WEBMASTER’S BLOG – BB 6
9/20/05 – Episode 30: Maggie won! I am very pleased. I am even more pleased that, for the first time in Big Brother history, I PREDICTED EACH AND EVERY VOTE CAST! Just look at the chart I created on 9/16/05 below – I don’t even have to update it with the actual results, because I nailed it! I OK, so I was unsure about half or more of the votes, and the Juror’s reasons for picking who they picked were probably a little different, but who cares? I also, by the way, was predicting Maggie as the winner for the past 7 episodes (as far back as 8/25/05), and I had previously predicted she would win during the first 3 episodes.
Anyway, I think Maggie played the best game and is a deserving winner. Congrats Maggie! The only thing left is my annual chart of who my favorite house guests were overall, based on the chart of episode-by-episode favorites below. And they were:
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HOUSE GUEST |
TOTAL |
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1 |
Janelle |
2285 |
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2 |
Howie |
1700 |
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3 |
Rachel |
1523 |
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4 |
Maggie |
1471 |
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5 |
Kaysar |
1232 |
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6 |
James |
1209 |
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7 |
Ivette |
914 |
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8 |
April |
839 |
|
9 |
Jennifer |
801 |
|
10 |
Sarah |
794 |
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11 |
Beau |
488 |
|
12 |
Michael |
379 |
|
13 |
Eric |
156 |
|
14 |
Ashlea |
50 |
Janelle wins hands-down with 2285 points. Howie and Rachel and Maggie are close behind. Anyway, that’s it for Big Brother 6 – See you next year for BIG BROTHER 7! I plan to implement a special new ranking system we can track, episode-by-episode, who is the strongest player in the house, based on performance in challenges, HoH, Veto, and other competitions.
9/16/05 – Episode 29: First of all, the tiebreaker questions in the 3rd round of HoH were STUPID. What was that, a math test? Both tiebreaker questions were easily calculated if you had enough time. No wonder they were writing and writing and forced to give a number. *I* could have calculated those things.Anyway, when it all came down to it, I was sad to see Janelle leave after all this time. I think it would have been much more interesting to have Janelle vs. Ivette in the finals (and I think Ivette would have won 4-3). However, Ivette vs. Maggie is possibly more unpredictable, since there is a majority of Friendship members on the jury. And what’s with Maggie saying Ivette is going to win? Why does she keep doing that? It’s annoying. I wanted Maggie to win, but mostly because she’s a strong player, not because she avoids conflict and tells people what they want to hear. So how will the jury members vote? Well, I predict that because most of Ivette’s success was in September, AFTER most jury members were evicted, that they will vote for Maggie. Here’s my detailed prediction of how the voting will go, as I predict a very close 4-3 victory for Maggie:
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PREDICTED VOTING |
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Jury Member |
Ivette |
Maggie |
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Janelle |
X |
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April |
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X |
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Howie |
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X |
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Beau |
X |
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James |
X |
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Rachel |
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X |
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Jennifer |
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X |
However, I’m not really sure about any of the votes except for Beau’s and James’. Probably Howie and Rachel will vote for Maggie. So that’s 2 to 2, and Janelle, April, and Jennifer are toss-ups.
More Webmaster Opinions below this chart….
My Ranking Of House Guests
(0=Least Favorite; 100=Most Favorite):
(Predicted winner in BLUE)
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HOUSE GUEST |
PRE-SHOW |
7/7 |
7/12 |
7/14 |
7/16 |
7/19 |
7/21 |
7/23 |
7/26 |
7/28 |
7/30 |
8/2 |
8/4 |
8/6 |
8/11 |
8/13 |
8/16 |
8/18 |
8/20 |
8/23 |
8/25 |
8/30 |
9/1 |
9/6 |
9/10 |
9/13 |
9/16 |
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Maggie |
86 |
93 |
93 |
69 |
23 |
38 |
33 |
42 |
33 |
27 |
45 |
45 |
50 |
50 |
50 |
50 |
40 |
56 |
75 |
63 |
57 |
57 |
67 |
80 |
75 |
67 |
100 |
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Ivette |
43 |
64 |
86 |
85 |
15 |
15 |
17 |
25 |
25 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
20 |
20 |
20 |
20 |
30 |
30 |
25 |
25 |
29 |
43 |
50 |
40 |
50 |
33 |
50 |
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Janelle |
100 |
100 |
100 |
92 |
100 |
100 |
92 |
92 |
92 |
91 |
82 |
82 |
90 |
100 |
90 |
90 |
90 |
89 |
63 |
50 |
71 |
86 |
83 |
60 |
100 |
100 |
-- |
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April |
93 |
71 |
71 |
77 |
31 |
23 |
25 |
17 |
17 |
9 |
9 |
27 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
50 |
44 |
38 |
38 |
43 |
29 |
33 |
20 |
25 |
-- |
-- |
|
Howie |
29 |
14 |
14 |
31 |
54 |
54 |
75 |
83 |
83 |
82 |
91 |
91 |
100 |
80 |
70 |
80 |
80 |
78 |
50 |
75 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
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Beau |
36 |
36 |
21 |
15 |
38 |
31 |
42 |
50 |
42 |
36 |
27 |
9 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
13 |
13 |
14 |
14 |
17 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
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James |
21 |
7 |
7 |
23 |
46 |
46 |
50 |
33 |
58 |
55 |
64 |
64 |
70 |
60 |
60 |
70 |
70 |
67 |
88 |
100 |
86 |
71 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
Rachel |
64 |
79 |
79 |
100 |
85 |
85 |
83 |
75 |
75 |
73 |
73 |
73 |
80 |
90 |
80 |
60 |
60 |
100 |
100 |
88 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
Jennifer |
71 |
86 |
64 |
46 |
69 |
69 |
58 |
67 |
50 |
45 |
36 |
36 |
40 |
40 |
40 |
40 |
20 |
10 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
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Kaysar |
7 |
29 |
50 |
62 |
92 |
92 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
-- |
-- |
100 |
100 |
100 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
Sarah |
50 |
43 |
43 |
38 |
62 |
62 |
67 |
58 |
67 |
64 |
55 |
55 |
60 |
70 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
Ashlea |
14 |
21 |
36 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
Eric |
79 |
50 |
29 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
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Michael |
57 |
57 |
57 |
54 |
77 |
77 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
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9/13/05 – Episode 28: I am glad they aren’t leaving 2 people in the house for the last full week like they have done in past seasons – it’s boring. So thankfully it will be over in a week and right now there are still 3 people left. After the catfight, I see Ivette as so immature that she can’t even let someone else talk without blowing up in her face. Obviously I saw this before when she fought with Kaysar, but I had forgotten. April, though a bit two-faced, to me is much more mature and level headed. If Ivette gets to the final 2, I don’t know if April can change other juror’s votes; and remember that James is more likely to vote for Ivette because of their bond, and obviously Beau and Jennifer would vote for Ivette. It should be interesting. Maggie is so politically correct – I still think that besides Janelle, Maggie is playing the best game. Unfortunately she can’t win the competitions so it will be hard for her to win it all.
9/10/05 – Episode 27: Janelle is clever so I trust her nominations to be the best ones. I guess it looks like she made a deal with April, so that could shake up The Friendship a bit. I would have nominated Maggie and April and let Ivette pick. But better to try to split up Maggie and April if possible.
9/8/05 – Episode 26: Sorry to see Howie go, but it was predictable. Big Brother DID pick a competition that Janelle could win, and she won handily! I had no idea she was a “Big Brother Historian”. I recognize some of the games from prior seasons too, but I couldn’t tell you which season they were in and what happened. Amazing. The tricky thing is that even though Janelle gets to nominate 2 people for eviction, someone from the other side (the 3rd person, not nominated) gets to choose who to evict. It should be very very interesting. Right now I predict she’ll nominate Maggie (the strongest player of The Friendship) and April so that Ivette will have to choose between them – and I think she’ll pick Maggie but it’s not as obvious as if Maggie were having to choose April or vice versa.
9/6/05 – Episode 25: The show is getting a little boring. As they do every year, they pare down to too few people with too many weeks left. In the final week, there will only be 2 people in the house – BORING! And if those 2 are Maggie and April, even more boring! Interesting to see Ivette consider evicting April for strategy – but I don’t think she would ever do it. I don’t think she’s strong enough to do it. She plays more with emotion than strategy. Poor Howie will leave and then Big Brother better pick an HoH competition that Janelle can win, or else the show will go in to slo mo very quickly. With Howie probably leaving on Thursday, Maggie is my choice and my preference to win it all.
9/3/05 – Episode 24: Glad to see Beau go—he was my least favorite player. Maggie shocked me by considering using the PoV to get rid of April after making a partnership with her (and I felt so sorry for April). However, she did have a good point strategically, that keeping the pair intact makes her less of a target. However, I think it was a little premature to think that way. Also I think she is wrong thinking she can’t beat any of the Friendship people in the final 2 – Maggie would win hands down. She is a great strategic player; however, she is playing with her heart by not using the PoV and by throwing the HoH competition to Ivette. Predictably, Ivette will nominate Howie and Janelle and the only surprise will come if one of them wins the PoV. A surprise for me when picking my favorites in the chart below – I find that Janelle’s attitude is getting on my nerves. It played OK with me when there were more people in the game. But not now. I assume she’ll be the next to go if a PoV isn’t used.
9/1/05 – Episode 23: Poor James. Oh well. It was going to happen eventually. It just made me mad that he lied to Ivette (about Janelle giving him a pity vote) while trying to stay in the house. Come on, James. Why is Jennifer still acting bitchy even in the jury house? What is wrong with her? Glad to see Howie win HoH (relieved, actually, after it looked like Beau was going to win again). Howie nominated Ivette and Beau and I guess that’s the best strategic move since they are the only real pair left that wouldn’t vote against each other no matter what. Maggie and April are stronger players but I guess it makes sense to get the pair split up. The veto might change things come Saturday. Does this also mean we’re in for another endurance test on Saturday for HoH?
8/30/05 – Episode 22: I can see people being upset that Janelle keeps winning, and maybe she did “waste” the phone call on Michael (I expected her to call her mother), but I don’t like April’s holier-than-thou attitude. Imagine how shocked The Friendship will be when they leave the house and look on the Internet and find out how hated they were! They think “America loves a villain” and that villain is Janelle? Think again. Have they never watched the show? That being said, I was surprised that April followed through and put up James. I thought she would not use the veto. And even when she did use it, I thought she would put up Beau or someone else as a pawn to get Howie out. The smart move would have been to veto Howie and put James up against Janelle, and that way they could decide later which one to evict.
8/25/05 – Episode 21: Maggie is definitely (other than James, of course), the only one who seems to be playing the game strategically instead of emotionally. You gotta be cheering for her, right? The Friendship group is getting smarter, as they finally figured out that James can probably only win by taking Janelle to the final 2. I predict that Maggie convinces April to nominate James and Janelle.
8/23/05 – Episode 20: Rachel thankfully said out loud what I’ve been saying for weeks – that Howie (and she) made a mistake by nominating James and Sarah. Thank you!!! Also, I am happy that Howie apologized for his mean behavior and remarks, even if he didn’t sound completely sincere. I didn’t understand Beau’s strange nomination speech either, Rachel, so it’s not just you. I would have made the same (horse) face.
8/20/05 – Episode 19: I still wish Howie and Janelle would apologize to April and Maggie, but I guess it’s too late. They really are making the other side look like saints. And I am liking Maggie more and more, with her level head and great expressions of shock and surprise. I can see her winning it all, and I wouldn’t mind a bit. Howie and Janelle will obviously be Beau’s targets, and they should be. I was glad to see Jennifer go, but she is fooling herself when she keeps saying how it was just because she was HoH. Girl, if you had gotten James evicted like you promised, do you honestly think you would have been evicted? Hell no! Come on! Why can’t she see it? Anyway, I was hoping James would win HoH but Beau’s winning it spells the end for Kaysar’s team. Actually Howie did himself in by nominating James and Sarah weeks ago (sorry to keep mentioning this but it’s true).
8/18/05 – Episode 18: Wow things got ugly in the house. I can understand Howie and Janelle’s frustrations but I don’t like to see them acting so mean. (A little mean is good, but too much is not good). And where was Rachel when Howie was acting so crazy? I was thrilled to have Janelle win HoH but unfortunately she only gets to keep the title for a few days. I love the Double Eviction week since it speeds things up. Great nominations – I thought she would nominate April but Maggie is a more strategic choice. I didn’t like James saying (or implying) that he was on the “other side” with The Friendship, either.
8/16/05 – Episode 17: Obviously I am upset about Kaysar getting back doored instead of James. I told you when Howie was stupid enough to nominate James and Sarah that it would come back to haunt him. And it has. He could have gotten rid of one of The Friendship and solidified the numbers so that the other side had a solid majority – but failed to do that. Now James is even more likely to side with The Friendship and Kaysar’s team (what’s left of it) will have only 3 members left and will get picked off one by one, unless they can miraculously win an HoH. I am not that angry with Jennifer – more so with Kaysar for trusting her.
8/13/05 – Episode 16: Finally Jennifer is getting into the game – but it messes up my great prediction that she would win the whole thing by flying under the radar. Oh well. I am liking James even more, probably because he is so sad alone without an alliance. And Ivette really seems to be a nice person at heart, even if a bit annoying. Rachel is starting to get on my nerves, especially with her reaction to James inside the competition box. Without Eric around, The Friendship alliance, individually, don’t seem so “evil”. They are all basically good people. I still want the Sovereign whatever (I hate calling them that) to prevail.
8/11/05 – Episode 15: I really think Sarah got a raw deal – she didn’t deserve to be evicted at all. I feel sorry for James. I know he lies and isn’t trustworthy, but as the odd man out, you gotta love him. Thankfully (and Howie should be most thankful), Kaysar returned to the house. Thanks to the producers of BB for not “fudging” the results of America’s Choice (like I think they may have done in past seasons). I would love to see James win this HoH competition (and I think he has a good shot at it).
8/09/05 – Episode 14: I was so glad that James won the Power of Veto because it gives the good guys ONE MORE CHANCE to reconsider this stupid move and to get rid of someone from The Friendship. Although I do admit, it’s kinda nice to see the house operating as one, even if poor Sarah and James are the targets. April cracks me up with her paranoia and weird reactions to everything –even though I don’t really like her, she definitely makes good TV. Wow – amazing how quickly things changed and Ivette got nominated, possibly not as a pawn! The Friendship is breaking up even BEFORE Eric has a chance to return! So much for alliances. Great episode!
8/06/05 – Episode 13: I think Howie nominating James and Sarah was extremely stupid. It didn’t need to be done – at least not this week. What he did was cut down his alliance from 5 to 3. The other side has 5 in the “Friendship” and if Eric returns, 6. The “good guys” have only 3 now – Howie, Rachel, and Janelle. What was he thinking? Very very stupid! I can only hope that James DOES win PoV and that the replacement nomination will be Maggie or at least someone else from the Friendship.
8/04/05 – Episode 12: Great episode. America’s Choice will elect an evicted house guest to return! What a great twist, although I was hoping it was a different twist that I suggested years ago – America should vote every week on who should be evicted, and they should count that as 1 vote. Anyway, having Kaysar back will be great. Already I am assuming it’s him – why? He’s the most popular house guest according to the official Big Brother site’s polls. I know it WON”T be Eric because he is disliked by most of America. I think it’s great that Eric’s team will probably think it will be him and surprise! It won’t be! It’s sad for Janelle that Ashlea decided to leave the sequestered house – why, I wonder? Had enough? She was only there for one week. It’s not fair to Janelle either – she had a chance to have her partner back. Oh well. If Eric does come back (not likely), I would laugh if he came back right after Maggie gets evicted! That would be ironic. I was elated that Howie won HoH – another score for the “good guys” and Howie deserves it, as one of my favorite players.
8/02/05 – Episode 11: Enough with the product placement already! I was touched by April’s birthday, and repulsed by Beau’s bitchiness. Couldn’t they find a b