DeSales Big Brother

**DeSales Big Brother**, also known as **DSU Big Brother** or **DSU BB**, is an online reality game series based on the CBS television show, **Big Brother**. Its contestants are comprised of students and recent alumni of DeSales University. It is created and hosted by Matt Johnston, also a DeSales student.

So far, there have been three standard seasons and one All-Stars season. The four winners of the show thus far are Eileen Deisemann, Megan Dean, Lucia Pastor and Alison Ansorg.

## Format

In DeSales Big Brother, 13-15 HouseGuests "live" in a virtual Big Brother house, where each week they are responsible for evicting one of their own. The housemates are allowed to influence other houseguests and strategize on who to evict, resulting in the creation of alliances. Each week, two competitions take place, namely the Head of Household and the Power of Veto competition. These competitions bestow a specific amount of power to each person who wins it.

#### Head of Household

Every week, the houseguests compete in a Head of Household competition wherein the winner will be named as the Head of Household. The HOH gains safety for the week along with its perks such as having his/her own private suite and gifts/photos from home. However, the HoH also gains the responsibility to name two nominees that will face eviction.

#### Nominations

In the nominations ceremony, the Head of Household must announce their nominees to the rest of the houseguests and must state reasons for their nomination often through a speech. Throughout the week, the nominees are allowed to secure their safety by encouraging and influencing other houseguests to save them against their fellow nominee.

#### Power of Veto

After nominations, a second competition called the Power of Veto competition takes place, giving the nominees a chance to remove themselves off the block. The winner will have the power to save a nominee, prompting the Head of Household to replace a nominee. If the Power of Veto holder decides not to use the veto, the nominations will remain the same.

Only six players are allowed to compete in the veto competition. The Head of Household and the two nominees are guaranteed access to play. The other three players are selected by a random draw. This random draw is out of an assortment of all the HouseGuest's names, as well as a certain number of "HouseGuest Choice" chips. If the HOH or a nominee draws HouseGuest Choice, they get to choose one person to play in the competition.

#### Alliances

As the format allows housemates to strategize, the most of the housemates have formed alliances during their time in the house to further themselves in the game. An alliance is a group of housemates that are considered loyal to each other by working together throughout the game.

#### Eviction

During the eviction, the houseguests must individually go to the Diary Room to cast their eviction vote and the nominee with the highest amount of votes will be evicted. In addition, the Head of Household is not allowed to cast a vote, unless there has been a tie.

#### Jury

The Jury is a council consisting of the final 7 houseguests to be evicted from the game, and they have the responsibility to select the winner at the end of the season.

#### Finale

By finale night, only two HouseGuests will remain for the Jury vote. The two remaining houseguests must persuade the Jury via speech to vote them as their winner. At the end of their speech, the jury will individually cast their vote, and the finalist with the most jury votes will be named the winner.

## Trivia

* So far, each winner of the show has been of a different grade. The winner's circle includes one student from the Class of 2021, one from the Class of 2022, one from the Class of 2023, and one from the Class of 2025.