And now it all comes down to America's vote to evict. Yesterday saw the naming of America's nominee and it was Monte. That was followed by the picking of the POV players and Alex drew Scott and Shelby so there were four on her side competing against Shane and Danielle. The numbers were on her side, but the problem was it's a golfing competition and Shane's a pro golfer.
Jeff Schroeder dropped by the house just before the comp to host the comp which was a smart move on BB's part. Everyone got excited to see him and he seemed pretty happy to see them. Then the competition started. It would take 60 tickets to win the HOH so Shane and Danielle devised a strategy where Danielle would go for the prize ten tickets at a time using a shorter, easier hole while Shane would go for the thirty point hole each time. Shane quickly made a thirty point shot which forced Alex and her side to try and match him. She soon did. Then came round after round of near misses as Alex and Shane traded their best shots. It was just a question of time until Shane made it though and he did.
Anyone who didn't win POV got a punishment. Scott has to live in a sandtrap in the backyard for 24 hours. Alex has to be handicapped in her next HOH comp (two weeks from now if she's still in the house.) Shelby has to carry around a set of golf clubs while dressed as a caddy all week. Danielle has to jump into the pool to retrieve a golf ball from the bottom of the pool whenever BB calls for it for the next week. And Monte can't compete in the next POV comp.
With Shane winning POV Monte stays on the block and Alex's side of the house will likely lose him. They had two initial plans to save Monte and opted to go with Monte's plan first which was that he would appeal to Shane to vote against Kryssie, assuring him that they could spin it as America's vote and that Kryssie would go. (In fact the girls would still vote out Danielle forcing a 4-4 tie and then Alex would vote out Danielle. Monte swore Shane to secrecy and swore he'd have Shane's back if he did this. Shane then promptly went and told the rest of the late night crew of the plan and swore to them that he was evicting Monte. Word soon got back to Alex through Whitney that Shane had ratted Monte out.
That left Alex's side of the house with plan B which involved Justin. Justin had been upset to hear that Shane and Danielle had offered a deal with Alex earlier and he wanted them broken up as a result. However that rift had now mended and Justin told Alex he was voting out Monte.
Jason, Kryssie, Neeley, Shane and Danielle then entered the HOH room and demanded that Alex put up Scott. They lied to her and swore they'd vote out Scott if she did that, but they were still planning to vote out Monte. Alex stalled and delayed without committing to anything and they eventually left and she got together with her group again to go over their options. Monte was shocked and annoyed to hear that Shane had betrayed him and told Alex not to put up Scott. The rest agreed that they'd rather go down fighting than submit to the bullying of the other side.
The final, desperation plan was to have Monte appeal to Neeley for a sympathy vote, telling her that Alex's crew had decided he was a goner and they were voting with the house. In fact Alex's side will be voting to evict Danielle no matter what. If Monte could swing just the one vote from Neeley so he wouldn't go out like Cornbread by a unanimous vote of the house, that would force a tie and Alex could break the tie saving Monte and evicting Danielle. Neeley is minimally receptive to this idea, but will in all likleihood vote to evict Monte.
So, it all comes down to America's vote. Alex will nominate Kryssie to replace Shane or Danielle (Shane may be dumb enough to use the POV on Danielle.) Then Alex's side (Scott, Shelby, Morgan, and Whitney) will vote out Shane/Danielle and the votes from the house will be 4-4 and it will be up to America to decide who stays or goes. Given the influence Jason's fans have had, Monte will likely be gone. There was a big swell to nominate Kryssie, and she got a good percentage of the votes to be nominated, but in all likelihood America will not throw enough votes to Kryssie to give her the vote and Monte will be gone. Then Jason's side of the house will just pick off the rest of the girls and Scott one by one leaving the smoking, smirking crowd as the only people left in the house.
It's so rare to get good players in the game these days and this season we've got a handful of good players, but they're not with Jason's late night crew, so they're going down one by one. The good, smart, strategic players have won the first two HOH's and by Wednesday night will have likely lost two members of their side simply due to the fact that they're not on Jason's side.
Alex's side of the house pretty much has to win every comp to have any chance to stay alive and as their numbers dwindle so does their chance to win any comp let alone every comp. Meanwhile the side that lies around, smears people for no good reason, and largely just floats along, moves forward. I'll be throwing every vote I can at Kryssie in the hope that a miracle happens and she gets the vote to evict, but the odds are bad now. Instead of a fun and exciting season we're looking at a rout as Jason's fans hand him the money as he lounges on the couch smoking and talking smack.
As long as these rules stay in place, Jason needs to do nothing to get to the end of the game. People say no one will take him to the final two, but as the numbers in the house decrease, America's vote gets more and more powerful. In a few more weeks he'll be largely untouchable. The future Care Packages will help ensure he coasts through as they go to those his backers know will support him. Our last real chance to save the season is to have Alex's side somehow rally and survive, but to do that they need to win both HOH and POV for three or four weeks in a row and that's nearly impossible. Each week they lose one of those comps their numbers will decrease by one making it that much harder for them to win the next week.
The good news is we have seen the underdogs rally from incredible handicaps before and win. Jordan in BB 11 was one example. Jessie's side of the house dominated early and picked off Jordan's allies one by one, but she hung in there and survived. Granted she only had to fight the house and not all of America, but it's doable. It's just going to be a lot harder than it needs to be.
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