Erika Rich questions

[erika]

Ok, so hey guys when I first found out who's F2 this season, I seriously thought the decision is going to be easy to everyone and that it's going to be an unanimous vote but here I'm and I'm having so many second thoughts right now.

So Kalia you're saying you have one of the best resumes in the game and that you were a huge threat and I'm calling BS on that. If you really were the social and strategic player you say you were, you should have known that having everyone believe you were their number one ally doesn't make you a threat, it makes you a smart UTR player so when you say you were a threat while sitting next to the person who survived so many shortcomings, it makes me feel like you lack awareness.

Coming into the questioning, I was ready to vote for you and just be done with everything but I've realized I don't like the way you've presented yourself in your speech or the way you've played the game. You said you had everyone believe they were your ally and that basically you were a F2 lock-in no matter what happened and I think that makes you an useless player, you let everyone hold your fate in their hands and while you made it to the end, I feel like you're sitting here and your social game is the only reason why anyone should vote for you. You had no impact on the game and considering you are sitting next to the person who was directly responsible for most of the evictions, your argument to win is piss poor.

And my questions for you are:
a) were you truly a master manipulator? Are Mad Luna, Boogie, Natalie and everyone idiots for trusting you? Or was your loyalty with the girls and you were okay with getting the 2nd place to Natalie just as you were ok with Mad Luna deciding your fate.
b) rank the 9 jury members from least threatening to most threatening to your game.
c) predict which jury member is going to vote for which finalist and why.

And Mad Luna, everyone on the jury was so mad at you letting Kalia slide to the finale. I was especially mad because taking her out was supposed to be my move and you ruined it all but as I think I'm beginning to see how both of you handled the game and I want you to convince everyone you aren't an idiot, everyone thought you were.

You made so many moves in this game and I'm wondering is that because Kalia manipulated you into doing all everything? Or did you know she's going to be get cocky, that she didn't have the people skills Natalie had, that your resume is much stronger than hers and yeah, I need to know whether you dragged Kalia to the end or whether you carried her on your bag. And please don't say you guys were Jason and Danielle, you were either Kalia's owner or you were her bitch. And eh, what else to say? Are you proud that you have everyone's blood on your hands - did you grow so close to Kalia over the course of two months that you were willing to take her to the end despite the fact she had friends on the jury or was that because you could see through her and thought Natalie was a bigger threat? I just really don't know whether I'm reading too much into your moves and overrating you or whether you played the best game so I'm looking forward to seeing the answers.

Good luck to both of you I guess but honestly my winner pick got third so bye.

[Mad Luna]

And Mad Luna, everyone on the jury was so mad at you letting Kalia slide to the finale. I was especially mad because taking her out was supposed to be my move and you ruined it all but as I think I'm beginning to see how both of you handled the game and I want you to convince everyone you aren't an idiot, everyone thought you were.

You made so many moves in this game and I'm wondering is that because Kalia manipulated you into doing all everything? Or did you know she's going to be get cocky, that she didn't have the people skills Natalie had, that your resume is much stronger than hers and yeah, I need to know whether you dragged Kalia to the end or whether you carried her on your bag. And please don't say you guys were Jason and Danielle, you were either Kalia's owner or you were her bitch. And eh, what else to say? Are you proud that you have everyone's blood on your hands - did you grow so close to Kalia over the course of two months that you were willing to take her to the end despite the fact she had friends on the jury or was that because you could see through her and thought Natalie was a bigger threat? I just really don't know whether I'm reading too much into your moves and overrating you or whether you played the best game so I'm looking forward to seeing the answers.

My alliance with Kalia began in the early stages of the game. We both had clicked really well with Boogie and this threesome alliance was born. Overtime we just grew closer and talked every day and realized through many conversations we were both aligned on opposite sides of the house. We agreed to try and pull off a secret alliance, take out each other’s allies, and make it to the end.

I do think that Kalia had the stronger alliance and held it together, but the constant information leak from it always benefited me. After Brolliance fell apart, I truly just ad Kalia to depend on and having Kalia mean I knew everything that was going on in the house. The Final 7 round was huge because I know I needed Natalie or Jun out to have a shot at going far, and still making sure I had Kalia’s upmost loyalty. I was banking on completing my deal I made with her two months ago and also her betrayals she had to commit.

I’m not going to sit here and stroke my own ego about how I played a better game than Kalia. I won more competitions, played a less dirty game and always kept it real. I just think it depends what kind of game you expect.

Thanks Erika, hope it answers your questions!

[kalia]

I think you have my game a little bit confused here. Yes, I was most certainly aligned very closely with a lot of people. However, I never once would categorize my game as UTR. I was always seen as a big threat, and if you categorize my game as UTR, then my game was a complete and utter flop. An under the radar player is capable of sliding through week after week without being seen as a threat. If we had all done a ranking week after week of who was playing the best socially, or strategically, I’m sure I would have ranked high on a lot of lists, just because it was pretty apparent from the beginning of the game that I was.

I don’t think I was a final 2 lock no matter what happened. I’m sure there are some people who I had such close deals with that would have ultimately evicted me in the end because they felt like it would have been the better choice for them in terms of winning the game. I never let other people hold their fate in my hands. I had confidence in my strategic ability and the social ties that I made that I could CONVINCE people of specific things. More specifically, Mad Luna’s head of households and power of veto wins.

If we go back to about the final 6, I would assume most people highly questioned Mad Luna’s decisions going forward. He had an alliance with Jee and Tiffany (which I was very much aware of) and that alliance right there was the logical one to go with. When the final 5 was myself, Natalie, Jee and Tiffany, most people viewed Natalie and I as the “most likeable” or the people who were seen as the biggest “jury threats” and when Mad Luna went and tore that alliance apart for me, I think there’s another misconception there. That was my doing, like I have said before, I am here because of me and my ability to manipulate.

So to answer your first question, yes, I think I was a master manipulator this game. I really did mist a lot of people, and although I did really enjoy getting to know some of them, it just wasn’t logical for me to go with them. Is Mad Luna an idiot for trusting me? Not particularly, but I think a lot of his endgame decisions were questionable if he were here to win. Is Boogie dumb for trusting me? Well, yes, I do think he was. I was never truly loyal. Natalie was not an idiot for trusting me because I was always closest with her, Jun and Meg. However, I was never okay with getting 2nd. I wouldn’t ever make a decision based on pure loyalty and give myself 2nd in a game where I just spent 2 months working my heart out in. I’m sure people understand that. So to answer your last question, no I was not just “okay” with getting 2nd to Natalie, and I was okay with him “deciding my fate” because I was confident in the web I had him in.

Ranking the jury from most threatening to my game to least threatening, most threatening being at the top:

Erika
Tiffany
Natalie
Jun
Jee
Corey
Meg
Frankie
Boogie

I rank the top two because you two were the ones who were more or less able to figure me out quicker than others were, and you were ones who deemed me as threatening to your game and wanted me out at least at some point during this game. The next two (Natalie and Jun) were because of their social abilities as well. They were all likeable, and could perform well enough in competitions. The sole reason Jee isn’t higher was because when he started doing well in competitions, a lot of his allies were gone so he didn’t have the true backing to get much accomplished. Corey and Boogie are low on the list because they were earlier boots and it was hard to judge that off of. Frankie and Meg are low because we were pretty good friends and I didn’t view them as threatening, but more as people that I wanted on my side.

If I had to predict who would vote for who it would go like this:

Erika - Mad Luna
Tiffany - Kalia
Natalie - Kalia
Jun - Kalia
Jee - Mad Luna
Corey - Mad Luna
Meg - Kalia
Frankie - I’m really not 100% sure because of his TRAGIC early eviction.
Boogie - Mad Luna

Thank you for your questions!