james win HOH. he noms pawn/backup and steve. if steve doesn't win veto, replacement is one of the austwins. meg and austwins vote steve.

replace james' name with becky or meg too. pawn/backup is likely vanessa.

this doesn't mean steve is automatically targeted or evicted, but he's drawn a line against goblins while increasing suspicion of someone like becky. this allows vanessa, who was their #1 target going into DE, to manuever and use steve as a meat shield to survive another week. steve basically took shelli's position in the game as someone the goblins cannot trust and is a definite enemy with this move. all this while austin still dislikes him.

Austin is such a brown-noser. He's like the guy in the office that is bros with all his equal employees then runs up the the bosses office to put shade on them. So he eventually gets the next position available.

I haven't seen this yet but he may just be making it look like he's not working with steve to help their alliance.

Big Winners for the night

1. Austwins
2. Jmac (from DE target to safe)
3. Vanessa

Neutral

Becky

Big Losers

1. Steve (made himself a gigantic target and aligning himself in a terrible alliance)
2. Megs/James

@4SP to that

All I can think of right now is when Jackie was saying to James/Meg "OMG the other side keeps messing up our plans, they're so stupid." Sorry Jackie, stupidity would have been to let you guys run the house. She never realized the other side was acting in their own self interest.

This could be a good development for the remaining goblins because if Becky slides in to replace Jackie she could give them some much-needed direction.

It's not that bad for the goblins. Becky can't work with Vanessa + Austwins and now Steve. So she'll be forced to be working with the gobins and potentially pull in Jmac.

I actually think their plans with austwins were good but they got very unlucky that one of the few people that might f up their plans won hoh. They should have pulled him into their alliance to avoid this as he was considering it but they underestimated him. He just saved vanessa and jamc's games. Those 3 are the big winners from this DE. Big losers are meg and james. Austwins are neutral as they were in a good spot either way.

Meg crying lol. It was ok when you were crushing their side. Steve said he put up the goblins because they were mean to him lol. Obviously it's because you were the other side but steve can sell that to seem real. But it also does get him some revenge for the way alot of people have treated him in the house.

Meg "i feel played by steve." Bingo!

p.s. I agree it would have been stupid to let them run the house.

Didn't Meg pretty much detest Steve until sometime last week?

Yes, with Jmac they could end up being a fairly strong team because Becky, Jmac and James are capable of winning different types of comps. And Meg, well, is at least a 4th vote.

Yes, it was actually worse when Jason was in the house.

Becky just confirmed to Jmac that Steve is now the #1 target for Becky + goblins.

Bigtime! Since they knew the DE was coming up she's been acting much nicer to him to avoid this happening. Luckily Steve didn't forget and get played. He played meg.

I love jmac telling becky "steve doesn't understand the social game as i told him to backdoor vanessa." John is lost.

James/Meg/Becky/john basically have to work together since Vanessa/Austin/twins are. So it's 4 on 4 in this upcoming HOH

and it's really quite ridiculous how Austin and the twins have been safe for so long. I really don't know what Vanessa's endgame is with them; she can't go to the final 4 with them and expect to make final 2

oh I think it'll be a bracket comp since there's 8 people competing in this

James said whose never been on the block this whole game(referring to austwins)? Of course becky tried to talk him down from that plan.

But vanessa plan would be for the other side to try and break austwins up. If they don't later on her and steve would prolly take out liz or austin.

Sooner or later the other side will have to target Austin/Twins to separate them and forget Vanessa before its to late right?

Nope, the Austwins have a free pass to final 5/6. It's to their benefit to throw HOHs at this point.

meg or julia is a near lock to make final 2 right? becky and james are both doing a good job of realizing they need to merge together.

Yeah Meg can just sleep for the next month and still be in the house. She sucks so bad at everything that people don't wanna get rid of her

I find Steve completely nauseating. I can't believe he actually has fans, he is THE creepiest guy I've ever seen. He gives off a total serial killer vibe, creepy AF.

The rest of the season is going to be great. Thankfully the Austwins suck at comps and might even throw HOHs, so no matter what Vanessa will be in danger every week unless Steve wins HOH. Should be a ton of fun.

Has Steve ever hugged a girl before? He keeps going around the house asking for hugs. He's soooooooo creepy and awkward omg.

Meg and becky just told steve they don't blame him because they know he wouldn't be capable of thinking of this on his own lol. That they blame vanessa i think as they said "who stood beside clelli when they took out jason." Maybe their bluffing him but i don't think so. Becky just wants vanessa out so bad she blames her for everything.