Princess Warrior's Questions

[Victoria Rafaeli]

Hello ladies


First, I would like to congratulate both of you on making it here to the final 2, whether you made it here by actually playing a strong social and strategic game, or by flip flopping and being unloyal, you're here over everyone else and it is an accomplishment in itself.

Jackie: I believe that your jury speech is complete bull shit. You were carried for most of the game by your allys who were actually winning competitions like me, Nicole, and Candice. I considered you my first ally of this game, and we were close since the very beginning of the game, with that being said I was loyal to you during my HOH reign and with all the POVS I had won, and I expected the same from you, unfortunately you sucked at competitions and weren't able to win anything until final 5 (which was a luck competition), where you planned on getting rid of the person that had been loyal to you since day 1, in short our alliance was very one sided. Then once I left, you flipped on Nicole, the person you had saved over me, and evicted her. At final 3, you could have at least been consistent with your unloyalty and evicted Candice, where you may have a had a chance to beat Zach, yet you kept Candice and proved that you're both unloyal and a flip flopper. So Jackie, tell me why I should vote for you for being a flip flopper, a floater, and unloyal, which are all things that are looked down on in this game. 

Candice: I really don't have anything bad to say about you. I think you truly played an amazing game. You won competitions when needed, you played a strong social and strategic game, and you were loyal to those who were loyal to you. We were very close from the start of the game, and I trusted you 100%. With that being said, I would like to know if you actually believed Jackie when she told you not to use POV on me at final 5 because "she had a secret power" and I would like to know if you knew about Jackie and Nicole's plan to get rid of me and if so in what point of the week did you know? Please be honest as I respect honestly more than anything. 

Good luck ladies, it was really an amazing and fun game, and it was great getting to know you two. Princess Warrior Victoria is out. 

[Jackie Ibarra]

The reason is I wasn't any of those things.

Yes, I did rely on my allies for the first part of the game, but I don't feel like I was carried by them. You're right that I didn't win any comps for the first half of the game, but neither did Candice.

For the first half of the game, I had an alliance with Nicole and Meg (& JMac until he was voted out) and then on the other side I was loyal to you. And no matter what you may think, I was loyal for the first half of the game. When there was talk about you being a strong threat and targeting you in my other alliance, I dissuaded them and I tried to do the same when you were HOH and were thinking about targeting Nicole and Meg because they voted against you. Nicole, I saved with KC and with Meg, I tried to turn your focus onto Nick/Cody who were the other votes against you. I was never loyal to anybody else and I never worked against any of you.

Once we got to Final 5, I knew I had to make moves to get myself where I am today. Unfortunately you were the first casualty in that. You are hands down the strongest competitor here (which makes me kinda laugh because when we did the majority rules KC at the beginning of the game, you were voted most likely to never win a comp....shows what we knew). That coupled with the fact that Nick told me before he was evicted that you and Zach had a secret alliance cemented that you needed to go. I know you and Candice were super close during the game and I felt you would both pick each other over me and with you being connected to Zach, it made you too dangerous to keep in the game. Your question to Candice actually alludes to part of the reason I felt like I couldn't keep Nicole all to the end. It was not "mine and Nicole's" plan to get you out; it was just mine. Yes, we both talked to Candice about not using the veto, but our motivations were different. Hers was because she didn't want to be on the block, mine was to ensure you stayed on the block. I felt like if she was in the end with me, I would be seen as her puppet and I wanted to show I made it to the end on my own merits. In Nick's thread, I already answered why I chose to bring Candice and it was because I felt that was the best strategic decision for me.

Yes, I did betray you when I voted you out. I'm not disputing that. But it was the best game move at the time to get me to the end. I was not flip flopping. I never changed my mind or loyalties throughout the game depending on who had power and I had my targets already in mind at the beginning of the week when I had to vote out someone. I didn't float, especially if you look at my actions for the last couple weeks. I constantly making moves to get me to this point. Unloyal is the only thing that has some truth to it. Again I was loyal for the first half of the game. I just couldn't be anymore when it was strategically damaging at the end. Lying and betrayal is sometimes a part of Big Brother. No one here has played a completely honest game; my betrayals are just a little more obvious.

One more side note for your question to Candice: I just want to clarify I never claimed I had a special power. I knew Candice was worried that Nicole had a secret power and though I had talked to Nicole and felt relatively certain she didn't, I used that to my advantage. I played into her paranoia that Nicole had a power and if she ended up on the block, she would probably use it. The only way for you to make it through the week was to keep you on the block so we (Candice and I) could control the vote. Though honestly, I just wanted to make sure I had control over it.

[Candice Stewart]

After winning the POV my intentions were to save you 100%. But then Jackie and I started talking and we thought that Nicole might have a twist or a power. Since Nicole got three checkmarks in the Mystery forum paranoia ran that Nicole might have a power or something and if any of you don't know from what yet go to the competitions sub-heading on the main page and look at the second 'i' in competitions and click on it... so with this, I truly was nervous that if Nicole would have gone up on the block she'd pull out a twist that Nick did and save herself and cause a rewind or something crazy. So with Jackie giving me her word that she'd save you, Victoria, and even if Nicole would have evicted you Jackie would be the tiebreaker, at the time, I figured you'd be safe so I played it safe and didn't use the POV. After not using it Jackie and Nicole came to me and to my surprise, they kept pushing how they you should go. I tried to defend you but their minds were set.

Long story short, I did save you and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I tried to convince Jackie to save you but her mind was made up and unfortunately you went. At the time, especially after Zach won HOH and nominated me, I thought I made the stupidest move ever by not saving you. But now that I made it all the way here I think, no offense, it was not that bad for my game. You really were a huge threat and a great player and if you would have been in the final two I think you would have won against anyone in a jury vote.

I consider you my best friend in this game though and love you <3