Hwest14/Houston Jury Questioning

Amandasings041 month ago

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TishaMod1 month ago

Hi, hwest14 My southern belle... Thank you for this question and I do think I lied unnecessarily at points in this game. Sometimes it was intentional strategy - like telling people I evicted Tylor, I came to you and Jake with the plan of "I'm doing this so we can try and cause distrust between the others to get the target off ourselves". But then, there were definitely times when I told people what they wanted to hear, to try and keep doors open and protect myself in the future. I didn't want to give people a clear reason to target me, when I already had a big rivalry in the game, keeping options open was important for me. However, I do see that could be a messier part of my game and I understand if that would be hard for you respect, if you value being straightforward, I do think I was eventually honest with a lot of things in the end and would come clean before just sending someone out the door in a blindside. As to whether I would be here without my ability to win competitions, honestly, my competition wins were a huge part of my game and I'm not going to downplay that. I had to fight every single week in this game, I was a constant target, I could not be someone that just sat there and threw competitions. I won when I needed to, to give myself safety and power in this game. However, I do not think competitions alone got me here, if I only had competitions wins and no social or strategic game, I would have been evicted the second I was vulnerable on the block. I survived twice on the block where I had no power at all. I survived the drastic St Tropez week 2-0 and I survived being backdoored by my ally in a close vote of 5-3. Those had nothing to do with my competition wins and getting to where I am now. I worked my ass off with the relationships I had to get the votes to stay. I worked with different people in different rounds, repaired relationships when I needed to and kept myself positioned even when people had reasons to come for me. So to be direct, I am not going to pretend I would have had the same path here without competitions, they mattered massively, but I don't believe I am here only because I won them. I'm here because I won when I had to and ultimately used my social abilities to survive nominations that could have ended my game. I truly hope you see how hard I had to fight to get here Houston, this was no easy road for me, I played this game extremely hard from beginning to end and I hope my explanation and drive is enough for you to vote for me as the winner to represent our season. If there is any anything else, please let me know and thank you again!!

Jaded1 month ago

Houston, it's true that I had pre-existing relationships, but I think people acting like I have inseparable bonds with players in the game is just untrue. Not touching the block aside from you nomming me week 1 is not a mistake. We saw many people betray allies and it was never me. I did rely on relationships I had coming in, but I didn't sit back and just know that I'm safe, I used them to my advantage. As we saw week 2, I basically forced Tylor to take out DK because I was closer with Tisha. When I thought I was going up from Gabs, I guilted Maxi. When Ben and Tisha won, I still went out of the way to protect the other or throw comps to make sure they were not mad. Ben and Tisha are both people with tempers so the fact that I managed to make it to the end with them with never pissing them off was not by luck. I was telling everyone what they wanted to hear and giving info when needed (Squisha) and held info to myself when needed. The only thing that did not go my way was Tisha not nominating Glitter over Cristi because I really preferred Cristi to go, but I knew to shut up because I did believe that no matter what happened, Tisha would protect me over both you and Glitter. I ran to you and Ben and told me you all I needed and threw HOH to you and purposely chose poison so that I could try to protect both you and Tisha at Final 4 (because my goal was to go to final 3 with you and Tisha) So although I did not agree with him not, I knew it was still okay because my only goal was myself being safe. Additionally, Tylor getting evicted was bad for me. Tylor was a true ally for me and when he left I did think we were fucked, but I think my transparency always kept me in a good spot with people. I told LQ instantly I was saving Tylor against her wishes and I constantly told other people the truth because I felt like if they knew I was transparent for certain people then I would also be transparent for them. Did I play passively? From an outside perspective, I can see why people think that way, but there was never a round where I did not know what was going on. I was never worried about my safety and I always pointed things in the direction that I wanted them. Yes, I knew people before the game 100%. However, I was able to make sure everyone I was "friends" with got to the end even though they were not necessarily friends with each other. I think I played behind the scenes, it does not necessarily mean I played passively. I think people expected to play with game with the Lemjam6 they knew 10 years ago cussing people out, but we're supposed to grow up aren't we? I'm a different person now and I played with my brain rather than playing in your face. I didn't make the biggest moves, I made the right moves to keep myself in a great position all game.