Erika Weighs In!

[Erika Landin]

Hello Finalists! First off, I want to say congratulations!! Big Brother is not an easy game to play. It's quite challenging, and you guys clearly played the game somewhat well to be sitting in the final three chairs tonight!

With that being said, I'm very torn on my vote tonight. VERY torn. As a player in this game, I want the best to win. I want the player who broke bones and crushed dreams to be the final houseguest standing. After all, that's what we all signed up to do. My problem is, that person just doesnt stand out for me. I'm going to share my thoughts and opinions about the game, and if I think of a question along the way, I'll jump in.

Big Brother is first and foremost a SOCIAL game. Danielle you truly examplified the social aspect of this game. Kudos to you. You're a woman after my own heart, because I played this game the same way.

What I love about Big Brother, is the PERCEPTION factor. It's a huge element to the game, that affects so much of the game.

For example, I wrote confessionals about how I thought I was running the house. I was VERY instrumental in the demise of Jamez, Enzo, and finally Lisa. I was the deciding vote on Jordan leaving the game, and then the whole little situation with Andrew, my bff! It was me going home in that endurance challenge, and my score sucked! Somehow, I managed to stay in the game! Wasn't dumb, Danielle. It was my ass or someone elses, I prefer his.

Anyways, I say all this to say- I thought I was in charge. You thought you were in charge. Now you're selling me on this whole issue of "I OWNED this game." When I hear this, I cringe. You own the game? Bitch, Please! You owned a part of the game, I'll give you that. That cocky attitude may have your ass taking third place in this game.

However, I sympathize with you because if I were in the FINAL 3, I would be having to show the same examples of how I played the game. The social game is one of the best games to play, but one of the hardest games to prove, because of the PERCEPTION factor.

And FYI- NOBODY trusted you, including me. You were the ONLY person I didnt give info too, and didn't talk to openly because people had reported to me many times how you copied/ pasted anything. You were a lose cannon, and I never wanted to get tangled up with you because you were never trustworthy. Good move on removing me from game, because I NEVER would have been loyal to you over just about anyone in the game. You were always someone I was prepared to cut lose because I knew you were so untrustworthy. You were playing my game, BITCH!

So, there's my take on Danielle! Girl, I wish you the best!! You are a woman after my own heart, and I want you to win at the moment! Two things that I think you may have fucked up on, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around:

You played this excellent social game, YET everyone HATES you. I can't wait for you to see the jury house comments. Like you're completely behind the 8 ball because people just dont want to reward a stupid bitch. Also, you played this AWESOME game yet you let one of the BIGGEST competitors go to the final 3 with you. Are you kidding me? You know how much respect Kevin has right now on the jury? Beating him is next to impossible. It's hard to phathom the idea of you being SO LOYAL to Kevin, the ONE person you chose to be loyal to was the biggest threat in this entire house, the one person that was going to put up the BIGGEST obstacle. FAIL.

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Kevin, babydoll!! Hi!! So, you know I love you! I feel extremely bad about everything that happened with you and I. I got you twice, and that was why I completely understand you taking me out.

Me blindsiding Lisa and then going against you and keeping Andrew pretty much fucked our relationship, and I completely understand that.

I guess I'm one of the ONLY people in the jury that's not on the "KEVIN ROCKS" train. We played different games, as did you and Danni.

You got just as far in this game as someone who NEVER won a challenge. You had to fight so hard every week to win challenges, because you're social game sucked really bad. Nobody had your back 100%, because you weren't around enough to make people feel secure like they could trust you. You pulled off the strategy, and I'm proud you made it! I just don't think you're AMAZING.

The problem with your strategy is IF you ever lost, or the WRONG person ever won a challenge- you were toast. That's very risky to play Big Brother like you did and then lose just because of you're lack of relationships.

Fortunately for you, you're up against someone the jury can't stand and thinks is the biggest bitch of the century, and someone most people find pathetic. If that was you're strategy, good job to you! You did well. I'm just not completely buying that was all planned out, or just the way the chips fell.

Once again, PERCEPTION. Some people think you're awesome because you won so many challenges. This isn't track and field. This is Big Brother. It's not about winning challenges, it's about the relationships and friendships you created.

I do think you're a nice guy though! I heart you! I think you were pure and honest, and a pretty damn good friend of mine. I'd be proud to call you the winner.

My question for you is- Had I kept Lisa, would it have been the three of us? Or was it always Danielle and you?

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Marvin- I feel very bad for you, because I dont think you're even in the running for this. I havent RULED out the idea, but I'm only one vote. What really sucks for you, is making it all the way to the final 3, and losing. You worked just as hard as the winner. You had to FIGHT through just as many comps, and just as many days. Just to get third.

Today you told me, "its not about the end game, its about the journey." Though, I find that to be somewhat true. Miley Cyrus says, "It's all about the climb." However, I find it a little insulting that you would stab me in the back, along with play the way you did, just to get to the end and say, well fuck, "It's all about the journey." Don't make me puke, bitch! FIGHT for this WIN, you god damn bastard. FIGHT for the title to win this game. Don't be a pussy and claim "I'm here for the journey." That's what LOSERS who dont feel they can win say. I dont want to hear that shit. You nominated me, you were responsible for my eviction! You better FIGHT damn hard to win. Don't take my final three spot, and give me this load of shit about the "journey." Bitch, Please!

So here you go: In 100 words, tell me WHY you DESERVE my vote.

BTW, I LOVE an underdog story. The other 2 still may manage to fuck up. Knowing Danielle, thats highly likely. And considering Kevin hasn't built relationships with alot of the people, it's a total possibility.

Besides, I love to hear people say, "Kevin and I owned this game." Then have to eat their words. Let's make it say "Marvin OWNED this game."

Goodluck to you all, and hopefully we will see who wins this bitch pretty soon!

[Danielle Reyes]

Due to their not really being a question for me, I guess I will still address my thoughts on Kevin being hard to beat here at the end. In my eyes, he doesn't deserve to win this game over me. I worked more to win this, and he just won the challenges, and tried to stay away from making relationships and backstabbing people. I was the bad cop, he was the good cop. The bad cop has to do soooo much more work socially, which in Big Brother should always be rewarded IMO. Like you said about perception being huge. I know everyone saw him as a challenge threat, and that he would be dangerous if he wasn't on your side in the end game. However, to actually win Big Brother..I don't think a challenge king should be given the title of winner just because they won so many challenges. The winner should be based on social game play, in my eyes.

Good luck making your choice, and if you do have any questions just let me know.

[Kevin Campbell]

Hey Erika! You know I still love you, honestly it's just a game and I thoroughly enjoyed all the conversations I had with you. A couple of comments, saying I got as far as someone who NEVER won a competition? Who is that? Danielle won 3 competitions and Marvin won 1. I know a lot of people are saying I wouldn't be here if I hadn't won competitions? I think that's kind of not true. The first veto I won was simply for me to keep the nominations the same, the second veto yet, was to save myself. Winning HOH the next week was two-fold, I wanted a secret power and to eliminate April. The other two competitions I won didn't happen until later in the game and it's not like those are the only reason I am here. Danielle winning competitions kept her alive just as much as mine winning kept me alive, had Lisa or Carol won the veto in the double eviction would Danielle have left? There is a good chance.

Was my social game the best? No. I won't sit here and tell you that. I work 40 hours a week and like to enjoy a lot of my free time not always on the computer. You were one of the few people I talked to about my relationship outside of the game with my boyfriend and before we broke up I spent a lot of time trying to make that work and while it didn't it still took up a lot of my time and energy. I made the effort when I needed to and I knew when I needed to be on here to save myself and to keep myself alive and I did that. You can bash my social game but I feel like it's funny that I have a terrible social game and Danielle's was amazing because she talked more and somehow....no one likes her? That's odd to me, maybe she should have talked less and then people would have respected her. I loved talking to Danielle, it sounds like other people didn't. So I am struggling with your idea of perception. I wasn't here to play track and field, but competitions are a huge part of the game when one person essentially gets to pick who leaves the game each round.

I didn't always need someone to have my back 100% of the time, I just needed the right people to have my back enough. Early in the game that was you and Lisa, later on that shifted to Danielle and Marvin.

Side Note:
Another thing about my social game is that I was an alias, as were many other people. On top of that we're playing as people from the show and not ourselves, that made it harder for me to connect with people. When I played a game as myself recently I spent more time Skyping and talking to people on Google Hangout than on AIM so it was kind of harder for me in that aspect as well.

My question for you is- Had I kept Lisa, would it have been the three of us? Or was it always Danielle and you?
As for your question. At the beginning of the game I honestly felt that Lisa/You/Me could run this. I felt like we were all intelligent, social and could win competitions and between us could influence any and all of the evictions votes in our favor. I didn't originally tell Danielle who I was because I was more confident in our alliance at the time. I then did tell Danielle about my real identity and as time went on I thought it would be smart for me to keep both of my alliances alive as long as possible. I felt like early on Danielle wasn't taken seriously and that she was likely to be evicted sooner than later. Plus I know Danielle can be cutthroat, so for me it was about playing it safe. Had you kept Lisa alive then I wouldn't have had reason to distrust you. I hadn't really picked one side over the other unless I needed to which ended up being sticking with Danielle because #1 she didn't stab me in the back and #2 she was the only person other than Marvin that didn't seem to want me dead. Had we all made it to the end though (which is what I originally wanted) and I had to choose, I would probably take Danielle and Lisa because I am confident that in any final scenario you would win against anyone. Which...I like winning things too! So I'd probably have not wanted you there so I could at least have a shot at winning. Plus between you and Lisa I just had more natural trust in Lisa for some reason, you always kind of scared me in a way that I thought you were going to kill everyone....but in a good way. And love you too gurl!

[Erika Landin]

Haha. Awesome!

Love you!! Hope that "kill everyone" is a nice comment! Lol!

Thanks for your honesty!

[Kevin Campbell]

Haha it is

[Dustin]

hi Eika.

[Erika Landin]

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[Lisa Donahue]

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I hate Erika for screwing our alliance over
*slaps Erika*

[Marvin Latimer]

"So here you go: In 100 words, tell me WHY you DESERVE my vote."

I deserve your vote because i could please you sexually in no way that Andrew ever could. I have a gigantic penis and i know how to use it.

I know thats less than 100 words so i'll just leave you with this to guarantee your vote for me.

[Erika Landin]

Prove it, Marvin!!
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