Big Brother 26: Cedric Hodges evicted in epic blindside

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Heading into tonight’s Big Brother 26 eviction episode, we had a pretty specific expectation that either Cedric or Makensy would be evicted from the game. After all, consider the evidence from the past few days of feeds! It has been a really eventful stretch strategically, as we saw T’kor and Kimo drift from the Collective alliance, feeling on the outside and as though they should make some sort of enormous move.

So, were they able to actually pull it off? A lot of that depended on what happened with the AI Arena! Based on the evidence from the feeds the past few days, it felt like if Makensy lost, she would be evicted regardless of anything else. She was an easy person to take out, after all, who had no close allegiances in the game.

Honestly, we wondered entering tonight if T’kor and Kimo had to evict Cedric if he was vulnerable no matter what, as they’d already potentially burned some bridges over the past 24 hours. Of course, would he even be vulnerable after the aforementioned AI Arena?

AI Arena – Makensy won! This was the most exciting one of the season by far, as we saw her defeat Rubina by literally a second. It was another well-designed competition that felt fair for everyone since it was really about timing. Because of this, we got the best-case scenario for chaos.

The eviction – This was incredible drama. The speeches were good, and you could see that Cedric hated that he offered himself up to be a pawn. He was evicted in what was one of the biggest blindsides that we’ve ever seen pre-jury in the game. Brooklyn, Chelsie, and Cam were completely in the dark on the vote and that is definitely going to up the drama from here.

Related Be sure to get some additional coverage from earlier today, including how the possible vote flip came together

Who were you hoping to see evicted from the Big Brother 26 house tonight?

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