SHUFFEL! 8: Frequent Flyers

SHUFFEL! 8: Frequent Flyers is the seventh season of the hit reality tv show SHUFFEL!. The season aired from June 14th - September 12th, 2011. Highly anticipated by fans for being the first season to feature returning players, viewership was higher than usual. The season is often regarded as the epitome of SHUFFEL! gameplay, With constant shifts and turns throughout the season it became a fan favorite, and the highest rated season of SHUFFEL! at the time.

The season began with vote flips and many of the fan favorite players such as Gary Chow and Farrah Shultz were spared from an ejection in the first weeks. As the game progressed there was an attempt to introduce new faces as strategists and personalities that hadn't behaved that way on their initial season, such as Damien Rivera and Eclipse Aztecha. Midway through the season, the "Double D's alliance which consisted of Damien, Dick Mason, and Diyoza Abe, would go on to control the second half of the season. Ultimately the season ended with the victory of Diyoza Abe, having made final 2 playing an impressive game especially considering the cast she was with.

## Passengers

Asher Vale

Gentry Rivers

Janae Bravato

Salem Tenvee

Jill Zouleigh

Drake Champion

Farrah Shultz

Sara Terrance

Robin Roberts

Jaelyn Reim

Abraham Bahar

Blair Red

Hudson Reimer

Troy Sins

Gary Chow

Scott Terrance

Dick Mason

Damien Rivera

Eclipse Aztecha

Diyoza Abe

## Game History

### Week 1

Dick / Eclipse and Salem / Janae won topflight. Dick and Eclipse decided to target the winners, not wanting to give them a chance to get far in the game, so they nominated Gary / Farrah with Gentry / Asher as pawns. Meanwhile Drake attempted to squash any beef he had with Salem but it wouldn't work. Salem / Janae nominated Drake / Jill and Troy / Jaelyn. Drake / Jill and Troy / Jaelyn won killshot, and Drake got into a heated fight with Salem. Gary and Farrah went to work to flip the vote, the two winners sat down with Robin and proposed an alliance to work together. Robin agreed knowing they would be bigger threats and began to slowly flip votes. In a shocking 6-6 vote Robin was able to flip half the passengers and the winners won the tiebreaker, sending Gentry / Asher out.

### Week 2

Abraham / Diyoza and Sara / Scott won topflight. The four topflight winners came together to discuss nominees and agreed on all four. Abraham / Diyoza nominated Drake / Jill and Salem / Janae, telling them to get over their beef or go home. Sara / Scott nominated Gary / Farrah and Troy / Jaelyn, seeing them both as big threats. Jaelyn popped off on Sara, who didn't say anything while Jaelyn yelled. Drake / Jill won killshot and so did Troy / Jaelyn and the four celebrated by drinking all the liquor in the plane and acting arrogant. Salem went to Drake and tried to propose a deal but Drake laughed in his face and told him he was going home. Janae attempted to rekindle her friendship with Dick but he also wasn't having it and gave her flakey answers. With Robin also pushing for the pair to go there was no saving them and Salem / Janae were ejected.

### Week 3

Damien / Blair and Sara / Scott won topflight. Damien and Blair made a big move nominated Hudson / Robin next to Farrah / Gary. Damien said it wasn't fair since the four were in a premade alliance. Robin popped on Blair and the two got into an intense fight that lasted for over 45 minutes. Sara / Scott nominated Dick / Eclipse and Drake / Jill. Dick / Eclipse and Hudson / Robin won killshot, Robin began to gloat. As a final nominee, Jill tried to reform her bond Eclipse but Eclipse still seemed upset over season 3. Gary and Jaelyn began to form a friendship and decided to let go of what happened in season 1, while Farrah made sure to stick by Robins side. In a 6-2 vote Drake / Jill were ejected.

### Week 4

This week the passengers aviated. Jaelyn / Diyoza won topflight. Jaelyn nominated Robin and Dick while Diyoza nominated Farrah with Eclipse as a pawn. Eclipse was hurt that the other native girl nominated her, and expressed anger towards Diyoza. Robin and Jaelyn got into a heated argument, ending with Robin screaming "You wanna be me so bad!" Dick and Robin won killshot and Dick began to get close to Damien. Farrah was worried being nominated and went to Gary and Hudson, proposing a winners alliance to rally the votes to stay. Instead of being loyal to the idea, Hudson went and told Robin what Farrah said. Robin went ballistic and began pushing votes for Farrah to home. Farrah had teary eyes as she was ejected and told Robin to go fuck herself.

### Week 5

Troy / Dick won topflight during the double ejection. Troy smirked as he nominated Robin and Sara, while Dick nominated Jaelyn and Diyoza. The four girls began to scramble, knowing two of them would be ejected. Robin rallied around Gary and Hudson, Sara talked to Scott, and Diyoza found comfort in Damien. Jaelyn won the killshot and ran and hugged Troy, the two being close friends since they were partners. The other girls all got really worried. Robin knew she had the votes to stay by a slim margin, with Gary Hudson and Damien all promising to keep her. Diyoza went to Damien and proposed a final 2 deal with him, which he accepted and was loyal to. She then went to Eclipse and smoothed things over, saying the two native girls needed to unite and not fight each other. With Damien and Diyoza saving her in a slim 4-2-2 vote Diyoza managed to stay while Robin and Sara were ejected

### Week 6

Blair / Eclipse won topflight. Blair nominated Damien and Jaelyn, seeing the two as big threats moving deeper into the game. Eclipse nominated Gary because he was a winner, and Abraham as a pawn. Gary and Damien won the killshot, and Damien began to scheme. He pulled in the two people he trusted the most, Dick and Diyoza and the three formed the "Triple Ds" alliance. Their first action was to save Diyoza's partner and sent home the competition threat Jaelyn. Jaelyn attempted to secure the votes to stay, but only Troy and Gary kept her in the vote and she was ejected.

### Week 7

Blair / Dick won topflight. Dick attempted to strategize with Blair about the nominations but Blair shut him down and told him to worry about himself. Blair nominated Diyoza and Abraham, wanting to split a pair up, while Dick nominated Hudson and Scott. Scott felt betrayed by Dick and got into a minor fight with him until he calmed down, while Hudson confided in Gary as a fellow winner. Hudson and Scott won killshot, and Blair pushed for Diyoza to go home. Diyoza's alliance went to work to save her, having one vote with Damien. Diyoza used the native connection to convince Eclipse to keep her, and talked with Gary and Hudson who didn't give her a straight answer. Abraham campaigned and got Scott to guarantee him a vote to stay. In the end Hudson voted to keep Diyoza as well forcing a 3-3 tie, in which Diyoza won.

### Week 8

Diyoza / Scott won topflight. Scott nominated the winners Gary and Hudson, telling them to their faces he would make it his personal goal to get them ejected. Hudson began to argue with Scott but Gary calmed him down. Diyoza nominated Blair as her target with Eclipse as a pawn. Eclipse was shocked to be nominated by Diyoza and started confronting her, to which Diyoza ignored her. Gary and Hudson won killshot and the two winners gloated a bit to Scott. Blair went to her partner Damien and wanted his help in rallying votes, and Damien told her he wouldn't help her because of how nasty she acts but he would keep her. She got angry and started popping off on him, but he didn't entertain it and walked away. She went to Hudson and the two bonded a lot. At the end of the week only Hudson and Damien kept her and it wasn't enough, she was ejected in a 3-2 vote.

### Week 9

Troy / Eclipse won topflight. Troy and Eclipse worked together in the nominations, knowing who was working with who. Troy nominated Dick / Damien, while Eclipse nominated Diyoza / Hudson. Triple D's didn't worry because they knew they had a good chance at winning killshot and they did. Damien and Diyoza won killshot, upsetting Troy and Eclipse. Sitting next to Dick, Hudson stood little chance and he knew that. He tried to flip Scott's vote and he was not interested, in the end it was a 3-1 vote for the winner to be ejected.

### Week 10

Diyoza won topflight and nominated Troy, Eclipse and Damien as a pawn. Damien was weary of this but Diyoza said it was to throw off suspicion, when in reality it was to preserve her bonds with Scott and Gary. Eclipse got frustrated and isolated herself, but Troy uplifted her and said the two have to fight. Damien won killshot which put a dent in the minorities plan. Troy attempted to rally the votes to stay, but Triple D's target was him and he had 2 locked votes to go home. No matter what he did nobody wanted to budge and he only got a save from Scott in a 3-1 vote.

### Week 11

Damien won topflight and kept his two allies safe, nominating Scott, Gary, and Eclipse. Eclipse pulled herself together and began to socialize more with Scott and Damien, trying to get them to see that she was someone easy to beat in the final 2. Meanwhile Gary knew he had to win the killshot or would be ejected. Scott won the killshot narrowly against Gary and the winner fell to the floor, shaking his head. Dick promised Eclipse she would stay and he would fight for her in final 5 since she is his partner. Gary went to Scott and explained that they needed each other, but he wouldn't budge. He then went to Diyoza and the native girl said she'd give him her vote, knowing that he would still be ejected. In a 2-1 vote Gary was ejected for 6th and the vote Diyoza cast caused a fight with Eclipse.

### Week 12

Dick won topflight and nominated everyone besides Eclipse. This obviously didn't sit well with Diyoza and Damien, and the two formed a final 2 deal. Damien ended up winning the killshot and told Dick that he wasn't upset which was a lie. Diyoza began to worry about another tie, and in a desperate attempt to stay went to Eclipse with a deal. She sat Eclipse down and threw both Dick and Damien under the bus, explaining that the girls only had a chance to win against each other. At first Eclipse didn't want to hear what Diyoza was saying, but it started making more and more sense as the conversation progressed. As much as she hated Diyoza she knew it was true and voted Scott out in a 2-0 vote.

### Week 13

Eclipse won topflight and everyone was nominated. The killshot was intense with all three being in the lead at some point. Eventually Damien pulled through again and Dick and Diyoza began to campaign to him. Dick said the that the girls would give him third and his best chance was to go to finals with him, while Diyoza said that she and Damien made a deal and he should be an honorable man. Ultimately, Damien honored his deal he made with Diyoza and ejected Dick. Dick shook his head and told Diyoza congratulations as he was being ejected.

In the final 3 Diyoza won the first class competition and began to tear up as she stood in front of Damien and Eclipse. She chocked up a bit but eventually ejected Damien for being a huge threat to win the game. Damien was disappointed but gave her a hug, telling her it was okay and that he understands. In the final 2 Eclipse gave a speech about how she was an underdog and had to fight to earn a spot in the finals, while Diyoza laid out her strategic gameplay and explained what moves she made to get her to final 2. The jury respected Diyoza's gameplay over Eclipse's underdog story and Diyoza won in a 6-3 vote.

## Trivia

* This was the most personal season of SHUFFEL! to date