DR #1:
Week 1:
Ok so I’m finally back in the Evan Big Brother House! Season 1 was fun, we don’t talk about Season 2, and now All-Stars is my chance for redemption! Not going to lie, this season’s cast was overwhelming, and I was extremely nervous going into this season. My goal is to make pre-jury, and then go from there, I’m going to be playing my heart out, and hopefully I prove to everyone why I am an all-star.
So first off, let’s run through my alliances. This is my core alliance, the #HistoryTeachers. I came up with the name because if anyone messes with us, we teach them a lesson, and then they’re history. This includes myself, Mac, Turt, and Peanut, and this time, my four personal alliance WON’T fail (*stares @ the #Lumberjacks from Season 2).
Anyways, my next alliance is with Tony, and I made the name #KingCobras because according to the BB wiki, we both play likes “snakes”, and we are obviously kings, so I mean it was only fitting. I approached Tony telling him that I trusted him because we both play similar games mentally. We don’t rely on comps, influence other people’s decisions, and stay out of the limelight of the drama to avoid being targeted. This is a more secretive alliance that I hope will take me far as we work together to take down our enemies from the shadows one by one, without getting any blood on our hands.
Now of course, I couldn’t forget about my main man Yellow. We’ve been allies ever since EVBB1, and we’ve NEVER backstabbed each other before. I think I came up with a great name for our alliance, #PowerDuo1.0, because we were the ORIGINAL power duo in EVBB1. Yellow is a great person to win comps and vote with as a number because he is loyal, hopefully we go far together.
Then there are my less relevant alliances that I am sort of iffy on. First up is Classic, #ClassifedInformation (I come up with all of these alliance names to build trust, I am pretty good at it). It’s supposed to be a secret alliance, and it has Class in the name, so it makes sense and pets his ego a little bit more lol. Anyways, after this first session, Class has already revealed his true alliances and we already voted different ways, so I don’t think it will last long. I already heard he was basically talking to everyone on Skype.
Then there’s Lion, who is the SHADIEST guy I have ever met, I s2g. First, he goes to me asking for an alliance on Skype, I’m like “sure”. Then I hear word that he’s asking everyone, so I decide to do some investigation. #DetectiveSpood goes on the case, looks at his last 9 friends he made on ROBLOX, and what do I find? (Rob, Spood, Tony, Phorix, Caz, Peanut, Tasty, Shadow, Wander, Young). ALL EVBB7 HOUSEGUESTS (except Young, who was replaced). So basically I confirm my suspicions, screenshot it, and send it to my main alliances to expose Lion. This guys may THINK that he can play the same game he did in EVBB5, where he is friends with everybody, plays all sides, and makes it to the end, but no. I am going to let this people pleaser think that he has me wrapped around his finger, but in the back of my mind I know EXACTLY what he is doing, and I’m not going to let him play people like fools, I am too smart for that. Anyways, to round off his shadiness, mac and I were just at the TSM BB5 house testing comps, when Lion follows us and asks for a 3 person alliance, and I tell mac to just go along with it and make up a name for the alliance so it makes it feel more legit (but it’s really not). Mac comes up with #Evan’sAngels, which isn’t a terrible name, but it also doesn’t mean much to me in the game either, I might use Lion as a number or someone to keep me safe when he wins HOH, but I don’t have any true loyalties to him. It also seems like he doesn’t trust me 100% either because right before the premiere he’s like “don’t forget our deal”, like he pretty much assumed I wasn’t going to stay loyal to it (which is true, but still shady).
Finally, there’s Kourtney, and I called our alliance #NoC0__0_s because we don’t need protection. Anyways, she’s close with Caz, Paige, Felisha, and many others. She WAS close with tasty until she apparently threw him under the bus to Classic, but enough of me rambling, let’s get into the actual premiere!
So first we take a cast picture, and Evan doesn’t know how to say “:name Phor Hide”, so Phoenix’s name ends up blocking a good part of my face, so that’s just my luck! (My luck is TERRIBLE btw). Speaking of luck, time for the first HOH! Sit, Trip, Spin, my FAVORITE! Yeah no, literally ANY TIME this comp is used it NEVER goes well for me, EVER! My superstitions are confirmed as Wander, one my biggest rivals going into this season, wins HOH! OF COURSE, THANKS EVANS FOR MAKING ME FIGHT FOR MY LIFE WEEK 1. Wander is so unpredictable, ratty, and a wild card, which makes me extremely nervous. This entire week I was shaking, but I basically approached Wander to put the past behind us, end the drama, and move forward in the game, making a deal that I would keep him safe if I ever won HOH. At first I most likely wasn’t going to honor that, but after the events of the first session, I probably will. Won’t matter much though, I am going to be throwing a lot of these HOHs early on to stay out of the target zone. Anyways, after cutting some deals with Wander, I am not nominated, but my ally Mac is next to Kett on the block. Luckily, the nominees are terminated, only for my other ally, Turtly, to be nominated next to Felisha. Two of my allies already nominated Week 1, and I could be the third, let’s see where it goes from here.
I am rooting for Peanut or Wander to win POV, because Wander has told me, along with some others, that he has a backdoor plan, and I think at this point that I have talked myself out of being one of the possible options. From what I have heard, Classic was the backdoor target, but he won POV so my streak of bad luck continues! It’s not that I want Classic gone, it’s just I am worried for my own safety, and I want someone else in front of me as a renomination option. However, I did convince Class to save Turt, which he was probably doing anyways, but here comes the moment of truth. Will Wander renominate me? I was honestly so nervous, my heart was beating, as I was close to begging Wander to keep me safe on Skype because I made a deal that whoever he renominated, I would vote his way. Queen is renominated and the #HistoryTeachers survive the week! So I made a deal to Wander that I would evict the renom, so I intended to keep it, and Tony and Mac were also asking me to vote Kourt, so I did. I had a feeling the vote would be close, and it was! 8-7 … Felisha is evicted! Although the intended target did not go home, this was still a good week in general as A LOT of alliances were exposed! Thunder, Class, Caz, and Kourtney made their alliance VERY CLEAR, as well as Tasty, Wander, and a few of tasty’s minions on the opposing side. This drama is great for people like Tony and I, as we can just sit back and watch as those two sides battle it out for a few weeks. Many people accuse tasty of controlling Wander’s HOH to get Kourtney renominated, who threw him under the bus to Classic, and I can’t say that I disagree, tasty has a great social game for the most part and he is able to influence people pretty well.
Although it seems I have a shield for the first few weeks, I come to find out from Wander that there was a Season 6 alliance, and he went against it. Now after seeing Thunder, Caz, Kourt, and Class working together, it makes me distrust Class and Kourt and also makes me fearful of them steamrolling this season if we don’t stop them soon. Thunder, Caz, and Classic are ALL competition beasts, and Kourtney has people like Paige on her side, so that alliance is VERY dangerous, and oddly enough, I might have to work with Wander behind the scenes to get some of them evicted, without getting the blood on my hands directly. Felisha was pretty much the only pawn in this game, and she went Week 1, so now this season is going to be even more intense. I wish I would have talked to Yellow during the session, then I could have told him to vote Kourtney and one of them would already be gone. Hopefully I can convince Kourt that I voted to keep her because of the #NoC0__0_s alliance we made, and then also build trust with the opposing side by keeping my end of the deal with Wander, and that way I can avoid being targeted by both sides of the house.
That’s all for now, the house is already very split, but I seem to be about of the drama. Hopefully they knock each other out enough for me to come out on top with the numbers come the jury stage. Also, I have a very strong feeling this “Nomination Termination” is going to RUIN my game and get me evicted, because anything involving luck NEVER goes my way. The twists basically forces two pawns and a backdoor every week for pre-jury, but we’ll see how it goes.
This is #RoodSpood signing out!
P.S. The house is like a maze, omg, and Thunder DID build a secret room in the storage room, so if lose because of a secret power, you can expect to hear from my lawyer Evan!
DR #2:
Week 2:
Okay this was a GREAT session for me! Basically, I am using a strategy I have never used before in a BB longterm, I am playing both sides. I guess that’s what makes me a snake in my #KingCobras alliance, but let me explain what I mean. After Kourtney stayed Week 1, her alliance became pretty clear. Kourtney, Classic, Thunder, Caz, Rob, and Kett are all power players in this game, and I voted to evict Kourtney along with my main alliances, so I need to make sure I am on their good side if they have power the following weeks.
First I lied to Classic and Kourtney, telling them I obviously voted to keep Kourt, because technically I have alliances with both of them, and I am pretty sure both of them bought it. Now I am good with their side of the house, as well as my side of the house, because if I have Classic and Kourtney trusting me, that translates to the big dogs up top like Thunder and Caz. I don’t usually lie that much in Big Brother games, but this season has forced me to do it Week 1. Hopefully this leaves me in their good graces, but I am still iffy about Thunder. I feel like he either doesn’t like me or doesn’t trust me, and I’m not sure why, but as a response neither do I. All I have to do is play the part, tell him good job, be his friend, and gain the trust of his allies. Like the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ;)
Now to get into the session. Week 1 there was one person who I didn’t want to win HOH, and that was Wander, of course he won and I had to go through an emotional rollercoaster that week. This week I was planning to throw the HOH competition anyways, but I didn’t even need to try and throw it, I just flopped because it was an obby. However, there was one person I didn’t want to win, and that was Thunder, but what do you know? THUNDER WINS HOH! The BB Gods hate me I s2g. Now I have to go through a repeat of Week 1 where I feel like I am almost scrambling for my life, so I basically have to work my social game and kind of suck up to Thunder, telling him good job after every comp win, just to pet his ego a little bit more. When it’s time for the Nomination Ceremony, I purposefully sit next to Caz and Classic to give the subliminal message that I am with his alliance, and not the other side of the house. I will use anything I can to get ahead, even mind games. Thunder gives Classic a key, skips over me, and gives Caz a key, and at this point I am shaking, almost sure that I am being nominated, so I am already thinking about which box might terminate the nominees and keep me safe. Then, out of the blue, Thunder gives me the VERY last key, thanks for the HEART ATTACK! Nominees are tasty and lion. Now I am actually liking these nominees, because I expected tasty to be a nom, but lion was a pleasant surprise. I am getting pretty close to tasty in this game, something I didn’t get to do in Season 1, and like I said in my first DR, lion has been the shadiest person ever since DAY 1. He is making alliances with everybody and it’s already been going around the house. At this point, something magical happens. The #WeenieHutJrs alliance is born. It basically combined the #HistoryTeachers, #KingCobras, and the rest of the house against Thunder’s army (Me, Turt, Mac, Peanut, Phorix, Spark, Tony, Yellow, Jake, Tasty). With 19 people left in the game, a 10 person alliance is almost unstoppable! At first you may think, wow, this alliance is way too big, it is sure to dissolve. Here’s why I have faith in it:
1) The alliance is mostly comprised of my pre-existing sub-alliances, so there are already some connections formed that are keeping the group together
2) Everyone in the alliance is sick of Thunder’s ego and tyranny, so we are united in our quest to get out Thunder
3) I didn’t actually create the alliance in the first place, it was handed to me on a silver platter! So now I am sitting in the middle of the majority alliance, not at the head, not at the bottom, which leaves me in a perfect place to keep the blood off of my hands and avoid being the target. Even if the alliance does dissolve, it will fall on the people at the head of the alliance, someone like Phorix for example. However, even though I don’t consider myself the head, I am still getting my fair share in the decision making of the group, which is even better.
So after this alliance is made, we concoct a plan to keep tasty in the house because he is Thunder’s target, and I recruit Yellow and Jake to vote with us, both agree to vote lion at the eviction. Obviously Tony and the #HistoryTeachers are on board, and then the rest of the alliance agreed as well, so the plan was set. It didn’t even matter who won POV as long as the nominees remained the same. With a max of 16 people voting, we had at least 9 voting to evict lion, but if the POV was used, one of us could be renominated, and I didn’t want to be in that situation. The POV comp is down to Peanut and Thunder, and I am hoping for Peanut to win so we can keep the noms the same. It’s very close, but Thunder gets the POV win as well (that’s what happens when both the HOH and POV involve obbies). Thunder is already making himself a huge target, and I am worried that he might use the POV and backdoor someone like Yellow, who he apparently has a rivalry with according to what Yellow told me. This would be tragic for my game if Yellow was renominated next to tasty, because my alliance would want to keep tasty since Yellow wasn’t a major player in the alliance due to bad internet. I would have to choose between what’s best for my alliance, or what’s best for my personal game and somewhat my nostalgia. Yellow and I grew really close in Season 1, and I really want us to make it far again to prove we can still do it after we failed in Season 2. I ask Class if he knows what Thunder might be doing with the POV (benefits to playing both sides), and he tells me that “if he was smart, he would keep the noms the same so we can send tasty home”. So I say I agree, which is partially true. I would LOVE for nominees to stay the same, but sorry Classic, tasty isn’t the plan this week. Now it’s time for the moment of truth, I am shaking and PRAYING that Thunder doesn’t use this POV. Wink Wonk, nominees don’t change! The plan is set in motion, the players are set and this house is about to EXPLODE! I am pretty sure Thunder is confident that tasty is going home, and tasty is scared, but I reassure him that he’s 100% safe if I have anything to say about it. Tasty is giving his speech and Thunder keeps saying “your 30 seconds is up”. He can keep being an obnoxious dictator, but I can guarantee that it won’t change the outcome of the eviction, nor will it win him the game. I get to vote first because I am iconic, and I love giving Evan little hints of what’s about to go down. When Kourtney gets to vote, she walks out of the DR and publicly shows everyone her vote, “trashyshadow”. That really rubbed me the wrong way and it shows how extremely arrogant she is in this game. I hope she didn’t forget that she was almost the FIRST person evicted from the house, only saved by one vote, and then she has the AUDACITY to brag in other people’s faces? She showed her true colors at this session, but I have to keep pretending to be her friend and ally for my game.
It’s time for the vote reveal, and I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces. I am expecting a 9-7 vote, maybe 10-6, but no, it’s 13-3! JEEZ, I was DYING! Pretty sure Rob voted Lion because he was sick of him aligning with everyone, and Class, Caz, and Kourt were the only ones to vote tasty, AWKWARD! After the eviction, I realize there’s no point to lie to Classic and I come clean about voting Lion, but I used the excuse that I thought he was making too many alliances as a way to excuse myself from not voting tasty. This way it doesn’t look as if I’m betraying him, and Classic didn’t seem upset as he was still open to work with me. However, as much as this sounds handy dandy, I know EXACTLY what Classic is up to as well. I have heard from almost all of my allies that Classic has been asking everyone for alliances, so he’s basically doing the same thing Lion did, but working much better on his social game. Although it is a valiant effort, I am not going to fall for it. Thunder may be the comp threat that is making everyone mad and being open about his intentions, but Classic is the comp threat that is not on anyone’s bad side and in reality is the bigger threat in this game, not to mention his alliance with Rob. Classic is trying to play it cool in order to get by these next few weeks because he knows that his alliance is collapsing in on itself, and he is about to jump ship, but in my mind, the captain should go down with his ship. I will let Classic have a life vest for just a little bit longer in this game as I continue to build his trust, but if I don’t need him anymore, I might just have to pop it.
Anyways, the first two weeks I was scared, but now I actually feel like I am gaining momentum in this game! I am staying under the radar, playing both sides, have numbers in a majority alliance, and pitted everyone else against each other! Hopefully the position I am in right now will keep me safe AT LEAST until jury stage, and some big competition threats get out of this house so that when the time comes, I can win those HOHs to further myself in the game. However, I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, because the moment you get too comfortable in this game is the same week you walk out that door.
This is #RoodSpood signing out once again!
DR #3:
Ok, so this week was a mess. Let’s just get into it, and I’ll explain as we go along. The HOH is a counting competition, and immediately I am excited because I am usually good at those. I take a lot of notes on all of the items in the house, then I head to the HOH. Going into it, my plan was, once again, to throw it, but I was hoping I could share my notes with my alliance members in the hopes that they win the HOH instead and guarantee my safety.
The first question is how many trophy boxes were filled, and I knew it right away, 11, so Turt and Peanut advance and already we’re off to a good start. However, when it’s my turn to go, it’s the number of fish and I say 4 (sammy + the 3 in the bathroom fish tank), but I forgot about the pufferfish in the trophy box so it was actually 5, and I get out along with Turt. I tried to help Peanut, Yellow, and Tasty as well, but all of the questions ended up being about things I was unsure about. I though the number of potted plants was 15, because I saw 5 plants on top of each shelf, and 3 shelves, and I remembered them being all potted. Then I remember that only 2 from each shelf were in pots, plus the one near the entrance makes 7. Class wins HOH, and I feel partly responsible for not being more careful with my answers. Although I somewhat trust Class not to nominate me, this is the third time in a row their side of the house has had power (if you count Kourtney staying the Week 1 eviction).
Nominees are Spark and Wander, and for the most part I am happy with these nominations. The plan is simple keep the nominations the same, and send Wander out the door. He nominated mac and Turt Week 1, and is extremely shady and untrustworthy, so I wouldn’t mind seeing him go. At the POV picking, everyone is from Class’ side of the house except tasty, so I am pulling for tasty to win the POV, that way I can convince him to do what’s best for the Weenie Hut Jr.s Alliance. I wish I could start doing these things myself, but I haven’t been picked for a POV all season.
There was word that tasty was going to save Wander with the POV, so I was trying to convince him to keep nominations the same if he were to win. I warned him that if he used the POV, one of our stronger and more trustworthy alliance members would be renominated, and we would risk them going home over someone like Wander. Not only is Wander extremely untrustworthy, but he’s also not very good in competitions (he won no comps in his season and only won sit, trip, spin this season). Let’s not forget he nearly QUIT the season over something unrelated to EVBB, which makes him even more unreliable and unpredictable, not someone I would want to align with longterm.
Tasty wins POV, and I spend a good 10 minutes on Skype telling him why it is best for the alliance to keep the nominations the same. Wander wasn’t even at the session NOR in the alliance chat, so he wouldn’t be creating waves and we could still keep the alliance strong for next week. However, tasty had DIFFERENT plans. He wanted to “shake up the game” by doing the predictable thing and saving Wander, his Week 1 ally. As a result, Classic renominates Peanut, which he claims tasty KNEW would happen if he used the POV. At this point, the alliance is screwed either way. Spark and Peanut are both trustworthy people and strong competitors for our side, and losing either of them hurts my game.
This week really showed tasty’s true colors and intentions. He had 13 people backing him up last week to save him, and then the following week he decides to go back on that alliance’s act of trust and go his own route. It came off not only as extremely selfish, but incredibly stupid. He basically chose Wander, the psychotic wild card, over his entire ###### Hut Jr.s alliance that had saved him the previous week. After Peanut was renominated, I was scrambling to get votes to keep him, not because I was against Spark, but to keep the #HistoryTeachers intact. I got myself, Turt, mac, Yellow, Tony, Phorix, and Jake to vote Spark, and I needed one more person to make it 8, which would be the majority we needed to keep Peanut. At this point, I let tasty know how upset I am with his decision, and that the least he could do at this point is vote to evict Spark to save Peanut. Tasty says he is on Skype, but when the votes turn out, it is tied 7-7 (Wander didn’t vote), and Classic breaks the tie to evict Peanut.
I am almost sure the 7 I listed above were the votes to save Peanut, and the other 7 must have been Thunder, Nanto, Caz, Rob, Kett, Kourtney, and tasty. I may be wrong, but I am about 90% sure that tasty is lying to my face, I can’t see anyone else from my alliance voting to evict Peanut, except maybe jake because his head is never in the game. In my mind, tasty knew all along that Peanut was going to be renominated, and then voted to evict him, so after this week, my level of trust for him has plummeted exponentially. Tony came up with a good idea to put tasty on call to determine if he was lying from his voice, but tasty’s excuse was that “he had nothing else to say”, which just further confirms my suspicions that he is a rat that is only playing for himself. Even if he didn’t vote to evict Peanut, using the veto on Wander was easily the worst thing he could have done for his game. I don’t think he understands the concept of an alliance; you take actions in the game that BENEFIT your alliance, not that turn it against you. I used to wonder why tasty was so targeted going into this season, but now I know why. Tasty made the dumbest move of the season so far, I am BAFFLED by his stupidity. It makes me understand why he was pre-jury in EVBB1, as well as question why he came back for All-Stars.
All I have to say is tasty is REALLY lucky that there are bigger threats in the house than him. Personally, I would LOVE to nominate tasty and Wander, because those two only play for themselves, but strategically, I know I still have to target Thunder’s alliance because they haven’t lost a single member and are still running this game. It’s about time for a power shift, but I still don’t want this HOH if I don’t have to win it. The only way I will go for this HOH is if all of my alliance members are out of the running. As long as I can create a clear path to jury I think I can place myself in a good enough position to start winning competitions, but if I have to get my hands dirty because of my alliances not being able to pull it together, then so be it.
All in all, BAD WEEK. The History Teachers are down a number and Thunder can play in the next HOH. Also, the #WeenieHutJrs Alliance is already crumbling, so much for what I said in my last DR. I still have faith in most of its members, but Wander and tasty are pretty much dead to me in this game, and they have no one to blame but themselves, I tried to warn them.
#RoodSpood
P.S. Notice how Thunder doesn’t rant in the EVBB7 Skype chat because he got his way, interesting to see how hypocritical people can be at times.
P.S.S. Apparently tasty tried to start an all g 2 y alliance with Peanut and Caz? LOL, so much for that.
DR #4:
This week just shows how quickly this game can change, going from the worst week to the best week of my game back to back. To begin with, when I saw a bunch of people from the opposing side of the house showing up, I was getting really nervous, and I had this bad feeling that the session was going to end horribly, maybe even with me on the nomination block. We get to the HOH competition, and it’s an endurance. Now, this is the first competition I have actually considered winning if it came down to it, due to the fact that at this point, Thunder’s side of the house hasn’t lost anyone yet. I remember that I was fairly good in endurance competitions in Season 1, so I think I may have a chance, but of course Thunder comes along and says that he won this in his season (GREAT, GOOD TO KNOW). Now I am expecting another week of Thunder’s tyranny, and if it wasn’t him as HOH it would be Caz. To the left of me Wander is already saying how bad he is at this competition, and to my right Caz is filled with confidence. We get going in the HOH and right off the bat tasty is the FIRST to fall (way to be clutch, NOT). More people fall from my side including jake, and Thunder and Caz are still up there. Then I see Caz fall to my right, and I get excited, but I know Thunder still needs to fall before I do. I keep going and then Evan suddenly announces that me, tony, and wander were the only three left in the competition. At first, I didn’t even believe it, so I looked up just to make sure and I saw that it was true! I didn’t even know Thunder had fallen, but at that point I was SO EXCITED. I could’t believe that Tony and Wander, of all people, were the last two Houseguests up there with me, but I was happy either way. I’m just surprised that Wander says he won no competitions in Season 6, yet has been doing well in most competitions he plays in, well enough at least, if there’s one thing tasty was right about, it’s that Wander is trying his best in the competitions while some others in our alliance are still throwing it (oops, that’s low-key Tony and I, and probably a few more). Expectedly, I see Tony jump off right after it’s announced it was only us 3, and before I could even talk to Wander about throwing it, he turns to me and says “Spood, please let me win, I s2g ur safe”. WELP, THAT WAS EASY. So at this point, I’m planning to throw it, and I want to go on a little bit longer before I jump off, but then as I was typing to Wander, I accidentally fell, so it looked super shady. Wander wins an HOH I probably could have won if I hadn’t thrown it, but I am happy because I can continue to keep the blood off of my hands, although Classic tells me after the competition that almost the entire house thinks I threw (SO MUCH FOR THAT). Good thing I can play in the next HOH, because I might really have to win that one to stay safe this time around, with people thinking that I am under Wander and tasty’s influence. The truth is, I am only temporarily aligned with tasty and wander, but they are definitely not my main alliances, and I am only working with them now because we have a common enemy. I still don’t trust Wander 100%, and he’s super shady and unreliable most of the time, this week being an exception. I didn’t forget that he nominated mac and Turt on Week 1, backstabbed me in JTM, and backstabbed his original “Season 6 alliance” Week 1.
Anyways, I completely controlled Wander’s HOH this week, he did EXACTLY what I would have done if I was HOH: original noms are Caz and Kourt, if terminated Rob and Kett, and backdoor is Thunder. The reason being is I wanted a strong competition player in each set of nominations so they would either save themselves for Thunder to be renominated, or evicted if noms stayed the same. It’s time for POV, and I am not picked for the 4th time in a row (#SadSpood). However, I am happy with the picks, because no matter who wins, Thunder is going to be the renomination. It’s close between Wander and Caz, but Caz barely pulls it out, and I congratulate him for winning just to get on his good side for a little bit longer until I have to go after him myself (he evicted me in EVBB2, hasn’t talked to me at all this season, and is a comp threat, so bye tbh). As expected, Caz saves himself, and Thunder is renominated. Now I am fairly confident Thunder will go home, considering we should have at least 9 votes to evict him (me, tony, turt, mac, phorix, spark, yellow, jake, tasty). At this point, Classic is begging me on Skype to keep Thunder as a shield, but I know he has an alliance with him. I feel kind of bad because my #ClassifiedInformation alliance with Class is low-key dying because I have literally voted the opposite as him at every eviction (except I don’t think he knows I voted Kourtney Week 1). He keeps trying to convince me that keeping Thunder is good for our game, but I wasn’t having any of it. Then he basically says the alliance between us is over, and I’m sort of relieved because I can finally expose his (a-word). I immediately list all of the names of the people he’s been telling the same things to that he has said to me (mac, spark, tony, peanut, and probably a lot more). I’ve known since Week 1 that Class has been playing both sides and making deals with everyone, but I kept it a secret just in case it came in handy. However, if he was going to threaten to end the alliance and go after people I was truly aligned with, my only choice was to expose him and explain my reasoning for voting the other way.
We get to the eviction and it’s 8-6, closer than I expected, but Thunder is thankfully still evicted. However, this week showed again that just like last week, one person in the alliance voted against us, further confirming the existence of a rat in the alliance. I’m not sure who, but my suspicions are still on either jake or tasty, knowing that tasty had a lot of beef with Kourtney, and jake is just a wildcard. It could still be anyone though at this point, except for Yellow, since he has wanted Thunder out since Week 1, and it most likely isn’t Tony, Mac, Turt, or Spark either. I am glad I kept my faith in the #WeenieHutJrs alliance, because it seems to finally be back on the right track. A big competition threat is gone that never talked to me, so I definitely got my way this week.
After, the eviction, I am looking to smooth things over with Classic, because I know he is still a competition beast and I definitely need him on my side for a bit longer, at least long enough to make jury. He told me before this session that Rob was coming after him, and I was happy to hear that because creating cracks between Rob and Class was my original idea. Tony helped me execute it by telling Class that Rob was worried about him in ESU3, and I think Class is now worried about Rob, but it could just be # ###### Anyways, I tell Class that I never said I wanted the alliance between us to end, because if he wants to be safe from Rob, he’s going to need numbers on his side. We both apologize to each other and I explain to Class that with Thunder leaving, there is a whole new dynamic to the game. The original alliance lines from Week 1 are starting to fade, and there is always room to readjust your loyalties. Then he tries to pull the sympathy card on me, saying “he’s alone”, but I know very well he’s not. Class finally comes around and agrees with me, then we have a mutual agreement that we still want to work with each other. Class suggests adding more people to the alliance, so he makes a chat with me, tony, mac, and himself. I come up with the name G-Force (remember that movie about the guinea pig spies?), and another 4 person alliance is born. I was already closely aligned with Tony and Mac, so this alliance is not my main priority, but I think it’s important to give Class at least a little feeling of security, so maybe he wouldn’t target me if he were to win another HOH competition. Although I said the alliance lines are fading, I still want one more person from their side of the house to leave before I go after one of our own. I might even go after Rob just to solidify the fact that Classic doesn’t have many options other than to align with me, and Rob is also floating by like he did in Season 1, and I don’t want him to gain any momentum, I still have my eye on him. I haven’t forgotten about tasty either, once enough of the other side is cut off, it might be time for him to go, since he has gained too much influence ever since we saved him.
That’s all for now! This is #RoodSpood signing out once again!
DR #5:
Ok, so this was easily the BEST week of the season for me: I had a plan coming into it, and I executed it PERFECTLY. After finding out this session was a Double Eviction, I knew I couldn’t win the first HOH. Not only was there a 50% chance of noms being terminated, but if I did end up having to nominate 5 people, then I wouldn’t have any time to smooth things over with them before the next HOH started, and I wouldn’t be able to play in the HOH to save myself. Ironically, I’m not even trying to win, but I tie with Yellow for the second most points, while Turt the “mathematician” jobs to the gutter! Near the end of the comp, I am thinking it is going to be between Yellow and I, I will throw it to him, and everything will be all good. Then, the last person to step up, Classic, scores a 3, beating mine and Yellow’s 2. At this point, I am just relieved that I didn’t throw away that alliance with Classic, because I knew it would come in handy down the road (yet sooner than I expected). My new ####### alliance is already in full force, and now it’s time to enact Operation: Distrust. For about a week now, Tony and I have been trying to form cracks between Rob and Classic, and after today, I wedged one deep enough to put my plan into action. I was talking to Rob right before the session, who told me he couldn’t make it, and began to reveal some secrets to his game that I decided to use against him. He told me that there were other people like kett, tasty, wander, and classic that were overshadowing him, allowing him to slide by, and he basically implied that he was just using Classic to shield him. Of course, I go straight to Classic and tell him this, and it ends up with Rob and Spark as the nominees. Now at this point, Classic still isn’t 100% convinced that Rob is against him, and his plan is to backdoor tasty (but that’s not my plan ;) ). Right after Rob finds out he has been nominated, it tells me that “he has a bone to pick with class after this de”, basically telling me he’s targeting Class if he stays this week, giving me the ammunition I need to sink Rob’s ship. I present this to Class to tell him that Rob, quite literally, is coming after him. At the same time, Rob is asking me to save him with POV, and i pretend like I will if I win, but I secretly want him out. Just in case he stays though, I need to pretend like I am trying my best to win the POV to save him. It’s my first time playing in a POV, and I have to throw it ( ;_; ). I want Spark to win the POV so he saves himself and then he won’t be evicted over Rob. I get first place in the first round (didn’t expect that tbh), then I know I have to throw it to Spark at some point, but then I just end up flopping in the 2nd round anyways and Spark wins POV. Obviously he saves himself, and tasty is unsurprisingly renominated. Honestly, even though I want Rob evicted this week, there is a voice in the back of my head saying that tasty is responsible for Peanut’s eviction, and has close ties to Wander and Nanto. However, I get back into strategic mode and realize that all of the votes thus far (except for Lion), have been EXTREMELY close, and numbers in this game are more important than ever. Classic wants us to evict tasty for being a social and strategic threat, but that’s not the best option for me at the moment. I keep telling Classic all of the things Rob has been saying about him in order to form even deeper cracks between them, and eventually he gives in, not to the point where he agrees with my decision, but to the extent that he understands why I am evicting Rob. As long as I can evict Rob without Classic holding it against me, that’s good enough for me. After I confirm with the ###### Hut Jrs Alliance that we’re voting Rob, I go to mac to pull him to my side, who is currently very conflicted on who to evict, but leaning more towards tasty for what happened to Peanut. I explain to mac that I was very upset with tasty too, and I truly did understand where he was coming from, but I had to make him understand that it’s too early to go after our own numbers. If we evicted tasty and kept someone like Rob, then someone else like Caz could win next HOH and take out another one of us, which would give them a numbers advantage. It makes no sense to give the other side power while we’re ahead, and my philosophy is to make the other side very weak to the point where it would take more than 1-2 weeks for them to regain a majority. It’s too risky to keep Rob in because it leaves the numbers at a mostly equal standing point, rather than giving us a clear majority. I don’t want to give up our power position while we’re ahead, so I am trying my best to convince mac to switch his vote to Rob. Eventually, mac says he “flipped a coin” to determine who he voted, and it just so happens that it landed on Heads, which was Rob. When I was casting my vote to evict, I told Evan the vote was going to be close, and I was right. 7-6…Rob is evicted! Once again, I am voting in opposition to Classic’s motives, but I can’t believe I was able to not only get Classic to nominate Rob, but to pull over enough numbers, including mac, to get him evicted! This is a huge turning point in the game for me, because now I don’t have to worry about Rob sliding to the end, and then dominating like he did in Season 1. Classic is upset, and tells me that Rob and him were staging a fight to hide their alliance, which I always considered as a possibility, but either way Rob is gone, and I am ecstatic that I was able to make it happen without even being HOH. Now that Rob is pre-jury, there is one less bitter juror :).
As Round 2 of the Double Eviction comes around, this is the first HOH of the season that I am 100% trying to win. One of my greatest skills in this game is damage control; given enough time, I can talk my way out of almost any situation, which is why Double Evictions make me nervous in general, because there is not enough time for me to persuade people. Now that this is the 2nd HOH of the week, no matter what the outcome, I will have time afterwards to smooth things over and make amends with people before the next session comes around. Also, the termination boxes have been reset, which increases my chances of not having to make more than 3 nominees. Another motivation to win this HOH is to get rid of someone like Caz, who is the final competition beast on the other side of the house (Classic is sort of with me at least), and he hasn’t talked any game with me the entire season. If Caz or one his allies goes home this week, that would give me enough breathing room to maybe turn on my alliance in these upcoming weeks. The final reason is up to this point I have been in the “Floater Club” (Stats of 0-0-0), and I think I need to make at least one big move in the pre-jury to make a statement to any future jurors, should I make it to the end, that I have been playing the game the entire way through. So the competition is a huge tower of wall jumps, and I know I am pretty good at them, but not sure how I compare to some other people. All of these competitions are from seasons that I didn’t participate in, which leaves me at somewhat of a disadvantage in that regard, but when I need to get something done, I get it done. I get off to a quick start, passing by Kett and most of the house, and the only one I can see is jake. Although jake is in my alliance, I want this win for myself in order to guarantee my safety, make a big move, and prove a point to the house that I am not there to float. For a majority of the competition, jake is trailing right behind me, but I finally get him out of my sight, and I am thinking all I need to do is keep this up to win. About halfway through the tower, I am expecting the competition, to be over, but it just keeps GOING and GOING, and I was actually starting to get frustrated because I didn’t know how much longer I could keep up the lead. Eventually, I make one fall, and jake passes me, and I am screaming internally because I desperately want this HOH. A fire rages inside me as I speed up and eventually pass jake once again, and keep up my momentum until I see the light at the end of the agonizing tunnel, the gold mat! I get to the top, jake arrives right behind me, and I win my first HOH of the season! I come to realize that the ####### has had power this entire week, with both of the HOHs, and one of the best moments was being able to come back to my alliance and bestow upon them a testament to my loyalty with a 100% guarantee that they are safe that week. I honestly felt like the hero for my alliance, as Classic felt that he was going home next (even though I feel it’s just an act of sympathy to downplay his status as a threat), and I was honored to be able to keep my promise to Class that if I had anything to say about it, he wasn’t going anywhere that week. Even though Class is very shady, he did end up helping me evict Rob (whether intentionally or not), so I felt that I owed him for that. Also, I can repay Wander for the deal I made to him Week 1 by promising that he would not be nominated on my first HOH reign. So I was able to keep two of my promises this week, which hopefully builds some trust between me and my alliance members. Immediately after I win HOH, Kett and Phorix both send me contact requests on Skype (how fake can you be tbh, lmao). I was already planning to nominate Kett since he never talked to me, and I was unsure on who the second nominee would be, but eventually decided on Kourtney since she’s close to Caz and has been ####### ## the wrong way lately. The backdoor plan is Caz, and I am hoping that noms stay the same so I am able to execute my plan with as little blood as possible. It’s time to pick a box, and I have a good feeling that Box #1 will terminate my nominees, but despite that, I have to go with where my heart lies, Season 1, and leave my fate in the hands of destiny. As predicted, nominees are terminated! Thanks destiny! So now Kourtney and Kett are both safe, so I nominate Caz and Nanto as the only options left from the other side honestly, with the reasoning that neither of them have talked game with me either. Now I just have to pray that Caz doesn’t win that POV, and I pick mac to play in the POV because he seemed excited to play in the chair race. I heard that this competition was very fun, but I was in try-hard mode so I could focus on keeping the veto out of Caz’s hands. The race starts, and I am in first for a short while, only to be flung first off almost immediately, so rip @ that. Thankfully, almost everyone else is flung off as well, including Caz AND Nanto (PRAISE JOCASTA ~ that’’s for you Peanut). At this point it’s down to Tony and Spark, and I am comfortable with whoever wins it. Spark wins his 2nd POV in a row, and I am just hoping that nominees stay the same and we send Caz packing. I immediately contact Spark after the POV to confirm that noms are staying the same, when my worst nightmare comes back to haunt me. I can sense it already that Spark wants to use this POV, it’s like deja vu of tasty all over again and I am screaming inside. Last time, I wasn’t aggressive enough, and I allowed Peanut to get evicted because of it. This time, I am NOT letting that same mistake happen again. If he uses that POV, I will have no choice but to nominate someone from my own alliance, which would be very damaging to my game and may even save Caz. Spark wants me to backdoor Classic, and I completely shut him down, saying that I promised Classic safety this week and I intend to stay true to my word. I resort to the only thing I can do at this point, which is BEG for him not to use the veto. I am not kidding, I literally got on my knees and BEGGED and PLEADED for him not to use the veto. I didn’t want Spark ruining the plan and having my HOH reign be tarnished by his stupidity. If he uses this veto, he’s going to be in bad graces with the alliance for a LONG time. As a last ditch effort, I explain to Spark that if he wants to damage Classic’s game, Caz is Classic’s strongest ally left in the house (which is true honestly), and so if he kept the nominees the same, he could get rid of Classic’s ally without upsetting the rest of the alliance. Spark takes forever to make his decision, and it’s making me extremely nervous, but he finally decides to “stick with his gut” and … NOT USE THE VETO. Omg, thank you Alison Grodner and Mar Poi!
Now, it should be an easy vote to evict Caz over Nanto, who is a much bigger threat. Then out of nowhere, Caz tries to call out mac and I as his targets, saying that “he’s been targeting us even before this DE”. Oh I see, so you nominated both of us next to each other in EVBB2, and now you intended to do it again? Interesting how the roles are reversed now, karma sure tastes sweet. Mac flips out on Caz for him getting “exposed” by Caz when he didn’t really do anything to him the entire season. People just come in with the assumption that mac and I always work together 100%, which is not always the case. We have ###### ## each other MANY times in longterm, and the perception that we are inseparable siamese twins is what will lead to his downfall. The vote comes in, and closer than I expected, but also divinely well placed, a 6-6 tie. At this point, I didn’t even care who didn’t stay true to their word and vote to evict Caz, I was just simply overjoyed to have the satisfaction of personally evicting Caz’s (a-word) myself. Right when I saw it tie, I immediately stood up and said “Caz, bye, session over”. I wasn’t even going to let him get a word out of his mouth before he walked out that door, it would have been a waste of everyone’s time. After waiting since EVBB2 to enact my revenge, Caz finally got what was coming to him, and man did it feel good. I wasn’t even coming into this season holding that grudge against him, I was originally targeting him for different reasons, but he brought back the past so I slammed it in his face.
This session went amazingly for me because my biggest rival from Season 1 and my biggest rival from Season 2 were BOTH evicted in the same week, which takes a lot of pressure off of my back. However, there were still a few items of concern in hindsight of the session. Although Classic saw Caz OPENLY target both mac and I (both members of the ######### he still decided that he wanted to vote to save him, which is a big red flag in my mind. He is choosing one ally over the two allies in his current alliance? That’s super shady to me, but once again, I prevent Classic from having his way, which has basically become a weekly occurrence at this point. I kept my word to Class, but it doesn’t seem like he has my best interests in mind at the end of the day, so I would prefer to see him go sooner than later after I no longer need him to help protect myself. Also, that vote should NOT have tied, but this is only a continuation of the trend which has shown there to be rats in the alliance that are either voting their own way, or voting against us entirely. Turn admitted to being one of the votes to keep Caz, which I appreciated for his honesty, but that still doesn’t entirely explain the outcome of the vote. My hypothesis at the moment is that tasty and his crew are rogues that are voting their own way, although I am still not entirely sure who the rats are in the alliance. Finally, I was hoping that after Rob and Caz left the house, the ###### Hut Jrs would have a significant numbers advantage. However, it appears as if that alliance is slowly dissolving, as well as the #HistoryTeachers (it’s just not the same without Peanut around ;_;). Ironically, the alliance that I had the least faith in the week beforehand has somewhat become my primary alliance. For weeks, I have been fighting against Classic on who should go home, and I almost always got my way in the end, but now that Rob and Caz are gone, it may be time to flip the script.
I approached mac after the session, and I basically gave him the signal that it’s time to switch this game around and begin to turn on our alliance. The only people from the opposing side that are left are Nanto, Kourtney, and Kett, none of which are HUGE competition threats. On the other side however, we have someone like tasty who has been narrowly surviving evictions, and along the way, gathering numbers. Mac tells me that if he wins HOH, he is on board to put up tasty and Wander, and I tell him that it sounds like a good idea because he has good reasoning for nominating both of them: Wander for nominating him Week 1, and tasty for causing Peanut’s eviction. We can forgive, but we won’t forget tasty, and eventually your actions in the past will come back to haunt you. If next week goes according to plan, mac will go try hard in the next HOH competition and hopefully pull out the win. Then he can get one of tasty’s minions like Wander evicted, who has not only been shady and untrustworthy, but somewhat competent in competitions as well. Not only will this dwindle tasty’s influence, it will also make Classic happy and strengthen the bonds within the ######## Eventually however, Classic will need to go soon after, considering he IS a physical and social threat to win this game. Unlike many others, he knows how to get himself out of sticky situations, and is self-aware enough to jump off a sinking ship onto a life-raft in order to save himself, the sinking ship being Thunder’s alliance, and the life-raft being the ######## However, this raft can only hold him up for so long, eventually it will deflate and he will sink to the bottom of the ocean just like all of his previous allies.
As time goes on, the dynamics of this game keep changing for me. I used to trust Turt a lot, but now I feel like he is distancing himself from me, and him and jake have formed a duo in a sense. I’m not really sure where Turt’s head is at tbh, which kind of scares me, considering I know he has a great social game and can make allies very quickly. Deep down I feel that he is still on my side for the time being, but if he did want to make a move against me, he has the capability to gather the numbers against me, and I don’t want to have to win competitions to stay in the game like I did in Season 1. Him saving Caz after he openly targeted me really got me worried, and Turt may have to leave sooner than expected. Let’s not forget someone like Phorix who I KNOW is a competition threat, but he has managed to COMPLETELY fly under the radar up until this point. I don’t think I’ve heard his name come up once, and that deeply troubles me. Then Spark’s hesitance to discard the POV was also concerning, and I have come to realize that I don’t trust a majority of the people in the ###### Hut Jrs Alliance, and I don’t see it having much use to me in the near future. I will admit that it has been crucial to executing my plans and making votes go my way, but it may be time to cut it loose. The only people I truly trust at the moment are Yellow, Tony, and Mac, so I am just hoping that Mac can win this next HOH and get rid of untrustworthy people that may screw me later on. If not Mac, then I know I can rely on Yellow to keep me safe.
After the session, Caz calls mac and I “snakes”, even though he admitted to wanting us out before this week even happened and hasn’t talked game with us at all, so #Confused. I also get time to smooth things over with Kett and Nanto, and reassure them that they were never the targets, and my sole intention was to get Caz evicted (which is true, but I am not entirely sure how they feel about me at the moment, though I do get good vibes from Nanto). I think that after this week, the alliance lines have mostly disappeared, and it’s started to become more of an individual game rather than an alliance war between both sides of the house. Hopefully I align with the right people in order to situate myself in a good enough position that will take me to the Final 2. I need to exploit the fact that Classic still wants tasty or wander out, tony still wants kourtney out, Spark still wants Classic out, mac still wants Wander out, Turt still wants Nanto out, and tasty still wants Classic or Kourtney out. If I play my cards right, allow my alliance members to protect me, and turn other people against each other, I think I may be able to keep the target off of my back long enough to get into a power position.
Wish me luck!
#RoodSpood
DR #6:
After seeing Spark go last week, I felt a mix of emotions. On one hand, Spark is a good friend of mine, and would probably vote on ## side and keep me safe. Also, it showed how close Classic and Kett are, and that makes me extremely nervous. On the other hand, I am glad Phorix is still in the house, because that means my 4 person alliance, the #SaltySpitoon, is still intact, and can move forward together in this game. It would have been really good for my game to see Kett go home though, and if mac had just won that POV against Classic, he would have. Now I have to deal with Kett being upset with me for nominating him, Kett associated me with Yellow who he is mad at, and Kett being close with Classic. This guy is triple trouble and he makes me nervous.
Before the HOH competition I had been talking with Kett to try and smooth things over, because I had explain to him that he was never my true target (which is true). Although I’ve been talking Kett up a lot, he’s one of the people I trust the least at the moment, so I am going to try and stop him from winning HOH if I can. The HOH competition is Johnny Bravo’s House of Tricks, hosted by the muscular mass of macho himself, Johnny Bravo (Evan <3). Basically, I had been on R15 for the first half of the competition, which I come to find out is the reason I wasn’t get teleported, so that ruined my chances of winning HOH lmao. Although, I’m not really trying to win because I want to compete in the next HOH, but if someone like Kett or tasty is close to winning I am going for it. At one point Kett needed to stack ## ### ## ## to get to the next round, so I low-key pretended to be ask (#SneakySpood), but at some point I had to “wake up” as to not be too suspicious, because if Kett does end up winning this comp, I don’t want him mad at me. Near the end of the comp, it comes down to me and Kett at the very end, and I am sort of contemplating whether or not to win the competition. Although I said I don’t trust Kett, I feel like I might be able to convince him to keep me safe? However, while I am trying to decide what to do, I end up falling anyways and Kett wins the HOH (the BB gods literally hate me omg). This is the third time now where I am extremely nervous going into the week, and so I am throwing out a whole bunch of deals to Kett, like keeping him safe for my next two HOH reigns, how much I just want to make jury, I will “owe him everything”, etc. It’s all a bunch of BS, but gotta do anything to stay safe right?
It’s time for the nomination ceremony and it appears as if my attempts were in vain, as mac and I are both nominated next to each other (*has EVBB2 PTSD flashbacks*). I was surprised that Yellow wasn’t nominated, but I just assumed it was a backdoor plan. The POV picking goes pretty well for me because Yellow gets picked, and he was a history of saving me with the POV (*has “good times…” memories of EVBB1 to counteract the bad memories from EVBB2*). I also have Kett saying he plans to save me with the POV because it’s a backdoor, and I had also promised to vote his way if he took me off. I think Classic would also save me because he’s with Kett and we have worked together in this game. The only people I’m nervous about are Kourt and tasty, and when I asked Kourt if she was voting to keep me, she sad “at the moment, yes”. At the moment? So that means if noms change you might vote me out? Ok well, thanks for that shade, honestly some people have no idea had to manage a social game. Then I talk to tasty telling him about how I rallied to keep him Week 2 when lion went home, I literally saved him by one vote when Rob went home 7-6, and then I won HOH and didn’t nominate him or his allies at all. All I said was that I had tasty’s back many times when he was in danger, and I would appreciate it if he would do the same for me. I even made him a deal that if he saved me with POV, I would vote mac out for him (I knew how much he wanted mac out, but I wasn’t going to follow through with that). Believe it or not, this is how he replies to me: “Spood, I don’t make deals unless I win” and then after I explained how many times I had his back, he says: “don’t try to guilt me into it, that won’t work lol” and “stop getting paranoid spood”. Like ok me. A) Why wouldn’t you make a deal beforehand, it’s not like it will hurt your game if you say you would save me if you DID win? B) Are you serious, I literally save you in this game and you pay that back with a snarky remark? C) STOP GETTING PARANOID? Legit, tasty is one of the most paranoid people in this game and yet he has the nerve to say that to me. So at this point, I officially dislike tasty and want him gone, because even after I showed him tons of screenshots proving I had his back, he doesn’t seem to trust me at all. He ####### ## once in this game with Peanut, and I let it slide, but screw me twice and you’re dead to me. Literally his social game is so bad, no wonder he got pre-jury in EVBB1, and the only reason he didn’t get pre-jury this season was because a huge alliance that I was a part of had his back. He literally made himself a target on Week 1, so if he thinks he can go around acting like he doesn’t owe anyone anything, I pray that he gets a reality check.
It’s time for the POV, and it’s block pushing, which I am fairly good at, but there seems to be a problem with the competition that make me nervous. There are only a limited number of blocks, and someone could easily say and push them off, but before Thunder listened to me and fixed it, he just started the competition. Luckily, no one was playing dirty and trying to sabotage, and I was doing pretty well. I was the first one to get 5 blocks back to my pen, but I had left the most difficult one for last. I pushed my block to the very edge of the narrow beam, and I had to be SUPER careful not to knock it off, so I was sweating. I finally got enough room behind it to push it across the beam onto the main area, and as I was pushing my final block up the hill to my pen, it was announced someone had already won. My heart dropped for a second, but I found out Yellow had won. At first I had to double check what I was seeing on my screen, and after confirming Yellow had won, I let out a huge sigh of relief. One of the best moments so far because I was positive Yellow would save me. I am pretty sure I got 2nd in the comp, so if Yellow wasn’t there, I would have won it and saved myself anyways, but I’m glad that both of us are safe this week, because Yellow was definitely a possible backdoor option.
It’s time for the veto ceremony, and Yellow saves me, so now Kett has to make a renomination. Honestly, considering I am pretty sure Yellow was Kett’s backdoor option, even though he denies it, I don’t know who Kett will renominate now that Yellow is safe. The BB gods bestow upon me a gift as Kett renominates WANDER. One of tasty’s allies that I wanted out for being shady? FINE BY ME. The only problem is Wander is next to mac, so this can either go really badly for me or really well, so I get straight to work with my campaigning. I am already pretty sure we have three votes to save mac (myself, Yellow, and Phorix), and now we only need two more. I approach Jake and Tony to vote out Wander, which they both agree to do, and Classic has been pretty clear that he wants tasty and Wander gone and that he is loyal to ### G-Force (if that’s even still a thing tbh). So if everyone stays true to their word, the vote should be 6-3 with Wander leaving. I know it’s going to be a close vote, and my suspicions are confirmed as Evan announces it is 5-4! When Evan announced that Wander was evicted I screamed in joy and celebrated in the Salty Spittoon chat. That’s a big weight off of my shoulders, and I just realized that mac and I were nominated next to each other and somehow both survived the week. Not only that, but th###ntire Salty Spittoon alliance is somehow still in th###ouse after having members up two weeks in a row.
Now this session was pretty good for me, but the aftermath is where it really gets crazy. First off, I am relieved to have made jury, but as expected, the game’s intensity levels have now just stepped up. It’s going around that ### house is extremely divided, with me, Yellow, mac, and Phorix on one side, tasty, Kourt, and Nanto on ### other side, and Classic, Kett, Tony, and Jake in ### middle. Now I’ve been telling some people that this conclusion has been going around, but I was NOT the one to start it, nor did I ever state I 100% believed it, because I feel as if Tony and Jake are closer to my side (as well as Classic and Kett, but less so). Anyways, Classic approaches me saying that he knows about the alliance between me, Yellow, mac, and Phorix, and I have already sort of spilled the beans to Tony at this point, so basically both of them are asking why they were not added to the chat and the alliance is pretty much exposed and the whole house knows. I explain that I wasn’t ### one to start ### alliance, Yellow approached me about Phorix wanting to make a four person alliance. I didn’t want to add any of them without the others’ permission because that would seem shady and expose my side alliances with them to other Houseguests. I explained to Classic and Tony that I didn’t want people thinking we were working closely together, and that I wanted to be the one in the alliance that could hear information that Yellow, Phorix, and mac wouldn’t say in front of Classic and Tony, and then I could bring that info to them privately. I think my reasoning makes a lot of sense, as well as the fact that I believe 4 is the magic number for an alliance, but nevertheless Classic and Tony want in on it.
In between all of this, there is an investigation within the alliance to find out who voted mac, and we narrowed down our suspects to either Tony, Jake, or Classic. First, Tony sends me a screenshot of him telling Evan on Skype that he votes to evict Wander, but in the upper part of the screenshot I see that there is a list of the top 5 people Tony want out, but I can only see Jake as number 5. When I asked Tony if I could see the rest of the list, he said “I’ve already shown you enough” and refused, which is highly shady. Another thing is that after that comment in the screenshot, Evan asked Tony “So, are you voting mac?” before Tony even said he was evicting Wander, which raises the question as to why Evan would assume that. There can only be one explanation, mac is high up on Tony’s list, probably even ahead of Wander, which is why Evan would assume Tony wants to vote mac out over Wander. Tony may have changed his vote to Wander last minute in order to not create any waves, but now I am pretty sure I know where his true intentions lie. I asked Tony if Yellow was number 1, and I was right about that, then after questioning Tony about my theory, he finally admits that mac was on his list, but that he truthfully did vote to evict Wander. For the time being I believe him, but there are still some things I am nervous about. If Yellow was number one, and mac was possibly number 2, who’s not to say that I could be 3 or 4? He never even showed me the screenshot, so that leads me to believe that even more, but we’ll have to see I guess. I also called out Tony for wanting mac and Yellow out because he feels like they are my “number 2s”, and Tony wants them out so that he can take their place as my number 2, which he ultimately admits. For now I have promised Tony that I won’t tell mac that he is on Tony’s hit list, but I am saving this information for later in the game to use it against Tony if I deem it necessary.
When I ask Jake for proof that he voted Wander, he said that “I told Kett in game that I voted Wander, then Kett screenshotted that and sent the screenshot to Evan on Skype”. This raises A LOT of questions. First off, I didn’t even see Kett leave the session at any point to go and ask Jake for his vote. Secondly, if Jake’s wifi was so bad that he couldn’t send something on Skype, how could he be in game to tell Kett? Also, who’s to say that Kett couldn’t just take a screenshot of Jake voting Wander, but then take another screenshot of Jake voting mac and send that to Evan instead? Kett did end up showing me the screenshot of jake voting Wander and another screenshot of him sending that screenshot to Evan. So for the time being I believe him, but there seem to be a lot of holes in that story.
Finally, immediately after the eviction Classic had told me before I even asked that he voted to keep mac and that he wants to stay loyal to the alliance that we have together. This seems kind of strange that Classic would go into defensive mode before I even said anything, and since he was in game to vote via pm, he has no evidence to send me that he voted Wander out. So far, the clues are leading to Classic, but the problem with that is Classic would most likely vote the way Kett wants him to vote, and if Classic did vote Mac, then that means Jake actually did vote Wander, which means Kett was telling Jake to vote Wander. This would mean Kett and Classic want the vote to go two different ways, which seems unlikely. Right now I’m still really confused on who voted out mac, but there is one final possibility.
I had been thinking this in my head, but mac was the first one to bring up the possibility that Yellow or Phorix might have voted him out, and that Classic, Jake, and Tony are all telling the truth. I find that unlikely, but mac is right to not rule out that possibility. One thing that is leading to Yellow is that during our little investigation, Yellow stated that he wanted to let it go and move on, which doesn’t make sense unless he was trying to cover up his own guilt. This information is crucial to know so that we don’t place our trust in the wrong hands later on, believe me, I know (*glares at AlteringLordz and AnEpikReshiram*). Another thing is that Yellow may have the same motives as Tony, which is to break up the apparent duo that mac and I have and take mac’s place at my side. For the time being, I still trust Yellow a lot and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt after he saved me with the POV, but that possibility is still in the back of my mind.
The next morning, I wake up to find that Classic and tasty are both really mad at me. Classic says that tasty told him that I was after Classic and Kett, which literally never came out of my mouth and is a blatant lie, so hopefully I smoothed that over pretty quick because I know how to defend myself when I am straight up telling the truth. I have faith in the fact that Classic shouldn’t trust anything that tasty says, but that faith may be questioned by something I will mention later on.
Then tasty is saying “Spood, have you been going around telling people that the house is divided and I am on the “other side?” “This is why I don’t trust you, you go and tell other people stuff that’s super ####### shady”. I try to explain to tasty that I never actually said that, I just told people that’s what I heard was the general consensus from the people I talked to, but tasty doesn’t seem to want to listen. Honestly, I am done trying to prove myself to tasty, because I literally owe him nothing in this game, he’s been nothing but a liability to me. He’s an unreasonable and paranoid person, so I didn’t waste my time trying to convince him of the truth, but I did take the time to expose him about the lies he’s been telling to Classic. He didn’t really have an appropriate response to that, as I probably took him off guard while exposing his hypocrisy, considering spreading lies about someone is one of the shadiest things you can do in this game, and the conversation ended on a sour note. At this point, I 100% want tasty gone, so I will be gunning for this next HOH and praying tasty doesn’t win. I am nervous because a lot of my allies can’t even make this session AND it’s a Double Eviction, so I am pretty much fighting for my life this session.
Flash forward a little bit, I am at home right after school just looking around Skype, and I see that there is mention of a comeback competition in EVBB7. At first I dismiss it as a joke, until Evan posts a place link for us to come watch, and says that most of the pre-jurors are already in game. I join the game to confirm one of my greatest fears, as Brax coming back in EVBB1 literally ruined my game. This time around, the odds against me are even worse. Let’s see what we have on our roster here: Compell, the person who would cling to tasty/kourt/nanto as a number, (Lion wasn’t there); Peanut, one of the few people I would like to see come back; Thunder, the person whose eviction I had a big part in and a competition beast; Rob, the person I had an even bigger hand in voting out and a decent competition player; Caz, the person I literally backdoored and another competition beast; Spark, someone who I would also like to see return; and Wander, ### person ### I literally just voted out ### would win competitions and help tasty if he came back. So basically, the odds are totally against me, and my luck is bad enough how it is, so my heart is racing during this comeback. To make matters worse, Peanut and Compell are the first ones out of the competition, so now Spark is literally my only hope of not being screwed over. Thunder gets out in ### chair race, Rob gets out in ### ladder obby, and now it’s down to Wander, #### and Spark. Spark says that he can easily beat Wander at the tower obby, and that comp is selected, so I am feeling pretty good until Spark starts LOSING. He’s literally in last place, and Caz has already finished, so it’s down to Wander and Spark and Wander has a slight lead. I can see the golden platform as Spark and Wander are neck and neck and at the last second Spark BARELY makes it to the top first, beating Wander by less than a second. One of the scariest moments ever, but I am glad that Wander is gone. At least if Caz comes back I might be able to reason with him and smooth things over, but Spark coming back is still much better for my game. The final competition is the lava circle that mac lost to Classic in the POV we needed him to win. This competition already has bad history for me, so when the competition starts I only watch Caz because I am too nervous to watch Spark. It’s going on for a while, and I am getting bad vibes that Caz is going to win. Then, all of a sudden, I see Caz fall and die, and look around to see that Spark is still alive and has won the comeback! OMG, literally something that I wished would have never happened to begin with actually worked out in my favor?!? Evan still gave me a heart attack for a good 30 minutes, so I blame him for that, but I am glad that Spark is back in the game so he can have a fresh start (on my side, hehe).
Finally, right after the comeback I get some disturbing news from Peanut. Apparently, one of tasty’s allies told Peanut that Classic and tasty are no longer at each other’s throats and are actually working together?!?!? This came as a shock to me, and if you refer to my previous statement above, may explain why Classic was so quick to trust tasty’s word that I was after him and Kett. I’m not really sure to what extent I should believe this, but I won’t dismiss it because this is definitely game changing information. If this turns out to be true, it could be devastating for my game. I really just hope it’s not so that tasty can go home in this upcoming eviction and I can somehow stay safe. I’m really nervous going into this next session because I hate Double Evictions and I have this bad feeling that I am going home. As I am writing this, the session is only an hour and 20 minutes away, and I am still kind of shaking with anxiety. Hopefully I can win this Head of Household and my alliance wins the other one to ensure my safety, but I don’t know if I can rely on them because Spark won’t be there for the first HOH, mac and Phorix said they can’t make it all, and jake said he can’t make it because of family (who may be a crucial vote to keep me if I end up on the block). Overall, I am just really nervous, and I am feeling the heat of the jury stage more than ever.
Wish me luck! (I’m going to need it X_X)
#RoodSpood
DR #7:
Ok so I’m on the bottom. This session was pretty crazy so let’s get right into it. Going into this DE I didn’t really want to win the first HOH, but I didn’t have much of a choice as most of my allies were not in attendance. It was an endurance competition and I have a history of doing well in endurance comps. The HOH was pretty trippy, mentally and physically, and I thought it was pretty interesting, but also scary because I was close to falling off a few times. After Kourtney and tasty fell, I felt a lot better, but then Yellow fell near the end which left it up to me. Eventually, it ended up with me and Class as the last two standing. We made a safety for safety deal, but honestly, if what Peanut told me is true, I don’t know how much I can trust Class to keep me safe if he’s working with tasty to get out members from my side. I want to win this HOH to get tasty out of the house so that I have less people after me going into Round 2. Class falls and I win HOH, and I feel pretty good, but at this point I have 2 HOH wins, and now I know I am officially a target. Hopefully the week goes well enough so that I can survive the rest of the Double Eviction.
It’s time for nominations, and there is no termination twist so I can be straight up about my nominees (how I like it). I nominated tasty because no matter how hard I try he just doesn’t trust me, so I am done trying to convince him of my loyalty. The sooner he leaves, the better. Then I put up Kourtney next to him as a pawn because I felt like tasty and Kourtney had made up at this point and started to work together again, considering their matching outfits at the session. Kourtney was the pawn, and I desperately need tasty to go home. The plan the alliance (The Salty Spittoon + Tony) made before the session was to nominate tasty and kourtney and tasty goes home. 9 people are voting in the eviction, so as long as my voting block of 6 stay together (Tony, mac, Yellow, Phorix, Spark, and maybe Jake), we should be able to control the eviction votes this week. I did exactly what the alliance had agreed on doing so I expected them to have my back, but we’ll get to that later.
Time for the POV picking. Kourtney gets HG choice and picks Classic, which is pretty shady and further confirms the fact I think Kourtney/tasty are now working with Classic. I had a gut feeling at the very beginning of the session that Classic has been playing both sides and he’s going to go with them against my side. I told Evan about it beforehand and now it starting to slowly unravel before my eyes. Classic promises to save Kourtney, but when I talk to him in Skype chat, he promises to me that he was lying and that he knows not to use it on Kourtney. The POV competition is block pushing, so I knew immediately Classic had a pretty good chance of winning. I was pretty close to finishing, but eventually Classic passed the 4th level first, so at that point I was cheering him on and he won. Here comes the nightmare part, and let’s just say that Classic pulled a classically Classic move. I approach Classic confirming that he isn’t using it, and the first two words out of his mouth are “Spood”, “Dude”. That’s never a good sign, Classic’s done it before, and what it translates to is “I’m going to sneakily manipulate you into going along with my own plans even though it’s your HOH”. Like um, no. He doesn’t fool me, so I put my foot down and said that if Classic used the POV it wasn’t going to be good. What I meant by that was if he took off Kourtney, I would renominate Kett. However, I didn’t directly say that I was renominating Kett, all I said was that it would be bad. Classic perceives it as a threat, and I clarified that I was just giving him a warning that people would be upset with him. It seems like my plan worked because Classic was given the impression that if he used the POV, Kett would be renominated. I know this because Kett came to me saying “Classic told me that he can’t use POV because I would be the renom”. I deny ever saying that because, well, it’s the truth! I never did mention Kett’s name once, so I got Classic to do what I want without actually having to throw anyone under the bus. No evidence against me, and now Classic is scared into not using the POV. I’m not going to let him push me around on my HOH. I stood my ground before and I will do it again. Nominees stay as Kourtney and tasty, and I was starting to get some suspicions that a few people might flip. The thought in my mind was that if the vote was close, Kourtney might go home, but if the vote is nearly unanimous, tasty would have to be the one to go home because I highly doubt THAT many people would flip on me. Evan reads the vote is 8-1 and at this point I am almost sure that tasty is going home. Just as I was about to celebrate its announced Kourtney is evicted and I am honestly shocked beyond belief. I was 100% blindsided and looking back on my HOH reign, I noticed how little my alliance was talking to me, they totally left me in the dark. Mac was the only person to vote tasty, everyone else who had helped make the plan betrayed me and left me out in the middle of the road to be run over. Not only that, but now Oak is mad at me because she had to vote out her best friend Kourtney, ### blocked her. I told Oak I was pretty sure I had the numbers to get tasty out, so apparently Oak decided to give a sympathy vote towards Kourtney because she thought tasty was leaving already. Now Oak is mad at me and thinks I lied to her, but honestly if you didn’t want her out you shouldn’t have voted her so #Confused. I don’t even know why she’s mad at me when I was one of the few people in the house to campaign for Kourtney to stay and tasty to go home.
Anyways, I feel totally betrayed, have no numbers or allies other than Yellow, and now it’s time for the next HOH and I can’t even play. At this point, I am about 90% sure I am going home in this Double Eviction, my worst nightmare. To make matters worse, Evan decided to start the HOH competition without Yellow, the only person who would 100% keep me safe. Classic wins HOH (we’re the only ones to win the DE HOHs), and immediately my suspicions are confirmed when Classic says “it’s time to switch up the game”. I’ve been expecting this for a while honestly, and I know what he means. He wants the “trio” of me, mac, and Yellow to be split up, and he’s working with tasty and pretty much the entire rest of the house to do so. Honestly, Phorix is so lucky he’s never associated with this alliance; mac, Yellow, and I are taking all of the heat while he sits pretty, which kind of gets me irked. Classic nominates Mac and Yellow, unsurprisingly, and at this point I am just pleading loyalty to Classic and Kett because I know I could very well be ### renomination. If I make it seem like I’m alone in the house and that I will be sheeping Classic and Kett for the rest of the game, they might keep me around as a shield and a number. I will do ANYTHING to stay in this house, because right now I am completely powerless.
It’s time for the POV picking and luckily I get picked. This POV is the most important one of the season so far because if I win, not only can I keep myself safe, but I can return the favor to Yellow and take him off of the block as well, because I’m almost sure he’s the target this week. The competition is a tree lobby and I start off with an early lead, but soon enough I get stuck in the grass near the start while everyone else passes me. I am spamming !help for a whole minute and being ignored by the hosts, which was one of the most frustrating things because this POV is likely do or die for me. Even after they saw I was stuck they didn’t even redo ### first round, which I thought was unfair, but whatever. Kett wins the POV and at this point there’s not much I can do for Yellow. His head’s on the chopping block and I just need to appeal to Kett to keep nominations the same so I am not the renominee. Kept agrees and keeps nominations the same, which I am grateful for, but also sad because I know I am about to lose an ally.
I am voting to keep Yellow this week, but in my mind I was considering it a sympathy vote because I was almost sure he would go home. The vote was reads 6-2 and as I was getting ready to hug Yellow goodbye, it was revealed mac was evicted. Once again I was surprised by the vote, but this time in a good way. At first I was sort of upset that I lost mac, as he had been the only one to vote tasty out and was one of my allies. However, after looking back on the game, oddly enough I think mac going may actually be good for me for a couple of reasons. 1. He was just painting a target on ## back. Everyone in ### house considered Yellow, mac, and I to be a “trio”, so with mac going home it shrinks ### target on Yellow’s back and mine. 2. He was inactive, so although he may have been on my side, I couldn’t rely on him to win competitions when I needed him to, as he hasn’t won any so far. Yellow on the other hand is very capable of winning competitions, and we can help each other down the road. 3. I know mac too well, and I assumed that at some point during the mid-jury stage, he was going to backstab me anyways, like he always does. He’s pretty predictable, and I know that he hates going to the end with me because he’s scared he will lose. So now that weight is taken off of my shoulders so I don’t have to worry about finding the time to turn on mac before he turns on me. 4. Mac told me after his eviction that he threw me under the bus to someone, so like bye, I never did that to you >:(. 5. I’m the last surviving member of the #HistoryTeachers, so gg!
Anyways, I feel really alone in the house right now, but a ray of hope started to poke out through the clouds after the session. Tony wanted to go on call with me to basically apologize for ######## ## over, and after a few minutes I agreed. At one point during the conversation, I was getting tired of the pointless rivalry tasty and I had because I knew it wasn’t good for either of our games. Honestly, I know 100% what Classic is doing, and he’s doing it well. Playing the middle, pitting tasty and I against each other, weakening both of our sides week after week until we’re too weak to stand up against him. He knows he’s a competition beast, so if he gets out someone like me who is decent in competitions, he knows he can win his way to the end. He even wanted Yellow out this week, most likely because he was a competition threat and Kett’s enemy, but that didn’t turn out well for him. So considering this, I decided to cut to the chase and tell Tony to add tasty to the call. The only way we move forward in this game is if we put our differences aside and work together. However, even though I am trying to make amends with tasty, he is one of the most difficult people to talk to, I s2g. Tony brings up that he wants Classic and Kett gone because they are becoming huge threats, which I agree with, but convincing tasty to go after them was a whole other story. Tasty kept asking us who we would target after Classic and Kett went home, and we told him we don’t know because we don’t plan our targets 3 weeks in advance @@@. Tasty, being the paranoid person that he is, assumes that means we will evict him right after Classic and Kett go home. First off, just because we don’t tell you our entire plan to evict people for the season, it doesn’t mean we’re after you. Secondly, if anyone has something to be worried about it’s me, because I think I would be a bigger target than tasty OR Tony if Classic and Kett went home, and I will get to that later. Another shady thing tasty did was he kept indirectly denying lying about me to Classic by “misinterpreting” my question, but I finally got him to admit that he lied to Classic twice about me going after him (which wasn’t true at the time). After a 2 hour dispute because tasty and I are TERRIBLE at communication (probably part of the reason we ended up not trusting each other), we finally got to the point and reached an understanding that our rivalry wouldn’t help us in the end. I asked for an alliance name for us three, and neither of them seemed to care about the name at all, which made me a little bit nervous that they weren’t committed to it. In the end however, I dealt with their indifference by calling the alliance, well, #Indifference. I don’t think this will last long at all, but I need it for right now. Even though I don’t completely trust it, I have to give it a shot.
Now, although I do want Classic gone for being a threat, the situation presents a dilemma for me for a lot of reasons. 1. Classic and I have worked together in this game since the beginning, and during all of our HOHs, neither of us have nominated the other. I feel that if I betrayed him next week, he would be very bitter at me for betraying his “loyalty” and I would lose his jury vote if I did make it to the end. 2. If I win this next HOH and evict Classic or Kett, not only will I not be able to play in the next HOH, but one of my biggest shields in this game will be gone, with the other staying in the game to come after me along with many others in the house. I think it’s VERY dangerous for my game to be the one to nominate Classic or Kett myself, because not only have I told them that I trust them the most at the moment, but it would only increase the target on my back and decrease my protection. On the other hand, there are a good amount of reasons for me to nominate Classic and Kett as well. 1. Classic is going around to people, once again, and saying that he “trusts them the most”. Spark confirmed that Classic did it to him as well, and he’s telling everybody the same thing, so he’s not really sincere. 2. I would feel like an idiot if I had a shot to take out the strongest duo in this game and didn’t take it, then ended up losing to them in the end. 3. Classic is a competition and social threat, somehow having the most competition wins, yet being the only person un-nominated so far. However, that could just be because people are SCARED to do so, which I understand, but at some point it has to be done. 4. Classic DID come after my allies mac and Yellow, so that gives me some reasoning to return the favor. I’ve nominated Kett before and I can do it again.
However, I’ve come to the conclusion that, surprisingly, I might have to throw this next HOH competition. This might be the riskiest gamble of my game so far: do I trust the people that just backstabbed me to help me go further in this game? Will they win that HOH and just evict me instead after throwing me under the bus to Classic? However, from who I talked to, it seems like the majority opinion is shifting towards Classic as the target. I’ve already had Yellow, Phorix, Spark, Tony, and tasty all tell me that they want Classic and Kett gone, but I’m still not sure if I can trust some of them to do so. Another thing on my mind is that evicting Classic is a BIG move, and I sort of want credit for it. I’m afraid that if he goes on someone else’s HOH reign, I won’t be given any credit for that move, even though I was behind the scenes to help configure the plan. Right now though, I think I need to focus about actually getting to ### Final 2 before I can plan out ## appeal to ### Jury. There will be opportunities in the future to make big moves, and I already have 2 HOH reigns on my résumé to show for something. So yeah, I’m super nervous that I will end up going home on a week where I threw the HOH competition, but right now I think it’s my best option. I have to take the risk, because if you don’t take risks in this game, I don’t think you have what it takes to win. I threw competitions in the past, made it through, starting winning comps and became a target. Now maybe if I start throwing some again I can fly back under the radar. The only way I might win this HOH competition is if Kett or tasty is close to winning. Honestly, I don’t completely trust tasty to make a move against Classic and Kett instead of me, and I don’t need Classic and Kett to be in power for another week. If I need to make the move I will do it, but the best case scenario for me is if Spark wins the HOH and nominates Classic and Kett himself. People are already beginning to discredit him as someone to win because he is a comebacker, and I think if I got to the end I could convince people that I was the mind that controlled Spark to go after those two. He told me he wanted them out, but I was ### one who solidified it into his mind. Not only that, but he was afraid to put up Classic directly, but I think I convinced him it’s imperative that Classic and Kett go up next to each other, because if one of them wins the POV and they are off of the block, they can save the other.
Finally, I think one of my biggest mistakes this season was not spending enough time talking to more people. I talked with Tony a lot, but other than that I should be making friends with people when it’s not even the day of a session. I am going to try to put a little more effort into building closer personal relationships with more people so that they trust me more. Just a few days ago, Oak told me that she thinks I barely talk to her, which I didn’t really think was true until recently. It was sort of an eye opener for me, and I am going to try and fix it as soon as possible. If I form closer connections and build bridges between myself and the rest of the house, they may want to keep me around just a bit longer, so I hope it works. You know what they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
We’ll see how it goes! (Nervous)
#RoodSpood
DR #8:
This session revealed a lot about where everyone stands, so let’s get into it! As stated in my last DR, I am taking a huge gamble this week. Do I try to win the competition and guarantee my safety after almost the entire house lied to me last week? or Do I throw this HOH competition and let someone else win it that will make the move against Classic for me, so the blood stays off of my hands, and I can play in the next HOH? Going into this week, tony, tasty, and I made an agreement that Classic and Kett had to be split up, and although tasty eventually agreed to it, he is still very clearly skeptical of the idea, in fear of his own safety.
It’s time for the HOH, and it’s True or False, the one comp I know I could win because trivia competitions are my strong suit. However, I came to the conclusion that I would need to throw this competition, so after a few questions, that’s what I did. I knew Turt was in 14th place, but I went on false anyways and decided to devote my time to helping one of my allies, mainly Sparkity, win HOH. My dream came true and Spark wins HOH, and I am pretty sure based on our previous conversations I can convince him to put Classic and Kett up together.
However, Spark is starting to have doubts, and it’s time to go back down this road again of people saying one thing, then once they have power saying another (*glances over @ Classic*). Anyways, Spark keeps telling me that he wants Classic to be a backdoor, but I try to explain to him why that’s a bad idea. With only 10 people left, odds are that Classic gets picked for the POV, and if he does, he has a good chance of winning it. If Classic wins the POV, he saves Kett, and then BOTH members of their power duo are safe. It just doesn’t make any sense, but Spark is becoming a wildcard it seems.
It’s time for the Nomination Ceremony, and Spark is down to three people for his nominations: Phorix, Kett, and Classic. I keep telling Spark on Skype and in ROBLOX chat to give Phorix the last key and GUARANTEE Kett or Classic goes home this week. However, during the ceremony, Classic tells Spark to check Skype, he does, and then he comes back and says his nominees are Phorix and Kett because “he just came back and he doesn’t want people telling him what to do with his HOH”. Honestly, that was super shady. Just a few weeks ago Spark was telling me how much he wanted Classic out and that we both confirmed he was telling us both the same nonsense about how “he trusted us the most”. We also had a second talk confirming this plan, and I’ve been supporting Spark ever since I heard he was in the comeback competition. I feel like Classic is playing Spark once again, and for some reason he’s falling for it. Some sort of deal must have been made, but let’s continue on with the session.
It’s time for POV Picking, and luckily Classic isn’t selected to play. This gives me a perfect opportunity to get Classic put up as a renomination since he can’t play in HOH or POV this week, which is something that rarely happens, so to squander it would be tragic. The POV is an obey, so immediately I know Spark has a good chance to win it. During the competition, after Spark has finished one of the rounds, I start telling him on Skype a lot of good reasons why backdooring Classic this week is a good idea. 1) He’s a competition beast, yet still is the only person who has not been nominated once in the house, which makes him a huge threat to win 2) He’s working closely with Kett 3) He’s playing both sides, and Spark KNOWS he is playing both sides, as shown when he sided with tasty to get out mac 4) Spark already made it clear in his nomination speech that Classic is low on his totem pole, so if he keeps Classic this week, the chances are that Classic will win next HOH and put him up, and likely me too, who is supposed to be his ally 5) You don’t get many opportunities to backdoor Classic, because he can win so many competitions 6) It will make the house happy and on good terms with him. I think I brought up a lot of good points, and Spark even admitted that most of it was true, but for some reason he still seemed skeptical of the idea, which made me very suspicious. I am trying desperately to plant this seed in Spark’s head that Classic has to be backdoored this week, but at the same time I am being very cautious with how I come off. I don’t want to sound too controlling because I know Spark is very sensitive to that sort of thing. He hates being “controlled”, even if the decision is good for his game. I try to come off as a friend giving advice to another friend, but I’m not sure how Spark took it.
As I expected, Spark wins the POV. Spark, being the indecisive coward he is, takes a while to make his decision, and I am taking this time to try and convince him that Classic and Kett should go up together. However, Spark eventually decides to discard the POV, and nominations remain the same. This was a big red flag for me. Spark’s been preaching about how much he wants Classic out for weeks, but now all of a sudden he doesn’t take the shot when he has a PERFECT opportunity to do so? This only further solidified my fears that Spark is being manipulated by Classic, which is ironic since he hates to be controlled. That battle is lost, but now I have to focus on making sure Kett is sent home. The vote comes back 4-3, and I’m nervous the my game could blow up right here. If Kett stays by one vote and I am blindsided once again, my game will pretty much be over. Luckily, it is announced Kett is evicted, but he doesn’t go without a few parting words first. He called Yellow a rat, and afterwards he called Tony and I sheep. Well, there’s one jury vote I lost, that’s a shame. Hopefully I can explain myself later when Kett isn’t in as bitter of a state.
After the eviction, Classic confronts me and calls ## ####### which I assume is for voting out Kett. I find this to be ironic because just last week Classic went after my allies, but now all of a sudden I can’t come after his? Oh ok, that’s interesting. I decided to ignore his comments for the time being because I didn’t want to get into an argument while he was in a heated state. I thought it would be better to talk things out a day later when he was more clear minded.
The next day (today), I came to Classic and explained to him why I decided to wait to respond to his comments. He asks me to explain myself for wanting him as a backdoor option, which immediately raises flags. My first reaction is to deny the accusations, so I tell him that I only wanted him and Kett to be split up similar to how Classic split up me and mac. I ask who told him that I wanted him backdoor, and he denies to tell me. However, it doesn’t matter if he tells me or not, because his next comment confirmed to me who told him. Classic tells me to stop lying to him because the “screenshots show otherwise”. The only person I talked to this session about backdooring Classic was Sparkity, so he’s the only one who could have sent him screenshots. This confirmed my fears that Spark is now being controlled by Classic, and is working with him. Honestly, Spark made himself a target for no reason, and I won’t feel bad in calling him a dumb player. I don’t know what his motive is, whether it’s to “not be a puppet” or “shake up the game”, but it’s definitely not to win. I can see now why Spark was evicted the first time, he’s very indecisive and wishy washy, so no one trusts him enough to be a reliable member of their alliance. I’m going to be livid if my game gets ruined by Spark was too afraid to make a big move, and then Classic ends up evicting me next week.
Now the next session is in 3 hours, and Phorix, Yellow, Tony and myself have already made a game plan. Phorix was already mad at Spark for nominating him and considered him and idiot, but after I exposed Spark’s antics with Classic to the alliance, it only further confirmed his spot on the block if one of us wins HOH. Spark could have coasted to the end if he wanted to, but he just came back and is already making himself a target again for no reason. Another thing to notice is that Oak seems to be a lot closer with Classic than we originally thought. It’s very clear now based on the vote, and the conversations in the group chat, that Classic and Oak are tight. In the last eviction, I’m pretty sure it was me, Tony, Yellow, and tasty who evicted Kett, and Oak, Classic, and Jake who evicted Phorix. From my point of view, here is how the house is currently divided. It’s me, Tony, Yellow, and Phorix on one side, Classic, Oak, and Spark on the other, and Jake and tasty in the middle. Even though tasty voted with us, I say he’s in the middle because he even told Tony that he regretted keeping Phorix in over Kett. Obviously tasty is not 100% with us, and I predict he will flip back over to Oak/Classic’s side during this next session. Although I don’t think Jake will personally put me up, he’s a wildcard, and you can never rely on him to vote your way, because I think jake has voted against me more than he’s voted with me.
So the house is pretty divided right now, and this next HOH is probably the most important competition of the season. If their side wins, I am almost guaranteed to be a nominee, and once that happens, I will go home unless I win the POV. If our side wins, we plan to put up Spark and Classic next to each other, hope that Spark can win the POV over Classic, and send Classic home. However, if Classic wins, Oak will be the renomination and we will have to decide if we should send home Spark or Oak. Right now I’m in fear of my safety more than ever, because now I’ve pretty much been exposed to Classic. I tried to lie to him and tell him that I never wanted him out in particular, and he offered me a deal that we won’t nom each other, but I think we both know that deal isn’t going to hold up. I know that if I win HOH, Classic is going to be one of my nominees, and that if he wins, I will be one of his. I don’t expect Classic to keep any of his deals with me because I know he’s making the same exact deals with everyone else. Phoenix even showed me a screenshot today of Classic trying to show he trusts him the most. It was pretty clear when I asked Classic who he wants gone, and he replied with “you will find out if I win HOH”. Gee, that is SO reassuring, thanks!
More nervous than ever right now, I know I’m a target, so I will be going hard for this next HOH.
#RoodSpood
[END]
Week 1:
Ok so I’m finally back in the Evan Big Brother House! Season 1 was fun, we don’t talk about Season 2, and now All-Stars is my chance for redemption! Not going to lie, this season’s cast was overwhelming, and I was extremely nervous going into this season. My goal is to make pre-jury, and then go from there, I’m going to be playing my heart out, and hopefully I prove to everyone why I am an all-star.
So first off, let’s run through my alliances. This is my core alliance, the #HistoryTeachers. I came up with the name because if anyone messes with us, we teach them a lesson, and then they’re history. This includes myself, Mac, Turt, and Peanut, and this time, my four personal alliance WON’T fail (*stares @ the #Lumberjacks from Season 2).
Anyways, my next alliance is with Tony, and I made the name #KingCobras because according to the BB wiki, we both play likes “snakes”, and we are obviously kings, so I mean it was only fitting. I approached Tony telling him that I trusted him because we both play similar games mentally. We don’t rely on comps, influence other people’s decisions, and stay out of the limelight of the drama to avoid being targeted. This is a more secretive alliance that I hope will take me far as we work together to take down our enemies from the shadows one by one, without getting any blood on our hands.
Now of course, I couldn’t forget about my main man Yellow. We’ve been allies ever since EVBB1, and we’ve NEVER backstabbed each other before. I think I came up with a great name for our alliance, #PowerDuo1.0, because we were the ORIGINAL power duo in EVBB1. Yellow is a great person to win comps and vote with as a number because he is loyal, hopefully we go far together.
Then there are my less relevant alliances that I am sort of iffy on. First up is Classic, #ClassifedInformation (I come up with all of these alliance names to build trust, I am pretty good at it). It’s supposed to be a secret alliance, and it has Class in the name, so it makes sense and pets his ego a little bit more lol. Anyways, after this first session, Class has already revealed his true alliances and we already voted different ways, so I don’t think it will last long. I already heard he was basically talking to everyone on Skype.
Then there’s Lion, who is the SHADIEST guy I have ever met, I s2g. First, he goes to me asking for an alliance on Skype, I’m like “sure”. Then I hear word that he’s asking everyone, so I decide to do some investigation. #DetectiveSpood goes on the case, looks at his last 9 friends he made on ROBLOX, and what do I find? (Rob, Spood, Tony, Phorix, Caz, Peanut, Tasty, Shadow, Wander, Young). ALL EVBB7 HOUSEGUESTS (except Young, who was replaced). So basically I confirm my suspicions, screenshot it, and send it to my main alliances to expose Lion. This guys may THINK that he can play the same game he did in EVBB5, where he is friends with everybody, plays all sides, and makes it to the end, but no. I am going to let this people pleaser think that he has me wrapped around his finger, but in the back of my mind I know EXACTLY what he is doing, and I’m not going to let him play people like fools, I am too smart for that. Anyways, to round off his shadiness, mac and I were just at the TSM BB5 house testing comps, when Lion follows us and asks for a 3 person alliance, and I tell mac to just go along with it and make up a name for the alliance so it makes it feel more legit (but it’s really not). Mac comes up with #Evan’sAngels, which isn’t a terrible name, but it also doesn’t mean much to me in the game either, I might use Lion as a number or someone to keep me safe when he wins HOH, but I don’t have any true loyalties to him. It also seems like he doesn’t trust me 100% either because right before the premiere he’s like “don’t forget our deal”, like he pretty much assumed I wasn’t going to stay loyal to it (which is true, but still shady).
Finally, there’s Kourtney, and I called our alliance #NoC0__0_s because we don’t need protection. Anyways, she’s close with Caz, Paige, Felisha, and many others. She WAS close with tasty until she apparently threw him under the bus to Classic, but enough of me rambling, let’s get into the actual premiere!
So first we take a cast picture, and Evan doesn’t know how to say “:name Phor Hide”, so Phoenix’s name ends up blocking a good part of my face, so that’s just my luck! (My luck is TERRIBLE btw). Speaking of luck, time for the first HOH! Sit, Trip, Spin, my FAVORITE! Yeah no, literally ANY TIME this comp is used it NEVER goes well for me, EVER! My superstitions are confirmed as Wander, one my biggest rivals going into this season, wins HOH! OF COURSE, THANKS EVANS FOR MAKING ME FIGHT FOR MY LIFE WEEK 1. Wander is so unpredictable, ratty, and a wild card, which makes me extremely nervous. This entire week I was shaking, but I basically approached Wander to put the past behind us, end the drama, and move forward in the game, making a deal that I would keep him safe if I ever won HOH. At first I most likely wasn’t going to honor that, but after the events of the first session, I probably will. Won’t matter much though, I am going to be throwing a lot of these HOHs early on to stay out of the target zone. Anyways, after cutting some deals with Wander, I am not nominated, but my ally Mac is next to Kett on the block. Luckily, the nominees are terminated, only for my other ally, Turtly, to be nominated next to Felisha. Two of my allies already nominated Week 1, and I could be the third, let’s see where it goes from here.
I am rooting for Peanut or Wander to win POV, because Wander has told me, along with some others, that he has a backdoor plan, and I think at this point that I have talked myself out of being one of the possible options. From what I have heard, Classic was the backdoor target, but he won POV so my streak of bad luck continues! It’s not that I want Classic gone, it’s just I am worried for my own safety, and I want someone else in front of me as a renomination option. However, I did convince Class to save Turt, which he was probably doing anyways, but here comes the moment of truth. Will Wander renominate me? I was honestly so nervous, my heart was beating, as I was close to begging Wander to keep me safe on Skype because I made a deal that whoever he renominated, I would vote his way. Queen is renominated and the #HistoryTeachers survive the week! So I made a deal to Wander that I would evict the renom, so I intended to keep it, and Tony and Mac were also asking me to vote Kourt, so I did. I had a feeling the vote would be close, and it was! 8-7 … Felisha is evicted! Although the intended target did not go home, this was still a good week in general as A LOT of alliances were exposed! Thunder, Class, Caz, and Kourtney made their alliance VERY CLEAR, as well as Tasty, Wander, and a few of tasty’s minions on the opposing side. This drama is great for people like Tony and I, as we can just sit back and watch as those two sides battle it out for a few weeks. Many people accuse tasty of controlling Wander’s HOH to get Kourtney renominated, who threw him under the bus to Classic, and I can’t say that I disagree, tasty has a great social game for the most part and he is able to influence people pretty well.
Although it seems I have a shield for the first few weeks, I come to find out from Wander that there was a Season 6 alliance, and he went against it. Now after seeing Thunder, Caz, Kourt, and Class working together, it makes me distrust Class and Kourt and also makes me fearful of them steamrolling this season if we don’t stop them soon. Thunder, Caz, and Classic are ALL competition beasts, and Kourtney has people like Paige on her side, so that alliance is VERY dangerous, and oddly enough, I might have to work with Wander behind the scenes to get some of them evicted, without getting the blood on my hands directly. Felisha was pretty much the only pawn in this game, and she went Week 1, so now this season is going to be even more intense. I wish I would have talked to Yellow during the session, then I could have told him to vote Kourtney and one of them would already be gone. Hopefully I can convince Kourt that I voted to keep her because of the #NoC0__0_s alliance we made, and then also build trust with the opposing side by keeping my end of the deal with Wander, and that way I can avoid being targeted by both sides of the house.
That’s all for now, the house is already very split, but I seem to be about of the drama. Hopefully they knock each other out enough for me to come out on top with the numbers come the jury stage. Also, I have a very strong feeling this “Nomination Termination” is going to RUIN my game and get me evicted, because anything involving luck NEVER goes my way. The twists basically forces two pawns and a backdoor every week for pre-jury, but we’ll see how it goes.
This is #RoodSpood signing out!
P.S. The house is like a maze, omg, and Thunder DID build a secret room in the storage room, so if lose because of a secret power, you can expect to hear from my lawyer Evan!
DR #2:
Week 2:
Okay this was a GREAT session for me! Basically, I am using a strategy I have never used before in a BB longterm, I am playing both sides. I guess that’s what makes me a snake in my #KingCobras alliance, but let me explain what I mean. After Kourtney stayed Week 1, her alliance became pretty clear. Kourtney, Classic, Thunder, Caz, Rob, and Kett are all power players in this game, and I voted to evict Kourtney along with my main alliances, so I need to make sure I am on their good side if they have power the following weeks.
First I lied to Classic and Kourtney, telling them I obviously voted to keep Kourt, because technically I have alliances with both of them, and I am pretty sure both of them bought it. Now I am good with their side of the house, as well as my side of the house, because if I have Classic and Kourtney trusting me, that translates to the big dogs up top like Thunder and Caz. I don’t usually lie that much in Big Brother games, but this season has forced me to do it Week 1. Hopefully this leaves me in their good graces, but I am still iffy about Thunder. I feel like he either doesn’t like me or doesn’t trust me, and I’m not sure why, but as a response neither do I. All I have to do is play the part, tell him good job, be his friend, and gain the trust of his allies. Like the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ;)
Now to get into the session. Week 1 there was one person who I didn’t want to win HOH, and that was Wander, of course he won and I had to go through an emotional rollercoaster that week. This week I was planning to throw the HOH competition anyways, but I didn’t even need to try and throw it, I just flopped because it was an obby. However, there was one person I didn’t want to win, and that was Thunder, but what do you know? THUNDER WINS HOH! The BB Gods hate me I s2g. Now I have to go through a repeat of Week 1 where I feel like I am almost scrambling for my life, so I basically have to work my social game and kind of suck up to Thunder, telling him good job after every comp win, just to pet his ego a little bit more. When it’s time for the Nomination Ceremony, I purposefully sit next to Caz and Classic to give the subliminal message that I am with his alliance, and not the other side of the house. I will use anything I can to get ahead, even mind games. Thunder gives Classic a key, skips over me, and gives Caz a key, and at this point I am shaking, almost sure that I am being nominated, so I am already thinking about which box might terminate the nominees and keep me safe. Then, out of the blue, Thunder gives me the VERY last key, thanks for the HEART ATTACK! Nominees are tasty and lion. Now I am actually liking these nominees, because I expected tasty to be a nom, but lion was a pleasant surprise. I am getting pretty close to tasty in this game, something I didn’t get to do in Season 1, and like I said in my first DR, lion has been the shadiest person ever since DAY 1. He is making alliances with everybody and it’s already been going around the house. At this point, something magical happens. The #WeenieHutJrs alliance is born. It basically combined the #HistoryTeachers, #KingCobras, and the rest of the house against Thunder’s army (Me, Turt, Mac, Peanut, Phorix, Spark, Tony, Yellow, Jake, Tasty). With 19 people left in the game, a 10 person alliance is almost unstoppable! At first you may think, wow, this alliance is way too big, it is sure to dissolve. Here’s why I have faith in it:
1) The alliance is mostly comprised of my pre-existing sub-alliances, so there are already some connections formed that are keeping the group together
2) Everyone in the alliance is sick of Thunder’s ego and tyranny, so we are united in our quest to get out Thunder
3) I didn’t actually create the alliance in the first place, it was handed to me on a silver platter! So now I am sitting in the middle of the majority alliance, not at the head, not at the bottom, which leaves me in a perfect place to keep the blood off of my hands and avoid being the target. Even if the alliance does dissolve, it will fall on the people at the head of the alliance, someone like Phorix for example. However, even though I don’t consider myself the head, I am still getting my fair share in the decision making of the group, which is even better.
So after this alliance is made, we concoct a plan to keep tasty in the house because he is Thunder’s target, and I recruit Yellow and Jake to vote with us, both agree to vote lion at the eviction. Obviously Tony and the #HistoryTeachers are on board, and then the rest of the alliance agreed as well, so the plan was set. It didn’t even matter who won POV as long as the nominees remained the same. With a max of 16 people voting, we had at least 9 voting to evict lion, but if the POV was used, one of us could be renominated, and I didn’t want to be in that situation. The POV comp is down to Peanut and Thunder, and I am hoping for Peanut to win so we can keep the noms the same. It’s very close, but Thunder gets the POV win as well (that’s what happens when both the HOH and POV involve obbies). Thunder is already making himself a huge target, and I am worried that he might use the POV and backdoor someone like Yellow, who he apparently has a rivalry with according to what Yellow told me. This would be tragic for my game if Yellow was renominated next to tasty, because my alliance would want to keep tasty since Yellow wasn’t a major player in the alliance due to bad internet. I would have to choose between what’s best for my alliance, or what’s best for my personal game and somewhat my nostalgia. Yellow and I grew really close in Season 1, and I really want us to make it far again to prove we can still do it after we failed in Season 2. I ask Class if he knows what Thunder might be doing with the POV (benefits to playing both sides), and he tells me that “if he was smart, he would keep the noms the same so we can send tasty home”. So I say I agree, which is partially true. I would LOVE for nominees to stay the same, but sorry Classic, tasty isn’t the plan this week. Now it’s time for the moment of truth, I am shaking and PRAYING that Thunder doesn’t use this POV. Wink Wonk, nominees don’t change! The plan is set in motion, the players are set and this house is about to EXPLODE! I am pretty sure Thunder is confident that tasty is going home, and tasty is scared, but I reassure him that he’s 100% safe if I have anything to say about it. Tasty is giving his speech and Thunder keeps saying “your 30 seconds is up”. He can keep being an obnoxious dictator, but I can guarantee that it won’t change the outcome of the eviction, nor will it win him the game. I get to vote first because I am iconic, and I love giving Evan little hints of what’s about to go down. When Kourtney gets to vote, she walks out of the DR and publicly shows everyone her vote, “trashyshadow”. That really rubbed me the wrong way and it shows how extremely arrogant she is in this game. I hope she didn’t forget that she was almost the FIRST person evicted from the house, only saved by one vote, and then she has the AUDACITY to brag in other people’s faces? She showed her true colors at this session, but I have to keep pretending to be her friend and ally for my game.
It’s time for the vote reveal, and I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces. I am expecting a 9-7 vote, maybe 10-6, but no, it’s 13-3! JEEZ, I was DYING! Pretty sure Rob voted Lion because he was sick of him aligning with everyone, and Class, Caz, and Kourt were the only ones to vote tasty, AWKWARD! After the eviction, I realize there’s no point to lie to Classic and I come clean about voting Lion, but I used the excuse that I thought he was making too many alliances as a way to excuse myself from not voting tasty. This way it doesn’t look as if I’m betraying him, and Classic didn’t seem upset as he was still open to work with me. However, as much as this sounds handy dandy, I know EXACTLY what Classic is up to as well. I have heard from almost all of my allies that Classic has been asking everyone for alliances, so he’s basically doing the same thing Lion did, but working much better on his social game. Although it is a valiant effort, I am not going to fall for it. Thunder may be the comp threat that is making everyone mad and being open about his intentions, but Classic is the comp threat that is not on anyone’s bad side and in reality is the bigger threat in this game, not to mention his alliance with Rob. Classic is trying to play it cool in order to get by these next few weeks because he knows that his alliance is collapsing in on itself, and he is about to jump ship, but in my mind, the captain should go down with his ship. I will let Classic have a life vest for just a little bit longer in this game as I continue to build his trust, but if I don’t need him anymore, I might just have to pop it.
Anyways, the first two weeks I was scared, but now I actually feel like I am gaining momentum in this game! I am staying under the radar, playing both sides, have numbers in a majority alliance, and pitted everyone else against each other! Hopefully the position I am in right now will keep me safe AT LEAST until jury stage, and some big competition threats get out of this house so that when the time comes, I can win those HOHs to further myself in the game. However, I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, because the moment you get too comfortable in this game is the same week you walk out that door.
This is #RoodSpood signing out once again!
DR #3:
Ok, so this week was a mess. Let’s just get into it, and I’ll explain as we go along. The HOH is a counting competition, and immediately I am excited because I am usually good at those. I take a lot of notes on all of the items in the house, then I head to the HOH. Going into it, my plan was, once again, to throw it, but I was hoping I could share my notes with my alliance members in the hopes that they win the HOH instead and guarantee my safety.
The first question is how many trophy boxes were filled, and I knew it right away, 11, so Turt and Peanut advance and already we’re off to a good start. However, when it’s my turn to go, it’s the number of fish and I say 4 (sammy + the 3 in the bathroom fish tank), but I forgot about the pufferfish in the trophy box so it was actually 5, and I get out along with Turt. I tried to help Peanut, Yellow, and Tasty as well, but all of the questions ended up being about things I was unsure about. I though the number of potted plants was 15, because I saw 5 plants on top of each shelf, and 3 shelves, and I remembered them being all potted. Then I remember that only 2 from each shelf were in pots, plus the one near the entrance makes 7. Class wins HOH, and I feel partly responsible for not being more careful with my answers. Although I somewhat trust Class not to nominate me, this is the third time in a row their side of the house has had power (if you count Kourtney staying the Week 1 eviction).
Nominees are Spark and Wander, and for the most part I am happy with these nominations. The plan is simple keep the nominations the same, and send Wander out the door. He nominated mac and Turt Week 1, and is extremely shady and untrustworthy, so I wouldn’t mind seeing him go. At the POV picking, everyone is from Class’ side of the house except tasty, so I am pulling for tasty to win the POV, that way I can convince him to do what’s best for the Weenie Hut Jr.s Alliance. I wish I could start doing these things myself, but I haven’t been picked for a POV all season.
There was word that tasty was going to save Wander with the POV, so I was trying to convince him to keep nominations the same if he were to win. I warned him that if he used the POV, one of our stronger and more trustworthy alliance members would be renominated, and we would risk them going home over someone like Wander. Not only is Wander extremely untrustworthy, but he’s also not very good in competitions (he won no comps in his season and only won sit, trip, spin this season). Let’s not forget he nearly QUIT the season over something unrelated to EVBB, which makes him even more unreliable and unpredictable, not someone I would want to align with longterm.
Tasty wins POV, and I spend a good 10 minutes on Skype telling him why it is best for the alliance to keep the nominations the same. Wander wasn’t even at the session NOR in the alliance chat, so he wouldn’t be creating waves and we could still keep the alliance strong for next week. However, tasty had DIFFERENT plans. He wanted to “shake up the game” by doing the predictable thing and saving Wander, his Week 1 ally. As a result, Classic renominates Peanut, which he claims tasty KNEW would happen if he used the POV. At this point, the alliance is screwed either way. Spark and Peanut are both trustworthy people and strong competitors for our side, and losing either of them hurts my game.
This week really showed tasty’s true colors and intentions. He had 13 people backing him up last week to save him, and then the following week he decides to go back on that alliance’s act of trust and go his own route. It came off not only as extremely selfish, but incredibly stupid. He basically chose Wander, the psychotic wild card, over his entire ###### Hut Jr.s alliance that had saved him the previous week. After Peanut was renominated, I was scrambling to get votes to keep him, not because I was against Spark, but to keep the #HistoryTeachers intact. I got myself, Turt, mac, Yellow, Tony, Phorix, and Jake to vote Spark, and I needed one more person to make it 8, which would be the majority we needed to keep Peanut. At this point, I let tasty know how upset I am with his decision, and that the least he could do at this point is vote to evict Spark to save Peanut. Tasty says he is on Skype, but when the votes turn out, it is tied 7-7 (Wander didn’t vote), and Classic breaks the tie to evict Peanut.
I am almost sure the 7 I listed above were the votes to save Peanut, and the other 7 must have been Thunder, Nanto, Caz, Rob, Kett, Kourtney, and tasty. I may be wrong, but I am about 90% sure that tasty is lying to my face, I can’t see anyone else from my alliance voting to evict Peanut, except maybe jake because his head is never in the game. In my mind, tasty knew all along that Peanut was going to be renominated, and then voted to evict him, so after this week, my level of trust for him has plummeted exponentially. Tony came up with a good idea to put tasty on call to determine if he was lying from his voice, but tasty’s excuse was that “he had nothing else to say”, which just further confirms my suspicions that he is a rat that is only playing for himself. Even if he didn’t vote to evict Peanut, using the veto on Wander was easily the worst thing he could have done for his game. I don’t think he understands the concept of an alliance; you take actions in the game that BENEFIT your alliance, not that turn it against you. I used to wonder why tasty was so targeted going into this season, but now I know why. Tasty made the dumbest move of the season so far, I am BAFFLED by his stupidity. It makes me understand why he was pre-jury in EVBB1, as well as question why he came back for All-Stars.
All I have to say is tasty is REALLY lucky that there are bigger threats in the house than him. Personally, I would LOVE to nominate tasty and Wander, because those two only play for themselves, but strategically, I know I still have to target Thunder’s alliance because they haven’t lost a single member and are still running this game. It’s about time for a power shift, but I still don’t want this HOH if I don’t have to win it. The only way I will go for this HOH is if all of my alliance members are out of the running. As long as I can create a clear path to jury I think I can place myself in a good enough position to start winning competitions, but if I have to get my hands dirty because of my alliances not being able to pull it together, then so be it.
All in all, BAD WEEK. The History Teachers are down a number and Thunder can play in the next HOH. Also, the #WeenieHutJrs Alliance is already crumbling, so much for what I said in my last DR. I still have faith in most of its members, but Wander and tasty are pretty much dead to me in this game, and they have no one to blame but themselves, I tried to warn them.
#RoodSpood
P.S. Notice how Thunder doesn’t rant in the EVBB7 Skype chat because he got his way, interesting to see how hypocritical people can be at times.
P.S.S. Apparently tasty tried to start an all g 2 y alliance with Peanut and Caz? LOL, so much for that.
DR #4:
This week just shows how quickly this game can change, going from the worst week to the best week of my game back to back. To begin with, when I saw a bunch of people from the opposing side of the house showing up, I was getting really nervous, and I had this bad feeling that the session was going to end horribly, maybe even with me on the nomination block. We get to the HOH competition, and it’s an endurance. Now, this is the first competition I have actually considered winning if it came down to it, due to the fact that at this point, Thunder’s side of the house hasn’t lost anyone yet. I remember that I was fairly good in endurance competitions in Season 1, so I think I may have a chance, but of course Thunder comes along and says that he won this in his season (GREAT, GOOD TO KNOW). Now I am expecting another week of Thunder’s tyranny, and if it wasn’t him as HOH it would be Caz. To the left of me Wander is already saying how bad he is at this competition, and to my right Caz is filled with confidence. We get going in the HOH and right off the bat tasty is the FIRST to fall (way to be clutch, NOT). More people fall from my side including jake, and Thunder and Caz are still up there. Then I see Caz fall to my right, and I get excited, but I know Thunder still needs to fall before I do. I keep going and then Evan suddenly announces that me, tony, and wander were the only three left in the competition. At first, I didn’t even believe it, so I looked up just to make sure and I saw that it was true! I didn’t even know Thunder had fallen, but at that point I was SO EXCITED. I could’t believe that Tony and Wander, of all people, were the last two Houseguests up there with me, but I was happy either way. I’m just surprised that Wander says he won no competitions in Season 6, yet has been doing well in most competitions he plays in, well enough at least, if there’s one thing tasty was right about, it’s that Wander is trying his best in the competitions while some others in our alliance are still throwing it (oops, that’s low-key Tony and I, and probably a few more). Expectedly, I see Tony jump off right after it’s announced it was only us 3, and before I could even talk to Wander about throwing it, he turns to me and says “Spood, please let me win, I s2g ur safe”. WELP, THAT WAS EASY. So at this point, I’m planning to throw it, and I want to go on a little bit longer before I jump off, but then as I was typing to Wander, I accidentally fell, so it looked super shady. Wander wins an HOH I probably could have won if I hadn’t thrown it, but I am happy because I can continue to keep the blood off of my hands, although Classic tells me after the competition that almost the entire house thinks I threw (SO MUCH FOR THAT). Good thing I can play in the next HOH, because I might really have to win that one to stay safe this time around, with people thinking that I am under Wander and tasty’s influence. The truth is, I am only temporarily aligned with tasty and wander, but they are definitely not my main alliances, and I am only working with them now because we have a common enemy. I still don’t trust Wander 100%, and he’s super shady and unreliable most of the time, this week being an exception. I didn’t forget that he nominated mac and Turt on Week 1, backstabbed me in JTM, and backstabbed his original “Season 6 alliance” Week 1.
Anyways, I completely controlled Wander’s HOH this week, he did EXACTLY what I would have done if I was HOH: original noms are Caz and Kourt, if terminated Rob and Kett, and backdoor is Thunder. The reason being is I wanted a strong competition player in each set of nominations so they would either save themselves for Thunder to be renominated, or evicted if noms stayed the same. It’s time for POV, and I am not picked for the 4th time in a row (#SadSpood). However, I am happy with the picks, because no matter who wins, Thunder is going to be the renomination. It’s close between Wander and Caz, but Caz barely pulls it out, and I congratulate him for winning just to get on his good side for a little bit longer until I have to go after him myself (he evicted me in EVBB2, hasn’t talked to me at all this season, and is a comp threat, so bye tbh). As expected, Caz saves himself, and Thunder is renominated. Now I am fairly confident Thunder will go home, considering we should have at least 9 votes to evict him (me, tony, turt, mac, phorix, spark, yellow, jake, tasty). At this point, Classic is begging me on Skype to keep Thunder as a shield, but I know he has an alliance with him. I feel kind of bad because my #ClassifiedInformation alliance with Class is low-key dying because I have literally voted the opposite as him at every eviction (except I don’t think he knows I voted Kourtney Week 1). He keeps trying to convince me that keeping Thunder is good for our game, but I wasn’t having any of it. Then he basically says the alliance between us is over, and I’m sort of relieved because I can finally expose his (a-word). I immediately list all of the names of the people he’s been telling the same things to that he has said to me (mac, spark, tony, peanut, and probably a lot more). I’ve known since Week 1 that Class has been playing both sides and making deals with everyone, but I kept it a secret just in case it came in handy. However, if he was going to threaten to end the alliance and go after people I was truly aligned with, my only choice was to expose him and explain my reasoning for voting the other way.
We get to the eviction and it’s 8-6, closer than I expected, but Thunder is thankfully still evicted. However, this week showed again that just like last week, one person in the alliance voted against us, further confirming the existence of a rat in the alliance. I’m not sure who, but my suspicions are still on either jake or tasty, knowing that tasty had a lot of beef with Kourtney, and jake is just a wildcard. It could still be anyone though at this point, except for Yellow, since he has wanted Thunder out since Week 1, and it most likely isn’t Tony, Mac, Turt, or Spark either. I am glad I kept my faith in the #WeenieHutJrs alliance, because it seems to finally be back on the right track. A big competition threat is gone that never talked to me, so I definitely got my way this week.
After, the eviction, I am looking to smooth things over with Classic, because I know he is still a competition beast and I definitely need him on my side for a bit longer, at least long enough to make jury. He told me before this session that Rob was coming after him, and I was happy to hear that because creating cracks between Rob and Class was my original idea. Tony helped me execute it by telling Class that Rob was worried about him in ESU3, and I think Class is now worried about Rob, but it could just be # ###### Anyways, I tell Class that I never said I wanted the alliance between us to end, because if he wants to be safe from Rob, he’s going to need numbers on his side. We both apologize to each other and I explain to Class that with Thunder leaving, there is a whole new dynamic to the game. The original alliance lines from Week 1 are starting to fade, and there is always room to readjust your loyalties. Then he tries to pull the sympathy card on me, saying “he’s alone”, but I know very well he’s not. Class finally comes around and agrees with me, then we have a mutual agreement that we still want to work with each other. Class suggests adding more people to the alliance, so he makes a chat with me, tony, mac, and himself. I come up with the name G-Force (remember that movie about the guinea pig spies?), and another 4 person alliance is born. I was already closely aligned with Tony and Mac, so this alliance is not my main priority, but I think it’s important to give Class at least a little feeling of security, so maybe he wouldn’t target me if he were to win another HOH competition. Although I said the alliance lines are fading, I still want one more person from their side of the house to leave before I go after one of our own. I might even go after Rob just to solidify the fact that Classic doesn’t have many options other than to align with me, and Rob is also floating by like he did in Season 1, and I don’t want him to gain any momentum, I still have my eye on him. I haven’t forgotten about tasty either, once enough of the other side is cut off, it might be time for him to go, since he has gained too much influence ever since we saved him.
That’s all for now! This is #RoodSpood signing out once again!
DR #5:
Ok, so this was easily the BEST week of the season for me: I had a plan coming into it, and I executed it PERFECTLY. After finding out this session was a Double Eviction, I knew I couldn’t win the first HOH. Not only was there a 50% chance of noms being terminated, but if I did end up having to nominate 5 people, then I wouldn’t have any time to smooth things over with them before the next HOH started, and I wouldn’t be able to play in the HOH to save myself. Ironically, I’m not even trying to win, but I tie with Yellow for the second most points, while Turt the “mathematician” jobs to the gutter! Near the end of the comp, I am thinking it is going to be between Yellow and I, I will throw it to him, and everything will be all good. Then, the last person to step up, Classic, scores a 3, beating mine and Yellow’s 2. At this point, I am just relieved that I didn’t throw away that alliance with Classic, because I knew it would come in handy down the road (yet sooner than I expected). My new ####### alliance is already in full force, and now it’s time to enact Operation: Distrust. For about a week now, Tony and I have been trying to form cracks between Rob and Classic, and after today, I wedged one deep enough to put my plan into action. I was talking to Rob right before the session, who told me he couldn’t make it, and began to reveal some secrets to his game that I decided to use against him. He told me that there were other people like kett, tasty, wander, and classic that were overshadowing him, allowing him to slide by, and he basically implied that he was just using Classic to shield him. Of course, I go straight to Classic and tell him this, and it ends up with Rob and Spark as the nominees. Now at this point, Classic still isn’t 100% convinced that Rob is against him, and his plan is to backdoor tasty (but that’s not my plan ;) ). Right after Rob finds out he has been nominated, it tells me that “he has a bone to pick with class after this de”, basically telling me he’s targeting Class if he stays this week, giving me the ammunition I need to sink Rob’s ship. I present this to Class to tell him that Rob, quite literally, is coming after him. At the same time, Rob is asking me to save him with POV, and i pretend like I will if I win, but I secretly want him out. Just in case he stays though, I need to pretend like I am trying my best to win the POV to save him. It’s my first time playing in a POV, and I have to throw it ( ;_; ). I want Spark to win the POV so he saves himself and then he won’t be evicted over Rob. I get first place in the first round (didn’t expect that tbh), then I know I have to throw it to Spark at some point, but then I just end up flopping in the 2nd round anyways and Spark wins POV. Obviously he saves himself, and tasty is unsurprisingly renominated. Honestly, even though I want Rob evicted this week, there is a voice in the back of my head saying that tasty is responsible for Peanut’s eviction, and has close ties to Wander and Nanto. However, I get back into strategic mode and realize that all of the votes thus far (except for Lion), have been EXTREMELY close, and numbers in this game are more important than ever. Classic wants us to evict tasty for being a social and strategic threat, but that’s not the best option for me at the moment. I keep telling Classic all of the things Rob has been saying about him in order to form even deeper cracks between them, and eventually he gives in, not to the point where he agrees with my decision, but to the extent that he understands why I am evicting Rob. As long as I can evict Rob without Classic holding it against me, that’s good enough for me. After I confirm with the ###### Hut Jrs Alliance that we’re voting Rob, I go to mac to pull him to my side, who is currently very conflicted on who to evict, but leaning more towards tasty for what happened to Peanut. I explain to mac that I was very upset with tasty too, and I truly did understand where he was coming from, but I had to make him understand that it’s too early to go after our own numbers. If we evicted tasty and kept someone like Rob, then someone else like Caz could win next HOH and take out another one of us, which would give them a numbers advantage. It makes no sense to give the other side power while we’re ahead, and my philosophy is to make the other side very weak to the point where it would take more than 1-2 weeks for them to regain a majority. It’s too risky to keep Rob in because it leaves the numbers at a mostly equal standing point, rather than giving us a clear majority. I don’t want to give up our power position while we’re ahead, so I am trying my best to convince mac to switch his vote to Rob. Eventually, mac says he “flipped a coin” to determine who he voted, and it just so happens that it landed on Heads, which was Rob. When I was casting my vote to evict, I told Evan the vote was going to be close, and I was right. 7-6…Rob is evicted! Once again, I am voting in opposition to Classic’s motives, but I can’t believe I was able to not only get Classic to nominate Rob, but to pull over enough numbers, including mac, to get him evicted! This is a huge turning point in the game for me, because now I don’t have to worry about Rob sliding to the end, and then dominating like he did in Season 1. Classic is upset, and tells me that Rob and him were staging a fight to hide their alliance, which I always considered as a possibility, but either way Rob is gone, and I am ecstatic that I was able to make it happen without even being HOH. Now that Rob is pre-jury, there is one less bitter juror :).
As Round 2 of the Double Eviction comes around, this is the first HOH of the season that I am 100% trying to win. One of my greatest skills in this game is damage control; given enough time, I can talk my way out of almost any situation, which is why Double Evictions make me nervous in general, because there is not enough time for me to persuade people. Now that this is the 2nd HOH of the week, no matter what the outcome, I will have time afterwards to smooth things over and make amends with people before the next session comes around. Also, the termination boxes have been reset, which increases my chances of not having to make more than 3 nominees. Another motivation to win this HOH is to get rid of someone like Caz, who is the final competition beast on the other side of the house (Classic is sort of with me at least), and he hasn’t talked any game with me the entire season. If Caz or one his allies goes home this week, that would give me enough breathing room to maybe turn on my alliance in these upcoming weeks. The final reason is up to this point I have been in the “Floater Club” (Stats of 0-0-0), and I think I need to make at least one big move in the pre-jury to make a statement to any future jurors, should I make it to the end, that I have been playing the game the entire way through. So the competition is a huge tower of wall jumps, and I know I am pretty good at them, but not sure how I compare to some other people. All of these competitions are from seasons that I didn’t participate in, which leaves me at somewhat of a disadvantage in that regard, but when I need to get something done, I get it done. I get off to a quick start, passing by Kett and most of the house, and the only one I can see is jake. Although jake is in my alliance, I want this win for myself in order to guarantee my safety, make a big move, and prove a point to the house that I am not there to float. For a majority of the competition, jake is trailing right behind me, but I finally get him out of my sight, and I am thinking all I need to do is keep this up to win. About halfway through the tower, I am expecting the competition, to be over, but it just keeps GOING and GOING, and I was actually starting to get frustrated because I didn’t know how much longer I could keep up the lead. Eventually, I make one fall, and jake passes me, and I am screaming internally because I desperately want this HOH. A fire rages inside me as I speed up and eventually pass jake once again, and keep up my momentum until I see the light at the end of the agonizing tunnel, the gold mat! I get to the top, jake arrives right behind me, and I win my first HOH of the season! I come to realize that the ####### has had power this entire week, with both of the HOHs, and one of the best moments was being able to come back to my alliance and bestow upon them a testament to my loyalty with a 100% guarantee that they are safe that week. I honestly felt like the hero for my alliance, as Classic felt that he was going home next (even though I feel it’s just an act of sympathy to downplay his status as a threat), and I was honored to be able to keep my promise to Class that if I had anything to say about it, he wasn’t going anywhere that week. Even though Class is very shady, he did end up helping me evict Rob (whether intentionally or not), so I felt that I owed him for that. Also, I can repay Wander for the deal I made to him Week 1 by promising that he would not be nominated on my first HOH reign. So I was able to keep two of my promises this week, which hopefully builds some trust between me and my alliance members. Immediately after I win HOH, Kett and Phorix both send me contact requests on Skype (how fake can you be tbh, lmao). I was already planning to nominate Kett since he never talked to me, and I was unsure on who the second nominee would be, but eventually decided on Kourtney since she’s close to Caz and has been ####### ## the wrong way lately. The backdoor plan is Caz, and I am hoping that noms stay the same so I am able to execute my plan with as little blood as possible. It’s time to pick a box, and I have a good feeling that Box #1 will terminate my nominees, but despite that, I have to go with where my heart lies, Season 1, and leave my fate in the hands of destiny. As predicted, nominees are terminated! Thanks destiny! So now Kourtney and Kett are both safe, so I nominate Caz and Nanto as the only options left from the other side honestly, with the reasoning that neither of them have talked game with me either. Now I just have to pray that Caz doesn’t win that POV, and I pick mac to play in the POV because he seemed excited to play in the chair race. I heard that this competition was very fun, but I was in try-hard mode so I could focus on keeping the veto out of Caz’s hands. The race starts, and I am in first for a short while, only to be flung first off almost immediately, so rip @ that. Thankfully, almost everyone else is flung off as well, including Caz AND Nanto (PRAISE JOCASTA ~ that’’s for you Peanut). At this point it’s down to Tony and Spark, and I am comfortable with whoever wins it. Spark wins his 2nd POV in a row, and I am just hoping that nominees stay the same and we send Caz packing. I immediately contact Spark after the POV to confirm that noms are staying the same, when my worst nightmare comes back to haunt me. I can sense it already that Spark wants to use this POV, it’s like deja vu of tasty all over again and I am screaming inside. Last time, I wasn’t aggressive enough, and I allowed Peanut to get evicted because of it. This time, I am NOT letting that same mistake happen again. If he uses that POV, I will have no choice but to nominate someone from my own alliance, which would be very damaging to my game and may even save Caz. Spark wants me to backdoor Classic, and I completely shut him down, saying that I promised Classic safety this week and I intend to stay true to my word. I resort to the only thing I can do at this point, which is BEG for him not to use the veto. I am not kidding, I literally got on my knees and BEGGED and PLEADED for him not to use the veto. I didn’t want Spark ruining the plan and having my HOH reign be tarnished by his stupidity. If he uses this veto, he’s going to be in bad graces with the alliance for a LONG time. As a last ditch effort, I explain to Spark that if he wants to damage Classic’s game, Caz is Classic’s strongest ally left in the house (which is true honestly), and so if he kept the nominees the same, he could get rid of Classic’s ally without upsetting the rest of the alliance. Spark takes forever to make his decision, and it’s making me extremely nervous, but he finally decides to “stick with his gut” and … NOT USE THE VETO. Omg, thank you Alison Grodner and Mar Poi!
Now, it should be an easy vote to evict Caz over Nanto, who is a much bigger threat. Then out of nowhere, Caz tries to call out mac and I as his targets, saying that “he’s been targeting us even before this DE”. Oh I see, so you nominated both of us next to each other in EVBB2, and now you intended to do it again? Interesting how the roles are reversed now, karma sure tastes sweet. Mac flips out on Caz for him getting “exposed” by Caz when he didn’t really do anything to him the entire season. People just come in with the assumption that mac and I always work together 100%, which is not always the case. We have ###### ## each other MANY times in longterm, and the perception that we are inseparable siamese twins is what will lead to his downfall. The vote comes in, and closer than I expected, but also divinely well placed, a 6-6 tie. At this point, I didn’t even care who didn’t stay true to their word and vote to evict Caz, I was just simply overjoyed to have the satisfaction of personally evicting Caz’s (a-word) myself. Right when I saw it tie, I immediately stood up and said “Caz, bye, session over”. I wasn’t even going to let him get a word out of his mouth before he walked out that door, it would have been a waste of everyone’s time. After waiting since EVBB2 to enact my revenge, Caz finally got what was coming to him, and man did it feel good. I wasn’t even coming into this season holding that grudge against him, I was originally targeting him for different reasons, but he brought back the past so I slammed it in his face.
This session went amazingly for me because my biggest rival from Season 1 and my biggest rival from Season 2 were BOTH evicted in the same week, which takes a lot of pressure off of my back. However, there were still a few items of concern in hindsight of the session. Although Classic saw Caz OPENLY target both mac and I (both members of the ######### he still decided that he wanted to vote to save him, which is a big red flag in my mind. He is choosing one ally over the two allies in his current alliance? That’s super shady to me, but once again, I prevent Classic from having his way, which has basically become a weekly occurrence at this point. I kept my word to Class, but it doesn’t seem like he has my best interests in mind at the end of the day, so I would prefer to see him go sooner than later after I no longer need him to help protect myself. Also, that vote should NOT have tied, but this is only a continuation of the trend which has shown there to be rats in the alliance that are either voting their own way, or voting against us entirely. Turn admitted to being one of the votes to keep Caz, which I appreciated for his honesty, but that still doesn’t entirely explain the outcome of the vote. My hypothesis at the moment is that tasty and his crew are rogues that are voting their own way, although I am still not entirely sure who the rats are in the alliance. Finally, I was hoping that after Rob and Caz left the house, the ###### Hut Jrs would have a significant numbers advantage. However, it appears as if that alliance is slowly dissolving, as well as the #HistoryTeachers (it’s just not the same without Peanut around ;_;). Ironically, the alliance that I had the least faith in the week beforehand has somewhat become my primary alliance. For weeks, I have been fighting against Classic on who should go home, and I almost always got my way in the end, but now that Rob and Caz are gone, it may be time to flip the script.
I approached mac after the session, and I basically gave him the signal that it’s time to switch this game around and begin to turn on our alliance. The only people from the opposing side that are left are Nanto, Kourtney, and Kett, none of which are HUGE competition threats. On the other side however, we have someone like tasty who has been narrowly surviving evictions, and along the way, gathering numbers. Mac tells me that if he wins HOH, he is on board to put up tasty and Wander, and I tell him that it sounds like a good idea because he has good reasoning for nominating both of them: Wander for nominating him Week 1, and tasty for causing Peanut’s eviction. We can forgive, but we won’t forget tasty, and eventually your actions in the past will come back to haunt you. If next week goes according to plan, mac will go try hard in the next HOH competition and hopefully pull out the win. Then he can get one of tasty’s minions like Wander evicted, who has not only been shady and untrustworthy, but somewhat competent in competitions as well. Not only will this dwindle tasty’s influence, it will also make Classic happy and strengthen the bonds within the ######## Eventually however, Classic will need to go soon after, considering he IS a physical and social threat to win this game. Unlike many others, he knows how to get himself out of sticky situations, and is self-aware enough to jump off a sinking ship onto a life-raft in order to save himself, the sinking ship being Thunder’s alliance, and the life-raft being the ######## However, this raft can only hold him up for so long, eventually it will deflate and he will sink to the bottom of the ocean just like all of his previous allies.
As time goes on, the dynamics of this game keep changing for me. I used to trust Turt a lot, but now I feel like he is distancing himself from me, and him and jake have formed a duo in a sense. I’m not really sure where Turt’s head is at tbh, which kind of scares me, considering I know he has a great social game and can make allies very quickly. Deep down I feel that he is still on my side for the time being, but if he did want to make a move against me, he has the capability to gather the numbers against me, and I don’t want to have to win competitions to stay in the game like I did in Season 1. Him saving Caz after he openly targeted me really got me worried, and Turt may have to leave sooner than expected. Let’s not forget someone like Phorix who I KNOW is a competition threat, but he has managed to COMPLETELY fly under the radar up until this point. I don’t think I’ve heard his name come up once, and that deeply troubles me. Then Spark’s hesitance to discard the POV was also concerning, and I have come to realize that I don’t trust a majority of the people in the ###### Hut Jrs Alliance, and I don’t see it having much use to me in the near future. I will admit that it has been crucial to executing my plans and making votes go my way, but it may be time to cut it loose. The only people I truly trust at the moment are Yellow, Tony, and Mac, so I am just hoping that Mac can win this next HOH and get rid of untrustworthy people that may screw me later on. If not Mac, then I know I can rely on Yellow to keep me safe.
After the session, Caz calls mac and I “snakes”, even though he admitted to wanting us out before this week even happened and hasn’t talked game with us at all, so #Confused. I also get time to smooth things over with Kett and Nanto, and reassure them that they were never the targets, and my sole intention was to get Caz evicted (which is true, but I am not entirely sure how they feel about me at the moment, though I do get good vibes from Nanto). I think that after this week, the alliance lines have mostly disappeared, and it’s started to become more of an individual game rather than an alliance war between both sides of the house. Hopefully I align with the right people in order to situate myself in a good enough position that will take me to the Final 2. I need to exploit the fact that Classic still wants tasty or wander out, tony still wants kourtney out, Spark still wants Classic out, mac still wants Wander out, Turt still wants Nanto out, and tasty still wants Classic or Kourtney out. If I play my cards right, allow my alliance members to protect me, and turn other people against each other, I think I may be able to keep the target off of my back long enough to get into a power position.
Wish me luck!
#RoodSpood
DR #6:
After seeing Spark go last week, I felt a mix of emotions. On one hand, Spark is a good friend of mine, and would probably vote on ## side and keep me safe. Also, it showed how close Classic and Kett are, and that makes me extremely nervous. On the other hand, I am glad Phorix is still in the house, because that means my 4 person alliance, the #SaltySpitoon, is still intact, and can move forward together in this game. It would have been really good for my game to see Kett go home though, and if mac had just won that POV against Classic, he would have. Now I have to deal with Kett being upset with me for nominating him, Kett associated me with Yellow who he is mad at, and Kett being close with Classic. This guy is triple trouble and he makes me nervous.
Before the HOH competition I had been talking with Kett to try and smooth things over, because I had explain to him that he was never my true target (which is true). Although I’ve been talking Kett up a lot, he’s one of the people I trust the least at the moment, so I am going to try and stop him from winning HOH if I can. The HOH competition is Johnny Bravo’s House of Tricks, hosted by the muscular mass of macho himself, Johnny Bravo (Evan <3). Basically, I had been on R15 for the first half of the competition, which I come to find out is the reason I wasn’t get teleported, so that ruined my chances of winning HOH lmao. Although, I’m not really trying to win because I want to compete in the next HOH, but if someone like Kett or tasty is close to winning I am going for it. At one point Kett needed to stack ## ### ## ## to get to the next round, so I low-key pretended to be ask (#SneakySpood), but at some point I had to “wake up” as to not be too suspicious, because if Kett does end up winning this comp, I don’t want him mad at me. Near the end of the comp, it comes down to me and Kett at the very end, and I am sort of contemplating whether or not to win the competition. Although I said I don’t trust Kett, I feel like I might be able to convince him to keep me safe? However, while I am trying to decide what to do, I end up falling anyways and Kett wins the HOH (the BB gods literally hate me omg). This is the third time now where I am extremely nervous going into the week, and so I am throwing out a whole bunch of deals to Kett, like keeping him safe for my next two HOH reigns, how much I just want to make jury, I will “owe him everything”, etc. It’s all a bunch of BS, but gotta do anything to stay safe right?
It’s time for the nomination ceremony and it appears as if my attempts were in vain, as mac and I are both nominated next to each other (*has EVBB2 PTSD flashbacks*). I was surprised that Yellow wasn’t nominated, but I just assumed it was a backdoor plan. The POV picking goes pretty well for me because Yellow gets picked, and he was a history of saving me with the POV (*has “good times…” memories of EVBB1 to counteract the bad memories from EVBB2*). I also have Kett saying he plans to save me with the POV because it’s a backdoor, and I had also promised to vote his way if he took me off. I think Classic would also save me because he’s with Kett and we have worked together in this game. The only people I’m nervous about are Kourt and tasty, and when I asked Kourt if she was voting to keep me, she sad “at the moment, yes”. At the moment? So that means if noms change you might vote me out? Ok well, thanks for that shade, honestly some people have no idea had to manage a social game. Then I talk to tasty telling him about how I rallied to keep him Week 2 when lion went home, I literally saved him by one vote when Rob went home 7-6, and then I won HOH and didn’t nominate him or his allies at all. All I said was that I had tasty’s back many times when he was in danger, and I would appreciate it if he would do the same for me. I even made him a deal that if he saved me with POV, I would vote mac out for him (I knew how much he wanted mac out, but I wasn’t going to follow through with that). Believe it or not, this is how he replies to me: “Spood, I don’t make deals unless I win” and then after I explained how many times I had his back, he says: “don’t try to guilt me into it, that won’t work lol” and “stop getting paranoid spood”. Like ok me. A) Why wouldn’t you make a deal beforehand, it’s not like it will hurt your game if you say you would save me if you DID win? B) Are you serious, I literally save you in this game and you pay that back with a snarky remark? C) STOP GETTING PARANOID? Legit, tasty is one of the most paranoid people in this game and yet he has the nerve to say that to me. So at this point, I officially dislike tasty and want him gone, because even after I showed him tons of screenshots proving I had his back, he doesn’t seem to trust me at all. He ####### ## once in this game with Peanut, and I let it slide, but screw me twice and you’re dead to me. Literally his social game is so bad, no wonder he got pre-jury in EVBB1, and the only reason he didn’t get pre-jury this season was because a huge alliance that I was a part of had his back. He literally made himself a target on Week 1, so if he thinks he can go around acting like he doesn’t owe anyone anything, I pray that he gets a reality check.
It’s time for the POV, and it’s block pushing, which I am fairly good at, but there seems to be a problem with the competition that make me nervous. There are only a limited number of blocks, and someone could easily say and push them off, but before Thunder listened to me and fixed it, he just started the competition. Luckily, no one was playing dirty and trying to sabotage, and I was doing pretty well. I was the first one to get 5 blocks back to my pen, but I had left the most difficult one for last. I pushed my block to the very edge of the narrow beam, and I had to be SUPER careful not to knock it off, so I was sweating. I finally got enough room behind it to push it across the beam onto the main area, and as I was pushing my final block up the hill to my pen, it was announced someone had already won. My heart dropped for a second, but I found out Yellow had won. At first I had to double check what I was seeing on my screen, and after confirming Yellow had won, I let out a huge sigh of relief. One of the best moments so far because I was positive Yellow would save me. I am pretty sure I got 2nd in the comp, so if Yellow wasn’t there, I would have won it and saved myself anyways, but I’m glad that both of us are safe this week, because Yellow was definitely a possible backdoor option.
It’s time for the veto ceremony, and Yellow saves me, so now Kett has to make a renomination. Honestly, considering I am pretty sure Yellow was Kett’s backdoor option, even though he denies it, I don’t know who Kett will renominate now that Yellow is safe. The BB gods bestow upon me a gift as Kett renominates WANDER. One of tasty’s allies that I wanted out for being shady? FINE BY ME. The only problem is Wander is next to mac, so this can either go really badly for me or really well, so I get straight to work with my campaigning. I am already pretty sure we have three votes to save mac (myself, Yellow, and Phorix), and now we only need two more. I approach Jake and Tony to vote out Wander, which they both agree to do, and Classic has been pretty clear that he wants tasty and Wander gone and that he is loyal to ### G-Force (if that’s even still a thing tbh). So if everyone stays true to their word, the vote should be 6-3 with Wander leaving. I know it’s going to be a close vote, and my suspicions are confirmed as Evan announces it is 5-4! When Evan announced that Wander was evicted I screamed in joy and celebrated in the Salty Spittoon chat. That’s a big weight off of my shoulders, and I just realized that mac and I were nominated next to each other and somehow both survived the week. Not only that, but th###ntire Salty Spittoon alliance is somehow still in th###ouse after having members up two weeks in a row.
Now this session was pretty good for me, but the aftermath is where it really gets crazy. First off, I am relieved to have made jury, but as expected, the game’s intensity levels have now just stepped up. It’s going around that ### house is extremely divided, with me, Yellow, mac, and Phorix on one side, tasty, Kourt, and Nanto on ### other side, and Classic, Kett, Tony, and Jake in ### middle. Now I’ve been telling some people that this conclusion has been going around, but I was NOT the one to start it, nor did I ever state I 100% believed it, because I feel as if Tony and Jake are closer to my side (as well as Classic and Kett, but less so). Anyways, Classic approaches me saying that he knows about the alliance between me, Yellow, mac, and Phorix, and I have already sort of spilled the beans to Tony at this point, so basically both of them are asking why they were not added to the chat and the alliance is pretty much exposed and the whole house knows. I explain that I wasn’t ### one to start ### alliance, Yellow approached me about Phorix wanting to make a four person alliance. I didn’t want to add any of them without the others’ permission because that would seem shady and expose my side alliances with them to other Houseguests. I explained to Classic and Tony that I didn’t want people thinking we were working closely together, and that I wanted to be the one in the alliance that could hear information that Yellow, Phorix, and mac wouldn’t say in front of Classic and Tony, and then I could bring that info to them privately. I think my reasoning makes a lot of sense, as well as the fact that I believe 4 is the magic number for an alliance, but nevertheless Classic and Tony want in on it.
In between all of this, there is an investigation within the alliance to find out who voted mac, and we narrowed down our suspects to either Tony, Jake, or Classic. First, Tony sends me a screenshot of him telling Evan on Skype that he votes to evict Wander, but in the upper part of the screenshot I see that there is a list of the top 5 people Tony want out, but I can only see Jake as number 5. When I asked Tony if I could see the rest of the list, he said “I’ve already shown you enough” and refused, which is highly shady. Another thing is that after that comment in the screenshot, Evan asked Tony “So, are you voting mac?” before Tony even said he was evicting Wander, which raises the question as to why Evan would assume that. There can only be one explanation, mac is high up on Tony’s list, probably even ahead of Wander, which is why Evan would assume Tony wants to vote mac out over Wander. Tony may have changed his vote to Wander last minute in order to not create any waves, but now I am pretty sure I know where his true intentions lie. I asked Tony if Yellow was number 1, and I was right about that, then after questioning Tony about my theory, he finally admits that mac was on his list, but that he truthfully did vote to evict Wander. For the time being I believe him, but there are still some things I am nervous about. If Yellow was number one, and mac was possibly number 2, who’s not to say that I could be 3 or 4? He never even showed me the screenshot, so that leads me to believe that even more, but we’ll have to see I guess. I also called out Tony for wanting mac and Yellow out because he feels like they are my “number 2s”, and Tony wants them out so that he can take their place as my number 2, which he ultimately admits. For now I have promised Tony that I won’t tell mac that he is on Tony’s hit list, but I am saving this information for later in the game to use it against Tony if I deem it necessary.
When I ask Jake for proof that he voted Wander, he said that “I told Kett in game that I voted Wander, then Kett screenshotted that and sent the screenshot to Evan on Skype”. This raises A LOT of questions. First off, I didn’t even see Kett leave the session at any point to go and ask Jake for his vote. Secondly, if Jake’s wifi was so bad that he couldn’t send something on Skype, how could he be in game to tell Kett? Also, who’s to say that Kett couldn’t just take a screenshot of Jake voting Wander, but then take another screenshot of Jake voting mac and send that to Evan instead? Kett did end up showing me the screenshot of jake voting Wander and another screenshot of him sending that screenshot to Evan. So for the time being I believe him, but there seem to be a lot of holes in that story.
Finally, immediately after the eviction Classic had told me before I even asked that he voted to keep mac and that he wants to stay loyal to the alliance that we have together. This seems kind of strange that Classic would go into defensive mode before I even said anything, and since he was in game to vote via pm, he has no evidence to send me that he voted Wander out. So far, the clues are leading to Classic, but the problem with that is Classic would most likely vote the way Kett wants him to vote, and if Classic did vote Mac, then that means Jake actually did vote Wander, which means Kett was telling Jake to vote Wander. This would mean Kett and Classic want the vote to go two different ways, which seems unlikely. Right now I’m still really confused on who voted out mac, but there is one final possibility.
I had been thinking this in my head, but mac was the first one to bring up the possibility that Yellow or Phorix might have voted him out, and that Classic, Jake, and Tony are all telling the truth. I find that unlikely, but mac is right to not rule out that possibility. One thing that is leading to Yellow is that during our little investigation, Yellow stated that he wanted to let it go and move on, which doesn’t make sense unless he was trying to cover up his own guilt. This information is crucial to know so that we don’t place our trust in the wrong hands later on, believe me, I know (*glares at AlteringLordz and AnEpikReshiram*). Another thing is that Yellow may have the same motives as Tony, which is to break up the apparent duo that mac and I have and take mac’s place at my side. For the time being, I still trust Yellow a lot and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt after he saved me with the POV, but that possibility is still in the back of my mind.
The next morning, I wake up to find that Classic and tasty are both really mad at me. Classic says that tasty told him that I was after Classic and Kett, which literally never came out of my mouth and is a blatant lie, so hopefully I smoothed that over pretty quick because I know how to defend myself when I am straight up telling the truth. I have faith in the fact that Classic shouldn’t trust anything that tasty says, but that faith may be questioned by something I will mention later on.
Then tasty is saying “Spood, have you been going around telling people that the house is divided and I am on the “other side?” “This is why I don’t trust you, you go and tell other people stuff that’s super ####### shady”. I try to explain to tasty that I never actually said that, I just told people that’s what I heard was the general consensus from the people I talked to, but tasty doesn’t seem to want to listen. Honestly, I am done trying to prove myself to tasty, because I literally owe him nothing in this game, he’s been nothing but a liability to me. He’s an unreasonable and paranoid person, so I didn’t waste my time trying to convince him of the truth, but I did take the time to expose him about the lies he’s been telling to Classic. He didn’t really have an appropriate response to that, as I probably took him off guard while exposing his hypocrisy, considering spreading lies about someone is one of the shadiest things you can do in this game, and the conversation ended on a sour note. At this point, I 100% want tasty gone, so I will be gunning for this next HOH and praying tasty doesn’t win. I am nervous because a lot of my allies can’t even make this session AND it’s a Double Eviction, so I am pretty much fighting for my life this session.
Flash forward a little bit, I am at home right after school just looking around Skype, and I see that there is mention of a comeback competition in EVBB7. At first I dismiss it as a joke, until Evan posts a place link for us to come watch, and says that most of the pre-jurors are already in game. I join the game to confirm one of my greatest fears, as Brax coming back in EVBB1 literally ruined my game. This time around, the odds against me are even worse. Let’s see what we have on our roster here: Compell, the person who would cling to tasty/kourt/nanto as a number, (Lion wasn’t there); Peanut, one of the few people I would like to see come back; Thunder, the person whose eviction I had a big part in and a competition beast; Rob, the person I had an even bigger hand in voting out and a decent competition player; Caz, the person I literally backdoored and another competition beast; Spark, someone who I would also like to see return; and Wander, ### person ### I literally just voted out ### would win competitions and help tasty if he came back. So basically, the odds are totally against me, and my luck is bad enough how it is, so my heart is racing during this comeback. To make matters worse, Peanut and Compell are the first ones out of the competition, so now Spark is literally my only hope of not being screwed over. Thunder gets out in ### chair race, Rob gets out in ### ladder obby, and now it’s down to Wander, #### and Spark. Spark says that he can easily beat Wander at the tower obby, and that comp is selected, so I am feeling pretty good until Spark starts LOSING. He’s literally in last place, and Caz has already finished, so it’s down to Wander and Spark and Wander has a slight lead. I can see the golden platform as Spark and Wander are neck and neck and at the last second Spark BARELY makes it to the top first, beating Wander by less than a second. One of the scariest moments ever, but I am glad that Wander is gone. At least if Caz comes back I might be able to reason with him and smooth things over, but Spark coming back is still much better for my game. The final competition is the lava circle that mac lost to Classic in the POV we needed him to win. This competition already has bad history for me, so when the competition starts I only watch Caz because I am too nervous to watch Spark. It’s going on for a while, and I am getting bad vibes that Caz is going to win. Then, all of a sudden, I see Caz fall and die, and look around to see that Spark is still alive and has won the comeback! OMG, literally something that I wished would have never happened to begin with actually worked out in my favor?!? Evan still gave me a heart attack for a good 30 minutes, so I blame him for that, but I am glad that Spark is back in the game so he can have a fresh start (on my side, hehe).
Finally, right after the comeback I get some disturbing news from Peanut. Apparently, one of tasty’s allies told Peanut that Classic and tasty are no longer at each other’s throats and are actually working together?!?!? This came as a shock to me, and if you refer to my previous statement above, may explain why Classic was so quick to trust tasty’s word that I was after him and Kett. I’m not really sure to what extent I should believe this, but I won’t dismiss it because this is definitely game changing information. If this turns out to be true, it could be devastating for my game. I really just hope it’s not so that tasty can go home in this upcoming eviction and I can somehow stay safe. I’m really nervous going into this next session because I hate Double Evictions and I have this bad feeling that I am going home. As I am writing this, the session is only an hour and 20 minutes away, and I am still kind of shaking with anxiety. Hopefully I can win this Head of Household and my alliance wins the other one to ensure my safety, but I don’t know if I can rely on them because Spark won’t be there for the first HOH, mac and Phorix said they can’t make it all, and jake said he can’t make it because of family (who may be a crucial vote to keep me if I end up on the block). Overall, I am just really nervous, and I am feeling the heat of the jury stage more than ever.
Wish me luck! (I’m going to need it X_X)
#RoodSpood
DR #7:
Ok so I’m on the bottom. This session was pretty crazy so let’s get right into it. Going into this DE I didn’t really want to win the first HOH, but I didn’t have much of a choice as most of my allies were not in attendance. It was an endurance competition and I have a history of doing well in endurance comps. The HOH was pretty trippy, mentally and physically, and I thought it was pretty interesting, but also scary because I was close to falling off a few times. After Kourtney and tasty fell, I felt a lot better, but then Yellow fell near the end which left it up to me. Eventually, it ended up with me and Class as the last two standing. We made a safety for safety deal, but honestly, if what Peanut told me is true, I don’t know how much I can trust Class to keep me safe if he’s working with tasty to get out members from my side. I want to win this HOH to get tasty out of the house so that I have less people after me going into Round 2. Class falls and I win HOH, and I feel pretty good, but at this point I have 2 HOH wins, and now I know I am officially a target. Hopefully the week goes well enough so that I can survive the rest of the Double Eviction.
It’s time for nominations, and there is no termination twist so I can be straight up about my nominees (how I like it). I nominated tasty because no matter how hard I try he just doesn’t trust me, so I am done trying to convince him of my loyalty. The sooner he leaves, the better. Then I put up Kourtney next to him as a pawn because I felt like tasty and Kourtney had made up at this point and started to work together again, considering their matching outfits at the session. Kourtney was the pawn, and I desperately need tasty to go home. The plan the alliance (The Salty Spittoon + Tony) made before the session was to nominate tasty and kourtney and tasty goes home. 9 people are voting in the eviction, so as long as my voting block of 6 stay together (Tony, mac, Yellow, Phorix, Spark, and maybe Jake), we should be able to control the eviction votes this week. I did exactly what the alliance had agreed on doing so I expected them to have my back, but we’ll get to that later.
Time for the POV picking. Kourtney gets HG choice and picks Classic, which is pretty shady and further confirms the fact I think Kourtney/tasty are now working with Classic. I had a gut feeling at the very beginning of the session that Classic has been playing both sides and he’s going to go with them against my side. I told Evan about it beforehand and now it starting to slowly unravel before my eyes. Classic promises to save Kourtney, but when I talk to him in Skype chat, he promises to me that he was lying and that he knows not to use it on Kourtney. The POV competition is block pushing, so I knew immediately Classic had a pretty good chance of winning. I was pretty close to finishing, but eventually Classic passed the 4th level first, so at that point I was cheering him on and he won. Here comes the nightmare part, and let’s just say that Classic pulled a classically Classic move. I approach Classic confirming that he isn’t using it, and the first two words out of his mouth are “Spood”, “Dude”. That’s never a good sign, Classic’s done it before, and what it translates to is “I’m going to sneakily manipulate you into going along with my own plans even though it’s your HOH”. Like um, no. He doesn’t fool me, so I put my foot down and said that if Classic used the POV it wasn’t going to be good. What I meant by that was if he took off Kourtney, I would renominate Kett. However, I didn’t directly say that I was renominating Kett, all I said was that it would be bad. Classic perceives it as a threat, and I clarified that I was just giving him a warning that people would be upset with him. It seems like my plan worked because Classic was given the impression that if he used the POV, Kett would be renominated. I know this because Kett came to me saying “Classic told me that he can’t use POV because I would be the renom”. I deny ever saying that because, well, it’s the truth! I never did mention Kett’s name once, so I got Classic to do what I want without actually having to throw anyone under the bus. No evidence against me, and now Classic is scared into not using the POV. I’m not going to let him push me around on my HOH. I stood my ground before and I will do it again. Nominees stay as Kourtney and tasty, and I was starting to get some suspicions that a few people might flip. The thought in my mind was that if the vote was close, Kourtney might go home, but if the vote is nearly unanimous, tasty would have to be the one to go home because I highly doubt THAT many people would flip on me. Evan reads the vote is 8-1 and at this point I am almost sure that tasty is going home. Just as I was about to celebrate its announced Kourtney is evicted and I am honestly shocked beyond belief. I was 100% blindsided and looking back on my HOH reign, I noticed how little my alliance was talking to me, they totally left me in the dark. Mac was the only person to vote tasty, everyone else who had helped make the plan betrayed me and left me out in the middle of the road to be run over. Not only that, but now Oak is mad at me because she had to vote out her best friend Kourtney, ### blocked her. I told Oak I was pretty sure I had the numbers to get tasty out, so apparently Oak decided to give a sympathy vote towards Kourtney because she thought tasty was leaving already. Now Oak is mad at me and thinks I lied to her, but honestly if you didn’t want her out you shouldn’t have voted her so #Confused. I don’t even know why she’s mad at me when I was one of the few people in the house to campaign for Kourtney to stay and tasty to go home.
Anyways, I feel totally betrayed, have no numbers or allies other than Yellow, and now it’s time for the next HOH and I can’t even play. At this point, I am about 90% sure I am going home in this Double Eviction, my worst nightmare. To make matters worse, Evan decided to start the HOH competition without Yellow, the only person who would 100% keep me safe. Classic wins HOH (we’re the only ones to win the DE HOHs), and immediately my suspicions are confirmed when Classic says “it’s time to switch up the game”. I’ve been expecting this for a while honestly, and I know what he means. He wants the “trio” of me, mac, and Yellow to be split up, and he’s working with tasty and pretty much the entire rest of the house to do so. Honestly, Phorix is so lucky he’s never associated with this alliance; mac, Yellow, and I are taking all of the heat while he sits pretty, which kind of gets me irked. Classic nominates Mac and Yellow, unsurprisingly, and at this point I am just pleading loyalty to Classic and Kett because I know I could very well be ### renomination. If I make it seem like I’m alone in the house and that I will be sheeping Classic and Kett for the rest of the game, they might keep me around as a shield and a number. I will do ANYTHING to stay in this house, because right now I am completely powerless.
It’s time for the POV picking and luckily I get picked. This POV is the most important one of the season so far because if I win, not only can I keep myself safe, but I can return the favor to Yellow and take him off of the block as well, because I’m almost sure he’s the target this week. The competition is a tree lobby and I start off with an early lead, but soon enough I get stuck in the grass near the start while everyone else passes me. I am spamming !help for a whole minute and being ignored by the hosts, which was one of the most frustrating things because this POV is likely do or die for me. Even after they saw I was stuck they didn’t even redo ### first round, which I thought was unfair, but whatever. Kett wins the POV and at this point there’s not much I can do for Yellow. His head’s on the chopping block and I just need to appeal to Kett to keep nominations the same so I am not the renominee. Kept agrees and keeps nominations the same, which I am grateful for, but also sad because I know I am about to lose an ally.
I am voting to keep Yellow this week, but in my mind I was considering it a sympathy vote because I was almost sure he would go home. The vote was reads 6-2 and as I was getting ready to hug Yellow goodbye, it was revealed mac was evicted. Once again I was surprised by the vote, but this time in a good way. At first I was sort of upset that I lost mac, as he had been the only one to vote tasty out and was one of my allies. However, after looking back on the game, oddly enough I think mac going may actually be good for me for a couple of reasons. 1. He was just painting a target on ## back. Everyone in ### house considered Yellow, mac, and I to be a “trio”, so with mac going home it shrinks ### target on Yellow’s back and mine. 2. He was inactive, so although he may have been on my side, I couldn’t rely on him to win competitions when I needed him to, as he hasn’t won any so far. Yellow on the other hand is very capable of winning competitions, and we can help each other down the road. 3. I know mac too well, and I assumed that at some point during the mid-jury stage, he was going to backstab me anyways, like he always does. He’s pretty predictable, and I know that he hates going to the end with me because he’s scared he will lose. So now that weight is taken off of my shoulders so I don’t have to worry about finding the time to turn on mac before he turns on me. 4. Mac told me after his eviction that he threw me under the bus to someone, so like bye, I never did that to you >:(. 5. I’m the last surviving member of the #HistoryTeachers, so gg!
Anyways, I feel really alone in the house right now, but a ray of hope started to poke out through the clouds after the session. Tony wanted to go on call with me to basically apologize for ######## ## over, and after a few minutes I agreed. At one point during the conversation, I was getting tired of the pointless rivalry tasty and I had because I knew it wasn’t good for either of our games. Honestly, I know 100% what Classic is doing, and he’s doing it well. Playing the middle, pitting tasty and I against each other, weakening both of our sides week after week until we’re too weak to stand up against him. He knows he’s a competition beast, so if he gets out someone like me who is decent in competitions, he knows he can win his way to the end. He even wanted Yellow out this week, most likely because he was a competition threat and Kett’s enemy, but that didn’t turn out well for him. So considering this, I decided to cut to the chase and tell Tony to add tasty to the call. The only way we move forward in this game is if we put our differences aside and work together. However, even though I am trying to make amends with tasty, he is one of the most difficult people to talk to, I s2g. Tony brings up that he wants Classic and Kett gone because they are becoming huge threats, which I agree with, but convincing tasty to go after them was a whole other story. Tasty kept asking us who we would target after Classic and Kett went home, and we told him we don’t know because we don’t plan our targets 3 weeks in advance @@@. Tasty, being the paranoid person that he is, assumes that means we will evict him right after Classic and Kett go home. First off, just because we don’t tell you our entire plan to evict people for the season, it doesn’t mean we’re after you. Secondly, if anyone has something to be worried about it’s me, because I think I would be a bigger target than tasty OR Tony if Classic and Kett went home, and I will get to that later. Another shady thing tasty did was he kept indirectly denying lying about me to Classic by “misinterpreting” my question, but I finally got him to admit that he lied to Classic twice about me going after him (which wasn’t true at the time). After a 2 hour dispute because tasty and I are TERRIBLE at communication (probably part of the reason we ended up not trusting each other), we finally got to the point and reached an understanding that our rivalry wouldn’t help us in the end. I asked for an alliance name for us three, and neither of them seemed to care about the name at all, which made me a little bit nervous that they weren’t committed to it. In the end however, I dealt with their indifference by calling the alliance, well, #Indifference. I don’t think this will last long at all, but I need it for right now. Even though I don’t completely trust it, I have to give it a shot.
Now, although I do want Classic gone for being a threat, the situation presents a dilemma for me for a lot of reasons. 1. Classic and I have worked together in this game since the beginning, and during all of our HOHs, neither of us have nominated the other. I feel that if I betrayed him next week, he would be very bitter at me for betraying his “loyalty” and I would lose his jury vote if I did make it to the end. 2. If I win this next HOH and evict Classic or Kett, not only will I not be able to play in the next HOH, but one of my biggest shields in this game will be gone, with the other staying in the game to come after me along with many others in the house. I think it’s VERY dangerous for my game to be the one to nominate Classic or Kett myself, because not only have I told them that I trust them the most at the moment, but it would only increase the target on my back and decrease my protection. On the other hand, there are a good amount of reasons for me to nominate Classic and Kett as well. 1. Classic is going around to people, once again, and saying that he “trusts them the most”. Spark confirmed that Classic did it to him as well, and he’s telling everybody the same thing, so he’s not really sincere. 2. I would feel like an idiot if I had a shot to take out the strongest duo in this game and didn’t take it, then ended up losing to them in the end. 3. Classic is a competition and social threat, somehow having the most competition wins, yet being the only person un-nominated so far. However, that could just be because people are SCARED to do so, which I understand, but at some point it has to be done. 4. Classic DID come after my allies mac and Yellow, so that gives me some reasoning to return the favor. I’ve nominated Kett before and I can do it again.
However, I’ve come to the conclusion that, surprisingly, I might have to throw this next HOH competition. This might be the riskiest gamble of my game so far: do I trust the people that just backstabbed me to help me go further in this game? Will they win that HOH and just evict me instead after throwing me under the bus to Classic? However, from who I talked to, it seems like the majority opinion is shifting towards Classic as the target. I’ve already had Yellow, Phorix, Spark, Tony, and tasty all tell me that they want Classic and Kett gone, but I’m still not sure if I can trust some of them to do so. Another thing on my mind is that evicting Classic is a BIG move, and I sort of want credit for it. I’m afraid that if he goes on someone else’s HOH reign, I won’t be given any credit for that move, even though I was behind the scenes to help configure the plan. Right now though, I think I need to focus about actually getting to ### Final 2 before I can plan out ## appeal to ### Jury. There will be opportunities in the future to make big moves, and I already have 2 HOH reigns on my résumé to show for something. So yeah, I’m super nervous that I will end up going home on a week where I threw the HOH competition, but right now I think it’s my best option. I have to take the risk, because if you don’t take risks in this game, I don’t think you have what it takes to win. I threw competitions in the past, made it through, starting winning comps and became a target. Now maybe if I start throwing some again I can fly back under the radar. The only way I might win this HOH competition is if Kett or tasty is close to winning. Honestly, I don’t completely trust tasty to make a move against Classic and Kett instead of me, and I don’t need Classic and Kett to be in power for another week. If I need to make the move I will do it, but the best case scenario for me is if Spark wins the HOH and nominates Classic and Kett himself. People are already beginning to discredit him as someone to win because he is a comebacker, and I think if I got to the end I could convince people that I was the mind that controlled Spark to go after those two. He told me he wanted them out, but I was ### one who solidified it into his mind. Not only that, but he was afraid to put up Classic directly, but I think I convinced him it’s imperative that Classic and Kett go up next to each other, because if one of them wins the POV and they are off of the block, they can save the other.
Finally, I think one of my biggest mistakes this season was not spending enough time talking to more people. I talked with Tony a lot, but other than that I should be making friends with people when it’s not even the day of a session. I am going to try to put a little more effort into building closer personal relationships with more people so that they trust me more. Just a few days ago, Oak told me that she thinks I barely talk to her, which I didn’t really think was true until recently. It was sort of an eye opener for me, and I am going to try and fix it as soon as possible. If I form closer connections and build bridges between myself and the rest of the house, they may want to keep me around just a bit longer, so I hope it works. You know what they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
We’ll see how it goes! (Nervous)
#RoodSpood
DR #8:
This session revealed a lot about where everyone stands, so let’s get into it! As stated in my last DR, I am taking a huge gamble this week. Do I try to win the competition and guarantee my safety after almost the entire house lied to me last week? or Do I throw this HOH competition and let someone else win it that will make the move against Classic for me, so the blood stays off of my hands, and I can play in the next HOH? Going into this week, tony, tasty, and I made an agreement that Classic and Kett had to be split up, and although tasty eventually agreed to it, he is still very clearly skeptical of the idea, in fear of his own safety.
It’s time for the HOH, and it’s True or False, the one comp I know I could win because trivia competitions are my strong suit. However, I came to the conclusion that I would need to throw this competition, so after a few questions, that’s what I did. I knew Turt was in 14th place, but I went on false anyways and decided to devote my time to helping one of my allies, mainly Sparkity, win HOH. My dream came true and Spark wins HOH, and I am pretty sure based on our previous conversations I can convince him to put Classic and Kett up together.
However, Spark is starting to have doubts, and it’s time to go back down this road again of people saying one thing, then once they have power saying another (*glances over @ Classic*). Anyways, Spark keeps telling me that he wants Classic to be a backdoor, but I try to explain to him why that’s a bad idea. With only 10 people left, odds are that Classic gets picked for the POV, and if he does, he has a good chance of winning it. If Classic wins the POV, he saves Kett, and then BOTH members of their power duo are safe. It just doesn’t make any sense, but Spark is becoming a wildcard it seems.
It’s time for the Nomination Ceremony, and Spark is down to three people for his nominations: Phorix, Kett, and Classic. I keep telling Spark on Skype and in ROBLOX chat to give Phorix the last key and GUARANTEE Kett or Classic goes home this week. However, during the ceremony, Classic tells Spark to check Skype, he does, and then he comes back and says his nominees are Phorix and Kett because “he just came back and he doesn’t want people telling him what to do with his HOH”. Honestly, that was super shady. Just a few weeks ago Spark was telling me how much he wanted Classic out and that we both confirmed he was telling us both the same nonsense about how “he trusted us the most”. We also had a second talk confirming this plan, and I’ve been supporting Spark ever since I heard he was in the comeback competition. I feel like Classic is playing Spark once again, and for some reason he’s falling for it. Some sort of deal must have been made, but let’s continue on with the session.
It’s time for POV Picking, and luckily Classic isn’t selected to play. This gives me a perfect opportunity to get Classic put up as a renomination since he can’t play in HOH or POV this week, which is something that rarely happens, so to squander it would be tragic. The POV is an obey, so immediately I know Spark has a good chance to win it. During the competition, after Spark has finished one of the rounds, I start telling him on Skype a lot of good reasons why backdooring Classic this week is a good idea. 1) He’s a competition beast, yet still is the only person who has not been nominated once in the house, which makes him a huge threat to win 2) He’s working closely with Kett 3) He’s playing both sides, and Spark KNOWS he is playing both sides, as shown when he sided with tasty to get out mac 4) Spark already made it clear in his nomination speech that Classic is low on his totem pole, so if he keeps Classic this week, the chances are that Classic will win next HOH and put him up, and likely me too, who is supposed to be his ally 5) You don’t get many opportunities to backdoor Classic, because he can win so many competitions 6) It will make the house happy and on good terms with him. I think I brought up a lot of good points, and Spark even admitted that most of it was true, but for some reason he still seemed skeptical of the idea, which made me very suspicious. I am trying desperately to plant this seed in Spark’s head that Classic has to be backdoored this week, but at the same time I am being very cautious with how I come off. I don’t want to sound too controlling because I know Spark is very sensitive to that sort of thing. He hates being “controlled”, even if the decision is good for his game. I try to come off as a friend giving advice to another friend, but I’m not sure how Spark took it.
As I expected, Spark wins the POV. Spark, being the indecisive coward he is, takes a while to make his decision, and I am taking this time to try and convince him that Classic and Kett should go up together. However, Spark eventually decides to discard the POV, and nominations remain the same. This was a big red flag for me. Spark’s been preaching about how much he wants Classic out for weeks, but now all of a sudden he doesn’t take the shot when he has a PERFECT opportunity to do so? This only further solidified my fears that Spark is being manipulated by Classic, which is ironic since he hates to be controlled. That battle is lost, but now I have to focus on making sure Kett is sent home. The vote comes back 4-3, and I’m nervous the my game could blow up right here. If Kett stays by one vote and I am blindsided once again, my game will pretty much be over. Luckily, it is announced Kett is evicted, but he doesn’t go without a few parting words first. He called Yellow a rat, and afterwards he called Tony and I sheep. Well, there’s one jury vote I lost, that’s a shame. Hopefully I can explain myself later when Kett isn’t in as bitter of a state.
After the eviction, Classic confronts me and calls ## ####### which I assume is for voting out Kett. I find this to be ironic because just last week Classic went after my allies, but now all of a sudden I can’t come after his? Oh ok, that’s interesting. I decided to ignore his comments for the time being because I didn’t want to get into an argument while he was in a heated state. I thought it would be better to talk things out a day later when he was more clear minded.
The next day (today), I came to Classic and explained to him why I decided to wait to respond to his comments. He asks me to explain myself for wanting him as a backdoor option, which immediately raises flags. My first reaction is to deny the accusations, so I tell him that I only wanted him and Kett to be split up similar to how Classic split up me and mac. I ask who told him that I wanted him backdoor, and he denies to tell me. However, it doesn’t matter if he tells me or not, because his next comment confirmed to me who told him. Classic tells me to stop lying to him because the “screenshots show otherwise”. The only person I talked to this session about backdooring Classic was Sparkity, so he’s the only one who could have sent him screenshots. This confirmed my fears that Spark is now being controlled by Classic, and is working with him. Honestly, Spark made himself a target for no reason, and I won’t feel bad in calling him a dumb player. I don’t know what his motive is, whether it’s to “not be a puppet” or “shake up the game”, but it’s definitely not to win. I can see now why Spark was evicted the first time, he’s very indecisive and wishy washy, so no one trusts him enough to be a reliable member of their alliance. I’m going to be livid if my game gets ruined by Spark was too afraid to make a big move, and then Classic ends up evicting me next week.
Now the next session is in 3 hours, and Phorix, Yellow, Tony and myself have already made a game plan. Phorix was already mad at Spark for nominating him and considered him and idiot, but after I exposed Spark’s antics with Classic to the alliance, it only further confirmed his spot on the block if one of us wins HOH. Spark could have coasted to the end if he wanted to, but he just came back and is already making himself a target again for no reason. Another thing to notice is that Oak seems to be a lot closer with Classic than we originally thought. It’s very clear now based on the vote, and the conversations in the group chat, that Classic and Oak are tight. In the last eviction, I’m pretty sure it was me, Tony, Yellow, and tasty who evicted Kett, and Oak, Classic, and Jake who evicted Phorix. From my point of view, here is how the house is currently divided. It’s me, Tony, Yellow, and Phorix on one side, Classic, Oak, and Spark on the other, and Jake and tasty in the middle. Even though tasty voted with us, I say he’s in the middle because he even told Tony that he regretted keeping Phorix in over Kett. Obviously tasty is not 100% with us, and I predict he will flip back over to Oak/Classic’s side during this next session. Although I don’t think Jake will personally put me up, he’s a wildcard, and you can never rely on him to vote your way, because I think jake has voted against me more than he’s voted with me.
So the house is pretty divided right now, and this next HOH is probably the most important competition of the season. If their side wins, I am almost guaranteed to be a nominee, and once that happens, I will go home unless I win the POV. If our side wins, we plan to put up Spark and Classic next to each other, hope that Spark can win the POV over Classic, and send Classic home. However, if Classic wins, Oak will be the renomination and we will have to decide if we should send home Spark or Oak. Right now I’m in fear of my safety more than ever, because now I’ve pretty much been exposed to Classic. I tried to lie to him and tell him that I never wanted him out in particular, and he offered me a deal that we won’t nom each other, but I think we both know that deal isn’t going to hold up. I know that if I win HOH, Classic is going to be one of my nominees, and that if he wins, I will be one of his. I don’t expect Classic to keep any of his deals with me because I know he’s making the same exact deals with everyone else. Phoenix even showed me a screenshot today of Classic trying to show he trusts him the most. It was pretty clear when I asked Classic who he wants gone, and he replied with “you will find out if I win HOH”. Gee, that is SO reassuring, thanks!
More nervous than ever right now, I know I’m a target, so I will be going hard for this next HOH.
#RoodSpood
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