Messing with the prize fund
 

I know it's not the first year it's been done and I never like when they do it but this year I think is far more unfair than last year. Atleast last year all remaining HMs got a share (even if some shares were meagre, they all had an equal chance)

I mean why only give three of the 9 remaining HMs a shoot at it? and why only choose from the HMs noms this week?

I also thought it was really unfair the year Eugene took a chunk of the prize fund, eventhough he was my favourite and I don't blame him for taking the cash, I do genuinely believe that if he hadn't he would have won that year.

Why couldn't it just be 25k, and the winner gets 75k :(
but now this person gets the same as the winner - idiotic

What's annoying is the 50K win is based on family noms. Not the voters who've kept the series going. I wouldn't mind so much if it was based on public vote.

They really haven't got a clue what the viewers want. 50k is a ridiculous amount of money. I agree about Eugene, he would have won had that not happened.

Yeah exactly and as Munchkins said, whoever takes it will end up with the same as the winner. I don't see why we should waste our money voting a winner when the person who left with 8 other HMs still in there gets the same prize. Tbh I'm glad that you can't vote through FB anymore so I won't be tempted to vote anymore

Worst move BB has ever done. Where is the best place to make BB hear our views on this?

Agreed and doubly unfair is the family and friends have been watching the show and voted tactically obviously.

Tbh the winner only gets money for sitting in the house doing nothing it's not like they earned it

They haven't earned it as such but they would be voted for by the public, who spent money on putting them there, just seems a bit of a kick in the balls for people who do spend money voting to then just hand an equal amount to the person who effectively comes 8th. I mean in theory it's a good twist but I think they should have taken less money off the prize fund and either given all the HMs who weren't up this week a shot or used the noms through the whole series rather than just this weeks when the F&F nommed.

Just don't think it's too much of a big deal, none of them horrid people deserve 100k

50k is a bit much for doing a task all week, and they don't even deserve to have the money, if they were going to spit it it should be 20 or 25k not half of it, i don't like when BB split the money.

Also 25k makes it a gamble.
50k makes it a dead cert
Do you risk the chance of 75k, to get a definite 25k?
with the 50k, even if you get to the final you can only win the same amount
This seems, to just be in place to evict a male, since a 4th female in a row leaves tonight.. and they need to even the numbers lol

life is not fair!
its not like any of them have earned it anyway.

sorry got to have a rant its not our money so who fcuking cares!

Do you see that button on your TV remote control, the one that turns the TV off? You can use that, or if that's no good, try turning to another channel when BB is on. They'll hear that :-)

Not going to be shared out with those who voted for them, at at the end of the day I doubt many people are voting for people BECAUSE they want the person to win the 100k. They just want their favourite to win, for the glory of winning. Especially with all the Deana fans, they just want her to prevail over the 'insiders'

Yeah, you're completely ignoring my point though, it's not about who deserves 100k, it just seems ridiculous to have to vote for a winner when the winner gets the same thing as the person who gets 8th place.

people are on the bread line working them selves in to the ground to pay the bills and you lot got the dog that one clown wont get a 100 grand, get a grip reallity.

No need to be so rude tbh - we watch the show (well i do anyway) to vote for someone to win 100k, what's the point of 8th place getting the same
i wouldn't mind 25k..

thats not me being rude its me sick of this, that moron deserves a 100 grand

I completely agree.

If it had been a vote to evict and/or they had put all the HM's up for eviction and evicted more than one before playing around with the prize fund then fine play around with the money all you like as viewers have not spent money getting their favourite into the final.

It's been a bit of a con really. They've basically said vote to keep your favourite in and thanks for handing over all that money but now we'll decide who gets half of it.... but hey, keep on voting and spending as there's a little bit left. :nono:

I agree with this comment. It would be fair if it was based on the public vote

Don't do a Beckys sister "soldiers-dying-in-Afghanistan" on it :nono: I just mean in principle shouldn't the winner get the biggest prize, otherwise why should we all waste our money voting for a winner

It's not the point though.

The winner should be entitled to 100k of the prize-fund, that is what the winner should get.

Now we can basically say Luke S/Conor have that accolade tonight as they get the same amount as the winner.

If it was a seperate 50k then fine, but it's not. :bored:

Agreed

The winner is never guaranteed 100 grand anymore. This twist is stupid. The producers make up the rules as the task goes along. Free pass to the final.. oh no wait. Lets add money to the mix. It really is unfair.

I'm just catching up with BB and just when I thought BB couldn't ******* this programme up any worse than they have done...low and behold now I'm hearing they are going to give 50% of the prize money to a HM whilst the show is still in progress with 9 HM still in contention.

Really....!!!!! so I have a question has anyone on the BB production team ever actually watched Big Brother, seriously !!! for this is NOT a twist, this is NOT a clever or cunning ploy.

This is the latest in a long line of stupid, ill-conceived, badly thought out ideas that have ruined this series and now risk complete meltdown of whats left of the show.

This makes a complete mockery of Big Brother, Big Brother contestants have to WIN THE SHOW TO WIN THE PRIZE MONEY not get offered large slices of the prize fund for completing/winning a task against 1 other HM. Sheer lunacy......

What's the incentive to apply for this show if not to win the "life changing" prize (100K)

Too angry to write any more................

I think it's a bit dumb but only because it's too much to make it a really difficult decision, the actual principle of messing with the prize fund doesn't bother me that much because I don't think the cash prize is that important to Big Brother; if you were going to go on a show purely for the prize fund then BB wouldn't be a great choice when you're there for nearly 3 months and only have about a 1 in 17 chance of winning, and even if you do win the amount you get you could earn in a couple of hours on a lot of other shows. I still think BB is more if a stepping stone to money, even though you can't make as much as you used to be able to, if you're clever you can still make a fair bit of money off the back of BB through photoshoots, interviews, personal appearances etc

Its the way it was all decided thats bugging me. I never agree with messing with the prize money but it would have been more acceptable if ALL housemates had a chance of winning it. Not just the few HMs that BB handpick. Which is basically what they have done by making it decided on the families noms alone. There should have at the very least been a public vote to decide who went in the room, with ALL of the details available to us at the time of voting.

See I love prize fund twists and I'm usually the only one. The BB6 one was great (and fair...as they said 'would one housemate come to the Diary Room'), BB9's was alright, last year's was pretty poorly executed and this year's has potential, although I do agree the selection process for the White Room was very unfair.

The worst part is that they took the family nominations and specifically decided to choose the four with the least votes. It was very calculated because surely it would have been more entertaining to include all of the non-evictees. If Adam had had a chance to go in the White Room, things would have hit off. I'm sure they knew he'd fight to get in and fight harder if he got in. Then again why not just have the housemates with the fewest, i.e. Sara, Scott and Luke S: simple and easy but then Conor would have been left out. They literally chose to put Conor in the mix but not Adam. They thought about all this and made it happen the way it did.

The main thing that bothers me is how much of the prize fund they're giving away, I just believe that if we're being asked to spend our money to vote for a winner then that winner should be the most rewarded in there