Board Thread:Big Brother 9/@comment-84.205.231.40-20190512135407

Woooo finally made it. Those deadlines in this game really challenged my sleeping schedule.

Okay guys I had a lot of fun playing this season. Yeah the quits were sad and it was kinda slow and the deadlines really challenged my desire to survive at work, but it had very interesting characters, very satisfying kind of old school gameplay, and I think I have strengthened my bonds with 2 old friends, Chelsea and Dawn (Shoutout to 703 Survivor Kerala) and made some good new friends especially Karth and Jake. Thank you hosts for casting me and for not killling me for always complaining about the timezone.

So, I will try to sum up my game at first. The sum up of my game was MIDDLE. I feel like I have been playing the middle since moment 1 in this game and with some luck and some laying low on my part I believe I rode the middle wave all the way to the F3. I was only nominated once, and that time I believe I was pretty safe and was basically a pawn and I don' t think it was logical at any point for anyone to nominate me. That happened duo to the simultaneous existence of 3 different alliances that I was a part of and helped create.

'a) D(i)kk Alliance: Me, Dawn and Karthik b) Four Biches Alliance: Me, Matt, Jake and Chelsea c) International Love Alliance: Me, Tia and Karthik'

So we begin the game and I immediatly start trying to make connections. I was planning to play waaay more aggressive but early I realised that everyone was freaking online between 2 and 3am and I am like why???? why you do this??

Early standouts are Chelsea, who ended up being my ride-or-die for the season, and Dawn and right after I was very close with Karth. Chelsea very early the first week let me know there was an alliance between her, Matt, Liam, Jake and Jenna which would protect me but I couldn' t really join. I was glad for the info but I immediately wanted to get someone from that alliance. I didn' t want any alliances that didn' t include me.

So the JT vote was an easy consensus and by week 2 I had my 2 alliances and a veeery good relatio ship with Taylor who at the time I was seeing as someone who connected me to Jenna and Evelyn with whom I had the least connection. Liam on the other hand, was someone who was barely talking to me (started replying to my messages after he was nominated) and the people that seemed like they were running the game at the moment seemed veeery connected to him. I urged a little Tia to nominate Tia and I got a little unlucky with Taylor getting renommed cause that caused the house to be spit in half. Playing the middle, it would be awesome if we could have some unanimous votes but right there I was the only swing vote and the burden fell on my shoulders. I needed to vote out Liam, because Taylor was one of my main allies, but not piss off Chelsea, Matt, Jake and Anabel who were veery adamant about getting Taylor out. I created the Four Bitches Alliance at that moment before the vote. I was pressured a lot by 2 main allies Chelsea and Dawn to do different things. It was honestly a really tough choice and I ended up eliminating Liam, but the intensity of Dawn and Chelsea pressuring me so much made me become more careless about how I would approach the next rounds.''' I think I did manage to maintain a good level of trust with them, but they both now knew my position in the middle, I feel like they knew that they needed me so it created a weird dynamic of slight distrust but also with Liam out a necessary cooperation. '''

The next elimination is when I started seeing the game a spinning wheel. 3 sides, 1 out from each side in every round. Liam was out from one side, then it had to be one from the Evelyn, Taylor, Jenna side. Jenna and I had no trust, she tried a lot and came to me last minute to keep her. That was the round that made me realise how safe I was going to be for a while, since it assured me that Jake and Matt were on my side.

The quit of Taylor made me annoyed that I had stuck my neck out for her so much during the 2nd round but I didnt let get me down. A new alliance almost emerged at that point between me and Evelyn including Tia and someone else but Karth wasnt into the idea. Evelyn was my only loose end and I wanted to have none. So I teamed up with her but when Matt won that HoH I was quick to let go and maintain my position between the 2 sides. In that round I saw Matt nominating Dawn, which really assured me that the Four Bitches alliance was actually working for me. Up to that point I had no evidence that Dawn and Karth werent closer to Matt and Jake than I was, but after that point I was flying easily to the F4.

Week 6 I made my most direct move by urging Tia to nominate Jake and Matt. I knew Chelsea was fond of the idea, I had discussed it with Karth, I knew they had been winning stuff left and right, I needed one of them out. Tia of course was thinking this on her own as well, and I am glad I managed to hold the POV that round. I know Matt was bitter for me jumping ship, and I understand that he had kept me safe several times. But there is no way I would sitting here right now had he not been eliminated at that point. I understand that my game had become really transparent to everyone. Being inside, I realised that, but I thought all the possible HoHs and scenarios and the fact that there were people with increasing targets and the level of trust I had mostly with Tia, Chelsea and Karth at that point and I kept feeling really safe after that.

Week 7 was my lowest point because I totally understood why Karthik wanted to nominate me but I was blinded by my idea of not being nominated at all. It is true, I would have evicted Tia at that point had he gone ahead and put her up instead of me, because Chelsea and Karth were my main boos and my Final 4 plan with Dawn at that point but I had to let go of Chelsea at that point. I am glad we did patch some things up with Dawn there and we went on to sit next to each other here.

Gosh did I want to win Week 8 HoH. I was soooo irritated I couldnt pull off another win. I guaranteed Jake I would vote to evict Tia so he d keep me safe and we together could own the vote. Tia, I know you were a huge fighter and your video was an epitomy, step to step guide on why we should evict you. I was really annoyed I woke up to have been blocked by you. Yes, I wanted to get you out because you' d win over me, and yes I did lie, but legitimately your eviction was the most respectful eviction of this game. Hope you only have good memories of us.

In the Final 4 I really wanted to do the HoH, but balancing work and sleep has been tough without having to do endurance challenges. I understand this was disrespectful to the hosts but my life and my work are more important. I did know that Jake felt like I was a weaker opponent and he d take me. The same with Dawn. I don' t see it. I believe 'I played a very safe game, a game that guaranteed my position here since very very early in the season. I did lie and cheat, but I also made friends. I made sure to have all my bases covered at all points and made sure I would neither be on the block in danger nor need to win comps to survive since I couldnt provide the time to win them. 'Some people would call that a floater. I chose to play this way after realising that the info I was giving was not getting spread. I tried early to check info leaks and there very few, so I went on to balance my game between 3-4 alliances.

I really believe I played this game as well as possible. I understand that Dawn and Jake are amazing players, and they both deserve to win this game each one for different reasons, but if you guys want to vote for who flew through the season ensuring always been on the right side, that' s me.

It' s been an amazing 2 months and I had mad fun. Looking forward to answering all your questions.

VOTE FOR KOSTAS YOU WEIRDOS <3 

Footnote: Sorry for the delayed speech. COME ON PEOPLE WHY WITH THE 4AM DEADLINES <3 you Nick Kiper 