The Double Eviction is coming up tonight on Big Brother 17 and the Houseguests have been busily preparing for scenarios even though they don’t know for sure it’s about to happen.
DE’s are fun in part because we don’t have time to plan out what we expect to see happen. There’s no usual week of discussions and debates either by us or the HGs. Instead they’ll race through quick comps and fast decisions. Listening in on the HGs we know some of the choices they’ll be making.
Yesterday on the Big Brother 17 Feeds we watched as the Austwins sat down with Jackie and later Meg to run through some Double Eviction plans. Along the way Austin revealed his true intentions, but that may have passed right over his makeshift allies.
Flashback to 1:31PM BBT 8/12 to follow their discussion. The Austwins say they would put up JMac and Becky, but promise to keep Becky safe. Jackie has said keeping Becky safe is a big deal for her after they left her out to dry this week over them backing out on their initial support with Vanessa.
The twins don’t hold back that Vanessa is definitely after Becky. Later Liz told Meg that Vanessa “wants Becky’s head on a silver platter.”
Jackie says the Goblins’ plan would be to nominate Vanessa and JMac with Vanessa as their target. She starts to ask them how they’d vote in that situation then backs off. I would have really been interested in hearing a talk on that.
Here’s where Austin tips his hand. 1:36PM BBT. Austin tells Jackie that going after Vanessa in the DE might not be such a great idea for everyone. Well it’s definitely not what he wants, is it? What’s the reason, according to Austin? Because JMac and Steve are still in the game. Steve. Steve is Austin’s secret ally.
JMac is definitely a target of Austin and the twins, but Steve is not Austin’s target. This is how you know Austin is keeping his own best interests over this new alignment with the Goblins, as he should. He just told Jackie two quick lies mixed in with guiding the groups’ plans which push his own agenda over the collective’s.
Bonus Austin reveal tangent: In an overnight talk between Austin and Meg (1:27AM BBT), Austin tells Meg that after Vanessa gets out Becky then she’ll be coming for the Goblins. Meg doesn’t bother mentioning this to the other Goblins. You could whack these HGs with a stick and they might not notice.
I do believe Austin is interested in working with the Goblins for the immediate future. He told Liz yesterday that he wants to make sure they hold this 6-person deal together through DE. If Vanessa falls out along the way then I’d expect their group to continue longer, but as Austin has demonstrated, his deeper allegiance lays with Vanessa.
What about the other Houseguests’ DE plans? John would target Vanessa while probably using an Austwin as a pawn. Now if he used Austin then I think Vanessa would actually be evicted.
Steve would definitely target Becky and he’d have to use a Goblin as the paired nom since he knows Austin would be pissed about a twin going up. Easy solution to Steve’s problem is to throw this comp and that’s just what he has said he’ll do.
Vanessa would nominate Becky and JMac, but I’d expect her to press for Becky to go which she could make happen thanks to their 4 votes between Steve and the Austwins. This again being part of the danger of keeping Vanessa around as she’ll be one of 5 so even if any of her group gets HoH they’ll maintain a deciding majority on votes here on out unless they suffer repeat losses.
Austin also mentioned to Jackie and Meg that by keeping Becky, like Goblins requested, and Vanessa, like Austwins suggested, then Becky and Vanessa could go after each other and not them. However, with Austin deflecting the target from Vanessa I’m not convinced he really wants Becky to get Vanessa evicted. He sure didn’t this week, did he?
I believe the most-in-danger Houseguest is John followed by Becky. The Power of Veto will most likely be athletic and Becky pointed out to John that’ll be an advantage for them as they both know they’re top targets. The Power of Veto is a whole other topic.
The Veto could completely spin a lot of decisions, but the Goblins and Austwins have said Steve would be their alternate for renom. I imagine that’s true for Austwins if he wants to get through the DE without upset the Goblins. Otherwise they’re his only alternative to Steve.
There are so many possibilities and variations that this is fascinating to me. I’m actually working through a spreadsheet with the various first tier scenarios of initial noms, again because Veto spins off so many possibilities of its own. If I get it well polished then maybe I’ll post it here or on Twitter.
So what do you think will happen tonight? Share what you hope will happen plus what you think is most likely to happen.
Update: As promised, my Double Eviction prediction scenarios. I believe there are 4 scenarios to evict John, 4 to evict Becky, & 1 to evict Vanessa but that last one will only happen if John noms Vanessa against an Austwin.
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