Braden

[Julie Chen]

Braden, 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, Braden, and the Final 2.

[Braden Bacha]

Congratulations to the both of you for making it to the end of the game. I blame myself for not really giving it my all in the end, because I think had I tried I would have made it past the week I was nominated and sent out the door. In my opinion, this F2 of you, Chima, and you, Michele is bittersweet. Chima deserves to be here because she played all game. I don’t think she ever took a break. Michele, you on the other hand just sat around and let luck play out. I don’t see how that deserves a vote to win. So Michele, you need to tell me why you deserve my vote. Why should I vote for you over Chima? Right now, even though Chima and I were enemies in the later part of the game, I still feel that she deserves the victory over you. So Michele, please explain why you deserve to win over Chima.

Also, Michele, had you won the Final Head of Household, would you have taken Chima or Ronnie to the end with you? This is something I was curious about. After the Jurors had learned that you won Part 1 of the Final HOH, it crossed my mind that you’d finally step it up at the end and take it all. So would you have taken Chima, who had won a good deal of competitions, or Ronnie, who played a similar game to you, but actually played the game and had good strategy in playing week to week. Chima, I don’t have many questions for you, but I’d like to know what you think of Michele’s game. Why did you decide to bring her to the end over someone like Ronnie, who actually had merit? Did you just want an easy win, so that’s why you took Michele to the end? Please explain your reasoning as to why.

[Chima Simone]

Hey, Braden! I don’t think Michele played a UTR game at all. I don’t know if she’s been saying that or not, but I don’t think she has. When I think of Michele’s game, I think of her playing INV, invisible. The rounds where she was unable to play in competitions and vote, I don’t think she ever even sent me a message or anything The week I was Head of Household, she never even messaged me to see where my head was at. It was almost like she expected to not go up, and that’s what rubbed me the wrong way. However, when I make a bond and an alliance with someone, I stay true to it. I aligned with Michele after Jeff left, because I felt I could trust her over Ronnie. Ronnie was doing his whole running back and forth thing, and I couldn’t trust him at all to want to align with him. So, Michele was pretty much my last option seeing as I couldn’t align with you or Jordan, obviously, because you two were 100% together.

The crappy thing about aligning with Michele was that she couldn’t do anything at the time we aligned. However, I had faith that when her penalties lifted, she’d be able to really play and try to win after being unable to for such a long time. As I said, I could not align with Ronnie. I didn’t trust him. The week after Jeff left, he told me that I could trust him because he was trying to make sure that it was all the Brains left in the game, instead of the Gagulars. While that happened, it wasn’t him who made that happen entirely, I did that too. But in every round of the game up until that point, he had said he’d do something, and then did the opposite. That’s why I couldn’t take him to the end. As for the whole “easy win” thing, that’s not why I took Michele. I took Michele to the end because I told her she was my F2, and I made that deal with her and I planned to stick by it, no matter what. I keep my word, Braden; I never broke a promise.

[Michele Noonan]

Hey Braden! I understand that when you see a player, no competitions under her belt, you see that as not playing the game, however I did describe my game play in Laura's question, everything I did to stay in the beginning, including my reasons of not reacting to a lot of the drama in the house, I do fight when I need to, not with words, but with wins. After I gave up my powers in that veto I never got nominated again, I knew that by giving those things up I could use my disadvantage to my advantage to a point, but I never knew I'd keep me off the block that long. One thing I always did while on the block was PM anyone I knew I had a chance to stay with and give reasons as to why I was the better player to keep around. I think I sent you at least one PM, but never got a response back, so that's why all convo ceased between us. I don't think I slid by accidentally, I think I assessed the situations each week, I knew how to market myself to the eviction voters, and by the middle of the game I looked harmless. Had it been an all popular vs Michele final 4 you would have seen a little more challenge power, I think I had MAYBE a 40% chance of convincing Laura that we'd need each other the following week, but honestly I know with that final 4, I'd need to win things. I didn't leave things up to chance, I had a back up plan each time I felt I was in danger, it's just my danger feeling slowly diminished each week. Is what I did really just constitute as sliding by? Or was that just the bit of luck everyone has to have to win? Did Lisa do anything to stay over Eric in season 3? What did Dick do in season 8 to outlast Dustin? Even in this game, did Chima survive against Jeff because she campaigned, or because y'all wanted Jeff out? If I wasn't nominated or wasn't going home should I have done anything? Matt Hoffman, Mike Dutz, Ronnie Talbott are all fine examples who made huge power moves when they weren't really that in danger in there respective seasons, I played when I needed to stay, looked innocent when I was no longer a target.

Now onto why I deserve to win. I survived 5 nominations, 2 of which I campaigned for in the beginning, 1 I was vetoed, 2 of which I felt safe in the end I feel it's the way I played my cards up to that point. I gave up all of my bargaining chips to form alliances, including my ability to win HOH, and vote, those are two things which allies need and look for in others when aligning, and I feel I could have been evicted the week Casey left had I not been speaking with Jeff. I had nothing to give him, I just spoke with him some, and he kept me over Casey with his coup even with slim pickings. I came into this game alone and I went from most nominated to final 2, people kept me because I didn't look like a threat, however, it was because I didn't make myself look threatening that they thought that. I believe I did the best with what I had, in my position, the cards I was given, overplaying would have ended my game pretty fast.

Now onto Ronnie vs Chima. I could pretty much read that Chima was taking me to finals, as I said before, I can get a feel when I'm in danger, and the only way I felt in danger was Ronnie and Chima winning 1&2 and taking each other through a new deal, so I won part one to ensure that didn't happen. Had I won the final HOH, I would have taken Chima not nesasarily on the deal, but on the fact that Ronnie didn't alienate any of the jury. Against Chima I feel there were at least 3 less people she had some sort of good connection with, and perhaps the jury would feel she only started to win the important challenges when they all became memory based instead of posting based. Chima didn't face the block as much as I did, nor did she succeed at not fighting with the populars, votes I would possible get over Chima, I don't think I would have had a chance to get over Ronnie, I even described him as the perfect candidate to win in my diary room. My reasoning for keeping Chima is leverage and the field of voters. Presidential candidates don't have to fight for there own party, but the moderates, Ronnie would have had more of the moderate votes than Chima from what I saw.

I do want you to know however that I did play this game, it may have been a quiet game, but I was a participant, I was given (and I took) unusual circumstances different from other players, but I still persevered despite my downsides. Hopefully I've shown you that through my answers