AI Arena Competition

AI Arena Competition
Big Brother Recurring Competition
Description	A competition held before the Live Eviction that saves one of the three nominees.
Appearance(s)
Countries	United States
Season(s)
Seasons	Big Brother 26 (US)

AI Arena Competition is a new competition that was introduced on Big Brother 26 (US).

Similar to Big Brother Australia 14, each week, the Head of Household will have to make three nominations for eviction, as opposed to two. If one of them is Vetoed off the block, they will be replaced. Prior to the live eviction, the nominees would compete on live eviction night in the new AI Arena Competition, where the winner will earn safety, while the two losers would face the vote. The BB Mascots in Week 1 will be eligible to compete if they are nominated. This twist lasted for the first seven weeks of that season.

History

Week 1

As the final nominees, Kenney Kelley, Kimo Apaka, and Matt Hardeman competed in the first AI Arena competition, called "Glitch in the System". A series of looping videos of the other houseguest played on screens around the arena. The nominees had 2 minutes to determine which houseguest's image appears the most times. The winner would be the most correct answer in the fastest time. Kimo correctly guessed that Quinn appeared the most, earning safety for the week.

Week 2

Chelsie Baham won HOH and nominated Angela Murray, Kenney, and Lisa Weintraub for eviction. After Kenney won the veto, Tucker Des Lauriers volunteered to be the replacement nominee to make sure that Lisa Weintraub would be evicted at the end of the week. At the veto ceremony, Kenney saved himself, with Tucker taking his place on the block. On eviction night, the three nominees played in "Security Race", a variation of Fitting In and Kaitlyn's Puzzle. The players had to arrange pegs on the floor to correctly assembly a puzzle. Tucker completed the puzzle the fastest and earned safety, leaving Angela and Lisa as the final nominees. They were both blindsided when Lisa was evicted by a vote of 11-1, with only Kenney voting to keep her.

Week 3

This competition was a variation of Niagara Balls. The nominees had to collect 20 red data balls amongst data balls flying around their boxes. There was no penalty for incorrect balls, but they did not count toward the total. Tucker collected all 20 balls the fastest and earned safety.

Week 4

Nominees Cedric Hodges, Makensy Manbeck and Rubina Bernabe competed in a variant of Perfect Shot called "Upload, Download", where players had to roll 5 smaller balls on top of a ramp and then knock them off with 5 larger balls. Makensy narrowly beat Rubina to win the competition and earned safety.

Week 5

Brooklyn Rivera, Cam Sullivan-Brown and Chelsie competed in "Digital Decryption" in which players had to unscramble strings of letters to help them assemble 3 puzzles. After the players took so long to finish that the letters were unscrambled, Chelsie won the competition and earned safety.

Week 6

Angela, Makensy and Tucker competed in "Puzzling Password", in which players had to solve a 10-piece puzzle in order to reveal a 10 digit number, which they would have to find from a collection of numbers, and plug it in. Makensy won her second AI Arena competition and earned safety.

Week 7

Joseph Rodriguez, Kimo and Rubina competed in "Bandwidth Boosters", where they had to unravel a rope that they were tethered to from a large frame so that their rope would be long enough to plug it in to a socket and win. Rubina won her first competition and earned safety.

List of the AI Arena Competitions

Season	Week	Competition	Winner	Loser(s)
26	1	"Glitch in the System"	Kimo Apaka	Kenney Kelley	Matt Hardeman
	2	"Security Race"	Tucker Des Lauriers	Angela Murray	Lisa Weintraub
	3	"Data Dump"	Tucker Des Lauriers	Kenney Kelley	Quinn Martin
	4	"Upload, Download"	Makensy Manbeck	Cedric Hodges	Rubina Bernabe
	5	"Digital Decryption"	Chelsie Baham	Brooklyn Rivera	Cam Sullivan-Brown
	6	"Puzzling Password"	Makensy Manbeck	Angela Murray	Tucker Des Lauriers
	7	"Bandwidth Boosters"	Rubina Bernabe	Joseph Rodriguez	Kimo Apaka

Trivia

• Tucker Des Lauriers is the first houseguest to face the AI Arena consecutively and also win.
  • Tucker later was defeated in Week 6.
• Every time that Makensy Manbeck faced the AI Arena, she came victorious.
• Leah Peters and T'kor Clottey are the only two houseguests to make it to the end of the AI Arena twist without ever entering it.