Practicing my speech 2

First, I would like to thank Arisa and Cent for hosting this amazing season!
I would also like to thank Cameron Van Buren for donating money, and just everyone who made this amazing game possible.
I had the time of my life, truly. And I am soooo grateful for this opportunity.
Thank y'all so much 

Now, I wanna talk about what I had in mind when I came into this house.
I am a huge fan of strong female players like Danielle Reyes, Jun Song and Paras Atashnak. 
They played games where they deceived people to think of them as unthreatening and innocent, while intentionally taking advantage of that perception to make moves under-the-radar to further themselves in the game.
So I wanted to emulate my game after their games.

I had 3 rules going in:

1. Talk to EVERYONE in the house as much as possible.
This is very important to me because it is my belief that the most important aspect of Big Brother is social game, especially in the first half of the game.
Just messaging everyone can go a long way, even if it's just small-talk.
It might make the difference between you getting nominated, and you being safe.

2. NEVER win a competition unless it's absolutely necessary to do so.
Yes, competitions are an important part of Big Brother too, but they are not necessary in order to further yourself.
That is proven by the fact that everyone sees Dr. Will as the best player who has ever played this game.
Winning a competition can put a target on your back, and for the first half of the competition, I intended on throwing every competition.

3. NEVER get into an argument with another player unless it's necessary.
I like to stay under-the-radar, and I do not like drama.
My goal was to stay under-the-radar as much as possible, and in order to do that, I needed to be good with everyone.

Day 1, my goal was to DM everyone and get a feel of everyone, and I did exactly that.
By day 2, I had DM’d every single one you in the house.
Fun fact: If I remember correctly, I was always the one that messaged y'all first. No one in this game messaged me before I messaged them first. I started every single relationship that I had in this game.
By doing that, I wanted to make sure that whoever wins the first HOH, I would be safe.

However, as y'all know, there was a HUGE twist that threw a wrench into my plan.
THE TRIO TWIST.
I hated it with a passion, just as a lot of y'all did too.
Because depending on who you get teamed up with, they could put you in danger.
What ended up happening, was exactly what I feared.
I was in the same trio as Hailey.
I didn't have any problem with her on a personal level, but from what I'd observed, she seemed messy, so I was hoping I wouldn't be on the same team with her.
I knew immediately that I needed to work twice as hard to ensure my safety.
Luckily for me, I'd already messaged Kam when I got info that people were voting for her to be the HOH, and because of the conversations we had, she'd already confirmed that I was safe.
That worked, and my team ended up being safe.

By this time, I had already messaged everyone enough to get a feel of how everyone is like.
There was one person that I clicked with the most... Ariana!
She and I immediately got along. 
And not only was she my best friend in the house, but she was also my primary information source throughout the season, as she had an amazing social game and was connected with most people in the house.
I decided that she was my number 1 and that she was my ride-or-die.

Week 2
This was when I was going crazy because my game was in jeopardy for something that I didn't even do.
Although Riku had promised me prior to the nomination ceremony that he'd never put me up, he still nominated our team, due to Hailey being reckless in the HOH competition thread.
Considering I had a good relationship with almost everyone in the house, this was very disappointing because it was out of my control. 
I did not choose Hailey as my teammate. I'd already worked on Riku enough to get him to say I was safe.
I could've let this mess me up, and alter my plan completely to start playing a more aggressive game.
But I had to calm myself down, and just lay low because I knew I would survive this eviction.
Turns out, I was right. I received 0 eviction votes.
Although getting nominated this early in the game was a bummer, I was happy that this didn't mess up my game record as I didn't receive an eviction vote.

Week 3
I was working on developing a relationship with Rose, especially after seeing how great she was at competitions.
Also, I wanted to play the middle between team orange and Kam/Riku.
Given the choice between my best friend Ari, Kam who I liked, and Riku who put me up...
What I needed to do was obvious. I voted to evict Riku.
It was during this round that Klaus tried to steer me in a direction of not evicting Riku, and that's when I started getting the impression that I could not trust him. Ariana also filled me in on how Klaus and Kam are close to each other.

Week 4
The HOH was endurance, and it was interesting how things played out.
I had absolutely no intention of winning this HOH, as winning this HOH would've hurt my game rather than helped.
My goal was to stay in it long enough to make all the remaining players promise that they are not putting me up, and when I achieved exactly that, I dropped.
I wanted to keep Rose this round so that she could go after Klaus for me, but ultimately, I had to vote to evict her as soon as I found out that Ariana and Patrick had no interest in keeping her.

Week 5
Not a whole lot happened this week.
But what I did do, was I started an alliance with Ariana, Peter and Momo.
After sensing that people in the alliance Rose made with me were not serious about the alliance, I wanted an alliance that could be solid.
Since Momo was in my team, I wanted to utilize that relationship.
Peter talked to me about how he was close to Ariana, so I included him also.
Patrick ended up nominating Momo, but it was in our interests to keep Momo, so I voted to keep him.

Week 6
This was when forming an alliance with Momo proved most useful to me.
When the HOH was announced, I knew exactly what I needed to do. Help Momo win.
It was too early in the game for me to win a competition, but I needed Klaus to flush out his immunity idol.
I did exactly what I needed to do by helping Momo, and I achieved exactly what I pictured in my head.
My focus was not on who was getting evicted that round, my goal was to flush out Klaus's immunity idol.

Week 7
Now, this is when things started to get spicy lmao
The final nominations were Momo and Bea.
As soon as Momo lost the POV, I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to save Momo because he had a lot of blood on his hands from his HOH reign, and Bea was practically the most unthreatening person in the house.
I genuinely liked Momo and wanted to go far with him, but I wasn't willing to risk my game to save him.
Kam and Shelli lied to Momo and convinced him that he had their votes, but I knew the truth and tried to tell him in a way that wouldn't upset him.
That all blew up in my face, and as y'all know I was exposed by Momo.
Every single thing that Momo said that night, was true LMAO
And almost every single thing that I said to publicly respond to him, was a lie.
I thought my game was over, and I had to lie through my teeth for damage control.

Week 8
Now, this is when I started taking a more aggressive approach to playing this game, out of necessity.
After getting exposed by Momo, I knew I had a huge target on my back, despite the fact that I had been playing a nearly flawless social game up until that point.
I knew that Klaus knew that I was coming after him, and I knew that he was coming after me because of that information.
I could've thrown the HOH like I had been throwing every single competition up until that point, but I couldn't take that chance.
I knew what I needed to do, and I did exactly that by winning the first competition I actually tried in.

My goal, of course, was to get Klaus out.
But I needed to choose someone to sit next to him.
Kam was the perfect person for that, for two simple reasons:
1. She is very sweet, likable, and unthreatening, therefore very unlikely to get eviction votes.
2. She is very close with Klaus.

I also won the POV, campaigned to everyone to vote him out, and overall I would say I executed my plan perfectly that week.

But OF COURSE, just when I thought I finally got rid of the biggest threat in the game, Arisa had to throw another wrench into my plan lol

THE BATTLEBACK
As soon as I saw that the comp was endurance, I knew that Klaus was coming back into the game, and I had to accept that.
I couldn't stay up for 24 hours straight, but I worked hard enough to earn an immunity necklace.
I knew I needed it because I was aware of how good Klaus was at competitions.
Ariana was going for the next HOH, so I knew that at least 2 weeks of safety was guaranteed for me.

Week 9
Not a lot happened that week.
I voted to evict Barney, but because of the two items that were used, Bea ended up getting evicted.

Week 10
This is when my immunity necklace came in handy.
Klaus ended up winning the HOH, and the hours I spent in mindlessly posting non-stop paid off.
I decided not to participate in the POV, as I was immune already.

The First Double Eviction
This is when things started becoming crazy lol

The first part of the double eviction was... rough for me to say the least.
I had been working on communicating with Rose and getting her on my side, but that effort clearly didn't pay off that round.
It was enough to keep me safe, but I couldn't protect Ariana and Peter.
As Ariana and I were suspecting, Rose sided with the other side of the house after coming back, and that resulted in two of my closest allies sitting on the block next to each other.
Ariana was my best friend in the house so I could not vote to evict her.
However, because Peter quit, both of them ended up getting evicted.
This was TERRIBLE for my game, and I needed to make a move to turn my game around because after Daniele, Ariana, and Peter were all evicted, I knew I was the next target from our side.

The second part of the first double eviction 
This is when I made the defining move of my game.
I won the HOH that I needed so badly.
Rose just won the previous HOH and evicted my closest ally/best friend in the house.
That HURT. On a game level, on a personal level, on an emotional level, on EVERY level.
I knew that Ariana was SCREAMING somewhere in the jury house and telling me to target Rose.
Was revenge tempting? Yes. Did I consider targeting Rose? Yes. 
But ultimately, I decided not to do that.
Why? Because I'm not an emotional player.
I don't let emotions and feelings dictate my game decisions, and I am my own person.

Although it was clear that Rose was siding with Klaus and his crew, I also knew that it wasn't rock-solid.
Klaus was the person who put her up and evicted her in the first place.
So I proposed a final 2 deal with Rose, tempting her with safety, and I tried to turn her against Klaus.

I repeated my nominees from my previous HOH to evict Klaus, and I also won the POV.

When I won the POV, Klaus told me to use the POV and backdoor Rose in exchange for safety.
But I'm not dumb, so I didn't listen to that.
I weighed up all the pros and cons of not targeting Rose, and my rationale behind it was this:

Even if Klaus was being truthful, he was still more loyal to Kam, David, and Barney over me, while Rose was vulnerable after missing 4 rounds of gameplay and then coming back. She did not have any solid allies in the game.
Even if Klaus honored that deal, I would've placed 5th after they evicted Shelli and Patrick.
I was not playing to place 5th, I came here to WIN.
If I align myself with Rose and evict Klaus, I could possibly earn an actual ally and a shield who's insanely good at comps, who would have my back, who would distract others from me AND I ALSO get to evict the biggest threat in the house. 
Also, if Klaus gets evicted, Rose would have no choice but to work with me since she still needs an ally in this game.
It was a no brainer. 
I didn't come here to play it safe, I came here to make BIG MOVES.
So I took a gamble, rolled the dice, and that risk clearly paid off as I imagined in my head.

After Daniele, Ariana, and Peter got evicted back to back to back, I needed to flip the script.
And that's exactly what I did to change my destiny in this game.

Week 13
This is when it became crystal clear that my decision to keep Rose safe and evict Klaus was the right decision for my game.
Rose didn't win the HOH, but she won the POV.
I wanted Barney to get evicted over Patrick because I was much closer with Patrick.
I convinced Rose to vote out Barney, and by doing this she proved her loyalty to me.
She already betrayed the other side by doing this, and there was no going back anymore.
I also used my social game with Shelli to my advantage, and I managed to evict my target this round despite not winning the HOH nor the POV.

The Second Double Eviction
This just took place yesterday, so I still remember everything vividly lol

I won the first HOH, and put up Kam and David.
I put up Kam, because I'd already put her up twice at that point, and David because he was playing an amazing game.
My campaign to evict him fell short that round.
But in the next round, I once again managed to do that anyway.

Shelli won the HOH, and then Rose won the POV.
I was in danger of getting put up as the replacement nom.
First, I had to convince Shelli to keep me off the block by promising her that I would vote to evict Patrick, even though I had absolutely no intention of sticking to that promise as it would've made no sense for my game.
Second, after Shelli nominated David over me, I had to convince Rose to vote out David, who had a great relationship with her from the beginning of this game.
Once again, I succeeded in evicting exactly who I wanted to evict, purely by manipulation, without winning a competition.

The Final Round
Patrick was the deciding vote to keep me over Rose.
I've maintained a great relationship with Patrick throughout the season, and that is what ended up securing my spot in the final 3.
Had this been David who had the deciding vote, I probably wouldn't have survived.
But my effort to save Patrick yesterday, even going as far as to use lies and deception as tactics to do so, clearly paid off.
My social & strategic game is what made the difference in the end.

Conclusion
I genuinely believe that I played the best game this season. 
I can confidently say that, truly.

In the first half of the game (week 1-7), I was completely under-the-radar, threw every single competition, and blended into the background.
That was fully intentional as that was my plan going into the season, all along.
I worked really hard on my social game, and my primary focus was to talk to every one of you and have a relationship with every one of you so that when the house dynamic changes, I can align myself with anyone in the game depending on what benefits me.

In the second half of the game (week 8-16), I revved up my engine, I started winning competitions, and I started playing more aggressively.
I had to lie, I had to deceive, I had to pit people against each other. Every single move that I made in this game was fully calculated to maximize my chance of winning this game.

I won competitions, I took out my enemy when I needed to, I cried, I laughed, I lied, I socialized, I deceived, I stayed up, I did EVERY LITTLE THING that I could do in this game to WIN. Because that's what I came here to do.
And I truly believe that my journey embodies the ultimate BB experience as I've done EVERYTHING.

And even when you look at our track records, I think it's clear that I'm the one who deserves to win.
I won 3 HOHs, 2 POVs, and I was never even nominated as an individual until the very end.
The only 2 times I was nominated were when I was nominated by Riku as Team Red, only because of what Hailey did, and in the final 4 just because I lost a competition.
Other than that, I was NEVER nominated as an individual.
From week 3 to week 15, I was not nominated for 13 WEEKS STRAIGHT.
13 WEEKS IN A ROW. SAFE. I was never nominated. Think about that.
That's longer than anyone has ever stayed safe in this game.

And in this entire game, I have received ZERO votes, 0 votes to evict.
Not only was I never in danger of going home, I never even received a vote to evict, despite getting exposed in week 7.
And that wasn't even the only obstacle that I had to face to survive, I had to endure being in a team with Hailey, got nominated just because of it, evicted the biggest threat in the house only for him to come right back in...
There were so many obstacles that I had to face, and I STILL PREVAILED.
I worked my ass off to get here, and I truly, genuinely believe that I deserve to win this game.

I also love this game so much, both as a viewer and a player.
I have so much love for Big Brother and Big Brother Quarantine.
If I win this season, I would be a great representation of what a BBQ winner should be.
I would promote this game, talk about this game, help Arisa and Cent in any way that I can, I will do everything I can to help this game gain more popularity.

Jurors, I love y'all so much, and please vote for me 
I would appreciate every single vote that I get.