Jeff

[Julie Chen]

Jeff, you may ask the final 2 your questions here. Once finished, please vote for whom you want to WIN Big Brother Reality 2 in your Diary Room.


The only people allowed to post in here are: Julie, Big Brother, Jeff, and the Final 2.

[Jeff Schroeder]

Thanks, Julie Chen!

First off, congrats to the two of you. Final two is a pretty big deal.

Now let's get down to business.
Chima, you've made a lot of alliances in the house. And you also saw almost all of them get destroyed right in front of you. How does it feel to be the DeathHammer for season 2?

Michele, where the hell were you this whole season? I mean, coming from a floater, you're were like the floater GODDESS. Nominated....what, 4-5 times? Won nothing. How did you manage to pull this off?

[Michele Noonan]

Oct 17, 2010 16:16:40 GMT -6 Jeff Schroeder said:

Michele, where the hell were you this whole season? I mean, coming from a floater, you're were like the floater GODDESS. Nominated....what, 4-5 times? Won nothing. How did you manage to pull this off?

Haha! Thanks Jeff, Not sure if the floater goddess is a good or bad thing, but I think sometimes the floater is used too negatively, used as a synonym for inactivity, I wasn't inactive, I just kept out of the limelight this game as best I could. I spoke to the ones that came to me, and campaigned for votes to stay those times in the beginning when the nominees were finalized.

Now to how did I pull it off, in these games there is a big factor of luck, someone that plays strong one game and wins, could play a weaker game in another and win too. Someone that tries the same game as a past winner may lose as well, not because it's a bad strategy, it just didn't work out for the game played. My biggest advantage in this game was that when I campaigned for votes, I went to the two cliques that actually stayed the longest. My first week I went to my clique & to the populars for votes. I went to two specific groups because I figured that would be how alliances would generally divide in this form of game.

If I was to turn my game play into bullets:

- I kept low in the beginning as to not stick out like a sore thumb, as a lady on the block, there's no way I'd survive eviction if I pulled a Kevin early on.

- My goal each eviction vote was to prove myself either weaker, more helpful to a player's game, or more of a target than my opponent. Basically I feel early on I gave good reasons as to why you should keep me. The latter reason, sentence one, is what I gave during Russell's week, I told a few people that since my vote with Natalie was closer than Russell's to Kevin's vote, I'd have more enemies the next week & be easier to take out.

- I used what I had to make up for what I didn't. And what did I not have? AIM time & the right to vote/compete. If I tried to put myself out there as other people did with calling people out & naming targets I would have gone home fast. I was basically already pre packaged & ready to send to the Fed Ex office for overnight shipping I helped myself out a bit, by keeping a level head when nominated that long, and not making myself a huge target in the challenges I could win.

I apologize for the longwindedness.

[Chima Simone]

Jeff! Boy, I was thinkin’ the same damn thing. Much like Holly from Season 1, a lot of my alliances headed out the door after I made them. I wanted to have Cowboy’s back, and he headed out the door, I wanted to have Casey’s back, and he headed out the door, I wanted to have Lydia’s back, and she got expelled for going inactive, and I wanted to have your back, and you headed out the door. It was fucking ridiculous! I don’t know why that happened to me, but I will say that all the blame laid in the hands of the Gagulars, which is why I had such a dislike for them in this game. They were my enemies in this competition, and it was me versus them in almost every round except the first three. I had them after my allies and me, but I managed to stay here and be here in the Final 2.

The difference between Michele and I is that I played this game .. every. single. week. I didn’t have any periods where I just sat back and had to hope that everything played out in my favor. I had to fight to save myself. Michele can go on and on and try to thoroughly explain whatever game she had, but the fact of the matter is, is that I played this game day in and day out. I don’t need to write 600 paragraphs to try and explain myself, because I think everyone knows how hard I tried to survive and make it to the end. I got to this Final 2 spot because of myself. I won that string of competitions. Michele didn't get here by herself. I gave her this F2 spot, I carried her to this seat. She can't deny the fact that if it weren't for me, she wouldn't be here right now. And that's the truth.