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The pawn game continued in Big Brother 17 Episode 9, as Vanessa nominated James against John, telling John once again to throw the competition. James is still on the block and is an actual target, and the other target is Jeff. Audrey? Nope.

Jeff continues to put his foot in his mouth with Austin. He keeps pushing the twin twist, and now he thinks they should get rid of Shelli because of her relationship with Clay.

Vanessa chooses Shelli to participate in the power of veto. John picks Austin (houseguest’s choice). James selects Audrey.

This seems to work out perfectly for Vanessa. These people will all keep things the same for her so that she does not have to nominate anyone else. There are a lot of upset people, though, as there is again a belief supposedly that Audrey is supposedly the target.

Their challenge is to roll giant dice and return to the platform with the winning number on top of their dice. Vanessa challenges Audrey and does an over the top job of throwing it. John challenges Audrey as well, and he’s not fooling around, eliminating Audrey, tossing Vanessa’s preferred winner out the window. James picks Austin but loses to him. Shelli doesn’t want to win either, and she loses to her choice, Austin. The final battle is between John and Austin, who has decided after multiple wins he no longer wants to win. Once again, John wins the power of veto.

Well, that really didn’t work out how the HOH wanted, again. Vanessa, who tried throwing the competition to Audrey in the first round, blames everybody else for this. Perhaps if she’d tried harder, she may have won. Probably not, but at least she would have had a chance. I’m not sure she even really had anybody else onboard with her plan. Everybody seemed to want someone else to be the fall guy, and the person who is seemingly her closest ally, Austin, would rather Jeff go home than James.

And no, let’s not take stupid pills again and ask John to not use the veto because that’s not going to happen.

Gronk’s lame takeover is to make everyone party all day long. At least it won’t impact the game any.

For the first time, Vanessa makes it obvious she is not planning to nominate Audrey. She says it’s for a cause, and perhaps it is, at least in part.

Clay plays along with the others. Yeah, he had no idea Audrey was not the target. Austin does as well. Jason buys Clay’s lies but not Austin’s.

Austin’s been looking for an excuse to nominate Jeff, and he gets one. Jeff tells Clay not to trust Austin. Clay goes right to Austin with this information. Then Austin makes a scene, at the urging of Vanessa, who wants an excuse to nominate someone other than Audrey. It’s all forced, but it seems to work.

Gronk will take someone on his party ship. The HOH winners, battle of the block winners, and power of veto winner “compete” for this “luxury competition” prize. Meg wins by randomly choosing the right cup.

John uses the power of veto on himself, and Vanessa returns on the attack against Jeff.

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Da’Vonne became the latest person to sabotage her own game in Big Brother 17 Episode 8, and then Vanessa and Austin won HOH.

Liz (or Julia) tells Vanessa what everybody already knows. She’s a twin. This information gets back to Clay and Shelli and then the completely clueless Austin, who is apparently the only person who had no idea about this twist.

The house wants Audrey out, supposedly, but that isn’t going to happen again this week. The targets are Jeff, Jason, or James. Unlike last week, Austin and Vanessa are actually working together to hatch their plans or at least her plan.

In addition to the differences in weight between the twins that has already been pointed out, dentist John has noticed something else. One of the twins has a crown on one of her front teeth, while the other one does not. They sure botched this twist.

Jeff thinks he’s helping himself by revealing this to Austin. Little does he know Austin is finally in the loop and working with the twins.

This week’s plan involves John being a pawn and throwing the competition. How original.

Austin’s Nominations
Meg
Jason

Vanessa’s Nominations
James
John

Meg and Jason, who are supposed to be the ones expected to win, don’t believe that they can actually win, viewing themselves therefore as the targets. Between them two, Meg would obviously be the pawn, but she’s very angry about being in that position again.

The battle of the block requires them to find clothing items and return them to people in a foam party. In theory, John is supposed to be throwing this, but once again, all he has to do is sit back and watch his train wreck of a partner lose it for him. James tells us he’s not into fashion. Meg and Jason win by a landslide, dethroning Austin as HOH.

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John won the power of veto and pulled himself off the block in Big Brother 17 Episode 7, forcing Shelli to admit her plan to more people than she wanted and nominate Meg as a pawn against Da’Vonne.

Jason’s praying for some hope, but he seems pretty sure he’s the only one who cares to keep Da’Vonne around.

Kathy will be calling them 15 times, so each person will be able to answer once. The “random” person to answer the 7th call will win the power to void 3 people’s votes.

Clay says 7 is his lucky number. Da’Vonne doesn’t want it that way. It’s her lucky number, too. So she answers the call. Totally believable that this is just a coincidence.

Now she needs to secure 4 more votes since Jason is a lock. Audrey seems like one of the more likely choices. If Da’Vonne goes, Audrey goes right back to the top of the list, where she should have been this week. John and Vanessa have also agreed to vote out Meg, but they don’t seem to have much reason to do so.

The twin twist went off without a hitch when they first did it over a decade ago, but it’s not working now. The fact that it’s been done before is a problem, but also Liz and Julia have been busted because they don’t look exactly identical.

This gives Da’Vonne some ammo. She tells Liz that “people” (such as Da’Vonne) are saying she is a twin. This doesn’t seem like a smart move to tell everybody she’s a twin and then say you want to work together.

Da’Vonne’s choices for votes that do not count are:

Becky
Jeff
Jackie

The lack of Clay seems a little odd. Perhaps she was just trying to throw him off the scent, but it’s not like he doesn’t know.

Votes
Jason: Meg
Clay: Da’Vonne
John: Da’Vonne
Audrey: Meg
Austin: Da’Vonne
Liz: Da’Vonne
Vanessa: Da’Vonne
James: Da’Vonne
Steve: Da’Vonne

By a vote of 7-2, Da’Vonne has been evicted from the Big Brother house. She sunk herself. She seemed to be in a good position early on, but then she flipped out at multiple people, including her allies, for seemingly little reason. Rather than acknowledging where she went wrong, she just keeps calling everybody cowards, claiming that they don’t want to evict a transgender houseguest. Perhaps some don’t, but there are very valid reasons why Da’Vonne is talking to Julie now.

It’s time for another takeover. Great. This week’s participant is New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski.

The dumb luck HOH competition involves catapulting balls into giant cups with numbers in them. This is easy to throw if you don’t want to win, but there’s not a lot you can do to win if you really want to win.

Liz scores 23. Jackie sucks. So does John. James ties Liz at 23. Audrey gets 17, which Julie tells her is good enough before realizing the rules. Clay gets a 6. Jeff scores 14. Becky is another 0. Austin takes the lead with 28. Jason gets another 0. Meg is barely in with a 1. Steve is in and out of 28, which gives him a 0. Vanessa is the third person to score 23.

Liz, James, and Vanessa must participate in a tie breaker. Liz scores 22. James scores 35, the highest so far. Vanessa gets 52, almost the highest number there is. Vanessa joins Austin as HOH.

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The two HOHs plotted to backdoor Audrey in Big Brother 17 Episode 6. But Clay had other plans, convincing Shelli to try to get rid of Da’Vonne instead, nominating her alongside John to throw the battle of the block against Becky’s pawns Jason and Steve.

Becky’s completely satisfied with being dethroned. Now Shelli can do her dirty work. Little does she know Shelli has no such plan.

Da’Vonne is positive that John threw the competition. Though he planned to do that, he didn’t have to. All he had to do was follow her stupid strategy of turning on every single monitor at the same time.

Audrey has alienated herself by playing too hard and being obvious about it, so now her last resort is to eavesdrop as much as she can.

Shelli chooses Clay for the veto competition (houseguest’s choice). John picks Meg at random. Da’Vonne picks Steve. This seems to be the best case scenario for Shelli and Clay.

Audrey has now found a new friend. Clay. He wants her to know he’s saving her, or at least he’s trying to get rid of Da’Vonne instead.

The veto competition is to listen to a list of items and then find the missing item to bring to Kathy Griffin’s voice. John challenges Da’Vonne and wins. He nominates Steve to play, and Steve challenges Clay. Clay narrowly wins and picks Meg, who challenges Shelli. Shelli is first to ring in but she is incorrect, and Meg wins without even trying. Meg nominates John, who challenges her and then beats her. In the final round, John is again up against Clay. John wins the power of veto.

Now Shelli is in a position she did not anticipate. She’s going to have to pick a replacement nominee.

Shelli finally reveals to Becky her plan. It’s a little late for that. Really terrible planning. Propose this strategy beforehand, even if just as a possible option. Don’t only tell it when you have no other choice.

Oh, and they want John to not use the power of veto. Now that’s just stupid.

The plan remains to nominate a pawn alongside Da’Vonne. In theory, this should work. But this is Big Brother 101 here. If you are going to nominate people, make sure it’s someone you are willing to lose. Put Audrey up against Da’Vonne, and you win either way, even if one is less preferable.

The proposed pawn is Liz. Austin doesn’t want to lose her, so he convinces Vanessa to get Meg nominated instead. His claim is that Da’Vonne is turning the house against them, but really Da’Vonne seems lost. Shelli likes this plan. Who’s going to vote out sweet Meg? How about anybody who wants to break up the couple that just snuck around behind their backs with a plan that differed from what the entire house wants?

Then somewhere along the way, Clay has this new thought. Maybe they should nominate Audrey.

John uses the power of veto on himself because the plan not to was dumb. In his place, Shelli nominates Meg.

Logically, Da’Vonne should be gone because she’s too volatile, but this could easily backfire.

Of course, there’s still one last stupid twist to play out this week that may influence the outcome. Da’Vonne needs 7 votes to stay. That drops down to 5 if someone on her side “wins” the advantage.

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Jace was predictably voted out in Big Brother 17 Episode 5, then Shelli and Becky won HOH.

Audrey tried to blame Vanessa as being the mastermind of an all girl alliance. Then she warned Vanessa that this rumor has been started about her, saying that Da’Vonne was the one who started it. If you’re going to spread rumors, don’t tell the person you’re spreading them about, whether you blame someone else or not. This leads to a house meeting, where the truth comes out, and Audrey is now public enemy number 1. She gets points for playing hard… but not smart.

Like last week, both HOHs have the same target, and both go around telling the rest of the house there are going to be pawns.

Audrey is the clear target, but Clay has another target in mind, someone who he knows for a fact he can’t trust, as opposed to someone who everybody probably can’t trust. He wants to target Da’Vonne. The question is whether the sneaky person is more dangerous than the big mouth, but in Da’Vonne’s case, I think he has made a fair assessment of where she stands.

Clay volunteers to be nominated alongside Da’Vonne and be a pawn and throw the competition. That’s not a smart plan, and it’s not something Shelli wants to do. They need another sucker, and that would be John, who they’d better hope will play along.

Becky tells the story of how she got hit in the face by a train, and in the year since she has fully recovered and did not need plastic surgery.

Shelli’s Nominations
John
Da’Vonne

Becky’s Nominations
Jason
Steve

Becky believes that everything went according to plan, and it did. Just not her plan. She is completely unaware that an alternate plan has been hatched behind her back.

Their challenge is to correctly point 9 cameras at the correct objects, figuring out which camera feeds to which screen. Steve and Jason seem like a pretty inept pair, but this competition has no physical elements to it. They also have a decent strategy of only starting two cameras at a time. Da’Vonne, meanwhile, wants to start every single camera. John is just going to sit back and watch her sabotage them with a terrible strategy. Jason and Steve win the battle of the block, dethroning Becky as HOH.

The first thing out of Jason’s mouth is that he wants to do whatever he can to save Da’Vonne. Therein lies the problem with this plan, although John is not exactly a big target. The best thing people can come up with against him is that they don’t believe he is a dentist. But the way Shelli handled these nominations, I’m not sure she considered the votes, whereas the Audrey vote seemed pretty solid.

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For all the drama of Big Big Brother 17 Episode 4, what happened was exactly what was expected. Steve won the power of veto, and Jace was nominated in his place.

Remember when Y2K was happening? Jace tells us his nomination is worse than that. James says it’s not personal. Jace disagrees.

He begins his aggressive campaign to save himself. Everybody plays along with his hopelessness. Audrey has finally had enough. She tells him that everybody knew he was the target. So he turns his sights on her because he’s not happy that she is trying to tell him the truth. After living in denial for a while, he finally acknowledges his fate.

Now we find out who is playing with an identical twin. It’s that girl, uh, what’s her name? Well, it’s a good thing they put her name on the screen. Liz has a twin named Julia.

Votes
Jeff: Jace
Da’Vonne: Jace
Jason: Jace
Audrey: Jackie
Steve: Jace
Liz/Julia: Jace
Austin: Jace
Meg: Jace
John: Jace
Clay: Jace
Becky: Jace
Shelli: Jace
Vanessa: Jace

By a vote of 12-1, Jace has been evicted from the Big Brother house. When one person votes against the entire house’s obvious plan and basically the entire house is in an alliance, it’s a deliberate attempt to cause controversy.

Jason and Da’Vonne go out of their way to be jerks to Jace as he departs. This is going to bite them if they keep doing it, but Jace has no chance of further impacting the game.

Kathy Griffin is ready for a takeover for some reason. She will be calling the house. The person who answers the 7th phone call will receive the power to prevent 3 votes from counting at next week’s vote. Well. That is pretty stupid.

The HOH competition requires them to assemble a promotional billboard for Kathy Griffin, so basically complete a puzzle. I guess this is supposed to be a fast paced competition since they are running back and forth to retrieve puzzle pieces and bring them to the other side, but it’s kind of dull.

Becky is the first HOH; Shelli is the second HOH.

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John & Becky won the battle of the block in Big Brother 17 Episode 3, leaving Steve & Jackie on the block and dethroning Jason as HOH. Supposedly, Steve and Jackie are both pawns to get rid of Jace, but neither should feel very safe.

His alliance isn’t big enough yet, so now James also wants to work with Meg and Clay. Basically half the house. Yeah, this will last.

Austin is starting to notice that people seem annoyed by Jace. It was pretty obvious that as allies go, Jace was not a good one. His resolution is not to drop him but to form an alliance with James and Audrey that neither is interested in honoring.

James chooses Becky at random to play in the veto competition. Jackie picks John. Steve picks Jason (houseguest’s choice).

Da’Vonne is counting everthing, which is pretty smart, but she’s being stupidly obvious about it. Jeff asks her what she’s doing, and she freaks out because, well, I don’t know why exactly. Then she decides Clay is also an appropriate target to flip out at, apparently because he sent Jeff into the room to spy on her. He tells her that her attitude is just so negative. Then she’s crying in the diary room. And then she gets annoyed with Audrey, too. So much drama.

Their veto challenge is to dig through gold in water and mess to find letters and spell. James manages to come up with a 9 point word. Becky spelled lovesick, a 7 point word. Jason spelled zones (really?), a 6 point word. Jackie spelled judge, equally as bad. Steve spelled trombonist, a ridiculous 12 point word that pretty much nobody else would have spelled. John spelled boogers, a 7 point word. Steve has won the power of veto.

Now Audrey wants Shelli to join their dysfunctional alliance. Jeff, too. Neither HOH likes that she’s making these decisions on her own. Jeff’s not happy either, and Meg would like to know why Audrey is dragging him out of bed with her.

Steve uses the power of veto to save himself. In his place, James nominates Jace as planned. Seems like much ado about nothing earlier, but it will end up mattering eventually.

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Jason became the second HOH of the season in Big Brother 17 Episode 2, and Phil brought us two rather lackluster The Amazing Race contestants in Jeff and Jackie.

Jason doesn’t think John is a dentist either. I don’t get it. If you’re going to make up a story, why a dentist?

Who’s ready for a takeover? I am not. Now Phil reveals the rest of his “cliffhanger”. It’s the BB fast forward. Their games will fast forward to next week. Additionally, they will be able to pick one person each to save.

Vanessa is looking for someone to offset her skills and wants a physical threat to ally with. Da’Vonne does not want to pick one of her existing allies, leaving Shelli and Audrey hanging.

Da’Vonne saves Liz. Vanessa picks Austin. This really shrinks the pool of potential nominees.

Da’Vonne, who just declined to save her allies, now has decided she is the one who should not trust Shelli. She’s worried that Shelli is getting too close to Clay, a valid concern, and as such she needs to be on the “outer ring” of the alliance.

Austin and Jace are in an alliance. I think. I’m not sure if they are serious or not. Austin figures Jace is just a shield whose big mouth will get him in trouble. That hardly makes him a great ally.

Due to her gender identity, Audrey is safe with Jason.

Both HOHs are afraid of Jace, too afraid to nominate him directly. So they go around and warn everybody else that they are potentially going to be pawns. They don’t seem to have an actual plan.

Jason’s Nominations
John
Becky

James’ Nominations
Steve
Jackie

In theory, these are all pawns, but there is a lack of trust for at least three of these nominees, all but Becky, who is the one crying post-nomination and wants revenge, despite having willingly agreed to be a pawn without arguing about it like Steve did.

For the first battle of the block, they will transport building blocks across balance beams and build towers. With Jackie unable to compensate for her awkward partner, John and Becky win the competition and dethrone Jason.

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