Anthony

**Anthony** was a houseguest on Season 2 - The Totem Pole.

## The Totem Pole

Anthony entered the Totem Pole house as one of the 20 players competing for the title. Early on, he was fairly active which allowed him to find a steady social footing in the game, helped by the fact that Henry, one of his close friends, was both in the game and in power Week Two. During Week Three, two controversies arose with Anthony at the center. The first was a rumor of a potential premade alliance with himself Dom, Kaleigh, and Lynn. The rumor left them isolated from the rest of the game and forced together in the . The second controversy arose around comments he made in a past game, making Wyatt uncomfortable. Despite the second controversy surrounding him, Anthony decided to put his head down and go under the radar, letting William take most of the heat for exposing the controversy. In the process, William ended up siding with his other allies and forming the Folklore Stans. This alliance along with Henry and Dom's and William's close ally Lanie, the underdog alliance managed to survive the entire prejury in the Bottom Five with all five members making jury. Throughout the prejury, Anthony stayed active but kept his head down throwing competitions to let his allies take the heat for being inactive, too powerful, or a general social target for the house.

During Week Five, all five Folklore Stans were in the Bottom Five and with William as the odd mad out, the other four banded together to eliminate him. William, however, played an Advantage saving himself from the vote. Because of this, Kaleigh was voted out 3-1 over Anthony in his only vote to eliminate all season. With Kaleigh gone, Anthony was the only one of his allies left to be generally liked by the rest of the house. He spent the early jury actively mending fences with the other side of the house, specifically Wyatt and Megan, to set himself up for the endgame. The following week, his and Dom's efforts paid off as Megan kept them both out of the Bottom Five and with Lynn leaving as the Bottom of the Totem Pole, Anthony and Dom became the only two remaining of the original four allies and a close and dangerous pair in the endgame. In Week Seven, Anthony began his competition run to the end of the game, winning all three of the last Tops of the Totem Pole. In Week Seven, he placed William at the Bottom of the Totem Pole as a peace offering to the rest of the house, and with Lanie as the Switch, both her and Dom survived the round with him. Week Eight saw no safe placements left leaving his allies without protection. With everyone except him vulnerable, he lost both Lanie to the Bottom of the Totem Pole and Dom in the vote. Going into the final competition, Anthony was out of allies. With his back against the wall and a broken rock/paper/scissors promise, he won the final Top of the Totem Pole and his spot in the finale. He went back on a deal from a few minutes ago and eliminated Wyatt who he thought was his biggest competition.

At the finale, he laid out his strategy of laying low early on, knowing and hiding his great competition ability until he was confident he could win out. He stated that he did hide behind shields but still managed to be the only one from his alliance to make the finale. His insightful jury questioning along with his underdog story and a jury full of former allies earned him five votes from Dom, Kaleigh, Lanie, Lynn, and William and the title of Totem Pole winner.