Board Thread:Big Brother 9/@comment-28366015-20190513010905/@comment-33060993-20190513160814

Hey Liam!

'''Ty SO much for the nice comments I was literally gagged NNNNN. I keep saying this in every speech but like this is a first for me and I’m just taking it in.'''

'''I think the most pivotal turning point for me in this game was Karthik’s call out and the subsequent HOH reign because it marked a lot of changes in my game. For the first five weeks, I was playing an individual game but it looked like all of the gameplay was within my alliance, which was true to a degree. Even though I felt like I had built a bit of a resume already between getting Taylor OTB Week 2, being involved in the formation of an early alliance, helping to get bigger targets OTB during the fourth and fifth weeks to destabilize their spot and reveal their relationship networks, etc. However, this individual game was largely concealed. '''

'''In a sense, I feel like Karthik’s call out allowed me to shift from a team-oriented strategy to a more individual oriented strategy and the eventual descension into being strategically isolated barring people pretending they were with me allowed me to kind of evolve my game. Throughout the first five weeks I was playing an individual game within a team game and I think the turning point was when those seeds began to take sprout. '''

'''The most pivotal seed was fashioning Matt into a shield but another was maintaining solid relationships to the other side to the point where I was able to be more than strategically complacent in the face of adversity but get a grasp on their relationship network that would help inform my Week 8 and Week 9 decisions. '''

'''Examples of this would be: knowing Tia/Dawn were not loyal to an alliance we made after the Wk. 7 veto - because I saw how information circulated between Karthik and Tia when I tried to throw her under the bus in PMs, or Tia and Dawn when I discussed a faux plan to say we were putting the latter up to fool Konstantinos, I was able to realize how solidified the other side was and as a result, I did not allow them to dupe me into thinking I was building concrete strategic bridges, which would’ve tainted my nominations into something that wasn’t good for my game. Another would be the fact that per Dawn’s own response, it’s confirmed that I would have been kept over Chelsea Wk. 7 on the merit of the bonds I built with the other side / my general gameplay thus far DESPITE being universally acknowledged as a threat. So ya the most pivotal turning point was moving from a solid position to a rocky one because that rocky one allowed me to highlight my game outside of my alliance and show the value of the relationships I built with the other side of the house and how I used those relationships to gain insight and make my decisions. I think it shows that contrary to the picture that Dawn and Konstantinos are trying to paint to salvage their more passive gameplay, there was a good amount of social and strategic substance to my game and it was not just physically oriented.'''

'''I think it showed just how much fight and strategic insight I was able to have from a rough spot because of the foundations I built in the first half of this game. I genuinely had relationships with these people and used them to my advantage to play an individual game from a tough spot that maximized my odds here. Winning comps is one thing - it accomplishes baseline safety but I used them for more than that safety - I used them to advance my game, the probability that I could earn safety moving forward, to shake up the dynamic on the other side, and to advance my odds of making it here with people I had a case against. I got on kind of a tangent at the end because it was an opportunity to address some slander but ya! '''

'''Anyways, in terms of how this impacted me emotionally like a good feeling/bad feeling. At first it was a bad feeling because in hindsight it’s easy to say I’d be here but it was scary to lose Matt/Chelsea and feel like the unexpected was in full force. But literally going from 8 PM to 9 AM in the final HOH and hearing from the hosts that I didn’t have to keep posting because I won made me know that it was worth it in a way!'''

'''Thank you so much for your questions! If you have any follow up feel free to lmk!'''

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