Tobin

**Tobin** (notnotdown) placed 4th in Big Brother Season 3.

Starting off the game fairly social but seemingly not well liked by the Saharah Tribe, Tobin would find himself the target of eviction when Tori won HOH. Despite not being truly on the bottom of the tribe, the particular HOH took away the two nominees the house wanted (Tori & Tyson), meaning a lot of the players would turn their backs on Tobin. He would proceed to win the Week 1 veto as a clutch win, unknowingly saving himself from eviction. Tobin would note here that he felt no one was happy that he won veto (bc they were not), but did not want to think too much into it. At the eviction this week, Tobin would be strong-armed into voting out Ness, who he preferred to keep in the game. He would clock Nick as potentially running the tribe on this side as the most visible threat, souring Tobin toward working with him long term. In Week 2, Tobin would be exiled from the house. This would unknowingly be of great benefit to him, as he was someone the house strongly wanted to target. After the fierce campaigning, close vote, and two sides forming while he was gone, Tobin would be very lucky to find new life breathed into his game by being a vote to be coveted by either side. During Week 4, Tobin held a lot of weight in the potential flip onto Alex over Mercury. Wanting to maintain his position “in the middle,” Tobin would decide against this, officially shutting down any chance of the move. To his credit, their faction in this vote did think they needed Infinity who couldn’t be trusted to make a move, not knowing they could have reached out to Brayden. His decision would bite him in the ass during Week 5, when Alex won the HOH and immediately nominated him due to wrongly assuming Tobin was a vote to evict him. He would survive the vote with 0 votes to evict, showing off his strong middle position he was able to cultivate since his Exile Island trip. This middle position would carry on for a few weeks, with Tobin wanting to pick off the “flops” of the cast that weren’t doing anything to prolong his position. This would be successful, as most of the game felt they were with him. Unfortunately, his strong duo with Alejandro would be damaged when Alejandro exhibited “weird behavior,” being upset over him giving information to Nick. Due to this, he would seemingly side with Nick’s new alliance he established and see Nick as a possible goat to the finale. In Week 8, Tobin would unwillingly win HOH. Attempting to continue to play the middle, his target would firmly be Alex all week. With Alex flopping the veto and Tobin calling Alejandro’s “tantrums” to get him to backdoor someone as red flags, it seemed all but guaranteed the week would go as planned for him. However, after self-reportedly doing ketamine, Tobin would randomly be enthusiastic about backdooring Tyson, going through with it and putting him up after the veto saved Kishor. He would immediately regret this, realizing he just made a move for Alejandro that did not benefit him much at all. Attempting to flip the vote, he would end up giving up despite having a chance to perhaps be successful via emotional manipulation with Alejandro. Not wanting to explore this, however, he would fold his hand and accept that he made a bad move, though now clocking Alejandro as someone who could not make the F2 with him. In Week 9, Tobin would devise a dastardly plan to win the veto and force up one of Skylar or Alejandro, evicting whichever was the renomination. His plan would be foiled when he flopped the veto comp, but the ramifications of cuing Alex into his plans almost bit him in the ass when Alex exposed him to Alejandro. Lying that he never said any of that, Tobin would avoid being a potential renomination option when Alejandro chose to believe him. Despite not being able to get his ideal target out in Week 10 due to the veto, Tobin would still be able to rely on his allies when on the block against Nick. In Week 11, Tobin would not engage nearly as much as the other 3 to Aaron’s HOH pot stirring. His good relationship he had built with Aaron saw him dodge the block, leaving him in the position of power to evict either nominee of his choice. While initially going to evict Alejandro with Aaron’s tie breaking power, Tobin would stop considering this point blank after Kishor imploded in the house chat. Feeling he was just too much to work with and that Alejandro was easier to beat and get out later, Tobin would flip back to evict Kishor and misting Alejandro that he had his back all along. He also felt that their bond the entire game they built, despite often finding Alejandro quite annoying, would better serve him in a worst case scenario. Unfortunately for Tobin, Alejandro would win HOH- the worst case scenario for him. Needing the veto to survive, Tobin would come up just short of a win. Despite a pitch to take Alejandro out at the F3, Aaron would see through his lie and choose to evict him, leaving him just short of the finale.