Post by Zach on Sept 8, 2015 11:46:31 GMT -5
may as well go first
;o hi
I guess a good way to start off the opening statement is to address the ~trio~. As much as I'd love to pretend they never existed, they were a large focus for most of the game. So to get that out of the way, a lot of my alliances and relationships with some Jury members were strained due to my working relationship with Sofia, Heaven, and Ryan. But for a good reason I feel. At the start I really did like Sofia and Heaven, but as the game progressed and their activity declined, they became more of shields than legitimate allies. I either felt or heard that I would be a target for certain people once the trio was dispersed of. This was confirmed to me early on when Rachelle told me that Candice wanted me out once the trio was dealt with. My strength in competitions and reputation coming in made me feel that I would be a direct threat once there were no more of them to go after. So for the early rounds of the game I put myself in the middle and was juggling conversations of "trio must die!!" and "trio4lyfe!" The longer I could keep them in, the less time I felt people would have to try and take me out. By the time I was ready to pull the trigger and strike at the trio, they morphed into a Prediction Writer.
ALLIANCES! I had a lot. I formed the Sinister Six at the end of round 3 which consisted of Myself, Nick, Rachelle + the trio. (People considered threats from original seasons) There was GATORADE which was targeted midway: Myself, Nick, Heather, and Memphis. We really felt we had to stick together. There was Brodown Showdown (lol) with myself, Mike, Brian, and Matt. That alliance was more of a covering bases one. A final four between Heaven/Ryan + Myself/Heather. There was a short lived one called Tabula Rasa with myself, Nick, and Candice to go against the trio. And at one point there was a myself, Brian, Matt, and Heather?? Basically, lol, this game changed A LOT. But whatever the alliance was, they all helped me survive during different periods of the game and I am very thankful for them. The right combination of people got taken out by the alliances allowing me to get to this point.
Pretty much all of my allies dipped and rose on my rankings throughout this game. Allies became enemies and enemies became allies. The two constants I had were my two final 2 agreements: Nick and Memphis. Everyone knew Memphis and I were friends. We made that abundantly clear and it would have been foolish for me to try and hide. He was my emotional final two. Nick and I are friends but this was our first game playing together. We made a final two at the start and stuck with it the entire course. We did what we could to ensure we were both safe week by week. It was a final two that people could speculate about but not feel was as concrete tight to make it to this point. Socially I could distance myself from him better to protect us, whereas nobody would buy me distancing myself from Memphis. I'm happy to have achieved the goal of making it here with one of them and I feel I was successful in sticking to a plan I set at the start.
I don't want this to be too long so I will wrap it up here. Plenty of you exited the game labeling me a threat to win and I carried myself here by my own merit after the reset. As I expected since the start of this game, once the trio was gone, me being a target is exactly what happened. But we were now low enough in numbers for me to navigate myself to this point easier. I was competitive with 6 HoHs and 6 POVs (Blackout POV to save myself + the OTEV) and socially, I was one of the last few people nominated.
Looking at you guys and I know I have plenty to explain regarding your evictions and I hope I can do that. I know people consider this game an asterisk win based on the scandal. I spent an entire summer playing this game and stressing about this game so I want to try and finish this through.
vote 4 zach 2015
ty
;o hi
I guess a good way to start off the opening statement is to address the ~trio~. As much as I'd love to pretend they never existed, they were a large focus for most of the game. So to get that out of the way, a lot of my alliances and relationships with some Jury members were strained due to my working relationship with Sofia, Heaven, and Ryan. But for a good reason I feel. At the start I really did like Sofia and Heaven, but as the game progressed and their activity declined, they became more of shields than legitimate allies. I either felt or heard that I would be a target for certain people once the trio was dispersed of. This was confirmed to me early on when Rachelle told me that Candice wanted me out once the trio was dealt with. My strength in competitions and reputation coming in made me feel that I would be a direct threat once there were no more of them to go after. So for the early rounds of the game I put myself in the middle and was juggling conversations of "trio must die!!" and "trio4lyfe!" The longer I could keep them in, the less time I felt people would have to try and take me out. By the time I was ready to pull the trigger and strike at the trio, they morphed into a Prediction Writer.
ALLIANCES! I had a lot. I formed the Sinister Six at the end of round 3 which consisted of Myself, Nick, Rachelle + the trio. (People considered threats from original seasons) There was GATORADE which was targeted midway: Myself, Nick, Heather, and Memphis. We really felt we had to stick together. There was Brodown Showdown (lol) with myself, Mike, Brian, and Matt. That alliance was more of a covering bases one. A final four between Heaven/Ryan + Myself/Heather. There was a short lived one called Tabula Rasa with myself, Nick, and Candice to go against the trio. And at one point there was a myself, Brian, Matt, and Heather?? Basically, lol, this game changed A LOT. But whatever the alliance was, they all helped me survive during different periods of the game and I am very thankful for them. The right combination of people got taken out by the alliances allowing me to get to this point.
Pretty much all of my allies dipped and rose on my rankings throughout this game. Allies became enemies and enemies became allies. The two constants I had were my two final 2 agreements: Nick and Memphis. Everyone knew Memphis and I were friends. We made that abundantly clear and it would have been foolish for me to try and hide. He was my emotional final two. Nick and I are friends but this was our first game playing together. We made a final two at the start and stuck with it the entire course. We did what we could to ensure we were both safe week by week. It was a final two that people could speculate about but not feel was as concrete tight to make it to this point. Socially I could distance myself from him better to protect us, whereas nobody would buy me distancing myself from Memphis. I'm happy to have achieved the goal of making it here with one of them and I feel I was successful in sticking to a plan I set at the start.
I don't want this to be too long so I will wrap it up here. Plenty of you exited the game labeling me a threat to win and I carried myself here by my own merit after the reset. As I expected since the start of this game, once the trio was gone, me being a target is exactly what happened. But we were now low enough in numbers for me to navigate myself to this point easier. I was competitive with 6 HoHs and 6 POVs (Blackout POV to save myself + the OTEV) and socially, I was one of the last few people nominated.
Looking at you guys and I know I have plenty to explain regarding your evictions and I hope I can do that. I know people consider this game an asterisk win based on the scandal. I spent an entire summer playing this game and stressing about this game so I want to try and finish this through.
vote 4 zach 2015
ty
