Living Room

[jacob]

I don't think I have any questions, I just wanna feel important and post here again tbh because I've missed the real house </3 Lots of good and bad times here haha

Amanda, it was a pleasure getting to know you and I appreciate everything you did for me in the game! You impressed me by actually making it here, when I was practically begging you to flip I honestly did not expect you to get here this way haha. But I'm glad you did!

Jake, I'm glad that I think we're on good terms now?? Maybe "acquaintances", maybe friends, WHO KNOWS. I think your record in these speaks for itself, and if we ever end up in one of these again, I hope it's just as fun as this one was, but maybe with different circumstances!!!!!!

So good luck to you both! Thanks for pushing me to my limits haha, I actually had a lot of fun with my back up against the wall

[Brett]

HouseGuests, please join me in the living room.

First of all, Joe and Derek, thank you so much for everything this season. I think we worked great as a team this year and made a pretty good season.

A big thank you to all who played this year, we couldn't have done it without you. This cast was tied for the largest ever in the history of these games, and it was fun to see everything go down.

I have all 9 Jury votes, and I will reveal the winner of the game shortly (since I won't be around later tonight).

[Brett]

The nine jurors have cast their votes, and their votes are in the key wheel in front of me. I will pull out the key for each juror, and the name on that key represents who that juror voted for.

Cody voted for....






















JAKE.

Carleen voted for...

























AMANDA.

Adam voted for...





































JAKE. Jake currently has 2 votes to Amanda's 1. We'll be back with more votes after these messages.

[Brett]

More votes!

Jake currently leads voting, 2-1. Whichever HouseGuest gets more votes will win the game. Let's continue on.

Jacob voted for...






























AMANDA. It's tied, 2-2.

Crystal voted for...

































AMANDA. Amanda now leads, 3-2.

Isaac voted for...




































AMANDA. Amanda now has 4 votes while Jake has 2 votes. Amanda needs just one more vote to win, while Jake needs all 3 remaining votes to win.

[Brett]

Taylor voted for...






























AMANDA! Congratulations, Amanda, you have won Big Brother 9!

Ryan and Red also voted for Amanda, giving her the win by a final vote of 7-2.

Once again, a huge thanks to everyone who played a part in this season of Big Brother. This is most likely my final season hosting (and playing) these games, but I know that Joe has some good stuff lined up for Big Brother 10.

Confessionals are now unlocked, but I'll leave the status of Jake and Amanda blank until tomorrow so the result won't be spoiled for anyone tonight.

[doolgirl]

So I honestly did not plan on getting back on this site, but when I was told by Carleen I won I knew I needed to get on here and thank everyone.

First to the three hosts: I can only imagine how frustrating it is to host this game! I know how much time I put into it playing it, but you guys had to keep things organized, come up with challenges, moderate the forums, and the list goes on and on. Thank you for making this season fun. There were so many new challenges that I really enjoyed! I truly appreciate all you guys did for this season and I am sorry for any grief I ever caused you all  

Carleen: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your vote. Yours means something different to me then any of the others because you were a bullet club member and you gave me your vote! I think you are a kind, sweet, funny intelligent girl. You made me laugh and smile several times this season. I am so glad I got to know you this season. Girls have always been outnumbered in this game and it was great to have another girl make it almost to the end with me! Keep being you and you'll go far in life!
 
Jacob: Thank you for the vote! You are one of the best competitors I have EVER seen in this ORG. I have been involved since season 1 and though I disappeared here and there from the game, out of all the season I have "watched" or participated in you are in the top 5 for my best ever ORG players. I think you're an all-star at this game and at the comps. Your ability to know answers so quickly never ceased to amaze me. Your commitment and determination to never give up was inspiring. I hope you know I did want to work with you, but strategically it did not make sense. And for the record you would have won this game by a LANDSLIDE against any of us! I am sure of it! Good luck in law school, though I know you'll do great!

Crystal: Thank you for your vote! We didn't talk a whole lot, but when we did talk you seemed very kind. I know you were very busy in school at the start of the game and it was hard to be on here a lot. I am really glad you decided to sign up and play the game and I think you should for sure give this a go again in the future. Like I told Carleen girls are ALWAYS outnumbered in this game, so be proud of making it to jury and I think you can go even further in the future. I wish you the best in all you do in life!

Isaac: I really appreciate your vote, thank you so much. I know after the bullet club reveal you felt betrayed by me and I felt really bad. I hope you know all our talks were genuine. I think you are hilarious and I love that you love dogs as much as me. As far as I know you were new to ORGs and I think you really did great until the bullet club reveal...I know your blow up was a strategic move, but I think it rubbed people the wrong way. Other than that I think you really did an amazing job in this game. You picked good people to align with (Jake and Cody were both impressed with you and wanted to keep you around as long as possible too). I am sorry things didn't go the way you wanted, but I am glad you played and I am so glad to have gotten to know you some. Keep loving dogs and I wish you the best!!

Taylor: If anyone would have told me after what happened in that first double eviction that I would have been able to get your jury vote I never would have believed them. So THANK YOU!! It means so much to me that you felt I was worthy for the win. I know at the time you felt so back stabbed by me and you had EVERY right to. I am still incredibly sorry for that. I remember you back from the first time we played big brother and I really liked you then. I was so excited to work with you this season and when that didn't work out it really did crush me. Thank you for being understanding. You are one of the most genuinely kind people I have met. It takes a lot to not hold grudges in life and I think you're a shining example of letting go and moving on in not just this game but in life. I hope we can keep in touch and I know you'll do great in whatever life throws at you. 

Ryan: You are seriously one of the coolest people I have ever met in these ORGs. You are so easy to talk to and I truly grew to adore you (just read my diary room posts!). I am so thankful you came back to be a part of the jury and I feel honored you gave me your vote. It means more then you know. From the moment you left the game I regretted I didn't do more to keep you safe and get you farther. I wanted to go to the end with you from week 2 and I barely knew you--that's how comfortable you made me feel and how likeable you are. I think you are a great player for ORGs and I hope you give this ORG another shot because I think you could go far. I really hope we can keep in touch. I have said it before and I will say it again if nothing else I am glad I played this game because I got to meet you. Take care!

Red: I want to thank you very much for giving me your vote. I am sorry I let you down in the game. From the beginning I had nothing against you. We had a lot of good talks about non-game related stuff. Once you were out we lost touch and I am sorry for that. I think you're a really cool person and I wish I could have gotten to know you a little better! I wish you the best and thanks for coming back to be a part of the jury!

Adam: I appreciate you voting for the person you believed played the best game and I hold no ill-will towards you for voting Jake--he played a great game and I would never take that away from him. When the game first started I agreed to be in alliance with you-Brad-Jake. I didn't know you or Brad at all. I reached out to you both and while Brad and I only talked a few times you and I really formed a good bond I thought. I think I may have had to pester you a bit at first to get you to respond to me more, but I am really glad I did. You are a really kind person and as I said in the haiku I wrote about you for final HOH you're a real "stand-up guy." Thank you for listening to me a lot when I was feeling stressed about the game. You are very calm/cool/collected and I needed that a lot. If anyone would have told me at the beginning of the game that you and I would grow to be good friends I wouldn't have believed that, but I really do consider you a friend and I wish you nothing but the best!

Cody: I also hold no ill-will towards you. I know you and Jake came into this game together and I expected nothing else but for you two to go out fighting for one another. I am glad you both have each other as a friend. You were definitely my "best friend" in the game for the bulk of the game after Ryan left. You and I talked a lot...I think our message thread has like 50 pages! It was really great getting to reconnect with you on this site. I think you are a really good friend and were a great ally to have in the game. You did a lot for me and I really am grateful and appreciative of that. While you and I have recently had a bit of a falling out I hope you know I think very highly of you. I think with time I will be able to move past everything and hopefully we can stay in touch. I wish you the best in life. You're a great person and the world needs more people like you. 

Jake: I am really sorry you did not win. You did deserve this as much as me--some will probably even argue more. You came into this game with a strategy and stuck with it. You really played a phenomenal game and have no reason to feel down about that. II think you need to know that along with Jacob you are absolutely in my list of top 5 ever ORG players in the BB org. You are a great player and an absolute all-start. You strategize better than most players. You are a comp beast. And this year I saw that you are a good ally and an even better friend. I know you felt defeated after the last HOH. I felt terrible because I didn't want you to think you didn't have a right to be here because you definitely did. I think this win would have meant more to you then it does to me, but I am also really proud of myself for winning this and feel really excited about it. Beating you was something I never thought I could have down at the beginning of this game.  I pointed out to you the other day that you and I were the only players in this games history to ever make it to more than one final two. You have now been to three and while I am sure it hurts not having won yet, that right there is a HUGE accomplishment that I don't think anyone else can ever do. You have taught me a lot about this game. I think you're a great person. I know people are hard on you sometimes and something I saw from you this season was vulnerability. People LIKE you and you deserve to be happy and deserve to be here. Don't ever forget that. I have no doubt you will go on to do even bigger and better things in life. Take care 

Alright that's everything. 

Thanks again, guys. I definitely didn't sign up for this game with the intention to win, but getting here and doing it is something I'll be proud of forever. I can't wait to be an audience member again though--I am shocked I didn't get an ulcer from the stress of this game added into the stress of my life  

I'll login a few more times to check my messages, but then will probably take a break from the site for awhile. 

I hope everyone has an amazing rest of the summer!

Stay kind and stay happy

[jacob]

Congrats to Amanda! Well deserved, but again there was no wrong outcome that could've happened! Jake, excellent job, I know you have a lot of feelings about how all of this went down, but you have no reason to be less than thrilled with how you did this season.

Hopefully see y'all around sometime, I promise I'm not a bitch even if I came across like one in this game or in my diary room haha

[joepetz]

Congrats Amanda with a well-deserved win! Congrats Jake to a well played game!

[lassidoggy]

Congrats Amanda! You really did deserve the win <3

#KennelClub

[ddawgman1]

Just wanted to stop by and congratulate Amanda on her victory. Amanda, you and I were the Final Two back in Big Brother 1, and I remember that you took me to the finals over James, even though I would be harder to beat in the end. I was the winner that time, and I always knew that the day would come when you would have your time to win. I think you played a great game, Amanda, and I think that it is awesome to finally see you win. You are an amazing player, person, friend, and I hope you'll continue to come back and be a part of Big Brother. GO SPARTANS! THE GLORY IS NOW YOURS, AMANDA!

Jake, I wanted to also address you, as well. You have done something even I didn't do: make it to the Final Two three times! And, doing that in consecutive seasons, that is quite an accomplishment, my friend. You and I have talked a lot, and I consider you a great player and a great friend. I know there was a controversy near the end, and people may definitely have opinions, but I think that coming forward with the information was an honorable thing. You're right: you could have kept that hidden, and maybe you would have won. I can't positively say that, and that involves playing the "What If" game. But, I admire your honesty in the situation, and I think you'll feel better about it with time. I think you still have some things to accomplish on Big Brother, and I do hope you return. I think good things are coming your way. I know I'm always looking forward to seeing what Jake Frato will do next. I'll talk to you soon, my friend.

Brett and Joe, you guys were incredible this season, and I hope you read my reviews on the Final HOH. This game would not have been possible without you two, this season, with me studying for the bar exam. My bar exam is over, I'll know in October whether I've passed or have to do it again. But, I thank you, both.

This season definitely was different, with the Bullet Club, the new House Vote Twist, and several new players that have entered the game. I think we've made a lot of All-Stars this season, and it'll definitely go down in the Big Brother book as a season to remember. I can only imagine what twists are coming in Big Brother 10! As long as I'm alive, I'll be involved with Big Brother.

To the rest of the players, thank you, all, for participating. I hope to see you all in the near future to see what other kinds of great games we can play. For now, I guess we'll see what Big Brother 18 can cook up! Thank you, everyone.

[crulex]

Derek, Joe and Brett - Thank you guys so much for hosting this game and allowing me to partake in it. I know I wasn't able to be active as much as I would have liked, but I still enjoyed seeing all the different competitions and the ones I did get to play in were a lot of fun, especially the Zombie story, the Election and the alphabet veto one that I went out on. Brett and Joe, best of luck to you guys in the future, and Derek, I'm sending good wishes your way for your bar exam results.

Amanda- Congrats! Even though I did vote for Jake, I'm still extremely happy that you won, as you are one of the sweetest, nicest and coolest women I have ever met. I want to thank you for being a good friend to me and allowing me to be able to talk with you whenever you needed someone to discuss things with. I said all I really wanted in my message to you, but I'm thrilled with your accomplishment.

Jake, Cody and the rest of the Bullet Club- I know I may have been one of the lower men on the totem pole, but I thank you all for allowing me to join in on the group and feel like a part of something bigger than myself. I may not have as much of an attachment to the group we were named after, but to play this game with some friends I knew and make some new ones was worth it.

Issac and Jacob - We may have disagreed on things in the game, but what I said to you both in PM's still stands. Lots of respect from me to you both and I'm impressed by the games you both played and especially the wins that Jacob won with his back against the wall. Well done, guys.

To everyone else, I may not have talked to you all that much, but then again I didn't hear from anyone else either. Still, I'm glad to have competed against most of you and hopefully now that all this craziness is behind us, the future will be just as interesting. Thank you all, and enjoy the rest of your Summer. I don't think I really have anything to add, so I'm out.