Post by kelsey on Jun 16, 2017 14:49:15 GMT
[Week 1]
OKAY! I finally have the time and energy to do a proper diary room, so here goes nothing.
I’m extremely excited to be here, especially because I have not played an all star game in forever. And this cast is extremely active and I believe we have a great mix of people.
Let’s talk about the twists for a second and my thoughts on them! The battle of the block twist is one that a lot of people don’t enjoy on the real show (including myself), however I believe in an org format it’s honestly amazing if I am ever nominated because it’s giving me two chances to save myself so I’m not going to complain about it. The cliques twist is also helpful because I was able to rank people on top of my list who I felt less comfortable with incase I was in the top 4 of the Head of Household competition. Meaning they couldn’t nominate me and have people that I trust and know won’t come after me in different cliques than mine.
It worked out wonderfully because two of the people I trust the least: Erika and Ika are in my clique. I kinda trust Howard right now and I’m continuing to build that bond right now, but it’s definitely good that I am in his clique regardless because he’s a threat and I could see him coming for me at any time. He makes me nervous? But, we’re good for now. That brings me to the direct target twist. This twist is fantastic and I love the added element of it. There’s been people putting together a master list of who has who (Jun, Becky, Shelli, myself, etc… but not all together as a group) and I’m pretty sure almost everyone is going to find out who everyone has anyway so I’ve been sharing the list with people to gain favor. I’ve done it already with Cody and Howard, and I plan on sharing it with Jun because I know she was chatting with Shelli about it and I was to keep building a bond with Jun. I haven’t been able to speak to her as much as I’ve been wanting to.
I also want to tell people like Jen, Jackie, Steve, Natalie, Porsche, etc but I want to bring it up naturally and not look like someone that’s just trying to use things such as this to foster relationships with people. But I’d rather tell them about it rather than them hearing about it from someone else, plus it’ll make people really track people’s points and that’s fine by me while I try to sit back in the competitions when I must.
So anyway, I didn’t want to win the first Head of Household competition because I felt like it was way too early to get my hands dirty and I felt comfortable with a majority of this cast. I also didn’t want to chance the risk of being 3rd or 4th because then I’d be automatically at risk of being nominated, with a 40% chance of going up. Which happened anyway because I was selected to be in Howard’s clique who got 4th. Although it makes me happy because like I stated above people like Erika and Ika that I don’t trust are in my clique and can’t nominate me. So I will just try to get closer to them while I have the safety.
Porsche and Steve ended up winning the first Head of Household competition. Which made me ecstatic because I’m completely fine with Steve and he’s one of my best allies, along with Porsche who I made a strong and genuine bond with from the jump. We were naturally bouncing ideas off each other and it’s nice to save someone who is not only good at competitions but will try in them and is not afraid to get her hands dirty if needed. She’s also a threat and I’m completely down with working with threats because I know people will see me as one. I spoke to Porsche about her nominations and she was feeling down because the cliques and direct targets changed because of an error and she now had less people she felt comfortable putting up, especially with her having to nominate second. She spoke about her options with me and decided that she was going to nominate Cody for sure, she also wanted to nominate Sarah after everything too for one of hers because that’s her direct target but Steve was being stubborn.
But, Porsche wanted Steve to nominate Howard instead lol which was never going to happen, all because that was his DT and Porsche wanted to hopefully rack up those 3 points for being the HoH that sent her target home. Plus, Sarah has stated to people that she has irl stuff going on so she may drop from the game. So yeah, Porsche ended up going with Cody and Howard and although I really like them both, I was fine with Porsche putting them up because I want people to be mad at each and not me. Steve I texted when he won and we soon got on the phone when I got finished at work. I was thinking of these three pitches for nominees to him: Ika/Sarah, Corey/Sarah or Zach/Sarah. We talked about the pros and cons of each. He was set on Zach/Sarah when I went to bed but then he sent me a message that Howard had a good point and then I saw him post nominations for Corey and Sarah, which made sense too.
Also the night before nominations Porsche went on invisible to talk to me. Cody saw Porsche in the bbhouse chat and saw her on the mic thing where she randomly jumped on and was lurking. He was venting to me about it and it was hilarious because it was like so crazy to think Porsche would do that because she’s so smart! I never brought it up to her though and kinda let Cody run with it.
I feel 100% safe this week. I know I have a lot of good relationships with people right now and I have alliances such as: BKStreet Girls (although I don’t trust Becky completely, I trust Shelli far more) but it’s good enough for now. And then I have people like Shelli and Steve where we all have an understanding. And then there’s individual bonds with tons of people that I have where I feel like they’ll put enough stock in our relationship especially this early in the game where most people are on cruise control.
I also don’t really want to win this Veto competition and I’m pretty happy that it’s a competition that I am pretty bad at! Along with the battle of the block being a word search, I’m glad we got that out of the way because I remember it haunting me week one in season 14 and Josh was not happy with me at all!! I wouldn’t mind winning it necessarily if Howard/Cody won battle of the block because I think both would ask me to use it on them. If Corey and Sarah were the final nominees I wouldn’t mind winning it too much because I wouldn’t use it, but there’s always a chance that Sarah gets her head back in the game and she asks me to use it, I just feel like it’d be awkward all around. Plus, I don’t need the spotlight on me.
I’ll post a cast assessment at some point, but I’m having so much fun!
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