Board Thread:Big Brother 9/@comment-26864283-20190512213356/@comment-33060993-20190513164339

Hey Karthik!

'''Short and simple, stan! I’ll try to rationalize my picks just because concise isn’t really my vibe and I don’t want someone to see like a number and misinterpret my intentions!'''

'''1 - Matt - I mean like we all know Matt was my closest ally and we just have such a positive relationship and repertoire. Without a doubt getting to play with him was the highlight of this experience and I’ve been going off in my thread for weeks about how I’d do right by him in this game!'''

'''2 - Chelsea - Ugh I loved Chelsea sm this season! We played together for like a week in KC and didn’t really get to know each other too well but we totally connected this season. I loved stanning her in Comoros or hearing about her basically traveling the world/Canada like she was such a legend this season.'''

'''I do want to actually take a moment to comment on something here. I have played twelve games and never stayed loyal to an alliance. Going into this game, I wholeheartedly committed to a game with loyalty. Could I have done what Konstantinos did, untethered myself from my allies, and used my social connections to Dawn, Tia, and Evelyn to ride the middle of this game? Entirely. Like all it would’ve took is making the chat with Evelyn, Dawn, and Tia Week 2, voting Liam, then throwing comps. I’d be strategically positioned in a great way… to burn jurors. I think it’s a highlight rather than a lowlight of my game that I genuinely was not only looking out for myself but for other people in this game and I still made it here. I didn’t take the easy way out and align with people when it was convenient for me. I anchored down and said ‘these are my people, come hell or high water’ and I think that’s honestly a virtue because I knew it’d create adversity at one point because in previous games I’ve fully believed sticking to your allies forces you to sink with them. I proved to myself this game that that’s not always the case and because I knew I wasn’t abandoning them, I challenged myself to just try to play a better game than them which allowed me the window for an individual game after they left. I’ll go more into that in Liam’s turning point answer but I just want to take a moment to say the two of them truly were special to me because they’re the first time I haven’t given in to that little devil on my shoulder and I’m so happy to have met them. '''

'''3 - Tia - Tia and I had a rocky strategic relationship but even if we were on opposite sides there were pretty much always undertones of respect which made it interesting. It gave me very Kelley and Jeremy after playing their idols at F6 in Cambodia teas. She’s a little bit lower because we did tussle a bit the eighth week but I still have mad respect for her and her jury speech made me so happy jHKHJDKS.'''

'''4 - You - Ahhh! I feel like our relationship was really solid for the first half but after you nominated me and said it was out of fear that I’d win rather than trust I felt like us having a social relationship was just for the sake of talking about life rather than anything that would advance our games which kinda hindered it? I talked to you about it at one point how I think you play a smart and tactical game while staying under the radar which is something I never accomplish because I end up with a target (also sorry for the supporting character comment I think you knew it but I was just trying to pit you against Tia but you knew it was better to use her as a shield jHKSDHJKF)'''

'''5 - Liam - Okay Liam being THIS low is kind of criminal if I’m being honest. We meshed v well on a personal level IMO whether it was talking about theatre, sports, life, school, careers, or most important fangirling over the prospects of what S40 could be before the theme was announced. We still need to talk about the rumored cast btw since it got hyped after he left!! I think in terms of friends I made he’s top 3 but he’s lower because he was here for only a couple of days so we didn’t really get to have a full arc outside of me consistently maintaining he was ROBBED so that Taylor could quit four days later. '''

'''6 - Evelyn - Evelyn being this low is also kind of a circumstance situation in terms of her leaving earlier because I have sm respect for her from getting to host her in BBUK. We started off really strong but after she left for a weekend and I assumed something was up, nominated her, and after that we were just not going to be on the same page so I didn't want to message her a ton and lead her on which is something I elaborated on in Matt’s speech. She has a no nonsense, iconic, ‘don’t mess with me’ attitude about her that I can't help but stan and her ending ppl there gave me life jkhHJKDSHJKF. I think if we landed on the same side she’d be much higher but because we were not our relationship became less solid over time ):'''

'''7 - Jenna - We just didn’t get much of an opportunity to talk too much this season because we were both on busier schedules at the outset. Still an icon tho fisting queen and I’ve loved seeing her grow since we first played together a year ago - she practically led the Liam vote from my vantage point and genuinely scared me like BBUK 11 Jenna would have never done that. Also our convo about her being nominated was actually one of the highlights of this org LMFAO. I think we def would’ve gotten along better had she stayed tho bc I was really open to fixing that'''

'''8 - JT - Unfortunately part of my strategy in terms of not looking too OTT or threatening early was not messaging everyone the first night. I waited until the second day to message JT and it seems like by then his head was out of the game so we never talked. I just can’t say we had a good relationship because we didn’t have one but I’m sure he’s nice! I know him and Dawn got that opportunity but I hope I still have a chance at his vote because I did reach out!'''

ALSO - WHEN THIS ENDS… Regardless of whether you vote me or not I want to have a legit strategic convo with u about this game because I remember from LBB2 you have a really good read on these and I want your insights since this speech didn’t elaborate too much on them!