Big Brother Northwestern 2

## Cast/Memory Wall

**Big Brother Northwestern 2** is the second season of Big Brother Northwestern. It took place on September 19, 2022, and featured 6 returning houseguests and 6 new houseguests competing to win.

This season featured fluid battle lines between new and returning players as two powerful alliances (Fart and Arts Alliance) slowly gained control over the game. After several shocking twists, blindsides, and a tied Jury Vote for the first time in BBNU history, new houseguest Mattea Muench was crowned the winner in a 5-4-3 vote over returning houseguest Lili Tarnopol and fellow new houseguest Alex DeVito.

## Production

Big Brother Northwestern follows the format of the rebooted Big Brother Australia series (seasons 12-14), thereby featuring the following production changes from the American version of Big Brother

* **Nominator Challenges:** At the start of each round, the housemates compete in a "Nominator Challenge". The winner of the competition has the sole power over the nominations. Immediately after the challenge, the winning housemate will be called to the Diary Room by Big Brother to name three nominees, and provide full reasons for their nominations. If the competition is run in pairs, then the winning pair must decide together on nominations.
* **Eviction Vote:** On eviction night, all housemates must vote to evict one of the nominees, with the exception of the nominating housemate (who will only cast a tie-breaker vote, if required), nor do the nominated housemates vote when there are only two nominees (on account of their votes canceling the other's out). The eviction vote is by secret ballot, with housemates casting their votes orally in the Diary Room to Big Brother, and must provide a reason for their vote. The nominee with the most votes is evicted from the house.
* **Final 3:** The finale of the seasons consists of the final 3 houseguests in the game.
* **Jury Vote:** Due to Big Brother Northwestern not having a viewing audience, the winner of the season was determined through a Jury Vote as opposed to a Public Vote.

## Twists

* **Safety Vote:** During Round 1, the houseguests were split into two groups based on whether or not they had previously played Big Brother. Each group had to then unanimously decide on one of them to receive safety for the first round of the game. The two houseguests that received safety would not compete in the nominator challenge and could not be nominated, but would still be allowed to cast an eviction vote.
* **Safety Challenge:** During Round 4, it was revealed following the conclusion of the Nominator Challenge that the winner would not receive nomination power, but would instead receive safety from house nominations.
* **House Nominations:** During Round 4, instead of one housemate having sole nomination power, each housemate would have the power to nominate one other housemate of their choosing. The three housemates that received the most nominations became the official nominees.
* **Second Chance Challenge:** During Round 4 and 8, it was revealed that the three nominated houseguests would compete in a second challenge, where the winner would save themselves from eviction.
* **Fake Double Eviction:** Following the Round 6 eviction, it was revealed that the round was a Double Eviction, with the two surviving nominees facing a second vote. The housemate that receives the majority of the votes in the second vote was also evicted. However, the Double Eviction was fake, as the evicted houseguests (Khoi Le and Grace Wagner, respectively), were not removed from the game but instead hidden in a secret room.
* **Extra Vote Advantage Challenge:** During Round 7, the five houseguests that survived the Double Eviction competed in a special Advantage Challenge, where the winner received an Extra Vote to be used at the Round 8 Eviction.
* **Reentry Challenge:** During Round 7, the two houseguests “evicted” in the Double Eviction had to compete against each other in a special challenge, where the winner returned to the game and the loser was permanently evicted.
* **Doubled Jury Vote:** After the Jury Vote ended in a 3-3-3 tie, the three Finalists were each allowed to double the vote of one Jury Member who they believed voted for them to win.

## Houseguests

  **Winner**

 **Runner-Up**

 **Third Place**

 **Jury: *Mattea+ Mattea***

 **Jury: *Lili***

 **Jury: *Alex D***

 **Jury: *Alex D***

 **Jury: *Lili+ Lili***

 **Jury: *Alex D***

 **Jury: *Lili***

 **Jury: *Mattea+ Mattea***

 **Jury: *Mattea***

## Alliances

*Arranged by duration/effectiveness/power:*

* **Arts Alliance** - *Alex D, James, Mattea*
* **Fart** - *Becker, James, Lili*
* **Rain Runners** - *Khoi, Sofi*
* **Two Bitches Left** - *Becker, Lili*
* **Juicy Boys** - *Becker, Khoi*
* **Stupid Fucking** - *Gavin, James, Khoi*
* **Four Brain Cells In A Target Bag** - *Alex B, Gavin, Grace, Sofi*
* **Coño** - *Becker, Leo*

## Game Summary

### Round 1

 **Returnee Immunity**

 **Newbie Immunity**

 **Co-Nominator**

 **Co-Nominator**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Nominee3 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

For the first round, the returning houseguests and new houseguests had to unanimously give one of their own safety from the first eviction. The returning housegeusts chose James, the winner of Season 1, while the new houseguests chose Sofi. The houseguests competed in pairs for the first challenge: the pairs were Gavin and Mattea, Becker and Grace, Khoi and Lili, Alex B and Leo, and Alex D and Hayley, with James and Sofi sitting out. Alex D and Hayley won and nominated Alex B, Gavin, and Khoi for eviction, to get rid of Hayley’s targets with the excuse of nominating the straight men. They didn’t have a specific target, but there was a huge blindside when Alex B was evicted instead of Khoi.

### Round 2

 **Nominator**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Nominee3 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

Leo won the next challenge and nominated Becker because it was Leo and Becker in the final tiebreaker round. He also nominated Gavin and James for eviction because it was “dramatic.” Many houseguests saw Gavin as a threat, resulting in his eviction.

### Round 3

 **Co-Nominator**

 **Co-Nominator**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted4 Votes**

Sofi and Becker won the next pair challenge. Sofi wanted to get rid of James, but Becker convinced her to keep James for later as they have 9 more rounds to get James out (which is what people said last time and James won but whatever lmao). They decided on Leo because he won the previous challenge, Hayley because she’s a threat, and Alex D because they had never been nominated before. Leo was evicted in a 4-2-2 vote, as Hayley and Alex D were protected by their alliances.

### Round 4

 **Immune**

 **Saved**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted5 Votes**

Mattea won the next challenge, but it was revealed that it was a safety challenge rather than a nominator challenge. Through house nominations Becker, Hayley and Grace were nominated for eviction, with Hayley receiving 3 nominations, Becker and Grace receiving 2, and Lili and Khoi each receiving 1. Grace won the Second Chance Challenge and saved herself, and Hayley was evicted 5-2 against Becker for being perceived as the bigger threat.

### Round 5

 **Nominator**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

Khoi won the Touchy Subjects challenge and nominated Mattea because she kept saying she wanted to leave, as well as Lili and Becker for being a duo. After nominations, Mattea revealed that it was her strategy to say she wanted to leave so people wouldn't see her as a threat, which caused Becker and Lili to say they wanted to “leave” as well. They all wanted to stay basically. In an extremely close vote, Becker was blindsided after Mattea was saved by a 1-vote difference.

### Round 6

#### Round 1

 **Nominator**

 **Nominee1 Vote**

 **Nominee2 Votes**

 **Fake Evicted3 Votes**

Mattea won the nominator challenge and nominated Grace, Khoi, and Lili for eviction, as she wanted to honor her alliance with James and Alex and wanted to keep Sofi in the game. Khoi told everyone (including Drew) that he wanted to quit (even though he didn’t), so Drew allowed him to vote for himself. Khoi was evicted in a 3-2-1 vote, but the round wasn't over yet...

#### Round 2

 **Nominator**

 **Nominee1 Vote**

 **Fake Evicted2 Votes**

It was announced that this round was a Double Eviction, and Grace and Lili faced eviction once again. Grace was evicted 2-1 during the second round, but what the houseguests didn’t know is that both Khoi and Grace were still in the house, tucked away in the Secret Room.

### Round 7

 **Extra Vote Advantage**

 **Re-Entered**

 **Evicted**

In the Secret Room, Khoi (who still wanted to play) and Grace competed in the Re-Entry challenge, where they both failed miserably. In a second Re-Entry challenge, Khoi won and returned. Meanwhile, inside the house, the “Final 5” houseguests competed in an advantage challenge which Lili won, giving her an extra vote at the next eviction.

### Round 8

 **Nominator**

 **Saved**

 **Nominee1 Vote**

 **Evicted3 Votes**

Alex won the plank challenge and nominated Khoi because he just returned to the house and Sofi because they made a deal with Mattea, James and Lili to get her out. They named Mattea as the final nominee because they believed she wouldn’t be voted out. Khoi won the Second Chance Challenge and saved himself, and Sofi was evicted by a vote of 3-1 as Arts Alliance and the Fart alliance stuck together.

### Round 9

 **Nominator**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted2 Votes**

Alex won yet another nominator challenge and nominated Khoi as the target with James as a pawn, wanting to keep Mattea and Lili around in case of a twist. Skipping strategy talk and eviction speeches, Lili and Mattea stayed loyal to their alliances and voted to evict Khoi.

### Round 10

 **Nominator**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Nominee0 Votes**

 **Evicted1 Vote**

With all three Arts Alliance members in the Final 4, Lili's fate seemed almost sealed, until Lili won her first nominator challenge in two seasons at the Final 4, earning her spot in the Final 3. After talking with the other houseguests, Lili switched from her initial decision to evict Mattea and instead chose to evict James, as James had won the previous season.

### Finale

 **Winner5 Votes to Win**

 **Runner-Up4 Votes to Win**

 **Third Place3 Votes to Win**

 **Production's Favorite**

The Jury Members returned to the house and listened as the Final 3 gave pitches as to why they should be crowned the winner of Big Brother Northwestern 2. In a shocking moment, the vote ended in a 3-3-3 tie for all three finalists. Drew and Milena decided to break the tie by having the three finalists choose who they wanted to win if they couldn't vote for themselves, which resulted in yet another tie. As a result, Drew and Milena scrapped this failed tiebreaker attempt and decided to have the three finalists choose to double the vote of one member of the Jury, meaning that the finalists should choose to double the vote of someone they believed voted for them to win. Alex D mistakenly believed that James voted for them to win, when James actually voted for Mattea to win, resulting in Mattea's victory in a 5-4-3 vote. Drew Slager later announced that Khoi was the recipient of the Production's Favorite award.

#### Jury

 **Mattea**

 **Mattea+ Mattea**

 **Lili**

 **Alex D**

 **Lili+ Lili**

 **Alex D**

 **Alex D**

 **Lili**

 **Mattea+ Mattea**

## Trivia

* This season was originally planned to have 14 houseguests like Season 1, but due to limited availability of contestants, it was shortened to 12.
* With this season, Alex Branka, Becker Spear, Gavin Shaub, Hayley Chisholm, James Hisanaga, and Lili Tarnopol are the first returning players in Big Brother Northwestern.
* This season featured three of the six houseguests who had to drop out of Season 1 (Grace Wagner, Leo Kurland, and Mattea Muench).
* Once again, there were houseguests who were nearly on the season but ultimately did not compete.
	+ Morgan Barber and Natalie Tangeman were originally on the season as a Newbie and Returnee, respectively, but they both had to drop out. They were replaced by Sofi Pascua and James Hisanaga.
* Season 2 is currently the only season to feature a tied Jury Vote, with the original vote count being 3-3-3 for each finalist.
* This is the first season to have an official Third Place finisher, as Season 1 had Co-Runners-Up.
* This is the first season to have every single Jury Member cast a Jury Vote for a winner.
* This is the first season to feature a Plurality Vote, which is when the person who received the majority of the votes received less than half of the total. This happened in Round 5 with Becker's eviction, and later reappeared with the final Jury Vote.
* This season started at 12:46 PM and ended around 5:10 PM on September 19th, lasting a total of 4 hours and 24 minutes.