David's Question!

[david]

Well, looks like I get to be the fat girl at the party who starts using the chip dip first....

My dudes, I am so happy for you both. If I couldn't be there, I'd pick you two. Even if you were horrible allies and couldn't beat Joe in the final 4 veto (kidding!). But anyways, keep that in mind and please don't take my questions or vote personally.

James, first of all, how AWESOME was our girl Brenda's jury question the other night?! If I could be bitter, as a tribute to her, I would demand you to post a self-shot of you doing duck lips or something else embarrassing. Anyways, your game, you were a perfectly well rounded player. However, my issue with your game is the social aspect. At times, you came off as gamebotish. I'm not sure if you were playing an alias, or if it's an inherent aspect of doing that, but I feel like I had to carry a lot of our conversations. I still got to know you and had fun talking to you, but did you get to know to me (and everyone else) too? Please tell me 3-5 personal facts about every member of the jury. Ill give you some wiggle room on the importance/specificity of the facts for some people, but you gotta get most of us if you want a shot at my vote.

Dom, we were extremely close. We talked strategy from day 1, but we also got to know each other on a personal level. But, you never gave me any sort of BFF memorabilia, so my vote is still up in the air. Since your case against James rests upon being a superior social and strategic player, can you please explain how these moves were in the fact the best moves for you:
1) Telling Rachel you wanted to vote James. In the original plan, only I had to lie to Rachel and Chima making them think it was 3-2-2. I liked your execution, so both of us took the heat lol, but I just think it could have made you unnecessary enemies (which it somewhat did with Rachel) and made your target larger.
2) Evicting Joe at final 6 if Drew didn't save him. You knew Joe was most loyal to you , but you wanted to go to the final 4 with James/Drew/me, even though they both were more loyal to me.

Again, major congratulations, you both played awesome games. Good luck!

[Dominic Briones]

Hey David! Thanks for the questions...

1) In thinking back, I remember our original plan being for you to be the one to tell Rachel about voting out James. But, from what I remember, it seemed like we might need to do a little more convincing to get Rachel on board. If I remember right (and I admit my memory is hazy, since I don't keep chat logs), we discussed that Rachel would be more willing to vote with us if we had numbers locked stronger than just 3-2-2. Plus, we weren't exactly sure where Jason's vote was going to be that round. It turned out that afterward, our lie wasn't even needed, and I did note in my DR how that probably made me an enemy out of Rachel unnecessarily. However, in retrospect, it did work out in both of our favor, as James was the HoH the next week, and thankful for us sticking our necks out to save him by lying to Rachel. It ended up being what took Rachel out of the game, which was good since she was one of the stronger women who could have done damage against the brolliance.

So yeah, it was definitely a gamble, and one that might have had worse repercussions, but in the end, it's risks like that which can make or break your game. I was fortunate for it to benefit me in the end.

2) I wasn't wanting to evict Joe in the final 6. I wanted James to leave that round. But when James won HoH, I was in a predicament. After hearing pretty strong indication from you and James that you wanted Joe to leave, Drew was going to be my last hope. However, he indicated that he saw Joe as a threat too. Ironically, had Drew been honest with me, we would have realized that we both wanted Joe to stay. However, that was when Drew wanted to split up myself/you/James, so I don't blame him for attempting the move behind everyone's backs. Also, Drew was my 2nd target this round, because I was becoming closer with Daniele, and even had the option of siding with her and Joe to take out either James or Drew. But yeah, since my two targets won challenges, and I was on the block, Daniele leaving was the best outcome for me.

So, in short, I didn't want to go to the final 4 with you/James/Drew. Ideal final 4 for me would have been myself/you/Joe/Daniele.



Lol BFF memorabilia? Hmmmm...

Finally, David, as a final request for your vote, I leave you with this:

From what I perceived, my game was probably the most similar to yours. I think that you were a little more social in the friendship/relationship aspect, I was a little ahead in the physical game with an extra win, and strategically, I think we worked well both together and in our own individual ways. But, in the end, I would venture to say that we had the most similar games when ours are compared to the rest of the cast. With that said, I'm sure you'd be just as eager to receive my vote (and everyone else's) if our roles were reversed. For that reason, I hope that you can give me your vote to win. I know you were equally close (if not closer) to James, after hearing that you leaked certain things to him, so I'm sure he feels he deserves your vote just as much, and perhaps you're already leaning toward voting for him. Regardless, at the end of the day, I ask that you truly do vote for the game you feel deserves the win more!

It's honestly been a pleasure getting to know you in this game.

[James Rhine]

May 15, 2013 14:45:53 GMT -5 david said:

James, first of all, how AWESOME was our girl Brenda's jury question the other night?

I found it hilarious! Brenda was my fav and I was pissed at Dawn for taking her out so it was nice to Brenda get a bit of revenge, albeit in a sick kind of way. I was so pleased that Brenda almost won the fan fav award too!

May 15, 2013 14:45:53 GMT -5 david said:

However, my issue with your game is the social aspect. At times, you came off as gamebotish.

I totally see where you're coming from, David. My social game has always been the weakest part of my game and I guess it comes from my real life as I'm not a very social person and at times difficult to talk to. Normally, a big part of my strategy in games is to align myself with a very social player and that's what I did as I believe that you by far had the best social game.

May 15, 2013 14:45:53 GMT -5 david said:

Please tell me 3-5 personal facts about every member of the jury.

I was dreading this question lol. I'll do my best with answering them. Keep in mind that this is what the jurors told me so whether they were just saying that to not reveal their alias or not, it's not fault of mine.


-Communications major
-Takes Hip Hop Dances classes
-Very studious, aims for Dean's list, hates English papers
-Male, good with kids



-Huge video game nerd (League of Legends)
-From east coast US: Farmville, PA
-Experienced first plane ride on trip to California
-Fav burger is angus burger from Golden Arches lol



-Listens to RuPaul
-Works at a restaurant (had a particularily tough day at work when a guy quit during a very busy shift)
-One of the rare people who has watches The Walking Dead and has read all the comics
-Most like her character as she loves getting nails done, coffee, and shopping ~ Diva:P



-Unfortunately, I didn't speak much with Dani as I'm sure that is the case with alot of people. I did enjoy discussing BB Canada with her though



-Again, didn't get to know Drew very much :/ but from what I remember he is a Chem major



-From Boston
-Senior in college
-Applied for a teacher position for a summer reading program
-Plays way too much Mario Kart with roommate
-The best person in the world who would love to vote for James to win



-Has auditioned for BB many times in the past but hasn't made it past the first round
-From Chicago
-Loves them gifs
-Watches strange European game shows and was Lane in season 1

I hope I answered them good enough for ya. It was tough since I didn't save most chat logs in the game. I would hope you vote for me to win, David. One thing I regret is not talking to Joe before he voted to evict you because who knows he might have changed his mind.

Thanks for the question!