Hayley's Questions!

[hayley]

Hey boys! I'm so happy and excited for both of you and I sincerely congratulate you two on making the finals! This has been a crazy and insane game and I know both of you have had to fight in your own ways to make it to the end.

I'm not gonna lie, my vote has been going back and forth between both of you atm. I really feel like the person I'm going to vote for is gonna depend on how these questions go!

Nick, I loved playing with you again and I'm so happy that an RnF 6er has made the finals! I think you are SO funny and snarky and it was fun playing the game wish someone I could just have hilarious convos with. I know we never REALLY aligned together but I never had anything bad to ever say about you in my confeshys!

At times I felt it was hard to connect with you sometimes on a personable level but I could tell you tried with me this time which was nice and so much better than our last season where you only IMed me to try and showmance me LOL!!! I also like and respect that you survived so many rounds up on the block. As a resident constant block gurl myself I know how stressful that can be for your game.

Okay, here are my questions for you!

1. What do you think you could have improved about your game socially in this game? If you don't think you could have, why do you think you played your best social game possible?

2. What did YOU do personally to survive eviction when you were up on the block against Brian?

Zach, you were by FAR one of my favorite people when I was in this game! I loved your personality so much and you were always so funny and sweet and REAL to me! LOL I even went back and looked at my episode one confessional and I said you were the person I had the best first conversation with out of anyone in the game. You were someone I wanted to work with and go far with because I just enjoyed talking to you! I do think you had one of the best social games out of anyone else here and you should be really proud of that.

But the WAY you treated me the round I was evicted really made feel like complete crap! You gave me the silent treatment and did not respond to my IMs to at least give me a chance to plead my case. Ugh, just thinking about this all has made me realize that even though I've tried to be like "Hayley it's just a game" and get past it I'm still really hurt by it! And I know that perhaps part of the reason you just spit on me on my way out was cause you assumed I wouldn't be on the jury anyway.... but here I am for better or for worse!

Here are my questions for you:

1. You said in your goodbye message to me that you evicted me because you heard I was going to nominate you and Heaven which was untrue. You were not my first, second or third pick and my confessionals prove it. Who told you this? And why didn't you let me tell my side of the story instead of giving me the silent treatment?

2. Was there anyone else in the game besides me that you decided to just stop talking to once you made up your mind you were going to evict them?


And.... that's it! Good luck with your questions!

[Zach]

Sept 8, 2015 20:45:01 GMT -5 hayley said:

Zach, you were by FAR one of my favorite people when I was in this game! I loved your personality so much and you were always so funny and sweet and REAL to me! LOL I even went back and looked at my episode one confessional and I said you were the person I had the best first conversation with out of anyone in the game. You were someone I wanted to work with and go far with because I just enjoyed talking to you! I do think you had one of the best social games out of anyone else here and you should be really proud of that.

But the WAY you treated me the round I was evicted really made feel like complete crap! You gave me the silent treatment and did not respond to my IMs to at least give me a chance to plead my case. Ugh, just thinking about this all has made me realize that even though I've tried to be like "Hayley it's just a game" and get past it I'm still really hurt by it! And I know that perhaps part of the reason you just spit on me on my way out was cause you assumed I wouldn't be on the jury anyway.... but here I am for better or for worse!

Awww thank you Hayley, that was sweet I wasn't expecting such kind words from you. I'll address the second paragraph in question #2!

1. You said in your goodbye message to me that you evicted me because you heard I was going to nominate you and Heaven which was untrue. You were not my first, second or third pick and my confessionals prove it. Who told you this? And why didn't you let me tell my side of the story instead of giving me the silent treatment?

The person who told me that was Rachelle! Who was your partner at the time so I didn't doubt for a second that it was false. This was before you guys were even nominated as the replacement. So it wasn't something I think she said to save herself. This is from Rachelle and I's alliance chat:

Rachelle Diamond (15:52:43): Hayley and i did decent lol
Rachelle Diamond (15:53:10): she's thinking of nominating Zeaven as well but i think i can talk her out of it if we win
Rachelle Diamond (15:53:22): She's thinking mack and bryan as well
I figured if you were going to be nominating Zeaven that I would be your target as you and Heaven had a good relationship from season 6. And I thought it was over the fact I had just used you as a pawn to get out Christine. So I thought you were rightfully upset with me.

As for the silent treatment, I honestly forgot I did that! I'm really sorry about that. I think I didn't initially respond to your message because I was still trying to figure out votes. If there was a chance you were staying, I wanted to save face with you if you were still going to be in the game. I had good relationships with all of the people on the block at that point. But I waited too long to respond and by the time I did I had left you an offline. That was dumb of me but I didn't do it because I figured you'd be Pre-Jury. I didn't treat anyone differently depending on Jury or not. I apologize for that!

I was in the mindset of just wanting you to leave from the 4 nominees for several reasons aside from the glaring remark you'd nominate myself/Heaven. One being that I just nominated you the previous round. I was in an alliance with Rachelle/Ryan but I only wanted one to go and the other to stay. So it came down to Brian vs you, and I had more sway with Brian. I wasn't able to sway you much in the game. You were someone I felt was going to make big moves against perceived bigger players. I considered myself a perceived big player and that you could eventually strike at me. I remember during the Ika vs Keith vote that I wanted Ika to stay but you were completely set on your vote and would not budge. Heaven wasn't able to flip you no matter what she said. (According to her) Also the round you were HoH I was wanting to get in an alliance with you and was hoping you would use your HoH to do that with me. But it never happened and I grew paranoid I could be a replacement for you since I had been hearing from my allies Heaven/Heather/Memphis that you were assuring them a lot. I did adore you and enjoyed our conversations in this game, but those are all the reasons that led up to my hand in your eviction and I hope you understand it now from my perspective.

2. Was there anyone else in the game besides me that you decided to just stop talking to once you made up your mind you were going to evict them?

It's always awkward for me handling how to talk to someone I'm voting out. For the most part I think I was straight up with majority of the people. Going through my votes.....Right away I told Casey I was evicting him whereas the other people who were doing it ignored him for awhile. Shilpa knew it was coming and I didn't give her false hope. I didn't tell Rachelle I was evicting her but I did tell her it wasn't looking good. Mike was another tough situation for me because I felt so strongly he was against me. Heather's round was sort of the same as Shilpa's. From the reset onwards I made my intentions VERY clear to everyone each round. (Except for the Brian round. I needed Nick to stay so I kind of misled about how I would vote.) So I would say I handled yours and Mike's exits the worst. (Mayyyybe Brian but not as much) Clearly it may come back to bite me in your case but I can't believe I did that. Again I'm sorry.

Thanks again for the kind words though!

[nick]

Sept 8, 2015 20:45:01 GMT -5 hayley said:

Nick, I loved playing with you again and I'm so happy that an RnF 6er has made the finals! I think you are SO funny and snarky and it was fun playing the game wish someone I could just have hilarious convos with. I know we never REALLY aligned together but I never had anything bad to ever say about you in my confeshys!

At times I felt it was hard to connect with you sometimes on a personable level but I could tell you tried with me this time which was nice and so much better than our last season where you only IMed me to try and showmance me LOL!!! I also like and respect that you survived so many rounds up on the block. As a resident constant block gurl myself I know how stressful that can be for your game.

Thanks Hayley! I felt the same way towards you. Really liked talking to you in s6 and especially here, but it never culminated in us working together either season unfortunately buuuuut it happens! I'm excited to be representing all of us goons from season six. TRYING NOT TO LET YOU DOWN!

Sept 8, 2015 20:45:01 GMT -5 hayley said:

Okay, here are my questions for you!

1. What do you think you could have improved about your game socially in this game? If you don't think you could have, why do you think you played your best social game possible?

2. What did YOU do personally to survive eviction when you were up on the block against Brian?

1. I'm proud of my social game but there was room for improvement for sure, no denying that. After about round four I started to get crazy busy IRL and it sadly had an impact. Luckily I prepared for it ahead of time and had set myself into a pretty comfortable position socially, but it still hurt to not be as readily available as I typically can be in games. Rachelle/you/Mike were evicted during that busy period for me and I wasn't able to talk things through much with you guys because of it. That stretch was my weakest but I think I rebounded well

Another specific instance was during my first HoH reign. I made a mistake not talking things through with Boog before I named Keith as the renom. I sent her a message and asked if she could talk things through with me, but then I heard some more stuff about her/Sofia that was gonna really jeopardize my position in the game, so I ended up putting Keith up without talking to her first which I regretted soon after. I think a lot of it was due to the fact that I knew I was safe 100% for the first time which made me a bit lazier for the day. I took a step back and called it an early night that night when I should've put some more time in and explained myself a bit more with Boog and Keith



2. I did a loooooot to set myself up for those final rounds, specifically that live eviction round. I acted defeated when I didn't win that HoH but in all honesty I was fine with losing it, I knew I had put in the work to keep myself safe in any scenario. If I remained on the block against Zach then I would've stayed and he would've left. I was setting up specifically for that situation in my convos with Brian and Neda.

I worked to stay covered for the secondary scenario, which was me ending up on the block against Brian. I made sure I secured Zach and my secret trump card in Neda that no one knew about. Most people expected me to be evicted either 3-0 or 2-1 that night, but I knew that the work I had put in with the right people was gonna pay off and I'd make it out alive. Everything that I did to survive that eviction was all in the social/strategic preparation that I did beforehand, so on the actual night I just had to keep my composure and make sure everything was seen through

I worked reaaaally hard socially and strategically to make sure I wasn't going anywhere, so to see things fall into place was a really great feeling, that live round specifically. It felt like a lot of my social effort was really paying off and had set me on an ideal track to keep on surviving and to eventually make the end


Thank you muh Sheila!

[hayley]

Both of you have left me satisfied and smiling

Good luck!