Pinoy Big Brother: Otso - Ultim8 Batch

Ultim8 Batch, later dubbed as Big Back to Bahay (Big Back to House), is the ultimate part of the five-part series, Pinoy Big Brother: Otso.

Background[]

The batch consisted of all the Big Four finalists from the four previous batches, returning to compete for the Big Night and Ultim8 Big Four. It aired for 4 weeks, from July 7, 2019 to August 4, 2019.

The batch had introduced a new gameplay for advancing to the Big Night finale, as well as for advancing the Ultim8 Big Four. There were no nominations in this batch. Instead, the Batch Big Four teamed up for challenges to get the four remaining Big Otso slots for their batch.

Eventually, three members of Batch 2 and one member of Batch 4 emerged as the Ultim8 Big Four, with Yamyam Gucong of Batch 2 declared as the Ultim8 Big Winner of the entire season.

Pinoy_Big_Brother_Otso_Batch_1-4_Who_will_be_the_ULTIM8_Big_Winner? — Pinoy Big Brother Otso Batch 1-4 Who will be the ULTIM8 Big Winner?

Trailer for the PBB8's Big Back to House.

Twists[]

Big Back to Bahay (Big Back to House): The Batch Big Four finalists of Batches 1, 2 and 3 joins the Batch 4's Big Four back to the Big Brother House.
Batch Winner: Batch Winners would have their secured slots in the Big Night and aside from that each Batch Winner will receive PHP100,000 in check that is separate from the Ultimate Big Winner prize.

Big Otso: As part of the season's main twist, 8 slots were reserved for the season's ultimate Big Night finale. The first four slots were reserved for the Batch Winners while the 5th to 8th slots were reserved for wildcard finalists from any batch.

Pinoy Big Batch-bakan: All four batches were eligible to take the last 4 Big Otso slots for their respective Big Four finalists. Batches 1, 2, 3, and 4 must compete through a series of challenges against each other. The winning batch would gain one slot for the Big Night and the remaining Big Four finalists of their batch would be nominated for selection by the public.

Mass Eviction: After the announcement of the 8th Big Otso slot, it was revealed that the remaining unselected finalists were also evicted that night.

Ultim8 Challenge: In this season, a combination of challenge scores and viewer votes became the process to determine who among the Big Otso would advance to become the Ultim8 Big Four. In the finale week, the Big Otso finalists competed in four ultimate challenges to gain points through gold bars. The results of the challenge were combined with the viewer votes at the Big Night finale.
- 100 Gold Bars: The finalists must get as many gold bars as they could throughout the challenges in order to gain scores for the Ultim8 Challenge with each gold bar has an equivalent of 1%.

Ultim8 Big Four: During the Big Night, the Big Otso were narrowed down to four by combining the average of the finalists' challenge scores and viewer votes. The Ultim8 Big Four advanced to the second night of the finale where the Ultim8 Big Winner was eventually announced.

Ultim8 Housemates[]

Winner

Yamyam

Runner-Up

Kiara

Finalist

Lou

Finalist

André

Finalist

Fumiya

Finalist

Lie

Finalist

Ashley

Finalist

Kaori

Evicted

Argel

Evicted

Wealand

Evicted

Akie

Evicted

Jelay

Evicted

Karina

Evicted

Batit

Evicted

Tan

Evicted

Yen

Ultim8 Batch Teams[]

#Batch1andOnly				#Batch2getherForever				#BatchUltimate3hreat				#Batch4theWin

4G				LAYF				TBAY				WAKA
Jelay	Kaori	Lie	Karina	Yamyam	Lou	André	Fumiya	Tan	Batit	Ashley	Yen	Akie	Wealand	Kiara	Argel

Ultim8 Competitions[]

Pinoy Big Brother Otso - Ultim8 Back to Bahay Competition History

Week

Challenge title and description

Winner(s)

Eliminated

Week 36

Batch-Bakan Challenge for 5th Big Otso slot

Day 8

Round 1
Within 45 minutes, the Big 4 of each batch had to shoot a ball in the correct hole by controlling a hanging table maze using the ropes provided. The first three batches with the highest number of balls shot will advance to the next round.

Batch 2
21 points

Batch 4
21 points

Batch 1
14 points

Batch 3
11 points

Day 9

The Blind Maze
While blindfolded and seated on the floor, each Batch had to collect as many balls as they can while traversing through a maze. If a batch failed to reach the end of the maze after an hour, they will be given a penalty—a deduction of 8 balls from the balls they have collected. They are only allowed to carry the balls within their arms and hands; any other methods or techniques were prohibited. The team with the fewest balls will be eliminated.

Batch 2
63 balls

Batch 1
51 balls

Batch 4
37 balls

Day 11

The Giant Dice
Each batch must carry and balance a giant dice by holding their respective stick poles while carefully crossing an obstacle. At the end of the obstacle, they have to throw the big dice to a designated platform to correctly match in the right order the three individual dice numbers given. For the last dice number, the batch winner per batch will have to sit out from game, leaving only the three members to finish the said challenge. The first team to match all three dice numbers in the correct order wins the challenge and will have the chance to take the 5th Big Otso throne via public voting.

Batch 2

Batch 1

Batch-Bakan Challenge for 6th Big Otso slot

Day 12

Memory Race - Part 1(for Teens)
A picture set is given to a member of the team, wherein he has to memorize the items and place the said items in a designated area. for them to get the items, they have to use and wear a pair of a long wooden plank of slippers with ropes attached on it. The items must be placed in the exact order.

There will be three rounds to this challenge: easy, average, and difficult. For the easy round, they will get one point for every picture set they have arranged correctly. On the other hand, for the average and difficult rounds, they will get two and three points, respectively. The points accumulated by the teen batches will be used by their respective adult partner batches for their own Pinoy Big Batch-Bakan round.

Batch 1
17 Points

Batch 3
1 point

Memory Race - Part 2 (for Adults)
From the starting area, a team member must run towards the wired fence place on the other side of the activity area wherein 44 items used in the first round are placed on the opposite side of the fence. The housemate must then retrieve one item using only one's fingers towards the top part of the fence. First batch to retrieve all the items will win the round and will face their teen batch partner in the next round.

Note that the points garnered by the partner teen batches will be used to deduct the number of items the adult batches will have to retrieve. As to Batch 2, they will have to retrieve 43 out of 44 items; while Batch 4 will have to retrieve 27 out of 44 items.

Batch 4

Batch 2

Day 14

Memory Race - Part 3
Each batch has to retrieve eight bags using their fingers from the other side of a wired fence. However, in this round, to get the bags, they have to follow a path. The said path is divided into several levels; on every level, a member per batch should continue in moving the bag until the last member moves the bag to the end of the path. If the bag drops, they have to start again from the lowest level of the path. Once they completed collecting all the bags, they have to untie all of these bags and retrieve the eight numbers. Once all the numbers have been retrieved, they have to add them all up mentally—they are not allowed to used anything, other than their mental capability, to help them solve the mathematical challenge. If they feel that they have the correct number, they have to raise their flag and proceed to the confession room to tell Big Brother their answer. If the batch is correct, they'll win the challenge; if they are wrong, they will have to wait for 8 minutes to give their another answer.

Batch 1

Batch 4

Week 37

Batch-Bakan Challenge for 7th Big Otso slot

Day 15

Round 1
Each member must transfer a ball by rolling it at the one end of a roof-like platform and catch the said ball at the other end without letting the ball bounced off from the platform. A member will have to go back to the starting line if the ball falls while rolling without reaching the other end of the platform or bounces off. If he is successful, he has to place the said ball to a designated container; once done, another member will have to do the same until all the balls are transferred. A batch is given three choices of balls: a basketball (1 point), a billiard ball (2 points), and a rubber ball (3 points). Any member of a batch may choose any kind of ball, but they are still required to completely transfer all the balls to the container within an hour. A batch who fails to transfer all the balls, or who has the longest time to transfer all the balls, or who has the fewest points will be eliminated from the challenge.

Batch 1

Batch 2

Batch 4

Batch 3

Day 17

Tumba Table
One at a time, each member of each batch had to place either a small block or a big block on a hanging unstable table. If ever a block falls or tumbles on or off the table, they will have to restock their blocks from the start. The batch with the most blocks in a certain amount of time given wins the challenge, and the members of the winning batch will have a chance to win the 7th throne. Separately, they will also have a chance to win a condominium unit.

Batch 2
47 blocks

Batch 1
44 blocks

Batch 4
0 blocks

Day 18

Endurance Challenge
The members of the winning batch from last challenge will have to stand on three separate level footrests against two walls. As instructed by Big Brother, they will have to move to the lower pair of footrests and, later, to the lowest pair at certain points, testing their endurance. The lower the level is, the smaller the footrests gets. The last standing housemate wins a condominium unit.

Yamyam Gucong and Fumiya Sankai gave way to let Karina Bautista and Yen Quirante compete instead.

Yen

Karina

André

Lou

Batch-Bakan Challenge for 8th Big Otso slot

Day 19

Round 1
Using seven tetris like blocks, each batch must complete a giant building block puzzle that will have to resemble like a throne. The challenge will be time based, thus, the batch that will finish the challenge first gets the most points. The batch that will finish last, or fails to finish the challenge within the time given will get the fewest points.

Batch 2
26 points

Batch 4
26 points

Day 20

Round 2
In this round, only the four batch winners were allowed to participate in the challenge. They were required to make their own makeshift sticks or poles to retrieve billiard balls. Once a billiard ball is retrieved, they will have to transfer them to a fenced area where tubes are placed in the wall; they will have to shoot the balls into the said tubes. The most balls shot into the tubes will earn the most points.

Day 20-21

Round 3
The members who had yet to earn a spot for the Big 8 were separated from the House. They were moved to the Activity Area wherein they will have to compete for the last two remaining rounds. For this round, each batch must transfer a billiard ball using half-open tubes placed on a path figured as a number eight. The first batch to transfer a billiard ball within two minutes wins the highest number of points.

Day 21

Round 4
For the last round, all members of each batch (including those who had already earned a spot in the Big 8) were eligible to participate. Each batch must pass around a billiard ball using handheld platforms around the 8 figure path used in the earlier round and shoot the said billiard ball in the color coded tube designated to each batch. The batch with the most billiard balls shot in their respective tubes, wins the most points.

Week 38

Day 23-24

Round 1
Using the materials provided, the housemates must build a pole to retrieve the golden bars hanging from an apparatus shaped like the number 'eight' from a certain distance. The special task was still active during the challenge, so the Housemates must still remain on the Big Otso platform. Only two housemates may attempt to retrieve the gold bars at a time and any gold bars that are dropped on floor are out of play.

André	24 bars
Kiara	21 bars
Yamyam	14 bars
Lou	13 bars
Fumiya	11 bars
Lie	9 bars
Kaori	5 bars
Ashley	3 bars

Day 25

Round 2
In seven rounds, the housemates must pull towards them a lace with a certain number of stacked golden bars placed on it. If a stack tumbles down before reaching the finish line, they will have to restack them and start over from the starting line. Once a housemate had successfully pulled the lace to his finish line without tumbling the stacked golden bars, that round automatically ends. The winning housemate per round, except for the sixth and seventh rounds, will have the power to sit out two housemates from playing the challenge in the succeeding round. The first round will have two stacked golden bars; another bar will be added per round.

Day 26

Round 3
To gain a golden bar, each of the housemates must use a pair of sticks to bring two bars (first must be a bar with his/her batch color and another with a gold bar) and stack them together at the top of hanging circular maze. After stacking two bars, they must count for three seconds before attempting to try to stack another pair of bars. They are given only 15 minutes to finish this challenge.

Day 27

Round 4
At the start of the challenge, each housemate was informed by Big Brother that the golden bars they will retrieve will not be added to their individual total but to other housemates of their choice. Knowing such condition, they were asked if they will still do the challenge or not. If they will do the challenge, each of the housemates must transfer a number of gold bars of their choice towards a glass bowl. To enable to transfer the golden bars, such bars must be placed on top of another set of seven black bars horizontally joined together by two fingers, one at each end. They only have eight minutes to take the challenge and it depends on how many bars they want to transfer. them.

Key:

Pinoy Big Batchbakan

Ultim8 Challenge

Rewards Challenge

Ultim8 Challenge Ranking History[]


	Challenge 1	Challenge 2	Challenge 3	Violation Penalties	Challenge 4		Gold Bars Collected
	Challenge 1	Challenge 2	Challenge 3	Violation Penalties	Gathered & Given	Received	Gold Bars Collected
Andre	1	15	11	-3	7	0	24
Kiara	2	18	4	-3	2	0	21
Yamyam	4	0	8	-1	0	3	14
Lou	4	2	6	-1	4	2	13
Fumiya	1	0	8	-1	2	3	11
Lie	3	0	4	-1	0	3	9
Kaori	0	0	4	0	0	1	5
Ashley	0	0	5	-5	0	3	3

Ultim8 Nominations History[]


	Week 35 1st Week	Week 36 2nd Week		Week 37 3rd Week		Week 38 4th Week
Yamyam	No Nominations	Finalist				Advanced	Winner
Kiara	No Nominations	Finalist				Advanced	Runner-Up
Lou	No Nominations	Win	Loss	Win	Finalist	Advanced	Third Place
André	No Nominations	Win	Loss	Win	Win	Advanced	Fourth Place
Fumiya	No Nominations	Win	Finalist			Fifth Place
Lie	No Nominations	Finalist				Sixth Place
Ashley	No Nominations	Finalist				Seventh Place
Kaori	No Nominations	Loss	Win	Finalist		Eighth Place
Argel	No Nominations	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win
Wealand	No Nominations	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win
Akie	No Nominations	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win
Jelay	No Nominations	Loss	Win	Loss	Loss
Karina	No Nominations	Loss	Win	Loss	Loss
Batit	No Nominations	Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss
Tan	No Nominations	Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss
Yen	No Nominations	Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss

Ultim8 Game History[]

Batch 4 Game History
#	Batch-bakan Winner	Eligible for Selection									Result
#	Batch-bakan Winner	Eligible for Selection									Housemate	Vote	Finish
35		Jelay				Kaori		Lie		Karina	Lie	Batch 1 Big Winner 1st Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 7
		Yamyam				Fumiya		Lou		Andre	Yamyam	Batch 2 Big Winner 2nd Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 7
		Batit				Tan		Ashley		Yen	Ashley	Batch 3 Big Winner 3rd Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 7
		Akie				Wealand		Kiara		Argel	Kiara	Batch 4 Big Winner 4th Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 7
36	Batch 2	Fumiya					Lou		Andre		Fumiya	62.10% to be a Finalist	5th Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 11
36	Batch 1	Kaori					Karina		Jelay		Kaori	44.75% to be a Finalist	6th Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 14
37	Batch 2	Lou						Andre			Lou	51.59% to be a Finalist	7th Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 18
	Batch 2 & Batch 4 Tied										Batch 3 (Batit, Tan, Yen)	Evicted Lost Final Batch-Bakan Challenge Day 21
											Batch 1 (Karina & Jelay)	Evicted Lost Final Batch-Bakan Challenge Day 21
		Andre				Argel		Wealand		Akie	Andre	57.85% to be a Finalist	8th Big 8 Finalist Secured spot in Big Night Day 11
											Akie	4.02% to be a Finalist	Evicted Day 21
											Wealand	15.77% to be a Finalist
											Argel	22.36% to be a Finalist
38			Kaori	6.03% of combined score	8th Big Placer Day 28
			Ashley	9.16% of combined score	7th Big Placer Day 28
			Lie	9.60% of combined score	6th Big Placer Day 28
			Fumiya	9.96% of combined score	5th Big Placer Day 28
			Lou	10.37% of combined score	Ultim8 Big Four Advanced to 2nd Night Votes Reset to Viewer Voting Only Day 28
			Andre	14.12% of combined score
			Yamyam	19.33% of combined score
			Kiara	21.43% of combined score
			Andre	2.91% to win	4th Big Placer Day 29
			Lou	8.28% to win	3rd Big Placer Day 29
			Kiara	30.29% to win	2nd Big Placer Day 29
			Yamyam	58.52%to win	Ultim8 Big Winner Day 29

Batch 4 Big Four - Batch Crossover[]

Moved In

Akie

Moved In

Argel

Moved In

Kiara

Moved In

Wealand

Week 35 - Big Back to Bahay[]

Day 1[]

Moved In

Fumiya

Moved In

Karina

Day 2[]

Moved In

Tan

Moved In

Yamyam

Day 3[]

Moved In

Lie

Moved In

Yen

Day 4[]

Moved In

André

Moved In

Jelay

Day 5[]

Moved In

Ashley

Moved In

Kaori

Day 6[]

Moved In

Batit

Moved In

Lou

Day 7 - Batch Winners Reveal[]

Batch Winner Finalist 37.48% to win Lie	Batch Runner-Up 29.22% to win Karina	Third Place 23.52% to win Kaori	Fourth Place 9.79% to win Jelay
Batch Winner Finalist 52.90% to win Yamyam	Batch Runner-Up 27.87% to win Fumiya	Third Place 15.21% to win Lou	Fourth Place 4.02% to win André
Batch Winner Finalist 63.38% to win Ashley	Batch Runner-Up 13.92% to win Yen	Third Place 12.78% to win Tan	Fourth Place 9.92% to win Batit
Batch Winner Finalist 50.24% to win Kiara	Batch Runner-Up 27.90% to win Argel	Third Place 16.29% to win Wealand	Fourth Place 5.57% to win Akie

Week 36[]

Round 1[]

Nominated
6.33% to be a Finalist

André

Nominated
31.57% to be a Finalist

Lou

Finalist
62.10% to be a Finalist

Fumiya

Round 2[]

Nominated
12.59% to be a Finalist

Jelay

Nominated
42.66% to be a Finalist

Karina

Finalist
44.75% to be a Finalist

Kaori

Week 37[]

Round 1[]

Nominated
48.41% to be a Finalist

André

Finalist
51.59% to be a Finalist

Lou

Round 2[]

Evicted Lost Batch-Bakan Jelay	Evicted Lost Batch-Bakan Karina	Evicted Lost Batch-Bakan Batit	Evicted Lost Batch-Bakan Tan	Evicted Lost Batch-Bakan Yen
Evicted 4.02% to be a Finalist Akie	Evicted 15.77% to be a Finalist Wealand	Evicted 22.36% to be a Finalist Argel	Finalist 57.85% to be a Finalist André

Week 38[]

Round 1[]

Advanced André	Advanced Kiara	Advanced Lou	Advanced Yamyam
Fifth Place 9.96% Combined Score Fumiya	Sixth Place 9.60% Combined Score Lie	Seventh Place 9.16% Combined Score Ashley	Eighth Place 6.03% Combined Score Kaori

Round 2[]

Winner
58.52% to win

Yamyam

Runner-Up
30.29% to win

Kiara

Third Place
8.28% to win

Lou

Fourth Place
2.91% to win

André

The Ultimate Batch[]

The Ultimate Batch is the 2nd Edition to feature returning players from a previous edition, although the returning players were from the current season's past batch editions and not from the past seasons.
The Ultimate Batch follows a format similar to Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7's Dream Team Chapter but with different gameplay and mechanics.