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Originally Posted by Soncy
*It makes complete sense to me that you don't want to hand some person you think is an @$$hole a pile of money when they are sitting next to someone you like. But I didn't think that was an issue here.
I don't really watch the live feeds anymore so I can't get a handle on the stuff the CBS edit doesn't want us to see, but I get the impression Monte wasn't nearly as well liked as it appeared, he maybe had strong bonds with the original Pound but not much else. There's also talk that he was pretty misogynistic and dismissal of the women on the show. That's really all it takes right there to flip the votes.
Strategically, if you think about it, Monte really ****ed up the whole way down the stretch. At F5 he was the tiebreaker vote, had a chance to dump Taylor and keep Alyssa (who was never beating anyone in any comp and had a ceiling of like 2 jury votes), and didn't do it. At F4 he could have dumped Turner and kept Brittany around (who was mildly threatening in comps but still weakish, and also never getting a jury vote outside of Michael) and didn't do it. Then obviously you have his F3 decision, I mean with his Q&A/final speech performance I think he might have blown it against Turner anyway, but he was at least drawing pretty live.
I get that his fear going to F3 with two women is that one would always be taking the other if either won, but a) he had to still feel pretty confident that he'd win HOH given his performance relative to theirs; and b) Turner may very well not have taken him anyway.
Last edited by GMan42; 09-26-2022 at 03:51 PM.