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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