Survivor: Twist Manor

***Survivor: Twist Manor*** is the third season of ***Survivor***.

The season was filmed Saturday August 1st, 2020. Hunter Heschke became the third sole survivor, defeating Hailey Briski after the jury came to a tie in a 4-4 vote and the pre-jury made the vote 2-1, securing Hunter's win over Hailey.

## **Format**

* **Tribe Composition:** In the beginning, the tribes were decided in a school-yard style pick by two random team captains. The two tribes were made up of six players with one player not being chose and sent to the "Solo Room".
* **Tribe Switch**: Before the third challenge, the two tribes five were switched up by random draw with one player being sent to the "Solo Room".
* **Hidden Immunity Idols**: Once again, hidden immunity idols were hidden at the tribes' "camps." Once a player finds it, it is theirs to keep until they want to use it. If and when a player uses it, any votes counted against them will not count. On the chance they are voted off they must will their idol to someone still in the game.
* **The Solo Room & Advantages:** This season, advantages were presented in a different way through the Solo Room. Once a player went into the solo room they were presented with a choice. They needed to choose between two hats, if a hat had nothing under it then the player was left empty handed. If a player picked the hat with a scroll, then they earned an advantage in the game.
* **Comeback Challenge:** During the pre-jury stage of the game, the four eliminated players returned to compete in one final challenge, where the winner would return to the regular game.
* **Merge Tribe Composition:** The merge tribe consisted of ten players.
* **Final Tribal Council:** This season, the final two players faced the jury of eight. The jurors individually addressed the finalists.
	+ The jury of eight came to a 4-4 tie, so the power shifted to the pre-jury where they came to a 2-1 decision and awarded the win to Hunter.

## **Season Summary**

The season began with no pre-determined teams. Everyone randomly drew a ball from a bag, which determined the two tribe captains. The tribe captains chose their new team in a school-yard pick, with one contestant not being selected and was sent to the Solo Room. During the first two challenges, the Potowatomi Tribe lost two players and gained one because of the introduction of The Solo Room, whereas the Ho-Chunk Tribe dominated the early game and worked cohesively together. In the Solo Room, players tested their luck trying to win themselves advantages.

After the fourth tribal council, the previously eliminated four players were brought back to compete in the game's first Comeback Challenge, where one player would get the opportunity to return to the game after being voted out. After this point, the remaining ten players would merge into one tribe. During the individual stage of the game, several players would win the individual immunity challenges, but no managed to tie or break the record.

After eight individual immunity challenges, a chaotic post-merge, and many bitter voteoffs, the final two players, Hailey Briski and Hunter Heschke went to the Final Tribal Council to plead their case to a jury of eight, some of whom were very upset at the way the game turned out. Both players were critiqued heavily on their game play. Hailey was questioned for not putting in any effort into the game, while Hunter was accused of riding Darius's coattails and not making moves of his own until he voted Darius out. In the end, the jury came to a 4-4 tied vote, and the pre-jury broke the tie by a 2-1 vote to award Hunter the title of Sole Survivor.

## Trivia

* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season to have a tie at the Final Tribal Council.
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season of the *Idol Identifiers* series to feature a Final 2 at the end instead of a Final 3.
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is currently the only season to have the tribes not be pre-selected before the game began.
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season to use *The Solo Room* as a twist in the game.
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season to start featuring a *Reunion Episode*, filmed and aired after the *Finale Episode* would be aired.
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season to feature the *Fan Favorite Award.*
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season to include a contestant with a disability, that being Richie Gureski.
* *Survivor: Twist Manor* is the first season to feature the Comeback Challenge.