Big Brother 6

Big Brother 6 is the sixth season of the reality television series Big Brother. It aired on CBS for 80 days, concluding when Peter Nicely was crowned the winner with six out of seven votes from the jury.

This season is most notable for the controversial conflicts between the two power alliances: the LiChEal alliance and Yvonne's Support Group.

Twists/Changes

 * Secret Partners: Each houseguest had a secret partner in the game, although the partners each competed as individuals, were nominated as individuals, and were evicted as individuals. The partners in the game had each known each other before entering the house. Initially, each secret pair thought that they were the only secret pair. If both members of a secret pair reached the final two, the game's winner would receive a prize of $1 million, while the runner-up would receive $250,000.
 * Previously Evicted Houseguest: After the first four evictions, America voted for one of the evictees to return to the game.

Alliances

 * Yvonne's Support Group (Dan, Emma, Gina, Nick, and River)
 * LiChEal (Ashley, Cassidy, Corinne, Everly, Louise, and Peter)

Week 1
All 14 houseguests entered the house with their secret partner. The members of the winning team from the food competition competed in an endurance competition against each other, which Curtis Alahan won. The seven members of the team that won the food competition promised to stick together for a few weeks, while Curtis attempted to form a guys alliance with himself, Jesse Jades and Dan Waldron. Curtis decided to nominate Cassidy Butcher and Yvonne Sandrin, despite him being on the same team as Cassidy. His reasoning was that for the last three seasons in a row, a blonde woman has made it to the final two. Many of the houseguests, including Curtis' secret partner Jesse, viewed this as stupid. At the Veto competition, Cassidy was victorious and was awarded the POV. She ultimately used it to save herself, so Curtis chose Louise Denber to be the replacement nominee. Yvonne was evicted in a nine to two vote.

Week 2
Following Yvonne Sandrin's eviction, Emma Waviok won the "Fast & Easy" HOH competition. Before making her nominations, Dan Waldron came to Emma and revealed him and Yvonne were secret partners, which confused Emma who assumed she and Nick Garkowski were the only secret partners in the house. They eventually realized that everyone in the house was part of a secret pair. Emma and Dan used this as an oppurtunity to make an alliance with Nick. As well as bringing in Gina Webb, who voted to keep Yvonne, and her secret partner, River Martin. At the nomination ceremony Emma nominated Corinne Loskey and Jesse Jades, citing them as strong players. In actuality, Emma wanted to backdoor Curtis Alahan, who caused Yvonne to be evicted, as well as his high threat level. Emma won the "High and Dry" Veto competition. Emma thought about changing the nominations and putting up Ashley Wolfe. But at the veto ceremony, she chose to use the Veto on Corinne and nominated Curtis in her place, putting her backdoor plan in action. Curtis was evicted in a unanimous 10 to 0 vote.

Week 3
Following Curtis Alahan's eviction, Dan Waldron won the "Majority Rules" HOH competition. Dan later nominated Emma Waviok and Louise Denber for eviction. Prior to the nomination ceremony, Dan told his alliance that Emma would be put up as a pawn to backdoor Jesse Jades, who isolated himself from the house. When picking players for the veto ceremony, everyone chose a member of Yvonne's Support Group, as well as Louise picking her secret partner Everly Chance. During the "Knight Moves" POV competition, it came down to Everly and Nick Garkowski. Nick won the competition with just one move left. Nick later used the Veto to save his secret partner Emma, and Jesse was named her replacement nominee. Jesse was evicted in a unanimous 9 to 0 vote.

Week 4
Following Jesse Jades's, Corinne Loskey won the "Power Roller" HOH competition. After winning HOH, Corinne and Everly Chance overheard a conversation between Gina Webb and Nick Garkowski about the Yvonne's Support Group alliance. Corinne took advantage of this and formed the LiChEal alliance (a combination of Lie, Cheat & Steal) with Everly, Louise Denber, Ashley Wolfe, Cassidy Butcher, and Peter Nicely. Corinne nominated Gina and Nick for eviction, due to their conversation exposing their allegiance to each other. The following day, River Martin won the POV and chose to use it on Gina. In an attempt to throw off Yvonne's Support Group, Ashley offered to go up as a pawn. At the veto ceremony, Corinne named Ashley as the replacement nominee. The vote came down to a tie, and Corinne cast the deciding vote to evict Nick from the house.

Week 5
Following Nick Garkowski's eviction, Everly Chance won the "Eliminator" competition and was crowned HOH. During the competition, Dan Waldron made a deal with Everly to not nominate each other the next time both of them won Head of Household. LiChEal decided to target Gina Webb and River Martin due to being the only remaining duo from Yvonne's Support Group. Everly went through with the plan and nominated Gina and River for eviction. Emma Waviok later won the "A Lotta Pinata" POV competition but ultimately discarded it because she knew Dan would be nominated and whoever she didn't save with the veto would be evicted regardless. On Day 40, River was evicted in a six to one vote, only receiving the vote of his showmance Cassidy Butcher. Minutes later, it was revealed Nick Garkowski would be returning to the house, having earned 50% of the public vote over Curtis Alahan, Jesse Jades, and Yvonne Sandrin.

Week 6
Following Nick Garkowski's return to the house, Dan Waldron won the "Pressure Cooker" HOH competition. His alliance tried to convince him to nominate Corinne Loskey and Everly Chance for being the two strongest players from the opposing alliance. Dan wanted to keep his deal with Everly and nominated Corinne and Peter Nicely for eviction for their showmance and being the stronger duo from LiChEal. Peter won the "Coast For the Most" Veto competition and used the POV on himself. Dan nominated Ashley Wolfe as a replacement nominee and pawn. Despite her campaigning, Corinne was evicted in a six to one vote, only receiving the vote of her partner, Peter.

Round 1
Following Corinne Loskey's eviction, Ashley Wolfe won the "Face the Facts" quiz based HOH competition. After returning inside, the houseguests learned that it was a Double Eviction week and that Ashley would immediately make her nominations. Ashley nominated Dan Waldron and Emma Waviok for eviction. Cassidy Butcher won the "Goal For It" Veto competition, which had a hockey theme. Cassidy ultimately chose not to use it, leaving Dan and Emma as the nominations. Dan was evicted in a unanimous vote.

Round 2
Following Dan Waldron's eviction, Emma Waviok won the "On the House" HOH competition. Targeting the remaining members of the LichEal alliance, Emma told her alliance she wanted to backdoor Everly Chance. Setting the stage, she nominated Cassidy Butcher and Peter Nicely for eviction. Everly ultimately won the "Get Your Pairings" straight Veto competition and left nominations the same. Cassidy was evicted a four to one vote, only receiving the vote of her partner, Ashley Wolfe.

Week 8
Following Cassidy Butcher's eviction, Everly Chance won the "High/Low" HOH competition. She nominated Emma Waviok and Nick Garkowski for eviction, with the intentions of evicting Emma. Everly won the "Playing Dirty" Veto competition. After winning the competition, Everly decided to leave the nominations the same. Despite promising not to campaign against each other, Emma went behind Nick's and campaigned to Peter Nicely about why she should stay. Peter had a change of heart and went to his alliance to try and convince them to keep Emma. This ended up paying off as Nick was evicted in a three to one vote.

Round 1
Following Nick Garkowski's eviction, Louise Denber won the "Playing It Straight" HOH competition. Upon returning inside, the houseguests learned it would be another Double Eviction Week, and Louise would immediately make her nominations. She chose to nominate Gina Webb and Emma Waviok, the last two members of Yvonne's Support Group. Emma won the Power of Veto and chose to use the POV on herself. Louise nominated Peter Nicely as the replacement nominee. Gina was evicted in a three to zero vote.

Round 2
Following Gina Webb's eviction, Peter Nicely won the "Magnetic Attraction" quiz based HOH. Peter decided to make a big move by betraying his alliance and target the last two secret partners, so he nominated Everly Chance and Louise Denber for eviction. After Emma Waviok won the "Morph-O-Matic" Veto competition, she chose to leave nominations the same. Everly was evicted in a two to zero vote.

Week 10
Following Everly Chance's eviction, Emma Waviok, the outcast of the house, won the "Before or After" HOH competition. This ensured her a spot in the final three. She nominated Louise Denber and Peter Nicely for eviction. Peter won the "Missing Link" final POV competition and chose to remove himself from the block. He then cast the sole vote to evict Ashley Wolfe from the house.

Week 11
The final HOH competition is played out in three challenges, to give the remaining houseguests a fair shot at securing a place in the final two. During the first endurance HOH competition, Louise Denber won an endurance challenge. Days later, Peter Nicely beat Emma Waviok in a memory recognition challenge, meaning Emma was nominated. At the live HOH part 3 competition, Louise beat Peter in a personality guessing quiz, claiming the final HOH. She then chose to evict Emma.

Trivia

 * River Martin was originally supposed to bring his friend James into the house as his secret partner, but James dropped out last minute. River then picked his co-worker, Gina Webb, to be his secret partner, which likely explains the imbalance of women to men in the house.
 * This is the second season in a row to have to following events happen during Week 1: a male won HOH, a nominee won the veto, three women were nominated, and a female was evicted.
 * This season has the largest variety of "winning" HouseGuests out of any Big Brother season. Eleven out of the fourteen HouseGuests won at least one individual competition during their stay in the house.