Yesterday saw Monte and his crew try to convince Shane to vote out Kryssie to save Monte, all the while they were planning to vote out Danielle. They just needed one vote to save Monte, and Shane told both Monte and Scott that he was voting to evict Kryssie, but he lied and voted to evict Monte. When the votes were counted Monte was voted out by a 5-4 vote. America voted out Monte. Jason's side of the house gloated and celebrated while Alex's side of the house said, "We tried. We did our best. It just wasn't enough." Jason's side was gleeful, but the glee wouldn't last long. The HOH comp was about to begin.
The HOH comp was the BB Barcode. In this comp BB had made a barcode up out of assorted pieces of wood and assigned a number to each piece of wood. There were about two hundred boards comprising the barcode. Differences in length were minimal and the only tool they were given to measure the boards was a short length of plastic chain. House guests were allowed to team up and talk among themselves and several did so, but the guesses through the first two rounds were all incorrect. In round three BB's cameras zoomed in on board 72 just after Scott had gotten done measuring it. Scott looked around a bit then marched over and asked BB if it was board 72. It was! Scott was the new HOH!
Alex, Morgan, Whitney and Shelby swarmed Scott and congratulated him while the late night crew largely ignored him. Several of them went to measure board 72 themselves just to be sure it was longer and they found it was which was very disappointing to them. They couldn't complain the game was rigged. Instead they called it a crapshoot, random and a lucky win.
Everyone then went back into the house where Jason assured his followers that America would protect them once again and that the other side should learn not to nominate anyone from Jason's side of the house. (It's kind of hard to win BB if you vote out all of your allies, so I don't get Jason's logic, but there's so much about Jason I don't get that it could fill a book.) Kryssie and Danielle seemed the most worried but were reassured by Jason that they'd be fine.
Scott was greeted warmly by Justin and Scott assured Justin he was safe this week. Scott had been saying he was targeting Kryssie, but that target has now shifted to Shane. Scott wants to make a deal with Kryssie and Neeley to keep him and Alex safe for as long as possible and put up Danielle and Shane again with Shane the target this week. Scott is not happy that Shane lied to his and Monte's face when he assured them he was voting out Kryssie to keep Monte in the house. In two weeks Shane has voted out two of his earlier allies, so Scott wants him gone.
Jason's supporters online have been saying that there won't be a steamrolling of Alex's side of the house, but that Monte was horrible and racist and they had to get him out, but once he was gone the votes would go to the most deserving players. They're now planning to nominate Morgan and vote her out. Why Morgan? To teach Alex and Scott a lesson that they should vote out their own allies or America will do it for them. We'll have to see if they're successful in that.
The Care Package voting starts later today and truth be told it's a pretty lousy Care Package to get. All the winner gets is the right to pick what type of veto to get. Jason's followers, knowing that Shane is now the target, are planning to vote for Shane to get the Care Package to send a message to Scott not to put up anyone from that side of the house.
So, today Scott will try to reach a deal with Kryssie and Neeley to get them on his and Alex's side of the house. He badly needs numbers now and by targeting Shane he might get their support this week in exchange for keeping them safe. Scott is trying to play the game week to week, but knows they have to thin out the other side of the house to have any chance at winning. Scott might be able to pull in votes from Kryssie, Neeley and Justin this week to make getting rid of Shane a sure thing and take away America's vote. It's a smart strategic move on his part. Kryssie and Neeley are closer to Danielle than Shane so by targeting Shane, Scott may just be able to get their votes. Justin's had a thing for Danielle since day one, but Shane beat him to her. With Shane out of the picture Justin could get closer to Danielle.
Expect today's Care Package voting to favor Jason's side of the house again and the same with America's nominee, which means that Scott will either have to lock down the votes of Kryssie/Neeley and likely Justin to evict Shane, or someone on his side will need to win POV to be sure they don't lose another player.
The America's nominee and America's vote has so corrupted the game this year that winning HOH is largely meaningless if you're on any side but Jason's. In the first two weeks none of those nominated by the HOH have been evicted despite sound arguments in each case. Scott has Alex, Morgan, Whitney, Shelby as votes to evict someone this week. If he nominates Danielle and Shane that leaves Jason, Justin, Neeley, Kryssie on the other side, but America will likely take away one of Scott's voters (likely Morgan if you believe Twitter) and the Jason followers will vote to evict Morgan if she stays on the block. Scott really needs to pull in Neeley and Kryssie at the minimum to have a chance to send Shane home this week.
In the BB voting rules there are all kinds of options for BB to change the rules at any time and BB needs to make a change soon or they might just as well hand Jason the check now. The power of America's vote grows larger and larger as the number of house guests shrink and Jason's side of the house is already using their supposed love from America as leverage to try and get their way. In the first week with ten votes of house guests and America's vote, America had one sixth of the power to evict. It would take six votes in week one to guarantee someone went home. This week it will only take four votes to send someone home and America essentially has one quarter of the power to evict. Voting is clearly not taking place based on game play, but on fan base and if production wants BB OTT to be a popularity contest, well that's exactly what they've got.
We'll know if there's any chance for the voting pattern to change when the Have Not voting takes place. At this moment the Late Night Crew (with the exception of Justin) has slipped to the bottom of the popularity polls with Danielle, Shane and Kryssie generally the bottom three. If the voting is based on game play, those three should be the Have Nots. I'm betting that Jason's fan base will vote for three of Scott's allies to be Have Nots instead. We'll have to see what happens. Expect lots of drama from Danielle as she's on the block once again. She'll promise the world to Scott to keep her off the block, but Scott's not going to buy what they're selling. He's picked his side and Danielle isn't on it. If Scott can reel in Kryssie and Neeley this week, he'll largely flip the house, but I doubt that they'll truly flip. This week largely comes down to someone on Scott's side winning POV and saving America's nominee (likely Morgan) from eviction.
It'll be a pretty quiet day in the house today as the only thing on the agenda is Julie's house guest Q&A.
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