LogVivor: Serengeti

***LogVivor: Serengeti*** is the ninth season of LogVivor.

Abandoned within the vast and undulating savannas of Tanzania's Serengeti Plains, *Yukon* levels of mess and disorder ensued throughout the game socially and strategically. Huge gameplay blunders paired with numerous fights, toxic behavior, and all around controversy cast a dark cloud over the season early on. With the decimation of one of the tribes premerge, the game seemed set in stone, but the crumble and downfall of the seemingly dominant alliance however cracked the game wide open allowing players on the bottom of the tribal dynamic to turn the tables and run the game to the end.

Ja'Len was crowned the Sole Survivor defeating Christian and Valerie in a 4-2-0 vote. To date, it has produced 2 returning players (Kyla and Dani) for subsequent future seasons.

It is preceded by LogVivor: Iceland and followed by LogVivor: All Stars.

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The 16 castaways were divided into 2 tribes of 8.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe was composed of the final 10 members.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** 3 finalists faced a jury of 6 (intended to be 7).

## Twists

* **Olmorani Targets:** Before the season began, each castaway was randomly assigned one player to secretly target. If they successfully vote out their target, they will receive Immunity at the next Tribal Council attend. However, the players are unaware of who their target is. After every tribal Immunity Challenge, the winning tribe will have to send one player from each tribe to take a journey to an unknown location that will lead to the sacred Maasai and Datoga Emanyatta huts in which the chosen castaways can gamble their vote to reveal the identity of their target.
* **The Saboteurs:** The Hidden Immunity Idols hidden at the tribe camps only hold the power to negate a mere 2 votes where the players to find the idols assume the roles of The Saboteurs to increase the power of the idols by sabotaging their tribe. If or when a Saboteur's tribe loses the Immunity Challenge, the number of votes their idol can negate will raise by 2. Also any votes a Saboteur receives at a Tribal Council and survives, that total number of votes will increase the power of votes the idol can negate as well.
* **Ghost Tribal:** During Round 4 after the Immunity Challenge, the results of the challenge were kept secret and both tribes would be sent to separate Tribal Councils to each vote off one player. However, the tribe who unknowingly won the previous challenge would secretly attend the Ghost Tribal in which the player they voted out would not be eliminated from the game.

## Castaways

### Season 9 Superlatives

* Best Strategic Player: Ja'Len
* Best Social Player: Dani
* Best Physical Player: Ja'Len & Valerie
* Biggest Hero: Kyla
* Biggest Villain: Ella & Christian
* Best Duo: Kyla & Dani
* Best Rivalry: Christian & Emmie
* Most Underrated: Gio
* Biggest Blindside: Dani
* Best Underdog: Ja'Len
* Best Top Dog: Dani
* Most Robbed: Dani
* Most Robbed Premerge: Alyssa

* Host Favs: Dani, Ja'Len & Kyla

## Trivia

* Datoga is the first tribe to have a member quit after winning an Immunity Challenge.
* *Serengeti* is the first season since *Marshall Islands* to not have a Tribe Swap occur.
* Nati is the second person to be ejected from the game.
	+ He is the first man to be ejected.
	+ He is also the first player to be ejected during the jury stage of the game.
* *Serengeti* is the second season after *Mexico* to feature both an ejection and quit.
* Salad Soldiers is the first tribe to never find their Hidden Immunity Idol.
* *Serengeti* has the smallest jury to date with only 6 jurors serving on the jury.
* *Serengeti* is the second season to have an all POC Final 3 following *Yukon*.
* Out of all Sole Survivors, Ja'Len holds the record of least amount of jury votes received with only 4.
	+ Ja'Len received less votes to win than the Runner Up of *Japan*, Isabel, who received 5 and still lost.
* *Serengeti* holds the record for the least amount of idol or advantage plays in a season with only 1 total.
* A Catfish Twist featuring 2 returning premerge players was planned preseason but was eventually scrapped.