Banner

**Banner** is a houseguest from *Big Brother 5* and *Big Brother 9*.

Banner started *Big Brother 5* as sort of a lone wolf but was able to mesh well with the other houseguests. His impeccable social connections allowed him to play in the middle of Nick's Big Bad BB Alliance and Disco's majority alliance. Despite winning multiple challenges, he was able to make himself seem less threatening. So when he snuck into the final 3 by winning HOH the previous week, Agent and Hey had to ensure they won the game by evicting Banner in 3rd place.

Banner began *Big Brother 9* just being the good memer of this season. But he would be subtly planting his feet in the game and during week 3 when his ally, Vinny, won HOH, Banner pushed Vinny to backdoor Pory, a huge comp beast. Banner was later given a wake up call when Jericho put him on the block because Vinny was safe due to already winning the POV. Banner used the opportunity to branch out and make new allies in Dandrew and Michael. This moment is also when Banner created the *Bounty of Banner*. This was a move that Banner said whichever HOH evicts him will be guaranteed to have his jury vote at the end. At the final 12 Banner found himself in a tough spot when he had to decide between evicting Vinny or Tucker. He chose the latter due to closer relations to Vinny and by proxy, Ollie. Banner would later go on to win HOH and take the chance to finally break up the BB8 alum. He made a deal with Ryan to keep each other safe. Banner utlimatley dwindles the BB8 numbers by evicting Winter. After that, he creates another ploy, *Banner Bucks*. He says that anyone can cash in their bucks in order for favors in the game. Banner would then find himself nominated and evicted in 8th place for being seen as the strongest member of the BB5 alliance.

## Biography

* Big Brother 9

**1. Where do you live or what is your timezone? What is your age and gender?** Baltimore / EST
88, male - nawmean?
**2. How active will you be during BB5?** As active as you want bb <3
**3. What is your strategy going into BB5?** The past couple of time I've played, I wanted to be like BB11 Russell...it turns out I shouldn't do that. This time I'm trying my new strategy: The Jmac Strategy. I'm just going to try to fit in with everyone for the first half, just make sure they're all in the good graces with me; I'll let them take advantage of me. I'll encourage it. I'm not going hard until I have a reason to nominate someone, so if you do want to take advantage of me, you might have to pay if I become HoH. The last couple seasons I haven't really cared if I won HoH or not, but I'm welcoming myself into the wonderful world of "throwing", let's see if it works. If it does, I feel I can work utr for at least the first couple of weeks.
**4. Why do you think you will win BB5?** If the Jmac Strategy works as planned, you can see me at day 100
**5. Would you rather win and be hated or lose and be loved?** Win and be hated, I think everyone can agree I take being hated well.
**6. Was Helen pushed?** Is the Pope Catholic?
**7. How many seasons of Big Brother have you watched?** 2 (a long time ago), 7, 10 (thanks Agent), 11 (best season eva), 14 (got me into BB), 15 (got me outa BB), 17, 18, 19
**8. Which Survivor, Big Brother or JRZBB contestant would you compare yourself to?** Flutter
**9. Which past JRZ houseguest would you most like to play with and least like to play with?** Most: Steph

Least: Boar - I don't want to be on his bad side again
**1. What is your name, age, gender, location and occupation?** Banner, 69, Male, Baltimore, Day Trader/Babysitter
**2. What was your original season and placement?** BB5, 3rd (hurts to type)
**3. Of the cast, who do you most and least want to work with?** I don't really have a list on who I most and least want to work with. If someone wants to work with me I'll work with them. If they don't want to work with me then eh oh well. I really am not sure yet who I want to and who I don't as there are some people who I've never played with before. Some people I do have in mind and I'm hoping I can get along with: Michael, Vinny, Pory, Matt, Jericho, Calvin. Not sure yet tho, so don't expect this to be my list once we get the game going.
**4. Of the cast, who is the most and least threatening to you?** Michael, Jericho, Nick, Adam, Tucker. I haven't seen them play in a while but I do know they are very capable of playing a great game so I need to be really careful about it.
**5. What was your biggest strength and weakness on your first season?** Strength: My biggest strength in my first game I feel was my social game, which is something I also can implement into this one as well, let's just hope I haven't lost my step :wink:. Secondarily and something I feel I did decent at but there is still a lot of improvements I could make was being able to control myself when things weren't going the right way for me, such as being put on the block next to my #1, being part of disco's wild and crazy experiment, etc. I feel I could have done better in sometimes I would take things way too personally and explode in both my drs and sometimes house chat. I really can't have that on a season of this volume.
Weakness: Having agent and hey on the season lmao. My biggest regret and something I've been thinking about ever since it happened was of course not being able to mark and study everything that has happened throughout the season, which made me lose both challenges and end up getting Janelle'd. So yeah I hope I don't make that same mistake twice. Another weakness I had was having horrible goodbye messages, something I'm still trying to improve. Another one was I felt I tried a little too hard at the beginning, and as a result made me a threat early on. It's something I feel would be more fitting on an all-vet season as opposed to an all-new (w/ Derek) cast, so we'll see how it goes this season.
**6. What was your downfall in your previous season?** See: weakness. I still have 'nam flashbacks of those F3 challenges
**7. How will you correct your past mistakes?** GOOGLE SHEETS, other than that I also need to get better at goodbye messages and just improving the small stuff that could have ruined my game in the past or could ruin my game in the future.
**8. What does getting this second chance mean to you?** It means a lot to be invited to this second chance season, and I really hope I don't let y'all down haha. Not sure how I will cement my legacy here because I really don't know how I'm going to do this season. I hope I can go from 3rd place to 1st but ya never know until it happens :cartwheel:

## Player History - *Big Brother 5*

### HOH History

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

## Player History - *Big Brother 9*

### HOH History

 **Evicted**

## Trivia

* Banner was invited back for *Big Brother All-Stars*, but declined.