The A Team

**Highest Placing Member** | Derek Williams (3/14)

**The A Team** (formerly known as **The Three Musketeers**) was an alliance on *Big Brother 1* that consisted of Anna Simmons, Brandon Zamora, Derek Williams, Jacob Okumura, Ramon Sanchez, & Samar Kabir.

## Members

 **Jury**

 **Evicted**

 **Jury**

 **Jury**

 **Jury**

 **Evicted**

### Affiliates

 **Jury**

## History

### Creation

The alliance was created on the very second day after Brandon Zamora won HoH. The A Team started off as **The Three Musketeers** was masterminded by Jacob, who sought to align the strongest male players both physically and mentally. He firstly recruited Derek and Brandon, who was was included for winning the first HoH. The name was decided by Brandon as a reference to the classic historical characters with their motto, "All for one and one for all."

### First Week of Survival

In Week 1, alliance member Brandon Zamora nominated Aiden Levy after Eliza's allegations of a rumored showmance between Aiden and co-HoH Josephine Winters. At the BOB, Brandon unfortunately was dethroned from his HoH reign after Aiden pulled through. Soon enough, he was nominated by the surviving HoH Josephine after his disagreement with her. Despite him not winning the POV competition, the most of the house were on board sending Eliza home while the alliance successfully passed through the first week laying low.

### Rebranded

After Eliza's eviction, Jacob won HoH (along with Sonny McCoy), agreed that their target were Aiden and Josephine. Derek offered Jacob with new recruits, Anna Simmons, Ramon Sanchez, and Samar Kabir, if they wanted to join the alliance; and he fully-agreed to add up the numbers. With three additional members, they decided to rebrand themselves as **The A Team**.

### Fallout

In Week 2, The A Team continued laying a quiet game, not becoming the center of attention. They soon showed trouble for the alliance as Jacob was dethroned as HoH when his chosen nominee Josephine Winters won the Battle of the Block; thus losing control for the week. As the situation got any worse, the surviving HoH Sonny overheard Samar exposing his full-association with The A Team to his closest friend Sharon Carren from outside the HoH bedroom. To which, Samar unintentionally caused his game to crumble as he was ended up as the replacement nominee. At the second eviction, Sonny partially exposed the latter of being fully-associated in some secret alliance as Samar ended up being backdoored with a 6-5 vote (including a tiebreaker vote).

### Brandon Goes Rogue

Following Samar's eviction, Jacob managed to win his second HOH competition (with Aiden) and his alliance agreed to target Sonny for his responsibility on Samar's backdoor exit. But, Week 3 saw another bad week for The A Team as Jacob was dethroned as HoH back-to-back and ended up being nominated along with his alliance member, Brandon Zamora. Fortunately for Jacob, he was removed off the block after offering an affiliation with the current PoV holder Lillian Lewis. Following the Veto ceremony, The A Team got paranoid and constantly freaked out since they have noticed Brandon and Sonny's secret relationship but they were initially on-board evicting their intended target. Until the live eviction, Brandon led to his defection from The A Team after throwing his alliance under the bus in his last-minute speech. Brandon soon clashed with Jacob in an explosive argument, and he was evicted in a unanimous vote of 9-0.

### Annihilating The Other Side

Following Brandon's eviction, Jacob became a clear target to the opposing side after a heated argument with Sonny and Aiden. In the HoH competition, both Lillian and Sonny pulled off the clutch HoH wins; thus led to another unfortunate week for The A Team. Lillian nominated Ramon, and Sonny nominated Jacob for eviction due to them being in a targeted alliance. With Sonny being dethroned following Jacob's Battle of the Block victory, Lillian chose his third nominee Derek on the block. Anna won the PoV. Anna removed Derek from the block and Jacob manipulated Lillian into nominating Sharon as a pawn, just to "ensure" her that Ramon will leave instead. But with Ramon's full-association with the Four Horsemen and the help of Aiden and Josephine by Jacob, The A Team annihilated Lillian's HoH reign by keeping Ramon and backdooring Sharon with a vote of 7-1. After Ramon became the HoH in week 5 (with Josephine), Jacob was then nominated with his former affiliate, Lillian by Josephine, and Ramon nominated Derek and Cassie. Jacob managed to win the Battle of the Block alongside with Lillian, and Derek won the PoV to remove himself off the block. Jacob manipulated Ramon into having both Sonny and Cassie nominated, but unbeknownst to him, Ramon reluctantly followed with the plan since he is mainly allied with them. Despite Jacob having the opportunity to evict Sonny, his alliance members Derek and Anna however flipped their votes by Sonny's influence. The opposing side now has the majority and Cassie gets evicted.

### Growing Tensions

Josephine became the HoH after Cassie's eviction, Jacob and Lillian were nominated with Jacob as the main target. The PoV was a must win for Jacob. However, Kyle won the PoV, thinking that it ruined Jacob's one chance of staying in the game. Kyle did not use the PoV and left the nominations the same. Fortunately at the live eviction, Jacob narrowly escaped eviction after Lillian clashed with Josephine; thus making her the huge target with their votes flipped. Lillian was then exited with a unanimous 6-0 vote evicted her during the first half of the first Double Eviction. In the second part of Week 6, Jacob won HoH and nominated Kyle and Sonny, with Sonny as his intended target. At the POV competition, Kyle won the veto and secured her safety off the chopping block. The alliance continued to crumble when Ramon's friendship with the opposing side began to sketch Jacob out as he would begin to withold information with his remaining loyal members Derek and Anna. At the veto ceremony, Kyle used the veto on herself, so Jacob made Ramon the replacement nominee. Despite Jacob shifted to go after Ramon, he instead campaigned to his alliance members, and Aiden and Josephine to evict his longtime target. In the end, Sonny is officially evicted in a unanimous 5-0 vote against Ramon.

### Downfall

Following Sonny's eviction, a defeated Ramon departed from the alliance without their acknowledgement. Anna won her first Head of Household competition. Her and Derek decided to distance themselves from Jacob, leading to the demise of The A Team. She targeted the strongest players and her former allies, Jacob and Ramon. Jacob later won the POV and saved himself from the chopping block and Anna chose Kyle as her replacement nominee. With the final nail in the coffin, the eviction led to Ramon blowing up Jacob's manipulation strategy in his last-minute speech before he was evicted with a unanimous 4-0 vote.

### Aftermath

After Ramon's eviction, Kyle Franklin became the new Head of Household. It was during this week that the remaining members of The A Team stated that their alliance was no longer together. Since Jacob won his first PoV and took himself off the block, Derek and Anna found themselves on the brink of splitting up as Anna was the replacement nominee along with Josephine, Aiden's showmance. With Jacob casting the remaining vote, he decided to ditch his former allies and evicted Anna, resulting in a 2-1 vote.

## Trivia

* Samar is the only member of this alliance to not win any major competition. Every other member has won either an HOH or POV competition during their time on the show.
* Brandon and Samar are the only members not to make it to the jury stage.