Round #8 - Born To Make You Happy

[boog]

I will be starting the HOH soon-ish. Sorry for being slow 

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hi yes is this week also a blackout week or is this normal week?

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me during this HOH challenge

[Kat]

Jul 30, 2015 0:46:07 GMT -5 boog said:

hi yes is this week also a blackout week or is this normal week?

It's a normal week haha results just won't be posted except for the winner bc of last week

[boog]

Jul 30, 2015 4:07:15 GMT -5 Kat said:

Jul 30, 2015 0:46:07 GMT -5 boog said:

hi yes is this week also a blackout week or is this normal week?

It's a normal week haha results just won't be posted except for the winner bc of last week

ty! I wasn't sure because of the entire season having twists lasting 2 weeks but then thought shir's post said the best time will win so i didnt know what to think. ty for clearing it up

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Thoughts over the last 24hours-ish

#Comeback twist! Knew there would be one since like every twist has been used from season 6 and on (minus MVP, but I'm sure that'll make an appearance probably next week). It came down to Heaven and Chris. Chris coming would have been good but also bad for my game. People would probably clump him and I together which would have sucked but I have done way better in this game without him so it's good for me he didn't return. Heaven coming back is basically like nothing happened (and even more of a reason why Ryan should have left on my HOH so that at least one of the trio would be gone). But I did vote to keep Heaven in the game when she left, I am not going to tell her or anyone about that until I need to save myself and that can be my saving grace, maybe. It's a stretch of a plan but at least I have something. 

Heather winning HOH is good for me I think. I knew she had a really good shot at winning HOH so last night I messaged her and we were talking and I told her how great she was and how lucky I have been to meet her and work with her as Boother and how she is one of my favourite people. I told her that if I got HOH she is totally fine, hoping she would reciprocate and tell me I'd be safe if she were to win. She did. I felt like this was needed because you can assume you are safe with someone but until they tell you that you are fine it's better. Plus if she told me I was safe and then put me up, it would look bad on her and I could use that to an advantage. But for now, I am hoping I do stay off the block.

I really want to make jury this game. I know Jury is such a lame goal but in this game I think it's such a huge accomplishment, especially for someone like myself who I feel has had an uphill battle to get here. I didn't have the luxury of knowing half the cast pregame and having been friends with these people for years so I've had to work hard to make sure that I am safe each and every round. I have truly only ever felt safe 2 rounds this game. Once when I was HOH and once when Christine was HOH. Every other week has been a struggle to figure out what will happen and how I can stay safe.

As for noms this round, I could see Heather doing Mike/Sofia based on her last HOH + the blackout week with Mike most likely having been the HOH and putting Heather up. As for replacement idk who she would, but I think her best bet is like Brian/Matt to ensure the other person on the block leaves.  

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So noms are up and they are Mike/Matt. I'm not totally shocked by this. Putting Matt up is a great way for Mike to leave + Sofia not automatically playing in veto so a potential backdoor is possible. I know Heather has closer allies than myself. Neda and I were talking about how she didn't discuss nominations with either of us, or Candice. It backs up the theory of Heather/Zach/Keith/Memphis/Nick alliance even more and it is something that needs to be broken up. 

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Those veto picks were very telling. If Sofia uses the veto on Mike, I'm not sure what Heather will do. As long as it isnt myself, Candice, or neda I really don't care who goes up. Heather picking Zach is no shocker at all, they basically control their alliance and are huge threats in this game but have the backup and social games to get the idiot minorities to do what they want.

I'm jealous of Memphis and Brian, they are in such good positions in this game. And it's not like they are even doing such an amazing job at it, they just are so under the radar that no one gives 2 shits about them

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GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I WROTE A 3 PARAGRAPH DR AND THE BOARD LOGGED ME OUT WHEN I WENT TO GO POST IT AND NOW IT'S GONE FFS 

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OKAY LET'S FUCKING START THIS AGAIN.

Oh shocker Ryan fucking won the veto (omg like total shocker had no idea this would ever happen  ). He didn't use the vote (omg shocker again) because imo Sofia probably would have went on the block and that wouldn't have been good for his game. So the final nominees are Matt and Mike. Now I know Mike has suggested myself to be a replacement nominee in the past, for example when Rachelle was HOH the round Drew left, Mike wanted myself to go up instead. So that should be enough of a reason to evict him right? Meh, I don't think so, that would be a very narrow minded decision for me to make. Mike is someone who is planning on going after my targets/people who are targeting me and that I feel out ways the negative of him wanting me up in week 3. 


The people who are possibly keeping Mike as far as I know are:
- Sofia (good for her since she is a target already and Mike and her are focusing on the same people with the exception that Mike wants Heaven/Ryan out and he needs to calm that down this week in order to really get Sofia's vote)
- Candice & Neda (good for them, us 3 are already a known alliance since Nick told Zach who told everyone and since we are already fucked in that sense we might as well try and keep someone who isn't coming after us and can actually win a fucking comp)
- Keith??? I haven't confirmed this to myself but according to Candice that's what he wants to do. He knows he is 5th in the Heather/Zach/Nick/Memphis/Keith alliance so I guess wants to keep Mike?
- Brian (god fucking shoot me in the face) This vote could very well come down to Brian being the swing vote in this and deciding who actually leaves this round. This is like deciding to play Russian Roulette and having 5/6 chambers loaded with bullets. yay fun times.


I tried to reason with Brian in why he should keep Mike over Matt because Brian is worried about becoming a target (HA HE IS SO USELESS HE WILL LIKE NEVER BE A TARGET). So I told him that if he were to keep Mike and people were gonna target the people who saved Mike, they would likely target Sofia, Myself, Candice, and Mike before they would target him. Whereas with Matt, Brian has done better in comps than Matt has so if someone were to leave between those two, Brian could actually leave for being better in challenges (lol brian at being a challenge threat amirite). So hopefully that goes through his thickass skull and he listens to reason and chooses to be on the smart side of the vote. 


Right now I feel like such an underdog in this game. Almost every vote I have wanted to do, the opposite on what ends up happening. So this vote wouldn't surprise me if it comes down to it and Mike leaves because that seems to be the way things go in this game. 


Ugh this wasn't as good as the original DR I wrote but I can't remember everything so ugh enjoy. 

[boog]

Oh well shocker Mike leaves. The curse of what Boog wants strikes again.