S9 Denmark

**S9 Denmark** was the ninth season of Rarvivor. The season began on December 21st 2022 and ended on January 23rd 2023. It was won by Marcus in a 4-3-1 vote over steph and South. JTS was awarded Player of the Season.

## Fire Token Menu

* **Idol Clue (1 fire token):** The player can choose between 5 different clues and the idol the clue is associated with.
* **Pizza (1 fire token):** The player gets one extra guess that day.
* **Peanut Butter (1 fire token):** The player gets information about the contents in the idol searching system.
* **Sneak Peek (1 fire token):** The player can sneak on another player and find out about their advantages and amount of fire tokens. There was also a 50% chance the player who was sneaked upon found out.
* **Fake Idol Kit (1 fire token):** This allows a creation of one fake idol. The player can choose to keep it, give away or hide in the idol searching system.
* **Idol Validation (1 fire token):** The player is told whether their idol is real or fake.
* **Speadsheet Copy (1 fire token):** The player receives a screenshot of the voting chart. Voting charts were always updated right after a player got eliminated.
* **Walkie Talkie (1 fire token):** This advantage creates a one on one chat channel with a player on another tribe.
* **Literally Nothing (2 fire tokens):** Literally nothing.
* **Mutiny (2 fire tokens):** The player can swap to another tribe. This can't be purchased during an active tribal council.
* **Tribe Swap (3 fire tokens):** It forces a random tribe swap at the beginning of the next challenge.

## Reception

Finally we have a season that doesn’t suck and has actually a lot of going for it. This season started with 3 fairly balanced tribes and while the premerge wasn’t very entertaining, it still had some good to great premerge characters like our first boot ngaapo, or especially donut, the last premerge boot. This boot was particularly interesting, as two of this seaon’s bigger personalities in steph and JTS clashed about who should go home and their relationship was a whole season story-arch to behold. The merge started out ok with two relatively less active players getting voted out in a 9-1-1 and a 6-1-1-1 (S1 vibes???) vote respectively. Final 9 is where the season really picked up and it was entertaining until the end. We have a close 5-3 Liz vote, where her loot box item didn’t save her, then Moss getting idoled out 7\*-1 and then the best 2 tribal councils of the season in a row. First we have the Sppc 4-3 vote, where steph used steal a vote and unsuccessfully tried to boot JTS. After this vote we had a spicy 3-2-1, where it initially lookes like a 3-3, only for Malte getting convinced to switch his vote, only to vote himself out. Also there was an unsuccessful attempt at Marcus misplaying his idol, which led him to keep it and use it to keep steph safe the very next tribal council. At final 4, Dane was surprisingly voted out 3-1 and we were left with Marcus, steph and South in FTC, which is in my opinion the best finalist loadout up until this point. Marcus then won with a 4-3-1 plurality vote and follows the trend of Rarvivor having great winners. While this season doesn’t reach the highs of S5 and S6, it still manages to be entertaining and it is the first Rarvivor season not to have any quits or pullouts, which is a nice change of pace after 2 seasons before it.