The girls have a shot against each other, but I feel like it's going to be difficult to get there vs. each other because the two guys have both been good at comps. In my opinion, they should have no shot against the guys, but Taylor probably has the best argument depending on how things shake out down the stretch.

Jesus, Taylor. How pathetic

late on this but that lack of WIM was truly amazing. I doubt she wins it even if she tries, but still.

It was kinda funny how Monte was legit spooked by the challenge too, but when they'd blast him with air or something, he'd freak out for a second and then get back to work.

People have eaten live spiders for like a 1% better chance at winning a premerge reward challenge.

She cant crawl through goop to increase her chance at final 5 HoH which is worth thousands of dollars

Props to Brit for being 9 seconds away. When they unveiled the challenge, I thought Monte was close to 100%

Derek and Claire from last season are on the new Amazing Race cast.

Yeah I was ready to rag on the girls collectively for coming up small when they desperately needed to win, but I'll give Brittany credit for coming super close in the HOH and then pulling out the veto afterward. Taylor and Alyssa looked predictably pathetic with their gear placement in the veto, wish they'd given a better shot of their clocks at the end because I'm 90% sure Alyssa at least would still have half her gears not even touching.

On a side note, what was up with her "This is for you Michael!!!" thing after winning, though. What happened to her feeling totally betrayed by his eviction speech? How about giving her husband a shout-out or something, after all that talk this episode about the two of them struggling to have a kid and all that?

She forgave Michael relatively instantly. I think she just played up her feeling betrated. Brittany is a gamer. She knows the score

Yes. This. wtf. Brittany is making a decent showing for herself coming down the stretch, but I can't get past she was completely willing to just be Michael's tag along prior to the double eviction episode. I thought maybe she didn't have any family or no need of the money for some reason, and then come to find out she and her husband are maybe going to need ivf.

My number one alliance is my husband. I don't care what kind of friendships I develop in the house.

Also, I get annoyed with her pitches to people. She rolls the crazy eyes at Monte and tries to convince him she has oceanfront property in Arizona.

I love that they did a completely random hoh at final 4

Yeah that was a weird one. On a side note, I expected Taylor's tiebreaker guess to be bad, but I didn't think Brittany would **** it up by an even bigger factor on the high end. If anything I thought she'd nail it within a couple hundred seconds and could only lose by accidentally going over by a few.

Kyle for AFP

Interesting finish. I'm never really sure how often jury members actually don't have their minds made up until after the Q&A and final speeches, but man if any did, Monte lost all of em with those answers. Just total unforced error there.

Some people seem to think not taking Turner was his big mistake, but I think with that performance he blows it to him too. Honestly Monte's biggest mistake was not booting Turner at F4 and then making sure he sat next to Brittany at the end.

OMgosh. Really? Do I need to turn my woman card in? I might be persuaded by the vote for me because I have ovaries argument if the alternative wasn't someone who was more in the driver's seat in addition to seemingly playing a great social game.

Don't get me wrong, Taylor did a nice job of recovering from early adversity, and she made connections with people, and kudos for the impassioned emotional speech which called for ignoring all the traditional markers for good game play. But Monte also made connections, was never in true danger, despite being perceived as a threat, and his HOH's made sense instead of being a shitshow of his alliance having to talk him down from all his bad ideas. Did this really just happen?

Jury nullification against Monte? Really? Like he's some Russel Hantz? Wow.

Sound strategy + Strong social game which included avoiding the block and being VERY WELL LIKED...did I misread that part? + Maintaining control of key moments by winning comps was less than an impassioned plea about having ovaries????

This is not how I remember Kaycee Clark going about her win.

For the record, I don't feel remotely empowered by this. I'd want my argument to be "I kicked all manner of ass regardless of gender and you should vote for me based on my ass kicking ability."

Yeah I'm not thrilled with the results but it definitely seemed like Monte actually rubbed people the wrong way more than you saw in the TV edits. Terrance made that comment about trying to talk strat with him and Monte always responding super fake like a politician, my guess is that a lot of people felt that way. He seemed really uncomfortable in the jury questioning, repeated himself sometimes, gave weird answers, just didn't seem prepared. Meanwhile, while the gist of Taylor's speech is that it's ok to vote for the "worse" player, she gave it well and sounded sincere which apparently went a long way.

Monte's thinking in general at the end seemed wrong. Giving "I need one more big move for my resume" as the reason for booting Turner at F3 just sounds bad, and it's not a big move anyway. It really seemed like he thought he could coast on the numbers and didn't have to appeal to the jury at all.

It's pretty wacky that Taylor was basically doomed to go home week 1, only got saved because Paloma had a mental breakdown, then somehow pulled out the win. I think they said she's only the 2nd houseguest to not even make it to the finals of the last HOH and win the game.

Actually the more I think about it the more annoyed I am at the result, just because of Taylor quitting on the haunted house HOH comp at F5. I'm okay with a mediocre comp resume winning, but that lack of ambition at a crucial juncture, when still very much at risk, is totally inexcusable. I'd think Michael in particular would never vote for her for that reason, but there he is.

I'm used to people voting against the person who exerted the most control because they don't like that person* or are super bitter about getting bested by him/her, but I didn't think that's how people felt about Monte. They liked him...I thought. I thought at least Michael respected the game. And that did not seem to be the case based on his vote. I can only assume if Taylor was sitting next to Michael at the end after Michael eliminated Monte and Turner and then chose to take Taylor, he would think it appropriate that everyone vote for Taylor to win.

*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.

Monte controlled his destiny from the early going on. Was solid in his alliance with good relationships with people. Made the two most key plays in getting out Michael and Turner. Won 2 of the 3 final HOH challenges even though both contestants were probably going to take him to the end. And these jurors did not want him representing them as the winner of their season. What does that mean going forward?

The biggest part of Taylor's speech was vote for me because I'm a woman playing for women. I said all along I wanted to play for women. Ignore the fact that I told Indy she would be safe on my HOH and she went home. Ignore the fact I voted out Jasmine. Ignore the fact I couldn't convince Monte to keep Brittany in the game on my HOH. I did not win the challenges coming down the stretch. But go girl power! And they all fell for it except Turner. I think Turner would have voted for himself if he was sitting next to Taylor.

Make no mistake Taylor gave the argument she had to give and she did a good job of it. It totally should have worked on Indy and Jasmine. Derp. But Michael and Terrence? Really?

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.

Turner deserves to lose for voting out Alyssa. Monte deserves to lose for voting out Turner.

“Resiliency” is a trigger for me.
“Resilience” is a word and it saves you a syllable.
I would have voted for Monte. But im racist.

She deserves the money. This was her season.

Damn. Was BB spoiled

Looool. He got top 3

I dont know how to feel about this ending, I have mixed emotions.

During the early-middle part of the season, I was very much in Taylor's corner but near the end, definitely less so. Monte played a very solid game and I was kind of rooting for him at the end instead.

I'd feel worse for him though if he hadn't made the clearly wrong decision to take Taylor to f2 instead of Turner. Who takes a strong, likeable pageant queen to the end who's probably had a lifetime of competition and public speaking to sway things in their favor?

Maybe Turner would have beaten Monte too, but I'm not sure because during the jury segment they didn't seem to be that high on Turner either tbh

Hooking up with Monte is her defining move I guess? Convinced him to drag her.
I guess she also voted out Michael