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Part I: Paparazzi Perch



Julie Chen
Welcome to the first part of your final HoH Competition! I'm sure you're all very excited to begin, so I'll make my explanation quick.

*The camera shows the backyard. There are three separate rows of perches stretching from one end of the backyard to another, with the closest ones being rather large, and the furthest one having barely enough room for one foot to stand on. Connecting all the perches in each row is a narrow catwalk. Milling around in the backyard are countless media press, each of them holding a flash camera.*

This will be a competition of endurance and balance. You'll all begin on one side of the yard, standing on your largest perch. Your ultimate goal is to make it to the others side of the backyard onto your smallest perch. To do so you will not only have to cross from one perch to another (during which you can be knocked off), but also you must wait a certain amount of time on each perch before continuing on.

Here's a little chart showing basically what it looks like (not to scale, obviously):



PERCHES
You will begin the competition by standing on Perch 1. To stand on a perch, you must post:
[Your name] stands on Perch [#].
The amount of times you need to post this (and how often you need to post) depends on which perch you're on.
Perch 1 - need to post twice, exactly 1 hour between posts
Perch 2 - need to post thrice, exactly 30 minutes between posts
Perch 3 - need to post 4 times, exactly 20 minutes between posts
Perch 4 - need to post 5 times, exactly 15 minutes between posts
Perch 5 - need to post 7 times, exactly 10 minutes between posts
Perch 6 - need to post 13 times, exactly 5 minutes between posts
Perch 7 - need to post 16 times, exactly 4 minutes between posts
Perch 8 - need to post 21 times, exactly 3 minutes between posts
Perch 9 - need to post 31 times, exactly 2 minutes between posts
Perch 10 - need to post for as long as possible, exactly 1 minute between posts
Basically you'll spend one hour on each perch. If you mess up any of those times, you fall off, and you're eliminated. After you've spent at least an hour on a perch, you can stay there as long as you'd like (without posting) before trying to cross the catwalk to the next perch.

CATWALKS
To get from one perch to the next, you'll have to cross the catwalk, but as soon as you do so, the paparazzi will be blinding you with the flashes of their cameras, making you dizzy.
To cross a catwalk to the next perch, you need to post:
[Your name] crosses from Perch [#] to Perch [#].
For the next 10 minutes, you are vulnerable to the flashes of the paparazzi. This is where the public comes in: anyone with at least 100 Yuku posts can attempt to knock the houseguest off the catwalk by posting:
[Yuku name] blinds [Houseguest name] with the flash of their camera.
The blinded houseguest will fall off the catwalk and be eliminated if they do not post the following within 1 minute of being blinded:
[Your name] regains his/her balance and walks on.
Each paparazzo can post only once. If multiple paparrazi post, all trying to knock the same houseguest off the catwalk, the houseguest must post a number of times equal to the paparazzi attacking him.

In the end, the person that makes it to the farthest catwalk or perch will automatically move on to the final part of the HoH Competition. If more than one houseguest makes it to Perch 10, the one who stays on it the longest wins. If more than one houseguest falls off at the same spot, the one who managed to stay on the longest wins. If they somehow stayed on the exact same amount of time, the one who posted first wins. You have 46 hours to finish. Please ask if you have any questions (I realize it seems complex), and good luck.