The unpredictability that the Big Brother Arena competition brought to Thursday night’s live episode really was a game-changer, and shook the show out of its too-predictable eviction episodes (especially for live-feed watchers).
In recent years, live feed watchers had a pretty solid idea of who was going to be evicted by the time Thursday night rolled around. Heck, in most cases, the decision was already made by the time the Veto Ceremony took place, and it was unlikely to change in the days leading up to eviction.
With the Arena in play, the houseguests had to consider different voting and eviction scenarios depending on which of the three nominees did or didn’t win the competition. Nothing was set in stone, which led to some interesting outcomes in the early weeks of Season 26.
Some might disagree on this front, but we’d even go so far as to say that we were a lot less frustrated by the lack of a live Head of Household competition on Thursday nights last summer when the Arena was happening, because there was so much suspense leading up to the actual eviction.
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We still don’t love that we don’t see a new Head of Household crowned live as often as we used to. When the HoH isn’t won during the live episode, it ends up being shown on Sunday’s episode.
By Sunday night, feed-watchers are already anticipating whether or not the Veto is going to be used (the Ceremony typically happens on Mondays), so seeing the new HoH crowned at that point feels like old news.
Still, the AI Arena brought back some of the unpredictability to the live show, and that was genuinely needed to shake up the game, not to mention giving the houseguests a reason to scramble a bit once the competition was won and the other two nominees’ fates hung in the balance.
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