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One thing that John doesn't mention is that the "voting with the house" phenomenon usually comes about because of a house guest that strikes such terror in the other HGs hearts that they don't dare vote any way other than the way the intimidating HG wants them to. This season it's Amanda, and it's no coincidence that neither she, nor Andy (her sneaky intelligence gatherer), nor McCrae the "love of her life" and quasi-fiance.... have ever been voted against.



'Big Brother 15' By-the-Numbers: Voting with the House at the Elite 8
Friday, August 23, 2013

John Kubicek
Senior Writer, BuddyTV

After nine weeks of voting on Big Brother 15, it's clear that people love doing "what the house wants." That's a common phrase to any fan, and it's been used a lot this season to justify nominations or votes.

Voting with the house is a popular trend, and the subject of this week's "By-the-Numbers," where I take a deep-dive into the statistics of Big Brother.

For these stats, I'm referring to eviction votes with at least two people voting, thus allowing for people to vote in the majority of the minority. So it really only applies to votes made before reaching the Top 4. With so many HGs this season, and now with a HG returning, there will be more votes than ever before, and more opportunities to vote with the house and set records.

Now that we're down to the Top 8, here's a few interesting stats about how this season's group compare to past house-voting.


-Four of the Big Brother 15 HGs in the Top 8 have voted with the house in every vote they've cast: McCrae, Amanda, Andy and Judd. That's fairly common, but there were only three seasons with more house-voters in the Top 8.

In seasons 2 and 12, six members of the Top 8 voted with the house every time (though in season 2, that only covered the first three votes). The only season with five people in the Top 8 always voting with the house was in All-Stars.

-Season 15 is going to have more eviction votes than ever before, and thus far they've already had nine (which is more than three past seasons during their entire runs). There have been four unanimous votes (evicting Kaitlin, Candice, Judd and Jessie). Only three seasons had more unanimous votes: seasons 9 and 10 each had five and season 12 set the record with seven. With four more eligible votes, this year could beat it.

-The least unanimous season was Big Brother 11, where only one of the eight votes was unanimous (evicting Russell at the Top 6). However, in sheer volume, seasons 8, 13 and 14 all had eight different votes that were NOT unanimous.

-This season's top two house-voters are Andy and McCrae, who have voted with the house all eight times they've voted (Amanda is at seven). That puts them in elite company, as only seven other HGs have ever cast eight or more house votes. The list includes season 12's Enzo and Ragan, season 10's Memphis, season 9's Sheila, season 8's Daniele Donato, season 7 winner Mike "Boogie" Malin and season 6 winner Maggie, who is the only person to cast nine votes with the house. That's a record Andy and/or McCrae will almost certainly beat or surpass this year.

-Of the 13 seasons to feature houseguest voting, only four winners have made it through the entire season without ever casting a minority vote. They are season 4's Jun, season 6's Maggie, season 7's Mike "Boogie" and season 12's Hayden. There have been seven runners-up who always voted with the house.

-Oddly enough, there has only been ONE third-place finisher in the history of the series to always vote with the house: season 12's Enzo Palumbo.

The Perfect Game

-Season 10's Dan Gheesling is the only winner to ever play a Perfect Game, meaning he never had a single vote cast against him and he won a unanimous jury vote at the end. Only five other winners made it to the finale without ever having a vote cast against them and four of them had near-unanimous votes at the end, with only one jury member voting against them. Those four are season 4's Jun, season 7's Mike "Boogie," season 9's Adam and season 14's Ian.

-This season, there are still five HGs capable of playing a Perfect Game, as McCrae, Andy, Amanda, Aaryn and GinaMarie have never had a single vote cast against them.

-The winner with the most votes against them was season 6's Maggie, who had four votes cast against her during the season and had three jurors vote against her at the end. That could be beaten by Elissa, who so far has nine votes against her, or Judd, who had seven votes against him when he was evicted. Thus far Spencer only has two votes against him.

-Andy and McCrae have made it through nine rounds of nominations and evictions without ever being nominated. There are only six other HGs who have ever done this: season 5 winner Drew Daniel, season 6's Beau Beasley and season 14 winner Ian Terry all made it nine rounds before finally getting nominated in the 10th, and season 6's April Lewis and season 3's Danielle Reyes and Jason Guy all survived 10 rounds without getting nominated.

If Andy and/or McCrae survive this week without getting nominated they will tie the record, and if either also survives next week, they will set a new record for most weeks without being nominated.

Big Brother 15 Live Feeds Set To Deliver The Drama –

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:37 AM PDT

Amanda and McCrae are afraid

The Big Brother game runs on two levels. One has the CBS shows and the can only be found on the Live Feeds. Viewers who only catch the shows aren’t seeing a quarter of the action because the real game is what goes on 24/7 inside the BB house.

Since last night after the HoH endurance comp the house has been at full tilt and it’s only going to get better. Elissa has the house in panic mode as they don’t know what she’ll do and with no true ally left in the house she can’t make any new enemies.

Amanda has been crying on and off while McCrae is scrambling with fear after being told he’ll go on the block. Andy is pacing the halls saying this is the worst case scenario for 3AM. Lucky for us, it’s the best case scenario for fans because this means we’re in for some action instead of another boring week as we watch it all unfold online.

Later today the nominations will be revealed on the Feeds. That means drama. Early on Saturday the Veto players will be picked. That means more drama. Saturday afternoon/evening the Veto Competition will be held. You guessed it, even more drama.

CBS will never be able to cram all the action in 45-minute episodes and while we’ll share details and pictures along the way it won’t be as much fun as watching it all play out live from the in-house cameras. That’s why you need the Feeds now.


Big Brother 15 – Nomination Anticipation For Week 9

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:58 AM PDT

Elissa Slater on Big Brother 15

You want “big moves” on Big Brother? Then get ready because it’s about to hit the fan this week inside the BB15 house! Last night’s HoH competition has brought us another shift in power and this one should guarantee a very exciting next few days.

Read on for all the spoilers to find out who is in power, who wishes they had power, and who is set to go up on the block.

Okay, so Elissa won HoH and Judd is back from Jury. Now you’re all up to speed on the latest for comps, but now we’ve got to get ready for tonight’s Nomination Ceremony so let’s review where things stand.

Last night Elissa straight up told McCrae that she was going to nominate Aaryn along with someone she felt was a strong competitor. The idea being that strong competitor would have a better chance at winning the Veto and keeping Aaryn on the block. McCrae asked if she was going to nominate Amanda and Elissa scoffed at the idea and said Amanda wouldn’t win the Veto.

So guess who is going up next to Aaryn? McCrae. He’s in a panic. It’s Week 9 and McCrae has never been nominated or even considered for nomination. He’s convinced the house will flip on him and vote him out. I doubt it, but maybe.

McCrae stresses out

Flashback to 11:20PM BBT last night to watch as McCrae works hard to convince Elissa not to nominate him. She says her goal is to evict Aaryn but if Aaryn saved herself then she’d settle for GM. McCrae says the only way to make sure at least one of them goes home would be to upfront nom both so GM couldn’t save Aaryn. He’s right. Problem is I don’t think Elissa was honest about settling for GM.

McCrandy & Spencer were discussing plans on how to manipulate Elissa’s concerns over the Veto to get her to nominate someone other than them beside Aaryn. Amanda couldn’t even sleep she was so stressed out. She spent some time crying in the nomination chairs around 5:30AM BBT this morning.

This morning Elissa started talking to Judd and Andy about her upcoming nomination plans. Flashback to 10:05AM BBT today to watch. Elissa says she’d replace McCrae with Amanda if he gets the Veto. If Aaryn gets the Veto then she’ll nominate whoever she feels didn’t try their hardest to win it and keep the noms the same.

Later Elissa pulled Judd upstairs to the HoH room to talk game. She told him if they team up with GM and possibly Spencer then they can control the votes. She’s right, but Spencer is a bit of a wild card so they need to watch that part.