It's kind of my tradition when I make stars finals to use my Sunday afternoon writing tributes. So win or lose, I enjoyed this game and want to do my write ups for everyone.
16th Tyleror you getting 16th was a bit shocking for me. We had a good conversation night 1, and I think I would have enjoyed playing with you. But I also thought you had a tight alliance from the get go (which seems backed up by some things Tanya has stated about a day 1 alliance) and I didn't think I would ever be central in it, so I was okay with splitting things up. I had initially locked in a split of Brad and Tito to save you, but a chat with Brad right before I went to bed led me to a change of heart and I did lock you in, but I was hoping you'd stay. I didn't expect you to lowkey give up once nominated. Just wasn't in the cards, but I do wish you luck and will support you next time you play.
15th JohnPigeon wow it feels like such a long time since you were here. Aside from a brief time on a survivor tribe together, I hadn't met you before this game. We chatted a bit day 1, and you seemed very nice. I do enjoy the opportunities to meet new people that comes with stars, but I wasn't sure where you were in the game, and because you were a bit busy and quiet, and also one of the lesser known people in the cast, your name popped up as an easy nominee option, and sometimes those are the things I have to go along with to not create too big of waves early on and make a bigger target for myself. So nice to meet you, and sorry it didn't last very long, but I think you have a busy life outside of this site, so you are probably not too bothered.
14th WorkBitch I actually did want to work with you, your name kept coming up the first few days, and I was able to help you stay off the first couple rounds, but after awhile it's hard to make excuses to protect a person without it seeming very obvious you are protecting them, and I also did not trust you enough to know you'd be 100% loyal to me so I eventually caved and accepted your time was slowly coming to an end. But I do like that you bring drama and entertainment everywhere you go. I think if you and I ever seriously team up we could be a very dramatic duo.
13th TitoBuritto I really do hate early renoms in games, but I grudgingly gave into doing you, because after you beat Tyler in a poll, your stock seemed to go up quite a bit. You were being a big presence on the blogs page, and well, that is kind of my thing! I was afraid if you lasted a lot longer your support may have gained quite a bit. You and I also had some open communication lines, but I don't think either of us trusted each other fully, and we would never be a priority to each other, so I did not have much incentive for you stay around longer.
12th Druhhbby2 I'll admit when you went up was when things started to get very, very chaotic, and I will also admit a little confusion and being in the dark on my part. I locked you in, which I don't think was a secret, but the confusion lies in me not actually telling Bryan I did you. I thought you going up was a surprise to him, that even though he knew you were a set, he did not expect it to go through. I thought he was blindsided by my (and others) actions, but apparently that was not the case. I did think that you going up worked for me though. I appreciated that you were pretty open with communication and easy to talk to, because not everyone in this cast was, but I also did not think we would ever be really closely aligned. We both had people we'd put above each other, and while Bryan seemed to find you disposable, I thought you would likely go along with things he wanted, and since people were not willing to nominate any of his true inner circle yet, you were the best compromise.
11th Arik2745 I really enjoyed getting to play with you briefly, this is the only game format on the site that we had never played together before. Having someone I can tell anything to and trust they won't leak or lie to me is such a powerful thing in a Stars game, and I was happy to have that with you. People don't understand that doesn't always mean doing the same things though. I know we did not lock in the same every round, we just were honest with each other about what we were doing, and that's what I care about. It was very similar when Blue and I played together once. We were known best friends going into the game, so the threat of us going up together was always a possibility. I was crushed when it happened, but also glad at least that it didn't happen even earlier. We survived 5 rounds before going up together! You leaving was sad, but it did open some new doors for me, as I could approach people and point out that I was a single free agent without them worrying that I had my number 1 man tied with me. And I made it to finals, so you did not leave in vain! Love you so much.
10th jason_2_12 Usually when I am nominated my GINGER FIRE is enough for me to get the set I want up the following round. This was unfortunately not one of those times. I do think that this was a bad set for most of the cast, but I suppose in a way it worked out for me just because it was one less popularity threat for me to avoid going up with myself. I do wish you had lasted longer, I think you and I could have done some interesting things while teamed up, and you and Arik leaving back to back was especially sad for me, the pool of people I could trust and speak to openly just kept getting smaller and smaller. Love you.
9th joshBB1999 I will admit I got frustrated by you a few times in this game, our thought processes are just so different that sometimes we had trouble understanding what the other one was saying, leading to us both repeating ourselves a few times. Your going up this time was frustrating, because we were so close to avoiding it, or at least avoiding this exact scenario. I also always feel really bad when someone leaves in such a close poll, I've been there before, it stings because you just think about how if 1-2 more people had saved you it all could have been different. I do think a stars win will be in the cards for you eventually, I just think this was a particularly difficult cast, filled with both gamebots and popularity threats, hard to find a footing there.
8th SaskiaRae oh Brad. You took me and Arik's loyalty and offers of new friendship and spat all over our faces <3. There is one in every game unfortunately, the person who misguidedly trusts the wrong people, not realizing they are on the bottom of their alliance and being prepped to be cut the second a sacrifice needs to be made. You still did a good job of keeping the target off yourself for as long as you did while playing the middle. Your name came up constantly in the first few days, so under those circumstances staying safe until 8th is actually pretty impressive. If we play another game together I would like to see where things go if we could work together for real without other people flashing shiny objects to lure you away from me <3
7th Eilish I know you're mad at me, and I know you'll roll your eyes reading this, but I also think you will read it, because mama Cherry raised a fellow narcissist. I care about you as a person, a lot. You know that no matter what terms we are on gamewise, if you ever have something serious you need to talk about and need support, I will be there for you. I really do think of you as like a kid brother. I fully admit you have done many things for me, and I am appreciative of them. The problem always is that we don't see eye to eye. You see me as indebted to you for life, but I am a grown woman who likes to make my own decisions and do things for myself. I think the two of us can work very well together when we are each other's number 1, lead together, and are equals. Those are our best experiences, and we are usually unstoppable. The problem is that is not usually the case, there is usually someone else for one or both of us. In this game, I was not your number one (or two, or three...) which is fine, because you were not my number one either, and we did not join the game to play together. But that is the issue exactly. We did not join together. I joined this game on my own, because I wanted to play. You joined after me, and you brought a passe. It's completely unfair of you to join a game that I joined without you, and expect me to drop everything and play for you to make finals unnominated, especially when you have multiple people ranked ahead of me. I owed you nothing in this game. Because of our friendship, I refused to lock you in for double digits. That was my compromise, something you could not even do the same. I actually believed you did not nominate ME for 11th, I believed that you allowed it to happen without locking it in yourself, only for you to turn around and claim ALL of your sets had gone through when you were nominated. In what universe are you allowed to nominate me for 11th place, but if I nominate you for 7th I am the villain? I am sorry you cannot survive a poll, I truly am. When I am not playing, you know I save you and support you every time. But it is the definition of entitlement to join a game and expect to be handed finals because you "can't survive a poll." And also, you KNOW me. I have NEVER allowed anyone to go unnominated on my watch. So I do hope you forgive me eventually and we move forward, but if we do not, that is on you and I have said my piece.
6th Jewcub1024 This was honestly one of my most cutthroat moves, but it wasn't fully intentional. I was serious during our conversation, when I told you that the public would not accept your gameplay or you as worthy of winning without making a move without Bryan. You were seen as one of his minions, and you broke out of that, and I do think that move could have paid off in a big way. But us going up following was not ideal. I had a plan to avoid it, you were always going to go up unfortunately, but you would have gone up with Will had my plan succeeded, which I think would have been favorable. Unfortunately with everything going on, other people were able to convince you to nominate me, which unfortunately sealed your coffin. I am genuinely sorry if the outcomes of this game upset you on a personal level and if you're feeling sad and isolated from people. I've been there before, it's not fun, and I would never enjoy making someone feel that way. We talked about this last night, I do genuinely care about you, and I think that a short hiatus would help, and I also will 100% support you and offer you tips as well when you do decide to play again. My tips have helped other people before, I may not be perfect, but I do have some good ideas and instincts.
woah oh Will, idk how you became my nemesis this game, haha. The man who just loved nominating me so much! You were hard to read this game. There were times when I thought maybe Kindred had given you some coaching advice before the game, you mentioned that stars we had played with her, plus her telling me I was in her top 3 supports implied there were 2 ahead of me, and I assumed one was you. So I thought if you had gotten some tips to her there was likely a method to your madness that I couldn't see. But unfortunately what I DID see was hard to understand at times. I'm close with Bryan as well, and I have played with him in the past, so I did understand you and him working together. I thought that you may have been his true number 1. I fully understand keeping someone safe if they are keeping you safe, I've been there. People don't understand that sometimes keeping the "bad guy" safe as a shield is a move than benefits yourself, and is not "sheeping." I don't know what your end plan was, if you would have let him go to the end unnominated assuming he wouldn't have the support to win anyway, or if you'd push him up for 4th the way I have done in the past. But whatever it was, you were not listening to my ideas and were not budging. So there wasn't room for us both there. I do understand you repeatedly locking me in for that reason, because it was mutual. I've gotten 5th place 3 times, and I do consider it one of the worst placements, because you're sooo close to the end. 2 of my 5ths have been against the biggest popularity threat of the game as well, so believe me, I have 100% been in your shoes and hated it. I really did enjoy our personal, real conversations this game though and I hope that after this game you still consider me a friend and we can talk more.
4th Dbonee I'd hoped algo would go the other day with you and Drew facing off for 4th and me sliding my way into finals, but algo has never really favored me, so I was not at all surprised this was went through. I had been very nervous about the idea of us going up together, in general I find it very hard to predict how I will fare in polls, I have often lost ones that people assume are easy wins for me. So that is the reason I will never, ever volunteer to go up, even against the most hated person of the site. You and I also have so many mutual friends, and I knew some of them would definitely save you over me, so all the more reason for me to try to avoid the set. I wish you and I had actually worked together this game, although I did enjoy the few good conversations we had, as well as our usual funny banter even when we were against each other. I am happy I survived the poll and made finals, but you played a worthy game as well.
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Don't know how finals will go, but I will do Drew first, because saving Tanya for last is more dramatic, and also, I mean, I am reading the pollbox...
bbfanuk_reborn GET A NEW USERNAME, DREW! Us making finals here is so fitting. You were in the stars I joined before this one, the horrible experience where people let the children in charge, and I was pushed up with my kryptonite Kingb haha. So our failed alliance there made me excited to see you in this cast, but you were so frustrating very early on, I realized from how little we were talking you likely had things going for you elsewhere. I did have trouble pinpointing exactly what your alliance was. Jason pointed out the Wedding Planner thing to me, so I assumed that was a good part of it, but I also thought you and Brad may have been together, and I thought you may have been pulled in by Bryan as well. I was frustrated when you and Joshlyn went up together, because I had been trying so hard to orchestrate another set, and if you had voted with us, it would have either gone through or at least split. You seemed so apathetic to going up, and I was frustrated. But I couldn't give up on you. I was running numbers, and I thought the poll for 7th was the last possible chance to make a move and break up the majority. So I pleaded with you and was so happy with the outcome. Once the set for 7th went through, the game flipped. You had a new found faith in me, and you saw the LIGHT that me and Tanya were the way to go. <3 I enjoyed the end game with you guys, and I am so happy with this final 3.
Tryphena First you steal my husband, then you steal my lunches, then you join my stars cast to steal my thunder :P you really can never just let me have things! Haha. I will fully admit I was annoyed when you joined, because I knew you would be big competition for me, but also because I know you and I are so drastically different in the way we approach things and our playing styles. This was definitely honed in early on, by you complaining about Bryan to me so much, which in turned pissed me off, because I WASN'T in Bryan's core and knew I was not, and your assumptions that I was were pushing me away. I said it at the beginning, and you can see it's true now, because I put my money where my mouth was. There is a very big difference and a lot of game between 14th and 4th. Not wanting to nominate someone for 14th place is not in any way giving them a free pass to the finals, or even final 4. I wanted Bryan in the early part of the game because I knew he would keep me safe for a few rounds at least, and because I knew he would be a shield for me. If people are freaking about his presence, I am not number 1 target in anyone's eyes. I do believe that if I allowed him to go very early on, you and I would have gone up together by mid-game. I did what I thought was the best to benefit myself. Unfortunately that means you will likely beat me in this game, because you're funny and amazing and everyone's ACTUAL mother, while I'm just a very loud controversial person. But I would much rather make finals and have a chance and then lose to someone I love than leave middle game, so this was still my best option. So congratulations to us on achieving our goal of finals together, which was an impressive slay on both of our parts. Good luck, and I love you.
Me when I was telling Bryan I wouldn't do any of his sets because I didn't like them and I thought they were so bad and I was desperately trying to find other people to do something else lmaoooo
