Big Brother 20: The Perils of Foutte

Hi y’all!

I swear, Foutte has got to be one of the most incompetent alliances in Big Brother history.

I mean, don’t get me wrong.  They’ve got a lot of fans.  The #BB20 community on twitter absolutely loves them.  If you’re talking about Big Brother on twitter and you happen to mention that Rockstar seems to be kind of an idiot, you can expect to get a few dozen angry responses from people who think that Rockstar, Haleigh, and Bayleigh are the greatest houseguests ever.

But seriously, Foutte has got a terrible track record.  Let’s consider a few Foutte highlights:

1. First off, it’s often forgotten that Foutte was originally formed as a result of Kaitlyn giving meditation classes.  Chris, Faysal, Haleigh, Rockstar, and Bayleigh all attended Kaitlyn’s classes and decided to form an alliance as a result.  It didn’t occur to them that maybe a shared interest in meditation was not the strongest foundation for an alliance.

2. As soon as Foutte formed, they basically went out of their way to alienate everyone else in the house.  Between Chris’s cockiness and Rockstar and Haleigh’s politics, is it any surprise that so-called independent players — like Sam and Tyler and JC — decided to work with Level 6?

3. As soon as they declared that they were going to win the game together, the alliance immediately got distracted by several showmances and lost focus on the big picture.  Chris and Bayleigh hooked up and let’s not even get started on the Haleigh-Faysal-Kaitlyn love triangle.

4. Because Kaitlyn was upset that Faysal liked Haleigh more than her, she flipped on the first vote and Steve was voted out.  The members of Foutte were blindsided.

5. Kaitlyn won HoH and, instead of going after Level 6, backdoored Chris.  Again, Foutte thought they had the votes to keep Chris.  Again, they were blindsided.

6. Finally, in week 3, it looked like Foutte might finally get a victory.  Scottie won HoH and he nominated two members of Level 6, Winston and Brett.  And yet again, Foutte was blindsided when not only was Winston voted out instead of Brett but Brett also managed to convince several people that Rockstar flipped her vote.

When you’ve been blindsided three times in a row, it might be time to admit that you need to rethink your strategy to the game.  Instead, the remaining members of Foutte continue to brag about how brilliant they are.  This week, Kaitlyn and Rockstar are sitting on the block.  Given the fact that Kaitlyn has betrayed everyone in the House, it would seem like an easy vote this week, right?

Nope.  Once again, Foutte has managed to take a potential victory and turn it into an almost certain defeat.  There’s a lot of things that they could have done to make sure that Kaitlyn was the one evicted.

They could have thrown the veto to Rockstar.

Instead, Faysal won it.

Faysal could have not used the veto.  As risky as that would have been, Haleigh hasn’t made many enemies and would probably stay over Kaitlyn.

Instead, Faysal used the veto on Haleigh which led to Rockstar being nominated.  Faysal knew this would happen but he did it anyway.

When you’re sitting on the block next to a houseguest like Kaitlyn, the best bet is probably to stay quiet and let Kaitlyn self-destruct.  Instead, Rockstar has been acting impulsively, complaining that she shouldn’t be voted out because she needs the money.  (That’s a terrible argument, by the way.  Everyone in the house undoubtedly feels that they need the money.)  Rockstar has also tried to rally all of the girls to her side, not realizing that Haleigh is literally the only other person in the House who cares about having an all-girls alliance.  The other girls are so close to Tyler that there’s no way they’re going to work with someone who has said that her main goal is to get Tyler out of the house.

As for the rest of Foutte, their plan is to spread lies about Kaitlyn and to try to convince everyone that Kaitlyn is working against them.  The problem is that everyone already knows that Kaitlyn is a complete flake and absolutely no one wants to work with her.  However, they also view her as being easily manipulated and not much of a threat.  Rockstar, meanwhile, won’t shut up about how she wants to vote out Tyler and Brett.

So, amazingly, Kaitlyn once again appears to be safe and it appears that Level 6 will once again blindside Foutte by evicting Rockstar.  Of course, Rockstar will get a chance to reenter the house but if it involves winning a challenge, Rockstar’s going to be in trouble.  Rockstar hasn’t come close to winning anything since the game began.  And, even if Rockstar does reenter the house, she’ll probably be voted out again the next week, depending on which alliance wins HoH.

So, it looks like we’ve got another messy blindside coming up!

It should be fun,

Lisa Marie