You can either have integrity or $500,000, you can’t have both.
I’m not sure that’s accurate. I’d say Jordan played with integrity in BB11, and also Rachel in BB13. At least, I don’t remember either of them deliberately stringing along fake allies who they then backstabbed, or making up and spreading lies to hurt other people’s games, etc…
Jordan had a hitman (Jeff) who could play a little looser to help her game and keep her hands clean. And Rachel had Brendon to do some lying and backstabbing for her.
The only example I can think of from BB11 was when Jeff put Russell up and out. I’m not sure how much that counts against Jordan’s integrity as a player. Russell was a paranoid time bomb that had to go.
As far as Rachel, Brendon was the fourth person evicted so he wasn’t there long enough to do much backstabbing. Especially since when Brendon was evicted, it was the first time anybody would put him up. Meaning no backstabbing is needed when your core alliance is always HoH. (The HoHs were Rachel, Jordan, Rachel, then Daniele was HoH and sent Brendon packing in week 4.) He did come back two weeks later, but was immediately voted right back out.
I’m not really arguing that those two having absolutely loyal allies makes them not playing with integrity. I just mean that it’s easier to play with integrity when you’ve got someone who is actually likely to play more for YOUR victory than their own.
To win BB or Survivor, you DO eventually need to conive and lie to people. Just like real life.
Wow, no posts about the finale last night.
Anyway, can’t say I’m too surprised at the results.
Derrick won the $500k and Donny America’s Favorite Player.
I just got to watch it. All I have to say is that the final HoH winner made a colossal blunder.
It was so delicious to watch Frankie worm his way next to Julie and get ready for the grand pronouncement of how America loves him via the America’s Favorite vote, and then watch his vise grip control to not show how crestfallen he was when Julie announced that he didn’t even make the top 3. Perfection.
Yeah, that was pretty good. Glad to see America got it right.
I’m not really sure. This jury seemed to be aware of the level of gameplay that was involved in getting D&C to the end, and they didn’t seem like they were going to be too happy with a “Take Victoria to the end” strategy. They were actually talking about voting for Victoria if either C or D took her to Final Two, just to punish those two for taking the easy road.
They may have voiced that idea, but I doubt they would have gone through with it. No one respected Victoria’s game enough.
Didn’t Derrick also get a $50k America’s team bonus?
Plus another 20k from the missions and one prize I think.
According to this link, if Cody had brought Victoria, he would have won 7-2. Still, though: