The Jury House

Hope you're feeling ok Arisa!

1  Buffy
Buffy is hands down the best candidate to win the game and the sad truth is that everybody knows this and will still bring her to finals. Not only is she socially savvy but she’s also a beast in challenges. Her strategy for the most part has paid off, but it’s hard to gauge it properly since she has the comp wins and social skills that kinda shadow it. She’s definitely deflected the target from her a few times so I’ll give her credit there. Honestly she seems sharp enough to have good strategy overall but I do think there’s the intimidation factor that is also allowing her to skip by to the end, which can be considered a strategy I guess. My only gripe would be that sometimes she does not know how to keep her cockiness in check. I think for the most part she’s not malicious in her actions but she certainly takes it to an unnecessary level, but given the nature of the cast here, it’s becoming more and more forgivable. They absolutely deserve to be crushed by her in the end and it will be a joy to see it.

2 DW
DW is probably the biggest question mark in the running but assuming she gets to the end, then clearly her strategy paid off so I can’t hold it against her that much. There’s been a lot of decisions she’s made that I think has made things harder for her, but who knows, maybe that’s the way to go given all the powers and cast mates. I won’t totally discount her and I’d certainly keep an open mind to her case, but I need her to really deliver in the final jury stage. I don’t have much more to say about her game though since it’s a question mark.

3 Jim
Jim started off with the most potential I think and he’s just kinda fallen off the grid entirely. I don’t blame him though; I understand his game was kinda damaged early on when he was supposedly a target and he’s just laid low since. I don’t blame him for all that, but I do have issue with him and DW not making a move last round. I mean it could be early but I don’t know for sure since power expiration dates were never revealed. Like DW, he has a lot of explaining to do but I can see why he had to stick with such an UTR game. I just hope he can justify it and really bring it at the end. If he ends up fizzling out at the end, I will be disappointed. I know he once had that ambition to do well. Let’s not forget that first HOH lol! Come on man, give us ~something~!

4 Aaron
Aaron is the worst thing to happen in this cast. I know that since he’s part of the showmance he’s given a lot of credit but to be fair all that entirely belongs to Buffy. She was the braid behind the operation. He was just the big dumb monster that Frankenstein created. Sure he’s the poster child for competition beast but he has yet to do anything on his own. It’s always been Buffy. I mean he can probably argue that keeping Buffy was his plan since she could be a shield but he brought that upon himself by alienating a lot of people with his poor social game (except Spongebob lmao). He’s just unnecessarily condescending, and I’m not sure if he’s even doing this intentionally or if he’s just oblivious to all of it. Like I’ve said before, Buffy can survive without Aaron but I don’t think the reverse is true and that my friends, is what we call dependency. If he can prove to the jury that he’s capable of making his own decisions I might consider him as a viable winner, but as of now he only wins against Spongebob automatically (and maybe against Jim/DW depending on how well his speech is or how awful they are with theirs).

5 SpongeBob
Spongebob is not the worst thing to happen in this cast but he’s definitely down there. I think what saves him is the fact that he’s actually a cool guy when you have a conversation with him. I actually adore him as a person but his game, oh man his game is just something else. I can’t judge it because there’s no game. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s just nonexistent. He’s been riding coattails the entire time and basically serves as a number to them. He won an early veto challenge which honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if Aaron was the one to help him lmao. I’m not sure if he’s just waiting for the right moment but the fact that he’s also had very little social interaction with everyone else brings him down. I know when I’ve chatted game with him it almost felt like he was talking down on my game. I don’t think it was intentional though, but I wasn’t a fan of the way he worded things. I still adore him though but he doesn’t get my vote at the end even if the other finalist deletes their account.

I appreciate the different perspective on Aaron everyone (even if I am praising him a bit too much). I just need a sense of awareness and intention behind Aaron which I think right now is hard to tell because we've seen and interacted with Buffy the most. With these three next jurors, I think we will learn A LOT more about this Buffy/Aaron dynamic within the coming days.

Hope you're feeling better Arisa!

To me it all depends on how they get to the final 2. If someone gets rid of Buffy then their ranking goes up. The other 3 are just question marks for me right now and that’s why Aaron is above all of them!

For me, the longer people wait to take Buffy out, the move becomes less impressive in my book. For instance, if Buffy is taken out at Final 3 by whoever wins Final HOH, that move is not that ballsy to me at all and not that impressive.

I think it depends on HOW Buffy is taken out too.

Agreed. I think tonight is the last chance to take out Buffy and possibly have it be impressive for their resume.

*tomorrow

Hope you’re okay Kathy <3

Yeah I hope she’s okay

Kathy

Aww get well soon Kathy <3

I thought I was gonna die but it was more scare than actual dying lol. Im good.

X

Since you guys did your rankings, I figure I might do mine aswell: I’m judging based of social, comp wins and strategy from my perspective.

1. Buffy - she is clearly the best player this season. She was aligned with almost everyone in the game at one point. She’s manipulative and somehow managed to use her powers/ability to win comps to Instill fear in people who have talked about going after her. My only issue with her is how cocky/aggressive she can come across sometimes, it’s not a good look.
2. DW - DW (before she pulled one of the dumbest moves in the game) was one of the better competitors this season. She was not afraid to target big guns early on, she was able to win comps when she could and survived the block. Assuming she gets to the end, she really need to explain her strategy in this game especially aligning with Aaron and Buffy so late in the game.
3. Jim - he started of this game strong but he went quiet along the way. Strategy or not? We’ll find out. If he is able to explain his gameplay strategy well, he might go up to 2nd. Every time I spoke with Jim, he seemed real with me.
4. Aaron - although personally I really enjoyed my talks with Aaron, I just always felt off with him. He would try too hard to be convincing when i knew he was constantly lying to me. His best move in this game is not how many hohs he won to get people evicted but when he played his immunity for Buffy then won the veto for himself. Also although it’s apart of the rules, winning comps by getting help is just not that impressive. He seems like a good loyal person but unfortunately, he has played this game for Buffy (unless he is the one to evict her before F3, he’s staying right here).
5. Spongebob - a nice person but I think anybody in this game would’ve gotten to his position if they played yes man all season.

Also I agree with Vilannelle. Taking Buffy out now or F4 or F3 is not that impressive lmfao

Arisa Cox wrote:

I thought I was gonna die but it was more scare than actual dying lol. Im good.

I had a real bad panic attack (for the first time ever) last night and thought I was gonna die too so you’re not alone sis <33