James (BB1)

**James** (james.1171) placed 4th in Big Brother Season 1.

Instantly well integrated, James would find himself a part of some of the first and fastest alliances in the game due to his social prowess. After winning HOH in Week 3, James’ threat status would be noted by several in the game as someone that cannot be taken to the finale. In Week 4, James was unknowingly in danger when Marek tried to get him on the block, which luckily failed as several HG were into the prospect of evicting a threat over an inactive. Initially nominated in Week 6 as a revenge nomination by Hao, James was set to be evicted by the house due to being allied with Marek and seeing this as a perfect opportunity to make a big move. Luckily for them both, however, Marek narrowly won the Power of Veto and used it to save James from the block. While this move made the two seen as a power duo and massive targets moving forward, it secured them safety and caused other alliances to fracture in the process. In Week 7, he would lose a lot of favor with half of the game for abstaining from the HOH challenge despite being in the minority, though he was able to slightly gain some back after explaining it would be his only one for work. He would find the LOS play and the fucking over of his alliance pretty amusing, seeming to see the least urgency in the situation out of his allies. Despite being fairly quiet for a lot of the game and losing a bit of favor, James appeared to be an UTR jury threat according to his allies. Due to building trust early in the game and remaining just active enough to not completely flop socially, he found himself in a decent position w/ only needing to win comps to start a more tangible resume. In Week 8, James would become the replacement nominee after Brayden won the POV. Luckily for him, Marek was such a massive target to the entire house that no one considered keeping him. This would also wake James up a bit, noting that it did not feel great to be 100% safe because your resume was weaker than your allies toward the end game. In Week 9, James would win a clutch HOH competition that put him firmly and definitively back onto the radar. Swinging big, James would nominate Robbie as a pawn against his main target Ryan, feeling the need to be seen making big moves for the jury. Ryan would go on to smash the veto competition, frustrating James as he would have to move on to a backup target- Leon. Despite agreeing with Brayden at the last minute that Robbie would be a better evictee, the two could not swing Hao or Ryan to save him and Leon was evicted from the house. During Week 10, James would find himself on the block after Ryan won the veto yet again. The initial target was on James, but an implosion by Brayden saw a shift off of him and he was able to survive the week, being seen as weaker at competitions. In Week 11, James would do surprisingly not well on either of the competitions despite being the obvious evictee and was rather quiet during the week. It came as no shock when Robbie cast the sole vote to evict James, as he was perceived as a larger jury threat than Hao. He is remembered for the several times his activity would be negatively impacted by irl factors (namely work), which happened often enough to be disappointing to viewers but meant he was girlbossing irl! Get that bread.