[BB Theta]

The Final Week has started off with a bang!

So much to cover, and just never enough time!



Let's start with the Battle Back!


1. Parker has returned to the game, what does that mean for you? Where does Parker fit into your plans? Does he fit in at all?


2. Jennie won HOH and Veto leaving her nominations of Adam and yourself on the block. In the end Adam was the one taken out tonight. How does Adam's eviction impact you? Are you glad to see him go? Or was this a blow to your game? Feel free to elaborate as much as you want. Big Brother is here to listen.


3. Zingbot came to visit the house tonight! How did you feel about what Zingbot had to say about you and your fellow Houseguests?


4. With Spiral as the new HOH, what does that mean for you? What is your plan for surviving this round and the future that comes with it?


5. Last question, you're in the last stretch of the game, how do you feel about your chances of making it to the end and winning? Who or what is standing in your way and how do you plan on overcoming that?



Good luck! Stay strong! It's going to be a tough final week!

[James]

I'll answer all these questions at some point I guess. But for the most up-to-date update, I know I'm going up against Jen. I've basically been campaigning against Jen for 2 days now. So it's a pitch I've made. I think it DEFINITELY makes sense for jennie to keep me. And Parker too honestly and probably glyn and amanda. they are just all scared. and they all think they are going to be the ones against Jen in the final. No you're not. Odds are she either takes your spot in the finale. There are only 3 spots. Someone is getting burned.

Glyn Amanda and Jennie are all sort of agreeing but seem to scared to keep me. Parker is less into it. I really think they are all being dumb. Especially parker. He's almost a guaranteed nominee vs jen if amanda or glyn win hoh next week instead of him or jennie. I wouldn't put him up (or at least that's what i'm telling him).

If this pitching doesn't work, I may need to blow up cardashians and the fact glyn and amanda both said they were putting up spiral. it might not be "true" and they are probably telling spiral they are lying to me. but still, something needs to wake someone up.

[James]

Also, I'm assuming the next veto is OTEV, which involves going through threads. That's something I do NOT want to deal with lol.

[James]

OK. I thought of my final hail mary strategy. If Glyn doesn't give me some really strong indication I am staying over Jen, then I pull out the stupid "Chen Takeover" graphic I made in 5 minutes yesterday. And do it right before or after the veto comp so there isn't much time for them to plan. Basically the idea is, I tell Glyn and Amanda I have to play the power in my DR so last week didn't really initiate it, that was just to shake things up. But now I've played it in my DR before noms are read as required, since this is my last week to do so and it gives me the power to switch 2 or 3 or 4 votes (still working out the math but i'll give them a set number and fake description).

My story will be that I didn't want to play it because it's tricky, which is why I was campaigning first. I cannot control the votes, all I can do is pick X number of people and their votes switch. I will say jennie and parker are giving me shaky answers, maybe I even believe parker could be on my side. So I plan to use it on amanda glyn and then either jennie or Parker depending on my gut. But I need to confirm their votes, and that they are voting against me. That will allow me to clinch the votes in my favor. The goal in all this is to get them to vote to keep me (and tell Jennie and even possibly Parker to do so too) thinking I will change their votes to vote me OUT. IIn reality I think they can ensure I go home by splitting the vote, but hoping they don't have the time or the sense, to figure that out if I don't give them very much time. Also that's why I don't want to say i'm changing all 4 votes (that makes a vote split too easy). Saying I can change 3 and the third is parker or jennie makes it so they might view a vote split too messy and unpredictable.

They could call my bluff. BUT, nobody seemed to outright tell me I was BSing yesterday. Like nobody said it was a terrible photoshop. So they were at least somewhat scared.

[James]

Though this through more. Going to only bring it up after veto to glyn and amanda. Going to say I don't want to tell jennie and parker cause they will tell spiral and all the votes will go to keep me and i'm out anyway. Here is a draft post I can send them:

CHEN TAKEOVER POWER #6608
By BB Theta - Tue May 18, 2021 9:32:16 pm
Congratulations! You were the first to claim the Chen Takeover Power.

This power is only good for the next four rounds. It must be activated BEFORE the NOMINATION CEREMONY on the round it is being used by posting in a NEW THREAD in your Diary Room. Later, before votes are due on the night of the eviction, you must designate three players to enact this power on. The three chosen players’ votes will be switched to vote out the nominee OPPOSITE of their intended vote. They will be 100% unaware that it has been used on them and your identity as the user will also remain anonymous.

It is 100% up to you whether or not you would like to disclose to your houseguests that you have the power or what it entails.

[James]

For reference, lol.

[James]

It's show time. Now or never. I'm super nervous, like embarrassingly so. But trying to remember this is fun and a privilege to be playing. And no matter what, I get to see my true love on the other side. Dean-chard.

[James]

[James]

If I lost, I'm probably going up. Guessing I submitted first. Didn't double check my answers because I was hurrying so hope I was right. If I do win, the question is if I want Spiral out (better at comps) or Glyn. I feel like if I put up spiral and parker, amanda and Glyn might even save Parker to try to have an extra challenge person to beat me next round. So not convinced that spiral and parker would be the right move. Probably Spiral and Glyn, which goes back on my word to glyn but who cares at this point. Maybe him blowing up at me on my way out even makes me seem less of a jury risk than spiral to Amanda and vice versa. Doubt it though. I do think Glyn played the best game so me taking him out would be a good story to the jury. We shall see....

and if I lost, let's go veto!

[James]

I ended up winning. So the question is why I went with the noms I did. I was thinking through all the different scenarios. Then Spiral promised he would take me to the end if I didn't nominate him. That honestly changed things because I think Spiral actually meant it. He probably didn't care who he was with since he felt he wins regardless. Since he's a big comp threat, it was worth it to me to make the deal as insurance against him winning out. I also had him agree to use the veto the way I wanted if he won. The reason is that if Spiral did win veto I wanted Glyn to go, not amanda or parker. That's why I included that provision in the deal and put up amanda and glyn instead of one of them and parker. I debated doing glyn and parker and it still probably plays out the same way. But I think Parker is the most likely (of many unlikely options) to take me to the end next round. So since Spiral and Parker were the ones to seem most wanting to keep me around. They stayed off the block. But then Spiral lost veto.

The only way I would have potentially kept Spiral (hadn't decided fully yet) would be if amanda came off by winning and it's spiral vs. glyn on the block. (didn't want to do that to start because I didn't want to allow amanda to take off glyn). In that scenario then MAYBE I vote out glyn in the tiebreaker. I think then everyone other than spiral's target would have been spiral next round, not me. So the more I think about it, the more I do think in that scenario I might have risked keeping spiral in the game to set myself up better for next round. But I DEFINITELY didn't want both glyn and Spiral around. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just view Glyn as a much bigger end game threat than Amanda. And I didn't want to put myself in a scenario where one of them was guaranteed to be with me in the final.

[James]

After sleeping off the stress, I have a tiny bit of regret about not voting out Amanda. But, then I remember that I don’t know for sure whether Glyn and Parker would actually vote Spiral out over me at final 4. So I don’t really know if the “keeping the biggest target” strategy even works in that scenario. I feel like Glyn might have still voted me out especially. He’s never expressed viewing Spiral as as much of a threat as Amanda has.

[James]

New Hail Mary strategy for tonight, since the power idea has run its course. I’ve been trying to think of what I can say to make it seem like I will never win with the jury. The only thing I can think of is if I act like I was some sort of cheap twist that people will hate. My idea: Adam and I are brothers. We applied separately and at first didn’t tell the hosts but then we told them and they let us play. But the cost was we weren’t allowed to message each other privately until day 15. And that’s the day we teamed up to get rich out. Idk something like that. It’s insane but maybe it’s such a wild twist that they would believe it. Would it impact their vote? Who knows lol. I just would need something massive to change the way I’m viewed.

[James]

Or just admit I was THE SPY, America’s player that’s why I did random shit I wasn’t controlling anything. I had to do everything they said.

[James]

Sensing I'm mostly fucked so need to be ready to pull out one of these crazy schemes. Also as an aside, Glyn has such a righteous you lied way more than me thing going on.....Please. This is the first thing that kind of pisses me off about him. Before I wanted him out because I admired his game play. Now idk. Maybe he's doing it on purpose to piss me off and make me want to keep him lol. Then I guess I admire him again and I'm no longer pissed?

But the point is that I view constant lies and withholding info way more damaging to someone's game than using them as a pawn.

[James]

to clarify, glyn is the one saying I lied way more than him and he never lied to me. Because he never betrayed our deals or something. Nominating people is not the only way to betray them. He's thrown me under the bus constantly to everyone, at least since the chelsia event, but likely before too.

[James]

Usually I would never want to start arguing my game already. Leaves too much room for others to plan how to respond to me. But Amanda's arguments are relatively weak compared to what I might face at final jury so might as well make some good impressions to start.

[James]

Thoughts about jury votes:

There are 6 or 7. Guessing 6 since I don’t see Jen returning. So 4 wins and 3 wins if the others split.

Adam: I should have him locked. He kept liking my win posts.

Jennie: it was very telling what her biggest regret was in the box challenge: something like not getting out people who were closer to each other than her. A clear shot at spiral/Parker and glyn/Amanda. And she liked one of my posts and I think none of Amanda’s. I think I have a 60 percent chance at her vote. The sort of solemn regretful tone works with her, and it’s true.

Amanda/Glyn: will vote for each other

Spiral: Would vote for Parker, but I could possibly see anti-me jurors pooling their votes on either Amanda/Glyn or on Parker to beat me. Especially if Amanda is a juror maybe she even votes Parker to team up and beat me idk...lol. But hoping for a split.

Sheila: people seem to think she’s tight with Amanda. But idk what her criteria will be. Maybe she will respond to my big moves type of game. And i don’t have a bad relationship with her, just a mostly jokey one. Not sure how she is with Glyn.

Ais: We had our awkwardness but she listed me as someone she might vote for when she went out. Also referenced a “bitch” in her regret in the box. Who is the bitch? Me? Amanda? TBD. Seemed to respect me getting her out. So hoping she likes someone who made moves and didn’t throw comps. Also clear that Glyn and Amanda had each other over her and she would’ve been expendable to them at some point. Could maybe vote Parker if they were close.

Susie: hoping my sis molar honesty with her helps carry the vote. She put up Amanda and glyn so maybe me putting them up and then forcing them to duel had her rooting along with me at home. Could vote Parker if they were close.

Jen: if she shows up....I had a final 2 with her and never put her up. She also had something with Glyn Amanda and Jennie but they did t exactly help her stay off the block or help her. Glyn renamed her. Never had to burn her so hoping she would consider me. But she might think I was fake with her. Unclear.

[James]

Idk what “sis molar” was supposed to be. But something about me being honest with Susie when she was going out and whenever we weren’t on the same side.

[James]

Featuring James learning how to film horizontally. Stick around to the end to see!

[Elizabeth]