Jacob Okumura

## Season History

**Jacob Toshio Okuzawa** (née **Okumura**) was a houseguest of *Big Brother 1*.

Jacob is known for being the founder of the ill-fated A Team alliance, his strong rivalry with Sonny McCoy, and playing an abrasive and cutthroat game. For a majority of the season, he became the house's intended target when Brandon Zamora, his former ally, exposed him being the figurehead leader of the alliance to manipulate people to do his bidding within the game. Despite being on everyone's radar, he used his strong social game to narrowly escape from evictions, and took on an aggressive style of gameplay; winning 3 HoHs, 2 BotBs back-to-back, and 3 consecutive PoVs. During the second half of the second Double Eviction in Week 9, Jacob was unable to save himself with losing the POV and he was evicted in a unanimous 2-0 vote, placing 5th and becoming the fifth member of the jury. On finale night, Jacob, along with Kyle and Ramon was revealed to be in the top three to win America's Favorite Houseguest, but he lost to Ramon.

Jacob is considered one of the greatest physical players in the show's history (alongside Josephine Winters and Kyle Franklin), most notably winning Power of Veto competitions he competed in three consecutive weeks.

## Biography

**Hometown:** Sacramento, California
**Current city:** Sacramento, California
**Occupation:** Professor
**Three adjectives that describe you:** Confident, methodical and ambitious
**Favorite activities:** I love doing water-related sports and activities (especially scuba diving). I also enjoyed playing both basketball and football with my closest friends during my day-off and the weekends. I also love reading Stephen King novels when I’m bored at home.
**What do you think will be the most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house?**
Being away from my family for so long. Even though you are in the house with other people, you have to remember that they are trying to take $500,000 away from you and it will be tough to not have my family to release some of the tension.
**Do you have a strategy for winning the game?**
If I have my own strategy to survive the Big Brother game, I would find common grounds with everyone and share individual time- and secrets to earn their trust. Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. Earning your houseguests’ trust and loyalty will be helpful to use some of their own plans to my social game.
**My life's motto is...**
Never give up, great things take time.
**What would you take into the house and why?**
I would bring my smartphone, my laptop, and my favorite Stephen King novel to read.
**Fun facts about yourself:**
- I managed to survive from a wild shark attack while scuba diving in the Bahamas. It was traumatic seeing my scars on my abdomen and my right arm just to reminisce my near-death experience. Since then, I now have a phobia for sharks.
- I was born in Sacramento, California. Two years later, me and my family decided to reside to Kyoto, Japan for sixteen years. I managed to master learning the English language before living in Sacramento again to get my American citizenship.
- I came from a strictly conservative family background, but I am widely open to people with different race, age, sexuality, etc.

## Player History - *Big Brother 1*

### HOH History

 **Sonny**

 **Aiden**

 **Evicted**

## Post Big Brother

* On February 26, 2020, Jacob and his fiancé got married.

## Trivia

* Jacob was the first Asian-American to compete on *Big Brother*.
* Jacob is the first houseguest to have consecutive Power of Veto wins with three in a row, sometimes referred to as the Three-peat Veto.
* Jacob was the first person to win Battle of the Block twice in *Big Brother 1*.
* Jacob won the most competitions in *Big Brother 1* among male Houseguests, having won 8 (6 if his BotB win isn't included).
	+ Though technically without his dethroned HoHs and the BotB, Jacob would have four competition wins (1 HoH and 3 PoVs).
* Jacob is the first player to be nominated in 4 consecutive weeks.
* Jacob holds the record for most nominated male houseguest with 7 nominations.
* Ironically, Jacob and Josephine Winters won HOHs in the first Double Eviction week and then both happened to be evicted in the second Double Eviction week.
* Jacob is the second male houseguest to win HoH multiple times in Big Brother 1. However, due to Battle of the Block, he was only HoH officially once.
* Jacob holds the record for the least amount of weeks safe (wasn't nominated and didn't win a competition) during the longest time in the house with one.