Season III - Get a Free Blog

Jersey near the turnpike. One day a green glowing rock fell near his house. Rabbit felt weird, then fell to the ground dead,
only to rise again as a zombie. His neighbor Toad saw this and quickly blasted Rabbit's head off with a 12 gauge, ending the
threat.
Marvin won this challenge, and the Grandparents finished third. Controversy ensued, and Angie Bierly, the other of my two
early picks to win, left the game.
The bad fortune for the Grandparents ensued in the next challenge, where each team answered some arbitrary questions,
and the funniest were voted on by Blogtard, an online friend of mine obsessed with privacy (I'm half-convinced he's a
famous person). The Joneses scored highest here, while GOEB finished last again. Jon Mullaly and Oliver Thrun each
received two of the four votes, so the tiebreaker went to a random member of The Joneses. Oddly, I can't remember who
that person was, but they eliminated Oliver, who got third-to-last place both times. Shame, because he was actually trying
this year and I thought he'd go deep. I may as well mention now that I thought Perry would be the first member of GOEB
to go, which proves I'm an idiot.
The next challenge was to name a challenge later in the game; I got a ton of good ones, but the highest honor went to The
Joneses' Kyle Mitchell, who suggested creating a MySpace for a random object/animal/whatever. Simple, but elegant. My
sister failed to send an idea in, but as it would happen, so did John Youker, and Marvin lost by .05 points (average score).
He went from powerhouse to goat in two weeks, and his team eliminated him. I may as well mention now that I thought
for sure that Ryan and Tara would be the first gone from their team; I maintain that John's forgetfulness here was the
difference between that outcome and one of them winning.
At this point, my sister pulled out of the game, citing inability to keep up. I figured she and David would both be gone
before the merge, but David made it, and she was close. The merge, all too soon because I was loving the team stuff, then
happened. Marvin brought four members to that point of the game, while each of the other teams had three.
The next challenge was The Endurance Ladder, which was a needlessly long quiz of mostly black-and-white but a few
abstract questions. I could drag this one out, but Rachel Flynn won it, and I acknowledged that she won Immunity for
anyone on her team who actually completed the Ladder (Ryan and Tara, but not Josh, who won the Ladder last year but
didn't do it this year). The voting queue was kind of a mess, but a small alliance went after, and eliminated, Jon Mullaly.
The next challenge, probably my favorite, was to pitch a TV show. The best drama and the best comedy would win
Immunity. Rachel was the only one to enter a drama and therefore won that one; Leif Bierly won the comedy with the
complex "Poached," which I still plan on writing (I've also been writing a pilot episode for Perry's "A Mort of all Sorts," which
is turning out pretty funny, and I'd also like to write Ryan's wrestling show...too many good ideas). I beseeched everyone
to eliminate someone who hadn't been playing, and they complied by getting rid of Josh Mitchell, who at any point could've
stepped back in and won. Worth noting: Kyle Mitchell, by not doing the challenge, voted for himself for the second time in
two oppurtunities.
The next one involved scaring me as much as possible in 100 words or less; I hadn't planned a tie, but Ryan and Kelly Jo
won immunity by equally unsettling me with painful, awful scenarios. The group astutely eliminated Leif, which kinda
pissed me off, even though it was the most sensible move. I decided I needed to take stronger measures against non-
players both immediately and in future games. Oh, and Kyle forgot to vote, making him 3-for-3 at voting for himself.
I then asked everyone to write a theme song for one of the TV show pitches. Rachel won Immunity for herself and Kelly Jo