Board Thread:Big Brother 6/@comment-27941254-20180413025013/@comment-31430415-20180413171136

Hi Ally! First off, I apologize for the delayed response. Your speech brought up a lot of compelling points and I’ve spent a lot of time on this to try and do it justice. Thank you for the nice comments in your speech, and it’s cute that you feel you birthed me. Org soccer mom queen. After reading your speech, I figured that I could go two ways with it, and that was either lie and suck up to you or be honest to you. I’m going to go the honest route, if I lose your vote b/c of that that’s something I’ll have to live with, but I respect you a lot as a person and I’d rather not feed you lies and attempt to kiss your ass until you vote for me.

I’m going to start off by addressing the double eviction b/c you said some stuff about it but didn’t ask me a question about it and I feel the need to defend myself tbh! I didn’t keep you at the double eviction because it didn’t make sense to piss off literally all my allies except Rhi when you wouldn’t have even stayed. If it tied 2-2-2 Marie was saving Trent and then she would’ve been mad at me and you wouldn’t even be there to shield me. Furthermore, I already had a shield in Rhi and I trusted her significantly more than you…. mostly because she kept an open line of communication with me, which I’ll get into now while responding to your first question!

Questions specific to me:

1) So pertaining to our communication-- I’ve gone through our conversations to reply to this question because part of what you’re saying just isn’t true. Yes, I could have tried harder to talk to you. As you said, communication is a two-way street so I def take partial responsibility. HOWEVER, it did not at any point feel like you wanted to work with me. Prior to me winning PoV in the double, we had exactly 7 interactions: 1 - Initiated by you, 2 - Initiated by me, 3 - Initiated by me, 4 - Me congratulating you for winning HoH, 5 - Me telling you I liked your nomination speech, 6 - Initiated by you, was to tell me about Ain throwing me utb, 7: you telling me to apply to BAR. I don’t see you reaching out to me “quite a few times”. I just kind of assumed that you were busy with BAR since you didn’t much seem up to talk and left it at that, honestly. It felt like you had 0 interest in talking to me or working with me, you never attempted to actually speak game to me until Mackie left. After you won HoH I had literally given up because it felt like you just didn’t wanna talk to me. I will gladly admit to being a gamebot at times, but it’s very disheartening to hear you say that you tried and I never reciprocated when you never tried with me until Mackie left. I didn’t try as hard as I could have with you and I apologize for that, but neither did you and I don’t appreciate you saying that you tried harder than me when that isn’t apparent at all in our conversations.

2) Regarding what you told me after Mackie left; I didn’t appear to do anything with it because I didn’t need Ain out immediately. Everyone already knew she was a liar. She’d lied to me about not getting anything in the temptation competition, so I already knew that we weren’t as close as she tried to tell me we were. I filed this information away as something to keep in mind and filtered myself while speaking to her, but it didn’t make sense for me to immediately target her and cause Marie/Brian, both strong competition players, to turn on me to save her. She made a good scapegoat for me because whenever it looked like I was going to get caught snaking or something (like during Tyler’s nomination) I could play it off on her since she was doing all the same shit but a lot less sneaky and she would get bodied in the house chat. I did appreciate you looking out for me but since we hadn’t really spoken much in the game, I took it more as “she’s waging a war against Ain and trying to get me on her side”. As you can probably tell just by the way the game went down but I’ll touch on later, taking sides wasn’t really something I did in this game. I chose to keep my options open with Ain because I didn’t feel the need to immediately flip out on her and create an enemy in her and potentially Marie/Brian as well.

General questions:

1) I think it’s a shame that you’ve chosen not to read our speeches because my speech talks about most of the concerns you have with me regarding me being “invisible”, but I’ll brief you on those points here regardless. I believe you should vote for me because I was socially connected to several people in the house and it allowed me to be trusted enough to make moves that benefited me more than it benefited them. The biggest example of this is at final 6 when Marie was evicted. Due to my relationship with Brian, I escaped being an initial nominee and won the PoV, saving Aaron and forcing Marie out on one of her closest ally’s HoH.

I also came into this house as a bigger name in the community. I’m a two-time 703 winner, and that’s big enough to put a target on my back no matter what. I knew coming into this game I was going to have to play UTR, which generally isn’t something I’m good at. I believe I played it very well and made a lot of stuff happen behind the scenes without ever putting a target on my back.

I was never targeted until final 7, and even then I escaped relatively unscathed and got taken to f2 over someone that the jury doesn’t have a high opinion of at all. I only had to win a competition to protect myself twice (f6 when I was a potential renom if Aaron/Hailey came down, and f4), and I was never 100% going home either of those times. I’m not a strong competition player and I always wanted to make sure that I had alternative paths to the end based on social and strategic ability, because those are my strong points.

I knew what was going on at almost all points. The only time that I can think of that I was actually out of the loop was the plan to blindside Mackie and by voting him out I took care of the problem of being distrusted due to who I was friends with. Whenever someone wanted to go after me, I knew ahead of time because I was receiving information from all over the house. When Marie and Ain wanted me out at f6, Brian, Aaron, and Hailey all told me. I also didn’t do nothing with the information, despite what you may think. Every bit of information I had I used, whether it was spreading it to someone else, targeting someone due to something I’d heard, or adjusting my game plan to take it into consideration.

Even when something in my “plan” went wrong (like the duos twist return causing Rhi to go, and Marie winning the selfie challenge) I was able to readjust, recover, and figure out my way here regardless. I was constantly flexible and adaptable, I never just went “well, that sucks, guess my game is destroyed and I have to comp out!” I found new paths, I spoke with new people, I formed an alliance with Aaron and Hailey at f6 so we could go head to head with the other trio. I never gave up and I never stopped looking for ways to further myself socially.

2) You should vote for me personally for a few reasons:

1: You said it in your speech yourself--I’m your org baby! How could my own mother not vote for me? Seems pretty cold.

2: We share a name and if you vote for Ain I’m going to assume that it’s because you don’t want me to be the winning Ally :\\\ Do you really want to seem jealous?

3: I want to be a 3-time 703 winner pls mom….

3) Ranking the jurors best to worst in terms of who could have won: Brian > Marie > Tyler > Rhi > Mackie > Grace > Ally A > Aaron > Hailey > Trent. Aaron is low on my list because of the way the jury perceived him, but ftr I think he deserves to be higher up.

4) Sure thing. I believe that I heavily impacted most of the jury votes based on the way I set people up to target each other.

1: Mackie: Ain and I had a long conversation after she won PoV and I encouraged her to approach Rhi and tell her to target the Mackie/Aaron/Grace group. She would’ve used the PoV regardless but I believe me supporting her and talking about that group made her more willing to discuss the potential of a Mackie renom with Rhi. Prior to Mackie being bodied with advantages, I was also a swing vote in the eviction and was evicting him.

2: Tyler: I betrayed him by voting to nominate him, and pushed his name to multiple people. When talking about it in my alliance chat with Marie/Brian/Ain, Marie said she’d heard both Grace and Tyler and I immediately latched onto the Tyler vote and began pushing it to the alliance and approaching Aaron/Grace about it to strengthen my trust with them while pushing to get Tyler nominated.

3: Ally A: I encouraged that Marie nominate you, but you were pretty obviously already going to be a target because of your tumultuous relationship with Ain. Beyond that, I chose to leave you nominated when I won PoV and not vote to save you.

4: Grace: During backwards week, Grace told me that she wanted to target Marie and Ain. I fed this information to my alliance w BAM because I felt like I needed to make sure those two sides were going to keep going at each other and I could allow myself to skate by. During the eviction itself, I was a swing vote between her and Trent and chose to stick with Brian/Ain and save Trent. I also directly caused her backdoor by saving Rhi with PoV and allowing her to go up.

5: Rhi: I had no part in this other than having relationships with people in the game like Aaron, Hailey, and Brian that would’ve allowed me to stay even if she wasn’t a massive threat.

6: Trent: I definitely campaigned my ass off during this vote b/c Marie tried to flip it on me. I believe my relationship with Brian played a part in this because him and Ain were super close and Ain voted with him.

7: Marie: I played the biggest part in Marie leaving, and this was my biggest move in the game. My close relationship with Brian caused him to target Aaron instead of me, and this allowed me to win PoV and save Aaron so we could force Brian’s ally onto the block and out of the game. I was also pming Brian all throughout the double and telling him that Marie was selling him out in PMs to me and telling me that Ain/Brian wanted me out because I wanted her to be the renom and not Ain. Despite Ain/Brian being closer, I think this was a bad decision for him because Marie was stronger competitively and might have been able to protect their duo for longer.

8: Brian: I also played a large part in this, as I was the swing vote in the eviction that could either allow him to stay or tie it so Aaron could evict him. I chose to evict him because he was the overall strongest player in the season imo and his loyalty was always going to be to Ain over me. I also felt like he was too strong physically and I had a shot at beating Ain in competitions but no shot at beating him.

9: Hailey: I won HoH this week, but we all know HoH is pretty much just individual immunity at final 4. After Ain won PoV, Aaron came up with a plan to try and reverse psychology Ain into evicting Hailey (a much worse eviction choice which I’ll touch on during question 5) instead of him. My part in this was to be very blunt to Ain and outright encourage her to evict Aaron, to tell her that I absolutely thought it was what she should do, and try to convince her to do it. I wanted to make it very obvious that I was planning on taking Hailey to f2 so that she would get rid of the goat and allow me and my f2 Aaron to make finals together. Aaron worked his magic on Ain and made sure to tell her I was going to take Hailey to f2, and imo this played a huge part in her decision even if she’s denying it now.

10: Aaron: My king. If I had won final HoH he absolutely would be sitting next to me right now. But as soon as Ain won, I basically started spamming her with PMs and trying to convince her to take me because I knew she was on the fence. I immediately started telling her how many jury votes he was gonna have (which clearly wasn’t true), how I only had Rhi and no one else, I spilled the f4 move to her and told her that Aaron was going to use that move to tell the jury that he basically controlled Ain’s decision and it would make her look bad, I told her that Grace and Mackie were both furious at me when they left (that was a lie), I brought up that I had no comp control and that I voted in minority multiple times during the prejury (which was a tactical decision on my part). She told me that I had her convinced and that she thought an all-female f2 would be good, and voted to evict Aaron. I believe she made two poor eviction choices in a row and both were partially caused by me.

5) Ain doesn’t deserve to win because her perception of the game was severely off, especially towards the endgame. It didn’t take someone knowing that Aaron and I had been friends prior to realize that we were a duo. At final 6, I pulled him off with PoV because I trusted his vote more than Hailey’s. Despite Aaron randomizing the nominee at final 5, I was the one left unnominated by him. I believe that all throughout the game it was apparent that we were protecting each other and sharing information, and she chose to go to f3 with a solid duo regardless and give herself a significantly lower shot at making f2, whereas I set myself up to be guaranteed f2. She also completely butchered the f3 vote and allowed me to convince her to take me over Aaron. She made severe errors at the end of her game, whereas I believe I pulled off my endgame nearly flawlessly no matter who I ended up next to.

Ain also doesn’t deserve to win because she was the weakest player out of her trio with Brian/Marie and would’ve been more than willing to go to the end with them. Intent means a lot in Big Brother, and she had every intention of going straight to the end with 2 players that played SIGNIFICANTLY better than her and would’ve bodied her in f2. I played a part in taking out all the stronger people in the game and set myself up to go to the end with someone who I was both loyal to and believed that I could beat. I was playing to win every second of this game, and she was playing to get 2nd to her alliance member if me and my allies didn’t take them out.

I hope all of this answers your questions and good luck making your decision!