LogVivor: Mexico

***LogVivor: Mexico***, also known as ***LogVivor: Mexico - The Chihuahuan Desert***, is the second season of LogVivor.

In one of the hardest locations the game has faced yet in the arid Chihuahan Desert of Mexico, this season became known for its messy yet entertaining gameplay. With the tribes divided by theme for the first time in LogVivor history in a Battle of the Sexes, this season saw a step up in intense strategy and gameplay compared to the first season prior. Throughout the game it included many strong personalities, a split merge tribe competing for control, and experienced many franchise firsts including the first expulsion, quit, Tribe Swap, Double Tribal, rock draw, Fire-Making tiebreaker, and previously voted out players returning to the game.

Kobe was crowned the Sole Survivor defeating Isaac and Will in a 6-1-0 vote. To date, it has produced 7 returning players (Kobe, Isaac, Shechinah, Bradi, Felix, Kaidence, and James) for subsequent future seasons.

It is preceded by LogVivor: Marshall Islands and followed by LogVivor: Yukon

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The 16 castaways were divided into 2 tribes of 8.
* **Tribe Swap:** After the 3rd round, the first Tribe Swap in LogVivor history occurred where the 12 remaining castaways were swapped into 2 new tribes of 6.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe was composed of the final 10 members.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** 3 finalists faced a jury of 7.

## Twists

* **Battle of the Sexes:** The two starting tribes were sorted to be comprised of all members of the same gender. Those who identified as men formed the Creosote tribe and those who identified as women formed the Opuntia tribe.
* **The Outcasts:** During the 6th immunity challenge of the season, the ten remaining castaways faced a third tribe comprised of the first four voted out castaways in a three-way special challenge. If The Outcasts placed 1st, both Creosote and Opuntia would go to separate Tribal Councils and vote out one of their own. The Outcasts would then attend a Tribal Council of their own and vote two of their own back into the game, with the remaining two being eliminated for good. If The Outcasts finish 2nd, only one of them will be voted back in the game, and only the losing tribe will vote somebody out. If The Outcasts lose to both tribes, they are all eliminated from the game, and Creosote and Opuntia merge without voting anybody out.
* **Double Tribal Council:** In part due to the Outcasts Twists, both tribes were sent to Tribal Council to both separately vote out a member for the very first time in the franchise.

## Castaways

### Season 2 Superlatives

* Best Strategic Player: Kobe
* Best Social Player: Isaac
* Best Physical Player: Kobe
* Biggest Hero: Lauren
* Biggest Villain: Bradi
* Best Duo: Kobe & Shechinah
* Best Rivalry: Bradi vs. Tommy
* Most Underrated: Lauren
* Biggest Blindside: Nash
* Best Underdog: Isaac
* Best Top Dog: Kobe
* Most Robbed: Isaac & Abby
* Most Robbed Premerge: Nash

* Host Favs: Bradi, Kobe & Kaidence

## Season Summary

In January of 2022, 16 castaways were abandoned deep within the heart of the dry and vast desert of Coahuila, Mexico. Upon their arrival to one of the most unforgiving locations LogVivor has faced, the 16 players were separated by gender to form the 2 tribes, Creosote and Opuntia.

Right off the bat, Kobe began to position himself well in game by getting in good social graces with the Creosote men. Everyone else on the all- men tribe seemed to get along as well creating strong bonds except for lone wolf Kaison who didn't seem to socially fit in. Opuntia on the other hand immediately struggled with activity and tribe cohesion. Despite alliances and relationships being made behind the scenes, the members of the all-women tribe rarely spoke in the tribe chat causing concern from some of its members. During the first immunity however, it was Creosote who failed to work together efficiently as Bradi lead Opuntia to an early victory for the women. Shortly after the challenge, a huge dispute between Bradi and Tommy broke out publicly leading to what would be a long rivalry between the two.

This fight would kick off a turning point from what was a peaceful first few starting days of the game. During Creosote's visit to Tribal Council, Kaison was easily voted out unanimously for his lack of connection with literally everyone. Soon after the first boot of the season and after an alarming development, Ary was ejected from the game due to her involvement with controversial individuals outside of the game at the time. This event seemingly didn't phase Opuntia as they headed into the next challenge optimistically, but they would ultimately lose and be sent to their first Tribal Council. Before any form of official plans could even start to be made, Delilah shockingly quit the game for unknown reasons cancelling the women's first Tribal Council visit. Creosote would go on to win again at the next immunity challenge where a new cross-tribal alliance was quickly formed. After the challenge concluded, the final members who had yet to be removed from the chat, Isaac, Will and Abby calling themselves the Hot Potato alliance, quickly talked game and proposed a 4/4 tribe split alliance for the merge. Going into their first tribal, Abby, Lauren, Kaidence and Shechinah banded together and wanted to target Bradi for her big personality and lack of relationships. With the group able to pull in Ayanna to vote with them, Bradi was voted out with an idol in her pocket. Despite only going to tribal once, the women were now down 7-5 in numbers and the tribe was in shambles.

At the Final 12, for the first time in LogVivor history, the tribes swapped into 2 tribes of 6. On Creosote 2.0, old tribal lines fell 3-3 and the Hot Potato alliance were brought together much to their amusement. On Opuntia 2.0, the men held the majority with most wanting to stay Creosote strong. Kobe and Felix, on the other hand, had other plans with Kobe setting his sights on flipping on James to keep the gender lines even. Creosote would go on to win yet again and Kobe set his plan into motion. By pulling in Nash and the two former Opuntia members, Lauren and Ayanna, Kobe targeted James leaving Felix out of the loop. James was blindsided and Felix did not hold back in voicing his annoyance with being left out. Despite the post tribal blow up, Opuntia won the next challenge ending Creosote's streak. Leading up to Creosote's first tribal in a while, The Hot Potato alliance pulled in Shechinah to form a majority in order to oust Tommy and Kaidence. Kaidence was ultimately picked off first for her recent inactivity involving elements outside of the game in a unanimous vote.

At the Final 10 with many anticipating a merge, one of LogVivor's first major twists was revealed. Unbeknownst to the cast, the previously voted out players in Kaison, Bradi, James and Kaidence formed a secret tribe named The Outcasts. In the immunity challenge, The Outcasts competed against both Creosote and Opuntia for a potential spot back in the game. Ultimately, The Outcasts would end up placing first sending both tribes to LogVivor's very first Double Tribal to separately vote out one player each. The Outcasts would then follow voting for two members to replace the two just eliminated players. Creosote attended tribal first where the Hot Potato alliance plus Shcechinah stuck together again to pick off Tommy unanimously. Opuntia soon followed with a tribal not quite as simple. The majority alliance set their sights on picking off Felix due to him being the only one not in the alliance as well as Felix stirring the pot ever since the James vote. Knowing he was on the outs, Felix got members of the alliance to admit they were voting for him and a fight between Felix and Nash soon broke out. At Tribal Council, Felix played his Legacy Advantage that he found on Day 1 negating all votes but his. Because of their recent fight, Felix's sole vote went to Nash and Nash was legacied out of the game. With Tommy and Nash now out, The Outcasts attended their special tribal to vote two of their members back into the game. The votes were spread pretty evenly, but in the end, both Bradi and Kaidence gathered enough votes to re-enter the game despite Kaidence doing zero campaigning.

At this new Final 10, Creosote and Opuntia officially merged to become the Juntos tribe. The Hot Potato alliance fufilled their promise and created their Creosote and Opuntia split merge alliance with Isaac, Will, Abby, Felix, Lauren and Shechinah, but the alliance would not hold strong for long. After the first individual immunity challenge, sides began to form and Kobe, Bradi and Abby's names became the ones to float around. With some wanting to keep Bradi in as a shield, Isaac, Kaidence, Felix and Bradi formed a group of their own to target Kobe for being a potential challenge and strategic threat. The Hot Potato majority alliance soon began to crumble due to Isaac and Shechinah flipping and Lauren's distrust of Felix, but some members were unaware and hoped to stick together to target Bradi. Knowing she was being targeted, Bradi played the very same idol she was voted out in pocket with which spooked Kobe into playing one of his. Those two idols would negate all votes but 1, and Bradi's sole throwaway vote for Abby in revenge of voting her out all those rounds ago came back to bite her and Abby was double idoled out of the game as the first member of the jury. The trend of crazy votes would unfortunately continue going into the next round. In the wake of the chaos of last vote, the two sides became solidified in a battle of Kobe's side vs Bradi's side. After Kobe won his first of many individual immunity challenges, his side of Shechinah, Will, Lauren and Ayanna set their target onto Felix with Bradi's side of her, Isaac, Kaidence and Felix wanting to have an easy vote on Ayanna. Unfortunately, during the immunity challenge, Will lost his vote after not completing a punishment which would unknowingly lead to huge consequences. The vote would come out to 4-4 between Felix and Ayanna with a revote of 3-3. With neither side able to come to a unanimous agreement on who to eliminate during the consensus, the vote was declared deadlocked and for the first and currently only time in LogVivor history, rocks were to be drawn. With Kobe immune and Felix and Ayanna now declared safe, Bradi, Isaac, Kaidence, Lauren, Shechinah and Will were now in danger. After each eligible player reached their hands into the hypothetical bag, it was Kaidence who drew the unlucky rock and was eliminated from the game. Had Will had his vote, the vote simply would have been a close 5-4.

After three insane votes back to back, the levels of mess soon subsided for the time being. Both sides of the very split merge tribe remained intact and despite Bradi and Isaac's best efforts, Felix was again targeted by Kobe's side and finally voted out. Sensing his alliance's impending doom, Isaac began exploring other options as he knew Bradi would be targeted before him. Isaac attempted to sway Ayanna and Will to his and Bradi's side but Ayanna was too inactive and Will wanted to target Isaac for being the most likely to win between him and Bradi. Despite Isaac's attempt to save his alliance, Bradi began to publicly target Isaac to save herself. In retaliation, Isaac targeted his former ally as well. In the end, Isaac was able to get his way as Bradi was voted out for the second time in a revote after a very close tied vote. Now, as Isaac stood as the lone survivor from his side of the tribe, the lines of allegiance in the tribe began to blur. After initially feeling stuck in his place in the tribe, Isaac wanted to target Ayanna because of her inactivity and believed she would be the easiest to convince others to flip on. He was right in his beliefs as he was able to convince both Will and Lauren separately as they both didn't believe she deserve to make it this far in the game. Those two votes along with Isaac's was enough to tie against Kobe, Shechinah and Ayanna's votes for Isaac. With both sides staying intact during the revote, once again the tribe was sent into the consensus just before rocks. Feeling as though Ayanna staying wasn't worth the risk of going to rocks, Kobe and Shechinah joined Will and Lauren in unanimously agreeing to eliminate Ayanna over Isaac to avoid rocks. For the first time in the game, Kobe wasn't able to get his way.

Now in the finale, Kobe remained a powerful force which earned both the respect and resentment of some jury members, and Isaac began to emerge as a root-able underdog. With his life on the line, Isaac was able to pull out a win along with Kobe during the immunity challenge. With both of the power players now immune, people began to scramble as to what to actually do. Isaac, Lauren and Will stuck together and wanted to vote out Kobe's right hand woman Shechinah in an attempt to weaken the latter. Kobe and Shechinah on the other hand ultimately wanted to target their ally Lauren as they deemed her the most likely to win out of the 3 people vulnerable this tribal. With it being the last time any advantage could be played, Kobe played all 3 advantages he earned throughout the game including a Vote Revealer, a Vote Steal in which he used to steal Will's vote, and an idol that he played on Shechinah negating Isaac and Lauren's votes. With these advantages, Kobe was able to secure the majority and Lauren was voted out. Heading into Final Immunity, it was do or die for Isaac in the game. Unfortunately for Isaac, Kobe secured his 6th consecutive individual immunity win, the most in LogVivor history, and a spot in the Final Tribal Council. A tearful and disappointed Isaac had seemingly accepted his fate, but Kobe decided to make one final move. Kobe decided to flip on his long term ally in Shechinah to take Isaac to the end and make Final Tribal Council an actual fight. Will disagreed with Kobe's plan and doubled down on voting for Isaac with Shechinah resulting in a 2-2 tie and LogVivor's very first Fire Making tiebreaker. In an Isaac vs. Shechinah Fire Making showdown, Isaac came out victorious and was able to win his way into Final Tribal Council eliminating Shechinah as the final member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Will was immediately dismissed for his wish-washy and often confusing game and it all came down to a battle of David vs. Goliath between Isaac and Kobe. The jury praised Kobe for his absolute dominant control on the game and impressive immunity streak, but was criticized for relying on immunities and never seeing any actual opposition or struggle in his game. Isaac was praised for his fight, survival, and underdog story, but it just wasn't enough to compare to Kobe's control and strategy. In the end, Kobe was crowned as the Sole Survivor with a jury vote of 6-1-0.

## Trivia

* *Mexico* is the first season to split the tribes based on a theme.
	+ It would be followed by *Japan,* *Greece* and *Iceland*.
* *Mexico* is the first season to include a Legacy Advantage.
* *Mexico* is the first season to have a player ejected from the game.
* *Mexico* is the first season to have a player quit the game.
* Opuntia is the first tribe to have a Tribal Council canceled.
* *Mexico* is the first season to include a Tribe Swap.
* *Mexico* is the first season to include a Double Tribal in part due to the Outcasts Twist.
* Felix is the first player to play a Legacy Advantage.
* *Mexico* is the first season to have previously voted out players re-enter the game.
* *Mexico* is the first season to have a tied vote.
	+ It also holds the record for most tied votes in a season with 3.
* Kaidence is the first player to be eliminated by Rocks.
	+ She would be followed by Felix, Aaron and Meg in *Guyana*.
* Bradi is the first player to be voted out twice in a single season.
	+ She would be followed by Dre in *Guyana*
* Ayanna is the first player voted out by consensus after a deadlocked tie vote.
* Kobe is tied with Brandon in *Yukon*, Sania in *Seychelles,* Terrence in *Greece,* and Madz in *Iceland* for the most advantages owned at once in a single season with 3.
* Kobe holds the record for the most Individual Immunities won in a single season with 6 consecutive wins.
* Kobe is technically the first player to reach the Final 3 with 0 votes (that count) cast against them.
	+ He would be followed by Trey from *Yukon,* Caleb from *Seychelles,* and Jacob from *Greece*.
* *Mexico* is the first and so far only season to have an all male Final 3.
* Kobe holds the record for receiving the highest percentage of jury votes with 6/7 votes totaling to 86% of the jury vote.