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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