S2 Oman

**S2 Oman** was the second season of Rarvivor. The season began on September 29th 2020 and ended on October 28th 2020. It was won by Jay in a 4-2-2 vote over Aurora and Zach Ice. John was awarded Player of the Season.

## Structure/Twists

* **Pick Your Tribe:** This season started with a challenge, where nobody could DM each other, but could talk in one shared text channel with the option to edit or delete their messages. The players had to privately and individually pick one of 3 tribes to join.
* **Tribe Swaps:** At final 14 there was a tribe swap, swapping into 2 tribes of 7.
* **Merge:** The merge consisted of 11 people.
* **Final Tribal Council:** A final three faced a jury of 8.
* **Idol Search:** Three idols were hidden in a shared system called the color scheme.
* **Pay for FTC:** At final 7, the players got the option to pool their fire tokens for a two or a three player final tribal council scenario.

## 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.
* **What is hidden in the idol grid? (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.
* **Literally Nothing (2 fire tokens):** Literally nothing.
* **Pull a Player (3 fire tokens):** The player can swap another player to their tribe. This can't be purchased during an active tribal council.
* **Mutiny (4 fire tokens):** The player can swap to another tribe. This can't be purchased during an active tribal council.
* **Cast a X Debt (X+1 fire tokens):** The player casts a debt on another player. This player is not allowed to vote at the next tribal council unless they pay off their debt. The debt is repaid to the hosting team.

## Season Summary

The season started of with a Pick Your Tribe challenge, where the 20 players were put into a one text channel, which was the only allowed way to communicate with each other. These players had the ability to edit or delete their messages throughout the duration of this challenge. During Pick Your Tribe, the players privately picked the tribe they joined without concrete knowledge of where others want to go. The most populous tribe then went to tribal council. Because it was a tie, both Dhofar and Buraimi, with 7 players each, went to tribal council. Wusta won immunity as it had the remaining 6 players. The pre-swap was pretty uneventful, with a notable exception of a 4-1-1-1 vote, where Zack was eliminated, and unfortunately a quit and a pull out.

At final 14 there was a swap into 2 tribes of 7 players each. Buraimi went to both tribal councils, but neither had anything interesting happening. Noah+ had to be pulled out of the game for striking out, he notable for finding a hidden immunity idol on his first try and after striking out, he tried to bequeath said idol. After production said, that is not possible, he still tried to bequeath it and convince the hosts to allow that. It was not allowed.

The tribes merged at final 11 into the Muscat tribe. The first two tribal council were very close, a 6-5 vote, where Slay got eliminated of savanah and a 5-4 vote, where savanah was afflicted with debt and Josh barely survived over Mason. The final 9 vote was a very messy one, first off Jay was indebted, so he couldn't vote. The plan changed a lot and the final vote count was 3-2-2\*-1, where Deli played her hidden immunity idol, which countered two votes and Josh was unfortunate enough to get the boot with just 3 votes. The next notable tribal was at final 6. For a bit of context, John managed to get two hidden immunity idols, so he had one for each tribal until their expiration. He used his idol to survive a 3\*-2-1 vote, voting UC Jack out instead. At final 5. John was again able to survive, this time a 4\*-1, eliminating Deli. However his days were numbered after Jay won his second immunity in a row and John was voted out 3-1.

Aurora, Jay and Zach Ice made it to Final Tribal Council. Neither played a game that out-shined other finalists in any major way and their performances played a big role. Thanks to a strong FTC performance and being the best player out of the finalists, Jay managed to barely win by a 4-2-2 plurality vote.

## Reception

This season was much better compared to the first and the following season. However, there is one thing about this season dragging it down - it is the most forgettable Rarvivor season. It was not bad, it was just *fine*. Unlike S1 it had some fun characters and some fun gameplay. The premerge was pretty boring, but it gets going early merge where there were some fun votes: 6-5, 5-4 and 3-2-2\*-1 respectively. The rest of the game wasn’t as fun, but it wasn’t terrible. Having one of the best confessionalists in Jay win the season certainly helps the reception of this season.

## Trivia

* Jay won this season by a plurality vote. This was later followed by Marcus in S9.
* No iteration of the Wusta tribe ever went to tribal council.