Iceland

***Iceland*** was the third Survivor Stings season. 16 castaways competed.

## Production

This season was hosted by Jay (Series Admin). It combined both new and community players. The blog is https://survivor-iceland.tumblr.com/.

## Twists/Differences

* ***Redemption Island/Edge of Extinction*** At the merge and the final six, voted out players competed in immunity to return into the game. Jack won the first redemption challenge, Zoe won the second.
* ***Zero-vote Tribal Council***: Because of two idol plays, the Final 7 tribal council had zero votes for the first time.
* ***One World Twist***: In this game, all players were allowed to freely speak to each other despite tribal lines, though they were still competing on tribes.

## Season Overview

### **Description**

After the marooning, the Melrakki tribe won. On Ulfur, Raffy tried to create a majority alliance with the help of Ellie and Timmy. Ellie, however, was also making connections with members of the other tribe, namely Zoe and John. Kieran was eliminated unanimously after basically ghosting the tribe. In the second round, Zoe, John, and Keith created an alliance and recruited the rest of the tribe to vote out Jack for being a threat. Jack would go on to prove this true, as he would return from Edge of Extinction at the merge and, eventually, make the final tribal council. The pre-merge continued on quickly and without much conflict, with Dylan R and Justin eliminated unanimously and Cormac Medevac'd. These mainly activity-based boots allowed much stronger players to go unnoticed, leading to a more eventful merge game.

At the merge, the game became more interesting. Stephen won the first immunity; a majority alliance of Zoe, John, Timmy, Raffy, Ellie, and Dylan was created to try to prevent Sierra from going 'Melrakki Strong.' Zoe lost her vote in the idol hunt; despite this, Sierra was eliminated in a significant majority. This vote out, however, shook the game, leading an alliance of Timmy, Maynor, and Dylan collaborating to try to overthrow the power alliance.

With Raffy and Timmy immune at the final ten, the power alliance decided to split the votes, but failed to account for the smaller alliance being able to rally everyone outside of their group. This led to Zoe being eliminated in a 4 - 3 - 2 split, however she would go on to return from Edge of Extinction at the final six. With Zoe out, it seemed the former power alliance would be picked off, with John going home. Soon after, Keith quit, which, although not intentional, ended up saving Raffy from being next in the pecking order, as Ellie was ready to flip to gain control.

Jack, however, was willing to work with Ellie and Raffy. They were able to work Dylan, who was playing the middle, and convince them that Timmy and Maynor's duo was too strong. They targeted Stephen in order to reduce the threat of Timmy and Maynor playing an idol and to make them less powerful as an alliance. Though Dylan's flip was successful, it ultimately led to them going home at final seven when a split vote plan backfired.

The next round, the two small alliances went head to head. Jack and Maynor both played idols, leading to a Zero Vote Tribal Council. In the revote, Jack played another idol on himself and send Ellie home with a mere three votes. There was yet another tie vote at the final five, this time a 2 - 2 - 1 tie. With Zoe on an immunity streak, Raffy was eliminated unanimously in a revote. At final four, it went to a Fire Making Competition between Zoe and Joseph, which Zoe won, continuing her challenge domination.

After a stellar FTC performance, Zoe was crowned the winner of the season, though Maynor and Joseph still voted for Timmy to win.