Big Brother: Over The Top 1

**Big Brother: Over The Top 1**, also known as **Big Brother: Over The Top Edition**, is the first digital edition of *Big Brother: Over The Top* in *Sims Big Brother (The Sims™ 4)* and the 4th season overall.

## Background

### Development

In an interview with *Entertainment Tonight* during *Big Brother 3*, host Julie Chen-Moonves revealed that a digital coverage version for *Sims Big Brother (The Sims™ 4)* will be in the works around halfway from its predecessor season. However, the idea was scrapped because the producers thought that a spin-off season would cause Big Brother to jump the shark. However, due to the high ratings of recent seasons and the official renewal for another two-year contract, it was announced that the first ever digital edition would air during the fall, following *Big Brother 3*, with *Big Brother 4* to follow in the winter. Host Julie Chen-Moonves and executive producers Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan will be returning for the spin-off edition.

### Casting

On June 17, 2021, Robyn Kass, head casting director for the first three seasons of the broadcast version of *Sims Big Brother*, announced that she would be stepping down and taking a leave in casting for *Over The Top* edition to focus on other opportunities. Four days later, on June 21, 2021, it was announced that Jesse Tannenbaum, would be in charge of the casting efforts for *Over The Top*, alongside many returning casting producers who formerly worked under Kassting, Inc.

Two months later, SRBC would announce on August 17, 2021 that once again the cast would be revealed live on the SRBC All-Access Live Feeds on June 22 at 11 AM ET/8 AM PT. After the cast reveal, *Entertainment Tonight* announced that all-exclusive interviews would be scheduled on September 3, 2021, with former *Big Brother 2* winner, Vivian Pinhosa, who recently became ET's representative in interviewing *Sims Big Brother* HouseGuests.

### Air Schedule

On September 13, 2021, SRBC revealed there will be no television coverage for this digit format of *Sims Big Brother*; instead, it would be completely streamed online at the newly rebranded Paramount+. Also, there will be replay episodes that would be scheduled to transmit on the usual airing schedule: Mondays (nominations), Thursdays (POV competition and ceremony) and Fridays (eviction and HOH competition) at 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT, that summarized the events of the specific days in the House.

### House Reveal

After much speculation, the house was officially revealed on August 3, 2020 through ViacomSRBC's press website and SRBC's *Sims Big Brother* social media pages.

As with previous seasons, the program is filmed at SRBC Studio Center, sound stage 17 in a custom-built two story house. The House is equipped with 94 high-definition cameras and over 113 microphones in order to monitor and record the houseguests. The living room, three bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and lounge room are located on the first floor. The Head of Household bedroom and bathroom, and an additional lounge area known as the "Sky Bridge" are located on the second floor. The second floor is accessible by a staircase located in the kitchen next to the sliding glass doors that lead to the backyard. The backyard area features outdoor amenities for the houseguests. For the first time in the history of the series, a fourth bedroom was introduced to the franchise, alongside were the indoor gym and the outdoor balcony.

Although having a similar concept to the previous season, the house design would be revamped overall. The theme was revealed as the "BB Beach Club," with the detailed décor paying homage to Monte Carlo.

## Production Changes

* **Biggest Prize Money:** Unlike the normal broadcast version, the cash prize for *Over The Top* will be increased from its usual amount of $500,000.
* **No Event Blackouts 24/7:** Unlike the normal broadcast version of the live feeds, the *Over The Top* live feeds had no blackouts during competitions, ceremonies, and evictions.
* **Contestant Curfews:** Similar to *Big Brother 2*, there were mandatory curfew hours for the contestants to be awake or sleep.
* **Incentive for HouseGuests to Stay Awake:** There were multiple things to keep the HouseGuests awake at all times to make sure that the viewers had something to watch other than sleeping.

## Twists

* **Teams:** During the live move-in, houseguests will enter in groups of four and compete for power. The winners of each group will become Team Captains and will be shown a 90-second intro package of the remaining houseguests and choose their three teammates, creating four teams of four, each with two men and two women. Every week, whoever wins HOH will also earn safety for their entire team. The teams will last for the first four weeks of the game.
	+ **Double or Nothing Twist:** During the premiere, once the teams are made, the captains will then compete for HOH. Whoever wins will be tempted with a “double or nothing offer from Julie that they won’t be able to refuse.” Luca Mitchell won HOH for his team, the Jokers, and was given the offer to risk their current safety for a third competition of the evening. If he accepted the offer and won, his team would be safe for the first two weeks, meaning that he would remain HOH for Week 1, while all four of them remained safe for Week 2 no matter who became HOH. If he accepted the offer and lost, he would be dethroned as HOH and his entire team would be vulnerable, while the HOH goes to the second place team, the Kings, led by Je'Raldo Bane. If he rejected the offer entirely, he would remain HOH for Week 1 but his team's safety would only last for that week. He ultimately chose to reject the offer and keep the current HOH and safety for his team, leaving them potentially vulnerable in Week 2.
* **Wildcard Competition:** The three teams that aren't immune for the week will each select one competitor. Those three houseguests will then compete for sole immunity, meaning that if they win, they will be given the option to take safety, while the rest of their team remains vulnerable for nomination and eviction. If the winner decides to accept safety for the week, it will result in a punishment that may affect them, their team, or the entire house.
* **High Roller's Room:** During Weeks 6, 7 and 8, the High Roller's Room opened up to the Final 11 houseguests. America voted via text and the three houseguests who received the most votes would receive $100 in "BB Bucks". The next three would receive $75, and the remaining houseguests would receive $50. When the room was open, houseguests could go in and pay to play a competition of luck or skill. If they won the game, they would win a power. The stronger the power, the more expensive the game. A houseguest do not have to use their BB Bucks immediately and can hold them for as long as possible. The twists can only be used in the week they are purchased, and the competitions can only be played once.
	+ **Veto Derby:** For 50 BB Bucks, houseguests can play in the "Veto Derby" competition. If they received a score higher than 0 and landed in the top six, they would be able to bet on one of the six Veto players. If the person they bet on ended up winning the PoV Competition, they would earn a second Veto for themselves. Whoever won their Veto through the bet would make their decision first, and the HoH would name a replacement if it was used. From there, whoever won their Veto through the competition then made their decision and could potentially force the HoH to nominate a fourth person by Vetoing either that replacement or the remaining initial nominee. In Week 6, Frank Douglas ended up winning the Veto Derby competition and bet on Luca Mitchell to win the PoV competition - which he unfortunately lost, failing to earn both himself and Frank each their own PoV.
	+ **Chopping Block Roulette:** For 125 BB Bucks, houseguests can play in the "Chopping Block Roulette" competition. If they won, they would be safe for the week and would also earn the power to remove one of the initial nominees, who would also be safe for the rest of the week. The winner would then spin a roulette wheel to determine the replacement nominee at random, with all eligible houseguests have equal odds of being chosen. In Week 7, Callum Scott ended up winning the Chopping Block Roulette competition and scored higher than 0, winning him the competition and granting him safety. He then chose to take Skye Everett off the block, and after he spun the roulette wheel, Radostina Petkova was randomly nominated in Skye's place.
	+ **Coin of Destiny:** For 250 BB Bucks, houseguest can play the "Coin of Destiny" competition and earn the right to challenge the reigning HoH to a coin toss. If they called the coin toss correctly, they would dethrone the reigning HoH and anonymously take over for the week as the new HoH, although the dethroned HoH would remain immune and could play in the following HoH competition. Esther Callahan won the competition and correctly called that the coin would land on heads, dethroning Callum Scott as HoH and taking his nominees Aurora Blake and Frank Douglas off the block. Esther would then anonymously renominate Aurora and nominate Skye Everett herself.

## HouseGuests

 **Winner**

**Ben**

 **Runner-Up**

**Jada**

 **Jury: *Ben***

**Julien**

 **Jury : *Ben***

**Skye**

 **Jury: *Jada***

**Frank**

 **Jury: *Jada***

**Callum**

 **Jury: *Ben***

**Layla**

 **Jury: *Ben***

**Esther**

 **Jury: *Jada***

**Aurora**

 **Jury: *Jada***

**Radostina**

 **Jury: *Ben***

**Luca**

 **Evicted**

**Je'Raldo**

 **Evicted**

**Aries**

 **Evicted**

**Yuta**

 **Evicted**

**Kameron**

 **Evicted**

**Katelynn**

## Game History

### Week 1

 **HOH**

 **Wildcard WinnerTook Immunity**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee6 Votes**

 **Evicted7 Votes**

Sixteen HouseGuests entered the house. In four groups, the HouseGuests participated in "kick-off" competitions, wherein competitors had to arrange a plexiglass display to match the example. Once believing their display was exact, they hit their buzzer to ring in. If correct, they won, and would become a 'team captain', eligible to become Head of Household (HoH). Luca, Jada, Je'Raldo, and Layla won their respective competitions. Captains chose teammates based on short introductions. After teams were picked, HouseGuests competed in the *House of Cards* HoH competition. Each captain had to build a pyramid of cards on a platform balanced by their teammates. The first captain to build their pyramid and hit their buzzer became HoH, giving their teammates immunity; the last team to finish became Have-Nots. Luca won HoH, while Jada's team became Have-Nots. Luca was offered to participate in a challenge wherein he had to throw two dice onto a platform in 45 seconds. If he completed the challenge, his team would be safe for two weeks, but if he lost, he was no longer HoH, his team no longer had immunity, and Je'Raldo, as runner-up would become HoH. Luca rejected the offer. After the HoH competition, Callum reunited with Skye after their previous run in the first season together. Callum manifested with Skye in forming the Veterans alliance, alongside Je'Raldo and Radostina whom they needed their consents in order the pact to officially form.

Meanwhile, with $2,000,000 at high stakes, Luca proposed his fellow Jokers (Ben, Esther, and Kameron) in solidifying themselves into a Final Four agreement, with the doubled money prize as their motivation. As a result, a consensus was reached by the entire team, thus the Jokers securely united together as "The Dolphin Tale" alliance. As they strategized, Luca considered his teammates/allies' advice into nominating Je'Raldo and Katelynn: with Je'Raldo upholding a reputation as a well-known veteran player from a rival *Big Brother* franchise and Katelynn's competitive prowess in the first Head of Household competition. On Day 2, the Wildcard Competition was introduced. Each non-winning team from the HoH competition had to elect one teammate to participate, with the winner receiving immunity and an additional game-changing dilemma. The elected HouseGuests were Jada, Katelynn and Layla. In the competition, *Do Not Disturb*, the three had to search a room for a set of keys, wallet and a cellphone, while making as little noise as possible. The louder the noise produced, the more points would be added to their combined totals. The HouseGuests were given five minutes to compete, with fifty penalty points being added every ten seconds thereafter. Jada won with 125 points. Jada had to spin a wheel containing numbers 1 through 3, corresponding to the number of teammates she could give immunity to. The wheel landed on 1; she granted immunity to Aurora. The following day, Luca nominated Je'Raldo and Katelynn for eviction, with the intended target currently undecided as he (with the Jokers/Dolphin Tale alliance) settled an agreement: observing the initial nominees which would stand out as 'threatening' during the week's progression.

Following the nominations ceremony, some of the HouseGuests were left speechless by Luca's brass nomination speech, and Je'Raldo and Skye approached Luca in order to gain insight into his decision. Although Luca explained about Katelynn being his intended target, citing on her performance in the HoH competition and his first impressions on her, Je'Raldo and Skye were left unconvinced with their suspicions raised, due to Luca's reckless approach that almost ignited an argument between them. Meanwhile, Ben consistently built up social connections amongst other HouseGuests and solidified stronger relationships: an sibling-like friendship with Esther, an unlikely showmance with Callum, and a secured Final 2 alliance with Jada (ever since both were continuously growing comfort within each other). On Day 4, Frank, Kameron and Skye (Je'Raldo's choice) were chosen to compete alongside Luca, Je'Raldo and Katelynn in the *Massive Cocktails* Power of Veto (PoV) competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were required to arrange large pieces of fruit on a downhill ramp in order to guide their ball into the glass box at the end. Je'Raldo was the first HouseGuest to successfully aim his ball through the pieces of fruit and into the glass box, therefore winning the PoV. After the competition, Ben and Luca weighed their the pros and cons putting up a replacement. Ben proposed the risky idea of nominating Skye, perceiving her to be a potential strategic threat. However, Luca in particular stood his own ground targeting Katelynn by shooting Ben ground to convince the move being "too risky." On Day 6, Je'Raldo used the Power of Veto to remove himself from the block; Luca nominated Aries, serving him as a pawn as he felt that he had the numbers to stay over Katelynn.

Following the PoV ceremony, Aries heavily campaigned for votes by using his "unique" persuasion technique towards the other HouseGuests, while Katelynn opted to keep a low profile to keep the target solely on the latter. However, HouseGuests felt conflicted by the nominees' campaign tactics: with Aries' blabbermouth persona being viewed as someone who potentially snitches out crucial game information, and Katelynn's laid-back approach alerted their suspicions into assuming her as the "silent killer." As a result, the house was divided by their voting decisions scrambling into a state of dilemma, leading to which of them would be deemed as detrimental to their game. Meanwhile, the Jokers/Dolphin Tale discussed to ensure their votes against Katelynn, however Kameron preferred to distance herself and decide the vote from her own game perspective, without the knowledge of her team/alliance as a way of covering her own tracks without any suspicions raised. Her trajectory affected on Je'Raldo, despite the Kings reached an agreement securing their respective teammate, as Katelynn is perceived as a huge mental threat in accordance to his views. The Queens (mainly Julien and Radostina) expressed their distrust and paranoia with Aries as his dim-witted social skills could possibly led to his team's downfall. Ben lend out a helping hand for his team/alliance in making a last-ditch effort to secure more votes against Katelynn, by using his early social bonds to persuade in his favours. On Day 9, Katelynn was the first HouseGuest to be evicted from the *Big Brother* house by a vote of 7–6; Je'Raldo and Kameron both cast a flip vote against their respective teams' wishes.

### Week 2

 **HOH**

 **Wildcard WinnerNo Immunity**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee4 Votes**

 **Evicted8 Votes**

Following Katelynn's eviction, the HouseGuests were scrambled in bewilderment by the split vote results. They attempted to figure out the identities of the minority voters against Aries; Je'Raldo and Kameron decided to keep away their flip votes in order to secure their teams' trust towards them. Despite the Jokers/Dolphin's Tale alliance's successful plan in evicting their target, Luca's erratic behavior throughout his HoH reign became increasingly worrisome for the Jokers (mainly Ben) as Luca would most likely face the consequence as becoming the house's impending next target, which led to Ben discussing with his team on plans about their avoidance in losing a member. The Queens pulled over Aries to converse about the split vote, Julien and Radostina disclosed their voting decisions to Aries as they stated as warning for his excessive speaking. Although Aries took accountability for his "tiny mistake," he openly insisted into wanting to make it up for his team in order to regain their trust and loyalty to him again. The remaining HouseGuests then competed in the next HoH competition, *Pool Sharks*. Each HouseGuest had to stand at a spot numbered from 1 to 30, with 1 being the easiest spot and 30 being the hardest spot, and attempt to hit a ball into a shark's mouth. Before the competition began, each HouseGuest was required to enter a number into their keypad to claim a spot from 1 to 30. The HouseGuest with the highest number that scored successfully was the winner; Yuta became the second HoH. He began strategizing, saying that he would set his target on Luca, due to his abrasive gameplay from last week. To ensure on cutting down options for a second nomination spot, Yuta passed down incessant amount of safety offers by persuading the rest of the HouseGuests to throw the Wildcard Competition as a ploy to easily guarantee in forming numerous social connections.

On Day 10, Aries, Frank and Kameron were selected to participate in the *BB Flying Colors* Wildcard competition. For this competition, the three competitors were presented with several colorful images, and afterwards were asked a question based on the images, with the answer being a color. The first HouseGuest to reach three points won the competition. During the competition, Kameron grew suspicious of Aries and Frank allegedly sabotaging her by uttering the incorrect answers. Frank won after he correctly answered the majority of questions. After the competition, Frank was offered immunity as long as he switched teams with one of Yuta's immune teammates: Aurora, Callum or Jada. If he took the offer, the HouseGuest he chose to swap with would no longer be immune. He chose not to take the offer, feeling secured in his safety deal with Yuta and serving his honor of loyalty towards the Kings. Before the nomination ceremony, Yuta approached Ben about his initial plans of setting out his nominations from the Jokers team, along his primary target aiming on Luca. Despite Ben's ode in keeping his alliance unscathed, he decided to avoid protesting Yuta's plan in avoidance of jeopardizing his position in the game. Ben convinced Yuta to cross out him and Esther from his shortlist, with Ben's close connection with Yuta and Esther being not considered as a threat. The Jokers conferenced on each other about Yuta's nomination decisions; both Callum and Jada successfully coaxed him into removing Ben from his choices, insisting him out of respect for their growing friendship, thus leaving out Kameron as the default option. Thus, later that evening, Yuta nominated Luca and Kameron for eviction; with Luca as his main target and Kameron as someone that was guilty by association, in accordance to Yuta's reasoning speech.

With two of their teammates on the block, the Jokers (Dolphin Tale alliance) were disheartened. Feeling shaken up from her name being thrown into the ring, Kameron approached and lamented on Yuta, in needing his further explanation about his nomination speech on her part. Yuta told Kameron reassuringly on her safety and considered her as a pawn. Kameron initially carried through Yuta's insistence to secure her current position by throwing the upcoming PoV competition. However, with her deflection from the team's vote last week, Kameron grew worrisome and paranoid of the outcomes if her teammates find out about her flip vote. She reconsidered Yuta's offer and willingly decided to sacrifice Luca, desperately aiming for the Veto to ensure her place. On Day 11, Ben, Je'Raldo and Julien. were randomly selected to participate alongside Yuta, Kameron and Luca in the *Fun Tan Lotion* PoV competition. The HouseGuests competed separately and were required to fill their containers with suntan oil in order to retrieve a whistle from the container in the fastest time. Luca completed the competition in the fastest time (4:51) and therefore won the veto. Yuta crumbled under pressure as his plans were foiled by his main target's unlikely victory, which spiraled him down into chaos as he scrambled to make a replacement nomination, despite running out of options when Yuta handed out safety promises to almost the entire house. He was forced to show his playing cards and shifted his target against the Veteran players. However, with Callum being immune as his fellow Aces member and both Je'Raldo and Skye being opted out due to honoring Frank's decision to decline the team switch, Radostina is left as a default option. On Day 13, Luca used the Power of Veto on herself and Yuta sent shockwaves throughout the house as he named Radostina as the replacement nominee.

Just as Yuta was about to close off this week's Veto ceremony, Radostina insisted the other HouseGuests to stay put as it swiftly turned into a house meeting. Radostina called out Yuta by rendering him as untrustworthy after he went back on his safety promise to her. She interrogated the rest of the house to point out his flawed actions. The HouseGuests spilled out every detail of vital information that Radostina could gather, which she linked the pieces together and pointed out how Yuta abused his power as HoH. Radostina resonated an agreement with the majority of the house that, in order to protect themselves and their alliances, Yuta must be out of the house next week. With nominations locked in, Ben attempted to rally support in securing Kameron's position to keep the Jokers/Dolphine Tale alliance intact. However, Kameron shot him down and decided not to campaign against Radostina, who risked her place with her valid arguments being pointed enough in keeping her as the house's "human shield" against Yuta. Also, Kameron tearfully confessed to Ben about her flawed move on voting against her team's agreement from the previous week, expressing her fear with the possible outcome of their distrust towards her. However, Ben wholeheartedly responded Kameron in forgiveness and understanding into Kameron's perspective. Although Ben felt upset about losing a friend, he would respect Kameron's wishes and admire her choosing humility over pride of the game. During the Live Eviction, Kameron stated in her speech that she would gladly sacrifice her position and begged the HouseGuests to never give Yuta the benefit of evicting his target. As a result, everyone except the remaining Jokers and Julien voted against Kameron, who became the second HouseGuest to be evicted from the house (with a vote of 8–4). Following her impending exit, Kameron called out Yuta for having a worse HoH reign than Luca's, and sarcastically wished him luck after failing to evict his two main targets, whom they will be potentially going after him.

### Week 3

 **HOHPOV**

 **Wildcard WinnerTook Immunity**

 **Nominee5 Votes**

 **Evicted6 Votes**

Following Kameron's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the *Scarlet Talks BB* HoH competition. For this competition, the HouseGuests watched two videos from comedy drag queen and *Big Brother 3* HouseGuest Jonas Weber interviewing members of the public about Big Brother. Afterwards, they were asked true or false questions based on what they saw; if a HouseGuest answered incorrectly, they were eliminated. Aries was the last HouseGuest standing and became the third HoH of the season. The HouseGuests were flabbergasted by Aries' unforeseen victory, but due to his lack of intellectual self-awareness and his erratic social skills, everyone would strived to gain the upper hand of easily manipulating Aries. The Queens celebrated and expressed their gratitude to Aries for exerting his efforts through the competition, which led him into securing the team for another week. Aries discussed strategy with his teammates about his responsibility using the power wisely. Radostina initially followed on several of the HouseGuests expressing their desires on Yuta leaving. However, Julien opposed the idea as he preferred keeping Yuta as a shield and targeting a potential strategic threat, which he mentioned Skye. However, with Radostina being aligned with Skye in the Veterans alliance, she shot him down and laid out her concerns of executing a risky move too quickly. Meanwhile, Aries was bewildered at the debate unfolding between Julien and Radostina by estimating each other's pros and cons on targeting a bigger threat. On the other hand, Aurora recruited Esther and Aries as official members of her own Final 3 alliance, due to Aries' desperation towards flirting at someone attractive and Esther's lack of intelligence. Aries and Esther were ecstatic working with Aurora, when in reality is that their naivety, along with Aries' nominations control this week, would be beneficial by manipulating them to ensure her own survival. Aurora commenced her alliance's control with the suggestion of targeting Skye as she stated almost the exact points as Julien's, which led to Aries reconsidering his decisions since Aurora and Julien changed their agenda.

Aries reached out the other HouseGuests to question in particular who they wanted to target. Luca is the next HouseGuest to pitch against Skye, due to his enlightenment on Ben's initial decision since Week 1. Luca's reasoning against Skye were his strong distaste of her behavior and his first impression on her being a "dictator" type of player. Aries was baffled by witnessing an alleged house division based on their campaigns between Skye and Yuta. He approached back to Radostina and relayed his information about three HouseGuests (Aurora, Julien and Luca) targeting Skye instead of Yuta, which she was stunned hearing out from Aries. With her concerns about the shifting agenda, Radostina reached out to Skye for a heads-up about a few certain people targeting her. Skye wanted to express her enragement on how they shot their own foot for aiming behind her back, but Radostina shot her down to prevent from being at their crosshairs. In preparation for the upcoming Wildcard competition, Skye willingly volunteered to play while Radostina directed her to take out all her frustration into the competition. Skye listened in Radostina's encouragement to project them as her targets. Meanwhile, Julien and Luca reached out one another with an agreement going after Skye. But with her in the running to compete this week, and Julien being ineligible due to his team immunity (from Aries' HoH victory), Luca elected himself in taking part and ensured to prevent Skye from claiming the immunity. On Day 17, Aurora, Luca and Skye competed in the *Unlucky 13* Wildcard competition. They had to take cards one at a time across a balance beam and place them into one of four slots belonging to another competitor. If a competitor's cards totaled thirteen, they were eliminated. Luca attempted sabotaging Skye, with Aurora exerting her competitive efforts to prevent her from winning. Despite the odds against her, their sabotage backfired as Skye was declared as the winner. To receive immunity, she had to participate in a game of chance which would also allocate safety to one member of both the Jokers and the Aces; she accepted the offer and granted immunity to Ben (Jokers) and Jada (Aces) as a way of gaining their trust.

Despite with what was witnessed in the Wildcard Competition about Skye being on some of the HouseGuests' radar, Yuta's false sense of hope led himself again in a vulnerable position as the house's primary target, right as Skye miraculously secured her safety. Yuta soon regained his encouragement to fight for survival. He approached Aries in pitching much efforts to keep himself off the chopping block as he suggestively thrown out Aurora by warning him about her spoiled, diva-like attitude and accusing her of behave obsequiously with the purpose of manipulating Aries' power in her favors, which was based on his observations with her constantly entering the HoH room. However, Aries' growing paranoia and self-doubts failed to keep Yuta's information away. Aries talked with Aurora again and threw Yuta under the bus by revealing all the details he told. Fuming with anger, Aurora decided to confront Yuta by bringing him into the HoH room and led into a ballistic argument: Yuta accused Aurora as a "floater" who cannot be trusted and Aurora called out Yuta for the lack of devotion with his safety promises on everyone. The discussion led the agitated Aries in a dilemma with his undecided nominations, but Layla consoled Aries from his venture of sheer frustration and advised to follow through his conscience for his own sake. With Aries listening in on Layla's advice, he decided to take notice on his decisions without any hesitation. Though a target had not been decided yet, Aries decided to nominate Aurora and Yuta for eviction. Despite the predictability with Yuta on the chopping block, some HouseGuests were rendered speechless witnessing Aurora being named as one of Aries' nominations. Meanwhile, Layla plastered a subtle grin in expressing proudness from Aries standing his own ground to lead for his own decisions.

Following the nomination ceremony, Yuta respected Aries' decisions while grasping his last ounce of encouragement in aiming for the PoV, which was hanging by the thread. Meanwhile, Aurora felt infuriated by the unexpected outcomes as she berated and threatened Aries to settle him down in the same position as Yuta due to his "act of betrayal" to the alliance. Although Aries was relived of being given a second chance to redeem his position in Aurora's Final 3 pact, by securing her safety with the Veto, he began to question her true intentions of loyalty and her snobbery as a treatment towards him. Meanwhile, the Veterans alliance rallied together and put a plan together in order to ensure on keeping each other intact for next week. Skye put forward for consideration about competing to claim the PoV and sealing Aurora's position on the chopping block to leave herself vulnerable for eviction. Despite Radostina's target remain on Yuta's back, halfway opposing to her alliance's proposition, she still played along and suggested to Aries about her being a safe choice in playing the Veto, with her potentially holding the responsibility for the final nominations would have less concerns from having full power to weigh down on Aries' shoulders. On Day 18, Radostina (Aries' choice), Julien and Skye were selected to participate alongside Aries, Aurora and Yuta in the *Room Key Rumble* PoV competition. In six one-on-one rounds, the HouseGuests each chose which other HouseGuest they wanted to compete against. They had to spin on a handle to bring down a barrier covering six numbered pins. They then had to knock down three of the pins so that the remaining three corresponded to a specific room number. Aries won the final round against Julien and was therefore the winner. Despite his last ditch effort to offer Aries a deal to keep each other safe and suggest aiming at the bigger target (Aurora), Yuta was lulled by Je'Raldo and Callum with a sense of hope as they guaranteed their safety votes on him. Using her deliberately hostile tactics, Aurora believed that she was the HouseGuest orchestrating the blindside, suggesting to Aries to use the veto on her and send either of the remaining Veteran players, who were not immune (Callum or Je'Raldo), home in what he perceived would be a close vote.

However, Layla quickly intervened Aries from forcibly playing with fire, which would dissatisfy either sides of the house. She encouraged Aries to overcome his self-doubts by not getting stuck in the comparison trap and stand up by his own decisions that were based on his true instincts. On Day 13, Aries followed Layla's endearing advice as he chose not to use the Veto, solidifying Aurora and Yuta as the final nominees to avoid from getting unnecessary blood on his hands. With the nominations locked in, despite believing she had full control of the alliance, Aurora was furious that Aries deliberately disobeyed her instruction and left her out cold on the chopping block. Aurora confronted Aries for being insubordinate of being her ally while she (along with Esther) followed his way back inside the HoH room. Eventually, Aries lost his patience and snapped at Aurora at how he was constantly pushed over the edge by her bossiness and was unfairly treated, despite being under his HoH reign. As a result, both of them belted out into a heated argument wherein Aurora multiple chances to rejoin, but Aries refused her final offer as she openly deemed him as "worthless" without her support. Before their verbal altercation escalated further, Ben stepped in (alongside Layla) to attempt defusing the tension, but also subtly defended Aries in support with his self-defense. Following the heated aftermath of this week's Veto ceremony, Radostina covertly took charges with the campaign (with Jada and Julien proclaiming themselves as the messengers) in keeping Aurora in the house for valid reasons from some HouseGuests, despite her true nature being exposed during her argument with Aries. Skye insisted that her alliance would keep Yuta around, in exchange for him as their potential collaborator if he survives. Meanwhile, Ben and Layla considered their voting decisions as a sign of respect for Aries' persistence against Aurora. During their deepened discussion, an unlikely bond was formed between Ben and Layla due to their similar interests of goodwill and friendship. With the house being divided again (due to their voting decisions), it became apparent that Frank was unintentionally the swing vote. On Day 23, Yuta was evicted by a 6–5 split vote; Frank decided to avoid being guilty by association due to last week.

### Week 4

 **HOH**

 **Wildcard WinnerTook Immunity**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Nominee4 Votes**

 **Post-Veto NomineeEvicted6 Votes**

Following Yuta's eviction, the Veterans alliance were caught off guard at how the voting results were never in their favor. Radostina, on the other hand, decided to blend in with her allies to cover her tracks of orchestrating to keep Aurora in the house. Meanwhile, Aries still kept in touch with Esther through their personal connections with each other, despite his explosive deflection from Aurora's alliance. Later on, HouseGuests competed in the *Pier Pressure* HoH competition. Each team had to assemble a surfboard puzzle one HouseGuest at a time without letting their time clock expire, or else the team would be eliminated. The HouseGuest on the winning team that installed the final piece and buzzed in would be crowned HoH. Since the Kings completed their puzzle first and Skye finished the puzzle and hit the buzzer, she became the fourth HoH of the season. The Veterans alliance celebrated Skye's HoH victory; with her responsibilities now being laid upon her power, Skye insisted for a direct hit towards a few HouseGuests who targeted without her knowledge last week. Although Aurora and Luca were available options for nominations, since both were ineligible to compete the next Wildcard competition, but Skye leaned into going after the perpetrator leading her on their radars, Julien. With Je'Raldo being unable to participate, due to being in the Kings team with Skye, she proposed Callum and Radostina a request in volunteering to take part in the Wildcard competition. However for Radostina, she secretly opposed the idea of targeting Julien, considering her growing loyalty and friendship. Later on, the Queens team gathered around to discuss the aftermath of what the previous week went down. Despite their initial disagreements in the first half of Aries' HoH reign, Radostina and Julien set aside their differences and acclaimed each other on their successful plans evicting Yuta. Layla confessed about her eviction vote going against the majority and opened up her reasoning as a "respect" for Aries standing up against Aurora at that time, with her purpose in verifying the trust towards the Queens. Radostina praised Layla for overtly displaying her clarity, while Julien empathized what he wholeheartedly understood regarding Aries' situation.

While Julien expressed his self-awareness about the possibility of being on Skye's hitlist, Radostina confirmed his assurance of being her primary target. She also told Julien about her involvement with the Veterans as she vented out her frustrations involving their disregard against her ode in evicting Yuta. As a result, Radostina would eagerly shifted her route by insisting of returning the favor for Julien after his intended participation of her target's eviction. On the other hand, Callum felt assured with Radostina following Skye's plans as reached out to Ben about Skye's request by electing themselves into the Wildcard competition, as a way to prevent her primary target (Julien) from his opportunity for safety. With Skye extending the olive branch of trust by passing the extra immunity to Ben, he decided to fairly repay her by following through what Callum has persuaded. Skye, Callum, and Je'Raldo were stunned when the Queens team revealed that they were unable to reach a consensus to elect a player for the competition. As a result, Julien was randomly selected by chip draw, which caused the Veterans alliance (excluding Radostina) anxiously witnessing their target to climb a window of opportunity for safety. Ben, Callum, and Julien competed in the fourth and final Wildcard competition of the season, *Olive Shook Up*, where they had to roll olives down a martini glass-shaped ramp and land them in a straw. Julien won and was faced with his Wildcard decision: receive safety for both himself and his teammates for one week, or receive safety for only himself until Jury; Julien chose the latter which threw a huge wrench in one of Skye's plans. Before the nomination ceremony, Skye picked up her suspicions about Radostina's hesitance to follow the alliance's bidding and initially considered her to include in her shortlist. However, Callum and Je'Raldo immediately shot her down and maintained to regain composure in following the secondary plan: putting up the other HouseGuests who also had Skye in their radars. On Day 24, Skye decided to nominate Aurora and Luca for eviction, despite being unable to reach a consensus (with her allies) regarding a potential target as highly threatening between the two.

Since the aftermath from last week, Aurora was declared as the house's "public enemy number one," except for Esther, who is remained an ally to Aurora out of loyalty to their supposed (one-sided) friendship, and naivety to her meanness. Jada was also against the majority of expressing their vendetta against Aurora, due to their inseparable bond since the first week. Aurora gathered Esther and Jada around to weigh up their suggestions regarding the operation in saving her. Jada conducted a plan outline regarding to evict Aries, which would be implemented if Aurora ever won the Veto. Esther was resistant in being on-board with their scheme against Aries, since her heartfelt promise of staying in contact within each other. With the dilemmalike pressure weighing on Esther's shoulders, she reached out her fellow Dolphin's Tale allies to eagerly insist on keeping Aurora as a potential asset and an additional number by their side, but Ben and Luca expressed their angered frustration on Esther's self-doubts unintentionally leading from obligating her ally as they warned her about associating with the house's primary target for the sake of securing her own position. Despite Esther's rose-coloured view of Aurora cracking a bit, she followed her guts to continue siding with Aurora. On Day 25, Ben, Je'Raldo (Skye's choice) and Aries were selected to compete alongside Skye, Aurora and Luca in the PoV competition, *Bump, Set, Veto*. For this competition, the HouseGuests were required to roll a volleyball along a curved ramp and catch it on the other side 100 times; if a HouseGuest dropped the ball, their score would reset. Aurora was the winner. After the competition, Jada informed Aurora on commencing their operation against Aries by convincing Callum (who was served as the message-bearer) to relay the information to Skye about putting up Aries as the safe option as a pawn, due to his involvement with the heated altercation against Aurora and his unlikely competition prowess last week. Soon after, Callum gathered his allies in the HoH room to admonish of suggesting Aries as a pawn, but Radostina was unhappy with the plan (due to her vow in keeping her team intact) and opted to take Aurora's place on the block. The heated debate of Aries being a pawn led to a disagreement between Radostina and Skye, with Callum and Je'Raldo picking up on Radostina's suspicious behavior leading to her assumingly shifting allegiances, they contemplated on evicting her in the coming weeks.

On Day 27, Jada successfully executed the operation's first step when Skye followed Callum's suggestive words, Aurora used the Power of Veto on herself and Skye named Aries as the replacement nominee. Following the Veto ceremony, Radostina continued expressing her self-doubts regarding her loyalty towards the Veterans alliance, mainly due to her "supposed" allies invalidating her arguments from earlier. Meanwhile for Jada, she proceeded to orchestrate the operation's second step by using Aurora's modus operandi — formulating an alliance with a few players (who were gullible and desperate to be manipulated). A new alliance, "The Desperados", formed between Jada and the following players (Aurora, Julien and Luca), who have shared similar intentions of voting the Veterans out. Radostina initially campaigned in saving Aries for another week, however Julien immediately considered her of sacrificing Aries, in avoidance of being guilty by association. Also, Julien offered Radostina to be recruited in Jada's newly founded alliance, which Radostina was left pondering to decide between her humility towards the Queens' unity and her security with a newfound position in the game. Meanwhile for Luca, he was encouraged (by his teammate/ally Ben) with tough love to reform his social skills and optimism using a sense of security/hope by deeming Aurora as the house's primary enemy. Soon after, Luca dropped down his reckless personality for a moment and followed Ben's advices by reaching out any certain HouseGuest, whom he felt confident of swaying his/her vote. During his campaign, Luca started planting a seed in Radostina's mind that she would be at the bottom of the Veterans alliance's totem pole, mainly due to Callum and Je'Raldo being considered as Skye's main assets. Esther, on the other hand, expressed her guilt about potentially evicting either a friend (Aries) or an ally (Luca), causing her in a dilemma which one would benefit her own game. On Day 30, Esther and Radostina reached a consensus to blindside Aries (along with the Veterans), with the votes of 6–4, as it was led into a heartbreaking Live Eviction.

### Week 5

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Post-Veto NomineeEvicted7 Votes**

### Week 6

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted6 Votes**

### Week 7

 **HOH**

 **Roulette Immunity**

 **Pre-Roulette Nominee**

 **POV**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Post-Roulette NomineeEvicted5 Votes**

### Week 8

#### Round 1

 **Secret HOH**

 **Dethroned HOHImmune**

 **Pre-Secret Nominee**

 **POV**

 **Secret HOH Nominee3 Votes**

 **Pre-Secret NomineeSecret HOH NomineeEvicted4 Votes**

#### Round 2

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Pre-Veto Nominee**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Post-Veto NomineeEvicted3 Votes**

### Week 9

#### Round 1

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

#### Round 2

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Pre-Veto Nominee**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Post-Veto NomineeEvicted3 Votes**

### Week 10

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted2 Votes**

### Week 11

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

### Week 12

 **HOH Pt. 2 WinnerHOH Pt. 3 WinnerFinal HOH**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **HOH Pt. 1 WinnerEvicted1 Vote**

### Finale

 **Winner5 Votes**

 **Runner-Up4 Votes**

#### Jury

 **Ben**

 **Jada**

 **Jada**

 **Ben**

 **Ben**

 **Jada**

 **Jada**

 **Ben**

 **Ben**

## Trivia

* This was the first full-length season to be entirely online.
* This is the first season to have a grand prize of $1,000,000 as opposed to $500,000, and the first season in which the grand prize is guaranteed to be greater than $500,000.
	+ In addition, for the first time ever, the runner-up consolation prize also increased from $50,000 to $100,000, while the America's Favorite Houseguest prize increased from $25,000 to $50,000.
	+ Also, if all four members of their respective team made it to the Final Four together their prize money doubled, meaning that the winner would receive $2,000,000 and the runner-up $200,000. That did not happen, so the eventual winner and runner-up, Ben Schiffer and Jada Durant, only received the usual $1,000,000 and $100,000 respectively.