NOT LIKE THIS CT!!!!
This is an absolute mess. Is this really happening?
Oh thank fucking god at that ending and the preview. I was starting to get mad pissed I dropped to just two players within the very first episode lmao.
Well, I watched it last night after a few beers, and will rewatch and score soon. First, a few scoring clarifications.
I'm going to grant the barrel roll top 4 10 pts for winning a comp, and the winners of the third heat (Cory and Jenna) 15 points for winning an elimination, and I'll grant the winning cannon carry team an additional 5 points, if I can figure out who everyone was.
We'll treat the "Redemption House" like scoring on Exiled. If there's a competition or other events in the Redemption House that warrant points, we'll award them. However, players won't get Episode Survival Points. CT also won't get episode survival points this episode, but will if/when he gets back in the house.
And hooooooboy, my gut feeling about Ashley not being as good this season was right, but I had no idea how right I was. That also explains why her cast picture was different from everyone else's - she bailed before they took them the morning after they arrived. I think there's a good chance her meds were in those bags that got delayed, and likely she doesn't do well without those. Honestly, I was surprised they didn't reduce the number of eliminated girls to 2 during the Purge, which makes me think there's another plan.
I wonder if they'll bring someone else back in as a replacement next episode for Ashley. If so, Valisk can't draft the replacement, though - Ashley left for Pansy Ass Reasons (TM). In the unlikely event CT fails to make it to the show, Xno Kappa will be able to draft a replacement player in his place, as he left for reasons that were not his fault.
Small conspiracy theory: both last season's defending champs didn't make the first show, for very different reasons. Coincidence or...? Probably coincidence.
This person seems to be Ashley's replacement next week.
Spoiler: show
Cannon Team: Ammo, Britni, Cara Maria, Dario, Derrick H, Leroy, Marie, Nelson, Nicole, and Veronica
Spreadsheet sent out. Poor Valisk lost his first round draft pick in week one. That's going to be hard to come back from.
Scoring after one week:
Byrd 75
Vil 70
Headspace 45
Moss 30
Xno Kappa 30
Valisk 15
Top players:
Cory 20
Jenna 20
Tori 20
Lots of people with 15
Nice. Gimme them commissioner points! lol
I am ready to burn this thread to the ground. I wasn't even able to enjoy the rest of the show after Ashley quit.
Talk about fantasy sports. This is like when you lose your 1st round RB to a torn ACL in week 1 and you stop setting your roster for the rest of the season. Demoralizing as shit.
Fuck this shit!
Random thoughts:
-Nicole looks SCARY. Seriously hard to look at
-I love how the black chicks were so made when Jenna eliminated them. "Oh she wants to play dirty!" No actually it is the opposite , those are the exact rules of the game...
-Jenna really should've rubbed it in Amanda's cunt face after she spread rumors about her last season
-No more names out of a hat MTV. Pick captains and pick teams, much more fair
Me too, including fucking Darrell
Simone performed about as well as expected
Man I was thinking the same thing about Nicole. She was actually attractive on Bloodlines. She got a bad lip job and botox gone wrong, or something, but there is something completely off about her face. Those contacts do not help.
Better to burn brightly and flame out then fade away unnoticed, I suppose.
Thanks to some theatrics in Redemption House, we have a bit of a shakeup in the standings:
Total Points Active Players
Moss 195 3
Valisk 180 3
Vil 130 5
Byrd 125 5
Headspace 100 4
Xno Kappa 55 3
Points by Player:
TOTAL Total to Date Team Owner Active?
Simone 150 MOSS NO
Shane 140 VALISK NO
Cory 40 HEAD YES
Tori 40 VIL YES
Camila 35 VIL YES
Bananas 30 BYRD YES
Derrick K 30 BYRD YES
Simone and Shane got points for physical fighting (15), verbal fighting (5), production on screen (5), production discussing behavior (15), and -oh yeah- getting kicked out (100). Simone got a bonus 10 points for smashing a champagne bottle. Cory (EDIT: not Tori) continues his manwhoring ways, getting points for kissing Aneesa and partial coitus points for whatever the hell happened on the beach with Camila. Tori keeps winning challenges and kissing her boyfriend.
Thinking maybe we should drop the getting kicked out for bad behavior to 50 pts next year since it's almost always going to be cumulative with a bunch of other stuff, and it shouldn't be worth as much as winning a final.
On the plus side, that's a lot more points that Moss could have reasonably dreamed of getting from the default #30 selection in the draft.
Well, congrats you two! At least that ought to make up some for losing 1st rounders last week.
Maybe I shouldn't dismiss the Redemption House since I'm worried that Derrick H will face off against Cory and lose, but can they at least give us a hint how it'll work? Will there be like a dozen or more people in there (assuming more people don't get kicked off) by the time someone comes back? Maybe I didn't pay enough attention, but they really didn't show how big a place it was, # of beds there, etc.
Somehow in the Shane-Simone fight, I forgot that Devin got bit by Shane bad enough to draw blood and need medical attention. I'm going to grant both of them 10 commish bonus points next week, because that's pretty much exactly what those are there for.
I can't believe Cory admitted, out loud in front of everyone, that he has a "hit list" on all the vets. He named names. Is he stupid? Is he trying to make that target on his back even bigger. It was bad enough for him that the women were gunning for him to teach him a lesson. But now the top dog vets, who have a huge amount of Challenge WINs under their belt, are looking your way??? Cory might have bit off more than he can chew.
Thank goodness for Shane and Simone. I needed that pick-me-up bad after Smashley quit.