Originally Posted by Jay.

My Statement

Okay, so I’m just going to start writing this and say whatever comes into my head I have no idea how long it’s going to be or if it’s even that good but here goes;

I had never really seen a full episode of BBUS/BBCAN before starting the game. Liam and Luke taught me the rules before it started. But I still didn’t understand it. It therefore took me a while to get to grips with how things worked, which is possibly why my ‘big moves’ of getting Luke and Tom evicted, will probably not work in my favour. Although, I think I’ve done really well in the game, for someone who became a fan of the BBUS/BBCAN format, after playing it.

Throughout the game my main loyalty has been with Liam (Lostie) we’ve worked together really well throughout the game, leading us to becoming the final 2. We also worked closely with the other Liam at the beginning of the game, before he was taken from us </3 We strategized really well throughout the game, working out who was working together, who to vote out and we even took turns in deciding which of us should try to become HoH. I don’t think I’d have got as far as I did, without Liam. We trusted each other and our final 2 deal worked well. Thank you Liam :flutter: And for his first game, he’s done really, really well!

Other than the alliance with Liam, I also worked with Tom and Lucas (with Liam). Tom made a forum and we spoke about our strategies etc. within it. But it wasn’t used very much. As I’ve already said, my main alliance was always with Liam. Myself and Liam used this to see what others were doing in the game and it worked well in our favour. It also meant, if one of them were to put us up, we could stop it. For example, at one point in the game I managed to stop Tom putting up Liam :laugh: so it did indeed work well in our favour.

I also had an alliance with Luke. But I heard from Liam that he planned to get rid of me, which is what informed my decision to vote for him. Which has me thinking that, perhaps, I got a little bit too into the game, voting out my friends etc. But, at the end of the day, it is just a game, not the end of the world. But still, I do feel really bad about it. Although, I think, given the chance, Luke could have easily done that to me. He understands the game really well and played quite a good game! We did have a final 2 deal, but as I’m aware this game is about backstabbing and game play, I decided that my only real final 2 deal would be with Liam. I felt really, really bad for this. Maybe I shouldn’t have done it, because I was wayy too into the game.

Although, I have made some bad moves, like being the reason Tom, Luke and Josh were eliminated. I do feel bad for this, all three of them were really good players, but myself and Liam decided that they were both threats and could easily have won. They could have easily done that to me, but I believe myself and Liam remained strong and we were able to influence other players.

Probably the worst point in the game for me, was when myself and Liam (not Lostie) were both put up by the DPoV twist. It could have been either of us leaving, at such an early point in the game. It split our alliance in half and meant that myself and Liam had to work a lot harder now.

Overall, I think anyone of us deserved to win and hope that none of you take any of my decisions made in this game personal. I know it’s easy for me to say that without being in your position, but no hard feelings, I hope! We’ve all tried to get each other out at some point, it would have been boring if we weren’t able to mix it up a bit. I’d personally vote for Liam at this point, but it’s up to you all. I’m not saying this because I don’t want to look like a sore loser or anything, he’s worked really well for his forum forum game and he deserves it! I really wouldn’t mind either of us winning, we worked so well together. I’d also like to thank Jack for being such a great host, the games been so full on and I got so into it, perhaps a little bit too into it :laugh: but thank you so much! It’s been so tense at times, but I’m so proud of how far I’ve got in the game. And if anything good has come of me playing this game, it’s that It lead me to watch BBCAN, and I love it :flutter:

ok bye now because this is probably really long erm

Originally Posted by Lostie!

A big thing that I knew I wanted to be an aspect of my game going into Elimination was that I wanted to have one solid alliance that I'd keep my word to for as long as I remained in the game, as opposed to instantly making alliances with everyone and keeping / breaking my word when it suited me. I'm happy that I was successful in this, forming an alliance with Jay and Liam very early that remained my one true alliance for the duration of the game.
Another “alliance” I'd been involved with sometime after Liam's eviction was a four-person group with Jay, Lucas and Tom. However, I never truly felt that I was fully integrated into this alliance, which was confirmed to me when I found out Tom was intending to nominate me, something which Jay managed to prevent by convincing Tom otherwise. After this, Tom became my main target until he was evicted.
I never approached anybody else for an alliance because I didn't want to approach another player with the specific intention of using and betraying them. However, I of course remained open to “accepting” offers made to be by others, as denying them would only make myself their number one target. This happened when Jersey (my main target in the game at that point, simply due to how big a threat I saw him as) approached me for a Final 2 deal shortly after Luke's eviction. I accepted the deal, while really intending to keep loyal to my Final 2 deal with Jay, but decided that not targeting Jersey at this point would be beneficial after realising that Lucas and Iceman were very likely working closely together and, for the benefit of me and Jay, needed to be separated. Another bonus of keeping Jersey around would be that, if Jay happened to be evicted, I'd have another Final 2 ally to fall back on (providing Jersey intended to remain true to the deal).
During the week that I intended to get Lucas evicted, I nominated Jersey alongside him simply because I didn't want to nominate both Lucas and Iceman together and risk exposing my hopes to split them up.
My desire to stay completely loyal to my true allies put me in difficult positions at times, mainly because I've been friends with various members of the cast prior to the game, not all of whom worked together. At one point, during a discussion with Luke (who I have a very good friendship with away from this game), I learned that he was intending to target Jay at some point. Because Jay was my one real ally at this point, I told him this, just as he did when Tom planned to target me, so he could make an informed decision on who to trust / not trust. Luke later found out that I'd told Jay, and I was forced to lie about when I actually did in an effort to hide our alliance. That week, me and Luke were both nominated, so I told Luke that I only told Jay after nominations in an attempt to win his support and survive, because the fact that we were working together would likely be exposed if I admitted that I told him before nominations took place. I regret that this happened because I genuinely value Luke's friendship, but I wanted to play the game with loyalty to my alliance and not being compromised by personal feelings from outside of the game.
A similar incident happened when I nominated Daniel, an existing friend here, when I first became HoH. My nomination was based on two factors (I was unsure if nominating an un-banned player instead was exactly fair), and as we hadn't formed an alliance within the game, I assumed he was working with others and knew he'd be a big threat in the game, along with Germyle who was my second nomination.
I hope I played a fair game, and definitely tried to be as fair as possible throughout the experience.