The teen edition of Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10 premiered on Kapamilya Channel, Jeepney TV and A2Z on March 13, 2022. The third edition in the multi-part season, this edition featured contestants (known as Housemates) from the Teen Kumunity, which composes of civilians aged fifteen through nineteen.
The edition concluded on May 14, 2022 after 63 days. Rob Blackburn and Gabb Skribikin emerged as the Teen Top 2, advancing to the final part of the season.
Just like the previous edition, online auditions were also held for this edition. It was initially scheduled to open on December 1, 2021, but was moved to November 6 during the Celebrity Edition's first eviction episode as an early Christmas treat to the show's teenage viewers.
Unlike the previous edition that had three winners, only one spot was given to the aspiring teen housemates that auditioned online via Kumu. The Online Bahay ni Kuya Kumu campaign was held from March 11–12, 2022 where John Paolo Alcantara emerged as the winner of the campaign and therefore was declared an official teen housemate.
A new title card was included in both this edition and the preceding edition. On the back is a blue neon-colored house with the seasons' logo on the front, now displaying the words "Teen Edition" on the bottom of the seasons' logo. This was the only edition to display the editions' name to differentiate it from the other editions. Additionally, the entire title card for this edition has a neon summer background.
The interiors of the houses were largely left alone, much like the previous edition. The only difference was that instead of showing Pinoy Ako, some of the neon lightings now display some of the lines of the edition's theme song, Kabataang Pinoy performed by BINI and SB19.
The theme song for this edition came in two different versions; one was performed by the independent musical group Nameless Kids and was solely intended for promotional use. The latter was abandoned in favor of SB19 and BINI working together on the same theme song.
The eviction theme song for this edition is entitled Dalampasigan by celebrity housemate and finalist Anji Salvacion.
The edition's first three housemates were introduced at the show's online companion show, PBB Kumulitan, on March 7, 2022. The rest of the housemates were introduced in pairs throughout the rest of the week.[1] The final two housemates —Paolo Alcantara, the winner of the last Online Bahay ni Kuya campaign and Stephanie Jordan were revealed nine days later on March 16.
Turning over from the previous edition, another campaign for the Teen Edition was held on April 2 until April 8, 2022. Out of the top ten diamond earners, only three of them will be selected as the official houseplayers for the Teen Edition—they will play as a group to challenge the housemates through a series of tasks given by Big Brother. The seven unchosen earners will instead have their respective co-host slots in PBB Kumulitan and will receive exclusive merch from Kumu. They will also undergo screening first with the production team of the show similar to the previous edition's campaign.
David Charles Longinotti, Erica Dimaculangan, and Lyanna Ong Fontanilla were selected to become the teen houseplayers for the Teen edition. They were first introduced on PBB Kumulitan during the sixth live eviction night on May 8 before the three of them entered the house the next day.
With the houseplayers successfully stealing the housemates' 7 million diamonds out of the possible 10 in the Ten Million Diamonds Group Challenge, they have proved that teamwork, determination, and patience is the key when it comes to Big Brother's tasks.
All of them have formed friendships with the Teen housemates almost immediately after the "camp masters" (what the housemates called them during the time of their stay) revealed their true status to the Teen housemates on Day 209. They exited the house minutes after their announcement after a short bonding with each other.
Teams:
A star will be given for every five poles that they have taken down.
To succeed, the team must collect 10 fishes in a span of 10 minutes. A star will be given for every five fish caught.
A star will be given for every five locks that they unlock. Both of the camps were given 30 minutes to complete the task.
They were given 100 minutes to complete the task—the unused time by the first group will be used by the second group. Once completed, the housemates will be given three stars.
The housemates must complete this in 30 minutes. If they complete this task, they will earn their weekly budget and will earn three stars; otherwise, if they fail this, they will lose their weekly budget.
The housemates in both groups must successfully create a boat made from different sizes of water bottles. Their boats must not sink and must hold multiple people when tested. If both groups are successful, they will be given their weekly budget, otherwise, if only one of the groups succeed, they will be given half of the budget, or none if both of the groups failed to successfully create a boat. They were given one week to complete this task.
See Group challenges for more information about this task.
The two teams will work together to fill in the ten blank exhibits displayed in Museo ni Kuya. The Museum Group must read the description of each exhibit and the Tour Group must find the correct artifact that can be found throughout Ayala Museum and must take a picture of it to confirm their answer by sending it through an online messaging application. They only have 20 minutes to complete this task.
The points that they will gather at the end of this midterm examination will be added to their final score in their final examination.
The three of them must pull the chariot or kalesa as horses while two of them are on board getting the right pictures. Once complete, they must arrange the 10 photos in chronological order (from the beginning up to the present). They must get 7 or more correct answers to succeed in their weekly task.
The concert will be judged alone by the Kumunity; this consists of a panel of 50 people selected by the management between April 25 to 27.
At the end of each performance, the Kumunity judging panel will judge their performances and will give a maximum of 50 diamonds to the housemates; each of them can give a diamond to a performance that they like. This will go on for all 6 of their performances; a total of 300 diamonds can be possibly given to the housemates.
The housemates must reach at least 250 diamonds or more at the end of all 6 performances in order to succeed in this weekly task and to give ₱100,000 to Bantay Bata: Children's Village, the seventh Kumunity beneficiary for this season.
The housemate with the most number of virtual gifts sent by the Kumunity at the end of the auditions will become the leader for the weekly task.
NOTE: The listing is based on the chronological order of their respective auditions during the Kumu live stream.
In addition, Paolo was tasked by Big Brother to select a co-task leader for the weekly task; he chose Gabb.
As an added twist on the third and fourth rounds, the lifters were required to wear blindfolds and were distracted by different sounds while lifting the platform.
The housemates must not make the musical notes fall down while lifting—otherwise, they must start from the beginning. They only have 30 minutes to complete this challenge.
Selected housemates: Dustine, Luke, Maxine, Stephanie, and Tiff
When completed, not only will the housemates receive the stage needed for their concert, Maxine, who is celebrating her birthday at that time, will also receive a cake and a video call from her parents.
Selected housemates: Eslam, Gabb, Maxine, Paolo, and Rob
The task will begin with two people and one person will be added to the human thread for each hole passed. They only have an hour to complete this task.
The outcome of this weekly task will be the basis of the donation Big Brother will give to Sinag Kalinga Foundation, Inc., the eighth Kumunity beneficiary for this season.
The Teen housemates were divided into two camps: Camp Masagana (Abundant), where all of their materials and camping gears needed were already provided, and Camp Matyaga (Persevering), where they must find their materials and camping gears through tasks.
At the end of the game, Ashton won against Don and was the sole representative that will go to Camp Masagana. Ashton told the members of Camp Masagana about the other housemates, their lifestyles, on how they live there, their friendships, and their surroundings.
In the play area, there are thirty slippers that they can hit using a pamato (shooter) away from the area; twenty of those are colored white, while the remaining ten are black. One point is added to a groups' score if a white slipper is hit and has been removed from the area; otherwise, if they remove a black slipper, one point will be deducted from their score. No score will be added if the slipper moves and does not move away from the area.
Only six housemates at a time can participate. As task leaders, Ashton and Gabb were asked if they can switch the members of their groups. The team with the highest points after the round wins the game.
In addition, Gabb and the other housemates must not know that the task is for Gabb's parents. This secret task was only told to Dustine, Luke, and Paolo.
The most-liked housemate will wear the Most Liked Pin; as the most-liked housemate, Maxine was given a privilege: the five nominated housemates (Don, Kai, Rob, Stef, and Stephanie) must "serve" her by acting like maids for the rest of the day. This task was also set for the remaining unnominated housemates while wearing the Most Disliked Pin.
Once removed, the nominated housemate can then stop serving the other unnominated housemates and will be served by the remaining housemate/s.
Once Stephanie successfully completes all of her tasks, she can have a one-on-one video chat with her father in a special room.
Unbeknownst to Stephanie, the "foreign exchange student" was actually her father, who has been observing her while she was doing the second task, which made her emotional.
For Dustine, this will give his brother Austin some school supplies for his education, while for Luke, this will give her mother a small capital (₱10,000) for their sari-sari store.
Selected housemates: Paolo and Rob
Selected housemates: Ashton and Maxine (teaching), Dustine and Stephanie (therapy)
Unbeknownst to Ashton and Rob, this was a secret sacrifice for each other.
The team that reaches first to the end of their station and turns on the air conditioner's switch will get a reward that will surely beat the heat this summer: a halo-halo provided by Big Brother.
Once completed, Rob and Stephanie will get a chance to see their respective mothers virtually.
K.E.A (short for Kuya's Executive Assistant) was introduced to the Teen housemates before Big Brother temporarily left the House shortly on Week 24. Unbeknownst to the Teen housemates, K.E.A was "hacked" by a "scammer" days later when a power outage occurred in the house. The "scammer" K.E.A then lured the housemates into giving them a reward for every secret reward task they complete. This gave the Teen housemates and the viewers a valuable lesson regarding on rising cases of social media fraud in the Philippines.
This was in connection to their third weekly task; ten photos will be deducted in their required number of pictures for every housemate that successfully knocks down all four water bottles in the time set.
Selected housemates: Don, Eslam, Kai, Luke, Rob, Stephanie, and Tiff
As a twist, fifteen minutes will be deducted for their weekly task if any of the male housemates try to put down their hands while lifting their respective nameplates. Another twist was later added by the "hacked" virtual assistant: the housemates must walk in the pool three times while squatting and holding their nameplates at the same time.
Eslam did not participate on this punishment as he was busy for their weekly task.
Padaluck recipient: Stef (first to create time to beat)
Padaluck recipient: Paolo (one minute was added to his time to beat)
The housemates must ride their respective boats in two at a time while wearing their toga hats. They must reach the other end of the pool three times in opposite directions to reach the other pairs until all six of them ride the boat for the last time to reach the finish line and must bow altogether to stop their time. The group that reaches the finish line in the fastest time wins and is safe from the next round of nominations.
If both groups are successful, they will be given their weekly budget, otherwise, if only one of the groups succeed, they will be given half of the budget, or none if both of the groups failed to successfully create a boat. They were given one week to complete this task.
The group that does this in the fastest time wins and gets additional materials for their weekly task.
The first student to get two correct answers is equivalent to one point for their team and the team that gathers three points first at the end of the game wins and gets additional materials for their weekly task.
They only have five hours to complete this; whoever has the most points after the duration of the task will own the three million diamonds gathered by themselves on the group challenge.
Two tiebreaker rounds have occurred for this challenge due to a tie in the first two rounds. Ten minutes and five minutes were given for the tied housemates in the two rounds of the tiebreaker round to determine the final owner of the diamonds.
A special variation of the challenge was featured during the Teen edition featured the Teen housemates competing against a group of Teen houseplayers to gain a portion of the ten million diamonds given by Big Brother. They must defend their diamonds against the houseplayers to earn a bigger portion of the diamonds.
One million diamonds are at stake in the first three match-ups, while two million diamonds are at stake at the final match-up.
The team that wins on each round will be given the diamonds that are at stake in that round, meaning that if the housemates lose on a round, the diamond value at stake will then belong to the houseplayers, or not if they succeed.
The team that has the tallest tower of bricks after one hour will own the remaining five million diamonds.
As the housemates that were ranked from first to fifth, Tiff, Gabb, Stephanie, Paolo, and Maxine were only required to place two cans, while Dustine and Rob, who were ranked sixth to seventh respectively, were required to place three cans.
As Final Five spot holders, Gabb and Paolo were given an advantage; they can place a beanbag on a selected box of their choice before the game starts, meaning that they have to only place 5 beanbags; while Dustine and Tiff were required to place all 6 beanbags.
Gabb(defender, second official Final Five member)
Dustine(challenger, lost)
In each standard nomination round, every housemate is called to the confession room to nominate two of their housemates for eviction with the first nominee receiving 2 points and the other receiving 1 point. The housemates with the most nomination points (usually 3) will then face the public vote to determine the evictee for that round. However, Big Brother may automatically nominate a housemate for rule violations or a failure in a task. On the other hand, immunity may be awarded as a reward for accomplishing a task. Big Brother may forcibly evict a housemate for severe violations and a housemate may opt to voluntarily leave the house. In certain circumstances, the nomination process may be delayed as a result of a pending challenge or task.
On Day 162, Gabb was awarded a Nomination Immunity Pass for having the most number of followers among her fellow housemates during their Follower Sprint task that was held from March 22 to 25, 2022. On the fifth round of nominations, Gabb gave her Nomination Immunity Pass to Paolo, guaranteeing him another week in the house by giving himself immunity.
Prior to the fifth nominations, the housemates observed two special nomination processes which granted immunity to the winners of each process.
For this process, each housemate is given five yellow discs, each representing a positive nomination point. A housemate may choose to award each disc to a housemate of their choice (including themselves) by shooting each disc into that particular housemate's container. A point will be considered valid should its corresponding disc land on their intended container, otherwise it would be invalidated.
The housemate(s) with the highest number of discs inserted in their respective containers will then be granted immunity from that week's nomination. The remaining housemates will then move to another round of nomination. As Ashton was evicted from the house prior to the nominations, any points he had received were invalidated.
Following Ashton's eviction, the housemates had their fifth nominations, in which each housemate's nominations were cast publicly. In this process, each housemate is given three red discs, each representing a nomination point. Each housemate, including those made immune by the Yellow Disc challenge were obligated to nominate two housemates by placing discs on the housemates they chose to nominate for eviction, with the first nominee receiving two discs and the second receiving one disc. The housemates with the least discs would be saved from nominations, with the rest being nominated for that week.
Stephanie Jordan called out Rob Blackburn for allegedly shouting at fellow housemate Kai Espenido as he was participating in K.E.A.'s punishment task, saying "Rob, next time you don't shout because di niya kasalanan 'to, ang sama ng ugali mo Rob!" ("Rob, next time you don't shout because it's not her fault, your attitude is bad Rob!") after Blackburn said "You should be!" to Espenido in an aggravated tone which caused the latter to cry. Jordan reiterated the events outside to Gabb Skribikin and Stef Draper, who were working on their weekly task inside. Jordan went back outside for a while, but quickly went inside again after Skribikin and Maxine Trinidad calmed her down, and Tiff Ronato restrained her from going outside in order for Blackburn to not feel any more pressure. Espenido was still crying when she came back, and Draper said that "it was the third time he (Blackburn) shouted to girls", in which Jordan responded "Di yan pwede guys, di yan pwede! Kahit anong gagawin mo, hindi ka pwede sumigaw sa tao na walang dahilan! Di tayo pwede maging soft sa lalaki na walang utak na ginagamit!" ("That's not allowed guys, that's not allowed! Whatever you do, you can't shout at someone without a reason! We can't be soft to boys that don't use their brains!"), which earned a mixed reaction from viewers.[32] Some praised her for being frank and unfiltered, while others criticized her for the words she used and for being insensitive towards Blackburn, who had told Draper and Trinidad in an earlier episode about trauma he had from being a victim of bullying by his classmates.[33] Blackburn apologized to Espenido the day after the incident.[34] This was a primary factor that caused Jordan to garner a lot of BBEs in succeeding evictions.
During the fifth round of nominations, Gabb Skribikin gave 2 points to Stephanie Jordan, citing that she hasn't been evicted from the first nomination up to that point, and Skribikin wanted to see "how much can she (Jordan) go". As a result, Skribikin was heavily criticized online for being insensitive towards Jordan, who was nominated for the fifth straight time alongside Skribikin, who herself was nominated for the first time, with many bringing up her widely panned "MaJoHa", "SLEX", and "Sultan Kudarat" blunders during their History Picture Quiz Bee challenge.[35] Both Jordan and Skribikin were saved from eviction by the end of the week, with Jordan topping the polls after 4 consecutive second-to-last finishes.
Gabb Skribikin and Kai Espenido were widely criticized across social media platforms for incorrectly answering a question about the collective nickname of three Filipino priests executed during the Spanish colonial period, namely Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, known as Gomburza, during their History Quiz Bee. Espenido answered "MarJo", while Skribikin answered "MaJoHa".[36] The latter was also criticized for answering "SLEX" to a question about the San Juanico Bridge.[37] Viewers said that the incorrect answers of both Espenido and Skribikin are a symptom of the Philippines' poor education system, and others called for the Department of Education (DepEd) to "open the schools" online. Because of this, Big Brother decided to refreshen the teen housemates' knowledge in Philippine history by giving them quizzes in the form of a Head of Household challenge along with an examination weekly task that was given to them in the following week, though Espenido was already evicted a week prior, thus she didn't participate in the History Week.[38]
Host Robi Domingo, who asked the history questions to the housemates, expressed his disappointment on Twitter a few days after the history quiz bee trended across social media, saying
“Sa una, nakakatawa pero habang tumatagal, di na nakakatuwa. Sana maging daan ito para makita kung ano ang kakulangan sa sistema ng ating edukasyon. Sa lahat ng content creators, let's battle #MaJoHa.” ("At first, it's funny but as time passes by, it's not amusing anymore. I hope this will be a way to shed light on the gaps in our education system. To all content creators, let's battle #MaJoHa.")
— Robi Domingo, Twitter
