Round #10 - Mess

[zach]

So maybe I did forget about choosing my DT is that a problem??

Also I did attempt to throw the HoH but I didn't realize I did so bad in the ones I left to make it look close so it looks sooooo obvious. Hoping for some reverse psychology bs where people think I did so bad there is no way I threw.

[Colby]

It's not a problem, we're just gonna random.org a DT for you.

[zach]

I did try to win MVP though in case someone sketch won HoH and I could have sworn I did well. I obviously did well enough to get the MVP blocker thing, but I guess not well enough for the actual MVP otherwise I likely would have been told. Becsuse Howard won Hoh tho I think it may be better I didn't win because now I don't need to nominate anyway, even in secret. I feel like people will figure out who the MVP is eventually.

[zach]

Man am I glad I got that blocker haha. I feel like I PROBABLY would have been fine regardless, but it all worked basically to perfection.

I didn't tell most of the cast about me winning it. I THINK the only people I told were Howard, Arlie, and Porsche. I didn't want to tell that many people because if I did then they wouldn't have attempted a shot at me. Now because they didn't know, it works out that they tried to get me nommed and failed cuz now I know I need to be more vigilant.

My initial guesses as far as who could have nommed me included Jackie and Cody. Initially I thought about Jackie because maybe she'd do it after I didn't vote to save Ika, but the thing is idk if she would have even had a chance of winning this MVP. I feel like she had to have a lot of negative points against her and also IDK if this is the sort of challenge she does well in. Cody however would make sense because he is good at this kind of challenge and we don't have much of a relationship. My thing was idk why Natalie would have been his 2nd nom choice, especially because he has been telling Howard and probs anyone else that he wants to target Arlie.

That leaves Kelsey as the next most likely winner of the challenge and if she did nom me that would be mega lol. I have my doubts cuz idk why she would have done that without talking to Porsche first who surely would have told her about my blocker thing, but who else could it have really been? She told Cody that she found the blocker pretty fast and assumed she's the one who found it. It's possible that she was just saying that so she wouldn't be put up and people wouldn't bother trying to take a shot at her, given I've seen that sort of tactic tried before.

Either way, my two guesses as far as who could have tried to nom me are Kels and Cody. Both would make more sense if it wasn't for Natalie being the replacement, but I have a feeling that might have just been done to make it look like it was Erika or Jackie. Thing is, if it WAS done as a cover, then surely Kelsey would have gone up no? Maybe that makes it more likely for her to be the MVP winner.

Plus, i found a LOT of those stars. I am assuming I got a bunch of red otherwise I would have likely won the challenge. If that is the case then it's probably more than just 1 person looking at me as a target.

Corey apparently confirmed an alliance with Porsche and Kelsey to Howard so that was cool. Not like that's new info but at least it being official is good to know. Last night I talked to Howard for a while about how I'd like to be in each other's long term plans and we just need to look out for that trio as we go along. One Jackie and Erika go, who is next? We need to make our own side to be able to counter them. Initially were thinking Arlie and Natalie to join us, and he was saying that Cody would be a good addition too. I'm not as sure about that cuz im pretty sure he's close to Kelsey and he isn't exactly a huge fan of me if he DID win MVP. He literally asked me today if my prize kept me off the block if "Hypothetically" Natalie came down. Then he went to howard and told him if he won POV he would use it to save Natalie!!! RED FLAGS TO ME TBH.

But yeah so that's a thing Hopefully learning how to carefully navigate this all but this week I feel like I should be more than fine. Next week is another story, but then again, when isn't that the case.

[zach]

Howard is worried though that jackie is gonna be saved because she's next to Erika and I can't really blame him for thinking that. Erika has blocked Kelsey on discord and has publicly got into arguments with that trio so if those 3 vote to keep Jackie then looks like Erika is going. I'm thinking as a way to circumvent that, we say that I'll vote to save Erika with Arlie and then those 3 can vote to save Natalie again. Not sure if that would work out so easily and obviously THEN we are dealing with potentially losing Natalie, but idk if they would risk that to happen.

but then again if kelsey won MVP she clearly doesn't have a problem with Nat leaving! She hasn't rly talked to me since the PoV went up so that makes me a little suss.

[zach]

Ok #1, I'm so proud of Natalie winning by default. Watch her go on to inexplicably win the season now.

#2, Kelsey going up was a weirdly good thing. We were worried about her and Porsche wanting to save Jackie and now that she's on the block looks like that won't be a thing. It's super ironic that it's the move that solidified Jackie going if Cody is actually the MVP like I'm expecting because he is currently voting to save Jackie according to Arlie.

But yeah, the decision this round is easy for me. I have an alliance mostly solidified with Kelsey, Howard, and Natalie now. Kesley has a just about confirmed alliance with Porsche and Corey according to Corey apparently (according to Howard). She's putting herself in a position where no one is targeting her which I get but it's probably a liiiiittle transparent ngl!

ANYWAY about that whole decision thing. If Cody did nom me and he's close enough to Jackie to try and save her, I have literally no reason to want to do the same. Yes, I know she saved me during her HoH, but even that is a stretch given she was asking people to evict me if Howard and I stayed on the block. Erika meanwhile is someone who despises Kelsey and likes me a bunch. If it wouldn't require an obscene amount of effort that would torch my game, I'd like to bring Erika as far as humanly possible in this game.

[zach]

But yeah also Arlie wants to save Jackie and seemed to forget that Cody was the MVP and tried to nom me so when I brought up him being the MVP being one of the reasons why I don't want to save Jackie he seemed confused lol. Not sure what this makes my relationship with Arlie into but I'm hoping Jackie being gone makes him closer to me too. One can hope anyway.