Dissonance

Endure: Dissonance is the ninth season of Endure. It was won by Alicia L. in a 5-2-2 vote.
Dissonance was the first season to be hosted on Discord. The previous eight seasons were hosted on Skype.
==Production==
*Kilby, Sam, and Stephen return to Production this season.
**TSL from & and Chris from & joined the production team for the first time.
==Format==
*Three Tribes: The castaways were divided into three tribes of eight.
** The  tribe. Chanmé, translating to mean, nasty, and bad. They were represented in grey.
** The ​​ tribe. Teubé, translating to beast, thick, and stupid. They were represented in black.
** The  tribe. Véner, translating to annoying, angering, and pest. They were represented in white.
*Returning Players: Endure: Dissonance was advertised as a newbie season but cast Amber P. from , Jack L. from , and Matt M. from .
*The Review Board: At the start of the game, each player selected a card based solely on its iconography. This card carried with it a role and an objective. If the objective was successfully completed, the card was given a green stamp; if the objective was failed, the card received a red stamp. Whenever a player was voted out, they had to will their card - completed or not - to any remaining player.
** The twist culminated at the merge, where it was revealed that the players who had successfully completed the objectives on all of their cards got to advance to the merge tribe; whereas each player with even one failed card was forced to go to Tribal Council the following night.
*Darkness: In a throwback to & , votes were kept a mystery at Tribal Council and only the person voted out was revealed.
** The only exception was in the event of a tie, in which case the two or more players tied for the most votes against were revealed and a revote occurred.
** Hidden Immunity Idols could be played in secret at the voting booth or played publicly at Tribal Council, after the votes had been cast but before the results of the vote were revealed. Only successful idol plays were made public.
*Tribe Swap: A tribe swap occurred in which the Final 19 were distributed into three uneven tribes:
** The 8-person Tribe
** The 6-person Tribe
** The 5-person Tribe
*Second Tribe Swap: At the Final 16, there was a second tribe swap in which the remaining players were assigned to one of two tribes:
** The 8-person Tribe
** The 7-person Tribe
*** Rayna, due to a card she poppyssessed, was pre-determined to be exiled during this round. It was announced that she would join the tribe that lost the next immunity challenge, following that tribe's Tribal Council.
==Contestants==
Contestant	Contestant 	Tribe Affiliation	Tribe Affiliation 	Tribe Affiliation 	Tribe Affiliation 	Finish 	VotesAgainst
Contestant	Contestant 	Original Tribe 	Swapped Tribe 	Swapped Tribe 	Merged Tribe 	Finish 	VotesAgainst
 	Amber P.23, Colombia, SCCodename: Turtlehead 	 	rowspan=5 	1st Voted OutDay 3 	4 	 	
 	Eliza S.24, Louisville, KYCodename: Vixen 	 	2nd Voted OutDay 3	6 	 	 	
 	Emily P.21, Ann Arbor, MICodename: Castor 	 	3rd Voted OutDay 5	5 	 	 	
 	Ben N.30, Orlando, FLCodename: Thatcher 	 	4th Voted OutDay 8	5 	 	 	
 	Fernando V.19, Sacramento, CACodename: Cona 	 	5th Voted OutDay 8	9 	 	 	
 	Matt D.25, Long Island, NYCodename: Veloster 	 	 	rowspan=3 	6th Voted OutDay 11 	8 	
 	Julia C.25, Ottawa, ONCodename: Clandestine 	 	 	Med EvacDay 12 	0 	 	
 	Karen M.32, Markham, ONCodename: Vacuum 	 	 	7th Voted OutDay 14	4 	 	
 	Nadim A.24, Calgary, ABCodename: Coyote 	 	 	 	rowspan=4 	8th Voted OutDay 17 	7
 	Maddy C.19, Westchester, NYCodename: Thorns 	 	 	 	9th Voted OutDay 19 	4 	
 	Adam S.19, Camarillo, CACodename: Venereal 	 	 	 	10th Voted OutDay 22	7 	
 	Matt M.27, Washington D.C.Codename: Coriolanus 	 	 	 	11th Voted OutDay 23	5 	
 	Jonathan O.36, Toronto, ONCodename: Theory 	 	 	 	rowspan="12" 	12th Voted OutDay 26	11
 	Kyle A.27, Chicago, ILCodename: Thunder 	 	 	 	13th Voted OutDay 29	10 	
 	Joshua H.30, New Orleans, LACodename: Crescent 	 	 	 	14th Voted OutDay 31	7 	
 	Jack L.25, Boston, MACodename: Vulcan 	 	 	 	15th Voted OutDay 33	10 	
 	Robert R.23, Chicago, ILCodename: Tigresa 	 	 	 	16th Voted OutDay 34	10 	
 	Will B.29, Toronto, ONCodename: Trash 	 	 	 	17th Voted OutDay 35	4 	
 	Heinrichs, J.25, Calgary, ABCodename: Vorlon 	 	 	 	18th Voted OutDay 36	8 	
 	Ricky M.31, Denver, COCodename: Valentino 	 	 	 	19th Voted OutDay 37	10 	
 	Rayna I.24, Lancaster, PACodename: Tea Tree 	 	 	 	20th Voted OutDay 38	8 	
 	Eric G.29, Philadelphia, PACodename: Catastrophe	 	 	 	Runner-UpDay 39 	2 	
 	Brie A.22, Rogersville, ALCodename: Coconuts 	 	 	 	Runner-UpDay 39 	3 	
 	Alicia L.23, Boston, MACodename: Verde 	 	 	 	Sole SurvivorDay 39 	5 	
==Season Recap==
Old Teube was a trainwreck and no one really knows what happened on that tribe. Maddy essentially controlled the tribe with Will and Rayna
Old Chanme had Josh control every vote and they took out Emily for peeing on a tree and Fernando for being too chaotic.
Old Vener was the best tribe. They only lost once and voted out Eliza for being just a smidgeon too inactive despite her wasting 4 hours of her life on a blindfolded puzzle for them. Ricky and Matt Daigger made a really close alliance here.
In the swapped tribes, the new Vener tribe lost everything and everyone hated everyone by the end of it. Alicia made a mistake in voting out Matt Daigger here. Then Maddy stole Heinrichs's vote and took out Karen.
Next tribe swap again Vener lost everything again. Josh and Ricky had a romantic connection and voted out Nadim, Maddy, and Adam for being too chaotic.
In a twist, players who failed a mission had to go to another tribal. Melikian won too many challenges to complete his card so players were worried he’d go on a 12 immunity win streak unless they struck RIGHT THEN so he went home.
For the merge round, rumours were going around that Alicia and Heinrichs kick puppies for fun so a large majority conglomerated against them. Alicia won immunity so they wanted to vote Heinrichs. Because of Alicia’s idol a bunch of players threw their vote in case she played it on Heinrichs and enough people threw their vote that Jonathan ended up going home instead and literally everyone was blindsided except for Ricky and Jack kinda.
Jack posted a public confessional bragging about Jonathan going as part of a plan. This backfired as people read it and his alliance of Ricky/Jack/Kyle/Josh/Brie crumbled and people cried for the next 24 hours. Their alliance eventually came back together, but literally everyone else was immune because of the immunity challenge other than Rob. Rob went on a very laggy rant about Jack and Ricky’s alliance and in a trainwreck vote with tears and crying all the stragglers outside the alliance voted out Kyle, a key member of the group. Jack played his idol for some reason here.
Half the players claimed they would sooner eat a moldy pie than vote out Josh so most of the stragglers (not including Eric) decided to take out Josh from Ricky’s alliance next. Josh and Brie hard threw Jack under the bus to keep Josh alive and Jack was having a very bad day and voted Josh out with the stragglers to stay alive with the hope of a better future finally coming.
Jack was voted out next because people thought he had an idol.
Ricky and Brie hated life at this point as all their allies were voted out. They signed up Alicia and Heinrichs as replacement allies but Ricky was still jaded at them for voting out Matt Daigger so it wasn’t the same for him.
Everyone agreed to take out Eric next because he found an idol, but he won immunity so it became a battle between old-Teube and Ricky’s-grunts. Rob gave his heart to Brie and Brie ate it and voted him out. Will shook his head in disbelief at Rob foolishly giving his heart to someone in the other alliance. He then gave his heart to Ricky and Ricky ate it.
With most of old Teube now gone, everyone really wanted Eric to finally lose an immunity challenge but he decided to win all the rest instead. Ricky/Brie + Alicia/Heinrichs were forced to turn on each other, with Eric and Rayna siding with Ricky to vote out Alicia’s idol. Except Ricky voted out Heinrichs instead wanting in on some Alicia idol action next round. Everyone yelled at Ricky and he went home next, not getting the idol as he hoped.
Rayna was busy having a life during the final immunity challenge so Brie brought Alicia to firemaking against Rayna whom she beat.
F3 of Alicia/Eric/Brie was a tight one with a FTC of tears, anger, and bitterness. Alicia ended up winning despite her mistake of voting out Matt Daigger earlier in the game.
==Season Summary==
===Season Review Ranking===
Rank: 2/10
Cast: 3/3Stellar cast. Definitely the best all around cast in my opinion. Everyone brought something from first to last place, even the person who had the least amount of impact on the game had a storyline. Most of this cast was entirely new to the format, and it definitely shone through the season as everyone had a lot of obstacles to overcome together as a unit. Impossible to not give them 3/3 for just an overall unit performance. Most of this cast I’d cast again. Might be recency bias but this cast made me like hosting again. Aww. Cute.
Excitement: 3/3For me, I don’t think things could have really gotten more exciting? I feel like I was really locked on to my faves, and even the people I was cheering against to see what would happen. Tribals were fun, a lot of tribals I went in deadass having no idea what the hell was going to happen or who was going home. There was very few tribals we made elimination graphics ahead of time for, especially at merge cause it was always shifting last minute. Story lines were dynamic and had direct action/consequence/rewards for every individual.
Theme/Twist: 2/3 I loved the roles twist. I can see how it was difficult to follow along as a viewer, but as someone who knew all the mechanics it was really intricate to follow. It ended up putting everyone in to pretty even sections, and even drove a lot of gameplay notable moments without overpowering the game. It was suggestive and not mandatory which lead to a lot of choice being made. The duel idol completely flopped bc of Jack. Our original theme got a bit muddled reasonably because a totalitarianism theme became way too fucking real too fast after we started planning so we backed off it a bit.
Memorability: 3/3 There’s so many great moments that I think will be memorable for all time. I think the final 8 were all incredibly deserving winners which made the end game go by really without any of my usual concern that we’d have a garbage winner. Karen believing her fruits had powers, the terrible awful Teubé tribe, Josh losing 100 immunities, everything Maddy related, Robert singing while doing the wall sit, Will reading feminist literature, every time I’d hop on a call to see what’s up and someone was crying and I’d immediately disconnect. The moment. - Samm
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===Episode Guide===
===Voting History===
==Media Releases==
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