One Thousand, Minus One

A thousand episodes of this show, and it still comes down to one person on a stage finding out their own alliance did the arithmetic without them.

CBS spent the front half of the night looking backwards, and it earned it. Big Brother became the first primetime series in television history to reach 1,000 episodes, a milestone that came with two Guinness World Records and a "BB Time Machine" retrospective cutting across all 28 seasons. The fan-voted awards went about how a fandom with a long memory would vote them: Dan Gheesling took Favorite Winner, Janelle Pierzina was named the best to never win and the comp beast, "Floaters, you better grab a life vest!" won Favorite Quote, and The Cookout was named Favorite Alliance. Twenty-six years, compressed into one segment, in front of a live audience packed with people who used to sit in that chair.

Then the show remembered it had a game running.

The Block Buster was built for the occasion. "BB Grand Cliptacular" put the three nominees in front of a wall of clips from seasons past and made them match three thirty-second clues to boxes labelled A, B and C — a trivia comp about Big Brother itself on Big Brother's thousandth night. Drew ran back, said "C," and was right. Mallory was not. The man who had spent a week as the house's original target pulled himself off the block on the strength of knowing his own show, and in doing so handed Dee exactly the decision she had been angling toward since the veto ceremony.

Because Dee's target was never really a person. It was a number. She joined the Mosh Pit two weeks ago as one of three icons inside a seven-person bloc that four ex-F.A.P. members controlled, and she has spent two ceremonies quietly correcting that. Nominate one. Renominate another. Let the Block Buster pick which of the two goes. Drew won, so it was Mallory — and the arithmetic works the same either way, which is the whole point.

The part that actually stung was watching the bloc find out. Dee and Devens had to break it to Drew and Barrett that Mallory, not Taylor, was the week's target, and Barrett did not take it well: he told the icons to their faces that he would not be a vote to send her home. He wasn't. Neither was Melody. That was the entire resistance — two votes, delivered exactly as promised, and 24 hours of notice did nothing to grow the number.

6–2. Angela, Yash, Haley, Devens, LaTrice — and Drew. Drew, who had been on the block beside her that morning. Drew, whose safety she had been counting toward. He saved himself and then voted her out, and the vote was over before the resistance finished forming.

Mallory took it better than the week deserved. She got through the eviction and the post-game questions without any real tears, correctly named Barrett and Melody as her two votes on the way out, and then said the quiet thing plainly: she threw that HOH. She "got nervous at the end," she "slowed down a little," and she should have tried harder. It is the most honest exit interview of the season and it doubles as the epitaph — she declined the power in the week she could have had it, and the house handed her the bill six days later. She still called the summer awesome. The room full of former houseguests gave her a standing ovation, which on this particular night was worth something.

Then Julie blew the game up. No HOH. No Veto. No Block Buster. The remaining ten are being sent to the year 1000 — a medieval week with none of the show's furniture, run by four alumni in costume: Keanu Soto, Britney Haynes, Tiffany Mitchell and Cody Calafiore. Someone's game ends before the next live eviction, by a mechanism nobody has explained. And the feeds went dark for three days on the way out the door.

A thousand episodes in, the show's best trick is still telling you exactly how much it isn't going to tell you.

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Mallory Aurichio — evicted 6–2, Day 52, the 7th houseguest out.

She was never the plan. Drew was. The Mosh Pit decided he'd been feeding every side at once, Dee put him up, and the case against him half-collapsed on camera at the nomination meeting when he conceded Taylor had never actually named names. When LaTrice won "Feel The Burn" and took herself off the block, Dee named Mallory as the replacement — the renom Devens had been quietly pushing before the veto comp ever ran, and the one Mallory had been saying out loud she was afraid of.

Then Drew won the Block Buster and the choice made itself.

The vote to evict Mallory: Angela Murray, Drew Campbell, Yash Patel, Haley Thogmartin, Rick Devens, LaTrice Verrett. The vote to evict Taylor: Melody Morris, Barrett Pfeiffer. Dee Valladares, as HOH, did not vote.

The split is the story. Mallory's own bloc supplied four of the six votes that ended her game, and one of them came from the man she'd been on the block with that morning. Barrett and Melody — the only two ex-F.A.P. members who weren't nominated this week — held the line and were never close to enough.

She left clean. No breakdown on stage, the right read on her own vote count, and an unprompted admission that throwing the Week 6 HOH was the mistake that set all of this in motion. The alumni in the audience stood up. On the show's thousandth night, the seventh houseguest out of BB28 got the best exit of the season.

Where it leaves the Mosh Pit: six members, three icons (Dee, Devens, Angela) and three ex-F.A.P. (Drew, Barrett, Melody). Two weeks ago Dee was outnumbered inside her own alliance four to three. She is now level — with the tiebreak, the last HOH's authority, and a bloc that just watched her eat two of its own without losing a vote she needed.

And then none of it matters. No HOH, no veto, no Block Buster next week. Ten houseguests, the year 1000, four alumni in medieval costume, and someone gone before the next live eviction.

---> Only four houseguests moved: Drew +2, Taylor +1, Barrett −2, Mallory −5. Every blurb below is > written from what happened in the house, not the box score, per the brief. > > ⚠️ Team names only — no manager first names. `leaguemanagers` has **no anon SELECT grant** > (`permission denied for table leaguemanagers`), so manager names could not be resolved this run. > Rather than guess them, narratives refer to teams by team name throughout. Manager IDs for the SQL > were recovered from `docs/ep21-drafts.sql`, which is exact.Narrative: The lead changed hands and nobody scored a point to take it. Head of Havoc sat perfectly still on 29 and inherited first place, because Abriana's HOH Rm was carrying Mallory and shipped five. That's the second week running that this league has been decided by who wasn't on the block.

Cait quietly had the best night: Taylor lost the Block Buster, absorbed both protest votes, and survived anyway. Sarah's Surviving finally got something back — Drew won his way off the block and then voted out the ally who'd have kept him.

Four of the five teams here own someone in the Mosh Pit, and the Mosh Pit just spent a second consecutive week eating its own. Next week there is no HOH at all.

- Head of Havoc — Ep22: +0 · Season: 29 · Devens 19, Kamu † 12, Jason † −2 Devens picked the target before the veto comp ran, voted with the six, and left no fingerprints for the seventh week in a row. Two of your three are already evicted and you just took the league lead anyway.
- Abriana's HOH Rm — Ep22: −5 · Season: 24 · Dee 24, LaTrice 9, Rome †, Mallory † −8 You owned the HOH who built this eviction and the houseguest it removed. Dee moved the target, held the gavel, and didn't need to vote — and none of that covers Mallory walking out the door on your roster.
- Cait — Ep22: +1 · Season: 21 · Yash 16, Angela 7, Taylor 5, Ashley † −7 Taylor lost the Cliptacular, took both votes Melody and Barrett cast, and lived. Yash and Angela were on the right side of the six. The only roster here where all three live names had a good night.
- Bria's big bad brothers — Ep22: −2 · Season: 7 · Barrett 5, Haley 3, Chuk † −1 Barrett told the icons to their faces he wouldn't send Mallory home, kept his word, and lost by four. Haley voted with the majority and stayed invisible. Principle is expensive and Barrett just bought some.
- Sarah's Surviving — Ep22: +2 · Season: −7 · Drew 13, Melody −7, Lyric † −13 Drew answered "C," saved himself, and then cast one of the six votes that ended Mallory's game. Melody was one of the two that didn't. Your roster played both sides of the same vote and came out ahead.Narrative: The Cookout Crew stretches to nine on the back of Taylor merely being alive, which tells you how little moved. Three houseguests, all active, none of them within reach of a nomination — it is the least dramatic first place in the league and the hardest to attack.

The Strategic Cartel has now lost a houseguest in consecutive weeks and sits 49 points off the lead with Melody as its only live name. That is not a slump, that's a floor.

The interesting roster is The Hitmen, which had been dead since Lyric and just got the single biggest event of the night.

- The Cookout Crew — Ep22: +1 · Season: 33 · Dee 24, Angela 7, Taylor 2 Dee ran the eviction, Angela voted for it, Taylor survived it. Three houseguests covering the HOH chair, the majority bloc and the block itself — and every one of them came out the other side.
- Dirty Dawgs — Ep22: −2 · Season: 24 · Yash 16, Barrett 5, Haley 3 Yash and Haley both voted with the six and neither has been a target in a month. Barrett is the leak: he spent his credit with the icons defending Mallory and got taxed two for the tears.
- The Hitmen — Ep22: +2 · Season: 12 · Drew 13, Kamu † 12, Lyric † −13 Drew's Block Buster is the biggest single swing of the night, and it landed on the roster that's been comatose since Week 4. One live houseguest — who has now demonstrated he'll cut an ally the same day he needs one.
- Secret Alliance — Ep22: +0 · Season: 11 · Devens 19, LaTrice 7, Rome †, Jason † −7, Ashley † −7 Devens has now steered two consecutive evictions and scored nothing for either. LaTrice voted with the majority and is safely out of the conversation. Three dead names cap this at 11.
- The Strategic Cartel — Ep22: −5 · Season: −16 · Chuk † −1, Melody −7, Mallory † −8 Mallory evicted, Melody on the wrong end of the vote she cast, Chuk long gone. Second straight week owning the entire emotional collapse of the Mosh Pit, and now down to a single live houseguest.Narrative: Winner had the night's two best outcomes on one roster — Drew's Block Buster and Taylor's survival — and pushed the lead to 21. In a three-team league that's the ballgame unless the medieval week does something violent.

Ethan (Future Winner) took the worst hit in the league at −7, and it came from the least avoidable place: owning the HOH who engineered the eviction and the houseguest she evicted.

Floaters get a life vest has four of seven already gone and posted a flat zero on an eviction night. Safe, static, and 43 back.

- Winner — Ep22: +3 · Season: 44 · Devens 19, Drew 13, Kamu † 12, Taylor 2, Jason † −2 The only roster in the league holding both the Block Buster winner and the nominee who lived. Devens voted with the six on top of it. Three different houseguests on the right side of one eviction.
- Ethan (Future Winner) — Ep22: −7 · Season: 23 · Dee 24, LaTrice 9, Barrett 5, Melody −7, Mallory † −8 Dee built this eviction and Mallory is the one it took — the hedge that only ever pays one way. Barrett and Melody, also yours, were the two-vote resistance that never got close.
- Floaters get a life vest — Ep22: +0 · Season: 1 · Yash 16, Angela 7, Haley 2, Rome †, Chuk † −3, Ashley † −7, Lyric † −13 Yash, Angela and Haley all voted to evict and not one of them registered. Seven houseguests, four already gone, and the three left are too safe to be interesting.Narrative: The lead shrank to nine and the leader is the team that lost points. On my daughter's birthday had three of its four active names vote with the majority and still went backwards, because the fourth spent the week loudly refusing to.

Slop Happens has one live houseguest and he won the Block Buster — the best possible return on a roster with nothing else in it.

Girls Rule, Boys Drool is down to two active names and −11. Mallory's exit didn't start that decline but it did make it permanent.

- On my daughter's birthday — Ep22: −2 · Season: 40 · Devens 19, Yash 16, LaTrice 7, Barrett 5, Ashley † −7 Devens chose the target, Yash and LaTrice voted for it, and the whole thing cost you two points because Barrett wouldn't. Four live houseguests and the best coverage in the league, undone at the margin.
- IBelieveYouHaveAPrompt — Ep22: +1 · Season: 31 · Dee 24, Kamu † 12, Taylor 2, Melody −7 Dee ran the entire week and banked nothing; Taylor's survival bonus is the whole ledger. Melody voted to keep Mallory and lost. Nine back holding the most powerful houseguest in the house.
- Slop Happens — Ep22: +2 · Season: 9 · Drew 13, Chuk † −1, Rome † −1, Jason † −2 One live name, and he answered a trivia question correctly under a live clock and walked off the block. Three evicted houseguests behind him and it still worked out.
- Girls Rule, Boys Drool 👯‍♀️ — Ep22: −5 · Season: −11 · Angela 7, Haley 3, Mallory † −8, Lyric † −13 Mallory's eviction takes this to two active houseguests. Angela and Haley both voted with the six and both scored zero — safe, uninvolved, and not enough to dig out of −11.Narrative: Deez Nuts didn't move a point and extended to 23, which is what happens when your three live houseguests are the three least evictable people in the house. Dee held the gavel, Yash and LaTrice voted with her, and the scoreboard recorded none of it.

Big Sister finally got a pulse — Drew's Block Buster is the first thing that roster has banked in weeks.

SlopTarts owns Taylor and Mallory, which meant watching one nominee live and the other leave.

- Deez Nuts — Ep22: +0 · Season: 48 · Dee 24, Yash 16, LaTrice 9, Rome † −1 The HOH, the man with bought safety, and the woman who won her own way off the block last week — none of whom needed to do a thing tonight. Twenty-three clear on a night it scored nothing.
- Crazy Eyes — Ep22: −2 · Season: 25 · Devens 19, Barrett 5, Haley 3, Jason † −2 Devens picked the target and Haley voted for it, and the only line on your ledger is Barrett's tears over the result. Owning the architect and the objector cancels out badly.
- Big Sister — Ep22: +2 · Season: 12 · Drew 13, Kamu † 12, Angela 7, Ashley † −7, Lyric † −13 Drew won the Block Buster and Angela was one of the six — the live half of this roster finally did something on the same night. Two evicted names still cost you twenty.
- SlopTarts — Ep22: −4 · Season: −14 · Taylor 2, Chuk † −1, Melody −7, Mallory † −8 Both of tonight's nominees, and they went opposite directions: Taylor lived, Mallory didn't. Melody cast one of the two votes that failed to stop it. Everything that could split badly, did.Narrative: OTEV is my boyfriend holds the HOH, a majority vote and the nominee who survived — three separate ways of being on the right side of one eviction, worth a combined one point. The lead is 27 and looks structural.

AmaZINGbots carries seven houseguests and tonight the breadth finally bit: Mallory out, Melody on the losing vote, four already gone.

Justice 4 Rachel had the league's best individual performance and nothing to show for it.

- OTEV is my boyfriend — Ep22: +1 · Season: 43 · Dee 24, Kamu † 12, Angela 7, Taylor 2, Jason † −2 Dee set the block, Angela backed it, Taylor survived it. You cannot cover an eviction more completely than this, and the market rate for it turned out to be one point.
- AmaZINGbots — Ep22: −5 · Season: 16 · Devens 19, Yash 16, Haley 4, Rome † −1, Melody −7, Ashley † −7, Mallory † −8 The widest roster in the league and the widest exposure — Mallory evicted, Melody on the wrong side of it. Devens and Yash are the only reason this isn't a rout.
- Justice 4 Rachel — Ep22: +0 · Season: 13 · Drew 13, LaTrice 9, Barrett 5, Chuk † −1, Lyric † −13 Drew's Block Buster win, cancelled to the point by Barrett crying about the eviction it enabled. A net zero that conceals the single best thing anyone on this roster has done in a fortnight.Narrative: Backdoor Bandits owns Dee and Devens — the two people who actually decided this eviction — plus the vote that carried it and the nominee who survived it. 34 clear, and the only threat to it is a twist that removes the competitions entirely.

Slop Happens owns tonight's Block Buster winner and tonight's evictee, which is a −5 that spent forty minutes looking like a +2.

Nothing else in this league moved.

- Backdoor Bandits — Ep22: +1 · Season: 45 · Dee 24, Devens 19, Angela 7, Taylor 2, Ashley † −7 Dee moved the target, Devens named it first, Angela voted for it, Taylor survived it. That is four houseguests covering every decision point of one eviction — the most complete week any roster has had this season.
- Amber Alert: Blndside Incuming — Ep22: +0 · Season: 11 · Yash 16, LaTrice 9, Rome † −1, Lyric † −13 Yash and LaTrice both voted with the six and neither has been in danger since the Wall. A flat zero on eviction night, and still second — which says more about the gap than the team.
- Slop Happens — Ep22: −5 · Season: 8 · Drew 13, Barrett 5, Jason † −2, Mallory † −8 Drew won his way off the block and then helped vote out your other live houseguest, while Barrett cried about it. Owning all three sides of one eviction is a talent nobody wants.
- Butt first… back door — Ep22: +0 · Season: 7 · Kamu † 12, Haley 3, Chuk † −1, Melody −7 Haley voted with the six, Melody voted against it, and the two cancelled to nothing. Kamu's banked twelve is doing all the work on a roster that hasn't scored since he left.Narrative: New leader. Cat Daddy takes it on Drew's Block Buster while The Meatballs sat still — a five-point swing at the top in a single night, and the first lead change here in three weeks.

What makes Cat Daddy's position awkward to attack is that all three of its houseguests are active, unnominated and unmentioned. Lil Brother had the opposite night: the HOH who built the eviction and the woman it removed, on one roster.

The UneXpected got its first positive line in a month from a nominee who lost a competition.

- Cat Daddy — Ep22: +2 · Season: 32 · Yash 16, Drew 13, Haley 3 Drew answered "C" and walked off the block; Yash and Haley voted with the six from positions nobody is threatening. Three live houseguests, zero nominations between them, and a league lead.
- The Meatballs — Ep22: +0 · Season: 27 · Devens 19, LaTrice 9, Chuk † −1 Devens engineered a second consecutive eviction without touching the scoreboard, LaTrice voted with the majority, and the lead evaporated anyway. Influence still isn't a scoring category.
- Lil Brother — Ep22: −5 · Season: 16 · Dee 24, Angela 7, Ashley † −7, Mallory † −8 Dee ran the eviction and Mallory was what it removed — the exact hedge that can only lose. Angela's vote was correct and worth nothing. Two live names left.
- Victorious Secret — Ep22: −2 · Season: 4 · Kamu † 12, Barrett 5, Lyric † −13 Barrett was the loudest voice in the house against this eviction, and the only thing it produced was two points of tears. One live houseguest, and he just spent his standing with the people running the vote.
- The UneXpected — Ep22: +1 · Season: −7 · Taylor 2, Rome †, Jason † −2, Melody −6 Taylor lost the Block Buster, absorbed both protest votes, and survived anyway — on a roster this thin, +1 for staying alive is a genuinely good night. Melody backed the losing side.Narrative: This league owned neither Drew nor Mallory, so the biggest eviction of the season passed through it as a single two-point ripple. Wolf pack holds 30 clear without doing anything at all.

Two of these three rosters started scoring mid-season, which is why the totals look thin next to the rest of the site. Big Mother took the only hit — and took it from the two houseguests who were on the losing end of the vote.

- Wolf pack — Ep22: +0 · Season: 31 · Yash 16, Kamu † 12, Haley 3 Yash and Haley both voted to evict and neither has been named as a target since the Toolshed folded. A flat zero on eviction night is a fine night when you're 30 up and nobody knows your houseguests' names.
- Radiators — Ep22: +0 · Season: 1 · Devens 8, Angela 2, Chuk † −1, Rome † −1, Ashley † −7 A mid-season scoring start means Devens and Angela have banked eight and two despite both being inside the winning bloc all night. Right side of the vote, wrong side of the calendar.
- Big Mother — Ep22: −2 · Season: −8 · Barrett 5, Dee 5, Jason † −2, Melody −3, Lyric † −13 You own both members of the two-vote resistance, and one of them cried about losing. Dee ran the eviction they were resisting, which is a roster at war with itself for no points either way.Narrative: Five points at the top and Triple B's Chaos Crew nudged it to five and a bit — the only roster in this league with four active houseguests, on a night when being active was the whole game.

Why you here? owns both halves of tonight's swap: Drew won the Block Buster, Mallory went home in the gap it created.

Messy Buns has gone backwards three weeks running and owns the two houseguests who lost the vote.

- Triple B's Chaos Crew — Ep22: +1 · Season: 40 · Devens 19, Yash 16, Haley 3, Taylor 2 Four houseguests, all still in the house, three of them voting with the six and the fourth surviving the block they were voting on. The only intact roster in the league, and now clear at the top.
- Floaters Grab a Life Vest — Ep22: +0 · Season: 35 · Dee 24, Kamu † 12, Angela 7, Rome † −1, Ashley † −7 Dee presided over the eviction and Angela voted for it, and between them they banked nothing. Two evicted names hold this at 35 — insurance with no upside attached.
- Why you here? — Ep22: −3 · Season: 12 · Drew 13, LaTrice 9, Jason † −2, Mallory † −8 Drew's +2 and Mallory's −5 on the same roster is the whole night in miniature: he won his way off the block and then voted her out of the house. LaTrice was one of the six behind him.
- Messy Buns — Ep22: −2 · Season: −16 · Barrett 5, Chuk † −1, Melody −7, Lyric † −13 Barrett cried, Melody lost the vote she cast, and the two evicted names did what they always do. Third consecutive week going backwards and no obvious floor.Narrative: #BB28FakehouseFakedrama held at 38 without moving and the chase still closed to nine, because Micktator owns both ends of tonight's swap and paid three for the privilege.

This is now the third consecutive week the leader has run the house on paper and banked nothing for it. Devens has decided two evictions in a row and his fantasy value hasn't moved a point since the Diamond.

Im pretty sure Barrett is gay has three live houseguests pulling in three different directions.

- #BB28FakehouseFakedrama — Ep22: +0 · Season: 38 · Devens 19, Kamu † 12, Angela 7 Devens named the replacement before the veto comp ran and Angela voted it through, and the ledger recorded neither. Third straight week of governing the house for free. Still first.
- Micktator - In Loving Memory — Ep22: −3 · Season: 29 · Dee 24, Drew 13, Mallory † −8 The purest version of tonight's cruelty: Drew won the Block Buster on your roster, and Mallory left the house in the space it opened — also your roster. Dee held the gavel over both of them.
- Im pretty sure Barrett is gay — Ep22: −1 · Season: 17 · LaTrice 11, Barrett 5, Taylor 2, Rome † −1 LaTrice voted with the six, Taylor survived the block, and Barrett publicly refused to go along and cost you two for it. Three live houseguests on three different sides of the same vote.
- Backdoor Bandits — Ep22: +0 · Season: 1 · Yash 16, Jason † −2, Lyric † −13 Yash voted with the majority and remains the safest man in the house on a promise he paid $5,000 for. Nothing happened to you tonight, which is this roster's entire personality.
- Alliance 101 — Ep22: +0 · Season: −5 · Haley 3, Chuk † −1, Melody −7 Haley was one of the six, Melody one of the two, and they cancelled each other to nothing. Three houseguests, one of whom has been gone since Week 5.Narrative: Meatballs' Pots & Pans keeps the lead on the Dee-and-Devens ticket that has now decided four consecutive evictions, but Eddie's Team closed to nine on the strength of the night's only Block Buster win.

But First Bunch is down to a single live houseguest after Mallory's exit. #ButFirst is on −21 with the two-vote resistance on its roster.

The medieval week removes every competition, which is the first thing all season that threatens the Dee-and-Devens model.

- Meatballs' Pots & Pans — Ep22: +1 · Season: 44 · Dee 24, Devens 19, Taylor 2, Rome † −1 Dee and Devens have decided four evictions in a row between them and tonight's return was Taylor's survival bonus. Owning the government pays in safety, not in points — and next week there's no government.
- Eddie's Team — Ep22: +2 · Season: 35 · Yash 16, Drew 13, Angela 7, Chuk † −1 Drew won the Block Buster, Yash and Angela both voted with the six, and all three of your live houseguests came out safe. Most active roster in the league on the night and nine off the lead.
- But First Bunch — Ep22: −5 · Season: 11 · Kamu † 12, LaTrice 9, Jason † −2, Mallory † −8 Mallory's eviction leaves LaTrice as the only live name here, and she at least voted with the majority. Three of the four are now gone and the ceiling came down with them.
- #ButFirst — Ep22: −2 · Season: −21 · Barrett 5, Haley 3, Ashley † −7, Melody −9, Lyric † −13 Barrett's tears and Melody's losing vote on the same roster, on top of three evicted houseguests. Worst mark in the league and the live half isn't positioned to fix it.Narrative: Big Cheeserz didn't move and the lead grew to 34, because the only team that moved went backwards seven. Dee and Angela are two of the safest houseguests in the house and neither needs to score for this to hold.

winner winner chicken dinner had the worst possible pair for this specific episode.

- Big Cheeserz — Ep22: +0 · Season: 30 · Dee 24, Angela 7, Rome † −1 Dee ran the eviction and Angela voted it through, and the pair banked precisely nothing — still the best night in the league by 34 points. Two live houseguests, neither of them touchable.
- winner winner chicken dinner — Ep22: −7 · Season: −4 · Barrett 5, Chuk † −1, Mallory † −8 Mallory evicted and Barrett crying over it, in one episode, on one roster. Down to a single live houseguest whose main asset — his standing with the icons — is the exact thing he spent this week.
- fly on the wall — Ep22: +0 · Season: −16 · Jason † −2, Melody −7, Ashley † −7 Melody cast one of the two votes to keep Mallory and lost; the other two names left weeks ago. A flat zero, which on this roster counts as a good night.Narrative: Two teams, 14 apart, and the leader is the one that lost points. Blindside owns tonight's Block Buster winner and tonight's evictee — a −3 that spent about forty minutes looking like a +2.

Candye carries seven houseguests, four of them evicted, and posted a flat zero on eviction night. Dee and Yash keep it respectable; the tail keeps it from being good.

- Blindside — Ep22: −3 · Season: 24 · Devens 19, Drew 13, Mallory † −8 Devens chose the target, Drew won his way off the block, and Mallory went home in the gap between the two — all three of them yours. The team name has never been more on the nose.
- Candye — Ep22: +0 · Season: 10 · Dee 24, Yash 16, Chuk † −1, Jason † −2, Melody −7, Ashley † −7, Lyric † −13 Dee presided, Yash voted with the six, Melody voted against it, and the three cancelled to nothing. Four evicted names is a lot of weight for two good houseguests to carry.

---> Ordered by season total. Every team has a full five-houseguest roster. † = evicted.

1. please let dee win :) — Ep22: +2 · Season: 72 · Angela, LaTrice, Dee, Drew, Devens Five houseguests, five still in the house, and four of them voted on the winning side of a 6–2 while the fifth held the gavel. Drew's Block Buster is the cherry. Nothing in this game is safer right now. 2. Pawn Patrol — Ep22: −2 · Season: 63 · Barrett, Haley, Kamu †, Devens, Dee Dee ran the eviction, Devens picked the target, Haley voted it through — and Barrett cried about the result and cost you the only points that moved. Still second by nine. 3. justamovienerd15 — Ep22: +0 · Season: 63 · Drew, Dee, Kamu †, LaTrice, Barrett Drew's Block Buster win and Barrett's tears cancelled each other out to the point. Four live houseguests and the HOH among them — a nothing week that changed nothing. 4. red corner — Ep22: +0 · Season: 53 · Chuk †, Dee, Devens, Kamu †, Rome † Three of your five are long gone, but the two who aren't are the two people who decided this eviction between them. A flat zero that leaves you fourth is a fine trade. 5. m2thec — Ep22: +1 · Season: 52 · Dee, Taylor, Jason †, LaTrice, Devens Taylor lost the Block Buster, took both protest votes and survived — and you own the HOH and the man who chose the target on top of it. Best-connected roster in the top ten. 6. CHR!5 — Ep22: +0 · Season: 49 · Barrett, Dee, Drew, Jason †, LaTrice Drew won his way off the block, Barrett wept over the consequence, and the two netted zero. Four live names and Dee in the chair is a strong hand played to a draw. 7. LuvOneAnother🫶 — Ep22: −2 · Season: 46 · Angela, Kamu †, Dee, Jason †, Barrett Angela and Dee were both on the right side of the vote and neither banked a thing; Barrett was on the wrong one and it cost you two. The three-live-houseguest core is still excellent. 8. Fighter — Ep22: +0 · Season: 42 · Kamu †, Chuk †, LaTrice, Dee, Jason † Three evicted, two alive, and the two alive are the HOH and the woman who won herself off the block last week. Untouched by tonight, which was the goal. 9. Backdoor Bandits 😉 — Ep22: +0 · Season: 41 · Dee, Rome †, Lyric †, Devens, Kamu † Dee and Devens engineered the whole week and the ledger shows nothing for it. Three dead names cap this, but the two live ones are running the house. 10. Dawson Meinders — Ep22: −1 · Season: 41 · Barrett, Jason †, Kamu †, Dee, Taylor Taylor's survival bonus nearly covered Barrett's tears. You own both the houseguest who refused to evict Mallory and the nominee he was trying to protect the seat of. 11. The Friendship Bracelets — Ep22: −1 · Season: 38 · Barrett, LaTrice, Haley, Taylor, Devens Four live houseguests, three of them on the winning side of the vote, and Barrett managing to make it a net negative anyway. Taylor surviving is what keeps it to −1. 12. Swamson98 — Ep22: −7 · Season: 37 · Barrett, LaTrice, Angela, Mallory †, Dee The worst night in the top fifteen: Mallory evicted and Barrett crying about it on the same roster. Dee, Angela and LaTrice were all on the winning side and none of it registered. 13. Operation Coalition — Ep22: −2 · Season: 37 · Haley, Barrett, Kamu †, Dee, Ashley † Haley and Dee were both inside the majority and Barrett was the two-point exception. Three live houseguests, none of whom has been nominated in weeks. 14. Pawn Stars — Ep22: +2 · Season: 34 · Drew, Yash, Lyric †, Rome †, Devens Drew won the Block Buster and Yash and Devens both voted with the six — the cleanest positive night of any solo team outside the top spot. Nobody on this roster was ever in danger. 15. Expect the Unexpected — Ep22: +0 · Season: 34 · Lyric †, Dee, Yash, Jason †, LaTrice Dee presided, Yash and LaTrice voted with her, and the three of them banked nothing between them. The safest zero on the board. 16. Answers Are Locked — Ep22: +0 · Season: 33 · Barrett, Jason †, Dee, Drew, Melody You own the Block Buster winner, the HOH, and both members of the two-vote resistance. Drew's +2 and Barrett's −2 cancel; Melody's loyalty cost nothing but position. 17. Jimmy's lil babies — Ep22: −2 · Season: 33 · Barrett, Kamu †, Jason †, Devens, Chuk † Devens quietly picked the target and Barrett loudly objected to it, and only the objection scored. Three evicted names make Barrett's standing more load-bearing than it should be. 18. Crazy Eyes — Ep22: −2 · Season: 31 · Barrett, Chuk †, Devens, Rome †, LaTrice Devens and LaTrice were both on the right side of the 6–2 and neither moved; Barrett was on the wrong one and did. Two dead names and a roster that keeps paying for one man's principles. 19. The Zingbots — Ep22: −7 · Season: 28 · Barrett, LaTrice, Dee, Mallory †, Jason † Mallory out and Barrett in tears — the two worst lines of the night, both yours. Dee and LaTrice voted or presided on the winning side for nothing. 20. alisonbaker7834 — Ep22: −5 · Season: 25 · Mallory †, Kamu †, Dee, Jason †, Chuk † Mallory's eviction leaves Dee as the only live houseguest on this roster — but she is the most powerful one in the house, which is worth something going into a week with no HOH. 21. Jays Fantasy 5 — Ep22: +0 · Season: 25 · Chuk †, Dee, Kamu †, Haley, Lyric † Dee ran the eviction and Haley voted it through, and neither scored a cent. Three evicted names, two safe ones, and a completely uneventful night. 22. Mortal Kombat — Ep22: −2 · Season: 24 · Barrett, LaTrice, Jason †, Devens, Ashley † LaTrice and Devens were both inside the winning six; Barrett was the reason the roster still went backwards. That's the third week in a row this exact pattern has played out here. 23. Looney Bin — Ep22: +1 · Season: 21 · Haley, Angela, Yash, Ashley †, Taylor Four live houseguests, three of them voting with the majority and the fourth surviving the block. Taylor's +1 is the whole ledger and it's a genuinely good sign for a roster this quiet. 24. jacobbroene — Ep22: −3 · Season: 20 · Dee, Melody, Drew, Mallory †, Jason † Drew won his way off the block, Mallory went home in the space it made, and Melody cast one of the two votes that failed to stop it. Dee held the gavel over all of it. 25. The Snakey Society — Ep22: +0 · Season: 19 · Barrett, Drew, LaTrice, Ashley †, Chuk † Drew's Block Buster win, undone to the point by Barrett's tears. LaTrice voted with the six. Three live houseguests and a night that netted exactly nothing. 26. brensh324 — Ep22: −5 · Season: 18 · Mallory †, Dee, Rome †, Lyric †, Yash Mallory's exit takes this to two live names, but they're Dee and Yash — the HOH and the man who bought his safety outright. Thin, and very hard to kill. 27. Big Brother Mountain Railroad — Ep22: +0 · Season: 16 · Angela, Drew, Barrett, Jason †, Ashley † Drew came off the block, Angela voted with the six, Barrett cried about the outcome, and the three of them added up to zero. Three live houseguests is still a decent base. 28. skcourson1972 — Ep22: −5 · Season: 13 · Mallory †, Yash, Lyric †, Rome †, Devens Mallory's eviction leaves Yash and Devens, both of whom voted her out and neither of whom has been in danger for a month. Three dead names is the ceiling problem. 29. The Royal Circuit — Ep22: −2 · Season: 12 · Barrett, Angela, Ashley †, LaTrice, Jason † Angela and LaTrice were both inside the winning six and Barrett was the exception that cost you. Three live houseguests, all of them comfortable, none of them scoring. 30. JennyB Final Five — Ep22: −2 · Season: 6 · Barrett, Chuk †, Haley, Lyric †, Kamu † Haley voted with the majority and Barrett cried, which is this roster's entire involvement in the biggest eviction of the season. Three of five already gone. 31. The Chaos Coalition — Ep22: +0 · Season: 6 · Ashley †, Jason †, Lyric †, Devens, LaTrice Devens and LaTrice both voted with the six and neither banked a point. Three evicted names is a heavy anchor for two very safe houseguests to drag. 32. The Floaters — Ep22: +0 · Season: 6 · Jason †, Ashley †, Lyric †, Devens, LaTrice Same two live houseguests as The Chaos Coalition and the same flat zero — Devens steering quietly, LaTrice voting with the house. Living up to the name in the least harmful way. 33. Angie's BB28 Team — Ep22: −5 · Season: 5 · Lyric †, Mallory †, Kamu †, Yash, Jason † Mallory's eviction makes it four gone out of five. Yash is the last one standing and he's the safest man in the house — which is the only reason this isn't over. 34. adriancchav — Ep22: +0 · Season: 0 · Chuk †, Rome †, Ashley †, Melody, Yash Yash voted with the six, Melody voted against it, and the two cancelled to a perfect zero — which is also the season total. Poetic, if nothing else. 35. Lynda's Final Five — Ep22: −1 · Season: −2 · Chuk †, Barrett, Taylor, Rome †, Ashley † Taylor survived the block and Barrett cried about the man who didn't — a near-wash on a roster that badly needed a win. Two live names left. 36. Carlins final 5 — Ep22: −6 · Season: −5 · Barrett, Lyric †, Taylor, Mallory †, LaTrice Both of tonight's remaining nominees on one roster, and they split — Taylor lived, Mallory left. Barrett's tears turned a −5 into a −6. 37. Team Candice — Ep22: +0 · Season: −6 · Haley, Kamu †, Ashley †, Lyric †, Chuk † Haley voted with the six and is the only live houseguest here. She has never been nominated and nobody says her name — which, at four-of-five evicted, is the entire remaining case. 38. russellsprout03 — Ep22: −5 · Season: −7 · Mallory †, Yash, Ashley †, Melody, Rome † Mallory evicted and Melody on the losing end of the vote to save her. Yash is the only untroubled name left and he's carrying three dead ones. 39. Oregon City Big Brother Fans — Ep22: +0 · Season: −10 · Chuk †, Kamu †, Rome †, Lyric †, Melody Melody is the last one standing and she just spent her vote on the losing side of a 6–2. Four evicted houseguests behind her and no comp equity in front. 40. LN's 1 — Ep22: +0 · Season: −13 · Lyric †, Ashley †, LaTrice, Chuk †, Rome † LaTrice voted with the majority and is the only live name here — but she's won two comps in three weeks and is off everyone's target list. One good houseguest, four anchors. 41. Backdoor: Exit Only — Ep22: +0 · Season: −13 · Lyric †, LaTrice, Melody, Rome †, Chuk † LaTrice on the winning side, Melody on the losing one, and a flat zero out of it. Three evicted names means this needs LaTrice to keep winning things. 42. cbstinedurf04 — Ep22: −7 · Season: −16 · Mallory †, Barrett, Lyric †, Angela, Ashley † The worst night on the solo board: Mallory evicted and Barrett in tears, on a roster that was already three-fifths gone. Angela's correct vote was worth nothing. 43. edmdonnelly — Ep22: +1 · Season: −20 · Chuk †, Ashley †, Lyric †, Rome †, Taylor Taylor lost the Block Buster, took both protest votes, and survived — the only point this roster has scored in a month, and the only live houseguest on it. It's something.

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