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Come spill the RealiTea with me and take a bite out of the insanity that has been week 1 of Big Brother. I know its been a few days since my last blog but in all honesty there is so much going on every time I find an angle and prepare to serve a hot fresh pot of RealiTea, everything is upside down again! With eviction night tonight and the holiday behind us we need to try and dissect the house and player’s current statuses. The RealiTea is…this has been the most explosive week in BB history! For those who aren’t up to speed on the current game I am going to focus on all the Tea spilt since the veto ceremony. Cody is still HOH although we are finally at a point in his reign where essentially his HOH is over. Sadly, he and Jessica have bunkered down in the HOH room isolating themselves since the veto competition. Flashback of Nicole and Cory anyone? Or the Willet sisters and the sloth? For the record, when you become HOH don't isolate yourself from other players. HOH ends and hen you re most vulnerable the week that follows when you aren't allowed to compete. Enjoy the occasional opportunity to escape the patients intros insane asylum but like Hotel California you can't check out. Cody and Jessica will be in for a huge culture shock when they must head back down stairs tomorrow and integrate with the other HG’s. Even worse they destroyed the advantage they had with the odds of 8 people winning the next HOH and having the ability to use this as their personal retreat in the weeks ahead. I am actually grateful for that I loathe the seasons where one power alliance overruns the HOH room because it's terrible for their long term game. In this scenario Cody and Jessica and their choices to ignore everyone else and isolate themselves in the personal love den they dubbed the HOH room for the past two weeks is seen as a plus, I didn't like their odds preseason and now that we've seen them in the house I personally like them even less. Since the veto meeting fall out Cody has spent the last week sending Jessica downstairs to search out intel, or relay messages, and his absence is noted by those he was aligned with and others. Now on the one hand Cody has zero social skills so it’s not entirely a terrible idea to allow her to be the front man of this duo but this is a huge mistake players make in the game. You can’t just build paths to friendship and communication with those you like or aligned with. Arguably its even more important for players to lay a foundation socially with those that are their perceived enemies. Cody however realized quickly after the explosive Veto ceremony that his self title 'Maverick' game move move was not only a terrible idea but the manner in which he did so was splitting up the couples as a result. In Cody’s mind whatever he did his team was supposed to fall in line and just accept his marching orders. He's not the first HOH to make this error, its similar to Becky’s move in BB18 taking a big shot during her HOH without confirming whether she had the votes to secure Vanessa’s eviction. I appreciate having a player that was willing to take a big shot, but this is a hard lesson to learn that just because Vets or the largest threat needs to go, doesn’t mean they will or even should for that matter. Your first weeks should be spent forming relationships, getting to know the other players, and listening more than talking. This entire scenario goes back to what I conveyed about week 1. You have no idea who you are dealing with. You haven’t had time to really put players under a microscope and make informed decisions. As we all saw, Cody made a critical error in judgement. My cup runneth over when Alex wins the veto last week forcing Cody to nominate yet another HG. This is the one area I sympathize with Cody for the blink of an eye. Megan’s sudden exit forces him to replace Megan with Alex. Alex wins POV so now he has to nominate a 4th HG in one week. What Cody also didn’t give enough forethought and weight to when analyzing the game and his best move was considering that potentially a HG accepted the reward in the den of temptation. So, when he makes a BOLD move without anyone is his group knowing, attempts to nominate Paul when Alex comes off the block with the veto he had never even ran through the possibility that Paul may have it and make a contingency plan. Cody is blindsided along with everyone on his team to his actual decision to take a shot at Paul only to be served up the pendant of protection eliminating the chance to backdoor Paul. Now Cody is on his 5th nomination and takes a swing at Christmas suggesting she, like Jillian was to Megan, is the closest ally to Paul and it was the only option he had left at this point. Finally, when all is said and done we are left with Jillian and Christmas OTB for eviction night. Cody sings the poor me song all week about having to nominate 5 players this week but that falls on deaf ears with me. It would have only been a 3rd nominee if he had listened to his alliance and just nominated Jason. Boo hoo, suck it up buttercup it’s your own fault. Jessica on the other hand has been making brief appearances in between her constant mounting of Cody in the HOH room but the tides have risen and fallen with her and her status in the game after Cody named the replacement nominee after Alex won POV. Jessica was in the dark just as much as the other couples, and Dominique prior to Cody’s insane idea to blindside his entire alliance by ignoring their collective suggestion to nominate Jason as the replacement nominee. The showmance alliance, minus Cody all believed it was the 6 people in couple land plus Dom, Paul and Christmas in the short term. Cody didn’t tell anyone what he planned to do. Initially, Jessica is furious at the move but she is quick to say, it is what it is now we have to go ahead and vote Christmas out because she’s up there and Cody put targets on all of our backs. Mark is in agreement initially, what’s done is done and now we have to make the hard play to go ahead and vote Christmas out. No what any of them wanted to do but what’s done is done and we need to take a step back and make a new play book. Jessica being the kind of player she is, in less than a day, the anger and betrayal she felt initially about Cody's nominations is overcome by hormones and desperation for a man’s attention and forgets where she is. What she could have done was distance herself from Cody the same way everyone else in their power alliance did and actively do some damage control. Even if she had told Cody, look, I’m with you but here’s what I have to do for the rest of the week and at the very least spend the majority of her time downstairs with everyone else repaving some roads that were demolished by Cody’s move. Cody expects complete and total loyalty and her burning loins smothered any cerebral understanding that she is playing a game for $500k. We will nibble on the details of the status of each of the ‘showmances’ later. There’s so much game to cover for now. As soon as the consequences of Cody’s renom unfold, Matt and Raven decide they are done with that group, they want nothing to do with Cody, he is poison and all bets are off. They pledge their allegiance to Christmas promising her their vote for her to stay. These two were the most outraged at the selfishness of Cody’s move and haven’t swayed on their stance since it happened. What’s different about these two is they are much more subtle about blending in to the rest of the house. They don’t make a big scene about it, eventually Matt has a one on one conversation after the dust settles asking cody to explain why he felt taking a shot at Paul without making sure he had the votes. Cody’s response, I thought I had the votes. His attitude is that he gave marching orders and it never occurred to him that his soldiers wouldn’t follow orders. Personally, I think this is the best thing that could have happened to Matt’s and Raven’s games right now. Clean break from Cody early and prevents accumulation of missed kill shots that are tallied on them by way of Cody. They don’t position themelve as Jessica has to be the way to attack Cody is by nominating them so as far as I can see they are the smartest of the large group this week. Raven and Matt are friendly with everyone and keep a low profile all week focusing on socializing and not beating the dead horse of the actions of Cody. You see people quickly forget they were aligned with Cody when he did this and blend right back into the backrground. In my preseason analysis of these two (indivudually) who were both in my top HG with longevity becasue they can blend in and not draw attention to themselves with other big targets by way of attention seeking personalities. As far as the fallout Matt and Raven are the prize winners in the break up. I will share more about the statis of the ‘showmance’ and how these two measure up later. Matt and Raven have done an excellent job of interegrating themeselves in the house with all people but have slowly shifted gears, ready to contiue to work with Paul and Christmas who they wanted in their origianl allinace unlike Cody. Paul does a masterful job, the first two days after the fallout, of assuring them he holds no grudge against them and wants to work with them moving forward and ththemselvese current task is to do all they can to ensure Christmas stays. I like a Matt, Raven, Paul, Christmas foursome if they can mange to save Christmas this week. Yes, it’s Paul’s primary goal to save Christmas because its good for his game. She has developed a strong connection to Paul, she’s a physical threat and can help them win comps, and she’s locked in on getting Cody and Jesica out of the house now which means the focus on Paul will continue to diminish. For Raven and Matt making this transition is an asset. Now they have Cody and Jessica as big targets ahead of them, while Cody and Jessica are focused on Paul, Christmas and for Jesica Alex ahead of them as shields we also have Paul and Christmas zeroed in on Cody and Christmas. These two are in good positions as week 1 comes to an end. Cody may be crying upstairs that Matt and Raven turned on him but even doing so Paul and Christmas are higher priority than Matt and Raven and if by some unexpected turn Matt or Raven become nominees they can go back to Cody and play the you are the reason we are here and you need to help us crawl out of the hole you dug for us. Mark and Elena are just as appalled. Initially, Mark takes a more subtle approach, telling Cody he doesn’t like what he did but a this point you’ve done it. Mark, like Jessica initially accepts that they have to vote Christmas out because she won’t just come for Cody because she doubts whether the group was in the dark and you’ve put us all in danger. Elena was more middle of the road she hates the move and really upset about the position Cody put everyone in. Ironically, on the LF we see Elena talking with Mark later that day after the veto ceremony and she sees the rationale of voting out Christmas. She comes around to the idea that what is done is done. Mark was absolute in his convictions initially and shares that with Elena in a way that allows her to land on the side of voting Christmas out even though she’s not happy about it. Unfortunately, when Mark begins to struggle with whether it’s the right move because he likes Christmas and is feeling a little guilty about voting his ‘friend’ out. This gradual shift creates some questions in Elena’s mind about whether she can count on Mark or if he is too easily swayed by others (mainly Dominque). This becomes a larger issue as the week continues because suddenly we have some distance beginning to develop between Mark and Elena over this entire situation. Mark and Dom are close and spend a lot of time talking game. Elena and mark are close and she is counting on being a ‘duo’ all the while trying to act like she’s not. What feeds shows us as the week goes on is that Mark is all in on the Elena ‘relationship’ train but not playing for he and Elena. Elena on the other hand is all in on the Mark and Elena duo in the game but always side stepping the ‘relationship’ part of the package teasing Mark and flirting but then keeping him at arms length. Dominique is smart. She sees this dance Elena is doing and uses it to create some doubt in Mark’s mind drawing him closer and more invested in his allegiance to Dom in the game creating some internal confusion for Mark. While this could be a very masterful manipulation on Dom’s part, she underestimates Elena’s instincts and the fact that others in the house are paying attention to Mark and Dom’s growing friendship and begin to use this to drive a wedge between Elena and Mark all the while developing a target all of a sudden on Dom. Dom has blended in gracefully until this storm begins to build and we see her on 4th of July show her emotional side after a false rumor is spread that there was a banner outside suggesting that Mark and Dom have an alliance. There was no banner, BB would have called for a lockdown and this made up plane banner scenario will find some others in hot water. The RealiTea is that if you are going to lielie the most important element is that there must be some small grain of truth to make it believable. Saying there was a banner in a house here so many players know BB, and how production handles it was a terrible idea! Had there been some random sudden lockdown then they may have been able to float this lie, but in the absence of that it was never going to fly with this cast. Now that we’ve taken a large bite of how the showmances faired after Cody’s attempt to measure himself in front of everyone only to be laughed ooutut of the locker room, let’s discus Paul since he is at the center of this all. Paul handles the entire veto ceremony blindside and attempted backdoor by Cody perfectly right after it happens. We see during the ceremony Paul doesn’t go off half cocked and give us some OTT reaction to being nominated. He is humble and matter of fact as he reveals the pendant of protection which is perfect in this case! While he was upset and certainly didn’t want to have to use the pendant of protection (revealing that he accepted the temptation and has safety for 3 weeks) he doesn’t react emotionally or explosively. We are able to see him on the feeds minutes after the ceremony having a calm, rational, well expressed dialogue with Cody privately. As I watched it happen I was so impressed with how Paul handled it all. He serves Cody some ‘alternate facts’ to consider based on what Cody says about how Paul’s presence with the group creates chaos in his mind and as Cody repeatedly tries to imply ‘others’ made it clear to him they didn’t trust Paul he doesn’t go hard for receipts. Paul does exactly what a smart player should, he files that away in his mind and keeps that topic seperate from Cody’s actions. Paul is being 100% truthful in this entire covnersation and understands Cody’s personality type so doesn’t directly challenge him trying to prove that Cody was wrong. As the week unfolds Paul shifts his approach and I don’t like how he becomes a bit aggressive in his tactics both in RealiTea and in other HG’s minds. He is not going hard and fast like a crazy man but as the shift unfolds with the collapse of the power alliance he had easily slid into a new fold where half of that alliance plus a couple players (Kevin, Alex, and Jason) from the outside alliance gravitate towards him, because he handles it so well. So what changes? Christmas! Christmas gets injured in the BY on Monday and this throws the house into chaos all over again! Monday morning durign the wake up music Jason and Christmas were doing their normal ritual dancing around and playing cowboys. Christmas hopped on Jason’s back for a ‘bull ride’ and Jason slips on the grass bringing them both crashing to the ground. I won’t go deep into tevrything that happens but the bottom lineis Christmas broke her foot in to places. She has to be taken tot he hospital returns 6 houseparaters later on crutches. While she is gone being examined the HG spend the day pondering whether she can return, running possible scenarios if she cannot. Would Cody have to nominate yet another HG? That’s all we see all day Monday is everyone’s response to another unexpected event. Christmas had an MRI on Wednesday confirming she has a broken foot and has decided to remain in the game. Paul went into crisis mode for fear players would shift over to the side of sending her home because she’s a wounded animal and better to just put her out of her misery. This makes Paul go to work which would be fine if he wasn’t working too hard. This house is now full of paranoid players caught up in a tornado for 16 days straight and he isn’t slowing down enough to read people’s reactions to his approach. He sees some things but rather than slow down and consider how to counter it he just rushes back in trying to clarify and that in many instances does more harm than good because a few HGT see him pushing to hard and either don’t like it or see it as an opportunity to bring attention to Paul once again because they had shined the light on themselves and want a distraction. Ramses and Jillian are the ones who keep stirring up issues that these savvy HG are quick to identify. Both eavesdropping and running intel back to both sides. Ramses is always lingering and listening which isn’t always a bad approach. I mean Andy won BB 15 using this strategy. The difference is that Ramses isn’t integrated into the covo’s. He rarely offers any input into conversations and this is far to obvious to others. He is easily labeled a floater trying to play both sides and he needs to take a step back and focus on his executions not his goal. Andy and Steve for that matter were very good at floating intel around the house. Andy however was always a part of the discussions. Ramses is not. He needs to develop some investments from others and become apart of the group rather than constantly fluttering by obviously so that everyone knows exactly what he is doing. Jillian does much of the same but much more desperately. They both need to take a page from Kevin’s play book and gain valuable information by invitation and then sift through what’s relevant valuable information and who it should be relayed to. The indirect causality in all of this scheming is Alex. She was seen as one of the stronger players and being purposeful in her game talk but now like many fans has whiplash from all the back and forth without the advantage we have of seeing everything. She is only able to see small bits and crumbs and with so much unfolding so fast she’s drawing inaccurate conclusions. Paul and cody have both offered their ‘friendship’. Cody out of desperation and Paul out of genuine plans to move forward with her in the game. She flip flops like Reef sandals all week and already doesn’t possess the most subtle delivery in her opinions. If I were Alex I would consider this-Cody offered me a deal and is floating the idea he could have targeted her and her people but he didn’t and now she should trust him and be willing to work with him. The problem here is he did target her and her side of the house. He put 3 people in her squad up and only because she won POV is he now selling her beach front property in Kansas. Paul may be trying to save Christmas, but if he’s offering her a group that includes the wall she needs to prevent her from being a repeated target isn’t this the better both of two questionable choices? I hope she slows down and stops giving into her paranoid delusions that seemed to have been infecting her since Cody came in contact with her. Most of the week the house had been in an even split down the middle with the votes. A tie would mean Cody can be the final say and send Christmas home. Yesterday however the tide shifted a bit and the numbers appeared to be leaning in Christmas favor of staying. The broken foot may have hurt her long term game but the short term game it became a benefit gaining sympathy from so many HG. The best thing that can happen for her right now is for Paul to chill out and let the house land on the side of sympathy. Christmas made it clear she wants Cody and Jessica out. She wont be able to compete in majority of comps and this makes her far less of a threat in the early weeks. Let it be Paul. Jillian hasn’t made any friends and sometimes doing nothing is the best thing. There you have it! The RealiTea is that every week the votes change from hour to hour and it’s important not to get sucked into things early on because they will change. Thanks for enjoying the enormous bites we’ve had in the house this week and I will be back later today to spill the tea on player’s standings in the game and how the relationships have shifted.

6/30/17 The Feeds are Live! Are you ready for some RealiTea Bites! I have a hot bucket of tea and a mouthful of information for you to chew on so let's dive right in! Feeds went live at 10 pm PST and we quickly learn Megan's memory wall photo has gone dark! In all honesty I've had an insane week so I didn't log on to the LF until early Friday morning and was swimming in drama. The best time I found to get the most background info (since we are late to the party) was around 12:04 (cam 1/2) 6/30. Jason And Xmas help Paul scare Kevin. The comradely is nice to see considering all the drama already in full swing! Oh there's so much tea! Megan is gone! The feeds go live and Megan's memory wall photo is dark. Alex tells us she is now a nominee which Christmas seems way too thrilled about considering all the other players who either have made themselves a bigger target or are in reality bigger threats. Clearly Jessica has her claws into Cody and manipulated the replacement nom by her jealous caddy girl ways. If you have the feeds you know what I am talking about if not...well Jessica is already snuggled up on the HOH bed with Cody and she has a target (Alex) and expects Cody to execute her marching orders. Alex didn't help her cause by blowing up at Megan but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Spoilers will follow so if you don't want results this may not be the time to finish sipping tea with me. Come on back after Sunday's episode 3 appears. For the rest...sit back and get comfy because it's going to be a bumpy ride! Paul won the first vote (no shocker here) and receives the temptation of 3 weeks safety. As you know if the player tempted accepts someone else receives an opposite punishment. It seems perhaps Ramses got 'bitten by the snake' in response to accepting the temptation offered in the den of Temptation. From what I gather each HG entered the den of temptation. After Paul accepts the others may have been offered a choice of boxes in the room and whichever HG chose the box with the snake inside gets 'bitten'. I have no idea at this point what that entails but chew on that until Sunday. Jessica and Cody are already kissing and cuddling. Mark and Elena are getting very friendly but is it strategic flirting? Nope this cast seems too be trying to recreate BB 18 so we have another season of showmances. Raven and Matt seem to be stroking the flames as well. So far Raven and Matt seem more flirty while Mark & Elena and Cody & Jessica have marked their territories. It's the first 12 hours of feeds I am replaying here so for now that's what I have seen. Paul must be having flashbacks and nightmares of BB18 showmance central. I swear Casting must create EHarmony profiles of all the applicants at this point! The quick matches and details needed to select not one, but two or three sets of players who immediately pair up so quickly, that's the only explanation. (LOL). Either that or these are all Tinder users who swiped Right immediately upon entering the house. There are some rumors swirling because Paul and Raven met last year at some venue his band was playing at. Time will tell if those two have a past or casting just capitalized on six degrees of separation on Social Media between two potential cast members. Paul and Raven are pretty friendly but not like the three pairs we currently have working under Cody's HOH. Based on what I've seen on LF, Paul and Raven don't seem to gravitate to each other at all and Raven is smitten with Mark. Let's address the dark horse in the room. Megan apparently floated a lie (possibly generated by Paul's hands you can watch his version on FB for Friday a.m. 'Friendship chat') about Jessica referring to Alex in a racially motivated manner, as a Panda. What Megan, as I predicted (playing too hard too fast), didn't count on was Alex being the kind of woman that addresses things face to face. Once Alex questions Jessica about the alleged comment Megan was thrown in a boiling pot of hot water which seems to have overflowed uncontrollably leading to her sudden exit. Allison Grodner (Executive Producer) did say in an interview prior to feeds going 'Live' based on what she was seeing that Megan was playing very hard very fast. Remember on Thursday night's episode Josh and Monte, oh sorry Cody...(same difference) did do is treat Megan harshly in front of everyone. Josh yelling at her and making a scene. Cody nominating Megan like the callous militant personality he is says plainly, "Megan, I just don't like you." So clearly there is a serious barrage of grenades being thrown at her from the beginning. Megan actually released her version of events (6/30) and explanation about what led to her being unable to continue. Here's the link to the article. You can read it and draw your own conclusions. Sunday should tell us in story form by the edit how things ended the way that they did. http://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/television/2017/06/30/megan-lowder-ptsd-previous-assault-reason-she-left-big-brother-house-early/444830001/ I recommend you Flashback (FB) to Paul this morning 6/30/17 talking to LF around 10:30 am where he shares his strategy and suggests he had a hand in Megan floating that false intel to Alex. If this is true Megan got beat by her own strategy which would ironic. In her Jeff interview she announced her strategy which aligns with the series of events leading to the decision to leave. However, the guys (Cody, Josh, and to a lesser degree apparently Mark) were VERY aggressive and nasty to Megan night 1. Yes, it's Big Brother not Big Baby but for me, Grown men speaking to any woman (or person in some cases) the way they were is despicable. Regardless of the reasoning, Game or not. It's reflective of the current social climate in our country. Fundamentally, BB simply mirrors what is going on in society from a global perspective. Every year we are served a melting pot cast that reflects society. For the fans that loathe the first night evictions this is a perfect example as to why they aggravate us! It is disturbing to me how BB handles these ridiculous Night 1 evictions...Cameron went home night 1! A guy whose dream was to Play this game. Gone. Now with Megan's unexpected departure fans are left annoyed and frustrated. The RealiTea is, based on what I am seeing on LF, production will likely be kept chasing their tails this season. This is why you don't send anyone home right away. They could already have some pre-planned battle back deal on the map. They could also send Cameron back in. It's. It unprecedented since they did so Season 9, I believe it was. Again, we will have to wait to find out how one less HG will effect the long game. Now that we've covered all the rumors and speculation let's return to what LF are revealing to us. Some of my mental notes as I watched the first hours of LFs is that Ramses whisper game is strong but so far that's the only part of his game is strong. Ramses like a few others are finding a clear path to float around from group to group being friendly and sociable with everyone. Ramses is making it a bit too obvious because the fact he is doing it has been discussed. Paul, Kevin, Christmas, and to a lesser degree Dominique have done a marvelous job at being social and friendly with all 3 groups that have developed. Each has a (for the moment) main group but they seamlessly float from one group to the next building bridges you need to survive the long game. Everyone else is one team or the other and no crossover really. I will keep a close eye on how they maneuver this ship as the weeks play out. These players are key to watch. The best games involve balance and a strong social game allows a path to a player in a time of need further down the road. Cody will not be able to go to let's say Jason at some point to get a lifeline because he only socialized with the people in his group. The groups as usual we have the couples/barbies and kens who have the power and the numbers currently. Paul, Christmas and Dominique floated to the power. The outcasts (Jason, Jillian, Alex, Josh, Kevin). Then we have Christmas, Paul, and for now Dominique who are doing a great job of establishing relationships throughout the house. Cody is retracing Monte's steps rather quickly. No surprise for me. As you read my reaction to preseason info was he will be inflexible, overbearing, and lack the ability to let water roll off his back. Did you hear him tell Josh to "move loser" during the HOH completion as he passes by him? What an arse! Josh is our Devin of the season. Now that we are on the LF we can clearly see that everyone is avoiding or annoyed by Josh. Even those who placate him when he's present immediately exhale exhaustively the second he leaves the room. Especially Paul and Alex. Kevin has some great comments and is seen as the wealth of random knowledge and father figure for now. I switch feeds most of the time when Josh appears because it's like FISH. The same Reel playing over and over. 'I'm sorry. I'm not a bad person'. Josh seriously just likes to hear himself talk. You know what I mean. We all have that one friend/acquaintance who is saying the same point you are but stands there insisting they debate it in their own words despite the fact you both agree. Josh's game so far is riddled with 'I am going to argue just because I need center stage at all times'. Ugh, of course this guy is safe the first week. The comfort I have is that Cody has created the enormous target on his back winning both the safety comp and the HOH in the same night. His lack of social game and strategy will burn this trail quickly since he enters a showmance rather than developing rapports with others HG and building some shields. The feeds going live last night leaves us entering behind the eight ball but it's clear Cody hasn't done any work with those outside his group other than bulldozing creating the high points for his enemies to stand above and easily see the best point of attack on Cody who won't be able to compete in next HOH comp. There is no chance Paul (if he has any influence) will allow 3 couples to work together. He did not return to play the deja vu game this season. While Cody is in power and there is a large group with him in power as of now, things change on a damn once the power is up for grabs and seriously it's week 1! I can hold out a little to enjoy the victory of eliminating Cody from the game. A little. If you have the feeds Check out 6/30 12:47 am Cam 1/2. As for how others seems to be fairing and interacting. You can see Kevin/Jillian discussing who was offered temp. Kevin it wasn't me. Even if they had offered it I wouldn't have taken. Jillian it wasn't me but if they offered it I would have taken it. Jillian-come on girl you are on the block! Alex and Kevin get into an interesting tit for tat. Alex bets Kevin he will never make it to final 3 because he's a place filler. Wow! Alex you are on the BLOCK! Am I stuck in the twilight zone? Where do they find these people! Come miss Superfan gamer! You should know better. Kevin or not. Alex is over Cody and Jessica already. She knows they don't like her. There is some serious bad blood between Jessica and Alex and it's not going to be diffused. The rumor from Megan may or may not be influencing her feelings although it seems there was already girl fighting happening prior to Megan floating the alleged 'Panda' comment to Alex. 12:50 a.m 6/30 Alex tells us Cody told her he wants to take all Couples to the finals. Why is he sharing his pregame strategy with someone he just nominated? This leads us to the showmances. Mark-Elena Cody-Jessica Matt-Raven Based on what I have seen this time for FB is a good time to watch because you get a lot of background info in one little session. Especially since at 12:53 a.m. the camera 3/4 switches to Jessica and Cody cuddling in HOH kissing. Alex is fired up! I'm glad. Spitfire on the loose. But be warned baby girl you have to be aware of everything you say. Don't leak valuable insights when you're venting. I see a lot of this already. Josh is self Destructing. Jillian is revealing too much to a big mouth (Josh). Alex and Jessica each are letting their fires burn out of control. Cody who really seems to be keeping his opinions and ideas as HOH pretty hush hush even from his own people told Alex his game plan? Back to the tea! Alex goes on to tell Kevin he's a filler. Kevin is amusing me with his ignorance about the game and the reality of what his perceptions are about how things should be. What's even more amusing is about 1:20 am we hear Christmas in the BA with Mark and Elena that Kevin knows everything (pure facts not game knowledge). I hope he hangs around I am entertained in the same way Justin in BBOTT and Paul's oblivion BB18 as far as being green to the game of BB. Here's an Example-Kevin asks Alex who should would nominate in her place if she wins POV. Lol. Josh has to explain Cody chooses the replacement. Kevin also nails the point that if you take out the entertaining players what are you left with? The show would have to move to the WB! Lmao! Alex knows someone else suggested to Cody to nominate her. I'm guessing it was Xmas and Jessica but don't have confirmation. I know Jessica had a strong hand in Alex being nominated. Xmas told us she wanted Alex out and she is part of the Cody clan but...we didn't have feeds so....time may or may not give us insight on Sunday. They have a lot of content to convey. If you're behind like I was this is the time to flashback (FB) and get caught up quickly. Oh and the HN room was revealed. The Beds are made of spikes. Jillian, Josh and Ramses are HN. What you won't believe is that Cody, even though HOH, is eating the slop! What is that? Kevin refers to the HOH as the "house of virgins". Lmao I swear Kevin is channeling his inner Remmy and I am eating it up! His reaction to Jillian taking her extensions out at 1:21 a.m. screams Remmy! Paul seems to have melted into the fold of the power in the house for the time being. Smartest move considering Cody wants Paul out but isn't telling his 'team' that. Paul's current plan is to gain trust from each player with 'good advice and friendship' so he can then delegate bad advice creating or widening divides between players. So what is the important Bites as far as the game? At this point around 1 pm Friday. Cody+Jessica Mark+Elena Possible Raven +Matt Paul (kinda), and working on Dominque Alex and Jessica are already at war. Cody has a taste for Paul's blood Christmas wants Alex out Megan self evicted by 1pm Thursday Kevin is just FUNNY Josh continues to Unravel The couples alliance is sketched by their undefined sense of Ramses. Jessica is obsessed with Alex HOH: Cody Nominees: Jillian Alex HN: Jillian, Ramses, Josh Safety temptation went to Paul-who hopes not to have to reveal he took it the next 3 weeks. Veto is under way today Players: Cody, Alex, Jillian, Matt, Raven, Jason The veto power is up for grabs and this house is already in full chaos mode Day 2.5. It's going to be a long season people! So sit back and let's enjoy 3 months filled with RealiTea Bites together! Until next time, the RealiTea is these HG came to play and aren't taking anything lying down...except Cody and Jessica at the moment. Until then the RealiTea is this is Big Brother some things are always going to occur it's the players and their actions that give us some variety! I will be back Monday to spill new tea after the episode has aired and I can fish around SM to get a good read on what we need to chat about!

June 27, 2017 Part 1 Premier Show I hope you're ready to join me for some RealiTea Bites. Let's chew on the events of the first half of the BB19 season premier. Sixteen HG enter the house. As the cast home videos roll on I find myself taking mental notes of the predictions I made that were SPOT ON. Let's review Cody being a Minnie Monte (milder version), inflexible, boorish, and all together off putting. Christmas being way too strong of a personality to have longevity. I do want to get behind her but...she's the alpha female. Ramses being his own worst enemy way to much energy. Megan too much too fast already making enemies. Simultaneously, while smirking over my cup of tea I am making mental notes in the side column about players I predict will go further in the game then others. Raven is a ghost hunter? Smh. Matt being the ladies man. How many of the ladies sat up for his salt and pepper hair? Cameron throwing the first competition?! What was that super fan?! Bye. I have a hard time feeling bad for any player who threw the very first comp willingly knowing safety was on the line. I hate premier night evictions but he had his fate in his hands and let go!? Alex-YOU GO GIRL! All in all I'm thrilled with the cast. Thank you casting for mixing it up! Yes there is the too loud, too cocky, too much players. However, production is evolving in the sense that they see the need to create the same dish people love. I can appreciate attempting to use a variety of new ingredients to recreate a favorite dish that keeps us coming back for more! The world changes and the game should to. It is entirely possible to do it in a way that doesn't effect the integrity of the game we all love. I heard a lot of fans deflated on the season because Paul is back. Despite the fact I was not a Paul fan season 18, if they were going to throw a returnee in the mix I'm not mad at this one. Paul fits in nicely with this crew. IMO, fan of Paul or not, he was robbed of the win BB18. They didn't make it easy on him. He wasn't guaranteed entrance into the house. Although Victor let the cat out of the bag that Paul was in the running to return, I find myself interested his ability to evolve his game play. Oh yes he did go scan his Instagram you can see for yourself. Don't worry I stalk the trending conversations across multiple social media platforms and serve up the most pertinent Bites for you right here all season long! This season Paul will be forced to play offense before a final 4 scenario. BB18 his entire game was defense and he spent a lot of time untying knots he made. So many HG know him. Many of his fellow HG's liked his game. Which means they KNOW it. He can't be in defense mode all season this year. He's played the game now versus last season where he KNEW NOTHING and managed to secure a spot in coveted final 2. Bring it on Paul, let's see what you are made of. For those of you who are annoyed a player went home the first night. I share the idea that we as fans are robbed of the chance to see Cameron in the house and develop our stand on our feelings about him as a player. These HG go through a rigorous series of elimination rounds to get into the house. I agree that Cameron endured and accomplished all those hoops potential players must jump through to gain access to those doors. I agree with those who feel Paul was handed a second chance. I would ask you to consider as a fan...Had Kevin (anyone) not taken the 'temptation' Paul wouldn't be afforded the opportunity. If Kevin (or any of the other 5-6 HG who pushed the button too)hadn't taken the $25K and Paul returned then Cameron wouldn't necessarily have gone home the first night. The players Controlled this fate. CBS put that power in the HG hands and Kevin played his card. As far as twists go I lean in favor of the ones HG can control. That's the game! I prefer that over BB deciding it. I prefer that over fans deciding it. I mean in this scenario we weren't force fed this twist. Paul could have just as easily been sent home if someone didn't accept the bribe. Yeah, I knew someone would take the money. Didn't you? The bottom line is they didn't have to. Choices in this game can change your fate in the house on a dime. The game has begun and we should all be ready for it! Now that we've taken a huge Bite out of the events of the first episode it's time for a sip of tea. My best laugh of the night? I lost it when Paul called Mark 'Johnny Bravo'! I was ROTF spilling my tea everywhere! He nailed that! I was shocked, amused, and blown away I hadn't made the same connection all at once. I didn't mind the snake reference to Nicole either. I mentioned in my preseason blog that Mark reminds me of Ronnie from Jersey Shore but Cameron also looks like Nelson Lewis' (Southern Charm Savannah) little brother don't you think? Google him you will see what I mean! For a premier show with everything happening right from jump and the highs and lows of meeting the HG, I was entertained! The feeds aren't live yet but this was entertaining to me. Bring on the twists! Paul having to choose 8 HG to give safety to. Wow! That was harsh and I loved it! He's a returnee and that's an advantage. I heard someone compare the friendship bracelet gifting to the first impression rose ceremony on the Bachelor. That was actually an interesting comparison. Yes, people always say target the Vets but no one ever does. This made people show some element of their skills by having to go to Paul and seek safety. Paul had to show some cards selecting 8 people to save. Fair trade on that end. However, the people he didn't save...well he now has some serious work to do. Speaking of decisions. America gets to vote for which HG is offered a 'temptation' in the temptation den. Now we can vote for what temptations players are offered but when it comes down to it...the player will have to decide whether or not to take it. With every reward there will be a consequence so if the temptation offered in the temptation den is accepted another player will have to suffer the punishment whatever that is. The first item offered? Safety for 3 weeks! Can you feel Christmas coming in July? The buzz around her is huge. She told us she has an enormous Social Media (SM)following. It's kinda a no brainer it will be Paul or Christmas since this is Broadcast BB and LF won't control the voting. I make this point because Julie told us, once a HG receives the votes for a temptation we can't vote for them again. I won't be surprised or disappointed if Christmas comes in July. I personally have a short list of players who can go ahead of her. Maybe this would give her time to step back and evaluate the board and her position in the game. Now, this is just a prediction. Casual Fans that want to see Paul on the show entertaining them will likely vote for Paul. But this Part 2 premier episode was heavy on the 'Xmas is in trouble'. Regardless of who you like I encourage everyone to vote! Christmas was on the chopping block night 1 edited in a way that showed her in fear of being sent home. She also stayed in the challenge long enough to show she can compete but not so long as to develop a growing target on her back. Being one of the fit players who naturally draws attention from any player who came to play and win. If she had been evicted I wouldn't have any more or less sympathy for her than I did for Cameron. Never throw a life or death comp in the game. Never. I may not like Cody (as a player) in the game but I respect that he held on for dear life just like Alex! Cody however is oblivious to the fact he just widened the target on his back. And the whole boo hoo Paul didn't pick me after I sat next to him saying nothing and being completely abstinent about refusals to play to him even through he had the power to save me. His hate for Paul is made up in his own little mind Just as Monte's was for Justin. PLEASE do not let Cody get offered the first temptation providing 3 weeks of safety! His ego will suffocate the first weeks of the game. If he is to stay let him earn it. I don't see too much chance of this based on his edit. Work for it and my respect and accolades can be earned. Now that this tea has left a bad taste in my mouth let's keep it moving. Josh, Josh, Josh. My man. You are no Victor. Come up with a new game plan because Paul is not feeling friendship for you man. Josh is annoying everyone in the house and I predict he will on the feeds. I haven't come across one Josh fan yet and when he was posted by CBS Big Brother on Instagram he had 32 likes! Lol. Stop impersonating Devin from BB16! Otherwise after this week of safety is over I will happily support your nomination buddy. Even though there are bigger fish to fry. There we have it. That's the relevant tea from premier night and meeting the HG. Tomorrow the feeds go live and we will get a piping hot pot of fresh tea to spill. Until then, the RealiTea is I'm looking forward to the new season and getting a front row seat on the feeds to all the drama and developments as they happen in real time!

June 28, 2017 Welcome to The RealiTea Bites! I willl be sharing the tea all season long. You wil get facts, stats, details and my personal perceptions of the players, strategies, moves, social game, and potential longevity as the weeks unfold. My goal is to both inform you and hopefully give you something new to chew on. In turn, fan feedback can help me look for things perhaps I am not seeing and broaden the vision that we all have of this season and the houseguests we will be watching for the next 3 months vie for 500k and the coveted title of Winner! I’m arriving to the party fashionably late so bare with me as I give you a window into my point of view of the players and predictions prior to the premier on Wednesday! As we all know prior to the first episode of each new Big Brother season and the feeds going live all we (fans) have to assess the players on are cast bios and preseason interviews. Small bites of the personalities and defined archetypes the show has cast the new houseguests to represent. In my experience this is actually a sound starting point. These previews provide fans enough individual information to draw some conclusions about the longevity of an individual player in the game each season if you are assessing the valuable information. So here we go! For Big Brother 19 we know of 16 HG’s. There is some chatter that Paul may be joinig the cast, and thanks to Victor and his inability to keep a secret it’s looking like this is a RealiTea. Victor posted on IG that his boy is likely going to be4 a part of the new season earlier this week. Since we don’t have confirmation yet, let’s focus on what we know! It appears to be equal playing field with 8 women and 8 men entering the game. Now, this is Big Brother, so expect the unexpected. As I checked out the cast photos what struck me initially was it was like one of the Morph challenge photo's merging the casts of Southern Charm Savannah and The Real World. I don't share this as a dig. I was pleasantly surprised and feel as though this a more diversified cast than in recent years. This perception is based both on the diversity of their physical appearance and the broadened age range of the group. We will come back to the discussion of the casts ages a little later. After checking everyone out across a myriad of platforms the next thing that struck me as unusual is the level of self awareness this cast presents during the interviews. Look, we are all fans of the show. We know there are certain people that perform better in this social experiment than others. However, nowadays there is no shortage of people you come across in your own day to day life that lack self awareness. This cast is the most self aware of their weaknesses and areas of the game that will challenge their patience the most. Now, how they apply that knowledge we will wait to see. But my initial reaction is the more you know about yourself the better advantage you can have in a game like this. I’m going to get go ahead and spill the tea on my top contenders on up front. Then I will share my impressions of each player and hopefully that will give you the logic behind my perceptions going into the first episode. These are strictly players who in my experience combined with preseeason info are most likely, in my opinion (IMO) to make it to the final 6 and have the best shot at winning. That doesn’t mean they are the players I like although there is some crossover between the two. Top 3 Female Players of the season: Raven Alex Jillian (with conditions) Top Male Players of the season: Cameron Jason Matt There you have it! Based on what I know from background information, personality types, game knowledge, and general personal information these are the players I predict have the greatest odds of making it to the second half of the game and will lead the race to being crowned the winner of BB19! Raven and Cameron are the strongest front runners if we narrow it down to statistics but we will talk about why I make that prediction a little later. Ironically, I had already established both of them as two of the front runners before I did a little number crunching this morning. I did a little digging since so many peope were debating the age of this cast. You will see why by the time today’s blog has concluded. For now let me give you what conclusions I have drawn from what information we had available. I know you must be scratching your head at a couple of these selections. Keep in my mind that this is also based on my knowledge of the game as well as comparing them to the other players we know are in the game. This list isn’t the America’s Favorite HG category. My predictions are based strictly on how I think they will likely play, who they are playing against and their overall strengths and weaknesses heading into tonight’s premier. I’m as curious as you will be to see how my opinions change once we are able to see the live interactions of this group of characters. Cameron is our token nerd. He boasts that the difference between himself and Steve/Ian is that he has a much more evolved social game. He lived with 7 partying guys in college, likes some extreme sports, and seems overall a pretty active fellow although certainly not the muscle guy archetype. If this holds true then he could be a force to be reckoned with. Cameron is a true LF fan, a very strategic minded young man (chess, rubix cubes, and yeah he’s a scientist). He’s been in a relationship for 7 years, has demonstrated some sense of humor, and if he is as self aware as he seems these are all valuable assets in making it to the end of this game. The one analogy he shared that made the strongest impression on me when talking about his planned game play was his analogy about the game strategy in relationship to playing chess. Cameron demonstrates that he understands the game unfolds in three layers. In the beginning get to know your players, form relationships. In the middle of the game you move pieces around and strategically influence the game. If you are successful then by the end you win the comps. That is a sound analysis of how this game can be won. If he can deflect the #nerdherd label and develop his relationships with HG he will have a very good chance to execute that strategy. Now winning comps at the end is the toughest challenge but you can also develop an alliance where you improve the odds of those final comp wins playing in your favor. Next up I have Jason. I know many of you probably never thought I would pick the rodeo clown. Trust me neither did I! Until I listened to his interviews. Jason is 37, one of the older male members of the cast. He’s married and has a 2 year old son. Jason is going into the game blind. Now, that in itself made me scratch my head a little. Jason has never seen the show-here's our BB19 Paul. What stuck with me, is his approach in life "I worry about where I am. I don't worry about where I'm not." He clearly is not a LF because naming James Huling, even with a reasonable qualifier, as his favorite BB HG is the same as death like 'The American' (George Clooney) building the gun that's destined to kill you. But bear with me for a moment. I was pleasantly surprised. I was primed to not like Jason as a player just based on my experience with past players but...Jason may be the odd duck with quirky personality like Renny or Chicken George that we find some connection to and find ourselves cheering for. His laid back mindset combined with charismatic personality may serve him well. I like his sense of humor. He boasts himself to be a great storyteller. True or not he needs to keep his finger on the pulse of the house because being that HG that has a story for everything rarely helps your game. The advantage he has is-he doesn’t know the game. Just like Paul (BB18) and Justin (BBOTT) the player who has no idea what to expect is less threatening than those self proclaimed super fans. He will be less threatening and if he learns as quickly as Paul he can in fact be one of the greatest threats of the game. He is a player I will watch carefully the first two weeks. If he survives the first two evictions he is in a great spot at least to make it to the second half of the game. Once you are guaranteed to make just how people interact with you shifts. Finally, my last pick for the top three male players this season was much more difficult to narrow down. I had to take my personal preferences out of the equation and then it was much easier to land on Matt. Now stay with me here because his interview left me with one word…TOAST! He is dry and as boring as toast. Plain toast. These players generally land in the middle. Survive the initial blood in the water but when its time in the mid game to send people who aren't competitors nor floaters packing it's this archetype that falls victim. The shift came as I reviewed all the other players and did a little more digging for information about Matt. There had to be more. Apparently there is. Matt is a guy’s guy. The frat guy. He doesn’t come off physically as the threat that let’s say Cody and one of my favorite personalities wise like Mark. Cody has too many annoyances that will likely work against him. I see him as a player combination of Monte (not as extreme) AND Morgan (in bed at 10 pm every night). He will be rigid, inlfexible, and off putting becasue of his lack of social game. Cody’s archetype likes his routines and based on his background has a tendency to expect people to folow him without the finesse to entice him to follow him. Whereas, Mark I actually really like, does he remind anyone else of Ronnie from The Jersey Shore. The meat head teddy bear? But when you look at the other 6 males, Josh will be gone early(Devin anyone?), Ramses will be his own worst enemy while having the right idea I see him stumbling to execute his knowledge. Ramses will be labeled a traitor sloating info to all sides and that lack of stealth technique will likely get him in hot water. Kevin is great and I was thrilled to see this archetype return but I know this game well enough to know that historically this older player is taken out in the first half. That leaves me with Matt. Matt is less physically intimidating than the males. Cody and Mark will be seen as greater physical threats creating a couple shields for him to lingere behind. Word on the street is Matt has a reputation as a total flirt and charming the ladies. Matt does know some about the game and as long as he doesn’t rub people the wrong way or align with the wrong player he can coast right into that floater mold and ease into the second half of the game. I had very strong feelings about the other 5 guys so by process of elimination Matt was the most reasonable guy to round out my top 3 males this season. In all honesty I like Mark. My gut tells me he will show a soft side disarming some but he’s young and big which suggest he will fall in with a group where he positions himself in the hirarchy where he is 2nd or 3rd in line as a threat creating a target that played differently may have been avoided. Moving on to the females, SM has been swirling with comments about the fact that the ages are much more diverse amongst the women than the men. There were a couple surprises between what I thought when I saw the fist cast photos and read the bios versus my perceptions after watching videos and checking out vrious interviews the female HG served up preseason. I didn’t think I would like Christmas and confident she would make it to the second half of the game. Megan was one of the first I felt will go out early. Remember like Vanessa and Alex (BBOTT) you can have all the right ideas and skill as far as strategic knowledge this game has layers and you can’t be heavy in one area and empty in others. The best players and ususally the winners are able to balance their assets and skills. One asset may be slightly stronger but they must possess all three. Social game, strategic moves, and competition wins. IMO, the social and strategic play must be relatively equal. While winning must be purposeful and intentional. You don’t have to win a ton of comps to be the best player or desrve the win. You do have to win some things. You have to know when to win and when to lose. Megan, while I‘ve hear many express they feel she has the right ideas and is a gamer my prediction is she is going to piss people off. She will be the downfall of her game playing too hard too fast. We all know the type. The players that sound too good always are. Especially if she shares some of her cut throat stories with other HG from the get go. She's smart and seems ruthless and in this house that female player rarely lasts to halfway point. I know a lot of people are excited about her and Christmas but I’m just going to get her name out of the way. I genuinely like Christmas and I think she will likely remain a fan favorite for a while. Her age and experience will equally benefit and harm her. She is going to be a target. I hate to say that, but come on we know this to be true. My top three female players to make it to final 6 and potentially win the season are Raven, Jillian, and Alex. Raven being my #1. She is the youngest of the females. She has been through some difficult life experiences so she has some thicker skin and is resilient. This tells me if she does in fact find herself in a sticky situation she will dance her way out of it. Raven is a dance teacher from Arkansas. Another check in her positives column is that Raven is the youngest of the female players and based on the last three seasons that is a huge factor. She says that her strategy is to lay low off radar, pull strings quietly and wait to make power move. Again a smart pregame mindset. She’s bubbly and sweet but as a dancer may be a double threat both physical and social. Raven has an intestinal condition that requires a pacemaker. Medically if this doesn’t work against her then she’s a fighter and sees everything as her 2nd chance at life. In Raven’s interviews she was smart enough to say "I'm not going to say 'no showmances' because that seems to always be the people who end up in one. Bravo Raven, Bravo! Stay out of a showmance. The negatives that can hurt her chances are the pet peeve people not washing plates and admittedly being loud. Let the dish thing roll off your back like water on a duck and be self aware about being loud ensuring it doesn’t rub people the wrong way and those things she can overcome. Stay out of a showmance! Maybe have a flirtmance but attaching yourself to the wrong person and letting someone else add elements to your game that aren’t purposeful can be toxic. Of all the interviews Raven said the Smartest thing I've heard anyone on this cast say is..."the best alliances are the ones you can't see." The pace maker thing is a toss up. People could see it as a weakness and want to target her early, smelling blood in the water. But, on the flip side people can wrongly categorize her as an easy player to take out later and those are the ones that somehow continue to be pushed back week after week until suddenly its finals and she kicks some butt. Again, as I stated earier based on facts and numbers her greatest advantage is she is the youngest female on the cast. I will explain that in a few moments. Next on my top three is Alex. Like Matt, this selection came down to process of elimination. Megan will play too hard. Christmas is going to be seen as a threat. Dominique is a tad too arrogant and her abrasive personality will wear on others, Jessica, ugh she is my least favorite and while I like Elena I just don’t see her winning the votes necessary to make it to the coveted winners seat plus I am 99.9999% convinced she will find herself in a showmance. Alex is a recruit. She defines herself as a Fan but didn’t submit an application on her own she was found on social media. Her favorite player is Janelle. I say go big or go home Alex. Big things come in little packages and she could very well be the surprise of the season. Alex is spunky but not over the top. She understands enough about the game to know she needs to align with some strong guys-becasue as she said in her interview “guys make it to the end”. She needs to stay out of a showmance in order not to derail from the path that will likely lead her to the second half of the game. She also knows if she makes it to the end, take the girl, because if she sits next to the guy the guy usually wins. Nicole BB18 was the exception to a lot of rules. IMO BB18 was one of those seasons where the females of the cast were very immature and Paul played a much better game than Nicole. As we all know too well in more recent years the best game doesn’t always win at the end. I’m excited to see what Alex brings to the season. On to my final player in the top 3 women draft of my season’s picks. Jillian. I really like Jillian. Jillina has to find a way like Matt to blend in. Here’s why…she is the second youngest of the female players and in her bio and interviews she was forgettable. I know you are rereading that to make sure you heard me correctly. In the first half of this game being forgettable is a good thing. She is somewhat athletic, she loves to rope and wall climb. She’s in sales so she knows how to deliver both a hard and soft sell to the other HG’s. She admires Danielle Donato’s game which tells me that she does know BB. If Jillian sticks to her pregame plan to come in, play nice, make some kind of alliance with one guy in the house where they exchange information about the girls and guys with each other without being figured out in the first half she can fly under the radar just long enough to come out swinging. Thats the game I love to watch! Influence things without anyone knowing you are doing so. Play a great social game on all sides of the house, show them you have some assets without making yourself a target and then as she says, later in the game reveal herself to be the villain. At that point she can make some big game moves to secure her spot in the final four. If she sticks to that agenda and stays true to herself she could find herself right where she wants to be on finale night. Now many of you may be wondering why I added a note (conditional) when I listed Jillian as my top 3 females of the season. Maybe you forgot because this is one long post but I am going to tell you anyway. This plays into possible negatives in her game. Jillian revealed in one of her interviews that she has lost 50 pounds since January. She had surgery to help with the weight loss. Way to go girl! That’s an accomplishment and shows she can do things when she puts her mind to it. But…in this house, in this game, with pretty, fit, skimpily cladded bikini women surrounding you all day we know that insecurities can get the best of the strongest females. This is very recent for her. What I know from a psychological perspective is sometimes the weight loss period of change can be faster than the mindset change. Part of making a healthy lifestyle change is developing a new internal conversation with yourself. If she hasn’t done as much work on her inner voice as she has outer body this environment can shine a very bright light on your insecurities. Paulie…need I say more? Meech? Audrey? Captain Camo? My only concern with Jillian is that being in the house with 15 other people can easily put herself under a microscope if she hasn’t actively dealt with her own self image. No one wants a repeat of Krissy’s ‘poor me’ mantra all season long. Not the fans nor the HG’s. My hope is she is ready for all that she will be faced with and rise to the challenge by focusing on her purpose for being there. To WIN! Now that I have reviewed my favorites to win and briefly shared some of the players I think will leave early or don’t have the tools to make it through this marathon let’s touch quickly on the age factor I mentioned. I heard a lot of preseason chatter about this being an older cast. People had a lot to say and it seemed as though the idea that especially the women are a little older fans were excited about. Here’s the problem with that, I ran the numbers. I am a numbers person. The average age of the casts between BB17, BB18, BBOTT, and BB19 there is a minor shift in the median age of the women from last season BB18 to this season. However, its similar to season BB17. Does it matter? Some fans think so. Now my feeling is that the ladies cast on BB18 collectively regardless of age were immature. My hope is BB19 hosts a more mature cast even though the median age mirrors BB17. What I did find when running the numbers of total cast median ages, breaking down male versus female median ages is that in all seasons, BB17, BB18, and BBOTT the youngest cast member not only won but with the exception of BBOTT both final two players in the summer seasons of BB were the youngest cast members each time. Steve 22, won BB17 and he was the youngest of the males and of the cast. Liz and Julia 23 were the youngest females and Liz 23 made it to final 2. BB 18 we had Nicole 23 and Paul 23. Nicole and Meech were the youngest females (23) and Nicole won. Paul was the youngest male. In BBOTT Morgan 22 was in fact the 2nd youngest female only one younger was Whitney who made it very far as well. Danielle was also one of the youngest cast at 23 and look where she landed! Did you realize this? What this means is the age of the houseguests and life experience discussions people are having are mute in the end. Since 2015 not only the winner but the final 2 of each Big Brother season has been the youngest members of the cast. WOW! I had not put that together until I decided to take a look at the seasons and compare them to BB19 since it was something I’ve heard a lot of comment about. Ironically, by the time I did this today I had already finalized my top 3 picks of the genders but I did giggle a bit to realize the youngest players in BB19 on both sides of the gender lines were already on my lists. Just some RealiTea Bites about the recent trend of winners at least since 2015. I will be interested to find out if this rings true by the end of BB19. If it does I may need to add another column to how I evaluate players moving forward. There we have it ladies and gentlemen. Today is the day we all get to meet the HG and the game for us begins. Remember we’ve missed the first days in the house and feeds do not go live until tomorrow night. I look forward to getting acquainted with the new HG and discovering how ‘temptations’ will alter the game as we know it! Until next time, I’ve enjoyed sipping some tea with you and look forward to an exciting summer ahead for us all!

Good morning Live feeders! Wow! What a whirlwind of a season. When CBS elected to name the online version of Big Brother Over The Top they had no idea how appropriate the name would be! As we close the feeds on the first season, hopefully not the last, of BBOTT, there are some positives and negatives that should be reflected upon. This groundbreaking format had the potential to blaze a new trail and it certainly didn't disappoint even if you aren't satisfied with the outcome. The first thought that comes to mind is be careful what you wish for. Fans have been begging for some of the elements CBS All Access delivered like less FISH and more complete access to competitions and behind the scenes action. One of my personal favorites was the opportunity to see the beginning from the beginning. The ability to see HG enter the game live and the initial interactions was a view we've never had before and one that gave fans a dynamic insight to how the relationships were formed. In a typical broadcast season the HG have been in the house co-mingling for 7-9 days before the feeds go live and one thing this season showed us is just how much than can steer the entire game. I hope moving forward this is something producers of BB consider keeping moving forward. Not having access to that in real time is the equivalent to missing some huge blow up just before a vote because the feeds are done and while they generally provide some edited version to us after the fact it can never accurately depict what really happens. Many fans really enjoyed the idea and concept of live DR's as well. For me, initially I was very excited but as time progressed what i had envisioned the benefit being and what the real time outcome was fell flat. Fans enjoy the opportunity for players to speak candidly and fill viewers in on motivations and mindset with events and game moves. However, in the first OTT season as soon as HG learned the massive hand America would have in the game the approach many HG took was arguably where this great opportunity went left. Moving ahead I don't think it's something that shouldn't be considered in the future. I do think HG who study the first season of BBOTT should take away is the knowledge that we see everything 24/7. HG were so strongly influenced by fear of America that it kept them, at times, from being as transparent as a platform of this nature could have allowed for and instead motivated them to sell a story that wasn't always based on truth. Now, if that had been purposeful strategy it would have inspired a different perception most of the time. Then again remember the huge difference in how Season 1 of BB and season 2 of BB was played. I am not just referring to the fact America decided the winner of BB1 but the second group of HG had a better idea of what they were signing up for and how to use the positives and negatives of that first season as they entered the house for the second. Fans should remember that this was not your traditional BB game. Some fans loved that aspect of this BBOTT format and others did not. What most of us realized by the end of week two is you can't apply the same measures to game play we are all accustomed to analyzing in BBOTT. America was in fact the absentee HG who played from home and for all intent and purposes ran the game for much of the season. Winning HOH always has its ups and downs but never more than this format. The only thing HOH really provided was safety and some perks. The influence of America's nominations, ACP's and America's eviction vote which was the deciding vote many times stripped the HOH power traditional BB provides. The look ol behind the curtain for events like wake up announcements, mic changes, photo shoots didn't take the magic out of the thrill for most of us. While I know there are valid reasons to limit such transparent access for the bigger production of Broadcast BB competitions I hope this is something producers give some serious consideration to moving forward. It was fantastic not losing so much access to live feeds for very lengthy periods of time overall and I am certain a balance could be achieved for both formats. Give us access that reduces the time feeds go to FISH or spent on Jeff reels. There's no harm in most of these scenarios. Especially when it comes to hours leading up to eviction night. There is something to be gained from access to those final moments and how HG prepare for that night. I am more of a purist in that I prefer formats that allow players to play. I don't care for a lot of interference from the outside and while there can be some benefits to throwing a twist and turn into the seasons as we all witnesses too much power is never a good thing. We did see HG by the 3rd make some major adjustments and that has some value in strategic acclimation to America's hand being so strong, ultimately I think it was too much for too long. If BBOTT continues I personally feel as though an America vote is far less damaging to the integrity of the game than America's ability to select nominees. Regardless of which side of the fandoms you sat at some point throughout the season this deeply impacted the game and drastically inhibited HG from executing any kind of plan each week. As for the ACP's...well I could argue both sides of this equation. So my best conclusion is if CBS wants to beat this dead horse mix the bag of tricks up a bit and don't make any of them so powerful that it has the potential to negate every move a player has made. A balance between perk and punishment may be something to consider. The ability to 'check' a player in a more direct manner could offer a new layer to this aspect. If handing out huge twists be more specific with the details so voters know exactly what they are handing someone. I think many of us would agree that if we were aware that veto for the DE was going to save two people it likely would have impacted how fans voted and dealt out ACP's from the beginning. That leads me into one other note for production which is some of the information was not easily found and links across different devices or access have different labels. Be fluid! CBS app you have to select 'Clips' to find some of the interviews and LF Highlights while if you are on CBS All Access on another format the link was labeled a completely different term. It's 2016! CBS is working to help customers who are transitioning to an all online media platform and this is one area that can be easily rectified. CBS you are delivering the goods to a primarily technologically savvy target audience and this company certainly has the resources to employ some of the best IT staff. Just be consistent and fluid across the board. Now, that I've recapped the highs and lows that have been the topics of discussions across so many BB forums...let's talk finale! I enjoyed the refreshed format! It delivered a balanced recap of the season for the most part, it didn't drag on and on! Each HG had a chance to convey some sort of perspective without adding too much time to the event. Personally, I was thrilled that Julie shared the vote went back and forth over the time period LF's were allowed to cast their selections for who should win and the fact it came down to a mere 20,000 votes! In a season where there was so much controversy over the voting and after years of never being given facts about the final numbers this was one of the highlights of the changes BBOTT offered us. In all honesty 20,000 votes if LF's cast votes both days they were afforded the opportunity to do so, that means the final decision came down to 500 people. This was absolutely a critical detail and I applaud the decision by producers to share it! Jason was the anticipated winner by MANY people whether they liked him or hated him and by being transparent the rational viewer walked away with an explanation that was reasonable. I know there are some of you who may still subscribe to conspiracy theories because you aren't pleased with the outcome but...there are plenty of explanations to quantify how the vote so many believed was locked in could end up in a huge upset delivering the win to Morgan. As most of my readers know I was team Misfits all season long. Every fan has their own set of reasons why they liked it didn't like the teams or individual players. We all have experiences in life that influence those opinions and that's just the psychology and sociological aspects of human nature. We can all witness the exact same events and have completely different perspectives on the situations. As someone who comes from an educational background in both of these fields this season delivered the social experiment that Big Brother was created to deliver! Even knowing that many of you may be surprised to hear me say I am not shocked or outraged by the outcome. Did I think of the final 3, overall looking from day 1 to day 65 by my measuring stick Jason played the best game? Yes. Did I back him 100% to the end no matter what? No. For Jason fans it's important to understand that the final weeks in the house there were many LF's who had been team Misfits and/or team Jason all season who in the final weeks didn't care for how he treated the opportunities he was given. In any voting situation players choose a path and there is always a chance the platform you choose to stand on wins or loses voters support. How Kryssie and Jason treated Justin when they were already in final 3, secured their spots, guaranteed a seat in the coveted chairs on finale, was incredibly off putting. I heard a lot of fans who ultimately threw their votes to Morgan because of this approach to the end game saying those last 10 days in he house flipped them. Jury management is a key element to winning in the end and that's true until the last (key) vote is pulled. In looking at how this could happen there is another element fans who can't understand how that could happen should be aware of. Social Media played an ENORMOUS role on voting this season. Typically half the cast is sequestered and their opinions are not vocalized in such a huge way. However, fans who were maybe not team Morgan initially that saw all the SM banter of the misfit teammates like Shane, Neely, Danielle and didn't care for what was being said or how it was being communicated had the opportunity to become allianated. I also heard people assert that they didn't care for the perceived negativity from those voices and it swayed them away from wanting to support a Jason win over Morgan. This may not be true for you but it was true for some and when an outcome is determined by such a narrow margin you have to admit 500 people who didn't like the behaviors of Jason or his alliance members outside the house you can see why this happened. Let's also not forget that Jason and Kryssie's actions and behaviors towards Justin in the final days likely didn't sit well with solo Justin fans. Justin himself the last 2-3 days he was in the house asked his fans to vote for Morgan. Again, when it comes down to 500 people you have to aknowledge that turning on Justin in the final days could have cost Jason the win. You also know while there was never a huge following for Kryssie people like Mike cast his 40 votes for his sweetheart and when every vote counts the small percentage of people who may have actually cast a vote for Kryssie did so knowing they were tipping a scale that could at the end of the day cost Jason the game. I heard chatter on plenty of misfit forums where that side of the house's fan base knew there was a chance a few votes going to Kryssie when you know she has zero chance of winning could be the difference between Morgan and Jason winning. When you consider all of those things it's actually very easy to reconcile how a mere 500 people voting for either Morgan or Kryssie over Jason prevented him from the coveted title of the first winner of BBOTT. While my opinions about the Misfits wasn't always popular I did provide facts with regards to bottom line game play I respected or didn't determining my personal opinions this season. I was team Misfits and I argued Jason played one hell of a game despite the roller coaster ups and downs of voting and outcomes even in the final weeks. What muddied the waters for me? First, the fake final 5 deal with the Plastics. There was zero strategic value to that move. It was personal and it literally cost Danielle her game which saddened me at the time. While she may have been annoying to listen to on the feeds she played one heck of a game, made some impactful moves, slayed comps, and survived several weeks where America and the Plastics came for her hard and the one emotional decision to go along with Jason to give the preverbal finger to the girls just for the fun of it left her with absolutely no lifeline and sent her home the next week. It was the second dumbest move of the season for team misfits. Had there been some strategic value I could have overlooked it but there was not. While I understood the sentiment after being lied to and mislead by Alex and Morgan they felt like why shouldn't they repay them for all the times it was done to them that's a personal move. Those rarely provide positive outcomes in this game. The biggest mistake game wise that Jason made all season was sending Alex out that week over Morgan. I said it then, even though I knew the momentum of this fan base was to nominate Alex, I knew Morgan leaving heading into DE was the better game move. She was almost guaranteed that veto ACP if she stayed and that changed everything! They knew there was a DE. They knew the minute they voted one (Morgan/Alex) out 4 misfits (with Whitney knowing Alex had to go) they would have still had the odds on their side to send Alex home right after Morgan. Shelby didn't have an ACP. Alex couldn't receive the ACP, had they sent Morgan home that night either Danielle or Justin would have gotten that all important Veto and Jason would have been safe anyways since it saved two people and instead the decision to send Alex out over Morgan knowing she was eligible was the worst game move of the season by far! They had all the information they needed to make the best strategic decision, there were 6 people in the house and only 4 competing in that DE HOH and they chose wrong. Now, did they make the decision from an emotional stand point. No not completely, Jason couldn't compete in he DE HOH, coming off his CO-HOH ACP and in the house hats a scary thing. However, Dani or Justin receiving that ACP knowing they had increased drastically in power each passing week should have prompted Jason to realize leaving a Plastic in the game who was still eligible was a huge risk and one that in this case saved both Morgan and Shelby that night and that was the start of the unraveling of the shot Jason had at the title. This was a polarizing season right down to the final moment. As with anything there were highs and lows. Sometimes I loved it and other times I was so disenfranchised from the process. One thing is for certain though this was like no other BB season any of us has ever seen and it stayed true to the bottom line in any BB game...Expect the Unexpected! Congratulations Morgan. Your game may not have been the type I personally prefer but at the end of it all it's who sits in those final seats and wins the popular vote that matters and girl you are the winner of BBOTT! We will all have to wait until some time next summer to know for sure if there will be a BBOTT 2, so until then...thank you for supporting Morty's TV and this blog!

It was a weekend of nothing more than both sides isolated from the other and trash talk all around. I had no desire to write about the Garbage being spewed by anyone but today it's all about the the Veto! If you would like to FB and watch the ACP was delivered on Friday afternoon. Justin of course received it by default since he was the only HG still eligible. The "challenge" was quite simple which I was happy to see. This is after all and ACP so it shouldn't have some difficult task attached to it. This is BB though so i was concerned they may make it something like the 24 hour sword punishment Shelly had in BB17 with the sword and something similar needing to be done like 2500 times in one day. Justin had to complete to receive the benefit of the final ACP begins his 2 hour "practice period" at 2:40 pm. He was given only one official attempt which occurred at 4:45 pm 11/18. On Sunday, we confirm that Morgan nominated Jason/Kryssie for eviction after Justin successful completed the Final Four ACP challenge. This gave him safety and left Shelby vulnerable if anyone other than Shelby/Morgan wins Veto. If anyone else wins Jason or Kryssie comes down and Shelby is the only HG left to be the renom. Monday, 11/21 1:19 pm Veto Begins HG play one at a time and have to crawl through a corn maze seeking three ears of corn and make it back to the finish exit with all three ears of corn and hit the buzzer to stop their clock. Justin can be heard reading the rules and explanation of the Veto comp at 1:19 pm.. As usual the player with fastest time wins! Justin started first. Jason rounded up the crew. Shelby second, Morgan went third 1:48 pm and I suggest you FB to her because she has a complete hissy fit when she can't find the 3rd ear! Morgan found the first two ears of corn and then cannot find the third. She proceeds to insist the 3rd ear isn't there, complains for several minutes, going on and on about rigging, her knees hurting, etc... After all these weeks of everyone being so critical of Kryssie and small fits every single player in the house has had over one comp or another, I was thoroughly entertained by Morgan's 11+ minute debacle. I enjoyed watching her chance at saving Shelby slip through her petty little fingers. Once everyone has played the HG head to the BY at 2:47 pm to get the results! Morgan clearly knows she's likely going to be in last place. Justin was excited to see his time was so quick just under 2 min. Once Shelby sees her time is well past both Kryssie and Justin's times you can see her face and body language quickly shift knowing this is the end of her game. With Jason's time the last to be revealed we discover that JASON WINS VETO! Only by 20+ seconds over Justin who placed second. Morgan placed last and Shelby second to last! As many of you know I'm not a Shelby fan but I have credited her for some more recent accomplishments and ability to survive since week 5. Those wins made her a player I was happy to see compete and finally begin to build a resume fans could justify considering her at the end. Did I want her in final 3? Well, certainly over Morgan and even perhaps over Kryssie. I don't care which side of fandom your preference lies, there's no argument based on the final four Jason has played a well rounded game, he's won enough competitions, weaponized the ACP's that worked against he and the misfits from week 3-week 5 and the DE. Jason has played strategically and despite being a large target when everyone entered the BBOTT house has done a great job despite some of his less than desirable comments along the way. Quite frankly everyone is guilty of that this season. Of the HG's who remain in the house Morgan is literally the least deserving as a actual player and I don't give Kryssie too much more credit. IMO, Kryssie does have a slight edge over Morgan because she made a lot of efforts prior to week 5 that helped the Misfits survive. She's been OTB numerous times as a pawn but she's still there. Jason/Justin/Kryssie started together week 1 and although there's been some bumps along the way all 3 have successfully managed to make it to final 4 in tact. That's an accomplishement any way you slice it. This leaves: Jason, Shelby, Justin in that order of the three who have all done enough to deserve a monetary gain for their individual accomplishments all season long. The problem is I know, as do Jason and the misfits, if Shelby made it to the end she would be very likely to win. I've been a Misfit fan since week 1 and I would be overjoyed with either a Jason or Justin win. Fortunately, thanks to Jason's veto win today the Misfits get to stay together! Morgan will be up against 3 players in the final HOH later this week. If Jason or Kryssie win that HOH, Jason will be in final 3. I am not so sure about that if Justin wins the final HOH...but how much do we really have to worry about that? He's a little more unpredictable only because he knows sitting next to Jason versus Morgan may not be in his best interest. Morgan would send Jason home without blinking. If this works like final 4 does in broadcast BB, with an HOH and one HG not on the block, no veto in play, it seems likely whichever HG isn't HOH or a nominee has the sole vote to evict. Remember in normal BB, final four is all about the Veto. Since there may not be a veto next week the only other solution is the player who isn't OTB still has the sole vote to evict. After the results are revealed from the Veto comp today Morgan and Shelby spend the hour following today's veto comp crying and consoling each other. Shelby seems as though she's not overly upset since she tells Morgan, "it's ok, I will get out, find out my bar exam results and this will be a speck in my Life. That's it! Tomorrow's veto ceremony Jason will take himself off the block, Shelby will go up next to Kryssie. Justin and Jason will vote to evict Shelby on Wednesday night!

Eviction Day is upon us. Almost of us know Monday’s Veto competition resulted in Shelby winning the veto after America’s Nominee was announced and Morgan joined Danielle and Jason OTB. To no one’s surprise Shelby used the POV on Tuesday to remove Morgan from he block. Before this occurred there were a few events LF’s should be aware of if you haven’t been as active on the feeds as before. Monday, after Morgan was named America’s Nominee Shelby and Morgan had a conversation in the HOH, where Morgan declared that she may reveal to Kryssie that Alex was her sister. Morgan’s line of thinking here was to reassure Kryssie that Morgan is loyal to the new final four alliance, Jambalaya Gang which is composed of Shelby, Morgan, Justin, and Kryssie. Morgan’s goal is to make Kryssie feel confident enough in the new alliance to persuade both Kryssie and Justin to throw week 8’s HOH competition. Shelby isn’t eligible in the upcoming HOH, Morgan is not feeling 100% confident in Kryssie’s dedication to the new alliance beyond this week and knows that if J/J/K wins the next HOH she and Shelby will be the likely nominees. Morgan shares with us in her DR, Tuesday evening that Shelby, as much as she's her best friend in the house, is a threat to Morgan’s chances to winning the game and even if someone else were to win the next HOH, it’s likely they would target Shelby over her, but she doesn’t want to leave anything to chance. Fast Forward to Tuesday 12:48 pm KIT, Morgan reveals to Kryssie that she wants the next HOH so she can be the one to take out Jason. Her motivation comes from Jason, taking Alex out and Alex is her sister. Morgan vastly underestimates Kryssie’s loyalty to Jason. While, I appreciate that after 7 weeks Morgan wants to make a strategic move to help further her game, I see this as a very risky move that could in fact backfire on Morgan next week. Now that she has revealed this sister twist to someone other than Shelby, it is possible other HG’s will begin to consider the fact that Morgan not only has the ‘Plastics’ fan base, her own fan base, but admits she will now likely also pull fans from Alex’s fan base as well. Before revealing this Shelby’s sudden arrival on the competition scene had the focus on the threat Shelby now posed to other HG’s chances of winning the game. Morgan, who has done just as little if not less than Kryssie all season long, had many in the house feeling like she was a goat to bring to the end. Kryssie tells us in her Live DR during last night’s weekly recap episode that she believes Morgan is lying about the sister twist, Morgan is a terrible liar and must think Kryssie is stupid. LOL. Well, Kryssie if you don’t believe her then you are. If you watch Kryssie’s face when Morgan rev ears this to her (which a clip of this convo was also in last night’s recap) you can see that Kryssie really doesn’t give this secret any validity, she doesn’t show any surprise, it’s basically Kryssie’s manikin face as Morgan admits Alex is her sister and that’s her motive for wanting Jason out. I will come back to this in a moment but first let’s expand on my initial point which is that Morgan and Kryssie are equal in this game as players. I know some of you may require some facts to establish why I see Kryssie and Morgan as equal from my point of view. Presumably, some of you may be stuck on my assertion that Morgan’s game ranks in the same area as Kryssie’s game. I know that many LF’s are not Kryssie fans, which overall I do agree with when comparing her to the other HG’s game play. Let me clarify my perception of the overall resumes of them both to establish my assertion here: Kryssie Morgan 1 HOH comp victory 1 Veto comp victory Stayed loyal to original alliance Stayed loyal to original alliance (Kryssie’s was 100% a voluntary choice) (Morgan aligned w/ her sister so arguably & her own biases influenced circumstances) Influenced strategy all season Road Alex’s coat tails, then Shelby’s (w/ little active application except first 3 wks) (after Monte no active application until now) Brought Neely into their fold, lasted 5 wks Handled Monte securing him for first 2 wk (No Morgan never really gained Neely) Least valuable game player w/Misfits Least valuable game player w/Plastics The fact Morgan pulled off hiding the sister twist as long as they did, was an accomplishment in any BB game. I credit her with that. However, aligning with her sister and isolating herself from every other HG because as she says “I just can’t take those people, they’re horrible people, there was no way I could work with anyone but my sister once we got in the house strangled her game play. Aligning with her sister and playing to keep two people safe vastly effected and IMO drastically limited Morgan’s opportunity to be an active game player and would have played VERY differently had she not aligned in an all girl’s alliance or choosing to each pick a side of the house and just meet up on the sly while keeping each other safe on opposing sides of the house could have given Morgan active control over how her game played out and she chose the self created limiting path. One is amazing and one is just marginal at best which cancels each other out. Much of the information Morgan based her direction on was a result of her won inability to integrate herself into any dynamic regardless of personal opinions. She managed to do it just fine with regards to Monte’s behaviors but chose never to apply that same effort with anyone on the other side of the house ever! Still last night, Shelby and Morgan were in the HOH room talking crap about Danielle. It’s week 7 and since the first day everyone walked into the house this clique was jealous and threatened by Danielle and they have been unable to move past that first step the entire game. 10:47 pm cam 1 HOH BR Morgan/Shelby as the camera cuts from KIT to HOH We find them talking about Shane. Both are telling him he needs to go ahead and cut his hair and then he can hang out with them. Admit they talk to him zero times in the house, but if he sits his hair he can cut the line with them in Vegas. Conversation turns to Shane/Danielle situation. Shelby Has Danielle said she’s moving to NC afterwards? M Did you hear her talking about Raleigh today? S Really? HA HA HA M No one was listing to her. She is not moving to NC1 S (sarcistically) Yes SHE IS! They’re meant to be together! M Shane has forgotten all about Danielle S Shane has f*cked a girl name Stacy since leaving this house M Shane is not watching the show, Shane does not care about BB S Shane ism busy visiting our Heavenly Father, he’s busy turning water into wine. He doesn’t have time for Danielle. HA HA HA HA HA HAHAHA M I wish that had put Shane’s picture somewhere other than the middle so your’s could be there. S I wish Shane could have turned more water into wine so we could have some alcohol. Ok, let’s more sh*t about people that were here! M Ok, um… S Neely! Neely, you said we were all racist. But it’s kind a racist of you to assume that all white people are racist. Morgan is much smarter than Shelby in this moment, her face changes a bit and she doesn’t reply to that comment which Shelby clearly feels the cold breeze in response to the comment and says… Shelby She won’t say that but I will! Neely you thought I was dumb. M Joke’s on you. Let’s talk about someone else, how about Cornbread Shelby CB is probably off somewhere belly flopping in a mud pit. Hey CB maybe if you stop jumping into mud pits maybe your feet wouldn't be so f*ing disgusting! HA HA HA HA HA I’m not going to follow the whole rant, you could rewind to any point in the season and listen to these girls say these kinds of things all season long. It’s these very opinions and perceptions that created such a drastic divide in the house and both sides have continuously rinsed and repeated this behavior to some degree or another all season long. The point of it is that Morgan gets a huge deficit in her resume from me because it was this attitude and behavior that she used to limit her own game. At least the misfits tried for 5 weeks to build some kind of various bridges to the other side despite their opinions of the character and personalities of the players on the opposing side of the house. They all attempted repeatedly week after week to find some way to establish a social game connection with the exception of Danielle. The secret being revealed to Kryssie could be as huge of a bad game move as Danielle making that fake 5 person alliance with the Plastics. Jason is Kryssie’s ride or die. Whether she thinks it’s a lie to manipulate her or not she will share it with Jason. Kryssie’s goal is to go to the end with Jason and if Jason sees this secret as much of a threat as I would, having this information moving forward is very valuable. Him not knowing that Morgan managed to pull off not only a loyal all girl’s alliance but managed to play in secret for 6 weeks with her own sister. Jason will see that for the commodity it has the potential to be in assessing players at the end when America decides the winner. In Jason’s mind and the other remaining Misfits when they all realize Morgan is likely telling the truth will no longer see her collectively as one of the weakest players they would want to sit next to at the end. That meager resume just got padded by Morgan herself and if that’s the case this becomes one of the biggest mistakes of the season. Morgan has proposed a final three deal with herself, Justin, and Kryssie. Justin feeds her standard lip service as you would expect. Justin has come to the understanding that with only 5 players left after this week, although he may be guaranteed the ACP he has to carefully determine which HG’s he would want to be at the end with. He reveals in his DR that his trust in Jason and Danielle bottomed out after last week and then the pair trying to offer him up to save themselves with Shelby/Morgan. Justin confirms Kryssie is still the one alliance member he will remain loyal to, he gives her accolades for her unwavering loyalty to him since the beginning and wants her to be next to him in final 3. Justin also reveals moving forward Jason and Shelby need to go so that he can only face Morgan and Kryssie in the end. Shelby is no surprise if you have followed Justin carefully all season. Jason became a sacrificial lamb for Justin in week 6 and that hasn’t wavered. Jason entered week 7 in a much better position than he will be leaving week 7. Danielle has accepted defeat on Tuesday. She accepts its the end of her time, says she wont campaign against Jason since she doesn’t see it being beneficial and hopes Jason makes it to the end since this has been his life long dream. The only person Danielle blames is Justin. While I think Danielle has played the hardest and most strategically accomplished game this season her attitude towards Justin doesn’t sit well with me. She just put Justin OTB last week during DE and seriously considered sending him home. Danielle agreeable for no valuable reason faked the final 5 deal along with Jason last week and by her own hand made herself the biggest target in the house over Justin and Jason. Danielle has been OTB 5 times out of 7 evictions now and while she managed to save herself or had enough loyalty from her team to save her in the first four occurrences she has no one to blame for this nomination but herself. She had a chance to play in veto and save herself and failed. There’s nothing she could say or do to gain Shelby and Morgan’s trust because in one week she made 3 different deals with the girls and broke every single one of them with the fake final 5 being for no other reason than just retaliate which was a personal game move that Danielle has said all season long she would never make. Justin is not the least bit sad to see Danielle go. He does try in his normal fashion to be friendly and kind to Danielle all day yesterday and she rolls her eyes at the camera, talks trash to Kryssie and Jason about Justin and doesn’t reply to almost any gesture Justin makes to be friendly. He has never trusted her. I agree he is a little bitter she chose Shane over him but more importantly Justin knows Dani is the biggest threat to win the game. There is potential for Justin to swing back in Jason’s direction depending on how he reacts to hearing that Morgan and Alex are sisters. I think how he reacts will have a lot to do with what Jason has to share about his opinion on how a secret like that could make Morgan a front runner to win the game. Jason has decided he will fight for this week’s HOH. Prior to his latest DR he had been saying for two weeks he didn’t want to win week 8 HOH because he feels like winning week 9 will be life or death in assuring he gets to the final 3. After this week played out Jason knows he will need it this week because Justin, Morgan, and Shelby would vote him out if he was a nominee he wouldn’t have the votes to stay. Jason needs to put Morgan/Shelby OTB together. If one comes down then he could possibly take the shot at Justin, but again I think if he latches onto the value of the sister twist he will also seriously reconsider his own perfect final 3 scenario. Morgan has to win the week 8 HOH to secure her safety. Justin will stay with her, Kryssie will likely out of circumstance stay with her, Shelby will be safe and vote with her. Morgan would likely target Jason over Shelby but if Jason comes down Shelby is virtually guaranteed to go home on Morgan’s HOH. Tonight’s weekly episode’s time has been changed to 8pm ET/5 PM PT, the live eviction will follow. As of now Danielle is still going home, but there’s an entire day to get through so I’m never certain of an eviction until the name on the card is read. It seems to be time for an endurance challenge but nothing has been predictable with competitions this season. As a long time fan I actually appreciate that and feel like it adds a long overdue shift in the game this season that I hope they begin to fold into the Broadcast seasons moving forward. I am tired of the individually timed comps being played over and over the last couple weeks and since this HOH secures someone in final 4 I expect it to be one that HG’s have to fight for. Remember final four HOH this season is the one that guarantees the spot in final 3 and final three there will be no three part HOH competition.

Black Friday in BBOTT 11/11/16 So much has happened over the weekend! We are at final 6 with less than 3 weeks to go in the game and in order to understand the happenings by the time Safety Ceremony came around on Saturday, and Shelby elects to keep Kryssie/Justin safe first we need to go back to Friday. Here are the key events, TS, and deals that were both proposed and accepted which lead to the unexpected events at Saturday's Safety Ceremony where many LF's were perplexed as to why Shelby elected to chose 2 misfits to keep safe right out of the gate rather than one with Morgan and then await finalizing what her plan. Instead Shelby chose to save Justin and Kryssie first and then waits until the final Safety Ceremony on Sunday to give Morgan safety. As soon as she did that she meanders downstairs to face the group and states: My nom's are Danielle and Jason. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Then Shelby turns walks away and marches right back upstairs without another word. To ensure everyone has a clear path to how this unfold we need to travel back to Black Friday in the BBOTT house. With Shelby as the new HOH, and Morgan feeling safe, the duo starts the day shopping for the best deals they can find. The ladies aren’t celebrating too much because Shelby realizes although she will have the power this week, next week she is at a huge disadvantage. Morgan knows that leaves her fighting in the next HOH 3 against 1 to try and secure she and Shelby where a final ACP will be in play. Shelby and Morgan are very aware of the ACP, the fact the power has gotten stronger with each one, and if they keep Danielle, they cannot count on it helping them in any way. As the morning begins the girls become aware that Justin has no intention of coming and talking with the HOH, assuming he will be one of the nominees and the target so he just needs to win the veto. Jason arises early (10:25 am cam 1/2) and makes his way up to the HOH to have the first pitch of the day: Explains Dani/Jason got cold feet about sending Justin home on DE and Whitney was a bigger threat. Jason tries to sell the girls on there are actually three pairs now, Jason/Danielle, Shelby/Morgan, Jason/Kryssie. Kryssie/Justin clearly America’s favorites and no one should let them get to the end because they will win based on popularity. Shelby counters that doesn’t even make any sense no one is giving Kryssie $250k for doing nothing all season long. If Shelby and Morgan can forgive and forget Jason and Danielle will align with them in a final four deal (for real this time, wink, wink). Shelby says why would they ever trust them again after breaking deal after deal and Jason continuously preaching loyalty to his alliance and repeatedly points out in most of Jason’s proposals that they were the very points sold in the fake five deal they made just to be cruel and why would they believe them now? They are ready to take Justin out, he puts more blame in Danielle for not wanting to send Justin home, and if Justin/Kryssie are the nominees America will probably nominate Danielle. Also tries to inform them that Kryssie freaked out at the thought of evicting Justin and trolled Danielle and Jason the rest of the night to keep Justin safe arguing that Kryssie has been very strategic all season, does a lot of the game talk, plays the game like chess and avoids being involved in any of the fights. Shelby tells Jason not to try and sell her that chess versus checkers BS. Jason sells they kept Justin thinking Whitney could win comps and Justin can’t win anything and there are only 5 comps left. Shelby counters saying why then do we take out the one guy who can’t win comps now? He’s the one you want to keep then? Jason says he wont try to win the next HOH and they will be playing veto for Shelby this week. Jason says Danielle and Jason are going to be the only one offering them a deal this week and Kryssie and Justin wont offer them anything. Danielle will be guaranteed the ACP if Justin goes. Do they think Justin will ever use the ACP to help them? 12:04 PM Cam 3/4 Camera zooms in on Shelby putting a new pair of socks on HOH. They are of course little ducks which are reminiscent of Pablo, the irony is not lost on me. Either way you look at it, “Sitting ducks," or Pablo socks you can’t deny that it’s a relevant small thing to take note of when the camera literally makes a point of zooming in on the socks. Danielle enters the HOH BR (12:06 pm cam 3/4) to follow up on Jason’s meeting earlier this morning. Danielle as she passes through the kitchen asking Morgan if Shelby is busy, makes point to ask Morgan if she’s coming back up to the HOH. This was subtle but a smart maneuver, emphasizing she is aware the talk should include Morgan even though Shelby is HOH. Danielle begins with the point that if Shelby doesn’t put Danielle up, America likely will and that prevents Morgan from being AN. Blames Kryssie for the flip back to Whitney on DE, that Kryssie made her feel as though if she evicted Justin, now Kryssie would turn against her as well. Shelby says why would I believe then if we take out Justin this week, you will actually take out Kryssie next week. Danielle feels like there’s more of an opportunity to work with Shelby/Morgan now that Alex is gone. Argues this is a great week to take out Justin since there is no threat of an ACP. Shelby points out that means Danielle is guaranteed the last ACP how does that benefit S/M? Danielle emphasizes that Justin used the Veto to save Kryssie in a way to drive home the point that while the four of them are a group, it’s a group of two pairs. J/D and J/K the loyalties of the pairs to each other supersedes the foursome. It’s good to note that this is the first time I’ve seen either Jason/Danielle make pleas or arguments that literally contradict what their intent is, rather makes the very point they are trying to deflect. They are usually very methodical about what to say and not say. For example, we saved Justin last week because Whitney was more of a comp threat, which really sells Justin as a good person to keep going into the last 5 comps. Keep Danielle and eliminate Justin then Dani gets the ACP. but how does that help Shelby at all, why would she ever think helping Danielle be guaranteed final four be a better choice than the guy they just said can’t win the final comps once they all reach final 4. I said it when it happened, the scam to lie to the Plastics, making a fake final 5 deal before the week 6 veto was used and gas lighting the girls for personal reasons that had little to no game value was a self imposed bomb detonated on their own games. This is the one tactic in this game that never gains any favor with me as a fan. Don’t be mean just to be mean when the motive has zero game value. The only benefit I saw to doing it at the time was it prevents the Plastics from trying to swing votes and really going to work by making them feel completely safe. With the week playing out as it has, Jason/Danielle have made themselves the largest targets in the game where Justin had been a shield in their minds and had a lot to do with why they eventually elected to evict Whitney over Justin. If you’re a fan of either it’s important to realize as this week plays out that the situation they now find themselves in was created by their own plans, actions, and efforts. They had Alex/Morgan where they wanted them, they controlled the votes, they never really emphasized they were doing it strategically to prevent the Plastics from possibly successfully pulling off a hail Mary and flipping one of the votes because the possibility of Kryssie/Justin flipping and voting against Whitney in any scenario was not a concern. Danielle and Justin are the only two HG’s eligible for the final ACP which to be clear, is not guaranteed final four just by receiving the ACP. The HG who receives the most votes will have an opportunity to compete in a “challenge” which if successfully completed, then and only then, automatically advances to the final four. Essentially, how I interpret that is if either Justin/Danielle does accomplish the task they will get safety for week 8 (guaranteeing final 4), unable to be nominated, leaving only 3 HG’s for the week 8 HOH to choose for nominations. This leaves the third person not nominated a sitting duck. If the veto comes into play they are the only replacement nominee available. If either Justin or Danielle goes home this week, the other will automatically receive the final ACP and no vote will be necessary just like the last week of HN’s when there were only 3 HG’s eligible. Shelby and Morgan, rightfully, do not trust one thing Jason/Danielle has proposed. The irony is the entire reason none of the misfits ever bartered a deal with Alex or the Plastics was the fact they were always lying to them about who they were voting, or breaking deals saying they wouldn’t nominate someone and then did anyway. Now they felt making the final 5 just to repay them as one final dig has left them in that exact same situation. You NEVER burn bridges in this game unless you are 100% certain it’s one you will never need to cross again in an emergency. Now the emergency has occurred and there’s no outlet for Jason and Danielle. 12:26 pm Kryssie drags herself into the HOH for her one on one chat just a minute after Danielle leaves. Kryssie doesn’t offer much. No surprise there. She focuses on not wanting to let people who already have money went he game. The only pertinent information she spills is the fact that Jason/Danielle planned to make the final 5 deal with the Plastics for no other reason than to just get revenge on Morgan since the girls have lied to their side over and over all season. Kryssie also tells the Shelby that Justin has no intention of coming up to talk to Shelby, he’s been saying he knows he’s going up and just will have to win the veto. Kryssie leaves the HOH at 12:52 pm Shelby doesn’t like the fact that Justin is assuming he is the target. After the fake deal the target he had on his back shifted to Danielle/Jason and she hopes that Justin will in fact at least try to come talk to her. IMO, this stems from Shelby’s HOH week 6, he did go and talk to her and Shelby had plenty to say about Justin’s comments which got back to Justin. This is likely why he sees no value in talking to her, since he feels like she really didn’t listen to what he said her first HOH and he knows that Morgan/Shelby were pushing for him to go on DE night. 12:53 pm cam 1/2 IWR Kryssie and Jason are joined by Justin who just left the KIT passing by Morgan on his way through. Morgan heads up to the HOH now that Kryssie has returned downstairs. Jason is sharing that he already talked to them and that Shelby just seems so pissed about the final 5 deal and DE she’s not trying to listen to anything he had to say. Justin tells Jason he thinks she’s just going to put him (Justin) up OTB. Justin says he might have to go upstairs and talk to her. He says he will go talk to her but he believes she’s going to put Jason/Justin OTB together and thats why he knows its important for him to win the veto. 12:54 pm cam 3/4 HOH BR Justin enters the HOH where Shelby and Morgan were just discussing Kryssie’s ridiculous arguments and the fact that Justin had no plans to come up and talk to her. Justin I know for a fact that you are probably going to be putting me OTB this week. Just because I just know. Obviously I am not a major threat in this game because I suck at every competition. Shelby Here’s the thing, if I were to take out Danielle, I would be guaranteeing you a care package. Justin is caught off guard by this assertion. He replies that well, if you take me out Danielle gets it so he doesn’t really understand their point. Morgan Well, what if we took Danielle out, which would guarantee you that last ACP, is there some kind of deal we could work out with that? Justin With the ACP, with ya’ll being safe? Morgan Something along those lines. The discussion soon turns into what the ACP could be. Everyone understands that the ACP’s have gotten stronger and more powerful every week. Shelby and Morgan tell Justin his will guarantee he makes it to final four. It may have some other added value but the bottom line they are emphasizing to whims that if they take out Danielle this week, not only keeping him safe this week but by assuring he will get the final ACP in will keep him safe next week as well. Justin seeks some clarification on what they are asking of him in return. The girls propose he can choose the one player he wants to protect moving forward, and Shelby informs he she heard that he assumed she was putting him on the block and that’s not true. The mood is VERY different in this conversation than it has been with the other 3 HG’s today. Justin and Morgan commiserate about their collective poor performances in the competitions. Shelby initially says she’s not ready to make a solid deals but is feeling Justin out to see where his head is at if she does target Danielle over Justin could they negotiate some deals here? Shelby What’s scary for me is I know you hate me. Justin I don’t hate you! I don’t hate you at all, I don’t hate you or her. Shelby finally gets to the question that makes the most sense in Justin’s mind. She asks: If I take Danielle out this week, next week there is 5 of us, you will be safe you will get the ACP, final four, whether you win HOH or not, but if you won HOH who would you want to take out next? Justin starts to say he feels like he’s making a deal with the…. Shelby says I’m not ready to make a deal yet…but I can MAKE YOU a great deal this week! If you haven’t watched this convo you should. Don’t be confused by this, Morgan hinted to Justin downstairs right before this that he needed to go up and talk to Shelby. Then Jason/Kryssie talking in the IWR told him they both told Shelby he wouldn’t go up and talk to her. Once he does, Justin is not the one who initiates any kind of deal or negotiations, it’s Shelby and Morgan in fact that propose a deal to him. They even suggest he can pick one other person he wants to save along with him, like Kryssie. This leads to the final four deal many discussed over the weekend. The entire convo lasts less than 10 minutes and turns Justin’s entire week around. 1:07 pm HOH The girls are alone and discussing the convo’s with both Kryssie and Justin. You also hear their reasoning for making this deal with J/K which is they feel like if they get tot the end with Justin and/or Kryssie they each can make a stronger argument as to why they should win over those two. Where they don’t feel like they can every argue to beat Jason or Danielle in a final 3 scenario. I agree with this over Kryssie 100%, Justin however his popularity has risen and fallen and risen over the season, but making this deal is a BIG move and him being the hand that helps get Danielle out is a major game move so if he wins a couple comps this last two weeks he could in fact be a force to be reckoned with against someone like Morgan especially. The other important intel all these HOH 1-1 convos have provided is that everyone (except Justin) has said their #1 is Jason. Danielle wants to keep Jason safe and make a deal for both of them. Kryssie claims Jason is her #1 and wants to protect him as much as possible. Justin on the other hand claims Kryssie although in a few minutes you will see at this point, on Friday, his efforts are to keep Jason and Kryssie safe and eliminate Danielle who he has in fact wanted out for quite some time. He was itching to vote her out week 3! While Justin is upstairs you can see Jason, Kryssie, and Danielle conspiring downstairs in the IWR. At one point Danielle says she hopes she (Shelby) doesn’t tell Justin oh they are trying to send you home. -Ok. Now I want to take a moment here to remind everyone, this is the game! We are at final 6. Shelby has HOH which means two of the Misfits will go up and they have to plan of one of them to go home. It’s literally every player for themselves. It always is at final 6. Danielle and Jason ran upstairs lickity split and offered up Justin. Justin did not go up there with a master plan to throw anyone under the bus, but the situation to save himself was presented to him and he would be an absolute fool not to take that deal. He is smart enough to understand if he helps the girls get out Danielle, who is the biggest threat to win the game at this point, it not only keeps himself safe, it keeps Jason and Kryssie safe who are in fact and always have been his original alliance. After Justin leaves the HOH and heads downstairs with the others briefly in the IWR. He tells them he didn’t really have anything to offer them he just focused on the fact he doesn’t win anything. Says it is what it is. Just gotta win veto. Other than that all his ‘teammates’ sit there very quietly and it’s awkward and clearly a different vive than usual among this foursome. BB announces the OLD is over and Danielle and Jason quickly exit thankful they can go outside this afternoon. As soon as they do 1:14 pm Justin whispers to Kryssie he needs to talk to her but he and she could be good, it’s unfortunate but this game is crazy. Kryssie asks if he wants to wait until Danielle goes outside and Justin nods yes. Justin It’s terrible but…this will guarantee me and you will be safe but it’s twisted. K Jason? J IDK They don’t trust Jason/Danielle at all. They wanna get her out of here this week, that guarantees me the ACP. She’s talking final four me, you and them two. You know that’s not what I want to do, but I gotta do what I can to keep me safe and this keeps me and you safe, and then after two weeks I can do what I want to do. We gonna be good. I don’t wanna do this, but I had to tell them whatever they want to hear and that keeps me and you safe this week. Justin tells Kryssie he will need her to go back upstairs and talk to them. 1:19 pm KIT after Danielle heads outside Justin breaks down the deal to Kryssie. They want h I'm to promise to take them to final four. But I want Jason, straight up. He explains throwing Danielle UTB he can see, the only reason she kept him is because she knew she was gonna lose ya’ll. This goes back to what Kryssie sold Justin that night after DE was over and she throws Danielle UTB to Justin. Kryssie does go back upstairs later on Friday which leads to an actual (fake) final four deal between Kryssie/Justin/Shelby/Morgan and they name their alliance the Jambalaya Gang at Justin’s suggestion. This covers the black Friday’s deals that Shelby had the opportunity to shop. Morgan and Shelby were in fact smart to approach Justin and Kryssie after the experiences they’ve had trying to make deals with Danielle and Jason the last week or so. Justin and Kryssie have to prepare to possibly lose one of their own and this secured both their safety and if they can keep Danielle OTB keeps Jason safe as well since those two will control the vote 2-1 over Morgan at this point in the game. Saturday Justin and Kryssie eventually make it clear to Jason they are going to do everything they can to keep Jason safe and get Danielle out. Initially, this shocks Jason and doesn’t go over too well, but once it sinks in and Justin makes it clear that he has already promised Shelby and Morgan that if he wins Veto he will take America’s nominee down with the veto and they will vote Danielle out there isn’t much Jason can complain about. This plan if it works keeps Jason safe this week.

Wednesday night’s first live eviction was a moment celebrated by many misfit fans. It’s not for me so much the demise of the Plastics instead it is the end of Alex’s time in the game. When we began this season, go back and read the early blogs, I warned LF’s that a voting war between the two fan bases would inevitably damage the integrity of the game. Now that we are down to the final 8, it was in fact that battle that led to an earlier demise of Alex’s game. Once weeks 3-5 played out with nearly every vote going to the Plastics without any consideration for the effects that approach to voting would have on their favorite players, I pleaded with Misfit fans not to be disenfranchised from BBOTT. Everything in the universe has an equal and opposite reaction. Do I think this was the right move? We will get back to that. Don’t be disillusioned, Alex would have blown up her own game without the voting forcing the issue. Her refusal to play fluidly in a game like this and isolating herself from a large group of HG’s was a critical error that would leave her without a lifeline when it came down to the final weeks. Breaking deals and lying are often a part of this game. Those choices have to be calculated and delivered with finesse in order to not leave people losing all trust and confidence in you. Whether its true or not people must view another player as someone they can work with down the road or trust when an idea or deal is being offered. A critical error in Alex’s early game play was the arrogant attitude that people should just accept this approach and she shouldn’t be subjected to any kickback for doing so. A key element on navigating this game is the human element. You are playing with other people. The great players in BB history know how to work people, how to make them trust you even when they shouldn’t, and be able to manipulate them. To do that you must know your enemies. Even with all that players need to know when it’s a valuable move to lie or break deals. You cannot do it just because you have it in your mindset that it is required to be considered a great player or provide good entertainment. Alex’s inability to understand all the layers and effort put that are applied to doing it effectively was a huge miscalculation. Now, let’s discuss the horrible mistake that LNC made in evicting Alex. As I stated in earlier in the week, Morgan should have been the one to go. What’s most shocking is during Danielle’s HOH week 5 they had an entire discussion about eliminating one of the two Plastics who were still eligible for the ACP. I don’t think it was a mistake to eliminate Scott that week eliminating Scott was weakening Alex. However, I do think the most damaging part of the last 48 hours was the fact that the misfits did not return to this method of thinking and vote to evict Morgan week 6. They knew she had an ACP available to her. They know the ACP’s have gotten more and more powerful the weeks have progressed. They knew that it was a DE week and it would be 4 v 1 in the DE HOH, with both Shelby and Jason unable to compete. They had all the key information they needed to make the best decision. They weren’t lacking in any of the important details that should have been assessed. Morgan even expected to be the one sent packing. She made that speech on eviction night believing the LNC would in fact be smart enough to send her home and take a shot at Alex during DE which leads me to believe that the Plastics did consider that an ACP could potentially help Morgan survive. This is the mistake that will cost at least two misfits the chance at making it to the end. Jason and Danielle have played amazing games all season long and have really stepped things up this last few weeks. This is BB! You never leave something you 100% know could happen to cripple your game in play. Yes, Alex was a big fish to fry. Yes, Alex had been the driving force behind most of what the Plastics had been doing. Was she the biggest threat heading into DE? NO! Did Alex have better odds of winning DE than Morgan in their minds? Maybe. Did they consider that the ACP would be delivered on DE night instead of the usual Friday delivery? I think that is where they missed the mark. While they knew Morgan was eligible I don’t think they considered that the ACP would come into play on DE night. That’s the only point where I can see they didn’t have the upfront information to know what a huge risk that would be to leave Morgan in. Again, this is BB and you should always expect the unexpected. It should have been a consideration. It was a foolish thing not to plan for worse case scenario and it cost them dearly. IMO, it doesn’t matter what happened in the technicalities between the time that Alex was evicted and the time that Shelby ends up being named the new HOH last night at 7:34 pm. Had they evicted Morgan over Alex, Danielle would have still likely won the DE HOH since 4/5 players all tied and if Morgan was gone none of this would have been possible. No ACP to Morgan, means Alex/Shelby go up, no veto to save them and they still could have sent Alex home. LNC fans should have all gone ahead and voted Danielle for the ACP and not considered changing to Justin. The ACP voting results shocked a lot of LNC fans. While I was disappointed and to some degree think a questionable result isn’t a complete unrealistic response to fans who are so frustrated with the voting process in general, as a long time BB fan we also should expect the unexpected. In reflecting on the events of DE night and the ACP results I determined there are likely two key elements that legitimately played a key role in the outcome. First, LNC fans were all united for the most part to give Danielle the DE ACP before the night arrived. However, many clusters of this fan base had decided that if Danielle won the HOH to shift their votes to Justin. Those were primarily the Danielle fans. If they didn’t feel she was in trouble they wanted to waste it on Justin so they could save the final one for Danielle. Why? The second, and less influential element is Morgan’s eviction speech during the live eviction. There are some fans that aren’t following the popular voting trends and are in fact just voting for who they want at any given point in time. It’s my suspicion the sassy speech and Alex being the one being evicted int he first eviction of the night made Morgan/Shelby the underdogs. That motivated them to vote the ACP for Morgan in the hour voting window even if they had another idea in mind before the DE began. Many fans regardless of who they like or don’t like didn’t want to watch the remaining few weeks with no one but Shelby, and the five LNC on the feeds. I did find a wave of Shelby fans voting for Danielle to get the ACP in DE because they were concerned that if Morgan got ‘veto’ in the literal sense the way many fans anticipated this veto being provided Morgan would have been safe leaving Shelby the only option to go up alone and head out the door. Most of us never expected the veto to: Be delivered pre-nominations Provide not only safety for Morgan but for one other as well This is apparent by the fact that Shelby fans were greatly concerned that Morgan receiving the ACP put Shelby at the greatest risk. So we had Danielle fans voting ACP for Justin, the remaining LNC fans splitting the votes between Danielle, Justin either because they didn’t know or didn’t agree with the popular opinion, and Shelby fans voting for Danielle for ACP. The only people this approach made sense to was the Danielle fans. For me, it didn’t make sense to change the outcome. Justin wasn’t going to be targeted if Danielle won the HOH. In fact, still voting for Danielle made the most sense if she won HOH in DE. Let the HOH retain all the power. It was Danielle’s own fan base really that called for the last minute change in ACP recipient if she won the HOH. Danielle’s fan base has grown as the weeks have progressed and they, are the larger percentage of overall fans for the LNC. In analyzing the trend last week I found the concern that if Morgan won HOH, Danielle wouldn’t be safe. I think that was a critical error on their initial thoughts to begin with. Jason and Justin were actually in more immediate danger. Shelby has wanted Justin gone since week 2 and Morgan’s loathing for him has grown even stronger as we’ve all seen on the feeds. I see where they felt if Justin won the ACP, he could save himself and would save Whitney, Kryssie, or Jason before he would ever save Danielle. I also saw many Danielle fans concerned that if Justin were to win he DE HOH he may target Danielle. That’s a logical and rational concern. Danielle fans are not the only fans within the LNC fan base. Many Justin fans have been waiting to send him the last ACP since they were announced. They were always going to vote Danielle for ACP this week. They want Justin to have the last one. It’s a mistake to focus on your one piece on the game board without analyzing all the other potential moves that could weaken your queen. When you consider all of the moving pieces you could have easily anticipated that a certain percentage of LNC fans were not going to switch to Justin in the final moments of the ACP voting. The earlier weeks most fans regardless of which side felt by week 3 the voting was influencing so much that giving the ACP power to the side who wins HOH is a way to at least maintain some of the integrity of the game. Problem is Plastics fans were fine with that when their side was in power, as soon as LNC members began winning the HOH’s they wanted to throw that entire rationale out the window and only vote for their side regardless of what the vote was about. It’s my conclusion that had all the LNC fans just stayed on Danielle and not tried to switch things up based on the HOH outcome so it would only benefit their favorite player this wouldn’t have happened. I believe Danielle would have had the dominant vote and Morgan wouldn’t have been able to save both she and Shelby. Just my opinion, but there you go. As you know I agreed in week 5 to report the popular opinion during week 5 when it became evident that LNC fans were splitting votes and it was helping the Plastics. I still fill in my personal opinions but don’t blog in as much detail and personal analysis when it comes to voting game points because many of the readers here have expressed that it has the potential to confuse the reader from voting with the popular vote. Since then, in all honesty this has been far less fun for me to blog. I love analyzing the game play, the players, the actions that influence how something will unfold based on what I see. Researching polls, chats, forums, podcasts, SM, is very time consuming but in the interest of not allowing one fan base to have such a powerful influence on the direction the game goes it was my own decision and I can’t be too frustrated about the choice. I saw the potential to swing it back to a more fair result and in most ways thats how it has worked out. Voting has returned to swinging fairly between the two sides the last few votes. For me, that has made the game much more balanced and given everyone playing a more even field to compete on. This blog draws a lot of readers and being able to identify some of the most influential SM presences on both side of the fandom has given me an insight into how the game is being played on the outside of the house since it’s such a pivotal part of BBOTT. I reported the popular opinion but often don’t agree with the logic. I have also as I promised voting along with the popular opinion in the interest of my primary goal. Stop allowing one organized fan base (Plastics) who all follow one agreed upon vote to continue to win the popular vote week after week. At the end of the day regardless of which side of the house you have supported all season fans have been very vocal and very absolute. Chat room discussions have been very little about game play, strategy, it’s been really full of how much I like or hate the sides. Some still decide who they like or hate based on their opinions of which HG game play they like. I had people on both sides of the house from week to week who I liked and didn’t like. I’ve had a good amount of fans tell me the same they like players not sides. Don’t get me wrong. In general, I have liked the players on the LNC side of the house since the first two weeks. They were the first to really be playing active games I saw with the most potential and that had much to do with my preference. I’m not analyzing the game on who is the most annoying HG and bugs me the most. They all have positive and negative personal qualities. If those details are influencing decisions being made then that has now become part of the game from my POV, but if not then I don’t care. Alex isolating herself in the HOH room the first 3 weeks had an enormous impact on both how others perceived her and what she was or wasn’t gaining in accurate information as well as her abilities in the future to make moves or find allies who were willing to save her.The girls sitting around for the majority of the day alone together doing not much more than criticizing and trash talking the LNC had a huge impact on their game. The LNC has had a far better read on the other side than the Plastics have had on the realities of the LNC side and their game play. Want the good news? We are down to final 6! There is still a mix of players in the game. This is the last week America votes on a nominee and casts an eviction vote. There is only one ACP left. It will not be delivered until next Friday in week 8. Danielle and Justin are the only two eligible for the final ACP. Vote for who you want to receive it. I wont report the polls for this final ACP. I wont have to troll all week to know where the popular opinion is! YEAH! There is still some strategic voting happen with the nominations and more importantly this week I think the most influential vote will come down to America’s eviction vote. Shelby will nominate two LNC. Let’s just say she nominates Justin and Jason for arguments sake (you could insert any two names into this and arrive at the same overall outcome, but there is an argument to be made for who the best person not to be OTB come veto is if you’re an LNC fan overall). Scenario 1: Kryssie is the popular nominee for the Plastics fans at the moment. If Kryssie goes up as America’s nom next to Jason/Justin, that leaves Morgan/Danielle as the ones with safety going into Veto. All 6 HG’s compete in veto this week. If Danielle wins veto, she can pull Jason down and the only other HG available to go OTB is Morgan. Shelby could literally end up having to nominate Morgan and now Jason/Danielle have the only two HG votes it wont matter who America votes for they will decide whether to send Morgan/Justin/Kryssie home. Scenario 2: Morgan is the only nominee I’ve currently heard any LNC fan discuss so as of now she is the America’s Nominee from that side of the house. Now we have Morgan, Justin, Jason, OTB. Danielle wins veto takes Jason down and again we are left with the same combination and the same two voters deciding who they want to go and America’s vote wont influence the decision. Scenario 3: Kryssie AN, J/J OTB next to her. Morgan or Shelby wins veto. Leaves nominations the same because with 3 LNC OTB the votes come down to Danielle, Shelby and America. There are numerous ways this eviction vote could go. IMO, the most likely would be Morgan and Danielle vote different people and America will break the tie. Or, Morgan, Shelby, Danielle cut a deal and the two girls vote together and send Justin home. Justin is eligible for the ACP, if Danielle votes him out she is guaranteed to get the final ACP and a player everyone believes is AFH cannot prevent them from winning the game. Scenario 4: Morgan is AN, J/J OTB, one of those two wins the veto, takes himself down and now Shelby has to decide whether to replace him with Danielle or Kryssie. This still leaves two LNC having the dominant eviction vote but Shelby may see Kryssie as more malleable to Shelby and less of an end game threat. If she’s smart she would nominate Danielle and we could very well see Danielle go home. Kryssie is closer with Jason and Justin than Danielle. Danielle has been kicking butt for weeks and they all should be terrified of going to the end with her the most. Justin is still talked about as the biggest threat versing nom in a final 3 scenario. I don’t begin to think they all realize that Danielle is a far bigger threat in final 3, there’s that lingering idea she wasn’t liked by America. As usual there are a few more scenarios that could play out, you can’t predict everything and things change in that house from hour to hour. Those are just the most likely scenarios I see as of where Shelby/Morgan’s focus has been. The good news for some in Shelby winning this HOH is that she cannot compete next week and there’s no ACP available to either of those two in week 8. By Sunday we will have a clearer idea where the nominees will land for Shelby and take another look at the most likely scenarios. The good news for Danielle fans is for now, Kryssie is the most relevant discussion among the Plastics fan base for AN. They want her gone, they don’t want to see her have any chance to win the game and have said if Kryssie does make it to the end they’e threatened to vote Kryssie for the win. I will never understand that mindset and I hope that by the time we get there no matter who the final three are people will actually vote for the player who played the best game. In all honesty had Jason won this HOH, I was leaning towards nominating Kryssie myself. After the way that entire DE, second HOH comp, and the multitude of BB Budget errors and mistakes that had an impact on the game, my response to Shelby ending up with this HOH, that Jason won the first night and lost during the re-play last night, I will be voting Morgan for AN. I want two LNC to have the deciding vote. I heard Shelby say right after the HOH was announced last night that this time no one can screw up her HOH. LOL. That’s a mentality that can very well lead to Morgan being sent home on your HOH Shelby. Based on who is left in the house and how each player has played the first 6+ weeks I want to see Danielle and Jason make it to final 4. I don’t want to see Morgan or Kryssie make it to final 4. They’ve done the least of all the HG’s, I don’t think they've done anything to earn $250k. Kryssie had some influence, although IOM a negative one, on how the two sides perceived each other and how the strategic game talks went. Morgan managed to keep her sister twist quiet and from being discovered. Other than those two accomplishments neither has done much else. They allowed others to run their games, Morgan won one veto. Kryssie won one HOH. Although not a Shelby fan, I think her and Justin are the same level. They’ve had a hand in a few things here and there. They were polarizing characters all season, whether you loved them or hated them they have played about the same level overall and at least they’ve played. Justin’s best element has been his social game. He did manage to pull Whitney away from the Plastics and in the end that saved his life, even if it cost Whitney’s hers. Had he not been able to do that before we hit DE its very likely he would have gone home. Shelby pulled ahead in my rankings when she started winning comps. That’s the only thing for me that has propelled her ahead of Kryssie and Morgan, before that she would have been in a three way tie with both of them. It’s now about the individual players. How they navigate this week will have the most impact on who makes it to the final four. Who has gained the most respect for their game play or who fans want to see have a chance to guarantee they are in the final four of BBOTT. The final 6’s positions to getting to the end has more to do with game play from here on out. If you are an LNC fan you can’t be mad at that. Justin and Danielle are the only two players eligible for the chance to complete a challenge and guarantee making it to final four. Shelby and Morgan have made it to final 6. The only way to stay at this point is win competitions and work with what individual skills that have developed over the season, secure your safety, and eliminate your biggest competition in a final three scenario. If Kryssie or Morgan manage to do that and make it to the fin al three chairs next to anyone else above I would vote for that person to win over those two. We are all long time fans of the show and we all know based on history that the player who played the best game doesn’t always make it to the final seats. We have the final say this year.

It's been a long 24 hours for most of us. The HOH comp went until a little after 5 am and HG slept in today until 11:30 am. There was no official announcement of the time for the re-do between Jason/Shelby so if you missed it Shelby competes first (selected by Random draw which allowed Shelby to draw first) the start time was 6:24 pm. Jason then heads to the BY at 6:39 pm (there about). Jason complains about a mirror issue again we get a short fish, then he continues. BB's explanation for giving Shelby the win although Jason experiences difficulty was that he didn't report it until 20 sec after he surpassed Shelby's time therefore according to them he already lost. Here's what I have to say about the caveat of circumstances surrounding last night's DE, the ACP, the magic veto that miraculously saves not only Morgan but Shelby as well: Whitney was the only victim in it all. So for those who felt she was production's golden child, after we heard them cheering for her week 5 when Dani wins the HOH, the BB Budget production of this season cost her the game. Moving on, we can all argue a myriad of points defending our opinions of what happened. If you feel passionate enough about your opinions go to CBS All Access and select the 'More' tab at the top, submit a written complaint. Beyond that, it's done and over and won't change the outcome at this point. You are a paying customer and just like any consumer you have a right to document your dissatisfaction. That being said, Shelby is now the HOH. Until last night's events as I looked ahead to week 7, my thoughts were-we are down to final 6, it's now who do we not want to win? If a misfit had won it would have been Shelby/Morgan nominees and America's Nom would have to be a misfit. I was resolved to nominating Kryssie at that point. The other three have played the game to varying degrees, with Jason/Danielle playing the best games, IMO. Those were my thoughts before the questionable ACP. Those were my thoughts before many voters were unable to cast votes, the Shelby DR audio leak, the shady HOH debacle. My response to Shelby winning HOH in a re-match against Jason? Morgan for America's Nominee. After the results were announced Shelby comments that no one is going to mess up her HOH this week. Well, while we've had varying opinions all season about how this much voting as been good or bad, we do in fact have one final week this week to vote for an America's nominee. This is the last week and since I've been given the power to vote, I shall. Remember this week's ACP was voted on and delivered during the DE. The final ACP will not be open for voting until next Thursday 11/17 and after voting closes on 11/18 it will be delivered at 1 pm that day. What does that mean? It means the only influence we have for the remainder of this week is America's nominee and America's vote to evict. I say let's make this one count! I was pleasantly surprised that although most Plastics fans had no issues with the questionable events that unfolded, I did see many Shelby fans admit, even they were shocked that Jason was stricken of the win for HOH. It's not the first time in BB history there's been a technical difficulty in a comp. It is not as much about the benefit/loss to one side or the other as much as I am a long time fan since season 1 and the series of events were at the very least questionable. Why did they force Justin at 4:20 am after a more than 3 hour delay, and him being sequestered for more nearly 6 hours send him out to play? That's a HUGE disadvantage! We will never know if he would have performed better or not. There are just over 3 weeks left. Danielle and Justin are the only two eligible for the final ACP's and I am happy with that outcome. Plastic fans are running parallel campaigns for America's Nom. Some want Danielle up still? The one person in the house that has arguably played the best game all season? Smh There is another push on your side to nominate Kryssie. Now, at least the argument behind this choice I can rationalize. She's done the least of anyone, they've wanted her out (mainly for personal reasons) for weeks and at final 6 they aren't being emotional they are applying a logical reasoning to their choice. If Kryssie ends up OTB, with two other Misfits that will leave only one vote from the remaining misfit, one vote from Morgan, and America's eviction vote. In this scenario the America's vote will likely decide who ultimately gets sent home. If you have a vested interest then make sure to vote. However, if Kryssie ends up OTB, and the sole misfit not nominated wins the veto (remember everyone competes this week and that's likely to be Danielle not OTB) then they can remove one of Shelby's nominations and Morgan will have to be the replacement. There's a lot of game left to be played this week. A Shelby HOH doesn't guarantee a misfit goes home. Don't be discouraged. This was the first online season, there were bound to be problems and issues. If they do another BBOTT season things will get better each time, but innevitably things always go wrong. Now is the point in the season where the focus can shift on game play, individual players, and who ultimately you want to win. So shake it off, enjoy the little time left and don't get distracted.

Last night was a roller coaster of highs and lows, unexpected twists and turns. Here's a brief summary of the series of events with the second HOH comp last night. Complete coverage for DE night will follow later today. Second HOH is individual Lasers/mirrors best time wins Max time is 20 min. Jason plays at 10:48 pm Time: 8:14 Morgan (audio leak prior to start time both BY/Production/Morgan) Plays 11:15 pm Time: 12:50 Kryssie plays 11:42 pm Time: 15:05 Shelby's start time 12:10 am By 12:20 am BB goes to fish. Shelby has already exceeded Jason's time Feeds are on HG, comp pauses for more than 3 hours. 3:40 am Justin finally in BY Justin maxes out on 20 min HG called to LR for Danielle to announce results of HOH at 5:11am. Justin times out Kryssie's time Morgan's time Jason's time -Shelby's time 'could not be determined' results are Jason/Shelby replay Thursday night. (No specific time announced) Jason/Shelby will have to replay again Thursday? Ok look the argument was made that Shelby's mirror broke and it was a disadvantage even though she passed Jason's time, even though 3 other people played and finished before Shelby's turn. Not the first time in BB when comp equipment failed, malfunctions happen others in past seasons have had issues. We've heard plenty of HG's over the years say their lane was off, their boards were slanted, whatever it's happened a lot and it's been deemed a part of the game. What I don't understand is why Jason/Shelby both have to replay. No one else had the issues Shelby did. Jason played and no issues has a time. Judge for yourself with the times of each player's start times and how long they took to complete. Even if you are going to rule in favor of Shelby why not send her back out and replay before/after Justin? Regardless, the official word early this morning 7+ hours after week 7 HOH began this was the official announcement.

Danielle wins HOH! Misfit fans are voting Justin for DE VETO ACP. A lot of Shelby fans are voting Justin ACP-as I blogged earlier a Morgan ACP will send Shelby home. Some Plastic fans are still voting Morgan but if you're a Shelby fan it is in her best interest for someone other than Morgan to win this veto. Shelby will go by default. Voting is open for only one hour so no matter who you decide to vote for, it's time! Cast your vote.

Week 6 Eviction Vote/ DE Wednesday is going to be packed with activity. America's eviction vote opened yesterday. For those of you not following the trends here are the majority results: Plastic fans are voting Whitney Misfit fans are voting Alex While there is less chance America's vote will have as strong of an influence has it has had on the last several evictions you never know what can happen so be sure to cast your votes. Voting today ends at 4PM ET/1PM PT Tomorrow is very important. Episode will air at 8 PM ET/ 5PM PT Live Eviction follows@9PM ET/6PM PT *times are subject to change Rachel Riley has been scheduled to make an appearance on the DE night. DE HOH comp will follow Voting for this week's ACP opens @ 10PM ET/7PM PT -Voting for ACP DE VETO will only be open for a short window once the HOH has been determined it's only an hour to vote who will be gifted the automatic Veto. HG do not know yet that Veto comp will not be a part of DE. Unfortunately the voting numbers could take a big hit because of the late times on the East Coast. Every single vote will be needed since the window is narrow for both the ACP voting during the double eviction so if you can vote make sure you do! It's not down to 7 players after the first eviction tomorrow. Only 5 will compete in the DE HOH. Only 4 HG's eligible (Danielle, Morgan, Whitney, and Justin) for the final 2 ACP's. Plastics fans (if Alex goes first eviction) should maintain focus on protecting Shelby. IMO, if they were voting strategically they actually vote Whitney for DE ACP. I don't see the value in actually saving Morgan in the event a misfit wins HOH, because saving Morgan could in all honesty sign Shelby's walking papers in DE. Polls indicate that Morgan is in fact up in DE ACP polls over Danielle/Justin/Whitney. As as a misfit fan go ahead and throw all your votes at Morgan without considering the impact that could have on Shelby's longevity. I do know Shelby is more popular of the two remaining Plastics should Alex be evicted as predicted. Shelby isn't eligible for ACP's now and if they give the DE Veto to Morgan that puts Shelby even more at risk of Morgan doesn't win DE HOH. They've turned on Whitney so it's really a poor move if popularity polls are accurate because if a misfit wins DE HOH (odds are in their favor) by saving Morgan you are sacrificing your favorite player by doing so. Justin and Kryssie have already discussed the desire to take out Shelby before Morgan. That is actually the better move for the misfits. Shelby is smarter and more capable in most respects and Morgan will is the lesser threat. If Morgan wins DE HOH so Plastic fans will throw their votes on Whitney to make Dani/Justin/Jason vulnerable. Just keep that in mind. It's why misfit fans really need to vote ACP during the DE! I haven't decided which (Danielle/Justin) I feel needs this ACP more in the DE. I am also considering which I prefer to get the final four ACP the final one of the season. Remember it's not a guaranteed pass to final four. The recipient of that ACP is simply given an opportunity to complete a challenge that could advance him/her to final four automatically so choose wisely. HOWEVER, the desire to analyze this game from a global perspective versus supporting what's a viable option to secure the safety of the players I see (strictly from a game play perspective) have earned my personal support went out the window week 3. As it did with many fans. The shift to focusing on the battle for power over the dominant vote among fans has been the greatest influence over this season. If you've been actively participating it's important to keep that reality in mind at the end. Beyond any actually positive or negative action, game move, alliances, mistakes, accomplishments the America's vote dictated the direction of much of the game and the players moves. Moving on to the other side of the house, personally I feel like giving the ACP to Danielle could be a critical error. Since misfits are going into DE HOH 4 v 1 (Morgan) who doesn't perform well under pressure but will be looking for vengence the chances of a misfit winning is much higher. So you gift the ACP to Dani, who isn't at a huge risk in this event, she basically will choose not to use it, leaving predicted nominees Morgan/Shelby OTB. Dani now received her only lifeline headed into the final weeks and will have to basically win every single comp to secure her spot in final 3. You are practically handing the final four ACP to Justin when Danielle, of all the misfits has no other lifeline. With the odds in favor of a misfit winning DE HOH this is a gamble, if I were looking at it globally and strategically as a Dani fan, this is not what I would want. I think she's in greater danger after the DE than she is statically in the DE. That at being said, I do get the her fan base's sentiment. This is BB, expect the unexpected. I will be sad for Dani if she gets this and doesn't need to use it to save herself and now she is literally a lone wolf heading into the final weeks based on what we know from seeing everything in the house. Can't change the momentum now, Danielle has the misfits majority vote so we should all support that if for no other reason than to just ensure Morgan does not get it. Look at the alliances internally: Justin/Whitney Justin/Whitney/Kryssie Kryssie/Jason Jason/Justin (for a short period but will turn on each other at some point by final 5). Jason/Danielle to a degree although Jason has been vocal about the fact he doesn't believe he has as good of a chance at winning in final 3 scenario against Danielle or Justin. Who is Danielle's lifeline? If Shelby stays through DE you may see her join forces with her, but in all honesty in a final 3 scenario that's terrible for Dani. Shelby had a huge Fan following all season long as well. In final 3 with 2 misfits and Shelby at the end the votes are sure to split between the 2 misfits among misfit fans for the win leaving Shelby with a slight edge having every single Plastics' fan vote. It's Paul/Victor/Corey bribe ACP all over again. Even if a misfit wins DE, if Morgan gets the ACP by dominant vote a misfit has to sit next to Shelby OTB. This is a DE, leading to final 6, you have to know there is a huge chance a power player from misfits side goes up and could go home. The odds are low this happen but this scenario is why Danielle fans feel the need to protect her with the ACP this week. This is the very best opportunity to eliminate your biggest threat to a win at the end and Danielle/Jason/Justin could be collateral damage if misfit fans allow Morgan to gain the popular vote for ACP. Here are the current poll results without knowing who the DE HOH will be. This is among the four eligible and not by sides of the house: Morgan has 44% of popular vote. Danielle has 33% of popular vote. Whitney has 12% of popular vote. Justin has 11% of popular vote. Based on those numbers Morgan could in fact win this is misfit fans don't stay united and don't stay up and log on to cast a vote. Misfits majority for ACP: Danielle Plastics majority for ACP: Morgan I will confirm what appears to be popular opinion among Misfit fans once we get closer to the voting opening. Personally, I am still leaning towards misfits although Shelby had been gaining some attention from me after her outbursts about having to share her HOH and the fall out from losing veto and events following the actual veto ceremony she's managed to lose my support again. No one is innocent in this season. They've all said and done things that have gained/lost support. Overall, while I may not like or condone everything misfits have done as far as behaviors, they've been actively playing the game since week 1 and for several played very well considering the opposition America's voting created. I reported at the start of the season in my preseason assessment of the players based on their intro videos, I knew Alex would be evicted before her sister and it was truly by her own doing or not doing that caused it in my opinion. Social game is a huge factor and you can be very strategic but if you haven't arranged the pieces necessary to make those plans come to life it's mute. Morgan was disappointing. I had high hopes for her pre season but after Monte went out week 2 she's played Alex's game and/or allowed Alex to steer her game and that's a shame. Shelby, we'll need I say more? The smarter approach would have been to seperate themselves and join opposing sides of the house and protect each other, not interacting very much at all and knowing their sibling has the pulse on that side and will protect them at all cost. It also is Alex's hand in her demise not bridging personal relationships with anyone outside her pact, relying on others to make deals for her, and having absolutely no one else to rely on since she lied and broke every deal so early in the game. -One final note Shelby did confess to Alex that she is a law school graduate awaiting results of her bar exam around 1:51 pm BA (cam 1/2) 11/8 which lead to Alex getting approval from Morgan (1:54 pm HOH BR cam 1/2) that they share their sister secret with Shelby. While the girls celebrate and laugh about it in the HOH room, in Shelby's DR 7:44 pm last night she admits she's pretty salty about the fact she built her entire game around an alliance where she would never be anyone's #2. While that sucks for her, again she should have never completely refused to build relationships with anyone else in the house. But the sister twist was finally been revealed so if you haven't seen this it's a TS you will want to revisit. However, Shelby now has some ammo in her vault should both she and Morgan survive DE. She can reveal the sister twist and shift any guns aimed at herself to Morgan emphasizing the HUGE voting advantage Morgan would have since she was a part of a twist. I think this was in fact the last very bad move Alex makes before leaving the game. Time will tell. Until tonight... Here's the link to CBS which provides details about double Eviction and the temporary schedule changes. http://www.cbs.com/shows/big-brother-over-the-top/news/1006130/double-eviction-set-to-shake-big-brother-over-the-top-house-on-nov-9/?ftag=EOS-05-10aab0g

Take the High Road Good Evening LF's! It was an eventful day in the BBOTT house. At 1:01 pm pm HG gather in the LR for the veto ceremony. Whitney, Danielle, and Alex make their polite very bland pleas and it's time for Jason's decision. Jason explains that he was offered many different options and deals and after deliberation he's decided that there are two things that prevent him from accepting the proposals made by the Plastics 1. The over celebration last week when Shelby won the HOH 2. The three girls will always be most loyal to each and he can never crack that bond to where he's now not making himself the most disposable as he saw happen to Whitney while she was aligned with them. Jason therefor elects to use the POV on Dani and Morgan becomes the replacement nominee. Morgan heads to the nomination couch at 1:05 pm and in her infinite wisdom (and complete shock at what just happened) she stands before everyone and attempts to blow up Jason by asking him in front of everyone why he came to the HOH room and offered them a final 5 deal. As she does this he whispers to her in front of everyone "they already know". -I had to LOL when that happened. Morgan rarely speaks without walking orders from Alex so her attempt here to make some big move to expose Jason flops. -the girls were truly shocked and mind blown that all their efforts to convince Jason aligning with them, after they've broken every single deal they've made for 6 weeks and lied over and over week after week about who they were voting out, failed. I've been saying for weeks since the season began that while lying and breaking deals is a part of many strategies to propel people in the game doing so from the very beginning is a huge tactical error. 1. People will never trust you and therefor won't feel comfortable aligning with you later in the game when alliances begin to fracture and crossover may be necessary for long term survival. 2. You cannot burn bridges or in fact never build any with your social game. There will always come a point where the unexpected happens and you need 1-2 people outside your main group to be invested in their bond with you or friendship to want to help save you. Whitney is a wonderful example of how important this is! Shelby and Alex have completely isolated themselves all season long refusing to intermingle with other HG's. Even when approached with viable deals and proposals from Jason, Alex refused to even consider the potential value of such a possibility the first couple weeks of the game. Lay a few weeks of bumpy rides through voting, twists, and unexpected outcomes by the end of week 3 when Scott approaches Jason/Justin about a possible 4 person alliance with he and Alex Scott's refusal to consider eliminating Danielle over Shane as a show of good will made that scenario nothing more than lip service by both sides. -If I were in the house I would not even entertain anything Alex suggests. She's proven over and over she places no value on her word so why would I? -Now if you didn't watch some of the feeds Monday it's important to note that Alex, Morgan, and Shelby realized after Jason won veto they were likely losing a member of the Plastics. They came up with the idea of asking Jason if he would BD Justin or Danielle then they would promise him safety for 2 weeks. Also suggested helping him with Morgan's CP-which annoys me the way they talk about this. It's always with this arrogant certainty that she and Whitney are guaranteed the final ACP's. It's not 'if I get an ACP' it's always when I get my ACP. That being said, Jason and Danielle later, after this deal is proposed by the Plastics decide to lead the girls to believe they are going to take the deal. A/S/M all threw Whitney 100% UTB and offered her initially as the collateral damage and if Jason agrees to send her out they will owe him but she's this horrible person that betrayed them, has never been with them, was playing both sides of the house the entire time, oh and for good measure lie and say Whitney was the only one the entire game that wanted to target Jason. (See Monday's blog Sor specifics and time stamps). -I see the value in misleading the girls so they don't devise some other plan to try and flip Whitney back to them or persuade Kryssie or Justin to change their vote. This pacified the girls and no time was spent exploring alternatives that would allow them to survive the eviction vote. -While a part of me understands the misfits frustration with how this division between the two sides has unfolded all season. It was in fact the 'southerners' originally shunned the others, refused to interact with them and talk sh*t about them 16 hours a day. -So with this plan to fake the alliance and then nominate Morgan anyway they literally did nothing more than she me to convince the Plastics they had a new deal with Dani and Jason. That's exactly what the Plastics, namely Alex, has done to various members of the LNC multiple times in the first 5 weeks. 1:06 pm LR all that remains is the three nominees and Shelby with Jason passing through. Plastics decide to try and attack Whitney but she doesn't give them an inch, Jason comes to her defense, and they shut down the dog pile of Whitney with some fun facts like they targeted Whitney the week before, they tried to sacrifice her again this week and Whitney had been nothing but loyal to those girls. 1:10 pm TKB A/S/M sulking, fuming, and reeling all at the same time. After a couple minutes Morgan declares she's going to confront Jason again with everybody looking on and demand to know why he bothered to and the other two quickly follow marching right behind her as she heads to the BY. -This falls short for them again. Everyone on LNC are aware of anything those three girls could possible throw out to hurt Jason. Which they make clear to Morgan. It's a short but sweet confrontation before the girls head back inside. This is where you begin to hear them pout, cry, say very nasty hateful things about everyone. So all that complaint Plastics fans did when the misfits reacted this way cannot say one thing in defense of how they behaved. 1:41 pm BA S/A Shelby breaks down crying again because she's realized losing that veto destroyed her alliance and could cost her the game. What was even more upsetting to her was the realization when the sisters leave she will be stuck in the house with all these people she hates. Not too long after this Shelby shares with Alex she has a secret and reveals she's actually smart and has a law degree. This leads to Alex/Morgan revealing they are sisters. This leads to a very happy celebration and does lift the girls spirits which they needed. -As usual you will find them moving from BA back to HOH BR again. Remember live DR's happen this evening and America's Eviction voting is open until 4PM ET/1 PM PT. Followed by and eventful day tomorrow with live eviction and double eviction. While I do find some game value in Jason's tactics this week (distracting the girls from coming up with some other ideas shenanigans) that could in any way derail. -I think game wise this was an enormous mistake on Jason's behalf. There was nothing really to gain? Why go in so hard as a group? Jason needs to remember America votes for the best player in the game at the end should he manage to continue on his path to final 3. He should also realize that this week leads straight into a DE and he has now made himself enemy #1 not just with Shelby but with Morgan as well. Alex may be likely to go home leaving it a 4 V. Morgan in DE HOH but he has no chance for another CP, he can't compete, and if Morgan does win Jason will see the block and depending on he sat next to the votes for eviction when sitting next to your own ally comes down to who do the remaining HG voting think they can beat at the end. -All of the HG should also be considering that America's votes determine the winner. If they get to final 5 with LNC basically in tact, I would be very surprised. The odds of Shelby or Whitney being brought along and saved for final 3 by a couple of their own people in hopes they could beat them could actually cost them the game if they keep doing things that makes the Plastics fan base less and less thrilled with the LNC. In a situation where 2 LNC and one of the two I just mentioned makes it to final 3...misfit fans will likely split votes based on who their favorite was and they will need some of the other fan bases votes to gain the dominant vote to win the game. -This is a final 3, not a final 2. Same is true if all of the final three is made up of misfits at the end. I've seen chatter on Resdit and other SM platforms where Plastic fans are rumbling about throwing their votes to Kryssie who has been the least favorite all season for no other reason than to ensure Jason, Justin nor Danielle wins BBOTT. While it is hypocritical of fans to judge the LNC strongest players, who have played well the majority of the season, for doing the exact same thing Plastics have done we are talking about a season where fans have been as polarizing as the HG's in many respects. Every move is being judged and measured. Justin's comments and behaviors were very harshly criticized today and he's been a fan favorite personality all season. It only takes one small thing to turn people against you. -The idea of people selecting a player who really has done nothing and has been strongly disliked for her lack of manners, whining, actions, and self entitled demeanor just because the players who did play very well took out your favorite player and tricked them into believing you would consider a final 5 deal with them may seem absurd to many of us. However, Jason and Dani are both LF's and they know very well how vindictive that fan base can be. They should also realize they've already sent Scott home who is a LF and very active on the various platforms, and are about to do the same to Alex who can and will be very vocal as well. There is time for them to redeem themselves but they need to be much more conscious of the fact while there is no jury made up of the HG's they send home there will be a jury. LF's are the jury and this is a critical component of being able to win this game. We have seen nearly every minute of every day. LF's hold grudges and can be bitter just like evicted HG's but have the ability outside the house to throw one stone that can quickly turn into an avalanche of people who do not want you to walk away with 250k for things that had nothing to do with your actual game play. It's far better strategy to take the high road, focus your energies on your actuall game moves and not rock the boat as we enter week 7.

The Balls come Tumbling Down: The America's Nominee was announced just after 10 am this morning and at 10:03 am Alex was named the third nominee by America's vote. The celebration for some was short lived when Shelby drew the only chip for Veto and once again Alex's name was drawn and she choose Morgan to play. Going into veto it would be: Jason Shelby Whitney Danielle Alex Morgan That was an unbelievably lucky draw for the Plastics but made an already highly anticipated comp even more critical for both sides but especially Jason/Dani who would now face all four Plastics. 1:19 pm feeds were down from 12:50 pm until the start of Justin's explanation of the rules and tasks were shown almost 20 min after the comp was scheduled to begin. The veto began late, but according to HG's (on later feeds) they were given a short period to practice before BB gathered them all in the BY for Justin, the comp's host, the explain the rules. Each player had a balance beam, a clear tube, a basket of balls, and at the opposite end of each lane a set of three clear tubes attached to a main board which would hold 10 balls each. Each player had to insert exactly 2 balls into their plastics tube and make their way across the beam with the tube ensuring the balls remained inside the clear tube (4-5 ft in length) all the way to the other end before dropping two balls at a time into each tube. Once one of the smaller tubes at the opposite end were filled with 10 balls and the player made it successfully back to the starting point that set was 'locked' in and safely completed. The first player to fill all 3 tunes with a grand total of 30 balls and returned to their starting point would win the power of veto. -After all the jabs the Plastics took at Justin for not knowing the rules and requirements in the face morph comp, Shelby celebrated a bit too early after filling one of her tubes, having forgotten to return to the start and lost the entire 10 she had just completed in her second tube. Players would have to reset if at any time they dropped a ball, stepped off the balance beam (except when told to reset losing whatever balls that had already managed to insert). If the current tube that players were working on was not locked in and they dropped a ball or stepped off the beam they lost the balls in that tub much like the poison Berry Comp from BB18. This comp was given a maximum time of 2 hours. If no one had successfully completed all 3 tubes when time expired the player with the most balls would win. In the event of a tie, the player who inserted the last ball between the ones who tied in the earliest time would be declared the winner. It was not lost on this LF that the comp that could make or break the Plastics (a.k.a. Ball smashers) was a completion that involved balls. Nor did it go unnoticed that Alex and Morgan (a gymnast and a cheerleader) scored a comp that involves a balance beam. But we will leave that alone. Whitney and Morgan struggled a great deal in this comp. Frequently having to reset and never locking in the first 10 in tube one before the comp ended. Jason struggled the first 5-7 minutes and it wasn't looking great for him but eventually he found a rhythm. After Shelby and Dani had to reset everyone was back in the running for the win. Those three performed the best and Shelby for a short period looked like she may gain a big lead until she forget she had to return to the start for her balls to be locked in. After that happened Jason and Danielle took the lead over Alex. Everyone had a few resets but once we get through the second completed tube Danielle and Jason were moving quickly and efficiently. Just a little further behind J/D were Shelby followed by Alex in that order. In about 20 minutes Jason completed his 3 tube with 10 balls and quickly made his way back across the beam to the starting point claiming his second veto win of the season! 1:40 pm Jason told everyone one at a time what a nice job they did. Danielle over celebrated a little considering they had been playing up that Dani was actually Jason's target which kind of blew that idea prematurely but who can blame her? Once again after being nominated 4 times she was safe and Jason had the power to remove her and replace his own nominee. 1:50 pm you will find Alex, Morgan, and Shelby in the HOH. Shelby is having a meltdown and really beating herself up for not winning that comp. While Alex is blaming the sun, sweat on her face and being forced to compete in the lane right next to Danielle for her poor performance. Alex goes on a tirade about Danielle calling her a horrible person. 3:20 pm Shelby goes and finds Jason to bring him up to the HOH room where Alex/Morgan have been dominating the use of not only Shelby's but Jason's HOH room most of the week. Just before Shelby returns with him you see Alex behaving again as if it's her HOH room and the fact it's been there hang out spot after the Co-HOH's agreed not to use this space for that is not lost on Jason. It's Seriosuly rude and disrespectful considering Jason has been allowing Shelby to sleep alone up there the last two nights. After they give their Hail Mary speech to try and persuade Jason to save both Alex and Morgan and agree to send Whitney home you can see Jason telling Dani about the HOH convo around 3:40 pm. Tomorrow we will see the veto ceremony where Jason gets the final say on Shelby's HOH. She's been livid all day that she actually won HOH and it's been a complete sh*t show of a week in her eyes. They all 3 rag on the fact Jason was able to hijack this HOH with an ACP. Ironically they never had an issue when Alex/Shelby's ACP saved them both. But hey it's week 6 and is anyone really surprised by their skewed perceptions of how the game has been so unfair to them? Tune in tomorrow at 1:00 pm to see what Jason decides to do. Alex and Morgan realize this week they are likely going to say goodbye to each other, Danielle should come down and Morgan will likely be the replacement nominee. It's become a discussion of which sister has a better chance to survive past double eviction. Probably the most amusing part of this entire scenario playing out the way it did is the fact the self proclaimed 'ball smashers' will be sent home on a ball comp!

WEEK 6 America's Nominee Tonight's final safety ceremony beings at 7pm. Shelby and Jason saved Morgan and Kryssie last night. Jason should save Justin but while Morgan and Alex are convinced they've persuaded Shelby to nominate Whitney by saving Alex, I am not convinced Shelby has made up her mind yet! 12:00:51 am HOH/BR Shelby alone If you didn't watch late last night start your day with a good laugh and watch Shelby's awkward dancing to N'Sync while staring at the fish tank. Poor thing no rhythm at all. Stay at there and at 12:04 am after Alex had left Shelby alone finally and everyone else has gone to bed for the night we get to see Shelby studying the Safety Wall of HG's pictures. I don't think even Shelby knows what she will decide until it's actually time for the safety ceremony. With th that out of the way let's talk popular voting for this critical America's nominee. With 2 nominees OTB Danielle for sure and then either Whitney/Alex this is important because who ends up OTB has a huge impact on eviction votes comes Wednesday. Plastica fans are doing all they can to vote Kryssie as America's Nominee. That will take the majority vote away from LNC and give it to Alex/Morgan by a 2-1 HG vote. Team Misfits are voting Alex for America's Nominee. This way of Danielle/Whitney are the HOH nominees Alex is OTB and should the nominees stay the same Misfits have a 2-1 vote over Morgan. If by some miracle Shelby plays her own game and nominates Alex, then every Misfit fan vote should go to Morgan for America's Nominee. This is all honesty is the best case scenario for team misfits since they don't know there is no veto competition next week. If Alex or Morgan then comes off the block one remains, votes stay with the misfits side and Justin/Kryssie vote the Plastic out, the other Plastic votes Dani out, America's vote will determine if there is a tie breaker. This is not good! Only because the HOH who has the better veto competition result would be the designated tie breaker. Jason knows he needs to beat Shelby, but if by some chance he doesn't in this scenario Shelby breaks the tie and will send Danielle home. If either both sisters remain OTB, or Dani or Whitney comes down (should the other sister not be OTB) then the other goes up now with Morgan and Alex on the block Dani/Whitney, Justin, Kryssie have to votes to send one of them home and America's vote shouldn't matter. Justin won't vote Whitney no matter what if Danielle comes off the block and we are left with M/A/W one of the sisters will go home! The best case for misfits is nothing comes down to a tie breaker. Next best is even if it does come down to a tie breaker misfit fans dominate popular vote and evict one of the sisters. This is going to be the most complicated week in BB history! There are so many moving parts, nominees, AN, veto winner, potential replacement nominee, and a possible tie breaker vote by the HOH with the best veto performance. Don't think the voting isn't as important this week. It is. Jason/Shelby have less direct control over the initial nominees so in all honesty veto is very important this week. Pretty much anyone can win except Shelby, Alex/Morgan. So if only one sister ends up OTB before veto that's not all bad. As long as the others name doesn't get drawn (there is only one draw for additional veto player this week since we have Co-HOH) then it's 4-2 misfits v Plastics in veto. I've heard people discussing Justin possibly throwing this veto if his name is drawn. If Whitney or by some miracle Kryssie is OTB Justin will not throw it. He will want to save Whitney at all costs and if not her he will do everything he can to pull Kryssie down and leave the HOH nominees the same if it is Alex/Danielle who would remain OTB. Anything other than those two scenarios, I agree he may not want to fight very hard for this win. He's ok with Danielle going home in the worse case scenario. Wouldn't be his first choice but I don't see him killing himself just to save Dani. Alex is shook! She's very worried about being America's nominee. She's also left way too much up to Morgan where Shelby is concerned and that could result in Shelby making her own decision and electing to roll the dice and want Alex to play in the veto. The further Shelby is from Alex the closer she gets to thinking for herself. So, Alex for America's Nom is my choice! I'm hoping Shelby puts her up and then and only then I will get what I wanted originally and Morgan will be the alternate America's nominee for team misfit fans! Plastics are coming out in full force for Kryssie. They've been trolling chats, creating fake polls, trying to convince Misfit fans it's better to nominate Kryssie. The good news is we may pull a small percentage of Plastics fan base and vote Morgan if Alex is the original HOH Nominee. They want to protect Alex but some don't care for the sister twist and are willing to sacrifice Morgan over Alex. We have a long exciting week ahead! Tonight-safety and solidifying the two nominees. America Nominee voting begins. Tomorrow morning AN will be revealed, veto player drawn, followed by the most important veto comp so far this season! Make sure you vote! Every vote counts. *schedule change this Wednesday. The episode will air at a special time 8pm EST/5 PM PST. Week 6 Live eviction airs an hour later. This means double eviction events should begin at 10 PM EST/ 7 PM PST. You need to mark your calendars. America will not be voting an America's Nominee for the double eviction but will be voting for America's Evciton vote immediately following the DE HOH competition and nomination ceremony. There is no veto comp for DE. The ACP this week is going to award the winner of that ACP the one and only double eviction veto. America's only influences on the double Evciton are voting for which HG is recipient of ACP DE Veto and America's Evciton vote. Eviction voting will only be open for one hour. The schedule change is shown on CBS BBOTT page in the top left hand corner.

11/5 12:48 am BA HG’s have been eating since midnight and HN’s ended, Shelby/Morgan retire to the BA together and Shelby is about to have a complete meltdown: Shelby Kill me Morgan I can’t …Justin S I told you, I’ve been telling you M He irritates me he’s on my last frikin’ nerve (Shelby talks over her) S THANK YOU! I’ve been saying this for weeks! -Not ever since week 1 when Morgan/Monte told a skewed version of the BA incident when Shelby was led to believe Justin whipped his d*ck out in front of Morgan and allegedly challenged Monte (Justin didn’t say a word to Monte he just stripped downing the BA covering his junk and getting in the shower she has hated Justin and commented he could be arrested for indecent exposure) M uhhhh he’s so (again Shelby talks right over Morgan) S All he does is blah blah blah blah blah did you notice when everyone was talking today he just blah blah blah blah blah M He just talks over them -LOL as Shelby keeps talking over Morgan. They are all guilty of this same action but they have whined and complained about Dani and Justin doing it all season. We have a house full of hypocrites. S It is NOT your turn to talk! There are 8 people here so STFU M Ahhhh he’s so annoying S I’m actually pretty annoyed that Alex didn’t tell us he farted on our food. M He’s just gross. I’m just frikin’ irritated. S Make sure you bring it up in your next… Morgan goes into justifying when she ate cheez-its right after she became a HN and they both comment they (production) never do anything because Justin ate candy the other night. Then go on about him getting away with sleeping. -They all have gotten away with sleeping at various times throughout the season. S My whole HOH got messed up. He gets to do whatever F he wants, the rules don’t apply to him. You need to just keep complaining about it in there (DR) until they do something about it. -Shelby is not doing herself any favors with this Co-HOH twist. She used most of her DR Friday night to complain about having to share her HOH. -Does anyone remember Shelby running around hiding food in her golf bag and the BR so she could sneak food while she was a HN? It was the reason I made her a HN just so I could see her try to sneak food. While, I didn’t catch her doing it on the feeds that week that doesn’t mean she didn’t and she was determined to find a way to do it before she was ever even name a HN. M He’s gonna be America’s favorite player for what? For not reading the directions on the veto and people think its funny Shelby goes on to imitate the humor she finds appalling from him You’re not f’ing funny you have the humor of a 7 yr old and you’re 2 f’ing 7 M I just think the Reese’s thing is irritating, like he had the easiest week as a HN but he can’t follow the rules like everyone else? -Justin did get called to the DR and was given a warning just like very other BB HG when they’ve broken HN rules. I don’t disagree, HG’s should get called out when you break the rules but he was called out by production. I also had the similar thought about the fact this week’s HN’s had the easiest week of any since they were allowed to eat two nights in a row with the Halloween Party and the halfway point pizza party they were allowed to eat for one hour back to back Mon/Tues night. S He should get a penalty nom and I’m gonna keep f’ing b*tching at them until they f’ing do something about it. -That’s gonna go over real well, Shelby! Production loves players who make their lives hell. LOL. Oh and didn’t they make fin of Kryssie for running to the rule book a couple weeks ago when Scott tried to gas light her into quitting? M They need to, or can I eat a reese’s when I get HN tomorrow? S Yeah you better bet I am if they don’t do anything. -But these girls do the same petty little things. Shelby has taken just as much food and hidden from the other HG’s, she literally took broccoli from the SR and put it in the HOH/BR. Remind any one of Monte and him hoarding the apples? She tried to run up to the HOHBR as soon as Co-HOH was announced to hide her basket alleging the LNC were going to come in and eat her food. During the Plastics slumber party in the HOH last night she went on and on about how they were going to eat her food, she looked for something in her basket and said they ate it only to find it 1 sec later. Whitney told her they wouldn’t eat her food and basically told Shelby she was being ridiculous and Shelby and Alex just kept going on about how Yes they would, then joked about eating all the candy Danielle likes first so she can’t come up there and eat it. It was normal petty betty behavior by this clan. Oh and this was after she and Jason came to an agreement they would share the room but out of respect it would not be used as the ‘hang out’ spot for either team. Shelby wanted Jason to sleep downstairs and trade off night’s because she was livid about the thought that those people would be allowed to hang in the HOH and complained all day about Jason waking her up when he comes to bed because she goes to bed early. Then she turned around and has had all the girls in that room all day long. I know a lot of LF’s discussed why Jason and the LNC didn’t just keep going up there and interrupt so they couldn’t strategize alone up in what is now Jason’t HOH as well. However, Whitney has told Justin and the LNC she dreads having to go hang out with them, but in order to keep appearances up she will and it has to look like she’s still with them. She has done just that and although she is saying in her DR she is still with them she reports just about everything that is said back to Justin. Whitney has entered Scott territory the last 48 hours. She is running info and sharing intel (not specifying that its form the other side but equally contributes her observations or strategic thoughts with both sides when she’s with them. She also doesn’t complain about the LNC when she’s with the Plastics but has gone off on several rants about Alex to the LNC. The Plastics want to believe she is with them, but don’t trust her now. Shelby is more open to trusting her again than the other two. Whitney doesn’t mind Morgan and Shelby but is over Alex and has said she is the mastermind and always scheming and if she is OTB and the votes are there she will vote Alex out. Both in her convos with Justin, LNC, and the DR she has confirmed while she loves all the girls, this is a game and Alex is a huge threat to her chances of winning and it’s at a point where it’s her or Alex and she won’t sleep on that fact. Back to the meltdown. After a few minutes of silence while Morgan brushes her teeth, Shelby admits she just lost it in the DR and started crying. When Morgan asks why Shelby completely looses it and bursts into tears. Shelby (sobbing) I just…I don’t want to start crying again BB calls her out You are not allowed to talk about your DR’s with other HG’s Morgan She’s NOT! SHe’s just telling me why she’s upset. Shelby I’m just upset, like I thought this was gonna be fun, like this isn’t fun, it sucks M Being HOH? S No not HOH, this whole experience. It just sucks I hate these people so much, I can’t even express to you how much I hate them. They’re so annoying, then like I finally get a room to myself to be away from them and it gets taken away from me. -Let me pause for a moment and say most HG’s hit a wall at some point and have a meltdown. It’s a lot to handle, in general this being locked up with x number of strangers, constant game mode, etc…It’s never fun to watch. However, this whole pity party about the room getting taken away from her and not having a chance to escape all season is BS. The Plastics literally lived upstairs in that room and secluded themselves from everyone from the start of the very first HOH. Shelby herself did so less when Monte was HOH, but Alex and Scott’s they all spent the majority of their time up there, made sure the others knew they were not welcome and I don’t feel bad now that for 2 whole weeks they haven’t been able to use that. It was also a contributing factor to why they failed to ever form any kind of interpersonal relationships with the other HG’s because their holier than though attitudes and seclusion upstairs by their own choice isolated them from the game, things that were actually happening, and being able to read the players on the opposing side of the house. Let’s not forget during Scott’s HOH they literally sat up there alone and plotted against Scott himself. They were so excited the minute Shelby won HOH saying they get their room back and don’t have to be around those people and I laughed as they said it knowing the Co-HOH was going to happen and thwart all those plans. Then she doesn’t want the HOH used as a hangout spot but in reality that only applies to Jason’s people and not her own. It’s not like Monte where he didn’t like people in general in his space and was very OCD, she just is furious she will have to be around the commoners as she’s called them all season long. Suck it up buttercup that’s part off the game and in all honesty they dislike you almost just as much but don’t all treat you that way. Not to imply some don’t but even Justin who like her the least and calls her the devil, had tried for weeks in the beginning to forge some kind of general pleasantry with her and she has been blatantly rude and obnoxious to him. Now, he doesn’t bother putting in any effort to trying to crack that hell but he also doesn’t treat her like garbage. He does extend social courtesy to her despite his feelings. S I was upset that I didn’t get something from my family. M Yeah that’s rough S And just got like a random letter talking about burgers from my friend. M Yeah its rough but… -Morgan lacks any kind of empathy in her actions. She doesn’t really try to comfort Shelby, she’s standing in front of her giving her lip service but no real genuine empathy in either her body language or her tone. She’s standing over her, doesn’t even try to sit next to her, arms, crossed, body completely closed off to Shelby. S I was like why wouldn’t you give me something from my family? They wouldn’t tell me shit (and continues to talk about her DR and what was said and what she said to them, she’s no less guilty of breaking rule than any of the other HG’s). -This actually explains why she is so pissed at production, not that it’s their fault but it has less to do about Justin and more to do with hitting that wall in the BB house, and feeling very alone in this game and perhaps in her life in general. M I’m sure they were just trying to play off the humor of it, like… S Well, they wouldn’t tell me anything. Everyone else gets like something from a loved one and mine was just we’re gonna go out and get drunk and we’re gonna go out and eat burgers. And then my whole thing gets taken away from me! -That’s your own fault Shelby, thats the character you chose to come in and play. You dumbed yourself down, made yourself all about your best friend, the bungalow, you don’t need anyone, you never talk about your family, you hate all people, you can’t change your personality, and if I remember correctly you yourself have said if you get HOH you want a letter from your BF. For future reference you mad your bed an dow you have to lie in it, next to Jason! LOL -You also weren’t complaining when every vote went in your girls’ favor for almost 3 weeks straight, every single vote, now that someone else has won something and it infringes on your plans you need to suck it up like they did week after week and find the best way to use the twist to your advantage. As you girls love to say you are playing a game! You all have already exceeded your justifiable one hour of b*tching and complaining today when this ACP didn’t go your way by about 5 hours. This whole entire Shelby meltdown is what Jason warned them about (that Alex, as usual blows off). It’s the halfway point, people begin to lose their minds a little. LOL. Shelby in all her ranting and lengthy pity party were results of things she chose to do in this game. That was YOUR strategy girl! To be b*tchy and snide and make America hate you. She elected to say she doesn’t care what any of those commoners think and buy every single thing Alex/Morgan have fed you without giving it a second thought because what they say fits what you already decided by day 3 of this game. -I am sorry but Shelby elected to treat Danielle like trash from Day 1 and then wonders why after 5 weeks of being completely awful to her and the game hits a point where you need other paths to get you further in the game and now she wonders why Danielle wouldn’t see you as an amazing secret alliance to get her to the end for no other reason than she believes America hates Dani and she could never beat her in the final 3. She should be just as afraid of taking Dani to the end that you as she is of Alex. If not more! Instead, it can’t possibly have anything to do with Shelby’s actions. She blames it on Danielle being stubborn and stupid. Danielle sees right through Shelby. Justin sees right through Shelby. Alex’s mistake was counting on Shelby being so disliked people would want to target her before Alex. Wrong! The same way I observed Alex stirring things up and sending others out into the house to create drama, the misfits saw the same. Alex has been behind or at the very least encouraged 90% of what the other girls have done. She thinks because she isolates herself she keeps herself out of the mix. Or when things happen she stands there quietly saying nothing. I love when Shelby tells Alex she’s beginning to think she is a really sketchy friend! Shelby sees more and more that Alex is in fact using even her own teammates and the more she hears others sharing things about Alex and is further removed form those two girls as they move into the HN BR for the week. The more and more believable it will all become to Shelby. Have you noticed I stopped referring to her as the Sloth? You know why? Shelby got out of her tree and began to play the game. The more she actually talks and contributes the more you realize she reads people when they are talking to her very well. When she is present and sees and hears things with her own ears not only does she see it, but like Justin she calls it out by its name. Wait, so you threw me UTB? Wait so if its me and Alex on the block you wouldn’t vote for me to stay? I still don’t like her general demeanor but I am liking getting to watch her play this game. She came out in that rock wall veto comp on Kryssie’s HOH and showed us she has some umf! She is still deprogramming from all the brainwashing she so readily absorbed form the sisters but watching it enter the game has given me some entertainment. Alex had no idea Misfits all see Alex as the puppet master sending her little troops out to do her dirty work and all had since the end of Scott’s HOH. That makes them all smarter and better players than Alex. Knowing how to identify the behind the scenes is a huge part of being effective in this game. Know your enemies! Danielle and Alex are very similar players in many respects. Smart, strategically minded, physically strong and capable of channeling all of their energy to block out everything else in competitions and just play hard. Danielle however has an excellent read on most of the house. She knows how to accurately guess what her opponents will do and develop a way to counter it. That’s where Alex has to rely on a Shelby or a Scott for that element of assessing scenarios. Alex biggest game move so far, IMO, has been luring Scott one to her side the week his game blew up in week 2. Not putting him OTB and befriending him gained her an ally that literally road for her almost as loyally as her own sister. Let’s not forget she’s had her sister in the game the entire season. Someone she can vent to, decompress with, trust completely, rely on and know will not do anything to hurt her game. Then add to those two huge advantages, one of her own creation and one by being cast with her sister, the fact America spent 3 consecutive weeks giving her 100% of she wanted. Well, if I were going on Big Brother I would want two solid soldiers sacrificing both their games and doing everything I told them do while protecting me form every angle. I would want one person I knew wouldn’t stab me in the back and I could decompress without ever having to worry anything I said would bite me in the a*s. That’s unheard of in most seasons. Even if you have a ride or die int he house there’s always some concern in the back of your mind that prevents you from telling them everything for fear they would find a way at a pivotal point and potentially use that against you. Every player could use America handing them every single perfectly placed piece on the game board so I didn’t have to really do any work. Even with all that, she wont get to the end, she wont win this game, and she will never take responsibility for her own failure when she leaves. The fall of Alex will always be blamed on someone else. Alex had entered the BA w/S/M at 12:53 am cam 1/2 Later cam changes and you see Alex and Morgan in the UKB after Alex had tolerated Shelby’s meltdown for a less than 7 minutes. (1:00 am UKB cam 3/4) Alex rants about how half the people in this house are crybabies and why would they stick her in a house with a bunch of idiots. She insists its a game and she just can’t take listening to anyone crying or whining over things, they need to suck it up and remember its a game. Morgan checks Alex. She does in some of this say Morgan agrees with her about its a game. But tells Alex that she has to learn how to show some empathy. To be careful of what she says when someone like Shelby is already upset and being irrational because those are the times it can swing around and get you in trouble. She reminds Alex that being social is 50% of the game and not everyone thinks like her and that’s not how Shelby feels so Alex has to be more sensitive in moments like this. All things I applaud Morgan for not only saying to Alex but realizing how important those elects are in an environment like this. Morgan also reminds Alex that she has her sister in here. Morgan can understand others could feel very alone in this game. Alex says the only thing she’s struggling with is being with all these other people. Hmmm, sounds exactly like what Shelby was melting down to you about. Shelby told her it wasn’t about the HOH she just can’t handle all these people and how much she can’t stand them. 1:05 am “This is why I got along with Scott, because he didn’t whine and complain about everything. This is probably why my sister isn’t annoying me yet.” The minute Morgan leaves the UKB, what does Alex do? She cries! She complains and cries herself after saying people who cry in this house are weak minded idiots who don’t know what game they are playing. My second thought, as I witnessed this happen was when Scott stood in this same room, crying and having a meltdown of his own and it struck me! Alex and Scott are the mirrors of each other in the casting the same way that Shelby and Jason are. Monte/Morgan mirrors. Cornbread/Kryssie mirrors. Dani/Justin mirrors. Shane and Whitney are mirrors in many respects but not as overtly as the other pairs I just named. Neely, Neely was the only one who didn’t have a reflection of herself in the form of another player. I noticed this early on with Morgan and Monte. It’s blatantly obvious with Jason/Shelby. 1:06 am HOH-BR cam 3/4 Jason and Shelby After two minutes of just general polite chit chat Jason asks her is she’s ok. She says Don’t ask that! I’m gonna start crying again. (Begins sobbing and having another ugly cry.) Jason goes over and hugs her. As he does Shelby says “this is the footage they’ve been waiting for.” I laughed, it was funny. Jason What’s wrong? Shelby It’s just like it being around all these people here. Well, you know you’ve lived here, well no You love it here. Jason is rubbing her tears off her face for her, very tenderly asking her So you're just homesick, or what? Shelby Stop. I hate this. Jason No, you stop. Shelby I know but whenever you cry and someone asks you what’s wrong it makes it worse. Jason I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Shelby This is the worse thing ever. Jason asks if this is because of the ACP. She says obviously she’s really frustrated with this, its just like, I got like a gag letter basically. Instead of like… Jason Like a real letter from your family. She nods and he tells her it doesn’t mean anything. Whitney came in to take a shower. Shelby tells her she is fine she was done and then Jason came and asked her what was wrong. Then I started again. Shelby Oh God, now everybody’s gonna know. Jason consoles her and tells her no they wont tell anybody. Shelby says its fine everybody probably saw her. Jason says, no you looked fine downstairs. Whitney I didn’t notice. Shelby Well! It’s too late now! W Do you want me to leave? I’ll come back. Shelby tells her its fine. This will be the first time Whitney has used the HOH shower. That shocks Jason. Shelby It’s probably better if more people are around or I would just sit here crying (she falls over and starts crying again). Jason guesses correctly about the letter from Monica made Shelby worry about if her parents are ok. He tells her don’t stress herself out. Don’t play all those scenarios and know that sometimes it comes down to just not being able to get all the releases they need for photos and they will make people edit their letters 5 times and probably cut a bunch of crap out and told her to talk more about those burgers. They rake those letters over to make sure there is no hidden messages about the game in there. Shelby Who would of thought the one person who would give me exactly what I needed would be YOU?!?! Then she says go get my t-shirt dress now! Where are those Krackles. I need some Krackles. Jason says oh you’re gonna try and use this to get me to tell you where the Krackles are? I don’t know where the Krackles are! -This exchange is genuinely sweet and the two of them bantering like best friends is amusing and very important. They spend hours in the HOH, talking about general stuff, then talking game. Jason gives her some great advice and he shares some valuable accurate information. He also confirms that Scott/Alex threw Whitney UTB which is true but Shelby isn’t ready to completely digest this as accurate yet. She will! Don’t you worry, Shelby in the room with Jason, removed from these girls is terrifying Alex. Now the sisters are both HN’s and sent off to share the HN-BR with Danielle Saturday when all three become HN’s. You can watch them (11:00 am IWR) discuss some of the information from Shelby’s convo with Jason over night. You can see Alex’s panic begin to increase as she tries every thing in her might to sell Shelby on Jason being a snake, don’t believe anything he tells you. Morgan swoops in later Saturday afternoon (3 pm IWR Morgan/Shelby) and reinforces it was probably Scott who is fact having those convos with Jason and Alex just got lumped up in there. Since Scott was like her self proclaimed ride or die and they all assume she’s in on anything Scott had going. Morgan is doing all the heavy lifting this week in trying to ensure Alex and Morgan do not go on the block. She is trying to counter every question or concern Shelby has and deflects any ideas that may have arisen from what Jason knows and Shelby is herself questioning while saying don’t worry I don’t believe any of it. Shelby also keeps emphasizing to Morgan that she and her should go to the end and Alex is a big threat in this game. Alex is trying to stay out of the mix. This could be a huge mistake again. Shelby will begin to subscribe to what she finds out from Jason. Morgan will begin to realize that she and Shelby could ride this out if Alex leaves she wont be alone. Morgan also does know that a lot of what Jason is in fact true about Alex and reminds Alex of that. Alex can’t lie to Morgan, you see, because Morgan knows 90% of it, her sister has told her everything. The first safety ceremony begins tonight at 7 pm. Nothing too much to get excited about before then. 25 hours in the BB house can be very long in terms of people moving from one approach to another and the smallest thing can change what they thought they wanted on a dime. If Shelby puts Alex OTB Misfit fans will all vote for Morgan as AN. Plastics fans are voting Kryssie for the most part. There are some that would rather see Morgan go to save Alex though and those stragglers will add a % to the vote. Alex is up in polls. So, if she isn’t Shelby’s nom, she will be America’s nom by the Misfit fans. I may not agree with that choice but it’s the majority that decides which way I vote to prevent the other side of fandom going the dominant vote.

America's Care Package Jason received the ACP this week and is the Co-HOH. Don't get too excited, the "rules" of the Co-HOH are stacked in Plastics favor (of course) and do not reflect any other Co-HOH every in the history of BB. 1:05 pm BY Jason receives ACP Along with his power he got Smore's fixings. 1:09 pm SR Morgan/Shelby Morgan is freaking out because she thinks Jason won't target Alex, because of the ACP discussion last week he will come for Morgan. She suggests to Shelby maybe she approaches Jason with a deal lying and saying if he keeps her safe and she does get the ACP she will use it to help him. Shelby tells her to just wait and see what happens before making any decisions. Same time Misfits BY cam 1/2 Everyone congratulates Jason and says see he was worried about going home this week for nothing. Jason points out he is safe this week, but with DE he could still end up going out the exact same day he did his season and with this he can't compete in DE. 1:10 pm Jason/Shelby called to DR Morgan is stress eating again Alex approaches Justin once Shelby and Jason are called to the DR for the stipulations of this HOH. She says to Justin that if he keeps Jason from nominating her (Alex) then she will keep Shelby from nominating Justin. Justin says Jason is putting you up 100%. Jason and Shelby emerge from the DR and retire to the respective areas of the house where their teams are hanging out to fill them in. Each HOH will select one person to be safe each safety ceremony. Shelby gets to choose first. Then Jason. Same thing the second safety on Sunday. The two HG's who have not been given safety are the nominees. Then the HOH's have to 'claim' one of the nominees in the DR as their perspective nominees. Shelby again gets the advantage once again in being able to select which of the two nominees she wants to claim as her nominee. This is important when it comes to Veto and re-nom. If one of the nominees wins veto the HOH who claimed that nominee is the HOH that is responsible for naming the re-nom. Also, if the eviction vote on eviction night results in a tie, the HOH who performed best in the veto is the HOH who breaks the tie. -Ok could this be any more blatantly stacked in favor of Shelby and the Plastics? So Shelby gets to choose who is safe first each night, which means she could save both Alex and Morgan from being one of the HOH nominees. But then, she also is allowed to be the first HOH to claim a nominee. Why would they not at least try to make it appear fair and allow one to start both safety ceremonies and the other to be the first to claim the nominee? LOL Seriously CBS? In the history of BB there have been many dual HOH scenarios but never in the history of any of these has one been given a huge advantage over the other. Why were these rules not provided to the voters before the ACP was in play? -This entire set up lends to the likelihood that the two nominees will both be pawns, Shelby can obviously select the stronger of the two in hope sit that one wins veto she has the power to select the re-nom. This wasn't a draw out of bag situation where they randomly draw to determine the order, no this was BB telling g them we have given Shelby the greater power since Jason won ACP. Didn't we just have a Co-HOH ACP in BB 18? We also had two seasons of two HOH's and battle of the block. We had in All-Stars two HOH's and if it came to a tie and the HOH's couldn't agree on the re-nom the Veto winner had the authority to name their replacement. The way this washed out all it really does is give Jason safety. They could have just given Jason safety if that's how this dirty load was going to come out in the wash. 1:25 pm cam 3/4 KIT Shelby/Alex/Morgan/Kryssie Kryssie asks Shelby So ar you and Jason sleeping together? Shelby Idk we'll have to talk about it. Kryssie He said you said two were going to showering together and he was nervous. S Idk we could either, like that's beds really big its just like the noise issue with like him staying up later than me. Morgan Oh like one day you, one day him. S Or just tell each other we'll be quiet, Idk. Shelby motions silently to the other two girls to meet her upstairs. As Alex follows Shelby up the steps with Morgan not far behind with their food Shelby says to Alex: I want to be able to grab the wine the second that door opens and hide it. -BB is setting up Jason's personal items in what is now also his HOH room. -How petty and childish can we be? You sleep in a room with lots of people every night. This is one big room for two people. Really the Plastics are going to hate this because they've been waiting two weeks to take over the HOH and hide out up there and not have to mingle with anyone again like they did the first 3 weeks. It was the little pleasure I had when they were all celebrating so hard Wednesday night saying they could have 'their' private room back, knowing that Shelby was likely going to have to share it with Jason and Alex and Morgan will be stuck in the HNB with Danielle the rest of the week. 1:15 pm BY Whitney/Justin Justin explains that Danielle told him she can the numbers and has said the week Justin wants to win HOH he would have to put Whitney next to Shelby. He says they would have the votes to send Shelby home, but he doesn't trust them to keep her safe and would need to put someone else up. Whitney agrees they would vote her out and Justin says he could put one of them up instead but now he's sharing with her he's worried about the week he wants to win is week 7 and its gonna be crazy if he's still there. Whitney is worried with this Co-HOH they're just gonna tell Jason oh just put Whitney up. Justin tells her that Jason's not gonna listen to them. Jason's gonna put Alex up. But it would be necessary for Whitney to vote Alex out and she tells him she would do that. Justin says I already know. She says 'you know that I would' he assures her he knows that she would. -Whitney will 100% vote out Alex. She knows they sacrificed her last week, she knows she can't beat Alex in the end and Alex will protect Shelby and Morgan over her and she told us in her last DR she knows Alex wants her out and doesn't think she (Alex) and beat Whitney in the end. 1:27 pm cam 3/4 Plastics ULR Alex immediately says to Shelby So Justin came up to me and said Jason's for sure putting you up. -That's a bold faced lie. 1:12 pm cam 1/2 SR Justin and Alex randomly end up in their together because Whitney and Justin were doing laundry and there was only one dryer sheet and he heads to SR to find more. When the camera changes to these two we hear Justin replying to something Alex said J Oh tell me about it A Its always crazy though J So like I know you're obviously worried because A-cuts him off and talks over him I'm worried like you're worried J well yeah I'm no so much so worried because like I don't A-again she cuts him off and talks over him A Its just weird now cause Idk, I feel like Jason would want me out J Yeah, no Jason is for sure is gonna put you up A Yeah J No doubt, Unless I could try and convince him to put Morgan up A Well, I will try to convince Shelby to not put you up if you try to convince Jason to not put me up. J Well yeah, right A That's all we can really do to help each other out at this point. I know it's gonna be hard. -This was in fact both of them checking in since they each are working this fake deal to protect each other and have been since the end of week 3 when Scott bartered a deal between the two duos. Scott fell off after J/J voted to evict him week 4 but Alex has been going to each of them on her own and keeping the conversations going every week. Since we come in after the camera cuts away from BY to them SR we only hear the tail end of whatever she said to Justin which ended with "crazy'. They are both playing they're parts in this sham of a deal but for her to only tell Shelby that Justin randomly walked up to her said Jason was gonna put her up was Alex covering her a*s. She knows S/J Co-HOH means they are going to trade information and she is setting Justin up to have even more hate from Shelby knowing what Justin allegedly said to Morgan before she took her turn in the HOH Face Morph comp. -This was a good move but if you watched it out of context you miss the actual relevance of what happened or if you only hear Alex tell Shelby her version its very skewed and misleading. Shelby goes off on yet another tangent about how Justin needs to learn to keep his big mouth shut and maybe he should understand the rules before he goes telling anyone anything. The Plastics meet alone in the HOH (2:45 pm cam 1/2) and speculate that LNC would save Whitney over Danielle. (They are not entirely wrong.) They are still convinced Whitney promised LNC her care package (they assume all ACP's are going to them and were shocked today by Jason winning one but dismissed it and said fans are saving the last two for them because they're the best. and saved herself from staying on the block, If you watch the two groups, LNC BY and Plastics upstairs skybridge they both come up with the exact same strategies. Laster in the HOH room when Jason finally has a chance to talk to Shelby (3 pm cam 1/2) alone he realizes they have in fact come up with the same logic the LNC had discussed. Jason goes immediately and reports that back to Danielle and Kryssie who joins them soon after. Jason told Shelby he wants to target someone on his side and offers up Danielle. He also explains that Whitney didn't make a deal that he knows of, it was more about them realizing that they were doing what Scott and Alex wanted and asked themselves why they were doing what they wanted and took her down there was no reason for them to be playing defense. Shelby was prepared for Dani to be offered up but Jason really is selling to Shelby he wants Danielle out and has for while (which Shelby knows it true). They are both selling each other here but Jason reports everything accurately to Dani and she knows he's using this as a strategy they have already planned this out. What he's trying to do is ensure Shelby puts up Whitney because then everyone playing in the veto will be an LNC except Shelby. They are assuming worse case scenario America will probably put up one of the LNC. This is very smart but hold on Jason we have different plans and your best case scenario may come to light if your fan base can put every single vote on the same person and get either Alex/Morgan up as America nom. The Plastics of course are sucking up to America, they are tattling on things people have said and say "BB fam" and America we need you to put one up from their side this week. I blogged earlier today my thoughts on the smartest AN for the LNC fans to pile votes on. Alex has a lot of momentum so wherever the majority lies by Sunday this week's America Nominee comes down to a very close margin again and whichever team you like make sure you cast your vote. That's it for the immediate responses following ACP delivery today.

Most Important Vote of the Season for LNC/Misfits Jason won the ACP! Way to go LNC fans! We did it! He is the Co-HOH! Let's take a step back for a moment with three days between now and the America Nominee Vote. I have something I have been discussing with some of the major LNC SM leaders in communicating the majority vote which influences poll results when they begin. Let me disarm you by saying when Sunday rolls around whatever the popular opinion is for either Fandom I will report it and we should vote collectively in the best interest of gaining the dominant vote. However this lands, I will promote the popular vote when that time comes. Just take a deep breath and sit back and ponder what I am about to share with you from a statistical point of view, since numbers don't lie and have been the most influential part of this BBOTT season. As soon as Shelby won HOH I saw a fire storm of LNC fans calling for Alex's head on a platter in this week's AN. I love that we are all coming together but my fear is this is gaining a lot of momentum without considering what really is the best vote to secure the LNC collectively stay in the game and possibly position all of them to make it to final 6 and survive double eviction. Yes, most of us banded together to vote Morgan for eviction and Scott still won the popular vote. There were some LNC fans who thought Scott going required their votes and that helped the dominant vote to send Scot home. Yes, we all have done a lot to help get all the LNC fans united to get the popular vote to land on Jason for this week’s ACP and we will know today if it was enough. It may be if everyone actually voted Jason. Jason does have a small fan base on that side of the Plastics fandom and they dislike Whitney for going against Plastics as well as enjoy the idea of a Shelby/Jason Co-HOH. I have heard, as soon as Shelby won HOH, a majority of LNC fans calling for Alex as AN. While I love that the majority all really want Alex out of the game! We all agree we don’t want her there and she is not the biggest threat to any of our individual favorites among the LNC having a shot to not only stay but make it to the end and win. I know that goes against everything you may be thinking but all I ask is you take a deep breath and keep reading so I can at least have a fair opportunity to present a valid argument why I believe this. That snowballing idea, Alex AN, gaining so much momentum is also coming from an emotional reaction. We all share a dislike for Alex and want her gone, that’s the one motive we share. We hate the advantage the sister twist has had. That being said, are people really placing the momentum this early on the right target? Is Alex a threat? Yes! Is she the smartest Plastic for LNC fans to vote for America’s nominee? Well, if she’s the popular opinion in order to try and make it a reality we will have to. I’ve reached out to some of those heavy hitters influencing the majority vote on the LNC fan base side of things and posed this idea to be considered. If by some miracle we win the popular vote and get Alex evicted that’s a victory. It’s also a situation we’ve now created that almost guarantees that an LNC player will NOT get that DE ACP Veto. If Alex goes, Plastics fandom will unite for one last unanimous vote. Every single Plastics fan will 100% vote Morgan for the next ACP! This week we saw some of that fandom splintering in their selection. A large majority want Whitney to have it in the interest of Saving DE Veto ACP for Morgan. Some actually may have voted Morgan and that helps out odds of giving it to Jason. Just don't be under the fans belief that in week 6 we still have the larger fan base. that hasn't been true for a couple weeks. Jason/Dani/Justin fans declined in the first two weeks. We got the ACP to go to Jason this week! Consider though that some Plastics fans split among Morgan and Whitney this week for ACP. Some like Jason and threw a few votes our way. Next week 100% of Plastics fans will put every single vote on Morgan next week for ACP and the chances that we are able to overpower that popular vote is a slim percentage difference. It is in fact more likely they will dominate the popular vote. Remember the reason we were able to get CB and Monte OTB and get Kryssie that first ACP was because we had voting from both fan bases and the percentage of their votes added to our gave us the popular vote. Same applies to the Scott win last week getting him OTB as AN. Some Plastics fans wanted Scott OTB because they felt like he was hurting Alex’s game and their priority is to keep the all girls alliance in tact above all things. We have to capitalize on swinging a small percentage of them in our favorable vote in order to get things to go LNC’s way. Alex is their first priority among that fan base and the Plastics all girls alliance is their second. The whole reason they voted for Whitney this week is they were saving the DE veto for Morgan! If Morgan stays this week, she is virtually guaranteed the DE veto. I am sorry, I hate to tell you this but stats don’t lie. I am a numbers girl. Any misfit voting for Whitney for ACP this week helped the Plastics fan assure no matter how many of us banned together Whitney would win this week’s ACP and their long term goal was preplanned-give Morgan wk 7 ACP DE veto. If we are truly trying to give all of the LNC the best odds of making it to final 6 we should be doing everything we possibly can to get Morgan out this week, just like taking the gamble if she happened to get one HG vote for eviction week last week she would have gone home bettering the odds the LNC wins the remaining ACP’s. I already hear different chat rooms discussing who should get next week’s ACP. We are a split fan base where some prefer Dani, some prefer Jason, and others prefer Justin. Justin is well liked by many Plastics fans. Dani has actually gained some popularity after her HOH week on that side of fandom as well. The truth is the best way to get your player to get either of the last two ACP’s is to get Morgan out this week. If Morgan goes, that fan base isn’t pleased that Whitney has been conspiring against the enemy. They wont come out in full force for her to get the ACP DE veto. They will then fracture off and start putting their votes in varying percentages towards our favorite 3 players. That improves the odds that Justin or Danielle wins that ACP and the final four ACP. If we leave Morgan in we will lose the ACP voting next week, I’m sorry I hate to be the bearer of bad news but statistically speaking thats a fact we all need to recognize. Overall in the chatter I see and hear among LNC fans is that we all want to break up the sisters. If Alex ends up on the block by some miracle from HOH nominations then we will all vote Morgan. If Morgan ends up as HOH nominee we will all Vote Alex. That’s a given. Will we win that popular vote? If some Plastics fans see Alex is in danger they will sacrifice Morgan over her sister and we may gain that same small percentage of votes that got Monte, CB, and Scott out of the game. That’s the very best case scenario this week. We should in fact be spreading the word to nominate Morgan as America’s Nominee and every single one of the misfits fan base should vote that way. It is the only guarantee 100% that Morgan is OTB and Morgan has a chance to go home because then, and only then, will those Plastic fan base votes fracture and spread among our favorite players giving them the remaining ACP’s. You may not like to hear that. I want Alex out as much as you all do. I want the LNC to have the best chance at retaining those last two ACP’s more. This is also another week we have the chance to get the AN we want OTB. Most Plastics fans had been talking about getting Kryssie up as AN this week before Shelby won. Some still can’t get over week one and their personal hate for Danielle. While the majority of them will likely land on a main target some will splinter off, like last week with the Scott vote, and vote the other. They are not likely to throw votes in our voting but they will lose the majority dominant vote if around 8-10% of their fan base votes away from the popular vote among them. We can literally use every bad vote that has made us angry all season against them when they and the Plastics are most vulnerable! If we can get Morgan out, Alex will be the only one competing against Danielle, Kryssie, Justin, and Whitney/Jason in the week 7 DE HOH. She will be shook her sister just left and like Morgan Alex doesn’t perform as well under a lot of pressure. It vastly improves the odds that a LNC member wins that DE HOH and they can send Alex home she will have zero protection. Shelby can’t win ACP. Alex can’t win ACP. Morgan will be gone and can’t win ACP. Whitney wants Alex gone, sees her as the biggest threat to her game and will never save Alex. Justin wants the week 7 HOH more than he has wanting anything in this game. Jason and Justin have actually been arguing about this. Jason want the next HOH for De very bad as well. However, as we all know Justin is very superstitious and 7 is a very LUCKY number in his mind. He has been waiting for this week 7 and has literally asked Jason to let him have the week 7 HOH win if it comes down to them. That made Jason go on a rant with Kryssie last night. Jason says he wants he to and he feels like Justin is being selfish to ask him to throw that just because #7 is his lucky number. Now, I don’t disagree with Jason’s line thinking. I don’t like that this is causing a rift between the strongest alliance so far in this entire season. My greater point is Justin can taste it, he will not throw it! He may not win it but he will give it everything he’s got in DE. It will not matter who wins DE HOH on the LNC side if Morgan gets that ACP DE Veto. They cannot get her out. They can put her up next to Shelby so she has to use it on herself and not someone else, but she will save herself, an then the LNC HOH will HAVE to sit next to Shelby OTB. This is week 7. You may not have thought of this so I want you to take a deep breath. Ready, this takes the game down to final 6. It is very likely, if it comes down to 5 v 2 in DE, and an LNC wins that they will take out one of the biggest players on their own side. The only way I can see that not happening is if Kryssie wins DE HOH. She genuinely wants to go to the end with her group. Dani, Jason, Justin, all know this is the one chance to take someone out on their own side that is a threat to their chance at winning the game and they WILL take the shot. Be prepared for it. This may be BBOTT but BB is still BB and that’s what happens in DE. If somehow a Plastic goes home this week, hopefully Morgan, thats the best chance for LNC to survive this week and next week, but know we are at the point in the game next week where it is every man/woman for themselves and we are 99% likely to see an LNC member who wins HOH take out one of their own. That’s the game. So if you want to improve the odds that your favorite LNC player wins the popular vote for ACP DE Veto, taking out Morgan is the only shot you have! It’s do or die with this America nominee vote and eviction this week. If Morgan doesn’t go home, she will get next week’s ACP, if we manage to get Alex out well that’s great but you are ensuring that Morgan stays past DE and a misfit goes home regardless. If Alex stays this week and Morgan goes we guarantee an LNC team member wins ACP DE Veto. It is the very best odds over anything else that LNC take out Alex! It guarantees an LNC wins DE Veto, its now 5 v Alex in DE HOH and she knows she’s dead in the water, she’s reeling from her sister going home and it improves the odds that LNC member wins DE HOH, and LNC holds the DE Veto and all four original LNC stay through DE. Shelby and Jason (assuming he wins this weeks ACP) can’t compete. We must remain united going into the remaining votes this week. Spread the word, be clear and concise with why this is the best way to guarantee LNC makes it to the final 6 in tact. It doesn’t matter which LNC is your personal favorite, we can work together to get them all there. The best way to make that happen is make Morgan the America Nominee and let the LNC taker her out this week! Plastics fans votes will splinter among our favorite players and one of them is now guaranteed to get the last two ACP's. There are no other options. They won't come out in full force for Whitney! LNC wins DE Veto and LNC HOH guarantees they all survive DE and Alex goes home right after her sister. It's the best shot we have! When we band together we can make the votes work in our favor and help the LNC. If we take out Morgan this week, we guarantee either Danielle or Justin gets the DE VETO ACP. Don’t forget HN voting opens today.Since Jason won ACP, I am not sure we will even vote HN's because the only three left are Alex, Morgan, Dani. We want Alex.Morgan on SLOP! It weakens them for this week’s veto and for double eviction. I’m sorry Dani fans, she's on slop by default. But this is a huge win for us! Sunday I will return with the popular vote for America’s Nom. No matter what the popular vote is. It’s still critical we vote together for the sake of the team as whole and not handing the Plastics fans the popular vote by default. I just really hope people can set their emotions aside and look at the best chances. I know there has been a fast moving train for a popular vote among us for Alex, but I really hope that people take a step back and consider the things I’ve provided from a statical perspective you can’t beat the numbers. Numbers don’t lie. My analysis rests on actually getting Morgan out this week, if she doesn’t go it’s all out the window, but remember the LNC discussed the ACP’s and the fact Morgan and Whitney are eligible and although last week’s plan to get one out got side tracked…They all know that DE is coming now. Julie told them in the LIVE Q&A's yesterday. They all know Morgan could win the ACP. I have to believe they know if she’s up there it is the smartest and best move to get her out before DE.

Thursday's Julie Live Q&A and general LF Updates Thursday, November 3 Julie’s Live Q&E with Julie 3:59 pm HG I need everyone to gather in the LR right now. HG make their way to the LR, Kryssie first to arrive and Jason last to arrive. Julie Hi everyone, how is everyone doing? HG’s Everyone replies Good. Julie Well, we are just four week s away from crowing the winner of BBOTT. It’s getting close everyone. Which means this game is getting harder, more intense, and last night’s HOH comp was intense to say the least. Shelby. First of all, congratulations on smoking the competition, absolutely smoking the competition to become the new HOH. Viewers want to know how did you complete that puzzle so fast when your fellow housemates were struggling so much with it. Shelby Well, I know can’t move faster than a lot of my fellow HG’s so I knew I had to carry the plates with me. I guess I have just been staring at everyone’s faces a lot. IDK. I couldn’t even remember the clicks that everyone was supposed to represent. I was just so focused on the features. Julie Got it. Kryssie, last night Scott was evicted by a unanimous vote. You’v made your dislike of Scott very well know, to say the least. So how does it feel now that he’s out of the house? Kryssie Honestly, I’m always really bummed to see anybody leave. On a personal level, I hate sending anybody home. I realize that’s the name of the game as a person, it’s tough. It sucks to kinda see his dream end at the door. But, I really feel as a player, he made a lot of personal choices instead of game choices, and I feel like now we can kind of get down to business as a group. Maybe stop worrying about some personal things and start playing more strategically. So best of luck to Scott, but I’m ready to keep moving. -Kryssie rarely says anything I fully agree with but that comment about less personal and more strategic is a sentiment I share. I hope this is true among LF’s as we enter the last few weeks of the season as well. A girl can dream can’t she? Julie Game on. All right. Alex, it’s no secret that there are two sides in the house. And last night you lost a member of your side. How hard was it to see Scott walk out the door? Alex I mean it was difficult. Scott was someone in this house that I was close with and I view him as a really good friend. So having to say goodbye to someone I really, really value in this game was tough. But I do know, like Kryssie said, it is the name of the game and it’s something that’s going to happen each week until we crown a winner. So, you just adapt and move on. Julie There you go. Well, some of you encountered a very scary veto competition this week. Let’s all take a look. HG’s are excited to see a segment of the haunted veto. CBS included a clip of Shelby telling the manikin “if you touch me I will sue you.” She smiles as it happens and her face changes for a moment as she hears that and then just puts that smile right back on her face again. Clip ends. Julie Wow, that was scary. Now Justin. We’ve heard you talk about how scared you are of witches and of ghosts. How real is that fear? Justin, Yo! That’s extreme to me, and like yo, I’m very superstitious so I don’t get down with non elf the spirits or ghosts. None of that. I’m not rocking with none of that stuff. Julie Well you are from New Orleans, right? Justin Yeah, you already know, baby. Justin, yo, it’s not like that, it’s not like that. A couple of the Plastics cheering Julie on to get him. When he says baby all the other HG’s gasps and react. Justin I’m so sorry. I really am. Julie You did apologize. Don’t make me bring some ghosts back. Justin gets very animated and says No! NO! NO! I don’t want that. Julie All right. Let me ask you this Justin. On a scale of 1-10, how scary was your experience in the haunted house? Justin Yo, it had to be like a 9 1/2 for sure. LOL Julie Oh, now you’re just challenging us to make it an 11. LOL Justin No, I was extremely, I was petrified yo. I was not expecting that at all. Julie Well, it was fun to watch. Jason, what was the strategy behind your kind and polite attitude towards the apparitions? Jason Well, I do terrible at the haunted houses on the outside world. But, I have found to help the strategy to scare them before they scare you. But to take them off guard by just asking random questions, or asking them totally off the wall off putting things. So, I just try to make friends with them while I was complimenting their hair, and talking to them. I was hitting on the guy in the bunny mask. (all HG’s LOL). So, it actually worked out quite well. I think I could have moved a little bit quicker, but it was just a good way to stop them from scaring me. Julie Smart way to concur your fears. Now Whitney, one of our viewers wants to know what was scarier this week? The haunted veto or the morphed faces of the HG’s in the HOH competition? Whitney Definitely. The. Veto comp with the spirits and the ghosts. Although the clicks were terrifying and I think we’ve all agreed that none of us are ever going to have children together because they were so ugly. But, the veto competition with the spirits hands down was the scariest and I love scary stuff and I couldn’t even handle it. I know my mama’s so upset cause I said every cuss word in the book going through this house. But, it was terrifying. Julie Well, look at it this way if two of you end up having a child we can hire that person years later to be in that competition. Whitney That is so true. Julie We wont have to put on masks, no, I’m just kidding.Danielle, last week you won both the HOH and the veto. How difficult was it to use that veto? Danielle You know it was really difficult for me to use that veto, I had the one mindset going into the week if I were to win the veto. (Cameras cut to stone cold faced Morgan) And then it gets down to the middle of the week and things change. You have to roll with the punches in this house, so…(cameras change to Whitney no looking sick to her stomach) there are so many things that you have to factor in, but I knew that I wanted to save Whitney and I was scared that if I didn’t she would go home. I didn’t want to see her leave just yet. (Camera cuts to Shelby who is twitching her mouth to the side) America handed me Scott, wrapped in a pretty pink bow and I just felt like (camera zooms in on Morgan trying to fake a smile for a second and then getting a glazed over look on her face) if I didn’t take this chance that America might be like, What os wrong with YOU? And I was seeing that America already made a HN and nominated me in the same week in the past and being eligible this week I was like trying to get back in their good graces. I think it was a good gam move and I stand by it 100%. -Wow, Danielle just ran through all that like she was having a private candid one on one conversation. I expect to hear lots of reaction and speculations from the Plastics in just a little while. LOL Julie Ok. Morgan. You are still eligible for ACP this week. (cams cut to Kryssie looking sternly) If you receive it, what do you hope it contains? Morgan Obviously, I hope it contains some kind of safety (cam cuts to Justin looking annoyed) so I don’t have to worry but I mean I think it could be a ton of different things. I ran through just about every scenario, but I mean as long as its some kind of where I get saved (cam cuts to Dani looking interested at least) you know maybe it has a little added bonus where I could help somebody else out. I wouldn’t complain about either of those I don’t think. Julie And beyond power what about some personal things? Morgan Oh personal things? she is completely thrown off by that follow up question. Alex I think says Money. Morgan continues Money? No? Jason Reminds them the ACP comes in one of those little boxes Morgan (in her rah rah cheerleader posed face and completely different voice and tone in her speech she always has in DR’s but no other time in the house). OMG if it were a phone call from home! Or a picture? I just really wanna see my BF. So, Julie if you can pull some strings Idk. You have…I trust you. Julie I will pass along the message. I will put it that way. Morgan Thanks. Julie Well, I have some big news for everyone. -You hear Oh God! Julie Next Wednesday you will be evicting not 1, but 2 HG’s. Alex We knew it! Others a lot of ohhhhhhhhhh Julie That’s right everyone it’s DE week. Now the first eviction will take place immediately following the weekly episode airing at an earlier time of 8pm EST/5pm Pst. The second eviction will happen later that night. (Camera cuts to Shelby who looks like she just had the wind knocked out of her! LOL) That’s 2 Live evictions, sending 2 HG’s home in one night. Which means no will be safe. But remember this is BBOTT, and everything is different. So next Wednesday, expect the unexpected. I’ll leave you with that HG’s. Goodbye everyone. HG’s all say Goodbye Julie 4:06:39 pm Danielle OMG Shelby Who else feel like throwing up? I’m the first HOH to not be safe. -Actually she’s right and that made me LOL hysterically. The one week she finally wins anything and she could still go home the same night she sends someone else out the door! (cam 1 Kryssie’s face when I pause it was looking petrified for Shelby so you know we will hear some color coded dissertation as to why Shelby won this week later). Alex and Morgan can’t help but look giddy knowing they may have missed a bullet and think ha ha I’m so glad Shelby got HOH and not me. -The beauty in Shelby knowing that this is what is going to happen is, it may very well change her entire mindset and she may use this now to help barter some protection for herself from bigger, stronger, players and that’s a huge help to her as she decides to nominate and not so great for the petty betty sisters (cam 1) who are both still sitting there with huge smiles on their faces unable to hide their joy while Shelby is on cam 4 truly looking like she may throw up! General chatter talking over each other about predicting it would come and Jason being the one who kept saying they may not do it for this season. Whitney smartly asks does that mean no AN for that DE? Scott’s Interview w/Julie America’s role drastically effected the chances of him getting to the end and winning. HN’s twice really set in his mind that America didn’t like him. He regrets cutting CB so early. Julie reveals sister twist! After asking if the sibling is still in the game Julie confirms that and Scott guesses Morgan. He is really stunned. Said he never considered a twist like that in the house this season. Says the bond between Shelby and Alex was always in the forefront of his mind. Scott also confirms he really was focused on propelling Alex once he decided in his own mind his chances of winning were slim. -My impression in hearing Scott and all his actions in the house are that Scott will get deep in SM trying to help Alex even more. This has the potential to backfire. Also, once he has time to really marinate the fact he was pinned between the sisters and how much Alex was using him and manipulating him sets in he will still be team Alex. I know some have said they can’t wait for him to get out and hear the comments made about him, but he just seems so needy and once he sees her popularity and remember Scott knows this LF community so well, he won’t come out against her. He may campaign a little more for Shelby but he wont ever come out publicly against Alex. Now that those two things are out of the way let’s cover a few things in the house last night. I’m not spending a great deal of time and effort only because the ACP reveal this afternoon at 1 PM has the potential to negate anything that’s discussed today. Once the group dissipates in the LR we are left with Dani, Whitney, and Justin lingering for a minute or two. Dani exits and Justin and Whitney remain. Most HG are in the SR since it has been restocked. 4:27 pm cam 1 LR Justin You ok? Whitney Yeah J You worried? W Yeah But luckily we didn't win HOH otherwise we wouldn’t be able to compete next week. J I already know. I didn’t wanna win, it’s the 6th week, (This is where Justin’s superstitions mess with his head. He didn’t want anything to do with the number 6 because it’s an evil number.) He comments that ‘look what happened its the 6th week, and Satan won the HOH.’ I’m just staying positive and whatever happens I have a feeling I’m gonna be straight. Whitney Me too. J I’m feeling good, I like, don’t think its gonna be me. W No, I think your fine. I’m gonna have to make some slop cookies. Justin sweetly offers to make her some more fried pickles. She accepts. 11/3 4:36 pm HOH Shelby/Alex Alex I knew that was coming. I was convinced it was gone be DE next week but then Jason talked me out of it. -Hmmmm so Jason can make you go against your gut? Shouldn’t you know that since you’ve decided he’s the greatest master mind and biggest snake in the house? Shelby That just means I have to set myself up because isn’t it just like instant you don’t even have time Alex The thing is DE is how people, that’s when all the good players get taken out. You can make deals all you want, but they are just going to throw you under the bus that week. It’s almost like if you don’t win HOH you get so screwed -Thanks BF for stating that she is so screwed! Now watch Alex try to manipulate Shelby here and try to ensure she does what Alex wants regardless of whether is sets Shelby up to go home. What she doesn’t do-which she should have learned from the Whitney situation- is try and reassure Shelby that she will do everything she can to keep Shelby safe. Make her feel as protected by you and Morgan as possible. Shelby seeks that but Alex focuses on her game plan. Alex I know. I know. We need to get out a big player to eliminate their shot of winning it. Shelby Well, that doesn’t change anything. Alex It’s just even more pressure now to make a big move before the DE As I predicted above, they go into Danielle’s answer to Julie, how she always wanted to save Whitney. How Dani said a lot of things changed. Shelby What changed? You told Scott before he was AN that if you won veto you would take him down. Alex Yep! Yep! I’m surprised he didn't call her out on that for breaking a deal. Shelby Yeah too bad he didn’t -Hmmmm again these girls were the same ones so offended that Shane and Neely went out like that but were counting on Scott doing the same type of thing for them. Then they go into how Danielle broke a deal after that side says you shouldn’t break deals in this game. Calls them hypocrites again. The irony is Alex has been saying all season its part of the game, you have to break deals and she’s done it nearly every week and with any deal she has made and now that LNC finally broke a deal, she wants to trash them for playing her own game against her and the Plastics! It’s laughable to me. As I’ve said breaking deals is an element of the game but its timing and doing it early makes people not trust you and lessens the chance they want to work with you later down the road. We are now in the second half of the game, Danielle didn’t break a deal with Alex or Shelby, she broke the faux plan with Scott, and things did change, and when they do it, it’s game, when the misfits do it they are terrible people and hypocrites. None us should be surprised that’s been the pattern all season long. Shelby But Scott said his time was over and he didn’t want to keep playing after that Alex It’s just again another very hypocritical situation where they break a promise and nothing ever happens about it. Whitney enters HOH Alex OMG the DE is scary W That is scary A Yeah cause that’s when all the big players get sent home -Please let this be foreshadowing for an Alex exit! Please! Please! Please! W But hopefully, lets think of the numbers, if someone were to go home, Shelby’s not going to be able to play right? S It would be 3-3 if I get one of them out. W ok Alex Its almost like one of us has to win HOH The three girls go through just general DE odds, votes, etc and its emphasized that they have to get one of them out to better their odds of winning DE HOH. Well, isn’t that true whether it’s DE or not? You can see where Whitney is talking like she always has with them in game discussion where they are not contributing anything more than just common knowledge information. Morgan eventually joins them after a few minutes and they go into discussing Julie’s questions, Morgan scold Alex for suggesting $ when Julie asked Morgan about what she might like to see in the ACP that’s personal. Someone suggest maybe a phone call from home again and Alex says that’s lame, they’ve only been there for 37 days and no one needs to hear from home they can last a couple more weeks it’s not like they are in there for 100 days. -For me, this is the type of attitude even in the intro video that gave me the impression she is very self involved and that way of thinking makes her an ally I wouldn’t want to have. I also predicted that would be the downfall of her own game. We see her making decisions all about her, yes this is a game where only one person wins but at different moments this has been discussed by her own team and makes her questionable to them, especially Shelby and Whitney. Morgan, has made this comment to Alex herself and her being all about her, but that’s her sister and from where I am looking Morgan really disappointed me allowing Alex to control her game. I had hopes for Morgan based on preseason and the idea she wouldn’t align obviously with Alex and the potential for her to be more likable, learn quickly and take what she learns from Alex and others and actually out last her sister. It’s still possible but the first two weeks although aligned with he Plastics we saw Morgan developing some of her own alliances and looking to get something going with say Monte, Shane, Danielle, and herself. She was open minded to those kinds of ideas. As soon as Monte left she spent some time with Neely but never really invested a lot into that she put most of her eggs in Alex’s basket. For now, the girls have managed to make it survive and that is an accomplishment in and of itself. One reason an all girls alliance finally has survived so long is because 2/4 are sisters. If you really watch the interaction between the sisters you see little comments made by Alex directed towards Morgan to make digs at her all the time. This is a very sisterly type behavior. In this convo it’s again commenting how Morgan word vomits and its now become entertaining for Alex when Morgan does it. Justin has called from the KIT for Whitney as the fried pickles he mad her are done. As soon as she exits… 4:49 pm cam 4 HOHBR Shelby Ok I need one of you two to win that HOH next week! We are working on efficiency type things with YOU (Morgan) you almost beat me and if you had just done what I did (Morph comp) you would have beat me. Morgan I don’t think I would have beat you, but I think I would have come closer. Alex You are proving that you are a competition threat Morgan You know what my problem is…. Alex talks over Morgan as she tries to state her challenge in comps You don’t have common sense -nice Alex Morgan I get in things and I get frazzled and every thing… Alex You forget common sense Morgan I get frazzled Shelby The wall, the wall you won but you would have done it in like 4 minutes had you just gone and opened each question and just done it -Let’s pause here. Most of the day was LNC bashing Plastics, Plastics bashing LNC. The important game points to know are: Whitney has promised Justin when those girls are OTB she will vote with LNC and get those girls out. Shelby wants to target both Jason/Justin this week. Alex is behaving like this HOH is her HOH. Jason/Justin have had a rift and it has Jason questioning Justin's loyalty to the group. Justin is very adamant he is meant to have the week 7 HOH, it's his lucky number and Jason sees that as being very selfish and had him ranting to Kryssie abut Justin only thinking about Justin. This is something to watch and see if it grows or fizzles out. Whitney and Justin begin HN's together gave them a lot of time to bond and has been a huge contributing factor to pulling her away from Plastics. She is playing along, she needs to for her own game. The Plastics are also playing along but they have lost all trust and believe if they get Justin out this week they can pull her back into their web.

When the Impossible Happens Well, LF's this is beginning of Week 6 coverage with live feed updates following Shelby's win for HOH. This mornings blog covers discussions and strategic asessments of the current game as well as important points to consider looking ahead. HOH/CO-HOH and popular voting results. Last night shocked both HG's and fans and creates a scenario where the numbers advantage of the misfits could mean absolutely nothing by the end of the week. I love this game! As mush as I hate that Shelby won, it was an amazing accomplishment and of the three Plastics, if one had to win she is actually the best of the three to have the power this week. If Alex or Morgan won, Alex would be in control of that HOH 100%. Last night's face morph HOH competition shocked the entire BBOTT collectively! Shelby played the comp with a win in 3:42. Whitney timed out as the first one to play. Alex cam in at 27+ minutes. Kryssie lost as well. Morgan came close to Shelby's time but timed out trying to beat 3:42 as did Jason, and Justin was a hot mess not realizing he needed to put two names for each Morphed face. Shelby is now the new HOH. This means that the winner of the ACP this week is critical. Currently in polls across the board Whitney and Jason are neck and neck. Some misfits had the idea to give it to Whitney to improve chances the last two ACP's go to one of the misfits. They also are under the delusional assumption a Whitney ACP is a victory for misfits. IT IS NOT! Whitney is protecting Whitney first and foremost, as she should. 11/3 12: 28 am cam 3/4 Justin is 100% sure Shelby will target him. Justin says his worse nightmare just came true. He is mind blown that Shelby of all people won that comp. He asserts no one is safe this week and he is guaranteed to be a nominee. Jason is also aware says they need to ACP this week. Jason shares Justin's own sentiment that this is the worse case scenario. Justin I gotta win the veto if I do get put up. Jason Me too. Jason rejoins the group in the KIT where most are eating. Justin I absolutely can't stand her and she wins HOH, OMG terrible. 12:33 am BA Whitney joins Justin after lingering with the girls in an attempt to seem a part of the group. She's going to need to work much harder on this smoke screen if that's what it is because the first thing Shelby noticed when the comp was over and she was named the new HOH is that Whitney didn't even come and hug her. Shelby said she had to go and hug Whitney and that Whitney didn't even hug her back. Whitney I am gonna do whatever I can to protect you Justin I know Whitney Well, I'm gonna save you above anyone else. I'm gonna do whatever I can to... 12:40 am Whitney She may not even put you up. Justin Well who is she gonna put up? She's gonna put up me and Danielle. -In all honesty from a strategic perspective nominating Justin is a smart move by Shelby this week. She knows she can't beat him at the end. She also has to know if she can get him out it is far more likely that they can lure Whitney back to her side to give her a better advantage going into next week. With Justin gone you remove the strongest connection Whitney has to the other side of the house. Problem is with that, America, on both sides of fandom loves Justin. Misfit fans have already almost unanimously agreed if Alex isn't a HOH nominee she will be the vote for America's nominee this week! I think that's one popular vote that could actually have the full weight of the misfits vote. Alex is the biggest threat to any one on the misfits side winning at the end. Also, consider if a Plastic makes it the end with two Misfits in final three the vote will very likely split among those 2 misfits and guarantee a Plastic win for BBOTT. If ANY misfit has a shot at winning at this point it's very likely they have to go to the end with two Plastics so that reverse scenario applies and the votes are more likely to split and give the misfit a slight advantage over the other two HG sitting next them in final 3. That's just how it looks now. By the end of week 7 we will know for certain who the final HG's are competing but if Morgan, Alex, or Shelby and any one of them sits next to 2 misfits with the exception of Justin the votes will split guaranteeing a Plastic wins the game. Whitney then runs down how the comp played out since Justin was the last to go and he didn't get to see how it all played out. She comforts Justin to not feel bad about only putting one name on each player it was virtually impossible for anyone to beat Shelby's time. Shelby and Morgan wander into the BA. Morgan accepts its likely they will be HN's. She and Shelby make general nice nice conversation about sharing Krackle with Whitney before the HN's are revealed. Jason yells form the KIT he hopes that Shelby gets a big old giant bag of Krackle in her HOH basket. Alex now joins the BA. The girls speculate if there will still be 3 HN's or 2 HN's this week now that the numbers are less in the house. I wondered the same thing but based on last season I'm guessing it will remain the standard and be 3 HN's again this week. Keep in mind that America's Nominee ends next week, week 7. The last care package will be in play week 8 and that gives the winner of that ACP a chance to play for a guaranteed fast forward pass to the final four. Morgan, Shelby, Alex use the suitcase ploy to all exist and head to the SR together. The Plastics enter and celebrate like crazy. SO loud that Justin/Whitney can hear them through the wall in the BA. Whitney promised Justin last night in the BA right after the comp but he is the only one she will protect. If you give her Co-HOH she is not guaranteed to help the misfits at all. In fact you are setting her up to be able to win herself back in the good graces of the Plastics. It does no good to save better ACP's for fan favorites like Jason/Justin in they go home this week. Consider this: Shelby HOH +Whitney co-HOH If Plastics fans win popular America nominee vote and get Kryssie or another misfit OTB and somehow 3 misfits then are all OTB the Plastics have the votes 2-1 for eviction over the Misfits. Misfits fans are calling for an Alex America Nominee and I think thats exactly what nearly all Misfits fans should/would vote. However, we still have to win the popular vote to make that a reality. That is 4+ days away and not a guarantee we make it happen. Misfit fans will need to pile every single vote on Jason for ACP this week to ensure his safety in the game. Shelby is far more likely to work with Jason cooperatively than Whitney. After Whitney managed to come off the block Whitney is dead to Shelby. Whitney is also more likely to do what the Plastics want to protect herself next week. Plastics fans are pushing for Whitney as ACP but I am seeing at least 10% in polls voting for Morgan at the moment. I am also seeing 10% going to Justin in the polls. Plastics fans will concede to the popular vote by the time Voting for ACP opens on CBS. Misfits fans will need to do the same and all pile the votes on Jason to have any chance at preventing a Whitney ACP. In the same effect that Plastics fans will have to concede to the popular vote and pile all their votes onto Whitney. This its going to be a horse race. I hinky vote by either fandom to the unpopular vote will result in a win for the other side of the house. 12:38 am Plastics SR cam 1/2 Morgan says to Shelby/Alex Right before we were getting ready to compete Justin said to me, 'hey if you win HOH are you targeting me?' I said no. He said, 'good because if I get HOH I am targeting Shelby.' Shelby ewwwww, Maybe you shouldn't have told Morgan that right before the competition! I guess I need to target Justin, AMERICA please don't give him the ACP. PLEASE!!!!!'' Alex Guess what, she (Whitney) was cheering for Kryssie the whole entire time. Alex continues to go on and on bashing Whitney and selling that she is not with them at all. Some of her playback was true but there was a lot of extra added into her version of what actually happened. -I was actually impressed by Danielle's behavior in the HOH room with the other HG's. She cheered on and made positive comments about every single player in the HOH. She kept her game face on in front of the others and that was the smartest way to play the game in that scenario. When Shelby finished with a time of 3:42 Kryssie's face went stone cold. That was a terrible game move whether you like it or not, can't show any cards at this point in the game. Shelby Maybe we should put her (Whitney)...we just need to keep her close for now. She quickly adjusts and they agree for now they need to keep her as a possible vote for their side this week. They all 3 agree they cannot tell Whitney anything and they should all be very hush hush about any plans until they know who the ACP this week. That's what Danielle did last week and quite frankly what every HOH should have been dong since week 2. Morgan It's literally us 3 in this. Alex Yeah she's flipped. Shelby She like didn't even hug me after. They quickly speculate about Whitney possibly getting the ACP this week. Alex says she would rather her get it than one of them (Misfits). Alex There are four people on that side of the house I would love to get out and we can make it happen this week, hopefully. Last night during the HOH comps while the players were sequestered together in the house awaiting their turns, Morgan told Shelby after the comp ended that Justin said to her that if he won HOH he would nominate Shelby. We didn't see that on the feeds, cannot verify if that's true or not, although it sounds like something Justin would do. Shelby wants to target Justin anyways and that comment being shared by Morgan only made her seem more determined. ACP Polls were already full steam ahead by this time last night and Jason was dominating the vote for ACP. So, if you want any shot at not guaranteeing a Plastics victory this week voting has become more important than ever. If you're team misfits throwing the vote to Jason is the best opportunity to prevent a Plastics steamrolling victory this week any way you slice it. It's possible Whitney would try and counter Shelby's nom but not likely. That would not be the right game move for her at this point in the game. Now that we've covered the ACP voting information here's how the other votes are looking for week 6 as of today. Don't think these are carved in stone because what happens in the house could shift the America's Nominee by Sunday when the safety ceremony is over. HN's Only 2 players from each team are eligible to be a HN. So regardless of which side of the house your loyalty lies you will have to put at least one player form the other side up as a HN. I am voting for Morgan, Alex, and Danielle. If Jason wins the ACP, which I HOPE he does he can't be a HN and Dani is the only other option. In all honesty since we have to put 1 misfit as a HN anyway I think Dani is the better choice. She just came off a strong HOH week, she is a HUGE target and being a HN plants the seed in Plastics minds that she is still not liked by America. We want them to think that if Jason doesn't win ACP it's still best to give HN's to Dani for that goal alone. Alex HATES Danielle. I don't care that she made some deal with her during week 5 HOH she did so and walked right out of the room and talked about how much she hates her and still wants her out but it was the best game move for Alex to try and keep herself off the block. After the change in nominees at the veto ceremony Alex was ranting about Jason. There's no denying that. However, Jason and Alex have this shared manipulation with each other where they both have equally pretended to have a secret alliance with each other. The further we get into the game the more likely this may become an actual alliance, over a fake one just to keep themselves safe. Alex is not out of hot water and since she already has that relationship established as a 'just in case' scenario she is far less likely to target Jason than Danielle. That's actually a very smart game move for her at this point. Alex is in a very good position within her trio, Morgan is more loyal than Shelby, but Shelby's dislike for so many misfits is more likely to sway her arguments to Alex and Morgan about targeting lower fruit potentially. Jason as CO-HOH increases these odds exponentially. Whether she really likes what he did last week he did inevitably save one of the girls from going home at the end of the day and that's what he promised Alex he would try and do. All of these side alliances and teams are becoming much more fluid since as a player in the game in week 6 you have to start playing for your own game above all else. Shelby, Morgan, and Alex have all planned to make Whitney feel like she's still good with them but they have 100% turned against her. Whitney may or may not still be loyal to the Plastics. Whether she purposely did so or not, last week put her smack dab in the middle of the two sides and she can float to power this week and next based on who is in control of HOH. If Jason is CO-HOH she is far more likely to help them. Last night she told Justin she will vote with them (Misfits) to get every single one of those girls out of the house. I personally, believe as long as it doesn't put her game in direct jeopardy in the moment she will actually do that. I also think the Plastics are weary enough of Whitney that they will avoid a scenario where her vote could be the swing vote to protect themselves. That is the smartest game move. Today will be interesting to her the Plastics strategy and talk scenarios. The beauty in at, even more so than most weeks, the early ideas of who to nominate will mean even less once the ACP results are revealed because Shelby will only be able to name one nominee this week. The CO-HOH will name the other. Plastics fans prefer to give that to Whitney, I suspect saving next week for Morgan's safety with DE veto. Misfits fans piling all of their votes on Jason gives the best shot at gaining the popular vote and making sure that Jason and the misfits side prevent all 3 nominee this week being from the misfits side of the house. My personal votes for ACP Jason My personal votes for HN's Morgan/Alex/Danielle HN's is a disadvantage going into the veto competition. It also forces those three to hang out in the HN room. That could benefit either side of the house depending on who uses a punishment like this to their advantage. Plus, if Jason wins ACP he can't be a HN anyway and Danielle is the only other option. Hope these scenarios and color commentary of what's currently happening in the house help you watch the feeds with a more strategic outlook than an emotional one. It's week 6 and being emotional at this point in any BB season is a bad idea. Look at the situation Plastics fans have left Alex/Shelby in. Neither can receive CP's in this second half of the game putting them in a much more vulnerable position. As annoyed as many may have been with the voting trend weeks 2-5, remember I said don't get too worked up over it. There is a cause and effect. This now gives us a far better chance at winning the popular vote. We just can't get stuck in a mindset of we have to save last two CP's for fan favorite and can afford to let Whitney win this week. If you are a misfit fan there should be zero acceptable final CP's going to anyone but a misfit. Also, note the way that panned out now leaves us able to join together unanimously and nominate Alex as America's nominee. Plastics are still chattering about getting Kryssie out of the house. With Alex in the game with her sister, no one wins at the end against her. No one. That fandom will ALL vote for Alex before anyone else. Ya dig?

Tuesday shaped up to be an afternoon of karma for the Plastics. For weeks when the LNC have been OTB, forced to choose between their own team, or saying good bye to friends. They have been criticized for being upset, crying, being emotional about the circumstances when it came down to the day before or actual day of eviction and all the while these girls kept asserting ‘it's a game, this is BB you have to lie, you have to break deals, why are you crying?’ Now that the tables have turned the Plastics side has been struck with the hand of reality and to no surprise they are reacting just as the LNC has, like humans with real emotions, frustrations, disappointment, and the reality of the fact that they are not untouchable. In reality this actually could benefit every person left in the game at this point. Regardless of which team you have been behind these is an individual game in the end. Only one person can win and while alliances are one element that helps propel players and protect them it’s now the half way point and the voting creating a dynamic that had things so focused on the divide everyone realized in the end they have to do what is going to keep them safe above all things. After a few minutes of random chit chat following the veto ceremony Morgan heads off the BA and Shelby and Alex head into the TKB. 1:13 pm TKB Alex/Shelby cam 3/4 Alex I guaranteed she did it to save herself. Shelby Yeah, probably…Bye Scott. Shelby heads into the BA where Morgan is in the WC, followed by Scott and Alex soon after. BA cam 3/4 Morgan sits on the bench in the BA and begin crying. Alex Hey, you’re fine. Morgan I don’t think I am. Alex Guess what America is voting Scott Morgan Then why did she do that? Alex Whitney’s flipped agains us Morgan It’s ridiculous Alex Yep, she flipped them Morgan I don’t know why I am sad, I shouldn’t be upset Alex No, it’s fine, it’s fine. Just know that we can’t trust her. Shelby Our only choice is to get out Scott his week. We have to win. We said we were going to trust each other this week and now we literally only have each other. Morgan We literally only have each other. Shelby We went from like 5-3 to 3-5 like that! Alex Yeah Morgan I kind want to go talk to Danielle and be like I just want to know the reasoning behind it. Alex You should get whatever information from her you can. -LOL but two hours ago you all were int he TKB saying how you have no reason to go talk to Danielle and why bother? Morgan I’m gonna ask her later Shelby Whitney’s not gonna be dumb enough to vote you out though. Morgan No Alex She’s not. Scott’s gonna get the America vote -Not if misfit fans have anything to do about it. This is why I felt like Sunday night after the safety ceremony that if Whitney comes down we should all vote Morgan. Plastics fans will vote Scott and we are all happy with a Scott eviction. From a strategic point of view I knew that’s what they and the actual Plastics would count on. I have also watched Shelby become more and more disenchanted with Scott and the entire reason Danielle put Shelby OYB was to ensure she had to use the votes to protect herself first. By throwing a vote Morgan’s way if for some reason paranoia sets in on Shelby and she eliminates Whitney’s vote and allows any one of the LNC to vote and by some miracle they decide to vote Morgan for whatever reason an America eviction vote would allow fans to take the one shot we’ve had had reading up the sisters and breaking up the Plastics. It’s a long shot but this is BB and sometimes you have to roll the dice with a big risky move. Even if a HG doesn’t throw a vote Morgan’s way evicting her with our vote it throws a hunky vote in the eviction that will rock the house. They are relying so hard on the predictability of the America’s vote week after week it’s a game move from the outside that will be a blindside if misfit fans had enough momentum early into to voting to make it happen. This is the perfect week to do this! If we fail it’s still a win! Scott goes home the numbers are even in the house even if Whitney continues to try and ride with the girls but it accomplishes Danielle’s goal of creating some doubt within the girls and make them begin to turn on each other. Morgan Hopefully Shelby She knows the last thing she should be doing is burning bridges. -LOL oh I can’t tell you how much that made me laugh to hear Shelby and the Plastics saying that after 5 weeks of burning bridges or failing to build them in the first place. The entire reason they wanted Whitney to go from their group is because Whitney is the only one of them that has a bridge to the other side of the house. Morgan Yeah And with perfect timing Whitney enters the BA Alex Hey Morgan OMG are you surprised? Whitney Yeah. I didn’t know that was gonna happen. But I mean it doesn’t matter. -Very well played by Whitney. The girls have been telling her all week they would vote out America’s nom, all the while discussing voting out Whitney if AN’s wasn’t one of the LNC. Then when Scott went up they all told her they will just vote Scott out. Meanwhile they played with the choice between Whitney and Scott and ultimately decided keeping the four girls together was better. Whitney picked up on this, the other LNC players whispered in her ear they were throwing her UTB and that she was the low hanging fruit as far as the Plastics were concerned and more loyal to each other than her. Remember Justin asked Whitney early in the week who she was closest to on her team and Whitney said Alex. Whitney just the day before this veto ceremony said to Alex you realize you are the one I am closest to out of our group and who I trust the most. Alex’s reaction fell flat and that was all Whitney needed to confirm what Justin, Jason, and Kryssie were telling her was true. She couldn’t rely on the girls to vote out Scott if Whitney was OTB and that was the turning point for her. Shelby You’re going to vote out Scott right? -Mistake again. You re questioning her loyalty again? Wasn’t the plan all along to vote out Scott? Why should this even be a question if there was no other plan? If you aren’t questioning Whitney’s loyalty to your team you would never have asked that question the way you just did. You can see Alex behind Whitney when Shelby says that (cam3) with her hand over her mouth like oh crap! Whitney Yeah. Shelby You think maybe he was her target all along and she was just BS’ing all of us? Now you can see Alex wiping tears from under her glasses. Morgan No, I don’t think so. Whitney I think her speech was kinda weird, cause why would she be in defense mode? But you know when I talked to her before she nominated me, I honestly didn’t think I was gonna go up. And so I feel like she was pressured by someone to put me up. Morgan Yeah Whitney IDK maybe even Scott. Alex Why would she, it like doesn’t make sense, like, she just got extra blood on her hands… Whitney Well, maybe Scott wanted me up but when he was AN she was like had a different reaction about it or something. But it doesn’t matter. Morgan No Shelby So you guys vote out Scott Alex I am. Just how she did it was really weird. Shelby I thought she wanted to split us up this week. Alex That’s why I, she did it so weird. Just how everything happened was just not what I was expecting at all. -Yes, that’s clear but his entire convo and you shouldn’t be reacting this way and drilling Whitney if you want her to believe that the change doesn’t effect your plans to begin with. Whitney But then like the only thing she told me before was whoever gets AN I am bringing them down. She didn’t do that so? It’s weird. The truth of the matter is, the girls were ready and had talked in advance that if they had to send one of their own team members home it was best for them to let Whitney go. This was a good play in that they talked about and made a collective decision at the beginning of this week and they tried to make it happen on their terms the same way the LNC had when it was three of their own OTB week 3. The problem with heir game play is things have been given to them so easily and they have relied so much on America they were not prepared in advance of this week to make a decision like this. They haven’t spent much timer effort planning ahead everything has been in the moment. I rarely hear them talk about the coming weeks. It’s a very fly by the seat of your pants and hope America does what they ask. I can identify two differences in how the two teams approached this possibility. First, the LNC talked about this potential the week before (week 2) and were prepared for it before it became a reality (week 3). The voting had the Plastics so confident it was preventing them from being as concerned as you always should be in this game. We’ve seen in BBOTT as most BB seasons anyone can go from the top to the bottom in just moments. The LNC despite voting benefiting their game the first two weeks discussed in week 2 that can’t continue and it will change so don’t rely on America. Jason and Neely were very vocal about this despite Danielle letting it go to her head on her own, as a collective group that thought was always in the back of their minds. This allowed LNC to have a plan in place and not alienate Danielle although they preferred to lose her over Shane, like America that week. Alex especially, I mentioned early in the week, was making subtle yet telling comments that had I been Whitney I would have picked up on and began to question my alliances loyalty as well. I blogged about this early in the week as things kept happening and said I hope that Whitney is paying attention. Scott made the same types of mistakes in front of Shelby. You never know what is going to happen until eviction night arrives and the vote counts are read and that’s something as a player you have to always keep in mind. You also cannot be so focused on the current week that you are blinded to how a decision now may impact the week or weeks that follow. You see in Alex’s DR this evening she was completely blindsided by the change in nominations as were the other girls. That shake up led them to make a few more telling mistakes that confirm to Whitney she made the right decision. Whitney tells us in her DR that she has to protect her own gam first and foremost. She was afraid the girls may vote her out and while she is loyal to the team she wont sacrifice her own game as an element of that loyalty. Good job Whitney! Play your own game. Alex has been doing that the entire time and Whitney also shares she knows that Alex is the biggest threat to her game. She wants to stick with the Plastics but not at the detriment of her own game. She knows Alex will come for her and she will likely need to come for Alex first but isn’t ready to do that yet. Saving herself this week was necessary and will ride with the Plastics as long as she can until the right time and situation presents itself. The replacement of Whitney for Morgan completely blindsided the Plastics. In fact just before the ceremony Alex, Morgan, and Shelby all sat in the TKB discussing there’s no point in talking to Dani again, they can’t change her mind, she’s going to take Scott down or leave the noms the same. This attitude all week long is what allowed for such a blindside to happen. When the dust settles who do they blame? Whitney. They blame Whitney for making some kind of deal to save herself and how dare she turn on her team? How dare she play to save her own BB life? While I found no pleasure in watching Morgan cry, I did enjoy the fact that as the time passes in the hours after the renomination we all get to see the Plastics do the exact same thing they have criticized everyone else for doing all season long. Since they hadn’t anticipated this was a possibility to left them reeling which lead them all to continue to sat and react in a way that they hadn’t planned for only confirming to Whitney they had in fact at the very least considered sending her home. You can tell by Whitney’s initial reaction in the bathroom when she says,it doesn’t matter since we are voting Scott out. 1:35 pm IWR cam 3/4 Scott/Whitney Scott says I hope you girls make it sarin this game together. If I am at home watching you guys I want to see you four make it to the end. 1:43 pm cam 3/4 Alex/Shelby/Morgan after leaving the IWR Alex It sicks but he had to basically sell us out. Morgan I’m upset because of that, I was just upset because I was not expecting it. Alex I was surprised she didn’t just put me up. She has to now we aren’t going to evict you. Shelby Maybe she wants you to be in that uncomfortable position where you have to vote out Scott. Alex He’s already come to me Shelby He asked me to take away Whitney’s vote Morgan Seriously? Shelby I was like, um I’m OTB too. Like I need to do what keeps me safe. -Yes, that’s exactly why you are on the block which you thank America for later tonight in your DR. Alex I’m voting for Scott no matter what, so regardless I have the vote. Shelby He keeps doing these awkward obituary speeches. I can’t sit there and listen to it. Now he’s in there with Whitney, should we be breaking that up? -YES! Yes, you should. Why are you leaving the one guy who could talk his way around anything including you alone with the only other vote you are allowing to count this week? Alex It doesn’t matter because I am voting Scott and America will vote Scott out so… Shelby Hopefully America does. Morgan I do want to talk to Danielle. Alex Yeah you need to figure out why she did that. -Again the irony intros is that 2 hours ago they were all sitting around saying they don’t need to bother talking Danielle because she’s definitely taking Scot down, which means you were ready to vote Whitney out. You said there are two hours until you know for sure anyway and there’s no point talking to her because she’s stubborn and won’t listen no way she was going to change her mind. Alex said either she’s taking Scott down or leaving Scott up. They never considered any other option and could have no sense that maybe something hinky was going on when you talked to her because you didn’t bother. These are the careless kinds of moves that leave me shaking my head. If Alex had been the one on the block we all know she would have been up there but when it’s anyone else in her group she’s very careless with actions. Alex Whitney would have had to promise Danielle something big. She would vote with them next week so they have the numbers, or Whitney is going to use her ACP. Once again assuming America must be giving only them all the ACP’s and Whitney and Morgan are guaranteed 2/3 ACP’s. This is where their fandoms actions have actually hurt their games. Go back and read the earlier blogs the first two weeks where I explained America cannot vote one sided all the time. It’s smarter to mix it up so they don’t assume or get cocky. Which is what happened with Danielle and really turned fans off of her. Although those first two weeks weren’t meant strictly to help the LNC, it was more eliminating characters we didn’t like or couldn’t stand on the feeds and wasting the first couple of ACP’s on players that were not fan favorites reserving the better ACP’s for those much later in the game to avoid what happened in BB18 where the last 2 went to people just because there was no one we liked left to choose from. The last one for Corey only ended up there because votes were split between Paul/Victor leaving Corey with just a slight advantage in percentages over both of them. Morgan That’s it, that had to be it, she promised to use her ACP to help them. Shelby Or both Alex I know I can’t be mad at her because I know she’s saving herself because she knew she was in trouble. Morgan Yeah you can’t be mad at her. Alex I feel like the other side has turned her against me personally. Morgan That sounds weird. Shelby So we have to start filtering. She only gets the unimportant information. Alex She’s not getting a word, she has broken the alliance. -Really? You may need to think that over. You rallied for Morgan to not go OTB. You made a deal to save yourself. You never told Whitney, don’t worry we will keep you safe. You all decided to go ahead and vote her out. So who broke the alliance? Morgan I agree Shelby We have to act pumped that we do get to stay together. -Well, that took you 45 minutes to realize! You’ve already acted like your entire plan was blown by Whitney coming off the block. LOL Morgan Right but that sucks because I am not frikin’ pumped. I mean I know that things are ok, it was a shock because we are like, I was honestly just expecting Scott to stay. Alex When she came in here this morning and I saw have you talked to Danielle this morning she said ‘No, not really.’ She was very calm, that’s when I knew, somethings going on. I just knew it. -Yes, now tell the 2 you have left on your side that you suspected something was up and didn’t tell them. In fact you assured them there was no point in going upstairs and talking to Dani. Oh, poor Alex. She’s great at getting her soldiers to do things for her when she thinks about what she wants. That’s not enough. It’s these exact kind of comments she makes all the time that made Whitney hesitant and easily flipped. I will say this is where Shelby is beginning to grow on me. She doesn’t miss these types of comments and almost always says, wait so….and calls people out when hey say things like this without filtering! Alex What I didn’t like was in the BA this morning when she just basically like the lie that she was saying was so blatantly obvious. Shelby What after veto? Morgan After the veto? Alex Yeah when we were in the bathroom and she acted like she had no idea what was going on. I was like this was so obvious! You know exactly what was going on. Don’t even… Morgan Right. Even just like the look on her face. I was like, I can tell you’re lying. You’re not doing a good job at all. Shelby Now it sucks because now it’s we (Alex/Morgan/Shelby) not we (4 Plastics), now WE have to win HOH without her and we don’t even have the numbers if we win HOH. We would need the package. That puts her against us. Alex We don’t give up. Morgan I feel so awkward now. Alex Around her? Morgan Yeah. I know she 100% threw me UTB. Which, I mea it’s the game but still it’s make you feel so awkward. -I love the different tone in Morgan’s ‘yeahs” when someone says something that is not good for her and all about them. Which is usually Alex but she used to duo it when Monte was still around as well. Alex, like Danielle for those who aren’t putting her under the same microscope you are Danielle, always brings everything back to her, how it makes her look, how people are giving her credit, hows it makes her game seem a certain way. Again, she can’t continue to make statements like this all the time it makes people question your commitment to the alliance. We all know this is a single player game but when you’re with other people you just can’t constantly be discussing how it effects YOUR game. Some of the beauty in Danielle making this move is that Morgan told Alex early in the week that she has thought about the fact that there’s coming a time when she knows she may have to take Alex out of the game. Alex told her she would unfriend her on FB and delete her number from her phone. Then just a couple days ago they had this same convo in reverse and Alex to said the same type of thing to Morgan that she, Alex, is going to have to send her sister home soon. Alex says that Scott was running around always talking like it was he and she to the end like they had some final 2 deal and we never made that deal. Fast Forward to 2 pm All four girls laying around in complete silence. Shelby asks Alex if she’s going to tell him? In front of Whitney they discuss whether they are now going to tell Scott he’s the one leaving. Shelby brings up that he has already asked her to use votes to save him. We knew he though he had a really good shot at staying and look how he acted. (This is a discussion girls had earlier in the week which also indicated to Whitney that she was going to be the one they decided to vote out!) What happened to making sure she felt secure in the group with the girls? LOL Whitney Now that he knows he is going I am scared what he’s capable of. Shelby (I am enjoying watching her pay such close attention to cues from others and acting to it immediately). I think he forgets that we were the four girls together and he was an add on. He wasn’t a part of the original 4. Whitney When I get pulled into a room with him I get asked if he is just the wing man to the alliance. And that’s why I even asked you guys that the other day when we were outside. Was he just our wingman? Because I was never in an alliance with him. I never even trusted him completely. Alex Yeah Shelby He said to me I think America would vote out Whitney over me. I was like why do you think that? I don’t think that. Morgan If anything, that just doesn’t make sense to me. He’s yet too….We've saved him but he’s yet to do anything for us. Morgan says she needs water and finds Danielle int he KIT and asks if she can talk to her real quick. AS soon as they enter, there’s no small talk or compliments this time. I just wanted to pick your head because I felt good after our conversation. Dani uh huh Morgan The flip just like surprised me. But I know you have reasons for everything so I just wanted to see, I mean you don’t have to tell me anything but…obviously, like the deal that I offered you still if I’m not a target I would still like to keep that deal and not target you if I get HOH and I want you around this game. Danielle I kept you off the block initially because I did like what you brought to me. I was playing a very defensive game because I didn’t know how AN was gonna go…that way if AN was one of us (misfits) I kinda had a bargaining chip. That’s why I left you off the block. That way I had the option of ‘if you save one of us then I will do this for you’. (What she’s saying is if a misfit had been AN she could offer that deal to Whitney, don’t vote our person out and I will take you down with the veto or replace you.) I didn’t want to use you as that. That’s why I left you off the block. After I found out who AN it shifted and I wasn’t playing defensively to playing offensively. At the beginning of the week I told Scott if he was AN I would take him down. Knowing that America handed him to me wrapped up tight with a bow…I didn’t want to take him down and have America mad at me for not taking him out. (Kinda like Scott did wk 3 when America handed him Danielle and he got Shane out instead.) Danielle goes on to explain that from the outside looking in she thinks that Alex and Morgan are far closer to each other than Alex and Whitney are. By pulling her down and putting you up it was just me making are that the 2 votes that are going to count go to Scott. The fear being if A,ex decided to take out Whitney Morgan would do what Alex wants also. -This is all true. It’s true she thought that, it’s true it played a roll in taking Whitney down. She doesn’t tell Morgan that she has Whitney’s promise to take Scott out this week but the explanation is worded and explained in a very well thought out way to explain the logic and assure Morgan that she is not Dani’s target. Morgan says as long as she’s not the target that makes sense to her, she can understand that and their deal is still good. Morgan thanks her for explaining that to her. She doesn’t tell anyone that it was Jason who flipped her from getting one of the girls out and working Whitney to ensure she would vote Scott out. That Jason was the one who hatched the entire plan and made sure Whitney was primed by the actions Justin has been putting in play over the last couple of weeks. 2:07 pm Shelby/Alex TKB Alex and Shelby are still discussing if they are voting Scott out. All the things Scott has said and done to persuade Shelby house the votes to make sure he stays. Alex tells Shelby that she guarantees it was Jason that got Danielle to put Whitney up on the block. Then Whitney probably made a deal and he probably took anything I said and twisted it around to make Whitney believe we were against her getting her to agree to vote how they want or use her ACP to help them. Then Jason got Danielle to take Whitney down. Shelby Morgan, I mean not that it was ever a risk, but Morgan is definitely with us. Alex It’s us 3 Shelby It always was but… Alex It’s funny yesterday when we were talking and I was thinking we need to get in tight with someone not hat side of the house and I was thinking it was Jason but now… Shelby NO! NO, definitely not. Alex says she see how Jason could be taking things and twisting them completely and now that Whitney has flipped I can see how he can completely make that happen. Shelby And Kryssie and Justin both have deals with her. (Whitney) I tried to kind work something with Danielle and she wasn’t willing to talk. (That’s not true she tried to work something with Dani for herself and they both talked about working on their opposite sides protecting to each other because Shelby would like to get to the end with Danielle.) So the only way we can get any leverage to get anyone to talk to us is to win HOH. So we can like plan things, but we can’t do anything until HOH. Shelby also makes sure to tell Alex they have to keep pretending around Whitney and make her feel like she’s still a part of us. After the convo with Danielle, Morgan returns to the room with the girls where they say Danielle is lying. How Jason is behind flipping Whitney and getting Danielle to put Morgan up. They tear apart and twist and bash saying everything Danielle was saying to Morgan was a lie. 11:30 pm UKB Scott, Alex, Shelby, Morgan Alex has asked Scott to call Jason out when he goes home on eviction night to try and help her. By this time Scot that resolved to going home and told Alex its ok for her to vote him out. Remember when they were all so disgusted by Shane and Neely doing this when they left and said how they would NEVER go out like that? Well, now they are all asking Scott to say things they want him to say and call Jason out to make him look bad in front of everyone. Fast Forward to Eviction Night 11/2/16 Shelby cancels all the LNC votes. Alex votes to evict Scott Whitney votes to evict Scott Danielle announces that Scott has been evicted 3-0-0. America’s vote went to Scott. That’s actually good for both sides in many respects. Yes, I know that Plastics lose a number but Scott was drawing a lot of attention to Alex with all of his undying devotion. The teams re now even once again but that will change soon enough. Scott doesn’t call anyone out. He is gracious and says good bye and exits with his head held high. I was actually a little impressed. 11/2 8:15 pm HG’s are changing and preparing for the HOH competition in their workout clothes. The polls were neck and neck down to the last minute. So Misfit fans gave it a very good run! Who in the world voted for Shelby? Polls showed 2-% of votes were going to evict her over Scott and Morgan. LOL. It’s not a loss, no one flipped so not like we missed a shot. The only thing we failed to achieve was throwing a hunky vote that caused some dissension in the house and put some fear in the sisters. That’s OK as long as Morgan doesn’t win HOH we can all vote for one of them to be the AN. There are some things to keep in mind as we await the new HOH. This week’s ACP is the CO-HOH. We have to be very careful who we give it to because that person along with whoever actually wins HOH tonight is at a huge disadvantage the following week, Week 7 is double eviction, the HG’s don’t know that. Misfits fans do not want any of our players on slop this week. Not even Danielle with the intent to keep her humble after a great week as HOH. They all need all their strength and faculties to be in prime condition to fight for that DE HOH. We cannot allow Danielle or Jason to be HN’s this week. It weakens them and if they’re not HOH you can guarantee the Plastics fans will try to get them on HN’s to save their girls. Justin and Kryssie can’t be HN since they are the current ones. If a misfit wins this HOH we also need to save the wk 7 DE ACP for that player since they will be very vulnerable! Week 7’s ACP is the DE veto. They are guaranteed the veto that week and cannot be evicted if they are nominated because they can use it on themselves. Also, as long as any misfit has it and they aren’t nominated they can save someone else on their team with it. The winner of HOH tonight and the winner or this week’s CO-HOH ACP can’t compete in the DE HOH. Remember Meech and Natalie having to sit out of that wall comp where Victor won his way back into the game after they just got him out. Then James throws it to Nicole not realizing she’s now against him. If a misfit wins HOH that is the misfit that will need that DE veto ACP. He/She will need that ACP to keep themselves safe. I know many people have already decided in their mind who they want to vote but it’s still imperative to be very strategic and vote together to ensure Jason/Justin/Dani do get it the next 3 weeks. If we don’t vote as a majority and we split votes then we guarantee either Morgan or Whitney gets it. There’s no point in saving anyone specific you love the most for the last ACP if they can’t make it to week 8! We have to think ahead when making decisions in the current week. Every move at this point in the game can make or break the misfits. The Plastics may have dominated the last three ACP and America Nominee votes but now that we are voting together and making sure to vote on every poll to keep them from knowing exactly what is happening we have a much better chance to ensure holding off on the ACP’s longer was to the misfits advantage. Alex and Shelby cannot get another one. Kryssie cannot get one either and people have to be willing to sacrifice her if the situation arises. For now, she’s a number but she is not high in popularity and if we have to in order to get one of the ones we want to the end then we have to. However, we don’t want to just give her up easily. Jason/Justin/Dani odds of beating Kryssie at the end are much better against Kryssie than Shelby or Alex. Like I said easy on, every action has a consequence. Plastics fans jumped quickly to protect Alex and now she’s more vulnerable when things get very real in the game. Let’s not make the same mistake. I say these things just to make sure everyone is thinking strategically and not emotionally. I’m no casual and think in detail about the various scenarios and how many different side effects every move can have. I can’t possible predict every single one but I do sit back and run the odds, consider the benefits versus the rewards. The one thing I am sure of is we need to get one of the sisters out of the game. No one left can possibly consider that Morgan/Alex are related and how that ties them in a way that needs to be considered when making decisions. That goes for Shelby and Whitney as well as the misfits. If they knew that they would go about many things very differently. Like a showmance those two will continue to ride together, vote together and sacrifice others they are aligned with just to protect each other. No one can anticipate that since no one knows. I give them A LOT of credit for being able to manage the others and themselves in a way that has kept that a secret. Bravo. But now we are entering week 6 and its a HUGE disadvantage for other players in the game as well as a huge advantage for those two. If the situation this week allows we need to make sure that one of them is the AN! Morgan is still eligible for an ACP so if she doesn’t get it this week she’s a bugger target. I hate to say that! I really thought she would play such a great game but for her aligning with Alex has weakened her abilities. She’s let Alex run her entire game and it’s been a great advantage for Alex. Scott is gone and she still has Morgan. Take out Morgan and Alex and Shelby are gong to need to find their own way to the end. They may or may not stick together but I think its more likely that Shelby makes a deal or side alliance with one of those two she is in a much better position to do so after Morgan is gone than Alex is. If I were in that position as one of them if/when that happens they should agree to each go latch onto one or two on the other side. Then keep working together in secret. But it would literally take not letting anyone else know they are still down with each other. It’s the same method the LNC implemented early on in week 2. When Fantastic Four was formed with J/J/K/Neely they decided as a group to try and make friends with at least one other person so they always had as much information as possible and they reported everything back to each other. It worked well for a couple weeks until Neely went out on America’s nomination. The people on the other side they couldn’t or didn’t make a personal connection with they had Shane week 3 reporting back everything about Monte/Scott. Alex and Shelby were the only ones they didn’t have direct information coming from but they had so much from the other by their connections to those two it was enough. For now, we need to focus on keeping the misfits off HN status to give them the best chance possible in the double eviction week that follows this one. Once the week gets under way be sure to check a reliable source, preferably multiple to make sure misfit fans vote together and avoid splitting votes and handing things over to the other side’s benefit. As always I will keep both sides informed of the majority. Well, maybe we are getting down to the end. LOL

Good Evening LF's! Its been a glorious day of feeds for all to watch! With Danielle's unexpected (by the Plastics) decision to remove Whitney from the block and select Morgan as the re-nom the house became a bundle of confusion and anxiety for the Plastics for the first time weeks! Go watch the feeds from about 1:15 pm this afternoon and watch them do exactly what the misfits have been criticized for doing for weeks. They initially discussed the first few days evicting Whitney if it had to be one of them to go this week. As I blogged about, they were terrible at hiding what they were up to and it did not go unnoticed by anyone in the house. Jason/Justin quickly went to work on Whitney! By Sunday night they had Whitney turning on her alliance who had so quickly elected to cut her loose and leave her packing her bags to go see Winston. Then, Kryssie and Jason went to work on Danielle to convince her to pull Whitney off the block and put someone else up because Whitney was a sure vote for Scott and getting Scott out and pulling Whitney to their side was a far more strategic and beneficial move. Alex and the other side NEVER saw that coming and it took all the wind out of their sails by 1:15 pm this afternoon you see them crumbling in the BA, then in the IWR. Scott tries to convince Shelby that if she cancels Whitney's vote she may be able to save Scot and that's better for both Shelby and Alex's games. If you are a Plastics fan, this is terrible for the efforts to keep the all girls alliance in tact. I also mentioned that giving the ACP this week to Shelby over Morgan was a terrible idea for your fandom. Morgan was a better choice because she would use it to protect both herself and Alex. But, in your desire to monopolize the voting and growing love for Shelby's sassiness you elected to vote in a way that wasn't the most strategic way. Now Shelby is on the block and will protect Shelby. With Morgan now OTB, your underestimation of Danielle and the Misfits after weeks and weeks of voting totally one sided its has backfired. I spent hours last night sharing ideas with some Misfit SM hey hitters and we agreed that if Morgan happen to be OTB it's in the Misfits and the games best interest to pile all of our votes on the sister, Morgan. Now, don't get me wrong we would all on both sides of the house be happy with a Scott eviction. It's good for everyone and a majority of Plastics' fans are in fact voting to evict Scott. So if you want to vote with your majority that is what you should do. I however, am not a #teamPlastics nor am I a fan of the voting war. My thoughts yesterday were as follows: If Morgan hits the block Misfits fans should collectively vote to evict Morgan. If we had enough of the popular vote to do this here is what it could accomplish even though there are only two HG's voting this week: 1. Worse case two HG's vote Scott and Scott still goes home. We are all okay with this outcome. 2. Voting Morgan as America's Eviction Vote throws a hinky vote that will cause chaos on the Plastics side of the house. Even if we don't get her evicted it's a good move. Especially now that they are already going crazy with the unexpected moe by Dani and the suspicion that Whitney has flipped on them and gone to the other side. -Now with all of that they are already really down to 4. -When one of the Plastics leaves tomorrow no matter who it is they are down to 3 3. Shelby has discussed perhaps not cancelling all 3 of the LNC votes which could potentially create a chance one vote form a HG may get thrown to Morgan. It's a small chance but still this is BB and you must expect the unexpected. -Now with Whitney flipping on them to save herself there is a very small chance an LNC who Shelby allows to vote may by some random idea vote for Morgan. If they do that's 1 vote to evict Scott (Alex), 1 LNC vote to evict Morgan +America's vote to evict Morgan. -While not likely it's a risk and gamble I felt we should all take. 4. By making the America's Eviction Vote land on Morgan in the off chance one HG votes for her we could send her home and finally break up the sisters, dismantle the Plastics all girl alliance, and fracture the voting majority dominating the voting by Plastics fans. Why? The four girl alliance has been under the protection of the dominant America vote for 3 weeks in a row now. I understand they wanted to keep the all girls alliance together, however how they have gone about doing it has created an enormous split among fans almost equal to the split in the house. If there is no longer a four girl alliance that fractures the fandom that has dominated all the voting going towards the common goal of protecting those four girls and Scott by association. It has been hurting the LNC and creating a lot of frustration about the voting. I warned this would backfire eventually and this is the week it has! By fracturing the Plastics the fandom may still have a desire to protect Alex. If you are an Alex fan that's what you should want to do. However, because you wanted to dominate the voting and make everything go their way for so many consecutive weeks you've now left them very vulnerable. Alex cannot receive an ACP. Scott cannot receive and ACP, Shelby cannot receive an ACP. If Morgan goes there's no chance for her to get the ACP. That leaves Whitney and 3 of the LNC eligible for the remaining ACP's. That helps the misfits and especially creates higher odds for Justin, Jason, and Danielle to finally get some heading into the last few available.. There are people, like myself that like players on both sides of the house. The fandom war was forcing me to try and protect J/J because I knew this way of voting had the potential to hurt them further down the road and that had begun to happen. It's exactly the same logic that Jason and Danielle concluded on their own and as that has become more of a reality it's worked out very well for them. Jason, Justin, and Danielle have worked their tails off this week despite one blow after another to their games by America's voting results. They pulled off everything they set out to and it has been amazingly fun to watch unfold. The lopsided voting actually lit a fire under them, while Alex and the Plastics failed to make Whitney feel safe and created a perfect storm. If Morgan happens to go home that eliminates the sisters protecting each other. Morgan will be 100% loyal to Alex as long as possible and has proven to be so. As much as Scott loves declaring his undying loyalty to Alex, it fizzled out a bit this week when he suddenly felt very safe again and the girls did take note of it. Scott's loyalty to Alex will never be as strong as Morgan's allegiance to Alex. Alex has been under America's protection, Scott's protection, and Morgan's protection for almost the entire game. She will now have to play and play hard if she wants to stay in the game! I'm all for that. Also, if Morgan goes home after Whitney flips there are no more "Plastics". It's dead and gone and the real game begins now! We are at the halfway point and lots of shifts are going to happen and anyone that wants to make it to the end will be forced to play and play actively. One happened by itself this week with Justin planting seeds with Whitney over the past few weeks and all 3 (J/J/K) watering them plentifully this week. If Scott goes home it's now just down to the three girls but if somehow Whitney floats back over there we are right back where we began but with some new suspicions, trust has been broken and the fire has been ignited to play your own game. Were have to consider that could happen but based on the way the girls' reacted today the chances of that happening continue to decline. The LNC fans need to realize that even if the one America vote to evict Morgan doesn't send her home that's ok. We shook up the game and the pieces will land and things will get very real very fast. The realization that you cannot solely rely on America is a wake up call that the Plastics deserved as much as the misfits. My greater goal in this was that if by some miracle Morgan does get evicted that's the definite end of the Plastics and fans will begin to focus on the players and not the teams. It removes the voting dominance and forces that fan base to look around the house at everyone and not be so blinded by the desire to keep an all girls alliance in tact at the expense of some other players who are player at least as good if not better games than some of the members of the Plastics. That could be a win not only for the players but for the fans as well. Right now if Alex and Whitney both are the votes left in play they will vote Scott out and that's an acceptable victory and loss any way you look at it for either side of the fandoms. I think many LF's on either side of fandom are happy with that outcome. But....If Shelby doesn't choose so carefully who is allowed to vote and 1 person votes Morgan with our America's vote on Morgan she's out of the game, Alex loses a layer of protection that isn't being even really understood since they have been able to maintain the fact they are sisters a secret. It also presents the biggest blindside of the season. That's a wake up call for all the players remaining in the game. The other good news is Plastics fans to some degree you still get the glory you wanted. There was still an all girls alliance that finally stayed together for a long time. Just realize the lopsided voting was a reason it crumbled. You prompted Danielle, Jason, and Justin to come out swinging this week and Danielle had the best HOH of the season. She did a lot of great things, handled the power very well, and proved herself a force to be recognized in this game. If Whitney does not float back over to the girls and stays on the other side as a result of all of this that is good for Justin especially, but the LNC in general going into week 6. It improves their odds for winning another HOH and of receiving that final ACP's which are the most powerful of the season. It prevented a 5 against 3 scenario where the Plastics had the upper hand and that's an outcome I would be thrilled with after weeks of being frustrated by the lopsided voting. If you are a Plastics fan and you want to vote with the majority vote to evict Scott. If you are a Misfits fan and you want to vote with the majority vote to evict Morgan. Either way one of them goes home. The Plastics took the hit Danielle hoped to achieve. New alliances will shake out either way and all the remaining Plastics know they have to make some new friends fast and for the first time since week 2 the misfits are not at the greatest disadvantage in the game with the majority of that accomplishment being achieved on their own. Remember voting is now open, get your votes in tonight and again tomorrow morning no matter who you decide to vote every vote counts. Plastics-Eviction vote for Scott LNC/Misfits-Morgan Yes! Morgan! If the plan doesn't work it's ok Scott still goes home but this is the first chance fans have to separate the sisters and don't want to pass up the chance just in case 1 HG votes Morgan with ours she would go HOME! No more sisters protecting each other. No more Plastics, and it's a gamble we all want to take! If it doesn't work, we have nothing to lose Scott will still go home. Make sure whoever you are voting you vote today and tomorrow morning.

Veto Meeting results are in: Danielle chose to use the veto on Whitney! The replacement nominee: MORGAN Let the celebratory dancing begin! Ok-don't rush to a vote just yet. I've been searching sites to verify what Plastics fans are up to set up an eviction poll on Twitter. Once there is some kind of sense of the majority we will know if it's smarter to throw a vote to Morgan collectively as much as possible or to go ahead and pile the votes onto Scott! Morgan is very upset and all 3 girls are trash talking Whitney for preserving her own game first. That's quite comical to me when you think about it. Not celebrating at Morgan's misery by any means but they have a lot of nerve being mad at Whitney when all 3 were ready to vote her out don't you think? It's going to get interesting! Right now if you're a Plastics fan Scott has a lead in the polls but it's very early. I will return later this afternoon/early this evening with the best consensus possible so you can decide how you want to vote based on the Intel! As much as I think many LNC would love to break up the sisters we have to be smart so don't rush to the voting link just yet if you want to help preserve a majority vote and avoid a split! In all sincerity for both sides of fandom the worse case scenario is Scoft leaves and no one will really cry over that result. Although LNC fans there's already a small momentum growing that may push the majority vote towards at least trying to break up the sisters. First shot anyone has had to do it and depending on how the polls and general chatter washes out I will share the results as soon as possible so hang tight!

Tricks and Treats It’s a Halloween full of tricks and treats in the BB house today! The America’s Nominee was announced this morning and the HG were shocked to find out that Scott was nominated as the 3 rd nominee for week 5 of BBOTT! The veto draw followed this announcement and to follow the day’s theme, of expect the unexpected the first name drawn by Danielle was Whitney. Whitney chose Justin as her HG’s choice. The second name drawn was……JASON! Yes, after 5 weeks his name was finally drawn to play veto and he was so excited. After the veto draw HG’s were herded to the BY for a 3 hours OLD which left them all puzzled what the comp could possibly be today as it would take place inside the house. A few minutes after 1 PM HG’s were informed by the hostess, Morgan, that today’s competition is called The Haunting of Clementine O’Grady. Essentially all the veto players were moved to the IWR to await their turns in the completion while the non-players were sequestered in the HOHB and were treated to being able to watch each individual player complete the task. What was the task? The house had been transformed to a mild version of a haunted house and three items belonging to a young girl who once lived on this land and murdered her family would have to recovered. The scavenger hunt would take place in the dark and HG were give a small headlamp to wear and told the prized items of Clementine, a hairbrush, a rattle, and a doll named Abigail had to be found within 15 minutes (max) and returned to the toy box located in the center of the pentagram. Once the players were sequestered together in the IWR they were told some very general information such as the items could be found in plain sight in the three bedrooms. Once a player completed the competition they were then allowed to join the others in the HOHB and watch the rest of the players compete. This was such a great veto competition! As LF’s, many of us have so enjoyed the new competitions and the simplicity that BB budget has resulted in. The fact HG’s can’t anticipate the competitions as they do in summer seasons is such a refreshing element added to the BBOTT season. The variation and unique competitions has been truly one of the things many of us have really appreciated. There were live characters placed in rooms throughout the house as well as manikins which added an element of trickery HG’s certainly reacted to in a variety of ways. If you haven't watched the competition itself you should! Veto began at 1:35 and lasted just around an hour. Justin went first and as we all know a witch hat alone spooked him so his reactions as the first competitor will get you primed for the ones that follow. I couldn’t believe how fast he was! I had to replay it two more times just to be able to log his actual finish time it happened so fast and I was laughing so much. Of all 6 HG’s Shelby’s by far was the most entertaining to me! She was so spooked going in that it only gained momentum as the minutes passed. She actually found all three items relatively quickly, still not quick enough to bet the top two times, but it was respectable for sure. Then she had some problems finding the location of the toy box which gives us all 3 extra minutes of her reactions to things lingering about the house it was glorious entertainment that will have you rolling on the floor laughing! At point as she walks down the hallway to the BR’s there are several manikins covered in plastic, which it appears she doesn’t realize are mankind, as she passes one the first time she says “Don’t you dare touch me I will sue your ass!” After her second or third passing those same manikins and a whole lot of f bombs in between she brushes her arm against the plastic, assumes it was a person touching her and yells again “I said don’t TOUCH ME I will sue you!” This is a must watch. Now, I am not going to detail all of the turns, I know you can watch them and I don’t want to ruin it, but in the end after 6 HG’s brave the darkness in the Haunted BBOTT house we have a winner! 3:04 pm the results are announced. Veto Times: Justin 1:50 Scott 2:08 Shelby 5:06 Jason 2:14 Whitney 4:52 Danielle 1:22 Danielle wins the veto! She accomplished what she set out to do this week and that was an amazing time! As matter of fact, according to Shelby (and a lot of Plastics fans) that makes Danielle a “Comp Queen” since in her last DR that’s how she described Alex with her two wins. Yes, all those Plastics fans who informed me they loved Alex as a player because she’s a competition beast and has won the most comps (all of 2) should now have a new found respect for Danielle, right? LOL The sad news for many is now Danielle holds all the nomination power this week for veto and we will likely have to wait until tomorrow’s ceremony to find out with the rest of the HG’s if she decides to take America’s Nominee down as she planned at the beginning of the week no matter who it was, so America’s nominee would not go home. Or will she leave her nominations the same alongside Scott and allow the Plastics to try and vote out Whitney which is what they had planned before the AN was announced this morning. After the results are given for the veto HG’s are again put on an OLD and they move to the BY for around an hour while the BBOTT is returned to its original decor. Once back inside the Alex, Morgan, Shelby head off to the BA and immediately begin to ponder if Dani will take Scott down, leave the nominations the same or will Whitney or Shelby come down and Morgan go up? Morgan What do you think she’s gonna do, bring Scott down? Alex Or will she leave them? Shelby She’ll take Scott down. Morgan She’s gonna take him down and make us decide between… They go back and forth with this and then Alex says Justin and Kryssie are going to be in her ear (re: Whitney), Will she do her own thing or will she do what they want? Shelby heads into the WC to change clothes and gets ready to take a shower. Alex says to Morgan We need to talk to Whitney and make her feel very buddy, buddy because I feel like she probably feels like the bottom of us right now because of all of this and I don’t want her to feel like that. -Well yeah! Whitney has two people from the other side she’s good friends with. Quite frankly she’s been nice and made personal connections on varying levels with everyone in the house which makes her far more appealing to keep around and potentially work with. Whitney is also the only one that hasn’t lied to anyone and broken her word in the literal sense. Even with Kryssie last week when she promised to vote how Kryssie wanted she went back and sacrificed her own self volunteering to be the replacement nominee to avoid having to break her trust and also not turn on the alliance she has been loyal to without hesitation despite how she is treated but all of you since day 1. Imagine that? Social game has earned Whitney some friends that see the ability to play this game along side her and living them wanting eliminate someone else they have zero connection to at all? Who would have ever guessed that would happen in BB? LOL Morgan I was thinking say she took down Shelby or Whitney and put me up? Then we could still vote out Scott. Scott wanders in and Alex calls him over unaware that Whitney is also coming down the hallway Alex Are you gonna ask her to use it on you? Scott I’m gonna ask her. Alex Whitney! Scott Whitney. Not subtle at all. As soon as Morgan hears Alex say Whitney’s name she walks away from the huddle and towards the sink. Scott quickly follows Morgan’s lead and heads to the sink as well. Alex When do you think we’re getting our costumes? Morgan 5 maybe? Shelby exits the WC and Alex enters. Random chit chat ensues. Shelby gets in the shower and the group quickly disperses. If I’m Whitney there is no denying she has block virus and people are definitely stopping convos when I walk in the room. When she came in the BA no one discussed anything with her, she stood there and brushed her hair for a moment and as everyone leaves all of a sudden she exits as well. Jason/Justin/Kryssie have been in the KIT while this was going on making protein shakes and food. Justin is making coffee as Morgan enters the KIT. 4:15 pm HNB J/J/K Jason Do you think she will take Whitney down? Justin No Jason You don’t think we can persuade her to? Justin Maybe if you all convince her, but she’s not. Jason She told Whitney that she would do it right? Kryssie Yeah Justin She did? Jason In the BA she told Whitney if she won she could take her down. Justin She said that? k Well, I don’t know if she told her that but she told her she was gonna throw it… Jason Right but she didn’t. Justin I think that’s dead Bo. I think she’s gonna go home. Jason Not if we can convince her to use it. We only need 2 votes to vote out Scott. It will be Whitney and America. That’s two votes. Justin I went and asked Scott if him and Alex made a deal with her this week and they did. So she’s gonna take him off the block. -I find it perplexing that for a player who has had an amazing read on pretty much everything in the game that Dani chose to put Whitney OTB because she’s the only one that didn’t offer her a deal. Yes, Shelby, Alex, Scott, and Morgan offered her deals. But they all almost word for word said the same things to Danielle. They have all made deals week after week and broken every single one of them. Whitney is the only one in that group that hasn’t broken her word. She either doesn’t say anything so she won’t have to lie or when she’s said something she cannot honor she maneuvers in such a way that she comes out of it with her word in tact. Why would Dani think, ‘oh I need to put Whitney up because she didn’t come here and lie to my face?’ Jason Well, we need to make a better deal with her. We need to let her know that if she wants to roll with them, then she loses all three of us. Justin thinks its a done deal and there’s nothing they can do. Jason says they just need to let Dani know if she rolls with them this week the LNC is done with her and who is she even going to have to talk to? They don’t talk to her. Justin is against this idea. He’s acting defeated. It’s not a good look. His fear is if Jason does that she will be happy to go with them and it will just be the 3 of them against the world. He doesn’t want to lose Whitney but he doesn’t think that approach will work and it puts them in worse situation if it backfires. Justin We just gotta play it cool. Our opinion, and what we say doesn’t matter (to Dani). -True. It’s all about how you present it to Dani in a way that makes sense to her. Strong arming her isn’t the best approach but there is a way to explain it logically to her that Whitney is more malleable than Morgan and that Scott going home if they can’t flip Whitney is still a win, but flipping Whitney would be a major game changer. Yes! Jason gets there. Jason She seemed like she was open to it. Just because Alex and Scott made a deal doesn’t mean anything. Alex and Scott have been making a deal all over this house and breaking them. Why can’t she do the same thing? Justin Because she knows that she can’t win HOH this week. Jason But us three can. If she saves Whitney then Whitney can and its 4 people playing versus 3 of them playing. If she saves Whitney, Whitney comes to our side. Then its just A/S/M against 4 of us (in HOH). She showed that she isn’t loyal to us by making sh*t with them on the side. So, why can’t we make her flip back to us (Dani). If she’s that willing to flip in the first place she’ll be that willing to flip again. I believe she was listening to me this morning and willing to roll with it because after I talked with her this morning she went in the diary room and talked about it and they told her OMG make up your mind. Jason tells Justin not to be defeated. He says he says not defeated he just doesn’t have a lot of enthusiasm because he feels like sh*t. Jason says he had lots of enthusiasm, last night about it and we knew it wasn’t going to be an easy road. (This is referencing the long talk they all had with Whitney about her side throwing her UTB and Whitney finally talking crap about Alex and seemingly on board with rolling with the LNC. 11:30 pm Monday night HN that talk began and lasted for a couple hours.) -Kryssie has been so quiet this whole time. LF’s have finally figured out a way to get Kryssie to stop talking all the time. LOL. Jason Pull some of your enthusiasm from last night and lets flip this b*tch. Justin makes a valid observation in that Danielle is looking at this for her own game. What’s best for her. Jason sees that but points out… Jason Danielle is right about everything, but she does listen to game talk. She’s not as stubborn when it comes to that. This is the perfect opportunity to take Scott out without even meaning to, she doesn’t have a vote. All we need is Whitney and America. Its the easiest its gonna be to get him out of here with all these people running around here. Kryssie We wont have the numbers to do this again. Jason Exactly, thats why we have to take our shot now. We may never get another shot. Because they’re protected as a pair. This breaks up as Jason tells the other pair he is going up to the HOH to take a shower and talk to Dani. 4:25 pm cam 2 HOHB Jason/Dani Jason enters HOH and Dani is in the shower. Jason shares the expressions on the others’ faces when she murdered that veto comp. Focuses on stroking her ego which is effective because without any prompting Danielle says to Jason I hate that I have to go back on my word. Jason To Scott? Dani Yeah J I know but I think it’s the smartest thing to do. D I know J Then Whitney’s vote to Scott out with America will vote Scott out and it doesn’t matter what Alex does. That is the best game move in…if you’re in the finals you can say you got Scott out even if you didn’t nominate him that’s major. D Yeah J I know that Whitney would make the deal to vote Scott out period. D Because I would save her? J Because you would be saving her. Then America is very likely voting Scott out, America and Whitney vote Scott out and Alex votes one of them (girls) out, it makes them go Alex just voted us out WTF? Whitney is not going to go back to them. She feels very slated by them. Dani Does she? J She is like F these people I can’t believe I bought their BS for so long. She’s pissed! D She told Justin that, or….? J Yeah. We were in the HN room last night and Whitney was just airing her qualms about it. Whitney is just done with them. So, we will have the numbers if we get one of them out and Whitney is now ours. D What if I don’t take Scott down and he stays now I am on his list. J Whitney will not flip back to them. They don’t want Whitney out because they are worried about her end game. They want her out because she’s the only one they don’t have brainwashed. Whitney is the only one playing her won game. So they’re like, hold up, hold up. They’ve had me, you, and Justin all brainwashed this week doing what they wanted. They’r like King and Queen, and like…..n n n n n NO. We cannot be on the season that let these two run us like that. I know you’re a better gamer than that and so am I. I’m like nah, nah, nah, nah, not happening on my watch. No matter what kind of deal Alex and Scott could even twerk, it doesn’t matter because you’re not going to get their allegiance over each other. Danielle the enter time has been saying yeah and agreeing with Jason finally she catches that innuendo and responds smoothly: And really Alex didn’t make a deal with me. It was mainly just Scott. J It was mainly just Scott? D Yeah. Alex was just like me and you are the top female threats its not gonna benefit me for you to leave because everyone’s going to be coming for me. Basically like… -That’s not true but there’s no weight or value in anything Alex says to anyone. Dani caught the more important opportunity to make it seems as though she wasn’t making side deals with the duo just with Scott not to nominate him. This was done smoothly and effortlessly and a great defensive move by Dani to attempt to dispel any impressions J may have about what was said. J So she’s saying oh I’m not gonna target you because everybody’s targeting me already so I need to leave you here. That’s the same BS she sells me. D That’s what she's been telling me J And she’s been telling all those girls that they need to come after me, you, and Justin and not Kryssie. D hmmmm? J Because they’re the least threatened of Kryssie. That’s what Whitney was spilling last night. D Whitney told me… J Me and Justin, me and Justin, they’re trying to leave you for last but they want to take Kryssie to final three because they know they can beat her. They don’t think she’s a threat at all. Like not on my watch! Not today Satan! Danielle laughs hehehehehehe Jason has been preparing to shower the entire time this convo is going on which also makes it appear less aggressive and more passive. He’s not in her face like trying to sell this hard to her just back in forth convo as Dani finished her shower and he wanders around the BA getting ready to get in himself now. That’s a more effective way to manage Danielle and not put her on the defensive and make her feel like he’s shoving his agenda down her throat the way Kryssie felt when Neely and Jason sat in the HOH last week. While that wasn’t really wither of their intentions in that convo with Kryssie it was the approach that made her feel that way (and her oversensitive nature anyway). More often than not in this game even more so than traditional BB its not what you say its how you say it that determines how it is received. Now as the shower becomes discussion he gently eases off the gas pedal and smoothly turns the relaxed nature of the convo back to how she killed that comp yesterday and stroking her ego again. After an exchange or two he turns the corner back to the discussion of the deals. Jason But yeah, F their deals they are going to screw them over next week anyway. D yeah -My only concern in Dani’s manner of response is the number of yeah’s. She does make some of the points he is wanting her to get on her own which shows she’s thought about this in the same way Jason has, but….knowing BB there’s usually a cause to pause when you’re talking to someone and the majority of their replies are yeah. Just something I picked up on that makes me a little less unsure whether this is really where Dani was headed going into the veto ceremony or if she was just prepared for Jason and the LNC to make this play and had a plan in place in advance. She is that calculated and does have the ability to look at everyone’s potential moves and angles before they ever even come up with it on their own in creating a plan of attack in this game. I hope she follows this move, I hope Whitney does flip and going to LNC this week it would shake this two sides up finally and start to push the games path all season out of its box but I am not completely sold. When Danielle decided to nominate W/S over W/M I was disappointed with her reasoning in doing so with regard to saying in her DR on the recap segment that Whitney was the only one that didn’t offer her a deal. She is so much smarter than that! She herself pointed out after the 1-1 convos with Plastics in the HOH that the blondies came up and said almost exactly word for word what the other said. That was suspect and I think second guessing her gut instinct in the nomination choices was a mistake. Scott leaving is a win although I agree Morgan leaving would be a far greater win overall. Scott has the potential at some point when it comes down to him or Alex to act on the survival of the fittest mentality. Morgan, being Alex’s sister (which no one knows and plays such a key part in accurately assessing the pecking order and level of loyalty at this point in the game) will ride for Alex the against anyone else oil the end. While Scott has this creepy obsession with Alex and last week was spewing I just ant to get her further in this game, I would leave satisfied I made it to Halloween, blah blah hasn’t been present in the same level of intensity this week and I am not alone in observing this. Whitney and Morgan have both discussed the small shift they’ve seen in Scott moving away from this position this week and focusing more on actions and talk that demonstrates to them that he is in fact looking out for his own game as well. Scott and Morgan are the two most loyal to Alex in the game. That’s a huge advantage to Alex over the other players. Morgan, even more so than Scott. Although staying aligned with Alex has clearly been Scott’s primary focus in furthering both of their chances of making it as far as possible together as they can. What Scott doesn’t realize is that while initially the girls were on board with voting Whitney out if they had to choose one of their own once Scott became AN the chance of them keeping the girls in tact by eliminating Scott became a very relevant discussion among Morgan, Alex, and Shelby. They’ve mistakenly made it obvious to Whitney they have distanced themselves just enough of her to feel it and that was a critical game error too early in the week. Jason and Justin effectively planting seeds with Whitney that those girls are willing to cut you to stay together has now through so many small things being noticed by Whitney taken root and is a much stronger possibility they could actual pull Whitney to their side. Whitney knows in her gut that if she stays OTB there is a chance she would go home and when it’s her own team voting to make that decision that’s a huge wake up call I’ve waited weeks for her to answer! I wont get to excited because there’s always a chance if Whitney comes down and the girls sweet talk her enough and rally to vote out Scott she could decide again like last week to stay where she is, but I think things are primed much better this week due to the Plastics own actions to prompt her to make the jump! Jason continues pointing out that its hard to predict next week because we don’t know whats going to happen. But stresses that if they get Whitney over to their side that improves their odds going into the HOH because now instead of it being 3 (J/J/K) against 4 (Plastics) it will be 4 (J/J/K/W) against their 3. Thats better odds. He also plays into the idea Danielle presented in the safety speech was the Plastics have had this idea that Danielle doesn’t have any power this week we have all the power and if Whitney comes to them suddenly they don’t have the power Dani has all managed to take back all the power by saving Whitney and the LNC and Whitney no matter how Shelby decides to use her votes will be the ones controlling who goes home and how glorious it will be when they realize they are f*cked! Fast forward to Tuesday morning. 10:34 am cam 1/2 TKB Shelby/Alex/Morgan Morgan says how nice it was last night having a break from the game. I know some LF’s were disappointed with the Halloween festivities as a whole, but I felt like it was actually nice not only for us but for them to take a step back and have a break from the game for everyone. Ir’s always nice to see the house come together and just hang out in one group once a week. It helps them in the long run too, just to have a moment int he week where they take the game face off and relax so they can come back to it and have a small reset to move ahead. It’s also a nice break from the fandom insanity as well, which for some has taken a measure of enjoyment of the focus on BB. While it wasn't some amazing event it was still an opportunity for everyone to just relax a bit and that seems to be needed in the BBOTT format. LOL Shelby She’s not going to use it on me. Alex No. She’s either going to take Scott down or not use it at all. Shelby Should I still go up and talk to her? I know it’s a game and it’s pointless. I’m basically going to go to try and see if she’s going to use it and we are going to find out in 2 hours anyway. Alex Yeah Idk. Shelby There’s nothing I can say to change her mind. Alex She’s already decided what she’s doing Morgan I don’t think anything anyone says is going to sway her Alex Idk. I’m not talking to her because I know I wont but… Shelby I kinda like may do a just real quick one with her. Just kinda like if there’s a good chance for it, like hey what are the chances of you using that sh*t on me? Zero? Ok bye. Ironically that’s just about what Scott does in a few minutes. LOL -I guess none of these girls watched BB18 where Meech refused to go up to the HOH and talk to Nicole. James and Natalie never went up and talked to Nicole making these same kind of comments which Nicole then turned around to James and said you guys didn’t even bother to come talk to me. M Just try to feel her out and see what she might do. I doubt you’ll get much though. -Morgan you should be up there talking to her as well. If she does decide to take W/S down you are the likely replacement and you need to make an appearance and plead why you shouldn’t be put up again right before the veto ceremony. All of these players on both teams have got to stop using this mentality in the game. Well, they don’t talk to me and they won’t do what I want so why should I talk to them? STOP THAT! Someone has to be the bigger person at some point and see the value in at least trying. Like it or not when your side doesn’t have HOH you have to go and try to find some basis for talking points and the Plastics side especially just refuses to engage with the other side unless it’s a final hour and they are trying to prevent game talk or gain intel at the last minute. Social game may not be as important in many ways as traditional BB because America has had such a huge impact on the game but weeks like this where Whitney is in a bad spot her efforts to be the most liked and able to socialize and hang with everyone on a genuine level has offered her a great benefit this week. One I have talked about for 5 weeks that the Plastics refusal to do will hurt both their short term and long term games and this week is a prime example yet again. Even Danielle when the other side wasn’t bothering to come talk to her as HOH the first couple days. Although she isn’t obligated it’s a better move to stay to them hey why don’t you come and talk to me for a minute and open the door than sit up there talking about the fact none of them have bothered to talk to me. No, as HOH, it’s not reliant upon her to help the targets in the game but this has gotten so prevalent and she was so counting on this win finally opening the door to some game talk with the other side who literally iced her out the very first day in the house it could in fact benefit her game overall. Leave your petty egos at the door and play the game in a way that helps you in the best way possible. Just doing that could and likely would start a path that can be built upon and we have reached the midpoint of the season. 10:42 am HOH K/D/Jason Scott knocks and asks to talk to Danielle. I don’t suppose I could talk to Danielle real quick? I guess its fine if everyone’s still here. Dani It doesn’t matter to me it’s up to you whatever you feel comfortable with. Scott Ok. All right I just want to let you know Danielle that uh, if the POV isn’t used on me today I think I’m probably gonna go home. Because there’s only 3 votes and I think Morgan and America will both vote to evict me. Dani You think Morgan will side with that… Jason Why would Morgan do that? Scott Because she’s more loyal to the girls. Dani Huh? Ok Scott That’s all. Ok. Dani Alright. Thanks Scott. Scott leaves. Jason Well, then that makes it even easier. Dani I don’t give a sh*t you’re going home. Jason I’m like Morgan’s not even voting brush Dani mmm hmmm Jason But then is it safer if you put Alex up? And then Morgan will vote him out with Whitney? And we don’t even depend on America? Dani Maybe. Jason Cause we know they wont vote out Alex. Dani Yeah, we know they wont vote out Alex. Jason I mean it’s whatever but… Dani I don’t even care Jason Leaving Alex off the block is a vote Scott will have. Dani That’s true Jason Then he doesn’t have any votes (to save him). It’s a shot at her anyway. It doesn’t really matter whichever way it goes. Dani So if we leave her off, Morgan goes up and she votes to evict either Morgan or Shelby. Jason Yep. And Whitney will vote to evict Scott. And hopefully America will vote to evict Scott. Dani mmm hmmm. SO that creates more of a drift within the girls. Jason Right cause then Morgan’s like Alex just evicted me. That was the reason we were not putting Alex up. If we consider Alex is not loyal to them over Scott. Dani If we put Alex up, we guarantee that all three votes go to Scott. That great vote wise, but it doesn't create more of a, Morgan will still be a vote to Alex. Who knows if Alex knows that Scott is going home she might just vote for Scott anyway. There gonna try and make sure that Whitney won’t do that. Alex is gonna work on Whitney. Whitney can be just yeah no I wont’ be voting him out. And Alex might be putting her votes on Morgan and then Whitney will vote him out. 10:54 am HOHBR cam 3/4 Kryssie and Jason hanging with Dani and making sure to keep these ideas fresh in her mind and preventing any of the other from getting in her ear by doing so. HG are moving slow and BB had to make numerous wake up announcements after 10 am. There have been knocks at the door and lounging around with Dani until it’s time for the veto is a very smart idea to make sure no one says anything that may derail the efforts you put in. That’s if you believe Jason has really persuaded Dani to swap Whitney for Morgan which I am still not overconfident about! Well, there you have it. Many felt going into this week when Shelby managed to get the ACP this was a slam dunk week for the Plastics. However, there are so many moving parts and differing agendas happening all at once it’s made it very difficult to pin down who we actually want to vote out until the veto ceremony happens. All in all Scott being the AN was a smart move! Shelby being a nominee so no matter who else is on the block she has to protect her individual game first. Whitney going up shocked everyone especially Justin! Between HN’s this week, already not being a big Danielle fan and his girl Whitney going OTB he’s had a rough week and we’ve seen it show up in his energy and inability to snap out of it completely. He was also really down on himself for not coming up with that veto win which would have secured Whitney’s safety and having to rely on Danielle to pull her down is not a place where he feels at all comfortable. Jason has played this week very well regardless of which way the pendulum swung from moment to moment. He’s bartered, gotten his hands dirty planting seeds along with Justin and if they manage to pull off this flip with Whitney it is a game changer. Alex has in many aspects as far as coming up with the same ideas looking at the options as Dani with Scott’s help. Scott went from feeling like he was in the best position this week to being in the worst position this week, which is a much more traditional series of events in BB. Morgan has been far too complacent. She has got to stop following Alex’s lead on everything and find her own game or she will be in danger very soon. Alex may protect her to some degree but even she is realizing its getting to a point in the game where the thought of her sister outlasting her is going to become a front of the line concern and if Morgan happens to go up with no chance of coming down on her won it’s becoming more and more likely if this first fracture happens with Whitney that Alex will branch out on her won and make some new alliances to insulate herself and she can’t necessarily drag Morgan along. Knowing that was just up ahead in the game as the halfway point approached Morgan voting out Neely may have been her biggest mistake yet. Kryssie being on slop has given all of us some reprieve, I know she had a meltdown last night about her costume, the lack of nutrients is wearing her down, but the positive result has been that she’s been 1/2 as chatty and boisterous as usual and that was a nice reprieve that had me realizing I may not be far from being willing to vote Kryssie out pretty soon. She, like Morgan doesn’t really have any other side deals in the works and is in the worse position in the game should this shift we’ve all be anticipating would happen, because it always does. That’s where lack of game knowledge and the fandom genuinely being tired of listening to her all the time has set her up to leave very soon as well. She may even gain the momentum of the Plastics fandom targeting her over Danielle next week based on this week plays out. Danielle may be annoying with all her chatter, but its far less annoying than Kryssie’s because Danielle is actually one of, if not, the best, player in the game currently right now week 5. She’s earned some stripes this week whether you’re an LNC or Plastics fans and by her own hands. An eviction night that sends Scott home by way of Whitney flip to the dark side actually makes this a very productive week for both Danielle and the LNC as well as LNC fans! It broke down the Plastics 4 girl alliance, eliminated 1 of the 5 people in a group that had the majority in pure numbers. A fracture in the Plastics and the potential for new side things to develop will also fracture the Plastics’ fandom and that’s not good for the LNC its really good for the game. We’ve reached a point that happens every season where the individual game becomes more relevant to the alliances as a whole. There will be plenty of fans that love Alex and want things to go her way and that’s ok. However the enormous force in voting that was primarily concerned with keep an all girls alliance of those 4 players in tact now will fracture itself and as with both sides of fandom it becomes focused on which actual player you want to see stay and protected and not a huge group of followers united for a foursome. That’s the greatest difference I’ve observed in LNC fandom the first few weeks. It was more about the player you liked and different segments of the group liked different people. So many voted accordingly. It wasn’t until we saw the united voting on the other side of fandom putting our favorites on the LNC being in more danger than ever from that….then we finally voted together because winning the popular vote to protect the LNC as whole in order to preserve whichever single player you preferred. There may be a couple more votes where that approach is required but very soon things will intermingle for the majority of the fandom as we see more a more game play and like players for the individual game play more than the we have to save an entire group in order to protect them. We also know that the way things were headed Jason and more importantly Justin was going to be in danger very quickly and for them, a large portion of the LF’s community like them and don’t want to see them go and will vote in a majority to conserve their longevity in the game. That’s it for Halloween coverage, status updates and the morning of November 1. I will be back later today with some updates and some voting details since the veto ceremony is just ahead. If you are still committed to voting as a group, especially after what we were able to accomplish getting Scott up as America’s nom don’t cast your votes until you've checked a reliable LNC majority source or had a chance to read the later blog which will outline who is voting for whom and why!