Board Thread:Big Brother 5/@comment-24642146-20171217185419

Hello Jury,

My name is Erin Lolpovhoh,

But your dad just calls me Katya

I’ve been called the bright red scare with the long blonde hair

But I keep 'em coming back for more.

All my stupidity aside let's get down to the game that we all know and love.

I think my first half of this game was more about survival and i’d say the second half was about power.

In the first 6 weeks of this game i was facing eviction 3 times.But in those weeks I established solid relationships with a lot of people in this house. Even so,  I was certain i would be going home against Grant, but here i stand. I’ll be honest, in my normal game of BB i win an early HOH comp, put up 2 inactives, and cut deals with everyone to keep me safe and that would carry me to jury. None of that happened. So, i worked on establishing a 6 person alliance of myself, Nathan, Jake, Ali, Hannah and Alex. This alliance would crumble on more than one occasion, but on the whole, these were the people that got me to then end of this game. My relationships with Dominique, Grant and Bryce early on helped me greatly as well, and they really came through for me when i faced eviction. As a result i was able to survive being placed on the block on 3 of the first 7 evictions. I’ll admit i was completely fake with Natalie. I still had beef with you from a past org, and i was far from over it. So, if at anytime i came off as fake, im sorry for that, because i was very disingenuous with you for a majority of this game.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I think at the beginning of the game i was having to be more active than Emma. She was playing a great Under the Radar game, and the other people on her “side of the house” definitely shielded her. Me on the other hand, i had to feel the cold sting of eviction night over and over. I really was not anyone's favorite person. Im brash, im loud, and at times im mean, but i dont like being anything but the truest form of myself when im here. In real life i have to tone down certain aspects of my personality, so when im here, playing a game, i feel every emotion to its fullest extent. I may censor myself for politeness to make it a little farther, but i will not compromise being the purest form of me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Also during this time, temptations were apparently being passed out like candy out of a f*cking pinata, and i was not lucky enough to ever get one. I played this game like old school big brother. I Never got an advantage from the den of temptation, and when advantages were handed out during the endurance comp, i stepped down for a mangatar made by the amazing Danni “jump the boom boom” Gunn, which is now one of my most prized possessions.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">After week 6, i went on to win 5 competitions across weeks 7, 9, DE, 10 and 11. I was proud of that. I used my new found powers to benefit my position in this game and for the most part i got what i wanted. I mainly worked to protect Alex and Bryce, the “comp beasts.” That was for two reasons, both said they were working with me (and i believed them, whether or not that that was a good idea remains to be seen) and i knew that if i kept both of them around for a long time they would target each other, and be targeted over me. I was hoping to keep that Ménage à trois going for as long as possible, but unfortunately Alex left at top 5, when for the 100th time in this game, i got way over emotional.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">There are plenty more details to my game, but i’m sure you have more pressing questions. So, overall, I went from being a mainstay on the nomination block to literally outlasting everyone else in this game at least one time (that includes emma). My game was entirely driven by gut instinct and emotion. I cried multiple times this season, i complained constantly, and i was a blunt bitch more times then i could count. My game was far from perfect, crunchy and ugly at times, but i hope you can respect the passion and the honesty i brought to this season. I fought with some of you like crazy but you have my respect, i worked with some of you to the bitter end but you have my love, and some of you fall into both of those categories. I feel like i put my passion for this game on display, i worked extremely hard to make it to this point, i won comps, i strategized, and i was never evicted. INSERT SHADE GIF.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Now im sure im about to be grilled to within an inch of my life, but to this point i worked hard, i had fun, and i played a much different Big Brother game them i’ve ever had to in the past. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be sitting here in the final 2 for the first time ever, and now i hand it off to the fabulous members of the jury. <ac_metadata title="Vote for Erin!"> </ac_metadata>