With Matt on the block as Brendon’s replacement, a controversy has sparked amongst Big Brother 12 fans. Well…amongst BB fans there is always several controversies, but then one in question is: How Has Matt Played This Game.
Some say Matt is a terrible player and deserves to be evicted. Others say Matt is the best player ever and deserves to win. Here is my take on the situation after following the live feeds in the form of a well detailed analysis:
Where Matt Went Wrong
Matt makes up a lie that his wife has a rare bone disease. A common mistake in competitive reality shows. This mistake is three-fold. Where this lie had the power to keep Matt safe initially, as the field narrows this lie only creates a bigger target on Matt’s back. Reality TV competitors are money hungry whores. They don’t care about your wife’s bones. And even if there was a chance they did, there is still a voice in the back of their heads telling them that it’s really a lie. See…no one wants to be the first person to call out a bone disease lie, which is probably the only reason you’ve gotten away with it for this long. The third fold in this three-fold error is karma. Fate on reality shows is classic.
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Matt blows Week 3. Matt had an easy out during week 3. The entire house was unanimous that Brendon and Rachel could take a long walk off a short pier, but Matt decided to confuse them all by ultimately sending Andrew home. This mistake is also two-fold. He attempted to look like a “diabolical genius” a try a bunch of complicated maneuvers that ultimately led to nothing and made him look like he was full of shit. Andrew would have been a great throwaway eviction if one was ever needed. He could be going home this week instead of Matt. Also, Matt did not follow the Brigade’s wishes. Not that he needs to follow their every order, but when you align with a group, that’s called a team. And there is no “I” in “Team.” Matt tried to dazzle them with his wisdom, but only ignited their feelings of suspicion.
Matt allows the Brigade to ride his coattails. This move was fail because it made him stand apart from the Brigade to the other members. When having to choose a target out of the four members, why not choose the guy who is kicking ass? Matt unfolded his hands and said “Please splash blood all over these puppies.” He probably thought this would make him ideal to bring to the finals because he’d have enemies there, but even if you hated a guy, would deny his wife emergency bone surgery?
Matt wastes Diamond Power of Veto. And I know what you are all thinking – He should have used it to nominate Britney. NO. He should have used it to nominate Enzo! Had he used DPOV to get Enzo out, the Brigade would have pulled him closer, not out of trust, no, but out of desperation. Once Enzo was gone Matt could have lied through his teeth to justify evicting Enzo and Enzo wouldn’t have been able to say otherwise. Hell, he could have even told the truth – the guy was going to vote me out, so I voted him out.
Matt stays loyal to the Brigade. Yes Matt is very stoic and loyal. And a very stupid Big Brother 12 player. At the first sign of dissention Matt should have regrouped another alliance using the existence of the Brigade as his selling point. He knew he was low man on the totem pole in the Brigade. He knew his alliance was beginning to work with Brendon. He was a fool to keep the Brigade quiet, especially after a non Brigader won HoH. Too late now. Won’t change his fate.
Matt Throws HoH. We all know Matt threw HoH. He made that obvious. Why? Who knows why. You can’t say he threw it to Britney for her birthday; he was out way before she won. You can’t say he just wanted to see another Brigade member win it for once, he’s got to be smarter than that. What we can infer is that Matt thought after using DPoV to save himself, no one would dare put him on the block for saving the day. We all know that thinking you are safe is always a huge blunder in Big Brother. Matt fell right into the trap. Fail Matt. Fail.
So as you see, Matt is not a clean, perfect Big Brother player. He has made his fair share of mistakes and will most likely pay for them come Thursday night. If this Matt fiasco really has you miffed, well this time you can hate the player, not the game.
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I think you’re wrong on several accounts.
Bone disease: draw. Neither severely helped nor hurt him.
Week 3: wrong. This is actually one of his best moves. It prolonged the brigade entropy by several weeks, and it’s what SHOULD have ended up helping him befriend the survivor of the Brendon/Rachel relationship, but he failed to follow through with part 2 of this good 2 part plan. If he had separated them then and there, the brigade would have collapsed much sooner, and with more loose ends it would have been more risky to ensure Matt stayed.
Coattails: draw. If anything it was a good thing, because it ensured he’s a sure winner if he gets to final 2. It didn’t hurt him until he made other mistakes, but this was not one of them.
DPOV: correct. In retrospect, yes. But it wasn’t obvious that things would work out this way, and he took a risk hoping that the odds would play into his favor with Brendon surely going home the next week. There’s a difference between not realizing he should have outed Enzo, and choosing not to. He wasn’t ignorant, he just took a bad risk. But even still, this wasn’t that big of a mistake.
Loyalty: draw. Whether he was or wasn’t in the past wasn’t a big deal either way. It WILL be a big deal if he goes the next 12 hours without outing the brigade, but there’s still time left, so he doesn’t deserve to be called out on this yet.
Throwing HoH: correct. Again, he assumed Brendon was going home, and he was almost guaranteed to go home, had it not been for this diabolical veto contest that happens each year that tempts people and screws over those who count on them. So again, it was a mistake, but not a massive one; the odds WERE in his favor when he knowingly took the risk.
So taking those few mistakes into consideration . . . so what? Like no one else in the house hasn’t made a few mistakes? He still played a great game so far. I hope he outs the brigade and works some magic, but I have a feeling his fate is sealed. I’ll be sad to see him go.
As for the most deserving of the current HGs, here’s my opinion: Matt > Britney > Brendon >> Ragan >>> Lane >>>>> Hayden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dead fishies > Enzo
Exactly! I couldn’t have made these points better myself. First he ultra-backdoors Kathy of all people (nice power move). Next he throws HOH (why?). Then he turns on Ragan before outing the Brigade. What were you thinking, Matt? He should’ve just told Britney who is controlling the votes in the house and have her break them up. I concur, Epic Fail.
I think some of this goes to a larger picture this season. Nobody is campaigning for votes. The houseguests are voting in lockstep every single week, and people aren’t playing the way they should be. Some of the best players in this game’s history saw the block as a minor obstacle, because they could work the PEOPLE, if the comps didn’t go their way. This group has a hard on for throwing comps and not bothering with campaigning to stay.
Matt, Ragan, and Britney could’ve tried to sway Lane for a vote. He could be responsive by appealing to his position as the new bottom bitch of the Brigade, or threatening him losing 3 key jury votes. If Lane flipped, the vote is 2-2 and Britney is the bad guy for sending Enzo home, not Lane.
Man, I have a hard time buying the fact that Matt is/was a good player….. I’m glad he got Cathy out, but I don’t think he threw her under the bus. He had to put someone up and why not her?
I hate floaters… Kevin, from BB 11 aka the winner, is prime reason why you have to get the floaters out of the house before the power players. At this point I believe Ragan will sail his way to final 2. Besides his yelling matches with the most hated house guest of all time, Rachel, he hasn’t really gotten his hands dirty. Now I will say he has won some key competitions but that doesn’t make him a Power Player. And if he’s come out of his Floater status, it’s be recently.
My prediction, final 2: Ragan vs. Brenden, winner Ragan by a 9-1 vote!
Remember…this post has nothing to do with comparing Matt to other players in the house. It is simply a response to those who say he is a perfect player, the bet player ever, he doesn’t deserve to go home, he’s never done anything wrong etc. Bottom line is Matt had a lot of confidence, but in there can’t put his money where his mouth is. My thoughts on BB are always: If you win, then you played the best that season. You did something right. Otherwise you wouldn’t win.
@JaMeS
First off I’m not sure how Ragan wins 9-1 when there is only 7 HGs on the Jury. Secondly I think if Brendon makes it to final 2 he will win. Despite many of their personal feelings toward him I think they will respect the fact they he made it to the end being the target since week 1 and feel he earned it and deserves it.
Joanna,
Nobody really can say who was the best BB player ever. Is it Will or Boogie? Is it Dan? Nobody is saying he’s the best player ever, so don’t know where you got that.
As for the other parts, I agree partially with QAZ. The DPOV was used to put up Kathy and as far as the houseguests know the Saboteur didn’t get the money. That was the entire point. Matt thought he was going to be a hero in the house, which he was except in the eyes of most of the Brigade.
How Enzo said “maybe Kathy is the saboteur” was to get any attention he had off of him. He’s lucky he said that too or he would’ve been gone last week. You can tell on the look on his face after Matt used the DPOV he was “this” close to being evicted.
By far, Matt is the smartest player in this game. Hayden will win against Enzo, sure, but he is too much of a loose cannon and can’t win competitions. What happens if they keep Brendon too long and he ends up deciding to get rid of one of the two? Let me re-phrase that, what happens if anybody smartens up and decides to get rid of those two? They will go home. They can’t win veto or HOH for their life. Hayden’s only HOH was given to him. The fact of the matter is, Matt carried an alliance through the game and they backstabbed him for it. The downside of revealing the Brigade to the other houseguests is that they could think he is the head and evict him. They could think “what has Enzo done for this alliance?”.
Sure you can look at it like Matt carried the alliance through the game…or you could look at it as Matt was stupid enough to be tricked into carrying an alliance through the game. My opinion is the latter.
Matt had ousted Andrew because if Brendon used is PoV Rachel would have been out. Matt knew the Brigade was hot on him to break up Brenchel. When he finally did, that led him to believe they would always have his back since they knew he would keep doing their dirty work and winning comps. However, he did not count on them being a bunch of worthless, clueless losers and they did nothing to help him. His arrogance is what cost him finally because he though he could throw the last comp and leave the dirty work of getting rid of Brendon to someone else and he would not have that blood on his hands.
That last part there is 100% correct. Matt’s most fatal mistake is that after he used POV he thought that would have earned him some time to relax. He pulled this “big move” and thought the Brigade would appreciate that and let him take a breather. Matt thought now it would be someone else’s turn to get bloody. He was so blind he never even considered that he might wind up being the target.
oops..sorry that last commet was me..I meant To Rob. LOL
Matt had to tell big brother early wednesday if he was using it and who was going up.Kathy was suspected to be the sab and plus Enzo and Hayden told him 2 hrs before eviction they were voting him out,im sure if he never had to tell bb so early that one of them would of went up
Tricked? You honestly think as competitive as Enzo is he threw every competition? Matt carried them because they’re all useless, and then they stabbed him in the back this week when he tried to carry them over Ragan. You can say it’s just a game, but no matter what game you’re playing, chess or football, you want to see it played with some form of class.
My opinion is also the latter. I thought it was common knowledge that the rest of the brigade were throwing pretty much all competitions since they have never truly been in danger so why do the dirty work. They let Matt do it since he was willing, it put a target on him, and made him make enemies when they benefited. The brigade itself is probably the ultimate floater of the season.
I also think Enzo was trying to throw the last HoH but the problem was he kept guessing right
Enzo is in a penguin suit with no clothes. And he failed. He couldn’t win a competition where he only had to press a button. And as much as he was freaking out about Brit putting him up, you really think he threw the competition to her? Please. The Brigade is useless, Matt was their last hope in several competitions before he even had the option to throw them.
The consensus seems to say Matt is going home first tonight. That seems totally appropriate – he is no more than a liar & a schemer, whose big lie
about Ms. Matt didn’t get him much but The sympathy of poor gullible Ragan. On other words, he just ain’t as smart as he thinks he is. There are many differing opinions as to who the second evictee will be. Personally I’m hoping it’s Enzo, he’s just too manipulative to win and a bit of a phoney to boot. We’ll see tonight.
How can you argue in favor of Matt then claim that you want to see the game played with some form of class. Lying about an illness and your wife and throwing your biggest ally under the bus is anything but class.
How is Enzo competitive though, in what pool? He has no interested in winning competitions, he practices skill comps the least and he hardly bothers with rehearsing for the mental challenges unless others are there, and in those cases he lets them do the talking.
Of course he threw the comp to Britney but mainly on accident since he was guessing. He probably had no intention on winning since he was good regardless. The only person that could have won that would worry Enzo would have been Ragan and he was the first out. He knew that Brendon was the target, and if he goes up either him or Hayden go up with him. He also knows he has the votes and Lane has Britney in his back pocket.
You must buy into his horrible acting, of course he complains about being put up, and acting like he is pissed about losing competitions. If he isnt then it looks suspicious like he is overconfident, just look at where that got Matt. Dont confuse me though for being a fan of Enzo, overall he is pretty useless other than comic relief but he has always been in a better position than Matt ever was.
Enzo isn’t the only person in the Brigade. Yeah he’s pretty useless, but I do think he has thrown many competitions. Lane and Hayden are ALSO in the Brigade and they have probably thrown every competition they have played so far. You want me to believe that Hayden could win the first HoH and then suddenly everyone else is just better than him? No way. ANd Lane hasn’t won anything, so I firmly believe he has thrown everything.
Matts eviction speech,
Well to start, I would like to apologize to Regan for throwing him under the bus. My intention was not to back stab you persay, I was staying true to the alliance I made day one with Lane, Enzo and Hayden that we named the Brigade. Brit, Regan, and Brendon all I have done these past weeks was to be loyal to the Brigade and here they are backstabbing me. If I go it will be you three against those three. If you keep me I will be just as loyal to you, and it will be us four against the two of them. We will be the final four, and fight it out from there. If I go, only one of you will make final four. Its up to you, but either way you should know what your up against. Three guys that back stabbed the one that carried them this far.
Something like that is the only chance he has.
Lies are part of the game, and he’s paying for the illness lie. I’m mainly annoyed by the complete hypocritical attitude Enzo has- Matt’s a scumbag for aligning with Ragan, when he never actually has, whilst he made an alliance with Brendon and has been plotting specifically against Matt. His holier than thou attitude in the DR and then his constant chanting, “I’m friends with everyone” in the house have just gotten on my nerves, and I wish it wasn’t working for him.
Looks like any intelligent debate is about to be gone though, time for idiots with language they think will shock you. Have fun with your little peepee caca jokes kids.
Oh come on…! Matt was a horrible player.
The lie about his wife nearly doomed him from the start. When it’s time to start counting the votes, nobody wants to be up against a guy trying to save his wife – it’s the ultimate sympathy card. So if he’s got friends in the jury house, you can’t take him to the finals. And if he’s got enemies in the jury house, he can’t win. Either way, he was screwed.
And his DPOV move and the nomination of Kathy? Total foolishness! Kathy was the perfect person to have as final two. Floaters like Ragan are dangerous. Floaters like Kathy are not. Nobody was going to vote for her. It’s obvious from BBAD and the feeds that the house thought she was a total waste of space. Nobody respected her or her game play. Half of them acknowledge only keeping her because she cooked, cleaned, and made their beds.
And nothing, not even nominating Kathy after the brigade turned on him, was going to magically make the brigade love him again and move him to the top of their totem pole. They had already said their goodbyes and moved on with new strategies. By upsetting their plan, he’s become an annoyance that they need to get rid of. People hate it when their plans get ruined.
Personally, I think Matt had the ultimate opportunity with the DPOV and he completely wasted it. Until this week, Matt really had two alliances. One with the brigade, of which he was the whipping boy. And one with Ragan, Brittney, and (maybe) Kathy, of which he was the king. The choice was his and he chose whipping boy. Idiot! He could have nominated enzo, abandoned the brigade, tossed them into the minority, and sailed through while his new alliance focused on wiping out the remaining brigade members. He, Brittney, and Ragan would have ended up battling it out for the finish. And of those three, Matt was the strongest competitor (IMO).
Matt… his potential was only eclipsed by his hubris. I really do believe he ultimately chose the brigade simply because he finally feels a part of the “cool crowd”. What a shame.
I have to agree with all your points, Joanna. I really like Matt but he screwed up big time. Really hope he somehow manages to save himself, but if not, at least as a Brenchel fan I can be satisfied that Brendon beat him.
I think you are on target on every point. However, you failed to discuss the nail that sealed the coffin. Matt, being almost 100% safe this week, decided that he once again had to be in control (at least in his mind) and tried to convince Britney to put up Ragan in Brendon place – stupid, stupid, stupid move. Britney’s one ally in this game has been Ragan. Even though she’s been close to Lane she has never known for sure she had his full support while she knew that Ragan had her back. Once Matt started lobbying to get rid of Ragan Britney had to see that he wasn’t loyal and that sealed his fate.
ChrisM – True… I don’t understand why Matt is still being so loyal to the Brigade at this point. He knew they turned their backs on him last week…he didn’t use DPOV on them…and this week he’s right back to kissing their asses. He says he is a super fan? Well any super fan knows there is a time when you turn your back on your alliance if need be. The rest of the Brigade sensed that, but Matt didn’t. There is a part of me that hopes he pulls out some ridiculously amazing speech possibly outing the brigade that makes the others want to out Enzo…but I don’t see it happening. He rolled over and died and now he’s out.
I agree with Brian about Brendon’s good chance of winning if he makes it to the F2. He certainly wouldnt get there through luckbut though competing like every day was his last (which, in essence, it was). I especially would like to see “MR INTEGRITY”. Ragan, deny Brendon his vote…and his reasons why.
Even if Matt outs the brigade in his speech tonight, it’s too late. It MIGHT sway Ragan, but Hayden, Lane, and Brendon aren’t gonna budge. Brittney only matters if it’s a tie.
We know Hayden and Lane aren’t switching votes to turn on Enzo. And between evicting Rachel and the “ya big dummy” comment, there’s no chance Brendon switches his vote. There’s nothing Brendon wants more than to be the vote that dooms Matt. And after Brittney’s betrayal of Brendon, it doesn’t do him any good to abandon the brigade at this point. He can’t trust Brittney’s clan.
The time to out the brigade was when Matt’s name was mentioned as a replacement nominee. Then and there he should have outed them to Brittney and forged a new alliance with her. She would have nominated Hayden and sent one of the brigade packing.
Like I said, Matt sucks as a player. He had more chances than most people ever get and he blew nearly every one of them.
Nate – good point. Britney fully warned Matt that he was a possible re nom. He could have pulled all kinds of factual info out to prove his case, but didn’t. Right there that makes him a player deserving to go home.
Matt could still save his butt this week…it is getting to be too late to but he could do it. 1) He outs the Brigade 2) SOMEHOW convinces Brendon to vote out enzo. 3) brings it to a tie 4) Britney knowing of the alliance and breaks the tie by sending Enzo home and Matt is in the house another week…If he is the diabolical super-genius that he claims this would be his last long shot. It is like Dr. Will said…who ever talks to these people last will get the vote…Weirder things have happened.
I’m gonna call Brit as the winner in the end. I have a feeling that Ragan will be out next week and the Brit will either win more POV’s and an HOH keeping her in the house and killing off the brigade. I say it’ll be between her and Lane.
@Brian
You’re right, there’s not ten jury members, my bad. But, I’m sticking with my Ragan vs. Brenden final.
@james
you are mistaken….kevin was NOT the winner of bb11. he placed third. it was jordan who won, natalie in second place and kevin was third.
I agree with you on the riding coattails thing, HoH, and DPOV but he was loyal when he didn’t have much of an out. Ragen and Britney over Enzo, Lane, and Hayden? Three people who may or may not trust you over one person who does and one who doesn’t? I dunno. I feel that there was no way he could have known they were tossing him that week. Week 3 was good because it kept the targets off the Brigade for several weeks. Look with Lane as current HoH, Matt’s antics got three quarters of the Brigade into the final 4. Pretty good if you ask me. Now in general he isn’t too great compared to other seasons. But this season had terrible competitors. Enzo was part of the dominant alliance. Why? This season’s best players were Matt and Brendon. Brendon simply for winning in desperate times. Matt for being in charge of the Brigade and getting them far and unnoticed for so long. If they do All-Stars, Matt and Brendon will make it. Maybe Ragen or Britney but probably not. We’ll see hoe they’ll play the rest of the season out.
I’m an obber looser. Let’s just say I’m wrong again
Matt was not a good player. His lie about his wife was just stupid. Nobody wanted to be in the final two with him because they figured he was sure to win because of his wife. He was lucky he didn’t go out the first time when he volunteered to go up as a pawn. Who does that? Did Matt carry the Brigade the entire time he was in the house? Yes, absolutely, but why be in an alliance with people who suck and can’t help you? You’re only making yourself a bigger target and letting the others get by without making any enemies. It was only a matter of time before Matt got the boot.
perfect… can’t add a thing
Sure…. I’m just laying around my backyard doing nothing but making fun of people while the real joke is firmly snuggled in my hand down my pants. “$5,000 that’s more than I have made in 2 years!” This explains why Shaggy can’t afford to cut his hair and donate it to Scobbie Doo for hair plugs.
Brit and Ragan speculates about the size of Lane’s PENIS.
Ragan hopes Lane’s penis is one of the HG’s punishments.
Brit admits she has held it in her mouth and that RAGAN’s
little ass couldn’t handle it.
Brit invites Ragan to shave with her in the bathtub.
G.D. it…LEAVE MY BRIT ALONE. SHE IS GOING TO WIN THIS.
BUT Y DOES MY SWEETPEA CONTINUE TO MAKE HERSELF LOOK LESS THAN THE BEAUTIFUL PHILLY THAT SHE IS. I RECKON WE’RE GONNA WANNA ADDRESS THAT AFTER WE GET BACK FROM THE WAL-MART SPENDING WHAT’S LEFT OF THAT 500 BIG ONES ON HER EYE SURGERY.
LANE: WHEN WE ARE DONE WITH THESE PUPPETS, YOU KNOW WHAT I’M GOING TO DO WITH MINE?
BRIT: WILL YOU USE IT AS A SEED SOCK?
HAYDEN: WHAT’S A SEED SOCK?
ENZO: YO BRO, IT’S WERE YOU STICK YOUR PEE PEE WHEN SLAPPIN THE SOLDIER AND YOU CATCH YOUR LOAD IN IT.
LANE: HELL YA, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS PLANNING.
BRIT: CAN I HELP? OR WATCH?
LANE: WHAT ABOUT NICK WATCHING?
BRIT: YOU MEAN NICK WACKING!
ENZO: I WILL BE IN THE ROOM TO, YO…. I MEAN JUST TO MAKE SURE CUPCAKE DOESN’T SNEAK IN TO REPLACE THE PUPPET WITH HIS BIG MOUTH.
HAYDEN: SOMEONE MADE CUPCAKES?
HAYDEN: WHERE ARE THEY AT? I LOVE CUPCAKE. MY MOM STILL MAKES THEM FOR ME. I SELL THE EXTRAS AT MY LEMONADE STAND I DO AT THE END OF HER DRIVEWAY IN SUMMERTIME.
ENZO: YO, FUCK DAT…. YOU RUN A LEMONADE STAND BRO?
HAYDEN: YEP. ALL BY MYSELF.
LANE: THAT’S REAL COOL. DUDE. BUT HOW DO YOU HANDLE GIVING CHANGE BACK AND STUFF?
HAYDEN: OK YOU GOT ME. SOMETIMES I DO MOTION FOR MY MOMMY TO COME OUTSIDE AND HELP.
ENZO: YO, BRO I KNEW IT.
HAYDEN: YA, SHE WATCHES FROM OUR DINING ROOM WINDOW.
I dunno about ya’ll but I’m pretty much OVER big brother. Is there not anything else on TV to watch besides random people living together? Screw this! I’m just gonna watch Minute to Win It on NBC. At least these people are actually earning their money…and guy fieri is the man!