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.
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