Board Thread:Big Brother 7: All-Stars/@comment-24407701-20180827210000/@comment-24114312-20180828045847

Firstly thank you!!! I really appreciate the compliments and this is probably the jury speech I'll come back and reread (well I guess rewatch lol) when I want to get nostalgia in the future.

Threaten was probably a bad word, I think I only ever explicitly threatened you and then we made up 5 seconds after (during the whole Mackie-you argument). When I said 'threaten', I didn't mean like menacingly or explicitly, I did only do that once. I meant more so in a subliminal, psychological way - like I myself, as a player, would be threatening, instead of using the DPOV as a threatening tool. It was poor wording on my part so sorry about that!!!! I agree it doesn't come across well lol.

As for the not caring about winning comment, I was feeling extremely remorseful about something that happened regarding Mackie and I was feeling a bit shitty about everything, I obviously care a lot about winning and it'd mean a lot to win so please don't think I don't care!!!

Social - 8/10 - I think this is a difficult one because there is the obvious mistake I made with Yap and even to some extent Eva. But aside from that, I believe I socially positioned myself very well and built many strong friendships in this game that have the potential to remain afterwards. I was positioned well on many sides of the house with tight-knit and close alliances, such as JADC and me/Nick/Mackie. Additionally I had bonds with Alex, Brian, Hannah, Ain (sometimes!), and a few others which kept me safe if they won HoH.

Strategic - 8/10 - I remained unnominated until final 4, I had strong strategic bonds and alliances with many people and the final 4 was almost handpicked by me. I took shots at people at the right time and made sure I was always either in the driver's seat, or at least had a hand on the steering wheel. I engineered blowups to benefit my game and was always on the lookout for new options to benefit myself. This particularly came into effect in the last half of the game where, like you said, I had people who essentially owed me something.

Physical - 6/10 - Like this is ridiculously close to being a 9. I came 2nd in fucking EVERYTHING I didn't win, it was so annoying. If I'd not come 2nd in those comps, I would've won like 9 comps but the fact I kept coming 2nd meant I continued to fail physically. Having said that, I still won a lot in the season, I think only behind Conor and Nick and maybe Mackie, and a lot of the pre-jury comps I may have won if I wasn't hoarding bribes.

For Nick, I believe he had a 7/10 for social - he was evicted by his own ally at the end of the day, he got into more arguments than I did and Yap is somewhat right in saying he relied on existing bonds. I definitely did this too, Nick and I might not be final 2 if we met in the game, but a lot of my close bonds - Brian, Conor, you - were formed completely in the game. But I think a lot of people can agree that Nick's a great person to speak to which pushes the score up higher.

5/10 for strategic - I think Nick couldn't turn a lot of his social bonds into alliances and that's why I think strategic is low. While he had ideas, he was never the main one pushing plans and a lot of his plans were inconsequential, most people assumed him and Mackie would be close even if they tried to distance themselves.

8/10 for physical - he won the most comps this season and that can never be taken away from him.

I feel like these rankings can often be abused by players who just put their votes at the top and their opponent's at the bottom but I'm gonna try to be as honest as possible.

Ranking:

1) Conor - I think Conor had the highest ranking for social and physical in this game. He really just dominated this game in my opinion and it was a pleasure playing with him. Almost everyone trusted him and even those who didn't were willing to put the past behind them and align with him to benefit their own games.

2) Brian - Brian was such an obvious person to target at every round but he was barely ever brought up as a target, he just had an ability to make people trust him. He passed around a lot of information but never in a way that made people mad enough at him to target him.

3) Yap - part of the reason I targeted Yap for so long is because I did view him as a big rival. He wasn't able to be manipulated and a lot of people respected him. He was covered by quite a lot of people and unlike other players who were in his position, I felt like no one realised that he was on no one's radar.

4) Alietta - you were the last (without extra powers) to get nominated and were actually positioned very well, aside from BAM, I don't think anyone would've targeted you and if anything, you popping off actually benefitted you kinda like Abi in Cambodia/Philippines.

5) Mackie - I think Mackie's downfall was trusting the wrong people and not pushing for the elimination of JADC harder than he did, although that wasn't helped by Dom's return. He can manipulate anyone but wasn't set up very well and was forced into a position where he had to rely on comps I believe.

6) Dom - I think Dom could've soooo easily been 1 or 2 had she enforced her own will a few times. Dom is innately good at these games but I think her mind was elsewhere this season which resulted in her being eliminated probably earlier than she deserved. Despite that, she adapted extremely well to returning.

7) Alex - Alex is another who I think could be way higher had a couple things gone differently. I think targeting Nick and Mackie at the final 10 was a mistake, and I think Alex should've worked harder on eliminating people on the other side. But the issue with this is, Alex would've done this had he not come 2nd in so many comps. Like give Alex 2 more comp wins and he might shoot up a lot. Also he argued a lot so that's why he's here, so I guess add comp wins and remove arguments and he shoots up in my opinion.

8) Ain - okay pop off this might be controversial but I think Ain spread way too much information and it blew up in her face. I think once your word means little in this game, it is very hard to recover without being immediately distrusted. I also think compared to others in her alliance, specifically Brian, she didn't really branch out and try to form close alliances outside of BAM, apart from maybe Conor, which is telling as he was the one to backdoor her. Regardless Ain is clearly very competent strategically and fun to talk to, and maybe this 8th is impacted by me personally being one of the people who she spread misinformation about.

9) Eva - from what I've gathered, Eva didn't speak to a lot of people. That's literally the only reason I have her here but I do also relate to Eva in other orgs, like I remember seeing the speeches against her in Legends and thinking 'oop I related to that in Arch' and now I relate a little bit with a couple of speeches in this game. Jury speeches where people are mad at you is kind of a shitty thing to receive whether it's deserved or not but yeah I mean idk I'm just rambling here. Eva is in 9th because I don't think she was as invested in this game as others, like the returnee comp for example. I feel bad placing someone 9th so the only criteria I have to go on is effort!!!

Thanks Ali and um yeahhhh, this is my last response unless a juror responds and asks another question but thanks for a great season. Win or lose it's been a rollercoaster and enjoyable most of the time!!!!!