Post by Nick Uhas on Nov 20, 2015 20:55:10 GMT
Hey everyone!
So as Caleb mentioned in the last eviction – this game has lost a lot of steam but I’m still happy to have made it to the end and I’m very happy I made it with someone I’ve been aligned with since the very first week.
So as Caleb mentioned in the last eviction – this game has lost a lot of steam but I’m still happy to have made it to the end and I’m very happy I made it with someone I’ve been aligned with since the very first week.
Coming into any game, I know that I’m not going to be a big competition beast. A lot of ORG competitions take speed and precision and I’m the kind of person who likes to sit back and evaluate before I do anything – which doesn’t coincide with many of the challenges we’ve had. But those tactics are good for gameplay. So I knew I had to rely mostly on my social game, moreso with the right people and a strategic game. I feel like my game has been very open and there is not a lot that I would need to expand on for people to really understand. You guys know who I was close to and who I wasn’t close to. However there are a few points I want to make specifically.
The biggest round in the game for me, was Steve’s HOH when I was nominated against Angie. I knew for a while the kind of game Britney was playing because Jace had told me about the alliance of Britney/Jason/Steve/Himself several rounds ago. I wanted Angie up because I knew I had a chance to stay against her and when Jace told me that Angie was likely the replacement, I still played up that I was desperate for votes. If they knew I was confident, they would have switched up the nomination. I feared Renny would be the replacement instead, which would have been awful. Once Angie was nominated against me – I knew I had to act. I had Caleb, Jace, and Renny on my side but I knew I needed Casey. I had been sitting on a lot of game information for a long time and instead of blabbing it right when I heard it, I used it at the right time and I was able to flip Casey to vote for me. It was that vote that flipped the game and created the counter alliance against Britney/Jason/Steve.
Now Britney’s eviction speech, I can fully admit she was (partially) right. Big Brother can sometimes be a hypocritical game. You get upset when you are betrayed but at some point, you are going to have to make a move against someone that trusts you. But it's part of the game. I wanted Britney out and to do that, I needed to paint her as nothing less than pure evil. Was she? No she just played a sneaky game – but to get her out, I needed to play that card up to get everyone fully against her. I didn’t want her to talk her way out of her position because I knew she would be trying to.
When we got to final six, I was in good standing with everyone left. The Renny vote was specifically the hardest for me throughout the entire game. I knew she was a jury threat because I had heard on their way out, that Britney, Jason, and Steve were all were rooting for her to make it to the end. On top of that, she was the most likable person in the cast and won a lot of competitions. Add that to the jury threat component and she was the most dangerous person in the game. While it sucked voting her out because she's great, I knew that it had to be done if I wanted a chance to win this game.
Overall, I think I played a pretty strong game. I'm sitting in the final two with my #1 ally from the beginning. While I may not have won a lot of competitions, I think I did a good job of maneuvering the plays that I wanted done through my social connections. Any time someone made a move against me, I made sure they would be a target the following round.
Closing out, I want to thank Arisa. I know this game has been tough on you since Julie quit but you've done a good job. It was unfair of Jullie to unload this all on you.
and Good luck, Caleb!
Overall, I think I played a pretty strong game. I'm sitting in the final two with my #1 ally from the beginning. While I may not have won a lot of competitions, I think I did a good job of maneuvering the plays that I wanted done through my social connections. Any time someone made a move against me, I made sure they would be a target the following round.
Closing out, I want to thank Arisa. I know this game has been tough on you since Julie quit but you've done a good job. It was unfair of Jullie to unload this all on you.
and Good luck, Caleb!
