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Final Tribal Council; Angela vs Bella vs Irina
Topic Started: Oct 10 2013, 08:00 PM (7,129 Views)
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This is your night ladies, to show why you deserve to win this long game that you have worked so hard for!

Please post your opening statements when you are ready.
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[align=center]Hello all! ^_^ I am very exhausted emotionally from this entire game, it has been a very rough ride for me at times. It was not easy, but I gave it my all, and I am glad that this is soon coming to an end. I played this to the best of my ability, and I had to adapt to each new format as it came at me. I tried to be more of a quiet player who was well aware of her surroundings rather than an in your face HBIC type. I went in to each format thinking of how I can survive that format, and not so much about how I can be the one in complete control of the game. I wanted to be involved with many different alliances. I did not want to actively seek them out to manipulate and control the game, I wanted to have the alliances come to me and have the game revolve around me in a way where I was not the one calling the shots, but to be the girl that people could rely on for a vote. I think I did that quite well considering I never got a single vote against me, and going in to the final 6, every player left wanted me on their side. With each format, I just made sure that first and foremost, I was going to be safe and survive.

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By far, the easiest format to make it through. Within the first day we had already established who would be the first few boots to leave our tribe. Jacob, Sam, and Paul. At the beginning of this format I managed to get myself into many different alliances, and a few tight individual ones as well. I got close with Jessica and Leah right off the bat, and then eventually that alliance grew to include Charlie, Seth and Mike, and a power of 6 was born on Forks.

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This is where things got a little more complicated (albeit not impossible). We knew that odds are, we could end up with potentially a tribe of 3 members if everything went wrong for us, so I worked my butt off making sure that in the case we did make it to 3, I was one of those 3. I made sure to keep my alliances with Jessica and Leah as tight as possible. Having the idol also gave me that certain sense of comfort, because it would be hard to blindside someone with an idol in such small numbers, I knew people would not want to risk it, so for that, I also tried my best to grow closer with Charlie, since we were both in possession of an idol at the time. I don't particularly think Charlie would have trusted me long term or would have wanted to go to the end game with him, but I figured at the very least, he would not turn against me in that format. Once we voted off Mike, things got a little more complicated, but then we managed to pull off a win in a round that was just a single elimination, and lucky us, James decided to join Forks, so yay!, more leverage for me! I felt no remorse about just voting him out again so soon after he got to us, because ultimately I had my eye on what my ultimate goal was. Survival.

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This format was by far the most nerve wrecking for me, because it really was so unpredictable and random. We so that with the shock boot of Jessica, someone I thought was a definite contender to win. No one was safe, unless, of course, you had a challenge whore being your guardian angel. Enter Irina. We had always gotten along well in our trio forum, but until we merged, never got to speak one on one. We had then made a very tight alliance and agreed to do what we could to keep one another safe. We knew for a fact Rosalie was going to be safe because of the mass amount of Cullen ownage going on in challenges, and we needed one another to survive at all costs, because then a tight group of 3 would have recieved immunity idols for being the last trio, and we could not have that. But 2 people was not good enough to keep us safe, so we tried bringing other people into our little rag tag group of rebels. At this point it was pretty apparent (at least to me) that Seth and Charlie were not really going to look out for Leah and I, and why should they? I have no doubt that they finally figured out how much I had trash talked them a bit, so Leah and I had a new alliance going on which involved Jasper and Irina. Unfortunately, this hit a roadblock with Leah being another shock boot. Once again, I lose a close ally, but I do not give up. I keep going, and I move on. Going in to that final list challenge, at the very least one of us had to win, and let's face it, it was not going to be me. With our backs against the wall almost every list round, Irina and I managed to slip on by into the next phase of the game.

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This is when the biggest power shift was going to happen in the game. It all depended on who won that first HoH, and how many people would go as a result. In this format, I knew Irina always had to stay no matter what. I needed her there as my shield. I knew the moment she was gone, I was going to follow soon after. And as luck would have it, Jasper wins HoH, and the threesome of Jasper, Irina and I are given a brand new lease on life when Jasper also happens to pick double Big Brother. It was the most amazing, perfect way to start off the new format. In that moment, I knew my odds of making the end had gone up immensely. Jasper was the one who got his hands dirty by getting out the Cullen matriarch, Esme. This format is where I really started to play both sides very heavily. I had my hand in every cookie jar, and I did that because I knew I was never winning HoH, so I knew that I had to have a way to be safe no matter what happened. I had formed tight one on one alliances with Jasper, Irina and Rosalie. A 3 person alliance with Bella, Rosalie and I. A 3 person alliance with Jasper, Irina and I. I was a little more distant with Emmet, because when playing both sides, if you go that one step too far, then you get yourself caught. Once we managed to eliminate Esme, James, Seth, then Charlie, I went into overdrive. We had 6 people left, and a dreaded double coming up. I worked my hardest to make sure I absolutely would not get voted out. This is when I decided to finally align myself with Emmet, he and I seemed to agree that it was in our best interest to try and get to final 3 with Jasper. I played my final 3 alliance with Bella and Rosalie, and naturally, my alliance with Irina as well. I had to play this one by ear and just do what I felt was best for my own game based off of who won HoH and who won veto. This is when things almost blew up and went to hell for me. I vote to keep in Jasper, and then tie the vote against Rosalie since Irina had told me she would break the tie to evict her. She didn't :lol: I thought for sure I was done, but then we get to:

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Immediately, I go into damage control mode. I knew at all costs I had to convince Rosalie not to vote against me at all, because I knew she and Bella most likely wanted to vote against me, and so Irina, once again, had to become my shield. Would I have won that tie breaker? Maybe. Maybe not. I was not going to have my game come down to a tie breaker. I felt cold hearted for doing it, but I had to lie my ass off to Rosalie and Bella once again. I had to do my absolute best to convince them I was going to vote Irina, because if they had any indication at all that I would not have gone with them, their votes we coming my way, and as I mentioned, I could not be the one going into a tie breaker challenge. I promised these 2 the world and managed to get them to vote Irina over me. I could have done the easy thing and just voted along with them, but where Irina can be so... rough around the edges, I ultimately felt like, of the 2, Rosalie is the bigger social threat.


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I lied, I own up to that. I was never the person in absolute control and calling all the shots, but I always kept my eye on the bigger picture here, and that was, at all costs, I need to make it to each new format. I was never going to lie down and give up, and I fought hard to get here. We all lied to someone in this game, and so I am not going to apologize for my lies. I was playing for me to make it this far, and me alone.[/align]
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[align=center]Hi everyone. I know that like.. people like it when finalists use animations or whatever during these to make them appear less.. cluttered or something I don’t know. So here’s one of me welcoming all you guys to my speech.

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So first off I guess I’d just.. I’d like to apologize to everyone for being so awful in this game. For just being me. I know that all of you at one point or another were forced to talk to me, sometimes at length. I just.. yeah, I know how agonizing and awful that must’ve been for you guys. So yeah, I am sorry. But in order to survive in this game I.. obviously I had to talk to you guys and put you through that and I just wanted to say sorry for that before I really get started. I wish I could be a better person or more interesting or whatever, but I’m just.. I’m not. So sorry about that.

I guess onto game stuff… I don’t know. It’s like there were so many factors that came into play on how I got myself here that I don’t even know where to start. I know a lot of you probably don’t want to hear about the pre-merge because you.. you probably just don’t really care. But I feel like it’s important to me especially just because like, it was one of my most vulnerable parts of the game and I had like a near mental breakdown. I’ll be brief though. Oh.. and here’s a gif of me having the breakdown and feeling vulnerable.

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But yeah, Edward getting voted off I know it’s like.. it’s not a big deal. It’s moreso the aftermath. I was just feeling really outcast from my tribe because I didn’t really have any alliances with anybody, and like.. nobody would really talk to me about anything long term. Like.. I knew one boot in advance what was happening, but yeah, nothing more than that. So after the Renesmee boot I was just.. just feeling down on myself and really vulnerable. So I went to Rosalie, Esme, and Emmett.. and kind of broke schtick with all three of them for a brief period and basically told all three of them like.. you guys are the ones I like. Please protect me and make me feel safe and I’ll never betray you guys. So that basically ended up with.. with the formation of the alliance I was the most loyal to the whole time.. which was BEER (Bella, Esme, Emmett, Rosalie.. dumb I know, sorry). So then.. yeah, that’s all I’ll talk about pre-merge. Sorry for boring you guys.

I’m not going to go through the whole merge but like.. I’ll just outline what I think got me to where I am or whatever. The first is adaptability. Here’s a gif of me adapting to the situation.

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What I mean by that is like.. my world got kind of turned upside down multiple times during the merge. Especially with the List format it was just like so hard to control who went home, so I ended up losing a few allies during that phase. First.. first came Jessica. Then was Riley. And then Victoria and Leah at the very end of it. While they weren’t like.. they weren’t necessarily the strongest bonds that I had, it was still hard because several of them got voted out like right after I’d secured a strong alliance with them. Like.. right after the merge my secret group teamed up with Rosalie/Irina/Angela’s.. and then right away we lost Jessica. So it was like.. I had to figure out how to keep those people still valuing me even with our broken alliance. The same thing with Leah leaving.. we had just finalized something between us, Angela, Jasper, and Rosalie. Then we lost her and it was like.. okay, well what other connections do I have that I can use instead?

Obviously like.. the most jarring was losing Esme at the final 10. Everyone I think knew that I was close with Esme. And.. and unlike Irina, I wasn’t really afraid of people knowing who I was teamed up with and I didn’t want to get rid of them to lessen my threat status or whatever. And then again, Irina winning HoH at the final 6 was something I had to adapt to, since I wanted her out that round. But I.. I just always had a back-up plan and I always had the connections there to keep me safe. There were like.. very few people at the merge I didn’t align with in one way or another. And it didn’t even really feel fake or not genuine to me either. It was just… just keeping my options open. Did I want to go to the end with the Cullens? Or did I want to go a different direction and go with like my secret group partners and their allies? It was just.. depending on everything that happened I always had somewhere else I could go, and someone else I could always count on. I mean.. the first double eviction I think it should’ve been obvious that I’d be the one to go because like. I was really good in challenges and I was sitting there vulnerable. But like.. every single person except Charlie thought I’d use any control I had to keep them safe, so they voted to keep me. When in reality like.. only a couple of them were right. It’s just stuff like that I think where I excelled and put myself in a good position to always make it to the next round.

The second thing I’d say that got me here was influence. Here’s a gif of me having influence.

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What I mean by influence is like.. obviously challenge wins were a big part of it that I hope isn’t like.. discounted or anything. For the List format challenges were like.. they were everything. If you didn’t place well in the challenge, you would be in serious danger. And I.. I came first in all of the List challenges except for the blood drops one so.. yeah, I was able to keep my people safe. With the Breaking Dawn phase, obviously HoHs and Vetoes and that last immunity were important to me. If you don’t win those challenges you just… you can’t really have control over the game and just have to kind of concede to what other people want. I just.. I didn’t want to play that way. I gave everything just.. my all and it helped me have control over a lot of stuff.

This is getting kind of long I guess, and you’re all probably like please stop talking. But there’s one more thing that I think got me here.. and that’s honesty and loyalty. Here’s a gif of me smiling thinking about my friends.

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But yeah, I’m not saying that being a big liar and being ruthless or whatever is a bad thing, especially in games like this or whatever. Angela and Irina both did it a lot, and it worked out for them. But that’s just.. it’s not really how I wanted to play. You might think that like.. listen to this stupid idiot, she just said she had alliances with like everyone but now she’s talking about loyalty. But like... I never really discounted anybody when it came to working with them and like.. where I could go with them gamewise. I don’t think I necessarily lied to the people I aligned with or whatever, and ended up voting them out. I’d say.. I’d say the exception to this would be Seth because I was scared of him winning HoH because he was just.. so good. I lied to him and said I wouldn’t put him up and then I did. But yeah other than that like.. if I was going to vote you out, you knew it.

I just.. I always want people to like me. So I didn’t want to send anyone to the jury like really mad at me for lying to them on their way out or whatever. I would just.. I’d want the same luxury from people if I was leaving. And one thing that I’m just really proud of here is that I never betrayed any of my closest allies. Like.. Rosalie, Emmett, Esme, Victoria, I stayed true to them and I didn’t feel like I had to get all duplicitous and selfish to make it here. I just.. I did it by trying to be friends with everyone even if you all hated me, keeping my options open, and in the end just staying true to myself I guess.

I just.. yeah I look forward to hearing from you guys or whatever. I think this has been.. been a fun game even if it’s been really stressful for me at times and devastating at others. I’m just.. I’m ready for it all to end and I hope you guys think I played a good game here. Because I.. I think I did. For the first time in my life I just feel like I've done something right for a change. Not to say my opponents didn’t play well because like.. yeah, I won’t lie I’m a bit nervous being here with them. But I’m.. I hope I can prove to you guys with your questions why I played best. Here’s a gif of me like.. being prepared for the questions.

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[align=center]Hello jurors! I'm glad to have the opportunity to make my case to you tonight regardless of what happens. I never thought I'd find myself sitting here after losing so many people in the List format but here I am. I wish I had gifs and fun shit to spice this up but I only found 1 of Irina and it's blurry or awful or something, and using Shannon from LOST gifs would be tacky. :cry I guess I will address the 3 main parts of any ORG player's game, and why I think I played the best.

1. SOCIAL GAME

I played a good social game, though maybe not in the traditional sense but I'll get to that. My social game got me into a position where I was completely safe on the Coven even if it got completely decimated. I was in an alliance originally with James, Victoria, Alec, and Riley. Earlier on James and Victoria were a pair, and Alec, Riley, and I were primed to go to the top 3 of the tribe. Even when things shifted around, I remained completely safe with a loyal group of allies, and I believe Riley, Alec, and Victoria were all closest to me in the game over each other. And had I not turned on James, he wouldn't have voted me out before the merge either.

After the merge, I knew with the List format that I needed to have a top social game and I did my best to make new connections that would keep me safe and I did that. I started working closely with my secret group members Rosalie and Angela, along with Bella, Leah, Jessica for a very short period which would have grown into something better. I did have a group of people after me, however I think I had the support of most people to at least prevent the idols from entering the game before they targeted me.

I knew that because of the target I had on me by James and his group, and the fact that all my old tribemates were on the jury I was going to have a big target on me in Breaking Dawn, and there were 2 points that I was vulnerable in Breaking Dawn, and Bella chose not to nominate me or backdoor me when she was HOH because of my deal and my closeness and connection with her. And then also last night, when I had overcome the odds to make the final 4, my social game and having proven my loyalty to Angela paid off as she came through for me and allowed me the chance to save myself in a challenge against someone I was confident I could beat. Also in the 2 list rounds where I was vulnerable, I was chosen by Leah the first time, and I believe I actually wasted my idol in the second one, as I probably would have been chosen by Rosalie over Leah and Riley. So there were several points where I was vulnerable in the merge where my social game saved me.

I think the thing that threw some people off with my social game was how direct I was with almost everyone. I think the only point that I actually hardcore lied was to James before he left the first time. Every other time, if I was coming after people they usually knew about it. If I heard something about someone, I'd ask them about it, and that's not something you normally see. But I didn't want to be fake with people, I was myself throughout this entire game and any connection I had or didn't have with each person in this game was real. I try to play as straight up as you can in these games, that's something I respect in other players and I hope you respect in me as well.

2. PHYSICAL GAME

Obviously I was pretty good in challenges in this game, and in almost any format you come across that is going to give you an advantage. But what I didn't want was for challenges to be a crutch for me to lean on. I wanted to be okay without challenge wins and for the most part I was. The Coven was only immune 1 out of 8 tribal councils before the merge, and I survived 7 tribals without receiving a single vote against me.

While I connected with Bella very early on in the merge before I saw her challenge skills, once I did see them, she was a relationship I wanted to take extra care to foster. I felt very close to Bella throughout the merge phase, and that was something that was going to mutually benefit both of us, because as people like Alec and Esme and Seth and Charlie kept leaving, we were eliminating people that were not us that could win challenges and put the two of us in danger.

The other big thing with my challenge game was last night. I knew that the vote was going to be a tie, and Angela and I came up with a plan, which I'll outline in strategic game, but I'm putting it here too because I used my challenge skills as a strategy. I wanted Bella and Rosalie to vote for me, because I saw Rosalie as a bigger threat than Angela, and I was confident I could beat Rosalie in a challenge, which I did.

I guess I should point out too, something that's going to come up is that I wouldn't be here without key challenge wins, and I'm not going to deny that. But that's the case with all 3 finalists. Angela especially needed MY challenge wins to get where she is. She needed me to win that List and pick her. She needed me to win the Final 6 HOH and keep her completely safe like she was. And Bella needed to win the veto at final 6 or she would have been eliminated in that double with mine and Angela's votes. So I don't think that's something that should be held against me.

3. STRATEGIC GAME

This ties in with physical game, but I think a game where you win challenges can be respected as long as you make good strategic decisions with the power you are given and I did that at several points. I played this game with my head and not my heart, and removed emotional attachments from the equation to make the absolute best strategic move for me at every point in the game, and I don't regret any move that I made. Each one got me here in front of you tonight. So these are the big ones:

1. Choosing to vote James out of the Coven - The Coven was full of drama, we were all fighting, we were in turmoil, none of us trusted each other. And that was because of the drama James was attempting to stir up between myself and Alec and Riley. I was perfectly positioned on the Coven, and James needed to breakup our threesome in order to last past the top 5 of our tribe, and he knew this and almost successfully did break it up, however I was always skeptical. And after comparing notes with Victoria where she sent me PMs from James where he said they could twist our words to their benefit, I knew that I needed to get James out. I took the initiative to get Alec and Riley to make up, I took in Mike and filled him in when he came to our team, and decided along with Victoria that right now was the time to pull the trigger on it. And as a result we got the trouble out of our tribe and came into the merge as a united family.

2. Choosing Angela over Victoria in the Double List - This move was by far the most difficult to do on a personal level, and even harder when she saw it coming and tried to talk me out of it, but I knew it was the right move for me. Had Angela left, 3 new idols enter the game, that is now 6 out of 10 people that have idols, none of them being myself or Victoria. Seeing how that first double went, Victoria probably would have left in it, and I probably leave after that in 8th unless Bella continued to protect me with Esme and her allies trying to get rid of me. Regardless it was a much more precarious position for me without Angela in the game. And as you can see, Esme and James left the very next round, which would not have been possible had they gotten idols the round before, and them leaving made the endgame dramatically easier for me to navigate. Also in the absence of Victoria, Angela stayed totally loyal to me in a way I knew Victoria would have if she stayed. I would not be here in the finals if I had not done this.

3. Choosing to eliminate Jasper over Rosalie - Well first I have to say that I did attempt to get rid of Bella that round and had she not won veto then I would have kept Jasper over Bella when I had to break that tie. But she did win and so I had to make a decision. I went into the round making the decision that I was going to get rid of Jasper and keep Rosalie, but Bella almost got me to eliminate Rosalie, in a way where she wouldn't have blood on her hands, by telling me Rosalie had been after me for quite a few rounds. In the end though I stuck with my original decision. Yes Jasper would have been way easier to beat in the end than Rosalie, but I needed a combination of people that was going to get me to the end. I firmly believe that if Jasper had been in the final 4, he would be here in the final 3 and I would be on the jury in 4th place, so I do believe I made the correct move here.

4. Choosing to draw votes onto myself at the Final 4 - Obviously I would have liked to win immunity, I did not throw the challenge that Bella won. I knew going into last night that it was most likely going to tie. Bella/Rosalie voting for one of me/Angela and vice versa. They saw me as the bigger threat, but they were going to vote for Angela if it meant Rosalie having an easier time in the tiebreaker. So Angela and I devised a plan where she was going to lie to Bella and Rosalie all day long about voting me out, so that they would choose to take the risk and vote for me, thinking it would be 3-1. I knew all along that Angela was going to tie it, and I was confident I could beat Rosalie in the challenge. I played along with the plan too. I pretended that Angela was being "sketchy" and that I thought I was leaving, but I never outright lied and said "she told me I was leaving" because I don't like to play like that. Now obviously I was nervous, Angela could have voted me out, but after PMing her near the end of the voting period I had faith in her and she came through, and I got my biggest jury threat out of the game. I could have told them I was positive Angela would tie it with me and they would have voted for her instead, but I wanted to give myself the best chance in the end that I could.

CONCLUSION / TL;DR

I played the best combination strategic, social, and physical game to get myself to the finals. I played a direct social game, and used that to make the best strategic decisions I could whenever I won power in challenges, and I deserve your guy's votes tonight, and whatever happens I had a blast in a Twilight game which I never thought I would say, and you guys have all been great and I can't wait to find out who everyone is and do the usual post-game shit. Bring on the questions!

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This is an amazing final 3 and you all deserve to win this game in your own ways. Good luck, ladies. :<3
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We will give the jurors a moment to consume your statements and the first juror will be with you shortly.
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Ergh, I'm quickly trying to rewrite some things because y'all answered them in your openings. <_<
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It will be a long night, no rush or anything :fang
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You know what, fuck it, you guys have 13 jurors to get through, so yeah, I'll get on it.

Ladies,

Congratulations on making it to the Final 3. One way or another, I feel that all three of you should feel proud of making it to the end, and doing what the rest of the 24 of us couldn't. I definitely all three of you are deserving winners - ultimately however, I can only vote for one of you, so let's get to it!

One of the things I hate about FTCs is that the jury often have preconceived issues and ideas about where YOUR game went wrong, what your weaknesses are, and what you could've done better. I feel oftentimes, it's difficult to judge because you're not in their shoes. So I guess I've had a quick flick through the Jury Haus, and want to give each of you an opportunity to address that area of perceived weakness - just so we can try and get that elephant out of the room - lest something important gets ignored. That way we don't get any of the: "oh well, I had a really good answer to that but I didn't know you wanted to hear that".

So here goes:

Edit: Also, I'm writing this before reading your opening speeches, so there's quite a good chance that you've addressed this already. Feel free to copy and paste or to regurgitate.

Irina - I guess you've touched upon this in Fallen Comrades, but nearly ~EVERYONE~ in the Jury was SHOCKED that you took Rosalie, someone who pretty much 90% of the jury haus was locked behind, and I guess had Rosalie been in the F3, you probably would've had no shot at my vote. So yeah, I guess you did talk about it a little in Fallen Comrades, but yeah - I was pretty much getting noone's vote but Carlisle; whereas Rosalie was getting a swathe of votes left right and centre. Mistake in judgment? What's the go there?

And secondly, people think you didn't play the ~social~ game as well as the other two - standoffish, to put it mildly. Thoughts?

Angela - Twofold - firstly explain the last two rounds for everyone, and perhaps your thought process. And secondly, it's fair to say that compared to Irina and Bella, you weren't exactly great at challenges. I guess this leads to a perception that you were "carried" through this game, firstly by Bella and Irina, but secondly through your dominating secret group with Irina and Rosalie. And thirdly, there's a bit of criticism that you would've been eliminated had it not been for your idol in the first list, and hence you shouldn't be up there in the final three.

Bella - I guess Seth/Leah have a question for you later on that I'm curious as well, but yeah, my question is, the schtick - do you think it got in the way of connecting with people? Someone mentioned that they thought you were a bit clueless as to the dynamics, and I just wanted to give you the opportunity to respond to that.

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It's a fairly lengthy answer - feel free to rebut and engage with your fellow finalists' answers.

Good luck, I really don't envy your FTC task. All the best! When I said that I think all three of you deserve to win, I meant it.
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Good luck to you three ladies :<3

And the board is gorgeous. You have outdone yourself Sulpicia.
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Irina - I guess you've touched upon this in Fallen Comrades, but nearly ~EVERYONE~ in the Jury was SHOCKED that you took Rosalie, someone who pretty much 90% of the jury haus was locked behind, and I guess had Rosalie been in the F3, you probably would've had no shot at my vote. So yeah, I guess you did talk about it a little in Fallen Comrades, but yeah - I was pretty much getting noone's vote but Carlisle; whereas Rosalie was getting a swathe of votes left right and centre. Mistake in judgment? What's the go there?

And secondly, people think you didn't play the ~social~ game as well as the other two - standoffish, to put it mildly. Thoughts?


I touched on it in my opening too, but I wanted to make sure that I was going to make the final 3 first and foremost. I did see Rosalie as the threat she was, and I thought I'd have an easier time beating you in the end, but I knew there was a really good shot Bella would win immunity. I just figured in a huge final challenge she would be better than me, and she was, I sucked at that puzzle hard, even though I got the pieces fast. But having Rosalie here allowed a situation where I could still make the final 3, where with you being there and our alliance with Angela, I think she would have taken the opportunity to vote me out if Rosalie was not there in the final 4 and that was the thought process behind the decision. Getting to the end with people you can beat is one thing, but if you can't get to the end then you'll never be able to beat them. I took both parts of that into consideration, and I think I went about getting here the best way possible and that was not a mistake in judgement.

I didn't want to be standoffish, I tried to have the best connection I could with as many people as I could but at the same time I'm not the type to go around and make a million fake deals, especially when I knew in the circumstances I was in, I was going to be targeted by a lot of people regardless of it. I tried to be really direct and straightforward and honest with people as much as I could, I wasn't fake and I didn't really kiss up to people. People may see that as not playing the social game as well, but I see it as a different way of playing it, and it's something I personally respect in people I play against, and it's why I got along with people like Bella and Seth so well, because I think they were kind of the same way. So I don't think I played the social game poorly, I just played it differently than a lot of other people would.
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Yeah I mean.. I feel like the schtick was definitely something that got in the way of my connecting with people. Especially in the beginning. I'm worried about it too because like... I'm confident in my game, but reading over my opening it just doesn't feel.. confident. But yeah I mean.. I wanted to try to embody Bella as best as I could. The bad thing about that is what a horrible, miserable, inarticulate person that Bella is. And therefore.. I was.

But in terms of it stopping me from connecting with people I think.. if you (Jasper) could get past it having no idea about anything Twilight related.. like not even knowing Bella was the main character when this started.. then I think it shouldn't have been TOO much of an issue for most people. I think the main issue that would come from it would be when I'd say stuff like "you probably hate me and want me out" and stuff like that... I was never sure if people would actually take that seriously and believe I actually thought they wanted me out. Or if they'd just shrug it off and be like.. oh Bella is just being stupid Bella again.

I don't think I was clueless on dynamics like.. at all. The one thing I admit to not really knowing about until it was too late was the you/Angela/Irina alliance which.. Irina told me about at final 6. Most stuff I think I had a pretty firm grasp on though. Both.. both Irina and Angela took a lot of pride in their openings about how they totally played and blindsided me and Rosalie last night but like. I mean Rosalie can attest to this, but I told Rosalie.. Angela was probably lying just to make sure we didn't vote for her in an attempt to like, give Rosalie a better shot at the tie. I told Rosalie that and I.. I left the ball in her court because it was her butt on the line. She believed Angela so.. that's what we did.

Another thing mentioned by Irina that.. that I was reluctant to talk about because I'm kind of ashamed of it. But like.. me slipping up and telling Irina that Rosalie wanted her out or whatever during that double BB. Yeah.. that wasn't a slip up at all because I.. I knew what I was doing and I knew my saying that could make Irina vote Rosalie out in the tie. Once I realized that Irina was going to be in the final 4.. I knew my best chance of winning was probably without Rosalie around and if she left without the blood getting on my hands at all I mean.. yay for me. I was worried about me and Rosalie just.. just splitting the Cullen votes or whatever or splitting our allies votes... because we had basically like the same allies the whole time. But I mean.. I wasn't going to take her out myself because I couldn't do that. But yeah I was.. I was more aware of goings on and dynamics than people probably think and that's just another example of that I guess, even if I'm not proud of it.
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Well firstly, playing an idol is a legitimate part of the game. That is what they are there for. Almost being eliminated in list doesn't really speak volumes about someone's social game. Jessica was eliminated first in that and we all loved Jessica. And getting back to idols, Irina also played an idol during list as well. It's essentially the same was simply winning immunity. There are countless times in games where someone is leaving unless they have immunity. So it is not a fault to need it. There were times when we all needed it. That's why the 13 jurors are there and I'm here. They never were able to have immunity when they needed it most. I had a good enough read on the situation to be able to decided that I definitely had to play an idol at that point. So many times people leave with them because they were too confident to play it. I never let myself get a big head in the game. I was always well aware of what my position was.

To say I was carried is also completely false. Do I not have as many challenge wins as Bella and Irina? Of course I don't, but there were other players who were weak in challenges who ended up being voted out early, because they did not have tight social connections. When you suck in challenges, you have to pick up the slack socially. I had Rosalie completely snowed TWICE into thinking I was absolutely going to keep her, but let's face it, I go to final 3 with Rosalie and Bella like they wanted, I lose. I would have loved to change things up in Big Brother so much sooner to make bigger moves and show that I do have a strong desire to win, but when the biggest threats are also the ones winning the challenges, it is hard to actually do that, but let it be known, I was not just some puppet, I did try to eliminate the people I saw a huge threats when the opportunities presented themselves.
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