Upcoming HoH comp

ctown28 wrote:

IS the praise for the scenario or the Welcome Back Kotter reference?

BOTH!

Someone on Twitter pointed out that with them losing the backyard s early this week, it could be a week that the house gets split like they did last year with the inside and outside games. I'm not certain that will happen as they will be down to 11 people and it wouldn't be an even split. If that twist does happen this year Izzy will be going crazy if she gets separated from Cirie, but I could see the dumb dumbs in the house fucking it up and Izzy, Cirie AND Jared all on the same side

I don't remember it taking that long to setup the split house/yard thing and the hg's have been talking about hearing a lot of building noises, so I think it is going to be some version of a wall comp. And I agree with you that they have to do that when there is an even number of people in the house.

Izzy almost lost her mind not being able to talk to Cirie alone for 2 days when she was doing the punishment with Felicia, I can't imagine what she would be doing if split apart from her like that. But it may be even worse for her if these people get the guts to go ahead with the blindside vote to send Izzy out because it is actually a possibility. Think about how crazy Izzy would be going if she is the first person in jury (assuming the spoiler girl prediction is correct) and has to sit there wondering who is coming next!

Endurance comp confirmed for tomorrow night. Many are saying it’s a wall comp

OMG, if they pull off the blindside, that will make this endurance comp even more EPIC. As long as Jared doesn't win, I think this will be a great week for sure.

Can you imagine him on the sidelines telling his mom that there better not be any deals made and he will be ORDERING Blue to stay in there. Oh, and let's just make this even better that the first 3 out of the comp are have-nots this week........................Felicia, Cirie, Jared!

I think America has to be the clear cut favorite to win the wall comp. Especially for the shit she took for the pressure cooker. Jared inadvertently motivated her. I think if it comes down to her and Cory, he’ll concede to her. I’m not certain Blue has what it takes mentally to stay up there. I don’t think Kared Cirie or Felicia stand a chance in it

ctown28 wrote:

I think America has to be the clear cut favorite to win the wall comp. Especially for the shit she took for the pressure cooker. Jared inadvertently motivated her. I think if it comes down to her and Cory, he’ll concede to her. I’m not certain Blue has what it takes mentally to stay up there. I don’t think Kared Cirie or Felicia stand a chance in it

Yes, that is true and he kept bringing that up to Cory that America sold them out by "throwing" that comp. Cory would always TRY to say you can't really say it was throwing if she lasted that many hours, but Jared would never hear of it. And the irony of the fact the only things he has won have basically been by default is pretty hilarious.

I agree that Blue probably doesn't have the discipline to do it, but Jared is going to be pushing her and you can bet it will somehow be HER fault when they end up on the block because neither of them pulled off the HOH. I just hope he has to be a have-not as well to put the cherry on the sundae.

Looks like this week is a wrap and we know the DE is coming next week which means 2 relatively quick comps for HOH and veto.

I am thinking the HOH will be "before or after" questions. They have had enough events in the house to do that easily. Then for the veto I am thinking they might bring back the "clown shoe" comp that Ctown mentioned a couple of days ago. This will play right into the obvious narrative of the episode which will be Cory vs. Jared even though Cam will be going. The HOH will favor Cory and the veto will favor Jared with Jag, Matt and even Bowie coming coming right on his heels.

Another veto I thought might the one where they are latched to a rope and have to untangle themselves to reach the bell at the end of the lane. That also would favor Jared.

Cory has said he would put up the mommas and backdoor Jared, but if he can see anything in the setup to give him a clue of those vetoes, he should change his mind or otherwise he is leaving both his targets in the game. The chances Jared won't be chosen are very, very small. Cirie or Felicia would 100% pick Jared to play if they get hg's choice and/or his own chip could get pulled. I think Cory is smarter than that.

If Cory wins the HoH and puts up the Mamas, even though I don't like him, I'll want Jared to win veto. Just so he can take down Cirie and watch Cory look like a deer in headlights on national tv when he realizes his ingenious plan was stupid

ctown28 wrote:

If Cory wins the HoH and puts up the Mamas, even though I don't like him, I'll want Jared to win veto.  Just so he can take down Cirie and watch Cory look like a deer in headlights on national tv when he realizes his ingenious plan was stupid

That would of course be entertaining, but the only deer in the headlights I want to see is Jared when he gets voted out of the game. Of course if it ends up with Cirie/Jared on the block on double eviction night, she will tell EVERYONE just send me out and that is when EVERYONE should do the smart thing and keep her there cuz she can't win shit so she is much less of a threat than Jared.

Not only can't win shit, but she will all but have it packed in. The only time I've ever seen players comply with someone asking to be voted out was on a "celebrity" season. I think both Cory and America have seen enough of these shows to realize that it plays to their advantage to keep her. Then if she wants to self-evict, so be it

The hg's were told they would be losing the yard at noon on Tuesday. That is pretty early in the week and if speculations are correct about the final resurrection comp being a puzzle, they sure wouldn't need to close the yard that early for a puzzle and then a simple HOH comp that would be done by the end of the show on Thursday.

This is a very big HOH since people are not quite settled completely with their respective groups, so what better time to a LONG, hard-fought comp? Yep, you know where I'm doing with this...................

SLIP N SLIDE!!!!

Yes, Ctown, I can already hear you saying they won't do that after the football veto with the slippery water last week, but I don't think that should be completely disqualifying. Of course that has nothing to do with the fact that it is my FAVORITE comp and I NEED to justify having it!

They could have a small corner of the yard for Cam to attempt his puzzle and the rest of the yard set up for the sliding lanes. There will be 10 people competing (if they allow Cory to compete that is) and I believe they have done that many before.

The other two I was thinking about are the carnival thing where they have to find tickets to get balls to roll across a column thing (and ABSOLUTELY NO team time working, everyone shoots their own) or the disks attached to a rope going around in a circle pounding into an object.

Grab your umbrella because I'm about to rain all over this parade!

Slip and slide is off the table due to the fact that with both Cirie and Felicia in the house, that's a liability waiting to happen. I think we've seen the last of the slip and slide and it will gear more towards the football veto for filling a container comp.

The reason they are losing the backyard so early this week could very well be because after whoever wins the zombie thing finishes and Julie interviews whoever goes home, the house will be split into two separate groups. If that is the case, they need to split up Cory and America into separate groups and Cirie/Jared if Jared is still there. In fact, if Jared ends up staying, I want Blue/Cirie on one side and Jared on the other. With Jared going on one side and Cirie and Blue both staying on the other. We will then get a full week of woe is me from both Cirie and Blue because they "never got a chance to say goodbye" It always cracks me up about how dramatic these idiots get when someone is evicted and make it seem like they'll never see them again

Okay stating your opinion is one thing, but you don't have to ENJOY it so much!

I will say this ONCE AGAIN. If someone doesn't have the physical ability to do the comps, and that means ALL of them, they shouldn't enter the house or they should understand they might need to be prohibited from competing. I mean they had two people with broken/sprained limbs in the damn house so it is not like they haven't had the issue come up before. Oh, and Cirie just said the other day that the comps she "always exceled at in Survivor" were the really physical ones. In fact she was the most physical person in her alliance according to her. Now I honestly don't remember much about her, but from what I saw on the wall and the pressure cooker, I would beg to differ. Well guess what this would be her chance!

And I can see that you want the split house as much as I want the slip n slide because you keep talking about it. I do think it would be entertaining, but the people left in the house with the exception of Cam and Cory would screw up the picks 100%. It would be a popularity contest instead of breaking up targets. But I guess I could get on board if I can't have slip n slide.

I have heard the hg's say a few times today that they are hearing A LOT of building outside. That doesn't bode well for my slip n side hopes or Ctown's split house hopes. Most of the time that points to some kind of moving apparatus whether it is a wall (which they already had) or the ropes/discs going in a circle and slamming them into something and things like that. They don't need a lot of high powered machinery for either of the comps we have been hoping/predicting, so I wonder what it will be?

Early on, I honestly thought they would want to have the HOH crowned by the end of the episode this week because there has been nothing this week so it is time to get back to the basic game.

At this point I just want to see SOMETHING happen with the game, this has been a long week completely wasted!

Here's a shred of hope for you chap:

The hg's have been almost CERTAIN all week that this would be the slip n slide and they did lose the yard kind of early for it to be questions, but then today they got pictures on the memory wall of evicted hg's with hashtags and "likes" or "insults" on them, etc. They were all going around and studying the stuff.

Listening to the groups, America is BY FAR the best at the details of the pictures, so it looks like hers to lose. So, if she flames out quick like she has been it tells me that the pressure of the live show really freaks her out and she may not be able to get past that regardless of how good she SHOULD be at various things. I think Cory was a bit miffed that America was showing off just how good she was at the details (this was only with their group in the room, not Blue, Cirie or Felicia around. It was almost like a photographic memory or something.

Jag was okay. Matt was doing quite well. Cam was SOLID, but of course he can't play. Cirie sounded okay until they started saying things about the number of likes, insults and the hashtag stuff and she realized she didn't get as much detail as she had hoped.

I would LOVE to see America win this HOH and take out Blue because Blue has been so adamant that she was so superior to her in every way from showmance to gameplay, etc.

The wall comp was also America's to lose. We saw how that worked out. AT least we will get to see who the HoH is at teh end of the show. I jsut hope they don't wait until it airs on the west coast to put the feeds back up because I'd like to watch a little bit of the fallout from it.

That is very true. But there was an explanation of sorts for the wall thing because apparently small hands had difficulty with it. That being said, I am still shocked she went down so quick in that one for sure.

She was really fired up about the vote flip and then being so good at the pictures stuff last night so maybe it will give her the boost of confidence she needs to pull one off. When the group in the HOH was down to just Cory, America, Cam, Jag and Matt, they were all trying to think of tiebreaker questions and all settled on it being something about the pictures (I don't think this is likely) and decided they needed to add up all the "likes" and "insults" numbers on the pictures and everyone guess around those numbers. That is when America reciting each and every picture and the number of each at the bottom with the exception of the roller coaster one that nobody seemed to know as much about, and Cory added the numbers.

Right after that Jag said "damn, this is America's comp for sure, look at her go!" Cory then said something like until they get to the comp and it is true false and everyone knows HE will crush that shit for sure. Cam said "oh and he's humble too!" Then Cory proceeded to try to recite everything out loud in front of the group and messed up a couple of them, and said he would get it straight in his head before tomorrow night.

Later they went to bed and he was asking America all kinds of questions about various things and she seemed to know every one of them down to the tiniest detail. I think it bugs the shit out of Cory that she just might BEAT him in this comp, which is another reason I want to see her pull it off.

Well once again they are expecting the slip and slide. I still don't think it's gonna happen this season but they have to be getting the idea from somewhere. I hope I'm wrong and that IS the comp this week. They are also speculating that next week will be another DE, and I think that's a good assumption. Another one is coming soon. I really wish they would throw a curve on the doubles and at least start doing one of them before jury just to throw them off

I agree that next week will definitely be a double, and because of that I am assuming this week will be some sort of physical/endurance type comp. Of course I have made no secret that the slip n slide is what I want to see more than anything, but I could also see the one with the ropes and small discs on the bottom going around in circles and slamming them into things.

If they do the slip n slide, I am guessing the biggest race will be for the people going for safety instead of HOH. Matt and Jag have talked about one of them going straight for HOH and the other going for the big cup in case that one is faster so they can try to cover all sides to that HOH. I am thinking that everyone else will play for safety.

Regardless of the comp, I believe Cory will be throwing it. He is anticipating the double next week and will not want to be unable to compete for the HOH. He has told America that they need to hunker down and not take a shot at Matt and Jag for at least another week and try to facilitate taking out Blue first. The flaw in his theory is that Bowie is closer to him than the others, so he thinks taking away Blue will take away the last ally for Matt and Jag.

If it is one of those physical comps, odds are it will be Matt or Jag. If it is not a physical comp, I would kind of like to see Blue or Felicia win the HOH. These two would be less focused and both want to make a BIG move. Matt and Jag need to feel a little heat. I don't want either of them to go, but I want to see a week where they REALLY have to work at it for a change.

Felicia is the one who has been pushing Cirie to think they will have the spelling comp. I can't even remember the last time they did that comp but she tells Cirie "they always have it" and that is probably why they are working so hard on these words. They are coming up with 20-letter words and things like that and it doesn't seem to occur to them that they have to find and RUN those letters back to their station before the time is up! They are also convinced this will be a HOH comp and as far as I can remember this was a veto because it is not an endurance comp you can watch on the feeds and they certainly can't do it on a live show.

The slip n slide or the discs on ropes seems to be the popular predictions for everyone else in the house. They are obsessing over strategy of who to gun for what part and they keep worrying about keeping Blue from winning safety. I only remember there being $5000, a big dipper cup and a never not pass being options for this thing in the past. They are acting like it is ALWAYS there. Now I do think the strategy of Matt and Jag splitting up for one to go for the big cup and the other to straight up go for HOH is a good strategy because they are the likely winners of this thing, but it wouldn't be the first time the odds on favorite didn't pull this one off.

Even though I am HOPING for the slip n slide, they lost the yard so early and Cory has mentioned hearing hydraulics and started talking about the discs on a rope. He is one that uses a bit more logic than they others do for sure, so I am thinking he is probably right. It does bug me that the narrator didn't say anything about watching it on the feeds, but Julie could always announce that tonight.

The discs would be one that could really make this a battle. Blue has shown that she can hold out in an endurance comp and her build is pretty good for that kind of comp. The elements don't seem to bother her either. Matt is built like Tyler, and can probably do well and so could Jag. The buddy games comp with the spinning didn't seem to bother Matt and Jag, so I don't see that as a problem. Not sure if Blue has a problem with that kind of spinning or not. Cory and America probably don't have the upper body strength to pull it off and Felicia and Cirie will be lucky to stay on through the commercial break.

Regardless of what the comp is, I highly doubt any of it will be on the feeds. Usually when there is a comp that will play out on the feeds, they promote the hell out of it on social media. They have been radio silent the entire day. I still think they're flipping the script with the multi-verse bullshit and are going to make the HoH comp the comic book one. But then ago, in the recent past, they've promoted comic book comp ahead of time.

I was watching the feeds and there was a conversation in one of those chat rooms alongside the video screen that caught my eye about a possible comp. At first they were talking about the split house, but 8 people would just not be enough. Then they started saying using the same premise of the split house with the schoolyard picks and everything, but each HOH nominates 1 person. Both sides play a veto comp to set the noms. Then bring the sides back together after the veto ceremony is done to campaign and vote like normal. If there is a tie, the HOH who won first place would be the tiebreaker and the other one gets to vote. Also the top winner would be the one who couldn't play in the next HOH.

Ctown, I know you have mentioned the split house several times this season thinking they would do it again, but for some reason the above premise sounds kind of familiar. Did you propose this before or am I just remembering it from somewhere else?