Talk:America's Most Eligible Season 10 Choices/@comment-36836718-20181017193024/@comment-28520869-20181019023458

my theory is that Omar knew Ivy wanted to eliminate the MC. He knew from her nomination of the MC previously. And with the confessionals it seems he was also aware the most would not want to vote out the MC. But he also probably had an idea that Zeke was off everyone's radars and no one was planning on voting for Zeke.

And Derek said the double elimination seemed early. Omar maybe also pitched the idea of a double elimination to Piper to surprise the contestants. If everyone voted Bianca and no one was bothering with Zeke (I don't know if Piper knew about Zeke's gf from the start or not), the MC would be eliminated through Ivy's vote. If they didn't have the double elimination. the MC would've been safe for the remainder in terms of votes I believe.

One way he could do this without Jen interfering is suggesting to Jen that its a good thing/let the MC be eliminated. The producers are aware there's going to be a comeback challenge and Omar probably pitched that it would be a 2 way deal: it would show Piper that Jen wasn't favoring the MC and if the MC was really good, she'd get back through the comeback challenge. That would make an underdog narrative for the MC which should earn audience votes. "everyone loves a comeback/revenge narrative" kind of pitch. It would explain why he tried to steer the MC away from Jen and Jen didn't do anything (although Piper might have warned Jen off as well). Maybe he tried to have Lina win the challenge and WAS cheating (I mean, how can Lina have those tokens if my MC got all of them? And why would Omar NOT want to capture that?) but sorry dude. MC for the win.

for Ivy and MC in the finale. It would also fall in line with what Jen said in chapter 17 about how it should be the MC who overcomes Ivy. The narrative of how the underdog unjustly eliminated defeats her rival in the finale.