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As expected, Victor was evicted in Big Brother 18 Episode 8. Then Bridgette won HOH.

The Eight Pack is out of power, but the alliance is fading anyway. Frank wants to get rid of Tiffany. Da’Vonne wants to get rid of Frank.

As for Bridgette, she doesn’t even really want the power. She doesn’t want any enemies, but she tells Frank that her nominees are Tiffany & Corey or Nicole & Corey. Either of those nominations are going to make waves.

Frank thinks he’s funny, but some of his jokes can clearly be taken as offensive. The girls don’t need much excuse to break off into their own little group, but he’s providing them with enough ammo. He’s crossing the line, and in turn Da’Vonne’s overreacting. He apologizes and seems sincere, and she pretends to accept his apology.

Nominations
Paul
Tiffany

People have argued that Frank is the one in control. He didn’t get exactly what he wanted, but he talked Bridgette out of doing what she proposed. In any case, she can probably rest easy because they already have an ax to grind with Frank, making him a good shield to take all the hate for the week.

The roadkill competition requires them to learn the sounds each horn makes and then repeat the series of sounds they hear. Frank is the winner again.

Now he’s going to get his way with the nominations. He wanted Bronte up their alongside Tiffany, which Bridgette was never going to do. He does tell most of his alliance, half of whom have turned on him, but he doesn’t tell the HOH. If she finds out, he could easily be a replacement nominee.

Roadkill Nomination
Bronte

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HOH Paulie won the power of veto in Big Brother 18 Episode 7 and removed one of his nominees, Paul, from the block. In his place, the actual target was nominated, putting Victor in danger alongside Bronte and Tiffany.

Bridgette confirms to Frank that Tiffany doesn’t like him, but she doesn’t think that he has to worry about her personally trying to get rid of him (he ignores this last part). He spreads the rumor that she’s trying to get in on the all girl thing. He doesn’t know that her actual female alliance is not with the Spy Girls but with all of the girls in his own alliance.

Frank tells Paulie all about the Eight Pack. Yeah, go ahead, let a ninth person in on it. There are 14 (soon to be 13) people in the house. Plenty of room left. Nicole doesn’t mind, but when Da’Vonne finds out, she’s not happy. So business as usual.

Paulie and Zakiyah make their own five person alliance and include Corey, Nicole, and Da’Vonne. Also not satisfied with this arrangement, Da’Vonne warns James.

There’s been a lot of talk about voting out Tiffany that nobody really believed, but that has died out with all this new alliance drama.

Votes
Natalie: Victor
Paul: Bronte
Bridgette: Victor
Zakiyah: Victor
James: Victor
Da’Vonne: Victor
Frank: Victor
Michelle: Victor
Nicole: Victor
Corey: Victor

By a vote of 9-1, Victor has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Paul remained on the sinking ship, but he is alone. Natalie leaves him with harsh words, the mark of a bad player. Make your last impression your best in case someone comes back into the house or has to vote for you.

The dumb luck HOH competition requires them to serve balls into numbered slots. Bronte is eliminated during the first round. Michelle is next. Then Nicole and Da’Vonne. James is next, followed by Frank. Corey is next. Zakiyah is out, leaving one person from each team. Tiffany and the Freakazoids are eliminated. Natalie and Team Unicorn are the second team to go. Bridgette beats Paul to win HOH for Category 4.

This seems like bad news for the guys, who keep voting each other out. The easy out here is Paul.

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After Paulie won HOH in Big Brother 18 Episode 6, he decided he wanted to get rid of Victor. So he nominated Paul and Bronte. Then Victor won the roadkill competition and nominated Tiffany.

Victor chose Tiffany because he thinks she has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Little does he know she has basically no chance of going home. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from accusing the HOH and her allies of trying to backdoor her. Da’Vonne sees Vanessa’s paranoia and emotions coming back, and Frank doesn’t really like her anyway.

Tiffany will have to trust them because their plan hinges on her not winning veto. Perhaps not the smartest move, but it doesn’t seem like she has much choice. Of course, even if she is in a giant alliance, the way these people are talking (and the way she is behaving) doesn’t make her position seem overly secure.

Paul told Victor not to trust anyone, appropriate advice. In response, he ignored him did precisely the opposite, warning Paulie and Frank about his conversation with Paul. The information that Paulie has obtained is accurate, but this turn of events provides Paul with a reason to just let Victor sink on his own rather than dragging both of them down.

Da’Vonne is selected at random to participate in the veto competition. Paul gets to choose who he wants, and he picks Zakiyah, which should send a clear signal to Victor, but he convincingly plays dumb. Da’Vonne and Zakiyah join Paulie, Paul, Bronte, and Tiffany for veto.

Their challenge is to search through toe jam for fungi letters to use for spelling.

Paul: slouched (9 points)
Tiffany: twinkling (10 points)
Da’Vonne: redemption (9 points)
Zakiyah: duration (6 points)
Bronte: powerful (10 points)
Paulie: sustainability (10 points)

Somehow, the word sustainability (14 letters) is only enough to tie the words twinkling and powerful, but as the fastest person to complete the challenge, Paulie wins the power of veto. As for Tiffany, her word is not particularly impressive, but it could be seen as one that wasn’t trying to throw it, which she wasn’t.

In response to Paul not selecting Victor to participate in the competition, Paulie wants to remove him from the block.

Veto Ceremony
Paulie removes Paul from the block.
Paulie names Victor as the replacement.

It took him long enough, but perhaps Victor just woke up to what’s really happening. At least it didn’t take him as long as Jozea.

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Jozea unsurprisingly played himself out of the game and was eliminated in Big Brother 18 Episode 5.

Paul is stuck in the HOH competition with Zakiyah and Da’Vonne, who think that very slow and very steady wins the race. It doesn’t. Freakazoids are doing a pretty good job, but eventually Tiffany decides to just give up and let Corey do the last 1/4 of the challenge by himself. Then Corey starts to rush, and that team has been eliminated. James hops off as well because he doesn’t want to win since his team, other than himself, are highest on the list of targets.

In the end, Paulie’s team wins and lets him take the HOH, which means that Frank, Michelle, and Bidgette are also safe.

Eight Pack should be able to relax now because Paulie’s goals align with theirs. The minority alliance tried to get rid of him last week. Paulie probably shouldn’t trust the other side, but doing the dirty work for a massive alliance isn’t helping him either.

Paulie’s target is Victor, so he talks Paul into being a pawn.

Nominations
Paul
Bronte

Bronte isn’t the target either, but the plan is to backdoor Victor. Bronte has decided that she will not trust a single boy again. It’s statements like that which should worry the guys as their numbers dwindle.

The roadkill competition requires them to mark six items that add up to exactly $18. Multiple people tell us they have the skills to do this elementary school math. Victor is the one who wins, which at least prevents him from being the third nominee, if not the veto replacement nominee.

For some reason, he shares this information with Paulie and Frank. Paul warns him not to trust them because they’re all working together, which is true, but he doesn’t believe it. Every nominee he suggests is a member of the Eight Pack.

Roadkill Nomination
Tiffany

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To the delight of nobody, Paul won the power of veto in Big Brother 18 Episode 4, and Bridgette was nominated in is place by her teammate Frank. Of course, none of this really matters because Jozea is delusional and never shuts the hell up.

But first we have to go through the motions of pretending someone else may go home.

For his part, Jozea thinks he has at least six votes, but they decide to have him kiss Nicole’s butt in case there’s a tie. Sure, the person who you have said is your target from the beginning is going to help you.

Bridgette’s really bad attempt at spying (or rather Bronte telling everyone about it) comes out and makes people suspicious of her.

Nobody seems to really be paying attention to Paulie at all, other than Jozea and the few people who actually support his plan.

There’s also a new all female alliance named Fatal Five of Zakiyah, Da’Vonne, Tiffany, Nicole, and Michelle, which is the female subdivision of the Eight Pack alliance where the guys are outnumbered. They decide that Bridgette is becoming more of a problem than just the earlier spying, demonstrating the sort of cattiness that tears these alliances apart.

Meanwhile, Natalie has decided that she hates Victor for nitpicking at her because she can get any guy she wants. This leads to girl talk (plus James), which somehow causes Bronte to be told she’s clearly more useful in there with the other girls than talking with her poorly chosen alliance.

Votes
Victor: Paulie
Zakiyah: Jozea
Paul: Paulie
Frank: Jozea
Da’Vonne: Jozea
Michelle: Jozea
Bronte: Paulie
Natalie: Paulie
James: Jozea
Tiffany: Jozea
Corey: Jozea

With 7 votes, Jozea has been evicted from the Big Brother house. He would have been hard pressed to play a worse game. He says he feels most betrayed by Natalie, who voted for him to stay. Yes, he’s still getting everything wrong.

Despite the Greek tragedy that was Jozea’s game, he is going to get a chance to return. The first five people evicted will compete to try to win their way back into the house. Each week, there will be a battle back competition in which the loser goes home and the winner will return to compete again.

The HOH competition is a balance beam challenge in which they must return berries back to the start. If they fall, they are eliminated, which seems rather dumb for something like this. Natalie is eliminated in about a minute, and that’s probably how the rest of this is going to go.

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The stupid twists have still not concluded, and a new competition was announced in Big Brother 18 Episode 3. After Frank won the first ever roadkill competition, he and his allies made Paul the third nominee.

Frank is happy that he has a “big secret” about his nomination, though most of the house knows who did it.

Jozea is sure that Michelle won, just like he was sure before that Paulie won. He reads faces and is always right, except for every time so far. Keep guessing, and you’ll get it right eventually.

Next up, Paul and Victor set their sights on Bridgette, which they tell her alliance Bronte and Natalie about. They seem unfazed by that and still want to work with them.

This year, the HOH does all of the random drawing for veto. If she picks a nominee’s name, they get to choose who they want. I’m not sure if that’s a good change or a bad change, but it’s interesting. Da’Vonne is the first pick. Then Nicole draws her own name and picks Corey, letting everybody know how close she is getting to him. They join Paulie, Paul, Jozea, and Nicole for the first veto competition.

Their task is to spin around 15 times to add 45 seconds to their clocks, then make their way to the other side to stack 40 bones, making their way back before time expires. Paul wins the power of veto. At least Jozea didn’t win.

The interesting thing about this twist is that the HOH isn’t the one getting any more blood on her hands because it’s not her nominee. He has two paths to take, neither very appealing. He can either nominate someone from his team, or he can nominate someone from his alliance. Seeing as the alliance is made up of most of the house, it would seem Bridgette is the target unless someone volunteers.

Tiffany tells Paulie that Vanessa is her sister. C’mon. This really can’t be a surprise to anyone.

Jozea running his mouth with Da’Vonne is one of the things that got him in trouble in the first place. Now he tells Frank he’s the messiah, too.

Then he holds a not so secret meeting that excludes the HOH, Paulie, and a few other select people who will be told exactly what’s happening. An uninvited James decides to crash the meeting because he sees everybody going in there and wants to know what’s happening. Then Tiffany stumbles into the room as well. This is all just silly, and not just because most of these people don’t even like Jozea.

Paulie is a bit stressed to be sitting on the block, but he should be happy that he’s on the block against perhaps the most clueless person to have played the game in the last 17 seasons.

Not to be outdone by someone opening his mouth when he shouldn’t, Bronte reveals that Bridgette went upstairs to infiltrate the HOH room. I don’t think these three know the meaning of the word spy, despite their alliance name suggesting otherwise. As if Frank needed any more ammo to nominate her. It doesn’t seem plausible that she’ll go home against Jozea and Paulie, but they’re painting an unnecessary target on themselves. Then again, Jozea is a blatant weasel, while Bridgette is trying to be sneaky about it.

Veto Ceremony
Paul removes himself from the block.
Bridgette is the replacement nominee.

So much for teams. A Bridgette nomination seems moot to the game, but she’ll still wants revenge if she finds out, which she probably will since eight people know who the roadkill winner was.

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Glenn got the bad end of the twist to eliminate one person as quickly as possible in Big Brother 18 Episode 2 after he lost the competitions and was evicted. Then Nicole became HOH and nominated Jozea and Paulie.

There’s a new competition this year. Each week, the winner of the BB Roadkill competition will be able to nominate a third person anonymously. Another dumb twist. This is what happens when you feel the need to announce a new twist every night for the sake of creating a twist. This doesn’t so much add a new element of strategy as just throwing a random wrench into the works.

Da’Vonne is going around and trying to get people on her side, but some of these people don’t even really need convincing. So more than half the house is in an alliance now. That should last. Da’Vonne, Nicole, James, Frank, Michelle, Zakiyah, Corey, and Tiffany form the Eight Pack.

The first roadkill competition requires them to take off their clothes while trying to avoid letting go of buttons to keep their time running at normal speed. Time flows 30, 60, or 120 times faster depending on how many buttons they are not pressing. Frank is the winner.

Jozea starts spreading the rumor that Paulie won. He reads faces, and he’s always right.

Natalie wants to create an all female alliance, which never works. Natalie, Bronte, and Bridgette are the Spy Girls. Basically the least threatening alliance ever. As they are coming up with a name, Tiffany is in the hammock sleeping, except not really.

Because he’s allied with most of the house, Frank’s victory is not a secret for long and becomes a group decision.

For their mystery punishment, Category 4 must wear nothing but pixels for the rest of the week.

Team Unicorn is safe due to their win at the first competition. Freakazoids are safe because Nicole is HOH. When factoring in the giant alliance and the people who are already on the block, that means Paul and Bridgette are the only likely choices for nomination, and Bridgette is on Frank’s team.

Roadkill Nominee
Paul

Eight Pack controls the vote this week, so the nominee may be moot. They have just added another obnoxious person to the potential hit list. It’s really hard to top Jozea, though, despite the fact that he’s convinced himself that everybody loves him.

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We started the season with a bunch of lame twists in Big Brother 18 Episode 1 and left off with the losingest team of Nicole, Corey, Tiffany, and Glenn needing to square off against each other for eviction.

Tiffany tells Da’Vonne her shocking secret that everybody already figured out, that she is Vanessa’s sister. The only way someone would not know is if they didn’t watch last year.

Nicole talks Corey into letting her be HOH, making him think it’s his idea, and he seems to fall for it.

The challenge to determine the first person to go home requires them to gather coconuts from a tree on their unstable islands and put them in the slots to spell out SOS. Nicole wins. Tiffany places second. Glenn looks like he’s going to take the third spot, but then he knocks his coconuts off as Corey pulls his flag. Glenn has been evicted from the Big Brother house.

Glenn losing a competition is somewhat predictable, though he did create a dramatic photo finish at the end. His background as a detective might have made him an interesting player, despite the fact that he’s 50 and leaving behind a group of people with an average age of 26.

Regardless of who is HOH, all three people from the team will be safe this week, which makes being HOH pretty stupid because it’s easy enough to let some other idiot get blood on their hands this way. Nicole “reluctantly” agrees to be HOH, wanting to keep the returning players off the radar. Paul’s not happy with Corey, but it’s pretty safe to say Paul won’t be happy regardless.

Victor spills his guts to Nicole, throwing Jozea under the bus in the process. Not that Jozea won’t harm himself by running his mouth. First he calls himself the messiah for the newbies, then he tells Da’Vonne that he wants to get rid of the returnees with Nicole being first.

Nicole’s plan is to nominate Paulie as a pawn because he’s a strong competitor who could win veto. Such a giant target to make a pawn. Big Brother 101, which the “veterans” should know. Don’t nominate anyone you don’t want to go home.

Nominations
Jozea
Paulie

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