Hello friends!! I’m super excited to be in the final 2 and I just wanna start off by thanking the hosts for the great season and Ain for choosing me to sit next to her here. Good luck girl. <3
I don’t want to make a full step-by-step speech of the entire game because honestly that’ll be way too long and mindnumbing to read and I don’t wanna put you guys through that. If any of you have questions regarding specific weeks or the week you left, feel free to ask me anything you want and I’ll explain it as in detail as you’d like!!
Introduction
I believe that I deserve to win this game because I played a well-rounded game--I exhibited strategic ability and social awareness all throughout the game, and I also won competitions when I had to, proving that my physical game wasn’t non-existent. I kept myself on good terms with almost everyone in the game and avoided making enemies, I aligned with people at the right time, and I kept myself aware of everything that was going on and planned my path forward accordingly. I’m going to go through the 3 main game points of Big Brother (physical, social, and strategic) and explain to you why I believe I exhibit all 3 of those attributes enough to earn your votes!
Physical
I’m going to start off with this one because it’s clearly my weakest of the 3 points. I’m not a competition-dominant player, I never have been, and I never will be. I can hold my own when I absolutely have to, however, and I feel like I did that in this game. I also believe that there’s no point in winning competitions if you don’t make the correct move with them, and every time I won a competition I believe it was the right time to do so and helped further me and improve my standing in the game.
I won both live eviction PoVs, which I felt were important for me to secure. The first one was so I could save Rhi, because if noms stayed the same the Marie/Ain/Brian trio wanted her to go and I didn’t want that to happen. The second was absolutely crucial because if Hailey or Aaron won, I was going to be in danger. I also needed to secure the 3 of us making it to f5 and get rid of one of the stronger trio, so out of me/Hailey/Aaron, it had to be me to win it so that I could pull one of them off and we could vote one of Marie/Ain out together.
Finally, I won final 4 HoH. The reason that I wanted to win HoH was because I wanted safety without having to decide who was going to leave. At this point I’d made final 2 agreements with both Ain and Aaron, and I didn’t want to be the one to evict either of them at final 4 should Hailey win HoH, so it just made sense for me to go hard for HoH.
Social
When I came into this game, Hallasan was still fresh on my mind. Most of you already know this but for those of you that might not, I got a lot of hate in Hallasan from the jury for being a gamebot and for aligning with people that I already knew before the game. My goal coming into this season was to prove that I could make real social connections and work with people that I’d never met before, and I believe that I accomplished that.
Entering the game, I was immediately concerned because of the pure amount of people that I already knew. The Argentina jokes immediately started coming out because Aaron, Mackie, Marie, and I were all on it and Tyler and Ally were hosts. I also had one of my dearest friends, Anna, on the cast. I basically made it my goal to keep up my relationships with people who I was close to before the game and also make new connections. Real life hindered this a little bit throughout the game (I said something in the house chat about it so all of you know this already and I don’t really feel the need to talk about it here) but I feel like overall, I had decent social standing with several people in the game. I kept up my relationships with people I knew before the game (like Anna, Mackie, Aaron, Tyler to name a few) and made new relationships (like Brian, Ain, and Rhi). One of my biggest regrets in Hallasan was that I didn’t really form many long-lasting friendships that I still maintain, and I believe that’s not the case here. I’m genuinely super happy with the new friendships I formed in this game and also feel like I’ve strengthened some of my older ones, and I’m hoping to keep them for a long time after the season is over with.
I believe my social connections throughout the house kept me safe for a long period of time, because I played the “middle” for a significant amount of it. I was the 2nd last person to be nominated (Aaron being the last). I wasn’t nominated for the first time until Week 8, and during this week me and Rhi were the last possible nominations due to the duos twist return and I stayed unanimously.
My social connections saved me on more than one occasion--when Marie had me nominated against Trent, she tried to switch the target to be me, but my closeness with Aaron and Brian (and possibly Ain but that might’ve just been because she hated Trent tbh) prevented the flip from working out. When Brian won HoH during the live eviction, my bond with him allowed me to escape being an initial nominee despite Marie and Ain wanting me out, and this gave me freedom to make a #BigMove and save Aaron to get rid of Marie, who imo was one of the strongest players during the jury phase of the game. And finally, I got taken to f2 without having to win final HoH because I was in good standing with both people in final 3 with me.
Strategy
This section is kind of long and I go pretty into detail, but a lot of what I did was utr this season and I want to make sure y’all are all aware of it.
Coming into the game, my strategy was mostly to just not draw too much attention to myself. This obviously got off to a bad start when the alliance formed with Mackie/Jake/Anna/I and it got leaked and we were accused of threatening people, and I fought Chris in the house chat, etc. However, I overcame this pretty quickly and stayed out of the spotlight for most of the time after that. Those of you that know me outside of this know that isn’t easy for me at all, I have a big mouth and I say what I feel and it was definitely hard for me to tame that, but I feel like it benefited me in the long run to let everyone else fight and just sit back and watch and then talk to people behind the scenes about it. I spent most of pre-jury just trying to lay low while also keeping myself connected so I knew what was going on. I voted in the minority a few times because I wanted to give the impression that my gameplay was loyalty based, hoping that people would trust me in the future because of it. This included saving Dani even though I knew she was getting evicted in a tie, voting to save Anna even though I was aware she was leaving, and being the sole vote to save Rhi. I believe my game really started to ramp up the week that Mackie left, when my loyalties were starting to fall into place and I started developing a plan for the mid-endgame.
From my point of view, there were 3 main groupings in the house when jury started:
GROUP 1: Mackie/Aaron/Hailey/Grace/Trent
GROUP 2: Ally/Rhi/Tyler/[formerly Grace/Trent]
GROUP 3: Marie/Ain/Brian
I made it my strategy to become close with people from each group and essentially ping-pong between groups and attempt to take out the people that I wasn’t as close to from each group while securing my bonds with the people I was close to. In group 1, I was by far closest with Aaron throughout the entire game. Him and I always work well together and I love him to death, he’s my blood oath for life and I knew that I could rely on him to be real with me about what was going on within his allies. In group 2, I was of course the closest to Rhi, my beautiful duo partner. And for group 3, I had good relationships with Ain and Brian, and during Mackie’s vote I formed an alliance with that trio by going to all of them about the two other “groups” in the house and calling us the outcasts. I felt like they were the trio I was least concerned about and also the least close to, and I thought aligning with them would help keep me safe from them for a while and also help do some real damage while taking out members of the other two groups.
From then forward, it was mostly just about utilizing my connections with the people from each group to weaken their alliances while strengthening my relationship with them. When voting Mackie out, I kept a clear line of communication with Aaron about it. When I voted for Tyler to be nominated, I threw Ain under the bus to Rhi to distract them from my disloyalty. The only reason I voted for Tyler was because Ally A was safe and I felt like I needed one of Ally/Tyler to go in order to weaken that strong af trio, so I told Tyler’s name to people and then blamed everything on Ain so she would get the heat for it and I could get away without making any enemies. During the double eviction, I knew I needed Rhi to be safe because once Ally was gone I didn’t see her being super loyal to anyone but me and 1 person going from each group was preferable to both Rhi and Ally leaving.
I kept up that strategy until final 8, which was when I was planning on fully siding with Aaron/Hailey/Rhi/Trent and going against Brian/Marie/Ain. At final 8, however, the duo twist came back and bit us in the ass and I lost my queen duo partner Rhi because of it, and then at final 7 Marie submitted her selfies faster than me (I only took 4 hours) because I was at work when the challenge was posted. Because of those two unfortunate weeks, it messed up my endgame a little bit because the trio of Marie/Ain/Brian comprised half the house at f6, but I readjusted and formed a trio with Aaron/Hailey for the double eviction and figured it out from there. Throughout the double eviction, Marie was messaging me telling me that Brian/Ain wanted to target me, and I made sure to relay everything to Brian because in the event that me/Aaron/Hailey’s plan actually worked and I won PoV and could save them, I wanted Marie to be the renom because I viewed her as a stronger player that didn’t truly have much loyalty towards me after she tried to take me out the week prior. Final 5 was fairly straightforward and was mostly about taking out a massive threat to win--I think Brian played the best game of the season, and it broke my heart to vote him out, but I’m pretty sure he would’ve won the season if he didn’t get evicted there. Hailey leaving at 4 was absolutely optimal for me (though credit goes to Aaron for coming up with an idea to make Ain evict Hailey) because I believe at that point I was essentially guaranteed final 2.
Overall, I believe my strategic game is my strongest and the reason that I’m sitting at the end right now.
Conclusion
I believe I deserve your votes because I played a well-rounded game and managed to avoid being targeted at all until the endgame. My game isn’t as visible as Ain’s, but I was working just as hard behind the scenes to make things work out and managed to stay in the good graces of most people while I did it. I aligned myself with the right people at the right time, I stayed out of conflict, and I planned my path to the end nearly flawlessly with the exception of not sitting here with Aaron, which was more of a personal goal than a game one.
I’m looking forward to hearing from all of you and answering any questions you have :)
