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It seems every season on Big Brother the jury is forced to vote between the lesser of the two evils. For the rest of us, though, it was the first time everyone was saying it really didn’t matter who won, Dan or Memphis. Not that they were equals, because they weren’t. They just played totally different games and had totally different strategies. Yet we weren’t the ones voting, the jury was.

While everyone was saying it wouldn’t matter who won, they were also saying it would be Dan. This was more of a personal preference than anything else, as while everyone would say it wouldn’t matter who won, they would then say they thought it would be Dan, following that up with noting how great he was at controlling the game. But he was only really sharing that control, and it was only from about halfway through until the end. He was just blending in before that.

Dan had been stuck at the end of the first week. His buddy Ollie turned on him. Dan had set up one of the first alliances with Brian, but unbeknownst to him, Brian was setting up alliances with everyone. They decided to bring a third person into the alliance and brought in Ollie. In an effort to prove himself to April, Ollie outed his whole alliance. April and the others knew they, too, had alliances with Brian, so they had to get rid of him. They squeezed Jerry into putting him up, and he was voted out, putting a huge target on Dan. Somehow Dan disappeared off everyone’s radars. He skillfully had everyone thinking after this he was a floater.

Meanwhile, Memphis was telling everyone who to vote out each week, and for some reason they were listening to him and not voting him out. When he did land on the block he needed someone very persuasive on his side to fight for him and chose Keesha. These two teamed up and were very successful together, with no one knowing they were together, except Renny. She was too close to Keesha, and knew she was helping them, but also realized that they would eventually sell her down the river.

Dan stayed in the background until he had to start winning to save himself as well. After that, he knew he was out and that he just coulnd’t simply hide anymore. He needed an alliance and chose Memphis. With Memphis having separate deals with Dan and Keesha, somehow it brought the three of them together. They worked into a successful alliance with Memphis still deciding who would leave each week, Dan coming up with the plans to make sure it happened, and Keesha talking the rest of the household into carrying it out.

Keesha thought she would be going to the end with Memphis, but he already had a scenario worked out with Dan. They planned out who would be leaving each week and pulled it off brilliantly. The only clinker in the plan was when Jerry won his last HoH, it forced Memphis and Dan into getting rid of Renny a week earlier than planned. Because Keesha had been in their alliance with them the whole time, knowing how they carried everything out, she figured it out, that she was going home ahead of Jerry. By this point they didn’t need her anymore. With only the four of them left in the house, they didn’t need her to talk anyone into anything anymore.

Because of all that, though, it was perfect that Keesha won the $25,000. The three of them had carried all that out together, and she was just as an integral part of all that as they were, so she got her due. She wasn’t their choice for the end ultimately, though, yet we felt badly for her getting strung along like that, and that’s why we gave her the money.

It was then up to the jury to decide which of Dan and Memphis would win the big money, and which the runner-up prize, a tenth of what the winner would be getting. Before, during, and after jury questioning, it looked like it was split between Memphis and Dan, and although they were sequestered separately after the questioning, they all came to a unanimous decision for Dan.

My question for Jerry, April, and Ollie would be what changed their minds ultimateily. What was it that happened that had them realizing Dan deserved the bigger prize? I’m not sure, but I think the difference could have been the HoHes. Memphis never won a single one, yet if they would look back, they’d realize that he won several PoVs, and it was always when he had to to keep he and Dan safe, similar to Dick and Daniele a year ago. Dick carried it all out, but couldn’t have done it without Daniele. The difference is that they didn’t have a third person helping them carrying it all out.

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