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.
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