Big Brother 18

**Big Brother 18** is the 18th season of the PMBB series.

## Background

The season was officially confirmed on September 12, 2021. The series is expected to return in the near future for another season with all new players. In order to keep the Big Brother and Survivor series on the same timeline in "PM" years, the season will premiere after the twenty-second season of Survivor.

The theme of the season will revolve around Greek Mythology. The cast reveal took place on May 28, 2022.

With the nature of the theme and center twist having a greek god taking over every week, this season will have the most twists to date. Some more impactful while some are less impactful.

## Twists

* **Greek God Mythology:** Greek Mythology is the center theme of the season. For a majority of the weeks, a Greek God will affect the game with a game-changing twist for that particular week.
	+ **Ares's Teams:** During the live move-in, houseguests will enter in groups of four and compete for power. The winners of each group will become Team Captains and will be shown a 90-second intro package of the remaining houseguests and choose their three teammates, creating four teams of four, each with two men and two women. Every week, whoever wins HOH will also earn safety for their entire team. The teams will last for the first four weeks of the game.
	+ **Aphrodite's Competition:** Before the nomination ceremony in the second week, all houseguests currently not immune from Head of Household or team immunity will compete in a competition for safety. The winner of the competition will become immune and choose any player of their choice to become immune with them. The twist will last for three weeks.
	+ **Athena's Secret Room:** On Day 29, the HouseGuests learned there were clues to a puzzle around the house. The clues led to a secret room with an owl inside. The player who finds the room first will receive Athena's power to expose three houseguests votes to the entire house on eviction night.
	+ **Hades's Triple Eviction:** For the first time since Big Brother All Stars, the triple eviction will follow the original format with one Head of Household and three nominees with two houseguests being evicted in one vote.
	+ **Hestia's Luxury Competition:** The houseguests will participate in a competition after the veto ceremony where the winner will receive a visit from their loved one.
	+ **Apollo's Secondary Veto:** The houseguests were informed that Apollo would give one of the nominees a second chance of their BB life by playing in a second veto competition.
	+ **Trident Veto:** With the reign of Poseidon, the veto will become a trident that allows the holder to use the veto once, twice, or not at all.

## HouseGuests

 **Winner**

**Arden**

 **Runner-Up**

**India**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Victoria**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Reed**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Amie**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Pano**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Nam**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Ike**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Nick**

 **Jury: *India***

**Von**

 **Jury: *Arden***

**Michael**

 **Evicted**

**Solange**

 **Evicted**

**Marisol**

 **Evicted**

**Daiyu**

 **Evicted**

**Romi**

 **Evicted**

**Kaydence**

## Game History

### Week 1

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Pre-POV Nominee**

 **Post-POV Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted11 Votes**

The houseguests entered the house in four groups of four, immediately thrown into the first competition of the season where one from each group will win the competition. Of the first group, Amie, India, Marisol and Solange, Amie won the competition. The following group, Michael, Nam, Nick and Romi, Nam won the competition. The third group consisted of, Arden, Daiyu, Kaydence and Victoria, and Daiyu won. The final group consisted of, Ike, Pano, Reed and Von, and Reed the competition. The four players choosing order was decided by their winning competition score. Alternating after each choice, Daiyu started the selection by choosing Pano, Marisol, and Michael for Team Hestia. Amie chose Romi, Kaydence and Nick for Team Aphrodites. Reed's team consisted of India, Ike, and Solange to compose of Team Ares. Nam's teamed was formed of Arden, Von, and Victoria for Team Hades. All four teams participated in the Head of Household competition as individuals. Team Aphrodites was the first to have all four members fall and were deemed the first have-nots of the season. Hestia's members dropped second and were forced to wear togas for the next forty-eight hours. Team Hades dropped third and earned $8,000 to split equally. Reed lasted the longest for Team Ares and became the first Head of Household. Reed nominates Kaydence and Nick for eviction for seeming his biggest social threats in the game. Later, Solange, Amie & India were chosen to compete alongside Reed, Kaydence, and Nick in the Power of Veto competition. Solange won the Power of Veto. Reed attempts to convince Solange to not use the Power of Veto, but due to her lacking relationships with her team, she decides to save her friend, Nick. Reed nominates Marisol as the replacement nominee as the pawn against Kaydence. With the majority of the house following the HOH's wishes, with the exception of Amie voting to save her team member and India throwing a rogue vote, the votes result in a 11-2 vote sending Kaydence home.

### Week 2

 **HOH**

 **Aphrodite's Immunity**

 **Shared Immunity**

 **POV**

 **Pre-POV Nominee**

 **Post-POV Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted12 Votes**

Following Kaydence's eviction, the houseguest watch a greek mythology skit and answer questions about what they've seen. In a tie-breaker between Arden, Daiyu and Romi, Daiyu became the new Head of Household. Since Team Ares members were eliminated from the competition first, they became the have-nots for the week. The first alliance was formed by Solange including Von, Michael, India and Romi on Day 8. A new twist was released into the game under Aphrodite's reign over the house that allowed all non-immune members by HoH or team immunity to compete. Nam was the first winner of Aphrodite's endurance competition and chose to keep the immunity within the Hades team by choosing Arden. At the nomination ceremony, Daiyu nominated Ike and Romi for eviction, having both men as targets for believing they are playing the best social games in the house. On Day 10, two new alliances were created, one by India consisting of Arden, Romi, Michael and Solange, and Victoria forming a final two alliance with Daiyu. Later, Amie, Michael & Reed were chosen to compete alongside Daiyu, Ike, and Romi in the Power of Veto competition. The physical competition resulted in Reed's Power of Veto win. Wanting to save his closest ally and teammate, Reed uses the veto on Ike, and Daiyu nominates Solange as a secondary target next to Romi. Victoria and Daiyu push for their primary target, Romi, to the the house. With the house following suite, Romi was evicted in an unanimous vote.

### Week 3

 **HOHPOV**

 **Aphrodite's Immunity**

 **Shared Immunity**

 **Pre-POV Nominee**

 **Nominee3 Votes**

 **Evicted8 Votes**

Following Romi's eviction, Solange was crowned the new Head of Household. With Team Hestia performing the worst, they become the have-nots for the week. In the second week's Aphrodite's mental competition, Arden won the competition, and rather than give safety to a team member, she awarded safety to Pano who she feared was going to be a target this week. Solange informs her alliances that she wants to backdoor Michael this week, resulting her to nominate two pawns Amie and Daiyu for eviction. Solange makes a promise to Amie that if she wins the Power of Veto that she will use the veto to save her. Ike makes Daiyu and Victoria a house target by going around labeling them as a pair that needs to be broken up. Solange is swayed by Ike into targeting Daiyu instead of Michael. However, a new pact to keep each other safe is formed by Von, including India, Arden, Solange, Nam, and Daiyu. Later, Reed and Arden were randomly selected for the veto while Victoria was picked by Daiyu to compete alongside her, Amie and Solange. In the tournament style veto competition, Solange comes out on top and wins the Power of Veto. Even though Solange promised safety to Amie first then made a pact to keep Daiyu safe, Solange decides to honor her original deal and uses the veto to save Amie. Solange nominates Nam as the replacement nominee, feeling he is the most social and will be saved against Daiyu. With the house aware of Daiyu and Victoria's final two and the HoH targeting Daiyu, Daiyu is evicted in a 8-3 vote, only receiving Victoria, Reed and Pano's votes.

### Week 4

 **HOH**

 **Aphrodite's ImmunityPOV**

 **Shared Immunity**

 **Nominee3 Votes**

 **Evicted7 Votes**

Following Daiyu's eviction, the houseguests competed in the next physical Head of Household competition where Ike reigned superior becoming the new Head of Household and rewarding safety to his team. With Hades team being the only team to be have-nots, they were named the have-nots for the week. For the final time, the non-immune players competed in Aphrodite's safety competition where Nam won for the second time and saved his team member and ally, Arden. Wanting to send home Daiyu's closest ally, Ike nominated Victoria alongside his pawn, Marisol for eviction. Pano and Reed were randomly selected to compete alongside Ike, Victoria, and Marisol with the addition of Nam being chosen by Marisol through houseguest choice. In the physical and mental veto competition, Nam won the Power of Veto. Following the wishes of the Head of Household, Nam decided not to use the Power of Veto. Arden, India, Nam, Solange and Von felt getting rid of Victoria would be a waste of a move since Victoria has good relationships with them and has been isolated in the house. They worked to flip the houseguests. On eviction night, Marisol was blindsided in a 7-3 vote, with Ike, Amie, Michael, and Pano also being left out of the loop.

### Week 5

#### Round 1

 **HOH**

 **Pre-POV NomineePOV**

 **Post-POV Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted9 Votes**

Following Marisol's eviction, the houseguests were informed that Ares and Aphrodite's reign over the house was over. The teams twist and Aphrodite's competition would be over. The houseguests competed in a tournament style elimination where Michael outlasted the rest and became the new Head of Household. The first three eliminated from the competition, Von, Amie and Nick are the have-nots for the week. Athena's secret room was officially open and clues started to appear around the house. Nick was the first houseguest to follow the clues to the room where he was able to expose three houseguests's votes to the house on eviction night. Feeling threatened by the players who survived the block the most, Michael nominated Nam and Solange for eviction with his primary target being Solange. In a skill competition, Nam won the Power of Veto and decided to use the power to save himself from the block. Michael puts his weakest connection, India, as the replacement nominee and the pawn to send Solange home. With the alliances favoring India over Solange and the influence of the Head of Household, Solange became public threat to the house. At the eviction, Nick anonymously chose to expose Amie, Arden and Victoria's votes to the house. Having no real impact, Solange was unanimously evicted in a 9-0 vote.

#### Round 2

 **HOH**

 **Pre-POV NomineePOV**

 **Post-POV Nominee5 Votes to Save**

 **Evicted0 Votes to Save**

 **Evicted2 Votes to Save**

Following Solange's eviction, the houseguests are informed that Hades is taking over eviction night with a triple eviction. In the skill competition, Ike became the Head of Household and immediately nominated Von, Arden and Michael for eviction, targeting Von and Michael for being the presuming they are the most disconnected from the house and putting Arden as the pawn for being the most socially protected. The three nominees and India and Pano were selected by random draw and Victoria was selected by Michael. In the physical competition, Arden won the Power of Veto and decided to save herself from the block. Ike nominated the next socially protected player, India, as the replacement nominee. With the houseguests voting to save, Amie and Pano chose to save Von, while the remaining houseguests voted to save India. With a 5-2-0 vote, Michael was evicted first followed by Von.

### Week 6

 **HOH**

 **Pre-POV NomineePOV**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Post-POV NomineeEvicted6 Votes**

Following the triple eviction, the houseguests competed in basket-wall Head of Household competition and India became the new Head of Household. With Hestia taking over the week, there will be no have-nots for the week. A deal started by Arden to vote together with Pano, India, Reed and Victoria was formed and they decided the best target for the week would be Nick in a backdoor. Needing to name noms, the alliance decided the best houseguests would be Nam and Pano. At the nomination ceremony, India nominated Nam and Pano for eviction. Ike and Nick were randomly selected to participate in the veto alongside Arden who was chosen by Pano. In "100 Minutes of Heaven" Power of Veto competition, Pano was the closest to the time and won the Power of Veto. At the veto ceremony, Pano decided to use the veto on himself. Following through with her plan, India named Nick as the replacement nominee. The houseguests competed in Hestia's luxury competition to win a visit from their loved ones. Nick and Pano both guessed the correct number of balls that were dropped in the backyard and were deemed the winners. Nick and Pano needed to decide together which person to share the reward with and they chose Nam. With India's alliance with Arden, Victoria, and Reed backing her, the house fell in line and Nick was evicted in a 6-0 vote.

### Week 7

 **HOHPOV**

 **POV**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Nominee5 Votes**

Following Nick's eviction, the houseguests competed in a elimination style Head of Household competition where Arden became the new Head of Household. Arden names Ike and Amie as the have-nots for the week. Wanting to protect her final three alliance with India and Reed, she set her sights on her biggest social threat outside of any of her alliances. Her final three feeling that the best pawn would be Reed, leading to Arden nominating Ike and Reed for eviction. Nam and Amie were chosen by Ike and Reed respectively while India was the randomly drawn player. In the iconic, BB Comics, Arden finished in the fastest time and won the Power of Veto. With Apollo taking over the week, the houseguests learned he would allow them to have another chance at their BB life by participating in a second veto competition. In the new veto draw, Amie was selected by Reed while Victoria and India were randomly selected. In the challenge, the houseguests would assemble their real life BB comic, the first to do so would win, which India finished first and won a Power of Veto. Although India was aligned with Reed, she followed through with her final two, Arden's plan, to discard both of the vetoes. Ike attempts to campaign to stay to the outsiders, Amie, Pano and Victoria, and successfully sways Pano and Victoria. At eviction, the majority of the house follows through with Arden's plan to take out Ike, and Pano and Victoria put their personal preferences aside to vote with the house, evicting Ike in a 5-0 vote.

### Week 8

#### Round 1

 **HOH**

 **Pre-POV NomineePOV**

 **Post-POV Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted4 Votes**

Shortly after Ike's eviction, the houseguests compete in "Before or After" Head of Household competition that comes down to a tiebreaker between Pano and Victoria. Pano secures Head of Household as the only player remaining in the game without any alliances. Pano chooses Amie and Victoria as the have-nots for the week. With no real allies, Pano set his sights on who he believes would be the biggest competition, and at the nomination ceremony, he nominated Amie and Nam for eviction with his primary target being Amie. Arden and Reed were selected by the random draw while India was picked from houseguest choice by Pano. The houseguests were informed that Poseidon would take over the week, and the veto will become the Trident Veto that will allow the holder to use it once, twice, or not at all. The six houseguests compete in "OTEV the Passionate Poseidon" where Amie won the Power of Veto. Wanting to protect her alliance with Arden, India, Victoria and Reed, Amie only uses the Power of Veto on herself. Pano nominates Arden as the replacement nominee, feeling she would be the next target after Nam. Despite Pano's preference for Nam to go home, the decision came down to their loyalty to their alliance with Arden, and Nam was evicted in a 4-0 vote.

#### Round 2

 **HOH**

 **POV**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

Following Nam's eviction, the houseguests were informed that a double eviction would follow. The houseguests competed in a two-part round competition where Arden and Victoria made it to the second round. Arden won the final round and became the new Head of Household. Arden immediately nominated Pano and Reed for eviction, targeting Pano for being the only person she's not aligned with. India won the puzzle Power of Veto and followed through with her final two's plan to not use the Power of Veto. With the entire house aligned with Reed and Arden, Pano was evicted in a 3-0 vote.

### Week 9

 **HOHPOV**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted2 Votes**

Following the double eviction, the houseguests competed in "Mount HOH" endurance competition where India outlasted Victoria after a hour and 50 minutes. With the new alliance making the final five, India prioritize her final two with Arden the most and they planned on going to the final four with Reed and Victoria. Arden approached Victoria and asked her to throw the veto with the ulterior motive that she can't win veto to save her final two, Reed. Victoria agreed to Arden's plan. At the nomination ceremony, India nominated Amie and Reed for eviction with her target falling onto Amie. Upset by the outcome of the nomination ceremony, Reed planned ahead to target Arden with Amie. After a very close veto competition between Amie and India, India won the Power of Veto. With the power, India continued through with her plan and decided not to use the veto. Wanting two set of pairs in the final four, India and Arden agreed to vote out Amie while Victoria voted to keep her closest ally, Reed, evicting Amie in a 2-0 vote.

### Week 10

#### Round 1

 **HOHPOV**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

Following Amie's eviction, the houseguests competed in "The Challenge Time Machine" Head of Household where Arden won and secured herself a spot in the final 3 on finale night. Arden expresses her loyalty to India and wanting to go to the final 3 with women. At the nomination ceremony, Arden nominated Reed and Victoria for eviction with her target being Reed. Fearing her life in the game, Victoria proposed a final two alliance with Arden which Arden expressed that Victoria would be safe this week. In the last veto competition of the season, Arden won the Power of Veto. On the veto ceremony day, the houseguests were surprised to learn that immediately after the veto ceremony, the houseguest not on the block would cast the sole vote to evict. Arden decided not to use the Power of Veto leaving the decision to evict to India. Sticking with her the plan Arden and her set up, India chose to evict Reed.

#### Round 2

 **HOH Pt. 1 WinnerHOH Pt. 3 WinnerFinal HOH**

 **HOH Pt. 2 WinnerNominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

Immediately after Reed's eviction, the houseguests competed in the first part of the three part Final Head of Household competition. Arden won the endurance competition and automatically advanced to Part 3. In the mental competition, India won against Victoria and would face Arden in the final part. On finale night, Arden and India competed in the final part of the Head of Household competition where Arden won against India. Arden wanted to stay loyal to her best friend and closest ally in the game and chose to evict Victoria.

### Finale

 **Winner8 Votes**

 **Runner-Up1 Votes**

By a vote of 8-1, Arden was declared the winner of Big Brother 18 against close ally, India.

#### Jury

 **Arden**

 **India**

 **Arden**

 **Arden**

 **Arden**

 **Arden**

 **Arden**

 **Arden**

 **Arden**

## Trivia

* Once the houseguests reached the final eight, LGBT houseguests made up 50% of the house.
	+ The following houseguests were: Amie Davis, India Taylor, Pano Cruz and Victoria Rodriguez.
* This season holds the record for the largest amount of male jurors, with 7 male jurors.
* This is the four season to have two female finalists. The other seasons were Big Brother 2, Big Brother 11 and Big Brother 12.
* This is the third season since Big Brother 11 where the women won more HOH/POV competitions than the men. The women won 17 out of the 25 competitions.
* This is the first and only season where every houseguest was named a have-not at some point during the season.