BigBrotherHBIC

You Can't Rewrite History There are times when its necessary to take a step back away from the game and reflect on the game as a whole and not constantly immersed in the ‘politics’ of it all. Even players in the game inside the house need to take a few hours to not think about game all day and come back with a refreshed point of view. I said to several people over the weekend this voting war between the two sides of fandom has seriously taken the enjoyment out of the game for me. Not because fans like one side or the other, that always happens. Misfit fans in the interest of protecting their favorite players, generally speaking Justin/Jason, because it became evident that the voting trend of the Plastics fan base was going to inevitably put them in danger. Since we are in a holding pattern between last night’s nominees announcement and this morning America’s nom and veto draw there are some things it may benefit all of us to consider. First, let’s not rewrite BBOTT history. I see a lot of comments that misfit fans didn’t mind when the voting favored them the first two weeks. To a degree that is true. We certainly weren’t mad it. What isn’t true is that the voting the first two weeks was done to protect the misfits because their fans didn’t like the Plastics. That is not true. Let us all remember that Cornbread was a character a lot of LF’s in preseason were excited to watch on the feeds. The expectation of how funny and entertaining he was going to be was quickly deflated the first week of the game. Before players even really had made a line in the sand in the house as we got to know the HG’s the majority of LF’s collectively voted him as America’s nominee for two basic reasons. He was a huge disappointment to what they had created in their minds. LF’s collectively, once the two four person alliances formed and agreed to join together to create a powerful voting block, were completely against allowing one huge voting block come in and steamroll the LNC. That’s the bottom line. It wasn’t oh we like the LNC better than the Plastics, we quickly were coming to the conclusions as LF’s we were disappointed in CB and we were rapidly growing in dislike for Monte as a player, as character, and watching him on feeds was insufferable. Thats’ the truth in why CB went up, despite his own alliance member being HOH, and its why he went home. Week 2 begins and Monte begins to gain more and more momentum from the general population of LF’s and their dislike of him. He was entirely against Justin, which still for the most part both fan bases liked as a fan favorite. Add to that we all were sick of and Monte’s rants, terrible game play, his inability to shut up and let anyone else talk, obsessive compulsive behaviors, general arrogance, and how that was beginning to effect the girls in the Plastic alliance and we were all collectively on board with eliminating Monte again despite the fact his own side was in power. That wasn’t purely misfit fans targeting the other side of the house that was all LF’s saying get him out now! Enough! We don’t want to watch him and he will come for Justin. Did those first two weeks as a side effect benefit the misfits? Yes, but that was also the secondary motive of LF’s in general because again none of us wanted this huge voting block to just run away with the game from the gate. We want to see a great game. Then the discussions among us became we have to be careful with this voting the HG are going to misread it and we need to mix it up and keep them guessing. My first few weeks of this blog were very much weighted on thinking about how voting impacts the players you like and always voting their way is not a good idea. It makes them complacent and cocky (which we all saw in Dani and Kryssie the first couple weeks). None of us liked that whether we were fans of that side or the other it’s historically not a look LF’s like in BB which shifted our focus on the showmance. Both sides of fandom didn’t like watching Dani/Shane on the feeds. We didn’t like the comments Dani was making about how America loves her and not ‘them’ and we collectively felt like she needed a reality check in the form of a week of HN’s. Then Scott won HOH which had the LNC side of things begin to get very concerned for the safety of J/J long term in the game and much of our voting began to be motivated by protecting LNC because that in turn protects J/J. We were all talking about how negative and annoying Kryssie was. We were putting Dani under a microscope. I dedicated a blog early on week 1 conveying that always putting three players form the same side as HN’s was a terrible idea, and we are partly responsible for planting that seed in Dani’s head. That LF’s should use HN’s as a strategy and mix the HN’s form both sides of the house, one to keep them guessing and prevent the idea they are so loved on one side or the other, and two to create opportunities where people form both sides were forced to interact with each other because the great divide between the two sides was just going to keep growing with America’s influence impacting the game is such a significant manner. So now, the Dani hate is growing and although from a game perspective, Dani/Shane were a shield for J/J they had done the leg work intentionally to create no only were most LF’s on board with breaking them up when Scott hatched the plan, the misfits had already discussed week 2 that she was quickly becoming a problem more than a benefit, that voting was not going to keep going their way. Jason knows all too well how this works, and had met as the primary 4 person alliance J/J/K/N and agreed it’s coming, their side is going to have to prepared for it an agreed if one of the 6 person voting block has to go it was always going to be one of the showmance and they preferred it was Dani but Shane was an acceptable loss. Misfit fans were in agreement. J/J were almost always the two players we liked best out of the gate and much of our voting was done to protect those two. In the same way that by now Alex had gained a significant fan base and their primary goal was to protect her and at that point the secondary goal in doing that was protecting the Plastics. No one cared about M/CB. Not from either side of fandom. Even I, who does prefer the LNC because I prefer J/J as players in the game long term, said form a global game perspective Monte is hurting the girls’ game and that will only get worse. That’s why he went, the blow ups in the house occurred and no one (in the house or among most LF’s) cared about Scott at the end of week 2. He went from being in this amazing position to being the worst player by his own hand. Scott became more relevant week 3 because, Alex smartly had ensured that Scott would be able to come to their side and seek shelter in week 2 which benefited the girls in voting numbers should Monte go home, the same way that the showmance benefited the misfits numbers. It seems like many people have forgotten how we arrived where we are. There was a path, laid by LF’s and week 3 many LNC fans (as fans of BB) and of their side of the house were in agreement that Dani needed a reality check to bring her down a peg with a week as HN’s. I blogged about how I felt to some degree it was unfair for some many LF’s to be so hard on her when in fact it was their voting pattern that contributed to her believing she was America’s sweetheart and had they mixed up the HN’s beginning in week that would not have happened. I am not saying Dani doesn’t have to own some of the fault in her actions. They were a choice, you didn’t see Jason, Justin, or Neely at that point in the game getting cocky and arrogant like her and Shane for that matter. None of the LNC fans even cried when Shane went home we all felt like that was actually, based on the game and history of BB, a good strategic move. We were all tired of watching them go off alone together, they were drawing more attention to LNC and although they were shields keeping Dani and sending Shane home did keep a larger shield in front of them and from a game perspective it made sense. We weren’t trying to stack numbers so then LNC had the voting power and could steamroll the other side. We were all still voting in a more strategic manner with the underlying motive of just not hurting the work that J/J had actively put in place early on to layer themselves in multiple sub alliances within one voting block to maintain their safety in the game. However, this is the week things began to shift globally among the LF’s and the divide finally began to appear. Plastics fans love Alex, Like or not that’s who they like int he same way that we have a preference and for many of us it is either both or one with Jason and Justin. There are no really Kryssie fan bases. Some of us, although not necessarily Neely fans were looking ahead and seeing her begin to build ties with Morgan and that’s what we want to see in BB. Social game is very important in the beginning because you are setting up potential for shifts in alliances down the road. Whitney was beginning to integrate herself socially more and more with both sides although she was team Plastics and again that’s smart strategically to create social game foundations you can build on as the numbers begin to dwindle. Week 3 what began among LF nation is this insistence that there HAD to be some crossover between the two sides and some voting this week was an attempt to try and force this to happen. In truth, that is never a good idea. New alliances always form eventually in the game but LF’s were worried the distinct division was going to prevent it from happening so this week the HN’s were mixed up a bit more. Dani was made a HN along with Alex and Shelby. The ACP went to Scott in almost unanimous agreement because the voting was having such a huge influence on the game and long time fans felt like, since Scott wasn’t a fan favorite. The first few ACP’s should be wasted on non pivotal players to preserve later ACP’s to help fan favorites it made sense to anyone who really knows and understand the game to let the HOH that week regain some of the HOH power and influence that kept being countered by the amount of America’s voting. Shane went home, I don’t think fans from either side of the house cried over that. Now the first two weeks, as a side effect of our dislike of CB and Monte it did favor the misfits but remember that was the secondary goal of all LF’s to prevent an 8 person voting block from running away from the game week 1. Plastics fans need to stop saying it was misfits fans that made that happen! You all voted the same way we did for the exact same reasons! It wasn’t a fan base move it was a LF’s strategic and purposeful decision collectively and it happened to benefit the LNC those first weeks but that was your goal as much as ours. Week 4 came and finally after 3 weeks of failing to win power the LNC finally did. Unfortunately for us all watching the feeds it was Kryssie. This is where the real voting war began. As much as LNC fans don’t like Kryssie, it was the first time the power in the house finally shifted and the Plastics fans suddenly abandoned all global game sense and knowledge and made it their personal agenda to make her miserable. So as a collective group you united and since you couldn’t nominate Dani, again for personal reasons not game reasons, you set out to then hurt Kryssie, for personal reasons not game reasons, and targeted Neely. The teams were now even week 4. Plastics had 5 people with Scott and Misfits had 5 with Dani. You’re hate for Dani has nothing to do with game. If you were strictly evaluating her as a strategic player you would rank her higher. After week 3 she took a step back, did much more listening than talking. Observed people, and took the slap on the wrist we all gave her as a wake up call which from purely a game perspective was what LF’s who love this game had hoped it would do. However, despite the fact she reeled it in, you were mad she didn’t go home and decided LNC needed to suffer because of it. The person you should be mad at is Scott! You handed her head on a platter to him and the Plastics who had been saying for 3 weeks they wanted her out of the game and they finally could have eliminated her and they chose not to. Alex didn’t try to persuade Scott with much effort to get him to agree she needed to go. She folded like a lawn chair and voted how the HOH wanted. This is the most amazing hypocrisy of any LF nation I’ve ever witnessed. Season after season we complain about this terrible idea that manifests in the house that people should vote with the ‘house’ or the HOH because it’s their HOH. We rant about this year after year and because it was Alex and your team that did it and you couldn’t bring yourself to look at it like you always have until now you are taking your animosity about it out on LNC. Now you can say you don’t like those players, they talk too much smack, they are gross, blah blah, blah. The fact of the matter is that’s not why you are targeting Neely week 4. You targeted Neely because you are still harboring week 2 feelings about Dani . Yes, there is a secondary goal, you have now picked a team you like and the voting of course regardless of which fandom, at this point in the game is going to be to benefit the team you like most. The teams were even. If that were the sole reason the fire storm that has erupted wouldn’t have erupted. You cannot be a fan of this game and not credit Dani with the fact she is a good player when just evaluating her game. There have been plenty of good gamers in BB history that personality wise we may not like but we have normally overlooked that and credited them with game play over the personal crap. That’s what separates us from he casuals. We analyze the game and don’t get sucked in to AFH mentality. Was Neely the best player to take out of the game? I’m sure we could make arguments for both sides of that discussion. When I started this blog the players I was hardest on were players who were not actively playing well rounded games or making much effort at all. Yes, I’ve been hard on Alex. I’ve never said she’s not playing the game at all. My analysis of her game, for me, as a LF is that she has all the tolls and her execution is terrible based on the amount of knowledge that she has. She ranks lower for me, than Morgan, or a Neely although they aren’t as in your face they were both demonstrating some strategic chops, developing active social games, observing and making some accurate assessments on both sides of the opposing teams and laying foundations to potentially float to the middle and form some other alliances. They weren’t making deals and breaking them so others saw them as untrustworthy. Until this week have I ever targeted Alex herself? Nope. Did I say from a game perspective eliminating a Shelby or a Scott was a good move to force her to play the game more actively? Yes, that’s exactly what I’ve said. I’ve also conveyed I don’t understand why LF’s admire her actual game play. It was puzzling to me, until I realized it’s not because the majority of you are claiming she’s this mastermind gamer, it’s because of two very basic reasons. Compare to the other players in the house she is playing the game and in doing so that makes so she is playing better than many others. More importantly you are loving the potential for an all girls alliance to last for the first time in many many years. Those are reason a rational mind can accept. That all made much more sense to me as someone who has followed this game since season one and learned to love this game. However, I caution that the decisions being made for personal hate of another player being the basis for voting decisions is likely going to hurt her in the long run. Having blinders on in how things will happen the next week and the week after that is inevitably going to put your favorite player in danger. She already had a target on her and the more you continue to vote in her favor the more likely it is that target grows, she begins to make mistakes as a consequence of relying too much on America voting, and not planning ahead for when things don’t go her way any longer. The saying that when you fear something too much you actually create it is one that should be lingering in the backs of your minds when you play emotionally and not strategically. You gave Scott ACP week 2 not anticipating he would become a more key player by her design. You feared for Alex’s safety and didn’t have the confidence in her abilities to save herself so you gave her ACP the third week is was in play. Now you out of fear and some competitive nonsense in the feeling you have to dominate voting to establish yours is bigger than LNC’s and have blindly given Shelby the ACP in a trifecta. By your own inability to step back and look at the global view of the entire game and only assessing the narrow view of your hate for Dani and the LNC you may have done more harm than good for the longevity of your team. If Scott goes home this week because you have insighted this war of LF’s you wont have anyone to blame but yourselves. If you think about the history of BB the second half of the game is when new alliances begin to form organically. In week 2 and to some degree week 3 there was a lot of fandom discussion that they wanted to vote to force the house to close the divide and force people to start looking around. While another polarizing group felt like they had to push everything the Plastics way because voting was all going in the LNC favor. That is something you created in your own minds. You magically dismissed the facts that we all wanted CB and Monte gone and none of us wanted to see an 8 person voting block formed by day 3 steam roll one group and that wouldn’t make for a good game. By giving Shelby the ACP and prompting the Plastics to begin to plot against Whitney you have contributed to the breakdown of the Plastics which was what many of you in week 4/5 were trying prevent. For LNC fans you have to realize that Plastic fans are so gung ho because they are very invested in the 4 girls alliance staying in tact. Both sides of the house say things that are offensive. Players always do things people don’t like. That always happens in this social experiment. Don’t get blinded by defending the virtue of your team. That’s a losing battle. We have reached the middle of the game and with Dani’s HOH it did naturally create some cross talk. Trying so hard to keep one side in tact or the other can have the opposite effects when you aren’t looking at the game as a whole where it is right now and stuck on some past hatred created weeks ago you are making impulsive decisions. The same caution is being communicated to the LNC fan base. We’ve rallied the last two weeks to war against the monopoly of voting and it’s a good idea to take a step back and realize that choosing a random player to target not based on a global view of the game could eventually hurt the very primary players we are trying to protect. Some new alliances are beginning to blossom and thats good for the game as whole. It may also be most beneficial to the most popular players like Alex, Shelby, Justin, and Jason. Give this some genuine consideration before you run with some reflex plan trying to stop the other fan base. We shouldn’t be basing things on competing against each other. We should be making decisions that are going to create some protection around the players we want to have some longevity whatever the motivation is. Misfits are going to fracture. Plastics may very well fracture. Attempting to force them to stay together could very well result in the primary players we are trying to help get to the last third of the game and position them to fight their own way to those last 3 chairs and you know what that might mean. We are left with Kryssie, Whitney, and let’s say Dani because we didn’t use the voting power we’ve been given effectively. We all have some things in common. We want to see great players make it the end. We all want entertaining feeds. We all want to see some amazing game moves. I recommend we all keep that in mind since Scott has been made the third America’s nom and we are awaiting the results of today’s veto comp to make a decision on who we want the eviction vote to go to. I caution you not to choose someone based on what happened weeks ago or because they annoy you now that we are in week 5. It’s a different game, the focus on the teams as the primary focus to have voting dominate diminishes inside the house. The individual game play becomes primary at this stage in BB with the teams moving to the secondary positioning. It’s how this works. Remember that.

Good evening LF's! Here's the results of the safety ceremony and the polls results for America's nominee this week! After that I have added the 1-1 talks each of the potential targets had with Dani on Saturday that I omitted from today's earlier post. Scott is safe! Alex is safe! Morgan is safe! Shelby/Whitney have been nominated for eviction this week. Dani says this week she doesn't feel like she's in control other than keeping herself safe. There are limited choices and the only way she really has say in who is safe for the week is giving people a chance to play in the veto. Good luck to both of you. You can tell Justin is not happy. There's a halfway gesture to clap after she says now we wait to see who America's Nom is. Speaking of which! Voting opens in about 45 mins! 8pm Pst/11pm Est so make sure to get your votes for Scott in if you're voting with the majority on either side this week the nominee is the same! Polls on both sides of the fandoms have Scott in the lead so make sure you vote and ensure its a Plastic who hits the block and save the misfits. Plastics are wanting to target Scott. They worry he will split the Plastics up and they aren't down with that as a possibility. Misfits won't decide on a target for eviction just yet. Let's see how veto plays out and I will report back over the next two days and see what the popular opinion is as far as misfits fan majority vote for eviction! Now here are the one on one convos Plastics and Scott had with Dani on Saturday. If you haven't seen them yourself I recommend you go watch them. There's no substitute for these types of interactions where you can observe body language, see the flow of dialogue as it happens but I've summarized the gist and included the specifics that were really most relevant. Whitney's made in to today's earlier post but here are the other four. Dani/Shelby 1-1 HOH chat 1:28 pm cam 3/4 Dani assures Shelby Scott isn't her target. She doesn't view him as a threat to her game. Personally she doesn't like him but game wise he's not her target, doesn't view him as a threat. Also tells her she's not her target. Even if somehow she ends up on the block, use the votes to protect herself, and know no one on her side is targeting Shelby. Shelby tells Dani she feels like they are good for each other to take to the end. She's been trying to keep Dani's name out of topic of targets on her side because she realizes there are a lot of people in this house neither of them would win against, but the two of them at the end gives them a better shot evenly at winning over some others in the house. Mentions there might be someone mutually beneficial for both of them to go this week, once noms are up then they can chat about that. Contrary to what she told the Plastics in the BY she told Dani she doesn't expect her to put anyone up from her side. She has been thinking about working with Dani to get some other threats to both their games out and the ACP gave her the opportunity to come and approach her with her idea. One note, it's funny Shelby comes in HOH and literally lays down sprawled out on the couch talking about her ideas with Dani which actually was a very non-threatening posture to take. Scott asks to speak to Dani after Shelby convo ends and Dani is in KIT. 1:34 Scott/Dani HOH 1-1 cam3/4 Dani is the far bigger person in this scenario. She comes at him very passively. Explains until recently their games hadn't really crossed each other's paths. She had no idea about the 4 guy alliance he had with Shane the first night and had she known she would have made her moves very differently. Scott says he thought she knew about that. She confirms she knew Shane had a thing with Monte but never knew all four of those guys had any kind of deal. Dani tells Scott last week she considered approaching Scott and telling him that she was going to back Justin and go ahead and vote Neely out along with Justin. Explains she was safe for the first time and was able to sit back and observe more and knew Neely was going to be more loyal to the others in their group, knew Justin didn't trust her and this is an individual game at the end of the day it made sense to come for Neely while she had the chance because at the end of the day she knew Neely would take a shot at Dani given the chance. Dani admitted the KIT thing with him she felt like she needed to apologize initially she knew she over reacted emotionally but then when she was told about the whole plan to terrorize her it struck such a deep personal chord from her past/childhood and experience she was like forget that and things just snowballed from there. She apologized to him for screaming at him across the house. Said there's no hard feelings. They discuss the events to that led to the divide between them. Dani tells him he's not her target this week. Explains she feels like she's the low hanging fruit in her own alliance and sees him possibly being in that same position so for that reason why come after him? Tells him if he's AN she wins veto she plans to take him down. Scott admits Alex is the only person in the game he's not going to turn on. Says as long as Alex isn't OTB this week he will know there's potential for the 3 of them later down the road. Scott says he appreciates that. This full convo is one you should go back and watch. Dani relays most of her convos honestly with misfits after the occur. Misfits feel like Morgan leaving is the best target this week. If Whitney has to go that's the game, but prefer to keep her over Morgan. Jason confirms Alex/Scott would vote Morgan out over Shelby of its those two OTB. -wouldn't that be a glorious situation for Alex to find herself in?! Especially since Morgan said to Alex she's considered having to vote her out soon and Alex said if she did that she would unfriendly her on FB and delete her number from her phone. Morgan wants to talk to Dani before Whitney has a chance to. She actually ends up waiting until after the safety ceremony. They are really all priming to vote Whitney if it comes down to one of their own. It is very sound for Dani to target one of the Plastics over Scott. They would cut him first and have their 4 girl alliance in tact and Dani knows all too well that is the case. She is all about breaking up the girls even if it's one of them that's a better play for her and I agree with her since Shelby got the care package unless Shelby is prepared to take a big shot and I don't see for her that being anyone but Scott after this weekend. Sat 3:54 pm TKBCam 3/4 Shelby/Alex after Scott mentions he would vote Shelby out over Alex. Alex says she wanted to talk to him alone because she knows he wouldn't really spill everything i know front of the whole group which is why she wanted to talk to Shelby alone now. Shelby says after talking to Dani and to Scott she knows Scott is working with Dani. Alex says is that why he's not going OTB? Shelby says yeah. Alex says so she's probably going OTB for sure. She asks how she knows. Shelby explains he told her Dani mentioned the fact that she and Scott are both low hanging fruit. That he talked to Dani about keeping Whitney over Morgan. She also tells Alex Scott made a one week deal with Danielle for no Nom's, veto, no BD, no renom. Which Scott later confirms to Alex. That leads Alex to believe she could make a deal with Dani in addition to Jason. That got Alex's attention! She's like wait no we need to keep Morgan over Whitney. Alex says with Shelby's ACP she can control that with her votes. That Alex would vote however Shelby wants. Shelby says wouldn't you rather keep Morgan over Whitney? This all ties back into Justin confiding in Whitney and making sure she knew those girls are trying to offer Whitney up as the sacrifice this week of one of them has to go home. Jason/Justin have told Alex/Scott they are doing everything they can to keep them safe. Dani told Scott/Shelby/Whitney they are not her targets. They aren't biggest threats to her game and she's willing to work with them because she knows she would be the one her group would sacrifice first. Alex/Scott want to keep Shelby/Morgan safe. All LNC wants to keep Whitney safe. The Plastics are very threatened by Whitney's ties to LNC. She better smell the coffee or she's a goner for sure soon. Alex wants to keep Morgan knowing Morgan will stay loyal to her. Would sacrifice her for her own game if she had to, but over Shelby/Whitney she would protect Morgan. Alex wants Scott under her thumb and knows he's going to protect her. Shelby's steady looking around knowing Scott/Alex tighter than her with either one of them. Alex tries to troubleshoot the divide growing between Scott/Shelby by suggesting they offer a F3 deal with her. 7:15 pm Alex/Dani 1-1 HOH chat Cam 1/2 Alex tries to make friendly small talk about baby powder fight in HOH last night. This is so weird since she never bothers to talk to Dani normally if I were Dani it would all seem so fake. Alex says she doesn't know, but assumes she would be Dani's target since Shane/Dani went up and she voted to evict Shane. If she is the target she's Willing to make a deal to not be the target and not be put OTB. Alex tries to sell the fact that there getting to a point in the game where the groups aren't going to last much longer and when that happens the two of them are the two stingray female players who will be the biggest targets in the house. Alex explains it seems smarter for them to start protecting each other because if one goes then the other becomes the next target. They should be each other's shields. Then after saying all that offers a 1 week deal to keep her safe. -She really is terrible at this part. So went into whole story about sides breaking up, we need each other. Then says I'm willing to offer you one week deal? Lol. Then says she can totally convince the girls on her side to not target her as well. And she wonders why People think she's steering that ship? LOL. Alex tells Dani she knows Scott has mentioned wanting to work with her as well. That he already talked to Dani. Dani had pretty much let Alex talk the entire time, didn't interrupt her. Once Alex was done Dani says "so my only question is I know you've gone back on deals before." She couldn't even get the sentence out and Alex is talking over and through her, begins fidgeting with her hair, Alex starts dancing around the first deal with the Monte week and the LNC trio saying they would vote Scott out if she put him up and that would keep Monte safe, so when Alex went back on her word she felt like is was an eye for an eye because she'd been told they were lying to her when that all happened (Kryssie/Neely/Jason) week 2 when Alex was HOH and they approached her. -here's the thing. Were they trying to run game on Alex? Yes. Did they ever go back on their word? No Not like Alex put Scott up and they voted Monte out instead. Kryssie already told Alex she relied on bad Intel from Shane. No way to fact check that. Alex never bothered to talk to Kryssie and they have now had this convo and she still doesn't own that she apologized to Kryssie, used that to her advantage she just wraps it up in too many words and spews the exact same regurgitated mess she said to Kryssie. She knows they talk! She has to know Kryssie told Dani exactly what she said and she's now in a way contradicting herself by not zoning in on the keys points instead of rehashing everything Kryssie already shot down. Why is she bringing all that up. There's a much more diplomatic way to address the question than replaying and making justifications when there really were none. She never even addresses breaking her word with Kryssie just rambles more about them lying to her according to someone else and I tried to resolve that with Kryssie last week and this kind of if she's still holding on to that that's her problem not mine kinda attitude. Plus she threw all these new things at Kryssie last week and she got safety and everything she agreed to with Kryssie went right out the door. Never even really said hey I'm safe now so...just...next lie in the works. Alex actually says to Dani in this game all I really do have is my Word. All I can do is prove it to You in the Coming weeks. -isn't this the same player who makes a point of telling everyone that lying is a part of the game? People make deals and break them and that's part of BB why don't those people understand that? Who's the hypocrite-diot? OMG she is so BAD at this game! It's painful to watch. She just chased her own tail every week and then stands around going I don't know why people see me as the biggest threat, think I'm at the top of the Plastics alliance? Alex finishes with, whatever you decide to do I respect it. I think you're a really strong player in this game. Dani politely just says, ok, thanks, I think you made a lot of valid points. Then she says I am interested in deals in the future. Don't really know what I'm gonna do this week but I think people expect me to Come for you and Scott. Once again doesn't let Dani finish, cuts her off, talks thigh over her again. Is Monte channeling his spirit through Alex right now? When Alex lies she always shrugs her shoulders, makes the exact same hand gestures this IDK hands up thing. Every single time! They end their chat and Dani actually exits HOH right along with Alex gets halfway across the sky bridge and you hear Morgan yell up to her wanting to talk now. REALLY? You guys don't even try to talk to her all day? Couldn't you spread it out a little? And waiting until after safety? If I were in the house, saw this happen the next time I won HOH I wouldn't save all My friends first. I would throw someone I wasn't targeting that already talked to me up there just to scare the bejeezus out of these fools. How do they not understand that faking the funk is a huge part of being effective in this game?! Dani replies telling her she told Kryssie she's looking forward to talking game with people she's never had a chance to talk game with. -look at how she worded that. Not accusatory or inflammatory. She could have easily specifically said now you all have to talk game with me. Or you girls have never talked game with me. None of that. In all the convos with the exception of Alex when she says you made a deal with Kryssie and broke it and even that she does it in a non threatening way. 7:20 PM Morgan/Dani HOH 1-1 Morgan enters much more directly and says she just wanted to talk to her before she eats. Brings up the fact this is the first time she's ever talked game with her. Morgan has got to stop going last or close to last! She ends up saying the same things the others say and when she comes in after all of them it makes her seem like the least sincere and most unprepared. Morgan says almost the same thing. I think you're a smart player. I wanna play this game with my head and not my heart. If you keep me safe this week if I'm HOH next week I will keep you safe. I know this house division is not going to last more than a week, two weeks max. I've seen some people talking, I don't know if they're working together but I don't think anyone would see this coming. You have to start thinking who you want to take to the end. There's a lot of big personalities in this house. I'm not America's sweetheart. I've yet to get ACP so I know America hates me. I've yet to make a big move. For me, I think it's something to think about keeping me. Then if we get to that point, Idk. Dani lets her finish as well. Says she feels like this week is going to be a big game change no matter what happens. Morgan Oh yeah I agree. -Again doesn't let her finish talks through Dani which considering all these girls always discuss how Dani talks through everyone and never lets anyone else talk and then she and Alex both do the exact thing they criticize her for with a scripted deal is just hilarious to watch. Dani points out this is the halfway point in the game. Things will shift the next week or two and as much as it feels like this 5 weeks went by slow (as it was happening) it now feels like it went by like that! Ok, there you have it! Sorry I forgot to include these in the earlier post. Now go VOTE! No matter who you vote for just vote!

Happy Saturday LF's! Been a crazy busy day for me but didn't want to miss a day. Tomorrow I will cover a lot! I've been noting tons here and there but here's just a quick summary to satisfy you until I can do a complete rundown of 48 hours tomorrow. After ACP was awarded to Shelby yesterday, BOO! The Plastics went crazy knowing America is doing all the work for them. They've talked about refusing to even bother talking to Dani. While the misfits had a hard blow from this feeling their worst fears were confirmed, "America hates us." They poured briefly but Justin gave the whole squad a pep talk! 1:15 pm Within an hour they quickly ended the pity party and went back to what makes them the better players in the game! They actually rely on playing the game. Dani admitted she plans to nominate two low hanging fruit from the Plastics' tree (Shelby/Morgan) before the ACP was revealed and not target Alex or Scott out the gate. She's known since she won HOH she will need to win veto to make sure America's Nom (predicting likely a misfit) and force not only the Plastics but Amerixa to vote out a member of the 'dream team'. She told Jason she had hoped if she got a chance through Veto to take a shot at Alex she would but was satisfied if she could just take out one of the four girls since they are the tightest group of the 5. Today, HN's were revealed and again LNC fans lost the war. Kryssie, Whitney, and Justin were the HN's for the week. If you didn't watch the reveal go back its funny because all the Plastics, Scott, and Jason ran around screaming and celebrating like Justin has week after to week to give me a comic relief for his misery. 1:03 pm 3:45 pm BY Hammock Scott/Alex were joined by Shelby. Scott to Shelby The only way I would vote you out is if you and Alex were the 2 OTB together. Shelby Well I know to cancel your vote if that happens. Since this happened Shelby has been planting seeds about Scott within the Plastics accepting the harsh reality that Scott will always choose Alex over her and that's a problem. Two good LNC strategic convo's you should watch if you haven't: 10/28 2:30 pm cam 3/4 Dani/Jason BY hammock They discuss Dani's plan to nominate Shelby/Morgan. She knows she has a better chance to make some deals with Alex/Scott by not targeting them. She also knows if she did their backups will fight to the death to save them where A/S are far more likely to be persuaded to let Dani pick off one from their side that they would have to target eventually anyways and this way they don't get any blood on their hands. Jason/Justin 5:18 pm BY today Dani wants to Nom low hanging fruit on Plastics side. The two discuss Dani's strategy and J/J using this as leverage with S/A selling they are doing what they can to keep them safe. Jason/Justin also discussing same strategy Jason had come up with, keep Scott/Alex aligned with them potentially. That way in case Jason is AN, likely Shelby would cancel one of the weaker of that sides votes banking on the fact Shelby/Alex/Scott more of a trio makes Shelby less likely to cancel Scott/Alex votes come eviction night. Lots more going on in the house but I haven't had enough time today to dedicate to being thorough so that will have to wait until tomorrow. The Plastics have had several convos, although they have ACP and in their guts expect America to nominate a misfit there's no guarantee and you keep hearing them all say they are worried this week! Finally! Took all of less than 30 min after the HN reveal for Scott to scamper up to the HOH and have a one on one with Dani. This gained attention from the Plastics since he's been saying for days he won't even bother talking to her and expects to be her target. Eventually one one by one they all tucked their tails between their legs and made the dreaded trip upstairs which I will also cover in greater detail tomorrow. Finally, it's not official yet, we still have a little less than 24 hours before America's nominee voting begins but...Scott is leading the polls not only on LNC fan sites but on many Plastic fans sites as well! Don't jump the gun yet 24 hours is a long time in the BBOTT house and on SM, but it is looking like for the first time in weeks Plastocs fans are splitting their votes! While some want Kryssie to be the AN, there are a lot of others worried Scott will break up the Plastics and take Alex with him over to Justin/Jason so they are coming out in droves in support of nominating Scott and getting him out this week! LNC fans polls are very heavily leaning towards Scott as well. Tomorrow night once Dani's final safety ceremony is over I will put my official stamp on which Nom each fan base seems to be leaning towards but as of Saturday evening BB time this is what things look like or now! LNC fans are chomping at the bit! Hopeful to finally get a nominee they want on the block, prevent another misfit from going home and finally shift the momentum. Dani has played this HOH very well. Kept her plans to herself before ACP announced. Had various scenarios in mind but never planned to Nom Scott or Alex. I do think putting Shelby OTB now that she has ACP is better idea. She will have to use votes to protect herself first and foremost. Shelby hasn't done well in most the comps. Always landing in the middle except really last HOH where Scott, Alex, and Shelby all eliminated on first question. Plus the misfits are beginning to use the voting pattern in their strategy. There's been discussion that getting Morgan out would be advantageous since there are only 3 ACP's left this season. The Plastics only have 2 eligible players left to receive them so if one happens to go home this week (best case scenario) not only are the girls broken up from being a strong foursome but that also leaves only Whitney eligible to get 1/3 last ACP's and America will have to give 2/3 to misfits! I don't care which side of the fandom you fall. Who you like or dislike. Danielle has been a great HOH surprising many and her ability to read and play this game is worthy of some respect! Jason and Justin have been working hard and making plans, drawing Alex/Scott back in just in case AN happens to be one of them (Jason is certain he's going to be the America Nom). They may not be getting any love from the voters dominating and handing the Plastics the easiest path in BB history but misfits aren't taking it lying down and are playing this game HARD this week! Jason will be out of cigarettes this weekend and BB will provide him with nicotine patches. Thank goodness he didn't run out on a week where he was a HN too that would have been cruel and unusual punishment but...buckle up because he's gonna get REAL very quickly without his smokes. Tonight's safety ceremony: Kryssie, Justin, and Jason are safe! Good girl Dani make those girls sweat another 24 hours they've been doing it to you all season long. One last note. Justin has said he won't be cooking for those girls this week. He has to taste as he cooks and is a HN so they are on their own. At least he's keeping us laughing as he deals with not eating and told Whitney its ok they will get through this week together. He also said this is the best week, if he has to be a HN at least they get to eat for an hour on Halloween for the party and that will help all the HN's get through the week! So there you are. Some key moments in this quick post. I will have a long one tomorrow to catch you up on everything! Then I will post at least one more tomorrow after 7pm BB time when the final safety ceremony is complete to report the official nominees for both sides of the house in the America's nominee that begins 8pm Pst/11 pm Est.

From the Bottom to the Top! Here is a recap of both Friday following the ACP reveal through early this morning! It's a very long post with lots of transcript, and analysis but that's because I didn't have enough time to do a full post yesterday. Tonight is the final safety ceremony and once nominees are locked in place looks like most of BBOTT fandom on both sides is ready to Nominate Scott! Misfits went from being down in the dumps thinking what's the point, America hates them to climbing back on top one small step at a time and they don't even know it yet! Plastics have begun to worry Scott will break up the all girls alliance so the majority on both sides of the house finally agree for the first time since we sent Monte packing! Friday 10/28 Post ACP reveal-Shelby received ACP allowing her to eliminate three votes this week on eviction night. It takes about an hour for the Misfits to get their minds right after Shelby receives the ACP. Justin of course, like the others has now concluded without hesitation that America hates them all. He doesn’t dwell on it and gives his team a pep talk. He is genuinely the most humble player in the game and really tries to keep the others thinking positive. It worked Justin just kept telling them they have to have faith, stay positive, realize that it’s not over and they have to keep pushing and playing the game. I think they would have gotten there, but it may have taken a little longer without his pep talk. Jason feels certain he will be America’s nominee this week. He was next on the HN list, voting has gone the Plastics way week after week and despite them finally changing the tide of HOH power the last two weeks they still can’t catch a break. We all saw Jason the last 48 hours so certain he was going to be AN tomorrow. By 2pm most of the misfits have decided they aren’t going to let this discourage them and they are focused on the veto again, which they have all discussed sine pretty much the moment Danielle won HOH. Dani had said within 15 minutes of winning HOH she has to win veto because if America’s nom is a misfit it’s the only way she can make sure one of them goes home. Then they will have to decide together which one of their group has to leave just like the misfits did the week there were three of them on the block, Danielle, Shane, Kryssie and Shane went home. Danielle has had her head in the game all but one hour after the ACP was announced. Quite frankly who can blame them? The Plastics, with the ACP win have only gotten more confident and no one really cares to bother to talk to Danielle. They will of course, but meanwhile I am enduring a lot of attitude and comments insinuating they don’t need to bother. Or when they talk about actually taking the dreaded walk upstairs they are describing themselves basically being b*tchy and self righteous in what they tell their fellow Plastics what they will say to her which alludes to the fact they feel like they have all the power, don’t need to even have a one on one strategic talk to help secure their own safety from the block and the chances that they need to be worried are virtually non existent. This is based on all the little snide and antagonistic comments they've made the last two days which got worse and greater in numbers after Shelby got the ACP. The pendulum has swung completely in the opposite direction from last week when Kryssie was HOH in the approach to managing the HOH. Last week I felt like they all went up there and talked game and nominations, deals, etc… way too early. Making an appearance prior to ACP and HN reveals was certainly from a strategic perspective isn’t a terrible game move in itself. It wasn’t actually the going up before HN’s, or AN were revealed it was spilling their guts, proposing deals, and talking about things as if they are already in a certain position before they had all the voting results. That was premature in my opinion last week and ended up forcing them to have to return at least 3 times to have multiple discussions and revealing more than they needed to initially and then kicking themselves for saying something had they known that Alex was safe she would have not said some of the things she said. Whereas this week they immediately decided to wait until after the ACP reveal. Which was a smarter idea, some of that I am sure came form the fact they hadn’t been in the position since they had the HOH power on their side of the house for the first 3 weeks. Which I felt like was smarter. Now they are all giving off the impression to the other side of the house that they don’t need to bother acknowledging Dani has HOH. We hear a lot of their group and side chats among each other as Dani being irrelevant in their games this week now that Shelby has ACP. It’s always one extreme or the other with this group of players. 10/28 1:18 pm Plastics+Scott TKB The group is running the various scenarios whether America Nom is one of them or one of the Plastics how this eliminating three votes works to their advantage. Even worse case if in fact one of the Misfits is AN and wins veto leaving only two of their own team OTB they decide who goes home. Best case misfit is AN, doesn’t win veto and they get to vote one of them out. Alex God, if America just nominates one of them and we… Morgan Kryssie Alex Any of them Shelby I feel like they may still put me up though just to f*ck with me, surprise Shelby! Alex God America controls this again, great. Scott (sounding giddy) We’re just the SIMS. We’re just the SIMS living our lives, they’re the ones really playing the game. Morgan Another thing is we need as many of us as possible to be playing in veto. If two of them gets pulled and a Kryssie is up they win and just pull her down anyway. Whitney If Kryssie is up there we need her to stay up there Morgan Then it doesn’t matter which two of us votes she goes home Alex Basically (smiling confidently) we need America Morgan Help us out Alex Help us out. Come on America. God, if Kryssie went home on Danielle’s HOH. (Pounding her hand into her fist) America could F w/Danielle’s entire HOH. COME ON America! Morgan Also, that would send them scrambling Alex Well it sends such a strong message Scott They’d go into f’ing scramble mode so hard Alex Then next week would be so interesting they would literally disintegrate and have to come to us Scott They would have no choice Whitney Ands they always thought it would be the other way around -This next comment should give pause to Whitney (Shelby was called to DR a minute ago). Alex If that happens and they disintegrate that would move this game into the next phase, new chapter. That’s gonna be nuts. -Now in this house the smallest comments can be taken and some very valuable information can be found or some random comment really meaning nothing on the surface and completely change how someone else perceives you. That’s true of any BB season. We all remember Nicole’s reaction to James in the KIT arguing with Paul and saying Natalie wanted to keep Victor. This happens quite a few times in the complacency resulting from the voting going so heavily in their favor. Comments made especially by Scott and Alex make today and tomorrow begin to make the other lower tree branches of this group start to really come to terms with the fact they are not in as good of a position as they need to be as this game does push on. If the vote wasn’t going this so Plastic’s heavy I don’t necessarily think these kind of little mistakes would be happening because to the degree it is this week because they wouldn't be so overconfident. Alex is literally telling Morgan and Whitney if another misfit goes home we are all going to be looking at new chances to make alliances in our best interest and giving off the feeling although Alex is a big target she’s feeling like this is great for her game. While Whitney has, what appear to be, better connections not he other side of the house which every knows about Alex is hinting that she does as well and their wasn’t such blatant assumptions that was the case. Scott does the same type of thing in front of Shelby tomorrow (Saturday) which you will see in a convo that he does in fact realize almost as soon as he says it that it spooks Shelby and she does in fact begin to take action against it. Alex goes on this convo to keep talking about how if Kryssie does go home it’s a completely different version of the game, it’s gonna shake it up. Um, Alex when you’re sitting with someone like Whitney who has made decisions the last two weeks to make sure to side with you guys and you are now telling her hey, this gives ME some other options next week and it’s not going to just continue to be us against them until they are gone. Whether thats true or not she should not be saying this in front of Whitney! Alex may have a duet with here sister, a duet with Scott and in all honesty some form of a trio with Shelby the only connection she has to Whitney is the Plastics collectively two to sit there and say wow next week we can all have new ways to go isn’t that great is a huge tactical error. Enough of that, let’s keep moving on because this is still Friday information and a whole lot happens on Saturday! 1:21 pm BY Misfits Jason Why did I agree to come back again? Justin Positive vibes man! Jason Oh trust me it’s not over till it’s over. Justin America’s nom is tomorrow right? -I love Justin! LOL. It’s week 5 and he still doesn’t have the routine down but despite that you can see how much he’s strengthened in his game play. Kryssie and Jason both correct him. Tomorrow is HN, Danielle still has to do her safety ceremonies and America’s nom isn’t until Monday. Justin Oh that’s tomorrow and Sunday. We have live DR’s tonight. Jason If America wants it to be that simple where those 5 people are just chillin’ at the end then that’s fine. If that’s the season they want to watch? Justin But that’s so boring. Jason I know but maybe that’s the season they want. Maybe they hate us that much that, that’s what they want. I’m not gonna do PR like Scott does and try to convince people I’m a good person. If they don’t wanna see it or know that we are good people, then that’s fine. Dani and Kryssie are just sitting there quietly in shock. -They are still reeling from a shocking result even though a huge part of them were prepared for it. Jason especially is feeling like America really must hate them all! Why else would they vote one sided two weeks in a row of misfits finally getting HOH power and still targeting the misfits? You can’t really blame them, it’s exactly how it looks from where they are sitting. Just know they recover forms his petty party within 60 minutes and come out swinging! Don’t worry though, I have been trying to reassure Misfit fans the last two weeks that all this ‘casual’ voting based on a popularity contest on people and not players will eventually come back to bite them in the butt. This week we really begin to see sure signs not only in the house but in the voting war. What goes up must come down. Justin I really wanna see the episodes, yo. (lauging). I would like to see how they portray us in the episodes. Jason Probably like terrible petty people that just talk sh*t and they’re just gonna show them having such a wonderful time. (After a silent pause) Maybe no one is even watching anymore except these people’s family. Justin cracks up Jason You know what I’m saying? Maybe people were like this sucks and the BB real fans fell off of it and it’s just Shelby’s mom. That makes Danielle crack a small smile and Justin crack up again. Justin No man Danielle stands up without saying anything and leaves, follow day Kryssie saying she’s gonna grab some water and go inside. Kryssie We just gotta do what we can to protect each other cause we are literally all we’ve got now. Jason We are literally all we’ve got. -I don’t care which side of the fandom you are on. Watching the evolution of a player who knew nothing coming into the game is such an amazing journey to watch unfold. I love watching Justin learning the game, learning and developing his own strategy, and watching him maneuver things all the time! 10/28 2:09 pm (cam 1/2) BY lounge chair Shelby, Whitney, Morgan discussing if they are going to talk to Danielle at all. Shelby says she’s going to have to go talk to her since she got the ACP and Morgan asks what she thinks Danielle is going to try and negotiate. Shelby says she’s gonna do her and her stuff because her talk with Dani will likely be used on the episode. Morgan What do you think she’s going to present you with? I think there’s very few options. Shelby I think if she does the threat thing I’m gonna be like really you're gonna threaten me? That’s the stupidest tactic I’ve ever heard, I’m going to go downstairs and give you some more time to think of a better game plan. Morgan Right. I think she’s smarter than that. Shelby Idk, I think that is their best game plan but that’s just how I’m gonna respond to it if she says that to me. After a few moments of silence and really know reaction: Whitney And that will definitely make the episode. Morgan I’m gonna go give you 5 minutes to reevaluate… Whitney I don’t know what really she’s gonna try to say. I just try to think, if I was her? Shelby I think I ‘m going to have to go up there a lot because we’re both gonna try to say some things. Both try to give each other zero information. Morgan I’m just very curious if she’s gonna like tell you who she’s trying to get out this week. Shelby She will probably ask me who on my side of the house I would be ok with going? Alex joins Shelby I’m just gonna be like no one. Put up one of your people. Danielle told Jason she’s done feeling defeated. She’s got her head right and going to play this game. She then tells him she’s gonna put on her bathing suit and walk around showing off her perfect body. Jason replied so you play that petty betty girl. 2:11pm (cam 1/2) Danielle enters the BY and heads to the pool to tan and all 4 Plastics look at her. Morgan says about Danielle That bathing suit is really cute. Shelby That suit is really cute. -Just wait until Sunday rolls around the go back to talking about why Shane would ever pick Danielle over any of them. It’s week 5 and they are still stuck on their week 1 personal jealousy of Danielle. IMO these girls are the real Petty Betty’s of the house and Danielle will always be prettier, smarter (in many ways), and a better gamer than any of them. They need to just suck it up and deal with it and focus on the game and not their personal jealousy of Dani it’s clouding their games. Alex It got super hot. Has anyone gone in the pool (as Dani enters the pool)? Other three simultaneously mumble nah uh. Shelby and Whitney discuss the pool and Shelby comments: I never go in a pool that isn’t at least 80 degrees. Then asks Danielle, how cold is that pool? Danielle is floating on one of the pool logs. It’s not cold at all. Alex leaves to get her sunglasses. Morgan and Whitney ask her to get theirs too. Meanwhile we see Jason/BA, Justin wanders from BA to KIT UKB 2:10 pm cam 3/4 Alex passes through and Justin says What up girl No reply as she heads into the BY Since the ACP delivery the Plastics have pretty much decided they don’t have any reason to talk to the other side. Justin pours coffee. You can hear Dani exit HOH room off camera Justin says There she go, creature of havoc Danielle can be heard giggling to the comment Danielle grabs a towel form BA where Jason is and heads out to BY. Justin heads to BR Shouts out to camera What’s up New Orleans, LA baby, all the positive people out there. ya’ll keep on remaining positive (enters UKB where Kryssie is lying down). Justin How you doin’? You alright? Kryssie (is having really bad cramps) You know. I’m physically f*cked, I’m emotionally ok. The first like 12 hours are the worst, so once this passes I will be alright. Justin Well, I pray for you. I hope you're gonna be ok. Kryssie Thank you. I appreciate it, I appreciate the positive energy and all that. Justin (folding clothes) It’s all good, positive vibes. Only way to thrive. Kryssie Doing my best. Trying my best to trust the process here and maybe they’re seeing something we’re all not seeing. Justin Yep. Kryssie I wonder if America did give it to her just to make them all finally chose between each other? What of they plan on nominating one of them? What if they plan on nominating her? Justin Right? It’s gonna be interesting to see yo. I don’t know. I have hella faith. Kryssie I do to. It’s gonna make me try that much harder to win the veto. I’m just like praying that my hands are better by Monday. Justin You’re gonna be alright mama. You been putting Neosporin on it? Kryssie explains she’s been tending to them, it’s just that the cuts are in the middle of her palm so whenever she grips anything, or opens her hands all the way it keep ripping the cuts back open again. Then she asks about the time. Justin Idk. However I got a fresh brew of coffee. I couldn’t really drink the coffee earlier that Morgan made cause she doesn’t know how to make coffee. 2:13 pm Cam change to TKB where Jason is putting on his shoes and getting dressed for the day. Alex enters from BY to gather the sunglasses and finds Jason alone. Asks Jason if anyone is in the UKB. Jason whispers he thinks Kryssie is in there cause she was laying down somewhere. She sits on the bed next to Jason. Alex Ok, I told Justin that I still want to work with him. Idk what your relationship with Scott is like? Justin He was basically like F.U. cause I didn’t take him deal last week. Alex I had figured that ya’ll had like split away, so I didn’t know what it’s like between ya’ll. Jason You’re still fine with me. Alex I haven't told anyone that I’ve been like talking to you, but for me the way I see it is if like you or Justin get HOH you… or if like I get HOH I wouldn’t target ya’ll. I would just expect the same of ya’ll. -That’s not true. She has told Morgan about this and how she’s trying to keep Jason believing they have a deal. 10/27 1:55 am cam 3/4 Jason That’s where I’m at with it. I went up to Scott and said I assume thinks are different now? He was like yeah, basically like yeah I don’t want to work with you anymore. I was like ok that’s fine. But, uh, like you’re still find with me. Alex Yeah I know. Ya’ll are not anywhere near being my target. Jason Ok A I feel like now it’s good now we’re all together because we’re all big targets. So as long as we’re all in the house, kinda protecting each other J Yeah, exactly. Cause I’m like, especially this week it’s gonna be interesting. A I’m like Idk what to think about the CP. J Idk what to think about it either but I just know that I may be America’s nom, so I may be up there. A I could be AN too. We don’t know. J I have no idea. We’ll just have to wait and see. A I just know that if like you go up there I will campaign for you not to go home. And if you can protect me with Danielle as much as you can… J Oh, she’s not coming for you. A I mean, I’ve heard, I feel like I would be her #1 target. J Let me get back to you on that. A Ok. J But where she was saying, it didn’t sound like that. A Just know if you can keep me off the block, I have your back. J Ok. A You know what I’m saying? J I know you’re kinda steering the ship over there. A That’s what some people think. J Well it kinda looks like that. But, girl I ain’t got no problem with that. I ain’t going after the captain. Both LOL J I’m gonna do what I can do. We’ll see how this week plays out. You’re as fine with me even without the Scott which is kinda off now, which is fine. A You protect me. I protect you, I got you. J Ok They shake hands and head off. Right as Jason grabs his jacket to go smoke Justin exits the UKB and follows him down the hallway. Alex looks for sunglasses in the TKB. 2:17pm cam 1/2 BY Shelby has decided it’s too hot and she’s going in just as Alex returns with sunglasses. FYI Scott has been walking laps in BY this whole time never far form Alex as usual. cam 3/4 Justin returns to UKB with his coffee. He is wandering just moving from room to room busying himself. Game talk resumes between Alex, Morgan, Whitney M I think she’s gonna put Shelby up, to guarantee that she has some leverage over Shelby. -This is one of the first things I thought when the ACP was announced. Shelby needs to see the block that way she has to use the votes in some way to protect herself first and foremost. W I do too. A Well as long as AN is someone that’s not one of us and as long as they don’t win veto. That’s just a lot of ‘what if’s’. You can hear Scott and Jason chatting about random chit chat by the couches off camera. Whitney I’m still really, really, worried about this week. M/A Me too. M There’s a possibility it could go in our favor. There’s a possibility it could go in a 1000 other… A Yeah I’m really worried. M It sucks we have to wait until Monday to see AN Friday BY cam 3/4 8:08pm Danielle/Kryssie/Justin. Danielle and Jason have realized that the elimination of votes in this ACP going to them didn’t make any sense. They are in HOH power this week. What would be the point, they had the votes, so they would be eliminating the Plastics votes and that didn’t make any sense for America to give it to them. Jason has also been determined to try and access the Paris room since last week so discussion of the Pandora’s Box where Dani had a dream she got to choose one player to come back into the game. Friday evening right after Alex’s DR 8:50 pm HNB cam 1/2 Alex/Scott Alex tells Scott: Jason basically told me that he can convince Danielle to keep you and I off the block this week if we keep him safe and don’t touch him next week. Scott He told me if he convinced Danielle to not put us up, then if he is on the block as America’s nominee that we go after one of our own people. Alex If you don’t put me on the block. We can work with that deal. We can work with that deal! Scott Exactly. I don’t even think he is going to be America’s nominee. Alex How is he going to keep Danielle from nominating us? Scott Because the strategy is that Danielle is going to nominate the two weakest competitors. Nominating us would be the high risk, high reward strategy. If they win the veto, then one of us is going home. Alex If we win the veto they are completely screwed. Scott They’re scared of us because we’re competitors. HOLLA POWER COUPLE! They want to nominate weak competitors so they can win the veto and take off the third nominee. So that Shelby’s care package doesn’t mean anything. Alex Who would they put up? Whitney & Shelby? Scott That’s what I would assume. Alex I still don’t believe Danielle won’t nominate us. Its too good to be true. Scott They have to prove it be for we do. I don’t think Danielle even knows about this. Scott is basically saying we get everything out of this and then we don’t even have to keep our word if we don’t want to. Same old, same old, with these two. Alex America PLEASE make Kryssie your nominee! Jason must be scared he’s gonna be it this week. Scott Jason got so scared after Julie asked him what AN surprised you the most. That shook Jason. I think that’s silly, but if it gives us this beautiful deal I’m not going to complain. Alex is of course saying she doesn’t really wan tot go talk to Danielle, but she knows she needs to now. She needs to save face with her, but she will protect Jason, she doesn’t want to have to say she will protect Dani too because she still wants her out. Danielle is getting nothing out of it and Jason is getting everything out of it. Scott says he doesn’t think Danielle knows anything about this deal. In fact he suspects Dani had already decided to take this route and maybe Jason is just using it to hustle a side deal out of knowing Dani wasn’t going to target them anyway. Alex does say she thinks Jason is being brilliant with this. -Nice to see her actually give him some credit. -This is both true and untrue. Jason has been co-signing and encouraging this approach to nominations. Dani had already in her mind planned on doing the noms this way (targeting the low hanging fruit) and didn’t share it with Jason until after the ACP was announced but both were really thinking the same thing on their own, he has been encouraging this plan and he is revisiting the Scott/Alex side alliance thing that started a couple weeks ago when Scott was HOH to try his best to keep them form voting him out because he’s so worried about being the AN. Justin joins them. He tells them he doesn’t think they’re going up. Scott and Alex still haven’t spoken to Alex/Scott yet and say they should still go talk to Danielle after the HN’s announced. Justin I am trying to keep the heat off ya’ll. -This was actually get timing on Justin’s part since they were both sitting there discussing the fact Jason has told them the same thing. He doesn’t tell them who she’s putting up, just that they are not the targets. Justin leaves the room and once again Alex begging for America to put Kryssie up. She says, as expected, if Kryssie isn’t the nom they are better off voting Whitney out and not Morgan. Alex I can see Whitney more at winning this game than Morgan. -Well of course you are going to protect Morgan, she’s a plus for your game for now. Although, Whitney is playing a better game than most of the girls in that she has some protection on both sides of the house. I’ve mentioned before I wish I could definitively tell if Whitney is being too blindly loyal to the Plastics or just setting herself well to jump ship when it’s time. There are things she gets form the other sI see her run right back to the Plastics. I also see her not run some things back to them this week. I hear comments Alex and the others are making that if I were Whitney would let me know exactly where I am sitting in that group. Whitney chose to side with the Plastics last week. She also did it in a way that didn’t make her break her word to Kryssie. I was very confident she wouldn’t break her word to Kryssie but there is such a huge part of me looking at Whitney’s game that thinks last wee was actually the best week for her to go ahead and play her own game and quit feeling like she’s safer riding things out on her side. I guess we will all just have to keep watching. I am a bit worried about Whitney this week. If she doesn’t go OTB she’s in a better proton to some degree. However, Dani has been very savvy in out thinking the voting and since it’s less likely she can take a shot at Alex if all the cards fall correctly for her to do so, the ACP makes that much harder to do with the other 3’s undying loyalty to Alex. If Whitney can stay off the block this week that will be huge for her. If she finds her way up there as a replacement nominee then she will be the one that goes home. Again a victim of America’s voting and not to be credited with the Plastics. With Scott likely to be the America’s Nominee that adds a whole other layer of mess that voting is contributing to interfering with the integrity of actual game play by the players in the house. Yes, it’s looking very likely Scott may actually end up being the AN this week, being voted by misfit fans as well as a section of Plastic fans. We will get to that at the end of this blog. Friday 10:15p-12a In the HOH room Justin, Kryssie, Scott and Danielle are chatting. Jason They’re being nice today.. but they got a care package today. Alex the last couple days keeps bringing up she doesn’t know why people think she’s this huge threat. She also tries to sell LF’s she didn’t approve of Scott’s terrorizing of Dani. She knows Julie brought it up again inter live post eviction interviews and that purely damage control on some level. Although she really lacks self awareness in this game. -Alex encourages things like this. So does America’s voting by Plastics fans for that matter. She’s been gas lighting other people to do things all season and then she just sits back and watches it happen believing that all the attention will go onto the person actually doing it and not effect her game. Partially because she likes to put others in the line of fire to try and deflect some attention away form herself and then more recently working on the assumption that America likes that they are doing these things which is what they keep getting the votes to go their way. Problem with that is she’s known for weeks that people are blaming her, or associating her with it and although she usually has a brief moment like this, or when Shelby week 3 getting so much negative attention she decided ‘ph I am going distance myself form her’ but she never does. She encourages the entire antagonistic approach, gets entrainment from it but feels like she wont get any of the blame. Then she wonders why people think she’s such a big threat? Because they all know you are co-signing this mess and none of those girls or Scott make a move without running is by you first! Back to the most recent events in the house over the weekend! Saturday 10/29 2:22 pm Scott enters house as Justin enters BY. Polite exchange as they pass each other. cam 3/4 follows Scott inside heads to HN room to follow his chat with cameras running voting scenarios, nominees, his chances. Scott Shelby has the votes to cancel so if I’m on the block against anyone but Alex or Shelby I should be ok for the week. 2:30 pm BY cam 3/4 Dani hammock alone Let’s make this a game worth watching. Let’s make this a game worth playing. Don’t make it so easy for them to just push us out of the house. Let us make it interesting for you America. Let’s make sure you get your 5.99 month. Jason joins her near the hammock. Dani telling Jason she’s been talking to herself holding the mic because she was on her stomach but wanted them all to see that she was talking to herself alone over here. General chit chat for a minute turns into game talk. Jason I was trying to figure out how we can turn it into a positive. Dani Well, when I was in the place no words, I got very upset. Camera cuts away to Alex and Justin shooting pool. Off camera you can hear Shelby and Whitney discussing that Dani has been over there talking to herself. Whitney I’m still scared sh*tless for this week. Shelby Me too. -Really production? The minute Jason and Dani start to talk game you leave us with all 4 cameras on Alex and Justin shooting pool talking about nothing. Not even on Whitney and Shelby who are talking crap about Dani and being worried about the game this week. Yeah you’re not playing favorites at all are you? Smh cam 3/4 finally back to Dani/Jason Dani’s plan she shared (after the ACP) was that she had planned to put Shelby and Morgan OTB. She wanted to break up the 4 girls not target Scott. -This is actually a smart move for her. Diffuses the Scott/Dani drama rather than it seeming like tit for tat and the idea being to break up four girls they KNOW would be willing to lose Scott but those four will stick to together for now. So, let’s break up those four girls and make them lose one of their tight knit group. Don’t target the big targets, target the smaller targets hopes that Scott/Alex will be more likely to want to let the low hanging fruit go more willingly. Then she had the option BD if it presented itself but now that ACP went to Shelby stick to targeting the lowest hanging fruit and count on Alex/Scott and Shelby having to pick one of them to cut. Jason They’re still scared. Dani Yeah, I’m not gonna put them (Scott/Alex) up. Jason Because they’re the ones that are gonna be easiest to work, they’re the ones that are maybe still gonna be willing to try and work some deal with them. Jason The rest of them I see as not ever being willing to make any type of deal. Alex and Scott are playing hard enough at least it will be a consideration. Dani Right.Yeah. This might be a chance to take out someone that America likes. On their side. Without getting blood on their hands. While they’re on the block. Jason They wont have to do it later. Dani They won’t have to be the ones to nominate them. And it would make sure they get in good with us. We can bring them and be like we know Scott versus them, normally we wouldn’t work with them but this is a game. This is a good game move. Jason We gotta try and get them there alone, so we can try to work them. Because of we try to touch them, their friends are just going to defend them and not break away from them. But those are the two most likely to try to do some shit. Dani I didn’t plan on touching them. I was only going to touch Alex if it was like the perfect opportunity. If AN one of them and there were three of them OTB and we had all our votes and I won veto I could pull someone down and put her up. But its not gonna happen this week, she’s not gonna go. Jason Even if you get a little fish out of their pond, it’s still a fish. Dani Its still not one of us. 2:23 pm IWR Shelby/Morgan/Alex Alex Do ya’ll think Whitney’s gonna be AN? Morgan I have no idea. I think there’s a good possibility. I will be so happy if the AN this week isn’t one of the HN’s because all of the HG’s speculations have revolved around only potential for that 3 rd nom is from the HN’s of the week since the Plastics’ fan base has made it so predictable week after week after week. Every week the others in the house just breathe a sigh of relief after HN’s are revealed because the way voting has gone HN has been the actually AN every week. Yes, they may still go oh well he (Scott) was HN last week, but it does break the voting pattern for once. Could you Plastics fans make this game any more predictable for them? Now, I know there are a lot of readers for this blog but I didn’t know how much the blog was actually being relied upon for up to date voting statistics. Wow! Now that I do know that, when possible, I will post a blog dedicated to voting information an hour before voting opens. This way for those of you looking for reliable information on what the majority of either fan base appears to be voting (to be fair) based on what I have found can have access to it before voting opens. That being said, if you choose to rely on the information that’s exactly what it is information, a resource. That doesn’t mean you have to vote that way. It doesn’t mean I am saying 100% this is what everyone is doing. It simply means I check as many reliable resources across a multitude of platforms, I do the leg work and based on the information I saw this is what I see a majority of fans doing. I don’t have a crystal ball but with the voting war among fans, I have committed a great deal of time and effort to scanning the resources. What I report will be how I vote in the best interest of avoiding a split vote to improve the chances of a majority vote among the misfits fans. This is literally the first time a BB season has gotten so heavily weighted this best case scenario and not necessarily where my opinion may lie from a purely strategic assessment of the game. Those can be two very different opinions and in the interest of doing what I can to help the best case scenario based on the voting wars, this is where things have landed. I am not crazy about the fact I have to withhold my actual personal assessment of the game, players, strategy, and based on what the HG are currently doing in the game but sometimes you have to sacrifice the ‘me for the we’ in any game. Also, coming to the realization this blog has gotten far more attention, than I ever could have predicted just sharing my personal assessments of the game, there is now an added layer of delivering accurate fact based (voting) intel and not just me sharing what I think from watching the feeds all day. Based love of this game, I am willing to do it for now. If I decide to change that you will be the first to know. LOL. Saturday 3:40pm There’s a rare sighting of Morgan doing dishes! She needs the practice because once Justin became a HN he will not be cooking for anyone! For those not aware the Plastics wait until everything they own is dirty before doing a ton of laundry, rarely clean and always leave their dishes in the sink or the kitchen which drives Jason nuts (as well as some of the others). There are also some LF’s who take day counts on how long it takes for Alex to take a shower. I have to say Jason didn’t last long on BB 17 but he was known for never washing dishes so this in some ways is karma and makes me laugh. He has done a lot of cleaning this season from week 1 making sure he’s seen doing it because he knows last time he played this was a point of contention for other HG’s. BY Kryssie and Jason Kryssie says at first she felt she didn’t have a chance but now she thinks she does. Danielle comes joins BY tells K/J that Production is trying to push an agenda, “I’m like NO” -Of course cameras cut away but based on what you see when they return you get the idea that they want her to work with Alex. The fact they even tried to sway her through questions in the DR or direct prompting, after she could hear the cheering for Whitney during the HOIH comp is laughable! Seriously? Why would she even pretend to consider that? 10/29 9:28pm cam 1/2 Whitney heads up to the HOH room to talk to Kryssie and Danielle. Jason joins them. Whitney to Dani I just wanted to come up and talk to you before tomorrow. I’m sure you already have a plan on what you’re going to do. But I don’t know if you expect me to be the America’s nom. Danielle No, I don’t expect it. Whitney I don’t know if its going to influence your decision in anyway. I’m kind of freaking out about that. Jason – why would you think that. Whitney – because I was the last name. Do you know what you’re going to do? Danielle – I was waiting till after HN and that didn’t give too much information. I don’t think you’ll be America’s nom. Its really up to Shelby and who’s votes she cancels out. Jason Oh for sure we’re not voting. Kryssie agrees. Danielle Its not really up to me who goes. I don’t have a target. I don’t have a game plan. As of right now I don’t think you’re a threat. I think America likes you a lot. Whitney Well, we’ll see won’t we. Danielle You’re probably the last person. I want to be the only HOH to have 2 noms at eviction. If America put you up and I won the veto, I would pull you down. My talk with Shelby was pointless. She said she was going to us it in her favor. So I was like I guess this talk is over. Danielle I’m anxious to see who America’s nom is. Jason – b***h its going to be me. Whitney I really don’t have anything to offer you. Whitney leaves. You can literally see Danielle handling this conversation with kid gloves. She pauses sometimes to make sure she doesn’t say something she doesn’t want to. It’s a very calculated conversation and one of the best HOH ones we’ve seen all season. Regardless of which side of the fandom you are on, I know Dani had annoyed a lot of fans. We have to credit her self imposed reset after we made her a HN and America’s nom. Some may have expected the HOH to go to her head and she reverts back to all those same habits. Yes, she still likes to talk about herself too much, but not nearly to the degree she had been doing and she has steered this HOH with purpose, paying attention to key details and done all she can to think about every angle and be prepared for it. That shouldn’t surprise anyone she’s proven the way she thinks about the game is very strategically sound and in some ways all the personal attacks by Plastics with the voting against her has actually created her underdog story and they may live to regret it. Let’s not get to far ahead of ourselves because who knows what changes by the end of this week, or going into week 6, but she deserves some credit for her actual game play. She is by far one of the best players in the house. 10:35pm HNB Justin/Whitney Justin working his own game along with some of the LNC overall strategy that’s been discussed this week. Justin I trust you more than anyone else on your side. I know you care for Alex and Scott but you can’t trust them because they will vote you out of here because they know they can’t win against you… Especially with America voting like this is the Homecoming King/Queen elections and not Big Brother. You see what I’m saying? Justin explains it’s the same thing for him on his side of the house. We like to think we have loyalty but you can’t trust nobody. I just want you to know that, I’ve got your back. I’ve talked to Scott . Scott and Alex they’re sharing the same ideas. They’re their own alliance. They’re going to eliminate Morgan and you and then Shelby last. If you’re up on the block they’re going to vote you out of here because they’ll be like they had no choice. My side loves you. But they see you as a threat at the end. There are only 3 care packages left. Justin explains why Morgan needs to be the one to go this week for both their games. Morgan goes and America wants your side to have it then Whitney will get the next ACP. Justin tells her that he is going to try and win HOH this week and he hopes she gets the ACP. Justin I don’t want you to go home. I don’t trust Morgan. In my favor the good thing is that Danielle is still in the house. If you’re on the block its the perfect opportunity for Morgan and Alex to vote you out and for them to be like we had no choice. I don’t want you to be blindsided by this. You’re been taking care of me and I appreciate it. Whitney I’m just going to take everything you say and make some moves if I have to and just take it day by day. Justin You can’t tell anyone what I tell you. My side won’t trust me if you do. Whitney I won’t tell anyone. Justin This is best for our game if we just keep this between us. Whitney I won’t say anything. 12:30amHOHB cam 3/4 Misfits Jason Alex is a smart girl. I ain’t mad at her because we need her this week. Discussion about how Shelby will use the votes, who she will eliminate and knowing she’s going to leave Scott/Alex to vote. Danielle Whatever Alex does, Scott will do. The group discusses the ACP and what it will look like. Justin She (Shelby) will eliminate us three. Jason By nominating Morgan and Shelby we’re pretty much asking America to nominate one of us. Jason They’re not going to get any better scenarios to take out one of their own. If they decide not to do it, its bad game play on their part because they’re going to have to deal with them chicks later. The conversation turns to talking about random things. BA Morgan/Alex (sorry forgot the note the timestamp) Morgan tells Alex about her conversation with Danielle. Morgans says Dani is open to work with them. Open to bouncing ideas off of her. She was like I really respect how you got Neely out. She said she was happy I did it so that she didn’t have to do it herself. -Clearly this attempt by Dani to plant seeds is working to some degree. She sold the I’m glad you did it and I didn’t have to with the girls. That seed working into the idea that maybe losing someone on their own side means they go ahead and get what they would have to do later without getting blood on their hands. Alex She wanted to take Neeley out? Morgan Yes. I also told her that you have to think about who you want to take to the final 3. She said she wouldn’t take Justin. Everyone knows I wouldn’t beat him. She is going to want to target Justin. Alex Wow, she told you a lot more than she told us. You should try and work with her if possible. This weekend started off looking like a terrible mess thanks to the crazy voting that is reminiscent of HS Homecoming King/Queen and not an entire community of Live feeders who love and know this game. However, the misfits, like myself have chosen not to give up hope. If you had a delusional perception that the misfits aren’t playing this game you were sadly mistaken. As I have said several times in the last 2 weeks that as annoying as the voting has been not because one team’s fan base has been getting all the votes for everything in their favor for three weeks in a row. If it was happening on its own merits and they were actually playing the better game misfit fans wouldn’t be so frustrated with the entire experience. We are all paying the same amount every month but we are not all getting the same experience. I have to clarify not all Plastics fans are guilty of the ridiculous manipulation, some see things in the game play on that side that they like and none of us have any issues with that at all. We certainly aren’t seeing what you are seeing but if you really are watching and enjoying the game play more we all could respect that. Its the blatant lack of strategic analysis of the game play by a portion of viewers and voting accordingly as well as the blatant cheating one particular fan base has been guilty of. As the week has played on, I actually began to laugh. Danielle, Jason, and Justin are all playing hard! Shelby has suddenly woken up and begun to flex her muscles a little bit. Morgan is blind to what her sister is really doing. They’ve looked at what they are playing up against more outside the house than in since that’s where it’s coming from but they took immediate and swift actions. Scott said some things to Shelby that made him land in her crosshairs. Alex has been saying quite a few things that have to have both Whitney and Shelby looking around like ok, so according to you next week we are irrelevant and you are going to jump ship and form some new alliances? Justin reached out to Whitney and had a straight up convo. He’s watching what’s happening to her and quickly realizing it could happen to him and already beginning to harvest some crop potentially from he seeds he’s been tending to for weeks now. The final safety ceremony tonight with confirm which Plastics are officially the HOH nominees. As long as it isn’t Scott thats who most people from both sides are nominating. Polls have Scott up over Kryssie on Plastics polls and Scott is by far the majority opinion as America’s Nominee for the Misfits fans. Voting opens this evening at 8pm PST/11PM EST so make sure you get a vote in this evening and tomorrow morning. If some wonky unexpected phenomena happens and Scott winds up being one of Dani’s nominees I will do an additional Voting blog with the name of the alternate for Misfits. Plastics will already have Kryssie as a back up plan.

Happy Saturday LF's! Been a crazy busy day for me but didn't want to miss a day. Tomorrow I will cover a lot! I've been noting tons here and there but here's just a quick summary to satisfy you until I can do a complete rundown of 48 hours tomorrow. After ACP was awarded to Shelby yesterday, BOO! The Plastics went crazy knowing America is doing all the work for them. They've talked about refusing to even bother talking to Dani. While the misfits had a hard blow from this feeling their worst fears were confirmed, "America hates us." They poured briefly but Justin gave the whole squad a pep talk! 1:15 pm Within an hour they quickly ended the pity party and went back to what makes them the better players in the game! They actually rely on playing the game. Dani admitted she plans to nominate two low hanging fruit from the Plastics' tree (Shelby/Morgan) before the ACP was revealed and not target Alex or Scott out the gate. She's known since she won HOH she will need to win veto to make sure America's Nom (predicting likely a misfit) and force not only the Plastics but Amerixa to vote out a member of the 'dream team'. She told Jason she had hoped if she got a chance through Veto to take a shot at Alex she would but was satisfied if she could just take out one of the four girls since they are the tightest group of the 5. Today, HN's were revealed and again LNC fans lost the war. Kryssie, Whitney, and Justin were the HN's for the week. If you didn't watch the reveal go back its funny because all the Plastics, Scott, and Jason ran around screaming and celebrating like Justin has week after to week to give me a comic relief for his misery. 1:03 pm 3:45 pm BY Hammock Scott/Alex were joined by Shelby. Scott to Shelby The only way I would vote you out is if you and Alex were the 2 OTB together. Shelby Well I know to cancel your vote if that happens. Since this happened Shelby has been planting seeds about Scott within the Plastics accepting the harsh reality that Scott will always choose Alex over her and that's a problem. Two good LNC strategic convo's you should watch if you haven't: 10/28 2:30 pm cam 3/4 Dani/Jason BY hammock They discuss Dani's plan to nominate Shelby/Morgan. She knows she has a better chance to make some deals with Alex/Scott by not targeting them. She also knows if she did their backups will fight to the death to save them where A/S are far more likely to be persuaded to let Dani pick off one from their side that they would have to target eventually anyways and this way they don't get any blood on their hands. Jason/Justin 5:18 pm BY today Dani wants to Nom low hanging fruit on Plastics side. The two discuss Dani's strategy and J/J using this as leverage with S/A selling they are doing what they can to keep them safe. Jason/Justin also discussing same strategy Jason had come up with, keep Scott/Alex aligned with them potentially. That way in case Jason is AN, likely Shelby would cancel one of the weaker of that sides votes banking on the fact Shelby/Alex/Scott more of a trio makes Shelby less likely to cancel Scott/Alex votes come eviction night. Lots more going on in the house but I haven't had enough time today to dedicate to being thorough so that will have to wait until tomorrow. The Plastics have had several convos, although they have ACP and in their guts expect America to nominate a misfit there's no guarantee and you keep hearing them all say they are worried this week! Finally! Took all of less than 30 min after the HN reveal for Scott to scamper up to the HOH and have a one on one with Dani. This gained attention from the Plastics since he's been saying for days he won't even bother talking to her and expects to be her target. Eventually one one by one they all tucked their tails between their legs and made the dreaded trip upstairs which I will also cover in greater detail tomorrow. Finally, it's not official yet, we still have a little less than 24 hours before America's nominee voting begins but...Scott is leading the polls not only on LNC fan sites but on many Plastic fans sites as well! Don't jump the gun yet 24 hours is a long time in the BBOTT house and on SM, but it is looking like for the first time in weeks Plastocs fans are splitting their votes! While some want Kryssie to be the AN, there are a lot of others worried Scott will break up the Plastics and take Alex with him over to Justin/Jason so they are coming out in droves in support of nominating Scott and getting him out this week! LNC fans polls are very heavily leaning towards Scott as well. Tomorrow night once Dani's final safety ceremony is over I will put my official stamp on which Nom each fan base seems to be leaning towards but as of Saturday evening BB time this is what things look like or now! LNC fans are chomping at the bit! Hopeful to finally get a nominee they want on the block, prevent another misfit from going home and finally shift the momentum. Dani has played this HOH very well. Kept her plans to herself before ACP announced. Had various scenarios in mind but never planned to Nom Scott or Alex. I do think putting Shelby OTB now that she has ACP is better idea. She will have to use votes to protect herself first and foremost. Shelby hasn't done well in most the comps. Always landing in the middle except really last HOH where Scott, Alex, and Shelby all eliminated on first question. Plus the misfits are beginning to use the voting pattern in their strategy. There's been discussion that getting Morgan out would be advantageous since there are only 3 ACP's left this season. The Plastics only have 2 eligible players left to receive them so if one happens to go home this week (best case scenario) not only are the girls broken up from being a strong foursome but that also leaves only Whitney eligible to get 1/3 last ACP's and America will have to give 2/3 to misfits! I don't care which side of the fandom you fall. Who you like or dislike. Danielle has been a great HOH surprising many and her ability to read and play this game is worthy of some respect! Jason and Justin have been working hard and making plans, drawing Alex/Scott back in just in case AN happens to be one of them (Jason is certain he's going to be the America Nom). They may not be getting any love from the voters dominating and handing the Plastics the easiest path in BB history but misfits aren't taking it lying down and are playing this game HARD this week! Jason will be out of cigarettes this weekend and BB will provide him with nicotine patches. Thank goodness he didn't run out on a week where he was a HN too that would have been cruel and unusual punishment but...buckle up because he's gonna get REAL very quickly without his smokes. Tonight's safety ceremony: Kryssie, Justin, and Jason are safe! Good girl Dani make those girls sweat another 24 hours they've been doing it to you all season long. One last note. Justin has said he won't be cooking for those girls this week. He has to taste as he cooks and is a HN so they are on their own. At least he's keeping us laughing as he deals with not eating and told Whitney its ok they will get through this week together. He also said this is the best week, if he has to be a HN at least they get to eat for an hour on Halloween for the party and that will help all the HN's get through the week! So there you are. Some key moments in this quick post. I will have a long one tomorrow to catch you up on everything! Then I will post at least one more tomorrow after 7pm BB time when the final safety ceremony is complete to report the official nominees for both sides of the house in the America's nominee that begins 8pm Pst/11 pm Est.

The Week of the Grasshoppers and the Ants So there was so much going on leading up to the eviction and following it that I want to just quickly touch base on a few key points. After the blow up between Scott, Jason, and Danielle calling Scott out for using ‘bullying’ like tactics to gain favor form America as a part of his strategy. Scott saying he was going to terrorize Danielle. The point Jason was trying to make was that attacking someone like that all the time isn’t a good look and not a good way to treat people in life. You never know what someone has been through and what kid of damage you can really be doing. That was the big picture point I took away of the point. Danielle’s reaction and talking about being bullied her whole life and how she’s been treated by the Plastics+Scott is dredging up all those personal feelings for her (which we have seen since the beginning) was her unloading what she’s had building up. Remember in this context of this game very often you can’t really say or do things in reaction because this is a game and doing so can hurt your game. Shane and Neely got their digs in on the way out the door. They no longer had anything to lose their game was over, so now they can unload and get everything they wanted off their chest in 90 seconds in front of everyone all at once. Right or wrong, that’s how I see that. Same with Meech BB 18, she didn’t really call people out in major explosions until she really thought she was leaving and took the ‘sometimes you just gotta say WTF, and go balls out.’ Not saying it is a good or bad idea to do so, just saying this is my read on why it’s happening. Misfits especially are playing the game but from their perspective every card is stacked against them and they are fighting a losing battle no matter which direction they try to play in their games. They are not entirely wrong. They also have 24 hours a day to sit and wonder why America hates them and why America loves (what I now refer to as America’s team) the Plastics+Scott. Keep in mind they don’t see what we see. They don’t know the fandom division happening outside the house which is just as great a division and battle outside as it is inside. All they feel is it doesn’t matter what I do I can’t catch a break. -First 3 weeks other side in power. -Finally get power and their own team member goes home. -Voting has been completely 1 sided the last two weeks which feel like a lifetime in that house. However, they may be having meltdowns and blow ups which are side effects of their frustrations they are also like, well we are gonna have to play harder and better and keep trying to make things work in our favor. Not getting any kind of break the last 2 weeks has made them more focused on they own abilities in the house. Morgan and Whitney we did see some more active short term game play. Good or bad it was game play.Week 4 strategy for them revolved around the fact they thought America was gonna side with them, but they talked about how they can try and make sure they get their way just in case America didn’t this point they have their owns fans to thank for that. Why work inside the house when you can just act a certain way and get others to do the work for you by soliciting America to play the game for them? Of course, in their mind the best thing they have in the game is America loving their snarky and b*tchy personas causing lots on conflict in the house, That’s the strongest part of their games. I really see them aware of this fact and actively basing the majority of their game play on, as a group and individually, with the exception of Whitney. What a surprise Whitney is at the bottom of the ratings for that fan base? Whitney capitalizes on it for now, it is benefiting her in the moment but I also see her looking around, playing a great social game, building more and more trust with Justin and Kryssie. Lying is a part of the game, always has been. However let us to forget it is only week 4 heading into the halfway mark. While this game feels like it’s been going on a long time and there’s an epic battle brewing between fandoms as the weeks continue, lying so much tarnishes credibility and desires by other HG. Whitney, however does take steps in advance of making a decision she feel sis in her best interest and knows that telling Kryssie in advance is in the best interest of her game. Do you ever really want to volunteer to be a pawn? No. Was she at least looking at what was best for her game, trying to keep her word to everyone all at once by not being made to vote? Yep! I give her credit for knowing right now whether she wanted to keep the deal with Kryssie or not she saw the value in not setting that bridge ablaze and adopting Morgan’s attitude of oh well I don’t care I don’t need them anyway. She’s staying loyal to her team for now, but they also see her as a threat and they should! I see them thinking about it not he surface because they know Whitney is playing a far better social game and has other options unlike them. That scares Alex the most. Tells me Alex knows she should be dong the same but refuses to. Good luck with that we will see how it works out. Something to keep an eye on. The heavy ‘America’ influence will continue a couple more weeks but the actions now as a result of the voting has created a situation where there is less and less potential for people on both sides to consider working with ‘America’s team’ members later in the game. Blatantly lying about voting and breaking deals when there are so many people still in the house and so much game to be played won’t soon be forgotten by people who look around and think, ‘who can I potentially build something on the side or something new down the road with?’ The one side isn’t looking around much at all because they are just banking on America playing their games for them. The other side is looking around like there’s less and less chance I want to work with those people at all so here’s what I need to do. Players like Jason and Justin are not trusting anyone over there but aren’t burning any bridges so if they need to use those people they have the connections to at least try and do that further along in the game. Will they trust an Alex or a Scott? Hell no, will they use an Alex or a Scott? Any chance they get you better bet on that! We also see this with Whitney and Justin. Last night (9:38 pm cam 4) there is a convo that happens with the two and it’s one you should watch if you haven’t already. I know Justin has said to Jason he doesn’t trust Whitney. I am undecided at this point if that’s really true and he’s smart enough to use his connection to her purely as an advantage. Or if he’s smart enough to know he needs to build some other potentials to be able to jump ship with the Misfits foreseeing they could go down in the next two weeks. I think this week will have a heavy influence on which road he takes with this but he has roads! Smart game play on Justin’s part. I brought this up prior to eviction night as well based on a convo between the two before Whitney heads up and tells Kryssie to make her the pawn so she doesn’t have to vote. Justin make sit clear to Whitney she’s the only one on her team he trusts at all. She confirms he and Kryssie are the only ones on his team she trusts at all. Justin does make sure Whitney knows that Jason likes her. She thinks he doesn’t and she doesn’t trust Jason. Justin asks Whitney who she’s closest with of her people in the game and she says Alex. That concerns me a great deal. Of them all Alex is the last one she should trust. Now that wasn’t the question, the question was who is she closest to? That will be something I begin to really pay attention to. I was surprised she didn’t say Morgan since those two spend the most time together. I was getting a little concerned that Whitney may not be seeing where she lands on the hierarchy of her team. She’s chosen to stick with them for now, which for her is smart in the moment. Is she really paying attention to all the little clues and breadcrumbs they are blatantly leaving for her to see they do not have her back at all? She is the most expendable in their eyes? They don’t treat her very well, they have tons of “team meetings” that she’s excluded from, they do not give her opinions or insights and real consideration. Alex has said over and over that Whitney can go. They shouldn’t tell her anything because she’s close with Justin. Something to watch in Whitney’s game as this week plays out as well. For a player I really had no motivation to watch the first two weeks she’s certainly peaked my interest the last two weeks and you should be watching her as well. Don’t be fooled. The heavy America influence has had a huge impact on the game. However, what goes around comes around. So much equity has been spent on Alex and the Plastics so early in the game and they threw ACP’s to their strongest players VERY EARLY! Yes, they still have a couple they could gift things to, but how much benefit that will be to Scott and Alex as the game progresses lessens by the day. America’s team fandom isn’t as invested in Morgan or Shelby for that matter. They like Shelby’s snarky attitude and DR’s but none really talk about her as a gamer. Mark my word, the voting will shift soon! There are 4 ACP’s left to be awarded and three Misfits (all the strongest players) who fans will want to protect. Danielle may not be universally liked, and Jason may have annoyed a few people after the America’s nomination but there are short memories when it comes to fans. There are plenty of fans on that side of the fence who do like Jason/Justin. On the misfits side of the fence those really the only players we were ever holding out on to help when they needed it in the second half of the game knowing they were safe the first half. Now, if we can help them with voting to get to the final 7 you will see some very aggressive game play on both their parts. Danielle could quite frankly get there on her own by her own merits the way she’s navigated this game despite so many people disliking her personality she is one of, if not the best players in the house. Love her or hate her despite everyone coming for her form day 1 she has managed to survive and the HN week and America’s nomination did exactly what I hoped, gave her a reality check and she took that as a chance to sit back and little and take a look at what she needs to do differently. Now with this HOH we will see where she landed. May be the best thing that happened to her game. When things happen this early on once and someone goes to another player that had some kind of relationship or deal with and says, ‘hey, I know I said this but I had to go this way instead for my own game’ that goes a long way in keeping the future opportunities in working together open. Lying and breaking deals over and over with the mindset my team is the only people I will ever need in this game, may be working in the short term, especially (since America is helping them so much now). The long term game, this same approach could, and likely will, keep them from having longevity. Not saying what they’re doing now isn’t working for them in the moment, but these same things will work against them as the game progresses and they really need a lifeline and no one else is even open to hearing anything they have to say. That first 15 minutes after the HOH was very telling if you look at the big picture. When evaluating those aspects Whitney is really in the best long term position by her own merits in the game. While she is benefiting from the voting right now and knows it she’s not building her entire game around it. We also see that Shelby is aware of it (the fact they are getting so much help externally) and has said it wont last forever, but don’t see her really doing anything to prepare for when the tides turn. That being said having heard Shelby say it to her group more than once I will watch her more closely and see if she does actually begin to put anything in place to prepare for the winter when things get to a point where perhaps she cannot ride out with Team America any longer in the interest of her own game. As I resisted various moments the last 48 hours I fond this convo interesting. Not from really a game or strategic perspective, more a foreshadowing moment and conversation that Jason should give some deeper consideration to upon reflection to maybe lead to an aha moment for his game. I know if I were in the game this would actually make me go hmmmm? BY Friday 1:45 am cam 3/4 Scott/Jason discussing BB History Scott shares that he began watching BB3 and he was in love with Danielle Reyes and Jason Guy and then Lisa wins and he’s like Danielle was robbed! Jason Lisa played a better game than people say she does. Scott Lisa is one of my favorite winners. Like Lisa did amazing. -This is what caught my attention about this conversation. Listen to Jason describe the two types of games. My feeling, as I listened to this was Jason needs to stop and think about what he says right here. Jason I love Daniele Reyes, and she definitely is a deserving winner but I’m not down when people shade the Lisa, I will shade Maggie before I shade Lisa. Scott Yes Jason Steve was a big Maggie supporter. Maggie did play but I think Maggie did also have a lot of shields around her that helped her play. (Alex) Where Lisa really groomed and grew in the game and switched sides on her own demeanor and betrayed her own. (Are we foreshadowing Justin here?) I definitely look at Lisa like she doesn’t get enough credit for sure. But in that moment, you are like this was wrong, this is terrible. -I’m just referring to the context of this conversation not really comparing those two games to Maggie and Lisa just to what Jason actually describes here. That’s what caught my attention as Jason was describing it. My very first thought to “she had a lot shields and helping her play was well that’s Alex for sure. The same with Justin reference, in that he came in knowing nothing and we’ve watched him evolve, learn along the way and there’s so much LF’s conversation about Justin playing both sides of the house. Speculation if he’s betraying the misfits. People I think are waiting to see if he actually does. At this point Justin has remained loyal to Jason above all things. You know this because he doesn’t plan to do or actually do anything without conversing with Jason about it. They are always working together but it is a very give and take alliance where one isn’t like NO you have to do this my way. Scott Daniele was robbed! Jason You’re still like this is terrible, Danielle played so much better when you’re watching it live. Lisa did play a very good game. Scott Yeah and when you re-watch it multiples times like we have you can be like wait a minute Danielle and Lisa played like top 10 games, they both played like really well this season. (Ok, Scott maybe top 10 games for the first 3 seasons of Big Brother. Maybe this is why you are so terrible at this game.) I think Daniele was a lot flashier. J And Lisa was able to do it almost in a way that still a lot of people are not able to do it. Kinda like with social, she’s like the original Jun, I’m gonna float this way now, I’m gonna float that way now. These people are the best one’s for me to roll with. These people are the best one’s for me to roll with. (That’s what people watching are seeing in Justin.) But also when it’s Marcellus time to go and Jason and Daniele were bamboozling him into not using the veto. Lisa was still like, Marcellus is my friend, I’m gonna vote for him to stay. So she (Lisa) definitely had the strength to say I’m gonna make my own decisions but I’m also gonna know when is the right decisions. (Now I wonder if Jason is planting a little seed here with Scott?) Scott (smiling) Yeah. 1:47 am cam 1/2 Justin/Kryssie/Danielle) Kryssie gets called to the diary room Justin says maybe it’s to talk about your experience K Oh about sending one of my friends home on my HOH? Justin Oh, Kryssie it’s not your fault. Don’t beat yourself up. K I’m more worried about beating one of these other people up (laughing slightly). D I know I’m worried about that too. (Sympathetically) J When you want we can just go in the yard and scream. K Ok. That sounds like fun. Another conversation I mentioned in the last blog was the one with Morgan and Alex at 1:50 am cam 3/4 early Friday morning. We don’t get a lot of one on one game talk for any length of time with Morgan and Alex. They are alone in the UKB and use this opportunity to discuss current events. A Do you think this is the week they will finally put up the Willet sisters? M Hell no. A We’ll see what we can do? I kinda talked to Justin a little bit. I didn’t really say everything but… M He’s giving me nothing, he… A That’s why, before HOH (he was) we good? We good? I said you got me if I got you right? He goes yeah. Then he walks away. M Yeah he came in here I was like I wonder what’s going to happen this week? Like who are the targets gonna be? He says, well I’m just gonna tell you she’s gonna make it suspenseful. -Justin has told Dani not to tell him what her plan is. He doesn’t want to know. He knows Dani has questioned his loyalty and that he was being blamed for all the information leaking to the other side when in fact most of that was coming from Jason. I blogged about this last week when Justin confronted Jason about him getting blamed. M I was like…He was like well ya’ll lied to Kryssie. I was like ok, well I mean if I am the target this week will you just let me know? He was like, yeah. A You wont be. It will for sure be me. I’m not an idiot. I’ve hear multiple time from Justin and Jason. I think once from Jason that Danielle wants me out. She was the one person that I did not want to win because Justin and Jason we have this thing…I don’t know how much they would stay true to it, but they always both come up to me and go ‘you got me if I got you right?’ If you win HOH don’t put me up and if I win HOH I wont put you up. So I know if Jason won, while I don’t necessarily trust him, I think I probably could have used that against him. I could have found a way with Jason to not put me up. Where with Danielle, I was the first person to put up her and she’s been holding that against me ever since. (Well, what did you expect? LOL) -This is where Jason has outplayed her. He has already told his people that Alex and Scott came to him or are believing on their own that they are ‘in an alliance’ with him. Days ago in the BY Dani went on a mission to get Justin to understand why Scott would believe in his own little mind that Justin was in an alliance with him. Justin played this off perfectly completely playing dumb and giving Danielle the floor to seem like she is the all knowing BB player. M Right, you’re the reason Shane went home, which is stupid. A During her and Scott’s fight yesterday she brought me up again. She’s like well Alex is a smart girl. Like everyone thinks I’m like this secret genius. It is weird. (No, they know you’re the head of the scale on that side but you’re the only one who thinks you are a secret genius.) -When Alex made herself the leader of the pack she put herself in that role happily, but didn’t make any attempt the first couple weeks to hide that at all. She’s hidden herself away from everyone else so even when she’s not the one doing the dirty work she gets blamed for it. Alex does send everyone out to do the dirty work and thinks in her mind that keeps her from seeming like the one puppeteering things, and her read on how the house was viewing it has been far from the mark which is one thing I’ve emphasized over and over, by the time she did realize it and had done so little to prevent it form happening it was already a runaway train and she gets the ‘credit or blame’ for pretty much everything that side does. Not a good position to be in at all. She’s no Derrick. Pulling strings and staying camouflaged for so long. Add to that the America votes going her way since the end of week 2 and that only enlarges the target on her every time the vote heads their way. Way to go Plastics’ fandom! M Idk, I guess I’m back to my lay low scenario, which… A No, honestly for you this week, I’m not that worried about you, but I would hate for you to be like the back up option for her if her target doesn’t go home. It might behoove you to go up and talk to her, like wait until the CP M Right. Oh for sure. I’m gonna go talk to her A But maybe make a deal like I will keep you safe if you keep me safe type thing. -Right after she’s made a couple deals, broken them all? M The only thing that sucks, anything I say people are gonna be like, well you lied to Kryssie. A Yeah like, they’ve been doing that to me since week 2. It sucks, but in this scenario it worked out for your benefit because Neely went home. M It really did. -Yeah in the moment but not really in the long term if you spent all of your equity on sending Neely home when you all were really willing to let Scott go. A I know that Neely was a close ally for you and it would have been more beneficial if it had been like a Kryssie instead of a Neely M It does suck. A But at the same time, for me I’m super stoked, M It does suck, but at the same time that’s numbers for us, if he stayed he owes me, he;s gonna keep you around, he’s a big target, if he keeps you around you’re gonna have my back. A Well, he keeps saying things like, ‘well even if I win veto I’ll use it on you instead of me.’ I’m like I don’t think you’re going to do that. That’s M I think he would. A You think he’d do that? Morgan (nodding) He said I will do everything for Alex to win. He’s like… A He needs to not be telling people that because that makes people want to target me even more. Also, that’s kinda weird, like thank you, if you wanna do that, thank you but I’m a little bit like (she’s making creeped out faces and putting her hand up like stay away stalker which is what a lot of fans have discussed about Scott’s obsessions with Alex.) I don’t know how to react, I feel weird, I feel… M I was like all right! It sucks, its like everyone has an ally on that side and mine was Neely and she went home. There’s literally no point in me talking to Jason. A No I think Jason would be like, you can’t trust him, you can’t trust him M You can’t trust what he says A He told Scott he feels like he can approach you with game talk, but he says it does feel like you’re closed off to it. _I had to laugh they say don’t trust what Jason says then says oh but he told Scott this so it must be true. M That’s right. Justin… A Don’t trust Justin M I won’t trust Justin I am going to stay on Justin’s good side. I am going to keep talking too him. He’s gonna do whatever with Whitney, so him Kryssie can screw that one up I could care less about Kryssie the same as Danielle. A I think Danielle might be your best. Danielle doesn’t have any one she’s working with form our side and you may want to sneak in there again before Whitney or Shelby. M That’s what I was thinking too. Cause like out of everyone I’ve shown like, Whitney obviously, everyone likes Whitney… A She let it slip today too, M She’s dangerous. A She let it slip out loud, which is very unlike Whitney, she let it slip out loud that like getting out of the deal with Kryssie because she volunteered to go up as a pawn. M We’re not stupid. W She’s playing smart right now for sure. M We’re not stupid. At the same time, she’s smart but at the same time people are going to realize she can’t go to the end. A Yeah, she’d win. But I’d rather see her win than someone like Danielle M Right, of course I’d rather see her win, but I would rather see me WIN. Yeah, my thing, I would approach Jason A No, don’t approach Jason. He’s working with Justin and Justin is getting information from Whitney. I think your only untapped source is to use Danielle. M (Sighs annoyingly at the thought) Which honestly out of all the girls she close with Kryssie, and now Kryssie is going to be like Morgan isn’t trustworthy but.. A The thing is I tried to explain to Kryssie M It’s a frikin’ game! A It’s a game move -So I am gonna leave this here and if you wanna go watch the rest of the conversations I highly recommend it. They are brainstorming all the things they should be and they are hitting all the very walls I have been discussing for weeks. Yeah great you want to make big moves, you don’t care what America thinks, it’s a game people lie and break deals all the time, you don’t like those people and have no desire to hang out with them great for you. How’s that working out for you now? All those game moves lands you in the very spots you’re in with limited options on where you can now navigate your games. So the ‘go to alternate’ is PLEASE AMERICA we’ve burnt every potential bridge, we don’t have power, we have no trust with anyone else in the house save us again!!! Not a game I respect, not a game I had any desire to reward. Most of the time not a game I can stand to watch. Go back to the week 1 blogs when we began and I said that Alex has a great mind for the check boxed version of BB, make alliances, get out the showmance, create some shields, blah, blah, blah. It’s not enough to know that you need to do those things its how you go about doing those things that really make you a player people want to watch and get behind. Well, it’s almost time to find out who is getting ACP this week. It’s come down to a horse race between Jason and Shelby. Shelby for obvious reasons on that side of the house but Jason for more strategic reasons that really were lead by the majority of those fans feeling like Jason over Danielle was a better vote looking forward to the next couple weeks. Can the misfits finally get an advantage in the game? Are there enough LF’s who want to keep an even going back and forth from side to side not letting any one side steamroll the other? Or are Plastics fans so obsessed with their Team America HBIC that they will spend the last little bit of equity they have on Shelby and try and force Kryssie out this week leaving the two sides down to 5 v 3 in the game? Ironic how we all started out in agreement none of us want to see one team just railroad the other. Most fans were hugely disappointed that CB wasn’t as entertaining as they had built him up to be in his mind and collectively sent him packing. That decreased the size of this 8 person voting power no one wanted to see dominate the game. Then week 2 everyone wanted Monte out because he was the WORSTE game player, insufferable to watch on the feeds and many of the things he was saying that were inflammatory were by way of association hurting the girls alliance. That brought the two teams to a more equal balance. Did that help keep the misfits from getting steam rolled? Yes. Was the motivation really behind eliminating CB and Monte? No. Then we all agreed Scott should get the ACP for the3 most part being how much our voting was really impacting the game play and while we were all prepared to waste the first couple CP’s on players like Kryssie and Scott the real goal for many was let the HOH have some power back this is way more than we really expected. From there somewhere along the way it went off the rails and became a war between fans and had very little to do with actual game play and everything to do with the America’s Favorite HG mindset. The fans themselves are now responsible for creating that exact same steamroll scenario again and if we don’t take a step back and start looking at which players are playing the best and who do we want to keep to watch once the house gets much quieter around final 6 you are gonna end up with four girls who go to bed at 10 pm every night play middle school sleepover games and Kryssie and Danielle. Not because of game play but because all that power has gone to your head and the entertainment of it all right now seems so appealing to you. This game is like those chapter books when you were a kid where you came to the end of the chapter and could choose to take the story one way by turning to page 62 or another way by turning to page 92. Every time having two choices which away the story would go. This BBOTT has become that live book and we all get to choose which direction the story goes.

The Calm Before the Storm Here is a summary of the conversations and events from he point of the final two questions of the HOH comp through the first 15 minutes in the house following Danielle's win. It includes the details of production cheering for Whitney at the end of the comp. How the Plastics reacted to Danielle's win and how the Misfits react4ed initially to the victory. Jason is really seeming down. The production reactions and the way voting has been going he feels he is likely to be the next America's nominee. Not dwelling but what his reads are based on the voting and the events last night during the comp he feels they are definitely not liked by America and he and Danielle agree they are just going to handle it and Danielle is dying to win HOH to make sure if the AN is a misfit they won't stay on the block. Question 5 Daniele v Whitney HOH Both answer True True is correct You can hear production very softly say “yes!” 9:23:24 pm Just before comp host/announcer confirms, “You both got it right, please reset.” (throughout the announcements by the competition host/announcer you can hear the announcer being fed lines juts before they are spoken) Question 6 In Breaking Ball there are 4 green balls on the ground? 9:23:47pm Danielle starts to answer False hesitates (clearly thinking) to change to true, at the same moment but sticks with initial instinct and sets false. Whitney begins to very slightly turn and false is looking like where she’s turning initially but quickly decides to Answer TRUE You can hear production whispering in the background in between announcers promptings “oh, no…” (when Danielle has gone false and Whitney chooses to go with True) You can hear “shhhhhhhhh!” by production female voice Danielle second guesses herself flips it to TRUE for a split second and you can clearly hear “Oh shit!” and various whispers but that you can make out cleary because Danielle has now changed it for a split second to True (matching Whitney’s incorrect answer which would have meant they went to the next question. all of a sudden you hear excitedly, “Oh Shit!” background whispers from production again followed quickly by the female voice from production angrily, “shhhh you guys f*cking stop!.” (female voice) Danielle had changed to True all of a sudden, but just as quickly back gone right back to false without hesitation. -Honestly I was screaming at her ‘never change your first answer! Always stick with your first answer! I had no idea if she was right or not but my gut said she was and she needed to stick with it! I’m a teacher and 9/10 times your first answer when you second guess yourself is in fact the correct answer. Never change an answer you had chosen once you chose it. Instincts out perform over thinking almost every time! If she had changed it they both would have answered incorrectly and gone on to question 7, which at least they both got the same answer right or wrong. You can also tell production muted all their sound momentarily just before announcer returns saying, “Answers Locked.” the second you hear his Mic is turned back on. BB Announcer “The answer is Fasle.” Long pause “Danielle’,(hesitation before continuing) “You are the winner! “ All the HG spend a few minutes admiring the background photos which include sharp shots of live show pictures they haven’t seen. They’ve been called for an indoor lockdown nd the announcement is repeated at 9:30:01pm and you can hear Justin, “Yeah, we got it, we got it.” to the LNC and you hear Danielle say to BB as they all herd their way to the back door, “we can’t hear you, but we know we are supposed to go….” 9:30 pm HG begin to re-enter house from BY all four cams on general kitchen area Shelby, Morgan, and Whitney head straight into TKB, Alex begins to and says “I’m gonna get water first.” Danielle enters Kitchen where Alex is and says, “I learned form those pictures I need to get dressed more often.” Alex makes an effort to laugh Danielle, “I was in pajamas in every single one of them.” heads back to BR area cam change 1/2 KIT area 3/4 TKB Justin enters house from BY (cam 1/2) (Jason sneaking a quick smoke) Justin walks to Alex who is at the frig with both doors open looking inside. Justin says,“Good game Alex.” giving her a slight side hug from behind. Alex, “Thanks. Thats was a good game, good game everyone.” 9:31 pm cam 3/4 Scott, Shelby, Morgan, Whitney. TKB Scott whispering to Shelby and Morgan It’s his time. If he had to take one for the team…I made it to Halloween Morgan Yeah, America’s nom. Scott Don’t get down, don’t give up, we till have hope. We still got a lot of game left. M Right Scott I haven’t counted the vote scenarios but Took them all of 90 seconds to begin asking America to play their game for them. Morgan America’s nom. Care Package could go to one of us. Alex has joined the room 9:31pm Scott Yep. Yeah. It could be Co-HOH. Don’t know. Shelby points to Scott, then Morgan, then herself saying You’re (Scott) the most screwed, You're (Morgan) the second most screwed. I’m the third most screwed. Alex Hey America, want to help us out again? Scott America that would be great. America, I think I’m gonna have trouble getting Danielle out this week. (In his many long chat with LF last week he promised to get Danielle out this week and maker her life a living hell. Promised to troll her all week and make it his mission to get Danielle out of the house. Morgan I adjust happy at least we got Neely out. Shelby They can’t all go our way. Scott Exactly Shelby It went our way last week (week 3). It went our way this week (week 4). It’s not all gonna go our way. Alex Eventually one of us is going to end up going. We’re gonna fight. We’re gonna make it interesting. Random topic change to food. The entire time Whitney has been unpacking her suitcase while these four stood in a circle in the middle of the room talking. Alex Whitney you were so close Whitney I know. Like I am so upset. Yeah, that’s hard one question away. -Considering the only three people that got the very first question wrong were; Alex, Shelby and Scott. Leaving it all up to Morgan and Whitney. Morgan went out soon after the three amigos leaving only Whitney to battle against J/J/D all by herself. Shelby I know. We were all routing for you Whitney. Alex Man, the second us three got out first I was like Shelby Like we’re f*cked Morgan exits BR Kryssie enters BR Alex yeah Shelby and Alex immediately exit the BR headed to KIT talking about cookie dough Scott exits same moment and heads into HNB Leaving Kryssie and Whitney alone Whitney finished unpacking rolls her suitcase out at the same time Scott walks out of HNB and into the KIT after the girls 9:33 pm Morgan, Alex, Shelby enter storage room together to get food talking about food for a second until Scott enters and then they stop cold turkey huddle up and Alex begins… Alex Alright, we need to get Kryssie up as America’s Nom Morgan and Shelby nod agreeably Like hard core Alex immediately turns to camera. giver her rah rah smile and says America, if you wanna keep helping us out (basically if you wanna keep playing the game for them) Scott That’d be great. Morgan and Alex actually turn away from the camera Alex was facing and together face the opposite came so we see their backs and throw they arms up Alex Kryssie for America's Nom Shelby laughs at them Morgan does some random cheer move and begins to spell out Kryssie’s name with her body but to the wrong camera. Shelby So with two of us up, one of them is America’s nom Alex For sure Camera cuts away from them changes room to TKB where Kryssie and Whitney are K I you win it next week it will be even better for you. Cause you know you’re staying. Whitney is crying and not one of her own squad pays her really any mind, bothers to console her, just het you almost had it and left the room. K And you know somebody up there was really sad that you didn’t get it (They all heard production! Kryssie is referring to productions’ comments during the comp. W I know. That’s hilarious. K Which, I though was really cute. Whitney can be heard sniffling while she busies herself unpacking. Kryssie Well here, as the house crier, I’m gonna give you a hug. Whitney crying hugs her and says Thank You Kryssie You did great. W Thanks K And I’m glad I didn’t compete in that because those comps are impossible. W I’m really good at memorization. So I was like, YES! K (getting ready to change her clothes) Well, its tough because you never know what they’re looking for. W I know K But, you did great. Don’t be disappointed. I know that’s easier said than done but…(as she heads out of the room). Camera cuts back to storage room again Shelby Ok. I’m gonna go change into pajamas and eat ice cream. She and Alex exit Scott fist bumps Morgan Morgan I am happy we made the move against the house. I would have been so upset if I went with the other side of the house. And, we got out a big player (LOL-Neely is a big player?). Like she was a huge social threat, we still have the numbers, the care package could go our way. I don’t think they should be throwing your name in the mud like that. I think you deserve to stay to have a fighting chance because I think that’s B*LLSH*T! I’m out you can go back and watch this if you want. Not dragging through the post eviction drama. Scott is being a jacka*s on purpose as part of his strategy to get America to vote for them and it’s both he and Alex’s idea. You can see the totally different actions and conversations on the two sides the first 15 minutes back in the house. 9:42 TKB Kryssie/Whitney Whitey is crying and Kryssie is trying to comfort her. Encouraging her. When Shelby comes back in TKB format he UKB and sits on the bed next to Whitney. Alex enters and Kryssie exits Alex You ok Whitney? W Yeah, it just sucks to be that close. Alex as she shoves a handful of food in her mouth I know. Your time’s going though. Scott enters sees Whitney crying and approacher her with a side hug to comfort her Whitney Im just sad it was so close Scott You did amazing Alex still stuffing handfuls of some snack in her mouth You really did Scott Me, Alex, Shelby we had no f’ing clue what we were doing. Whitney When you guys went out first I was like ohhhh OMG Alex I almost flipped it at the last second and I flipped it back. Scott That’s the thing Whitney, we still have a lot of game left. Alex munching away A lot…of…game….to be played We have a care package. It’s probably going to be Co-HOH, that can change things. Scott If it comes down to it this week, and it’s my time to go, I made Halloween! I’m such a big target right now, don’t even sweat it Whitney. DOn’t even sweat it. Whitney crying and crying Shelby Whitney, no one’s disappointed in you. Alex munching and looking at the camera not Whitney No, no no no. We’re real proud of you. Morgan enters with her bowl of whatever sits next to Whitney Shelby We all dropped like flies. I’m gonna cry watching you cry. Morgan gets up and give Whitney a hug and tells her its ok. -Talk about the CP begins again. Alex says There’s so much that can happen in this game. Just keep fighting. CP could be co-HOH, there’s America’s nom. This is mostly Morgan, Scott, and Alex doing all the relying on America’s voting as you can see. Morgan’s America mentions are almost as bad as Alex now. Been mentions hat America doesn’t like Danielle. No actual strategic game talk at all. No mention of winning an actual veto. Just America, America, America. No focusing really on the fact Whitney was this upset for about 12 minutes while Kryssie and Justin have both consoled her. Great team! Way to let Whitney know exactly where she falls in these branches. If I were Whitney this would be my biggest take away. Shelby is the only one to point out, “things can’t go our way all the time” when they all keep going back to America’s voting. It’s been 14 minutes since they re-entered the house and this has to be at least the 14th time they’ve mentioned it. Kryssie point out again that at least she knows someone out there (production) adores her. Whitney says she knows, how surprised she was. Kryssie tells her again she’s thinks its sweet. 9:31 pm KIT cam 1/2 Jason/Kryssie/Danielle Jason is pointing out the way they are being portrayed in the photos from he season. Then replaying pictures and questions from comp bananas, balls, colors of things, etc… Kryssie heads off to TKB Danielle goes to memory wall and whispers to Shane’s photos but talking to both Shane and Nelly. Jason meanders over and joins her at the memory wall photos. Dani “This is for ya’ll. I love ya’ll. I love you Neely. I love you Shane. Well, I don’t know if I can tell you I love you, but I like you a lot. Jason cracks up, then tells her “You’re an idiot.” Dani But, Neely, I love you girl. Jason heads towards BA does a arm throw you celebration for 1.2 seconds and says “Well I’m still not eating. Danielle Well, anything you want…I can save for you. I will say the alcohol for Friday night. Jason Yes. Please do, so we can be like tipsy messes. I am so proud of you. Danielle I will save it for you. Jason I am so proud of you. Both head towards BA Danielle When I heard that it was just me, you, Justin, and Whitney Now we have picture in KIT but off camera we can her Danielle, Jason, and Justin all talking over each other about winning this comp Danielle When they went out, the first three I was like Justin Congratulations! You held it down. You held that down, YOU HEAR ME! YOU HELD THAT SH*T DOWN! Danielle When I heard the first three I was like Praise Jesus thank you God! Now let me get the rest of these questions right. Talks about the question everyone got wrong and she was still in it. Then she asks Jason, Could you hear them (production) say, “no, Whitney.” I could hear them say that when she got it wrong. I was like what if I got it wrong too? Then when they like… Justin yells at the camera or BB in general Well, thanks for letting us know who you favor on the uh other side production, we appreciate that. Danielle Maybe they just wanted it to drag on Jason Much appreciated Danielle suggests, To make it more dramatic. General chit chat, Justin washing his face, Jason needs to wash make up off. Danielle asks BB can I get a picture of my sonic the DR please? We idon’thave to bring it out. I just want to see his picture in the diary room. Justin We get this sh*t another week. Yeah. Danielle And please don’t make it all pictures of me. It will make me look so self centered. Please? No pictures of me lol. I just don’t want a bunch of selfies of me from my IG. Jason Who cares? Those girls are gonna tear them apart anyway right? Danielle more seriously No. They’re not. Because my IG pictures are fire as f*ck. lol. No one can talk sh*t about my IG pics. I only post the best of the best. Trust and believe. Kryssie enters with Whitney close behind. Asks is Kryssie was going to change. Kryssie tells her to go ahead. Shelby enters and Dani tells her Whitney just went in the WC Talk about food begins. Pizza, ice cream. Justin and his pizzas. Shelby asks what she thinks she will get pictures of. Will there be pictures of her friends? Hopes for pics of her sisters, friends. Talk about who signed releases. Camera cuts away as Shelby begins to change in BA while talking to J/D. Morgan cooking turkey burger. Scott and Alex in KIT dealing with food as well. Camera back to BA 9:38 pm Alex enters. Morgan enters. Justin exits. Whitney exits WC. Shelby enters WC. They are discussing BY, shade, the photos from comp. Danielle’s guess about the number of balls. Shelby puts on a zip up hoodie and says Monte’s jacket is pretty comfy. “Thanks Monte, I know you would never lend this to me if you had a choice. “ Morgan asks why his sweatshirt is a small? They joke about Monte’ clothes and Alex says everything but those tights he didn’t want to wear. Back to talking about photo’s in comp outside. Jason asked which CP that one photo was, where he had a towel or something and Alex says it was her CP. All the girls leave together and discuss having the UKB tonight to themselves. -No, tKryssie isn’t HOH so she will go back to her room. 9:40 pm Jason and Danielle alone in BA discussing who to nominate. Jason speculates he will probably be America’s nom. They can’t make him a HN again. Danielle says she’s gonna have to win veto this week she doesn’t want AN OTB. They whisper to each other the girls coming in and being chatty and friendly. Jason asserts they’re gonna do whatever they can and throw all kinds of things at you like hanging out. Too late, isn’t it? They discuss Neely leaving. Danielle I would nominate very single one of you if I could. I want them all out. I have to win veto I don’t want AN OT, if it’s one of us. Jason Seems like it will be. Clearly production favors them. And America favors them ,so…that’s fine we’ll just have to fight along. I will probably be AN, because they can’t make me HN again. I was next in line behind Neely, so… Danielle I just pray to God they make Scott a HN, I mean make Scott America’s nom. Jason Scott can’t be a HN Danielle He can’t be a HN but he could be America’s nom. Jason I don’t think they will if they just voted for him to stay. Danielle I don’t think that They did. Do you know for sure that Justin voted to evict Scott? Jason I think so. I asked him. He said yeah. IDK D IDK J But to hear production cheering for Whitney and not you definitely is telling. D I hear them clear as day on the last question J It was oh no Whitney

Halfway There! Week 5 is a pivotal week for both sides. Let’s talk ACP! Plastics fans are pretty much all voting Shelby ACP. They don’t split votes which makes them more effective in voting. A Shelby ACP means she can cancel 3 of the misfits votes (all of them) and maybe one of their own if they don’t manage to get a misfit as nominee (they want Kryssie since Dani isn’t available). Shelby ACP guarantees no matter who is on the block come eviction Plastics control the vote and if a misfit is there they will go home no matter what. Even with two Plastics OTB they still have 3 votes. If by some miracle a Plastic is America’s nominee they still have ability to cancel all 3 Misfits votes and decide which Plastics go home. Saving Alex and potentially Scott or Shelby sending Morgan or Whitney home in their worst case scenario. If there are 2 Plastics up as Dani’s nominee, and a Misfit ends up OTB as America nominee the misfit goes home. Shelby can cancel the other 2 misfit votes and one of the Plastics and still have deciding power on Kryssie going home (assuming she will be their nominee which is how things are trending). Now lets talk misfits. There are arguments for giving to Dani and letting her control HOH. However, there are other things to consider. This is week 5 and week after week Plastics are winning the popular vote because misfits fans keep splitting votes. If Plastics win ACP this week misfits are more likely to lose another number and the house will be down to 3 v 5 in the house. Danielle is HOH. If we give Dani ACP, trying to save a ‘better’ one for Jason next week then Jason wins HOH the misfits fans only option is Justin for Co-HOH next week. That’s it, if fans gave Dani ACP this week. However, voting Jason ACP this week lets him control the votes as long as two Plastics are on the block he can eliminate the other three Plastics votes assuring Misfits have voting power whether a Misfit is up as America nominee or not. That also means next week, when Plastics fans come for Dani (she wont be eligible to compete in HOH week 6) misfits fans can all give her the Co-HOH ACP. Saving her from being nominated week 6 and giving a misfit a nominee to name whether Jason/Justin/Kryssie wins week 6 HOH or a Plastic. That can still help protect Jason/Justin if you can manage to save Kryssie this week. If Kryssie goes home this week and a misfit doesn’t win HOH, or get the ACP Justin/Jason/Dani all in serious trouble. Remember if fans waited to give Jason ACP week 6 he wouldn't be eligible to play in DE HOH in week 7. This way it's Dani who can't compete in DE HOH week 7 not Jason. Taking the approach of Jason ACP this week leaves Justin eligible to receive week 7 ACP and receive the DE veto if misfit doesn't win that HOH. Also leaves Jason/Justin eligible for week 7 double eviction HOH comp as long as neither wins week 6 HOH. Even if you don't like Dani, saving her one more week next week leaves her vulnerable week 7 when double eviction happens and saves the DE Veto CP for Justin. Imagine if misfits’ fans are left with only Justin as an option for Co-HOH next week (week 6) if Jason happens to win week 6 HOH because you gave Dani ACP this week? Then neither Jason/Justin could play in week 7 double eviction HOH comp and Justin can't get DE Veto ACP week 7 either. That would be the only real option left for misfits fans to vote ACP for a misfit if the vote went for Danielle this week anyway. Quite frankly if you try to vote Dani this week and so many others misfits are campaigning and voting Jason the vote is split and Shelby wins the majority giving her ACP. Jason/Justin are dead in the water next week if Plastic wins week 6 HOH. Or if Jason wins HOH week 6 he can't compete week 7 double eviction and fans only had Justin as option to give co-HOH ACP next week you've now made it so your two favorite players can't compete in week 7 HOH! Remember the splitting votes is giving the Plastics the advantage so if you're a Plastics fan that’s great for you and your favorites. If you’re a misfits fan you are handing the control to Plastics week after week. Plastics fans went so far last night on Reddit to enlist people on twitter and Reddit to go take polls for misfits ACP voting polls and all vote Danielle to throw off the polls and split the votes so Misfits fans can never win the popular vote. That’s how petty this has become. Even the Plastics know everything this week depends on them getting the ACP again this week. While the idea that many misfits have in giving some control back to the HOH, much like fans did the week, Scott had HOH as things stand today BBOTT is well beyond that point in this season. I’ve heard a lot of Jason fans say they want to save a better ACP for him in future weeks but the chances of nailing that when looking at the voting they are up against gets smaller and smaller every week. It’s a sad fact fans are so entangled in this voting war they willingly messing with the integrity of the game but that’s where BBOTT and all the voting power given to America has led us. In the end voting Jason this week is the best strategic option based on the facts. Bottom line Plastics will vote Shelby ACP and if misfits fans continue to split the votes as they have week after week they are handing the majority vote to Plastics. Dani ACP sounds all well and good but this is BB and you always have to be thinking ahead. Dani ACP this week means if Jason happens to win HOH next week, Dani will be the Plastics America nominee, and the only misfits eligible for ACP will then be Justin as CO-HOH with Jason. Dani ACP week 6 for co-HOH only leaves her vulnerable week 7 HOH comp of neither Jason/Justin wins HOH next week. If Jason does win HOH neither he or Dani can compete in week 7 DE HOH but fans can hand veto to Justin at least. A Jason ACP this week, leaves Dani eligible for ACP next week where she can be CO-HOH, avoid being nominated by Plastics fandom, and actually have the ability to make one of the week 6 nominations. Jason ACP this week also means Jason has the ability to actually get a Plastic out this week, shaking their numbers down to an even again 4 versus 4 in the house. So when week 6 comes around the odds are equal on people will have to start making some tough decisions versus letting Plastics run away with this game because their fans are handing it to them. So choose carefully. Twitter is pushing hard for a Jason ACP on the misfits side understanding all the factors to be considered and explained in today’s blog for you misfits fans. Plastics fans are using better strategy in America voting than their players in the game. LOL. Misfits fans can’t keep complaining everything is going Plastics way if you aren’t willing to agree as a majority the way they do and pile all the votes on the same misfit. One key thing to remember is Jason/Justin/Dani are actually playing the game! They have the tools and strategic chops to maneuver this game against the playersi in the house but they can’t beat America’s voting. Plastics have relied so heavily on the votes going in their favor that we have yet to see what they can really do when things aren’t handed to them. Fandom has set them up to fall and fall hard. They walked in the house last night after the HOH and in less than 3 minutes (9;33 pm cam 1/2) started pleading with America to vote Kryssie for the nominee and the ACP knowing thats the only way they can assure their survival. Do misfit fans want to give that to them again? Quite frankly, I can’t knock the Plastics’ fans voting at this point (week 5) all they want to do is save Alex and they know if misfits give misfits ACP her odds of survival go down drastically. She or Scott have a very good chance of going home. Remember Alex cannot receive another CP at this point! Neither can Scott! Vote for your team. Use what the BB Gods gave you at this point. I just hope people are really thinking about the big picture and how these ACP and eviction votes roll out based on your voting and are thinking about where the game is at in week 5. Did Plastics fans really consider that giving Alex ACP week 4 make her incredibly vulnerable right as the game reaches the halfway point? Scott and Alex the two strongest players on that side of the house are out of the ACP running for at least this week and next no matter what. Where misfits all, three of their strongest players are eligible and if fans unite and pile the votes on the Jason they can take back voting control.

@Janthanks for the support. I know there are plenty of LF's that talk about all these same points. For the blog readers, It's not just about Plastics v LNC. It's the Alex specific that was just baffling, not just me but many live feeders. Whether we like the LNC or not. I do get the fan groups that like the "Plastics" personalities over the LNC personalities. That's a personal preference and it's always going to happen in this game. I am not surprised that people suddenly turned on Jason because he spewed so much that was strictly a personal attack on Shelby and not just focused his rant on basic points versus calling her a prostitute and giving sexual favors for votes. LF's in general don't like that kind of behavior. But where was that same uproar when Shelby or Alex says things that are just as bad? They applaud Scott and want to save him after he does these things to Danielle? Danielle or Jason says something about the Plastics and there's a huge campaign against them? I could list pages and pages of things Shelby especially has said that are no better than what Jason said. Fans are as hypocritical as HG's sometimes. As I finish this Jason is calling Scott out on this very topic 8:29 pm. Explains his back and forth with Shelby is not a strategy it's two people who just don't like each other. Scott does it to pimp America's vote, harassing and personally attacking Danielle (and Kryssie) for that matter all the time as his strategy! Just like Shelby does! Thank you Jason for making my point for me once again! It's ok for Plastics to do it (and the fandom grows the meaner they are) to the point Alex says keep being a b*itch to Shelby clearly America loves it. She's not wrong that's exactly what they like about her and the same exact reasons they use to hate the LNC. I don't like listening to the Plastics trash talk all day but I attack their games or lack of game. I say it frustrates me they waste all their time doing that when they could be strategizing, playing a good social game to help them get things done, plant seeds, build connections so when you need to make a game move you can on your own with leg work. Instead they do as little as possible, rely on America to come in and do the work they didn't bother to do themselves because they were too busy laying around talking crap about how much much they don't like everyone else, or how much trash the other side talks and they aren't like them. For that they get handed things for it vote after vote? I'm not too worried. The Plastics are getting cockier and cockier and all this 'America loves me' will be what also ruins their chances in the game. Just like the live feeders creating free trial accounts to rig voting in the Plastics' favor ended up with CBS suspending all trial subscriptions. What goes around comes around. Be glad things have not been going well all season long for the LNC side all season so far, because the second half of the game is about to begin with the week 5 HOH competition right now and there's lot more game to be played by players actually playing!

@RexThunder Thank you for you honest reply. It gave me a good giggle this afternoon. I will address the comment about the comps. You are correct in that the puzzle veto comp she did very well. I don't discount she performed very well. If you go back and read the blog where I discussed this actual comp you will see that I gave her credit for killing the puzzles. The blogs are fluid and since there's so much to cover they do become 'long winded' as you yourself point out imagine if I had to go back to week one and walk people through every single thing I've already covered to make a current point. I also never implied she played in all eight comps. That may be how you interpreted it, that was not my intent. I've been blogging about this since the BBOTT season began and many things are referencing what I have said or reported in previous blogs. These are chapters in one 10 week season by design. As I mention all the time in the blog, I ask Alex fans what they like about her game. Also, as I have said, the one of the most common answers I get is 'she won two comps'. The sword comp she totally earned 100% on her own merit. Again, they make it sound like Alex is the only one winning anything, she's no Janelle. Plastic fans go on these tangents about she's the best competition player in the game. If you wish to give her that label for winning 2 out of 8 total comps played, feel free. I however, don't agree with the reason she's this amazing player is because she's won two comps. She hasn't won every comp she's played in, she hasn't won every comp that's happened. She's won 2 comps, that's a fact. That's where the reference to 2/8 (total comps not just the sum of which she's competed in). LOL. By the way, go cut out the actual transcripts of today's post detailing nearly word for word of the DR's for almost 100 minutes of talking by the all 10 HG collectively and it would be drastically shorter. Trust me I know, I am the one that sat there and endured listening to them all more than once and typing nearly every word almost word for word in most of it. However, the "crap shoot" reference I make in this blog for people that read them all, refers to how that veto comp was designed to begin with. That head to head type competition there is time for rounds no just a single elimination. This was discussed by a LOT of LF's on how that comp was played. The one and only round in this one typically could have been played and the last person, Danielle would have been eliminated completely from round one. By design (the rules on the comp and how it was played) the puzzle veto the way BB did only one round, you lose, your out is a crap shoot design. The draw determining the order, and essentially the minute Justin chose Danielle Alex was guaranteed one of the two vetoes. She earned it in that she beat each player she faced off with and was damn fast. However, had it been played in multiple rounds, eliminating only one veto player each round would she still have won? I'm not so sure about that. Had it been solely a mental comp (puzzles) where one HG was out of the running by the end of the round was and started a new round with remaining players again last one knocked out eliminated would have not made this a crap shoot type comp. The comp lasted all of what 9 minutes? The design of that comp and how it was played makes it by a 'crap shoot' type comp. It was also her COMP, in the same way that the golf comp was Shane's comp. Let's not forget she sits around, by her own admission, playing Tetris all the time! BB has done it both ways single elimination one round and multiple rounds. For things like double eviction night quick comps like this are used to limit the time comps are played during live shows. This is live feeds and we can watch 5 hours of competition if we need to. Not saying that should have been a 5 hour comp but I am saying the odds of her winning that same comp in multiple rounds are not nearly as good as the odds of her winning this format. Do you honestly think she still beats Justin had she been forced to face off with him. Or Danielle for that matter? Luck had a lot to do with the outcome of that comp. Pure and simple. It doesn't hold as much weight for me as her standing there with that sword for 2 1/2 hours. If it does for you, great. I don't just talk about what I see on the feeds, I also address twitter trends, forums, chat rooms, podcasts, things I talk to other fans about. I try as much as I can to keep a pulse on as much as I can. In the end, these are my opinions woven into the hours and hours I spend on the feeds every day. Feel free to love the Plastics for whatever reasoning you have. I will continue to feel free to be annoyed and frustrated with her lack of game (like MANY other live feeders) and how it has drawn such a large following who have chosen to get behind her because she won 2 comps and manipulates them with what she says versus what she actually does. To each their own.

Facts, Fiction, and Opinions Well, we had some entertainment to lighten the mood after a roller coaster of a week. Jason is on slop and has literally lost his marbles today. He did a fashion show this afternoon for the Plastics while Alex the Safety Servant was tasked to stand guard at the HOH door and her group lounged around the sky bridge loft. Early this evening Jason was doing an imitation of a ribbon dance and his sunglasses launched over the railing downstairs and he ran screaming. This all begins around 6:40 (cam 1/2)and goes just up to tonight’s recap episode. Jason has been playing with the phones more and more! He yells to Da’Vonne “Send me a banner!” then in a lower voice says no doubt send a banner BB don’t yell at me. He’s trying to figure out if there is a number he can dial to make the tunnel to the Paris room open. Jason to the camera “BB can you just give us the number, BB, BB, can you just give us the number so we can see the tunnel. “ BB finally replies “No” Jason is lying on the couch on the upstairs lounge area laughing at Jason’s unraveling. Let’s hope he hasn’t expelled all this pent up energy by the time DR’s come around! BB calls out Neely for her mic and Justin and Jason start singing “Neely please put on you microphone.” They can see the tunnel still and Whitney looks and sees there are leaves in the Paris room. Jason is cracking me up. He’s on the slop diet high. He asks “BB who do I got to blow togged the number to Paris?” Alex has just finished the Shepard’s Pie she’s been tasked to make Kryssie for dinner. Jason is screaming Marco! Marco! Alex in the bath finally yells back Polo, and Shelby says don’t encourage him. The fun continues after the recap episode eon cam 3! Hilarity! It was nice to get the one small break form all the drama and game play. Seems like once week this has happened one way ro another and honestly the best reset button not only for HG to turn of the game for a little while but for us as well. The fun continued into the TKB with most everyone right before the DR’s begin. Normally I don’t transcribe DR’s because I feel like most people watch these. This week so much has happened and so much has been thrown around if you’re not watching a lot of feeds and then watch DR’s it can be very misleading. That’s why I decided to not only transcribe the DR’s but share my own observations of things I’ve seen that support or argue whether things being said are true of actual things shown on feeds. While in traditional format BB the DR’s are usually the one place we get the truth from players, I’ve noticed this season with America having so much influence and player’s playing being aware of that there has been a huge shift for some DR’s. There are times ‘America” is being told something that based on what we see on the feeds all day long aren’t even close to the truth. I’m of the belief believe half of what you see and none of what you here in this matter is very applicable. Don’t get me wrong some players are telling you the truth. Many are or at the very least sharing honestly how they are perceiving things even if we know differently having seen things they don’t. This blog includes those other details and my impressions since I watch a ton of feeds. I confirm things said that I have seen and tend to believe the way they are presenting is pretty accurate. However there are a few that are way off base or completely lying to you as a part of strategy. Maybe this will at least help you know what to watch for, or help you make a determination if the strategy of selling you beach front property in Kansas is worthy of accolades or fury. You don’t have to share my opinion, I never expect any to. It's my opinion, but there are some facts that are not my opinion purely based on real feeds and real happenings you should be aware of if you have not seen these events for yourself. Danielle”s DR She wanted to take a step back and people watch while Kryssie was HOH and her first week not being OTB. After last week she felt like America didn’t like her, wasn’t sure why but she decided to lay back, not be in the forefront so much. Said she tried to not show how much she’s really missing Shane. She’s really here to play the game. 100% loyal the LNC. She calls them the Late Night Jamboree. She hopes to win HOH and knows her biggest challenge is she talks a lot, has a lot of stories but struggling with how to get those girls to give her a chance. Feels like winning HOH will force them to at least try to talk to her about the game and maybe get to know her on a different level. She knows she is eligible to be America’s nom and HN again next week so HOH is very important to her. Alex DR 7:42 pm She’s complaining she can’t sit out in the chair and read the questions. Tries to shout out her BF we get Fish. Yelling and tells us she is going to go off on a rant. Says she’s a dead man walking, half the house wants her out and please, please, please help her. She wants to get Neely out and can we please help her. It’s ridiculous, they all want me out. Now she says she’s, “Tired of this we take one out, they take one out, she wants to make big moves take out a big target.” -Last DR she was talking about if we want to keep the game interesting they want to keep going back and forth, give us a show, every week we take one out, they take one, out, now once again bi-polar Alex when it benefits her says how boring that is and we should vote Neely out to keep that from happening. In fact she has been talking about J/J all week along with Shelby so don’t think for a second she isn’t planning on coming for them, she is. Not saying whether that’s a good game move or not just demonstrating how she says different things to try and hustle votes and manipulate voters as much as Scott and it works. If you’r not watching much feeds this is important to be aware of. Says her sister was nom and that sucks. I wasn’t really that worried once Neely was on the block, sorry Mom. Every day she wakes up and wonders where she is not he Joker’s list. Says she doesn’t walk around cocky and arrogant. I was so happy my sister won, don’t get me wrong, but if Scott had won, he would be safe and then Neely would 100% be going home. -Nope your sister could have been going home and the fact you never even considered that LF’s know you have a sister and may not like the advantage that gives you is sloppy and reckless and shows you don’t think about Morgan’s game at all. Big challenge is shifting target from herself to others. Seems perplexed by she’s the biggest target on misfits’ side. Wants someone else to win and do some dirty work so the bullseye on her own back gets smaller. I know Shane said I’m no longer part of his BB family, but I don’t really care. Shane, your speech was childish and embarrassing for you. This is a game of strategy not personal. Will get to know her HG once they are out of game and then maybe learn their last names. -Right, she makes no effort to bond with anyone in the house that she can’t manipulate so of course she doesn’t know anyone’s last name. Still week four no social game at all and this is a calculated error in this game. Justin 7:52 pm Nothing has changed in my strategy this week. I’m staying the same. I’m probably seeing it pretty consistent. Nominations kinda surprised me, Neely being up there. But hey, it is what it is. Ya’ll see a lot of stuff we can’t always see so I’m not really tripping on nothing. I feel like I am in pretty good standings with America. The people in the house love me. I could be totally different, totally wrong, I have no idea but hopefully I am keeping ya’ll thoroughly entertained in just being myself and that’s all I can ask for. I did my thing on the veto. I did the best I could on the veto comp, I only knew one of the questions time in this house goes by and it’s hard to keep track of those things. Climbing the wall was the easy part it was the mental aspect that kinda stumped me. It is what it is. It really doesn’t effect my game this week because I wasn’t OTB, Neely was America’s nom so I’m really not tripping on anything everything gravy. -Justin promised Jason if he won veto that he would save Neely. Made it clear he wants Neely out but understands they need the numbers. Made it clear he would rather keep Scott. Be mindful of things you see and hear him saying to other people in the game. He says a lot, but he has yet to break one thing he has said to Jason and is very good at making himself appear malleable to everyone. Until I see him go against something he and Jason talk about don’t be willing to adopt any idea you see anywhere else he’s playing the game, does put his game first but has remained true to his word with Jason. Biggest challenge is being homesick. I’ve never been away from home this long. New Orleans what’s up. Just staying focused, staying Blessed and thankful for this opportunity. That’s where my head is right now. I feel like I met some really genuine people up in here. People I would never come into contact with in real life. Its crazy this opportunity has been quite a blessing. This is a game and you have to try and not get caught up in the emotional aspect of it. America, trying to remain the same, keep a positive attitude. Escape the pessimism, stay positive. Hope my Saints won this week. Love to my people. -Justin needs to start considering paying attention to the details for question comps in the future. This veto didn’t hurt him in the sense he knows keeping Neely for the numbers is an advantage but he has been eating her out, doesn’t really trust her. He’s been showing he is willing to play his own game by seeing willing to make decisions to help whichever side he sees each week being advantageous for his own game. He is loyal to Jason first and foremost, that hasn’t changed. Also feels loyal to Kryssie more than most others. At week 4 this is ok, but as we approach middle of the game comps are going to become even more important than they already are in a season like this. For his own game I would like to see him talking to Jason and studying things more, he has said he’s very visual so the one answer he knew was because he had seen the card and knew that answer but he has to really zero in on the value of studying is he wants to have a shot at winning some of these things. If a veto comes along where his neck is on the line and it’s a mental comp…Now that he knows these can come up it’s on him to arm himself for them moving forward. -I know many people (fandom)on both sides of the house like Justin. He celebrates like a madman every time he’s not put on slop and always shows appreciation to us. However, all the over celebrating has only drawn more attention to himself. The fact it is week 4 and he isn’t being voted for anything by America, is being talked about. It’s not helping him in the big picture and if you want to take some the attention off Justin it may be a good idea to make him a HN sooner than later. As much as you may not want to, the fact America isn’t doing it is indicating to HG how much he’s liked both inside and outside and that has been talked about a lot more this week. Just something to consider baed on what I’ve seen this week. Kryssie 7:59 pm Gets off a Mike, I miss you and I love you and no fish. Apologizes for coming off like a cry baby about veto comp. Shows us her battle wounds several times. Feels bad about being a quitter. -I was so annoyed watching and listening to her be such a whiny baby during this comp. I get she was struggling, it was hard for her, your hands do hut in an event like that. I don’t think anyone should ever quit or give up. Take a break get back on that wall and proves to yourself you can do it! For me, even if she did quit and had just sat down, said sorry my hands are done I can’t” and left it that it would have been disappointing but not as infuriating as her going on and on and poo me, and my hands bleeding is the only reason I can’t finish, how do you people not even care. Kryssie that’s no different than what you say about Scott and Shelby all the time, you weren’t someone I was ever really trying too save other than you help J/J and I have defended you do make some good points and try to play the game even if it’s badly while so many people just bash you non-stop. I cannot in any way defend or rationalize this mess. Sad Neely is OTB, hopes to get Scott out this week and America will vote with them to get that done. Hopes America isn’t seeing somethings Neely when she’s to around. Trusts us, and the process. Feels like we (LF’s) are playing just as hard if not harder than they are. She’s admitted she will fall apart if Neely goes this week. Not mentally prepared to lose her. Says Scott deserves to go home since he is not really playing to win. She would be furious as a LF watching someone waste a chance to play this game. Morgan 8:10 pm -Awaiting the fake perky Morgan we never see except diary rooms. Has anyone else noticed this perky, smiley Morgan we are sold in DR’s never is seen at any other time on feeds? Shouts out family and BF? Doesn't get fished. Knew she was going up as a pawn. People beginning to see her and Whitney are playing under the radar, being the sweet likable girls. -Morgan’s veto win was fabulous this week! She murdered that comp, earned it all on her own and was a very impressive performance. Shows us she can win! Great job Morgan. Plan for next week, where things get a little interesting. Trying to sway Justin to vote Neely. Saving Scott will be a big move on their part. Then begs America, “Wouldn't mind you helping us out this week.” (Wouldn’t be you saving Scott it would be us) If Neely goes completely switches things up in this house. -How so? All it does is give you guys back the numbers which you’ve had every week until this week all it does really is hand it right back to you and nothing you did but what America did once again. Last week you got a misfit out. Passed not he chance to get Dani out. Even though they handed you her head on a silver platter and everyone in the house wanted her out. You settled for Shane. This week you want a misfit out, every week you want a misfit out, I don’t see anything different or changing at all. Wish we wouldn’t have made that deal with Kryssie. She doesn’t like that Whitney is OTB, doesn’t have to vote, she’s ok with going back on her word. Don’t want to lie if I don’t have to but part of the game. Banking on Scott going home this week, blames us for shaking things up and putting her in this position. Wants to start being seen as a threat. Depends a lot on what Justin says. If he doesn’t we have to depend on you again. She says, “Keeping Scott will be a big move on our part.” -No, it will be a big advantage on your part. If you flipped Justin, that would be a big move on your part, getting America to vote Scott to stay isn’t your doing regardless of how the votes go, that’s all about fandom and nothing about efforts the Plastics have made or misfits if they happen to get Scott out by some miracle. Hopes we aren’t like “God she’s so boring,” re: Morgan herself. Throwing Neely UTB, talks about her biggest challenge in the game right now is deciding whether or not to vote Neely out. She’s someone she did trust on the other side of the house. We’ve talked to each other and said we will watch out for each other. SHe’s never shown me anything with an action to prove that she’ll keep me safe. Admits she hasn’t done anything to help Neely either. Biggest challenge, do I keep my word with Kryssie, vote Scott out. Or shake things up and break her word and vote out Neely. SHe’s a big social threat. She’s good at competitions. -I can see benefits to her voting either way. At this point in the game, although she made the deal with Kryssie it’s probably in her best interest base don what she knows to vote Neely out. Keeping her word does buy her some favor with Neely and with Kryssie but if Neely goes home even if she voted for Neely that would be a huge a risk to take against her group right now. What she should do though is go to Kryssie and Neely at some point before eviction and try to soften he blow by just saying hey I really don’t want to go back on my word, but for my game I have to try and keep the numbers on my side. This is damage control and may or may not mean a lot tonight but could in the future since she has no way of knowing for sure how tonight’s vote will land. She’s put in a lot of time and effort as far as social game goes to lay that foundation and recklessly blowing that up isn’t in her best interest. Kryssie especially wont like it, but what she knows about Kryssie is she doesn’t like being blind sided and this is at least a chance to navigate the tough spot she put herself in by making that deal before veto. Bring on the fireworks, if I vote Scott out, and America votes with me and votes Scott out, bring on the fireworks I’m ready! I’ve sat back and been quiet and that’s not me. -She told us something along these lines her last DR and proved it by killing that Veto comp. She was ready to come into the game and show she’s a strong player and great to see her show up and prove she can back up what she says. Plastics will stay friends. I really connect with these girls and love them and we will all be friends. -My guess is they don’t talk after 3 months outside of the house if not less once all the BB events and novelty wears off and everyone is back to reality. America if you don’t vote Neely, she will target me. I’m a threat and I am good at competitions, I hope I am good at competitions. I want you to see me play the game. Justin is a big threat. The Plastics begged America to help them keep this game interesting and that every week it going back and forth is way more interesting for America (when they were in trouble) and now that its between Scott and Neely they’ve changed their tune and decided going back and forth from team to team sending someone home every week is boring. LOL Neely 8:15 pm (Just a note: when I was watching DR’s live Neely came on at 8:15 but I had to pause and come back to DR’s. When I scrolled back to start her again it was showing 8:21 pm. just fyi if my times are screwed that’s why) Strategy to make as many deals as possible working on the relationships she’s been building since she’s been here. Next week, keep as many deals as possible and looking forward she knows she needs to start looking outside her alliance and make decisions on which direction to move ahead outside of her alliance. Scott had to be done. Doesn’t think that Whitney was really the best choice, other people deserved to be up more but Kryssie’s HOH. Doesn’t know what she did to make America nominate her. Jason 8:32 pm He confirms again he is staying loyal to LNC first and foremost. Needs to try and keep the numbers this week, save Neely to be in a better position so he can win and do some things he’s been waiting for the right time to come out and do. Craving some HOH power. Doesn’t know that the girls on the other side have begun to talk about targeting he and Justin. Thinks they will still target girls on his side before him. Kryssie was very vocal she wanted to make her own decisions but did listen to the varied ideas of what their group thought. Don’t understand why America nominated Neely. Maybe we see something he doesn’t so it’s ok. Justin wanted to vote Neely out early this week, maybe that was the better way to go, but explained why keeping Neely seems more important to him. Doesn’t get how Shelby wasn’t a more appealing target than Neely, but is what it is. Mentions Shelby only ever talking about things like getting guys to buy her drinks at the bungalow. Morgan being safe is fine. Better with Morgan than most the girls on that squad. Feels like maybe America isn’t liking him since he’s on slop. Almost out of smokes, quoting smoking will be his biggest challenge. When to troll with your crew, or when its time to make decisions for you group and when its key to make decisions to your own game first. Jason says he knows that Justin, Kryssie and him will be good friends outside the house. Hopes he and Neely and maybe Danielle will stay in touch. Points out in the game it’s different once you’re out of the house it washes away all that stuff and you have a different take on people. Mentions in BB17 he and Steve were enemies but now he talks to Steve more than a lot of other people so you just never really know. Said coming in that he didn’t need any more friends, made plenty of friends his first season. If he leaves here with the check and no friends thats ok, the check is so much more important. Super important to win next HOH. Craving some triumph. First veto feels like a long time ago. Whether he decides to betray his side or not remains to be seen. Doesn’t want to go after Alex, sees that they would benefit each others games staying on opposite side of the fence. Not eating slop, doesn’t mind bed or cold showers but not eating is giving him slop brain. Knows America wants to see what we want to see. Scott always trying to be entertaining he’s no Zach, Zach was naturally entertaining where Scott is just over doing it. Please vote Scott out this week. Hop you are still behind me and want me to do well, if so, Scott has to go, he’s all over the place, unpredictable, turns Jason off wanting to work with him. Have a lovely night America. -Jason didn’t day anything I haven’t seen in real time and was pretty short and to the point. He hasn’t complained much about being on slop but that started to lose his marbles a little the longer he’s relying on protein shakes and boycotting slop all together which you can go back and watch for yourself. -Jason has said he would like to Keep Alex and his actions so far this week have supported that. He Justin and Kryssie had a long chat after the America Nom was announced and his fury calmed a bit 10:40 am (Tuesday UKB). He prefers not to lose a number this week. His mind blown America hasn’t gone after Shelby, but made it clear to Justin although they really don’t want to stay with Neely to the end like they do with each other, she’s an important number and if she goes the choices of who the Plastics can target continues to dwindle and puts them at risk. He’s no trying to save Neely as much as he’s trying to keep himself and Justin in the best position possible and is very aware how things will fall if they lose another misfit. Jason is the one person who checks his people the most with not relying on America’s votes heavily in the game because as he says “They are more petty than us.” “Things can change on a dine at any moment you never know when they hear or see something they don’t like.” He has also said for two weeks he “expects to be on slop, appreciates the weeks he wasn’t but never believes for a minute his time wouldn’t come and he’s ready for it” Whitney 8:44 pm Strategy-win HOH next week. Plans this week, very different from all of the other weeks, since first week her side is not in power. This week wanted to stand by Kryssie, what was best for her game but good relationship with Kryssie. Sucks being OTB. Best move for her to tell Kryssie to use her as a pawn. If her alliance decides to vote out Neely, didn’t want to lie to Kryssie when she promised to vote how Kryssie wanted, keep trust from Kryssie. Wanted to be OTB so she can’t vote and have to break her word to her own alliance or Kryssie moving forward wants to keep trust with Kryssie. Hopes America likes her, must be doing something right, she’s not been voted for anything by America. Morgan winning veto: She’s so happy for her. Wanted Scott to win, just to help improve odds of getting Neely out this week. Trying to stay positive. Biggest challenge-the house division. I am type of person that gets along with pretty much everyone in the house and to be classified on side over the other. Knows she will stay friends with Alex/Morgan. Hopes to be friends with everyone outside of the house. Plan to stay positive as nominee. Scott and Neely with her as well. Shocked it was Neely! Scott is one of the closest guys in their group and why would she want him to go when he’s going to help keep them safe. If Neely were to win HOH she will come for us. Hopes everything works out in their favor. Did not come in here to agree with what everyone else wants to do, hates watching seasons where the whole house votes together every week. Didn’t want to be that kind of player (but that’s exactly what she’s done with her group. This was the week she could have voted how she wanted and wimped out.) So important for her or one of her group to win HOH. Shouts out family and no fish. Shelby 8:54 pm (ugh I will suck it up and do this for you guys) Love being here don’t vote me out. Strategy this week stay off the block. Once Scott was nom wanted Scott off the block. Worried since Scott has been on slop twice. She is a little worried we will vote him out but hopes we don’t. Says she’s been pretending she hates Scott and secretly send Neely home. -Misfits are very aware this is all BS on her part. Kryssie hopes she would vote Scott out but the rest of them have said don’t believe nothing Shelby says. Scott probably talked to much smack about Kryssie to her face and behind her back. Felt great Morgan won but was worried she would be replacement. Thrilled it was Whitney because she thinks most people in the house would have voted her out. Assumes America hates her, says a lot of people do, a lot of people in this house do. They were really expecting me to be the America nominee this week, and they were shocked that I wasn’t. Thank you for not giving them that satisfaction. If you guys love me, you probably don’t but can you keep making me a HN. I hope you like me, give Neely that slap on the wrist she’s been asking for. Don’t you dare vote Whitney. Biggest challenge-being around these people. Danielle talks non-stop and eats everything in the house. Has been sick today because she at a raw cookie dough pack int he course of 24 hours. Justin’s always singing-eh Justin’s not that bad. (Right but you’ve been talking all week about wanting to get him out and still talking about his whipping his thingy out don’t buy that people.) Jason is always giving me sh*t and annoying me, that’s ok I am going to send him back to the basement soon. Don’t nominate me. Dealing with these big personalities when I am used to being the biggest fish in a small pond (LMAO sound familiar? Exactly what I said in the blog about these girls yesterday.) I’m not part of the BB fan on that side of the house and that’s really hard to deal with but I am dealing with. I’ve been calling them ‘hypocrit-iots’ because they are hypocrites and idiots. My girls are Alex, Whitney, and Morgan will stay friends with them. Probably hit up Scott and maybe Monte. Monte wasn’t buying what I was selling. Alex is my girl! Probably going out with Morgan once we’re out of this house. HOH-Yes wants to win. Love to win HOH. No one in this game is taking me seriously. Look on their faces if I did would be priceless. Will be super entertaining during HOH. Brings up Kryssie having Justin hiding in bath tub. She will have all her girls hiding about to listen on her HOH. Some people in this house who think they are untouchable their names start with J/J, and Alex and I seem to be the only people in this house who seem to be brave enough to want to put them up. Shows us her battle wounds, hands from veto, bruises on knees. I will kill myself to play in these competitions. This seriously the same thing she walked in to the HOH and did with Kryssie the first one on one meeting with her this week. Would love to send Kryssie home, says she sin’t like Kryssie wont just give up in comps. Total rant about Kryssie and wanting to send her home but didn’t she just say she wants to target J/J? She did say she wants to nominate the guys but doesn’t think she can get them out. Says she cant wait to send Kryssie home so she can look up Shelby and find out she’s really a lawyer and not this wimpy little clown fish she keeps calling her. If you like b*tchy Shelby keep her here you will see more of it. Scott 9:05 pm Strategy this week never say die, never say quit. Kryssie HOH worst case scenario. Just need to make sure Alex stays safe. I genuinely want Alex to win this game. (Then why are you here?) I owe her my BB life. Noms-feels amazing. Gives strong chance for me stay and us five to stay together. Know Neely wants to get out Scott, Alex, and Shelby. Happy to be HN twice, lets people in here think I’m no liked on the outside. Hopefully you like me enough to keep me more than Neely. I think there’s a decent chance I idon’thave what it takes to win this game, but I can help push Alex one or two weeks further because then she can take home the money. Alex has four people coming after her next week. Four people are Danielle, Kryssie, Neely, and Jason (wrong Jason wants Alex to hang around and potentially work with her later). If you keep me it’s gonna be me and Alex against those four trying to take her out of this game. (Uh what about the other girls in the Plastics?) Outlines that week 4 HOH he couldn’t play, Alex had goggles it was 3 against 5 in that HOH and the two best competitors weren’t able to play for our side. -LOL. granted Alex is but Scott you’re delusional to say you are at Alex level and better than both Morgan and Whitney like they are a couple of weaklings like Shelby. Says veto didn’t really effect his game. As long as Neely/Kryssie didn’t win he was fine. (That is a terrible mindset. Yes, Morgan won but leaves Scott OTB and not a good place to be. That outcome should never be one any player is happy with.) Does say he’s just glad Neely came off the block then he’d be screwed. Says Justin has done him so many favors and really come through for them the last two veto comps. Wants Justin to last in this game a really long time. Feels like he is a great character for the series, playing his own game and deserves to be here. Biggest challenge is keeping Alex safe, even if he does go home this week. Trying to lay ground work with Jason and Justin so they know Neely is gonna come after them. (He had a one on one convo today before veto and asked Justin to protect Alex if he goes home.) Tries to lay out his assumptions about Neely’s strategy. Wants the strongest competitors to team up so they can have a really good solid ride to the end. Goes on and on about Alex deserves to be here, deserves a long ride in this house. Again begs to be kept and says instead of 1(Alex) against 4 it will be 2(he and Alex) against 3. -Why does he keep selling it as if no one else not heir side will try to keep Alex safe? Those girls are all going to try and keep their group together as long as possible. If Scot stays and misfits get power they will nominate those 2 together if they are targeting Alex so how much can he protect her? Jason has made it clear he doesn’t want to target Alex. Justin doesn’t want to target Scott. I get Scott doesn’t know Morgan is her sister but in all honesty that’s two people completely devoted to keeping Alex safe which gives her a huge advantage over everyone else from jump. Scott shows us his battle wounds. Look at these hands. I lost by 16 seconds. I am here to compete. -He showed us that! He really killed that comp and it was so close to him being safe this week. Problem with all this is he isn’t playing his own game. The misfits see it, we see it, Alex knows it. Scott is really the self sacrificing idiot at this point. I thought perhaps it was maybe a strategy of his and he has said it is when he’s telling misfits he doesn’t care about winning but this long exhaustive DR rambling on and on about her the entire time is clearly where his head is actually at. No cocky, hey I am here, I can help Alex and I get far in this game, keep me around I will take her with me. No, it’s all about she deserves to win, I don’t car about me and base don what we are seeing he’s just really this sad and pathetic. Scott tells is he is all about winning HOH. This season is all about the competitions. This house is so divided right now. They want to take out me and Alex because we are huge threats and they should be! Alex is his BF in the house. Has been his BF since day 4. Week 2 it felt like she is my only friend. -Well, her plans to make you feel that way clearly worked, but you poor slouch that was all strategy and you should have some idea that she did it to keep you as a vote the fact you aren’t even considering that and making your entire game about her seriously make you an even bigger chump than Clay throwing away your game. At least Shelly actually liked Clay. LOL. She wasn’t using him as a little minion like she’s using you. He wants to be friends with most the people after the game. Definitely thinks he will be life long friends with the 4 girls he’s working with. Hopes to be life long friends with Jason and Justin and Neely and even Kryssie for that matter. Honestly everyone in the house I like, even Shane I liked personally. Danielle I could probably handle her in 120 characters or less in like uh Twitter post or something other than that Danielle is probably the only person I don’t want to be friends with outside of here. -It was refreshing to see someone from that side actually say this is a game, we will all be cool outside the house, like them all. Except maybe Danielle. He, Whitney, Justin and to some knows form experience, once you are out the game you get know people on a different level. His plan to survive the block. I have 3 of the girls. I need your vote America. If I come home this week half the house is going to target Alex and send her home. Keep me safe so I can keep Alex safe. I promise you Danielle will go home next week if you keep me here. (Yeah, well you had a shot at her last week and blew it with one of many of your delusions buddy.) The one thing I will say, is this is the only begging and pleading with America where he actually makes a deal offer to America. Keep me safe, a life for a life in this game. Save my life and I will send Danielle home next week I PROMISE. That’s all I have to offer you. Plugs his four hour begging and pleading to LF at 3:05 am this morning in the BY. -Yes he really did sit out there and ramble on for 4 hours. Just a technical tally for you guys. He says Alex’s name (yes I counted when he started the first three minutes saying her name like 15x’s! He mentions Alex by name 35 times! That’s not counting the ‘she’s or her’s’ just the actual Alex name drop. At one point he says her name 5 times in less than 50 seconds. Other times he says her name 10-15 times in less than 3 minute periods. UGH Seriously? If you aren’t here to play for yourself go home! Is Alex ever even really going to have to play for herself? Morgan is playing for her, Scott is playing for her, America’s votes (Plastics fans) are playing for her. Now as a fan I can get helping the player you like (even though I don’t agree with the reasons she is liked not being based on the best game overall) but you have to be able to step back and look at the big picture here. If she doesn’t start having to play this game and stop being coddled there is no way, I don’t care who she is up against at the end, many of us would be inclined to vote of her to win knowing that she didn’t earn it on her own merits. That’s no different in my mind than handing Victoria 500k in BB16 because she got Derrick to drag her to the end! Did it get Victoria to final 3? Yes. If she had made final two could I have justified her game play worthy of $500k? Hell no! Not implying Alex isn’t doing any work, she doing some and I see so much potential for her to be playing better but there have been 8 comps, she won two. One was a total crap shoot. Whoopty doc! The thing I can credit Alex most with right now is playing Scott like a fiddle! She would have gladly sacrificed him this week over those other girls and he’s oblivious to where he is in that hierarchy! He’s so far up Alex’s a*s he can’t see the light of day and that’s on him! Her plan to make him align with them over the misfits works and that has been her biggest game move so far. I blame terrible game play on Scott’s part for that not her but she knew him well enough to know after that use fall week 2 he was going to need someone and positioned herself to be that someone. Let’s make that clear. However, 2/3 weeks in power where she got to ride on others HOH’s, America voting everything in her favor, Scott and Morgan undying loyalties (one because it’s her sister and she’s actually the more decent of the siblings and the other a nerdy little guy who clearly has never been paid attention to by a female of Alex’s status which has completely blinded him to the faults in his own game). If she were as loyal to them as they are to her I may feel slightly differently, but she’s not. She will chew them both up and spit them out and if you don’t see that after she spent the entire week 4(she was safe) trying to save Morgan then as soon as Morgan won veto tried to convince Morgan to save Scott instead, she’s shown us that she is playing by the seat of her pants. Not once did she even consider for a second how LF’s view two sisters playing in the game together secretly knowing how LF’s typically would react to this. I was listening to a podcast and Brent Wolgamott (@oneluckygay) you were 100% correct when you said the only reason Alex gets so much attention is because of player like this are so BAD in comparison! Even more annoying is that based on Scott’s DR I now have to agree with Kryssie’s statement in her DR tonight! UGH! I am watching this and I am furious at his game play and I would like to send him home!!!!!

The Tangled Webs we Weave Monday-Post Veto results It’s 7:43 pm over two hours since the veto results were announced and the Plastics are still talking about Neely’s performance. While on the other end of the house Kryssie has been talking about her own as well. Re: Neely it’s all ‘Why it took her so long?’ Come on, you now want to be focused on the vote and quit harping on this. This is exactly where I left them right after the veto comp ended yesterday. (Just a side note production has been feeling a bit concerned at how hard that comp was on all the HG hands. That had not anticipated that when they designed the comp. A very simple fix would have been to provide gloves as an option or put chalk dust out during the comp.) I left BBOTT last night and took a break knowing I had hours to catch up and forward through nonuse over my coffee this morning. I knew it was going to be hours of each team talking and whining before any real game talk came to fruition. The Plastics especially are notorious for brainstorming hours of insane ideas before they finally land on something and begin to try and make it work out in their favor. 7:42 pm Jason was in the BA talking to Shelby about the fact this season so far all far weeks the two sides cannot agree on single vote and the Plastics have lied about who they’re voting every week. Pretty sure they did that week 2 trying get Alex to put Scott up and then still vote Monte out. Last week Scott knew they were voting for Danielle, but the plastics still keep harping on why would they do that? Jason flat out tells Shelby they did it so Scott could have his tie breaker and get his TV time. So both sides are actively working to convince someone on the opposing side to vote along with them. The Plastics still banking on Justin being the weak link on that side and using their superior manipulation to trick him into voting with them. While Kryssie threw out an insane hail Mary suggesting Morgan use the Veto on Neely. I get Kryssie at least saying it, but Alex really trying to persuade Morgan to save Scott over herself was an all time new low for this chick. Doesn’t surprise me in the last, I am sad to say. Plastics active plan is to try and flip Justin, to ensure they have the votes. I appreciate the fact they aren’t relying on the America’s vote, although Alex is pretty confident if Neely is OTB America will vote Neely out. 7:39pm cam 2 you also hear the Misfits are very aware that the best strategy is to try and remove Neely from the block because if she’s there they are also very aware there’s a good chance of Neely being there will drastically reduce the odds that Scott, or Shelby will go home. They can’t afford to lose a number on their side is the theme of each side of the house all week long. Jason/Justin are not doing it out of loyalty to Neely but more the fact she is a number. Dani and Kryssie it’s more personal to them but also the main reasoning goes back to not losing a number and Kryssie does not want her friend to go home on her HOH when she has Scott up there ready for the kill shot! If they lose Neely, the Plastics again have numbers over them which would be disastrous in week 5 in the event their own side doesn’t maintain the power. As for Misfits fans. There’s a silver lining coming before we get into America’s vote for eviction. To each side’s credit they are very cognizant that Neely remaining up is the best/worst case scenario depending on which side of the house they are on. 7:45 cam 3/4 Shelby grabs Alex they head into SR so she can rundown her convo with Jason, Shelby calls Jason the “little basement creature, he loves this game so much because he has nothing to go home to.” Shelby tells Alex Jason said he’s sick of you guys lying about who you’re going to vote for. Alex Welcome to Big Brother Shelby explains I told his we’re all going to lie to each other, he’s like yeah I know A Was he trying to get you to vote with them? S Oh yeah A It’s not they don’t try to be sneaky and when we try to be sneaky, it’s so one sided in this house. This is my issue, they rag on Scott, yeah Scott probably had bad sportsmanship but they’re hands are not clean by any means but they act like they are just…like they can do whatever they want but the second on elf us tries to do something it is like…OMG S I know that’s why I call them the hypocrite-idiots A If we can still get Neely out this week. Jason walked in and he basically was like here’s what you are going to do. I don’t do that, its like you cannot play that game with me. We’re gonna play our own game, we’re not gonna play Jason’s game. S I tried to tell Morgan the target is already on your back, Neely will always choose someone in her own alliance, so you might as well try to get her out. -Again so now Alex and Shelby have made it clear to Morgan she is a target but use the veto to save Scott so we can try to get Neely out. Why is it not occurring to Alex/Morgan that while the house doesn’t know that there are sisters in this game America does? I’m over all the oh we’re the victims in this game BS. Shut up all of you. None of you are innocent. All of you are guilty of the exact same things on varying degrees although I do see the Misfits owning their trash talk (meaning they don’t deny doing it when they talk about the other side doing it). A Not like they told us who their target was this week. -Yeah they did! Kryssie made it perfectly clear before nominations to Morgan, Whitney, and Shelby that Scott is her target. After nominations and after veto told them again Scott was the target. Alex the last two days has been harping on the other side and what they do, lie, hypocrites, bullies, sh*t talkers, pretty much describing the Plastics game as much as the Misfits game. The misfits admit they do this while Alex tries to sell it to herself (or us). I’m not sure which. Alex has this belief in her head that they don’t do the exact same things while they are actually doing the exact same thing. When it does get brought to her attention by someone like Shelby, or Whitney her reasoning is always says in response ‘that’s the game’. LOL. That’s most certainly the BBOTT game, but in general it is the BB game this season everything just seems to be BB x 100. Alex goes another rant how THEY rag on Scott for doing things, (so do you Alex), they act like they can do whatever they want (so do YOU Alex) but the second we do it they are like (she makes a gesture of basically pointing fingers). S I told her she doesn’t need to use the veto on Scott, but you’re never going to win if you make it finale if you don’t at least make some move. Shelby in her attempts to persuade Morgan it is dumb but a big game move, actually gives Morgan all the reasons not to do it. So does Alex, but then follows the pitch with but you should. -That’s rich Shelby! Morgan has played while you have done what? Given us a ‘nature channel’ version of the day in the life of a sloth every day? I have credited Shelby with showing her chops more this week in understanding the core of what needs to happen, where her group’s position is in this game, and some very astute assertions this week. However, this is BBOTT, not the traditional format of Big Brother. Fans can all sit back and watch what’s going n, observing things in the house and judge everyone playing the game but we aren’t in the house. Shelby is in the house and spectating like she’s at home watching the feeds. Both sides of fandom should be very realistic in the fact that Neely ended up a casualty since neither Dani or Kryssie were available to be nominated by America which is 100% true. It’s not really Neely’s behaviors in the house that have her in the position of being removed from the game this early. Who were the other choices? Jason or Justin? No, for the most part the majority of LF’s like those two very much and see them playing good games and so by default Neely hit the block. This is why it frustrates me that we (in our America’s voting) are basically just as bad an HOH who wastes their week on a weak player that has no real value to the game where it stands at the moment. Remember the whole voting Bridgette out during double eviction? Targeting Neely this week America is just as asinine move strategically as the Executives sending Bridgette home that week. That’s not to imply we (LF’s) should kick a strong player like Scott out collectively although for Misfits that is a better move, and purely numbers wise Plastics fans are doing nothing more than removing a number from this misfits side. I get all that but I am always looking at this game globally in week 4. Don’t we want players in the house that are actively, whether strategically or socially PLAYING the game? Neely is no Alex or Jason but she is playing, she is looking at her options, she is exploring working with Morgan, she has made some connections, she’s proven she can be competitive in the week 2 HOH, she is funny and gets the other HG’s to turn up giving us some feeds entertainment regardless of who you like. So yes makes perfect sense we evil nominate her. Whatever, it’s done, but I hope people begin to think about the long game and how they're voting is helping or hurting the players they want to see play the game or want to see get to the end of the game on their own merits. So let’s analyze the other players OTB. Scott is a huge target. He is a key player on the Plastics side so I wouldn’t begin to rationalize why their fans should target him that only benefits (big picture) the Misfits. Morgan has veto so despite the rally by Alex to persuade her to use the veto on Scott, (if she does we should all vote her out that is a Marcellus move and no BB fan should reward such an idiotic game move ever). I am going into this analysis assuming she doesn’t and she saves herself and comes down. That means Shelby is most likely to go up. Just for arguments sake whether Shelby or Whitney goes up a replacement nominee we can break each of them down. Shelby’s entire strategy is to be a goat, make everyone hate her and coast to the end without any indication based on how she’s been playing she will make any moves at all! She herself tells Morgan last night that if you want any chance to win this game at the end you have to make some moves this game and saving Scott could get you that check box marked off on your BB resume should you make it to the end. So, this tells me that Shelby knows a player should be doing this but has told us she has zero plans to do any of this? She’s done absolutely nothing in her social game because she has none. She’s distracting to Alex in so many ways. She is a number for Plastics but as a player WTH is she bringing to the Plastics? That’s my read on Shelby, hopefully it at least gets your own mind spinning to analyze how you see her game and the others as I break down what I’ve seen. Whitney has actively played the game at least although we have’t seen her do as much as Alex, or say Justin, she’s got the best social game on the Plastics side of the house. She does share very valuable intel with the group even if they are dismissive of her. She’s slowing begun to emerge as a player, she also did very well in the week 2 HOH comp. She has some merits and shows potential. The main things I have said over and over for weeks, and no one has argued otherwise is Shelby has zero game! Nothing! It’s 4 weeks and we haven’t seen one thing other than acting like an insufferable b*tch to intentionally annoy people. Evil Dick had that approach but he did also PLAY the game. In Shelby’s most recent DR she basically told all of us is her plan is to do nothing other than irritate people and coast to the end. In doing so, she draws way more attention to Alex than Alex already has on her own. There are plenty of smart people in the house still who are actually playing the game at varying degrees but they are playing. When we look at who is playing whether badly, middle of the road, or the best games (although for some that only washes out that way because so many others are playing so badly it makes them look amazing-Alex). Shelby doesn’t not fall into any of those categories. Let’s say Morgan stays OTB Morgan: -Morgan has a sister in the game no one knows about. That is no different from a showmance in the game in the sense that Morgan will always vote and do what Alex wants the same way Shane was Danielle’s b*tch. Morgan’s blood ties to Alex are far more of an advantage than a couple. However it’s not reciprocal. -Morgan has now proven physically she is a competitor -She doesn’t have the best social game but she does have social game and if you remove Neely she’s back to not having any social game commodity at all after all the work she’s invested into Neely. -She’s middle of the hierarchy on the Plastics side which is actually, in this game, heading into the halfway mark a great position to be in. Not the biggest target not the weakest link. Scott: -He does have a very strategic mindset and is always looking at the game and how things are shifting and moving even if some of his plays are ridiculous, even bordering on self destructive, he and Alex together make a very strong power duo without being in a showmance or related it’s actually a result of effort and commitment to a common goal -Scott is 100% loyal to Alex for the long haul. -Scott as annoying as I find him and his antics he is actively trying to provide some entertainment value to he’s more a shield for Alex than anything else Neely: -Neely is already making plans to cut her ties with Misfits and move into a new alliance which includes Morgan -Neely has a social game and is generally liked and respected on both sides of the fence overall -Neely is one of the primary instigators of some wildly entertaining partying that happens int he house and is really the one player who can blend to the sides even briefly to make things fun when they take their game hats off for a brief break form constant gaming. -Neely knows when to talk and when to be quiet most of the time. -Neely has shown us she thinks about the game, the pieces, what’s actually going on regardless of which side of the house she’s talking about most of the time. Neely is every self aware. Whitney: -Whitney has the most effective social game on the Plastics side of the house. -She is in the best position to form another alliance moving forward as the sides numbers begin to dwindle but has shown the last 24 hours for now her loyalties (perhaps to her own games detriment) to the Plastics where we are today in the game. -Whitney understands the games, assesses things relatively accurately but is the low hanging fruit on her side of the house. -Whitney has been breaking free of the sweet innocent little Kentucky girl and is also one who can, when hanging out with everyone at the same time, make things fun to watch. -She is a more passive player at the moment but has shown signs when given the opportunity she is more likely than let’s say Morgan or Shelby to make some bold moves in the game to establish some longevity in the game. Shelby -By her own admission plans to do nothing but make America and other HG hate her so she can coast to the end. (In traditional BB this is a strategy that could be more effective but this is BBOTT) -Shelby spends 90% of her time talking sh*t all day every day and distracts Alex whether you want to admit it or not that is not good for Alex’s long term game. -Shelby has zero social game -Shelby has landed middle of the road in nearly every comp and I don’t believe for one minute that is intentional it’s just who she is. Unless it’s a mental comp alone she will never fair well in competitions. That means of her group she has the least chance to win anything that helps her team. She’s the definition of dead weight. -Shelby has some very skewed ideas she has willingly adopted (like Justin allegedly whipping his thingy out) that she will not overcome and will target Justin because of it -Shelby has no grasp really on what America thinks of her at all but even if she did I don’t think she cares and in a season like this where America is being given so much power over the game this is a huge deficit. -Shelby’s strategy was to play dumb and while people don’t suspect she just finished law school most of the house doesn’t buy her cover and already know she’s smarter than she believes people realize because she’s not self aware at all. -Shelby has zero ties to the other side of the house that can benefit the Plastics and I don’t see that changing based on everything I’ve seen of her heading into week 5. If you break down these players, not based on which team you like (quite frankly teams aren’t going to last much longer and the division of the house being on two sides is going to end by week 6 at the latest she has no where else to go and if Alex goes somewhere she will have to drag Shelby along for the ride). Alex already has Morgan who she’s always having to consider and now add Shelby to that equation and that’s two other players that are going to have an impact on Alex’s game whether she’s truly loyal to one person (she isn’t) or not. According to Alex, if you are really watching how things are playing out, she is spending valuable time and energy on Morgan and Shelby that’s taking away form the time she should be spending on focusing h=on her own game as we approach the halfway mark. Alex was 100% safe this week spent a lot of her time playing cards she had no reason to really be playing saving Morgan/Shelby before she really needed to. Why in the world did she potentially reveal where her efforts would be invested to everyone in the house before she knew who the noms were and veto had been determined. Because she’s all over the place at any given moment and acts impulsively rather than strategically in the big picture. This is not in a good way. For having safety Alex was the one on the Plastics side doing the most work trying to sway people which in any other situation may be commendable but in her specific situation in all sincerity was not in her best interest. One she knew Neely was the America’s nominee she should not have spent so much equity before that was revealed. You may not see the side effects now but the chances are very good this could hurt her will likely come up next week based on the things she did this week. Remember in the moment when teams are focused on the ‘here and now’ aren’t always the moments when people start to question things and put pieces together. It’s when the dust settles that people look back and go hmmmmm? While we are on the Alex subject. It’s no secret I am not a fan. It’s also no secret I have tried for weeks to see what it is in her game that appeals to people so I can actively look for those things in an attempt to find the value others place on her popularity. Alex is a rolling ball of contradictions. That’s the only consistent part of her game is that she is inconsistent. In everything she does all day. This afternoon in the HOH the non-players in veto had a conversation about the bedding/beds in the house. Jason and Whitney talked about the difference quality sheets make. Whitney says it has to be at least 800 thread count. Jason says he’s a bedding snob because he worked in retail in that department and knows the difference. They joke about how cheap the quality is in beds and bedding the BB house. Alex chimes in and says none of that matters to her. She doesn’t know the difference between 200 thread count and anything else, she’s easy to please and as long as she has a place to sleep she’s happy. FF to 9:27 pm cam 4, she’s messing with her mattress, complaining how cheap it ease, there are broken springs in there, flips the mattress up, they discuss stains (not saying that isn’t gross it is BB clean the mattresses) and “there’s like springs just loose in this mattress Big Brother come on. This is why I am abandoning this mattress for tonight because it’s horrible.” LF’s this is what I listen to from her all day every day! She does this all the time. When she talks about game, she talks about America, she talks about people, she talks about alliances, loyalty, sportsmanship, every topic she doe this. Says one thing in one room and within a couple hours says the exact opposite. This is how she plays her game as well. The Plastics do it as well tonight. After weeks of being in power and basically spending most of there waking hours huddled up in the HOH room they begin to discuss how no one thinks they’r important and wants to be around them. (9:33 pm cam 27) LOL. Scott asserts we are the little fish of course not. Ironically, Kryssie said this exact thing to Morgan in here HOH one on one chat with her, that none of the misfits every felt welcome upstairs when they were in power. Kryssie has told every single one of them they are welcome to come up and hang out. Allowed them to go in and out of her room, feeling comfortable enough to ask to use the bathroom, star some snacks, but none have really gone up to hang out, they’ve only gone up or asked to go up with Kryssie to talk about game. This leads into a confrontation between Danielle and Scot being discussed by the Plastics where Dani said to Scott he isn’t smart enough to even be a puppet master that Alex is the puppet master. Alex replies, “Can I just stay out of it. I don’t want my name always being thrown around it gets tossed around enough.” -Well, yeah Alex so stop doing things that make everyone talk about you all the time! Yet another example where she contradicts herself in her game. Two week sin a row she got in a position where she was safe and says she just wants to blend into the wall and not be in front of everything drawing more attention to herself and then she spends the entire week doing things that draw attention to herself. Mama Mia! Scott tosses around should I torment Dani for the next two days and hope America keeps me because they like watching me go in on her or sit back and keep quiet for 2 more days and if I stay I can just go ham on her. He considers to very different options. The difference is once Scott makes a decision he sticks to it like Jason does. Good or bad results in the end he makes a plan and follows through and then doesn’t just sit back if it backfires he takes a minute to reset, figure out the errors in his approach, makes a new plan and moves on it again. Look where he was in the middle of week 2 and where he is now? Like him or not, that ability to play the game in a way you are bale to not only revere but become one of the best players in the game deserves some recognition. I’ve talked to tons of Alex fans and asked them, tell me what you see her doing actively that makes her one of the best player sin the house in your eyes? I never get an actual game related answer. What I do get very often is well, I haven't had a lot of time to watch feeds lately but….Then I get America’s Favorite HG kind of responses which only frustrates me more. We are LF’s not causals and what I kept getting was the casuals fans type answers which made me frustrated that people are being so shallow in their loyalties when there are people playing better! This isn’t the normal BB format. This is BBOTT with all LF’s being the primary fan base. Despite that, I suffer through twitter pages who are clearly Alex/Plastics fans, forums (like Jokers), chat rooms, and podcasts where the heaviest weight of opinions fall on that side of the house. Finally, I heard an explanation that makes sense. Still not the best reason, but I laughed when I heard it because these are people who are very well versed in this game and not just day to day fans. I have said before that I think a lot of it is she is the only one really playing the game even if I can detail why it’s a game riddled with mistakes I’ve acknowledged she is playing. The answer was, ‘it’s not that she’s playing this amazing game or this amazing player, its that there are so many bad players in the house that it makes her one of the best players based on who she is competing with.’ Now that is the most honest statement from someone I’ve heard talking heavily about her game all season. It also feeds into what I’ve said, which is she’s not playing the best game but she is playing harder than many people in the house. By those standards it makes more sense to me. I get that! However, it doesn’t shade my opinion that while I see a lot of potential in her ability to think strategically. She’s messy, disorganized, and for me plays in a way that seems very bi-polar in her approach much of the time. She contradicts herself constantly and the person I see hurting Alex’s game the most is Alex. Maybe I am harder on her because it is like the athlete who has a very natural ability towards a sport. You know that basketball or football player who was just born to play the game? Alex is that player, but not in the Michael Jordan sense where he devotes hours and hours everyday to making himself even better and competes at a level that requires those coming against him to play harder and push themselves even more. She’s the recreational league player who while is arguable the best on the team, her dad is the coach and allows her to dribble the ball while he talks, talks in the lines while running drills, acts as the assistant coach telling everyone else what they should be doing while she does not do of it herself. Alex came into BBOTT as a player who doesn’t run the drills at 100% during practice because of the 10 other people on the team they feel they are already above them so she stands around talking, goofing off, doing things at 50%. That is the player on teams that irritates me the most! Or the NFL player who is really talented but throws away this amazing opportunity so many college players would have sold a family member to be able to have a shot to play at that level. I perceive that as wasting opportunities and failing to improve and devote time to becoming the best player you can be. The Terrell Owens on the BBOTT season. America is feeding into Alex’s complacency and her weakness in that area and voting in a way that you are. America’s vote essentially has been the ‘dad coaching’ his daughter’s team where she knows she’s going to start every time so can stay up all night before a championship game and roll onto the court with only 3 hours sleep, play terribly blowing the game for all the other girls who are working hard and doing what needs to be done only to then on the drive home tell your dad how the other girls sucking is why you can never win the championship games. My daughter is an amazingly naturally talented athlete and I tell her all the time don’t measure yourself against the girl you are standing next to (whether she’s a better player or a worse player) always compete with your own game! Always set goals to excel beyond the point you are at. That is the commitment and dedication that thrust you beyond the natural abilities and allows you to become one of the best who is playing. Staying humble and working hard makes you a coaches dream and truly the most valuable asset to any team. Show up every day ready to sweat, set your own bar. Be the player that leads by example. My kid is the one who is the first to show up, the last to leave, takes x number of shots every day, has a personal trainer she works out with 3 days a week on top of the actual team practices and takes two period of PE every year! That is in fact exactly how I have approached every goal in my life! Education, career, jobs, relationships, I am the type of person that will give 110% of myself to what I do and generally excel at it in the end even if it’s an uphill battle for a long time. I have not only told my child how to do it, I model it. Now as a teenager she doesn’t do it because I maker her. She does it because it’s something she loves and is passionate about and doesn’t ever have the mentality of she’s ‘good enough’. That makes her always striving to be good enough to move onto the next level of play. It’s not enough for her to be the big fish in a small pond, she wants to swim with the big fishes! I want Alex to swim with the BIG FISHES! I want all the players in BBOTT to swim with the BIG FISHES! This format was designed for that! NO coming in with a strategy of laying in bed for 6 weeks that’s why there are waking hours! No floating along and being able to throw comps every week and coast to the end then come out swinging that is likely why they gave us so much voting power we are the loudest ones to complain during regular BB seasons. Those lazy strategies that have been woven into the BB regular season format over the years and while there are many ways to win, those are usually the players we HATE to watch and complain about when they are going to make it to final 4! Jason may not be the greatest BB player ever, but he is playing the game all day every day. He’s come in working way more aware and constantly watching, evaluating, strategizing and making plans whether good or bad he sticks to it, and puts in the work! Even when he first two weeks things were voting in a way that benefited his team he told them don’t get cocky that will change. Don’t rely on America always siding with us they are some finicky people and can flip on a dime. Don’t jump around saying I’m America’s fav like Danielle because they don’t like that. He’s stayed loyal to Justin but he’s also taken some risks and admitted he may need to slide over here in order to ensure I have some long term plans to help me later in the game. Jason/Justin were always considering, before Scott even won that HOH, things have been good but they are bound to change and we are getting to a point where its more and more likely we are going to lose a misfit which misfit are we willing to lose and what can we do to make sure it’s one of them and not us! They planned for it when they force the alliance (Jason/Justin/Kryssie) and decided for numbers we need to work with Shane/Danielle but they will be most expendable and then stuck to that! Week 3 came and they met again and he gave the same speech I just outlined and again all 3 agreed if we have to lose someone its best its Dani but Shane is an acceptable loss. When has Alex made that plan? She makes that plan with everyone! Scott it’s you and I and forget these other people. Shelby I would keep you over Scott right after she told Scot the same thing. Morgan I am going to do whatever I can to protect you this week, you can’t go out. Then, after veto her bi-polar tendencies come out and hey Morgan you should really use it on Scott even though Neely will probably get voted out. I have a question. Alex would you leave yourself OTB not knowing for sure what America would do? Would you ever leave yourself OTB? So, Alex’s idea now is hey Morgan, let’s risk your BB life and assume America will vote with us just to stick it to the other side. Now that I’ve spent all week shelling out equity I couldn’t afford at this point, let’s just cash it out, take it all to Vegas and bet it on one craps roll! Alex is basically telling Morgan, I don’t want to cash out my 1% loss and play it safe! I want too risk it all and gamble what is only a potential for a minimal loss. The fact is Scott was an acceptable loss for Alex but she also knows with Neely remaining up there the odds are good based on what she knows (based on lopsided voting) that Neely will likely go home anyway. This is not a life or death week! Alex and the girls have agreed to try to flip Justin. Plead to America to vote Neely. Those are things she should be doing to improve the odds Neely will go and both her other team members will stay. DO NOT try and put your sister you just spent 5 days trying to protect in danger just for kicks! That’s terrible game play and will blow up in your face. It may not be today, or tomorrow perhaps not in this moment but in reality that time will come and it will be because you did these types of things. This game is a marathon, not a race. 5:09 pm cam 1/2 (Tuesday) Alex herself says, “My gut is telling me to roll the dice.” Long before I wrote most of this I heard this while I was finishing my edits to post this for you and it literally made me crack up. The AFH approach to voting is allowing Alex to be lazy, disorganized, playing at 50% and since she’s getting the starting position handed to her week after week. The attitude it’s developed in her now is just as arrogant as Dani’s was. In fact this 4 for weeks has set her up in a way that whether because her side had power for so many weeks in the start and now because ALL voting is going her way regardless of how mediocre her game play is YOU (voting) are the anchor to her game as much as Shelby is! My consolation is, that all that rises must fall. The voting and the arrogance as a result is making her take risks she shouldn’t be taking, spending equity she doesn’t have to spend, and widening the target she was already creating herself. So, I will gladly sit back and patiently wait for the week when I return to the blog and report on the rise and fall of Miss I am Untouchable. Don’t waste your time measuring yourself against others when you’re the big fish in a small pond. Compete against yourself. Strive to increase your position don’t do things that have the potential to play $1 on a slot machine and win $50 bucks the we are four weeks into the game. You’ve watched 3 other plays put dollar after dollar in that very same machine in the last 3 minutes and they all went home. So are you trying to save Morgan and hope you’ve done everything you can that sends Neely home? Or are you prepared to now risk Morgan’s BB life even after all the efforts you put into to saving it? Quite frankly, if Morgan stays on the block and saves Scott following her sister’s advice I will vote Morgan out over Shelby any day of the week and twice on Sunday! You will deserve to go home and your sister will deserve your wrath when she follows soon after you for making you feel like she was so powerful no one would even think to send your a*s packing! You can take that to the bank! You’re her SISTER! You are an advantage to her game! You are not playing for yourself you are playing for her! You were safe! You kicked a*s to win that veto and you used it to save Scott when’s sitting next to you? #byefelicia Alex has had several conversations with Morgan trying to ‘present every possibility’ while (9:47 pm)Scott has told Morgan, ‘Don’t use it on me. That’s not a smart game move, while I would love it, you just can;t take that kind of risk for your own game.” 9:42 pm Shelby tells Alex and Whitney that she wishes that Scott would keep his mouth shut. Shelby is getting really tired of Scott’s big mouth. He always says things and now he said the girls weren’t voting Scott out which has the Misfits coming at them all trying to get them to vote Scott out and in her opinions that wouldn’t be happening if he could just keep his mouth shut. Shelby says she played the I’m so tired of Scott following me around all the time and when Kryssie shares that Shelby said that the group agrees he does, except Justin. Justin is very adamant that Scott does not follow Shelby around ever! (The truth is Scott follows Alex around non-stop and Shelby is just usually with her.) In this same BA convo Alex and Shelby continue to and ask Whitney is she’s talked to Justin alone yet. Whitney says no he’s been upstairs with them the whole night. They make more comments how Kryssie hasn’t been alone either and is she running her own HOH at all because they make sure she’s never alone. (Sounds familiar to me, Plastics have done the same thing for 3 weeks). There’s a lot of dancing and moving and shaking. Some good and some bad. Both sides do the same tactics and each side calls it out on the other. The one difference I still see in week 4 as I have all season so far is that misfits are far more self aware collectively and in the number of individual players who are more based in reality than some fantasy they build in their minds. Neely is frequently the voice of reason when her side goes on a tangent she’s quick to say to the other misfits “we do that too”. Jason is the most grounded and Justin and Jason are playing the best games with varying reasons why. Jason is still on top of that pile as far as actual game play. Alex and Shelby have been throwing J/J names around this week. J/J fans so be prepared as we head into week 5. One minute she wants to work with them the next she wants to get them out. Alex and Scott are the top players right now on their side as far as actively playing the game. Individually both their games are weaker than Jason’s or Justin’s. Not only in actually game play but in how many people are actually actively targeting or want to target them. Scott and Alex have a lot of enemies. Kryssie is Kryssie. She’s always been the weak link and while she may be playing badly most the time she shows an ability to look at things globally and make decisions she thinks is best for her game while not throwing her people to the side at every opportunity. Dani is annoying to have to endure on the feeds but much of that comes from being treated so badly all the time by Plastics since day 3. Not saying she doesn’t like to be center of attention by nature. Just note that, as soon as we put her on slop and the block we did see some improvement in that area and she dialed it back a little in a week where she was safe. Unlike Alex, who didn’t do that last week when she was safe under Scott’s HOH or this week when America gifted her safety. Neely and Whitney are the middle of the road players. Both give LF’s some entertainment values, both are smart and have shown ability to compete. Shelby ranks at the bottom across the house as well as in the pecking order of her own group just based on game play and what she offers her side, which is close to nothing although I have pointed out some talking points she’s made. That’s the skinny on what I’ve watched this week, the positives and negatives I see in the games people are playing. Now let’s move on to the veto ceremony! 1:02 pm (Tuesday) Kryssie Its time for veto ceremony. Scott makes his speech first. “Morgan as much as I would love for you to use it on me I don’t expect you to. We both pushed ourselves to the limit yesterday and it’s because we didn't feel safe or comfortable in this house. So I have mad respect for you, you did an amazing job (two thumbs up) and I’m proud of you so take yourself off the block. Morgan Thank You Neely’s up next stands up, puts her coffee cup down on the table turns to Morgan and says “Ditto.” Sits back down and picks up her cup. (General giggles from most HG) Morgan I have decided to use the POV on myself. (Good girl Morgan! Glad you aren’t playing your sister’s game in this instance.) Nobody says or does anything and Morgan stands there, kind of awkwardly, and after a few moments Scott starts to clap and a few others follow like Neely lightly with her coffee cup in one hand. Kryssie I think it’s in my best interest and everyone as a whole to put Whitney up in place. (Note-Whitney went to Kryssie last night and asked her to put her up as the re-nom so she wouldn’t have to vote.) Whitney spoke to Justin (11:09 PM IWR cam 4) last night about voting Scott, how to handle Kryssie, lying in the game. He advised her to tell Kryssie that she’s voting Scott out and then just vote Neely out. Whitney’s like that’s lying, I don’t want to have to lie. Justin says he doesn’t either but that’s part of this game and you’re going to have to lie sometimes to survive. Whitney is trying to persuade Justin to vote Scott out, just as Scott did this morning in the IWR before the veto ceremony. They share the feeling they want to respect Kryssie’s HOH, but neither really wants Scott to go, don’t want to betray their words (Justin doesn’t want to go against Jason and knows fully numbers wise he needs Neely at this point). At one point Whitney says to Justin, “But what if we (Justin and Whitney) just went to her and told her how we feel?” Justin's response to that was, ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”we can’t do that, that’s not an option. What she’s more worried about is her won game. Like she wants to make sure he’s not gonna come for her. Whitney Right Justin So how do you reason with her that like….YOU CAN”T. LOL Whitney That was the whole reason that like why he gave her that whole speech in the room. Justin Right cause he was trying to say he’s not gonna come for her -This is true when he went up and said, you’re no threat to me, you have a bum knee, you won't win things, if you wanna pay me back for BD Shane go ahead but I’m not after you. I blogged about his when it happened. The problems Scott was telling her the truth when he said those things. But, he spent three weeks telling everyone the only person he wanted to get was Kryssie, talking crap about how bad she is, she doesn’t belong to be here, she has to go. Which I also blogged about week 1 in that I didn’t think he really was that serious about targeting her the things he says and does don’t make sense? Now its week 4, you've been all over the map with your game, you say crap you shouldn’t and there’s no reason she should ever believe you! Scott made that move impossible by being Scott. Justin is right there is nothing anyone could say or do to make her believe he should stay in the game, in her mind Scott is her only threat, and that’s from what she sees and knows first hand. Not something she mad cup in her head. She’s not delusional. BB 101, someone is targeting you and you can get them out do it! Whitney is trying to sell the same package Alex tried week 2. Justin is driving home the point that he’s telling Whitney to go upstairs and tell Kryssie she is going to vote how Kryssie wants (Scott) and she can say she did but blame the other vote on America, Justin can’t do that and Whitney do that too. That’s his point. Whitney knows she cannot (for her game) break her word to Kryssie and vote to keep Scott when she promised her she would vote how Kryssie wants. Essentially, Whitney tells Kryssie to just put her up as the replacement nom, so that she cannot have a vote this week. It will piss the girls off, she doesn’t want to break her word to Kryssie, she’s worried about her own game. Kryssie obliges her and replaces her for Morgan. That actually sets Morgan up to break her word. Kryssie wants to distance between Neely and Morgan and this will give her some ammo to sell that to Neely. We ALL know Morgan was never going to keep her word and she walked herself right into that little trap when she offered the deal to Kryssie. The only way Morgan would have kept that word is if three Plastics were OTB together, then she would have voted to evict Scott. See how all these little things you say and do matter. Every player is really a vulture just waiting for someone to slip up so they can use that information against them to persuade people to get them out of the game. That is a part of the game. Know your enemies, timing is everything, give people enough rope and they will usually hand you the line needed to choke out their game. Voting opens today. Vote for which player you want gone. I am voting Scott. Of the three he’s the one I see being the biggest threat to Jason/Justin’s longevity whether they work with him or not he will be a danger to their games. Neely, is eh, but she’s playing and she could flip one side to the other. She’s hella funny when she gets people hyped up and so I want to see what else she has for us. Whitney is about the same as Neely. I see way more potential for Whitney going further than Neely. Neely is on some radars and she will go out sooner than later whether it’s this week or not. America seems to really want Kryssie and Danielle out next at the moment. No one really likes Dani, in the house or out. That’s not because of her gaming skills because she has way more than Alex in that department and has actually shown us what she’s capable of. Kryssie, is Kryssie. She’s done it to herself. I’m ready for this week to end and see where the week 5 HOH takes us and honestly I’ve felt that way for a couple days now so….There you have it. One last note, since Shelby didn’t go up there is again a better chance that Misfits fans won’t split the vote. If the majority votes for Scott while the Plastics fans will all be voting Neely and it could be a neck and neck race to see who goes home. I’m not the kind of fan that says, ‘oh well they are all going to vote Neely so why bother even vote?' I’ve made that pretty clear over the past few weeks. Whoever you want to go, vote. Every vote counts. We don’t have to agree on anything really except this. Take the time to log in and vote today and tomorrow by 1pm PST and 4pm EST.

Veto results are in! 5:29 PMHG Line up in the BY for the Veto results I enjoy hearing production tell them simple directives and getting th behind the scenes aspect. It’s really nothing we count be allowed to see during regular seasons I hope they think about some of these changes rolling over to BB19. Back to the Yard Whitney Are you ready to find out who won the Golden Power of Veto? HG all clap Whitney says Justin you are first (Whitney goes to reveal Justin’s time and can barely reach the top of the board to slide the cover off his time. LOL) W Justin you have been disqualified from winning the power of veto. (laughs and giggles among everyone) Justin looks at Jason and says I didn’t know, I had no idea about the questions W Scott 8:51 HG clap W Shelby 12:18 Jason says “Not bad Shelby” Kryssie You have been disqualified from winning the golden power of Veto Neely you completed the task in 20:15 but had two time penalties finishing with a total time of 26:15 Morgan 8:35 There are lots of OMG, Morgan says she thinks she’s gonna throw up (No surprise since she’s been sequestered in the SR stuffing her face for nearly 4 hours!) Morgan You have won the Golden Power of Veto with a time of 8:35 Morgan I WON something! She’s very excited and should be she killed this comp! Not only was she the fastest but she had the answer about how many votes CB had because she forgot that Alex threw that kinky vote and had it wrong, had to go back and fix it and she still beat Scott (Who killed this as well btw it was impressive to watch) by 16 seconds! There you are! Morgan wins veto she will go down and it’s highly likely Shelby will take a seat next to Scott unless by some miracle Morgan is dumb enough to save someone else. Check ck out some images from today's competition! https://postimg.org/gallery/2j148cxlm/

It's All About the Veto! Happy Monday LF’s! It’s raining here in S.California so this could be a cold and wet veto this afternoon. I should also point out it may be a little happier Monday for Plastic’s fans than Misfit’s fan, but I am choosing to not have any real feelings about the America Nominee at this point. Veto will help guide the various ways and chance this could actually pan out so I won’t get too deep into that discussion for now. A lot has happened in the last 36 hours so we are going to start with some things transpiring in the BBOTT house yesterday (Sunday) move into the safety ceremony last night and wind this blog entry up with the immediate after math of the announcement of America’s Nominee. Then, later tonight or tomorrow morning I can hash out where things appear to stand on either side of the fence once veto is determined. 12:50 pm TKB cam 1/2 Scott/Alex/Shelby Alex-Clearly Alex doesn’t like not being in control. I just want to know what’s going on. Shelby She just told me I’m not the target. I offered to be a pawn if I’m not the target. Scott I was almost positive you were not the target. A It lines up with what we were thinking. See you at Halloween Shelby. Shelby Hopefully, something could go wrong. A True pawns go home in this game but I feel pretty confident that… Shelby Potentially with 3 people on the block there’s less chance of a pawn going home. Alex yeah Shelby She didn’t tell me who her real target was but… Scott Did she really have to? I would be surprised if it’s not me. All believe Scott is going to be America’s nom. Alex wants to know if they get put up and they get to choose who they would to play veto are they going to pick Whitney to play by default? Scott I guess I would have to pick Whitney. I’m not gonna lie it’s tempting to pick Alex. Shelby I’m no going to think about that until I know. She may pick Justin to just piss him off and make him play. Alex I think later we should just go over scenarios. Shelby leaves to go to the BA, Morgan comes in at the same time. Scott Americaaaaaa Morgan decides to go make lunch. Alex immediately jumps up and moves over to Scott so they can finish talking. Scott and Alex have been told by Kryssie that Neely and Danielle are the two misfits who want to come after Alex and Scott. -While I am team misfits at this stage in the game, I would not like to be aligned with Kryssie. Her mouth is like 7/11 opens 24/7 365 days of the year. Girl, be quiet! They are discussing Alex’s reasoning for wanting to keep Morgan she is trying to convince Scott that they might come after Morgan before them. Alex says “Whitney has strong ties with Kryssie, Justin and Neely. I don’t have ties with them like she does, they are going to save her.” -Well, yeah Alex that’s true you don’t have strong ties with anyone else because you have had zero social game! I heard a Plastics’ fan say that Morgan and Whitney are Alex’s social game which made me laugh out loud. No, Morgan and Whitney don’t bring Alex into the groups through their interactions. Alex has to actually be present to ride not he coat tails of someone else’s social game. They may be here spies, but they are not her social game. Paul was Victor’s social game but Victor actually hung out with people across the house, he had a presence alongside Paul and reaped the benefits of Paul’s social game. Morgan especially talks with Neely more than anyone but the last two weeks she really only goes to her when she needs her she’s been very lax unjust being a real presence in that sense. Morgan is trying to seem like she’s warming up to Justin, but Justin is no sucker. As much as he adores Whitney he knows she’s also using that to try and get things from him and he only gives her small samples on occasions but never shares anything he doesn’t want her to know. Yes, Morgan occasionally hangs in the vicinity of the misfits but there’s a difference between sitting with them and really interacting with them and she’s so annoyed by their presence she misses some basic intel she could be acquiring intel she paid attention. This week Alex has slowly been a bit more interactive but it’s not something she will benefit from right now and would require she continues to do it, and she won’t. Conversely, Whitney does just hang out with that side of the house, interacts, makes herself a part of the group so she does have much stronger connections. Whitney also went to Kryssie and had a conversation that suggests she may be willing to work alongside Kryssie moving forward at least in the sense they could agree not to target each other the rest of the game. We will have to watch and see how genuine that was, but it happened. Much of the time when I see Whitney telling the Plastics things she realized from hanging out with them she’s dismissed more than not. Whitney realizes that dynamic as much as I do watching from the outside. That’s showing Witney is seriously in the best position to know when its time to jump ship and has created the best opportunity for herself to do so. The bottom line is you can in fact be weak in the social game area and benefit from a someone you are aligned with’s social game but that doesn’t work if you never have a presence at all. You still have to show up. You still have to be active and know when its time to say this or do that. Alex may benefit from getting some information but its minimal and even less useful because she has to have direct connections in some sense to be benefitting from people wanting to save you like she is describing with Whitney in this conversation. This week’s voting has not encouraged her to change much and if she ends up with her side in power next week, I think the chances of her lasting more beyond another 2 weeks declines significantly. Its week 4 and Alex is just realizing now that the heat is on the Plastics that Whitney is in the best position with the other group and they would come after Alex before Whitney. She has thrown Whitney’s name around within her own group that she is the best one to leave if one of them has to this week. When/If that gets back to Whitney, its going to force Whitney over to the other side like a gail force wind. -Welcome to the game Alex! Alex does believe she still has Justin and Jason working for her and Scott but Scott wants to let Morgan go. Alex would rather lose Whitney over Morgan but Scott doesn’t really know why that is. He tells her he’s good with whatever Alex wants to do but he just wanted to share what he was thinking about which Plastic is the best to lose if they have to lose someone. Scott is right in this situation but he has no idea why….they’re SISTERS! Alex isn’t really trying to save Morgan because she’s her sister and wasn't to play with her. Don’t be confused. Alex knows that between Whitney and Morgan, Morgan being her sister makes Morgan easier for Alex to use. Morgan is more inclined to protect Alex. In that sense Alex is 100% correct. Whether Morgan was Alex’s sister or not, for Alex’s game the way things are right now losing Whitney, who has the ability to be scooped up by the other side and has a mind of her own, Morgan is the better person for her to try and keep. Morgan is playing this game with the intent of keeping her sister safe and going as far together in this game as possible. Alex, however is not. She sees Morgan in the moment as being a benefit right now knowing she will be more loyal. Alex’s target has grown by leaps and bounds in the last week or so. Alex’s goal is not to keep Morgan safe so she gets to the end with her sister though, It’s only valuable as a means to an end and if Morgan were to somehow be in a better position than her, or drift away and be in another alliance Morgan is expendable in Alex’s world. Scott has come to the conclusion that America doesn’t like him and we think he’s boring. The behaviors you are about to begin to see are Scott attempting to gain some cool points with us. I have noticed since Paul hosted the HOH Scott has suddenly begun to be more OTT than he was before. He has always been quirky and you can tell his actions literally are nothing more than to gain him a lot of face time on the show. Paul’s presence was like a light bulb going off in Scott’s head remembering Paul made final 3, LF’s liked is antics for their entertainment value and Scott feeling like America hates him has now given him the idea to play to the audience even more. However, LF’s are smart enough to see that. We watch he feeds all day. LOL. As the day progresses you will see what I am talking about. It may work for a minute because there are fans who just like to see random ridiculous drama and characters but 15 minutes of fame fade quickly in the BB house and fans change on a dime more often than not in this game. Alex made a comment today (Sunday) about Vanessa. Tiffany has been team Alex most of the season so far and Tiffany has 39k followers. After the comments Tiffany tweeted “I get it now Alex can go.” LOL. Now many may not think this is a big deal and Tiffany was being emotional like her sister and shouldn’t take it so personally but this happens all the time in BB. It’s the only reason I bring it up. A player makes one seemingly innocuous comment that is taken in a way that either players or fans don’t like and it does have a snowball effect. Not saying all the Alex fans that follow Tiffany are now going to turn on Alex but some will. Many Tiffany fans came to her defense quitting ‘sisterly love’ and if those same Tiffany fans were Vanessa fans they will now not be so apt to be team Alex and that’s good for misfits! SM undeniably plays a huge role in this season and every little thing can make a difference. While I don’t see this as a big deal (the comments) although saying something to the effect of ‘Vanessa is lucky she didn’t have to play against Alex’ is as arrogant as Danielle saying when she plays in All Stars…People pounced on Dani for that but think it’s absurd some fans are pouncing on Alex for her comment? That is funny to me. Fans are as hypocritical as HG sometimes. I guess Shelby made a comment about Rachel Reily and BB fans tweeted the comment to Rachel as well. You have to be careful what you say at all times because the smallest thing can impact your game. Rachel has nearly 300K followers on Twitter and she threw her support out to nominate Shelby! LOL. It’s all relative. Rachel has called Shelby a floater and while she has tweets from Plastics fans arguing against her the majority of fans she has like what Rachel has to say and her voice in the BB game does hold weight with them. Over time things have a domino effect and tides can change quickly so HG should always be leery of saying anything that may bring attention from outsider who have the ability to effect the game. There has been a lot of drama among fans. Plastics fans have been accused of doing some shady things with votes. I’m not going to get to deep into it, I haven't seen the comments on Joker’s myself, just that it is something being tossed around. What I will comment on if a Twitter push last night by Plastics fans to attempt o confuse Misfits fans. One being that Misfits fans have changed their mind and want to vote Whitney instead of Shelby. One person actually tweeted we need to confuse misfits fans and tell them this….then less than an hour later tried to say this account has been hacked and direct misfits fans to vote for Whitney. Others were trying to make it appear that Plastics fans are now voting Shelby. Seriously? DO these people have anything else to do in their lives? So here’s my best advice… If you follow social media, you should have a good idea based on history which accounts are pro-Plastics or Pro-Misfits. I’m not talking about general everyday accounts but the BB related accounts. When things like this happen go to those accounts and read back on the timeline. Check out a couple sources and you should be able to verify who they really are behind in this game and know whether to subscribe to anything they are saying. You all have a forum, blog, podcast, whatever that you prefer and that usually coincides with who you like in the house. Use those more reliable sources to fact check. Don’t get sucked in to the ridiculous antics of some trolls that dedicate their lives to their keyboards and love to see if they can manipulate people. N ow, that we’ve cleared that up back to the game. I can see valid points on both sides of the coin regrading whether Scott leaving this week is best for Alex, or the misfits. The issue I think Scott is facing is he has this big idea of just tell people exactly what you’re thinking. Whatever the motivation as far as strategy goes isn’t the main point this week. Scott’s actions have backed himself into a corner and you have to remember the HG don’t see everything we do. Scott has spent 4 weeks saying how much he hates Kryssie, he wants her gone if he got HOH he would nominate her. While he didn’t target Kryssie on his HOH, she do go up and all of that plays into what he’s been selling for weeks. I said week 2 I don’t think Scott really wants Kryssie out, I think he is trying to paint it that way for some reason. Now its week 4, he’s been treating her like crap for two weeks, saying he wants her out for 4 weeks of course Kryssie sees him as her biggest threat he’s been the only one saying he’s targeting her! Yet people are saying she’s stupid to target him? No, based not the intel she has it’s not. Scott is a strong connection to Alex who is also seen as the biggest threat on that side along with Scott. Scott has said he wants Kryssie out. Alex is safe. Scott by his own design made himself Kryssie’s only threat. Leaving Scott in the game at this point doesn’t appear to be good for Jason/Justin either. Again appearances in the house not what we see. Justin wants to keep Scott, there’s only 3 guys, Justin sees potential working with Scott. I think Jason would not mind Scott leaving in that in his mind that makes Alex need Justin/Jason more but he’s underestimating the pace in which Jason/Justin’s target has grown this week. If Misfits are in power Alex will play she wants to work with them and how that comes out in the house we would have to wait and see, things change from day to day and week to week. The rest of misfits’ side sees that Scott has this obsession with Alex and they perceive his loyalty as unwavering and if you remove him that is a major hit in their minds that weakens Alex. I know many people inside and outside the house think it’s dumb of Kryssie to take out Scott over actually chipping away at the group of four girls but Scott is actually more loyal to Alex than let’s say Whitney. Alex has said numerous times this week she wants to be able to try and work with Jason/Justin and I am going to give this some weight since she wasn’t talking to J/J. Not too much weight because she's fancy fencerton, as some people like to call it but she never really commits to anyone. Scott is a vote, that based on what they know, does benefit Alex and whatever she does when she’s in power. I believe as much as Alex would like to keep Scott, she’s aware the chances are their side is going to take loss this week and for her keeping the four girls tight she’d prefer to lose Whitney but Scott would be the next acceptable loss. That shows me that as much as people like to believe that not taking out one of the four girls is a strategic mistake you are not seeing the hierarchy of that group as it really is and possibly blinded to it by your unwavering love of Alex. Of the four other people in her group Scott is her most valuable member at the moment: He’s a shield The two together make a very strong power house as players Scott’s as much of a vote as any other Plastic He has more to offer than anyone at this stage in the game. Long term game Morgan is more loyal. What Morgan contributes in day to day game is nothing compared to what Scott brings to the party. As much as Scott’s approach is annoying and seems idiotic at times, the core of what he knows and how he sees the pieces needing to be moved to get him to the end is in fact very well developed. He’s messy and annoying to the other side of the house and draws more attention to himself and all of those things help Alex. Scott needs to be the primary target this week if you’re a misfit playing for the group. If you’re Kryssie Scott is your biggest threat, the only one saying your name and he’s got to go since Alex has safety. That is basic BB. Based on what Kryssie knows and in all honesty based on where everyone is right now on that side of the house, Scott should be the target and if not Shelby is the next in line since she’s Alex’s bestie and annoys basically everyone (which is her strategy. Scott is smart, he doesn’t always play that way but strategically he has a pretty good grasp on what needs to be done and doesn’t let anyone sway him from what he has his in his mind. The misfits do see Scott as someone Jason/Justin not only may in the future jump ship and work with but probably are already trying to work with and so getting rid of him eliminates a chance for the J/J to do so. The misfits (Kryssie) also see that Alex is stronger with Scott on her side. That’s a fact, whether you are watching from inside or outside the house. While Alex doesn’t feel like she needs Scott as much as the girls in reality she does. Scott is another big target on her side (shield). If he goes out this week she is back to being the biggest target. Scott actually grounds Alex’s game play and the two together are VERY dangerous on this game. Alex having a sister (still no one knows about) who is 100% loyal to her right now and has said she (Morgan) is playing for two people (she and her sister) and Scott (who is just about as loyal at this stage) as Morgan is a huge advantage for Alex’s position right now. Would Scott want to go to the end with Alex? I don’t think so. Would Morgan, if it worked out that way? Yes, I think she probably would love to be sitting with her sister at the end. However, Morgan also realizes there may come a time where it’s Alex or Morgan and Morgan would fight for her own life and not throw it away just for Alex to be the one to stay. Scott following Alex around like a puppy only makes Misfits side believe even more that for Scott, Alex is his ride or die. So, how is targeting Scott to weaken Alex any different than breaking up the showmance? Based on what the HG know? It isn’t. From where I am looking, Alex has two players in her camp that are just as unwavering as any showmance in week 4. A sister and a puppy although with varying degrees of loyalty as the game progresses but the Misfits aren’t as concerned about whether Scott cuts Alex at the end they don’t want Scott at the end! To Alex’s credit although I am not convinced Alex really believes this as much as she’s using it as strategy to save Morgan, she says cam 2 12:59 pm “Whitney is a way bigger threat.” As far as ability to gain support on the misfits side of the house she is 100% correct. Alex is really just trying to throw out viable reason why she believes keeping Morgan safe is better than keeping Whitney safe. Scott has said he thinks Morgan is more expendable. Alex also tells Scott in this convo that she really needs she and Scott to be in good with Jason/Justin next week. Strategically if Misfits get HOH again week 5 she’s right. This is really no difference than Jason/Justin being willing to lose Danielle or Shane last week. While that convo was happening we find Morgan/Shelby/Whitney in the BA on cam 3/4 12:57 pm Morgan is sharing with Shelby that Kryssie wants to get Scott out. Kryssie told Shelby earlier this morning that Morgan and Whitney agreed to vote however Kryssie wanted this week. Shelby also tells Morgan that Kryssie told her that all the Plastics have come up and thrown Scott UTB. Shelby told Kryssie if you want someone up that will throw veto don’t put me up there I am not throwing veto. Shelby makes my point about Scott following after Alex in this convo as well. She’s painting it at Scott following her around all the time after he said he doesn’t want to be seen with her a lot this week, but actually he’s following Alex around. LOL. Shelby says he doesn’t want to believe Kryssie that Scott is the target but it makes sense since he’s the only one targeting her. Shelby accurately predicts that Kryssie will want to put the strongest comp player as the pawn to help prevent Scott from a having as good a shot of winning veto so he stays up. She also explains that Kryssie wants to nominate Scott because she's not going to rely on America nominating Scott. This is absolutely correct! While Scott being a HN based on how the last couple weeks has gone might suggest Scott has a good chance of being nominee Kryssie is not relying on it. This is actually smart in the big picture for what Kryssie’s strategy is. Kryssie doesn’t wan to nominate two pawns (Morgan and Whitney) regardless of who AN is, risking AN comes down and they are left with only Morgan/Whitney as choices to evict. By putting Scott up she guarantees he’s OTB not counting on America to do it. Then if AN wins veto Scott stays. If Scott wins and comes down she can now nominate Shelby has her back up target and assures at least one target she wants is on the block come eviction day. People may be annoyed by Kryssie but this was the best way to manage these nom’s for her end game here this week. You don’t know what America is going to do. She doesn’t want to accidentally set things up in a way that leaves Whitney/Morgan OTB. Now, that being said with only 4 people to choose from it may end up that way, but this approach statically was the best way to reduce the chances that would happen. Kryssie also knows, like I do, that keeping Whitney down gives her the best chance at having the votes regardless of how things wash out because Whitney is more likely to keep her word than Morgan. Whether she does or not, if the scenario arises we will see. But based on what Kryssie knows and how things are shaped this week this was her smartest move. 1:15 pm Alex has joined the chat in the BA Alex says of Kryssie “Stop playing the game personal.” -Right because week 1 your hate for Danielle wasn’t personal? LOL. Whether the threat of Dani manifested itself over time or not the target they had on Danielle from the beginning was very personal. Whitney leaves to get her water bottle and interrupt her convo. Alex is concerned someone is giving Scott information and don’t know if Kryssie is being lied to or if Kryssie is lying to them after they just spent several minutes bashing Kryssie and listing reasons they think she’s lying. Whitney returns as asked Justin if Scott was the target and Justin said he didn’t know. -Alex has worked on Shelby the last day or so and eventually persuaded her to volunteer as a pawn. Shelby did go to Kryssie just before this 12:13 pm cam 3/4 and in fact volunteers to be the pawn. Again, Alex is working more to protect Morgan and Scott and this was a way to try and prevent Morgan form being a pawn. Kryssie made her target clear. If Scott “goes up he can’t come down.” It doesn’t work in the end but it was a smart move on Alex’s part to try and keep Morgan off the block. In the end I think all the things Alex is doing will begin to make her own people wonder why? Don’t back yourself into a corner putting out to much energy in a way that burns your own trails in this game. People are always watching and have nothing better to do than think all day long. Sunday Safety Ceremony 7:00 pm Kryssie makes her first selection of the evening Everyone on LR couches. Scott on nomination chair, towel on his hair, cucumbers on his eyes, lying down. -This boy is ridiculous. Funny how he wants to now be all entertaining since Paul came and hosted the comp. He’s gone from Ronny, to Andy, to Will and now Paul. He’s impersonated a difference BB character every week. Good Couch Dani, Alex, Shelby Justin Kryssie makes her first selection: “You know I gotta save my boo.” Jason is safe K-next selection “Whitney I know you Miss Winston but you’re gonna have to wait another week” 2. Whitney is safe. ——Earlier this evening Whitney and Kryssie were in HOH and Whitney told Kryssie her deal with her was probably good for the rest of the game. Justin is finishing his quesadilla. Return to LR K-last selection “All right Shelby, you better hope Scott doesn’t come.” 3. Shelby is safe There is a much more jovial vibe for these safety ceremonies than any of the others. Morgan has some Dora like outfit on, white short, yellow T, blue vest Shelby has Harry Potter get up on. I’m guessing because I’ve been gone this afternoon that the Plastics decided to all dress up since Alex is in her costume? I know they played some game earlier and Shelby had to fly on her broom and pretend to be Harry Potter so don’t know if this was a group decision or just runner from their game. 7:03 pm cam 1 LR Kryssie as she’s walking from Kit to LR she begins with her speech I have nominated Scott and Morgan. Scott, we’ve had our ups and downs buddy in this game. Morgan you’re dressed like Scott.” -That was funny the entire LR erupted in LOL and I even laughed a little. BTW anyone else finding themselves craving quesadillas now? I’ve made two for lunch this week because they are always making them or talking about making them At least it’s not always Pizza anymore but I’m more inclined to eat the quesadillas over the pizza though. I’ve never had this game make me want what they’re eating, never craved a cookies BB18 or a muffin! Quite frankly Paulie ruined apple pie more. Sorry, just a random thought if anyone else has experienced this or if I am just watching way too much feeds. LOL 7:05 SR cam 1/2 Morgan, Shelby, Kryssie Kryssie says she’s so glad Morgan was dressed like that. They all laughed. Kryssie admits that the HOH is supposed to make a speech and she thought Scott was just being douchey. Morgan Oh you are? S Well, that’s part of the show. K It is but like you have to say hey you and you are nominated but the whole brief speech thing is real. M It worked out perfectly too. K whispers We just gotta make sure he doesn’t take himself off. S Right, yeah. K Sorry, not sorry, it’s a game. M Literally. Depending on Veto, we just need somebody to make sure he stays up there. K My feeling is everybody that would be playing in veto except Scott wants Scott to stay up there. S So you wanted somebody that can beat him? K More or less. No offense to you and Whitney but like if this ends up being a physical I want Scott to completely crash and burn. -OMG I just had a vision of Alex winning veto and being put in the position saving her sister or Scott! That would be so glorious if she pulled a Paulie, win when she shouldn’t and now she’s got to make a commitment to something! Doesn’t end up being a possibility as you will soon see but it would have been some great feeds! Morgan cracking up and clapping “Touche, touche!” Scott is still lying on the nomination love seat with the cucumbers on his eyes. K That’s all. As all the HG make their way out of the LR, Scott stops and hugs Kryssie and says “It’s all good. Monday-HG were woken little after 9 am this morning to prepare for ceremonial events 10:02 am Times for America’s Nominee and Veto Draw Kryssie has to remind Morgan she needs to sit on nomination love seat (LOL) Neely is America’s Nominee BB interrupts the Veto draw and instructs Alex to sing Happy Birthday to Kryssie since she missed the HOH’s Bday Justin is first drawn for Veto. Scott chooses Shelby. (Very smart! If Shelby wins she can save Scott and herself and Kryssie would be forced to put Whitney OTB.) Jason checks the Veto box and pulls the chips out to verify his name is actually in there. There was a discussion about this last week, but Jason didn’t think about it until the box had been returned. I mean Alex had been pulled every veto until this one. Some may thing this is silly, however, it is not as though this conspiracy theory hasn’t made its way through the LF grapevine in other seasons, Jason's a LF it is not that crazy he would think of it and not really terrible that he does verify everyone’s names are in there. Everyone including him can now move on from that. Thank you Jason. Alex in the KIT with Whitney, Scott, Morgan 10:07 am says to Scott we need to convince Justin not to use the veto on Neely. Soon after Alex and Whitney head to the SR and dance and celebrate like crazy. Morgan comes in 10:08 am Alex Neely cannot win! As long as Neely doesn’t win we have hope. We can turn this around W Omg M I am very surprised that it was Neely W (whispers) America doesn’t want to get bulldozed A (already getting cocky) I’m not! America doesn’t want us to get picked off one by one by this delusional half of the house. M That was so unexpected Alex dancing and jumping around saying thank you, very OTT. Whitney exits and the sisters are alone. Alex to Morgan Please win. For the love of God. I feel kinda bad, I told Scott not to pick me but I was like I cannot win another competition, M Right and then thats a target Alex An um, if Shelby wins, then Whitney will go up and SHE WILL NOT get voted out. That’s why I didn’t want to tell her but that was the rationale behind it. M Right, right. We need Neely not to get, and honestly Scott not to get it. Cause if Scott gets it, that’s him coming down and it’s still me going home. Maybe I’ll just win, that would be nice. A I still feel so guilty for not playing in it, then maybe I could save you, but I just can’t for my game. I’m sorry. M yeah, well that’s ok but tif I go home this week (she says in a condescending tone). A Just go out there and fight Morgan exits SR Alex blows kisses jumps up and down and says thank you -Well she should since she’s not really having to do anything to stay in the house Morgan is very nervous and Shelby decided to fuel up for the big comp. All four Plastics+Scott now in the KIT Jason/Justin head into UKB 10:07 pm cam 1 Jason is pissed! “What is America watching? What is America watching? All Shelby does is talk about she wants rich people and only attractive people and she’s a terrible person. All she wants to do is sleep with every guy that owns a business at the Bungalo! And how the F*CK? Neely is annoying but Shelby is the most terrible person in here and…” Justin I already know, but she could be doing some slick sh*t here dawg. Jason What’s her slick sh*t? (His face is beet red and he is LIT) Being terrible? Justin IDK no, I’m talking about Neely. You never know dawg. Jason Oh Neely, could be doing everything, but how the F, how the F, does America like Shelby? -It’s ok Jason when you are home you will see that many of us don’t and we didn’t want Neely up there. But use that fire right now! Channel that fire! lol Justin Idk bro, maybe they like her because she’s the underdog? Jason She’s not an underdog SHE”S A GOLD DIGGER! -Jason came in so hot I didn’t even notice Dani was in the room so when she chimes in it surprised me! Dani Well maybe they just put Neely there cause they want to leave Shelby down so we can use her as a replacement? -Ok just to pause for a second. When Kryssie did her noms last night I said in one of the forums although Misfits fans have all been discussing targeting one Plastic and not splitting the vote, strategically for the misfits Shelby going up for ‘AN’ may not be int heir best interest for that very reason. If Shelby had been ‘AN’ that only left Whitney as a replacement nom. If one of Kryssie’s nominees wins veto, and Shelby were OTB the whole BD back up target option wouldn’t be possibel Strategically it may be better odds for misfits to have Neely up so that Shelby could go up as a replacement if that scenario presents itself. I’ve pointed out there are a lot of ‘if’s’ but the first thing that came to my mind when Kryssie’s safety ceremony was over was that perhaps Neely going up, if it happens, isn’t the worst thing that could happen. If Whitney does keep her word and vote how Kryssie wants with Neely OTB Whitney could replace the vote on that side leaving (3) 2 Plastics (Alex +1)votes + potentially America on that side of the eviction vote. Will Whitney keep her word? Time will tell. I think it’s far more likely she would over Morgan but it’s also far more likely that Whitney not keeping her word would be much more detrimental to her personal game. She has good ties on that side of the fence. Kryssie, Neely, and Justin are very ‘loyal’ based players so to speak. Whitney gave her word to Kryssie, if she ends up breaking her word it will make that side of the house who was very team Whitney now look at her sideways at least to some degree. This is a pickle she has herself in that she may not realize how damaging it could be to her long term game. If she does vote with Kryssie, she may be able to cry ‘honestly and loyalty’ that her word means something to her own side in an attempt to do damage control but they will then lose more trust in her. Definitely something to pay attention to. How it comes out in the wash and how she handles will tell us a lot about her longevity in this game. With at least a chance based on this promise a vote falling on the misfits side (Jason, Justin, Dani, +Whitney) would make 4. There are 7 total votes this week with Americ’as vote. Whitney voting for Kryssie would result in the America vote not being the tie breaker, assuming again that 2 Plastics stay OTB. It’s a long shot but at least there’s a shot. I realize that Neely may be tempting to Justin, but also know that Jason at least has a chance to lay it out in a way that makes sense to Justin that he wouldn’t vote Neely. This adds a mother layer of insanity to this week because Justin appears to want Scott to stay, he doesn’t like or trust Neely. The first thing Alex says after the America nom is announced (1:07 pm KIT) “We have to get Justin not to use the veto on Neely.” At this point, there are so many different scenarios until Veto is played we just have to sit back and let the cards land where they may. Until veto is determined, there is no point and the ability to better analyze the chances of who and where people will land is really reliant on veto so don’t get too excited if you’re a Plastics fan and don’t get too defeated if you’re a misfits fan. Expect the unexpected. Jason I don’t think America is that calculated when they’re not in here. -I am Jason, I am. LOL. Not that my thought process helps you much just sayin’. Jason continues on his Shelby bash. Justin You got a point. Jason is on a roll at the moment! Telling Dani/Justin how Shelby really is a hooker! He replays a convo yesterday where Alex was actually opening up and talking about herself and her boyfriend and Shelby interrupted Alex asking how tall is he? That Shelby says all men are a*ssholes and how since she knows that she only dates the rich and the pretty ones. Jason says he “gets why America may not like Neely but Shelby is way worse.” Says he “gets why they aren’t touching Whitney and Morgan, they are really nice girls. Alex is a nicer girl than Shelby is!” Jason is taking all his frustrations out on his protein shaker bottle at the moment. Jason I just cannot believe it. Like how many people in America did this girl blow? She was handing out handies to the whole state of Oregon before we got here. To make sure she had a big voting mass or something? She’s a prostitute parading around as a waitress. -Ok, I may not like everything Jason is saying at the moment but his rant and fire behind it is giving me life on the feeds right now. Considering how unlikeable Shelby is, the fact she’s done nothing at all (until finally talking some real game and showing her chops the last two days), if you’re in that house and Shelby didn’t get nominated and she’s not on your side of things this would be mind blowing. Justin (trying to lighten the moment) shouts out the “Bungalo" and starts cracking up. Jason says that they “aren’t even filming us right now so America doesn’t even hear me talking sh*it about them right now.” Jason Neely, I mean I’m not even worried about the Neely thing, they can put Neely up that’s fine with me, but not putting Shelby up ever? What are they watching that we’re not seeing? -And there it is folks. The voting has now made Jason stop and think about why Shelby is being handled with kid gloves and this is what he needs to think about. I knew he would get there eventually but didn’t expect it until he calmed down a little. Jason Shelby makes me look like a well balanced soulful person. Justin busts out laughing at that. Jason She does! She makes me seem like a religious deity. (Justin again falls out laughing) She does, that’s why I just don't get it. Kryssie enters UKB 10:11 am Jason Sorry, I am over here yelling. What do you think they are showing America? Because I look like a religious deity next to Shelby and they refuse to nominate her. K Idk Jason Like we just said, yeah Neely could be doing some slick sh*t. Neely could probably get up there for plenty of reasons, but Shelby deserves plenty of reasons to get up there for weeks now and they’re not touching her! Like what is America see in this girl? K I don’t think they see anything in her. I think America is not touching her because she’s boring. And because (Neely now enters UKB) of like whatever, she’s someone we can get out later. Jason She’s TRASH! She’s a prostitute parading around like a waitress. K I agree with you, but all of us hate her which makes it fun for them. (Kryssie is smarter than people give her credit for.) Neely I’m not trippin’ Jason I know you’re not tripping I am tripping for you. Yesterday when Alex was talking she turns it back around to her and how she’s such a vapid piece of trash and only wants attractive men with lots of money. Its like what does America see in this b*tch? -I don’t know Jason. Trust me there are plenty of us that may not dislike her for the reasons you are clinging to but we have a laundry list of other reasons she shouldn’t be in this game the most obvious being that she’s played virtually no game in four weeks! She may be attached to an alliance but she is not playing the game. She has said her entire strategy is to make people in the house and America hate her so she can get to the end. Smh-and she’s getting praise and fandom support for actually not playing an active game. They may love her now but I have to believe if she somehow manages to coast to the end having done nothing the entire first half of the game it would be hard pressed to convince fans who loved her ‘character’ or not to award her $250k for that. Stranger things have happened so you better make it your (Jason) mission to get rid of her as soon as you can. Now, admittedly Jason and the others think she’s a waitress and she just finished law school. She is not really playing dumb that well because most realize she is very smart and wants people to think she isn’t. This safety for Shelby is only confirming this more to the misfits quite frankly and all this voting going their way (Alex/Shelby) is increasing the size of their targets by the second. Alex got safety this week so no more ACP’s for her anytime soon. Misfits can thank Plastics fans for doing that at least. Neely It’s entertainment. Now it’s suspenseful, its two sides going against each other. They want to keep it going. Jason I get that too, but last week they sent one of us home so now if that’s the motive behind it why us again? Kryssie and Neely point out that the back and forth is appealing entertainment wise. Now it’s a number thing, last week it was us, it had been them because of a numbers thing, now we still have the numbers. That’s all that is. -What some people fail to realize is the voting really put Alex in the position she was in heading into this week. Now the voting has appeared so Plastic’s heavy it’s seriously putting even more attention on them than before. I blogged about this voting thing early on emphasizing people need to be aware how voting appears to HG. Voting, while not purely for the purpose of the Misfits, the first two weeks made Danielle especially assume America loved her and she got cocky. We had a huge hand in giving her that impression. Now, the pendulum has swung the other way and notably will Alex get it in her head that she’s loved by fans but so have the misfits. There is a cause and effect to everything. As annoying as it is that some LF’s have taken this voting influence to a ridiculous level, karma doesn’t forget. There will be consequences and ones that they had not anticipated so don't get too frustrated in the short term because in the long term those efforts will show up in the house and not in a way that they had even considered. You can take that to the bank. Kryssie I think if anybody wins except Shelby, you are coming down and Scott is going home so just know… Jason circles back around to Shelby giving out hand jobs for voters and Justin can’t contain his laughter every time this comes up. Jason Look I may make a lot of jokes about doing things for $5K and say things but anyone that knows me knows thats all comedy, she’s legitly a whore. Justin To each his own boo Jason NOOOO, I’m not accepting that. Kryssie referring to the HN card she read: I have to go and read the card and see if you were next in line on the card. Neely Oh I was. It was me, (HN card) it was Scott, me, then Jason. So, I was very prepared for this as a possibility. I knew it was going to be me or Shelby. I knew it wasn’t going to be Jason. -Kryssie is now going to have it in her mind that it’s her fault Neely went up and had she not nominated Scott, America would have and Neely would not be the nominee, which is not true, but based on how they are reading into the order of HN’s being announced and the way this week played out it feeds into the logic they are applying. Kryssie It could be a bazillion things Jason I don’t think America…they’re more petty than we are. I’ve been on this fandom for a long time and they are way more petty than we are. I want to chuck Krackles at these b*thches. Now I got to wait another week to win HOH cause Alex needs to go next week. -Neely suggested that maybe LF’s are waiting for Jason to send Shelby home on his own HOH . 10:52 am UKB Kryssie/Jason/Justin/Dani (sleeping?) Justin Why? Why did you pull my name? (says jokingly to Kryssie) K I didn’t mean to. I purposefully dug to the bottom hoping I would find his (Jason) Justin So what I’m thinking is when I could be OTB it’s like yeah go in and kick a*s, but like now I’m not going to be there’s no chance of that so there’ s no reason for me to go crazy but f*ck I guess I don’t want Neely going home this week -THIS IS HUGE! If Justin is telling Kryssie and Jason he doesn’t want to send Kryssie home this week it means he really does get the bigger picture, this is him, his words, with the people he is truly loyal to. Jason You really just don’t want Shelby to win. If Shelby wins she takes plan A and B off, and thats plan and B gone and have two off your GF’s against Neely and we lose Neely. With Neely OTB the votes make it so we are really gonna have to fight to save Neely the s week anyways. If we lose Neely they now are back to having the most votes. We need Scott or Shelby to be OTB. If Neely stays up there Scott and Shelby OTB is best because you are going to have convince your GF’s one of them needs to go. Justin Yeah they would get rid of Scott Jason If Scott comes off then we’re f*cked Justin SO next week we just need to win HOH Jason Welcome to the world Justin! We always gotta win HOH every week! Justin I know you’re right, I don’t even know what the challenge is at this point so we just gotta wait and see Jason I don’t want you to win. Justin I don’t wanna win Jason I’m just making sure you don’t quit it while that b*tch is still up there Justin I’m not gonna do that. I would lose my mind if she beat me! So this is a fine place to leave this since Veto is about to begin. HG have been divided into rooms, this will be an individual comp it appears they have been sequestered and the order the players will go appears to have been drawn as follows: (I’m no positive about the first two being correct but the rest are) Kryssie Morgan Neely Shelby Scott Justin Danielle, Jason, Alex, Whitney have been locked up together in the HOH room while the HG playing in the comp have been put in different rooms throughout the house. Scott was last seen in the IWR on his knees praying to himself. Justin doesn’t want to win but doesn’t want Shelby to win so he’s going to have to play his best at this point they wont know each others’ times. Shelby needs to win to keep herself off the block and could potentially take Scott down if she wanted to. (Which Alex would convince her to do) Morgan wins thats ok then Shelby goes up next to Scott. Neely wins is really best case scenario for misfits while a Shelby win would be best case scenario for the Plastics! I love this GAME! Good luck HG’s may be the best player win! Here are just a few images from the this morning's activities! https://postimg.org/gallery/fpirif5o/

So safety is over and Morgan/Scott are on the block. Twitters is exodexploding with LNC/Misfits fans voting for Shelby. It appears the majority of Plastics fans are still voting Neely as of less than an hour ago. I polled LNC fans and since the two with the highest percentages are both nominated, Shelby was the third highest in my poll with a whopping 5%! LOL Morgan had the most followed by Scott but combined they acquired 92% of the votes in my poll of LNC fans of which HG they would like to nominate this week! Since the top two are out there shouldn't be a vote split for the first time. Vote for whoever you would like America's nominee to be, but there's the consensus from both sides of the house's fandoms. My my first thought was do I want Shelby OTB? If she's up and Scott or Morgan come down then Whitney goes up. I personally think the odds of Whitney keeping her word to Kryssie and voting how Kryssie wants this week is far more likely than Morgan doing it! Alex would love to lose Whitney if she has to lose a Plastic and quite frankly Whitney is the only one of those girls I like! I think she has some mad game in her and we are just beginning to see her shed her Plastics skin to begin to play her own game. No worries though, it's BB. Will be fun to watch this week! There's so many if's! As as soon as Kryssie was in SR (cam 1/2) 7:10 pm with Morgan and Shelby following nominees, as they talked about anyone can win veto this week except Scott I had a vision of how wonderful it would be if Alex won the veto! Now what does she do? Save her sister and put her bestie OTB? Save Scott because he's more valuable to her game which would likely send her sister home? Save her sister and have Scott and Shelby wondering why? LOL Sorry, it was a random thought that made me LOL. Would she pull a Paulie if she's drawn for veto and win when she shouldn't? Imagine Morgan if Alex won and didn't use it at all? That would be glorious feeds! Remember voting is now open! Doesn't matter who you vote for just vote! Your vote counts.

It’s Getting Hot In Here There has been a lot going on the past few days in the BBOTT house and let's go over some of the most important facts. Yesterday I did a recap on the convo with Morgan/Whitney Friday night in the HOH room with Kryssie after the ACP was awarded but before the HN reveal on Saturday. Based on that deal and the activities since the Live DR's Friday night it's a good time to give a global recap of what everyone has been up to before we head into the America nominee voting beginning tonight. It's now Sunday morning but here's where things stand after the deal and safety ceremony. Friday night Whitney/Morgan offered Kryssie a two part deal: If Kryssie doesn’t target them (even if she has to use them as pawns since they realize the numbers) they will not target Kryssie or Neely for the next two weeks. (Just these two not Plastics in general although said they would try but can’t speak for others) If she doesn’t target them they will vote however Kryssie wants come eviction night. This is a very important part of the deal! Kryssie accepts the deal. That being said I am less confident that Morgan would stick to her word if there is a LNC like Neely OTB as America’s nom but Whitney, it is far more likely that Whitney would keep her word regardless. So what does this mean for the upcoming eviction vote? If Neely is OTB, Whitney is not come eviction night then the LNC may still have the votes they need to send a Plastic (Scott/Shelby) home and the America’s vote would no longer be the tie breaker. While a part of me worries about the wild card Justin, he doesn’t trust Neely. However, he can’t stand Shelby and Jason is very capable of persuading Justin to vote Scott if it’s him since Scott tried to suggest to Kryssie that targeting Jason was in her best interest right in from of Jason. Lots of moving pieces but not hesitating and agreeing to M/W offer right away was so much more helpful than Kryssie could realize based on the voting campaign happening outside the house. 11:15 pm cam 3/4 (Friday) M/W join the TKB where Scott, Sloth, Alex are all hanging out waiting for midnight when HN’s is over. They go right into the convo in progress about HN, slop, etc…which is interesting they didn’t come in and go right into this is what happened upstairs with Kryssie. 11:16 pm cam 1/2 Kryssie rejoins LNC in BY Neely/Dani/Jason on couches. Good to note that the LNC didn’t pounce on Kryssie as soon as she returned and ask her to run down what the girls said, they were off on some ridiculous convo and seamlessly kept talking. Jason doesn’t understand what a hermaphrodite is. Kryssie finally says she’s glad the conversation out here got really interesting while she was gone. So finally, on her prompting Jason says how did your convo go up there? 11:20 pm K Morgan and Whitney came up to my room together, and they sold Scott right up the river. They let me know that apparently Scott has side alliances on my side of the house. I am going to go ahead and assume that Scott thinks he has side alliance with Justin. (This is when Kryssie glances straight at Dani-who is quietly laughing and Jason does as well. Jason uses this moment right here to attempt to CYA) Jason I think Scott thinks he has a side alliance with me because he was telling me sh*t last week. K shaking her head They didn’t give me names but they were like just so you know…they were like if you keep us safe then we will keep you safe next time one of us is HOH. I was like all right Jason So they were selling out Shelby and Scott K Yeah but they did ask me if somehow Scott does get nominated and pull himself down who goes up? I said Shelby, and they said how can you guarantee who will go home over one of us? I said everyone hates Shelby. N Like, that’s not a secret. J No, N What did they say when you said that? K They laughed. They said it was a concern for them because her social game is so terrible that we may want to keep her around. J That may be more for her comp game K Because she sucks? J Yeah, but I don’t wanna keep her because her social game sucks. D No. She can’t even hold a damn golf club K I basically told them that in order for me to be able to trust them when veto comes around, whatever it is they gotta make sure that Scott doesn’t come down. That’s all. And they said that he said…they said that Scott has no intention of having another talk with me. That the whole reason he brought me the Epsom salts is because ‘he can’t take it on the plane’. D Is he just ready to go home J He said to me week 2 that he wasn’t here to win and anything that happens from here is just gravy to him K That’s fine he’s not here to play -The four go into a list of things Scott has said and the idea that Scott is just a fan who wants to check some things off his bucket list and get a couple grand in stipends and ok I’m done. I know Jason has talked about not buying into Scott’s whole reverse psychology act that he’s not really here to play, but I am not so sure why they go into this side tracked playing they all believe that’s all Scot wants to do. Yes, Scott certainly wants to be the star of the show and wants to do certain BB things like break ties, have HOH, etc…but that’s being used to make himself seem less threatening as a strategy and Dani and Jason are very hip to that although as a group they aren’t all talking about it as a strategy to be able to convince people he’s not a long term threat. It’s interesting because this collective group not discussing and sharing their assumptions about that not happening is a symptom of the ever growing cracks in this previously solid united force prior to Shane going home. Its week 4 and they all knew eventually one of them would be sent out, they all have had side convos with each other about who is jumping ship in their group, or we need to stick together because this person is over here doing this, blah blah. Jason I mean they put terrible players here. K They put people who think they are manipulators here who think they are masterminds who aren’t, who are actually terrible, and they are like ok this will be funny… J Oh wait, so if Shelby goes up you’re still going to nominate one of them? K Well, I have to! I have four people to choose from J Well, that’s true (Meanwhile TKB Plastics+Scott are still just laying around counting minutes to midnight) The LNC gets off on a gross convo about extracting zits. Jason’s face is broken out. Justin joins the BY (11:27) K It’s gotta be Scott going, they don’t like or want Scott J I knew they were out to see someone. But they sorta threw Shelby out there as well which was the second most obvious. D We were just waiting for it K -tells Justin since he has just joined the convo already in progress They told me Scott has side alliances with my people and basically came upstairs sat on my bed and said send Scott home. (To Justin) Go ahead and assume that Scott thinks you and him got an alliance. And I assume he thinks he’s got something with Jason as well. But go ahead and think that but they basically came upstairs sat on my bed and said send Scott home. (This is exactly what the Fantastic Four did last week with Shane/Dani OTB saying send Dani home.) Justin Thats crazy, me nor Jason, well I don’t know… Jason I think he thinks he has something with me, because why was he telling me so much stuff last week? K Yeah you guys have that smokers connection Jason Well he knows he needs me to be able to keep smoking cigarettes Justin I never developed any type of alliance, let alone talk with Scott long enough to develop… Dani interrupts Justin to explain to this poor little confused guy No. no. no. no but you’re nice to him and no one else is so he thinks that you being nice to him that you guys have an alliance’. This is Scott’s logic in his head Jason And he thinks, to him, that’s a ‘working relationship’. (Justin is actually playing this off by making faces, looking perplexed, elbow on his knee with his fist under his chin appearing like he’s thinking hard about why in the world Scott would think that. For those who don't watch a lot of feeds, don't be fooled! Justin at this point in the game uses the fact that people think he's clueless to his advantage. He is not! He is very smart when it comes to these things and how people are trying to play others and run scams. LOL. Meanwhile Jason and Justin did agree to an alliance with Scott and Alex last week) “Me and Scott don’t have anything.” (LNC group erupts in laughter at the thought of Scott having alliance with J/J) Jason I don’t got anything with him, I assume you don't got anything with him. Dani No, no, no we’re not saying you do. Scott THINKS that you do. Justin Why would he, why? Dani Because you were nice to him last week. Justin But, I’m nice to everyone? D But HE THINKS Justin So I got an alliance with everyone I’m nice to? D But Scott, in Scott’s head thinks because no one else likes him that because you’re nice to him that you ‘have an alliance’. Because Jason went up there (last week) to figure out WTF was going on so we knew what was happening now he has an alliance with Jason. Jason (laughing) Since I was going to get information to leak it back to us he thinks ‘oh Jason is with me, I can tell him things. Neely Ok, pause, I just gotta pause Justin I told him girl that… Jason/Neely both say flag on the play Neely Ok, he got a side alliance with you. But when he came up there the other day he said you (Kryssie) got to rid of folks on your side that are more likable than you. Jason Exactly, thats why I’m like ok, well D This is why Scott’s head doesn’t work quite right. K This is why Scott doesn’t need to be here. He’s just making me tired. Justin Why would he tell the girls to have them come tell you that? D Because Scott is crazy. Scott doesn’t know what he’s doing. I don’t even think Scott knows what game he’s on. Jason I think he will just throw out anything. D Yeah, he’s just throwing anything anywhere. Hell, who knows maybe he told them that me and him have an alliance. Who knows? The way Scott’s brain works he may just be throwing out everything. Justin Man, that’s crazy. D He may have started some new alliance that all of us are in and we have no idea. But you know what you (Jason) got invited to the bubble bath, and You (Justin) got invited to the bubble bath and we didn’t so that is the alliance right there lol. Neely I didn’t get invited to the bubble bath D I don’t know what’s happening with him Jason Look at Justin’s face lol. Look at Justin smoking lol Kryssie It was pretty funny Justin So Whitney and Morgan think I… Jason Whitney and Morgan believe that some of us are working with Scott. Or at least Scott told them that. Neely Or to make himself seem more important to that group Jason Right like you (Plastics) need me because I got sh*t from them. The LNC girls assure Justin that this is just Scott’s way of trying to convince people of something that isn’t true. They know J/J don’t have anything for whatever reason this is just Scott’s game play and not to worry about it. Jason/Justin are working the crowd here to seem confused or amused by the whole scenario which in reality they needed this to come up organically ahead of any potential rat like behavior from Scott trying to save himself this week and going and trying to tell N/K/D that J/J did in fact make a side alliance with he and Alex last week to make them mad at J/J and try to deflect attention from himself this week. Dani has been speculating to K/N all week that she thinks Justin has some deal on that side of the house and is turning on LNC. She has also told the girls that she is sure J/J are plotting some new deal with Alex. I’ve seen Neely more receptive to considering this information from Dani mostly because Neely is already considering which other alliances moving forward she may want to work on developing as well. Kryssie however is ride or die with J/J over anyone else in reality. Just so everyone can follow the trail of how things are shifting/moving and being questioned within this side of the house. Jason/Justin did make it appear they are interested in alliance down the road with Alex/Scott. Jason especially is very untrusting of them although knows he has to consider this option. He doesn’t in his heart want to sell out his alliance with LNC but his protection in the game is in the forefront of his mind. Neither J/J are 100% committed to this new group but they are keeping it in their back pocket. Scott/Alex on the other hand believe that they have convinced J/J 100% and they are pretty much talking the same approach to the whole thing as J/J. When/if it works for them they will be with J/J. Alex when it works for her she’s with the girls. Or she’s with Scott/Shelby or she’s the new four J/J/S/A. Now let’s talk about Alex for a bit. While in this game it’s a smart strategic move to layer yourselves in varying degrees and I know the value of plotting some protection on both sides of the house. I hear a lot of people buying into whatever she says in a live diary room each time. Look at each of her diary rooms over the last two weeks. She says once sorry Mo it’s coming time to let you go I need to secure myself in this game. She says another time the Plastics are here main group the diary before but she’s going to use Scott. Then the next one she says she’s struck a new alliance with J/J/S and herself and this is the one moving forward she wants to go with. She says something different every time she runs to live DR’s. This is the one place many LF’s give more weight to what a player says because the expectation is this is what they are ‘really’ thinking. Go back and watch the last 4 DR’s Alex has had. She doesn’t have one person in anything that she says every time that washes out in the her dirty laundry. Yes, things change in the house form week to week that's a part of the game but it's important to understand up front here is not one player in this game that Alex is in fact aligned with 100% over anyone else. Some may think that's ok, it's a strategy but...having your hand sin too many pots in this game is ALWAYS a problem for any player. Very rarely does a player manage to get to the end with this approach. Here's why, they end up getting exposed. SHe's already made the mistake of making the same promise to too many people and it bi there int he a*s. She's not effective at covering her butt and unless we see a big change in that quickly I see some foreshadowing happening this week. Last Alex she knew that she was potentially going to be in danger and since she had not put any work into anything other than the Plastics although she kept saying she’s more with Shelby than any of those girls she had been consistently saying that although it wouldn’t have been her choice the Plastics just kind of fell in her lap and working with her sister is a side effect she hadn't originally planned for but it’s working for her now. Fast forward to this week. She now has safety. She has had one on one convos with Scott and with Shelby telling them both they are each Alex's only priority and as a pair they need to do whatever they can to keep each other safe. Then she goes to the Plastics and says I like Scott but if it’s him or us it will always be us first and foremost. She goes to Shelby and Morgan yesterday and says she can afford to lose Whitney out of any of the Plastics she’s the most disposable. She goes to Kryssie and throws Scott to the wolves. While she’s safe, she’s still not showing any real allegiance to any one person the house whatsoever. That may seem like it’s not a big deal to some Alex fans but in this game when you make so many different alliances, and they crossover among your main group, like three way with Morgan/Shelby/Alex, Scott/Shelby/Alex, Alex and the Plastics, Alex/Scott/J/J. Telling different people Shelby can go. Telling Morgan/Whitney Scott can go, eventually someone compares notes and you are now Paulie being exposed and you end up with no one trusting you or willing to believe you are truly looking out for anyone but yourself. In this game you always have to be looking out for your own long term game. However, one crucial element to getting there is having at least one person who knows you will work to keep you and them safe as long as possible and the goal is to get as far as you can in the game together. Every week in DR’s Alex tells LF whatever in her mind she thinks LF want to hear and they are buying it hook line and sinker. If you’re not watching feeds all day I can see where like a casual you are inclined to want to believe her because you’ve gotten this idea in your head she’s a brilliant player and because there are so many people in the house that annoy you she’s the best of the worst to side with. LOL. It may work for her in the short term, but with so many people beginning to consider new alliances across the fence with someone the odds of that information being exposed about Alex is more and more likely and her relying on the fact that the two sides don’t really talk to each other is a huge error. You can’t keep everyone safe. She isn’t telling someone like Morgan, Scott, or Shelby you're my ride or die and this is what I am doing over here to keep us safe. She’s saying things like that to everyone. Jason is telling the LNC hey I’m with you but he has told LF’s not only in DR’s but when alone talking to the camera wince week 1 Justin is my number 1. Justin/Jason/Kryssie is my bigger picture and will ride that as long as I can. He is also forging some other potential layers but Justin is on every single one of those and vice versa. You see the difference. Same thing format he beginning it was J/J/K at the core of everything with Justin being the only one he planned to stay loyal too, but shows and tells us the LNC (all 6) is our group for voting purposes but we don’t like S/D and when it’s times to let someone go those are the two the FF will eliminate if we can. Neely was closer and J/J because Kryssie is close with Neely agreed to FF wit her, but even Kryssie has said consistently while she loves Neely as a friend her real allegiance is to J/J above anything else. Let's touch on the moving and shaking I see all over the house as week 4 plays out. Dani is over J/J after last week and is trying to convince N/K she and them need to stick together. Neely is listening more than Kryssie but Neely is still more trusting of Jason overall than Dani. Of that entire side Dani is the one who really doesn’t have any long term loyalty from anyone at this point. What she doesn't know is that J/J/K/N were all always in agreement that the showmance was a means to an end in voting so she's not telling these two anything they weren't already aware of. Neely is considering new avenues. She’s talked about her relationship with Morgan having potential to make a new 3 person group bringing Morgan into the mix of some other new alliance to protect herself as she is seeing the dynamics of the house shifting and not turning a blind eye to it. Jason, Justin, Neely, and Kryssie all agreed once they formed the Fantastic Four alliance that each one of them would form some kind of friendship with one of the Plastics and have always brought any intel they have gotten from their one person back to the main group. That's still true at this point in the game. However that bond with Morgan Neely is beginning to see as a potential safety net just in case she is going to need it and that's a smart approach. J/J still ride or die for each other and any conversations you see them having with anyone else KNOW this THEY always bring it back to each other. No matter what they say to anyone else you will find them in a room at some point alone sharing intel and making plan on how to handle things. Believe that it’s been happening for weeks and still happening this week when there is a lot of moving and shaking happening in the house. Jason has suggested that maybe they should consider some other things and Justin really trust Whitney, thinks she’s a valuable asset, smart, much better than people suspect. Jason however, for now has told Justin he doesn’t trust Whitney. This is something I suggest people keep an eye on. J/J are still pretending to be down and doing some light housework to make it appear that the potential plan talked about in coming weeks with A/S is still something they want to keep as an option for the sake of A/S believing it and for a layer of safety they may need ahead. Neither trust S/A really and have made that abundantly clear both when together and when alone. They are not completely cutting the idea off, but it is not an absolute we need to make this work approach. They bring intel back to the main group but there is some they only share with each other and make a plan for how they will use it moving forward in just their two best interest. So yes, they are still maintaining the FF appearances but neither is 100% sold on Neely long term and they would sacrifice either Kryssie or Neely to secure their duo above anything else. Alex has told Scott that she’s not really thinking it’s a priority for her either now this week. That’s what safety did for her, it made her complacent. That being said on varying degrees J/J/A are all treating this new alliance as an option whereas Scott appears to be the only one thinking if he survives this week he has done such an amazing job as convincing everyone this is his main group moving forward in the game. He and Alex do both say they want to protect Shelby but they also pretty much made that clear to J/J when negotiating what the order was on each side of the house as they tag team HOH's to potentially end up where they are in a position to actually make this a real final 4 kind of deal. Morgan and Whitney see that they need to protect each other and you see them as they have since the beginning of the Plastics sticking together. While Morgan has consistently said she wants to keep herself and her sister safe Alex has not been as committed to that plan as her sister. I said it before the season began and I have seen nothing in 4 weeks that has changed my mind Alex is not 100% committed to getting to the end with her sister in return. She says I need to keep Morgan when it suits her but then as soon as the need for Morgan isn’t life or death she plots and plans without Morgan being a role in what she’s trying to do to propel her game. Morgan has however toyed with the idea of creating something in the future capitalizing on her social game and the basic connection she’s forged with Neely and as we see this week when Morgan’s BB life is endangered she steps us and puts her survival in front of any other plan. Scott however thinks he’s Dr.Will and that he’s got J/J in his pocket 100% along with Alex and although he knows he’s likely a target he thinks he can outplay this week using reverse psychology. We will see how that works out for him. LOL The LNC as of Saturday night would like to get rid of Scott has first choice and will accept Shelby going home as a back up is somehow Scott ends up safe because of veto. J/J would actually prefer Shelby to go over Scott but they can't push too hard since their group is already watching their every indication of what their goal is this week. Again when striking the potential for a future deal with A/S this was discussed that they can't over play hands in either of the current alliances the pairs are in but will do as much as they can to protect the core four A/S/J/J and attempt to steer their sides of the house to eliminate the weaker links agreed upon at the end of week 3 when this convo happened in the wee hour of the morning in the BY. By next week (week 5) many of these things being thrown around will be irrelevant. What I am watching for is if Jason/Justin appear to be in danger next week, there is a high probability they will have some ammunition to pull out to help themselves. They both have now at least thrown he Scott alliance thing out for the LNC to know about so if that gets presented by Scott or Alex it may be a lot less likely anyone except maybe Dani will buy into easily. There you have it. These are all things if you are n to watching the feeds a lot that you should be aware of. The two sides have numbers decreasing at equal paces and its at a point in the game where all the players should be exploring ideas on how to gain some protection outside their own numbers. Whitney and Kryssie are the only ones that whether fake or real haven’t on some level made any actual moves to lay some bricks in this direction. Whitney has more so than Kryssie in that she has some stronger bonds with Justin and Kryssie on the other side and hasn’t burned any bridges. Whitney is being looked at as a stronger ally than Kryssie on the LNC side of the house while the Plastics are seeing her as the weakest link and most expendable. Kryssie has used her HOH to send up smoke signals that she can see a potential for working with Alex in the future to both Morgan and Whitney as an offensive move which was smart. It was done in a passive way that she was confident those two girls would leak back to Alex for two reason: 1. Alex would her that Kryssie isn’t really as much of a threat as some of the others because she’s no targeting Alex right now. 2. It makes herself appear malleable to the other side in general. Tonight’s safety ceremony will secure who the HOH nominees are. It should be Shelby and one of Morgan/Whitney. Kryssie and LNC see Morgan as a stronger potential competitor in the veto increasing the likelihood if Scott is America’s nominee she would have a better shot at keeping Scott from winning and taking himself down. It’s not certain that Scott wont go up, but based on all of Kryssie’s ideas on how the HN’s washed out she is more likely to believe Scott will be America’s nom. Any way you cut it last check it would be 1 pawn not two for fear is America’s nom happens to win veto she doesn’t want Whitney and Morgan left on the block together are the situation where one of those two has to be sent home this week. IMO that’s a smart way to be thinking based on everything whether Kryssie knows what we know or not. If that works that way and Whitney is not on the block she would not be the replacement nominee unless Scott is America’s nom and stays on the block. In that case if either Shelby or Morgan were to win or someone else take them down it could end up that way but she would likely beg Morgan if she won not to take herself down. This is the best case for LNC because of the two girls Whitney is the one most likely to stick to the deal and vote how Kryssie wants. Anything can happen but you always want to try and position things statistically to have the best chance at accomplishing plan A or Plan B and not being forced into a low level plan that you would prefer not to be forced into. Regardless it’s shaping up to be a much more exciting horse race now that we head into Sunday than it looked like on Thursday for the LNC.

Saturday HG woke up and got moving after the wake up call. 1:01 pm Kryssie emerges from the DR and announces it is time for the HN reveal. She asks everyone to gather in the LR. The Plastics and Jason on one couch. The LNC all on the other couch. Kryssie's announces the votes are in and America has decided this weeks HN are: Scott Neely Jason Justin immediately runs screaming and celebrating through the house into the kitchen! He’s able to eat for another week! LOL The Plastics (Whitney, Alex, Morgan) all cheered and clapped that LNC finally are HN Scott immediately says NOOOOOOOOO As the groups quickly disperses Justin apologizes to Jason for gloating. Jason gives Justin a hard time but it’s all gravy as Justin would say. Jason expected to be a HN this week. He knows LF’s well enough to know that they would spread the misery eventually. He has said quite often he will pay his dues, it’s a part of the game and he doesn’t really care. Justin is really the only one in the house who is terrified every week he will be on slop and have to take cold showers. This is the second week in a row where his reaction to not being a HN was OTT. I was relieved Scott was there and even happier he was listed first! HG have deiced the first HN is always America’s nominee (true or not in reality that is how it has worked out every week) and Kryssie was obsessed with waiting for the HN reveal to give her a sign if America will nominate Scott. Now she can believe Scott will likely be the America Nominee and stay the course with her ideas. I am glad in the sense that it played into what they all were talking about doing and if Scott wasn’t a HN it may have caused a complete panic. 7:01 PM HG Gather in the LR for the first Safety Ceremony this week. Alex of course has received safety so her safety badge is already lit. HG gather in the LR Danielle, Neely, Shelby, Alex on the ‘good’ couch Jason, Morgan, Whitney, Justin on other couch Scott takes his rightful place this week on the nominee love seat center stage Kryssie faces the HG board in the HOH with a pickle in hand as she makes her first selection: 1. Neely is safe- She climbs down on the floor and does a celebratory rump shaker move on all fours. Dani runs to the kitchen to tend to pasta cooking on the stove 2. Justin is safe He is happy and Neely gets on the floor and does a dance for Justin’s safety as well. Dani return to her spot on the couch after Justin’ safety badge has lit up. 3. Danielle is safe -Before Kryssie select Danielle we hear her say ‘she doesn’t have to sit next to me on the damn couch!” and presses Danielle’s Neely obliges another celebratory move Kryssie emerges from HOH and Dani asks her to show them her pickle. Justin says, “Yah, it’s over.” Kryssie, Neely, Jason cam 1 are in a line in the hallway leading to the TKB and call Shelby over to dance in their train. They all four back that thing up and have little fun. As HG head to SR to return their badges Alex and Shelby can be seen on cam 4 in SR reading another Safety Servant task Alex has been ordered to complete. That’s just a quick recap of the ceremonies for today! Tomorrow the final safety ceremony will solidify week 4 HOH nominees and voting will open for America’s Nominee. It appears Plastic's fandom is working to nominate Neely as America's Nominee. LNC fans appear to be leaning towards Scott or Morgan. There are polls floating around to see who the LNC fans which reflect most those fans are determined to get Morgan on the block and put some pressure on the sisters. After the late night deal that Morgan and Whitney made with Kryssie last night I am not so sure that the America's vote will end up being the tie breaker anymore. The two promised to vote however Kryssie wants this week and promised not to target Kryssie for the next two weeks. While I am not sure Morgan would keep this deal if a LNC HG ends up as America's Nominee but I do think that Whitney will stay true to her word. If she's not on the block and ends up being a vote for the person Kryssie is targeting on eviction night the LNC may have figured out a way to OUT PLAY America's vote! We will see there's nearly 4 days until the Live eviction and this is BB, expect the unexpected!

Thanks PaganMom! I retweeted it to a couple of other LNC fans who have some large followings so I hope that drives some more traffic! I am brand new to Twitter, after fighting the good fight for years BB finally made me give into peer pressure and hop on the bandwagon. Jury is still out whether or not that was a good idea! LOL I've been reading BB related tweets for years and this BBOTT season finally made me want to be a part of the discussions.

There is a lot of discussion about which personalities or characters people like. I've heard live feeders complain for years that casual fans only vote on which character they like. LF's always blame how voting turns out during the Broadcast seasons of BB the way it does because casuals don't understand the game, aren't really seeing who is playing the best, and are swayed by the editing. This BBOTT season's voting seems to be no different than traditional BB seasons to me. I was so excited about the BBOTT online only version this Fall because the voting that will happen would finally offer the majority voting pool to be LF's and expected it to look so different than traditional BB. So , I'm curious to know when you are deciding who to vote for are you voting on which personality in the house you like the best or which HG is playing the best/worst game?

@AtomicRooster I haven't had that problem very much at all this season. I did a lot at the end of BB18 but that were IOS issues as soon as I found Puffin app that solved the problem for me. I know others have had that issue and CBS put out a release saying they are trying to resolve issues across various platforms early this week though.

StrayKat I agree 100%! BB finally managed to bring comps into the 'expect the unexpected' element of the rest of the game! It's been a great blend of ol' skool BB competitions and newer ones and they are so much more fun to watch in addition to HG not having the ability to study, prepare, or really speculate what the comp will be. A very good balance too, crap shots, physical, endurance, mental. I co-sign your enthusiasm for a fresh new approach to comps!

Yeah Me! LOL

Thanks!

Well at least we tried and managed to get Scott as a HN. I have set up polls on twitter and Morty's TV FB forum to see which Plastics HG LNC fans are wanting to nominate for America's nominee. Since Kryssie will finalize her nominees tomorrow night I agreed to nominate whichever player on that side of the house has the highest percentage in the polls and wasn't nominated by Kryssie. The more LNC fans that vote in the polls on those two polls the more accurate the results should be. Morgan has a huge lead over everyone so far, but we don't know if Kryssie will throw her on the block as a pawn. If you have the time please vote in one of those polls so I can share the results immediately tomorrow night for those wanting to know who the majority of LNC fans are nominating. Many LNC fans are trying and prevent Neely from being the Plastic's fans nominee. The Plastics fans are really pushing for Neely to be America's nom this week and they managed to make her a HN so if you're a Plastics fan that gives you the scoop on what that fan base is trying to accomplish. My twitter user name is almost exactly the same as my Morty's user name Big_BrotherHBIC if you want to vote in that poll. The one thing I have pointed out is that it may not end up being a done deal. Morgan and Whitney struck a deal last night with Kryssie that if she didn't target them, even she uses them as pawns, they would vote how Kryssie wanted this week. While I am not too confident that Morgan would keep that deal if someone from LNC team ends up being America's nominee, I do think Whitney will keep her word. If she does America's vote will not be the tie breaker and that's great news for the LNC this week! Finally, the LNC may out play the fans voting! Sunday I will Blog, FB post and Tweet the poll results determining which Plastics HG, eligible for America's Nominee, had the most votes this week.

Sunny Side UP Morgan and Whitney caught window the fact they may be going on the block together this week before the DR's last night. Morgan was a firecracker full of piss and vinegar but the time her session began. Later in the evening Whitney and Morgan coordinated a combined attack to change the menu this week from scrambled to sunny side up! Here's a look at the deals offered and accepted in their attempt to secure their own safety. Now well will have to see if Morgan sticks to her word regardless of who AN is although I don't feel like Whitney would break it since she hasn't done so at this point in the game and it's one of the reasons her varied friendships around the house make her one of the Plastics with the most equity in a bargaining situation such as this. 10:38 pm cam 1/2 Morgan asks Kryssie who was in the BY if she can talk to her upstairs before the food fest begins at midnight. Kryssie cheerfully agrees and they head upstairs. Whitney asks if she can join the, as well Kryssie offers some snacks from her basket to the ladies. Whitney on the bed, Morgan on ottoman next to bed, Kryssie quick trip to the WC and joins the ladies on the bed next to Whitney. Morgan and Whitney talk about how funny Justin hiding in the bath tub. Kryssie says he begged her to let him hide in there and she thought he was going to scare them. That she kept bringing up his name so he would take it as a cue and pop out. Morgan We just wanted to come and talk to you, we know there’s a lot of things that may have been said and that we may be a potential target this week and we just wanted to come and talk to you and just present an offer, tea, for your to consider. We thought it would be better to come to you together because basically we are going to say the same thing. Whitney Right we just feel like that me and Morgan are kinda like in the same boat, in a sense that we are probably like on the same level. As compared to like Shelby or Scott. We figure that one of us is probably, definitely, maybe gonna go up and we understand that but we just want you to hear us out. K Oh yeah sure. W Obviously, Alex was the target, at least that’s what I would think K Mmmmmm, debatably W We know that Alex being safe probably threw a wrench in the plan um so we thought maybe you may know where your heads at a little more than you did yesterday. K Sure M So, basically what we wanted to say is that if we somehow are not a target this week, or whatever, whoever you do want to target this week if we are not that you can have 2 votes with you and along with, we are pretty sure Alex would vote with us too. That’s 3 votes in your favor for whoever you want target wise to go home. Which 3 votes at this point, like we know that’s a lot. That’s our word completely. Then also along with that next week, one of us gets HOH and the following week, so the next two weeks you are safe, completely like that is a guarantee. If anyone else in our alliance says your name, even offers to put you up, we want you to know that we’ll come to you first and you can take that however you want. W Its pretty, well I know like me personally, and I think Morgan is on the same page, but we’ve never given you a reason to think that we’ve ever came after you. You know you’ve never had a vote against you with us, and We haven’t won HOH but we’ve never gaven you a reason to think you would be a target. K Right W I mean if we were to get HOH um two that6’s pretty self explanatory but you know we can’t speak for anyone else besides ourselves but so I think my biggest thing is this is your HOH but you have to do what is best for your HOH. You have to listen everyone’s ideas but if I were HOH I would have to do what’s best for my game. I don’t think targeting someone who has never targeted you is the best person to eliminate. M I know, and I can probe;y speak for W these upcoming weeks, I mean obviously we are offer this next upcoming week and the following week but like even before that you were never somebody, you , Neely are people I had no intentions of ever putting up (Morgan should use the term target not putting up, it’s a numbers game and you may have to put her up and she’s gonna hold onto the language you used right there). I think that’s something to keep in mind. I mean it’s hard, I haven’t been HOH but I’m sure people are expecting you to do what’s maybe best for their game or what they say is best for your game but I just wanna… W Yeah I can only imagine M And I don’t want to throw anyone UTB and I know that people are going to assume that we are probably going to gun for Scott going out and I mean that’s obvious but I just want you to know and to just consider for your own personal game. I mean I know for a fact that he’s gonna be gunning for you and from what I’ve heard I think he has ties with some other people in the house that are not on our side which hasn’t been very clear but it’s been spoken about kind of very obviously so keep that in mind and he’s just W Honestly, Scott does whatever is best for HIS game M Obviously, Scott is here just for Scott, no one else and regardless of what he says another thing is when he came up here and his speech and all that I think I can say I know for a fact he knew he was using reverse Psychology and he has made it very clear that he is not going to come talk to you again and I think he thinks because he said ‘ya’ll should just BD me’ that then he says that if I say they are going to BD me then they aren’t going to just because I said. -Morgan and Whitney have handled this so beautifully form the minute they walked into the HOH. They explain why they came together, disarming any feelings of being ‘ganged up on’. There tones have been easy going, non- threatening, not condescending in any way. They offered actually a very sweet deal (if they in fact actually stick to it regardless of who AN this could be the best thing to happen this week). Better than that they capitalize on things Kryssie said to both of them when they met one on one the night before, about trust, loyalty, deals, being trustworthy, you’ve never done anything to me, you haven’t given me reason not to trust you unlike Alex. As soon as they put the deals not he table they seamlessly transition right into why she should trust them and how their actions have never given Kryssie a reason to doubt they would stick to heir word. They take turns talking. They are aware Kryssie got upset wit Neely today for everyone shoving their opinions and desires at Kryssie right after the ACP so they use that intel and say I know everyone is telling you what they want , you have to do what’s best for your game, we will support you. If you go and watch this conversation, you can see all of the elements I have talked about for weeks that Alex hasn’t done with building bridges, creating social connections, building trust so the later you need to call in a favor or get someone to help you do something you have the equity to do so. Morgan has some but it’s indirect in relation to her connection to Neely. Kryssie did tell her that she genuinely liked her. Whitney however does have a friendship with Kryssie and Kryssie respects Whitney as a person and a player so going in together shows two very important things: 1. M/W are on the same page and in Kryssie’s mind Morgan is more believable pitching the deal along with W, by her side because W has the strongest personal connection with K. 2. They are giving more information and using the things they have learned or heard in their own interactions and observations of what make Kryssie tick and deliver it in way that makes it seem as appealing as possible to Kryssie. Personally, I am very impressed! I knew they both had this in them, and while I am starting to like W, more than M, this is why I ranked Morgan so much higher than her sister! I had a very good sense that despite not knowing BB as well as her sister, her demeanor and personality is less aggressive and cocky and would be able to blend in well socially. Morgan is a smart player that can learn and take what she sees and apply it using those other two important skills sets relating to her social game. The bridges she’s built along the way socially in combination with Whitney’s as well are the very best chance for these two players to use that equity and build a path to safety for this week. M Even today he’s like 5 more days until I’m evicted W That reverse psychology stuff is ridiculous. Even if you don’t think Scott is your target we will still vote to help you get who you want out. M Right, even if it’s not Scott you will still likely have 3 votes in your favor whichever which way you want. Whichever way you think your game would be best. So just something to consider. I wanted to throw it out there. I know Whitney did too so we were like we may as well come together. Just not to preach the same thing two times. K I can tell you guys both that every single time I was on the block, both times you (W) came to and were like hey you’re safe, W Right, that’s something I need for Neely too, thats something I told you I would do so K Right and that’s something I will never forget. You (M) told me I was safe and you were the first person to hug me after Shane left. Even people form my own alliance, Neely was like get off me. W Yeah K You came to me and treated me like a person and not like oh you’re another player in the game W Right K Things like that, it might make me a weak player but those are the things that I will latch onto when it comes to making nominations. I know I told both of you that, especially now with Alex being taken out of the situation, I have to explore a pawn scenario M/W oh of course -Yes, Kryssie we all know that and so do they! It’s why they are able to come and sell this idea to you and you are going to eat it up! Accept the deal! Hope they stick to it, I think there’s a 50/50 shot they will. 50% being if Whitney gives her old to vote with you she will keep it no matter who America’s nom is and you can afford to lose Shelby or Scott so win, win) K I think, well I still have to wait for HN’s, just to see if they throw someone in that room that wasn’t in there before I got to take that into consideration. I think Scott is the most obvious person that needs to go. I think he’s the one that I get the least blood on my hands and I think America will respect getting him out. Alex getting a CP actually didn’t throw a wrench into what I already thought about. (This is actually a smart statement to make to these two. Let them go back to Alex or file in their minds that Alex was never her target) W ok, well that’s good because I figured that it did K I, a lot of people on my side of the house want her gone. I don’t think Alex needs to go right away. There’s a weird competitive part of me wonders if I would have won if she hadn’t had those glasses on. The part of me that’s a game player was like let’s keep her. Let’s see what she and I are made of in an actual comp together. We are very different competitors, but I would like to compete with her. I thinks is someone that I could potentially work with if I need town the future. Cause she’s not dumb when it comes to this game at all. W/M have been saying “right” occasionally but letting Kryssie have the center stage which again is strategically a very good way to manage her. W Oh, no (referring to Alex not being a dumb player) K She’s definitely an asset. That being said a lot of people on my side of the house said ‘get rid of her, get rid of her’. Which is where the scenario, I am sure you two heard about, came about that we were going to pawn you, and we were going to pawn you and whoever won the veto, barring whoever America’s nom is we were going to yank you down and put Scott up. Like hey we gave you what you wanted, BD you, here you go handing it to you on a silver platter. I don’t think that’s what’s going to end up happening, and please, please, PLEASE don’t let this leave this room. M oh no W Oh no that’s why we came up here together. Even though we love Shelby and we love Scott we just knew we had to do this together because we’re in the same boat. M And they might preach something completely different and each their own W Yeah K They’re welcome to come chat with me to, I know Scott won’t but I don’t have a problem with either of you I have a bigger connection to you (W) than I do to you just because we haven’t had tons of face time. I would like that to change. I would like to be able to spend more time with you. You guys have been both a part of me getting zero votes when I’ve been on the block. Obviously, my choices to put OTB are between four people. If either one of you ends up OTB I need you to know that’s not who I am gunning for. Especially because either one of you that may end up OTB will end up there next to Scott or Shelby and those two are way more advantageous for us to remove than you. Somebody from your side is going home this week. If someone from side wins HOH next week, you could lose another 1 and then things are going to have to mix it up across the house. (One again she’s talking to much. Some of it again is valid points to make to better her position with Alex.) K I would love the HOH deal with you. If Scott ends up on the block you help vote him out. If somehow he is up there and wins veto everybody has got to be ready to kiss Shelby goodbye. W You think so? You think they would get rid of Shelby over one of us? K (laughs) YES W Points out that she’s run very scenario and their fear is that with Shelby’s social game being so terrible and being so bad at comps that they may just keep letting her slide. M They may want to keep dragging her along K That makes sense but at least from where I’m sitting, I can’t speak for the rest of those clowns, but from where I’m sitting this should be a game of players and Shelby’s boring, she isn’t good at comps, Shelby doesn’t have a good social game, annoys the sh*t out of people in the house that I really like Justin literally can’t stand her and neither can Neely. As far as I know, everyone on my side is voting the way I want because as everyone keeps saying this is my HOH and (Justin and Neely were the perfect people to reference. He has friendships with both these girls and Neely is very close with Morgan. Showing them that at least 2 of the votes on that side would definitely vote Shelby out over them is emphasizing why Kryssie and they should believe Shelby would likely go over either one of those two players) Whitney explains again that’s what she was concerned about she knows she and Kryssie have a bond but the rest of them she’s not so sure about and Kryssie is HOH and she doesn’t have vote. K You know who does have a vote? Justin W (giggles) Yeah K You know who everyone on our side is worried about it switching sides? Justin W says Justin at the same time as Kryssie K I didn’t want to pawn both of you. In case Scott ends up America’s nom goes and wins veto, pull himself down, I don’t want to make this choice W Yeah that’s what, what we were worried about M That’s what we wanted to bring up because that was what we fear K You guys can’t go up together Discussions circle around to HN’s what that could indicate as far as Scott. W says she has a good feeling Scott will end up being our nom. Okay this is a decent place to leave this. One thing that I wanted to point out is Thursday’s blog about HOH one on one meetings in watching Scott that say I made the observation that Scott implying this week like he things he’s a low budget version of Will. LOL. Then yesterday Scott literally says numerous times that he is like Dr. Will! LMAO. Yeah ok. The irony intuit is Scott had so much to say about Danielle talking about if she plays in an All Stars season who she would want to play with. He’s gone on and on about Dani, her assertions of being this great players, cracking jokes about saying she may be an All star and then he turns around and compares himself with one of the best Winner son BB of all time? Scott is as smart as he is dumb. I give him a lot of credit for how he plays the game from a strategic stand point, I may not like all his decisions but he’s effective and until he joined the Plastics they were scattered and while smart collectively (especially Alex in the understanding of the mechanics of the game) but very ineffective as players. Scott became the glue that binds them. He and Alex together is a force to be given attention and concern if you are a misfit. That being said it’s why eliminating Scott is the best target this week for the misfits. He has the potential to shake some things up and with numbers behind him that will be an issue for J/J sooner than later. Remove him and the Plastics are like meatballs without a binder, they crumble. Looking forward to seeing who ends up being HN this week. This is the one voting aspect I think that Plastics fans aren’t as committed to consistently voting for every week which leads to hope that we may actually get all three Plastics on slop and that’s good for the goal this week. Slop weakens them as competitors over the others and misfits needs the support when the other side of the house has an army of people trying to help players who haven’t had to do much in the game.