The Earned Trials

**The Earned Trials** is a twist to the casting process of *Big Brother Endgame*. It featured a series of smaller fast mini-games to determine half the cast of the season.

## Overview

A key part of the *Entitled vs. Earned* theme, the trials decide 10 of the 20 members of the cast, known as "Earned" houseguests, with the other 10 picked by production as "Entitled". There are 6 different aspects to the Trials, and they are:

* **5** *Big Brother* Fast Games
* **1** *Survivor* Fast Game
* **1** *The Genius* Fast Game
* **1** Escape Room Puzzle
* **1** Public Vote Poll
* **1** Last Chance Lottery Game

The winners of the *Big Brother* games make up half of the "Earned" cast. All candidates participate within the first 4 games, with the 5th acting as a "redemption" game. The poll also features all candidates, however the other fast games and the lottery draw have selective casts, with only certain candidates playing. Any candidate who attends the Escape Room puzzle can participate, although there can only be on victor. The 10 Earned houseguests are declared after they win each Trial, with the 10 Entitled houseguests being confirmed after the last Trial has been completed.

## Candidates

Below are the names of all 40 candidates who applied to compete in the Earned Trials for a spot on *Endgame*.

## The Trials

This is a list of all 10 of the Earned Trials, showing the winner of each one and the other defeated candidates in order of placement. Only those who actually competed on the day of each trial are listed. Those that were scheduled to play but didn't attend are excluded.

### Big Brother 1

This fast game featured 8 candidates, out of a possible 9.

### Big Brother 2

This fast game featured 9 candidates, out of a possible 10.

### Big Brother 3

This fast game featured 9 candidates, out of a possible 9.

### Big Brother 4

This fast game featured 8 candidates, out of a possible 10.

### Survivor

This fast game featured 14 candidates, out of a possible 16. Candidates were chosen based on Head of Household and Power of Veto competition wins in previous seasons.

### The Genius

This fast game featured 13 candidates, out of a possible 13. Candidates were chosen based on their number of days played in previous seasons, as well as the number of times they were nominated.

### Big Brother 5

This fast game featured 10 candidates, out of a possible 10. The runner-up and third placer of the first four *Big Brother* trials were automatically granted a spot, with the remaining 2 spots reserved for wildcard choices based on their performance in those same four trials.

### Escape Room

This series of puzzles and riddles featured 17 candidates. Any candidate who had not yet won a trial could participate if they wanted to.

### Public Poll

The poll featured all 40 candidates in the Earned Trials. The top 21 are shown here. The winners of the first eight trials had their results ignored, due to already earning their place on the season. In total, 114 votes were cast in the poll, and all of those shown here received at least 1 vote.

### Last Chance Lottery

This lottery *brantsteele* featured 20 candidates. Candidates had to search for one of twenty numbered tickets to earn a spot in the lottery. If someone with a claimed ticket wins one of the previous nine trials, they had to give up their spot in the lottery to another candidate of their choice who wasn't already part of the cast.