Hayley's Questions!

[Hayley Luscott]

G'Day Heaven and Keith! This Aussie gurl sincerely congratulates you on making the final two in this crazy game. You two are both extremely strong players both physically and strategically so I'm happy with either of you winning. I also want to thank both of you for choosing to align yourselves with me. I know I wasn't a big help to either of you at all because of my HORRID comp performances and an alliance with me benefited me a HELL of a lot more than in benefited either of you so thank you for that. I wouldn't have gotten so far without either of you <33

As far as my vote.... ugh, I still don't know who I'm going to vote for! I could see reasons for voting for either of you so I'm going to be looking at how you answer my questions and other people's questions before I make up my mind.

Heaven, gurl, you know I love you! We had an alliance since the 3rd round of the game and I loved so much working with someone who was so funny and amazing to talk to! I loved gabbing with you and making fun of moves people were making and also admiring you for how strong you were in comps. You are my favorite person in the game and I hope the friendship was genuine in your part because it definitely was on mine <3. I wouldn't have been so honest with you in our last PM if it wasn't.

While I love you as a person, looking at your gameplay I must say I relate to Keith's game more than yours. Like what Jon said, I can't rely on competitions in games so it's difficult me to respect you winning almost every comp and never being on the block for a final eviction vote. Also... ugh, I'm trying to get over it but I think I'm kind of bitter that you did not take me with you to the finals. I know that it was a game move and I do NOT want to cast my final vote based on being a Bitter Betty but it doesn't change the fact that I was hurt by it.

My Heaven Question!: Do you consider yourself a hero or a villain in this game? Also, please explain why you feel that way.

Keith!! You were also someone I really enjoyed talking to in this game! I liked that you were never afraid to talk strategy with me and ask my opinions about nominations and you were also not afraid to give your own! It was refreshing to me because I felt on the outside a lot during strategy talks. I also thought you had a very fun personality and, although we did not talk THAT much about our personal lives like I did with other people in this game, I still really liked strategizing with you and like I said in my statement to Heaven, I respect your game play (and your opening statement was really good!).

While I do like and respect your game, I also don't really know if you were THAT involved in the dicision making that went on during the game. A lot of times you talked to me about what you wanted to happen in certain rounds and.... usually they never panned out. I also have to take in account my relationship with Heaven is tenfold my relationship with you. She was a lot more social with me and our friendship was a lot more genuine, even though you and I were always on good terms as well.

My Keith Question!: Were there any decisions you made through nominations or veto decisions where you chose to play the "safe" route instead of using your power to get out a stronger player? If so, what were they and why did you make them?

Thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings and good luck you two!

[keith]

Thank you, Hayley <3.

I do feel like I was integral. There was was only one real instance in this game where I said "eh, fuck it" and just voted with the majority. I hope you like to read, because I am going to go through every eviction vote I made. Before I detail this, I do think that there were times where keeping in a stronger player was advantageous to my game (like keeping Memphis at f6), but I by no means qualify that kind of decision as "safe".

Week 1- Alison vs. Hayley
I'm not sure if we ever discussed this, but I have hosted from time to time, and inactives are the worst. This is probably the only instance where I felt like I "went" with the house, but you kind of came onto the scene as a blazing ray of sunshine, and in a pretty dry cast I wanted to keep you undoubtedly.

Week 3- Kenny vs. Kathy
The "safe" decision that week was keeping Kathy. As you and I both know, people were always really wary of Kathy in the game and she never really found her footing. Kathy told me that you were going to keep her, and I went to town on convincing Michelle to vote out Kenny. I outlined this in my opening statement, but Kenny was getting around a lot and whispering in everyone's ear. I knew that these boys wanted me out, and if they wanted to keep Kenny, then Kenny had to go. So I flipped the script.

Week 4- Ryan vs. Allison
Ryan was pretty vocal in his distaste for me, and I spent a hot minute seeing if Kathy would backdoor him. As the trailblazer in eliminating the BND, I do feel like I had a lot to do with Ryan going home.

Week 5- Memphis vs. Benedict
Benedict was absolutely the person in this game who wanted me out the most, as I had publicly lambasted him in the few weeks prior. This was a no brainer and him leaving after Ryan was really perfect for me. At this point in the game, Heaven wasn't the biggest target- it was still me and Kaysar.

Week 6- Kathy vs. Hayley
I really weighed back and forth this week and with this decision. With you, I always thought that you'd be on my side and that you would never really go awol. I had history with Kathy, and she saved my ass a few times, so I did everything I could to try to convince myself that she was the one who needed to go. Kathy was an enigma in this game, which is something you and I discussed, and I think that she was really wary of showing her cards to me. I wanted to trust her and work with her, but she would avoid game talk with me like the plague. I was afraid she'd go against me later in the game.

Week 7- Jon vs. Nick
This is the only time that I went with the group and didn't really let my voice be heard. I spoke to Jon a few times that round, and Nick was playing all sides. If I had won the veto that week, I actually was planning on not throwing it and saving Jon, but alas I wasn't even selected for it. I wasn't on for the next couple of days, and I had no resources to flip the vote to Nick. I'm kind of glad Nick stayed because his performance in Week 8 was legendary.

Week 8- Allison vs. Hayley
This was a no-brainer. While I do think that you were a bigger threat than Allison, you were a pretty big asset to me and Allison is the person I spoke to the least in the game. Our schedules never matched up, unfortunately, and when they did we both had a hard time finding that spark.

Week 9- Memphis vs. Nick
Memphis and I had already made a deal way-back-when and he didn't nominate me at all when Kathy left, even as a replacement, and Nick had woken up and decided that I was his new sworn enemy. This was kind of a no-brainer, and I enjoyed watching Nick torpedo his own game out of his fury toward me <3 ily nick bbf

Week 10- Memphis vs. Lane
Memphis told me that you were going to keep him, and I believed it. I already stated why I kept Memphis, but just to reiterate- I had a better chance of surviving against him if we were nominated together and he had a better chance of beating Heaven in the veto.

In reference to the planning, I don't really put a lot of stock in planning in Big Brother. Things are so dependent on chance and circumstances. But I like the 'planning and plotting' aspect. It's fun and harmless to me. I think toward the end I would just IM you things like "just gotta win one more comp to get out Heaven!" in hopes that you'd tell Heaven. Based on her nomination speech, it seemed as though she took anything I said as evidence for my goathood, and I knew that I needed that in case I never could've beaten her. I'm not sure if that worked or was successful, but I figured it couldn't hurt.

I hope this clears things up. I'm sad that we didn't get to speak as much as you did to Heaven, but I don't feel as though our relationship was void. This game never had blindsides- and the only two that ever happened we were both involved in. It was always refreshing to talk to you because I never had to deal with any sort of bullshit. And, because of you, I now know that there are lifeguards in Wisconsin.

[Heaven Afrika]

Hayls… It was hard for me and you HAVE EVERY REASON to be upset with me. You were the only person in the game that I had a discussed F2 with and when I was presented the opportunity to follow through with it.. I didn't. But there are strategic reasons that played into that decision. Every personal, playful and game convo we had was genuine and real on my part. YOU ARE MY LIL GEORGIA PEACH! You were my closest friend in this game b/c I felt that we could tell each other ANYTHING without fear of others finding out or anything leaking. When we made the deal to goto the end I had every intention of honoring it.. b/c I won't lie, I felt that I could have beaten you in the end when we made it.

But as we went on and the game started drawing closer to the end.. I saw you. I talked to you enough to know that you were a good talker. You were someone that could talk themselves up and do it in a way that would earn you points and props. You are the season's sweetheart and that is something I viewed dangerous in the end with the possibility of bitter jurors. I would hear players talk about you during the game and say that you were never around or they would make comments that would imply you would just do whatever I wanted. But that was NOT the case. You voted opposite me QUITE A FEW times yeah? You were playing your own game. I don't think many peeps gave you the credit you deserved but you WERE playing a good social game.. at least with me.. and I could see you putting yourself over very well here in the F2.

I tried to make the best decisions possible at the end.. that I believed could help me in the end. Taking out Kaysar in the F4 is similar b/c I worked with him too but I saw him as my strongest competitive threat and him in the F3 was a no-no to me just as i saw you as a threat in the F2. I took the opportunities to take out peeps I saw as threats when I needed to.

I would say that being a hero or villain is all based on perspective. I could be very much a villain to you b/c I went back on our F2 at the last possible moment and hurt you. /: But from my own eyes I felt that every move I made was to better myself in the game and I don't think I was ever nasty or vengeful toward anyone in the game. I made EVERYTHING about the game.. about strategy.. about doing what was best for ME and my ALLIES to make it to the end. I backed you up and helped keep you safe, I helped keep Kaysar safe as he did with me, and I even helped protect Keith despite peeps wanting him out repeatedly and him trying to get others to get me out nonstop. I was loyal for the MAJORITY of the game. I don't think I could be classified under either but if I had to pick I guess I would go with hero.

Again I am sorry about my final decision and it hurting you Hayls. Please don't think for a SECOND that it's anything other than me viewing you as an end game threat b/c that was the only reason I didn't take you. Every single thing in this game leading up until then was real. Please know that!

[Hayley Luscott]

Thank you, bootyfuls. And good luck! This blonde bombshell is off to vote!