S7 Paraguay

**S7 Paraguay** was the seven season of Rarvivor and the first season of the second era. The season began on July 2nd 2022 and ended on August 2nd 2022. It was won by William in a 6-1 vote over baby\_blues. Shane was awarded Player of the Season.

## Structure/Twists

* **Starting tribes:** This season started with 3 tribes of 6 people each.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe consisted of 12 people.
* **Final Tribal Council:** A final two faced a jury of 7.
* **Idol Search:** One idol was hidden in a color system with 5 positions and 3 colours for each tribe, they could search once a day unless they purchased pizza.
* **Idols:** One idol was given from greed. At merge one idol could be purchased, you’ll also buy a fake idol with fire tokens.

## Fire Token Menu

* **Idol Clue (1 fire token):** The player can choose between 5 different clues and the idol the clue is associated with.
* **Pizza (1 fire token):** The player gets one extra guess that day.
* **Peanut Butter (1 fire token):** The player gets information about the contents in the idol searching system.
* **Sneak Peek (1 fire token):** The player can sneak on another player and find out about their advantages and amount of fire tokens. There was also a 50% chance the player who was sneaked upon found out.
* **Fake Idol Kit (1 fire token):** This allows a creation of one fake idol. The player can choose to keep it, give away or hide in the idol searching system.
* **Idol Validation (1 fire token):** The player is told whether their idol is real or fake.
* **Speadsheet Copy (1 fire token):** The player receives a screenshot of the voting chart. Voting charts were always updated right after a player got eliminated.
* **Walkie Talkie (1 fire token):** This advantage creates a one on one chat channel with a player on another tribe.
* **Literally Nothing (2 fire tokens):** Literally nothing.
* **Pull a Player (2 fire tokens):** The player can swap another player to their tribe. This can't be purchased during an active tribal council.
* **Mutiny (3 fire tokens):** The player can swap to another tribe. This can't be purchased during an active tribal council.
* **Tribe Swap (4 fire tokens):** It forces a random tribe swap at the beginning of the next challenge.

## Season Summary

The 18 players were split into three tribes of six, those being Sapanapá, Ayoero and Guaraní. every tribe lost at least two challanges except for Guaraní that lost 3. The first five tribals of the game were almost unanimous without any suprise, until in the 6, yaronk was blindsided, and voted out with an idol by Wendell, on the last Guaraní tribal before merge, the main alliance of the tribe consisting Rob1982 and William, had to choose between aligning with their ally from day 1 10thletter and baby\_blues, which they came close with recently, they decided luckily to side with baby\_blues, that used an idol on herself just for any case, and 10thletter was voted out of the game.

At final 11 the merged occured, and Ricardo who shared a screenshot against the rules was pulled out of the game, after that event two main alliance emerged, the first one consisted of: Brantloaf, Wendell, Micahs and dannyboi, while the second one consisted of : William, baby\_blues, Rob1982, TK, shaneq and chris22, right on the beginning the latter dominated and used advantage to secure its majority, in addition, this alliance consisted 4 sub factions, one consisting William, baby\_blues and Rob1982, one consisting of William, Rob1982, shaneq and chris22 and one made of William, Rob1982 and TK, and last one made of shaneq and chris22.

On the final 7, shaneq and chris22 decided to flip on their main alliance, they joined force with Brantloaf (since he was the last of his alliance), and they tried to pull TK as well and use an idol that chris22 had. The adversary alliance decided to confuse their alliance using a decoy target as Brantloaf, in addition William also possesed an idol, and also bluffed as second idol. during the tribal, William used his first idol on himself(he was indeed one of the targets), and bluffed he want to use the second on Rob1982, Rob1982 said he dont need to, and then chris22 used his idol on Brantloaf, chris22 was voted out, with 2 votes against him, and 2 idols played.

On final 6 another great blindside happened, when shaneq decided to blindside Rob1982 with Brantloaf and TK who decided to flip, he used an idol on himself, and Rob1982 was voted out with 2 votes. From this point until until the end William won immunities and bluffed using his fake idol on baby\_blues, which worked and helped keep her secure until the end. at the final tribal William won against baby\_blues, at a 6-1 vote.

## Reception

The first season after All-Stars and a hiatus, and what a mixed bag it was… Let’s start with the negatives! This was generally the most annoying cast to deal with, not many people actually read the challenge rules, the hosts got a million dm’s despite us asking to handle everything Rarvivor related in confessionals, pinging for no reason and stuff like that. The premerge was painfully average, there was nothing wrong with it, it just was very predictable and not that enjoyable, the tribal where Jan survived and the double tribal were outliers where some interesting gameplay happened. Going into the merge with a 4-4-3 tribe composition was promising and that is usually when the season are more interesting but not this time! Right at the start we had to pull a player out for sending screenshots, then we had an average tribal council. Right after that we had a boring tribal and then a quit that came out of nowhere, which messed up the flow of the game. Things take a positive turn at the f7 onwards and let me be real, the endgame is really carrying the rankings of this season. A 2\*-2\*-2-1 where one player idols himself out? Mwah! One of the best tribals we’ve had! Then a 3\*-2-1, great as well! At f4 we had our first 2-1-1 vote! S7 gets average rankings for now and let’s hope the second era (S7-S12) is going get better…