Rotuma

***Rotuma*** was the second Survivor Stings season. 18 castaways played under alias identities.

## Production

This season was hosted by Jay (Series Admin). It combined both new and community players. The blog is https://survivor-rotuma.tumblr.com/.

## Twists/Differences

* ***Alias:*** In this game, nobody used their real name, allowing community players who may have known each other to play like newbies again.
* ***Invisible Round:*** This season featured a round in which none of the votes were revealed, only the person who went home.
* ***Super Idol:*** A super idol that allowed its player to cast the two sole votes at tribal, forcing a tie between them.
* ***Fake Swap:*** In a schoolyard pick, Marie and Felix chose new "tribes," which were later revealed to not be real
* ***No Swap:*** Instead of a swap, the starting tribes remained until the merge, leading to Mea being whittled down to just two players.
* ***Tribe Leader Twist***: Each tribe had to select a tribe leader based on first impressions

## Season Overview

### **Description**

The season opened with a tribe leader twist. Apollo was the tribe leader for Sumi, Cassie was the tribe leader for Tuai, and Marie was the tribe leader for Mea. After losing the first tribal council, Gigi was voted out based on her activity. At tribal council, a mysterious voting confession was left, which Marie and Kathleen assumed was left by David. Because it rubbed them the wrong way, they ultimately voted out David, not knowing yet that the confession was actually left by Lysandre. Thomas was eliminated second from Sumi, after Felix, Raul, and Kathleen made a deal for reward. Felix gave Boris half of a super idol and was able to choose a member of Sumi to get an extra vote, which he gave to Bradley.

Round three came with a fake swap, where Marie and Felix chose new tribes in a schoolyard pick. The "New Sumi" won immunity, sending the "New Tuai" to tribal council (this was actually something of a One World tribal, because the swap was reverted). Suzy also quit that round. Once the swap was reverted, the Mea tribe was reduced to only three players. Since Marie and Lysandre were a tight duo, they eliminated Raul, although Marie spent much of the round lying to Raul.

The round before merge, there was a double elimination. Against all the odds, Marie and Lysandre, alone, were able to pull out a win to avoid being decimated. However, Joey also successfully threw the challenge in order to eliminate Charlie so that they could stay Tuai strong at the merge.

Once the merge happened, a major division emerged. Marie wanted to make a big move to establish power, and she heard that Cassie had been overplaying. Marie and Lysandre found themselves in the middle of the two former OG tribe strong alliances, and ultimately decided to vote out Cassie. At the second merge round, Felix decided to purge all of his advantages, playing a hidden immunity idol, a Vote Negator, and enacted a Transparent Round. Felix played the idol on Joey, who had been the target, sending Marie home with only two votes. Since they had not seen this chaos coming, the majority alliance did not think to split the votes.

The next round was a simple vote, where Zest was on the bottom after the Marie elimination. The next round saw a tie between Brianna and Lysandre, but on the revote, Felix flipped on Lysandre because he did not want to go to rocks. At the final five, Felix played a Special Idol, the Sapphire Idol, which forced everyone to vote between either Brianna or Apollo. When Apollo played an idol, it became a zero vote tribal council. On the revote, Felix himself was ultimately eliminated. Brianna was then removed from the game for catfishing, ironically.

The game then became a final two, with Apollo winning final immunity and choosing to take Joey to FTC. In a fairly close vote, where people felt Apollo had overplayed yet Joey did not do enough to win, Apollo won the game.