Nicole's Questions

[Nicole Franzel]

First let me say congrats on making it to final 2 ladies.



Candice: You were aligned very closely with Victoria since the beginning of the game, which you have openly admitted. What is your defense that Victoria did not carry you through this game until she was evicted?




Jackie: Just to clear the air for some people, when I put you on the block during my HOH reign, you were not a pawn originally. I wanted you out because you had been laying so low in the game that I thought you were basically inactive. Because we had been in an alliance since the beginning, I talked it out with you and saved you with POV because you explained yourself. Yet, in the final four where you were the sole vote, you would not talk it out with me.
You pretended like you might change your mind, but you were set no matter what. We had worked together since the very beginning of the game, and we had even talked final 2 at the end. i had your back, but you did not have mine at all. Was I always just a pawn in your game? When was your truly final decision to send me out of the house, if not the entire time?



I've pretty much already decided who I'm voting for, but I'm actually willing to talk it out on here to be swayed either way if the argument is valid enough.





That concludes my questions. Best of luck.

[Candice Stewart]

Victoria and I were aligned and yes she was my best friend in this game. Victoria did however not carry me, in fact going back to week #3 when I was vouching to keep her against Frank I carried her. When I kept her instead of Frank the opposite could have happened and she would be in the pre-jury right now.

And during week 6 when I was nominated for eviction she actually did evict me (yes I told her to evict me, but I never told her that by doing so in return I'd actually stay).

When Victoria was HOH I knew since we were aligned she would keep me safe and in return when I was HOH I would keep her safe, yes she did win more competition's then me, but other than that I think our "carrying" of each other was pretty even; we had each other's back.

[Jackie Ibarra]

First I want to respond to your comment about nom'ing me and not being a pawn. Like I said in my original speech, with the HOH twist, I felt like it was better to lay low. If you weren't chosen for POV or nominated, it was difficult to make any overt moves. You becoming HOH fell on the 4th week in a row where I hadn't been nom'd or chosen and therefore wasn't able to do much. I still talked to some people, but yes, I admit, I got quiet during that point because it felt like repeats of the past couple week and it didn't feel like I had many moves to make with my chosen strategy at that point. I feel like I more than made up for how quiet I was those weeks with my moves in the last half of the game.

You were never a pawn to me. I always considered you and Victoria to be my closest allies. Back in the King's Court comp where I had to choose someone to be safe, I chose you for that very reason. Victoria had told me that she wanted any of the people who voted against her out and I didn't want to risk that would be you. I thought about choosing some other people for game reasons, but in the end, my loyalty to you won out and I wanted to ensure you would be safe.

When we got down to final 5, I had gone through all the notes I made at that point and realized you and Victoria were the strongest players left in the game and in order for me to make it to the end, I would have to betray both of you. I knew Victoria would have to go first because she was close to both Candice and Zach while I knew you were pretty much on your own. (Side note- Part of the reason I had chosen to evict Zach over Nick was because I had felt like you two were closer than you let on and I didn't feel comfortable leaving that relationship in the game). After Victoria was out, you became the strongest player in the game and unfortunately my next obstacle. That was when I made my initial decision. Once I won POV and knew I had to choose who to vote out between you and Candice, that still seemed to be the best bet. The main argument both you (and Zach) made was about Candice doing the vote swap. If that was the only thing you had to argue, I felt like the moves I had been making and was planning on making would more than make up for that. Meanwhile you were an extremely strong social player! You tried to argue that you hadn't made many successful moves, but the amount of times your name came up in other conversations as well as the plans I knew myself you were involved in made me question that. I also questioned that you completely had my back. A specific example of this that was on my mind is the Zach/Nick vote. Candice had shown a screenshot where you swore you voted Nick out and basically implied I was the switch vote. Later when we were trying to convince Candice not to use the veto, you said something along the lines to me "Don't tell her I didn't vote for Zach; she doesn't know." We had already talked about how close her and Victoria were. Even if I hadn't seen the screenshot, how else was I supposed to take that other than as a sign that in your opinion Candice thought I was the vote. That showed me that although you were loyal to an extent, you were not hesitating to use me to advance your own game. I didn't have any hard feelings about it because that's the game of Big Brother. Though I wanted to give you a chance to argue, nothing you told me changed my mind against it. It wasn't that I was set, it was more that you didn't have a good enough argument that keeping you in the game felt like the best strategy for me personally. The fact Zach started talking on your behalf only cemented that decision.

Voting people out is always hard to some extent, but yours and Victoria's evictions were the toughest for me. I really liked you both and hated that to get farther in the game, I had to turn against you. But as you can see from the fact I'm standing here now, those moves helped get me to where I am today.