As soon as I set up my group, I started searching for houseguests. I chose the first 16 houseguests that signed up. Since it was my very first season, I decided to have no twists and have a very basic old school game of Big Brother. The excitement was about to begin and my dreams were about to come true. Or did they? Believe it or not, I expected to see hard gameplay from 16 houseguests. I respect and appreciate my original cast, but we only had like 6/16 people who gave it their all. It was a little disappointing to get excited and the majority of the house not participating. I must admit it was difficult hosting when inactive after inactive got evicted. I guess it was better than the 6 people going after one another. Season one had it's moments as we had Keyton who was a competition beast! He won practically every competition of the season. The strategic wym395 and the outspoken JettSmith7 gave season one the spark I was looking for. Some days were better than others but I am happy that those 16 houseguests gave me my start regardless if they were active or not. I remember blaming them for not being active, but that's an immature answer. It's really my fault for hosting a boring game. I should have given the houseguests something to look forward to instead of a unprofessional game. Honestly, I regret not playing a group game first before hosting one. I would have learned a lot, so I wouldn't have let my season one houseguests down. Many times I thought about giving up on my game and Tengaged but I refuse to quit. The game was going well towards to end until the majority of the jury members got banned from Tengaged. It left only two houseguests left, wym395 and No1knowz790. We had to decide to winner by letting Tengagers vote. wym395 was the winner and it was well deserved due to his dedication to the game and his strategic nature. He will forever be known as the first winner in Online Big Brother history. Although he won by Tengagers voting, nobody wants to see a game end that way. People want to see the final houseguests standing battle for the half-million dollar grand prize. I was really disappointed with the ending of season one because the game was getting so good! Unfortunately, there was little I could do as a lot of people got banned for a reason I cannot say. After this I said, "I will never host another group game." Did I stay true to my words?
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Hosting a group game takes lots of practice and some trial and error. No first season of anything is going to work out the way you hope. That's just the truth for everyone. My very first group game was Big Brother and I had only 10 players. It was a simple season with no twists and while there was inactiveness, there were some dedicated players. I thought about quitting many times, but the players urged me to keep going. So I did and nine seasons later I have a current cast full of many vets. On top of that I've hosted a successful music competition for 16 seasons! Not to mention the tons of others I've created and hosted. Group game hosting is tough and it is the hardest job on here with zero tangible rewards. However, it does connect you with so many amazing people. I couldn't even begin to list all of the friends and repeat players I've met via my games. Just relax, let lessons be learned and I promise if hosting is for you, you'll find reasons to keep doing it :)
