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✥ The End ✥; Aaryn vs. Kaitlin
Topic Started: Sep 17 2013, 08:01 PM (8,712 Views)
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Both of you have done what 14 others could not, you have made the end of BzBB15! Not only that, but you were both the most high profile and dominating players in the game and no one did a thing about it, and they had plenty of chances. :bz

That said, you are both very deserving of this win tonight and a very hot Final 2, so do your best tonight, ladies. But know that even with all you've accomplished in this game, you both already won, just for being such huge and dynamic threats and making the end together, it really is amazing. :<3

So now, please post your opening statements, I will let the jurors digest them for a bit and then we'll bring them in one by one to ask you questions.

Congratulations on games well played and much luck to both of you tonight![/align]
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Someone once told me that if you have passion for the theme of a game and you have a passion for the rep you’re playing, you’re bound to do that much better. Now I don’t know if that’s true for everyone, but for me in this game, that was 100% true. If you told me coming into this that I’d be a dominant competitor, I would have laughed because it’s not me. No one would ever call me a challenge whore. However, I have a passion for this series, this game, and for I loved Kaitlin on BB15. And I came into this just desperately wanting to prove to myself that I could do it and win or lose tonight, I am proud of having done just that.

Most people will just think of Kaitlin as the hot girl, but truth is, I’m a really big nerd. Like people who actually prepare themselves for going on the real show, I prepared for this game by doing old challenges from other games, doing puzzles online so that when I played, I could perform just a bit better. I learned the tricks to doing certain competitions and all the control functions that are valuable shortcuts. Even with that, most of you still beat me half the time, so screw you. :<3


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I’m here to tell you why you should vote for me to win zBB15. And the short answer to that is I think I combined the social, physical (competitions) and strategic game the best. Coming into this game, I knew I was going to focus more on the social game than anything else because I just tend to be a more social player. I’m better at forming bonds with people than having to rely on competitions, and a lot of times, I do get invested in our relationship. And it was even Elissa who was warning people about my social game before my competitions even came into play. I connected on some level with every single person in this game, save Spencer and I guess Elissa. To me, a good social gamer is someone who can keep up the conversation with or without game talk and I really don’t think any of you can say that was impossible for Kaitlin. Those bonds I had with people are what allowed me to avoid the nomination block so many times even without a HoH win. David, Amanda and Nick all kept me safe when they had everyone telling them to get rid of me. Why? Because of the bond I had with them and the trust they had in me. I was also being recruited for alliances with every single one of you at some point or another. You all wanted to work with me in this game in the beginning. There is a reason for that. I should also add that I am the only hausguest in this game to never face a final eviction and I think that speaks to what a quality player I have been.


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Strategically. I said coming into this game I was going to play rationally, not emotionally. That’s always easier said than done, but I did play that way this time and it worked for me because I’m sitting here. I don’t think being an emotional player is a bad thing but it does hinder your ability to make the better game move at times. I was emotional at times during this game and the evictions of Amanda, David, and Nick were hardest for me because it was my vote that help to put them out of this game. Amanda and I had this really chaotic way of coming together as concrete allies-the way we both saved each other as MVP noms, which put literally everyone else at risk. I don’t ever want to bite the hand that feeds me, and putting Amanda out was hard. David, same thing. I was mentally prepared to put you out of this game that entire round but when it came to it, it was a lot harder to actually do because of how close we were connected, and I do sincerely believe you were loyal to me for the majority of this game. Nick :<3, my brother, your vote was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do and it really did make me feel like the shittiest person on Earth, because like Amanda, you could have ended my life in this game the round before but you didn’t. You guys were there for me when I needed you, but I unfortunately was not there for you guys when you needed me and that was really hard. However, had I voted to keep all of you guys in, it very well could have meant I’m not sitting here right now and that’s why I ended up casting those votes despite it being so hard.

Strategically speaking, I also took risks in this game. The biggest risk was evicting Nick at the final 4. Had I evicted Candice, I would have been sitting in the final 2 no matter what because both Nick and Aaryn would have taken me. However, I prioritized a final 2 with my friend Aaryn over just Kaitlin and I took the risk of losing to Candice in the HoH and then out at three. I’m also taking a huge risk by choosing to sit next to Aaryn over Candice. Candice would have been an easier win, and maybe Aaryn is winning this 9-0 and I made a mistake last night, but I chose to roll the dice and make this competitive instead of taking the easy way out. I’m not going to sit here and say I played this flawless game because there were things I wish I had done better and I know I could have. We have to make decisions on the fly and while 5 or 10 minutes seems like a lot of time, it’s not. I think anyone who’s been HoH or voted during an eviction round knows how chaotic it gets and you’re thrown a ton of information and you don’t have time to really process all of it right away.

Physically, I think the competitions speak for themselves. I’ve been HoH 3 times and PoV holder 4 times. Again, I’m not a person that dominates or relies on competitions so this has been a new experience for me. I’m not going to lie and say I don’t like it, but it was definitely something new for me.


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One of the common misconceptions people have about me and my game is that Aaryn & I shared a brain in this game. If Aaryn said or did something, Kaitlin also feels the same way. Whatever Kaitlin is telling me, Aaryn must also feel the same way. Well, that’s not true. For example, there WAS a backdoor Elissa plan at least discussed the round Judd left. That conversation happened between Aaryn, Howard and Judd. I was not privy to that information until after the round was over. I never would have agreed to such a plan at that point in time because we were worried about Nick coming back into the game and therefore wanted to take his potential allies out. Another example would be the final 3 deal with Candice. Aaryn/Candice made a F3 deal the round Amanda left. I was NEVER part of that conversation even though I was the “third.” Aaryn informed me of it after the fact, but I never said I was down for that and I wasn't. The fact that we ended up as the final 3 anyway has nothing to do with that. Also, as far as Amanda leaving, I wanted absolutely no part in that. I was not going to put out the girl who saved me the round earlier when she could have had me evicted. Had I won HoH, Amanda would have been 100% safe and I told Aaryn that. Had I won that PoV, I would have used it on her. So, while yes, Aaryn & I did dominate this game as a twosome, we went about it in different ways and a lot of people just assumed we were on the same page all the time. That led to either people being scared to come to me with information, or it led to people blaming me for things Aaryn did and vice versa.


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And finally, I just want to say that Aaryn was and is my best friend in this game and I’m not going to speak ill of her personally or of her gameplay because we’ve wanted this final 2 for a very long time and I think more than anything, we’re both just really happy to have made it to the end intact. We had different ideas along the way about things and people, but we still worked past that and made it here. I could not have asked for a better partner in crime, and I love you girl. :<3 :<3. Let’s do this![/align]

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Hello ladies and gentlemen, and nauseatingly overwhelming amount of minorities of the jury!


What an amazing experience this has definitely been, and to make it to the final 2 with my best friend and ally in the game is something that I wished for from very early on in this game. Seeing how targeted we both were, albeit primarily myself, for the entirety of this, the fact that I’m still here and have a chance of winning this game is nothing short of a dream come true.


Kaitlin and I have a lot of similarities in our games. For example, we both won 7 competitions each (I won 6 HoH’s and 1 veto, she won 3 HoH’s and 4 vetoes), we were both nominated twice for eviction, and we’ve both played a strong game, and made it to the final 2 as an obvious duo. But there are a decent amount of differences between them, in my mind.

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For starters, I was much more focused on the strategic aspect of this game, and was playing the game 100% with my brain, and not my heart. Even if I liked you personally in the game, if you were a threat to me and making it to the final 2, you had to leave, regardless of what had transpired earlier in the game. As well, I was also lucky enough to be blessed with being MVP not once, but twice, although I don’t consider those necessarily pivotal arguments in my case on why I should win tonight.


Where I focused on the strategic, I feel that Kaitlin definitely relied much heavier on the social aspect of the game. I knew that I would be much stronger in the challenges and the strategic portions of the game, and that my social game would be the one aspect I had to work at – but I also knew that I couldn’t be overwhelmingly fake to people for no reason. If I didn’t like you, I didn’t like you, and I was pretty open about my feelings. I stayed true to who I am as a person. I may not have been your best friend in this game, but I still did by best to maintain a strong relationship with each and every one of you in some way. And because of this, I was always willing to listen to what people had to say in terms of strategy, and find out a way to see if it would benefit me moving forward in the game.
Knowing that the biggest difference in my game from Kaitlin’s is the strategic element, I just want to touch on some of the moves and plays I did to further myself and ensure my spot in the final 2.


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To start with, I want to touch on the first of the bigger moves that helped shape this summer, and that was Jessie’s eviction. Being both HoH and MVP, I knew that there was a larger alliance on the opposing side of the house that was fully responsible for Helen’s eviction, and I would do whatever I possibly could to ensure one of them went home. My targets for this round were Candice and Jessie, because they had basically dropped all messages with me, and I found them absolutely horrific – and I wanted to put Judd up both as a pawn, and to show him that he was at the bottom of that alliance, in an attempt to get him to realize that I was willing to help him out and work with him. Candice won the veto, so my main target shifted directly to Jessie, and I was doing everything in my power to ensure that she left, and I was able to help secure Elissa’s vote to evict her, even though Elissa had previously just worked with them to eliminate Helen, and with that, I was able to take out a huge threat to my own game personally, with the help of the girls I had been working on the whole round to ensure someone who was a threat to me left the game.


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I also want to touch on the topic of Nick, most notably from the time that he returned to the game, but I’ll discuss a little from before he left as well. Starting this game, Nick and I bonded from the very first day over superficial prejudice about being the hottest people, which we still are, stop being a hater Kaitlin. :rolleyes: We aligned pretty quickly, and had one of my favorite alliances ever in the TRUE #teampretty, which…was really a sham for the majority of that first part of the game. Nick and I would constantly tell the other that we were good, that we wanted each other around, and for the most part that was true. But I knew he had other plans, other allies such as Howard and Jeremy and Judd, so I had to look elsewhere. Now, fast-forward to his re-entry. His only ally remaining at this point was Howard, and Elissa, Kaitlin, myself and Amanda teamed up to take one of Nick or Howard out of the game – and it worked. Howard left as the biggest threat to win, and now Nick seemed to be alone and helpless in the game. Except he wasn’t. Immediately upon Howard’s eviction, Nick came to me and proceeded to formalize an alliance between us, and claimed he would do whatever he possibly could to protect me, and help me get to the end and win this game, believing he didn’t have a chance. Knowing this, I knew I could get him to target Amanda/Elissa, while still keeping my hands relatively clean from nominating them outright, because they had both been playing the middle quite expertly, and needed to leave. I threw the HoH to Nick so that he could take Amanda out, and so that I could still win the F6 HoH and secure my position in the final 5. Kaitlin really didn’t want to take Amanda out, but I was able to help convince her that it was the best move we could make, and we needed her out before she could take one of us out. I was thankful she saved us the round before, but in my mind I knew that I would not be able to rely on Amanda protecting us any further. Had Amanda stayed, as I said in my FC, I have no doubts she’d be in the end-game and winning this thing outright, and Kaitlin was almost unwilling to make the move that had to be done, which made me realize how different the games we were playing- I was strategic and cut-throat bitch, and she was social and well-connected backstabber.


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The one other MAJOR move I want to touch on here is my relationship with Candice herself, and this is probably one of the more shocking moves and decisions that I made all game, because I spent the majority of the game bashing, trashing and LOATHING her, and I knew she was continually coming after me and Kaitlin. Around the F7 time, when I was formalizing and solidifying my relationship with Nick, I also started working on Candice again, knowing that eventually she’d become a very crucial piece in the puzzle of my game. I was able to flip Candice into aligning with me, making a secret F3 deal with myself, in order to get us all to the end of the game, and this paid out in dividends as I helped keep her safe from the F8-F6, and she helped save me at the final 5, taking out the person who had previously been an ally in Elissa. Elissa was the ONLY person that round who would have voted to evict me, but even then she would have voted out Kaitlin before me.
Working with Candice ensured that I was protected from all angles of the game, no matter what happened, and there was a very minimal chance of me ever going home after our alliance was formed. And at the same time, working with Candice and getting to the final 3 with her and Kaitlin ENSURED my position in the final 2, because both of them would have taken me over the other, giving me a great chance to win the game.

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I was never afraid of Kaitlin in the final 2, and that’s why I stood strong through the test of time here. People continually touted her as this major threat…but at the same time, they were saying rather similar things about me, so I knew the minute she was gone, I would be alone and the only target, and vice-versa. But the thing with this is that I continually approached people about Kaitlin being a big target, such a major threat, so that in the event that Kaitlin and I were ever nominated against each other…I’d have a way of surviving.



Thank you everyone for an amazing game, I’ve had the best of times one could have in an ORG. Feel free to ask me whatever, because I have absolutely nothing to hide right now.

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I love you so much Kaitlin. :<3
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I love you so much more. :<3 :<3

I'm still hotter thank you by the way.
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Now, I will give her a bit more time to read your openers, but whenever she is ready..

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At least my Parkinson's Sharpie eyebrows match my face. :rolleyes:
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Congrats to both of you on making it this far...the fact that you guys were the most dominant players and still managed to make it to the finals without ever having a single vote cast against either one of you is extremely impressive. Also impressive...I'm fairly certain that Kaitlin was never actually on the block when voting time came along. But enough about that. The fact is that you two were clearly the alpha females of this season, and you did what fourteen of us could not: you made it to the finals. You should be proud. As for my question though, that's a different story.

You guys were so dominant in challenges that I have to wonder just how self-aware you were of your strategy and gameplay. So my question is in two parts: First off, I want to know what each one of you thinks the best move your opponent made was. Please no Ivana Ma-style backhanded compliments like "She allied herself with me" (not that I'm expecting any such thing after those openers)...I'm looking for an honest critique of the person who, honestly, played just as good as you did, since right now you're even in my eyes. Second, I want to know what you believe the worst move you personally made in this game was. It's impossible to play a perfect game, especially given some of the luck that befell the two of you to reach this point, so again, I want an honest assessment.

To recap:

1. What was your opponent's best move?

2. What was your own worst move?


Regardless of the outcome, you both played great, but I'm hoping one of you really outshines the other in this final, because it's extremely close for me, and I want an easy decision. :D
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I think Aaryn's best game move was getting Candice to turn on Elissa. Candice won that final 5 PoV and could have tied the vote, putting Nick in a GREAT position to boot Aaryn. Had Nick done that, he would have had my loyalty 100% because there was no way I would have worked with Candice or Elissa to be in the finals. Had Nick actually done Aaryn and Elissa, Candice could have pulled Elissa off after winning and put one of us out for SURE. Aaryn did a phenomenal job securing Candice and that was a big move.

I think the move I regret the most is putting Jeremy up that fourth round, because it blindsided a lot of people and completely made Jessie/Jeremy/Howard (who I was in an alliance with) doubt me and they than began to look at taking me out if they couldn't get Aaryn whereas before that, it was just that they wanted Aaryn out. I was trying to please too many people at once which is why I did pick Jeremy, and I think that hurt me the most.


Thanks, Amanda.
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Kaitlin's best move was her rather hidden and secretive relationship with Nick, in my opinion. Personally, I thought there was a hint of something going on, but never to the extent that I believe I'll discover after the game is over. Nick was a major player, and was running the show on the opposing side of the fence early on, and Kaitlin's connection to him early on would ensure that she survived on the block against me, should that situation occur. And again, when he returned to the game, using that relationship to keep not just her but myself safe, and helping us move forward together as a rather powerful threesome in challenges, which in turn got us to the final 4 together.

She kept that relationship WELL under wraps, and I think that's the one thing I was most surprised about her the entire game, just how close the two of them got. Although, it was frustrating when she was faking me out at the F4 claiming she would keep him after we had gone over time and time again how he needed to leave at the final 5.





My worst move stems from not fighting harder to ensure Howard was evicted over Jeremy, and allowing the strongest player in the game to survive another round. This one was almost a no-brainer in my eyes, and then all of a sudden Jeremy, a total non-threat to ANYONE is being railroaded out of the game. Although, in regards to that, I was short-sighted and didn't see the "Middlemen" alliance forming, when it was right under my eyes. It wasn't until a round or two later when things started to make sense, and I realized that the people who were supposedly my allies and sticking with me throughout (You, Elissa, David), were not really going to have my back when the time occurred.

So, not being able to see the alliance of people floating in the middle until it was almost too late to do anything about it, would probably be what I consider my worst move. I got a little arrogant. And by a little, I mean a lot arrogant. I can admit that freely - so I just needed to really take a step back and view the larger picture.
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Is it weird that I think we both knew what each other was going to answer for the first question? :<3
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Is it weird that I think we both knew what each other was going to answer for the first question? :<3

We know each other almost too well, babe. :<3
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Satisfied with the answers. Best of luck to you both.
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and with that, FTC is over!
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Good luck, girl! :<3
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