Jonvivor S3: REDEMPTION

Jonvivor S3: Redemption

Mukti

Gusog

Topollo

Kubatana

**Jonvivor S3: Redemption** was the third season of Jonvivor. Pre-Production for the season began towards the end of Season 2, starting around early May 2021, with return hosts Jon, Cinya, Kippy, Snow, and Alicia. Applications went out on the 13th of May, with the season officially starting on May 26th, 2021. The season lasted for **39** days, with the reunion on the 40th day, ending on the 4th of July, 2021. The season revolved around the idea of **Redemption**, and was the first season to allow past players to apply.

The season was made up of **twenty castaways**, with 8 of them being players from past seasons, and 12 of them being complete new players. At first, they were into two tribes, **Shōkan** in orange, and **Mōcana**, in blue. They were named after different ways to say "Redemption" in foreign languages. Mōcana is Nepali, and Shōkan is Japanese. The other tribes later in the season were named after Redemption as well. **Mukti** (Bengali), **Gusog** (Korean), **Topollo** (Sesotho), and **Kubatana** (Which means "Togetherness" in Shona, a language from Zimbabwe). The winner of the season was **Megan**, who won in a final 5-4-1 vote, against runner-ups, **Fire** and **Duke**.

## Pre-Production

The hosting team consisted of Jon, Cinya, Kippy, Snow and Alicia, with Alicia starting to fade out and come in here and there as we needed help.

Jon loved the idea of bringing people back that have played before, and recently got done watching the Redemption Island seasons of U.S. Survivor, so he thought it would be a very fun and new twist for Jonvivor. Planning started prior to the season ending, but the main chunk of planning happened directly after Season 1 ended. He mentioned that alumni would be able to apply directly after Season 2 ended.

## Production

The first applications were sent out on March 13th, 2021, while the season was still being planned. Applications closed on May 25th, with the season starting the very next day, on May 26th, 2021. There was a total of 36 applicants, and 16 of them were cut to make this a 20 person season.

15 of those were past season alumni, and 7 of those people were cut down to make 8 returnees.

After the cast reveal on May 26th, the game had begun.

## Season Features

* **20 Person Cast:** This season consisted of 20 people playing for the title of Sole Survivor on a season all about Redemption.
* **Returnees:** This season brought back 8 past players from Season 1 and Season 2. 5 of them were from Season 2, and 3 of them were from Season 1.
* **Redemption Island:** Once voted out, the castaways would head to Redemption Island, where they could fight in a head to head match against one or two other players to have a chance at eventually returning to the game. The castaways had a chance to return at Day 15 with the Merge, and Day 32, at the Final 6.
* **Double Tribal Council:** On Day 2, It was revealed that every castaway would be competing for Individual Immunity, and that both tribes would be visiting Tribal Council to vote someone off. The top 5 highest scoring castaways on each tribe were safe.
* **Two Starting Tribes**: The two tribes at the start were Mōcana and Shōkan. They both consisted of 10 people.
* **Hidden Immunity Idols**: A lot of the idols this season were hidden in clues revolving around the pictures that were posted.
* **Guessing Immunity Idol:** In order to get this idol, you could only make a guess every 3 hours as you tried to guess the exact person that was a cast member from certain seasons of U.S. Survivor.
* **Tribe Swap**: On day 10, the tribes swapped from two tribes, to three tribes of 5. The tribes were Gusog, Topollo, and Mukti.
* **Second Double Tribal Council**: On day 12, both losing tribes from the immunity challenge went to their own separate tribal councils, where two people were voted off.
* **Merge**: On day 15, the final 13 castaways left in the game merged together into one tribe, called Kubatana.
* **New Auction Format**: This season, the Auction was live, with the person having the highest amount of money bid being the one that won the item.
* **Challenge Advantage**: This gave someone the power to have an advantage at the next Immunity challenge.
* **Safety Without Power:** This gave someone the power to be safe from a tribal council, but without power, meaning that they will be able to leave tribal council and not take part in it. The person cannot be voted out, but cannot vote. They could only use this on themselves. It could be used for the last time at the final 7.
* **Public Hidden Immunity Idol**: This was a hidden immunity idol that would allow someone to block votes against them, however, everyone knew that this person had received it.
* **Optional Reward Challenge**: Castaways had the option to partake in an option reward challenge, where if they succeed would win an advantage in the game, however if they failed, they would receive a disadvantage. This was completely optional.
* **Final Tribal Council**: Final Tribal Council consisted of three finalists and nine jury members.

## Awards

* Winner of Season - Megan
* Villain of Season - Duke
* Hero of Season - Kyson
* Underdog - Kyson
* Overdog - Dom
* Best Duo - Koda & Andrew
* Robbed Pre-Jury Member - Jordan
* Robbed Player - Koda
* Fan Favorite - Koda
* Player of the Season (POTS) - Koda

## Trivia

* This was the third season of Jonvivor.
* This was the first and only season to implement something that happens *after* you get voted out. (Redemption Island)
* This was the first season to feature returnees from past seasons to play Jonvivor again.
* This was the first season to have a double tribal at the immediate start of the game.
* This season had the first cheater, **Claw**.
* This season was the first one to have the new Auction Challenge Format.
* Dom and Kyson tied with the most immunity wins, with two each.
* 2 idols were played at a tribal council this season.
	+ Kyson on himself at F12 which only blocked 5 votes, and was wasted.
	+ Kyson on himself at F9, which blocked 5 votes and successfully stopped him from going home.
* This was the first time that there was a tie at the final tribal council. Duke was the final member of the Jury and had to break the tie in either Megan or Fire's favor. Megan got his vote.
* This was the season that Jon lost a lot of sleep over.