Total Drama: Harmonic Scenes

## Cast

***Total Drama: Harmonic Scenes*** is the second season of *Vix's Total Drama (Era 3).*

The season ended with Ridge defeating Calypso, Marisa and Sloan in the final challenge.

It has produced two returning players (Calypso and Mylo) for subsequent seasons.

## Development

After Season 1 reached its merge phase, applications for this season opened. The application period ended with ~40 submissions, and 28 went on to be the season's contestants.

## Twists/Changes

* **Premiere Phase:** For the first portion of the season, the contestants were split into two groups. Each group played their own 14-person games, played the same challenges and eliminated a player at the same time until the groups would eventually combine.
	+ **Team Composition:** Within each game, the players were split into two teams of seven. Group 1 had both Camp Maneater and Camp Blue Blood, while Group 2 had both Camp Fuck Tha Police and Camp Chop Suey!.
	+ **Redemption Duel:** The last players eliminated from each group would have a final duel. After choosing a player from their old groups to become new team captains, the two would face off in a 1-v-1 challenge. The winner returned to the game as a third team captain.
* **Post-Premiere Team Composition:** After the premiere episodes, the players were split into three teams of seven.
* **Harmony Advantage:** During the second part of the first post-premiere challenge, one player from each team were tasked to do a secret challenge. There, they had the option to stop and earn the Harmony Advantage first. The offer was denied, and the advantage was rehidden around the camp. However, when a player found and opened the advantage, they could not vote nor use it until all three were found.
* **Individual Challenge / Team Swap:** On Day 12, the teams participated in an individual immunity challenge. The top two players won individual immunity while all three teams went to the ceremony together to collectively eliminate one player. Then, the two immunity winners became the new team captains and chose 2 new teams of 8.
* **Special Greed Offer:** On Day 14, the Greed challenge returned, but this time, as time went on, the offer extended to have individual immunity for multiple ceremonies.
* **Merge Composition:** The teams merged when there were thirteen players remaining.
* **Collab Room:** After the teams merged, a new room opened up for a new twist called Collabs. For the first few merge rounds, two random players were chosen to do a task for an advantage. Completing the task would grant one of the players an advantage.
* **Endurance Offer:** Day 16's Immunity Challenge featured an endurance challenge, where players could drop to earn offered advantages.
* **Final Challenge:** The final four contestants participated in a round-robin tournament to determine the winner.

## Castaways

* Group 1
* Group 2
* Qualified

## Season Summary

The 28 contestants were immediately met with their first twist -- the Split Premiere, which caused the group to be split into two temporary games of 14. The fourth player voted out of each group (Axe and Jong-Yul) would compete in a redemption duel, where Axe would emerge and return to the game, marking the end of the Split Premiere and letting the game officially begin with three teams of seven. With the Truthenings twist taking place to cause some theatrics, while there was some pushback on certain votes, the entire pre-merge phase was noted by its multiple quits, sacrifices and clearcut votes, bar a dramatic joint ceremony.

The final thirteen players were merged by Day 15, the ouster of Layla marked one of the last one-sided vote of the season, with the rest of the season's ceremonies featuring extremely messy votes, ties, quits and blindsides. In the mist of this, advantages were being earned via the Collab Room and the early endurance challenge. Some of these were used to further the messiness of the season, from a successful Shot in the Dark play by Calypso nullifying a majority vote and triggering a rock draw to the use of an Extra Vote and a Vote Steal aiding the loss of Ignacio.

With five remaining and a sudden quit after the final immunity challenge, it was decided that the final four of Calypso, Marisa, Ridge and Sloan would be the season's finalists. With four differently walked paths to the end between the finalists, the season concluded with Ridge narrowly winning the final challenge, crowning him the winner of Harmonic Scenes.

## Trivia

* This is the first season in Vix's Total Drama, between all three eras, to have four players in the finale.
* This is the first season of Era 3 to feature a rock-draw tiebreaker.
* This season featured the most official quits, with 5.