ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 4th May, 22:59 CET) ~ LAST ROUND!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jukica]

COUP D'ETAT - HINTS:
1. It is a volcano (2 guesses allowed)
2. It is NOT from Europe (2 guesses allowed)
3. Didn't erupt in 20th century (2 guesses allowed)
4. It's from North America or South America (2 guesses allowed)
5. It is Ultra-prominent peak (can be a part, can be Ultra-prominent peak by itself, Ultra-prominent peak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) (2 guesses allowed)
6. It is from Argentina or Chile (doesn't mean that it's in only one of them, it can be in both of them) (1 guess allowed)
7. It is a stratovolcano (1 guess allowed)
CHECK: List of volcanoes in Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and List of volcanoes in Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. Coup D’Etat – A member can overthrow the nominations and choose 3 songs or their liking/disliking for eviction. This can be used only once. The winner of this twist will be determined via the little guess game (I will choose 1 term which can be anything – country, city, foreign word, celebrity, character, etc.) and the name of the winner will not be revealed until he/she will decide to use the power.
GAME RULES: Try to guess in the thread the word I'm looking for! I'll post 1 hint every ~24 hours (total number of official hints will be around 6-10), but all of you will have the possibility to unlock the additional hints as well! The number of allowed guesses per round (each hint is 1 round) is limited and it will be determined with every hint. I will ignore everyone who will guess more times than allowed, even if they will guess correct, so try to stick to the rules.

RESULTS:

(table like last year's one)

ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... new rules, even bigger excitement, hosted by Jukica, ParadiseES and Milos-BC ... is finally back!
Semi-Final 1 will be hosted by Jukica, while Semi-Final 2 will be hosted by ParadiseES (thread for Semi-Final 2 will be opened in 1-2 days ... + the final will be hosted by all 3 hosts ).

PREVIOUS WINNERS:

2007 - Serbia
2008 - Slovenia
2009 - Azerbaijan
2010 - Germany
2011 - Estonia
2012 - Iceland
2013 - Norway
2014 - TBA

OFFICIAL DATES & ROUNDS (changes are possible):

Pre-game: 22th February - 14th March
Semi 1: 18th March - 30th March
Semi 2: 20th March - 30th March
Final: 30th March - 5th May

Rounds coming soon

Twists/challenges-related, I'll only tell you that we will have Top Answer Game during the semi-finals and that Coup D'Etat won't start before the final

PARTICIPANTS:

coming soon

ESC Big Brother 2014 has three big parts : pre-game, two semi-finals and the big final (check official dates for more info). Pre-game is a little introduction to the main part of the game and it usually doesn’t include any novelties, semi-finals are equal to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 semi-finals (e.g. the songs from 1st ESC semi-final are in 1st semi-final in the game, etc.) and they include novelties (if there are any). The Final includes prequalified countries (the BIG 5 + host country) and 10 qualifiers from each semi-final and it will finish a few days before the actual Eurovision semi-finals. The last standing song in the final will be crowned with “ESC Big Brother 2014″ winner award. Both semi-finals and final include special twists/challenges which are invented with the main goal to make this game more interesting for everyone. Check the rest of this & second post for more info!

DISCLAIMER: (please read this and first 2 posts before voting in the game)

Firstly, I would like to point out 2 things: 1. the official forum rules still apply here, so don’t think that we will tolerate breaking of any rules (but we will be more tolerable to the drama as long as the forum rules are followed)

2. the purpose of this game is not to evict the worst songs until we get some ranking, this game was created with the main objective to keep your favourites in the game (e.g. your favourites are Germany and Denmark and you’re trying to keep them in the game by voting for some other countries, with what your favourites have bigger survival chances).
This game was created to be dramatic and bizarre, so you can know what to expect in most of the rounds. So, please answer to these questions: Do you get mad when people try to find you in Hide And Seek? Do you get angry when someone is beating you in any game (e.g. Mario Kart or any other game)? I understand that this game isn’t for everyone and that some people will not be able to stand all the drama and pressure (or your favourites getting eliminated from the game), so please take part in this game only if you are sure that this issue will not cause any problems for you.
The main word in this game is strategy and everything is based on that. The most important thing in this game is to play smart. So, if your favourite is eliminated, SEEK REVENGE and play smart, but if you refuse to play strategically and get upset about your favourites being kicked out early in the game, you can blame only yourselves for not playing smart.
It's also very important to read them before taking part in this game because they’ll help you understand what is allowed and what is forbidden.

GAME RULES: (please read this before voting in the game, we're much stricter with the rules from this year)

(NEW!) 1. In order for your votes in the poll to count, a minimum post count of 25 is required. That’s not a high number, so check out our forum and contribute to our success. There is a reason behind this rule, so complaining about it won’t make it go away. Everyone with less than 25 posts who will ignore my 1st warning and continue to vote in the game will be banned from taking part in the rest of this game (even if they will have at least 25 posts). So, if you want to take part in the game, please try to have at least 25 posts and do not ignore my warnings.

2. Every member can cast only 1 vote per round. Please vote out the song that you want to eliminate (so do not vote for your favorite unless you have a unique strategy). Please don’t forget that the official forum rules apply here as well, so also don’t forget that only 1 vote per 1 IP address is allowed.
(NEW!) Each member who will break anything from rule #2 will be banned from this game without any warning. Check post #2 to see which members are banned.

(NEW!) 3. At the end of each round 3 songs/countries chosen by 3 Head of Households (check the rest of rule #3 and rule #4 for more information about this) will be nominated and are up for eviction. After the list of nominated songs is posted, every member chooses 1 song for elimination.

(NEW!) Explanation of 1 (typical) round (there will be a lot of variations, so it won't always be this way) :
Day 1 – Right after the eliminations, 3 Head of Households are chosen and they will have around 24 hours (until the deadline which will be written in thread title and first post) to reply to me. Each HoH will have the power to nominate 1 song/country, what will bring the number of nominated countries to 3. Detailed HoH process (also, what happens if 1 or more HoHs won't reply) is described in rule #4 and please do not forget to read it.

Day 2 – Nominated songs are up for eviction and every member can choose only 1 song (per round) for elimination. Also, 1 Power of Veto is chosen. At the end of the second day the song with biggest number of votes will be evicted. (if the “Power of Veto” is used on a country with biggest number of votes, then next country with highest number of votes will be evicted)

ADDITIONAL: Because of scheduling problems and early ESC start, we will have a few 1-day rounds in the first few rounds of the final. In that case, Head of Households will nominate during the elimination round and will have time until the voting deadline.

(NEW!) 4. A few years ago we have introduced the Head of Household. The Head of Household has the power to nominate one song/country for eviction bringing up the total number of nominees to 3. From this year, we're increasing the number of HoHs to 3 per round and they all will be determined by a random draw held every day.

How will we choose the HoHs? As I mentioned in one of the previous sentences, in every round each HoH will be determined by a random draw. The HoH will be chosen between the posts made from the start to the finish of eliminations round. Also, the Power of Veto winner will chosen the same way (the only difference is that only the posts from Day 1 will be used). There will be three HoHs per every semi-final / final round. Only the members who made the posts in the specific threads (semi-finals / final) can become the HoH or PoV. Each HoH will send 3 options ranked by preference for nomination with highest ranked option being their first choice and lowest ranked option being their third choice. While the first drawn HoH has highest preference, the last drawn HoH has lowest one. The HoHs can't nominate the countries which are nominated in current round.

e.g. If Albania, Belarus and Italy are nominated in current round, they can't be nominated in the next round!
The nominations will be determined with those criterias: 1. first choice of every HoH, 2. in case some HoHs have same #1 choice, the rest of nominations will be chosen by HoH preference.
e.g. HoH 1 (Norway, Romania, Azerbaijan), HoH 2 (Norway, Austria, Azerbaijan), HoH 3 (Spain, Sweden, Belgium)
NOMINATIONS ARE: Norway, Spain (by first criteria – #1 choices of each HoH), Romania (by second criteria – since HoH 1 has the biggest preference, his next choice (which is not nominated by first criteria) will be the third nominated country)
In case none of HoHs reply, all countries will be nominated, but Power of Veto will have the power to save 1/3 of countries (with non-rounded number and removed decimal part) from getting eliminated.
e.g. There are 17 countries left and none of HoHs replied -> all countries are nominated and Power of Veto has the power to save 5 countries (17/3 = 5.67).

5. As I mentioned before, in every round three nominated songs are up for eviction. At the end of the round the entry with the highest number of votes will be eliminated from the game.

6. Once we start with the game the “Power of Veto” will be brought back which created a lot of excitement and drama the previous years. This is a really important power because the one who has the veto can save one of the nominated songs from getting eliminated.

(NEW!) 7. Challenges are becoming the next big part of this game and they are merging with well-known twists. They are created to make the game more interesting and they will sometimes be some of our well-known games as Coup D'Etat quiz. Each challenge can repeat (e.g. Double Trouble) and they will be held more often than before.
More info about challenges are available under TWISTS/CHALLENGES.

8. The last song standing will be crowned “Big Brother 2014″.

SO, BASICALLY tl;dr VERSION (2-3 MOST IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT THE GAME):

You can vote in ESC Big Brother polls if you have min. 25 posts. Every round has 2 parts: first part in which 3 Head of Households (per semi/final) are chosen and they will decide 3 nominated entries and second part in which all members vote for the song they want to eliminate (+ we have 1 Power of Veto). There are challenges which are created to make the game more interesting and they will appear a few times during the game. The last song standing will be crowned "Big Brother 2014".

STRATEGY GUIDE:

1. There is no rule on who you should or should not vote for, but voting for your least favorite could actually hurt some of your favorites at times, so just consider some of the strategical suggestions I'm throwing out there.

2. You are not required to reveal your votes in the thread, but you are allowed to share your vote and encourage members to vote with you (or even form a clan like Team San Marino or any other team like in the last year’s ESC Big Brother).

3. Check the thread on who people vote for because that could give you an indication who is in danger and who is not (of course that you will never know for sure because the majority of players do not reveal their votes).

4. Base your vote on voting patterns and trends because your favourites can have bigger chances to survive.

Example: You hate Germany’s entry and also dislike the Slovenian song. While you would rather see Germany go, it may be a better idea to vote for Slovenia first if you can see a lot of members want to get rid of it first. If you have a feeling Germany will not get enough votes, you may just be throwing your vote away, so maybe going for a different song until the opportunity arises to get rid of Germany would be the smart thing to do.

5. Get with your friends and buddies and vote in groups to increase your chances to nominate/evict a song (but don’t forget that the board and game rules still apply here and that you are not allowed to break them).

6. Don’t forget that the HoH (and PoV later on) play a big part in this game, so be sure to use them wisely if you have this unique power instead of just throwing it away by nominating something you know won’t go home at this point. If you know the person who has won the HoH or PoV power, you can know which song would that person nominate or save, so you can base your vote on that as well.

So, to sum up the most important parts, the most vital things here are understanding of the rules and strategy.

TWISTS/CHALLENGES:

1. Coup D’Etat – A member can overthrow the nominations and choose 3 songs or their liking/disliking for eviction. This can be used only once. The winner of this twist will be determined via the little guess game (I will choose 1 term which can be anything – country, city, foreign word, celebrity, character, etc.) and the name of the winner will not be revealed until he/she will decide to use the power.
GAME RULES: Try to guess in the thread the word I'm looking for! I'll post 1 hint every ~24 hours (total number of official hints will be around 6-10), but all of you will have the possibility to unlock the additional hints as well! The number of allowed guesses per round (each hint is 1 round) is limited and it will be determined with every hint. I will ignore everyone who will guess more times than allowed, even if they will guess correct, so try to stick to the rules.

(NEW!) 2. Double Trouble – New version of very popular twist. Every now and then the HoH can nominate AND give immunity to a song. The winners will be decided randomly 4-6 time during the game.

3. Awesome Sauce – Five members will have the chance to have their votes counted twice (for example, if they voted for Ireland, it’ll be like they voted for it twice). Winners of this twist will be decided randomly during the game a few times.

(NEW!) 4. Top Answer Game – Very popular game is coming back after 2 years and it's better than ever! The main goal of this game is giving the answer you think most of people will say, it's not about correct answer. This year's version will focus on teams, what means that you will form/join to teams which must have from 2 to 5 members. Each team will also choose 2 entries (1 from each semi-final) out of the songs which are still not eliminated. The songs from 3 teams with lowest average will be nominated. or The songs from 3 teams with highest average will get immunity.

e.g. Teams:
Team Valentina: Trece, daniels1000, CypriotGirl, Franco, Mozz
Team Windy Admins And Mods: Jukica, ParadiseES
Team FoxingAwesome, etc.
You have a question: „Name 3 European countries!“ and you said Sweden, Cyprus and Switzerland. Let's say that 30 other members said Sweden, 17 said Cyprus and 3 said Switzerland, what would mean that that member gets 30+17+3=50 points for that question.

(NEW!) 5. Various voting methods (name TBD) – Voting variations will be used in the game from this year and most probably nearly every round. Some of the variations are:

a) Nominating more than 1 country

b) 3 members are chosen. Each member some some number of pts which he/she can use however he/she wants to.
e.g. 6 points and someone decided to give 4, 1 and 1 points

c) Positive nominations – People vote for their faves and least voted get nominated.

etc. ... and a lot more possible ways

These are just few most important things about this game, but we know that it'll be very EXCITING. While this board is trying to keep drama off the forum, this is the only time of the year (and the only thread) where we encourage it as long as the board rules are being followed.
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[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

*reserved post*

 

[aardvark]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Now the fun really starts!

 

[greece]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

It starts so quick Now the real drama will start :twisted:


But obviously not for me... #TeamPoland will take revenge (this has became my fave word)...

 

[Celia]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

No no ...xsnooty no either, that's so unrealistic

 

[Salmon]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

No no ...xsnooty no either, that's so unrealistic

It's all part of the fun

 

[ClassifiedCat]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

This will be interesting.

 

[greece]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

It's all part of the fun

And I want to see who are you going to save in the 2nd Semi...

 

[Salmon]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

And I want to see who are you going to save in the 2nd Semi...

You will never know :twisted:

 

[greece]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

You will never know :twisted:

I will....tomorrow...:twisted:

 

[cassio]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Oh no ....... not already

 

[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

BTW, I'm doing April Fools round after 1st round, so I will PM HoH's tomorrow

New round & Power of Veto after semi results

 

[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

3 nominated songs are

ALBANIA 2014: Hersi Matmuja - One Night's Anger
GERMANY 2014: Elaiza - Is It Right
SAN MARINO 2014: Valentina Monetta - Forse (Maybe)

Power of Veto is, as I said already, [MENTION=5783]Katinka[/MENTION]

 

[Smudy]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Voted.

 

[aardvark]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Voted for the most annoying entry this year.

 

[cassio]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Voted for the most annoying entry this year.

I agree with you Valentina doesn't deserve to be in the final....

 

[aardvark]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

I agree with you Valentina doesn't deserve to be in the final....

Is it right or is it wrong? No, that's not the one I was talking about.

 

[Halldor]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Is it right or is it wrong? No, that's not the one I was talking about.

Oh, so you're talking about Hersi....

 

[Romeo]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

It was a tough decision between 2 of them.... but I made my decision

 

[aardvark]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2014 ... Spicier Than Ever! ~ FINAL (deadline for voting: 31st March, 22:59 CET) ~ STARTING TOMORROW!!!! POST FOR WINNING OF HOH/POV!

Oh, so you're talking about Hersi....

Maybeeeeee