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And the Ball Smasher lives on! Yesterday saw the final competition of BB OTT. It was a race through a long chicane to gather one photo of an evicted house guest at a time and then return with the photo to the start and use the photo to answer a question. There were hay bales to climb over and it was physically demanding task.

Justin got off to a fast start thanks to his longer stride and got off to an early lead. Morgan however had a better initial strategy. She was focused on retrieving the photos first and then arranging them afterwards. By the time they were on the third photo Morgan had made up her deficit and was pulling ahead. Around then Morgan started to really think about the answers to the questions as she ran through the chicane and would then place the photos in their proper slots. 

On around the fifth trip, Justin was really starting to slow down and started largely walking through the chicane while Morgan maintained a faster pace. She soon had a full lap lead on Justin and was placing her photos in the right spots while Justin had two wrong. Morgan then finished the comp pretty quickly, hit her buzzer and got the ding telling her she'd won. Justin still had at least one more photo to retrieve and two placed incorrectly, so Morgan won handily. Morgan had an edge in any Q&A comp over Justin, but the questions weren't especially taxing and he had a chance, but Morgan was just faster and wanted it more.

Justin then quietly and graciously left the house. Both Justin and Morgan were exhausted after the comp. BB then rewarded the house guests with one final bottle of champagne with which to celebrate. Monte, Alex and Shelby were quick to congratulate Morgan on her win on Twitter and Instagram. Tonight at 7:00 PM ET (or so, there seems to be some conflict in the timing as an earlier press release said 8:00 PM ET) the final three will each have two minutes to make their pleas to America for votes. At 11:00 AM (ET) today the voting starts and runs through 4:00 PM (ET) tomorrow.  At 8:00 PM Thursday night we start the finale and see who won BBOTT.

The early polling shows it to be a two horse race for the win with votes largely split between Morgan and Jason. Kryssie's support is hovering in the 1%-2% range on most polls, so barring a massive upset, she's in third place. My votes will got for Morgan for the win. The game was stacked against her side of the house most of the season, but she managed to scrape through to the end and make the final three despite nearly everything going against her. 

Jason seems to feel that Kryssie is his biggest threat to win. She's got him convinced she's got a great story to tell of how she manipulated the whole house the whole season and is downplaying his role in it all. For the record, Jason thinks his being a smoker is what created the LNJ. That since smoking is only allowed in a limited area he was able to stake out that area and it became a refuge for the LNJ and brought them together and kept them together. I'm not sure how he'll sell that as gameplay, "I smoked, we lounged, vote for me" but he seems to feel it's a selling point in some manner.

I'm kind of surprised they're limiting the house guests to just two minutes for their final speeches. Granted Kryssie would go on for two days if they let her, but given the lack of time constraints I would think they could up it to five minutes and not lose viewers. I expect Morgan's speech to be the best and most focused. Shelby and Morgan talked about a lot of what to say back before Shelby got evicted, so Morgan has a head start on the speech and has likely been refining it in her head. Jason's speech sounds like it'll be more focused on his forming/maintaining the LNJ. Kryssie seems to be going off into never-never land where she was the glue that held the whole house together and loved everyone and was loyal to everyone while manipulating the whole house to do her bidding.

I don't think the speeches will matter all that much.I suspect the fans of the show already know how they'll vote. This largely comes down to voter turnout. Of the top two, Morgan and Jason, you can argue that Jason played the better game, but he had bigger advantages. Nearly every HOH won by the Ball Smasher side of the house got stolen away from them and ended up with someone on their side being evicted, despite them winning HOH. Monte won the first HOH and instead of an LNJ member going, they lost Cornbread. Alex won the second HOH and they lost Monte. Shelby won HOH and Alex got evicted. Morgan won HOH and Shelby got evicted. In a "normal" year, winning HOH guarantees safety for your side of the house. The Ball Smasher side won six of the nine HOH's and lost four allies in those six HOH's. A season that should have been an easy win for the Ball Smasher side turned into a desperate fight for survival, but Morgan survived.

It's hard to find much fault with Morgan's game play. She made the tactically smart move every week for her and her alliance. She played a smart social game staying outwardly friendly with everyone while adopting her "I'm just a harmless Bikini Girl/cheerleader" persona. She couldn't win every comp, but no one can. She did win when she needed to however.

Jason's game play largely came down to saving himself with the POV when he was at risk. He'd have been gone week one if he hadn't won that POV. (That was the Veto Vault comp where they had to figure out the correct numbers and enter the right combination. Pretty much everyone had the right numbers, but Jason got the order right first. That was largely a luck based comp.) He'd have been nominated again in week 2 but America gave the Care Package to Kryssie who used it to protect Jason. And when Shelby was targeting Jason in week six America gave him the Co-HOH Care Package to keep him safe. Winning the POV in week 8 (the corn maze) kept him safe again.

In a season where a single politically incorrect statement by someone on the Ball Smasher (Monte and Cornbread) side led to their condemnation and ouster, we heard nonstop filth from the LNJ side with no real consequence in the game. In a "normal" season of Big Brother, much of what we heard from the LNJ side would have been roundly condemned, but the fans of Jason largely excused everything said by him and his allies.

So, now it all comes down to the voting. It appears to be a two horse race between Morgan and Jason. Kryssie is largely irrelevant and locked into third place barring a massive upset. My votes go to Morgan. I just can't support Jason and  the way he's acted and the things he's said in the house. If you put Jason's words in the mouths of Scott, Monte or Cornbread, they'd have been burned at the stake. I don't see how it's okay for Jason to say the stuff he does and I won't reward him for such behavior.

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for 11/29/2016!!!

Finally! Something happens again today! We have our final comp of the season tonight as Morgan takes  on Justin for the right to advance to the final three. The last real comp was way back on last Wednesday, so everyone, the fans and house guests, were all going a tick stir crazy waiting for something to happen again.

Tonight's comp design, if it's just recently been designed, will give us some idea of who production wants to win between Morgan and Justin. If it's a purely physical comp, it'll favor Justin. If it's a mental or combination comp it'll favor Morgan. I suspect it'll be a combination comp again as we've had many of them this year. That's typically what you see towards the end too. 

Morgan continues to be the most popular active house guest in both the polls and among her fellow house guests. Other than a few minutes during her "Bath time with Bikini Girl" segment last night, she's had someone with her pretty much nonstop since Shelby left. Jason and Kryssie are spending the most time with her, but when she manages to separate from them, Justin tracks her down and takes over.

The Justin bashing continues and yesterday Kryssie told Jason her view of the game and her role in the game which has Jason a bit worried that he could end up having taken the wrong player to the final three with him. (Too late now.) He pondered whether it would have made more sense to take Morgan or Justin after hearing Kryssie speak about how she'd played the game. I tend to think Justin might be the easiest to beat as he's far from eloquent. He'd stammer on about loving New Orleans and couldn't really articulate why he should win. Kryssie and Morgan are both quite articulate and comfortable in front of the cameras. Jason's a little shaky in front of the cameras. Those final three speeches could be quite a contrast.

I think if Jason doesn't win he'll likely look back at the decision to evict Alex over Morgan as the bad move that cost him the game. That kept Morgan alive for the Care Package and Morgan's the better social player and speaker. Alex was never comfortable in front of the camera and her bumbling of her eviction speech gave a preview of what might happen when asking America to vote for her. 

Today will be a long, nerve-wracking day for the house as they wait for that final comp. Then the speeches will get practiced and practiced some more before tomorrow night's live appeal to the voters and then Thursday we have the finale. BB finales are typically rushed as they cram a lot in and we don't hear much from the past house guests or the winner. This format largely lifts the time constraints and we could see the finale go on for some time with each former house guest given some time to chat. I'm cautiously optimistic we'll see more on finale night than we typically do.

So, one last comp tonight followed by one more eviction and then just another 48 hours after that the whole season wraps up. Will there be a BBOTT II over the winter? We'll likely find out Thursday night. We know the regular BB has been renewed for two more summers.

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Thursday is charging towards us now, but it seems to be crawling here to the house guests. They're trapped in that last, seemingly never-ending week in the BB house. Today will be another day of nothing happening, but they're expecting their final comp today and don't know it'll be tomorrow.

Morgan is now the most popular person in the house who pretty much never finds herself alone. Either Jason and Kryssie are with her, or if they leave her alone, Justin's there with her. Jason and Kryssie are actively rooting for Morgan to win tomorrow's comp. They've been helping her study and are impressed by how much she knows. (Truth be told she knows most of the stuff better than they do.) Justin's also rooting for Morgan if he can't beat her. He wants the fans to vote for Morgan if he's not there. He's tired of the LNJ side of the house and wants them gone from his life.

The house got the HOH camera yesterday morning and had fun taking their last round of pictures. Jason has a bowl full of Shelby's Krackel bars that he's made into a throne for Jojo to sit on when he's not with Morgan and they took a picture of Jojo on his throne. They then built a Monte out of his leggings, jacket, and some sheets and an inflated condom and put it on the eviction sofa. The rain finally stopped and they opened up the backyard again and everyone raced outside to see what had changed and were disappointed to find that nothing had changed. They're kind of lost as to why they were locked down for the better part of two days. (It was the weather.) Everyone worked out a bit in the yard after it was reopened.

At this stage of the game the house guests just want to get it over with. They've been there forever and there's not a lot left to do. It's kind of like that last week of school where everything's done, but you still have to go each day.

Tomorrow night we have the final comp. That will be interesting and determine the final three. I suspect they'll have Morgan and Justin pack their bags tomorrow as whoever loses gets dismissed afterwards. Then on Wednesday they give their live pleas for votes telling us why they deserve to win. I don't know if that'll be done privately in the DR or the living room. Then we vote and on Thursday we have the finale where everyone comes back and we see who wins.

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And the Justin bash-fest continues. Jason and Kryssie have now turned their hate completely towards Justin and are bashing him nonstop over pretty much anything and everything. It's what they do. They pick a target and attempt to totally and completely destroy that target. It was especially bad yesterday as they were on an inside lock down all day due to weather. (The house guests didn't know the weather outside was horrible and thought it was for comp construction.)

Expect the Justin bashing to continue through the day today and through tomorrow. Tuesday we finally get a real comp again that will pit Justin against Morgan with the winner advancing and the loser going out. Here's hoping Morgan can retain her sanity until then.

Morgan has taken to having full conversations with Jojo, Shelby's pinata she left behind for Morgan, and while the conversations are a bit one-sided, they're better than listening to the rest of the house. If Morgan doesn't win, I'd love to see Jojo take the prize. (These conversations remind me of the very short-lived though hilarious Fox series "Wonderfalls" where a sales girl in a Niagara Falls type gift shop finds inanimate objects talking to her. If you haven't seen the series, give it a shot. It's funny.)

The BB fans are largely split at this point between Jason and anyone but Jason. It looks like the 'anyone but Jason' side is gaining ground in recent days as the Justin fans, of which there are many, have now largely joined the anyone but Jason side. We'll see how the votes actually go down on Thursday, but at this moment it looks like pretty much a dead heat from the postings I'm seeing. There's a strong and growing sentiment that whoever survives of Morgan/Justin should win. Websites are reminding later viewers of the things that Jason and Kryssie have done throughout the season and the hatred they're now spewing towards Justin seems to be turning many against them.

Today should be the last camera day of BBOTT. About the only people who have shown any interest in recent weeks has been the Ball Smasher side of the house, so expect to see lots of pictures of Morgan and Jojo in this week's photos. Everyone else will likely sleep through the camera op. They'll drag Jason out of bed to get the camera, but he's likely to leave it on the kitchen island and go back to bed. It must be exhausting bashing people all of the time.

It should be another quiet day in the old BBOTT house today. Justin's made some attempts to make peace, but derailing Kryssie and Jason from their hatred is nearly impossible. They've got a target and they're not letting it go until Justin is gone. Morgan's just happy they aren't attacking her. (Morgan and Shelby feared she'd be the victim of heir attacks, but so far, so good.) If the weather improves they'll likely be allowed back outside again today which will improve Morgan's spirits. If not, expect more conversations between Morgan and Jojo.

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And the BBOTT doldrums have set in. The house is on cruise control now as everyone knows what will happen between now and Tuesday and there's little to no suspense. Yesterday saw Kryssie and Jason still appalled that Justin thinks he can win and now in full on Justin bashing mode, believing they carried Justin all the way through the game. Morgan spent the day doing nearly everything she and Shelby had planned for her to do to kill time. She sunned, went over days/statements with Jojo (Shelby's pet pinata,) played pool with Jojo, did her nails, worked out, and also served as the house counselor as everyone was coming to her with their problems. Jason and Kryssie came to her to tell her how horrible Justin was and Justin came to her to tell her how horrible Kryssie and Jason were. The only thing Morgan didn't do was bake, but she was busy eating the leftovers from Thanksgiving, so there was no need. That'll be coming soon however.

Tonight Jason will announce who he's taking to the final three with him and unfortunately there's no suspense. There could be, probably should be suspense as there's all kinds of potential here, but Jason isn't thinking about his options all that much and just chose Kryssie. This is where you miss players like Shelby and Alex at this stage of the game. They could have Jason's head spinning. Morgan's trying a bit, but she's not as good as the other two would be. Here's how I'd envisioned them working on Jason.

A/S: "So, have you decided who you're taking to the final three with you?"
J: "It'll be Kryssie."
A/S: "That's very brave of you."
J: "Why do you say that?"
A/S: "For all you know she could be the most popular person in the house. She has a record deal. She has a band. She's been featured on YouTube. She won the first Care Package. America never nominated her."
J: "But she only won one comp and should be easy to beat."
A/S: "True, but knowing the twists in this game and knowing Kryssie, are you sure there isn't another big twist that favors her in some way? Is she the daughter of a famous rock star? Maybe a famous wrestler? Getting a record deal isn't easy. Getting on the show isn't easy. She's not the typical house guest by any means. She was willing to walk away on multiple occasions and leave the money behind."
J: "True, but who would you take if you were me?"
A/S: "Well, I wouldn't take Justin, that's for sure. With his personality and having a restaurant in New Orleans, chances are he'd win over any of us. America's doing the voting so you don't want to take anyone overly popular with you. America voted on stuff all year so those favored by America would be the worst people to take."
J: "America voted my way most of the year."
A/S: "Or were they voting Kryssie's way and you just happened to benefit? What if she is the daughter of a famous rock star, wrestler, or has some other connection that she's hiding? She could have a fan base many times the size of a grocery store clerk from Massachusetts who's only known for being on a reality show. You have thirty thousand followers? What if she has three hundred thousand?"
J: "Do you think I should take Morgan?"
A/S: "She's a 22 year old kid who just graduated from college. She's probably the easiest of the three to beat in a popularity contest. If you'd rather take your chances against Kryssie, who could be the daughter of someone famous and possibly the reason you're still here, or Justin the Creole King, then fine, but both of them would scare me. You're going to have to face one of them in the finals, but the danger of facing both of them would have me taking someone else. But, that's just how I'd look at it. Maybe you're right. Maybe Kryssie's band deal, record contract and her ability to make this show mean nothing. Maybe her appearance on YouTube is nothing. Maybe her never being nominated by America means nothing. Maybe her getting the very first Care Package means nothing. All I know is that whenever our side was targeting someone other than Kryssie, America gave us a chance. If we mentioned Kryssie as a nom, the Care Package and America's Nominee favored her side."

In the right hands, this type of ceremony could be manipulated and spun to make the HOH a confused mess. Unfortunately, we lost the real gamers who could use it in such a manner and we're left with Jason and the Ugh-o-nauts.  Morgan's trying to play the game, but lacks the expertise we'd see from Alex or the cunning and savvy of Shelby. They could have poor old Jason's little rat-like mind spinning at a hundred miles an hour if they were still in the game. Handled right, a ceremony like tonight's could have the HOH tied up in knots and wishing they'd never won HOH. Unfortunately, Jason's just cruising along without having to think about it. Pity. 

Expect another quiet day today, tomorrow and Monday as we crawl towards Tuesday's big final showdown.

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Well, that was awkward! Our professional chef Justin opted to stay in bed rather than help prepare Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. The house guests had an early HOH lock down yesterday and when they emerged, they found the dining room table covered with baskets containing groceries. Each basket had a recipe from a former house guest or family member and the required ingredients to make the dish. Each house guest also got a letter from home. 

Justin simply went back to bed and stuffed cotton balls in his ears so he wouldn't hear everyone else. He's not happy to hear that Jason is taking Kryssie with him to the final three and that he has to compete to make it to the final three. He suggested to Morgan that she throw the final part of the comp to him on Tuesday (they think it'll happen Monday, but it'll be on Tuesday)  so he can win BB OTT. Morgan's not so keen on that idea and is planning to win.

Morgan, Jason and Kryssie then started the food prep. Things got off to a rocky start as they tried to figure out how long to cook the turkey. It's a twelve pound turkey and their instruction said to cook it for 15 minutes per pound. This led to them doing math and concluding that meant it would take 170 minutes to cook. (180 actually, but they were in the ballpark.) They then decided that 170 minutes was one hour and fifty minutes, so they'd cook the turkey for two hours to be safe. (They were only off by one hour.) Fortunately for them, they got so distracted by everything else they were doing they forgot the turkey in the oven and didn't remove it at the two hour mark. By the time they finally got around to checking on it, the pop up timer on the bird had popped and it was done.

Jason was shocked to see the ingredients in his favorite dressing. The thought that he'd been eating chicken livers in his favorite dressing was a bit off putting to him, but they followed the recipe and made the dressing with chicken livers.

After many hours of work and much, much discussion and confusion over how to open cans, the meal was done. The trio of Jason, Kryssie and Morgan then retreated to put on the outfits they'd worn to shoot the promo video on Wednesday that aired on the CBS parade coverage Thanksgiving morning. Justin finally emerged for his hibernation but refused to put on his outfit. They all four sat down to eat with Justin complaining of the lack of wine. They seemed to enjoy the food. They'd made every dish but Cornbread's cabbage dish. They had enough cabbage when Cornbread was there. Morgan's desserts went over very well. By and large everyone was pretty happy, but a bit angry with Justin.

Morgan, who'd feared she'd be the outcast is now warmly accepted by Jason and Kryssie while Justin is largely being shunned by Jason and Kryssie. Morgan's largely going with the flow in the house now and trying to fit in as best she can, and she's doing a good job. Her social game is easily the best of the group. 

Nothing much should happen today in the house. Tomorrow Jason will formally take Kryssie to join him in the final three, then nothing will happen until Tuesday when Justin and Morgan fight it out for the final spot. Kryssie has volunteered to help Morgan study for that comp. At the end of that comp, the loser will apparently immediately leave the house then on Wednesday we get the closing arguments and start to vote. On Thursday the winner will be announced and we'll go from there. Thursday's show has potential to be kind of interesting. With no real time limit on the show we may get to hear a lot more than normal on the finale. BB finales are generally kind of rushed and frantic, but this one has all the time in the world, so we'll see how BB handles that. 

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for Thursday 11/24/2016!!!

Happy Thanksgiving! We're down to our last Ball Smasher. Yesterday saw Shelby evicted by a 2-0 vote. She's planning to terrorize her sitter today to get a pass to go to her nearby Aunt and Uncle's house for Thanksgiving. BB will try to resist, but Shelby is largely a force of nature and will likely win this fight. (There's no real reason not to let her go and be with them as long as she agrees to come back for the interviews tomorrow.)

After the eviction the house guests got a pre-recorded message from Julie telling them how the last week would play out. They were all pleased with the new format which gave each of them two chances to win safety and make the final three.

Then the first HOH comp rolled around. This was the 'put a ball on a wooden beam that's controlled by two ropes and guide the ball into the right hole to answer', type comp.  The balls were color coded to match each house guest and they had to put the right ball into the right hole for each HOH this season. They all competed simultaneously.

Three of the house guests (Morgan, Jason, and Kryssie) knew all of the answers and quickly sorted out the balls. Justin was predictably lost. Morgan and Kryssie opted to start answering the HOH questions from the top and worked to get their balls past all of the lower holes to reach the top slot. Jason opted to start from the bottom. This was a big advantage to him as he then didn't have to maneuver his later balls past the open slot as his balls going higher up would just bounce over the filled holes. Jason's strategy paid off as he won easily. Jason collapsed to his knees and sobbed in celebration as Kryssie embraced him in a big hug.

Jason then finally told everyone (now that he was totally safe) that he'd been voted into the game by America and BB hadn't put him there, but America had.  He hadn't wanted to disclose that earlier due to the role America played this year. He was afraid knowing that America had voted him in, that the house might want to vote him out. Now the house had no more power over him, so he was telling them the truth.

Jason soon told Kryssie that he was picking her on Saturday to accompany him. Justin was not especially happy with how things had been going and he and Kryssie had a chat in the bathroom. Kryssie then immediately went up to the HOH to relay everything Justin had told her (that he wanted to beat Jason and thought he could beat him in the final three if he wins the last comp.) Jason then went on a hate-filled rant about Justin calling him a lovely variety of names.

There's not a lot of love between Jason and Justin right now. Jason is convinced that Morgan and Justin are rich and don't need the money while he and Kryssie do. Kryssie is privately convinced she can beat Jason, how is a mystery to everyone. 

So, there's no real suspense now until Tuesday's comp where either Morgan or Justin will win that final spot in the final three. The smart money is on Morgan, but she's been bitten by random comps a few times. She knows everything better than Justin, she's a good match physically, and she's generally more focused than Justin. (Not that that's hard.) The game is largely on cruise control now with Jason and Kryssie continuing to hate everyone who's not them and bashing them while privately trying to sort out what they'll do with the cash they're about to receive.

Jason's rants against Justin could end up coming back to bite him however. Both Justin's fans and the Ball Smasher fans seem to be in agreement that whoever wins between Morgan and Justin will get their votes for the win. Jason's alienating a player with a large fan base could just cost him the votes he needs to win. Of course his backers will be rallying the votes for him once again, so who knows what the final vote count will be. I'd bet on Jason winning, but my votes will go elsewhere. Despite him playing the best overall game, I just can't support his hate-filled way of playing the game. It's unnecessary, cruel, and just wrong. He won't get my vote or votes to win, simply because of how he chose to play.

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And it's eviction day in the old BBOTT house. Things look bad for Shelby, but you never know what will happen. Jason went upstairs yesterday to listen to the Beyonce music Morgan got and while upstairs Justin and Kryssie fretted that he was making a deal and voting out Kryssie. (He wasn't, he was simply listening to the music.) When he got called to the DR and walked right past them without saying anything they got a bit more paranoid. Jason has since reassured them that he's rock solid and with them to the end. 

Kryssie then informed Jason that Justin might not be planning to take Jason to the final three which has Jason reconsidering taking Justin to the final three. If he reconsiders that long enough he may just decide not to take either Kryssie and Justin to the final three and we could still see a flip tonight. (It's hard not to take Kryssie though as she's so easily beatable. Unless you believe the stuff she says about being really loved by America, it's hard not to to take her with you.)

Morgan and Shelby had their final "Bath time with bikini girl and her friend baby wrists" yesterday, played pool for a bit while the backyard was open and then played Jenga, enjoying their likely last night together in the house.

Things appear to be on track for Shelby to be evicted tonight, and then the first HOH comp. The house guests don't really know what's happening this week and think the POV is still in play. It looks instead like tonight's HOH winner will simply pick someone for the final three on Saturday and the two remaining players will then compete for that third spot on Tuesday. Morgan winning tonight would calm her fans down quite a bit.

Can Morgan win at the end against Jason? Possibly. Voters are a fickle bunch and anything's possible. If she wins tonight or Tuesday she'll have as impressive a game resume as anyone else. With two LNJ members still in the house they'd likely split the LNJ votes in some manner (90% Jason/Justin 10% Kryssie?) We'll know who wins a week from tomorrow. 

No word on casting yet for a new BBOTT so it's likely there won't be one soon. There was a brief rumor of one starting in late January, but we'll have to see if that's just a rumor or not.

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It was a bad day for the Ball Smashers. Yesterday saw the much anticipated POV comp finally roll around. The comp was a maze with three ears of corn hidden in it. The house guests had to retrieve the three ears of corn and then exit the maze and stop the timer. Justin was up first. There's an early choice to be made between going left and right. Right leads you most directly to the first ear of corn which was tucked away in a corner. Justin went right, got the first ear of corn and turned in a respectable time of about a minute fifty. 

Shelby was next up. Shelby made the mistake of going left initially and then she had to backtrack for the ear of corn on the right and this led to a long time of about four minutes for her. Next up was Morgan. Morgan started out right, went right up to the corner the first ear of corn was hiding behind and then didn't turn the corner. She thought it was a dead end. She then found the other two ears of corn quickly and was at the exit in about a minute and twenty seconds, but with just two ears of corn. She then had to backtrack and kept stopping at that same corner and thinking it was a dead end. Finally on her fifth or sixth time down that lane she went around the corner and found that first ear of corn. Her final time was over eleven minutes. Had she gone around that corner the first time and grabbed the ear of corn she likely would have finished around the minute thirty mark.

Kryssie was up next and turned in a respectable time of around two minutes. Jason was last and flew through the maze completing it in about a minute thirty and he won the POV. This made things look bleak, at best, for the girls, but there's still some slim, sliver of hope. While waiting to see who won, Jason said that he needed to win as everyone else (presumably in his alliance) was afraid to make a big move. What big move was he talking about? Voting out Shelby is not a big move that anyone on his side was afraid of. Justin's been talking of voting out Shelby almost from day one. Kryssie's right there with him.

After Jason uses the POV the nominees will be Kryssie and Shelby. Voting out Shelby is not a big move. Is Jason considering voting out Kryssie? It's not like the POV gives him any other power. There is some logic to it. (Not a lot, but some.) We know Jason wants Justin out. He's afraid of Justin in the final three. He's been wanting to take Morgan over Justin. Jason knows Justin's ride or die is Kryssie. Jason also knows that Kryssie loves Justin and spent an afternoon trying to talk Jason out of evicting Justin a week or two ago when Jason was pushing the idea. Jason thinks Morgan and Shelby are hated by America. He thinks Kryssie is loved by America. America votes for the winner, so does he keep someone America hates (at least he thinks America hates) or does he vote her out and keep someone he thinks America loves? Kryssie keeps telling Jason she thinks she and him are neck and neck for the win. Has she convinced him she's very popular and a threat while he doesn't view Shelby that way?

We'll find out more tonight in the live DR, but it's hard to think what kind of big move Jason was talking about needing to win for unless he's planning to cut his own alliance. If that's the case, and I don't really think it is, but who knows, then the vote and eviction on Wednesday is likely to be pretty epic as everyone in the house but Jason would likely be blindsided. Justin would vote to evict Shelby, Jason would vote to evict Kryssie, and Morgan would break the tie by voting out Kryssie. Given how well Justin and Kryssie both did in the POV comp and how poorly the girls did, Jason might think it's the smartest move and his best chance to get Justin out also.

Big Brother is an individual game and at some point alliances don't matter any longer. Has Jason reached that point? To most of us Kryssie is the third place finisher against pretty much everyone, but does Jason view her that way? Kryssie thinks she'll win if she makes the final three. Does Jason share that belief? Jason thinks Morgan is easy to beat. He thinks Justin is hard to beat. He knows Justin and Kryssie are very tight. Kryssie knows the days and events better than Jason and that's often one of the final comps. He thinks America hates Shelby so maybe he views her as less of a threat than Kryssie? 

We'll find out what Jason is thinking in the live DR's tonight. I suspect he'll gladly vote out Shelby and take his chances with Kryssie and Justin, but who knows? Jason's mind is going nonstop in the game and by this stage of the game paranoia is rampant. Jason's desperate to win the game and if he thinks Kryssie and Justin are a bigger threat than Morgan and Shelby, he might just split up Kryssie and Justin given the chance. Kryssie's knowledge of the game dates, her surety of her position as a potential winner, her recent finishes in comps, her closeness to Justin who will definitely take her over Jason, all might be elevating her as a threat to Jason and making her his target this week over Shelby.

Strange things happen in Big Brother, but Jason's insistence that he needed to win the POV to make a big move was odd. He was pretty sure both Kryssie and Justin had good times based on what little he could hear and he was pretty sure Morgan and Shelby had poorer times, so he was likely safe no matter what. Voting out Shelby isn't a big move. Voting out Kryssie would definitely be a big move. Is it the big move Jason was talking about? Is it something he's considering? Could we see a final three of Jason, Morgan and Shelby? We'll get some answers tonight in the live DR's. 

I suspect Jason is going to vote out Shelby and stick with Justin and Kryssie, but maybe not. Maybe he really is planning a big move to try and win. Maybe he's afraid he's a Cody to Kryssie's Derrick and with two Victoria's sitting there in Morgan and Shelby he doesn't want to take that chance? We'll get our first real clue tonight in the live DR's. If Jason says he's voting out Shelby (as I suspect he will) then he's sticking with his alliance. If he says he's voting out Kryssie, then things get pretty interesting. 

There's an argument to be made both ways. Morgan and Shelby would likely split the Ball Smasher fan vote. Jason, Kryssie, and Justin would all split the LNJ fan vote. If Jason's the only LNJ left, he'd get all of the LNJ fan votes. You could argue pretty easily that Jason's best chance to win the game is against Morgan and Shelby, based on just what he knows. He's convinced himself no one will take him to the final three with them despite what his allies now say. He thinks he has to win out. He may think Morgan and Shelby are easier to beat than Justin and Kryssie. Dang! Now I've got to stay up to see his live DR tonight to see what he's truly thinking.

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for 11/21/2016!!!

And today we learn who will be the final four. Officially we have to wait until Wednesday, but in truth, the answer will be clear after today's POV comp. The house was on an indoor lock down all day yesterday due to what they thought were comp preparations, when in fact it was due to heavy rain all day.

The HOH camera made it's typical Sunday morning appearance and the girls took lots of photos while the LNJ largely slept through the photo shoot.

Morgan and Shelby took advantage of their lock down time to practice Morgan's baking skills which are largely non-existent. Morgan decided to make a banana bread from scratch and then opted not to follow the directions but just more or less dump everything together. Then she set the oven to broil instead of bake, but somehow it still came out fairly edible and they all enjoyed it.

Shortly after that Shelby was in the storeroom and shouted excitedly for Morgan to join her. Morgan ran in hoping to find Shelby holding multiple pineapples (Jason stole their earlier pineapple and is hiding it.) Instead she found Shelby holding a bag filled with Jenga pieces. Once Morgan overcame her disappointment at no new pineapples, the two rejoiced like kids at Christmas and then engaged in multiple rounds of Jenga.

The LNJ largely spent the day in the Tokyo bedroom insulting the girls, so it was a normal day for them.

Later the girls had another session of "Bath time with Bikini Girl" with her special guest bather Baby Wrists. They then compared various past male house guests to determine which was the sexiest and generally clowned around in and around the tub for a while to kill time and to help relax Shelby before today's big POV comp.

The POV comp will be the story for today. We have Justin, Jason, and Kryssie competing against Morgan and Shelby with either Jason or Shelby losing and going home this week. The comp should take place around 4:00 PM ET today weather permitting. It's supposed to stop raining sometime this morning in Studio City, but weather forecasters aren't always all that accurate. All five house guests are vowing to play to win for once. 

A win by Morgan or Shelby would send Jason packing. A win by Kryssie, Justin or Jason would likely send Shelby packing. Kryssie still thinks she can beat anyone in the end and wants to keep her trio together. She has no clue that at best she's likely to get third place money. She's done nothing in the game. Justin knew for a while that he'd have to get Jason out, but Kryssie and Jason have largely reeled him back in and he's now also playing to keep Jason for some reason. (I have a suspicion Jason read "Hypnotizing for Dummies" before coming on the show this year and has been using his new found skills on Kryssie and Justin. It's hard to understand why either would want to hand him the $250,000 otherwise.) 

Today will find five very nervous house guests all morning hanging around fretting over what the POV comp is and how they'll do at it. After the comp there will either be two or three very happy house guests and two or three very depressed house guests. (I'm pulling for a Morgan/Shelby win. I'm very, very tired of hearing Jason all of the time.) Then Jason will spend the next two days torturing the girls, win or lose. He's stolen their pineapple and also the Krackel bars. If he wins, he's planning to throw the pineapple in the pool in front of the girls so they can't use it and throw the bag of Krackel bars at Shelby as she leaves on Wednesday night. Classy just doesn't begin to describe Jason. 

So the final four gets unofficially decided today. Either Shelby or Jason will be on their way out the door. It's going to be a tense day for fans on both sides until we know the POV results. Shelby and Jason are pretty equal matches in terms of physical capabilities. Shelby's a smarter player generally. Morgan's a good physical player, but Justin's better as a physical player while Morgan's much better than Justin on the mental side. Kryssie is not really good at anything, but it could be a random comp that she'll win. We'll have to see.

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for Sunday 11/20/2016!!!

And the countdown to tomorrow's POV comp continues. Jason's now turned up his hate-o-meter to it's highest setting and is on a pretty much nonstop rage about anything the girls do, or don't do. Yesterday Shelby pulled two of Morgan's dresses from the washer after Morgan told her they had to be dry cleaned and that sent Jason off on a rant about it must be nice to be so rich you can afford to dry clean your clothes. A while later the girls had washed and dried a load of towels and had left them in the dryer while Morgan worked out and Shelby got some sun. Jason came out and found them and made a big deal of folding them for the girls so they wouldn't have to move. He then said they were wearing shorts to try and lure Justin back to their side. (Uh no, Morgan was exercising and Shelby was sunning. That's why they were dressed like that.)

My tolerance level of Jason, never high to begin with, has sunk to an all-time low. About the only feeds I watch now are those featuring Morgan and Shelby. I see Jason when he interacts with them, or when there's no other feed but his, and even that limited exposure is too much. I'm not sure if I've ever disliked a house guest more than I dislike Jason.

Today will be a pretty quiet day in the house. They get the camera halfway early and the girls are planning to get up and get ready for the camera early. The LNJ side will sleep in, then complain they aren't featured enough in the shots and blame the girls for them sleeping through the camera time. Tonight Morgan will formally nominate Kryssie and Jason, knowing it means nothing as tomorrow's POV is all important now.

The outcome of tomorrow's POV comp will send either Jason, or Shelby home. A win by Morgan or Shelby will keep the nominations the same and even if Justin (the sole voter on the LNJ side) was convinced to vote out Kryssie by Jason and/or Kryssie (and yes, Kryssie is stupid enough to tell him to vote her out to save her beloved Jason) Shelby would vote to evict Jason and the tie would be broken by Morgan who would vote out Jason. If Justin, Kryssie, or Jason wins POV they'd use the POV on someone on their side (Jason would save Jason while Justin would likely save Kryssie, Kryssie might save Jason if she won it) forcing Morgan to put Shelby on the block. Then the two LNJer's Justin and whoever got saved, would likely vote out Shelby. So, the final four pretty much gets decided tomorrow.

There might still be some slim chance that Justin would end up voting out Jason if Jason was on the block opposite Shelby. Jason keeps saying he'll never believe that America loves Shelby. If Justin's few remaining brain cells kick in, it might make sense to him to keep someone America hates (the LNJ side thinks that would be Shelby) over someone they love (Jason) so they'd be more likely to vote for Justin to win. It's about the best argument the girls can make if they don't win POV and it's Shelby vs. Jason. Now Kryssie will be working Justin hard to get him to vote to keep her beloved Jason,  and chances are Justin would, but you never know.

So, tomorrow afternoon the final four largely gets settled. The girls' side has Morgan and Shelby competing which is a pretty well rounded pair in terms of both physical and mental comps. Justin is better on physical comps, but his mental game isn't up to par. Jason and Kryssie aren't much of a threat either physically or mentally. A random type comp would favor the LNJ side since they have three competing to just two on the girls' side. Heath (the comp producer) tweeted out something yesterday about a coin flip comp which might indicate it's more of a random type comp. We'll find out tomorrow. Everyone in the house is on edge heading into tomorrow's POV comp.

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for 11/19/2016!!!

And now for a weekend of nothing much happening. Yesterday saw Justin get the final Care Package and his challenge to collect the Care Package was to run across a slack line in the backyard. He was given two hours to practice and was successful about sixty percent or so of the time. On his official run he started out slow, but made it across and rang the bell securing him a place in the final four. 

Justin then told Morgan that he'd decided to try and win the POV on Monday and use it to save Jason. Kryssie and Jason had been working on Justin for quite a bit about loyalty and staying true and how important it was to all be together, plus the nonstop trashing of the girls, and they swung Justin back to their side. Justin now plans to harass the girls before Monday's POV comp.

The girls largely took it in stride and knew they had to win the POV on Monday anyway, now they'll be competing against three instead of two for it. So the nominations tomorrow night will be Kryssie and Jason. Then we have the POV on Monday. A win by Morgan or Shelby will leave Justin and Shelby as the votes to evict and Jason will go home by a 2-0 vote. A win by Jason, Justin or Kryssie will find Shelby nominated in place of whoever comes down, likely Jason since his side all adores him, and Shelby leaving by a 2-0 vote.

I don't think I've ever seen such insane, blind loyalty for a house guest as we've seen this year for Jason. Danielle refused to campaign against him and went home without putting up a fight. (By the way, she's reactivated her Twitter account revealing lots of racist/bigoted tweets including more than a few dog/puppy hating tweets. Suffice to say she's taken a lot of heat. She then deleted over three thousand of the more offensive tweets, and now is trying to get things back under control.) Kryssie seems determined to get Jason the win despite talking nonstop about needing the money. Justin has now been dragged back aboard the loyalty to Jason train somehow after acknowledging last week he couldn't beat him in the final three.

There are five people in the house right now and four of them are potentially beatable. One is unbeatable, not because of his game play, but because of his fan base, yet two of those in the house are insisting he has to go to the final three with them. I thought the Cody/Derrick thing was crazy a few years back, but this is far, far worse than that. Big Brother is not a team sport. It's an individual game.

I'm hoping Morgan or Shelby wins the POV on Monday and send Jason packing. Watching Kryyssie and Justin mourn his eviction could be quite entertaining. I don't think they'll take it well. I'd hate for Morgan to be trapped in that house with the other three attacking her nonstop for a week. It would make for a very long, unpleasant week. Jason should have been gone week one, and without America's voting he likely would have been gone weeks ago. 

There are still two chances to get rid of Jason. First is this week with a win in the POV by Morgan or Shelby. If that fails, then on Wednesday night the first part of the two part final HOH takes place. The winner of part one then likely picks someone to take to the final three with them on Saturday, leaving two to fight it out in the final part of the HOH comp. If Morgan wins part one and takes Kryssie with her, that would leave Jason and Justin playing in part two. Would Justin try to beat Jason knowing it would knock him out, or would Kryssie and Jason somehow convince Justin to throw it to Jason and evict himself? The beauty of Big Brother is it's never over until the end. We'll see what happens on Monday, then go from there.

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for 11/18/2016!!!

The house was largely on cruise control yesterday as nothing eventful happened. Julie dropped by for a few questions with the house, but that was about all that broke the routine. The LNJ side continued to bash the Ball Smashers, calling them worthless, trust fund babies, and much, much worse, while the girls simply went about their business and studied the dates of events in the house preparing for the next few rounds of the game.

Today will see the delivery of the last Care Package. This will be for Justin and will include a challenge he must complete to earn his way to the final four. The house was on an extended indoor lock down last night and they could hear construction in the yard, so that likely was for some role in today's event. We'll have to see what happens, but it's entirely possible Justin won't be able to complete whatever challenge is issued to him. He's not especially good at competing. 

Morgan had what she promises to be the first of her "baths with bikini girl" talk sessions where she soaks in the bathtub in her bikini while chatting to the cameras. For those who don't know, Morgan jokingly refers to herself as bikini girl because every year in the intro videos they show one or more girls in their bikini's and this year Morgan was told she was their bikini girl.

Things are still on track for Jason to go home this week assuming he or one of his allies doesn't win POV. BB appears to have created a new schedule for the next two weeks that omits certain things. There's no POV comp or ceremony listed on the new schedule which is odd. It's possible they consider Justin's Care Package the POV and will do away with the real POV. That would be very bad news for Jason. The nominations will come down on Sunday. (Expect it to be Kryssie and Jason.) Then Wednesday we'll have the live eviction at 8:00 PM ET again followed by part one of the final HOH comp. Thursday the house will celebrate Thanksgiving. Next Friday will reportedly be the last live DR's of the season. Then next Saturday will be a "Special game-changing ceremony." (Who knows what that'll be?) Then on Tuesday (11/29) we'll see part two of the final HOH comp and presumably the live eviction. On Wednesday (11/30) the final three house guests will make their final plea to America on why they deserve to win. Then on Thursday (12/01) the winner will be announced.

The "Special game-changing ceremony" is confusing. We'll be down to four house guests at that stage and one half of the final HOH comp will have concluded with part two to come in a couple of days. How can they meaningfully change that game at that point? They can't evict someone or the final part of the HOH would be largely meaningless. Evicting someone would get them down to the final three. It's way too late to bring someone back. And they call it a ceremony not a comp. Will America vote on someone getting an advantage for part two of the final HOH comp that will be awarded then? Will whoever won part one of the final HOH challenge be told they're now automatically a finalist? Will America have voted in another person as a finalist? Will the winner of the first part of the HOH comp be told they can pick someone to go with them as a finalist? We'll have to find out as we get nearer to the end.

The good news is two weeks from today we'll have a winner. If things go as planned this week, Jason will go. If the updated schedule CBS posted is accurate and there is no more POV comp, then Jason is as good as dead. He needs that POV to survive. If Jason goes this week that guarantees at least one of the girls survives. I'm not sure how BB will work that two part HOH comp. A winner in each half, but then how do they pick the third finalist? Or is that person picked in the "Special game-changing ceremony" and part two of the HOH is an epic one on one battle for that final spot? We'll find out everything over the next two weeks. 

Expect to hear if we can expect a repeat of BBOTT at, or around the finale also. I'd almost be more surprised if they didn't bring it back for winter/spring session now, but we'll likely hear something from CBS around the finale.

Big Brother Over The top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for Thursday 11/17/2016!!!

And the Ball Smashers roll on! Yesterday started out with the live eviction vote and Danielle was evicted by a vote of 4-0. Shelby was then called to the DR and came out with a card and informed the house guests that there would be no more America voting except for the winner, and that whoever won the HOH this week would be eligible to play in it next week also. The HOH comp would start shortly.

Last night finally saw the comp that Jason has been begging BB for, an endurance comp. And not just an endurance comp, but one ideally suited for him. This was a comp of standing atop a small post. Jason was the smallest and lightest of those competing and had the smallest feet, so he was very happy. BB had seemingly delivered the ideal comp for him to win when he most needed the win.

The HOH comp started out with seven male/female questions for the house guests to answer. They wouldn't know if they got them right for some time however. After the questions they were to stand behind the largest of the five posts before them. They were then given ten seconds to step atop the post. All four made it with no trouble. Then at the five minute mark the answer to the first question was revealed and Justin had it wrong and had to step forward to the next post, with a slightly smaller top. This continued until all seven questions had been revealed. At that time Justin had three wrong, Jason one wrong and Kryssie and Morgan had none wrong. 

Now, every five minutes each house guest would have to step forward one post. Jason was the first to fall. Justin was by now standing on one foot atop a very small post and he toppled and fell. It was now down to Morgan and Kryssie. Morgan offered Kryssie a deal, but Kryssie refused. They had to transition forward to a smaller post. Morgan made the transition fairly easily. Kryssie had trouble and eventually fell giving the HOH win to Morgan! Yea, Morgan!

Jason was more than a bit upset by his failure and was upset that he lost a comp that was clearly designed for him to win. Kryssie argued that the comp wasn't fair as she's a powerlifter (of sandwiches) and even though she had smaller feet than Morgan that Morgan being a cheerleader was a huge advantage. Kryssie and Jason were among the most upset while Morgan and Shelby celebrated. Justin was Justin being happy with the girls and sad with the LNJ. Kryssie later said she could have stayed up there a month if she hadn't stepped on the cuff of her pants.

Jason and his supporters seem to feel they just can't catch a break, they're all apparently suffering from amnesia as they've gotten nearly all of the breaks this year as America has weeded out nearly all of the Ball Smasher side of the house for them while they laid around on the couches smoking. Had they voted out Morgan over Alex, Morgan wouldn't even have been there to win the comp or get the one Care Package, but they thought Alex was the bigger threat. They were wrong. Had Jason and Danielle gone through with their final five deal with the girls, they'd both likely still be there now, but that was a just a sham to tease the girls and they had no intention of following through with it.

Today Julie will drop by for another chat with the house guests. Danielle's exit interviews will be concluded and she'll be unleashed into the wild. (Run, Shane, run!) Then tomorrow the final Care Package will arrive for Justin. That will automatically advance him to the final four if he completes a challenge. Completing the challenge could be a challenge for Justin. He's not the best at challenges. I'm guessing it'll be an order of elimination/days type challenge, or maybe something like the soccer ball kicking thing they did a few years back, but we'll find out Friday. 

The nominations this week will be Jason and Kryssie with Jason the clear target. The POV comp on Monday will have Morgan, Shelby, Jason, Justin and Kryssie all competing for the POV. Shelby really needs to win it to guarantee her safety. She's also safe (in all likelihood) if Morgan wins. If the LNJ side wins we could see Morgan forced to put up Shelby and Shelby could be evicted. Justin's vote would be huge then. Who knows how Justin would vote? He was solidly behind getting rid of Jason for a while then Kryssie seemed to reel him back in to saving Jason, so who knows where his head will be come next Wednesday. Once again, everything rests on the outcome of the POV comp on Monday. A Ball Smasher win will send Jason packing. 

We might see a slightly different eviction schedule this coming week with Thanksgiving on Thursday. It's kind of cruel to trap whoever is evicted in a hotel room for interviews on Thanksgiving. I wouldn't be shocked to see everything moved up a day to let the interviews take place on Wednesday morning and the evicted house guest sent home for Thanksgiving.

For now anyway, the Ball Smasher side of the house is looking pretty good. A POV win on Monday will absolutely guarantee at least one Ball Smasher in the final three and send Jason home. Then you have two really good competitors in Morgan and Shelby vying for that final HOH against two lesser competitors in Kryssie and Justin. That looks like a favorable match-up for the Ball Smashers. Things looked pretty dim for them a few weeks ago, but you can never give up in BB.

Big Brother Over The Top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for 11/16/2016!!!

First, a public service announcement. BB has finally conceded that keeping the entire East Coast up all night long is a bad idea and has moved the start of the Wednesday show to 8:00 PM ET! Yea! (I'm not sure I wouldn't have made it 9:00 PM ET so it wouldn't conflict with Survivor, but I'm not about to argue.)

On to the goings on in the house. To the surprise of no one, Shelby used the POV on Morgan and we are left with Danielle and Jason as the targets for eviction. This brought on absolutely no campaigning by either side as Jason thinks he's safe and Danielle doesn't want to knock Jason out because she loves him and he deserves to stay. (People in BB tend to forget that they're there to win a half/quarter million dollars and they will likely never really see the rest of the house again other than on promotional jaunts.)

Morgan, in an effort to earn Kryssie's trust, told her that Morgan and Alex were sisters. Kryssie reacted to the news by not reacting at all to the news. Everyone anxiously waited to see her spread the word to her allies, but she did nothing. The best guess is that she thinks Morgan made it up as a lie for some reason and it's so ridiculous she's not even repeating it. Kryssie's not the sanest person in the house. It's also possible she didn't hear it correctly, or at all. Maybe she thought Morgan said "Alex is like my sister to me." Who knows? 

Which brings us to last night's live DR's. Kryssie is still convinced she absolutely has to take Jason to the final three with her. She continues to believe that she somehow deserves to win despite losing at every comp but one, which was in fact largely a crap shoot comp, quitting one comp and just standing there for twenty minutes, and basically lying on a couch all summer. She still wants Jason, Justin and her as the final three and is adamant that her final four alliance with Morgan, Shelby and Justin is fake. She seems to forget that Jason has over thirty thousand followers on social media, a point he's made repeatedly, and that she only has three thousand, but I guess she thinks her amazing performance in the game will earn her the win. The reality is Kryssie deserves nothing more than third place money if she's in the final three. Everyone else in the game deserves the win more than Kryssie.

In Morgan and Shelby's DR's we learned that they don't think they have Kryssie on board, but they think they have Justin. In Justin's we learned that he is on board with them and wants them to take out Jason for him. (Who knew Justin was smarter than Kryssie? Then again, it's not hard to be smarter than Kryssie.) 

Danielle is basically letting death take her and not putting up a fight because Jason so deserves to be there over someone like Justin who knows nothing of the game. (Note to Justin, keep an eye on the knives in the house until after Danielle leaves tonight. She might just stab you in the back before she goes.) Danielle could make a reasonable argument to stay. No one will beat Jason's fan base in the final three if Jason makes the final three. There's only three chances to get him out before then, tonight, next week and the final week. He's sitting there on the block now, he's far more likely to win at the end than Danielle. Push him out the door. It's not that hard of a sell, but she won't do it. The Voters this week are America, Kryssie, Morgan and Justin. Morgan and Justin know Jason has to go and are targeting him for next week. Danielle should be working them to vote him out now and not wait. Even if she stays she's far less likely to win than Jason. But Danielle won't make a big move and cost Jason the game. The loyalty he's built is pretty impressive.

So tonight we get the live eviction at an earlier hour. Yea! Danielle will likely go home by a 4-0 vote. Then the next HOH comp will start. Justin's on board with throwing it to Morgan. Kryssie will fight to the last drop of her blood to win it to protect Jason. (Unless of course she sees a drop of blood, then she'll quit.) Jason will fight to the death to win as he knows he's the target this week. Essentially tonight's comp comes down to Jason versus Morgan. If it's a physical comp, Morgan likely has an edge.

I believe America's voting is all done now except for the finale, so that levels the playing field a bit. If Jason or Kryssie win HOH, they're targeting Shelby because she's winning too many comps. (Wait a minute? Don't they want the real competitors who deserve to be there in the final three? Hmmm . . . . Oh, that's right, no. They just want their friends to be there in the final three.) If Morgan wins then it'll be Jason the target with Kryssie as the standby. If Jason wins and Shelby gets the POV, he'll switch his target to Justin as he wants Morgan in his final three. This is another week where winning the POV is vital. The two players in the house most likely to make the final three are Morgan and Kryssie. Only Kryssie seems to want Morgan out and the odds of Kryssie winning anything are a bit remote.

I'm pretty sure Kryssie will be stunned that Morgan and Shelby want to take her to the final three. Kryssie somehow has managed to convince herself that she and Jason are neck and neck as the best competitors and most deserving to win BBOTT. If the girls end up taking her to the final three, Kryssie will be convinced she's won it. (Who knows, maybe she will with America voting.) We're now nearing the end of the fall season of BBOTT. If there's going to be a winter/spring version of BBOTT word should leak out soon. In one of Scott's interviews he talked of BBOTT 2 starting in January, but he may have been guessing more than relaying information. I would think a February/March/April version might make more sense. We'll see what happens.

Big Brother Over The top Live Feed Spoilers and Updates for 11/15/2016!!!

And the Ball Smashers continue on! Yesterday started out badly for the Ball Smashers when, defying the polls, Morgan was once again nominated as America's Nominee. (Kryssie was ahead in every poll and had as much as a thirty point lead in some, but somehow Morgan ended up the nominee.) Morgan and Shelby took it in stride and were almost expecting it.

Then came time for the POV comp. This was a domino cascade type comp where they had to line up large dominoes and snake them through three arches, each arch containing two answers to a question. They had to set their dominoes to go through the correct answer and end at the finish circle.

Jason was first to compete and chose a long and winding path that he barely had enough dominoes to complete. Up next came Shelby who initially started the same way, then quickly revised her decision and changed to a shorter path. She finished very quickly. (The BB fans were busy debating and researching among themselves what the correct answers were and soon decided Shelby had them all right.) Justin was next up and flew through the course in record time, but his first attempt ended when the dominoes crashed midway through and he had to reset and retry. He also got one answer wrong. Shelby was still the leader. Kryssie was next up and meandered her way through. She did pretty well by Kryssie standards. Up next was Danielle. Danielle did pretty much everything wrong. She tried to make two separate branches for a while until BB reminded her of the rules. She then had three failed launches before finally getting the correct launch. She finished with a long, long time. And finally it was time for Morgan who started out setting her dominoes up too close together and ran out. She also guessed wrong on two of the questions, but still finished ahead of Danielle.

In the end Shelby, the smallest, weakest of the house guests won a comp that involved carrying heavy dominoes around the yard and setting them up. She was shocked and amazed that she'd won a physical comp, but very happy. So with Shelby winning that means she can now take Morgan down today and since Morgan was America's Nominee she doesn't have to replace her. That gives her Morgan's vote, and leaves just Justin and Kryssie to vote for the LNJ. America also still has a vote this week.

Things look pretty bad for Danielle at this point. Justin wants her gone. Morgan and Shelby want her gone. Kryssie still wants to keep Jason in the game at all costs. America's not overly fond of Danielle. The vote will likely be 4-0 to evict come Wednesday night.

Neither of the two nominees have really campaigned to stay. Jason knows he's safe and is more looking to next week while Danielle may be resigned to going out. Or perhaps quietly scheming in her mind. (I'm betting the latter.) Danielle's likely to make a late rush at saving herself like she did in flipping the house to evict Cornbread over her in week one. I doubt that she'll be successful, but there is a good argument to be made for getting out Jason over her.

This next HOH will be an interesting one to watch. Shelby can't play for it, so Morgan is largely on her own. She'll be competing against Jason, Justin and Kryssie. Justin has vowed his undying loyalty to pretty much all of them, so God only knows what he'll do, but he gets the last care package on Friday by default if Danielle goes this week, so he'll be safe no matter what. Kryssie is Kryssie. I doubt that she'll win the HOH, but who knows. Jason had said he didn't want to win this one as he knows he needs to win the next one, but he has to survive long enough to get to the next one. Wednesday night promises to be another late night of feed watching.

So, later today we'll have the POV ceremony where to the surprise of no one, Shelby will use the POV on Morgan and save Morgan. Danielle will have come up with some super complicated, confusing scheme to try to get Shelby to use the POV on her, or to vote out Jason over her that will be stunning in its complexity. It also won't work, but it'll be a stunning failure. Danielle really loves her schemes and plots. Of course, her and Jason's scheme to make the fake final five deal with the girls backfired on them rather badly and got them both in all kinds of trouble, but that's besides the point. (For the record, if they'd stayed true to that deal, they'd both likely be in the final five along with Alex, Morgan and Shelby. Justin and Kryssie would be out and Jason and Danielle would be comp beasts heading into the next HOH where they could then start picking off the girls. Of course, to them the whole alliance was a sham designed to do nothing but fool the girls.)

Right this minute things are looking pretty good for the Ball Smashers. They're still down in numbers and really, really need Morgan to win HOH this week, but it's doable. America plays less of a role from here on out until the final voting. A win by Morgan on Wednesday night pretty much guarantees at least one Ball Smasher makes it to the final three. This could be a fun week to watch.

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Sunday saw all kinds of fun things take place. Danielle, irritated at being nominated, sniped at Justin a few times turning him further against her, then complained of developing appendicitis in an apparent attempt to get someone else to compete in the POV for her. (BB checked her out and believed she was constipated instead.) I'm not sure who she'd expect to compete in her behalf as all six house guests compete today, but she mentioned Donnie competing in her Jocasta's place when she was sick. Maybe she thought they'd fly in Shane to compete on her behalf? 

Shelby and Morgan continued to enjoy their time together. They made shish kebobs and fired up the grill, with Justin's assistance. That's the first time the grill has been used this season. Normally the grill is a very popular item, but not this year. That made Danielle even crankier as Justin was helping the girls to cook and leaving them inside starving. Morgan and Shelby continued their pool playing (both are horrible at pool) and had a lot of fun with it.  

Jason seems to have finally reached his tolerance level of Danielle and has now concluded she has to go even if Morgan is America's Nominee. I've now cast all 40 of my votes for Kryssie who once again seems to be leading in all the polls, but we'll find out if we succeeded this week at one PM ET.

Justin really, really wants Danielle gone, so today's POV comp should be good. There will be five people competing against one. If it's another elimination comp expect to see Danielle named each time as the opponent. Everyone in the house now wants her gone.

Kryssie is continuing to lie to Jason about the alliance with Shelby/Morgan/Justin and tell him she doesn't know what kind of deal Justin made with the girls. The bad news for Kryssie is Justin told Jason everything, so Jason now knows Kryssie is lying to him.

So, going into today's America's Nominee reveal and POV comp, here's how the house stands. Kryssie still wants to go to the final three with Jason and Justin. She really seems to want to finish third, though in her mind she's been masterminding the whole game from behind the scenes. (Apparently, way, way behind the scenes.) Jason wants a final three of Kryssie, Jason, and Morgan. Shelby and Morgan want Kryssie in their final three. Justin doesn't care who he's in the final three with as long as he's in the final three. Danielle wants to kill everyone and win first, second and third place as a result of everyone else being dead.

So today will find the house getting up early (as much as anyone ever gets out of bed anyway.) America's Nominee will be revealed at one-ish. The POV comp will start around four and end sometime.later in the day, night, or maybe tomorrow.

Wednesday's HOH comp will be interesting to see. If they flush Danielle out on Wednesday, it's possible only Morgan will be playing to win it. Justin will know he's safe as he's getting the final care package. Kryssie, well, she's Kryssie. Jason knows if he wants to be in the final three he has to win HOH when there are only four players left or else he'll get cut then, but if he wins this week at five he might have to sit out the HOH at four. He's alternated about wanting to win HOH this week or not. Morgan absolutely needs to win and knows it, so she'll be playing hard. That could be an interesting night of feed watching.

As has been the case each week, today's America's Nominee and POV winner are huge this week. There seem to be only two contenders for America's Nominee, Morgan and Kryssie. No matter what happens right now, if Danielle is still on the block Wednesday, she's likely going home. If she comes down, then America's Nominee becomes huge. If Morgan is on the block then the Ball Smasher side loses their only vote and LNJ and America have the only votes on who to evict. If Danielle comes down Kryssie would likely go up as the pawn and Danielle and Justin would have the votes. Danielle might take advantage of this to vote out Jason, but you don't know. More likely than not she'd target Morgan. Justin wouldn't vote out Kryssie and Kryssie would demand he not vote out Jason, so it would likely be bad for Morgan. If Danielle comes off and Kryssie is America's Nominee then it's likely goodbye to Jason. Justin would in all likelihood end up on the block opposite Jason and Kryssie. Danielle would likely vote to evict Justin. Morgan would then likely vote out Jason and America would control the vote. They could get out either Jason, Kryssie or Justin. The girls would likely try to save Justin and pray he gets the Care Package over Danielle, and vote out Jason. It's going to be a bumpy couple of days in the old BBOTT house.

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A painfully long and boring Saturday finally came to a close. The house guests have entered the doldrums stage of Big Brother now. There's nothing all that new and exciting happening. They've all told their stories and heard the stories of others by now. This is the stage where they just want to lie around and sleep as there isn't much else to do.

Production tried to motivate activity yesterday morning (afternoon on the East Coast) by calling everyone to the living room. The sleepy house guests staggered down and plopped on the sofas for a few minutes only to have nothing happen and then most headed right back to bed. Morgan and Shelby went out to tan and Justin went out to keep them company, but they were soon sent back inside for a camera replacement and back to bed they went.

The new final four of Shelby, Morgan, Justin and Kryssie is still moving forward. they're more or less dragging Kryssie with them as she's still close to Jason, but she hasn't totally ratted things out to Jason, so she's protecting Justin a bit. Kryssie is still convinced she wants Jason and Justin with her in the final three for some reason. 

Justin let some of the information about the new final four alliance slip to Jason, but assured him that Danielle was the target and he was safe as long as Danielle didn't win POV. Jason was a bit annoyed that Kryssie hadn't told him any of that, but damage control was soon done by Justin and Kryssie. Danielle largely slept the day away and had no real clue how much danger she was in.

When Danielle finally awoke she went to Shelby to try and firm up the deal Jason and Danielle had offered Shelby by offering Shelby the stuffed toy her son had sent her as collateral for keeping the deal. Shelby refused and said she was still thinking things over. Danielle went back to bed. 

Finally it was time for the Safety Ceremony. In the first part of the Safety Ceremony Shelby would have to make two people safe. The house assumed one of them would be Morgan. The house was wrong. Shelby made Justin and Kryssie safe which made it pretty obvious which deal she'd accepted. Jason, Justin and Kryssie all knew by now that this would happen so they weren't surprised. Danielle took the news hard and retreated to her bed where she talked of punching Shelby in the eye and other assorted threats. 

Tonight part two of the Safety Ceremony will take place and Morgan will be made safe leaving Jason and Danielle as the nominees for eviction this week. Danielle is the target, but should she win POV, it'll likely be goodbye to Jason. Justin seems to have swung pretty solidly to the Shelby/Morgan side while Kryssie is still trying to keep ties with Jason. 

Monday we'll find out who the America's Nominee is (probably Kryssie, but who knows) and then the POV comp will take place. The POV comp will essentially be a five on one comp with everyone wanting Danielle out. We could see Morgan or Justin as America's Nominee as there are voting factions out there trying to get the votes for each of them, but the momentum seems to be on the side of Kryssie. If Danielle remains on the block this week, she's a goner. If she comes down a lot will depend on who's the America's Nominee and who the replacement is. Jason would seem to be the second most in danger, but he's still got devoted followers in Kryssie, Danielle and his online supporters who would likely vote to keep him. The POV comp tomorrow will tell us a lot about how the rest of this week will play out.

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And the first day in the reign of Shelby as HOH had a few surprises. Danielle and Jason quickly conspired and Jason was soon in Shelby's HOH room offering her a new, better than ever, you can really believe me this time, deal for safety. He informed Shelby that the house had now broken into three two person teams, Jason/Danielle, Krysssie/Justin and Morgan/Shelby. He told Shelby that he and Danielle would love to work with Morgan and Shelby to get rid of Justin and Kryssie.

Oddly enough, Shelby was somewhat skeptical of the deal having been burned twice by Jason/Danielle in the last week. Shelby now knew that the Jason/Danielle final five deal where Jason and Danielle would ally with Alex, Morgan and Shelby to get to the final five had all just been a cruel joke. Then Jason and Danielle's backtracking on voting out Justin and getting rid of Whitney instead Wednesday night was another betrayal. Jason tried to explain it all away and then finally left.

Up came Danielle then who confirmed everything Jason had said and vowed her undying loyalty to the girls. She went on how she was only there to get money for her son, so he'd have a better life, etc. The girls weren't buying it, but considered the options. What Jason and Danielle were offering made sense, but their very recent betrayals had the girls unconvinced.

Then along came Kryssie. Kryssie largely blew up everything Jason and Danielle had just done by insisting the four LNJ were solid as a rock and her best offer to Shelby was that they'd vote Morgan out over Shelby next week when they got power again. Oddly enough Shelby didn't jump at this opportunity and kind of guided the discussion more towards a "how about you and Justin join us for a week to get out Danielle" path. Kryssie then burned Danielle by letting Shelby know that Danielle wanted to use the prize money to get new rims for her car. (So much for creating a better life for her son.) Kryssie went on a bit of a rant about how she and Jason wanted the money to go to someone who really needed the money, like her or Jason. Eventually Kryssie left with some idea that there could be a deal made with Justin to keep the two of them safe this week. She then sent Justin up to chat.

Justin has been gunning for Danielle from about day two so he was quick to sign on to get her out. Discussions ensued on how best to handle the different scenarios that could arise and a new four person alliance was formed with Justin, Morgan, Shelby and Kryssie. (Well, kind of Kryssie. She's only there for safety and is planning to head back to the LNJ side the first chance she gets. She wants Jason and Justin as her final three.) Justin however seems rather fond of the new alliance and isn't thrilled that the LNJ nearly voted him out on Wednesday.

Kryssie and Jason had a chat a bit later where Jason told Kryssie that his ideal final three would be Kryssie, Morgan and himself. He definitely wants Kryssie in the final three (as does everyone else) but he doesn't want Danielle or Justin in the final three. He wants one of the girls in the final three and preferably Morgan over Shelby. This may have gotten Kryssie thinking a bit. (Probably not, but you never know.)

Morgan and Shelby are happy with their new final four deal and even if it only lasts a week, they're happy. They want Kryssie as their third in the final three thinking they deserve to beat her. (In truth the metal fish in the HOH room deserves to win over Kryssie.) Danielle is the target for this week, but if she wins POV they'll switch the target to Jason and hope to get him out. 

Tonight we'll get the first half of the Safety Ceremony where two house guests will be made safe. (Likely Morgan and Justin.) Then tomorrow night one final house guest will be made safe and we'll be left with Jason and Danielle as the nominees. Monday will once again be a huge day as the America's Nominee is announced and the POV is played. Kryssie seems once again to be the nearly unanimous choice for America's Nominee, but who knows how the voting will end up going.

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And the Balls Smashers live on! Yesterday found the house largely in recovery mode from the late night HOH comp on Wednesday that ended in failure. The playoff between Shelby and Jason was scheduled for last night. Prior to that Jason spent much of the day plotting and scheming out how to move the laser beam in different directions and patterns using candy as a tool. He felt perfectly prepared for the rematch.

Prior to the rematch however they had their chat with Julie. As is typical, Justin was the last to arrive. (Hint: Julie always talks to the house guests at 7:00 PM ET on Thursdays. They're reminded beforehand, but Justin lives in his own little world and is almost always the last to show up for anything.) Julie ended up starting the chat without Justin who joined them in progress. At the very end of the chat Julie informed them of the outcome of the presidential election which left many in the house in shock. The good news is Jason now wants to move to Canada. (Rumor has it Canada is planning to build a wall just to keep Jason out.)

We then saw the house anxiously await the start of the new laser guiding comp. Shelby and Morgan had a brief chat about the comp where Shelby said she figured they'd reverse the comp from the other day, so if you went left then, you'd probably go right now. Tokens were grabbed from the bag and Shelby was to go first.

Shelby read the directions and then proceeded onto the course. She started out following the previous night's pattern then quickly decided that wouldn't work. After a few minutes of hesitation and  a few wrong turns she was on the trail of how to do it and finished the comp in 4:03. She was pretty happy with that turn of events.

Jason now approached the course. He also took off and largely repeated the pattern from the night before, but was much slower in realizing that wouldn't work. He kept then trying solutions that only used three mirrors, but the rules state you have to use all four. About five minutes into the comp  (about a minute longer than Shelby took to solve the puzzle) one of the mirrors broke again and Jason yelled out giving us a minute or two of fish while the broken mirror was swapped out. Even this didn't help Jason a lot as he continued along the wrong path. Finally Jason saw the right path and completed the comp, but it was over nine minutes on the official BB timer even with the time removed for the broken mirror. Jason was very unhappy afterwards as this was one of the patterns (the figure 8) that he'd practiced.

This made Shelby the new HOH! With no Care Package to disrupt things this week, (Morgan got this week's Care Package on Wednesday night) Shelby should retain this HOH. Morgan and Shelby then started planning the week ahead. They're anticipating a worst case scenario of Morgan being America's Nominee and needing one of them to win POV to save her. They were hoping to make a deal with Justin to keep him safe and have him help get Danielle out this week. 

Danielle's clearly the biggest comp threat in the house now and getting her out is a priority. Kryssie may have helped their game by telling Justin that Danielle was ready to vote him out until Kryssie and Jason talked her out of it. (Yeah. What really happened was Kryssie standing in the bathroom and telling Jason and Danielle something like, "How do you guys want me to vote? I'm down with anything. Just let me know how you want the vote to go and I'll turn on the waterworks and vote however you want." She didn't exactly make a case to save Justin.)

Shelby and Morgan have three big targets in Jason, Justin and Danielle. Two of them will be Shelby's initial nominees. Neither Shelby nor Morgan trust any of them, but if they can get one out this week it improves their odds. There are still the four LNJ (Jason, Justin, Danielle, and Kryssie) to just the two Ball Smashers (Shelby and Morgan.) Of the four LNJ, Danielle is clearly the best competitor. Kryssie is largely useless and Justin's not much better. The final Care Package which will go to either Justin or Danielle automatically advances them to the final four, if they complete a task of some sort. The smart money is on Justin not being able to complete whatever the task is, so the girls would prefer he gets that over Danielle.

Not much will happen in the house today or much of the day tomorrow. Deals will be proposed and considered, but in all likelihood some combination of Jason, Justin and Danielle will be the two nominees. Jason and Danielle is where the smart money lies. Then the house will be focused on who America nominates on Monday. (Please, dear God let it be Kryssie.) Then the POV comes into play. A win by Shelby or Morgan would lock in the nominations and give the girls control. If Justin was the only LNJ member voting, he'd likely vote out Danielle and control of the eviction would then fall to Morgan and Shelby. They'd have the tiebreaker in Shelby to vote out whoever they wanted. (Possibly Jason. Flushing Jason might demoralize enough of his fans to even things out a bit in the public voting for the Ball Smashers.)

If the girls can frame a deal with Justin and even if Morgan goes up as America's Nominee they might still get Justin (and possibly Kryssie) to vote out Danielle. If they can get rid of Danielle this week, that really opens up the game for Alex and Shelby. Kryssie, Justin and Jason aren't the best competitors in the world. The girls could go on a bit of a run, winning the HOH and/or POV a few times to get at least one of them to the final three. Things are looking up for the Ball Smasher side of the house.