• There will be 14 players. All players are known as and will be referred to as Houseguests. The goal is to make it to the end of the game – standing alone above all other competitors, while convincing a jury of your fellow evicted houseguests to vote for you over the other person next to you as the winner of the game.
  
  
• Game events will run primarily from 7:00 PM to 12:00AM EST, Sun through Thurs. If your daily schedule or timezone will cause this to be a problem/interference with your personal life, then maybe signing up isn't a good idea. The game won't run all the time start to finish from those hours, but this is generally where the meat of the game will occur. Every player's participation is valued, so only sign up if it fits within your schedule!
  
  
• Private Messages aren't required, but they're strongly the preferred form of contact, and if we go over the amount of registered players, those with PMs on will have priority over those who don't and do not give alternative contact information.
  
  
• You are playing for a grand prize! The winner of Awful Big Brother will win a $60 Amazon.com Giftcard. Sharing of this prize/Conspiracy of sharing/splitting/buying another player something with it is strictly forbidden.
  
  
• On every Thursday, there will be an eviction ceremony. Votes will be taken privately by the host via PM, where you may ONLY vote for one of the two nominees. The results of the vote will be revealed in the thread. The player with the highest number of votes will be removed from the game. In the event of a tie, the current Head of Household will cast the tie-breaking vote. Failure to vote will result in a penalty vote against yourself the next time you are Nominated for eviction. Please try to be here on time for Evictions.
  
  
• (Rule added on Jan 30) Everyone's been really good about it so far, but just to keep people to stick to the format, if you fail to send in a vote twice, the next week you'll be given a penalty un-vetoable Nomination. If you fail to vote for a third time, you'll be evicted. If there is a schedule conflict that would prevent you from voting, please talk to me or one of the other mods to set up a potential early vote, we're willing to be flexible in those situations.
  
  
• Every so often, you will be asked to provide a confessional of your thoughts with the host. This confessional will be shown to the Viewer's Vista, however, it will remain private there, and in absolutely no way influence you and your game. Nothing you ever say in a confessional will ever come back to bite you. We ask that you be honest and open in your thoughts and plans when discussing them in your confessionals.
  
  
• Following every Eviction is the competition for Head of Household. Everybody still in the game except for the outgoing HoH is eligible to play in this competition. As an individual competition, collusion and helping out other participants is strictly forbidden, and could result in a variety of penalties ranging from disqualification from that challenge to a penalty nomination or other similar punishments. Try to keep it clean.
  
  
• Each week, the house is split into what is essentially two cliques, Haves, and Have Nots. Haves get to enjoy all of the normal rights as provided by the game, out of thread communication, ability to send open confessionals whenever they feel like doing so, essentially living the normal houseguest life. Have-Nots however, are not a role you want to have. If you are a Have-Not, you may only communicate either in-thread or in a special pre made Have-Not doc with the other Have-Nots for that week. Communicating with other players by any other means is outright forbidden as a Have-Not. Also, Have-Nots must perform a special task as voted each week by the game's viewers. Have-Nots will be determined by various means, either through competitions, the HoH or another player being allowed to name one, or any other such event as queued up by the Host. This minor twist typically only lasts for the first half of the game.
  
  
• While alive, you may communicate out of thread with anyone that is still in this game. You are expected to plot against each other and make alliances and fake alliances. It is not essential to do this though... unless you want to win. If you ignore everyone out of thread, you have a death wish.
  
  
• Any out of thread chatroom/google doc/etc must also be shared with the host of this game, where select excerpts will be shown to the Viewer's Vista page to provide updates and add suspense to the game. This is Big Brother after all, we're always watching.
  
  
• When voted out, you may communicate with no-one about this game. Please do not abuse this since some players will come back into the game ‘after death’ to form the final jury to decide a winner or for other reasons. If you and someone else is voted out before the Jury Phase, then you can talk to each other fine, along with joining the Viewer's Vista. But if you are voted out, and someone post-Jury Phase is voted out, do not contact them as you may potentially poison their vote as a juror. The same goes for people still in the game contacting people who were voted out. Spectator posts are permissible by people not participating in the game, as long as it is not done in a way to assist or harm any active player. I cannot stress the importance of this rule enough.
  
  
• You are not permitted to speak with any potential players about the game before it begins. This is mostly to effectively discourage pre-game alliances, and any long-term tainting of the game itself. Please play with SOME semblance of honor to keep things somewhat fair.
  
  
• When voted out, you are to exit the game immediately. You'll have a short interview session with the host, which will be posted in the special Viewer's Only document where non-players can discuss the game and get insight on the going ons, from confessionals and interviews to the players voting histories and sneak peeks on upcoming events and challenges.
  
  
• If you are voted out and announced as a member of the Jury, you will become a Juror and given a link to a special Jury House page. On this page, you can communicate with fellow jurors as they are also voted out of the game. You can talk to them about any aspect of the game if you wish, but all communication with them can only occur in the provided Jury House. The only things you are forbidden from discussing is outright how you are going to vote at the end of the game, and you are not allowed to directly influence another Juror's potential vote. There is to be no collusion between the Jurors. Please be present at the end of the game, because when we are down to the final two players, we will hold our finale, where the Jury will vote for a winner. The details on this will be explained to the Jurors themselves.
  
  
• There will be events in the game held 4-5 days out of the week. Fridays and Saturdays, there are no scheduled events, but the game is always afoot.
  
  
• There will be individual challenges and team challenges. Team challenges will have randomly generated teams, where you will need to operate as a unit for the challenge. Individual challenges, you are not allowed to assist other players. They are considered individual challenges for a reason.
  
  
• You're expected to compete in challenges. The vast majority of challenges are all performed in-thread with no outside tools or websites or any of that malarky needed, although there are a few. Any such challenge will have that information posted ahead of time so players can prepare, along with any advisements for that challenge (Be on a non mobile-device, requires flash, etc)
  
  
• There is to be no out of thread communication during the Nomination/Veto player picking/Veto Usage/Eviction ceremonies, or other key times the host states as such.
  
  
• No editing posts. Evidence of editing can result in punishment ranging from a challenge disqualification to a forced removal from the game depending on the severity. Harmless ninja edits may be ignored but abuse will be punished.
  
  
• Do not post/send chatlogs in the game's thread/via PM or IM or eMail/note inside a bottle drifted through the ocean/etc. No chatlogs anywhere.
  
  
• Former Awful Survivor players are ineligible for this game. Looking for new blood in this game!
  
  
• You are expected to Expect the Unexpected. Big Brother is a game that is notorious for some little twists and turns being thrown about in this game. Just to put everyone at ease, the game will remain impartial, and all twists and such are set to occur at pre-determined times as known by the host and their fellow co-mods. The game does not tilt to favor one player over any other. However, beware the game, it is a changing beast.

• What goes on in the Vista, stays in the Vista. This is by far the most important rule of the viewer's vista. Anything that is posted in there, cannot be posted in the thread or leaked to players. Viewer's commentary is mildly allowed in the thread, but we strongly prefer to keep it in the vista.
  
  
• You are not allowed to communicate with the players of the game. Unless they were voted out pre-jury, you cannot communicate with any player of the game as long as it is going on. This is to keep things fair without tainting the natural flow of the game.

STING 64 fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Mar 6, 2014

STING 64 fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 3, 2014

Britt Burns fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jan 2, 2014