ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ ROUND 9 HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 31st March, 21:59 CET)

[Jukica]

We will decide the winner via the game. The rules are very simple: I will post the hints from time to time (most likely one hint per day) and you have to guess a city according to the available hints. You can post only once per semi-final/final, what means that you can make 2 posts (one in each semi) while we have semi-finals (with limited number of guesses by semi-final). The game is very popular and exciting and it definitely won't be boring. Also, the winner will be contacted, but he/she won't be revealed until they will decide to use the twist.

HINTS:
1. It is a place (3 guesses x 2 semis = 6 guesses -> 3 guesses in each semi)
It is a city (yeah I accidentally revealed this )
2. Its population is lower than 500 000 (3 guesses x 2 semis = 6 guesses -> 3 guesses in each semi)

Hey to everyone and welcome to one of the most popular forum games! I'm back once again as one of ESC Big Brother hosts. If you are playing this game for the first time, please check the rules below!

ESC Big Brother 2018 has two big parts: 2 semi-finals and the big final. Semi-finals are equal to the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 semi-finals with prequalified countries that are voting in that semi-final. While there are no prequalified countries, the big final will consist of 13 songs from every semi-final! The last standing song in the final will be crowned with ESC Big Brother 2018 winner award. Both semi-finals and final include special twists/challenges which are here to make this game more interesting for everyone, so let's hope that we will succeed!

1. ESC Big Brother 2018 is back! The game consists of 2 parts: nomination and elimination and both will be very exciting.

2. Head of Household is also back! At the beginning of every round, 3 HoHs will be chosen and they will be required to send a list of 3 songs for nomination. Everything together will give 3 songs which will be up for eviction. The most voted song will be eliminated from the game.

3. The songs that are nominated and not eliminated in the current round cannot be nominated in the next round!

4. How to become the HoH? Every person who will post in the thread will be thrown in the hat from where we will draw 3 names. Also, it is irrelevant if you post once or 20 times during the round.

5. All HoH winners will be required to PM 2 members when they're sending their nominations: @Jukica and @ParadiseES (unless defined different). Don't worry about remembering who to private message because we will write everything in PMs we will send to the winners.

6. Everyone will be able to vote in the polls, while only the forum members will be able to become one of the HoHs. There will also be exciting twists which are created to make the game interesting.

7. Mostly each round will be around 24 hours long. If one round will be longer or different, we will inform you in advance.

8. The last song standing will be crowned "Big Brother 2018".

1. There is no rule on who you should or should not vote for, but voting for your least favorite could actually hurt some of your favorites at times, so just consider some of these strategic suggestions.

2. You are not required to reveal your votes in the thread (all polls are private), but you are allowed to share your vote and encourage members to vote with you.

3. Check the thread on who people vote for because that could give you an indication who is in danger and who is not (of course that you will never know for sure because the majority of players do not reveal their votes).

4. Base your vote on voting patterns and trends because your favourites can have bigger chances to survive.

Example: You hate Germany’s entry and also dislike the Slovenian song. While you would rather see Germany go, it may be a better idea to vote for Slovenia first if you can see a lot of members want to get rid of it first. If you have a feeling Germany will not get enough votes, you may just be throwing your vote away, so maybe going for a different song until the opportunity arises to get rid of Germany would be the smart thing to do.

5. Get with your friends and buddies and vote in groups to increase your chances to nominate/evict a song.

6. Don’t forget that the HoHs play a big part in this game, so be sure to use them wisely if you have this unique power instead of just throwing it away by nominating something you know won’t go home at this point.

So, to sum up the most important parts, the most vital things here are understanding of the rules and strategy.

1. Same as last year, the Big 5 and host are not safe from the semi-finals. :twisted: This means that Semi-Final 1 will have 22 songs and Semi-Final 2 will have 21 songs.

2. Each semi-final will give us 13 finalists, so we will be down from 43 to 26 participants by the end of semi-finals.

3. While the official board rules still apply here, we are more tolerable here because of usual game discussions.

4. This is not ESC Ranking Game, this game was designed to be strategic where you can either try to keep your favourites in the game or vote strategically. It was also created to be dramatic and bizarre, so you can know what to expect in most of the rounds.

So, before playing this game, please answer to these questions: Do you get mad when people try to find you in Hide And Seek? Do you get angry when someone is beating you in any game? I understand that this game isn’t for everyone and that some people will not be able to stand all the drama and pressure (or your favourites getting eliminated from the game), so please take part in this game only if you are sure that this issue will not cause any problems for you.

The main word in this game is strategy and everything is based on that. The most important thing in this game is to play smart. So, if your favourite is eliminated, SEEK REVENGE :twisted: and play smart, but if you refuse to play strategically and get upset about your favourites being kicked out early in the game, you can blame only yourselves for not playing smart.

 

[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1

PARTICIPANTS:
Albania 2018 - Eugent Bushpepa - Mall
Armenia 2018 - Sevak Khanagyan - Qami
Austria 2018 - Cesár Sampson - Nobody but You
Azerbaijan 2018 - Aisel - X My Heart
Belgium 2018 - Sennek - A Matter of Time
Bulgaria 2018 - Equinox - Bones
Cyprus 2018 - Eleni Foureira - Fuego
Czech Republic 2018 - Mikolas Josef - Lie to Me
Greece 2018 - Yianna Terzi - Oneiro mou
Lithuania 2018 - Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We're Old
Macedonia 2018 - Eye Cue - Lost and Found
Portugal 2018 - Cláudia Pascoal - O jardim
Switzerland 2018 - Zibbz - Stones

14th Finland 2018 - Saara Aalto - Monsters
15th Ireland 2018 - Ryan O'Shaughnessy - Together
16th: Croatia 2018 - Franka - Crazy
17th: Spain 2018 - Alfred & Amaia - Tu canción
18th: Belarus 2018 - Alekseev - Forever
19th: Estonia 2018 - Elina Nechayeva - La forza
20th: United Kingdom 2018 - SuRie - Storm
21st: Israel 2018 - Netta - Toy
22nd: Iceland 2018 - Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice

 

[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1

I am working on some additional preparations, but we should start shortly with the announcement of the first 3 Head of Households (tonight or tomorrow)

So, if you want to post, you still have some time

 

[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1

The first 3 Heads of Household are:
[MENTION=10464]SiXo[/MENTION] [MENTION=4381]VedatiNet[/MENTION] [MENTION=6296]CPV4931[/MENTION]

They will be PMed in 30-60 minutes with all the instructions and they will have approximately 24 hours to reply to me. Since this is the first round, there will be no restrictions with the allowed nominees.

 

[VedatiNet]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1

I already sent my nominations

 

[SiXo]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1

Sent mine as well. Let's start this jam. Can't wait to see how will one of the "favourites" perform. :twisted:

 

[Jukica]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1

And the nominated songs are

Belarus 2018 - Alekseev - Forever

Iceland 2018 - Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice

Belgium 2018 - Sennek - A Matter of Time

Drama right from the beginning

Please cast your vote here until 21st March, 21:59 CET - http://pollmaker.vote/p/BR9PGM7Y Also, if you want to become the Head of Household, please post in the thread

([MENTION=4364]Matt[/MENTION])

 

[DaFlo]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

I allow Sennek to stay.

Out with Ari-seev. xo

 

[Matt]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

Belarus, you gotta go....Iceland is no threat so why bother? Let's protect our beloved Sennek

 

[Jonaxh]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

Shots were fired! Let the game begin! By the way just voted

 

[94ayd]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

One of them is so repulsive, I just couldn't resist :twisted:

 

[Bibha]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

We should remove illegitimate and plagiarized entries first right?

 

[Himan]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

So, posting is fun right?

 

[JamTomorrow]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

I'd have voted for all three of them if I could, lol.

 

[Kaz]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

Voted. I swear my number one better not be the first one eliminated.

 

[migueluis]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

Go away Belarus :twisted:

 

[Plankel]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

Nice game!

 

[JChan]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

I want Ari to win something

 

[hawadharma]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

I tried and tried to understand the rules but... nah. I voted anyway
Try make me HoH once and educate me on how it's done

 

[CPV4931]

Re: ESC BIG BROTHER 2018 ~ SEMI-FINAL 1 ~ VOTING HAS STARTED, PLEASE VOTE (ddl. 21st March, 21:59 CET)

Voted for my nomination :-)