Well, that worked. The question is, how and why? How did they get so many different islanders—at a minimum Ace, Austin, Zak and Chelly, and many others at minimum made major errors—to absolutely lose their minds, strategically speaking in the State Your Business challenge?
Obviously some of that was explicit egging on and demanding, but it was more than that. This looked like terrible design, yet it was instead good design. It turns out, when you combine ‘this is a challenge and you go hard in challenges no matter what’ with ‘this is a lock to give you screen time to say what you want to say’ and presumably ‘we won’t let you deliver a card that isn’t going after someone’ (which explains why Huda’s card to Chelly was worded the way it was) almost everyone forgets they are about to make themselves look absolutely awful?
And then in the moment, once you start reading the cards, oh it’s on now, everyone is watching and screen time is there for the taking, so people doubled down a lot, and there was a lot people had been holding back. And then, once that pattern was set, it just kept going, despite the fact that strategically doing this on Love Island makes no sense. Some people look like absolute toast now as a result.
So, we voted on our favorite islanders. How many should we cut?
That depends on who is on the chopping block. But the method of ‘vote for 1’ rather than ranked choice or voting up/down on everyone means that you’re actually pretty safe.
The good news is, on the girl side, there isn’t much to worry about. Huda, Amaya, Chelley and Clarke are the ones you absolutely must protect, and I presume they’re presumably all safe in this vote. Cierra is a special case right now but I’m confident she’s not vulnerable in the vote.
That leaves five potential cuts other than Cierra. A key question is what you want to do with Olandria. She’s a good player, you could try and bring in a bombshell, but she’s a slow burn and it’s getting late. Of course, if you plan to or do expel Cierra over the slur situation, you absolutely need to save Olandria, to set up or at least tease Nicolandria 2.0, although Jaden isn’t the worst backup especially if Austin goes.
I also think you’d prefer to shield Iris if you can, unless you’re about to lose TJ anyway. She’s not top level, but you need some couples especially with the Cierra situation.
Gracyn is presumably toast. That leaves Andrina and Jaden.
Given how I’d expect the islanders to choose who to save (and you have several choices on how to do that to get what you want) that means you’re safe cutting two of three and you’re probably safe cutting three of four.
For the boys, I think the only big worry is Taylor. Chris, Ace and Nic are needed but are I assume very safe.
Zak is probably toast after what he did to Amaya. Pepe really should leave if he’s this hung up on Hannah, there’s nothing to work with and let the boy go to her, but the public probably saves him in the vote. Austin is expendable.
TJ and Bryan have roles to play, but you can cut there if you have to. Elan is potentially a good player but has nothing going on.
So again, I think you can probably get away with cutting three of four, depending on the order?
As in, full red wedding, we go from 20 to 14 (or 13 depending on Cierra!), then we can bring in new bombshells. So that’s what I’d do unless the vote is surprising and you’re backed into a corner. But we shall see.
The only exception would be, if it is decided Cierra has to go, you need to talk to Nic, figure out where his head is at, and then decide if you’re pointing Nic at Olandria or if you can’t pull that off and you need to go for Jaden or Andrina (or potentially a bombshell or a newly single Iris). Of course, if Nic decides to leave with her, that’s that, but I’d presume you can convince Nic to stay.
I would absolutely 100% give Pepe the opportunity to self-eliminate to save someone, if he’s voted safe as he well might be. And I would use that, if I needed to, to allow you to save someone you felt you could not lose. That would be part of my plan, and would have been the moment I couldn’t get him to go for Andrina despite not having a spark with Grayson. Heroic sacrifice.
Well, that worked. The question is, how and why? How did they get so many different islanders—at a minimum Ace, Austin, Zak and Chelly, and many others at minimum made major errors—to absolutely lose their minds, strategically speaking in the State Your Business challenge?
Obviously some of that was explicit egging on and demanding, but it was more than that. This looked like terrible design, yet it was instead good design. It turns out, when you combine ‘this is a challenge and you go hard in challenges no matter what’ with ‘this is a lock to give you screen time to say what you want to say’ and presumably ‘we won’t let you deliver a card that isn’t going after someone’ (which explains why Huda’s card to Chelly was worded the way it was) almost everyone forgets they are about to make themselves look absolutely awful?
And then in the moment, once you start reading the cards, oh it’s on now, everyone is watching and screen time is there for the taking, so people doubled down a lot, and there was a lot people had been holding back. And then, once that pattern was set, it just kept going, despite the fact that strategically doing this on Love Island makes no sense. Some people look like absolute toast now as a result.
So, we voted on our favorite islanders. How many should we cut?
That depends on who is on the chopping block. But the method of ‘vote for 1’ rather than ranked choice or voting up/down on everyone means that you’re actually pretty safe.
The good news is, on the girl side, there isn’t much to worry about. Huda, Amaya, Chelley and Clarke are the ones you absolutely must protect, and I presume they’re presumably all safe in this vote. Cierra is a special case right now but I’m confident she’s not vulnerable in the vote.
That leaves five potential cuts other than Cierra. A key question is what you want to do with Olandria. She’s a good player, you could try and bring in a bombshell, but she’s a slow burn and it’s getting late. Of course, if you plan to or do expel Cierra over the slur situation, you absolutely need to save Olandria, to set up or at least tease Nicolandria 2.0, although Jaden isn’t the worst backup especially if Austin goes.
I also think you’d prefer to shield Iris if you can, unless you’re about to lose TJ anyway. She’s not top level, but you need some couples especially with the Cierra situation.
Gracyn is presumably toast. That leaves Andrina and Jaden.
Given how I’d expect the islanders to choose who to save (and you have several choices on how to do that to get what you want) that means you’re safe cutting two of three and you’re probably safe cutting three of four.
For the boys, I think the only big worry is Taylor. Chris, Ace and Nic are needed but are I assume very safe.
Zak is probably toast after what he did to Amaya. Pepe really should leave if he’s this hung up on Hannah, there’s nothing to work with and let the boy go to her, but the public probably saves him in the vote. Austin is expendable.
TJ and Bryan have roles to play, but you can cut there if you have to. Elan is potentially a good player but has nothing going on.
So again, I think you can probably get away with cutting three of four, depending on the order?
As in, full red wedding, we go from 20 to 14 (or 13 depending on Cierra!), then we can bring in new bombshells. So that’s what I’d do unless the vote is surprising and you’re backed into a corner. But we shall see.
The only exception would be, if it is decided Cierra has to go, you need to talk to Nic, figure out where his head is at, and then decide if you’re pointing Nic at Olandria or if you can’t pull that off and you need to go for Jaden or Andrina (or potentially a bombshell or a newly single Iris). Of course, if Nic decides to leave with her, that’s that, but I’d presume you can convince Nic to stay.
I would absolutely 100% give Pepe the opportunity to self-eliminate to save someone, if he’s voted safe as he well might be. And I would use that, if I needed to, to allow you to save someone you felt you could not lose. That would be part of my plan, and would have been the moment I couldn’t get him to go for Andrina despite not having a spark with Grayson. Heroic sacrifice.