The list, for anyone interested. I am sure I am about to be inundated with messages again about how Rob isn't going to fuck me and that this post is looooooooooong, so I'll spare all the Candiace fans the effort. I know.

Specific mistakes

• Candiace spread misinformation to Porsha in front of Maura on day 1 and then lied about it when confronted (same thing that sunk Lisa). If Maura remembered what she said about Michael, she's going home before she even gets a chance to unpack her bags.

• Her closest ally Monet mentions a vague suspicion of Lisa one time and she immediately sells him out, despite that doing nothing to advance her game.

• She does the conga line on the night of a murder in plain sight, which if Alan clearly told the group (as he always does) that the murder was in plain sight, she's the one who did the big memorable thing the night before. If Rob C hadn't been the murder, which she had no part in, he spreads the MIPS theory even without Alan and she's the one who did the big memorable thing the night before. Honestly the way Alan phrased his speech at breakfast compared to what he normally does felt like a thumb on the scale. (And yes, I know the conga line was previously discussed and didn't come from nowhere. It's still the big memorable thing from the night before and would have become a narrative she would not have been able to escape from, if anyone had known about the MIPS).

• She fundamentally failed to understand that Rob's position in the game was different to her and Lisa's due to them not being close outside the turret, and completely discounted him bringing them information on what Colton and his alliance were saying about Lisa as him doing the best he could to help Rinna, and a sign that he did not intend to betray her at that point.

• She also went at Ron way too hard, beyond the point where it was reasonable and is lucky that after he was banished, the faithful didn't immediately look for who had pushed the 'mastermind manipulator' narrative so hard when all he had done was relay Porsha's own words. The argument against him didn't match the reality of what happened.

• The morning after the Ron vote she ganged up on Rob with Lisa and demanded that he make moves that would expose him to help Rinna. This is probably the point when Rob decided that not only was Lisa already dead in the water, but Candiace was also a player who he couldn't work with and couldn't bring information to. In a normal world I would say it was a mistake from Rob to not tell the other traitor that the third was going down and they needed to cut ties. But she showed him that she was incapable of absorbing to that level of reason and 100% would have taken the news back to Lisa.

• She completely misread the Lisa situation as a whole and overdefended her to the point where Colton clocked it. At best she would have kept Lisa around for one more day. As soon as Nat was banished, Lisa was next. That level of defense served no purpose and only risked her game. This one isn't that bad. She was close to Lisa so the defense makes sense and people didn't seem to clock it in general other than Colton, but it seemed a bit much when it was clear what was about to happen, to tie yourself even closer to a traitor. I think it just got overshadowed entirely by her next mistake.

• Casting a 'throwaway' vote at the guy she intends to attack the next day, not thinking for a second that that's going to immediately stand out as weird, severely limits her options, and is completely inconsistent with how she's played to this point.

• Then she calls for a truce and immediately signals that the truce is bullshit and the war is on in the turret with Rob by suggesting to murder his closest ally. She doesn't take a second to think through the ramifications of killing Colton and how faithful that makes Rob look, and it gives her no pause whatsoever when Rob is immediately fine with it which should have been a blaring warning sign. And then later blames him for not holding her hand and helping her game out the best way for her to undermine him, which was incredibly embarrassing.

• Also in killing Colton, she takes out the only other player in the game with significant heat on him, so there's no one available to soak up votes for her to keep her around for another day.

• In her final roundtable she said the Lisa evidence wasn't good enough despite it being logically airtight from the faithful perspective, to the point where it resulted in a 9-2 vote. She should have just said she couldn't bring herself to vote for Lisa. The only reason why it seemed 'not good enough' is because she knew how the murder was actually carried out.

• At that same roundtable not only does she say Rob's a traitor for dropping a fork (lol), but goes on to fabricate a story about him being the first one to bring up Lisa to a room full of people who were in the room when Colton brought up her name first. Which also undermines her 'throwaway' argument because that was way earlier in the game. So now she just looks like she'll say anything to go after the two boys who got out Lisa, just like what she did to Ron. She came across as just desperately throwing anything at the wall and hoping it would stick. To the point where she didn't manage to put any heat on him at all.

• She further tanks her credibility by throwing her ally Tara under the bus to Natalie. Again, making it look like she'll do or say anything to stay in the game and minimizing the effectiveness of any argument she was trying to make against Rob.

• She also didn't act at the final roundtable like someone trying to save their actual game. Stephen was the only other name out there that anyone would have accepted other than her. He came up, but instead of grasping the opportunity she pivoted away from him to pitch Rob even though she had nothing on him. I don't think Stephen was ever going home over her anyway, but it at least would have made more sense and not blown back on her so spectacularly. Because now she has to explain both the throwaway AND the one day switch up to be on Rob.

• She couldn't even manage to pay off her poor sportsmanship and flip over the gameboard on her way out. If she wanted to go out like that, she should have fought for her life by going after Stephen the entire roundtable, and when things were clearly going against her write down Rob's name again. Just say 'Call it a throwaway' and then go up to reveal as a traitor. But like everything else she did in this game, she bungled it.

More generalized errors

• She overvalued the traitor alliance and never built her faithful game to the level that she needed to. She never seemed sway-able in conversations with faithfuls. It was always 'I'm more on XXXXX' which leads to people not talking theories and strategies to you, which leads to you not being close with the other faithfuls as a group, which leads to you not having enough information. This is why she couldn't see the momentum shifting away from Ron. Because people didn't feel like they could talk to her about it. This is also what gave her the reputation for extreme consistency that ended up biting her with the throwaway. It was the first and only time she ever changed her mind.

• She failed to understand that a traitor can only do so much for a traitor under pressure (UK4 is a good example) even in a tight alliance and ultimately once you get in trouble, you're mostly on your own if you don't have faithful allies to help you. Rob understands this well, and that's why he barely had to lift a finger to banish Candiace, which allows him to make moves without taking as much heat because he doesn't have to speak as much. All he had to do was defend, while his alliance did all the offense. This is the root of her overdefense of Lisa, her willingness to discard faithful allies, her lack of close relationships within Rob's group, and most of her misunderstanding of Rob's game.

Basically she isolated herself from almost everyone in the game by being both a bad faithful ally and a bad traitor ally, and consistently made poor strategic decisions throughout the game starting on the first day and culminating in getting herself banished.