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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm fairly sure some of the jury voters that voted Josh probably felt silly after they showed the clip of all of them being conned by Paul. That video was pretty well all the evidence you need to know who played the best game. There are two ways you can vote; 1) within the spirit of the game which is for the best player that outsmarted everyone else 2) be spiteful and try to ensure the best player doesn't win. There is no rule against option 2) however IMO that cheapens the game.
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I don't think we share the same definition of what this game is and by extension the best game. You're focusing too much on power and control.
I would argue the purpose of the game is to a) get to the end and b) get people to vote for you.
Paul gets an A+ on a). I think everyone in the house wanted him as their ride or die F2 choice. But he gets an F on b). And being great at the former is totally worthless if you don't do well on the latter too.
I think it is really tough to try and talk about the purpose of the game or what a "best" game is without incorporating both. Staying alive and sticking around isn't enough, winning comps isn't enough, social game isn't enough. Even saying the point is to convince other people it is in their best interests to keep you around doesn't really do the purpose of the game justice because it ignores the importance of being liked by the evictees.
That is part of the trick of BB is that you need to betray people and yet get them to respect you for it.
In most other seasons where a weak player or a total dbag won it, I might agree that the best player didn't win. In some cases both of the final 2 were floaters who didn't do much except be non-offensive and stick around because people thought they would be easy to win against in F2.
But what happens sometimes is those floaters get lucky and win final HOH and evict the sole remaining strong player. It often happens earlier than final HOH too.
Let's not forget that one of the "greatest ever" Derrick shouldn't have even made the finale if Cody wasn't such an idiot. Dude gave away $500k. Cody takes Victoria and he wins in a landslide.