The TiBB Games

The TiBB Games is an online reality television game show on TPB Player spun out of Veggie Brother, initially as a one time special series. In its initial outing, the show's contestants were all new castmates. Beginning in its second series, the show then began using past contestants and stars from Veggie Brother, Veggie House, and Love Island Valorsa. The contestants compete against one another in various extreme challenges to avoid elimination and win a cash prize. For the first two series, the host was Josiah Stuart. Due to Veggie Brother commitments, Josiah was replaced by former Veggie Brother housemate and TiBB Games player, Zoran van der Wall.
The show premiered on 27 January 2020. Over the course of its run, there was a total of 8 series; each with its own individual subtitle and format.
Due to lack of funding, the show was cancelled around the time that the ninth series was to begin filming in July 2023. The show was revived in 2024 due to a resurgence in funding to film the show in Salford.
==Structure==
===Overview===
The TiBB Games casts are series specific as the cast varies from series to series. The casts are made up of contestants originating from one of The TiBB Games related TV programmes and contestants originating from one of the few TiBB Games series that have allowed previously unknown contestants. These shows and series are: Veggie Brother, Veggie House, Love Island Valorsa, and The TiBB Games (from Rivals and The TiBB Games: Fresh Meat).
A series' typical multitude of cast members are usually divided up into separate teams or pairs according to a certain criteria, which varies from series to series. The criteria that teams have been arranged by over the show's history have ranged, from gender, a contestants original show, heroic/villainous status and ex-romantic partners of contestants. Each of the opposing teams compete in numerous missions in order to win prizes and advance in the overall game. Following each mission, a team or a cast member is voted into an elimination round to take on the least successful team from the previous mission. In elimination rounds, they must compete against one another to determine which one is eliminated from the season. Each series has its own, very distinct elimination round, distinguished from those of other series in title, design, and general atmosphere. Determining which two teams or two cast members are sent into the episode's elimination round frequently leads to drama and contestants playing the game dirty; this is due to the show's contestants being in charge of who is thrown into elimination rounds. Like that of Veggie Brother and Love Island Valorsa, sporadically throughout the course of each episode, various contestants are seen privately expressing themselves through reality TV confessionals about the events taking place on the show. Every series has had a monetary prize as the award for winning the final mission.
===Theme and format by series title===
Each distinct series title has indicated the general gameplay format used:
*Rivals and Rivals 2: Both installments feature two-player teams of same-gender and male/female players who are paired against their "worst enemies," whom they have engaged in bitter feuds, fights and rivalries with in previous Veggie Brother or TiBB Games series (or in Rivals, outside of the game). The first installment had the game play out like a normal series of Veggie Brother, albeit in duos and every elimination was a challenge rather than a public vote. The second installment had a different approach to the game. The challenge winner, the "Dynamic Duo", is safe from elimination – "The Lair," while the last-place finisher and two non-winning teams will battle it out in "The Lair". The "Dynamic Duo" will then nominate 3 other pairs, who will be put in "Purgatory", and will then draw for either a double cross (XX) or no cross. In the finale, the teammates would go head to head in challenges, whoever finishes first the most in the challenges would decide if they would keep the money they earned or split it with their partner. If the cast member chose to keep it for themselves, then their teammate would leave empty-handed.
*Free Agents: Each challenge is an individual challenge. The winning players are safe from elimination and choose one person from the opposite gender for elimination. A random amount of non-winning players (between 2 and 4 players) then participate in "The Draw", where the one player of each gender that draws a "kill card" faces the previously voted players in the elimination round.
*Cutthroat: Teams are not initially set. There is a race in the beginning, and while the top three players are announced, the bottom three are named as captains of the three teams; the three teams are then drafted by the captains (while maintaining equal numbers of players of each gender). Each challenge involves all three teams; the winning team is safe from the elimination round — the "Gulag," while the losing teams go against each other in the Gulag. Voting is done within one's own team by secret ballot to choose one player of each gender to go into the Gulag.
*Fresh Meat: These seasons introduce new people to Games without appearing on Veggie Brother, Veggie House, or Love Island Valorsa. These new players are "drafted" by "alumni" of the opposite gender (those who come from VB, VH, LIV, or previous 'FM' - some alumni contestants may also be rookies and have not competed before) to create pairings which are the teams for these Challenges. The winning team chooses one team for an elimination round called an "Exile," while the other team is selected by a vote.
*Revival: promoted as "every man for himself" as there are no permanent teams (though some individual challenges require teams to be formed). All players compete individually, leading to just one champion of each gender. From this season onward, there will be no eliminations until the final.
*Heroes vs. Villains and Great Escape: The show's format switched to that of Survivor: Sixteen or more players, split between two or more teams, are taken to a remote isolated location (usually in a tropical climate) and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for 39 days (42 in Heroes vs. Villains) Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the teams against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for immunity, forcing the other team to attend an elimination ceremony, where they must vote off one of their teammates. Signaling the halfway point in the game, players from both teams come together to live as one, making it to the "merge". At this point, players will compete against each other to win individual immunity; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out after the merge form the game's "jury". Once the group gets down to two or three people, a Final Ceremony is held where the remaining players plead their case to the jury members. The jury then votes for which player should be considered the winner and win the show's grand prize.
*Reckoning onwards: The show's format switched to a hybrid of Free Agents and RuPaul's Drag Race: Each challenge is an individual challenge or a team challenge, each based on a different theme or talent. The players will then rank each other, giving out points in the process. The player(s) with the most points win the challenge, and the players with the least points face the elimination challenges. The elimination challenges will vary throughout the series. Purges will see players rank each other and the player(s) with the least points will be eliminated. The final 5 will compete in a final competition and will be ranked by the eliminated players (as a group) in each category of the final. The 2 players with the most points will compete in a "Last Stand" where they will complete a difficult puzzle, where the player who completes the puzzle wins the grand prize.
==Hosts==
The series initially had Josiah Stuart host the first two series. Then, Josiah was replaced in the 3rd series by Zoran van der Wall.
==List of Series==
Series	Series	Format 	Original release	Location(s) 	Teams 	Winner(s)
1 	 	8 pairs 	(1 episode) 	Salford, England 	None 	
2 	 	10 pairs 	 	Salford, England 	None 	
3 	 	Individual 	 	Pearl Islands, Panama 	None 	06 Aria Symons
4 	 	 	 	Tehachapi, California→ 	Red TeamBlue TeamYellow Team 	
5 	 	 	 	Tehachapi, California 	None 	Florence Podesta & TK Grimes
6 	 	 	 	Tehachapi, California→→	Final Only:Red TeamBlue Team 	Jason Fielding
6 	 	 	 	Tehachapi, California→→	Final Only:Red TeamBlue Team 	Shaye Daniels
7 	 	→Individual	 	Goshen, Australia 	HeroesVillainsSparrow 	► Alison Kirkwood
8 	 	→Individual	 	Goshen, Australia 	DanagalGuwiyangThepanOgakor 	►► Joshua Roebert
9 	 	Individual 	 	Salford, England 	Premieres Only:Group 1Group 2	TBD
==Sponsorships==
Series 	Sponsor(s)	Slogan 	Year(s)
The TiBB Games: Rivals 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2020
The TiBB Games: Rivals 2 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2020
 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2020
The TiBB Games: Cutthroat 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2021
The TiBB Games: Fresh Meat 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2021
The TiBB Games: Revival 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2022
The TiBB Games: Heroes vs. Villains	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2023
The TiBB Games: Great Escape 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2023
The TiBB Games: Reckoning 	 	Luxury meets Gameplay in Style — Go Big or Go Home	2024
==5 Timers Club==
As of Revival	As of Revival	As of Revival 	As of Revival 	As of Revival 	As of Revival 	As of Revival
# 	Cast member 	Original series	Games series 	Games series won	# of challenge wins	Total Money Made
5 	 	Rivals 	Rivals, Rivals 2, Free Agents, Cutthroat, Fresh Meat	Cutthroat 	1 	£806,000
5 	 	 	 	 	 	
=="Games" records==
Feat 	Male Cast Members 	Record 	Female Cast Members 	Record
Most Seasons Appearances 	 	5 	Shaye Daniels 	4
Most Seasons Won 	Amir LeeBraden TyneCristobal NereysHeath TendresVolodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov 	1 	Shaye Daniels 	3
Most Consecutive Seasons 	Volodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov 	5 	Shaye Daniels 	4
Most Seasons Before Winning 	Volodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov 	4 	LaTonya Smith 	1
Most Appearances in a Final 	Volodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov 	3 	Alison KirkwoodShaye Daniels	3
Most Consecutive Appearances in a Final 	Volodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov 	2 	Alison Kirkwood 	3
Most Elimination Rounds 	Volodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov 	7 	Shaye Daniels 	6
Most Consecutive Elimination Rounds 	Heath TendresKano 	3 	Faith XevuNora 	3
Most Consecutive Elimination Wins 	Austin "Boston" PeytenorCiarán McLarenEzikiel Reilly LynexFaith XevuHeath TendresOrion KnorrVolodymyr "Vova" Dimitrov	2 	Melanie JonesSian Corbett 	2
Most Consecutive Eliminations Avoided in a Row	Amir LeeTaylor Hastings 	9 	LaTonya Smith 	9
Most Money Won From a Single Series 	Joshua Roebert 	£1,000,000	Alison Kirkwood 	£1,000,000
Most Money Won 	Braden TyneHeath TendresJoshua Roebert 	£1,000,000	Shaye Daniels 	£2,316,000
===Players with the most final challenge prize money===
:Note: This list includes players who have won a minimum of £100,000, and is updated up to Revival. It will not be updated further.
Place	Cast member	Cast member 	Original season 	Challenge wins/# of Challenges	Total money won
1 	 	Shaye Daniels	Veggie Brother 9 	3/4 	£2,316,000
2 	 	 	The TiBB Games: Rivals 	1/1 	£1,000,000
2 	 	 	The TiBB Games: Rivals 	1/2 	£1,000,000
3 	 	 	Veggie Brother 12 	2/3 	£825,000
4 	 	 	The TiBB Games: Rivals 	1/5 	£806,000
5 	 	 	Veggie Brother Teen 6 	1/1 	£766,000
5 	 	 	Veggie Brother 12 	1/1 	£766,000
5 	 	 	Veggie Brother Teen 1 	1/4 	£766,000
6 	 	 	Veggie Brother 8 	1/4 	£750,000
6 	 	 	The TiBB Games: Fresh Meat	1/2 	£750,000
6 	 	 	The TiBB Games: Fresh Meat	1/1 	£750,000
7 	 	 	Veggie House: Malibu 	0/3 	£303,333
8 	 	 	Veggie Brother t4 	0/2 	£247,555
9 	 	 	The TiBB Games: Fresh Meat	0/1 	£200,000
==Locations==
Rank	Location	Series visited
1 	 	3 (1, 2, 9)
1 	 	3 (4, 5, 6)
2 	 	2 (7, 8)
3 	 	1 (6)
3 	 	1 (4)
3 	Panama 	2 (3)
3 	 	1 (6)
==References==
==Trivia==
*Out of 14 winners, 5 are women and 9 are men.
==External links==
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