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I am hosting a competition to find the most popular housemate ever in a knock-out tournament. This includes all housemates from the British series of Big Brother - with the exception of "Celebrity Big Brother" housemates, except for Chantelle, as she was a housemate before entering the house.

With the 118 housemates currently on record from series 1 - 8, in the first round, they will be matched up in 59 different pairings. This enables us to knock it down to 59 for round two.

In round two, the knocked out housemate with the most votes percentage from the previous heat will return as a wild-card, so that the number can be made up to 60. Once again, they will be divided into pairs, and the number will be knocked to 30.

The future plans for the competition will be announced after the first two rounds have finished.

But now for round one: each day, ten pairs will be available to vote. You have one vote for each pair, and you will be able to vote via U2U. Each vote will run for three days, so there will be more than one vote open at times.

The pairs are randomly allocated using a random number generator. Today's 10 pairs are the following:

Anna (BB1) vs Lynne (BB3)
Jon (BB4) vs Sezer (BB7)
Lisa (BB4) vs Spiral (BB7)
PJ (BB3) vs Dawn (BB7)
Tim (BB3) vs Pete (BB7)
Kitten (BB5) vs Mikey (BB7)
Tania (BB4) vs Seany (BB8)
Michelle (BB5) vs Vanessa (BB6)
Emma (BB5) vs Lesley (BB8)
Science (BB6) vs Ziggy (BB8)

You have three days to get your votes in! Tomorrow, ten more pairs will also be available to vote between.