Round 3

[porsche]

Sorry, there won't be any more Porsche's Observations tonight. I stayed up to wait for results and then to talk with Becky and now I'm just going to write this DR and go to bed.

I left off after I won BOTB. Tiffany and Jen stayed on the block. Jen won veto and was talking about not using it (why would you not use it?). But she ultimately did and Zach put up Jackie. I was left with a choice between Tiffany and Jackie. I actually had a good feeling about Tiffany but we had barely talked. I had barely talked with Jackie too but with her being in my clique I felt like I needed to keep her since I would be 100% safe with her winning HOH and I wasnt sure about Tiffany. Plus this gives Zach 3 points for his DT which I think will hurt him more than help him.

Now that the cliques we were in don't matter? I kind of wish Tiffany was still here. Sorry Tiff. But the real interesting thing about the last vote was that it was split. There were people (mostly Jen) pushing for Jackie to go and Zach pushing for Tiff since she was his DT. I was really happy that a split happened. I wasn't thrilled that it seemed to hurt Jen the most but the fact that there wasn't a unanimous vote is good for me I think. I had put myself out there week 1 winning HOH and having to make nominations and the more other people put themselves out there and put a target on their backs the better it is for me.

One other thing that happened was that I got pulled into another alliance. I was minding my own business eating dinner when suddenly David creates a chatroom for me and Jun. I guess we're in an alliance now? Neither of them talked to me about it. The only hint I had was yesterday when David told me that Jun liked me and then I didn't talk to David today. But hey, I'll take it! I feel very good about my David relationship and it's really nice to have this alliance with Jun. I was worried about her since we don't talk game but now we're going to. I'm not sure who I would choose between David/Jun, Shelli/Michael, Kelsey and Jen but I don't think I'm going to have to for a while. And Zach's a strong ally too.

So Tiffany goes and then it's the HOH competition which I flop at. I take the wrong door on the first round and have to go through every single grey door before I get back on track and even after that I still went down a bunch of dead ends. Cody and Becky win which is pretty bad and I'm expecting to go up but then a miracle twist happens. The cliques reshuffle! Howard and more importantly, Cody, get put in my clique so they can't even nominate me.

Becky is still the HOH and in terms of people from clique 2 to win HOH, she's one of the worse ones. We don't really have a game relationship and I would feel good about anyone else winning that HOH, just because they would either have targets other than me like a Jackie or because I feel good about our relationship.

Becky is nominating Jen and Erika from what I heard. I'm just happy to be safe and even though I like Jen, she brought this on herself by complaining when Becky won. She just doesn't have any subtlety. When I talked to Becky though she didn't say anything about an Erika nom. According to Shelli she thought of putting me up but decided against it. It's pretty clear where I stand with Becky. I was worried that by not committing to an Erika nomination, she was keeping her options open to put me up, but she did tell me that I was safe when I asked. So I guess I'm good.

If I was Becky, I would put up me and Jen next to each other. If I win HOH, I'm putting up Becky and probably...Jackie, so I guess Becky would stay. It's not even about DTs. If Becky's thinking about putting me up now, then she will definitely do it later and I want to strike first. I just need to play nice now and keep everyone's attention far away from DTs. If Becky realizes I have her, she could change her mind. But who else could I nominate from the other clique? Ika is probably going. I've developed really good relationships with Kelsey and Zach. I have alliances with David, Jun and Michael. That just leaves Becky, Corey and Jackie, and I feel like I'm much higher on Corey's list than on Becky's. And if Cody and Zach aren't going to put up Corey because they think it helps their game if he's off the block, then why should I put him up?

The other interesting thing was this talk with Cody.

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Porsche - Today at 1:39 AM
haha I hope I didn't limit your options too much :heart:
Cody Calafiore - Today at 1:39 AM
Aha no you didn't
It might actually make things easier for me
Porsche - Today at 1:41 AM
really? Because when you won I thought it would be me and michael again. Or me and jen
Cody Calafiore - Today at 1:45 AM
Aha no i mean it would have definitely been michael
but i have more people not on my side than just you and jen
Porsche - Today at 1:46 AM
yeah, that's definitely fair
and some people are probably hoping to slide by and that you would just go after me again
smart
Cody Calafiore - Today at 1:59 AM
And to be honest you still talk to me more than some of these people
and as far as i was conserned from the beginning i thought we could start of all good
and the only reason i nominated you was like
if you gonna do me im gonna do you
because that's what's fair
but i still have a lot of options of people who just don't give me their time of day
Cody Calafiore - Today at 2:00 AM
and quite honestly would prefer you stay over them

If that's really the truth then maybe I would have actually been fine if the guy I'm targeting won HOH. Which sounds a little too good to be true but it's not like I'll be able to find out what he would have done. I'll just try to keep talking to him and rebuilding that relationship.

[austin]

You need to finish observations, thanks.

[porsche]

I'm working on it! Hopefully it will be finished tonight.

I'm going to write a long DR later but I'll give a quick update now.

It looks like Michael is screwed. Which sucks. I really think I can trust him, and I would love to have him competing in HOH and Ika is such a wildcard. Shelli and Jen are on board to keep him but from what I've heard, Arlie, Natalie and Howard would all vote him out and Cody would break the tie to evict him. Well Howard didn't actually tell me, but he told everyone else and gave me a nonanswer. And according to Jen, one of the reasons Howard wants to vote out Michael is to weaken me!

Like, I was actually willing to move on and hear him out but if he's going to not even try to give me a chance, why should I? This was literally our conversation when we were talking about the vote.

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Porsche - Yesterday at 3:36 PM
yeah, that would really suck
if only you hadn't lost it :stuck_out_tongue:
I did want to ask you though
what you were thinking about the vote
if the nominations stayed the same
JPJP - Yesterday at 3:43 PM
between ika and mikey?
i'm honestly torn cause i like them both a ton
mikey and i are really similar but ika and i jive well offa each other
Porsche - Yesterday at 3:45 PM
yeah that's what I meant
and fair
I like them both too. I feel like I have an easier time talking to michael so I'd probably keep him
I did start watching wentworth just so I'd have something to talk to ika about though :stuck_out_tongue:
JPJP - Yesterday at 3:46 PM
haha how is it? is it good?
Porsche - Yesterday at 3:46 PM
I'm just partway through the pilot
it's not bad
I like it so far
just, I'm kind of busy lol
JPJP - Yesterday at 3:47 PM
yeah tough to just bingewatch shows for me too
slowly treckin through orange is the new black since a friend wanted me to catchh up with her on it

And then he turns the discussion into talking about Orange is the New Black. What the fuck?

After two seasons with Howard, I realize that the guy is really, really bad with hiding when he doesn't like someone. In season 13, the tone of our conversations flipped so suddenly from really good to really cold as soon as he figured out he needed to take me out. And now he isn't even trying.



The other thing was with Becky. She had told me that people (didn't say who) were telling her to put me up but that she wasn't going to do it. I was kind of frustrated that she wouldn't tell me but thought, hey, she isn't putting me up. I still don't trust her but at least that's something. She asks me for who I would put up and I say Arlie or Steve.

Then I talk to Kelsey and she tells me two interesting pieces of information. 1) Becky was considering putting me up but decided not to because her HOH was a trainwreck already. And 2) Arlie had heard from Becky that people had mentioned his name (2 of which were me and Kelsey).

First of all, if Becky's going to put it out there that she's thinking about putting me up, she should really just put me up. Her not doing it doesn't really mean anything to me. If she's going to consider it in week 3, she's going to consider it in week 5.

Second, Becky told me "people" were pushing her to put me up and that she wasn't going to. She asks me who to put up, I say Arlie. She then tells Arlie "people" are pushing for him to go up.

Is Becky just trying to get people to say names and then inform those people and paint herself as the hero?

[Kat]

If you continue to watch WW, tell us what you think and who your favourites are

Thank you for the game talk as well

[porsche]

I still need to talk about this Kelsey drama (#teamkelsey) but I just figured something out and have to share it.

So everybody's DT is in a different clique, right? That makes sense. You get a lot of points from getting your DT out when you're HOH, and if your DT is in your clique you can't do that.

But assuming Steve goes, what happens to his DT? Well usually whoever had Steve as their DT would get Steve's DT as their next target. But that can't happen because they'd be in the same clique.

So either the DTs will get unbalanced or the cliques are getting reshuffled. The latter sounds more likely to me.

I hope that makes sense. It's 4 in the morning.