How The Grand Finale Went Down

We kicked off our BB18 finale coverage last night building to the reveal of the Big Brother 18 winner as we waited to find out who won the third round, the $500,000 grand prize, and which player took the Favorite Houseguest parting gift. Now the news is official

Houseguests James Huling, Nicole Franzel, and Paul Abrahamian faced off Wednesday night to find out which of them will emerge the winner of Season 18 after defeating fifteen other HGs including Veteran players, two of which made it to the end. Silly newbies. Now it’s time to see if those Vets could seal the deal or if fresh blood is what it took to win Big Brother this year.

Alert: New season of Big Brother starts Sept 28th! Seriously! Details on Big Brother Over The Top.

Dr. Will returned to host the Round Table discussion for what’s already been an explosive Jury House so I doubt we’ll be disappointed on that front. Then those Jurors headed to the front of the Big Brother House along with the season’s first five evictees as we awaited the giant key block and Julie Chen’s reveal of the Jury’s vote.

Before we could get to all that we still needed the final Head of Household to be decided with three competitions. The winners of the first two rounds would face off live in the third round with the winner deciding the final eviction. Let’s see what happened.

Big Brother 18 Final HoH – Round 1:
Last week’s show ended with the F3 kicking off the endurance competition where they raced around the backyard dressed as cats and faced various endurance mini-battles. Last HG standing (hanging?) would win this challenge.

Over on the hanging portion of the comp Nicole is the first to fall. James follows just a moment behind her, which Nicole finds suspicious. Paul wins Round 1.

Big Brother 18 Final HoH – Round 2 – “Snapshot”:
With the endurance battle out of the way it was time for a physical and mental competition. Nicole and James are facing off here and have to run back and forth through the backyard in an amusement park setting and recall which HGs were involved in events from the game. There’s a LOT of running back and forth.

Nicole ends up beating James by almost 12 minutes in this challenge (7m24s for Nicole & 19m6s for James) as James was doing almost everything wrong at the start before he got the hang of it. Running was not his thing.
Paul and Nicole face off now for the live action Round 3 comp, but first it’s time for the Jury Round Table debate. No real surprises here as James sounds dead in the water while Paul and Nicole both earn praise from the Jurors. If they’re the F2 then this could be close.

Big Brother Over The Top – HG Vote:
Julie reveals big news that viewers will get to vote to help pick the winner of BBOTT but wait, there’s more, we also get to vote in one of the HGs. Either Jason (BB17) or Jozea (BB18) will be going back in for the new season. Whoa! Okay, vote Jason, right?

Here we go with Round 3! Paul vs Nicole. 8 questions. 1 final HoH.

Big Brother 18 Final HoH – Round 3:
The Big Brother scales of justice should return for this round as the winners of the first two rounds now face off with questions from the first eight Jurors. These are usually a little luck and more of knowing your fellow HGs.

    Round 1: Both get a point.
    Round 2: Neither gets a point.
    Round 3: Neither gets a point.
    Round 4: Paul gets a point.
    Round 5: Neither gets a point.
    Round 6: Paul gets a point.
    Round 7: Nicole gets a point.
    Round 8: Both gets a point. Paul wins!

Paul wins the Final HoH! He will decide who joins him in the F2!!

One last Houseguest will be evicted from the game with just one vote decided by the final HoH of the season.

Big Brother 18 – Finale Eviction:
Paul reveals he is evicting… James.

Next Jurors had their chance to ask questions before the F2 gave their own speeches. Neither HG performed particularly well during the Q&A but Paul gave a much stronger final speech. Would it make a difference or were the Jurors already decided?

Big Brother 18 – Jury Votes:

    Da’Vonne votes for Nicole
    Zakiyah votes for Nicole
    Bridgette votes for Paul
    Paulie votes for Nicole
    Michelle votes for Paul
    Natalie votes for Nicole
    Victor votes for Paul
    Corey votes for Nicole
    James votes for Paul

Winner of Big Brother 18 is: Nicole Franzel by 5-4

Big Brother 18 – America’s Favorite Houseguest:
One last prize to award as the AFP will be revealed after all the fans votes have been tallied.

Top 3 were Victor, Natalie, and James but the AFP is… Victor Arroyo! Congrats Victor.

What do you think of the results. Did the right person win the season? What about that last eviction and even the Fav HG prize? Are you happy with how the season turned out? Don’t forget there’s more Big Brother with the all-new BBOTT season starting next Wednesday, Sept. 28th only on your All Access Live Feeds!

Speaking of the Feeds, after the finale Jeff Schroeder will be in the house doing backyard interviews on your Feeds so turn those on and watch along. Those are usually a lot of fun since the pressure is finally off and they can just be themselves. Grab the Free Trial if you need that to watch too.

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