Living Room

[doolgirl]

With that being said, my week as takeover host has ended. I have had a blast being the host and I am going to miss being host for you all. I will be posting diary room questions soon, so please all take the time to answer that.

If I have one piece of advice to everyone it is to take advantage of that Chen store. I don't know how many of you realized this, but there were some good HOH advantages in that store for my competition. Who knows how that could have changed the course of this week had someone utilized them.

I will be watching, and maybe if I am lucky will get to make a reappearance again later.

[Van]

Whew, that was stressful. Thank you everyone who voted for me to stay!

[harmonyking1185]

Bye Amanda! I think I speak for all of us when I say we loved having you as our host just as much as you loved hosting us Hope you get to come back sometime!

[Brett]

Thank you for being our Takeover host this week, Amanda! Next week, we will have a new Takeover host and a new twist to the game. Stay tuned!

[paulfriendship]

Bye Amanda! I enjoyed your Takeover.

[Fratomon]

Sorry to see you go Luci, but congrats to Van. You really deserved to stay bro!

[Brett]

HouseGuests, please join me in the living room.

It is time to introduce our next Takeover host. This week, our host will be Anderson Cooper, a CNN journalist who is most notable for his show Anderson Cooper 360. Anderson was also the host of the first two seasons of The Mole, a reality game show that Joe and I are both huge fans of.

Hello, HouseGuests, and welcome to what I am sure will be an interesting week of play for you all. This week, I will be bringing back some tests, games, and missions from The Mole as your HOH, POV, and Chen competitions. But I have more than just competitions for you: I have a piece of information that may be even more interesting to you. Much like I began the first episode of the first season of The Mole with the following definition: "Mole (noun): a spy (a double agent) who establishes a cover long before beginning espionage)", there are some double agents among us. Three of the ten HouseGuests remaining in the game have been playing under a secret identity for the first three weeks of the game. One Covert Affair began last week with the secret HOH/POV twist, and the second Covert Affair ends now. Now, let's introduce the three returning HouseGuests:

First, I would like to unmask Tyreke. Tyreke's actual identity is Jake Frato. Jake played for the first time in Season 5 and has played in every season since then. Initially starting out with two quiet games in his first two seasons that led him to not make the Jury in either season, Jake developed a brash and vocal style of gameplay following his ally Brett's eviction in Big Brother 7. When combined with his unmatched competition strength, Jake was able to make it to the Final Two three straight times (BB7, BB8, and BB9), but was not able to capture the win in any of these three final appearances.

Next, I would like to unmask Sam. Sam's actual identity is Cody. Cody is playing in his seventh season. His first season was Big Brother 2 and his best overall performance was third place in Big Brother 9. Cody also was a co-host during Big Brother 7.

Finally, I would like to unmask Michael. Michael's actual identity is Derek. Derek, the winner of Big Brother 1, has been involved in this game from the start. He was either a host or a co-host during Big Brother 3, 7, 8, and 9. He most recently played the game in Big Brother 6, where he was evicted in the final four in part due to technical difficulties, and he has been itching to participate in this game once again for a long time.

I leave you all with this information. I look forward to seeing what strategizing you all do this weekend and I will see you all again on Sunday night at 7pm for the HOH competition.

[Fratomon]

Finally.

Lying just wasn't my color.

[Rallentando]

I'm going to keep this Rallentando name. It suits me more than the name people have known me as before. I just want to say, I was genuine with everyone. The only lying I told aside from claiming to never have played is my profession and location.

I work as a Cashier as well as a Customer Service person at a Grocery store in Nebraska. Otherwise everything else is completely true... Well, I didn't go to school for a music major either. But I didn't really play that up much I don't think.

[Derek]

Like Jake, I will be changing back to the usual avatar. This is actually a picture of me, the real me. It's a few years old, but I don't look much different from that.

Everything I have said to everyone, up to this point, has been true, other than the fact that my name isn't Michael. Michael is the name of my best friend in real life. I graduated law school back in May, and once I found out that I passed the Pennsylvania bar, I decided to sign back up to play again before I enter the work force. Once I'm a lawyer, I probably won't have a lot of free time.

Every conversation I've had with you has been legitimate. It's really been awesome getting to know you guys so far and hopefully we can continue to do that in this game. So, it's finally nice to meet all of you, for real.

[Deleted]

Wow, that was a close vote earlier. I loved your both (as I do with everyone, we got a good bunch of people here) and I know that personally it was a hard vote but I voted based on strategy (as I assume the others did) and I knew what I had to do.

Also, thanks for your take-over Amanda. You were an awesome take-over person.

and re-welcome to the game Jake, Cody and Derick. Well done in succeeding in your secret twist. I had a gut feeling the last twist was going to be a cast-based twist but I definitely did not guess that you guys were former players.

[Fratomon]

Allow me to give my own proper introduction for myself, as I feel that playing the role of Tyreke left a lot to be desired. My plan the first few weeks was to be around as little as possible, as lying and being someone so meek and uninteresting it just not the way I like to play these games and portray myself.

My name is Jake Frato and I am considered by many who have played this game to be the greatest player of all time, or in the very least, the greatest player to have never won. Meanwhile, my fellow returnee Derek is widely recognized by many to be the greatest player of all time, and to that, I guess you can all see that you're among the game's best with the three of us. I appreciate all the conversations I've had with many of you, and while my attitude and personality are vastly different from that of the Tyreke persona, I believe I will fit in as an even better person in this game.

I live in North East New Jersey, I'm a white, single male aged 20 with a high school education and a job in the Pro Wrestling industry that I enjoy greatly. I have a lot of free time so you may see me on here often but I may not always be answering messages at that point. Don't think I'm ignoring you, just know that I at times can have a lot of people needing to speak with me and I can't answer everyone, so important messages pertaining to my personal life might hold precedence over messages about the game. I will try to be as active as possible, albeit I'm not known for having a /great/ social game.

In Big Brother 5 I played and was soundly defeated with ease early into the game as it was my first, I didn't know exactly how to play, and thus just didn't care much about it. In Big Brother 6, however, I tried my absolute hardest to succeed. I actually aligned myself with my two fellow returnees, Cody and Derek, and tried to get through the game with them. They did however see fit that they needed to do away with me quickly, and a week before jury I was evicted from the game. Funny enough, that was the first season to use chens, and the last season Derek played. So you've got the three of us playing altogether with chens again for the first time since chens made their debut. Funny how that works out, right?

Anyway, in Big Brother 7, I aligned myself with Brett from BB6, yes our host Brett, because I promised him that this time around, we'd do well...and we did, sort of. Right before jury happened, Brett was evicted from the game and I pretty much lost my name. Before Brett was evicted, my ALL TIME competition wins were five. I won four POVs and an HOH in BB7 before Brett was eliminated. After he was eliminated? I won HOH three times and the POV twice, on top of winning the Limbo competition to return to the game after being evicted during double eviction. I won an unheard of Six POVs and Four HOHs, ten competitions, all the way to clinching my first final two...and losing by a vote of 5-2 to one of the worst, most deplorable people to ever play this game, Brendan. May we thank any higher power that he hopefully isn't here. Those two votes I got to win, however? Given to me by our two hosts, Joe and Brett.

In Big Brother 8, I very much took a backseat role. I went into the game with the same idea of working with one person, F2ing that, and having that be it. I did in BB7 with Brett and it didn't work out, and since Brett wasn't playing BB8, I decided on Joe, the other person who voted for me to win in BB7. In BB8, I only won HOH once, the very last one. However, along the way, I did win the POV four times. I decided to take a different approach of working socially with Joe and my opponents to get to where I needed to be, and when the time was right, I kept my promise and took Joe to the final two with me...and lost to him 5-1, but it was probably the one loss I suffered that I was the most fine with as I expected it and at least got to choose who I would lose to. I had a choice between losing to Brendan again or losing to my friend Joe, so it was pretty obvious.

Fast forward to the start of this Summer, Big Brother 9. I crafted something called...The Bullet Club. Myself, BB8's Crulex and Xavier, my friends Carleen and Trent, and Cody, my dear friend. The six of us joined forced with our most recent guest host Amanda and we destroyed this game from the inside out. Amanda, Cody and I traded the first six HOHs, and we were actually the only three people to win HOH all season except for someone else who won it twice, a guy by the name of Jacob. He has tons of heart, but couldn't take us out. We overcame a lot of awful people and a system that just didn't seem to be beatable to make it to the final three, and in there, something horrible happened. Something...extremely bad that I wont get into, but what it lead it led to was Amanda winning the Final HOH (unfortunately ending my streak of doing that) and electing to evict Cody and take me to the Final 2, knowing beating me would be a tad easier than beating him. While I did not win that game, I still lost to someone I have great respect for, and it proved that my Bullet Club was no failure. I won HOH four times and POV five times, include five of the final six.

So, as you can see...Im chomping at the bit. I've lost three years in a row now. I want to dominate this game, but they've made it hard with this twist, and I can tell the lot of you are good players. I look forward to facing off with Derek while I'm on this level of ability, and I enjoy being able to play with a good friend of mine like Cody again. We're going to have a lot of fun, but just remember that this is a game. We're all people, and we may all play characters, but at the end of the day...we're people. Don't take anything that happens here to heart.

Have fun.

[gabe]

why not vote out van, hes a fake bitch, YOU ARE MY TARGET.

[Brett]

Heads up: this week's Chen competition will be held on Wednesday night at 6pm Eastern time. It will be a pretty cool challenge, and could greatly impact the game because there is a potential to win up to 175 Chens.

[Derek]

Wow! I am getting one of those rich dollar sign montages that they put up in movies.