statistics – Page 2 – A Piece, of the Sky

If production had called the violation, in the heat of the moment, fine. But there is a statute of limitations here, like in sports. Production can’t go back and reset the entire week, after-the-fact. That wouldn’t be fair to everyone. ‘Fairness’ is also relative. We live in a “random,” quantum world and a game, as a controlled environment, can mitigate that randomness, only so much.

The moral of the story is that no matter what twists are thrown in: battle-backs, power-apps, hacker comps – bad players will be bad players and skillful players will be skillful players. It will always come down to how one plays the game.

I blame Scottie for the absolute blow-out of this week. Scottie was the best one, to come back in, from the jury house. However, Foutte is going to Foutte (that’s a new verb now) – so, even Foutte’s best player is the worst player, in a house of mostly Level 6 players.

Scottie just wasted this opportunity. From the time he came back in, championing #Scyler, you knew Scottie was going to bungle this. He was ‘just happy to be here.’ But that’s not enough! Even if you don’t have a traditional goal, you must still have a goal. You have to be motivated by something.

Scottie is a super-fan, but it seems like he is simply watching the show, from inside the house! Scottie just didn’t have that groundbreaking, epiphany moment, like JC had last week, when JC knew that he didn’t just want to make Final Four or Final Two, but he wanted to win the game. Second-best just isn’t going to cut it.

Speaking of JC, if I had known JC was so smitten by Tyler, I wouldn’t have rated him so highly. JC is still hanging on, by his fingernails, to the ledge of my Final Five, because JC and Brett are beginning to make plans, but JC needs to realize that Tyler, Angela and Kaycee don’t owe him anything.

Yes, JC stuck his neck out, and worked as a mole, collecting information for Level 6, from Foutte. But, as I highlighted in my last analysis, JC hasn’t had to touch the block and he hasn’t had to take on the ‘face’ of the organization, as HOH. Level 6 and Tyler essentially shielded JC from going home, during the first month. JC holding his work, for Level 6, over their heads, is already rubbing Tyler and Angela the wrong way.

JC also keeps confronting Tyler about this Tangela nonsense. As I alluded to, last time, what do you think Tyler is going to tell you, JC?? Tyler is never going to admit that #Tangela exists! Every time JC asks Tyler those mega-obvious questions Tyler is going to deny, deny, deny. Never, in a thousand years, will Tyler ever say ‘yes’ to your questions, JC!

Yes, it is a bad strategy for Tyler to continue to claim Tangela doesn’t exist. Tyler should just own it and say ‘Yes, what are you going to do about it?’ Then Tyler can move on and go back to the game, because Tangela has really distracted him and made Tyler mush – highly strategic mush, but still mush.

However, as long as Tyler continues to obfuscate, he’s not going to give JC a different answer. The time for talking is over. It’s time for JC to do something about it! Get over this crush on Tyler, JC! Tyler isn’t going to take JC to the Final Two! He was never going to take JC to the Final Two! JC is finally understanding this, but by the time JC and Brett act, it may be too late.

Which brings us to Brett: as the Trickster archetype, Brett is actually more of a beta person or an omega person. JC needs to take the lead here. The problem is that the two of them are both wringing their hands, like Hamlet, afraid to make a move!

JC and Brett keep hoping that someone, like Hay or Sam, can be tricked into not targeting each other, and can be convinced to take out Tyler or Angela, instead – for JC and Brett. But these two have to recognize that no one is going to do it for you! There are only about three weeks left in this game. Three weeks to half-a-million dollars!! Wake up! Take out Tyler, the huge sitting duck.

This doesn’t fit the exact definition, but Swaggy: JODY’s got your girl! A comparison could be made to when Hay spent five hours, at night, hanging out with Brett in the hammock, enraging Fessy.

I have never seen such a bad case of the mist. After the eviction, Bay ran to Tyler, like he was her one port, in the storm. She told him everything about the power, including that she can only change the noms before the HOH nominates people and that her power isn’t just good for this week, but until the final eight! That was a ton of strategic information.

Tyler and Angela are both trying to not spook Bay, so that she doesn’t use her power, and so that she can eventually be backdoored. Bay, Level 6 and the independent people don’t like you. Be cordial, but don’t give out strategic information to these people!

Bay’s rationale for not telling her alliance (except for Fessy) was because she wanted to use the power on herself, and not on any of her alliance members (selfish, I know). But by that very definition, it means that she would use the power on Tyler (and Rachel, if she were still here). What is she doing?

As every superfan has beaten to death, only four votes could come from Foutte – Scottie, Hay, Fessy and RS, and only two votes could come from what’s left of Level 6 – Angela, and Kaycee (since the nominees, Brett and Rachel, couldn’t vote).

So, that leaves three votes unaccounted for, and what do you know – just by magic, there are three independent people left in the house – Tyler, Sam, and JC.

Tyler already claimed his vote, to keep Brett – but then these two other votes just magically happened to be there, for him to fall in with, like there had been a plan ahead of time, or something.

However, for Bay and for Foutte, those two rogue votes couldn’t have come from the two independents left. No, oh no – it must be Scottie, Hay or RS. So dumb.

Bay wants to fit in so much with the pretty people, of Level 6, that she is willing to trust Brett, Tyler, JC and Angela, over RS, Scottie, Hay, common sense and even statistical evidence (The numbers just don’t add up, to fit your hypothesis, Bay!)

Meanwhile,

The Winner of the Hacker Comp can:

1) change one of the noms before veto comp

2) pick a replacement nom before the veto comp

3) pick someone to play in the veto comp

4) on eviction night, he or she can eliminate one vote

The downside is that the HOH can pick the hacker as a replacement nom, after the POV, if someone comes down from the block, or change the Hacker’s noms back to what they were originally.

Angela, the Terminator, as expected, put up Scottie and RS – two members of Foutte – with a plan, with Tyler and Level 6, to backdoor Bay.

Bay didn’t use her power, before the noms, because she was lured into a false sense of security, by Tyler and Angela. Once again, so dumb.

But then, Hay won the hacking comp!

And better yet, she put Tyler up!

I REPEAT: Hay put Tyler up! And removed Scottie from the block!

Tyler couldn’t use his cloud power app, because the hacker ceremony was neither the HOH ceremony, nor the POV ceremony!

If the noms stay the same, and Tyler is still up there, next to RS, come eviction night, common sense will take over, and the HGs will realize Tyler is way more of a threat, than RS, who doesn’t even know what 30 times 60 is. Vote out Tyler!

Of course, all of this can still be reversed, by the vicissitudes of the powers, the hacker powers and most importantly, the POV comp and ceremony. However, I am happy to see someone finally take a shot at Tyler. The vampire isn’t immune! I have newfound faith in the game. Don’t write out a check, to Tyler, for $500K, just yet.