OTEV known specifically as OTEV The _____ is a recurring Power of Veto competition.
Rules
OTEV is a musical chairs-style competition played in rounds, with one person being eliminated each round until there is only one person left.
- The playing area features the OTEV statue with five (to begin with) kneeling spots in front of it at the top of a platform only accessible by a slippery ramp. Surrounding this are several different zones filled with the item of the challenge.
- The six (or however many players there are left) kneel before the OTEV at the beginning of each round. There is one less kneeling spot than there are players left.
- OTEV will sing a song or recite a rhyme describing, depending on the season:
- A previously evicted houseguest.
- Two previously evicted houseguests.
- A previously played competition.
- The day for a specific event in the house.
- A specific event.
- When OTEV says "Go", the players must rush down the ramp and look for the item displaying, depending on the season:
- The name of the houseguest OTEV described.
- A mashup of the names of the two houseguests OTEV described.
- The name of the competition OTEV described.
- Numbers for the day of the event.
- The number of people who participated in the event.
- Once the player has found the correct item, they head back up the ramp and kneel on one of the kneeling spots. One player will be left without a spot to kneel on. If the player grabbed the wrong item, they are allowed to leave the kneeling spot to go back and try to find the right one, as long as they're not the last person up the ramp.
- If all of the players on the kneeling spots brought back the correct item, the last person to return will be eliminated.
- If one of the players brought back the wrong item and the person not on a kneeling spot brought back the right item, the person who brought back the wrong item will be eliminated.
- Once a player has been eliminated, a new round begins.
- The last person standing wins the Power of Veto.
History
List of the OTEV Competitions
United States
| Season | Week | Competition Variant | Name Variant | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 | Power of Veto | "Voo Doo Dolls" | ||
| 8 | 8 | "Catscratch Veto" | |||
| 9 | "The Rainmaker" "OTEV the Great and Powerful Rhyming Rain God" |
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| 11 | 7 | "Let's Get Bananas" "OTEV the Ape" |
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| 12 | 8 | "OTEV the Broadway Clam" | |||
| 13 | 9 | "OTEV the Sweet-Toothed Shark" | |||
| 14 | 8 | "OTEV the Absent Minded Alien" | |||
| 15 | "OTEV The Broken Hearted Beaver" | ||||
| 16 | 7 | "OTEV the Pissed-Off Penguin" | |||
| 17 | 8 | "OTEV the Rockin' Roll" | |||
| 18 | 5 | "OTEV the Dope DJ" | |||
| 19 | 6 | "OTEV the Possessed Piglet" | |||
| 20 | 7 | "OTEV the Sneezy Skunk" | |||
| 21 | "OTEV the Paranoid Pigeon" | ||||
| 22 | 8 | "OTEV the Psychedelic Salamander" | |||
| 23 | 6 | "OTEV the Jacked Jellyfish" | |||
| 24 | 5 | "OTEV the Singing Stageroach" | |||
| 25 | 10 | "OTEV the Zinging Robot" | |||
| 26 | 8 | "OTEV the Trash-Talking Trash Panda" | |||
- Note: In Season 24, Brittany was eliminated from this competition, but because Michael was her Festie Bestie, she was also granted the POV when he won it.
Canada
Civillian
French
| Season | Week | Competition Variant | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Head of Household |
Celebrity (Quebec)
| Season | Week | Competition Variant | Name Variant | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Power of Veto | "OTEV" | |
| 7 | ||||
| 2 | "OTEV the Beaver" | |||
| 3 | 8 | "OTEV's Beach" | ||
| 4 | 8 | "Sweet Dreams OTEV" |
Trivia
- OTEV is a play on the word "veto", as "OTEV" is "veto" backwards.
- The voice of OTEV has occasionally been provided by a special guest.
- During Big Brother 11, formerly evicted houseguest Casey Turner was the voice of OTEV.
- During Big Brother 16, comedian Gilbert Gottfried voiced OTEV.
- Frank Eudy, Jordan Lloyd, Kevin Campbell, Enzo Palumbo, Nicole Franzel and Tyler Crispen are the only houseguests to compete in this competition multiple times. Enzo and Tyler both won on their first seasons.
- Nicole is the only person to compete in this competition three times, but she has never won it.
- Both times that Frank competed, he had been on the block and was evicted that week.
- Christmas Abbott, Cody Calafiore, Daniele Briones and James Huling were present for this competition twice. Dani played on her first season, while Cody and James played on their second seasons.
- Christmas was selected to play during her first season, but because of her injury was forced to sit out, and she was not selected to play on her second.
- Tommy Bracco is the first LGBT houseguest to win this competition.
- The Big Brother 26 edition of OTEV was the shortest ever, as every contestant except for the winner, Makensy Manbeck, was eliminated after getting the first question wrong.
- Big Brother 10 is the only season since Big Brother 7 to not feature an OTEV competition.
- Dan Gheesling is the only contestant from Big Brother 10 to compete in OTEV. Memphis Garrett was present for this competition on Big Brother 22 but was not selected to compete.
- Big Brother 18 and Big Brother 24 are tied for the earliest appearance of OTEV, occuring during week 5 of both seasons.
- Currently, Cody Calafiore and Jag Bains are the only people who have won OTEV and then gone on to win the game. Throughout the fandom this was known as the OTEV Curse.
- Ryan Quicksall, Dan Gheesling, Liz Nolan and Tyler Crispen are the next closest, as they all got 2nd place on the season they won OTEV.
- Janelle Pierzina, Jeff Schroeder, Tyler Crispen and Enzo Palumbo all won OTEV and lost the game on one season, and later lost all subsequent seasons they played in.
- Dan is the only winner prior to Cody to have also won OTEV, but he did not play OTEV on the season he won.