Libra the Scales

[libra]

Shelli Poole Steve



First and foremost, I would like to say congratulations to both of you on making the final two. No matter how bitter or pissed off people are about what transpired, I believe you two are here for a reason. You both manipulated and lasted until the end. . . obviously both of game play (by both of you) was superb enough to make the finale. Every single person this season lied, manipulated, and turned on someone/a group. I will say both of you have the ability to gain my vote as my vote is in the air. I have two questions for both you you, please be detailed as possible. 


My first question/task for you two is: 

Tell me how each juror benefited your game? How did we benefit your game? For example: knowledge, competition beast, etc. Please explain your answer.

My second question for both of you:

How did your gameplay opposite from the person your sitting beside? What is their main flaw? What is their strength? Please explain your answer. 



Thank you, I wish both of you the best of luck. 

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Also, Kathy, I want to thank you for this jury position. You're the best; it was my main goal to make jury as I knew I was NOT Final Two material with this cast. 



Always remember though:

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[Shelli Poole]

Aug 9, 2016 0:27:01 GMT libra said:

First and foremost, I would like to say congratulations to both of you on making the final two. No matter how bitter or pissed off people are about what transpired, I believe you two are here for a reason. You both manipulated and lasted until the end. . . obviously both of game play (by both of you) was superb enough to make the finale. Every single person this season lied, manipulated, and turned on someone/a group. I will say both of you have the ability to gain my vote as my vote is in the air. I have two questions for both you you, please be detailed as possible. 


My first question/task for you two is: 

Tell me how each juror benefited your game? How did we benefit your game? For example: knowledge, competition beast, etc. Please explain your answer.

My second question for both of you:

How did your gameplay opposite from the person your sitting beside? What is their main flaw? What is their strength? Please explain your answer. 

Hi Libra! Congrats on Jury and thanks for the comments! 

To answer your first question in how each juror benefited my game:

 

While we were friendly and talked at first, we never really got into any kind of game/strategy talk or had the chance to work together in the game. To be honest, asking both Becky and I if we would be pawns if you won HOH the week we both missed the voting deadline and couldn't compete in the HOH helped me lol. I say this because Becky wanted you up and was able to suggest it to Naeha the week she put you up next to Arlie. I was concerned I could possibly go up that week so you going up helped me. Also, the week you were voted out, telling me you were going to quit. I realize you took it back but I kind of used that as one of my reasons to vote you out.





Naeha and I never officially worked together but we had a decent relationship and she helped my game by never putting me up. She is also very intelligent and I enjoyed talking to her.





I worked very closely with Liz. She was my girl! <3 She helped me tremendously while she was in the game. She helped by sharing a lot of information with me. I only knew about the Naeha/Kelsey/Becky/Nick alliance because of Liz. She also told me about the Libra/Howard/Liz alliance which is part of the reason (the biggest reason), I wanted you out. She got me into the ESPN alliance. I might've been asked without her, but I'll never know and I give her the credit for that. She also gave me game tips which I believe helped Kelsey do the BotB puzzle so fast and in turn helped get Kelsey and I off the block. AND last but not least, she helped my sanity and helped make the game very fun!





Becky was one of my top allies from the beginning and, before the crumble of BB17, she helped my game a lot. She was able to give me information when Naeha was HOH, as well as helping to influence her nominations at least one of those weeks - when Naeha nominated you and Arlie.





James was also a good ally in the beginning. He really didn't do anything against me or say anything against me until I put him up first. He was HOH twice and didn't put me up either time because of our relationship. 





Kathy was in my ESPN alliance and never nominated me during either of her HOH's. She was also very supportive to me during my Week 8 HOH. She really knew how to talk to people and make them feel she had their best interests at heart. She took James out during her FF HOH, which helped me because I think I would've gone up for sure if he had stayed and won HOH.






Howard was always a very calming person to talk to when we had the chance to talk. We were allies in SLASH and he kept me safe the week he was HOH. 




 

Cassandra was always a warm body to nominate. <3 Okay that's stretching it, I guess but she also provided some comic relief. 







Arlie. I loved talking to Arlie. He just had this odd but witty sense of humor and he was pretty consistent in talking to me every day. He was also fairly honest with me and I don't believe he ever tried to pretend with me. I appreciated that and having someone I knew would always be there to talk to me helped at times the game was overwhelming. I would say he was a "solid" person to have around.







Kelsey helped me SO much! She kicked ass in the BotB and almost single-handedly saved our asses. She kept me safe through both of her HOHs. She was "my person" after Liz left and that helped me get through the second half of the game. She was an amazing friend and ally.

To answer your second question, my game-play differed from Steve's in a few ways:

1. Jury Management - While I don't claim to be the best at this, I didn't go out of my way to make people mad on their way out the door while Steve apparently did this as a strategy.

2. Alliances - I know Steve said he positioned himself well and he obviously did well enough to get to the end. But, I think I was much safer because of the alliances I was in. I was also the one who told him about the two alliances he was in. He may have been friends with some people on the "other side" of the house aka girls, but my ESPN alliance and relationship with Kelsey kept me from even going on the block week 7.

3. Ally - I also think I was a better ally to him than he was to me. He never went up on any of my HOH weeks but I went up on his. I know he didn't put me up himself but he also wanted to be de-throned which would have meant I stayed on the block that week. 

4. Decisions - He let himself be influenced to do something he didn't want to do while he was HOH. I may have not always made perfect decisions but they were my decisions. 

5. Comp Wins - This is being a little picky so I put it close to last. I did win 5 HOH's though which is basically 5 out of 14 rounds where there was no way I was leaving. He did do pretty good with his wins, though. lol

6. RAP ability - I'll let you into Steve's Angels after the game if you want to see how bad I kicked his ass in our Rap Battles!


I think Steve's main strength is humor. I did enjoy talking to him and I think that was definitely due to his ability to tell a story, make a joke (usually bad lol), etc. In the beginning of the game we shared stories with each other which was one of my favorite parts of the game. I can also see that he's touched some other jurors as well. 


I believe Steve's main weakness is insincerity. I've talked about how we were close, then grew apart, then kind of mended that to a point. It was mainly because I couldn't trust him/believe him half the time. I always felt like he would pick & choose what to share and not share with me as an ally - he definitely wasn't open with me. I understand he feels I treated him badly, which kind of hurts that he would say that, but anyway...I got pretty frustrated when he wouldn't share his intentions but would always expect me to tell him mine. And I told him this a few times. 


Thank you for your questions, Libra! 

[Shelli Poole]

(My biggest weakness is run-on sentences and not proof-reading well enough)

[Steve]

 

I don't think you benefited from my game, I mean, let's be honest here. What I took away from yours was that you were a fighter, and I saw you and james reacted in the fight as how the house dynamics were. And I used that going forward. 





I gained position in the house, and also someone I felt close to. (that I screwed over).





I had an ally in her. She was also someone that I just could throw things at and see what stuck. She gained the same thing from me, I would talk to her about a lot of things in the game that I didn't quite know the answers to.





Becky started off at my number one. And I think we both benefitted from hearing each other out, aside from the last week. 





I was in an alliance with this dude. He didn't say much, but he was cool. He helped me by always being a bigger threat to go home than I was, all the while keeping a close on everyone else. 




Howard was my number one pretty much throughout the game, as soon as Becky started to slip, Howard was there to take over. While the events of the week he left is clouded in disappointment. He was my best ally by a thousand miles. I'm only here because of this dude, whenever I would get annoyed and want to rant at people, he would be the one who would calm me down, and he also kept me the most sane in this game. Howard's the man. 



 

Me and her were passive aggressive towards each other, and it wasn't really a secret we would've been okay if the other one went home. For me, I gained someone in the house who I could point a finger at and target, without it coming back and starting some war. 






Arlie had an ally from me, and while I had varying degrees of issues with him, he never really went against the group. With him, I had someone that I knew I could get information from, and get his opinion on what to do whenever I needed it.







She was okay. lojk. She saved my ass a couple of times, and she was a fantastic ally and friend. I can't really say too much more on her, because I've already said it to her multiple, multiple times.

When it comes to a social game, I do think I played a different one. While I had a lot of annoyances with people that was aimed, maybe unjustly, I was fairly consistent in it. Whereas Shelli would be fine with you one moment, and then be annoyed and upset with you the next, and try to make it seem like it was your fault. Which didn't work, it just annoyed me even more. It can hurt her that I felt she didn't treat me as well as everyone else as the weeks went on, that doesn't make it not true. I probably didn't play a game that was incredibly different and amazing from hers. Who knows? I don't. 




Shelli's main strength was her ability to be nice to the people she needed to. How else was she in alliances with her comp scores in the beginning? She was nice and sweet, and genuine. That's an invaluable trait to have in this game, and I respect her for it. Her second biggest strength was her winning comps at the end, while I won the comps I needed to to get me here, so did she, and she did it better. That's not an insult to her, it's a compliment.


Her main weakness was that it often came across that she looked down on other people, although I don't think it was intentional. At least in my opinion and what i've seen. She would have no problem bringing back past issues if she felt it would help her in an argument. She would continuously bring up my week 5 hoh, and follow it with "oh but we're past that" and follow that with "but are we past it?" and follow that with "i don't think we're past it. explain yourself to me again". And she can say she was a better ally than me all she wants, and I do agree with her, she was, just not to me. If her two main driving points was that one week, I needed to be more open with her, communicate with her because that's what an alliance does, and I promise to do that, and then when I would try to do that, oh no, it's a trap, i can't tell him anything. and then waits until after I do something and go "oh well that was stupid. in my opinion, you should have done this". Name one good alliance member who does that? I'm not saying I was better than her at that, I definitely hid stuff from her too, but when we said to be more open with each other, and try to talk things out, I tried.

[Shelli Poole]

I'm pretty sure we're going to need counseling after this, Steve but I think I brought up your dismal Week 5 HOH maybe 3 times and you didn't give me a complete answer until the third which was when I said oh, okay. Thank you for finally answering me.

[Steve]

Okay lol