Post-Eviction Questions

[Brett]

Thanks for playing, Matt. We really appreciated having you here and are happy to have you on the Jury. As one of the more active players I enjoyed watching you play and hope you stick around to see things go down in real-time. With that being said, I have some questions to ask you about the game.

1. What was the biggest mistake you made? What was the smartest move you made?

2. Over time, you turned into a player that appeared non-threatening to the other players. Was this accurate? If so, was this what you were going for as a player?

3. Do you think you being nominated so many times hurt your gameplay? If so, how?

4. Who do you think has the best chance to win this game? How about the worst chance?

5. If you could do it all over again, what is one thing you would do differently?

I look forward to reading your responses!

[Deleted]

I have taken note of the questions and I will get to them (and my last DRs) when I have some time to think about it and give some good answers.

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Ok. It took awhile but here is my final DRs and my post-Eviction questions

So I am still in the game, woooo!!!!!!! However, we really need to get a vet out so either myself or Joner need to win HoH. I want to make the move and become a more aggressive player but it is hard to do that as people's go to nominee who doesn't have any power and I hope that this week, I can change that.

So neither myself or Joner won the HoH. I am hearing from a few people that Dereck won the HoH. I have a decent relationship with him but I am still very uncertain about nominations. Given how frequently I am nominated, I could see someone thinking, "hey I don't want blood on my hands. Matt doesn't care if he is nominated. I might nominate him".

So nominations are in and I take my place in my nomination chair (the one on the left is my chair if you were wondering). I am a little surprised that Dereck nominated me but not that much as I am an easy person to put up as a pawn. Frankly, me being nominated is a fact of life. Just like Lisa Whelchel crying on "Survivor: Philippines". Get it? Because her show was the "Facts of Life".

After my nomination, Christian approaches me and says he is willing to veto me should he win the PoV. While I am extremely thankful for this, I am slightly cautious of his motives. He probably wants to curry favour with me, to have an ally on his side when we get down to the nitty-gritty but I am not going to pay him back. If I reach a point in the game where it is to my benefit to evict him, I will gladly take the shot.

The PoV comp was pretty easy and I thought I had won it. However I am surprised that I didn't, I know I got the answer right but someone must have beaten me to the punch. I checked up with Christian and he also didn't win it, so am certain that am not getting vetoed. So it looks like I am still nominated and just like Baylor Wilson, I am in a sticky situation. Get it? Like her song.

After the Veto Ceremony, I took it pretty easy. Given my record, I believed that the house would save me again and I didn't want to rock the boat. That is before Dereck says to me

You're an awesome guy, Matt. I hope that no matter what happens, we all find a way to stay in contact. I wish you the best.

When I hear that, alarm bells are going off, ding-ding-ding. I realise I need to make a big move right here, right now if I want a chance to survive this vote.

It's 5 votes with 3 to evict. I know that Cody and Jake are probably going to evict me. As a part of a potential vets alliance, they will vote which way Derek wants and judging from that message, Derek want me out. My only path of surviving this vote, is getting the 3 newbies (Joner, Christian, Bryson) to vote to keep me. It might be a long shot but it is the only way I am staying in the game.

So I come up with an arousing speech to unite Joner, Christan, Bryson and myself against the vets. That gives them a reason to keep me. I am actually very happy with it, so can I say it verbatim right now? Nope that wasn't a question, here we go.

Look, here is the thing guys. As it stands right now of the vets is winning this thing. They have been in the dominate position in this game since their reveal a few weeks ago and they have beeen pretty much picking us off one-by-one and that is pretty much set to continue should unless we work together.

We need to team up together. We need get some power. We need to them out. If we don't do that, we are lying down to a vet winner. 

I know that I am on the block against a fellow newbie in Gabe. I think that I am better for that purpose but that is probabily a very biased opinion. I know I got the fight in this game and frankily my current goal in this game is to not even win myself but to get one of us to that win.

Frankly, I don't know what is happening in this eviction and if you guys choose to evict me, that is fine but if you evict me, you are evicting a loyal solder who is willing to do anything to advance our foursome. I don't know what Gabe is bringing to the table but sometimes it seams like he is a number for their side. He voted out Van over a personal thing over his strategic interests which would have been evicting Jake a few weeks back.

All that is left to ask is who is willing to stand together and fight together and make it to the F4 together?

After this, I talk to Bryson and Christian and they are semi-interested in voting my way. Bryson was a little reluctant to make the move unless the votes were there and his vote would have been the 3rd that I need. I don't know if they have already voted and if so, if they could change their vote but with my life on the line, that was my only move. If this goes my way, put me on HGTV because I flipped this house. Get it because of all of the house flipping shows on HGTV. You renovation show obsessed people out there get me. I am on fire with these jokes this week.

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1. The biggest mistake was that I was too passive of a player for too long. I was waiting to win that HoH to come out of my shell more as an aggressive player. I think part of the reason for my reluctance to make a move is the secret HoH twist, as I was reluctant to make a move not knowing who was in power and hence who could nominate and evict me.

I think my smartest move was to simply to play the social game and be a constant and polite presence in the house. I would touch based with most if not all of the HouseGuest prior to eviction (both when I was nominated and when I was a voter), I would add input in any house discussion that would come up and I would just talk with other if they wanted to have a chat. While those are simple things to do, I do think that was part of the reason (in combination with my non-threatening gameplay) that resulted in me getting this far. But I also think as the game went on, it resulted in me becoming a target. In addition to that, I believe I also made some smart buys in the Gift Shop, being that week where I bought Immunity when I had exams in the real world and the PoV advantage the week where I won the PoV.

2. That was the intention. Given my constant nomination, I wanted to play a passive game to avoid being labeled a threat. The intention was that if I would have landed into power or if the opportunity allowed itself, I would have begun to play a more aggressive game beginning with targeting a big threat in the house (like one of the vets).

3. I think it did hurt my game. I think if people wanted to use a pawn, they would use me as I had already been nominated and wouldn't be as pissed off about it as opposed to another person. Then it would only take an eviction vote to not go my way to land myself here, with you tonight.

4. I think Dereck will win. He has played a very strong social game, touching base with everyone and having fun little discussions about Survivor and BB. While I found that tactic a little transparent, I also was drawn into it and deffinatily got closer to him because of the move. I think it has worked in getting him this fair and I am willing to award such behaviour as a member of the Jury.

Gabe defiantly has the worst chance. Given his lack of anythingness from him, I find it extremely unlikely that any Jury would award him the prize.

5. There is nothing I would do differently but I would change the timing of one thing. I would have talked to Christian's and Bryson's vote earlier. I did it literally 30 minutes before eviction and I believe it didn't work as a result of it being too late for them to change their vote. I believe, I had successfully changed their mind and if I had said my big speech earlier, I would still be in that house (as they would be able to inform the hosts of their changed vote).