Hao

**Hao** (haooo.) placed 14th in Season 8 & the Runner Up of Big Brother Season 1.

Starting on the ill fated Kisa Tribe, Hao was at an instant disadvantage due to being in a drastically different timezone from his fellow competitors. However, Hao somewhat adapted to this and was able to become Smokin’s number one ally, and the two seemed to have large control over the tribe. However, to Smokin’s mild annoyance, Hao’s choice of secondary allies included two people he or the tribe as a whole were wary of: Lola and Liv. Fortunately, any drama to come from this was mitigated when Xaj and Liv left the game within an hour of each other, but this left the Kisa Tribe as a whole incredibly damaged. At the tribe swap, Hao went quick to work on flipping Cherry against the OG Taki’s in a 3-3-1 split. This plan was doomed from the start however when Lola went completely AFK from the game and Chase bonded with the Taki’s more than his OG allies. The entire tribe began to see him only as paranoid and a gamebot, so at Tribal Council Hao was disappointed to be sent home in a 4-2-1 vote.

Having a quiet start, Hao would find himself in a precarious position when his closest allies all suspected him of being in a Survivor Alumni Alliance. His social game would be middling, with none necessarily labeling him as inactive but many saying they wanted him out in early weeks solely for being annoying due to making “hao” puns/jokes constantly. Because of this, he was on the outs of the power players and would be put up as a pawn in Weeks 3 and 4. Winning the veto in Week 4, Hao was able to secure himself in the game when some were whispering that he could be a good target that week. Hao would be nominated yet again in Week 5 with Spiral as a duo. Despite being nominated, Hao would abstain from the veto competition which soured many in the house against him due to already finding him inactive and/or annoying. He would unsurprisingly be evicted with Spiral in a 5 - 1 vote, though would go on to win the Duos Battle and reenter the house. He was met with a cold reception, as the two players in the battleback got noticeably lackluster scores. Hao would immediately gag all of his haters and production, however, when he won the Week 6 HOH and vowed to target only big players. He would nominate the two players that nominated him (James & Robbie), followed by nominating his biggest hater Josh following the use of the veto. Promising to be more active and gun for power players consistently, Hao was still seen as a goat by everyone in the game due to his poor social showing pre jury as well as completely phoning in the Duo’s Twist. Hao would go on to cast the tie-breaking vote against Josh after he was swayed into a new alliance with Ryan, Leon, Robbie, and Jesse. In Week 7, Hao would land on the block after the “Passing to Jesse” alliance of Ryan, Leon, and Robbi officially betrayed Hao & Jesse. The two were playing the middle and caught by a veto throwing and LOS play. Hao would be the favorable option to stay to this alliance that controlled the vote, as he was less of a threat as well as deemed more likely to be manipulated in the future. Hao, however, seemed to take note of many of Jesse’s points from his campaigning, and vowed to play both sides as the swing should he win power in the future. Despite constantly confessionaling “I am the swing vote!” Hao's game would still be perceived to viewers and players alike as coasting. Not active enough or winning comps to leverage the power of being in the middle for a few weeks, Hao was mostly a super-goat/afterthought to many in the game, though via doing not much he was not making any enemies at least. During Week 10, Hao would win HOH yet again to the shock of some, more than likely due to Brayden not completing the challenge. Hao would nominate Ryan and Brayden for eviction, seeing this as playing both sides and pitting the two against each other while giving him control of the renom. This move would draw all eyes left in the house onto him as he “snaked” both sides. Despite this, Hao continued to state he was playing “so utr” and had his sights set on the crown. During Week 11, Hao would be the only player to put up a fight against Ryan comp wise, but still came quite short of winning either comp. Despite being nominated, Hao was in no danger of going home as Robbie evicted James per his and Ryan’s plans for being a bigger jury threat. At the Final 3, Hao would win Part 2 of the Final HOH as well as just barely Part 3, making him the Final HOH of the season. He would cast the Sole Vote to Evict Ryan, who had been the clear winner of the game for weeks in the house. At the F2, Hao’s game was criticized for being only comp wins and zero socializing. Additionally, some players held against him that he had “already been evicted” despite it being a fairly oppressive double elim twist w/ him not being \*truly\* evicted from the house. Instead of defending himself on this well, Hao unfortunately would claim he was “never evicted when nominated 5 times” which was \*technically\* not true, casting doubt on his game awareness. On top of this, his speech would come off as claiming to do more than he actually did due to the lack of acknowledging that the jury thought he was a Mega Goat. This would lead to a very hard decision for the Jurors (who hated both finalists), as they were stuck between rewarding only comp wins (Hao) versus rewarding messaging players back at all despite an overall bad social game (Robbie). In the end, a tight 4 - 3 vote favored Robbie DMing the jurors enough while they were still in the game, leaving Hao as the Runner Up of the season.