Big Brother 15

***Big Brother 15***, also known as ***Big Brother 15: The Finale***, is the fifteenth and final season of JRZ Big Brother. To commemorate and conclude the series appropriately, series host Rob chose to feature sixteen returning players as opposed to an entirely new cast. The season was very well received. Almost very houseguest there was very clearly passionate about the game which made it a very engaging season to watch. Spencer defeated Chris S. in a close 5-4 vote to become the final winner of JRZ.

This is first season in which all three hosts, Rob, Jordan, and Zepp hosted a season together since *Big Brother 7*.

### Production

After returning from his prolonged hiatus, Zepp was approached by Rob in an effort to get the entire hosting team (including Jordan) to host a final season; Rob was inspired by Nick II doing the same for his series. They agreed, and production was underway.

Casting for the season was strict, as they would represent the most memorable season of the series. Many former houseguests were considered, but were cut before being asked due to social issues or unavailability.

Several previous winners turned down the offer to return. They were:

* Jon (*Big Brother 3*)
* Abi (*Big Brother 4*)
* Chris C. (*Big Brother All-Stars*)
* Cody (*Big Brother 7*)
* Samantha (*Big Brother 10*)
* Walker (*Big Brother 12*)
* Marina (*Big Brother 13*)

In addition, other memorable houseguests were asked to return. The ones who declined were:

* Adam (*Big Brother 2* & *Big Brother 9*)
* Arnold (*Big Brother 10*)
* Banner (*Big Brother 5* & *Big Brother 9*)
* Boar (*Big Brother 2* & *Big Brother All-Stars*)
* Cool (*Big Brother 10*)
* Edge (*Big Brother 7* & *Big Brother 9*)
* Jack (*Big Brother 5* & *Big Brother 9*)
* Katie (*Big Brother 12*)
* Maddie (*Big Brother 5* & *Big Brother 12*)
* Michael (*Big Brother 7* & *Big Brother 9*)
* Noah (*Big Brother 4* & *Big Brother All-Stars*)
* Nucleo (*Big Brother 3* & *Big Brother All-Stars*)
* Vinny (*Big Brother 5*, *Big Brother 9*, & *Big Brother 12*)

A couple of houseguests got invited but never answered their invitation to play for unknown reasons:

* Alyssa (*Big Brother 2*)
* Numbers (*Big Brother 7*)

Several others were considered to be asked as well, but the season was fully cast before they ever needed to be contacted.

## Twists/Changes

* **Returning Players:** Sixteen houseguests from previous seasons past return for the final season.
* **Have/Have-Not:** Houseguests had to do silly things each week.
* **Safety Suite:** Houseguests could compete in a competition to earn safety and they could choose another houseguest to make safe as well.
* **America's Care Package****:** Spectator's voted to give a power or advantage to a houseguest still in the game.
	+ **Pendant of Protection****:** Offered safety for the week. Awarded to Matt III.
	+ **Ring of Replacement:** Winner gets to replace a veto player with another of their choice. Awarded to Jeeven.
	+ **Co-HOH:** Winner gets to share the duties of HOH with the current HOH. Awarded to Robin.

## Housesguests

 **Winner**

 **Runner-Up**

 **Chris S.**

 **Spencer**

 **Spencer**

 **Chris S.**

 **Chris S.**

 **Spencer**

 **Spencer**

 **Spencer**

 **Chris S.**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

## Have/Have-Not History

*Starting from Week 2, the exiting Have-Nots had to choose the new Have-Nots. The names represent which houseguest passed on Have-Not status. Blank boxes represent Have-Nots chosen by a competition and the start of a new hand-off chain.*

## Game History

### Week 1

 **HOH**

 **Safety Suite**

 **Safety Suite +1**

 **POV**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted11 Votes**

The season began with a mixed bag of emotions. Many houseguests had been traumatized from this series in the past. Those were the ones who started the series off slowly. Others were excited to jump right into things. Several of the houseguests were in voice at the very start. Rivers was there and was trying to play dumb and act as if she had no idea how to play Big Brother. No one else in the voice call bought it. This was her third time, she knows what she is doing.
The first competition was announced to be classic BB Bug competition. TJ volunteered to be the first houseguest infected. TJ started the game doing the most. He also formed 16 "everyone but blank" alliances. Everyone knew they were him and no one found it funny. They were just annoyed. TJ formed one serious alliance, though. He, Franco, Rivers, and Shyla formed an alliance since they had all been friends prior to this season. As the infection competition carried on, no one was trying to win it. Jericho realized this and decided to go for it by promising safety to people who did not infect him. An old rivalry from Big Brother 6 was reignited between Dani and Rivers. Both of whom infected one another because they did not want either to be HOH. Jericho won the first HOH competition. The first have-nots were announced this week as well. The first four infected houseguests (TJ, Emma, Franco, JP) became the first have-nots. They had to end every sentence in a public channel with "i-" as a reference to a particular group of people who played the latter seasons of JRZ. Some of those latter JRZ contestants formed alliance on day 2. This alliance consisted of JP, Matt, Robin, and Vlin. Matt and Vlin were leaving particularly good first impressions with the people they had never met before.
A new twist was announced known as the Safety Suite. This twist allowed houseguests one chance to play a competition to win safety and save another houseguest with them. A houseguests could only play this competition once in the season. TJ immediately went for it. Robin, trying to make sure he was not a nominee, told Jericho that Robin would use his safety suite now in order to prevent Jericho's target from getting. Jericho appreciated the offer but did not request for it to happen. Jericho was unsure who he wanted to target at all. During the first 20 hours of safety suite, TJ was the only person to try and play it. TJ also paid over 100 dollars to boost the server 30 times hoping to stir some drama or win some favor with his fellow houseguests, but no one noticed. Instead, TJ's fellow houseguests had a difficult time connecting with him in DMs. Similarly, the houseguests were having a difficult time talking with Franco. Brayth was also off to inactive start. Each of them had their own reasons why. TJ worked overnight shifts as an EMT and sleeps most of the day. Franco had unfortunately been diagnosed with COVID-19 and was struggling with the symptoms of that. Brayth's birthday was the day the game began and so he spent the night off of discord. Jericho was thinking about nominating them since they had not been very active. Brayth and Matt decided to play in the safety suite at the last minute. Matt won the suite and saved Emma as his plus one. Dani, Hey, Jericho, and Vlin form an alliance on day 3 to help Jericho discuss his nominations. In an unfortunate mistake, Jericho posted his nomination plan in the house chat instead of his alliance chat. He just went ahead with his nominates of Franco and TJ and apologized for not talking to them about it first like he planned to.
Dani tried to protect Franco from going on the block and admitted that he was her cousin to those who did not know but it did not do much to stop the nomination. Franco drew houseguest choice in the veto competition. Dani volunteered to play for him but regretted it because she did not want to go against her new ally, Jericho. JP and Spencer were chosen at random. Chris S, Jericho, JP, and Spencer form an alliance on day 3 since they all just like each other. Chris S. and Shyla had both been struggling with the trauma of JRZ but were glad to have each other to talk about it with. Shyla was forming very close personal bonds with everyone. Matt, trying to inquire about her, accidentally brought up the Disco situation because he did not realize the severity of it. Shyla got turned off to Matt and Matt panicked. Shyla told Robin about it and Robin told Matt. Matt panicked even more after that. Later in the day, Matt and Shyla smoothed over the incident but Matt was still nervous about his position with both of them. Brayth, Emma, and JP formed a winner alliance. Spencer won the POV because he wanted to prove he would be a valuable ally who can win things. Jericho had been considering Rivers as renomination because she had been quiet ever since the game started but changed his mind after spending time with her in a voice call. Spencer decided to not sure the power of veto. Franco and TJ were the final nominees. Emma, Matt, and Robin formed an alliance. Hey, JP, and TJ also formed an alliance. TJ was trying to sway votes but he was the easy target because he had been annoying, with no connections, and people felt bad voting out Franco while he had COVID.
Things were quiet during the day of the eviction. A large alliance was in the midst of forming. Matt was trying to create an alliance of himself, Jeeven, Hey, Rivers, and Emma. Robin was trying to form the same alliance except without Matt in it. Jeeven spoke to them and asked them to include each other. Matt and Robin spoke to each other about it and ended up forming a final 2 deal out of it. TJ was set to go but Rivers did not like that. She liked TJ. She was also threatened by Franco because of his reputation and relationship to Dani. She successfully spent all day flipping the votes against Franco. Franco found out about it when the plan got leaked and he was very angry. He went to work trying to flip votes back. He got a lot of fake reassurance from people who had no intentions to flip back. Dani went back to her old ways of being rude while trying to campaign to save her cousin, Franco. Brayth and Chris S. planned to stick with Dani and Franco no matter what. Hey, Matt, and Vlin also formed an alliance to discuss their votes. However, all this changed when TJ got drunk. He posted a speech calling out Brayth, Chris S, Dani, Franco, and Shyla for being an obvious group from the pregame. They decided to actually form the alliance that TJ name dropped. TJ continued his tirade throughout the night and with each message he posted, more and more houseguests started changing their votes. JP, Robin, Spencer, and Vlin formed alliance since they were perceiving themselves as the swing votes. They decided against saving TJ. TJ knew he lost the votes and was getting more and more drunk and more and more angry. He continued to rant and also formed a huge alliance of himself, Emma, Hey, Jeeven, Jericho, JP, Matt, Rivers, Robin, TJ, and Vlin trying to sway their votes. The only vote he managed to keep was Emma's because she hated Franco and he hated her due to pregame beef.
The first eviction happened with an 11-2 vote against TJ making him the first boot. The stray votes were Emma and Matt. Rivers changed her vote back despite all her efforts throughout the day. The season is off to a very strong start.

### Week 2

 **HOH**

 **Safety Suite**

 **Safety Suite +1**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted11 Votes**

The first thing that happened was the assignment of the new Have-Nots. They got to choose who the next 4 would be. TJ's pick was randomized since he had been evicted. Hey got chosen. Franco chose Rivers, Emma chose Dani, and JP chose Shyla. They all had to roleplay as Branch from Big Brother 1 and Big Brother 6. The HOH competition was Steppy Pants. The entire house knew that Dani was gunning for it and was going to win it. Everyone felt comfortable with that though (except Emma, Jeeven, and Rivers) because they all feel like they are in "good positions" and playing "under the radar." Dani won HOH and was coming after the trio of Emma, Jeeven, and Rivers for being the people on the outs who tried to evict Franco the week prior. Rivers had mentally checked out of the game after the first week did not go her way but she still chose to play in Safety Suite anyway. Dani, someone who hadn't used her lockpick yet, was campaigning to get as many people as possible to play in the Suite so she'd have less competition in week 3. Emma, Hey, Jeeven, Robin, Franco, Shyla, Spencer, and Vlin all also chose to play in the Safety Suite. Emma and Jeeven wanted to win safety. Everyone else wanted to play in order to prevent either of those two from winning safety. During this time, Jericho found out why Matt chose to play the Safety Suite in week 1. Rivers had told him that he should play because she believed that Jericho was a part of the Dani/Franco pregame connection. Jericho was upset to learn this about Rivers and he told all this info to Dani. Spencer won the Safety Suite and chose to save Jericho to solidify a final 2 deal. Spencer also formed a final 2 deal with JP.
Robin made a pitch to Dani for her to keep Shyla safe. Dani assured Robin that she would be safe. Dani had flashbacks to Big Brother 6 and realized that Shyla had her hand in many cookie jars once again. Jeeven tried to make a pitch to Dani. She was not interested in it. He name dropped Jericho, Spencer, Rivers, and Vlin as targets and Dani spread this info around to her allies which sunk Jeeven's stock a bit. Dani nominated Emma and Rivers. She also made a long and dramatic speech. The speech riled up Emma and a house fight began. Brayth, Dani, Jericho, and Robin formed an alliance. Dani, Emma, Rivers, Franco, Jeeven, and Vlin were chosen for the veto. They had to play How Badly Do You Want It?. Dani, Franco, and Vlin did not want it and took the minimum amount of punishments. Emma and Jeeven both took all the punishments and gave up 2 weeks of competitions. Rivers won the Veto by taking all the punishments and giving up every single competition for the rest of the game. She used the power of veto on herself. Dani, Franco, and Chris S. formed an alliance to talk about Dani's new nominee. Jericho informed Chris S. about the alliance of himself, Brayth, Robin, and Dani. Jeeven tried to pitch more deals to Dani but she shut him down. She nominated him but hoped that he stayed and she made that clear to him. The final nominees were Emma and Jeeven.
At first, the vote was very open. Dani preferred Emma but did not care that much. JP wanted to try to protect Emma because she was a former winner but he ultimately ditched that idea when he saw how sloppy she was playing. Emma went on an Anti-Dani campaign and it was not landing well. She was continuously slandering Dani and talking about a supposed pregame that she had. Emma was also harassing Dani and Franco all day. Dani ended up blocking Emma due to it. Despite this behavior, Robin promised Emma that he would help campaign for her. While he did want her to stay, he never intended on following through with that plan but Emma leaked it anyway. This got back to Robin's people and he lost some stock with them. Contrary to Emma, Jeeven was campaigning by being nice, peaceful, and open. He made a lot of promises as well. "Emma" was evicted in a unanimous 11-0 vote. On her way out, she posted a speech calling out every houseguest left in the game. Some were positive but both were negative.

### Week 3

 **HOH**

 **Safety Suite**

 **Safety Suite +1**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted9 Votes**

The week began with the next have-not selection. JP, Matt, and Spencer all volunteered to take Hey, Rivers, and Shyla's spots. Dani specifically chose Robin. Their task was to speak in broken text like Big Brother 4's Joey. They had a lot of fun with this task.

Matt won the HOH competition and Shyla earned a strike for her failure to submit a score at all. Hey decided to throw the competition in order to maintain his position in the middle. Hey formed a final 2 deal with Matt and it benefitted him greatly because Matt was willing to make the move Hey wasn't. Dani, Chris S., Jericho, and JP all decided to play in the last Safety Suite competition. Dani won the competition and chose to save Chris S. This made Brayth upset because he felt like he was in more danger than Chris S. would be. Brayth was scorned so he threw Dani and Chris S. under the bus to Matt by telling him that they've known each other for years. Matt was floating the idea around the house of nominating Brayth and Franco. Franco and Matt had previously made a deal during the BB Bug competition to keep each other safe if they won an HOH. Franco made a poorly received joke about breaking the deal. Matt decided to use this as an excuse to nominate him. Matt made a very dramatic speech to nominate Brayth and Franco. Brayth changed his tune after the nominations. He began looking around for pity but it did not land well. Brayth was growing more and more bitter with his housemates.
Matt, Brayth, Franco, Chris S, Spencer, and Robin were chosen to play in veto. Franco won the competition and used the veto on himself. Matt would want to nominate Chris S. or Dani but because of the Safety Suite, he was left with Shyla. He did not want to nominate her but felt like no choice. Jeeven was upset with the idea of a Shyla nomination. He was blowing up Matt's DMs about it but Hey was trying to cool Jeeven down. Hey felt like putting Shyla up was the best option for himself but also for Jeeven. When Dani caught wind of Matt's plans, she got very aggressive with him in his DMs. Matt had been lying to Dani and her "side" all cycle and it had not gone unnoticed. Matt decided to tell Shyla that she'd be the new nominee before he did and she got very upset and cried. Matt went through with it anyway. Everyone liked Shyla and did not want her to leave. Jeeven, despite not having a vote, was making a very strong push against Brayth. Dani and Matt's feud continued as Hey fueled the fire by confirming a few alliances to Dani. Dani decided she was just done with Matt and decided to only speak to him using emojis. Brayth's inactivity all game and bitterness during the past week lead to his 9-1 eviction. Dani just couldn't vote against her long time friend and ally, Brayth, and decided to throw a sympathy vote his way. Dani and friends feel scorned as Matt leaves his somewhat messy reign as HOH.

### Week 4

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted9 Votes**

The Have-Nots this cycle had to praise Jordan all week and tell him how pretty he is. JP chose Hey, Matt chose Vlin, Robin chose Jericho, and Spencer chose Chris S.

Vlin won HOH and planned to target Dani's "family" except for Chris S. Chris S. has been doing a great job of distancing himself from Dani all game. Jeeven finally found himself in an alliance. It was Jeeven, Hey, Matt, and Vlin. Vlin told them his plan of nominating Franco and Shyla and then backdooring Dani. Vlin also tells his BBD people: JP, Matt, and Robin. Vlin doesn't want to nominate Dani right from the gate because he wants to maintain the illusion that he is aligned with her. He wants her out since she is the house pariah and because he remembers how bitter she was in Big Brother 14. Dani convinced herself she should be safe with a Vlin HOH because of their allegiance. Vlin wanted to tell Shyla that she would not be targeted but this just made her upset. She complained about how she cannot play the game she wanted all because drunk TJ threw a temper tantrum week 1. Vlin officially nominated Franco and Shyla.

Both Franco and Shyla got houseguest choice. Franco chose his cousin, Dani. JP tried to convince Shyla to choose Spencer to play in the veto competition to test his mist and also get his buddy to play the competition. Shyla was hesitant to do so because she didn't think Spencer would save her if he won. She instead chose Chris S. for two reasons. First, because he may consider using it to save her. Second, even if he does not save her, at least he would be safe from nomination. Shyla knows how much the game means to Chris S. and she didn't want him to lose his chances at doing well. Franco chose to abstain from the veto competition because he and Dani were having a family emergency.
Franco and Dani's grandmother passed away on Day 17. They both spent much of the day offline. Despite this tragedy, Robin tried to use it for game by spreading a rumor about Dani & Franco being related that Brayth said before he left to create drama. Due to the awful event, Vlin and his BBD allies felt bad about blindsiding Dani so they decided to ditch their backdoor plan. Hey won the POV and chose to freeze the nominations.

The final nominees were Franco and Shyla. Neither of them wanted to campaign against one another. Rivers tried to flip the votes against Shyla in order to save Franco because she felt bad about targeting him week 1 and his grandmother. She brought up to Matt and Hey but both of them shut her down immediately. JP accidentally revealed the existence of the BBD alliance to Chris S. Matt, Jericho, Spencer, and Hey formed an alliance. Jeeven got bored waiting for the votes to come in so he decided to make a fake advantage. He created a few fake wiki pages so he could lie about finding something. He got Hey to fall for it and sent him on a wild goose chase. Jeeven felt bad but enjoyed the chaos too much to come clean. Hey figured out that it was all fake and lost a lot of trust in Jeeven.

Dani refused to vote against her cousin. She told Shyla and Shyla completely understood. Franco was evicted in a 9 to 1 vote.

### Week 5

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Nominee4 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

This week's have-nots had to obsess over Janelle like the cast did when choosing profile pictures. Jericho chose JP, Vlin chose Matt, Chris S. chose Jeeven, and Hey chose Shyla. This punishment lead to the creation of an alliance of Chris S., Jeeven, Jericho, JP, Matt, and Shyla but it was more or less a meme alliance.

Matt won HOH and pretty quickly nominated Dani and Shyla by making a very dramatic speech. Chris S. got drew to play in veto and wanted to try to win it in order to take Dani off the block and force Matt to nominate someone new. Chris S. and Dani also came up with a plan to start creating a narrative that Shyla had become a pawn and a goat. This idea worked very well for them because the middle players started considering flipping the votes. Spencer won the Veto. Both Dani and Shyla asked him to keep the nominations the same in order to protect Chris S. Both of them also thought they would stay against the other. Spencer decided not to use the veto. Jericho, JP, and Spencer along with Chris S. decided to flip. They realized that keeping Dani in keeps a huge target in the game and for their personal strategy, keeping Dani was the way to go. All they needed to do was convince Hey. Hey struggled with being the swing vote due to his close relationship with Dani and his flirtmance with Matt. Hey told Vlin that Dani said she had JP's vote. Vlin went to confirm this with JP. It freaked out JP and he started to panic about the decision, but Spencer calmed him down. This spreading of information also caused Dani to panic but Hey was able to reassure her. Matt felt completely confident that Dani would be leaving though he was nervous because he had to count on inactive players like Rivers. Robin was never able to lose his reputation of being suspicious from the pregame. Hey planned on using Robin as a scapegoat after he made his move. Half the house was blindsided at the eviction when Shyla left in a 5-4 vote on her 101st day of BB

### Week 6

 **HOH**

 **Pendant of Protection**

 **POV**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted6 Votes**

The Have-Nots were tasked with making edits in photoshop to poke fun at Charliegate from JRZ Big Brother 2. The spectators got to vote for their favorite meme and the winner would receive a Never-Not Pass. This pass allowed the houseguest to never be a Have-Not again. Jeeven chose Chris S, Matt chose Jericho, JP chose Hey, and Shyla's choice was randomized to be Vlin. Vlin won the Never-Not Pass.

More importantly, the jury started after an intense 5-4 split vote. Hey was the deciding vote but he tried to pretend it wasn't him for as long as possible. He tried to pin the move on Robin. The other four: Chris S, Jericho, JP, and Spencer were protecting Hey by suggesting they didn't know if it was Hey or Robin. Robin believed it to be Vlin. No one believed Robin that it was not him. Spencer got tired of covering for Hey and started telling people that it was Hey but no one believed him either. They all wanted it to be Robin. Robin had developed a habit throughout the game of messaging people for information and never offering up any back. People felt conversations with him were very transactional. Matt was in complete denial that his flirtmance buddy, Hey, would have been the person who went against him. Vlin convinced Matt that the truth was that Hey flipped. Matt was upset and no longer wanted to play with Hey.
Spencer won HOH and another new twist was unleashed on to the houseguests. Discord's Care Package which was a twist where the spectators voted for one houseguest to receive a special gift each week. Matt was awarded the Pendant of Protection, a relic from JRZ Big Brother 2 and JRZ Big Brother 6. This item kept Matt safe for the week. Due to the nature of the twist, everyone knows that he has it. After Matt won, he and Hey had a voice chat to go over the events of the previous week. Hey admitted to Matt that he was the flipper and they were able to make up. Both of them appreciated the mature way that the other handled the call. Though neither feels like their relationship can ever be the same way it was again.

Despite the house's anti-Dani & anti-Matt rhetoric, Spencer had his own agenda. He planned to eliminate the players sliding under the radar to eliminate future goats. He also intended to keep the Danis and the Matts around in order for them to be bigger targets than him. Jeeven made a well thought out pitch to Spencer, which Spencer appreciated. Spencer told him he'd be a pawn and that Rivers was going to be his main target. He nominated Jeeven and Rivers officially. Chris S. was drawn for veto and he also won the veto. He decided to keep the nominations the same. At first people were going to take the opportunity to blindside Jeeven but quickly changed their tune once Rivers became active again. She first tried to clear the air with Dani to try to create a working relationship. Dani quickly shut Rivers down. Rivers also pitched to everyone that she was useless in the game since she cannot win any competitions to ruin ayone's plans. She did not realize that was the exact reason everyone wanted to evict her.
Dani and Matt approached each other to make a deal to throw comps and not backdoor each other. Neither of them had enough trust in the other person to actually follow through on it. Jeeven and Dani got into a fight in the house chat shortly before eviction. It carried over into DMs where they basically burned any possible bridge they may have had with one another. Dani was so upset, she changed her vote to evict from Rivers to Jeeven as a sign. Robin continued his shady behavior as well. He decided to go against the frey and vote to evict Jeeven. He used this vote and his goodbye message to earn Rivers' jury vote. She was very bitter upon her 6-2 eviction.

### Week 7

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted6 Votes**

This week's Have-Nots had to embrace stan culture for the week. Hey chose Dani, Jericho chose Matt, Vlin chose JP, and Chris S. chose Jeeven.

Vlin won Head of Household and Jeeven won Discord's Care Package. Jeeven won a Ring of Replacement which is a power that would allow him to take someone out of a veto competition and then choose their replacement. Vlin's plan for the week was to target and eliminate Hey for his move he made two week's prior. He first promised Chris S. and Dani safety for the week in exchange for their votes against Hey. They both agreed to the terms. Vlin also told Robin about all the lies Hey told and about how Hey tried to pin the flipped vote on him in order to make sure Vlin had Robin's vote. Vlin then confirmed to Jeeven that Hey had been the vote and had been lying to Jeeven all this time. Vlin then formed an alliance with Matt, Jeeven, and Robin. Their plan was to make the "middle players" squirm. Vlin and Matt were very aggressive in leading on Hey, Jericho, JP, and Spencer in DMs to make them panic. The night before Vlin made his nominees, he caught Matt getting drunk in a voice call with Jericho. Vlin was angry that it appeared like Matt was trying to do damage control to make Vlin look like a bad guy. Matt left the call to please Vlin but they were both still upset. Vlin blocked Matt after the fight was all said and done. He blocked Matt because he was upset, but also to make it seem like they weren't close to the rest of the house.
The next morning, Vlin made a dramatic speech nominating Hey and Jericho. The veto competition was Scattergories and after 48 hours, Jericho ended up winning the Veto and using it on himself. Jeeven, Matt, Robin, and Vlin agreed that Chris S. should be the nominee. Vlin felt guilty going back on his word to Chris S. but he did it anyway. Matt was still scorned about Vlin blocking him earlier so he decided to try to save Hey. He got Jeeven with him and the two of them tried to secretly flip the votes against Vlin's wishes. Spencer, Jericho, and JP realized that they were the swing votes. They agreed to vote out Hey because they did not want to make Vlin upset and they all felt like they had stronger bonds with Chris S. anyway. JP told Jeeven that Hey would be leaving and it made him and Matt paranoid. Jericho and Spencer were upset that JP would tell Jeeven. Vlin caught Jeeven and Matt trying to flip the votes and told Chris S. Everyone feels scorned by each other. Jericho, JP, and Spencer had made everyone upset, especially Hey, who was evicted in a 6-1 vote.

### Week 8

 **Co-HOH**

 **Co-HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

The Have-Nots this cycle had to share photos of beans. By default, the have-nots were Chris S, Jericho, Robin, and Spencer by default. Everyone in the house was feeling tense after Hey's wild eviction. Matt and Vlin had a very strained relationship at this point but both were acting fake to one another. Matt was confident that he'd win HOH so he proposed a truce to Chris S. and Dani. Matt, Vlin, Chris S, and Dani formed an alliance together, however Chris S. and Dani were very skeptical of his intentions. Chris S. ended up winning HOH and Robin ended up winning the care package. Robin was named the Co-HOH which meant he had to share the HOH duties with Chris S. Vlin took over Robin's half of the HOH by manipulating him into doing his bidding. They formed a final 2 deal. They also formed an alliance with JP. Meanwhile, Chris S. was looking to nominate the person that voted for him at the last cycle. Chris S. suspected that it was Jeeven when in reality it was Matt. Matt kept quiet about it and Jeeven denied it, but no one believed Jeeven. Chris S. and Robin agreed to use their HOH to target both suspects since they both were caught trying to flip votes. Chris S. nominated Matt and Robin nominated Jeeven. Jeeven was considering using the Ring of Replacement on Matt but Matt begged Jeeven not to and tugged on his heart. Jeeven agreed. He asked Spencer to play for him to which Spencer gave Jeeven a vague maybe answer. Jeeven decided to replace Chris S. in the competition with Spencer.
Matt ended up winning the Power of Veto and taking himself down. After doing so, Matt came clean to Vlin about everything he had ever done. Matt also had a heart to heart with Chris S. where they formed a real truce. During all of this, Jericho was under fire for playing the middle. His allies in the middle were mad at him for being so leaky and his non allies were mad at him for always giving them false hopes. Chris S. was more interested in Spencer, though. He asked around the house about having Spencer as a new nominee very subtly but he decided against it. Chris S. was suspicious as to why Jeeven would choose Spencer. Jericho and JP calmed down Chris S. and then told Spencer about the slight implication. Chris S. decided on nominating Vlin because he was the only one left in the house that Chris S. had no allegiance with. Jeeven went on the campaign trail. He made strong pitches and never backed down from the attempt to salvage his game. After 24 hours of his essays, people were either telling them that there was no chance or telling him what he wanted to hear and giving him false hopes. Jericho blamed his inability to save Jeeven on Spencer and Spencer found out abut it through Jeeven and was no pleased. Ultimately, Vlin had better relationships than Jeeven. Jeeven was evicted unanimously.

### Week 9

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

Every houseguest became a have-not, except for Vlin because he held the never-not-pass. The houseguests just had to choose their favorite have-not punishments to do all week or react when pinged by a host. This was the last week for have-nots. Dani, Jericho, Robin, and Vlin formed an alliance based on their row on the memory wall having all four members still in the game. It held no game significance. Mott won HOH and the entire house already knew who he was targeting before he even said anything. Jericho approached Matt and told him that he would not take it personal because he knw he would be a nominee. Jericho did not even make a pitch because he knew Matt was not changing his mind. Matt told everyone about his plan for the week before making any moves and it upset JP and Spencer. They felt unfairly targeted since they were being held accountable for Jericho's errors. Matt and Dani bonded before nominations by getting drunk and playing "Among Us" together. They were starting to like each other. Matt stuck to his truce with Chris S. and Dani and nominated Jericho and Spencer in a dramatic speech calling out the both of them.
Spencer won the POV and used it on himself. JP knew he would be the new nominee but made a pitch anyway. He suggested that Matt put up Chris S. because it would guarantee Jericho leaving since everyone liked Chris S. Matt named JP as the new nominee anyway, making this the first ever official time JP was ever nominated in his 3 season Big Brother career. For the first time in 152 days straight of JRZ, JP was a nominee and eligible for eviction. Though Matt preferred Jericho to leave, he felt like either option being evicted was a win for him so he tried to stay out of the vote campaigning and deliberating to lessen his target. JP came clean to Chris S. about suggesting his name for nominations which upset Matt because Matt never mentioned it to Chris S. Matt had been saving it for a rainy day when he needed to target JP so he was forced to cover his tracks. Jericho was a dead man walking because everyone had been throwing him under the bus for weeks and he had been doing a sloppy job of covering it up. Robin and Vlin were protecting JP at all costs but Dani and Chris S. were wishy washy about which way to go. Spencer planned to vote with Dani and Chris S, making them the swing votes. Dani and Chris S. decided to evict Jericho because he had been so shady and no one knew where his true loyalties lied. They also felt that by leaving the two time winner, JP, still in the game, it would lessen their target because he would always be the bigger threat. Jericho was evicted unanimously.

### Week 10

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

The Have-Not twist came to an end when Zingbot entered the house. He roasted the houseguests and jurors on various things for fun. Robin was called a goat and also named the biggest goat in Touchy Subjects which prompted an epiphany. Robin decided his game would now be about spreading chaos. He first started by making everyone feel guilty about his zing but then he started spreading rumors that each of the pairs in the house approached him for alliances. No one really believed him though.

Spencer won HOH and immediately formed a final 2 deal with Robin. Dani was pretending to still hate Matt despite working with him now. She tried to get Spencer to nominate him. Spencer told this to Matt also alluded to Matt that he'd be safe anyway because he'd use the veto on him if he won. Chris S. leaked the alliance of Chris, Dani, Matt, and Vlin to Spencer. Spencer told Dani that he knew about that alliance but he didn't tell her how he knew. He also tried to tell Dani that she'd be a nominee but she did not take it well. Dani was angry about the alliance being leaked and she believed it was Vlin who did it. She started acting very rudely to Vlin because of it. Chris S. felt bad but kept quiet to preserve his own game. JP, Robin, and Spencer formed an alliance. Spencer officially nominated Dani and Matt.
Matt won the POV even after sharing his notes with Robin and Spencer. Matt took himself off the block and Spencer was looking for a new nominee. Robin got back to spreading rumors but this time he was building off the rumor that Vlin leaked the alliance. He fed Vlin a lot of lies about Dani to make him upset. Dani and Vlin fight over it. Spencer decided to use that as an excuse to make him the replacement nominee. Dani was guaranteed to leave due to her aggressive nature despite her pitches being convincing and full of accurate information. Robin continued to spread rumors about Dani to the moment she was evicted. Chris S. threw her a sympathy vote. Dani left in a 3-1 vote with a huge exit speech. She was very bitter against JP and Spencer. She commended Chris S, Matt, and Vlin on their games and she trashed Robin's before she headed to the jury.

### Week 11

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

Matt won HOH and knew he wanted to take some big shots. JP quickly appraoched him to talk about their threat level. They agreed that they were both the biggest threats and should try to protect one another. They made a loose final 3 deal and then agreed to target Chris S. Matt ensured everyone would vote to evict Chris S. on the block over Spencer but before he could make his nominations, Chris S. had a call with him. Chris S. explained how he was not targeting Matt. Chris S. also told Matt that by Matt evicting him, he is doing everyone else's dirty work. Matt believed this pitch and changed his mind to target Vlin instead. Matt told Spencer he would be a pawn because everyone else promised to evict Vlin. Matt nominated Spencer and Vlin. Vlin was shocked and apologized for his rude behavior towards Matt. Matt explained to Vlin why he had nominated him and his threat level. Spencer won the Power of Veto and used it on himself. Matt asked Robin to be the pawn and he agreed to it. Chris S, JP, and Spencer promised to evict Vlin. They all want to use Robin as their goat to drag to the end. Robin tried to create paranoia but no one believed any of his antics. Vlin tried to make pitches but it all fell on deaf ears. He was evicted 3-0.

### Week 12

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted2 Votes**

Chris S. won HOH and had difficulty deciding if he wanted to go back on his deal with Matt from the previous cycle. Ultimately, he came to the decision that it was necessary because Matt had become the biggest jury threat. Everyone knew the jurors were favoring him because they all made it clear on their way out. Chris S. nominated Matt next to Robin and out of nowhere, Robin won the power of veto and took himself down. Chris S. spoke to JP and Spencer about which one of them he would nominate. He chose to put up JP next to Matt. Robin and Spencer both voted to evict Matt and he was sent out in a 3-0 vote, despite his pitches about JP being a two time winner and arguably, bigger threat.

### Week 13

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

Before Matt left the house, he shared an incomplete information sheet with Robin. Robin then added incorrect information to it on purpose and began sharing it with his fellow houseguests for future competitions. Spencer won HOH and he randomized his nominations since veto is what mattered the most. He randomly nominated Chris S. and JP. The veto competition was 24 hour trivia which was won by Chris S. He, of course, removed himself from the block and Robin was placed as the default replacement nominee. Spencer decided to stay out of the decision making process with Chris S. in order for no one to think he was biased. This was because he wanted whoever stayed in the house to still feel like they could trust him even in the final 3. Robin and JP both made strong pitches to Chris S. Chris S. had a lot of anxiety dealing with the decision. He did not want to put himself in a situation where he would need to win HOH in order to end up in the final 2 but he also did not want to end up in an unwinnable final 2. He decided to make the decision that would force him to win final HOH but would also give him the better chance to win it all in the final 2 by evicted JP. For the first time in 170 days played and the first time in his career, JP was officially evicted from the JRZ house.

### Week 14

 **HOH Pt. 1 WinnerHOH Pt. 3 Winner**

 **HOH Pt. 2 WinnerNominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

The jury roundtable was favoring Chris S. and Spencer over Robin but were having trouble choosing between them. In part 1 of the final HOH competition Chris S. and Spencer spammed for 24 hours. Robin checked out pretty early but Chris S. and Spencer went all the way to 80k each. Spencer narrowly defeated Chris S. by 400 messages. In part 2, both Chris S. and Robin had Matt's spreadsheet. Chris S. had gotten it from Spencer who got it from Robin who got it from Matt. Chris S. beat Robin in part 2 to face off in part 3. Spencer barely defeated Chris S. in part 3 and won the final HOH competition.

Spencer decided to bring Chris S. to the end instead of Robin. Although Robin would have been an easy win for Spencer but Spencer chose to bring Chris S. anyway for the legacy of it all. Spencer was content with potentially losing to Chris S. because he wanted the final season to have a huge finale.

### Finale

 **Winner5 Votes**

 **Runner-Up4 Vote**

The jury was shocked and completely undecided between them. The jury questioning process was very emotional for the jurors and the finalists. But after it was all over, Spencer won in a close 5-4 vote over Chris S.

Spencer won Player of the Season and Matt won the Fan Favorite.

### Jury

 **Chris S.**

 **Spencer**

 **Spencer**

 **Chris S.**

 **Chris S.**

 **Spencer**

 **Spencer**

 **Spencer**

 **Chris S.**

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