I didn't feel like posting a Tuesday ECST because I knew I was gonna be flipping and not paying full attention due to the maelstrom of BB, Hell's Kitchen, and Dancing with the Star's Results show all on at the same time........

But, I happened to see the Veto Competition....

Remember the Tiki God of past seasons? This time he was the Rain Tiki God Otev (Veto spelled backwards, natch) and posed questions based on events in the house. The hamsters had to look around the "Lake House Lakebed" to find rocks with numbers written on it to get the day number. If everyone was correct, the last one to get back would be eliminated..... If only one person got it incorrect for the question, they'd be the one eliminated...... If multiple hamsters got it wrong, the one furthest away (and the slowest if there's a tie) would be eliminated.

Natalie was eliminated first, Then Sheila who tied with James at being the furthest away, but was slower back to the altar so she was then eliminated. James was next to go, then Sharon, then Ryan won the POV when Adam decided with Ryan to basically throw the final question (the original plan was for them to answer the same, but Adam would be slower, then Adam decided to lower his guess by one for some reason.....)

Looks like Ryan and Nat are dead set on eliminating James.

J/She/A discussing trying to get N out after James. Sheila says Nat is more of a threat to her than anyone else. I suppose James is putting a bug in Sheila's ear.

Ry/A/Sheila previously discussed FINAL 3 today; getting Nat or Sharon out first, preferably Nat.

He's been promoting a theory that Natalie is a meth addict.

Unless BB is supplying Nat with meth in the house (and I wouldn't put anything past them), I don't agree. Extremely delusional yes, but Amber was a total wreck coming off of whatever she was on.

The semi-general consensus seems to be that James has stopped trying to save himself and is now working to make sure Natalie goes out next.

Watch her win HoH.

At first I really liked James coming back into the game and fighting to stay winning POV's and all that. But then he started crying and whining about the whole house being against him. And my like for him waned a little. Now he is telling lies about Nat so she can be the next evicted person. At this point, I can't stand the guy.

I find it poor sportsmanship for him to be harrassing Nat when he started this whole thing by going back on his word to her. And now that she has gotten rid of him and his girlfriend he wants to be a *itch about it.

He has nobody to blame but himself. If he knew he wanted to get rid of Matt he never should have made the deal with her.

His gameplay really sucks IMO. His targets change depending on who voted him back in or who nominated him for the block or who wants him gone. He really has no plan other than to make sure Nat goes after him. What a dummy. He should be trying to convince people why he is the perfect Final 2 opponent. Instead of convincing people why Nat needs to go.

BUT since he has went back on his word with just about everybody there nobody believes his claims of loyalty anyway. So I guess the best thing he can do is muddy up the water for somebody else. LOSER!

LAST EDITED ON 04-09-08 AT 08:49 PM (EST)

Since I got home a little late, and I don't feel like starting a new thread I'll post some details of the Wednesday Night Live Show here.......

1. Today's featured hamster is....... Sharon, and her family (isn't that the kiss of death?) gets to speak about her and her activities in the cage......

2. We got some coverage of the Jury sequester house, it looks like to be on a lake, possibly in the California mountains.... (didn't see the exact location, sorry)

3. Matty has been waiting patiently to see James come through that Jury house door, but first he gets Chelsia, then he gets Josh. We get to see highlights from Josh's DVD, but nothing from Chelsia's DVD......

4. Votes to evict: Natalie, Ryan and then Sheila all have voted to evict James, but we gotta go to a commercial break, so we'll get his reaction and Chenbot interview 2.0 after the break.

Poor Matt - stuck in the house with Chelsea, Josh, James, and what might well be Sharon.

Somehow, I don't think he'd mind, considering it meant that his allies are still in the house........

Deja vu for James..... who're you gonna be friends with outside the cage? Chelsia definitely, probably Adam, Sheila and Sharon.

On the way to break, we get a shot of them preparing for the HoH competition in the backyard and it involves some kind of glass house...........

LAST EDITED ON 04-10-08 AT 06:44 AM (EST)

Looks like it'll be an endurance HoH competition.

They must find some way to grab onto the body of their "Glass Houses" because there is no glass floor! They have a bar and a chain for their hands to grab onto, plus they can wedge their feet against the glass walls of the house, and can even literally put their back into it if they decide to wedge the feet into the glass wall facing the cameras.......

Ryan knows he's in deep trouble because of his lackluster performance in the Disco Mobile Torture/Endurance HoH of Doom...... weight.....

ETC: It took me a while to realize that he was the outgoing HoH when they had that HoH comp......

Sharon's already out, apparently she screwed up her back sometime yesterday and this kind of challenge requires the back to be in good shape......

Ryan, being the heaviest (mostly muscle), is sweating up a storm in his glass house/hot box.....(it didn't help that the smoke machines went on during the live show.....)

We're now in a Trivia break, so something's up....... or did the rig break down already?

The trivia break was to review if elbows were allowed to be on the glass as hold on points.... (no word on the answer though....)

I'd say this one favors the females, period. It's also a ripoff -- there was a Fear Factor contest just like this, after you subtract out the lack of internal rain, spinning, and the fact that they're not two hundred feet off the ground.

BTW, according to the official record, James spent Monday and Tuesday feeding the guineas, cleaning the house, saying his prayers, and getting ready for an appearance on Idol Gives Back. They just weren't ready to lose their 'free spirit', were they?

LAST EDITED ON 04-09-08 AT 10:43 PM (EST)

The last endurance competition also favored the females, plus any wiry males that happened to be in the house, like James....... and since he's no longer there, it'd be a miracle for Ryan to win it.......

We're over an hour into this, and besides Sharon's elimination, nothing has changed.......

They're getting bored up there, they want some music to take away some of the boredom.......

Adam mentioned that there's gonna be a pizza and burger feast once they get done with the HoH Torture/Challenge...... odds of a Food Competition for the week, dropping...... Adam even suspects that there'll be a Luxury Competition tomorrow, instead........

Thanks for the update, and keeping coming if you can. That would be great.

Timekeeper: 2 hours have elapsed!

Adam just ended up eating a bug...... *blech*

It looks like there's an outdoor lockdown (which will be temporarily lifted for instructions from the DR, and probably bathroom breaks for the fallen hamsters.......)

Ryan wanted to last 4 hours, 240 minutes, a minute for each pound on his body....... considering that he's switching positions often, I'm not sure he's gonna make it.........

Sheila is strongly hinting that she wants to see her pictures and read a letter just once...... (she's the only one who hasn't had any kind of HoH reign...... Sharon was when she was still with Josh, Ryan was Lazarus I, Natalie won two weeks ago, and Adam won the weeks before and after Natalie's reign.....) However she's had a heel spur for approximately 10 years, so that's bugging her...... and could be her (literal) "Achilles heel" in this competition.......

Natalie is living up to her nickname of "Chatty Natty"..... However, she's had to tone it down at times, because her voice echoes off of the glass wall, and even she can't stand that for too long....... other than that, there's been very little visual images of her on the feeds, probably because she's not struggling....... (she was the last one eliminated on the Disco Mobile of Doom before James became Lazarus II)

I think we're about to get a rule change for the competition..... Adam just got called to the DR......

We're at 170 minutes in.......

During the last 50 minutes, Adam happened to get to go inside, and was able to get himself and Sharon some food..... much to Ryan, Sheila and Natalie's shagrin......

Also, Sharon got to feed her precious BeeBees some bell peppers.

Adam also said that the Supply Room is fully stocked, so that definitely eliminates any Food Competition for this week.........

While Adam is inside, Sheila, Ryan, and Natalie are striking up a deal...... Sheila to win the HoH and the nominees to be Adam and Sharon....... with Sharon being the primary target and Adam being the secondary target........ (basically if Sharon, by some miracle, wins the POV, Adam would get the vote out, not the replacement nominee.....) However, it's not been agreed to yet........

Ryan's dropped out at 2 hours, 54 minutes

Also, the flipside of the deal has been agreed: If Adam wins the POV, then Sharon will get voted out, not the replacement nominee.........

Natalie's being stubborn.........

Sheila's being even more stubborn..... she really wants to see a picture of her son and get a letter from home......

Natalie is torn: The nice part of her wants to give it to Sheila, but the fire part of her doesn't want to let go.....

She's forgetting two things, though........ 1. Whoever wins this HoH can't compete for the F4 HoH...... and 2. If Sheila wins this, even if it's partially handed to her, it'll take off the "she's due" possibilities that could happen in later competitions and have her surprisingly win something important like say the F3 HoH if she gets that far?

It would also be a huge birthday present to Sheila.........

Whether it was by giving it to Sheila, exhaustion, or whatever, Natalie had dropped and Sheila has won the Glass Houses HoH Torture/Competition in a time of 3 hours, 8 minutes!

I'll post the new live feed thread shortly.

Sheila wins and cracks a tooth.