Big Brother 2014-15 Season-in-Review Slideshow

We haven't done this in a while, have we? This is the Big Brother Ultimate Year-in-Review Slideshow for 2014-15, made by Tao and Alicia. For more information, please check out Big Brother's Facebook page.

Big Brother players who attended at least one tournament:

Aaron Leung

Nitai Deitel

Alicia Lui

Anthony Tao

Alex Ornik

William “Ginny” Perry

Peter Behr

Jarred Mihalik

Kevin Reitz

Jeffrey “Drunkbus” Kessler

Brendon Schramm

Sam Dreiman

Matt Sheehan

Michael Austin

Jared Getzoff

Adam Lerman

Ken Su

Jonathan Wright

Mitchell Sayasene

Ivan Xu

David Libo-on III (Dada) 

Jeffrey Rodriguez 

Dominic Famorcan (Baboy)

Udo Lam

Evan Kornbluh

Alex Lindahl

Theo Glauch

Quoc Tran

Daniel Tremblay-Sher

Caroline “C-Chow” Chow

Esther Moss

Sarina “Sarz” Zhou

Hannah Lincoln

Zhang Wen

Katie Lepak

Lin Lin

Dana Fong

Kelsey Bilek

Zoe Berling

Jillian Bowzer

Helen Lu

Charlie Blair

Mikaela Koke

Danielle Connelly

And here's the video on Youku:

RETROSPECTIVE: Slideshow deleted scenes, Part 1

Never-before-seen pictures from 2010 that didn't quite make the Slideshow:

The Beijing Ultimate 2010 Year-in-Review Slideshow

And Youku:

Prologue, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Also on Facebook (missing the Subic pictures in Part 3):

Prologue, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

And for the last time, a (nearly comprehensive) list of everyone that appears, in order of appearance:

*PART 1*
Anthony Tao
Gareth Marshall
Helen Lu
Sandy Wang
Joe Pellicano
Matt Mueller
Jim Kirchhoff
Therese Mendez
Kevin Reitz
(Hilco Beukema)
Pat Li
Hsing-hui Hsu
Jeff Orcutt
Alicia Lui
Chris Boehner
(Dray Abrahamian)
Andrew "Baby Girl" Moffat
Candice Lee
Ellen Wong
Shan Wu
Michael Chaitkin
(Amy Gardner)
Steph Kwan
Char Lam
Tina Xue
Michelle Tang
Yin Kong
Brian Marterer
Ben Redden
Nina Helmke
Doc Tobin
(Amos Irwin)
Chad Hensler
Andy Young
Bill McGrath
Casey Guo
Nick Liu
Jesse Day
Richie Liu
Guy Sivan
Mike Shyu
Caleb Heine
(Nihir Shah)
(Christine Laskowski)
(Tom Pile)
Jehan Azad
(Warren Pottrill)
Zahlen Titcomb
(Alyssa Li)
Wang Bin
(Valerie Min)
Happy Rat
Kelly Yang
Lin Lin
Brice Dudout
Yan Hao
Ryan Perez
Zhang Yang
Cai Cai
Zhang Pu
(Omar Pandoli)
(David Brown)
Angela Chen (Xiaonan)
Jeff "Drunkbus" Kessler
(Jason Cox)
Xie Yuhui
Xiao Zhi
(J.I. Nuega)
Joel Brand
(Liang Zhuang)
Emma Shyu
(Vince Chen)
(Edward Wang)
(Michael Hsu)
(An Zi)
(Kenny Zhu)
(Chen Jie)
(Matt Wang)
(Carter Li)
Steven Zhang
Lauren Reed
(Nick Hatt)
(Alex Hutson)
Jenn Brown
(Juliet Lu)
(Panoy Delos Santos)

*PART 2*
Kara DiFrancesco
Chris Carlsen
Sam Trachtman
Eileen "Peach" Regan
Peter Tzeng
Ricky Jassel
Kelsey Watterworth
Ethan Lo
Mandy Yeung
Jon Lin
Marc Hiller
Yan Lei
Ryan Leung
Carissa Wong
Tina "Pnut" Yen
Cal Lee
Brendon Mrosak
Wally Mann
Chirona Silverstein
(Chelsea Rudman)
Jane Li
Alan Faiola
Mark Wunderlin
Jen Howells
Larry Zhou
Brian Guo
Patrick Marco
Jordan Yust
Ziggy
Ovid
Helen Shyu
(Cause Abu)
(Fan Yang)
(Ivan Xu)
Xiao Di
Li Hao
Ken Dry
Addy
Zhang Wen
(Leo Feng)
Charis Chiu
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
(Box Zhang)
Wes Haynes
Zach Fanders
Rob Hogg
Liz Lin
(Zoey Lee)
(Zheng Zheng)
Tommy Li
Leigh Bloomberg
Alex Ornik
Ingrid Akerlind
(Katie Bradstock)
(Leslie Sim)
(Fabian Ho)
(Geoff Ng)
(Chris Calvert)
(John Kelly)
Matt Sheehan
Nitai Deitel
(Kirby Carder)

*PART 3*
(Pia Ybanez)
(Kristin Franke)
(Jon Greenberg)
(Lien Ngo)
(Jia Xie)
(Jason Lopez)
(Uli Burke)
Mark Scott
(Lincoln Cheung)
Ken Su
(Mel Lozano)
Nicki Fung
(Kevin Cho)
Angela Yang
Maggie Rauch
(Jack Yeh)
Yujuan (YJ) Tan
Aaron Leung
Adam Nowak
Alex Stephens
Apple Zhao
Eric Wu
Feng Qi
Haiyin Kang
Jia Zhe
Joel Rosen
Belem
Maria Filimonenko
Neal Jones
Nick Cheng
Aurora Wang (Yao)
Altay

All the pictures in the slideshow were taken by the people listed below:

Ingrid Bonde Akerlind
Jenn Brown
Michael Chaitkin
Chen Yangming (Nico)
Cai Cai
Nick Cheng
Nitai Deitel
Kristin Franke
Nicki Fung
Caleb Heine
City Weekend
Nina Helmke
Marc Hiller
Robert William Hogg
Hsing-hui Hsu
Shira Klane
Steph Kwan
Forrest Li
Elizabeth Lin
Nick Liu
Mel Lozano
Alicia Lui
Hong Ly
Bill McGrath
Falon Milligan
Matt Mueller
Lien Ngo
PhotoBot Manila Photobooth Services
Jeff Orcutt
Joshua Phua
Ben Redden
Kevin Reitz
Matt Sheehan
Helen Shyu
Mike Shyu
Chirona Silverstein
Anthony Tao
Zahlen Titcomb
Aurora Yao Wang
Balance Wang
Carissa Wong
Shan Wu
Tina Yen
Mandy Yeung
Ruth Yoder
Zhang Yang
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
Box Zhang

Previous slideshows: 2008, 2009.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Saturday evening and night

The Slideshow will go live online shortly. We'll keep you posted. [UPDATE: Here.]

Beijing Ultimate 2010 Slideshow PREVIEW

Here it is:


And Youku.

Calling all people with photos: the slideshow needs you

A message from Tao:

Beijing Ultimate,

It's that time again, where I go into hiding for a month to work on the Year-in-Review Slideshow.

To review, this is what I mean:

2009:

Part 1: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQzMDY0ODMy.html
Part 2: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ3OTkwNTI0.html
Part 3: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ3OTkxODQ4.html

Or those with VPN: http://beijingultimate.blogspot.com/2010/01/weekend-roundup-slideshow-2009.html

2008:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIyMDM0NzI0.html
VPN: http://beijingultimate.blogspot.com/2009/09/greatest-year-in-review-slideshow.html

The list of people that appear in the 2009 slideshow is in a postscript. If you were in Beijing in 2009 and participated in Ultimate-related activities but are NOT on the list, it's because you failed to answer my call last year. Don't make the same mistake...

I am now accepting photos (and videos) for submission into this year's slideshow.

No guarantees that what you send will make the final product, but it will definitely be considered. Examples of good pictures are at the bottom.

I'd like this to be as comprehensive as possible, so Yan, Andy, Ken Su, etc., please pass this request to the relevant Hangtime and Bang people.

Obviously some people will be over-represented (Jim ... last year he led everyone with TK appearances) and some under, but I'll try my best to distribute according to some algorithm or other.

Feel free to point me to Facebook/Renren albums, etc. Steph and Ken, I've seen yours already, and I will be pulling photos from it (with source credit, of course). Mike Shyu, you sitting on another treasure trove?

I am also taking song recommendations.

Send away.

2009, in order of appearance:

PART 1

Jeff Orcutt
Mark Scott
Doc Tobin
Kevin Reitz
Joe Pellicano
Michelle Tang
Sandy Wang
Anthony Tao
Lincoln Cheung
Big Brother
Perkin Chai
Ken Su
Amy Gardner
Casey Guo
Andrew Shen
Case of Tsingdao
Therese Mendez
Alicia Lui
Mike Shyu
Helen Shyu
Helen Lu
(Zoey Lee)
Jim Kirchhoff
Wang Bin
Happy Rat
Air Kazak
Beijing Bang
Larke Williams
Lassi Kokko
(Richie Liu)
(Edward Wang)
Qi Zhenjia
Steven Zhang
Yin Kong
Zhao Yu (Apple)
Feng Qi
(Candice Tse)
Candice Lee
Jehan Azad
Nick Liu
Kelly Yang
(Milan Alex)
Gareth Marshall
Yan Hao
Andy Young
Chris Boehner
Brian Marterer
Hsing-hui Hsu
Francis Chan
Aaron Leung
Tina "Pnut" Yen
Michael Chaitkin
Ellen Wong
Andrew "Baby Girl" Moffat
Lauren Reed
(Sara Udow)
Doozers
Beijing Ultimate

PART 2

Tina Xue
(Barbara Simeles)
Ryan Perez
(Mike "Nads" Narodovich)
Belem
Chee-Nar
Lin Lin
Kang Haiyan
Guy Sivan
Nicki Fung
Yao Guai (Nick Cheng)
(David "Blondie" Bergmark)
Jason Bergman
(Jon Greenberg)
(Nick Hatt)

Pat Li
Char Lam
Missy Rock
Duff Douglas
Laurene Desclaux
(Ebru Tekinturhan)
Mitch Moxley
Xie Yuhui
Chen Yunyun
Roger Liu
Zhi Jian (Xiaozhi)
Zhao Zhenming (Laozhao)
Heihei
Zhang Huizi (Tracy)
Xiao Pang
Russell Young
Zahlen Titcomb
(Kat Velayo)
(Andrea Shaw)
Joel Rosen
Steph Kwan
Hao Yifan (Zhengzheng)

Ken Dry
Tory Hislop
Charlotte Chang
Margaret Sietsema
Sara Miller
(Andrea Chang)
(Rie Kimura)
(Miles Schneider)
(Caitlin McKimmy)
Adie
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
Veronica Lee
Talia Tay
(Phil Chien)
Liz Lin

PART 3

Jesse Day
Wang Yao (Aurora)
John Wang
Cheris Chiu
Wang Yucheng
Helen Zhao
Luo Zhaoyuan
Fang Zhang
(NIC Alpert)
Greg Ericksen
(Ivan Xu)
(Carmen Tong)
(Kyndra Turner)
(Joei Calixto)
(Kristin Franke)
(Angela Bauer)
(Ness Fajardo)
(Panoy Delos Santos)
(Raquel Grape-Flores)
(Aya Larsen Su)
(Martin Butler)

(Dennell Reynolds)
Tom Rippe
(Warren Pottrill)
Nora Sluzas
(Emma Shyu)
Marshall Wang
(Angel Hsu)
(Reid Barrett)
(Julia Filip)
Donald De Bona

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Slideshow 2009

Thanks to Sandy for organizing the venue, Piggly-Wiggly bar in Nanluoguxiang.

Slideshow "Prologue" here.


It's also on Youku!

• Prologue (Part 1)
  
• Part 2
  
• Part 3

Update: also see: China Ultimate Players Association, Be Active for China

Part 1 of the Beijing Ultimate 2009 Slideshow

I'd like to debut parts 2 and 3 from a live venue in about two weeks, but Part 1 is below. Enjoy!


Youku version here.

2008 slideshow here.

Preview of the 2009 Year-in-Review Slideshow

I've lately been consumed with the Beijing Ultimate 2009 Year-in-Review Slideshow, waking up at 8 (though that's partly because of jetlag) and working through lunch these past three days. Here's a preview of the 23-minute show, which only needs finalizing and could be ready by New Year's (though it may not debut until after I return to Beijing on Jan. 12):

UPDATE: Blogger's video uploader not working so well... will think of way to get the preview posted shortly.

UPDATE 2: Here.

Beijing Ultimate 2008 slideshow on Youku, CUPA

Thanks to Ivan Xu and Balance Wang for linking the Year in Review slideshow on the China Ultimate Players Association website. The Youku link is here, and the original post here.

The greatest year-in-review slideshow published this year in Beijing Ultimate history

Beijing Ultimate 2008 slideshow is complete! There are many ways to watch (UPDATE: now on Youku!), but the best is to click on these three videos in succession:





For those in China, the complete video can be accessed without a proxy here.

And the full version on Facebook (though with slight glitches):

This is, of course, the greatest video I've made to date, bettering last year's The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

Here's the slideshow script, scene-by-scene:

BANGKOK HAT TOURNEY
Doc and Donald
Doc
Reid and Doc
Donald and Ried

JEJU GNARLY NINES
Ryan Perez
Sandy, Jim and Doc
Jim
Team

TIANJIN
Team
(Edward Wang), Tao, Jim and Joe
Jim

PARTY BUS!
Zahlen
Ken Dry and Sandy
Boehner and Anquan hat
Stephanie and Jason Cox
Char and Jim

BOOZY AFTER-PICKUP EXTRAVAGANZA
Group
Martha
Jim and fuwuyuans

Tao and Doc
Tao and Doc

CHINA NATIONALS
Sign
Sky
Boehner
Joe's picture
Robo Gabe
Team
Tao and Donald
Joe
Doc and Chip
Char Lam
Candice Lee
Greg Erickson
Jeff Orcutt
Julia Filip
Kevin Reitz
Anthony Tao
Lauren Reed
Mitch Moxley
Aaron Leung
Tina Xue
Lincoln Cheung
Jim and Julia
Party
Joe
Char and Jim
Lauren and Kevin
Doc, Sandy and Jason
Team
Team

VIDEO: Edward Wang

Air Kazak
Happy Rat and Kazak
Lim and Happy Rat
Happy Rat and Lim
Jeff and Jason
All-stars
Zahlen and Five Ultimate
Group

Lincoln
Lincoln
Sandy and Doc
Misha
Doc
Julia and Kevin

SHANGHAI OPEN
Shen
Shen
Chirona
Joe and Sandy
Boehner and Ken Dry
Doc and Joe
Reid and Ken Dry
Joe and Aaron
Molly, Tao and Doc
Aaron, Lincoln and Ken Dry
Bus
Chirona, Doc, Tao and Tina
Tao
Char and Jim
Sandy and mannequins
Lauren and Shen
Boehner drunk
Boehner and Chirona
Boehner drunker
(Rob Adams) and Joe
Joe, Molly, Tina, Tao
Char and Jim
Joe and Kevin
Lincoln: THROW THE HAMMER
Bei Bling
Beijing Big Brother

SUMMER!
Lincoln, Chirona, Tao, Aaron, Eric Wu
Tao, Molly and Sandy
Guy and Shen
Tao, Chirona and Jason
Boehner and Tao
Cowboy Jeff (Hartline) and Sandy
Deshengmen
Tao and Boehner
Molly and Aaron
Durians
Lincoln, Kevin, Tao, Joe and Greg Erickson
Joe and Tao
Tao and Lincoln
Molly, Lincoln and Tao
Mike Lu and Julia
Kelly and Lincoln
Wang Bin and Tao
Wang Bin
Kelly
Steph Kwan
Shen
Roger, Pat Li and Casey
Misha, Molly, Lincoln and Jeff
Kevin
Group
Kevin
Group
Lincoln, Tao and Molly
Jeff, Tao and Jason
Steph and Jeff
Boehner and Julia
Julia, Matt Knowles and Candice
Andrew Hooker and Joe
Joe, Jeff, Mark

SUMMER LEAGUE, FINAL DAY
Team Biantaila
Team Durian Assassins
VIDEO: Shen to Tao to Yin to Shen to Tao
Team Go Blue Yourself
Steven Zhang, Joe, Tao, Jeff and Yin
Joe, et al.
VIDEO: Nick Liu and Kelly
Joe, Aaron Rosa and Sandy
Aaron Rosa
Helen Lu
Yan and Jason Chen
Sandy and Kevin
Mike Shyu, Jessica and Jason Chen

BEACH HAT TOURNEY
Julia and Boehner
Reid and Kevin
Robo Gabe
Baby Girl and Tao
Tao

JASON COX'S GOODBYE PARTY
Donald
Jim
Jim
Boehner
Boehner and Kevin
Boehner and Kevin
Sandy
Sandy
Char
Happy Rat
Happy Rat
Steph
Michelle
Steven
Donald
Helen
Helen
Jason Cox
VIDEO: Jason Cox and baijiu, featuring Joe, Jim and lots of stunned
spectators
Char, Boehner, Joe, Jason Cox and Sandy
Group
Group shots
Joe
Jessica, Jason Cox, Steph, Char
Jason and Happy Rat, Steph and Char
Joe and Steph
Joe
Jeff and Helen
Jason Chen
Helen, Donald, Joe, Char, Tao
Jason Cox and Stephanie Zhang

Group

Reid and Julia
Doc
Mitch, Boehner, Sandy, Mark, Tao
Boehner
Kevin
Kevin and baijiu
Matt Knowles and Sara
Lauren, Kevin, Roman, Matt, Joe

Optimus Prime

HONG KONG
Roman, Julia, Reid, Becca Ivey
Kevin on field
Roman and Baby Girl
Becca
Jim and Doc
Roman and Jim
Helen and Yin
Ken Su
Hulk Hogan
Chuck Norris
Indiana Jones, Shaq Fu, Care Bear, Optimus Prime, Batman, Captain Kirk
Captain Kirk, Batman, Shaq Fu
VIDEO: "Yo Shaq Fu on yourself!"
Captain Kirk, Shaq Fu, Optimus Prime, Hulk Hogan, Batman
Optimus Prime
VIDEO: Subway
Bill/Ted, Optimus Prime, Shaq Fu
Optimus Prime and Shaq Fu
Optimus Prime, Shaq Fu, Bill/Ted
Care Bear, Aaron Carter, Captain Kirk, Monty Python's Black Knight,
Batman
Hulk Hogan, Optimus Prime, Shaq Fu, Bill/Ted, Indiana Jones
VIDEO: Entrance; Optimus Prime and Jackie Chan
Abraham Lincoln, Ninja
Godzilla and Mr. Rogers
VIDEO
Ninja
VIDEO
Batman, Optimus Prime, Captain Kirk and Hulk Hogan
Lauren and Baby Girl
VIDEO: Matt to Doc to Sara for the score
Julia, Becca and Casey
VIDEO: Doc to Roman
Congratulatory line
Shen and Brian
Jim, Shen, Doc, Brian, Lauren
Team

WINTER ENCROACHES
Kevin and Roman
Mike Cunningham, Pia Ybanez, Doug Heimburger, Roman
Corey
Robo Gabe
Tianjin Richie

PINK PARTY (REID AND JULIA'S GOODBYE)
Group
Joel, Pnut and Roman
Sandy and Mike Shyu
Jim, Char and Shen
Baby Girl, Sandy, Matt, Joe and Matt
Lauren, Matt and Sara
Baby Girl and Sandy
Jeff
Joe, Ken Dry, Sandy, Matt and Jim

VIDEO: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny