Let's get some backstory in here first! About a year and a half ago I played my very first stars and got 2nd, I was happy, my 2nd place is great for a first stars right? WRONG! Shortly after getting 2nd I thought to myself wtf did I even do LOL, I played a crap game. I created a flavor and sheeped Nexuscain the entire game. I felt like I made not a single game move the entire time I was there. I didn't deserve 2nd, hell even the people who got double digits played better games. Which is why I wanted to play again, I owed myself that much to at least try and play again.
Anyways day 1 the game starts off nobody is making a chat in fear of being targeted so after 5-10 mins I decided heck I'll do it and I created the majority alliance, noms were discussed and locked and they went through. Day 2 these same people turned on me LOL and I was thrown into minority, the next couple days my noms don't go through my alliance is getting wrecked. When everyone in the minority got nominated except me and Austino I knew I had to do something or else I was going up on the block so I went and tried to talk to people, a lot of them seemed uninterested LOL except for #QueenMahogany (LOL I Had to say that) anyways I approached Mahogany and we talked for a bit, he asked who I was suggesting he nominate if not myself and I said the obvious thing, the two OC members Sebbers/Rippy. He though about and told me he would get back to me on that, later we talked again and he told me if I can get my minority to lock them in, then they would go up and I did just that. Noms went through, all hell broke loose, people denied flipping on the OC, life was good.
At final 10 things got interesting, the majority alliance that kicked me out day 2 were back together and once again I was back in minority. Me/Amf go up followed by Austino (volunteered)/Albert followed by Me/Rachel, the alliance of 6 was destroying me until it came down to me vs the 6 of them at f7.
This is when the game pissed me off, at f7 you had people who were volunteering to go up against other people within the majority alliance for 2 reasons 1) to make sure I had no power and to ensure I would get nominated every morning day changes (why would people work with me if they are asking to get nommed instead of being backstabbed) and 2) because people were afraid to face certain players in the polls so they created a system to where they would face people of equal popularity.
I'm sorry but when I signed up to play Stars I signed up to PLAY. I didn't come here to abide by some system that people were following, there were people who could have gotten farther had they not volunteered but were so confident in the polls that they decided to volunteer anyways. Nobody even came to me when they were "counters" because the people who were counters were okay with going up, I honestly had no idea what the fuck was happening.
Anyways final 7 Mahogany (volunteers) to face Mac (mac didn't volunteer he was blindsided), thank god Mahogany got evicted for volunteering! Anyways the majority alliance convince Mac he went up because of me and Rachel splitting on him (not true neither of us locked him in) and so Mac hates me and wants me out and locks with them to get me up in the morning.
F6 I go up with Austino (who I think volunteered but denies it) because the way people said how they were nomming didn't add up, it should have been me vs Tyg but it wasn't.
F5 Blackout (Volunteers) against Tyg because blackout thought he wouldn't stand a chance if he was to face me/mac/sebbers in a poll. Once again the majority alliance convinces Tyg that the reasons noms didn't go through were because I locked him in (which I didn't, noms didn't go through because blackout threw his nom to ensure he'd go up)
F4 They all nominate me once again and Mack is blindsided yet again, the majority convinces Mac I nommed him which I didn't once again LOL
Basically the end game what happened was Sebbers/Blackout/Mahogany/Austino were running the majority while Mac and Tyg did what they wanted but had no clue on the volunteering system. Whenever Mac/Tyg ended up getting nominated they majority would point the blame to me, and Mac/Tyg assumed I had flipped. I was basically the scapegoat for the majority the entire game. The reason I was getting nominated by practically everyone whenever I went up was because of the volunteering system, because in the volunteering system people didn't have to fear about being backstabbed. Mahogany volunteered for 7th, Austino did for 6th (he denies it but I think he did) Blackout volunteered for 5th and Sebb was suppose to go up for 4th but was smart to not go through with it.
So Quick Recap:
9th Place: Austino (volunteer) vs Albert
8th Place: Amf vs Me
7th Place: Mahogany (volunteer) vs Mac
6th Place: Austino vs Me
5th Place: Blackout (volunteer) vs Tyg
4th Place: Mac vs Me
That's about it. Now you may ask, did I ever get the redemption I came to get? I think so. Sure I was nommed twice as much this time around than I was in my first stars but I feel like it's because I played the game this time around. This time around, I was able to make moves, this time I was seen as a threat, this time I was my own leader. I formed the majority alliance day 1, was A HUGE PART TO BOTH the sebbers/rippy noms and blackout/spinner nom (I had to stay up till 4 30 am my time to talk to rippy and convince him to nom blackout/spinner cause I was a counter and he agreed....an hour and a half before stars dc for me). I came to play and I feel like I've played 100x better than I did with my 2nd place stars.
It was hard to accomplish anything when it was literally 7 people against me once Rachel had gotten evicted and once the volunteer system was implemented. I was minority throughout the majority of the game, and I was solely by myself after f8. But I didn't give up, I fought my way to the end. Sure I didn't have my noms go through as much as the others and sure I literally had no control from f9 and on wards because of the volunteering system but I still played the game, I didn't sit back and accept defeat. I still tried to convince people to vote with me, I still got less sleep than anyone in the cast, I stayed up longer than anyone in the cast (preparing poll speeches and blog speeches). At the end of the day, do I feel like I've gotten redemption for my first time because of my shitty playing?? Most people would prob say no because of the fact that I was never in power, but I know I have, this time around I came to play.
All week you guys have saved me by not clicking my button, now I ask you to please click it :P
