OTEV
Also played as: Catscratch Veto · Let's Get Bananas · OTEV the Absent Minded Alien · OTEV the Belligerent B-Movie Blob · OTEV the Broadway Clam · OTEV the Brokenhearted Beaver · OTEV the Dopest DJ · OTEV the Hog Father · OTEV the Jacked Jellyfish · OTEV the Paranoid Pigeon · OTEV the Pissed-Off Penguin · OTEV the Possessed Piglet and 9 more
How it works
What this shows: Our own summary of the wiki page linked below.
Big Brother's musical-chairs veto. A costumed OTEV ('veto' backwards) sings a clue, players dash down a slippery ramp to find the matching item, and whoever comes back last or wrong loses a spot each round.
Worth knowing
- Guest voices have included former houseguest Casey Turner in Big Brother 11 and comedian Gilbert Gottfried in Big Brother 16. Source
Sources: OTEV · Big Brother Wiki
All 22 playings
What this shows: Every season and week it was played, under the name used that time, and who won. Tap a season to see that week on the season timeline.
Most wins
What this shows: Players with the most individual wins of this competition. Tribe and team wins aren't counted.
Who wins it
What this shows: The typical winner's game, as the average of their game-style percentiles for that season (50 = a typical player), and the upsets: wins by someone with at most one earlier HOH or Veto win that season while a comp leader was still in the game.
The average winner
Dashed line: 50, a typical player. From 25 winner profiles. Percentiles cover the whole season, so “Comp wins” includes this win.
Biggest upsets
- Dan Gheesling won with 0 earlier wins; Frank Eudy had 6.Big Brother 14 · Wk 8 · played as “OTEV the Absent Minded Alien”
- Eric Stein won with 0 earlier wins; Daniele Donato had 5.Big Brother 8 · Wk 8 · played as “Catscratch Veto”
- Mark Jansen won with 0 earlier wins; Paul Abrahamian had 4.Big Brother 19 · Wk 6 · played as “OTEV the Possessed Piglet”
- Vincenzo Palumbo won with 0 earlier wins; Britney Haynes had 4.Big Brother 12 · Wk 8 · played as “OTEV the Broadway Clam”
- Zach Rance won with 1 earlier win; Donny Thompson had 4.Big Brother 16 · Wk 7 · played as “OTEV the Pissed-Off Penguin”
- Elissa Slater won with 1 earlier win; Aaryn Gries had 4.Big Brother 15 · Wk 8 · played as “OTEV the Brokenhearted Beaver”
- Adam Poch won with 1 earlier win; Rachel Reilly had 4.Big Brother 13 · Wk 9 · played as “OTEV the Sweet-Toothed Shark”
- Michelle Meyer won with 0 earlier wins; Paulie Calafiore had 3.Big Brother 18 · Wk 5 · played as “OTEV the Dopest DJ”
Video and analysis
What this shows: Rob Has a Podcast coverage that names this competition, when we have it.













































