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[edit] What are the Rules?

Are the rules of the game posted anywhere?

Here are some of the questions I have about the rules of the game:

1) What happens when they are down to the final 3? Is there still a HOH and a Veto?

2) Who decides who wins? It is a vote from the Jury? Do they get to watch the cams or have they been in the dark since they left?

3) If in the final four two people get put on the block then one of the block members wins veto I would assume that the remaining person automatically gets put on the block ( assuming they use it to save themselves ). Who then gets to vote? Only the one taken off the block? Basically meaning that the Veto winner of the final four gets to vote off the person of their choice ( other than the HOH and themself ) It almost makes the block pointless right?


Anyway can someone answer these?

You need to sign your posts and the rules that you are mentioning are exclusive to the American Big Brother. And even though this isn't the place I will answer your questions:
The Final Four The Final Three Jury Members
  • Head of Household is determined
  • The HoH nominates two of the remaining three HG's for eviction
  • The Final Power of Veto competition is held.
  • The Final PoV winner can chose if they want to use the veto.
  • The one HouseGuest NOT nominated is the sole vote for eviction.
  • The Final Head of Household competition is held.
  • The winner of Part One advances to Part Three and skips Part Two.
  • The losers from Part One battle in Part Two. The winner advances to Part Three.
  • The winners from Parts One and Two compete for the final HoH in Part Three.
  • The winner of Part Three is the final HoH and guaranteed a spot in the Final Two.
  • There is no Power of Veto competition.
  • The losers of the final HoH competition are nominated by default for eviction.
  • The Final HoH choses one of the remaining two HouseGuests to be evicted.
  • The last seven evicted HouseGuests comprise the Jury.
  • Jury Members are not allowed contact with the outside world, even though they have been evicted.
  • The Jury is sequestered in a special house generally in Mexico.
  • The only footage the Jury is allowed to see is competitions and ceremonies. They are not allowed to see any Diary Room footage or any footage containing strategy.
  • The Jury decides the winner of Big Brother once there are two HouseGuests left.
  • America will control Eric's jury vote in Big Brother 8 due to Eric being America's Player. Generally America does not have a vote in who wins.
Hope this helps you. It is detailed and simple as I could make it. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 02:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added a section about Twins/Triplets

It's not great, but I put it in the variation of format section. If anybody else can make it look better, it would be much appreciated. MadMagFreak 05:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Why does it keep getting changed? Notable winners are NOT a variation of the original format! Someone help me out here! MadMagFreak 23:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaning up the article

I am in the process of cleaning up the article in hope of decreasing its size and removing that annoying tag on the front. You can see my current progress at my Sandbox. I have the "Format" area done and spitted up the information to make it easier to read. You can see what material I have removed in User:Alucard 16/Sandbox/Removed. Any comments on what to do is nice I love comments. I didn't want to make the changes directly to the article since their big changes. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 05:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I am going to assist you with this topic. I have already changed some spelling errors found in the articles. I will edit any small errors that i find. Some Weird Guy named Shawn... 21:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Big Brother US Incidents

I kind of tweaked the US incidents to a easier to find format. If anyone likes it, I will proceed to do the whole incident section with that format —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anarchy 228 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Official websites

Shouldn't all of the official website links be at the bottom of the page in the eternal links section rather than in the table In23065 (talk) 20:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't think so, a lot of shows that have a similar table have the links in the table. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 21:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I think it would make the table much more compact and simple, over the next few days i will work on it in my sandbox and we can go from there. In23065 (talk) 21:51, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Where's the Big Brother Exchange section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.241.136 (talk) 10:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh yeah. Thanks for telling me i have now restored it.In23065 (talk) 15:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My Recent revert

I have reverted the page a couple of times today as Season 7 of BB USA was listed twice in the table - together with the other standard BB USA editions and also underneath as an All Star edition. It has always been listed on the page as an All Star edition. But in any case it should not be listed twice which is why I reverted it. Sorry if I have caused an "edit war" or offended anyone, it was not my intention. Worldofbb (talk) 22:11, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I reverted it once because I didn't realise that it was in a different area and i thought that you were vandalising it In23065 (talk) 14:27, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Note: Big Brother USA Season listing

In the American version, the broadcaster counts the All-Stars edition as Season 7. However, other countries count their All-Stars version as a seperate edition of Big Brother and it doesn't count towards their main edition. It was decided when back when there was a seperate article for spin-off editions that the seventh season of the American version would not be counted as a main edition, it would be counted along with the spin-off editions. [1]. Now when the tables were merged the seventh season is still counted seperate from the main editions because it is an "All-Stars" version of the American edition. The main editions (seasons with new people each year) are listed as 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 with 7 omitted because it is listed down with the "All-Stars" edition and repeating it twice is redundant and makes the article bigger. Due to the previous discussion if anyone merges the two sections on the table for Big Brother US together or list Season 7 in both the main edition section and the All-Stars section will be counted as vandalism. If you feel this should be changed discuss it first. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 01:06, 31 March 2008 (UTC)