I had no ill will against hc but had to survive. Everyone was doing random throwaways until xaldin added a 2nd vote to hc's against me. No big deal at the time, but relatively soon afterward, 3rd and 4th votes came my way. The only other serious contender was xaldin, who I had voted earlier, basically at random as a joke, and expected no follow ups. At that time, the two votes against me seemed innocuous. When the xaldin drive seemed stalled, I switched to HC just to try and save myself.
I doubt that HC meant to start a bandwagon against me, but one did get going, and fast at that.