Board Thread:Big Brother 7: All-Stars/@comment-26864283-20180826195341

Hello fellow jurors! I just wanted to start this out by saying thank you for making the first 703 Big Brother All Stars lit as FUCK. As the owner of this org, I’m super proud of this season and cast. It was definitely NOT the all stars cast that I personally had in mind, however, this season worked out amazingly so give all of yourselves a pat on the back. Finally, I just wanted to say thank you to Sora, Chris, Ally and Blake for hosting this shit very well. I was SUPER skeptical about letting other people host this but I’m VERY happy with the turn out! Also a BIG congratulations to Jamie for being in the final 2 as well! So, with all that being said I’m going to jump right into things.

Coming into this season, especially right after I just got 2nd on heroes vs villains, I was S U P E R nervous. I thought I was going to be pre-jury for sure. I told myself coming in that I was just going to try and at least make jury and then figure everything out from there. It’s no secret that coming into my own org, the target on my back was HUGE. I hosted seasons 3-6 and played in season 2, so literally the only person I did not host or play with was Yap. I was definitely going to use me hosting almost everyone in the past to my advantage. I knew almost every single connection that was going to happen like season 6 being a massive group, especially BAM, I knew Dom and Alietta would be close, as well as Hannah and Eddie etc. I also knew that people like Yap, Christina and Conor didn’t really have many pre-season connections because of them not being heavily involved in the community as well as them not having many other reps, if any, from their original seasons. This is what really helped my social game in the beginning because people came to me early on really wanting to work with me because I was a familiar face to everyone. I was easily able to get myself into the majority the first two weeks because of this and was in the BAMMN alliance as well as an all guys alliance consisting of me, Mackie and Felix. People were easily drifting towards me because I was easy to talk to and didn’t make any waves, especially early on. I also knew how everyone had played in the past. For example, I knew that Ain was super strong in challenges and was a snake, I knew that Felix was a comp beast, I knew Hannah was super loyal, Brian was super social etc. Even if they did not end up playing the same way this season, I’ve seen every single person with the exception of Yap, play this game. So, I had an idea of what mold each person would fit.

All star seasons tend to get very messy. Especially, if you’re having a decent social game with almost the whole house very early on because you’re going to have to vote people out. So, day 1 I picked my ride or die and that was Mackie. Mackie ended up playing a HUGE part of my game. I told him literally everything from Jamie getting the DPOV super early, to all the conversations I was having daily, and he did the same. We also both knew coming in fresh from HvV together we had to be super open about us being close, which we did because I knew if we tried to hide our relationship it would look fishy and we’d get targeted for it. So, we were an open duo for the entire game. People knew we were together from the jump, which made things easier for me because I knew if someone was coming for Mackie then they’d be coming for me and vice versa. Essentially knowing who was targeting Mackie helped indicate to me who was going to eventually target me, if they already weren’t.

I always like to follow my gut in orgs, so when I got evicted in the first double, I came to a lot of realizations. For example, the first week when I won HOH and veto, my gut told me to use the veto on Hannah/Eva and to backdoor either Alex/Conor. However, my allies like Mackie and especially Jamie pushed really hard for me to not do that and said how bad it would be for my game. I listened to them, and it ended up bitting me in the ass and I got evicted. While I was in jury, I took the time to ponder about my game and I realized that the flaw I had the most in my game was blindly listening to my allies. I spoke with Ain and Dom about how we didn’t really want to see the people left in the game win. I was overall hurt by my elimination especially by Jamie because I felt as if she had betrayed me. Once I got my chance to return I knew I was going to come back in the house and tear shit up and listen to no one but myself. I was also guns blazing towards Jamie, which may come as a surprise since were in the final 2 together and have had a final 2 deal for the majority of the game. But I felt as if Jamie had a horrible attitude towards me and our relationship as a whole as she even deleted me as a friend once I was in jury.

Getting back into the house was absolutely crazy because I thought I’d have no chance of returning against Ain and Dom. There was a very common theme that people were telling me which was that I needed to adapt. So, with that coupled with everything I had realized about blindly listening to my allies, I realized I needed to step it up this time because I was incredibly lucky to be given a second chance. I was not going to waste this second chance at all, and I knew that I needed to adapt to the house again ASAP or I was going straight back to jury. However, I knew who I could and couldn’t trust. Yes, listening to my allies is what got me evicted, BUT my allies never lied to me or acted distrustful. When I came back people kept telling me that I was just running back to the same people I was working with before I was evicted. Which was true, but in my opinion I was not running back to them because I wanted Jamie’s head on a platter from the moment I was evicted in the double. I was not guns blazing towards Alex or Conor coming back, but instead Jamie and I realized I couldn’t be which was how I was able to adapt myself back into the house environment. I knew that Jamie had massive amounts of pull and power in that house because she had people like Conor and Alietta allied with her which were connections I did not have. So, I realized I needed to use Jamie for her power and connections because it was all things I lacked, especially returning back to the game after being in jury for 2 weeks. I also knew that people were going to see me and Mackie together again, so we decided to take a different approach to things. Right when I returned Mackie had told me that he had been “talking crap” about me and saying to people how it was great for his game that I left and such. I thought hey let’s just continue this “crap talking” and just continue saying stuff to people. I needed people to think I was skeptical about Mackie and that I wasn’t as trusting in him as I was in the past. Clearly this worked because it’s what got Jamie to use the veto on me the week I was back since she thought Mackie would have evicted me when he would not have and we also got Alex to call us out in the house chat about talking crap about each other which is EXACTLY what we wanted to happen. I wanted to go all the way to the top 2 with Mackie, so I knew that coming back into the game we needed to convince everyone that we weren’t a duo anymore when we definitely were.

Another flaw that I realized in my game was my lack of competition wins. In the early portion of the game, I was super nervous of being the main target. So, I thought it’d be best for me to rely on my allies for competition wins to help me get people out or save me from the block. This CLEARLY did not work and I realized this because Jamie did not use the DPOV on me despite promising me that she would from the first day she found it. So, I knew that coming back I had to rely on no one but myself and to not let people persuade me when I actually won some power. In Big Brother, competitions pretty much equal power, so I wanted to win every single competition once I came back. Once you gain power in this game, people flock to you with information, so I knew that competitions were crucial coming back, not only to keep myself safe, but to also actually know what’s been going on for the 2 weeks I was gone for. I tried my absolute hardest in every single competition once I returned, despite me not winning every time, I definitely did not throw or rely on someone else to win for me. There were two instances when Jamie actually pulled me off the block, which I did not plan on happening, but it ended up that way. The first time I had to persuade her for literally the full 24 hours by telling her that people were just going to lie to her and say they were going to keep me when they actually weren’t going to. Since everyone had lied to Jamie the first DE about voting to keep me just so she wouldn’t use the DPOV on me. The second time, Jamie was literally TRASHED in the house chat and drunkenly won the POV during the second DE and used it on me. I’ve won 6 competitions total this season which is the most out of everyone on the season. Now, if you know my past track record with competitions I completely SUCK at them, so for me to have won 6 shows that I worked my ass off and know that I needed to win competitions in order to advance myself in this game. Towards the end, I had won two crucial competitions which made me be the sole vote to evict for both Conor and Brian. Which I believe, to have been the two biggest jury threats left. Conor played a super strong game all around and Brian had 0 enemies on the jury. So, I knew the obvious choice was to keep Jamie safe since almost everyone cursed her out on the way out and knew that my chances against her were better than the other two. Now I sit in the final 2 with Jamie of all people who has been my frenemy throughout this whole game and who I was originally guns blazing against when I returned to the game.

I just want to end this all by saying that I have built this org from the ground up and that no matter who you guys decide to crown the winner tonight I will respect it. I’ve had a crazy ride here to the final 2 and I honestly can’t believe I’ve made it this far. This season has been insane and I’ve put an insane amount of effort into my gameplay. Some of you guys might appreciate it, while other’s might not. so please feel free to ask me any questions because I’ll happily answer them all.

 