Week 01

[kaysar]

The biggest surprise for me has been the lack of twist announcement to this point. The game has started, and there are still 19 other people who we need to regularly contact. It's a lot of work, although it's made easier since a few people haven't been on AIM from what I can see. I'm also noticing about 5 people seem to just leave their AIM on mobile and don't respond to messages. Once I've made contact with everyone, I'll post a summary of each person and my thoughts on them.

Being social is even more critical because there's a HoH competition with answers that can be gathered from getting to know the rest of the cast. There's some luck involved, and it's not the type of competition I usually do great at. The good thing is there are a few inactives around who would likely go up assuming I've had one or two conversations with the HoH winner, so I feel a little secure now but still need to establish more safety.

[kaysar]

So now we have two houses. I'm honestly relieved. I can handle talking to ten people easily and have great personalized discussions without having to balance an overwhelming number of conversation tabs.

The three people who I connected the best with were Heaven, Kenny, and Michelle. I'm especially happy that Kenny won HoH because I distinctly remember talking to him over an hour about some different book series and television series we were most interested in reading and watching.

Alison and Hayley are our two inactives who hardly anyone has seen online to this point. Kenny will almost definitely nominate these players for eviction. They're our two easy votes.

That leaves Allison, Keith, and Nick who I need to work to improve my relationships with. My first conversation with Keith was underwhelming, and he hasn't replied the second two times I tried to talk to him. Allison seems to be a mobile user, and I have to absolutely force conversation with her. She'll respond saying "Yeah" and "I agree" to almost every message. It's possible that Nick has potential, but we haven't really been online at the same time.

[kaysar]

Kenny brought up how my name's been mentioned to him as a possible nomination. I'm not entirely surprised by this as I did have a slow social start to the game. Part of the problem is that I've only ever played a handful of Big Brother games. In Survivor games, I'm able to establish safety by performing in challenges and talking to the rest of my tribe. Here, I was just out of my element talking to 19 other people without having a specific topic to discuss. I've noticed this pattern in other Big Brother games I've played too where it takes me a few rounds to establish the security I'm used to having.

So Kenny tells me that I'm not going up, and I do trust that he won't put me up. Controlling veto is important to make sure he doesn't have any pressure to backdoor me because Kenny's a player I'd like to work with later in this game.

I feel like I'm a solid social player and will be able to fit in given a few more days time. Now that I know who I'm with in this house, I'll focus specifically on the weak links in the bonds that I have. I have a fair amount of challenge potential too, and in the event I can win HoH, I'll be looking specifically at the people who brought up my name to Kenny as potential nominations.

[kaysar]

I forgot to mention Jeremy before. I feel like he's going to be a very significant player in this game, but our first conversation was underwhelming, so I'm putting more of an effort into talking to him right now. I feel like he'll win competitions and be significant as the game goes on, so I want to stay on his good side.

I'm also having a solid conversation with Keith, and we're comparing notes about the other players. We came to the conclusion that Nick is also mostly inactive and would be another easy vote, too. So I'm starting to feel that being placed in this house will work more to my benefit.

[Rhian Sugden]

WHADDUP' KAYSAAAAR! ❤

[kaysar]

It's been a relatively quiet and easy round. Kenny made the two nominations that he said he was going to make, and these were the two most inactive and least deserving players: Alison and Hayley. Since veto, I had a chance to talk to Hayley. She was a little too enthusiastic to the point of annoyance, but at least she talked to me. I haven't even heard from Alison so unless something changes my vote to evict this round is clear.

I was selected for veto, but I didn't put much of an effort into it. Even if I got put up on the block as a replacement, I feel like I've been social enough to not be evicted. The only person here who I haven't talked much to is Nick, and the general consensus in our house seems to be that Nick will be an early target. He's one of the least active players and hasn't done a great job establishing relationships.

I've been building a good relationship with Keith. For some reason even though I didn't think we initially connected well, he seems to like me a lot and frequently messages me and sends PMs on what different people are saying. The one thing that worries me is that I'm becoming "paired" with him. According to Keith, Kenny now refers to him as "you and Kaysar" thinking of us as two connected players rather than unique players. This is clearly something that Keith has done because I don't think I even said Keith's name to another person. He didn't seem that significant to me at first. But if this is the case, Keith is almost hurting my game, but I won't complain for the moment as long as I have an ally and have good or decent relationships with the rest of the house. It's still early in the game, and there's a lot of time for things to happen.