staceys statements

[stacey]

Hi, congrats to you both. I took my time on this for the main reason that you had 43574754 LONG ASS questions at you.. So I thought I would give you some time to answer those. Mine arent going to be nearly as detailed because Im lazy and can get anything else I really need to make up my mind out of everyone else’s questions. So with that said..

Most of my questions are based on my favourite topic: ME

Michael:

1) Define your game play. Do you see yourself as a floater, UTR, master mind, challenge whore, sheep, alliance whore… etc. Explain why you chose that word to define you.

2) In one of your first questions, when you had to rank who you thought was deserving…. You ranked me semi-low for saying that I gave up. Ryan ranked me first and explained about how I survived so many evictions. You didn’t mention that at all. But now in your new questions(ie: the who you thought was threatening), you have mentioned my high survival rate and you are acting like I’m a far better player than you did in your first rankings. So, is this sudden change just because you saw that Ryan ranked me high and you want to suck up and get my vote? Or what?

3) So I’m aware that both you and Ryan nommed me.. AND You both gave me AWFUL excuses. You both acted really stupid too. Do you regret not handling those rounds better? Because if I was both of your targets… why didn’t you try more? Michael, I believe one of your reasons was because I wasn’t online. I was in Michigan and was in a car accident.. Everyone knew about this. It seemed like such BS, because I obv. still cared about the game (at that point) as much as everyone else… I still was putting the effort towards it and fighting just as much, or even more so than anyone else. Also, you said that you didn’t tell anyone but Jake that you wanted me gone.. Why didn’t you? It just seems like an excuse.. You weren’t even at that veto, were you? If you cared that much, why weren’t you?

Ryan:

1) Define your game play. Do you see yourself as a floater, UTR, master mind, challenge whore, sheep, alliance whore… etc. Explain why you chose that word to define you.

2) If I had not given up.. If I fought really hard the round that I was evicted (and say that in this case, I showed up to veto and didn’t spaz at Alex..) would that have done anything? Or was I just screwed anyway? Because you Imed me and basically just shot the breeze.. When in reality, we barely talked up to that point( we did at the start, but not near the middle/end.) It kinda pissed me off, honestly. Because you asked me if I was going to make it to eviction and HoH.. Really casually too. So it just seemed really fake and that you were sucking up to get my jury vote. Why would you even bother talking to me if you were already set on your vote and you said that you already voted for me at that point, too…


3) K so like I said to Michael.. Both of you nommed me, obviously. And Ryan, I cant remember if you said you told anyone that I was your target over Jordan… did you? If I WAS your target, you failed horribly because that was the first vote for EVERYONE to vote for one person. And you and Michael but esp. you, are blaming ME for getting rid of Jordan. If I was YOUR target.. And you fucking nommed me.. What do you expect me to do? Say “OH OKAY, I UNDERSTAND.. IMMA LET YOU GET ME OUT SINCE YOU WANT ME GONE SOO BAD” You seem to be using that as a piece of BS. Saying that it was MY fault that he left because I fought.. -_- As HoH, if you are going to put up a pawn, and in this case, it sounds like Jordan was one.. You make sure that you have the votes for them to go!! I understand that I put you up as a pawn beside Travis, but that’s because I KNEW I had the votes for him. AND I DID. So your whole answer to Jordan.. Was basically just putting the blame on me for Jordan leaving. Which is SO ridic. Sorry that I saved myself. -_-


Thank you both!!! Good luck.

[michael]

Thanks, Stacey. *EVIL WORMS*

1) LOL I have no idea what half those terms mean, but I will use one of my own plain English (sorry if it is equivalent to one of the ones you mentioned in your question): Unpredictable.

The entire game, one thing was in common throughout. I played the game day by day and took things as they came. It turns out that I was EXTREMELY fortunate enough to be dealt GREAT hands each and every week, from whoever got power to random twists. The challenges that I happened to be better at came around right when I needed it most (ie Chess), people approached me when I decided to get into the game, even events that weren't necessarily in my favor (Travis' eviction) turned out for the better because it motivated me. So perhaps it is a large dose of beginner's luck too. But I always had an idea what I wanted to accomplish and was pretty successful at doing so. It was not all random game play. (No, I am not Agrabah's player or a twist or a robot or a plant or a saboteur or whatever crazy ideas you all have come up with). This was because I did not approach the game with my mind set in stone. It was all about flexibility for me. As Jay knows best, I like to sit on the metaphorical, splintering fence. So it was all options, options, options to me. I didn't know what I was going to do until I did it. I made gut feeling decisions, and I think my "erratic" choices have shown that to a degree. This was because I was able to avoid being the final nominee each and every week. This was not easy for me because every week I had to vote to evict someone. I don't think I was ever forced to do something because I had no choice. Don't know how exactly that happened every week, but it did and it worked out pretty well

2) Unlike Ryan, my reason for being threatened by your game was NOT because of your ability to talk yourself out of the block, though it was a HUGE reason for why you were able to stick around for so long. Throughout this Q&A I have been consistent in stating that you were a threat to MY game, primarily due to your extremely close relationship with Mike. Here's why. In Jordan's eviction, I actually gathered the votes FOR you to stay so I was never too threatened by your ability to talk your way out of things. Perhaps I was wrong and you helped your cause that week. I don't know. That aspect of your game wasn't the largest problem for me. In fact, it was Mike's unfaltering loyalty to you (I know this firsthand), and in the hypothetical F3 situation of the three of us, that was too risky for me (probably same for you too). We mostly talked only when you needed my vote, so that bugged me too, which is why I targeted you so much (getting rid of your double vote, trying to evict you, etc). So yeah, of all the people on the jury, I did the most against you, hence why it was an easy pick for me to choose you as the most threatening.

Does that automatically mean that you are one of the most deserving for being close to Mike and therefore threatening to me? Strategy-wise, I don't think so. Granted, surviving week after week, you did play one of the hardest games because your life was constantly on the line and that deserves props. But at the end, your presence in the house died down. Maybe it was your strategy? I did not consciously factor in "eviction survival times" into my rankings. If that was the case, you and Ryan get the top two spots for sure. I think everyone was scared to be on the block against you two. I know I was. But the game is not simply defined by "block survival." I did note that you were one of the "STRONGEST" competitors in my original ranking. That isn't pulled out of thin air. You won important competitions, you got vetoed a gazillion times, etc. For me, the factor that undermined your ranking was based on perseverance. This is an important trait to have, in my opinion, because it is how I roll. I really respect people who never give up because I certainly don't ever give up in real life (or this game). So my answers are not contradicting at all. Most threatening to me, is not the same as most deserving so I never really changed my position on your game. I hope all that made sense.

That being said, you probably didn't like what I just told you….so, THIS is sucking up: I would have voted for you if you had made it to F2 for beating me after I tried so so hard to get you out ;D

3)Yes I totally knew you thought my excuse was a pile of crap, and I knew that my excuse itself was crap--because IT WAS, we both aren't stupid. However, in my defense, I did not know about your car crash until AFTER I had put you on the block. Nobody told me, so sorry if it was offensive in any way. But the logic behind my fake "reason" for your nomination is because I had the mindset of not letting anyone know what I actually planned to do, because I was open to whatever and it's best not to get stuck on one thing. I didn't want to show my hand during my first HoH unless it was necessary. So if you knew you were the target, then kudos because I didn't want you to know. My plan that round (which was a train wreck btw): You were my target, and Jake was the pawn because I was trying to use the fact that Jake went off on me just a round earlier (and his replacer also helped) to avoid suspicion that I wanted you gone. I even put Jake's name first in my reasoning to try to signal he was my "intended" target, haha. Believe me, I TRIED…REALLY HARD on that veto competition, like I told you I would (it was the non-live one). It's just I had no idea how to match up DR quotes with people. It actually HURT me in the beginning rounds when I didn't get to know people very well. I did not throw that competition one bit. It makes no sense to throw the POV related to your HoH reign, imo. I gave you my 3 quotes without asking for yours to gain some trust back, but then I went ahead and gave my quotes to everyone else-including Jake- to even the playing field. So I did try to make sure you didn't win, even if it may not look that way. OHHH, but I just realized that you meant I wasn't at the veto ceremony. Yeah, ABOUT THAT………I blame a certain someone named ALEX…………I had a legitimate reason for being away and as I recall a weird veto ceremony time? I ranted to him, but Karma is a bitch--I did it to Ryan just rounds earlier and I guess I had it coming. This is what started the entire train wreck. If I was around I probably would have tried to convince Mike into not using it. Mike had told me earlier (aka during the veto competition) that he would keep nominations the same, so when I came back and saw that he used it…….I went to the dollar store and bought TWO kleenex

So the big question is: Why did I tell Jake, of all people? There are several reasons:
1. I had to patch up the problems with him from earlier, and it helps to tell him that he is safe and that I was 100% willing to work with him yet again (for reals), since I did appreciate his strategical game and his humor. I tried to milk a deal, but I did not rely on that at all, it was simply a bonus.
2. Since you were the target, it is better to nominate a "pawn" who wouldn't end up completely mad at me since the pawn is supposed to stay around another week. Jake was perfect because he had a replacer and I didn't want him to mess things up. He was also my "obvious" nominee pick to everyone else in the house so it caused the least waves. Jake took it well
3. I had the votes PRE-veto to make Jake believe me about saving him. Eric, Ryan, and I had all agreed in previous rounds that it might be better to evict you ASAP for being a jury threat, so I didn't need Mike's vote, though I would like to think he would also have respected my wishes if I came clean. In reality, Eric's void was another weapon we could have used, but it was unnecessary and nobody knew that I actually had pretty good access to that extra vote.
4. I thought it was safe to tell Jake because it was either his life or yours on the line. Why would he risk angering the HoH by telling you that you were the actual target pre-veto? By being the other nominee, he should be most FOR getting you evicted. But I didn't want him to win either, obviously.
5. I couldn't tell Mike anything about targeting you in fear that it would hurt his relationship with me--and good thing too since he apparently would have disregarded my request to keep you on the block anyway had I even been at the veto ceremony. I did try to tell Eric by questioning who he wanted out, but he was so wishy-washy the entire time so I didn't press matters until things were set in stone (ironically, you got off, so the decision became much more one-sided). We were going to wait until after veto to make our decision, like every other round. However, others told me he was campaigning for Jake, anyways? Eric and I rolled with the punches, it was pretty awesome. Ryan wanted you out hands down, so this wasn't a problem- no need to tell him. He probably thought he was going against me anyways to "get even" for the Jordan debacle during his HoH.

[ryan]

Hi Stacey. Thanks for your questions.

QUESTION 1: Define your game play. Do you see yourself as a floater, UTR, mastermind, challenge whore, sheep, alliance whore, etc. Explain why you chose that word to define you.

Initially, before the jury questioning period, I would have firmly stated that I was an “alliance whore” and would have no issues with this moniker.

However, after responding to some of the juror questions, I have since come to realize that many other players in this game have had a comparable number of alliances, and so I do not understand why I could be faulted for this. In a game like Big Brother where you vote people out, you need alliances and agreements in order to get to the end; and especially because of the number of times that I’ve been nominated, I feel that it was wholly necessary for my game lest I be evicted.

The label that I give my game is “Under the Radar”.

My strategy is ALWAYS that anything goes. The goal is to win, and it's up to you how you want to get there. I knowingly made myself a bit of an enigma and never let people know my strategy or what I was thinking during the game. I was waiting for the opening statements and my answers to the juror questions to reveal everything.

I pretended to be weak. In the beginning, I pretended to not have any idea how to play this game, and this made people underestimate me. Most people thought that I was an easy vote that they could control, and so I was always privy to information from many different people. By making myself the vote that other people could use to further their own games, I was ensuring my survival in this game. I was always able to displace the votes in a direction other than my way.

I also threw a great many challenges in the beginning and mid game. It was only near the end where I made an effort to try and win more of the challenges – I came 2nd in the Final 6 veto, 2nd in the Final 5 HOH, and won the Final 4 HOH. I think those statistics prove that I deliberately tried to appear weaker in the beginning stages of the game. I think doing so was probably a smart move, because I know that some people were deliberately being targeted for being challenge whores, and I definitely did not want a target like that on my back.

Hence, I think I have played a smart, strategic under-the-radar game. I hid myself from everybody, and I know it disappoints some people that a virtual unknown somehow made it to the Final 2. But I obviously had a strategy... and it worked.

QUESTION 2

I know what situation you’re talking about, and I apologize if I appeared insensitive because that was definitely not my intent.

The conversation that day was initiated by me because I was genuinely curious about your AIM status message that mentioned something about a “booze factory” Given that we basically live only about 2 hours away from each other, I was honestly interested in whether you were actually referring to some booze factory in the area. The conversation was completely innocent, I swear!! We were talking about a lot of different things that day... and when I asked if you were attending the live eviction that would happen a few hours later, it was again just curiosity that was speaking, but I can totally see how that would appear insensitive.

We hardly ever talked game in the mid to end game – all of our conversations were just regular talks. When I messaged you, curious about the “booze factory” (which was sadly not an actual place ), it was for genuine interest and I thought it was an actual location in southern Ontario area that I could maybe visit haha. I’m sorry if I sounded like I was patronizing or tactless, because I did not intend for that to be the case.

QUESTION 3

The week that I was HOH, it was more desirable for my game that you left over Jordan, as I knew you were targeting me as well. In that respect, by Jordan leaving, my game suffered a little bit.

When I said that Jordan’s eviction was attributed to both me failing to get the votes to evict you, as well as your skills at campaigning – that was supposed to be a huge testament to your skill as a game player, and I think you misinterpreted my compliment to you. I said that I was unable to get the votes for Jordan to stay, but what I meant was that it could also be because of your skill as a serious player in this game. As I mentioned before, I both deeply admire and was threatened by your ability to come off the block every time you were nominated.

And of course you were going to campaign to save yourself, and I never insinuated nor implied that you shouldn’t have. I was merely explaining that Jordan’s eviction was due to my failure in getting the votes necessary, which may have been caused by your superior social game. Props to you, girl.