Board Thread:Big Brother 9/@comment-24900484-20190512212212/@comment-33060993-20190513153044

Hey Matt!

Call me a cow one more time and you’re losing my jury vote.

First off, thank you so much for the comments. I made a comment in my thread about how I’m genuinely so shook to get positive feedback because in the past that has not been the case. I will definitely try to own my game more in these responses though. I’ve never had a good finale experience before so I admittedly get very scared about over-claiming and being murdered but I am not afraid of that anymore YEET.

Also - I want all jurors to see this. You’re right that I had less of a social game with my non allies and believe it or not that was intentional to a degree. In my past games, I’ve had a strong social game with virtually everyone, which led me to be aligned in some capacity with everyone and in turn, betray them by voting them out. In the context of this game, if I felt like we might not be down the same path I retained a relationship obviously because a social game is important but not to the same extent as before because I felt like it’d be making empty promises and hurting people. People might feel less connected to me but based on the feedback thus far they don’t feel hurt by me and that’s honestly a lot of growth for me - I just hope they can see the merit of my gameplay and how hard I fought to make it to the end on all three pillars of this game.

Here are your tasks/questions!

1 - You’re amazing because you played this game v hard, you basically single-handedly controlled the first half of this game and arguably would have ran even further under different circumstances. You’re iconic, kind, funny, smart, and a huge part of the reason I’m here and I’m so happy this ORG has solidified our friendship even more. Schuyler sisters all the way <3

2 - Ahhhh! It’s hard to pinpoint just one move because I genuinely made several individual ones across this game. I would want to say hiding behind you while building a resume but that was more of a consistent perceptual pattern than a move in itself but it led to the most critical moment of my game wherein I was entirely vulnerable and dependent on the way I maneuvered the social-strategic dynamic. In terms of a move itself, I’d have to say winning the Week 8 HOH was the most game defining moment and using that HOH to make a move on Tia was very critical. In the late game of Big Brother, winning competitions is basically critical to surviving because the wiggle room becomes smaller and smaller. I used that HOH to make a move on my biggest competitor both in the challenges and arguably the finale, which basically gave me the window I needed to win Final HOH and solidify my spot at the end. After it was announced that we would be using a Final Three, I researched the BB:OTT season and realized entrance would be dependent on competitions, whether it be the Final HOH or the Safety Competition and I wanted to lower the probability of someone beating me in those comps. I also structured my actual nominations around increasing the probability of that. I felt like after Tia, Karthik was the most likely to win the veto and I didn’t want him to even have the possibility of using it on her so I kept Konstantinos and Dawn off the block to prevent them from being able to manipulate nominations and more specifically Konstantinos because I knew his inferiority complex leading him to turn on his relationships was predictable asf and he’d be a surefire vote to evict Tia so I could break a tie. I think in putting the biggest threat out of Kon/Karthik and the biggest threat out of Dawn/Tia I allowed their conflicting interests to run their course and give myself more wiggle room strategically because either someone was betraying an ally or someone was voting the wrong way which served my game because that tension created opportunities for me. However, I did make several other moves by myself and to reiterate them, I: Won a critical HOH in the early game to shift the tide in the favor of my allies Won four straight competitions to turn the game around on people who were eager to evict me & guarantee people I had a case against made the end
 * Managed to protect my core allies Week 2 by planting a seed with the other side due to the relationships I built
 * Used the fourth and the fifth weeks to lower my threat level by using you as a shield, keeping me safe during the one time I was vulnerable
 * Survived until the end of the game despite losing all my allies, showing an ability to adapt to even the worst of circumstances

3 - I’ll record the YEET later. It’s late and if I let out a bloodcurdling scream I believe there would be several concerns.

If I have the time I'll respond to the tomfoolery perpetuated in Kostas' speech later because that is a woefully inaccurate read on my game but I don't blame him. When you feel insecure about your own game, you have to go out of your way to attack others'!