Zach's OS

[Zach]

Heyloooo everyone! 

First off just want to say thanks to the hosts n’ stuff for making this a tip top game. I’ve had a blast and I’m sure many of you have as well. This game has been going on for close to 2 months so for it to come to an end now is sorta unbelievable. Of course thank you jury members because quite obviously without you this game would not have happened the way it did. I’m just really glad I made it as far as I did and I’m appreciative to everyone who got me this far.  

I’m going to TRY to keep this short even though brevity is not my strong suit. I’m sure you will address whatever you want me to talk about further in your jury questions.  

I came into this game with the simple goal of being the nice guy. I didn’t want to be seen as a big strategic threat, I didn’t want to be the competition beast, and I didn’t want to be the social g.oddess. I didn’t want to be perceived as any of these things because, once you are, generally you are in a LOT of trouble. Perception IS reality in ORGs, and regardless of how you actually are people makes assumptions based on how you act. I consider myself to be PRETTY good at those 3 phases of the game (physical, strategic, social) but I’m not ABSOLUTELY AMAZING at any of them. I’m a jack of all trades and a master of none.  

I think that kind of build is perfect for Big Brother. I was able to make my social bonds and get close to people, but I wasn’t generally seen as a social threat until pretty late into the game. I’ve been pretty laid back and just tried to rely on my social bonds to take me far into this game. The start of it saw me in 2 alliances, one with Michael and Vanessa and the other with Gerry, Kevin, and Audrey. The latter one never went off the ground because Gerry and Audrey were targeted REALLY quickly out of the gate, and even though that happened I was able to fall back on my relationship with Michael and Vanessa. Then I was seen as being associated with #TeamCanada with my Canadian clique and I was a part of the Frozen 5 with Aisha, Jackie, Vanessa, and Michael. Not to mention I tried my best to keep up individual social bonds, the closest of which was with Aisha. I fulfilled my nice guy role with always being FAIRLY legit with people when I spoke. Rarely did I lie unless it was for extreme game reasons (like when I lied to Pilar about the alliance existing). At the start of the game I tried to cover a lot of ground with the nice guy role by hosting games of Mafia and CAH, making me visible enough so people wouldn’t think I was inactive but wouldn’t be enough to classify me as a social threat.  

Physically I held back a LOT at the beginning. I’d like to think I am pretty good at challenges, but the start of this game did not feature a lot of effort on my part in order to avoid unnecessary visibility. I won 1 PoV for fairly frivolous reasons but that was really it. When I COULD, I tried to throw challenges. HOWEVER, when I needed to win I competed and did well. I won the final 2 HoHs to tie me for the most HoH wins in the game with Penny, Aisha, and Kevin. We also can’t forget about my hilarious win by default PoV which got me off the block when Penny was HoH when I was most certainly the target. When I wasn’t throwing I was definitely a competitor.  

Finally, strategically I did exactly what I needed to do. I consider myself a gamebot by mentality but not in execution. I knew what course of action I needed to take in this game but I always tried to take the safest route to avoid unnecessarily pissing anyone off. This lasted for basically the entire game except for the Vanessa and Michael evictions. The Vanessa eviction I voted her out because I wanted to try and assimilate with the rest of the people in the game and get off what APPEARED to be a sinking ship. The Michael eliminated was pretty much because I thought he was the bigger threat to win out of him and Penny, and it seemed stupid to take him to the end in that case especially after not being totally sure he’d bring me and after he voted to evict Aisha. I think my best “move” was getting Pilar to vote to evict Charlotte over me, because I was surely toast without her.  

So those are my big social, physical, and strategic arguments. I think you need to do well in all these phases in order to win a game. I feel like I’ve done that. I avoided being an obvious target after the prom stuff, I avoided being evicted after the collapse of the frozen 5, and I was able to avoid being evicted at F4 or F3 by winning when it mattered. All of this was done while trying to maintain good relationships with just about everyone on the jury, and I’m HOPING it was enough to get enough of your votes at the end here. I feel like I’ve done just about as well if not better than Penny in these phases of the game, and for that I feel like I deserve your vote.  

Best of luck to Penny, and best of luck to your jurors for making this ever important decision. I’ll surely be here to answer any and all questions!