BBCAN4 - Mitch Moffit Exit Interview

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April 8, 2016

Prior to the returning houseguest twist, did you feel as though people were starting to catch on to your game?

Mitch: A bit. Even in week two people were saying “Mitch, you can win the game”. Many people would say those kind of words to me. It became obvious that everyone was aware that I was well positioned in the house and maybe not a lot of people would have chosen me as their first three targets. I was aware of that. I didn’t quite work out when or how I would have switched that up but it was on my mind whether or not Kelsey had come back into the house.

Do you think that you would have been in this same position had Loveita returned over Kelsey?

Mitch: It’s harder to know. A lot of people didn’t want Loveita to come back because it made things so unknown. The same goes for me, especially hearing that she told Kelsey all this information and she kind of told Kelsey “you should go after Mitch” it makes me think that if she had came back she may have had that agenda as well for whatever reason. She may feel like I betrayed her. I did vote her out and lose her trust there. I think the whole house if Loveita had come back would have been a little bit more on edge cause no one knew how to predict which events would unfold from there. I can’t say for sure where I would fit into that mix. Maybe it would have been better, maybe it would have been worse, but it would have been less certain for everyone.

When you were leaving the house you said if Jared, Kelsey and Raul are at the end you will vote for them to win. How much of this was true and how much was done for game purposes?

Mitch: It’s both. It is true if they make it to the end I am happy to vote for them. I wont say that I would absolutely vote for them. It depends who they are sitting beside. I will vote for whoever had the better game regardless of how they played with me. If they are there, they definitely didn’t lose my vote cause of last week. At the same time, it was a nice little jab on my way out. Makes their game a little harder, considering Kelsey made my game a lot harder, just to let everyone know don’t rely on bringing them cause you know they don’t have my vote. I want you to know that my vote is fully willing to go to them so get rid of them while you can if you plan to.

Who do you feel will most regret voting to evict you?

Mitch: It really depends a lot on who wins this next HoH. My gut tells me the brothers. I think they were the most blind to what was happening. They are a major threat physically and a lot of people don’t really trust them. That they were so willfully blind to the trio and what they had said…I’m not privy to everything that was said and I can’t say with absolute certainty which deals were the real deals but I really wouldn’t be surprised, especially if a triple comes up, that the brothers are going to regret their decision. I could have been a target in front of them and I offered them a deal if I was there that both Nikki and I would try to save them in the triple. My guess is them but of course if they win this round out with HoH a lot can change.

Would you have followed through on the three part deal that you offered to the brothers?

Mitch: Yeah, absolutely. It may have been a little bit harder for Nikki to follow through if I had been on the block next to them. Who else is going to save them in a triple when everyone else has bigger relationships with other people in the house cause in a triple you need other people to save you. I would have been okay offering that, especially cause I knew moving forward that I would have to manage that threesome and stick to that deal to a degree and manage that, trying to go after at least a couple of them. A triple is probably going to happen, if it happens at all, in the next few rounds and I would be willing to keep the brothers for the sake of taking out one or two of that trio.

What does your friendship with Nikki mean to you and are you surprised that the two of you became as close as you did?

Mitch: I am totally surprised that we became so close. I think that it has to do with I love that she was just herself and couldn’t be anything but herself. I know that she is over the top and she has a low tolerance for something going out of her comfort zone. I’m not sure exactly how it developed but I feel like in the first round, especially after she felt like she was losing her touch with Tim, I was there for her and wanted to be there for her emotionally. When I needed her, she was there for me. I think it was a mutual respect for each other’s personalities. It was definitely meaningful to me in the house, cause it’s hard when you don’t have a close friend. At a certain point in the last few rounds, I realized Nikki will never vote against me and that’s something that not a lot of people in here have. It was pretty nice.

From a game perspective, how far would you have been willing to take Nikki?

Mitch: I’m not sure. I don’t know if I would have ever intentionally cut Nikki because I think she would have the hardest time out of anyone winning this game. She wasn’t overly strategic in any way. There is still time for her to play more of a role if she wants to. She was getting more and more into it as I was in the crossfire. She was willing to start talking to people and willing to start talking about strategy more and more. In that regard, maybe she would have been someone that I could have taken as a reliable vote and maybe even taken her to the end. I’m not sure that I would have. I would have been fine going against somebody in the end who was more of a threat to have that true competition in the end game. It’s hard to tell. I don’t think in any of the near rounds I ever would have ever went after Nikki. It would have came down to if we had made it to the Final 4 or 3, figuring out what I thought was the better move there.

You admitted that you played both sides. However, you did not seem to go out of your way to get Tim on your side. Why was that?

Mitch: In the initial stages of the game, I was extremely hesitant about Tim. Everyone was so enamoured with him. It made me so skeptical. I could tell he had more to him than just this fun loving, always truthful guy. I knew he was such a thinker and he was creative. That was scary to me. I’m not sure exactly why I didn’t spend more time trying to build that relationship. I think in the first many weeks we just didn’t have anything to connect over. Slowly over time, in the last couple of weeks, we kind of found that we actually both love science and science communication and conservation and things like that. We had a chance to actually connect and I think it was a little too late. I don’t think Tim is playing based on emotion. Even down to the wire, I knew there were still opportunities to change his mind in my favour. Even though it didn’t work in my favour, I don’t think Tim is ever a closed book.

Had you remained in the game, how deep into the game would you have been willing to let Tim get?

Mitch: If I had stayed in the house, it would have changed my perspective a lot. I think Tim was my biggest fear in the beginning but could have been able to be so much more in the second half. I still would have kept a close eye on him cause I know he is a bit devious and I know he is smart. I think knowing that that threesome would have been at my heels, I would have wanted to use Tim to take myself farther. If I had to take him far in the game, I was willing to do that.

When you told Raul that are a YouTuber, what was the motive behind that?

Mitch: Part of it was just for fun. Before I left, I didn’t want Raul to hate me. It was sort of a shtick for me to pretend I was pissed at them to make them mad at me. I had established that among everyone else and I kind of had a vibe that I’m not entirely sure how the votes will land and it is a possibility that it is going to be a 4-4, so Raul became a piece to me that was going to be potentially important if I could work his vote to change his mind. I told him that as a way to reconnect and show him I am his friend and kind of share something special with him. I didn’t actually anticipate him taking it the way that he did and turning it into maybe he will keep me because it might help in the outside world to be on YouTube or do anything like that. That kind of felt weird to me and I kind of regretted it in some ways. In a lot of ways it was just nice for me to finally tell someone in the house. I kind of was getting his advice on should I tell everyone else or would that hurt my chances this round. When you are in there, there still is so much personal about yourself. It was hard for me not to share one of the most significant things in my life, which is AsapSCIENCE and the job I have and my relationship with my boyfriend in that job. It was kind of nice to be able to reveal that to him. Part of the motive was just pure self-gratification to share it with someone and there was also the motive to maybe rekindle one last fibre of our relationship so if it came down to a tie that there was a potential that may he would reconsider.

Would you have preferred to be the first juror like you are or to have been able to go home to your family and friends immediately?

Mitch: It’s hard. I am happy and proud to have made it to jury. Even just seeing my boyfriend and so many of my friends and family that were last night, it’s really hard to accept that now I wont get to see them. There is so many things that are significant to me outside of this world as well. I want to continue my work and that’s what gives me a lot of satisfaction, so that really is the hardest part for me now. I love this experience and am never going to have it again so I’m willing to accept that I will go through some emotional strife to have this experience. You only get so much time in your life to sit alone and think and be away from technology and be away from the world. I will never get that again. I will get my boyfriend and my friends and technology back. That is kind of the only way I can spin it to be very positive in my own brain. Of course, having a final influence in the game will be fun as well.

Who would you like to see in the Final 2 and why?

Mitch: I’m not sure who I would actually want to see. I want to see two people there who play the game well. My perception of people who have played the game really well so far are Tim and Jared but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of time for other people to get their games geared up. Maybe some people have played the under the radar game similar to I and they are going to really come out strong now. I would be happy to see that. If they make it to the end, I am willing to look at their game and see what changed, how they were adaptable and how it changed over the course of the game. That would be more exciting to me that someone was able to modify their game throughout instead of just floating or instead of just being this big target the whole time. As much as I see Tim and Jared being good players right now, I wouldn’t be upset if they weren’t there. My vote will be open to who it comes down to.

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