PBB Unlimited: 3rd Eviction (with Unexpected Results) {Comments Off}
House Battle Standings
CHART KEY:
W – Wayuk
HV - High Voltage
Team WAYUK vs. Team HIGH VOLTAGE Battle Standings (2011)
| Week | Head of Household (HoH) | Weekly Task | Mini-Contra Battle | Contra Battle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/28-12/03 | W = n/a HV = Carlo, Divine, Deniesse, Seiichi (11/27 only) FIFI OBSTACLE COURSE (HV Only) On the very first HoH challenge, housemates must control Fifi (the RC-controlled balloon fish) through a series of obstacle course starting from the confession room to the bedroom entrance. The top four who has the fastest times to complete the obstacle course wins HoH | IGNORE DISTRACTIONS Housemates must ignore any distractions or anything out of the ordinary around their houses. This includes anything related to the housemates themselves (ie. habits, fears, etc.) or even an invasion from housemates from the other team. They must have a low number of distractions total that they were actually distracted from in order to accomplish this weekly task. W = Passed HV = Passed | LANGUAGE DUELING Through three rounds, four housemates per team (two who lack fluency in English and two who lack fluency in Tagalog) must face each other off through language-based games in three rounds. PRIZE: Unlimited usage of the PBB Resort for the entire week. W = Lyn & Pamu (Tagalogers), Kevin & Seiichi (Englishers) HV = Biggel & Eting (Tagalogers), Carlo & Divine (Englishers) ROUND 1: Tongue Twisters ROUND 2: Poetry ROUND 3: Charades W = 2/3 (Tongue Twisters, Charades) HV = 1/3 (Poetry) Winner = W | JUMP ROPE EXHIBITION Both teams must choose 8 of their best jump ropers to represent each team and must create a jump rope routine. A panel of 3 judges will judge and choose the winner of having the best routine based on jump rope tricks, movement inside the rope, and overall presentation. PRIZE: Accumulation of 150,000 PHP to their team vault W = 1/3 HV = 2/3 Winner = HV |
| 12/04-12/10 | W = Steph HV = Kigoy BLIND CHIN & TONGUE GUESSING CHALLENGE Housemates must guess the item laid in front of them while being blindfolded, using only their chin and their tongue to feel and taste the item in front of them. The housemate with the most item guesses correct wins. | OPLAN PINOY (Wayuk): Passed Steph, Unad, and Kim must teach OFKs (overseas Filipino kids) Kevin, Ryan, and Seiichi the culture, language, and other aspects of being Filipino by the end of the week ----------------------------------- PROJECT KIGOY (HV): Passed Joya, Roy, Carlo, Eting, and Jerico are assigned to find ways to teach/change Kigoy from his brash, "bad boy" ways to a more mature, polite, and responsible person without Kigoy and the rest of the housemates knowing that this is a weekly task. | SCOOTER ALLEY CHALLENGE ("Palusotan" Challenge) Each housemate must ride the scooter and go through a downward slope to the narrow "alley" without knocking down the walls. Whichever team has the most "safe passages" wins. PRIZES: Unlimited usage of the PBB Resort/Pool throughout the entire week One unlimited luxury item for the entire week W = 4/14 HV = 6/14 Winner = HV -------------------------------- TEAM DEBATE (Open Forum): Which team is the smartest? Which team has the most solid unity? Which team has more proper manners and behavior? RESULTS: Because this is an open forum, there is no winner in this debate. To each team's opinion, after all. | NATIVITY SCENE Housemates must imitate the Nativity Scene statues without moving, flinching, etc. for 10 hours. The team with the less mistakes (less movements, etc.) wins the next 150,000 PHP. PRIZE: Accumulation of 150,000 PHP to their team vault W = 34 mistakes HV = 39 mistakes Winner = W (Because Team Wayuk decided to donate the 150,000 PHP accumulation to Lyn's family and for her mother's burial, Kuya replaced their 150,000 PHP with a giant medal indicating their victory for this contra battle) |
| 12/11-12/17 | W = Unad HV = Biggel FOOD HELMET Housemates must eat as much food provided to them as they can while wearing a(n American) football helmet. The challenge came in two rounds. The housemate who has the most food eaten at the fastest time wins. | CHRIS-MACHINE (Christmas Caroling Machine) Viewers can visit the BB house and request for the housemates to sing requested Christmas songs for 100 PHP per song. Kuya will give a sound call for the housemates to sing the songs requested at any time during the day. The housemates must also receive 70% approval rating per song in order to make their success count. The housemates must raise 10,000 PHP (per house?) in order to succeed this weekly task. W = Passed (100% rating, 48,000 PHP) HV = Passed (100% rating, 70,000 PHP) | KOREK-CATURE Kuya assigns Erica (Wayuk) and Divine (High Voltage) to draw caricatures of their housemates. Erica's caricatures were given to High Voltage and Divine's caricatures were given to Wayuk. In the meantime, the housemates were interviewed through a series of 10 questions regarding their fellow housemates survey-style ("Pinaka-SURVEY"). Using the provided caricatures, both houses must guess through those same "Pinaka-SURVEY" 10 questions the housemates they feel correspond to those questions based on their interpretation and analyzing of the caricatures provided by the other team. Whoever has the most housemates guessed correctly based on the "Pinaka-SURVEY" answers of their opposing team wins. PRIZES: Unlimited chocolates Unlimited usage of the PBB Resort/Pool throughout the entire week HV = 2/10 W = 6/10 Winner = W -------------------------------- ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS SONG COMPOSITION MUSIC VIDEO In tie with this week's Contra Battle, both teams must create a music video of their original Christmas song competition. The judgment will be based on viewer voting by "Liking" the MVs posted on the Official PBB4 Facebook fanpage. Whichever MV has the most "Likes" wins this mini-contra. PRIZES: One unlimited luxury item for the rest of the week W = 30,000+ likes HV = 40,000+ likes Winner = HV | ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS COMPOSITION Each house must compose one original Christmas song. The song will be judged through a 3-member judging panel. PRIZE: Accumulation of 150,000 PHP to their team vault W - "Simpleng Pasko" HV - "Tayo ay Pasko" WINNER - HV (unanimous vote) |
| 12/18-12/24 | n/a (both houses) | CHRISTMAS CONCERT Both houses must produce and present 7 different productions which also includes their original Christmas song compositions they composed last week in front of a live audience. Ticket sales will go to the relief aid fund for the victims of Typhoon Sendong. This task is both a weekly task and a contra battle. The team who wins this contra battle also wins the final weekly budget for 2011. PASSED - W | n/a | CHRISTMAS CONCERT (see WEEKLY TASK for full details) PRIZE: Accumulation of 150,000 PHP to their team vault WINNER - W (unanimous judging panel decision) |
| 12/25-12/31 | n/a (both houses) | "YES" TASK (Wayuk): Passed Housemates must say YES to all the tasks given to them by Kuya and/or "COOL"-okoy throughout the entire week no matter how embarrassing or humiliating they may be. They are given three chances to say NO on some of these tasks, however once they say NO three times, they lose the Weekly Budget -------------------- 5-TASK HODGEPODGE (HV): Passed Housemates must complete a series of 5 tasks assigned to them throughout the rest of the week in order to win their weekly budget. | HUMAN CUCKOO CLOCK Both houses must count and estimate the 8th hour before the countdown to New Year using a manual cuckoo clock while one of the housemates portray a "human" cuckoo clock as their timer. PRIZE: A rooftop party special to view the fireworks for the New Year. WINNER - HV | BIG BALLROOM BATTLE Both houses are taught and trained three different types of famous ballroom dances: Cha-Cha, Samba, and Argentine Tango in a "Dancing with the Stars"-style face-off battle! This is also the first time that both teams will be facing each other face-to-face live. PRIZE: Accumulation of 150,000 PHP to their team vault WINNER - HV (4-member judging panel decision) |
The Serious Woes of Team WAYUK
The entire week from 12/4 – 12/10 have been a complete emotional roller coaster for our housemates, most especially the underdog1 house, Team WAYUK. We have witnessed the first (since the split to two houses) major confrontation of housemates (Luz and Lyn), the tragic loss of a housemate’s loved one (Lyn’s mother’s death), and today, so far the most shocking news the housemates— and even the viewers— have ever received since the revelation of the two houses and the house battle between Team WAYUK and Team HIGH VOLTAGE.
That particular shocking news is the unexpected forced eviction of one of Team WAYUK’s strongest and smartest housemates, Mark.
Why do I say that this was unexpected? I have to say PBB was very clever with their announcements of a forced eviction among the housemates by stating that both polls for Wayuk and High Voltage nominees were halted. It was already given that Luz will definitely exit voluntary to be with her family at this very difficult time, but the housemate who will be forced evicted was still out in the open. Because HV‘s polls were also stopped, pretty much everyone (myself included) already predicted that the one who will be force evicted would be coming from HV.
Throughout all the FB fanpages dedicated to PBB, there were several predictions that were coming from HV from the public favorites (Slater) to the least favorites (Seth and Deniesse) may be those in danger of force eviction. I think the reason why this was unexpected simply because during the early days before Eviction Night that PBB did not give us a single clue as to which housemate that they were talking about and the violations that became grounds for forced eviction.
Reminiscing the forced eviction of Reg, Mark also committed the same major violation applying to new housemates, regarding revealing and asking about the outside world to his girlfriend, Kim. Because Kim arrived in PBB a week before Mark did, that makes Mark the newer housemate. In addition to that major violation, he also committed other minor violations, from lapel violations to even whispering and hand signals. His automatic nomination also placed him in complete danger of forced eviction, just like how HV housemate Slater was when he was first automatically nominated for not going through his secret task with Joya and in danger of forced eviction if he backs out from his second secret task involving the 3Gs.
This is indeed not just shocking, but also heartbreaking. Wayuk now suffers a major, not to mention unfair, disadvantage against HV in the next contra battles due to having two housemates short (12 housemates) comparing to HV‘s number (14 housemates). In addition, at the end of the Eviction Night, the announcement also came that tomorrow will also be Back-to-Back Nominations, meaning that despite that they’re two housemates short, Wayuk will still have to nominate one of their own to be evicted this coming week, while HV proceeds with the usual nominations. The question is now, will PBB do something about the number of housemates per house to have them equal to each other?
Mark’s forced eviction is a major loss, however, rules are rules and rules must be followed and honored by all housemates. No excuses. I’m sure the public viewers are now having an outcry towards PBB, Kuya, and the staff for making this “unfair” move. This also shows that PBB has no bias towards the public favorite housemates (such as Seiichi, Slater, Tin, Divine, Pamu) and even the favorites also apply to these punishments and consequences. Mark is indeed a public viewer favorite, but because he continued to violate the rules during his automatic nomination status, it was clear and just that he is leading himself to his end as a housemate.
What Will Become of Kim Now?
During the week, in addition to tutoring the OFKs (Seiichi, Kevin, Ryan) the aspects of Filipino culture and language, Kim was also given a secret task involving her real-life love, Mark, which was to keep herself separated from him for the rest of the week. She was also given a time limit of an hour to get herself separated from him. If she ever ends up next to Mark and start their usual flirting again, she loses the time from the hour limit. So far she only lost two minutes and from there, she decided to concentrate more on the weekly task with the OFKs rather than sticking herself to Mark as always in order to succeed.
What was the point of this secret task? For sure, the only clue that we could gather from the secret task’s purpose was to teach Kim how to be more independent away from Mark and assimilate herself more with the rest of the housemates in the house. Who would have thought that this secret task also gave a subliminal message to Kim that this would be the final week that she and Mark would be together under the same roof. What a shocker indeed.
Many MarKim fans are probably speculating on what Kim might do this coming week without Mark by her side. How will she cope being herself inside the house with the entire Wayuk team whom she still finds herself being strangers with? Will she ponder a voluntary exit for the second time to join Mark in the outside world? Will the housemates feel pity for her and nominate her to be evicted this week for the sake of true love? Or will Kim follow Mark’s words to her as he kept reminding her everyday: “No matter what happens, don’t succumb yourself to defeat and continue on?”
Her involvement with the OFKs weekly task and the secret task that she received (though I’m counting more on the OFKs task) should help her determine her decision to remain in the house and do what she can to be a serious team player, however her being truly in love can also show her weakness and can also be the main reason of her self-defeat. We’ll just see what happens as we continue to watch.
Why the Team High Voltage Nomination Polls Stopped?
Along with Kim’s standing and the major woes that Team WAYUK is now suffering, another question should make the viewers ponder during this roller coaster week. Why did PBB stop the nomination polls for Team HV when none of them will be evicted this week? In addition to that, regular nominations continue for them like as always? What exactly is Kuya/PBB have in their minds for HV at this point?
There have been some speculation that a shuffling between the two teams may occur as a result of two housemates from Wayuk exiting the house for good. A rumor in the beginning, now it may sound like this theory may possibly be true. Why the HV nomination polls stopped, we don’t have a direct answer.
At this point, I could only think of three things that may possibly happen during the upcoming week:
- One housemate from HV will be chosen to switch to Wayuk.
- Kuya has around 30 reserved housemates and may send in two to Wayuk to replace Lyn and Mark.
- Continue on with the contra battles with the same housemates and no new additions, except that two HV housemates will not participate during these battles. On the other hand, not all housemates participate in certain contra battles anyway.
My gut feeling though is telling me that the second and the third statement on the above list may possibly happen, but as always, I don’t want to jump in to conclusions and simply wait for the official announcements to come.
Tomorrow will be the 4th Nomination Night and regular nominations continue. On that same day, we will also learn who will be the new HoH’s for both Team Wayuk and Team HV. We may also learn of any new developments as a result of the two evictions that occurred today.
Careful, Critical Monitoring
After Mark’s exit, Kuya warned both houses once more regarding the importance of the regulations as stated in the rulebook and why it is important to follow these regulations at the utmost. He also warned the housemates of both teams to never underestimate the rulebook and the ongoings around their houses as Kuya never misses every little minor slip the housemates may commit. For that, he sent out two guards and passed out a note containing the names of the housemates who committed minor violations that were not pointed out earlier.
What Kuya may do to these housemates in those lists is still unknown. We’ll just have to wait and see.
- Sadly, based on the viewer comments in the Official PBB4 FB fanpage, there aren’t too many Wayuk fans… [↩]
