Hey jury and final two.
Juice, where do I begin with you? Man, I can't comment you enough for getting her in back-to-back games. That alone has truly impressed me. And, you did it this time around without the fake alias of being the quote unquote nice girl. But, with that being said, I question how you played this game as well. I did not trust you Juice, and to be frank, you were one of my targets. Had I had Head of Household, I may have tried to backdoor you. But, I never had the opportunity to. You played a good game, and once again, you were a dominant force in challenges. It was almost a repeat of Aaron from last season. Continuing, I don't know what to make of you now. You are a good player, but not a very trust worthy one. How should I vote for you? Were you ever actually true to me, as I was not to you? And above all, who sitting on the jury deserves to be in your spot? You are still an amazing guy and friend, and I give you my sincerest form of "wow". One last question, there is talk of the backdoorings going around, fill me in on how you felt about your game play. Do you think with a lack of wins in challenges you would still be sitting there today?
You guys, congratulations. I honestly and truly believe that if you make it to the final two that you both deserve to win. My vote is really at a toss-up right now. My best of luck to the both of you and I am sincerely looking forward to your responses.
First off, thank you so much Andrewww. It really did take a lot of hard work and dedication making back to back Final 2's. So I appreciate you commending me on it. I'm so glad you asked these questions because I hope the other jurors will read this and actually see that I did more than just win competitions.
Lets get right to your statements and questions.
First, I knew that you didn't trust me, because well, you told me you didnt trust me haha
When you told me that, it did make me skeptical of you in the game, but you also told me that you wouldn't nominate me or vote me out. Now Im guessing you told me that to make me feel a bit more safe, as I actually told you the same thing.
You were never actually one of my targets because while I knew that you would've had to go sometime, I didn't think it was smart that I be the one to go after you directly. I wanted to keep my word to you about not nominating you, but in the end I did actually vote you out. At that point, Hannah had more to offer me than you did. It was mainly because she was around more and like I said in Ashley's questions, I wanted to keep people around who could win competitions and keep me safe.
From the beginning of the game, I knew that I was going to have to do even more than I did last season in order to make it here.
Week 1 and 2 were pretty good for me since my clique was on the winning side. Although what did suck those weeks is that I had 2 people who were willing to align with me get evicted. Bud and Angela. They both had stated to me personally that they wanted to align with me. I always feel like if you're dedicated to a game and you want to win, you have to make sacrifices. I felt as though, that early on in the game, I could make other alliances while having to evict people who did want to align with me. That may be disloyal, but to stand out amongst the majority is NOT a smart idea. Sometimes, you have to make those hard decisions and not look back and regret, or say what if.
Then it came to the week that Season 4 wanted to control. When Mike had his coup d'etat. Justin and I actually came up with the plan to get Summer on the block. It would've totally worked too if we had one more person that would vote with us. I tried my hardest to get Ashley to vote Summer out, but she didnt. lol So, even if something fails, you still have to try. That round, I made myself a HUGE target. I happened to be aligned with Summer, Lauren, Derek and Rod at that point, as well as being aligned with Season 4. So it made it extremely difficult for me to get out of that situation.
But I did bounce back. I won the next HoH and figured that if I can make one alliance happy and not really go against the other, I could keep myself in a good position. Thats why I put up Shelby and Austin. I only had like 5 people to choose from that round, so I chose a S4 person and a floater. Well Austin won veto so I put up Mike because I KNEW that Shelby would go. I realize that didnt make you happy, Andrew. lol But I did what I had to do to gain some trust back by an alliance that I was in.
Hannah then nominated me and I won veto, saving myself from the ONLY time I was nominated. This is what started me on realizing that the POV was soooo much more important to win.
The next round is when you won veto after Lauren nominated you. That is when I realized that you and Hannah were super tight and would probably want to go to Final 2 together. I might be wrong about how close you were, but it just seemed that way to me.
The next week was when I came up with the plan to backdoor Derek. He was mad that Donna was evicted and he straight up told me that he was coming after me, but then after I won HoH he apologized and wanted to make amends. Well, after someone says they want you out, its kind of hard to forget it. So I came up with a plan to get him out. He became SUPER dangerous for me at that point. I nominated Jenita and Hannah as pawns and hoped that either one of them or Lauren could come through with the veto. Well they did, and my plan worked.
Then Summer won HoH the following week and nominated both you and Hannah. I realized that round that it was smarter to split the both of you up. You didn't trust me and Hannah actually started texting me that week, so I felt like she was going to be a stronger ally. Believe me Andrew, you were Summer's target that round. She specifically told me that several times and Hannah was just a "pawn". So I had to break my word to you and vote you out. I knew that you were going to against me at some point so I felt like I had to do it first.
Sorry Im getting sidetracked haha
To answer your question about the backdooring, I had heard several times that the only way to get me out was to backdoor me. It seemed like that was the only way people were going to get me out of the game. I had heard from several people that when Hannah and Summer won HoH, they wanted to backdoor me. Well, they denied it. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt but still keep my guard up. So I KNEW I had to concentrate on winning all those Vetos.
I just want people to realize that winning those competitions helped me in the game not only to be safe but it allowed me to be strategic with the decisions that I made.
Because of the fact that I went against Summer in that 3rd week, it made me a HUGE target. I really don't think I would be in the final 2. I would've tried my hardest but everyone knew what a threat I was. At the same time though, I was only nomninated ONCE all game. How does that happen if I'm such a threat?
That right there is a testament to how well I played.
All in all Andreww, even though I won 11 competitions, I was totally strategic from Day 1. I do think that me winning so much overshadows my gameplay, but my gameplay shouldn't be dismissed because of it. I was always playing to win and I did what I had to do get to this point. That is why I deserve your vote.
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this and I hope that I've proven to not only you, but to everyone else that I should win this game. Good luck with your vote man!
