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Iconic tribal councils from $eason 1 to 9
to highlight some of our most iconic and memorable tribal councils in the first 9 $easons of $urvivor
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$pecies #YNWA
24-May-19 09:12 AM
Before the commencement of our All-$tars game on 8th June, let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?
We have had over 180 Tribal Councils across 9 $easons of $urvivor. Which ones stood out the most? Here I plan to highlight some of our most iconic and memorable tribal councils, starting with $eason 1 - $arawak.
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$pecies #YNWA
24-May-19 09:41 AM
1
15
$urvivor $eason 01 Episode 03
17th: Kid (3-3) - (2-2) - ROCKS [Arctos - Crash]
Never did I expect us to have a rock draw in the third episode of the series (and it still remains as our only rock draw in 9 seasons).
At Final 18 in $arawak, we had a swap that resulted in 3 tribes of 6, all having equal numbers of players from the two OG tribes: Iban and Remun.
Crash and Goofy, who somehow hated each other after just 2 rounds together in OG Iban, were swapped to the third tribe: Balau along with Eddie. It looked like either Goofy or Crash would be the one voted out at the first Balau Tribal Council as Goofy immediately went to the 3 OG Remuns (Arctos, Chikin and Kid) to spill all the tea about Iban mess and wanted them to get Crash out with him. It’s so over the top that the tight trio from Remun thought Crash and Goofy were fake fighting to distract them. They weren’t but with Eddie acting as their mediator, the Ibans pulled their Iban shit together and forced a rock draw! It was a dramatic turn of events that resulted in the guy who was $toned almost 24/7 named Kid being rocked out of the game. That whole tribal was pure madness and will forever have a special place in my memory.
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$pecies #YNWA
25-May-19 12:56 PM
5
4
$arawak
There were a few other insane tribals in our first season to get honourary mentions here:
1) First ever joint tribal council in $urvivor that got Chikin out in a 6-2-1-1-1 vote. Its craziness was what kept us having joint tribal councils for the next 7 $easons.
2) The 4-3-3-1-1 vote where @idk what to make my username used the idol @Xerop681 gave him in secret to negate 4 votes and Xerop used his extra vote but failed to get @liam out. @iRomey #BrockStar was sent to the jury instead after the revote.
3) The 2-2-1 vote at FINAL FOUR due to the last ghost vote of the season where Liam voted against @Angela. It had no impact to the eventual outcome as ghost vote wasn't in play in the revote. After the 1-1 revote, Xerop was eliminated after being outbid in our first ever money burning challenge with a margin of $609 ($10,001 vs $9,392). It's also at this tribal where Xerop revealed the secret information advantage he won at Final 4:
This legacy decision twist of letting the Final 4 boot choose a Final 2 or 3 FTC has become the standard known end game format in $urvivor since then.
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$pecies #YNWA
26-May-19 03:12 PM
$amoa
Just wow, taking a look back at our second season and I forgot how iconic the whole season was, minus the first 2 episodes to clear out the inactives.
I know for sure which tribal was the most memorable in $amoa but before we get to that, let's not forget to mention these few iconic ones:
1) Malifa was forced to attend their first tribal council due to the original bloodbath twist in $amoa. It's one of the best OG tribes in $urvivor history for their dynamics (reminds me of Casaya in Survivor: Panama (Exile Island). @₭U₦₲ ₣U ₱₳₦D₳ 🥋 tried to save @Akos but everyone turned on PandaBomb to send him to the bloodbath tribal. He blew up after being totally blindsided but his game wasn't over. Panda returned after surviving the bloodbath tribal. The remaining Malifa managed to bury the hatches and worked together when they were reunited at merge. They pretended to still be hating each other but secretly working together (except Akos who flipped on them but @criscoras flipped too on Samatau.) Our first ever bloodbath twist WORKED and was the reason why we had more in future seasons. So blame PandaBomb, not me
2) Joint tribals in early $eason never failed to deliver entertainment. At Final 17, we foreced two tribes to attend a joint tribal and the 12 who went there all went INSANE. It started as a simple vote to take out Akos (I think, or maybe Andrew) but when it's leaked to Akos/Andrew that they're at the bottom at Malifa 2.0, they tried their best to flip on @doctor / @Ian | Axis . My memory of what exactly happened is fuzzy now but I remmeber a lot of vote switching and out of nowhere Ruben/Blake suggested vote split in case of idol, leading us to a 4-4-3-1 vote (plus 2 ghost votes) and a close revote between Doctor and Andrew (6-4). We nearly had an accidental rock draw too at this tribal. A rock draw at this joint tribal would have been even more iconic!
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3) The blindside on Akos at Final 10. Ruben correctly flipped on his close OG Samatau allies @Cathal321 and @ohjenny to get Akos out because Akos could replace him as the "goat" to be dragged to the end given how OG Malifa disliked Akos for ruining their secret Malifa alliance.
4) The 7-1 vote at Final 7. Axis played his idol to negate all 7 votes against him (including the ghost vote from @🍏Marcus🍏). He was exposed as playing both sides and the biggest threat left. I don't recall him telling anyone he found it early in the game.
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$pecies #YNWA
26-May-19 03:30 PM
5) Oh dear I forgot more that happened pre-merge. At Final 20, Cathal who got lucky with his first two idol search (we used the basic grid system back then) had 2 vote nulliifers that allowed him to cancel off 2 votes secretly against him. That saved him from going out in a 4-3 vote. Instead Mason was robbed with a 3-2 vote.
6) After the intense joint tribal, Akos was clearly at the bottom of Malifa 2.0. He threatened to bid all in to win individual winning. He didn't do that but a casual 10k+ got him indivdiual immunity ahead of the second bloodbath round in $amoa. KID volunteered to go to keep his alliance from turning on each other when Axis was the one with idol. In the end, the guy who was rocked out in $eason 1 came back only to volunteer himself to go to bloodbath tribal where Jonah idoled him out. Epic.
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$pecies #YNWA
27-May-19 11:31 PM
7) Not to forget, the $amoa FTC was amazing. I had never seen any jury as divided as the $amoa one. It was very Team Blake vs Team Ruben with Gimp, the last jury member, being the swing vote. What was nice about the jury was that they were respectful while having very different opinion on which finalist deserved to win. They had healthy debates as far as I could remember. In the end, Ruben pulled off a surprising win over Blake in a 6-5 vote as Gimp voted Ruben over his ride-or-die for picking a luckier number between 1 to 100.
Take a look at this:
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$pecies #YNWA
28-May-19 04:40 PM
$urvivor $eason 02 Episode 18
4th: Axis (3-3) [Axis - Ruben] {Revote: 1-1 => FMC: $599 vs $501}
There were so many iconic tribals in $amoa but this was definitely the best one that we got in $amoa and it still remains as the best Final 4 Tribal Council in the series so far.
Let me try recap the craziness from Axis’ point of view since a lot went on behind the scenes in DMs during this live tribal 14 months ago. We the hosts knew as little as $pectators and all we could do was screaming at what was going on. It’s fun!
Heading into this iconic Final 4 tribal council, Axis was by far the biggest threat left. He had been playing both sides and he idoled out Jenny with his single vote at Final 7. He then spent all of his money minus $1 to secure safety at Final 6 and 5. So it appeared he was pretty much screwed at Final 4 but that didn’t stop him for finding ways to survive. He convinced Blake and Gimp to make it a tie between him and Ruben with the aim of burning Ruben’s money so that Ruben won’t win the final immunity challenge. It’s a huge risk for Blake and Gimp because this plan could have backfired if Axis managed to stay over Ruben. They had no way to tell how much money others had. They took the risk because they were worried if they didn’t vote with Axis, he would choose the Final 2 FTC format and Ruben could win Final 3 immunity to vote one of them out.
(Anecdote on the 3-3 vote: It was 3-3 because the last two boots Cathal and Flak both ghost-voted Axis. Ghost vote was an open twist in $amoa where the voted off players up to Final 5 boot could cast a vote against one of the remaining players. And yea one thing has never changed: I have always been crazy.)
So the first half of Axis’ plan to save himself worked. Next, how was he gonna beat Ruben at the Final 4 fire-making money-burning challenge with only ONE DOLLAR left? Blake and Gimp voted with him but they were never going to burn their own money to save him over Ruben. So his only option was to strategically manipulate Ruben into bidding on him so that they could tie again in this challenge to force Blake and Gimp to interfere. I had no idea what Ruben was thinking but he must have thought if he kept his promise to bid $500 on Axis and $499 on himself while Axis also kept his promise to bid his last dollar on him, they could have tied at $500 each and then Blake and Gimp would be forced to spend money to save him? But excuse me WTF!
To be fair, it’s Ruben’s first ORG and he trusted Axis but WHY would you trust someone who was desperate to stay in the game? I guess it’s partly because Axis threatened him with his legacy decision? Axis told Ruben if Ruben didn’t bid $500 to save him, he would make it a Final 3 FTC and he would lose to Blake. He was telling Ruben how Ruben was gonna lose either way but why would Ruben buy what Axis was saying? If I got threatened the way Axis did to Ruben, I would have given the blackmailer ZERO dollar. I won’t have listened to Axis because I would rather have a chance to at least plead my case at FTC. Mind you, Ruben had some friends like Jenny and Cathal on the jury and was the swing vote in a few close post-merge tribals. As it showed later, he had a chance against Blake/Gimp but not so much against Axis unless Axis’ over-confidence of how greatly he played everyone turned them off. Anyway, Axis pulled off the second step to save himself by using his relationship with Ruben and his strategical finesse. He bid his only dollar on himself instead of what he promised Ruben. Ruben bid $500 on Axis while his remaining $499 on himself. So it looked like it was gonna be $501 vs $499 for Axis to make it to Final 3. But at the last minute, Axis’ great plan was ruined because he didn’t know Ruben went on to tell Blake that he was splitting his $999 between the two of them. This information prompted Blake to burn $100 on Ruben as an insurance and Axis got eliminated.
Depends on how you see it, blackmailing f2/f3 may not be a heroic move but it’s not personal and not against the rules. I respected how much Axis hustled. It’s all part of the strategic plays that were made possible because we let the Final 4 boot in $urvivor to decide the FTC format. No other @4th ₽lace r.obbed g.oddesses exploited this twist and tried as hard as Axis did. And that’s the tea.
Future $urvivor players, save some money for the end game without telling others how much you have left AND work on every possible angle before telling yourself there is nothing else you could do when the other three want you out. Ideally, you would want to bring someone perceived as a larger threat than you to the Final 4 who has a low chance of winning immunity. Easier said than done I know. I just like being an armchair expert! ![? ?](https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/72x72/1f60e.png)
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@criscoras @Blake #WholesomePrejuror @Gimp #GodOfExileIsland @Ian | Axis thanks for such an iconic final 4 tribal lmao
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$pecies #YNWA
30-May-19 01:35 AM
8
8
$eychelles
There was a lot of pressure on my end to make another great season soon after $amoa ended but this cast did deliver, despite a not so ideal boot order. Surprisingly many players told me they liked the Treasure Island theme but looking back it wasn’t close to being my favourite season-long twist. (My $3 cohost Bob and other alumni loved it though and they replicated / modified most of the $eychelles twists to use in $eason 4.)
So right off the bat, all 3 tribes of 8 were nuts. There was no unanimous vote in their respective first tribal councils. Having 3 dysfunctional tribes led to more chaos and iconic moments throughout the $eason. Allow me to briefly go through some of them before we talked about the most iconic one in $eychelles.
1) Of the 3 starting tribes at Final 24, @Aldabra was the messiest one. Since Day 1, Ghezzi and Xerop were at each other’s throat. Xerop bid enough secretly to send Ghez to Treasure Island, leaving the other 7 to attend their first tribal. 2 sides were formed quickly. It was Wavey-Xerop-Quartz vs Jonah-Pepsi-Zach with the wildcard ZADEN being the swing vote. Lowkey I wished both sides banded together to take out Zaden as he was being so wishy washy and also somewhat inactive at the beginning. I bet they all regreted giving Zaden all the power to decide their fate. Zaden ultimately sided with Ghez’ nemesis Xerop to take out poor Zach in a 4-3 vote. Had Ghez not been to Treasure Island, things would have turned out very differently. (ETA disclaimer: this was what I remembered but it may not have been 100% accurate as reminded by the players. The point was that these people were insane, in an entertaining way)(edited)
2) Following that tribal, Aldabra had to go to tribal again in Episode 2. I forgot how but Ghez once again avoided tribal by going to Treasure Island, leaving Jonah and Pepsi vulnerable. But chaos Zaden struck! Jonah and Pepsi got Zaden to flip back to their side to force a 3-3 tie. Zaden had no intention to stick with Jonah and Pepsi in the revote but he lied about his intention to flip at the revote. Quartz was more scared of drawing rocks than Zaden was. So Quartz flipped on Wavey who played a big part in saving him the first round. The ideal boot here would have been Quartz.
3) MP’s blindside in Episode 3 was shocking to me too. I could remember this blindside well because I went to bed thinking Romey was done after his public blow up and I woke up with MP being the unanimous target. This was pretty much the start of the beautiful disaster named @La Digue.
4) Final 19 joint tribal had to be mentioned too. Chikin, the first ever victim of joint tribal in this series, SUGGESTED to his tribe La Digue to throw immunity to go to joint since they still had 7 members while the other 2 tribes were down to 6 each. Some curses were hard to be reversed and Chikin got voted off in a joint tribal AGAIN! How did it happen? Targets switched a lot at that tribal but in the end, Lewis and Dino flipped to join @Praslin after Lewis had made a deal with the devil Maj.
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5) At Final 10, we were left with 5 OG Praslin vs 5 OG Aldabra (RIP La Digue) and that shaped the rest of the story in $eychelles. Both sides played an advantage hoping to come out on top. Ghez cast an extra vote against Harry but he had no idea Mason had the vote nullifier advantage that allowed him to negate Quartz’ vote, which resulted in a 5-5 tie vote. In the revote, no way Zaden, Ghezzi, Pepsi and Jonah would risk drawing rocks for Quartz who had emerged as an attractive goat to be dragged to the end.
6) The next round was equally insane. Aldabra 4 were outnumbered by Praslin 5 but they weren’t out. In fact all four of them ended up being immune. Ghez and Jonah won the pair immunity while Zaden and Pepsi both had one idol each. These 4 decided to use their idols and split their votes between Maj and mcspecies to force the Praslin 5 to turn on each other in the revote. Their 5-2-2 plan worked as Praslin 5 crumbled. Poor mcspecies (my twin) got out in the 5-2 revote and then Metta, Maj and Harry went out one by one, leaving Harry’s follower Mason as the last Praslin member.
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$pecies #YNWA
31-May-19 08:56 AM
7) But it wasn’t like the Aldabra 4 were naïve enough to pagong the rest of Praslin to get to Final 4. After Metta and Maj had been voted off, Ghez voted with Mason and Harry to split up an obvious pair Pepsi and Jonah while Jonah-Pepsi-Zaden planned to flip on Ghez. After Zaden found another idol on Treasure Island, he had another plan. He got Pepsi to vote with him against who he saw as the biggest threat - Harry while playing his idol on Pepsi, making Harry 6th placer in a 3-2-1 vote. (Harry also finished in 6th place in $arawak, repeating a similar mistake smh).
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$pecies #YNWA
01-Jun-19 12:53 PM
$urvivor $eason 03 Episode 09
12th: Romey (1-8-3) [Romey - Xerop - Mason] {Mason played an idol on himself and then Xerop played his on himself}
This tribal was an instant classic the moment the two idols were played. More than 15 months later, those 12 @$eychelles players involved at this tribal probably still remember what went on better than I do.
Here's what I dug back from #past seasons: When they finally merged at 12, Aldabra still had 6 members but Xerop was very much against Zaden and Ghezzi while Praslin 5 were relatively solid with each other and then we had the ONLY La Digue member who made it to the merge - Romey. Merge votes tend to be messy but this particular one was beyond messy. It started as a showdown between Xerop and Zaden but later Xerop was led into thinking OG Aldabra 6 could function together to take out the most inoffiensive target - Mason. However, the OG Praslin 5 weren't going to turn on each other so soon. So they got Jonah-Pepsi-Ghez-Zaden to flip on Xerop and his follower Quartz with Romey being the free agent leaning towards booting Mason. It was shaping to be a blindside of 9-3 against Xerop as he thought Mason was getting majority of the votes. Great that he was smart in laying down a contingency plan for his idol:. "if an idol is played on Mason tonight i'd like to play my idol on myself".
If Mason wasn't spooked by Ghezzi to play his idol, Xerop won't have played his. As it turned out, Mason thinking he got most of the votes played his idol which triggered Xerop to play his as well to avoid being idoled out. After 11 votes had been negated (8 for Xerop, 3 for Mason), they found out someone threw a vote at a random target
Who cast that "just a throwaway vote"? The answer is Ghezzi who was aware that both Xerop and Mason each had an idol at that point. His explanation on the stray vote? "I was his ally, like i said, it was just a throwaway vote in case mason and xerflop played their idols" That one vote extinguished La Digue. It's quite a feat as no other pre-merge tribes in $urvivor had all their members gone by the first merge vote.
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$pecies #YNWA
02-Jun-19 03:00 PM
Ea$ter I$land
Yes you probably have head of the joke about how this season never happened. To some extent, it's accurate as I had no idea it was happening until I got back to civilisation in July last year. I came back to see 7 players left in what was called Ea$ter I$land. I highkey wish it was callled $olomon Island but Barney made a stunning logo for it. Anyway I really appreciated the efforts put in by my then cohost Bob and some of the alumni from Seychelles to help him (Zach, Ghezzi and Jonah are the ones I could recall). There were lots of complaints from others who didn't like the leggacy egg thing that could get in-game players extra votes. I was told there were like 11 in total
I was so scared to even look back at it because Chikin who played in $1 and $3 told me $4 wasn't as enjoyable filled with inactives. Sad! One tribal did catch my attention when I took a glance at the voting history: a 1-1-1 bloodbath vote which will be mentioned more later. The negativity festered must have caused a drop in motivation for the hosting team too to keep up the pace and whatnot while they're busy playing in other ORGs. I get how frustrating it must have been when all people did was complain complain and more complain instead of making the most out of the cards they were dealt with.
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Anyway I finally got to learn more about what happened, thanks to @Goofy #BasChoke who helped me recapture the memorable tribals from Ea$ter I$land to be shared here. After reading through what Goofy wrote, it really wasn't as bad as what people made it out to be other than 2 jurors that went way too far with their personal attacks (which I should have learnt to be more firm in handling but when I came back, the jury villa was already filled with so much hatred and ill feelings. It just wasn't pleasant for anyone who had to be there and I feel so sorry for some of the more fun loving jurors who had to experience that. We often say how the early jurors set the tone in the jury villa. Imagine getting there and all you got from the early jurors was salt and bitterness, it'd be easy for you to join the not-so-wholesome train as well. The two early jurors in EI had since told me how much they had grown out of this experience. So in a way there were still a lot of positive legacies that EI left us with. It also motivated me to have a tougher look at how to improve on the quality of hosting after I took back control as the main host for $urvivor. And I'm proud to say I THINK we have been consistently delivering seasons that the players actually had positive experience in, which will always remain as my number one in hosting $urvivor. If the players end up feeling so bad about their time spent in a $eason, I would regard it as a failure on our part. All I could pray for is that All-$tars would continue the wholesome trend and remember to have fun while playing hard to win.(edited)
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$pecies #YNWA
03-Jun-19 01:03 AM
Anyway, I digressed to help clear all the jokes around Ea$ter but it probably will never stop
It did happen and there were still many great tribals worth getting honorary mentions here, before I reveal the one that I remember the most (hint: it happened after Final 7)(edited)
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All the highlights before Final 7 were brought to us by @Goofy #BasChoke ! Thank you once again Goofy!
Final 24
Say what you want about Ea$ter Island, it did start out with a pretty intriguing round. It was a three tribes of eight season and only one tribe was winning immunity and the @Anakena tribe was an interesting bunch. Kirby and Senor started out the season building a strong alliance and they set their sights on Lewis to get the first boot. They were locked and loaded on Lewis before tribal, so much so that they threw the first challenge to get him out. They thought everything was gonna go their way but they didn't realize that a big reason why the rest of the tribe threw the challenge was in retaliation to their plan. At tribal council, the two switched the plan to Otter for being inactive but the damage had already been done and the entirety of Anakena minus Kirby and Senor voted for Kirby, with Kirby and Senor voting for Otter.
Final 20
The infamous joint tribal made a return in this season at the final 20 where both @Pukao and @Anakena were sent to the joint. The tribe divisions were 6-6 and whilst each tribe had an internal struggle of some sorts, they both managed to get their shit together and vote together. Now ideally this would be a 6-6 vote, however, Lewis had a vote nullifier which he used on Pory while Liam had an extra vote. The Pukao all voted for Lewis because they saw him as the ringleader of that tribe while the Anakena voted for Capt as they thought he was the least likely to have an idol played for him. In the end, the Anakena prevailed with a 7-5 vote count.
Final 17
At this point there had already been a swap and there were two main groups on this tribe that were working together. JumpingLizard, Goofy and Lime were working together from original @Rapa Nui while Bas, Chikin and Pandadude were working together from original Pukao. That left Zaden all alone as the odd man out and the original main target of that tribal. Little did anyone know, Zaden had an idol, he could only use it for this particular vote too. He had set his sights on Bas, the eventual winner, and was ready to idol him out with only his sole vote. The tides turned though when Pandadude accidentally posted a vote for Lime in another server which Goofy saw. Goofy went to his alliance with the assumption that the other group was trying to pull off a blindside and so he got Zaden onboard to blindside Pandadude. At the vote reading, Zaden played his idol and negated 3 votes, while he, Goofy, Lime and JL voted for Pandadude and he cast an extra vote for Bas just in case of an idol. This sent Pandadude out in a 4-3-1 vote.
Final 14
After the second swap occurred, the Anakena 3.0 tribe consisted of 5 members: Lime, Arctos, Goofy, Lewis and Liam. Arctos and Liam were together all throughout the premerge and as were Goofy and Lime. This left Lewis smack dab in the middle. He would decide whether he wanted to go with his original Anakena allies or his swapped tribe allies. For tribal council, Lime was sent to Treasure Island and was not present for the vote and so it seemed like a grim ending for Goofy. Lucky for him though, Lewis had an extra vote and decided to side with him over Arctos and Liam. Meanwhile, Arctos and Liam were debating taking out Lewis over Goofy as they thought Goofy could have an idol, and so they put their two votes on Lewis but it wasn't enough as Arctos was blindsided in a 3-2 vote.(edited)
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$pecies #YNWA
03-Jun-19 01:38 AM
Final 13
The $urvivor certified bloodbath made a return this season at this round and it definitely had quite a few notable moments. The Pukao tribe consisted of three original anakena at the time and Bas and JL from other original tribes. After Bas dipped to Treasure Island, JL was left all alone on the outs and was the most likely boot of that tribal. Senor had other plans though as he used his extra vote to put 2 votes on Kid, little did he know that JL had lost his vote. So it was a 2-2 tie with JL voted out on the revote. Over on Rapa Nui, Pory and Zaden were head to head against each other and were fighting for Chikin's and T-bone's votes. After Chikin went to Treasure Island, T-bone was left as the swing vote. He sided with Pory for the initial vote but Zaden played an extra vote and tied it 2-2. On the revote, T-bone once again sided with Pory, sending Zaden to the bloodbath. Over on Anakena, Goofy had left to Treasure Island and it seemed like a simple vote to get Liam out. However, Lewis had the suspiscion that Lime was an alt of someone else and didn't believe her story of being an aspiring teacher from Portugal, so he decided to try and get Liam to turn the tide against her. When Liam saw this opportunity for more power, he went to Lime and ratted Lewis out and together they voted Lewis into the bloodbath.
At the bloodbath, JL set his sights on Lewis for being a big threat, Lewis set his sights on Zaden for being too aggressive of a player and not having a good relationship with him, and Zaden targeted JL as he saw value in working with Lewis. The vote ended up as a 1-1-1 tie. On the revote, JL changed his vote to Zaden and sent him packing to the jury.
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$pecies #YNWA
03-Jun-19 01:54 AM
Final 11
It was time for the second joint tribal of the season and the last tribal council before the merge. All three tribes were dreading the joint tribal, however, the Anakena tribe accepted defeat when they realized that the other 2 tribes wanted to win a lot more. Pukao and Rapa Nui had a bid off with some of them bidding all their money to avoid tribal, it wasn't enough for Rapa Nui though and their 3 members were sent to tribal against Anakena's 4 members. The vote seemed simple at first, the Anakenas were gonna put all their votes on Pory and send him out 5-3(JL had an extra vote) while the Rapa Nui get lulled into believing that Liam was the vote. Goofy, who was on the Anakena tribe, had other ideas though. He decided that if Liam made the merge, he would have connections to all sides and was also cautious of him being too close to his number one ally, Lime. So Goofy flipped and made it 4-4 on the initial vote. JL's extra vote lost power on the revote and so Liam was voted out on the revote.
Final 10
With this late merge, there were three main sides coming in. There were the Pukao which consisted of Lewis, Kid, Toon and Bas being a tight group. The Rapa Nui with Pory, Chikin and T-Bone were a tight group; and the Anakena with Goofy, JL and Lime working together. The vote seemed simple at first, the Rapa Nui and Anakena would team up to take out Lewis. That was until Lewis took advantage of his relationship with Goofy and convinced him to save him, this was no easy feat as there was a lot of animosity towards Lewis at the time. Goofy failed at switching the vote to a different Anakena and so when Pory decided he wanted to go with the Pukao for the vote, Goofy followed with him and the Rapa Nui as he and Lime had a falling out after his flip. Things seemed grim for Lime as she was gonna be going 8-2, however, she pulled out an idol and idoled out Lewis.
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$pecies #YNWA
03-Jun-19 02:22 AM
Final 7
At this point Goofy had alienated himself from the rest of the people in the game. The two main groups of Pory, T-Bone, Chikin and Toon, Kid, Bas had decided to team up and eliminate him at final 7. They tried to get him out of winning immunity by sending him to Treasure Island, unfortunately that only made their situation worse though as Goofy found an idol on Treasure Island. At tribal council, Goofy played his idol Ben-style and so the two groups were forced to turn against eachother. After Pory threw out T-Bone's name as a decoy without T-Bone's consent, T-Bone decided to cut Pory loose and so everyone but Pory and Chikin voted Pory while Pory and Chikin voted Toon. And thus, Pory was sent out in a 5-2 vote, cussing Toon on his way out.
Final 6
The main group re-united once again for this vote and planned to vote Goofy out. Unfortunately for them though, Goofy had won immunity and so they once again had to turn on eachother. Goofy set his sights on Kid as Kid was his main competition in terms of winning immunities. He even stole his vote to try to make sure that Kid was going out. Bas, Chikin and T-Bone saw through what Goofy was trying to do though and didn't go along with his plan and so they put their 3 votes on Toon in order to prevent Goofy from ceasing a monopoly of immunities. Toon was voted out in a 3-2-1 vote.
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$pecies #YNWA
03-Jun-19 03:26 AM
And here comes what I remember the most and regard as the most iconic one in $eason 4 (written by Goofy and edited by me as I have a different perspective of the same event on this one):
$eason 04 Episode 16
4th: Chikin (2-1-1) [Chikin - T-Bone - Kid]
At this point in time, the endgame consisted of Kid, Chikin, T-Bone and Bas. This vote was to take out either Bas orT-Bone as they were perceived as the biggest threats left. Bas won immunity so it seemed pretty clear cut that it was going to be T-Bone going out. However, Chikin knew he would have slim to no chance against his secret ally Bas if it's a Final 3 so he was working on all different scenarios on how to get T-Bone out and yet made him want to choose the Final 2 FTC format so that he could possibly cut Bas at Final 3 to face off against Kid at the end. Meanwhile, T-Bone also had his own plan to save himself despite being the intended target to go at Final 4. Chikin was banking on Kid to vote against T-Bone with Bas. So he voted Kid thinking that T-Bone would either go home in a 2-1-1 vote or a 2-2 vote after the money-burning challenge. What he did not know was that T-Bone went to Kid to try vote out Chikin instead in a 2-1-1 vote. T-Bone's plan to save himself worked! This remains as the only 2-1-1 vote at Final 4 in $urvivor history thus far. (More reasons why the current Final 4 format in US Survivor is not good and we won't adopt their end game format. Ours is just as intriguing and unpredictable.)(edited)
Bas called Chikin an idiot for essentially getting himself voted off but in all fairness to Chikin, it's a risky move worth taking as he was right that he most likely would have lost anyway if he sat next to Bas in a Final 3 FTC.
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$pecies #YNWA
05-Jun-19 01:31 PM
$iberia
$ibera (Alt-$tars) wasn't a location and theme that I had a say in. By the time I regained access to Discord, $eason 4 was ending and @BarneyTheOGDino already came up with my favourite $urvivor logo for $iberia. It was @BaDumCrash's idea to do the alt theme where everyone would be required to create a new discord account and choose a character to play as. We struggled to attract many quality apps back then and some of the feedbacks I heard was that they were worried they won't be able to make personal bonds by using an alt but you could bond with people while not revealing who exactly you are? Granted I get that some players won't like it but it turned out to be amazing and in fact most of the $iberians loved it? You could still be your true self without telling others things that may reveal yourself? If I were playing I probably wont' be telling others my actual age and location to avoid leaking.
If the cast came from diverse background / different communities, it would have worked better. Players just had to be smarter. The issue with $iberia was that some of them were active in the reddit discord server. For example, Matthew would use his main account to tell his friends there that he had his wisdom tooth extracted, then he came over to the $iberia server and told his tribemates that the same thing. Mario used that to confirm Matt= Shannon. Also Matthew loved the show Housewives. He wasn't subtle at all in choosing who he wanna play as. LOL. But overall I guess it's still a succcess and many were surprised when we did the alt reveal at reunion. It's still quite a pain for me to host as I was worried of alt-leaking/cheating/activity level. It's a great experiment to experience once but I won't want to do it again for this series. I personally think it would work better if we get the chance to do a $peedvivor series to fill in the gap between the long-term $easons because social connection won't be as big of a factor in Speedvivor and it could avoid instant alliances of players who knew each other outside the game.
Anyway I am here to talk about all the iconic tribals we had in $iberia and there were many great ones too. The pre-merge portion of the game did deliver while most mid to late merge tribals were predictable as one side dominated (the all-"girls" alliance consisted of Trisha-Dany-Katara-Princess Anna) after they took control. I quoted "girls" as Katara was the only character played by a real girl. lol ![honesty honesty](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/486917938725519360.png)
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@MP helped write up a season summary for $iberia. It'd give you a general idea of what happened in $iberia. Thanks MP!
In the depths of Siberia, 20 strangers had to fend for themselves in the toughest environment yet. As they had been stripped of their identities, they had to form all new relationships with people they believe they've never heard of.
At the beginning, the cast was split into 2 tribes, Baikal and Kolyma. Right of the bat there was a distinct contrast between the tribes as Kolyma was much less stable with a barrage of alliances forming, while on Baikal the case was a lot simpler as there was a clear majority with 3 outsiders.
Once the first 5 contestants bit the dust, the tribes were shuffled. A new tribe, Yenisei, dominated by women (and a pickle) was formed. Once again Kolyma was much more dysfunctional as there was a clear 3-2 tribal line split, while the same scenario happened on the new Baikal. Eventually, 3 people were sent packing, and instead of a traditional merge, all the tribes attended a joint tribal council, where Shambo was sent packing in a very close vote.
The merge rolled around, the contestants named it Putanitsa Den'gi. The merge was dominated by an all girls alliance of 4, Trisha, Dany, Katara, and Anna, along with their accomplice Rasputin. Eventually this alliance would eliminate everyone that stood in their way and do whatever they could to co-operate. In the end, 3 remained, Trisha, Dany, and Katara. This would be the most balanced final 3 yet as all of the contestants had something to contribute and it led to our first ever FTC tie with a 4-4-1 vote. Katara who received one vote had to break the tie and she crowned Trisha as the winner.
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$pecies #YNWA
05-Jun-19 07:26 PM
Honorary mentions:
1) The 5-4 vote at Final 19 had everyone shookth! I still couldn’t believe that Darth pulled that off after being the easy vote (as he was the only one at voted with EuropeBill at the first tribal). Darth managed to get Mario, Matthew, Benji and Capt to all flip on the leader Postman Pat who was played by Cathal from $amoa. These @Kolyma s were here to play the game. They were split right into two sides after this vote but they avoided being swapfucked as OG @Baikal wasn’t a united tribe either.
2) John C played by Pig was blindsided in a 7-3 vote, leaving Sponge and Perior on the outs.
The Baikal “girls” (Ms Frizzle, Trisha, Dany and Katara) did that.
3) Gordon played by Kory was the king of spending literally the minimum every round. Karma hit him hard when Perior flipped on OG Baikal to vote with Pepsi and Mario. Pepsi was on the opposite side in OG Kolyma against Mario but he put that aside and convinced Perior to blindside Kory.
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$pecies #YNWA
05-Jun-19 08:22 PM
4) This wasn’t the usual 6-5 big move™ blindside. OG Kolyma minus Anna (played by Liam) plus Perior were forced to turn on each other to survive. They were all ready to leave Darth’s sinking ship. The girls (Katara, Trisha, Dany, Ana) and Rasputin (played by Ali) were in a solid alliance of 5 and they decided to split the votes between Matthew and Darth in case another idol was played by Darth. Matthew almost got our accidentally though as Mario threw his vote at Matthew but Darth self-voted himself out due to a medical reason (I think it’s appendicitis)!
5) This led us to a 5-5 vote at Final 10. Instead of getting Rasputin to flip on the girls, the guys lost Perior’s vote in the revote as he didn’t want to draw rocks (I wish he didn’t flip because they got pagonged one by one after this vote).
6) Bloodbath round came late in $iberia at Final 9. They were divided into 3 teams for immunity and each immune player had to vote one of their team mates to attend the bloodbath tribal. Perior, Dany and Rasputin ended up here. Perior actually managed to convince Rasputin after putting his hand on bible to swear he was 100% with Rasputin (without showing his face / identity of course). Dany (played by Interfan) managed to save herself when she got Rasputin into thinking Perior was making same promises to them both, sending Perior to the jury in a 2-1 vote. This was highly frustrating to watch but kudos to Dany.
7) After the Final 9 tribal, the rest of the tribal up to Final 4 went as predicted because our Final 3 girls ran the world rest of the game. This led us to an interesting FTC as the girls were always together and none were goats. The jury wanted Katara to own up to her game instead of being too ~fake~~ nice. It ended in a surprising 4-4-1 vote with Katara (played by LSE) casting the sole vote to give Trisha (played by Justin) the win. This was our first FTC tie and it happened again in $eason 6 and 8.
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$pecies #YNWA
06-Jun-19 02:44 AM
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$eason 05 Episode 09
12th: Shambo (4-4-5) [Shambo - Rasputin - Jeff] {Jeff played idol on himself and Ice Bear cast an extra vote; Revote: 8-2}
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$pecies #YNWA
06-Jun-19 02:56 AM
I'm not sure if this vote was the most iconic but it's definitely the most memorable one for me out of all the wild ones in $iberia mostly because of how FRUSTRATING and infuriating it was.
Ice Bear (played by Mario) outbid his own ally Shambon (played by Captain) to win that extra vote that had to be used at Final 12 tribal. They both bid over 10k. What did he do with this extra vote? Proceed to help the other side to split votes correctly by putting BOTH of his vote on Jeff Probst (played by Darth). It was soooo frustrating to watch. I don't get his logic but my best guess was that he thought he got something going on with Katara (played by LSE) as they were duel partner at like Final 18 but who cares about a random match up in an early round? Anyway his votes for Darth backfired. He was aiming to get that $andra title but I see Mario more like JT in IRL Survivor. If he would just at least put one vote on Rasputin, Ras would have been out in a 5-4-4 vote even if Darth didn't play his idol correctly. The girls were so confident that they executed the split vote plan. THey actually didnt' have the number to pull it off but Mario sure made it easy for the girl.(edited)
Meanwhile, poor Darth had like the hardest decision to make regarding his idol. Little did the cast know that the idol Darth spent 27k on was the ONLY idol in $iberia. He went back and forth on who to use his idol on. He thought they wont go after Shambo and was deciding between Joel (played by Benji) and himself. He was gonna play it on Joel but changed it to himself last minute because Captain warned him to do so. He played it correctly and negated five votes, leaving us in a 4-4 vote between Shambo and Ras. Guess who went home in a 8-2 revote? Shambo, the girl who asked him to play it on himself. I love Shambo, a very fun character in $iberia that got robbed by that. Maybe Captain was cursed as he got out in a joint tribal in Ea$ter Island, making him the second double joint tribal victim. I heard Capt got out in more joint tribals in other ORG series. LOL Captain and being voted off at a joint tribal, name a more iconic pair. This vote was a 3 tribe joint with all Yenisei members being immune. They didn't officially merge until Final 11.(edited)
Yea Darth was right. Almost 10 months later, this has now gone down in history.
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$pecies #YNWA
07-Jun-19 01:28 AM
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$outh Africa
Not gonna lie, I felt good to host a normal non-alt $eason again after alt-star and after taking a small break in September last year while I was readjusting life back in Singapore. $urvivor 6 was the first season we did in this new $erver and it kinda marked the new era for $urvivor as we started to venture out to various awesome ORG communities out there in search of interesting players and characters. I started introducing more creative bidding challenges and twists in $outh Africa too, like the gold investment challenge, mock tribal, sell-your-rights-to-vote for money, etc. Overall, it went well and made me more determined to get us to do all-$tars in $eason and voila here we are.
As all the tribals for @$outh ₳frica onwards happened within this $erver and I managed to do a full set of cast evaluation in #player evaluation. I wont' go through the tribals here in detail but shall just pick the top 2 per season.
For $A, it's fairly easy. The two that I remember the most happened at Final 14 and Final 7 with the Final 7 one being the more iconic as it changed the outcome season completely.(edited)
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Final 14
Long story short, Ghost-Trilly-Fish-Octo were in a stacked lovey dovey tribe of 4 named Xhosa 2.0. They had been spending a lot to win immunity but for some reason at Final 14 where half the cast would be immune, they just bid their normal range while other 3 tribes went nuts. So these 4 were forced to turn on each other when they were forced to attend tribal with Venda 4 (IAWY, Brad, Pokey and Lafa) who were immune. For being immune, they each got secretly offered a chance to sell their rights to vote in exchange for $3,000. Running low in balance, IAWY took it while Brad couldn't care less which of the Xhosa 2.0 member would be sent to Exile Village. Yes, they were told whoever that got voted out here would have a 50/50 chance of staying in the game but none of those 4 wanted to risk their life there not knowing how they would survive. Octo blew up when he realised he was being targeted and had a huge fight with Mr Fish who was vulnerable to be voted off for the first time in the game. IAWY while giving up his own rights to vote tried hard to save Octo and it ended up being a 3-3-0-0 vote which surprised them all (the 0-0 were due to the blank votes cast by IAWY and Brad into the urn). Pokey switched his vote at the very last second to Fish to force this tie. At the revote, he flipped back but no one seemed to know Lafa and Ghost both flipped too until reunion. So out of the 4 who revoted, only Trilly didn't switch his vote. It's so intense and messy which is why I could remember it quite well still.(edited)
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$pecies #YNWA
07-Jun-19 01:50 AM
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$eason 06 Episode 13
7th: Jon (4-2-1) [Jon - Brad - Pokey] {Jon went home with an idol in his pants}
This was too iconic. So basically there was this tight alliance of 4 consisted of Trilly-Fish-Marchus-Jonny that controlled OG @Sotho from the beginning and they reunited at merge and took control too. Trilly saw Marchus as his "loyal dog" and didn't expect him to turn on their Robinhood alliance but when Marchus did flip here at Final 7, he was called the coward. It's like whatever Marchus did, Trilly would always see his flaw. Ghost was campaigning hard for Marchus to save him and Brad who were the last two OG @Xhosa standing. They along with Pokey wanna gun for Trilly but Marchus made the right choice in shifting the target to the one they least suspected - Jonny who Marchus knew had an idol. Marchus wanted to keep both Trilly and Fish in while getting rid of the idol to ensure he won't be the next one to be blindsided after pulling off a big move here. It's very smart.
While the blindside plan was being formed, it was so hilarious for us to watch how Fish and Trilly were arguing who they should take out between Pokey and Brad (while Ghost won immunity this round). Fish was right to worry that Trilly may want to use Pokey at Final 5 to turn on him and wanted Pokey gone but Trilly refused to budge. Fish realised how it's always Trilly's way or no way and he wasn't pleased at all. He voted Pokey while Trilly and Jonny stuck with voting for Brad. Their votes didn't matter in the end as the other 4 executed their blindside plan perfectly to get Jonny and his idol out of the game. It's an "achievement" that Jonny is proud of as he remains as the only $urvivor player to have been voted off with an idol in his pocket. Sooner or later, we're bounce to have another player blindsided with idol. It has come close a few times and maybe someone will join Jonny's club in All-$tars? ![wokeeyes wokeeyes](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/514828163000565772.png)
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Now I notice how big of a d*ck Brad was after reading back the immediate reaction to the blindside. ![wonderwho wonderwho](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/480057994877468723.png)
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"Sorry your loved one flew all the way out here for nothing"
Jonny's loved one actually got to visit him at the jury villa instead. So it wasn't for nothing. All the hard work Jonny did to find the idol was nothing though since he didnt' play it. Even if they knew Marchus flipped, they never would have guessed the target was Jonny. They would have misplayed it on Trilly or Mr fish.
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$pecies #YNWA
07-Jun-19 09:50 PM
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$witzerland
Ahhhhh Switzerland. I love this beautiful country so much but it’s so expensive. As for $witzerland, Jeff Probst would be proud of me
for pushing for a gimmicky theme when we did not need to. I pushed for the “time” theme a bit too much and decided it’d be monumental experimental to divide the tribes based on time zones since we received a lot of decent apps this time from non-Americans. @Rolex consisted of 11 North Americans who were in the four major American timezone (ET, CT, MT & PT) while @Omega was made up by 11 non-Americans from 3 continents: Europe, Asia and Australia. I didn’t foresee how much of an advantage Rolex would have over Omega and generally they appeared to be more active as there was only a time zone difference of 3 hours among the Rolexes which made it easier for them to socialize with each other. But at the same time, we the non-Americans do suffer to some extent if the majority of the cast are in the American time zones. So at least putting them all on the same tribe would be refreshing and they would be less time zone related excuses. At least that’s our intention.
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Post swap, the “delete-and-post” tactic used to exploit a loophole and time zone advantage pretty much allowed the Americans to communicate cross-tribe rather openly without being caught to discuss if they should throw challenges. Our rule didn’t specify no post deleting back then but it also states no cross tribe private communication. Anyway it’s a lesson learnt and we amended our rules to reflect it. Irl you can’t take back what you have said. We would have disabled everyone from editing / deleting post if Discord had such function. Since $witzerland, editing is allowed outside of decisions channel but it’s not encouraged while deleting is totally banned. If anyone deletes messages intentionally, imma call them out. ![? ?](https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/72x72/1f609.png)
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Still no regret on giving this time zone split a try. I did wish a friend of mine, Miles from Australia would have applied after telling me he was gonna do so last minute but never did. A lot of great memories from $witzerland are still in my mind and I know for the most parts our $wiss alumni did enjoy the experience too. I’m sorry for rambling again lol. I shall just highlight the two iconic tribals that I remember most vividly.
Final 5
The runner up would be the Final 5 tribal where minority handout overconfidence killed RT in a 3-2 vote. He was so sure Noiz would be voted off and instead of pitting Noiz against Josh, RT made himself a target. Jett and Josh both voted with Noiz without the intention of actually keeping him. They were aiming to get the handout worth of $777. Jett was aware Josh might be voting RT too but he voted RT anyway. If he had thrown his vote at Josh, he might have won against Calvin and RT. RT’s reaction to the unintentional blindside entertained us a lot. Minority handout was brought back in $an Quentin but didn’t really change how the players voted. It shouldn’t be anyway. Minority handout’s sister was introduced in $ingapore. We called it the majority tax. Which version will we use in All-$tars? How about both?
Stay tuned to find out.
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$pecies #YNWA
07-Jun-19 11:10 PM
$eason 07 Episode 10
11th: Penny (6-5) [Penny - Calvin]
There shouldn't be any suspense as to which tribal was the most iconic in $witzerland though. Blake, don't read the following if you dont' want to recall what happened. It's based on what I knew back then.
After Chrunch got voted off at the first merge tribal in $witzerland as the easy vote, things escalated fast at Final 11. Blake2 made a mistake of telling Josh he would rather keep him than Noiz (and/or Jett?). Was Blake telling Josh the truth? Didn’t matter as Josh successfully used it to expose the core alliance within the Rolex 8. Noiz, Jett and Calvin flipped to the last 3 Omegas to take out the biggest social threat - Penny in a shocking 6-5 vote. Penny’s last word before leaving tribal was so iconic that I could remember it without reading back. “What did I do wrong?”. Nothing wrong brother and that’s exactly why you were gone. RIP. The aftermath of this vote wasn’t pretty as Blake felt really guilty of causing his close friends to leave over him, which was overwhelming on top of things that were going on irl. It got the three Rolex flippers to the end though. So you could justify that they did make the right strategical move at the right time. Socially things could have been handled better. It's heart-breaking but the Ronmega 6 would have been silly to let Blake-Jessie-Penny-Vlin plus RT to steamroll to the end. They had 2 idols with them and Jett knew about both. sksksksksk Guys, if you manage to find an idol without having to let anyone know, don't tell anyone immediately. If you have to, wait for the right time to do so? I know it's exciting to find one but ![? ?](https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/72x72/1f910.png)
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$pecies #YNWA
08-Jun-19 01:07 PM
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$an Quentin
What a fun theme we had. How on earth did I pick $an Quentin? So back when I was hosting the Final 9 tribal in $outh Africa where Kevin was yeeted, I brought up the amazing Alcatraz based ORG my friend hosted in our message board based org community more than 10 years ago. It got me searching up names of notorious prison in the world and $an Quentin was like the only top 10 prison with a name that starts with S. So it had to be it, even though prior to that point, I had absolute zero knowledge on San Quentin. Did some research and more fun non game-breaking ideas came about and I also decided to give some of our first boots to see if they would flop again being back in the game. They all came back and went out early again except Kirby but they fit the redemption theme we were going after. So that's that. When we're casting for $econd Chancers in the future, I gotta bear that in mind some players never really learnt from their mistakes and flops stay flops . Adios!
Cast wise, holy moly I dunno why this season attracted so many OTT gay characters to apply. Maybe it’s the whole “drop the $oap” jokes that I was guilty of overusing. You would think a prison themed season would be darker than usual but it turned out to be pretty damn wholesome thanks to the lovely jury from Andy, Scarlet all the way to Absol. It warmed my heart knowing that for the most parts the players got along well during and after the season.
As for which was the most iconic Execution Chamber in $an Quentin. It’s obvious to me since I talked about it most often. Before that, I would like to give a shoutout to the first @$penders elimination in episode 1. We were off to a good start when we had a show down between Sniper and Banner which eventually led to Sniper being lethally injected by a 4-3 vote over Exyss.
Other pre-merge execution chambers were alright until we forced all three tribes to send 2 representatives to a 6 person joint bloodbath tribal. For the $penders gang, Exyss volunteered himself while Andy and Banner were not as brave, leading to a 2-1-1 vote where Absol had to break the tie to get Andy to join Exyss. The OTT @$avers gang were all over the place but after Octen ratted out Haydn’s 2-2-2 plan, he and Robert were sent to the bloodbath where they were slaughtered by the @$plashers + $penders alliance.(edited)
At Final 12, Scarlet used her toothbrush idol to save Aquaria and idol out Andy. It was a good idol play to fracture the $plashers+$penders but it led to Scarlet being the next big target to get out at the next round.
Final 10 we had a fun twist to get them to find their own partners for the immunity challenge. They had no idea they were actually choosing an opponent to bid against. Loser of each match had to attend the 5-person execution chamber where Haydn was voted off by his own partner Absol. With Haydn gone, Absol was exposed as playing both sides. Her close bonds with Exyss and Victor saved her but in the process, Exyss became the target and he got blindsided in a 5-4 vote against Hazel. I remember waking up to Exyss getting 5 votes and my jaw dropped. This game could change so fast.
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$pecies #YNWA
08-Jun-19 03:24 PM
$eason 08 Episode 13
6th: Aquaria (3-2-1) [Aquaria - Kirby - Victor]
So at final 6, Aquaria had the right idea what he gotta do to have chance in winning. He started this alliance of 4 with Kirby, Bruno and Hazel to take out the two most obvious and biggest threats - Victor and Absol who he had been working been. However, Kirby quickly outed it to Victor and they decided to get their loved ones to steal money from Aquaria for the immunity challenge. Kirby+Absol+Victor had a counter alliance created. All signs pointed to Aquaria that Kirby outed the name of his alliance "bahk-bahk" to Victor and Victor already knew Aquaria was coming after him. Yet somehow Victor managed to get Aquaria into thinking he was still with him and they would vote out Kirby together. That was amazing. So rather than joining Hazel and Bruno to go 3-3 against Kirby+Absol+Victor, my beloved Aquaria got Bruno to vote with him against Kirby and essentially got himself out in a 3-2-1 vote. Urgh all he had to do was to force 3-3 and I am sure Kirby would have flipped at the revote to eliminate Victor with an idol in the pocket. Huge missed opportunity but still an iconic 3-2-1 tribal. We the $uper professional hosts had to hold our tongue not to say anything about the votes but Hazel's reactions were in sync with what I thought exactly. Still, Aquaria if you read this I am not shading you. You're iconic and through the prison experience, I think you have grown a lot and the past could only make us better in the future.
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jonnyp
08-Jun-19 03:45 PM
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$ingapore
After 8 seasons we finally got to @$ingapore ,and it did NOT let down in the iconic moments at all. Between idols, fights, toxic love, Cindy, $o$, and obviously CARDBOARD. So when we were deciding the cast so many great interviews that it was tough for the host team to come up with a unanimous list. So then someone made a joke ...might of been me OOOP, to just expand the cast and that just snowballed into such a great season. In my personal opinion it was one of the funnest hosting experience i had yet to date. The constant pings/dm's/VC with castaways freaking out about "stale tea", idol searching, general bitching, or even when castaways were down and i had a small hand in trying to lift them back up!
So many iconic tribals but i have 2 that definitely make the iconic tribals list.
Tribal Council 06 DG 2.0
So if you didn't keep up with $ingapore then you were obviously missing out. This round was ABSOLUTELY amazing to watch live. When i had gone to bed it was looking like Needles would most likely be leaving us, but when i got on everything had changed and i was absolutely SHOOK!
What had happened was Frankie had his idol (thanks to Ari) Needles also had an idol. Needles was able to get the target right onto Frankie without knowing he had the idol himself. Now this is where you know Frankie actually plays the game and not on emotions. Instead of getting Needles like we ALL thought he was gonna do, he targets the biggest threat to his game which was Eli
The ORG player in me LOVED this move, the Eli stan in me HATED THIS MOVE. So when $pecies announced if anyone wanted to play an idol and no one stood up i knew what was about to happen would be absolutely amazing. As he opens up the voting urn $pecie finds this
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And before $pecies could even verify that it was real Needles runs and gets her 2 halfs of the idol and plays it on herself. KNOWING most likely Frankie had voted her
As all the Frankie parchments were being read the tension was CRAZY. Were all votes going to be nullified by these 2 idols? Who did Frankie vote for? Did Needles waste her idol? After 7 votes for frankie were nullified only one remained and everyone was in shock when they saw Elis name written down. (Well everyone but Frankie & Ari)
Needless to say this iconic tribal definitely goes down in the history books of $urvivor. It was so heartbreaking to see Elis reaction afterwards, thankful he was able to relax and see it for what it is. So if we ever do have a Robbed $tars season Eli BETTER be on it. Also this tribal definitely changed the direction the season was going and we stan it for that. Great game play, 2 idols, and a surprise ending. What else would you want?
Final 8 Tribal Council: Rocks?
Wow what a crazy tribal council looking back at it. Well at first it was looking like Ari was going to be voted out with Salted flipping on her. Until the craziness happened. Ari was pretty much told it was going to be her and that she should play her idol. Something she struggled with alot, especially after just telling Salted that she had the idol. Which was then leaked by Salted OOOP. Then everything changed and it quickly became a 4 vs. 4. With Cia & Dru being in the tie. We were rooting for ROCKS for sure we absolutely loved the idea of it. So Ari plays "Vi"(her idol) on herself and negates 0 votes
and we come to a tie vote. So Dru &Cia couldn't vote in the revote, plus we also closed down alliance chats & dms and then opened up whisper channels. 1 on 1 chats between people that felt they needed to talk to about the vote. Also VC was also opened for people that wanted to talk. Now it was looking like it MIGHT have gone to rocks until Blue revealed his extra rock advantage and said he would be playing it on Salted. The person that was most likely to flip. This was when all hell broke loose, salted knew he had a extra chance at being rocked out and knew that only 5 people would have been able to be rocked out. He did NOT like his odds at all and neither did we as well. But the tribal chat was instantly filled with cindys whispers to $pecies it was hilarious to watch.
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But one of the memorable moments was Ari and Salted in vc (i believe others were also around) and Ari was trying her HARDEST to get Salted to stay on her side. She knew without Dru by herside she didn't have the numbers anymore. And also she was immune from rocks since she played her idol. Salted switched his vote MANY times before the deadline. Even up until the last minute he switched it one last time. Sadly Dru was the one who left, with the whole cast PISSED at Salted. Ari was pissed because he flipped which sent dru home, while Weeb was pissed we didn't go to rocks. Salted DID end up making the correct choice though looking back at the mock rock draw $pecies did and Salteds 2nd rock (the one blue was going to give him was picked). If Salted didn't flip he would not have won the season and would of been on the jury.
Also i believe this is Salted and Weebs first fight but it wasnt their last that for sure. ![? ?](https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/72x72/1f375.png)
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