Post by porsche on Mar 28, 2016 4:04:10 GMT
So Austin won HOH and I am really happy! Well, not as happy as if I won but this could work out just as well. I really thought I had that HOH competition in the bag. Oh well. I really wanted this HOH on my resume, and I'm scared that this will all go wrong and both Cody and Mark will slip through my fingers for the third time in a row.
Those nominations were not what I would have done at all. I get where Austin is coming from, but Mark has won the last two vetoes. I have a bad feeling he's going to win again, pull Cody off and then I'll be forced to evict Louise or Sarah. Or maybe Austin would put up David and get him evicted. If I won, I would listen to what everyone was saying, but I'm 99% sure Mark and Cody would go up.
If the nominations remain the same, I would definitely evict Cody. If he was out, there would be nothing keeping Louise and Mark together and I would feel like I was in a much more central position. If Sarah came off the block, however, and Mark went up, that would be a tough decision. Cody going helps my game. It frees up Louise and I think I would be one of the closer people to her, maybe the closest. As long as Cody is in, I know she would choose Cody every time over me. Sarah also brought up the idea of working with Mark and while I don't trust him, he would need friends if Cody went.
On the other hand, Mark is a much better player than Cody. After they got exposed, I feel like Cody told everybody what they wanted to hear and they caught on, while Mark was more open, admitted to some faults, was consistent in his stance that he had turned on the alliance with me and Jen, and then proceeded to gain back people's trust. Cody has Louise, but there are people who are already thinking of working with Mark once he doesn't have Cody. Sarah seemed like she was thinking about it, and Mark told Austin information that he waited until the HOH results to tell me. Austin didn't put him up and I'm confident that those two have a deal. If half the players in the game want to work with Mark once they think he's "alone", then is he really alone?
It really depends on how the veto goes. I'm going for it since I can't take the chance of Mark winning and taking Cody down. If I did win though, it would get awkward. Sarah would expect me to use it on her and Austin would expect me not to use it. And if I used it on Sarah, I would jump up Mark's target list, even if he did stay. I need to figure out who I want out first. Cody going is the cleaner move. If the nominations remained the same, Louise and Mark would evict Sarah, I would evict Cody and I would need to persuade David and Austin that voting out Cody was the way to go. I think they would do that anyway though, but I would need to be positive.
After this eviction, however, things get interesting. I'm not worried for next round. I have my veto, and I finally figured out how I want to play it. In the final 6, it takes two votes to evict. All I need to do is make sure I'm not nominated. If Austin and David are up, then I pull down one of them and we have the votes and the HOH basically has to choose who they want to sacrifice and then they can't play next week.
That's not to say that I'm planning on going to the end with Austin and David, however. Mark came to me and told me that David had sold me and Austin out. Apparently he told him we were a pair and that if he won, he should put us up. Austin hates David now. I can't blame David for looking out for himself, but does he not see that this doesn't benefit him at all? Even if it succeeded and me and Austin went up, I would just use the veto on myself and then David probably goes up. What we should have done was convince Mark to nominate Louise, since from what I can tell, they basically have no relationship.
It does raise a lot of questions, however. The first question is, is the information even accurate. It's Mark. He "got" me to tell him I thought David was a threat and then ran to David. After Sarah used the DPOV, he asked me how I was doing and I said "not as good" and then he ran to Sarah and told her "Porsche is so mad at you." I've heard rumors from him and Cody and Sarah about different combinations of alliances between me/David/Austin/Jen/Marvin, which are all rumors Mark started. It's far from solid proof.
However, if it is true, and I can see it being true, it seals the deal for me that I don't want David in the end. I think I'm going to need him out down the road. He can win competitions and if he isn't loyal to me, he becomes more of a liability. I go to the final 3 with him and Austin and he wins the F3 HOH and I think he stands a great chance of winning the game. Even going to final 4 with him is a risk because it gives him two chances to save himself. I'm thinking getting him out sometime around final 5.
If Mark survives, I don't want him going far either. He's a good player. I think he would go after David right now and mayyybe Louise but I've got to be on his hitlist. If he won, I would expect to go up. Who is even left? There's Austin, who is the one person I trust completely. And then just Sarah and Louise. Sarah I would be open to working with, however from the way she was talking earlier I know she sees me as a threat and I don't think she's totally loyal to me. My favorite moment was when I was talking about being worried after she used her DPOV and she told me that if I got nominated she would use her veto chip to play in the veto. Wow, thanks. Not like veto chips expire this round or anything. I feel like she would definitely cut me. She's also won a HOH and has been close in a lot of competitions.
So...Louise? I feel very iffy about that. Where Louise stands in this game is a mystery, besides the fact that she's close to Cody. Cody told me that after I told Louise about the alliance, she told him. I questioned her about it and she denied it. Then I found out from Jen that Louise actually DID tell Cody we ratted the alliance out but that Jen shouldn't tell me. Then Louise went to me and admitted she did tell Cody we told her about the alliance and the only reason she denied it when I confronted her was because "she was tired". I laughed at that but then it turned out it was one of those nights with insomnia and I felt bad. Apparently the only reason she told Cody was because Marvin told her I was playing her, and she didn't say a word to Cody before that.
Except Cody told me multiple times Louise told him "instantly" and there was at least a round and a half between when the alliance was formed and when Marvin must have sold me out. I just don't trust her at all and the idea of keeping her until the final 3 makes me incredibly uneasy.
I don't know. I'll have to figure it out as I go.
