Big Brother 7: The Sounds of Music

**Big Brother 7: The Sounds of Music** is the seventh season of the TSM Allegiance Big Brother Series.

*"An immersive theme, epic competitions, drama, betrayals, blindsides, and maybe even romance. However, no one can expect the mysterious brand new twists that will shake up the game like never before! Fasten your seatbelts and expect the unexpected, because TSM Big Brother 7 is a go!"*

## Background

### Development

The group went through a hiatus after the latest Big Brother Season. However, lead host, Spood, gathered old and new members in a discord chat in anticipation of an announcement towards the group. On May 11th, the announcement was officially made that TSM would return during the summer for an all newbie season of Big Brother. The theme for the season was to be announced at the premiere.

### Casting

Casting was available for any new Big Brother players in the group on May 11th. The final day to apply for the season would be June 4th.

### House

The house pictures can be seen below.

## Twists

* **Triplet Veto:** After each eviction, the surviving nominee would receive a piece of a Triplet Veto. If a houseguest acquired three pieces, they could form a Triplet Veto. The Triplet Veto would operate as a normal Power of Veto but would be used after the POV winner had made their decision at the veto meeting. Houseguests could give any pieces they had to another houseguest in secret, but once the piece was given away the recipient would have full control over it. The last piece was given out after the Final 9 eviction, and the last time to play a Triplet Veto was the Final 8 veto meeting. The Triplet Veto was formed for the first time when Time, the Duet, and Veronica all gave Alex one of their pieces so that she could remove Time from the block during Round 2 of the Week 5 Double Eviction. However, despite the minority alliance's attempt to save itself, Veronica was merely put up in his place and the Duet was finally sent home for good. Time tried once more to form the Triplet Veto at the Final 8 veto meeting by giving two pieces to Briana so that she could combine them with her own piece. However, Briana refused to save Time with the Triplet Veto she had in her possession and later returned his pieces to him before his eviction. By the time the twist expired, Blue, Veronica, Briana, and Time all had pieces in their possession that went to waste. However, a fight did break out between Alex, Blue, and Mimi over who had given Alex her pieces, and this caused a lot of drama in the aftermath of the Duet's eviction that would lead Mimi to target Blue for the rest of the season.
* **The Secret Power of the Harmonic:** This secret power was given to the first houseguest to crack the secret phrase hidden within the house that was announced on Week 1. BIueflix cracked the phrase, "Ode to Joy", during the premiere and claimed the Secret Power of the Harmonic. Have you ever been on the block and felt like the person next to you didn’t match your tune? Fear no more as this power would allow you to harmonize with the houseguest of your choice to produce your best sound! If you were nominated at the nomination ceremony, you could use this power to grant the nominee next to you safety for the week and name your own nominee in their place. If you were nominated at the veto meeting as a replacement nominee, you could use this power to replace the nominee sitting next to you with your own final nominee. The last time to use this power was the Final 6 veto meeting. Could you find the right harmony and give yourself the best chance to survive the block? Blue had two opportunities to use this power, at the Week 6 veto meeting and the nomination ceremony during Round 2 of the Week 9 Double Eviction. However, he opted not to use it either of these times as he felt it would merely put more of a target on his back. Thus, the power was never used, but it did cause plenty of paranoia over who had it in their possession.
* **The BB Duet:** At the premiere, it was announced before the HOH competition that there would not only be three nominees, but one final twist revealed at the end of the week. After Turt won full power and left Briana, Devan, and Katie as the final nominees, the houseguests were told that there would be a vote to save and two houseguests would be evicted. Under the pretense that this was the final big twist of the premiere, the house voted to save Briana almost unanimously, granting her the first Triplet Veto piece and sending Devan and Katie out the door. However, right before they left it was revealed that the final twist was actually the BB Duet. Devan and Katie would return to the game as the BB Duet to compete as one player! This meant that they would be nominated together, vote together, and be evicted together as one player. They only had one vote at each eviction, so they either had to agree on a vote or not have a vote at all. Furthermore, they had to trade off playing competitions each week, so if one competed in the HOH the other would have to compete in the POV. If they won an HOH, they would each get to name one nominee. If they won the POV, the person who won it for them would have the final say. If they ended up as jury members they still would have had only one jury vote, so if they didn't agree it would go to the last pre-juror. Finally, if they were able to make the Final 2 and receive a majority of the jury votes, a second vote would be held to determine the sole winner between the two. In the end, the Duet was finally evicted for good in the Week 5 Double Eviction, but they left a lasting impact on the house with all of the drama they caused.
* **Smaller Jury:** This season had an intended jury of seven, as opposed to the typical nine seen in every other TSM BB season with sixteen houseguests.
* **Yankee Swap Veto:** The Week 4 veto competition, "Hitting the High Notes", involved houseguests trading various prizes or punishments. By the end of the competition, Turt had received the "Lost your Voice" punishment that prevented him from speaking in-game or on the discord server for a full week. Veronica received the "Adagio" punishment, which forced her to walk slowly throughout the house for a full week, and Angel received the "Phantom of the Opera" punishment which forced her to dress in the outfit and sing the main theme in the opera hallway whenever it began to play. In terms of prizes, Time won a Have-Not Pass, Frost won a Double Vote good through the Final 6, and Young won the Golden Power of Veto!
* **Have-Nots:** Houseguests who became Have-Nots this season would be stuck in the Have-Not room for an entire week and be sped 14 for the next POV and HOH competition, giving them a social and physical disadvantage. Angel and Young were the first two houseguests to become Have-Nots on Week 5, and then Blue, Veronica, Frost, and Time lost the Have-Not competition on Week 7. However, Time used his Have-Not pass to avoid this punishment. As a result, Blue and Veronica were the first two houseguests eliminated from the OTEV veto competition that week due to their slower speed.
* **Paired HOH Competition:** The Week 2 HOH competition, "Drop the Bass", randomly paired the houseguests into teams of two. The teams would have to work together to win the competition, and whichever team won would have to decide between the two of them who became the Head of Household, while the other earned safety for the week. The team of Briana and Evette won the competition, and they initially decided to let Evette become the Head of Household. However, after Evette went inactive for a long period of time, her HOH responsibilities were then given to Briana. Although she now had safety for the week, Evette was furious that Briana had taken her HOH and got into a heated argument with her at the Nomination Ceremony. This drama eventually contributed to Evette's eviction the following week, as many houseguests were scared over what she would have done had she remained HOH.
* **Uptempo:** Throughout the season, some weeks were uptempo and moved faster than usual. These were Double Eviction weeks, in which two houseguests would be evicted in the span of one session. These Double Eviction rounds were also extremely fast-paced, as the houseguests had no time to strategize and the competition winners had to make their decisions instantly. The Double Evictions occurred on Week 5 and Week 9.

## Houseguests

 **Winner**

 **Expelled**

 **Expelled**

 **Jury: *Alex***

 **Jury: *Alex***

 **Jury: *Alex***

 **Jury: *Alex***

 **Jury: *Alex***

 **Jury: *Alex***

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

## Voting History

* *Note: The veto used by Alex on Round 2 of the Week 5 Double Eviction was a Triplet Veto. Alex received pieces from the Duet, Time, and Veronica in order to form this Triplet Veto and used it to save Time, causing Veronica to be renominated in his place.*
* *Note: After Part 1 and Part 2 of the Final HOH competition, Mimi and Zeph were both caught cheating in competitions throughout the second half of the season and were subsequently expelled. As a result, Alex was crowned the winner by default.*

## Game History

### Week 1

 **HOHPOV**

 **Nominee10 Votes to Save**

 **Evicted0 Votes to Save**

 **Evicted1 Vote to Save**

 **Re-Entered as the BB Duet**

 **Re-Entered as the BB Duet**

### Week 2

 **HOH**

 **Safety**

 **POV**

 **Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted11 Votes**

### Week 3

 **HOHPOV**

 **Nominee4 Votes**

 **Nominee4 Votes**

 **Evicted7 Votes**

### Week 4

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Nominee4 Votes**

 **Post-Veto NomineeEvicted5 Votes**

### Week 5

#### Round 1

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Pre-Veto Nominee**

 **Pre-Veto Nominee**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted9 Votes**

#### Round 2

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Triplet POV**

 **Pre-TPOV Nominee**

 **Post-TPOV Nominee3 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

### Week 6

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee3 Votes**

 **Evicted4 Votes**

### Week 7

 **HOHPOV**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted4 Votes**

### Week 8

 **HOHPOV**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

### Week 9

#### Round 1

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

#### Round 2

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

### Week 10

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted2 Votes**

### Week 11

 **HOH**

 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

### Week 12

 **HOH Pt. 1 Winner**

 **HOH Pt. 2 Winner**

 **Expelled**

 **Expelled**

### Finale

 **Winner6 Votes**

#### Jury

 **Alex**

 **Alex**

 **Alex**

 **Alex**

 **Alex**

 **Alex**

## Trivia

* The Final 3 houseguests were the only 3 houseguests in the cast from the UK. Additionally, they were the last 3 houseguests to be nominated.
* MimiGod and iiiZephyr used an outside exploiter to give them unfair advantages in competitions starting around Week 8. As a result, they were both expelled in the Final 3, crowning AIexWiIIet as the first TSM Big Brother winner without an official jury vote.
* This season had a cast comprised entirely of Big Brother newbies. However, 4 of them were TSM Survivor veterans: TurtIy, AbiMariaGomesX, AIexWiIIett, and wiIted\_roses.
* The BB Duet twist was originally meant to be used in TSM BB6 as the Non-Elimination Leg Detour twist option. Due to it not being chosen in that season, it was brought back for this season.
* This is the only season outside of Big Brother 3 to not have a jury of 9, and instead, have an intended jury of 7.
* AIexWiIIett is the first TSM BB winner to not win any HOHs.
* The hosts, Spood and Mac, conducted a draft pre-season based on who they felt had the best chance to win. It just so happened that the first 6 houseguests they chose ended up being the Final 6. Mac had drafted Frost, Veronica, and Mimi while Spood had drafted Blue, Alex, and Zeph.