this is an interesting situation for me. if i had made finals on a normal occasion i would do an entire plea blog trying to convince viewers to vote for me to win, but this is far from a normal occasion. the purpose of this blog is not to convince viewers to vote me to win. this is to clear up any confusion or speculation on how i played the game and what my mentality was throughout the week. if by the end of this you decide you want to vote for me, then i appreciate it. if you decide you don’t want to vote for me, then i respect it. regardless of how this vote goes (which i think we all know how it’s going to go) i did the one thing i set out to do at the beginning of this game: get to the finals unnommed. and not only did i get here unnommed, i got here COMPLETELY undetected and untargeted. i was not nervous a single day change because i knew every round that i had absolutely no chance of being nominated because i bulldozed through this game from the very beginning until the end.
let’s flash back to the beginning of the game. i want to begin this by clarifying one thing: I DID NOT PREMADE THIS GAME. the only thing i did was tell runaways that i was joining, but literally everyone tells at least one person they are joining. i mean cromatique even told the whole site he was joining. this leads me to my next point: why did i join when i knew cromatique would probably win? i have a busy life and i really don’t know when the next opportunity to join stars would be for me, and i really wanted to play. i believe it’s unfair for people to use that against us. the public at times acted like we deserved the harassment we got because we decided to play the game the week cromatique played, but if no one decided to play then what would have even happened to the game???? there’s no game without players so i don’t know why it was such a big deal to everyone. my schedule was clear enough to play stars this week so i joined. i knew i would have to completely reinvent my game to play around a fixed winner, so i did that.
when i joined this game i knew that the best i would be able to do was most likely 2nd place, so i told myself i was going to play the best 2nd place game that i possibly could. i decided that to do that i would need to fight my ass off to go unnommed, and that’s exactly what i did. from the beginning of this game until the final 9, i ruled the game with an iron fist. i was calling the shots within the majority, but i let dimitra take all of the heat for the things i was doing so nobody truly knew that i was in the center of everything that happened in the game. dimitra tried to run the show by putting herself in alliances to cover her back when the numbers dwindled down, but i combatted this by exposing her alliances to basically everyone and using those to create my own sub-alliances, thus putting myself in a derrick levasseur type position where practically everyone felt like i was with them.
cromatique’s win was made even more abundantly clear to me when on only the second day cromatique’s blogs were already hitting +600 and the rest of the cast’s blogs were being negged into oblivion. this is when i decided i wanted to make the game fun. i noticed the public outrage that stemmed from the cast nominating cromatique so i decided i wanted to nominate him over and over and over again. by doing this, i not only was able to ensure that all my targets would leave next to cromatique, but i also got to see the fireworks that went off all over the blogs page after every day change. is it boring gameplay wise? maybe. but was the public meltdown entertainment gold? absolutely. if i was going to lose this game i was going to lose it in the most entertaining way possible for me and i had a great time trolling the public and acting like an idiot all week long.
the game shifted during the final 9 round. i had plans to take out dimitra for a few rounds at this point, but we decided we were finally going to pull the trigger at the final 9. right after the plan was coordinated, dimitra decided to volunteer to be nominated. this angered a power-hungry runaways who was determinated to make a big game move, so instead of making the logical decision and just letting dimitra do what she wanted, he decided to light the fire by publicly announcing that dimitra was already the target. tad decided to join in on the dimitra bashing for the round, but i very wisely kept my mouth shut because i knew that all of this mess would only lead runaways and tadnuggets into a hole. ultimately, i started to lose control of the game because of the drama that runaways and tadnuggets caused. i was associated with both of them which led to me not being told that tadnuggets was being nominated, and this was the only nomination all game that i did not see coming. at this point i knew that my easy road would not be as easy as it had been, and that i couldn’t be mr nice guy anymore. i knew that this is where the lying would have to start.
the main reason i was able to get myself into a great position after runaways and tadnuggets almost brought my game down was because of my relationship with princesspinklips. i promised them up and down that i wanted to go to the end with them even though i was really trying to get there with runaways. with tadnuggets still being able to vote i had the numbers to pretty easily get my target crush on the block next to cromatique, but with the noms for 6th i was officially outnumbered. i knew that i would never possibly be the target over runaways & sugarlove (even though the entire cast knew how close me and runaways were i was still never targeted) but if runaways & sugarlove went up i would be down a number guaranteed and i’d risk losing my final 2 in runaways. i fought extremely hard to try and convince princesspinklips to nominate cromatique/bluedragon and while i got them to agree to it at one point they told me they decided to change their mind so i knew that runaways & sugarlove would be going up.
noms for 5th was where i made my game-altering power move. i spent the entire 12 hours trying my damndest to convince princesspinklips not to nominate survivor/cromatique (which was in their best interest) and to nominate bluedragon/cromatique instead (which were princesspinklips only two allies and was a move that would guarantee that they got 4th). to say that it took A LOT of convincing is an understatement, but i knew that if i was able to get this done i would be in the decision-making position at the final 4. sure enough, just a few minutes before day change, i was able to get princesspinklips to lock in bluedragon/cromatique. and like dominoes, i watched my perfect plan fall into place. bluedragon instantly felt betrayed by princesspinklips and announced that he would be locking in princesspinklips & cromatique if he was evicted. runaways was obviously going to lock in princesspinklips & cromatique because me and him are close and princesspinklips had been targeting him for a while. the only thing left was for me to pull the trigger and make it happen. princesspinklips was banking on my vote for runaways but it simply wasn’t gonna happen even though i felt terrible about it. but just like that, i got through the final 4 round without even being at risk and i managed to make it here completely unscathed.
well there it is tengaged. that’s my story. i reached my goal. the ball is now in your court. i completely understand why there is so much support for cromatique even though i pretended not to understand during the game. but i just want to say i hope that all of you don’t let the rest of the public pressure you into voting a certain way, i want you to make the decision that best represents YOUR outlook on the game. whether that means voting for me, for cromatique, or for that other finalist, go by your own individual standards.
i really proved a lot to myself this game, but mainly i proved to myself that i can be a heck of a player when i give something my all. going completely unnommed in my third stars ever wasn’t on my bingo card but now i know that i can truly do anything.
if anyone has any questions for me i’d love to answer them. on behalf of #TONENATION this is toney baloney signing out.
you played a fantastic game and should absolutely be proud no matter what the final result is. even though you weren’t gonna take me to finals i still consider you one of my closest friends on this site and have nothing but love for you ❤️
