The Big Winner is the title given to the housemate who has been awarded the victory of Pinoy Big Brother.
Criteria
There are no formal criteria for choosing a Big Winner. The only known eligibility requirement is to be part of the Big Four, and reach the Big Night.
Since there are no standard criteria for winning Pinoy Big Brother, the public may vote for who they want to win based on various reasons; who is the most genuine or stayed true to themselves while inside the house as per the show's concept, who stayed stronger out of the challenges given by Big Brother, who had the most character development throughout their stay in the house, who related to them the most, or all of the criteria mentioned, etc. This allows the viewers a chance to vote their winner based on their own standard of being the "best housemate".
However, the viewers are expected to elect a winner that has embodied the show's main motto, Pagpapakatotoo (Authenticity).
- Pagpapakatotoo or Authenticity is the psychological and main element of the show, where the housemates must be able to stay in their most authentic/real selves for over a hundred days inside the Big Brother House. As the show abides by the existentialist concept wherein each individual's actions must stay congruent with their beliefs, morals, and character despite external pressures, a Big Winner is expected to have the ability to stay true to their beliefs and their character while overcoming Big Brother's challenges that usually explores the mental, environmental, physical, and strategic pressures of the game.
Prizes
The prize package of the Big Winner usually consists of a cash prize of ₱1,000,000 (or ₱2,000,000 during Unlimited, and Otso), a house and lot (or a condo unit in recent seasons), and an Asian tour package for two.
Throughout the years, the prize package received by winners of the previous seasons has varied. During the earlier seasons, prizes such as a business showcase, a kitchen showcase, Sony Bravia LCD TV, a scholarship program (applicable only for Teen Editions), and a brand new car have been part of the prize package given to the Big Winners.
However, being part of the Big Four wouldn't make a contestant leave penniless.
- The Runner-Up or 2nd Big Placer as the show calls it, receives a check of ₱500,000 and additional prizes.
- The 3rd Big Placer receives a check of ₱300,000 and additional prizes.
- The 4th Big Placer receives a check of ₱250,000 and additional prizes.
Just reaching the Big Four will guarantee any housemate of a cash prize and various prizes that vary from every season.
The evicted contestants receive a stipend or a consolation prize for being part of the season.
List of Big Winners
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Grand Welcome
It has been a winning moment tradition in the Pinoy Big Brother's Big Night Finale to give the Big Winner a grand welcome to the outside world. The grand welcome has been one of the most anticipated segments of the Big Night as it presents the Big Winner in extravagant, over the top ways. In every season, the manner of welcoming the Big Winners to the outside world varies, most often in relation to the theme of the season's Big Night finale.
Big Winner History
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| Nene Tamayo 554,906 votes 48.9% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Jason Gainza 312,258 votes 27.5% | Cassandra Ponti 214,188 votes 18.9% | Uma Khouny 52,833 votes 4.7% | ||||
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| Keanna Reeves 571,607 votes 44.2% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| John Prats 372,198 votes 28.8% | Bianca Gonzalez 245,594 votes 19% | Zanjoe Marudo 103,422 votes 8% | ||||
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| Kim Chiu 626,562 votes 41.4% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Mikee Lee 313,032 votes 20.7% | Gerald Anderson 293,234 votes 19.4% | Clare Cabiguin 279,390 votes 18.5% | ||||
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| Beatriz Saw 1,571,556 votes 30.29% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Mickey Perz 1,286,166 votes 24.79% | Wendy Valdez 1,209,978 votes 23.32% | Gee-Ann Abrahan 1,119,714 votes 21.58% | ||||
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| Ruben Gonzaga 506,402 votes 32.17% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Riza Santos 430,135 votes 27.33% | Gaby dela Merced 406,892 votes 25.85% | Will Devaughn 230,509 votes 14.65% | ||||
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| Ejay Falcon 620,924 votes 36.31% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Robi Domingo 588,116 votes 34.39% | Nicole Uysiuseng 314,582 votes 18.39% | Beauty Gonzalez 186,523 votes 10.91% | ||||
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| Melisa Cantiveros 1,226,675 votes 32.08% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Paul Jake Castillo 1,044,275 votes 27.31% | Jason Francisco 954,961 votes 24.97% | Johan Santos 303,751 votes 7.94% | ||||
5th Big Placer
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| Steve Jumalon 294,262 votes 7.69% | ||||||
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| James Reid 179,294 votes 19.75% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Ryan Bang 169,797 votes 18.7% | Fretzie Bercede 145,176 votes 15.99% | Devon Seron 142,876 votes 15.74% | ||||
5th Big Placer
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| Ivan Dorschner 137,402 votes 15.14% | Bret Jackson 133,239 votes 14.68% | |||||
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| Slater Young 40.02% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Pamu Pamorada 21.49% | Joseph Biggel 21.39% | Paco Evangelista 17.10% | ||||
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| Myrtle Sarrosa 33.92% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Karen Reyes 11.91% | Roy Requejo 9.38% | Joj & Jai Agpangan 9.26% | ||||
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| Daniel Matsunaga 11.69% | ||||
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| Maris Racal 3.10% | Jane Oineza -0.73% | Vickie Rushton -0.78% | ||||
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| Teen Edition Jimboy Martin 36.97% | ||||
2nd Big Placer
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| Ylona Garcia 34.74% | Franco Rodriguez 20.71% | Bailey May 7.58% | ||||
| Civilian Edition Miho Nishida 81.96% | |||||
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| Tommy Esguerra 18.04% | Roger Lucero 9.99% | Dawn Chang 7.79% | ||||
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| Maymay Entrata 42.71% | ||||
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| Kisses Delavin 31.27% | Yong Muhajil 21.52% | Edward Barber 4.49% | ||||
5th Big Placer
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| Tanner Mata 5.93% | The Hashtags 5.22% | Cora Waddell 5.10% | ||||
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| Batch 1 Big Winner Lie Reposposa 37.48% | ||||
Runner-Up
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| Karina Bautista 29.22% | Kaori Oinuma 23.52% | Jelay Pilones 9.79% | ||||
| Batch 2 Big Winner Yamyam Gucong 52.90% | |||||
Runner-Up
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| Fumiya Sankai 27.87% | Lou Yanong 15.21% | André Brouillette 4.02% | ||||
| Batch 3 Big Winner Ashley Del Mundo 63.38% | |||||
Runner-Up
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| Yen Quirante 13.92% | Tan Roncal 12.78% | Batit Espiritu 12.78% | ||||
| Batch 4 Big Winner Kiara Takahashi 50.24% | |||||
Runner-Up
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| Argel Saycon 27.90% | Wealand Ferrer 16.29% | Akie Poblete 5.57% | ||||
| Ultim8 Big Winner Yamyam Gucong 50.24% | |||||
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| Kiara Takahashi 27.90% | Lou Yanong 16.29% | André Brouillette 5.57% | ||||
- Note: In All In, the Save-Evict Voting was used for the Big Night, resulting to some negative amounts of save votes and low amounts of save votes received.
- Note: In Season 7, a two-evening Big Night finale was held. The first night introduced the 7th, 6th and 5th Big Placers respectively announcing and leaving the season's Big Four to advance onto the second evening of the Big Night. The voting was then restarted back to zero to determine who the season's Big Winner will be.
Batch Winners
Main Article: Pinoy Big Brother 8
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In the five-part Pinoy Big Brother: Otso, each part/batch crowned a Batch Big Winner, with a separate cash prize worth P100,000 and a secured slot in the season's Big Night finale. The Batch Big Winners, along with their respective Batch Big Four, competed against other batches during the Back to House part of the season in order to advance to the Big Night as well as gain advantages that could help determine their final placements in the Ultimate Big Night finale. Eventually, Batch 2 Winner, Yamyam Gucong emerged as the season's Ultimate Big Winner, making him the first Big Winner of the series to win twice within one season.
Commemorations
Pinoy Big Brother: 737
As part of the series' 10th Anniversary Celebrations, 11 Big Winners attended the Pinoy Big Ball event, joining the adult housemates in the house's activity area to celebrate the series' milestone. The Big Winners who attended the anniversary event were Nene Tamayo, Keanna Reeves, Beatriz Saw, Ruben Gonzaga, Slater Young, Myrtle Sarrosa, and Daniel Matsunaga. In addition, the Big Winners joined the season's housemates on a fundraising task called Big Mission, to raise P3,000,000 to be used for building houses for the homeless.
Pinoy Big Brother: Otso
During the live premiere of the season's first batch, 8 Big Winners namely Nene Tamayo, Keanna Reeves, Ruben Gonzaga, Ejay Falcon, Myrtle Sarrosa, Daniel Matsunaga, Jimboy Martin & Maymay Entrata were involved in choosing two of the first 8 official housemates on Batch 1's first Housemate Selections.
Furthermore, the season's Big Night commemorated alumni housemates and Big Winners all throughout the two-night event. Ultimately, Big Winners Nene Tamayo, Keanna Reeves, Ejay Falcon, Myrtle Sarrosa, Daniel Matsunaga, Jimboy Martin & co-host Melisa Cantiveros welcomed Yamyam Gucong on the stage as part of their exclusive group.
Trivias
Statistics
- As of the latest season, 8 women and 7 men have been crowned as Big Winner, making the series dominated by women.
- It took 4 seasons before the first male housemate won as Big Winner, when Ruben Gonzaga was hailed as the winner of Celebrity Edition 2.
- The majority of the series' Big Winners are of Visayan descent.
- Out of all 15 Big Winners, 10 are of Visayan descent and speak Visayan as their first language; Nene Tamayo, Keanna Reeves, Kim Chiu, Ruben Gonzaga, Ejay Falcon, Melisa Cantiveros, Slater Young, Myrtle Sarrosa, Maymay Entrata, Yamyam Gucong.
- Out of the 10 Visayan winners, 6 were from Visayas region, 3 were from Mindanao region and 1 from Luzon region.
Historic Wins
- Nene Tamayo is the first-ever Big Winner of Pinoy Big Brother, and the first woman to win the title.
- Keanna Reeves is the first celebrity to become a Big Winner.
- At age 16, Kim Chiu is the first-ever Teen Big Winner, and currently holds the record of being the youngest winner of Pinoy Big Brother, and in the entire Big Brother history.
- Ruben Gonzaga is the first male to be a Big Winner and the first male celebrity to win the title.
- Slater Young is the first male civilian to become a Big Winner.
- Ejay Falcon is the first male Teen Big Winner.
- Daniel Matsunaga became the first housemate to win in a combined season and eventually the third celebrity to become a Big Winner
- Interestingly, Daniel is the first celebrity to win in a non-all-celebrity season.
- Daniel is also the first foreigner to become a Big Winner as he is of Brazilian-Japanese descent. However, he officially became a naturalized Filipino citizen months after his victory in All In.
- Maymay Entrata is the second housemate to win in a combined season and the first teen housemate to win in a non-all-teen edition.
- Technically, Jimboy Martin is the first teen to win in a combined season, but he won for the Teen Edition/Chapter of the series only, not with the entire two-chapter season of 737.
- Yamyam Gucong is the first housemate to win twice within one season.
Big Night
- Beatriz Saw who won Pinoy Big Brother 2 got 1,571,556 actual votes on the Big Night, the highest recorded number of actual SMS votes in the history of Pinoy Big Brother.
- Since Unlimited, there were no more actual votes being showed during the announcements. Only the percentages of the total votes have been shown.
- Miho Nishida, Pinoy Big Brother: 737's Adult Big Winner, had a landslide win against Tommy Esguerra after having 81.96% of total votes, the highest recorded percentage of total votes a Big Winner has ever received in the history of Pinoy Big Brother.
- Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 4 and Pinoy Big Brother: All In are the only seasons to use a Save-Evict Voting process for the Big Night.
- Daniel Matsunaga got the lowest amount of votes a Big Winner has received due to the result of the Save-Evict Voting process during the season's finale. Interestingly, it was Jane Oineza who gathered the highest amount of save votes, but at the same time received the highest amount of evict votes, drastically changing her place in the Big Night when both votes were tallied.
- Pinoy Big Brother: 737 had two Big Winners, one for the Teen Chapter of the series, and one for the Civilian Chapter. It was the first time in the history of Pinoy Big Brother that two Big Winners were announced in the Big Night.
Nominations
- Nene Tamayo, Kim Chiu, Ejay Falcon, and Maymay Entrata were nominated only once throughout their season and it's due to open voting for the Big Four finalists, wherein all remaining housemates are nominated by default. If open voting nominations were exempted, they were never nominated at all throughout their seasons.
- Beatriz Saw is the most nominated Big Winner. She was nominated 6 times (including auto nominations and open voting) throughout her season.
- Beatriz is also the Big Winner with the most nomination points received, having a total of 23 nomination points.
- Kim Chiu, having only 2 nomination points throughout her season, currently holds the record for being the Big Winner with the fewest nomination points received in the history of Pinoy Big Brother.
