[Mark]

Hi!

There are a lot of contestant popularity contests on TiBB, many appreciation threads and several +1/-1 games. Now it's time to
find out who is the most popular contestant in the form of an 8 series wide, knockout style tournament!

It all sounds complicated, but don't worry. I've taken all 123 contestants from series 1-8, and added the 5 winners of the
Celeb BBUK series, so we have 128 contestants in total. I then formed a random bracket, pairing up all housemates vs one other housemate. Every day, starting soon we will have a poll on the website where you can vote for your favorite housemate from the two. If they win, they will go through to round 2, with all the other round 1 winners. This process will continue until there is just 1 housemate remaining.

I have made the pairings, which were done at complete random. I won't go into details, but I basically cut out all names on a
bit of paper and put them in a bag and drew them at random.

Each match will be available to vote on for 24 hours. So every day there will be one match to vote on. So this is a long competition, hopefully which will end just before BB9!

There will be a prediction competition, and a guess the winning % competition that will run parallel to this. I'm currently looking for people to run these separate things. It will require you to add up the daily results on who guessed correctly, as the competition goes on. So if you can dedicate a little time every evening, and are quite good at math - give me a U2U saying which you'd like to do. I'll then decide who will do it and let you know.

The start date will be announced SOON.

Now... time for the cool bit! Below is the bracket as it starts!







If you have any questions/comments/ideas let me know in this thread, and if they are good I'll see about adding them before we start soon.

- Mark


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[Loukas]

Great Idea!!!! cannot wait!

[Ruth*Star]

This sounds great. Cannot Wait.

[ProjectWeirdo]

Omg, that sounds great! I've only been watching for a few years, tho, so I'll probably only vote for the ones I know.

Great idea!

[BigSister]

wow great idea Mark looking forward to it

[Redmond]

Good idea. Surely it should be Best "Housemate" ever though and not "Contestant".

Also a couple of mistakes in the above graph, PJ is listed twice (once as BB4 when it should be BB3) and also you put Anouska down as BB3 when she was in BB4.

[Redmond]

Originally posted by ProjectWeirdo
Omg, that sounds great! I've only been watching for a few years, tho, so I'll probably only vote for the ones I know.

Great idea!

That already means the competition will be pointless then, because people are not going to vote for who the actual best housemate is but just the ones they know, even if that means voting someone utterly crap over a legendary housemate.

[Matt]

Surely, if you're going to be choosing the best housemate EVER, then you should include ALL housemates from Celebrity Big Brother, as well as those from Teen Big Brother and Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack?

[Mark]

128 people fits into a bracket perfect without having to give people byes

[Captain.Remy]

This is an amazing idea !!!! Twins or Nadia to win !!!

[Tom]

Makosi to win! But I doubt it, shes up against Pete

[Shaun]

Makosi would probably win against Pete on here, I can't think of a single Pete fan.

Great idea Mark!

[xDramatick]

Hope Richard, Dan, Chanelle, Kate &David do well

awesome idea Mark.

[Wasted]

Great idea, can't wait!

lol at Chanelle and Ziggy being randomly paired against each other.

[Mark]

Originally posted by Wasted
Great idea, can't wait!

lol at Chanelle and Ziggy being randomly paired against each other.

lol, I knew people would never believe that one. I was sitting on my sofa with my housemate and there had been no 'big matches' as of yet. We drew ziggy out the bag, and as I was drawing his opponent out my housemate said "chanelle would be pretty funny" . And against all odds it was

The names were shaken into the bag and it was completely random, whether you believe me or not

- Mark

[ProjectWeirdo]

Originally posted by Redmond

That already means the competition will be pointless then, because people are not going to vote for who the actual best housemate is but just the ones they know, even if that means voting someone utterly c**p over a legendary housemate.

Urm, actually, what I meantw as I won't vote if I don't know one of the housemates. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

[Matt]

Just a thought - shouldn't Sam and Amanda be paired together?

[Wasted]

Originally posted by Mark

lol, I knew people would never believe that one. I was sitting on my sofa with my housemate and there had been no 'big matches' as of yet. We drew ziggy out the bag, and as I was drawing his opponent out my housemate said "chanelle would be pretty funny" . And against all odds it was

The names were shaken into the bag and it was completely random, whether you believe me or not

- Mark

Oh, I believe you but I thought it was a funny coincidence.

[Shaun]

Originally posted by Matt
Just a thought - shouldn't Sam and Amanda be paired together?

That'd make 127 Housemates, which isn't a very negotiable number

[Spike]

Good idea, be interesting to see who wins.

[dupin]

I wish the Celebrity Hijack housemates were there, Amy would do really well.

Aisleyne to win!

[JeanP!]

Amanda or Sam to win

[Matt]

Originally posted by Shaun

That'd make 127 Housemates, which isn't a very negotiable number

Then remove the 5 CBB winners, therefore turning the game into "Which of the contestants from the main series is the best ever" or something along those lines.

You can't call it a game to find the best contestant ever when not all contestants are included.

[Billy]

COME ON BONNIE!

[Magic]

Nadia or Marco to win!