In by far the most exciting, dramatic, and shocking game I have yet to play, my first Rookies has come to an end. I know this might sound lame, but I want to give you my view and my take Day by Day of how I made it from Day 1 to Day 7…
I warn you, this is long lol.
And there’s shout outs to each player @ the bottom!
Players (in order of enrollment):
Iscreamforicecream, javer5, BigBeans, tomhartnell, coopres, coolandcomfy, dorkishbarbi, infamouskydd, JustMe, itspipes
**Can I just add how fishy it was that 4-5 of the biggest names in tengaged joined all in a row…. If that doesn’t scream premade I don’t know what does!
Day 1:
Random HOH: javer5 (me)
All I have to say is that everyone is your friend when you’re the HOH. I got messages from everyone except tom. Whether it was dorkish sucking up to me to not get nommed, JustMe trying to tell me to work with her and evict coopres, or cool telling me my original idea of pulling my noms out of a hat randomly were unfair (haha, ya I had absolutely no intentions of random noms). There was only one person who I really thought sounded trustful: coopres. Why did I trust him? We had some BIG names in this cast: cool, dorkish (who was accepted and evicted from the current stars game during this game), infamous, and JustMe . He was the only person who recognized this with me and knew they had to go first. So he gave me his advice and I rolled around each of the 4 big names in my head, changing my nominations about 15 times until I think I got it right. It didn’t help that in the mean time, I had dorkish sending me pms pleading her case not to evict her. So I told her that I wouldn’t, and the messages stopped like that.
Day 2:
New HOH: itspipez
Javer5’s nominations: JustMe, Dorkishbarbi, Coolandcomfy (alog)
Dorkish was furious that she went up. All I heard was that I bs’d her. And she had to make a scene of it by writing it on the open message wall saying that I lied. The moment I told her that I would be the first one to admit that I lied to her, I didn’t hear a word back. She didn’t know that JustMe was my real target to get out first though. Out of everyone playing, she seemed like the biggest all around threat. She (JustMe) was upset that she was nommed, but she was way cooler about it than dorkish. Looking back, it would have probably been in my best interest to get rid of Dorkish, but I think JustMe poised a huge threat.
I friended pipez with coopres while I was HOH and the 3 of us made a final 4 deal. I trusted him. It was also towards the end of Day 2 that we realized Big Beans was banned. This definitely changed things.
Evicted : JustMe
Day 3:
New HOH: DorkishBarbi
Itspipez Nomminations: infamouskydd, tomhartnell, BigBeans
I thought that day 3 would be my last in this rookie’s game. I sent Dorkish a pm saying that “Hey, just wanna let you know that I’m not going to try and sway you to not nomm me. I’m expecting it. No hard feelings. It’ s funny how things change isn’t it?” It went something like that, but not exactly. I can assure you however that I was kind and courteous. I didn’t want to create drama and have the players feel the need to evict me, I had other plans.
I forgot who had the veto, but it really didn’t matter. Cool joined our alliance of 4 and we voted out infamous because that was pipez’s target. Pipez actually messaged me on day one revealing he wanted infamous out first and for me to nomm him. I almost did, but out of the 4 big names, infamous was the least active (thus not the biggest threat).
Evicted: infamouskydd
Day 4:
New HOH: coopres
Dorkish’s Nomminations : Iscreamforicecream, Javer5, Big Beans
Veto Holder: Dorkish
Don’t get me wrong, I was thrilled that coopres got HOH. I was just worried that I wasn’t going to be able to see his nominations because I was going to be evicted. Dorkish’s nominations scared the crap out of me. I was actually hoping she sent up pipez or cool with me because I it would have been a lot easier to convince the voters to get rid of one of those 2 over me. In a perfect world though, I didn’t want anybody in my alliance going home.
Me and coopres starting sending each other messages multiple times everyday (I think by the end of Rookies, about 90% of my messages were from him lol). I had to ensure myself safety somehow. I knew that Beans wasn’t going to be voted off, people want to take a banned person to the final 4 to better their chances. And to be honest, if there was any way I could get Beans to stay along with myself, I was gonna do it. So after planning it out with coopres we both came up with a plan: I sent dorkish a message saying that “you’re not getting rid of me just yet. Everybody I’ve talked to said they’re voting Beans out because they’re sick of carrying him through this game” . But something had to happen so she was convinced that Beans was going to go home over me. Coopres somehow found out that she had the veto and told her he also heard that everyone was voting out Beans and she was then convinced to use the veto on Beans. My plan was that I needed to ensure she didn’t use the veto on iscream, our real target. I had my 3 guys vote 3s for iscream and 1s for me. Dorkish used the Veto on BigBeans. And I sent Iscream the reassuring message that I heard that everyones going after Beans, and if they’re lying to me that means I’m the one going basically telling him he’s safe. I didn’t need him convincing dorkish to use the veto on him. So did I end up evicted?
Meanwhile, I told coopres that even if I go home, Dorkish needs to be put up. Her only alliance member was Tom (it was never confirmed, but they were acting like bffs on the public message wall). So I told coopres that he really should put Tom up with her. He agreed, but he knew this before he talked to me. I never once felt like I needed coop to do what I wanted him to do. I really did feel like we both had our best interests in mind.
Evicted: iscreamforicecream
Day 5:
New HOH: coolandcomfy
Coopres’s Nomminations, Dorkish, Tom, & Beans (alog)
Veto: coopres
I stayed and Dorkish was up! Revenge was sweet. And she even had the nerve to send me a message telling me that she didn’t vote a 3 for me, basically a plea to save her. Let’s just say after I did a count on the votes and discovered her claim was impossible, I “politely” declined her offer. Especially after she had the nerve to never respond to my “congrats on HOH, go ahead and nomm me message cuz I expect it” message. She also claimed she never wanted me evicted. Except it was revealed that she put me against Beans, the permanent alog. Iscream was actually her alog. Of course she wanted me gone. Sorry to say it, but I was the biggest threat of the 3 ( I felt like next to coopres I was the biggest threat in the game).
Me and coopres started to feel like our alliance of 4 was turning into 2 groups working together (with pipez and cool being the other pair). Dorkish put up a fight trying to stay, even convincing pipez and cool not to vote 3s for her. She knew she had a lot of ground to make up, especially with coopres holding the veto. Me and coop decided that he needed to save Beans with the veto. We then both voted 3s for dorkish, 2s for beans, and 1s for tom. We needed to give tom the least amounts of votes bcuz dorkish got it into pipez and cool’s head that he was a bigger threat (I knew if she stayed that all h*ll would break loose). Let’s just say I needed dorkish to go, other wise I’d be next.
Evicted: Dorkish (she had 7 points while Tom had 6 n beans had 5)
Day 6:
New HOH: coopres
Cooland comfy’s Nominations: Javer5, TomHartnell, BigBeans
Veto: Javer5 (me)
My first veto! And of course I used it on myself. Tom had to go. Simple as that. We always said that we’d get the 4 of us into final 4, just never thought it’d happen. They would never vote beans out over Tom, so tom’s fate was sealed.
Me and coopres were so freaking happy. His HOH ensured us final 4. I always thought that I would be a final nom, but coop and I already told each other that should either of us be final HOH, we nom pipez and cool and let Beans be the alog. We finally held all the power in the game.
I felt our alliance of 4 unraveling. I quickly realized that I was not the alog in Cool’s noms. Veto is given randomly to one of the top 3 players. With 6 players left, I was atleast the 3rd most active. I figured out that I was nommed, and was put against either beans or tom ( I think it was Tom and Beans was the alog). I was really appreciative that they didn’t ever nominate cool. That would have ruined everything.
Coopres and I decided that it was in our best interest to keep Beans around and to get rid of cool. We thought that he’d become much more active and we’d rather go against Beans and Pipez in the final. There was really no need to use my veto, but I wanted to make 100% sure that Beans would be in the final 4. I would rather see Cool gone than pipez (soley because pipez pm’d me more), but if he stayed and pipez went I wouldn’t be devastated.
After I locked in my vote, I kind of wanted pipez gone rather than cool tho. Pipez’s game play annoyed me. He’d log on for a few minutes. Talk. And then disappear for a few hours. Be consistent. And atleast act like you’re in an alliance with me. Especially cause if I had really wanted to I could have made sure you were the one to go. Why didn’t you get evicted then. Because I gave you my 1 and so did Coop (stupid me).
I was so freaking happy after not getting sent home day 4 that I winning first place never really mattered as much as making it to the last day. But getting rid of Dorkish was my #1 Priority :)
*indicates who I believe are the 4 best players in the game and would have created the hardest decision for the alog in the final 4 (JustMe, you’re 5th because I really don’t know how well you would have played because you left so early)
SHOUT OUTS!
(in order of eviction)
JustMe- You were my eviction result of my only HOH. Looking back on it, you were so kind and I about 1 hour before dc on day 2, I actually wanted you to stay. Yes, for 23 hours you were my target to evict. You seemed way to good at this game and I thought you were the biggest threat at the time. But I am glad that I never took your advice on coopres. That was the one thing you were wrong about :)
Infamouskydd- You seemed chill. And you seemed fair. But you were so quiet it was scary. Yes, I voted 3 to evict you. But for some reason I never felt bad cause I don’t remember you asking me to save you.
Iscream- Really, I wish that Tom (sorry Tom! But you were my #2 priority to evict next to Dorkish) was up instead of you because I think we could have worked together. But I think you understand when I say that I had to get rid of you. It was the only way I could stay. Getting rid of you though was the most effort out of any eviction. I wish you all the best with your future games and can’t wait to go against you once again.
Dorkish- The nice stuff first: You worked your butt off to stay in this game. And I do appreciate that and respect that. But in order to keep my butt in this game, I had to get rid of you. Honestly, I don’t know if I’d ever want to play against you again, but I’m always up for a challenge. The only thing that really irritated me about you was that you had the nerve to try and get my vote after you tried getting rid of me the day before. Atleast I acknowledged the fact that you would nominate me. But oh well. You know though, if you would have used that veto on iscream you probably would have made it to the finals :P And I def think the rivalry between you and I was the biggest in the game.
Tom- I really don’t have much to say to you because I never really talked to you. But if I can say anything its that I’m uber jealous of your connections. It sounds like you’ve met a ton of big brother contestants. And that’s really cool.
Cool- I think you understand why you had to go. You were the biggest threat to me. Even though I feel like Coop was the biggest threat in the game, I knew he had my back. I had my doubts about you. But you played an amazing game. You’re a great player.
Pipez- Good job on making it to the finals. I don’t think you’re the best player though, but congrats :) I am so glad that you worked together with me and coop for most of the game. Sorry we kept you in the dark about cool getting evicted, but I really don’t think you were surprised. Towards the end of the game you started to annoy me though. But I guess its just a game… Don’t take it so hard next time you get negged tho. There wouldn’t be a neg button if it wasn’t meant to be used every once in a while. And I was being honest when I told you that I only negged you in the last hour of the game. I had to prep for the final 4, and since you were in it, I had to make sure I would place as high as possible.
Beans- haha, thanks for getting your account hacked and banned from tengaged. It really made the game interesting. I hope that you are one day resurrected under a different name. Let me know! I’d love to play with the unbanned you!
Coopres- You and I better be getting 1st and 2nd. You were essential to me getting this far in the game, and I hope I was as essential to you. I owe you so much. I really feel like I came out of this game with a friend and a permanent ally. (or should I say solid alliance :P) Thank you so much for everything. The best thing I did in this game was not listen to JustMe when she said I couldn’t trust you, because I think she was just bitter and wrong. You and I better be doing a game soon and I know we’ll keep in touch.
How about you get it straight, I NEVER ONCE told you to work with me or to go after coopres....YOU came to ME for advice and I explained things to you, I NEVER ONCE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT ME AND YOU TOGETHER....
Thanks Javier, You were awesome, I didnt really want to do the private message thing because IDK? I have a mouth that eats my feet often, I do thank you so very much for keeping me around all of those noms, and was very gracious that you did, I didnt really play much because, I felt like I never really needed to lol. I felt I was nommed against threats, and was always nommed so I never really got a chance to vote, (plus I also felt that if I have something to say, everyone should see it, not just 1 person?)I befriended mostley Dorkish and coopres, and it was smart that he nommed us together, because (even though I didnt want to lose her) It was a good move. I dont however completely like being the pawn lol. :) but I will be the pawn.I had so much fun doing this, the week of anticipation for BBUS, and plus I still had BBUK. OMG! I did however PM you once when you had HOH congradulating you (i think) and I wasnt going to ask for much because I didnt want to seem fake/put my foot in my mouth. I will tell you I would not have nommed you if I was HOH (my only targets (and this is purely bcause of knowledge of them) were cool and Itspipez) I do wish though that I beat BigBeans, :/ but what do ya do? its all in the past. 1 more side note, the mystery veto belonged to me, after itspipez nommed me I used it on me, because I was scared I would go. I sure hope to play with you, Dorkish, and coopres agian, I hope I can play with all of you again, in any game, and I do have some nice tengage connections too. so if you need advice on who to befriend when you enter games with people you dont know, (ask me) and also if any of you want to skype with me (and potential bb hgs (uncertain) my name is tom.hartnell. It was a pleasure
JustMe- You did attempt an alliance and thats what I meant. Sorry if the lines of communication were crossed. But you kept telling me that I needed to get out Coop and he can't be trusted and you played another game with him. I literally after I read your response lost all respect I had for you during the game. Its over, and I was just letting it be known how I perceived the game. So I apologize for the miscommunication. I tried to come off as that I held respect for u in the game, which I did. Good Luck with Stars.
Tom- My respect for you just basically doubled. I really wish you and I would have worked together. But realistically, I got to the furthest point I could get to in the game, so although I don't regret my strategies, I can always look back and wish I did something different. And, when you were nommed against dorkish, you were never the pawn. It was basically vote 3s for dorkish and 2s for you (incase dorkish got vetoed). Lol. I appreciate your offering of help and if I ever need it, I'll ask you (and vice versa). Sorry we had to get rid of you before beans, haha but I don't really think I need to explain that one :P Keep in touch
