Why
did Lisa win Big
Brother 3?
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"Danielle
would have won, but
the house
guests saw the diary
room clips before
they voted"
 A popular comment
heard on CBS House
Calls is that
Danielle would have
won Big Brother 3 if
the House guests had
been sequestered and
were not shown the
BB3 show tapes
including Danielle's
diary room clips.
Marcellas, co-host
of House Calls and
Big Brother 3
contestant who with
9 other BB3 house
guests voted for the
winner, has
repeatedly stated
that the diary rooms
and tapes were not
the deciding factor
in the vote.
This page
summarizes the
observations of
Marcellas and others
about the house
guest
vote.
Lisa
would have won with
a sequestered jury
If all the House
Guests had been
sequestered and
never got to see the
shows with Danielle's
diary rooms, with
the best case
scenario for Danielle,
the vote may have
been 7-3 for Lisa to
win instead of 9-1
for Lisa to
win.
Marcellas was
betrayed by Danielle
who had promised  he
was safe and did not
need to use the
veto. In a sequester
house, Marcellas
would have told Amy
all about how Danielle
broke promises to
him in the house.
After hearing that
from her friend
Marcellas,
there is no way that
Amy would have voted
for Danielle to win.
Chiara
and Roddy knew
Danielle had been
working against
Roddy
from living with
Danielle inside the
house, not from the show
tapes.
Marcellas would have
relayed that Roddy was called
the devil repeatedly
by Danielle. Chiara
and Roddy
would have never
voted Danielle the
grand prize, for the way
she portrayed Roddy
to the other house
guests and to
America.
Eric
would have voted for
Lisa no matter what.
Sequestered
together, these
5 players would have compared notes and
solidified their
resolve that Danielle
should not win the
 money.
They would have spoken
about their views
with fellow jury
members Tonya,
Lori, Gerry, and
Josh.
Tonya suspected when
she was in the house
that Danielle
thought Tonya was an
"unfit
mother". Tonya
was very hurt by
that and would never
vote for Danielle.
Lisa calling Tonya
materialistic was on
the show tapes that
Tonya saw, yet she
still voted for Lisa
to win the money.
Letting it be known
you think a mother
is a
bad mother is never
a good move, and a
fatal one in BB.
It was Danielle
who fought with
Lori over the Gerry hand
washing and that
incident contributed
to Lori's departure
after Gerry removed
Marcellas from the 
block in week 1 and
Lisa substituted
Amy. Lori would have
voted
for anyone except
Danielle to win the
money.
Josh and Gerry
are the only two
house guests who
might have
switched their votes
from Danielle to
Lisa based on
viewing the show
tapes and diary room
clips. Everyone else
(except Jason of
course) was ready to
vote for Lisa to
win.
So the best case
vote, if all the
House Guests had
been sequestered and
never got to see the
shows with Danielle's
diary room clips is:
| Lisa |
| Marcellas |
| Amy |
| Roddy |
| Chiara |
| Eric |
| Tonya |
| Lori |
| Danielle |
| Jason |
| Josh |
| Gerry |
Lisa would still
have won Big Brother
3 by a vote of 7-3, which brings up
the main point of
this post.
Lisa played
the best game
Getting to the
Final 2 is 50% of
good Big Brother
playing. The other
50% is whatever is
done in the house
with the other
players so that when
you get to the Final
2, you get more votes
than the person
sitting next to you.
Danielle played an  effective
game for getting to the
Final 2 and not a
good game for
getting votes when
she got there.
Lisa played the
best game for her
season, adapting to the
changing reality in the
house and that
season's rules, week after
week, always teaming with
the right players at
the right time, winning the
first and 3 part Final
Head of Household, securing her
place in the Final 2,
receiving 9 votes to
1 to win, the most
lopsided win in Big
Brother history.
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