8/29 eviction episode

Here's a sneak peek at tonights AI Arena comp, another puzzle.

If somehow both Angela and MJ outplay Tucker tonight in the puzzle comp and he goes home, at least they are showing the part where it's Chelsie making it happen and not Quinn, of course you know that if he does end up going, Quinn will take full credit

I watched Julie's Instagram video sneak peak earlier and I think this is obviously geared toward Tucker's strengths for sure. When you see Julie doing the puzzle she makes the remark right at the beginning that the numbers are not even, so she was told about that part beforehand, but I wonder if she will tell the hg's tonight when they do the puzzle. Will she say assemble the puzzle and get the code by the numbers in the puzzle or will she say assemble to puzzle to "line up" the numbers or something like that so they know it has to be put together that way. If she doesn't say any of that, the puzzle will be done by the person who figures that part out first, and I am betting that will be Tucker.

I hope they still go through with keeping MJ instead of Angela because MJ is finally getting a little bit of footing with people who want to work with her (Chelsie, Cam and even Leah for real now). This would be a pretty good group with Quinn and Joseph going back and forth between the 2 of sides of the house.

Julie will not be giving the instructions, Ainsley will, which means it's pre-recorded. Julie will only ask if they understand.

This thing being geared towards Tucker is bittersweet. I don't know what I want to see more. Tucker stay or Kimo/T'kor get blindsided voting him out

Well, I can't believe that MJ pulled it off. Hell Angela even did better than Tucker. He didn't understand which way the puzzle was supposed to face as he told Julie. But I wonder how much had to do with he drank A LOT last night at their party and then only slept about 4 hours (his figure). He complained a lot today about being so tired and not feeling well. I guess his arrogance might have caught up with him.

At least they showed Chelsie as the one who started this conversation and that was actually true. But the meeting of the entire house minus Angela and Tucker in that room for the vote was a bit strange. I really wonder what was said in there? Did they actually KNOW the 5 votes were there to send him out? Did people not open up in front of them? Who answered and who didn't?

And can we talk about Cam crying about Tucker leaving? He didn't cry when Cedric left and he was supposed to be REALLY close with him. Joseph I get because he saw Tucker as his ticket to the end of the game and now his foundation is a little bit less sturdy. I am shocked if they knew they had the votes he didn't flip on him, but whatever.

Tucker was pretty good in the exit interview and I am glad he got the $20,000. He made a big deal a week or so ago that he didn't need the money, owned his apartment in NY, but I wonder if that is bluster or not. I am also glad he didn't try to say he threw the comp and just went out as nothing else, but Tucker.

I forgot to mention what Julie said about the 3 nominees and then said Ainsley would announce something to the house, but said NOTHING about the AI arena. So, now we have to wonder how the hell this is going to work as far as saving one of them on eviction night, if not AI arena, then what? Maybe they will have a second veto or something like that so they know the nominees before eviction day? Could it just be Ainsley telling them about jury? Maybe America will be one of the votes with an 8 member jury?

I hate it that they aren't more specific with us, the viewers, but they are getting so they hold back more from us than they do the people in the house!

The first thing I thought of when seeing how bad Tucker did was the late night that he had. That has a ton to do with it and while he may not have thrown it, I think he really didn;t care much and was getting tired of being there. I laughed at him shouting out to his dog that he's coming home. I would have done the exact same thing.

The whole thing with them all being in a room to discuss things without the two nominees is very suspect. Why was there no camera in there to hear what they talk about? It makes no sense that they leave the room and nothing has changed that the feeders know about and the vote goes exactly how we expected it. Time for another conspiracy theory. I think production got in their head and told them to vote the way they did to make for good tv. Then with the feeds down after the eviction, they had plenty of time to get them all back in that room to film what they wanted to have them talk about. Don't be surprised if the segment they show on the Sunday show is longer than the time they actually spent in that room. Why else would Joseph look so upset when they came out of there if he thought they had the votes for Tucker to stay. We all know that these people typically like to vote with the house but production found a way to make it look like a split house.

AI Arena will still be played next Thursday. I think the Ainsley announcement will come after teh eviction to tell them AI arena is no more. That will be the game changing part of the announcement and then she will announce that they are now at the jury portion of the season

I think Tucker still wanted to be there with Rubina, just not as much for the game. I also think he felt like MJ couldn't beat him in the AI arena. But, I do think his performance was very much affected by the lack of sleep and drinking too much. He really wanted to be there with Rubina.

So, if they are still having the AI arena why didn't they say that in the narrative for the Thursday eviction show? I guess it is just to make it more dramatic when Ainsley tells them and us that part is over.

All of them going in the room I don't think was scripted. I think some followed that were not particularly wanted in there. Angela and Tucker were trying to walk in there with Angela at the door still saying she wanted to be there but they closed the door. Those in on the vote flip could have just said nothing had changed and they were going to vote, or maybe someone (like Chelsie or Quinn) said everyone should vote as they want and that pissed Joseph off. The fact that he cried when Tucker left shows his emotions were all over the place anyway.