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My First Stars Experience: A Retrospective

6thMay 8, 2018 by BolieverIsBack
I played my first ever Stars game this week. I was the 5th eliminated, in a vote that was much closer than I expected against saraj10. I wanted to give a little bit of retrospective on how I played the game, and what I think about my experience.

Going into the game, I figured I had to try to play as much of a strategic game as possible, because I figured I wasn't winning too many, if any polls. If I could avoid getting nominated, then I didn't have to deal with the popularity aspect. Obviously, it didn't quite work out, but that was the goal.

Day 1: A lot of assessment and a lot of Skype adding going on. At this point, I was trying to figure out who I could have real conversations with, and who didn't want to talk too much to me. I found some connections, which I think was important to avoid being the first target. Luckily, Aquamarine targeted the duo of MartaGH12_ and Ofelia, and those folks in turn responded back, and I just picked a side. I went with the folks nomming Johnny and Sara, because at the time I figured that was the most solid F2 deal. Wasn't me either way, so I was happy.

Day 2: This was an interesting strategic roller coaster for me. I felt like I ended up more or less in the middle, which normally I think is a great thing. However, in Stars, I find it's a lot harder to play both sides, in contrast to Frooks in which I am able to do so quite regularly. I think it's because so many people are trying to gain favor with others in the game that leaking occurs much more often. So while I give myself some credit for being trusted by enough people to land in the middle, it also bit me in the ass in the long run because I had to pick a side. I also did a little leaking myself in the hope that people would start to point fingers at each other, rather than the person who did the leaking. It somewhat worked, although I think this was in part due to the personalities of my cast. If I recall, the sets at the time were _Adidas_ and EliotWhi vs the set of TheAce and @Zepetis (later revealed to be Johnny). I picked the latter, largely because I had a secret bond with Eliot that I wanted to protect as much as possible. It ended up splitting, which wasn't ideal for me, but again, I wasn't a major target.

Day 3: This was the day my name started to get thrown around as a target, but not majorly. Fortunately for me, LittleMix started to have some freakouts in Skype chats, which made him an easy target in my opinion. I figured a lot of people would go for him just because of how angry he was getting in public. I wasn't thrilled about it, since I liked Jake quite a bit, but I figured I needed some person to go up since my name was starting to get talked about.  That's why I ended up flipping on him more than anything. I feel bad about it, because I feel like Jake is still a bit upset at me about this, but I felt like I needed to survive within the game first and foremost. I also never would have put up Ludmilla as the other nominee, but for some reason people thought Lud was a threat. I think largely because she organized the Johnny/Sara set, but I thought Ludmilla had issues in her social game and wasn't really dangerous at the time.

Day 4: I am honestly floored I didn't get nominated this day. Especially after I flipped on Jake, I thought he and his friends would've gunned after me. But luckily, I managed to take control of my destiny at least for this day. It started with me planting a seed into Sara's head that I wanted to target Luis (which I knew I had wanted to do sooner rather than later), and I had also mentioned that I thought he had control of the Spanish duo (which I actually thought was a lie on my end, now I'm not so sure). Sara then had implied that taking out the Spanish duo might be a better idea. I ended up using that thought process later on when discussing with Luis and Danger (the latter whom I considered my #1 ally throughout the game), and ultimately people started to agree with this by the time I made a big chat. I even managed to get Johnny on board, even though I nominated him (and he knew it), so that was arguably my biggest achievement.

Day 5: For obvious reasons, the most frustrating day for me. There was also another aspect of the day that was frustrating that people didn't realize. I feel like I couldn't fully execute what I wanted to do that day. Originally, when I heard that I and Luis were a set, what I had actually wanted to do was to convince my friends to put up Luis and Sara. Hopefully, this would've given Luis for sure enough votes to go up, and then I would've hoped that enough people would've picked Sara instead of me. Unfortunately, too many people I talked to said that they had no remote interest in putting up Luis, so I pitched the set of Ace and Sara instead, as both had survived votes before and that would get out at least one popularity threat. However, it didn't quite pan out, as the people who were gunning for me got their way. This is my one regret in the game, that I somehow could've gotten the numbers on Luis instead of Ace. If I had done that, I really think I could've stayed. Hard to say for sure, though. As is, I'm honestly floored I only got 51% against Sara, and I appreciate those of you who either liked me enough or disliked me less to try to help me stay.

Overall, this was an interesting experience. Though in all honesty, I think this may be the only time I play Stars. It takes an incredibly long time commitment, to the point where I almost got in trouble at work for trying to pay attention to the drama on day 2. I also feel like I just can't quite connect with a lot of the Tengaged crowd. I'm 28, and I feel like how I function socially is so much different than Tengaged as a whole. Because of these factors, I'm not sure I could ever win a Stars. But, I'm glad I did it once, for sure. And if it is the only time I play it, at least it was interesting.

Aquamarine, saraj10, Danger, Zeptis, EliotWhi, TheAce, Jordan009, piperjr, LittleMix, _Adidas_, oreo270, Ludmilla, Nebula, @MarthaGH12_, Ofelia : You all made this game interesting for sure. Curious to see how it pans out, and curious to see if my theories of who the masterminds are correct. Genuinely, hope you all have fun.

Comments

You structured your summary much like mine, but I lasted longer :D
Sent by SurvivoroftheTocans,May 8, 2018
u did good bo
Sent by WhateverTheF,May 9, 2018

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