8-01-03 - FOOD COMPETITION: LAYING PIPE
Only half the House can win food this week, and the Food Competition is a challenging one. The HouseGuests split into two teams: Jun, Justin, Nathan and Jack on the blue team, Dana, Jee, Erika and Robert on the red team. "Laying Pipe" is a challenge in which the two teams race to see who can lay pipes the fastest. Dressed in plumber overalls, the team members must work together to connect pipes and joints to go through a set course, routing water from the source to the finish line. The object is to route the water to a waiting rubber duckie, which will then float and cross over the finish line. The challenge seems easy at first, but a few minutes into it, Ali opens up the flood gates and water starts pouring out of the pipes, soaking the HouseGuests and making the pipe assembly even more difficult. After some admirable teamwork, the blue team is the first to float their duck across the finish line, leaving Dana, Jee, Erika and Robert to pout over PB&J for the next week.
7-30-03 - HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD COMPETITION: AROUND THE WATER COOLER
The two clashing alliances go head-to-head in a Competition that will determine who will hold the power in the House for the next week. With no time to mourn the loss of a fallen comrade, the HouseGuests take their places in the backyard for the Head of Household Competition, called "Around the Water Cooler." The competitors stand in a line on a ledge, each holding a water cooler jug with an equal number of ping pong balls inside. Five feet below each person on the ledge is a cylinder, which is just big enough for the ping pong balls to fit inside. From their perches on the ledge, the HouseGuests must turn their ball-filled water jugs upside down and try to aim for their corresponding cylinders below. The person with the most balls in his or her cylinder at the end of one minute is the new Head of Household. Jee, Jun, Justin, Robert and Nathan all tie with two balls, Erika gets four, Jack gets six, and Alison wins HoH with seven ping pong balls!
7-29-03 - POWER OF VETO COMPETITION: NIAGARA BALLS
The HouseGuests are realizing the importance of the competitions in the game, and everyone is eager to win the Power of Veto Competition. The competitors head outside, where they put on kneepads and helmets. The name of the game is "Niagara Balls," and for good reason. At the start of the game, a giant chute suspended above the HouseGuests opens up, and the HouseGuests are showered with thousands of different-colored bouncing balls. The object of the game is to collect the green balls, and the first person to fill their V-shaped container wins the Power of Veto. It's a tough competition, with the bouncing balls flying from above and bouncing from below, and all the HouseGuests scramble to collect as many green balls as they can find. Some HouseGuests try to catch them from the air, while others opt to collect them from the ground. Jun is injured when a ball hits her in the eye, taking her out of the running, but Nathan fares well and wins the crucial competition, leaving Dana worried about her nominations remaining intact. Meanwhile, Alison seems thrilled that her partner Nathan has the power to save her from eviction, and he assures her that she "can sleep peacefully now."
7-29-03 - LUXURY COMPETITION
It's time for another Luxury Competition, but this time there can only be one winner. The luxury prize: a private gourmet dinner, for which the winner can choose his or her dinner companion. Each HouseGuest has to fill a champagne glass, then sit in the "spin-o-matic" chair, which spins them for a dizzy 30 seconds. After the 30 seconds of spinning, the HouseGuest must put their champagne glass on a tray and walk it to a podium--without spilling--where they ring a bell to signal that they're done. Shortest time wins the luxury. Nathan and Jack are disqualified for dropping their champagne glasses, and the others teeter their way to the podium in a hilarious wobbling fashion. Alison, a figure skater, puts her spinning skills to use and wins the competition, winning a champagne dinner for her and her guest, Nathan.
