these lapses in psychology that make me think Jun is dumb as a box of hair. Or she thinks I'm the dumb one. Either way, it's completely insulting and annoying to talk to someone who makes no fucking sense and then pretends like they don't realize it. Jun truly believes she's playing a fantastic game; she actually brags about her social game all the time. But does she realize that both her lies and her overall strategy are completely transparent? [...] Jun, you just fucked your own game so hard, it's looking for money on the nightstand. Stop focusing on All-Stars and pay attention to the game that you're actually playing. Last night, you couldn't even commit to not nominating each other in the final five. Twenty-four hours later, you're asking me to turn on our alliance and promise each other final two? What the fuck are you smoking? And when I brought this up to her, her response was: "I was just joking!" Oh, child… And then you were evicted. To answer your final question, I’ll start by outlining my mistakes. My first mistake was intimating to Parker, in a roundabout way (without actually naming names), that you and Porsche wanted him out of the game. At the time, I felt that Parker and I were becoming very close and I wanted to make sure that he would eventually become closer to me than any of the other Slayers. The reason that was a mistake was because I refused to tell Parker who was targeting him and I think that alienated him from me instead of bringing him closer. As the game progressed, Parker and I became increasingly distant and I felt that I had burned a potentially promising bridge. Ultimately, none of this ended up mattering but, at the time, I felt that I had made a pretty big tactical error. My second major mistake was the way that I handled Week 5. Dustin came to me with a proposition to turn on the Slayers and work together in the “Any Takers?” HoH competition. Like I usually did, I said I would think about it and then relayed all the information to the Slayers. That part wasn’t the mistake. During the competition, Dustin was blindsided and, again, I felt that my decision damaged my relationship with him. I regretted not telling him in advance that I wasn’t taking his deal. And the same can be said of Sarah’s eviction. It was a fairly last-minute decision to evict her but I felt that it was a mistake not to, at the very least, tell her that I was voting to keep Dustin for strategic purposes. My final major mistake was not attempting to re-do Part 1 of the final Head of Household competition. Chenbot gave me the option to re-do it after Porsche had been granted an extension and I declined. Had I won Part 1, I’m not sure the final outcome of the whole thing would have been any different, but it was something I definitely thought about. My biggest moves in this game were never over-the-top and I think the same can be said of Porsche. We both played fairly understated games. Obviously, I could take the easy way out and say that using the DPoV to backdoor Jordan was one of my biggest moves, but it wasn’t. She ended up returning to the game and that decision came at a time when I was still trying to gauge my position in the house. My biggest moves always had to do with the delivery of information to the right people at the right times. I collected a lot of information as the game progressed and I kept notes (in a physical notebook on my desk…because I’m a nerd) on every houseguest. The magnitude of this information only increased as the number of players dwindled. Telling Sarah about your wanting to evict her first in the final five, telling the Slayers about your final two offer, and telling Steven about the bogus final three deal were essential to getting you evicted from the house. The reality is, you knew more about my gameplay (at the time) than anyone else. And when I realize how unstable you had become, I knew I had to get you out. Obviously, evicting you did nothing to stop you from spilling information about my gameplay to other houseguests (ie. Porsche) but, if we were all playing within the rules, making sure you were evicted when you were evicted is absolutely one of the biggest moves I made in the game. Similarly, I regularly relayed to Porsche the things Dustin said about her (relating to the game) and I did the same for Dustin. My intention was to disrupt the strong bond they had formed over the course of the game and ensure that, if either Dustin or Porsche were to win the Power of Veto, they would evict the other person instead of me. Finally, I think I made a very important move once I was in the final three to ensure my place in the finals. I decided to tell Porsche that I had a final two deal with Renny and that I intended to honour it. (This was the truth; had I won the final HoH, I would have taken Renny to the finals with me.) The reason I told Porsche was because I imagined that she also had a final two deal with Renny, long before Renny told me, and it was a much more effective strategy than simply promising her final two at the last minute. I wanted Porsche to respect my straightforwardness and honesty, and she did. By telling her the truth, I knew that Porsche would be more likely to take me to the end in the event that she won the final HoH. Even if things went as planned and Renny and I were in the finals, I knew that my honesty would win her jury vote. I hope I’ve answered your questions as thoroughly as you hoped I would. I’ve been completely honest and explicit, which is the best I can do. Porsche played a very good game (she is, after all, in the finals) but I believe my game was considerably more comprehensive and my strategy more astute. I know that winning your vote, Jun, will be a hard sell. The reason you urged me to take Porsche to the end is so that you could vote for her to win and, maybe, exact some kind of vengeance on me for “wronging” you. At the end of the day, you made your own bed in this game. I did what I had to do and I proudly wear your blood on my hands. Thanks for reading.  |
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Post by Porsche Briggs on Dec 26, 2011 23:51:49 GMT -6
I may have to answer your questions in a few posts since as Nicole stated your really did give us a term paper LOL but I would like to get started. To answer your first question I knew that there was likely something more going on with Renny and Nicole during the elimination HOH. Renny expressed that she felt Sarah was a threat to her and wanted to knock her out first. We had talked and agreed that we would then eliminate Nicole to ensure that it would be her and I left standing in the competition. There came a time in the competition where Nicole could have been eliminated as she had posted and Renny still had her turn left. If she had eliminated Nicole then she would not have been able to knock out any more of my x's but Renny never took her turn that round and Nicole indeed came back and hit me on her turn. After that Renny hit me to "even it out" SO the picture became clearer then. Then Renny nominated me saying that she did so in the hopes that Nicole did not try as hard in veto. We had chatted the night before nominations and she had never mentioned that she had any plans of putting me up. Although veto was a deciding factor that week I believe that she was afraid that if anyone else were to have won veto that Nicole would be the one to be evicted. If I had known before the elimination HOH that they had a final 2 deal I would have played differently. I would have used my turns to weaken her and Nicole and I would not have assisted her in eliminating Sarah early on. Rating the jurors from 1-10 Jordan: I give her a 4. Jordan was a vet and labeled as a huge threat in the game. I felt that she did not put forth much effort social wise and if she had tried to get close with the new players especially she may have lessened the target on her back enormously. She got a second chance to come back and did not use that opportunity to genuinely get to know the other players instead she used the second shot to try and put me down. The final reason I give her a low score is that she was technically evicted before the jury round and received a jury seat because Karen was expelled from the game. Parker: I give Parker a 5.5. I am very fond of Parker and I think that if he had played with his full potential he would have really done some damage in the game. I know that Parker is extremely smart yet I felt at times that he was holding back. When Parker found himself on the block with Steven and the POV was not used he chose not to fight and instead asked that we evict him and keep Steven. Even though the cards were stacked against him I would have liked to see him fight and show that he wanted and deserved to stay in the game. Jun: I give you a 7 You had an amazing social game, one of the best and I think that you had a great shot at making it at least to the final 3 had you played your cards right but you got too eager a bit too soon and planned to turn on an alliance without any plan in place to pull it off and then to protect yourself in the weeks that followed. You were also a little too vocal about flipping and didn't keep it close to the vest until you could get all of your ducks in a row. Steven: I give Steven a 7.5 He was not all that active socially throughout the game yet the connections he built in the beginning we strong enough where others felt that he could be trusted and he was the least threatening of the vets. I really enjoyed chatting and talking game with Steven and I admired and respected that he came to me and we talked it out when he had thoughts of nominating me. I had second thoughts and considered the possibility of giving Steven my vote to stay and felt awful about his eviction but when I learned that he was telling Sarah the same things as he said to me I knew that I had no other choice and that I could not fully trust him to keep me safe if Sarah and I were to both be nominated. Sarah I give Sarah a 9, she deserves it. She was a frontrunner to win the game and was the all around total package. She was a strong competitor and had a strong social game as well. As far as I know she was extremely loyal. Unfortunately being the total package made her a huge threat and had she made it to the finals I feel that she would have won hands down. I feel that she deserves a higher score than even a few that stayed in longer, she was blindsided and did not have the chance to save herself. Dustin I give an 8.5. The odds were stacked totally against him coming into the game. It seemed that not too many had nice things to say about him but I personally found him to be one of my favorite players in the game. Although he didn't win an actual competition he contributed in other ways and I still think he sells himself short on all that he did accomplish. He was willing to get down, dirty, and devious Renny: Renny I will give a 9. She was very strong in competitions and I caught on to the schemes and shenanigans of many other players this season but Renny was really the only one that I can say shocked me. I didn't catch on until very close to the end that there was more to Renny than meets the eye. The only reason that I didn’t give her a 10 was because she actually admitted to me that she lied. While I agree that would be the moral and just thing to do, this is a game and she very well could have won it by covering up the deal with Nicole. My thoughts on your game play huh? Girl, you just looove to hear all about yourself LMAO! I already gave you a number and short description above so I will just talk a bit about what I think of how you played the game at various points up until you were evicted. For the first beginning weeks of the game I think you were off to a great start. You socialized with everyone and began forming close bonds with many of the other players. I think that the general consensus was that you were well liked and respected by the majority. after the initial honeymoon phase and you settled in I think that at times you got a little ahead of yourself, and I know I mentioned at the time as well that you started to jump a little ahead of yourself and rather than taking things week by week and analyzing the current stats of the game and what the best direction to take you more focused on a boot order and planning many weeks at once. In a game where things can change so rapidly slow and steady wins the race. Throughout the weeks you maintained your relationships and at times I had some worries that you may be focusing too much on keeping everyone happy with you and in Big Brother it's extremely hard to not make a few enemies here and there. When we got to April's eviction you did lead her on to believe that she would be staying over Karen when you knew that wasn't so and it may have been to keep the peace until the eviction but that was something that I didn't necessarily agree with. Despite the little things we stuck together and enjoyed our late night pajama jams and those late night talks helped me to kinda push any other frustrations aside. Then we find ourselves at the time where you started feeling insecure and worried that I would prefer to work with Dustin over you. This is where you made your crucial game mistake. I know that you felt that you had become outcast in some way but to the best of my knowledge none of the Slayers had any plans to turn on you until you started showing the signs that you were plotting a big move. I discovered that you had gone to Steven trying to make a deal. This was in my opinion a move that you attempted to make a couple of weeks too soon and had you stayed calm and waited just a little longer you would have made it several weeks further into the game. I think your real downfall here was that you brought in way to much outside emotion and it hindered your ability to come up with a strategy that would not only help you achieve your main goal of beginning to break up the Slayers but keep yourself in the game as well. One more section left phew! I will get to it at some point tonight |
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Post by Porsche Briggs on Dec 30, 2011 22:57:32 GMT -6
Ok Jun you gave me an essay to write and now I give you one to read  In response to your last question I agree with Nicole when she said that we both played rather understated games. Rather than having one or two huge strategic game moves that got me to the end I took things step by step and analyzed everything going on at that moment in the game and came up with a plan to ensure that my potential threats would be evicted ensuring that I would remain safe from nomination. I will break down the weeks and outline the steps that I took to ensure that I would be safe from eviction and I will also include any mistakes made along the way as well. Week 1 the double eviction week I made an effort to touch base with everyone before the HOH competition as I know that in the first weeks nominations are based on who the HOH has spoke with the least so I made sure that person was not me. When I saw that Ragan was making multiple alliances I took advantage of the fact that he said that Jordan would be good to align with but only temporarily and I told Jordan what was said to increase the chances of him being nominated for eviction. This proved to be very successful. G force was also formed around this time and we as a group knew that our first initial threats would be Jordan and Annie. In an effort to try and be one step ahead of the vets I read all of their past seasons and diary room entries. I felt that this would help me to gain insight on their past strategies. I found Annie’s season 7 diary room entries to be a very revealing look into her gameplay. Just before week 2 Jordan came to me asking for an alliance. G force had been formed and as we knew that she was one of our biggest threats I went along with it in the event that she had any plans to target anyone in our alliance. To ensure that I was not considered to be untrustworthy should Jordan mention working with me to you or Nicole I let the both of you know that Jordan thought that we were working together but that my loyalty was with G force. Annie ended up winning HOH week 2 and I had continued to chat with her when I saw her on AIM which kept me off the block again that week. The Slayers had recently formed and you and Nicole had won powers in the POV competition. The chance that we had to evict Jordan was too good to pass up with Nicole possessing the DPOV. She was very hesitant to use it that week which is understandable but I did my best to play up the urgency of needing to take out one of our threats immediately. I did this not only to eliminate Jordan but I also wanted the DPOV out of play in the event that anything unforeseen should happen I wasn’t the one who held the power therefore I wanted it out of play just to ensure that it could not be used against me in any way. Week 3 was my first HOH win. I chose to make a big move that week in nominating Annie who was considered to be a huge threat in the game and she had already won 2 HOH comps. I did not want to risk Annie winning the POV and as you had won the veto skip it worked out perfectly to ensure that Annie would be evicted and not win Veto thus coming after me. In the end she quit the game but we all know that she would have ultimately been evicted that week and she did not choose to walk until the power was used and she saw that she would not be staying. I won HOH again the following week. To win that comp I put a lot of thought into my questions and ran several questions by others outside the game until I settled on the 2 that I thought would get me the most points. When I answered other’s questions I tried to use what I knew of everyone along with the theory that if someone says something really off the wall in many cases it’s true. While that challenge was a lot luck based I did in fact try to use the best strategy possible to ensure that others got mine wrong and that I got theirs right not giving them points. April had gone on a war path that week and wanted to target either myself or Dustin who I had become very close to and I needed to ensure that she was evicted before she could do any damage. Jordan then came back into the game and Sarah had won HOH. Renny came up with a plan that seemed fool proof to backdoor Jordan in nominating 2 Slayers who would then choose other Slayers for the veto. In order to pull this off we needed 1 more player in on the plan willing to use the POV to get Jordan on the block. In having a close relationship with Dustin I was able to guarantee the final player needed and the plan went off without a hitch eliminating Jordan who was targeting me for eviction that week. In the beginning of the competition Parker and had spoken a lot but around the time of my 1st HOH win our relationship was not as it had been. I know that he was not happy with the way the game was progressing and I can’t really pinpoint exactly where we kind of stopped talking and why I am sure that he had some knowledge that I had a hand in most of it. I know that he had made me one of his prime targets if he were to win HOH. Although I was aware of this I admit that I did not make an effort to change his line if thinking as the goal at the time was to have the Slayers as the final 5 I did not want to lead him on in any or to make him falsely believe that I would vote for him to stay. I instead used this week to more strongly solidify my relationship with Steven by going to him right after nominations and letting him know that he had my vote. This proved to be very beneficial later in the game when Steven won HOH and considered nominating me. This was the time that you came to me in regard to my relationship with Dustin and I could tell from speaking with you that you were planning something that I was pretty sure would have a bad outcome for me if you had been successful. I knew then that I had to make some moves myself in order to block you from pulling off your plan to turn on the Slayers alliance. I knew that up until this point that we had a very strong and loyal alliance and it would be a tall order to convince the other Slayers that you were about to flip. As you had said that Sarah should be the first to go at final 5 I let her in on your intensions showing her that if we were to make it to final 5 that she may be in danger of being evicted. Renny had been next on your list so I made sure that she also knew. This alone would not be enough to show that the threat was immediate so I also told them that you had gone to Steven telling him that he would be evicted next and that you had offered him a final 3 deal with yourself, Steven, and Nicole. This not only showed that the threat was more pressing as you were betraying the alliance but that Nicole may be closer with you than we anticipated. Due to the fact that you were including Nicole in your deals I did not go to her with the information straight away and it was agreed that would be broached with caution. By the time Nicole spoke with Sarah and filled her in on her being the first Slayer in your list to be evicted in final 5 she was already well aware and plans for your nomination were already in place with the plan initially being to nominate you with Nicole. Before that happened Nicole and Sarah had a conversation where Sarah was carefully putting out comments to hint at what was going on to see what Nicole would say. This was when Nicole ended up telling Sarah that you wanted her to be the first evicted. We discovered that Nicole was not in fact as close with you as she had been made out to be and wanting to stay loyal to our alliance and achieve our goal to reach the finals together we apologized to Nicole for our feelings of doubt. I knew that if I did not go to Nicole and reveal to her that I had raised some question about her loyalty and apologize that she would find out another way and that could cause her to target me when we reached the final few weeks. When Steven won HOH I discovered that I was one of his first choices for nominations. He had let Sarah know that would be the best game move but that he would have felt bad in nominating me. I made sure to connect with Steven before nominations and to bring to his attention the fact that you were planning something and that you had made deals with multiple people and he agreed that you could not be trusted and nominated you for eviction. I feel that if I had not done this that the week could have ended up very differently in me being nominated in your place. When Steven was on the block the next week I feel that I made what I consider to be a major mistake that I still regret to this day. Sarah had let me know that if she were to win the POV that she was tempted to use it on Steven. This worried be as it would have meant that one of the Slayers would in turn be nominated and I mentioned it to Renny. In hindsight I should have had more trust that although Sarah had a bond with Steven that she would stay loyal to the alliance. This is what I think ultimately led Renny to target Sarah down the road although I cannot speak for her and there are more than likely several other reasons, this could not have helped. I made a second mistake in the next HOH competition, any takers. I believed that Renny and I had a solid final 2 deal and I failed to take any of her x’s when my turns came. I think that I screwed myself out of a possible win by doing this as she missed a turn allowing Nicole to hit me an extra time and then Renny in turn hit me herself. As I explained in Dustin’s thread my mindset of it had to be Renny or I that won was a bad move and I should have been in the competition for myself only. When Dustin and Sarah were nominated it is true that it was a last minute choice to vote to evict Sarah but by the time that Nicole came to me asking for my thought about it possibly being a better move I had already been thinking the same thing and in fact had decided to vote to evict Sarah. It was my understanding that Renny would break the tie. When Nicole came to me I acted like I was relieved that she was also thinking on the same lines as I was. Truth be told and in hindsight I wish I had gone with my gut but when I actually went to vote I came very close to not voting to evict Sarah and forcing Renny to be the one to show her cards but in the end my loyalty to my final 2 deal made me decide against it. I believe that what came next is well known. Renny and Nicole had a deal that I was not aware of and I knew that in order to make the final 2 I had to depend on myself and my abilities to take myself there. I posted the longest in the endurance challenge and I won part 3 in a tie breaker. I think that I showed that I came into this game to win and I was not going to be screwed out of the final 2 spot that I felt I deserved. I won 3 HOH competitions in the season and brought myself to the final 2 proving that I am a competitor in addition to being a social player. |
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