I started this game out barely knowing anyone in the cast except for Luke, Eddie and Wesley. I got dragged into a “Taco” alliance with Orange, Blake, Luke and Ahad within the first day, an alliance that although I was honored to be added to, I did not plan to claim any sort of allegiance to. I ended up allying with Luke, Eddie and Wes, talking to other members of the house, like Nick, Joshie and Ahad (later in the game), but promising nothing to them as to not have to break too many ties at the end.

A few days later, I won the first HoH, as you may know. I set out to destroy a possible problem later in the game by nominating the two people who I thought to be the leaders of the alliance, Orange and Blake. Although they were not direct threats, the fact that they had created the alliance so quickly and without asking me if I wanted to be in it or not, that did not play well with me. I also knew that Orange was easily irritated, and that could play against me and place a target against me. I thought right, and both of them were incredibly irritated at me for nominating them, even starting a fight in the chat. Alfons won veto, and took Orange off, my original target, and I put Ethan up for his inactivity and arranged for Blake to be eliminated. As planned, he was.

The next week, I was unable to compete in the HoH challenge, and Wes won and nominated Orange and Eddie. Since I was allied with Eddie, I won veto and saved him from being on the board. Wes replaced him with Ahad, and since I still wanted to destroy any remains of the Taco alliance, I convinced most of the house to vote Orange, causing him to be the second person out. It was then revealed that Joshie got Eddie to tell him his secret, which was why Joshie guessed it, causing the two of them to be automatically nominated for the offense. I didn’t want Eddie to go home right after I had saved him, so I placed a target on Joshie’s back and got him eliminated. Week three, Ahad beat me in HoH and nominated Wes and David. David won veto, and Ahad put Ethan up. It was Wes vs Ethan, and since I deemed Wes a valuable ally and trusted him, Ethan would have been evicted unanimously if not for the twist causing it to be a fake eviction. In week four, I won HoH again, and put up Ethan and David, since I realized the two of them had some sort of connection or alliance, and the fact that I wanted the last willing member of the Taco alliance out (Ahad was an unwilling addition, just like me.) In order to get slightly ahead in the Secrets Game, I guessed Ahad’s secret correctly, leaving him to have the 10% deduction from his score, after realizing that he could win HoH more often since he had already proved that he could. After veto, the nominations remained the same and I talked to Wes and Luke about how I didn’t want David to correctly guess mine and Wes’ secrets. David was evicted.

Week five, Wes won HoHo and nominated Ethan and Nick. Luke won veto, and didn’t save anyone. I had affiliations with Nick, and I wanted Ethan to simply be out of the game, so I worked to save Nick and get Ethan out. Shortly saying, he was evicted.

Week six, I won HoH again. I decided that since I knew that Nick was good at challenges, he could suddenly come back in the game and try to win it, so I nominated him with Alfons as a pawn, knowing that since at that point he was completely inactive and nobody saw it useful to vote him out. I talked to the house and made sure Nick was evicted. Week seven, it got incredibly complicated. Alfons suddenly became active to “make the house more exciting”, proceeded to win HoH and nominate Wes and I. Wes and I were freaking out, we were working our asses off on the veto, but Alfons beat us by a landslide. At first, we didn’t know that Alfons had vetoed Wes and replaced him with Eddie because of a mistake in the technical half of the season, so the eviction went on with me vs Wes, and Luke and I were working our asses off talking to everyone. The vote ended up with Wes “going home”, and him commenting on how he wanted to backstab me in Final 5, which set off all alarms for me. Then the switch was revealed and I was up against Eddie this time. Luke (and apparently Alfons) talked to Ahad to keep me, and I talked to both Wes, telling him that I was still loyal and the main reason I agreed to continue with the second vote was to save him, and Ahad, trying to reason with him to keep me. The vote ended up as 3-0 with Eddie going home, but I know I almost went home before then. Week 8, the whole house’s goal was to get Alfons out. There was a Wes and I plan to nominate Ahad and Luke and then backdoor Alfons, and then Ahad/Luke and I all agreed to nominate Wes and Alfons. I threw the HoH challenge in order to keep my connections with the entire house, and since I knew Luke had a good score, I was hoping he’d win. That way the house would be a bit more divided and I’d have less of a target on my back, since I obviously had one from the past week. Luke and Wes ended up tying at the game, and then Wes won the tiebreaker, nominating Luke and Ahad. Everyone worked their asses off at the challenge to be able to backdoor Alfons, but Ahad won and it was Luke vs Alfons. I talked to Ahad, and it was an easy decision: vote out the challenge threat, the one who suddenly became active to fuck up everyone’s games. I’ll admit, the vote was partially personal, due to my irritability at how Alfons tried to shove it in my face that I would go home the previous week. Alfons was evicted easily, propelling me into the final 4.

Final four, week 9, whatever you want to call it came. The veto competition came first, and I absolutely sucked at the challenge. Luke won the challenge, safety and the only vote in the elimination. HoH was a bit more complicated. If Ahad won, Wes would go home, if I won, I could talk to Luke and find an agreement with him, if Wes won, Ahad would go home. I told Wes that Ahad wanted him out, which prompted him to win HoH. Ahad was voted out by Luke’s vote.

Week ten was probably the most stressful week of this entire game. It didn’t even hold a candle to week 7. Luke won the first challenge, and I was up against Wes in the second. I had to win it, because I was terrified that Wes would backstab me and take Luke to finals. After playing the challenge for hours on end, I managed to win it, propelling me to the third section, that I won easily. Of course, I didn’t know whether or not I won, but I was betting that I did, so the decision between Wes and Luke was imminent. Both of them had pros and cons, but in the end I decided to go with my constant final (2 or 3) plan, to take the person harder to beat, so that if a) I lose, it’s to the better person, and b) if I win, it’s deserving. Another point to make was that Wes was my first final 2 deal out of the two that I had this season.

Which brought me here. No matter what any of you think, I believe that I deserve to be here. I’m also glad that I’m sitting here with one of my original allies, my co-challenge beast Wes. I’ve had his back since the start of the game, as have I with Luke, and I want to say that the final 3 eviction was the hardest decision of all of my games. Half of you probably think I’m an idiot to take him to the finals, since he could beat me, but that’s always and always will be my game. My goal is to win if and only if I deserve it (based off of my gameplay and not personal vendettas), not because I’m the least of all evils. I’ve never won with it, but maybe third time’s the charm.

I believe that I’ve played the best game in order for me to get this far. I’ve chosen the correct allies, I’ve socialized with just about everyone in the game, (sans Ethan, due to the simple fact that he was never online), I’ve won challenges, and I’ve strategized to further myself in the game. I lied where I needed to, I was careful with what I said to everyone, and I was very careful to trust anyone. In terms of the Secret Game, I chose a harder secret to guess and worked to figure out others’ secrets. I admit, I have made mistakes, but everyone does, and I worked to undo the effects of those mistakes on my game.

I did my best to alienate my emotions from my game, and although there were a few exceptions, every move was a rational decision to make sure that I would be here. None of you should take anything I’ve done personally, it’s just part of my game. I considered my options in every vote and went with what I believed to be best for my fate in the game. That’s why I’m here. I’ve played this game for MYSELF, for MY goals, and nobody else. Nobody can say anything else. I will happily answer any questions you have about me or my gameplay in order to help you make your decision.