$urvivor: $ahara - Oasis of Odds

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$urvivor: $ahara - Oasis of Odds is the 16th season of the $urvivor longterm Discord series. Starting on September 19th, the season featured a cast of 20 players, each starting with $50,000.

## Twists

* **$ecret Quartets:** Before marooning, the 20 castaways were each asked to pick a lucky number. The castaways were then grouped into 5 $ecret Quartets of 4 castaways each in ascending order of the numbers they picked. A briefcase containing $4,800 was reserved for merge and the money would be split among the remaining members of each $ecret Quartet who were able to reach the merge. The $ecret Quartets could communicate among themselves (across tribes) until the end of the F20 immunity challenge.
* **Initial Tribe Divisions:** For the first time in $urvivor history, the tribe divisions were not pre-planned. The castaways in each $ecret Quartet had to divide the four poker suits among themselves (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades). The initial tribes were based on the four poker suits: Clubs (Hausa), Diamonds (Fulani), Hearts (Toubou) and Spades (Zaghawa).
* **Tribe Absorption:** As part of the F20 reward challenge, the tribes which won the top two places would have the other 2 tribes randomly absorbed into them. OG Hausa was absorbed into OG Zaghawa and OG Fulani was absorbed into OG Toubou to form two tribes of 10 players each.
* **Tribal Hero:** At the Final 17, for the first time in $urvivor history, tribes competed by sending their representative (dubbed a "hero") to negotiate with the other tribe's hero for tribal immunity.
* **Mock Tribal:** At the Final 17, the tribes were both sent to tribal council and both tribes would cast their votes before the immunity challenge ended. The tribe which won the challenge would not have their votes read. The tribe which lost the challenge would have their votes read as per normal.
* **Tribe $plit:** At the Final 16, the two tribes were asked to pair their remaining castaways up supposedly for a challenge. Instead, one pair from each tribe formed a new tribe, for a total of four new tribes with four players each.
* **Random Joint Tribals:** For the Final 16 to 14 rounds, only the tribe which came in 1st in the immunity challenge would be guaranteed tribal immunity. It was left up to chance how many of the other three tribes would attend the joint tribal councils together.
* **Bloodbath:** At the Final 13, castaways were informed that all four tribes would go to tribal council and that the tribal immunity challenge would be replaced by an individual bidding challenge for two items: an immunity necklace which would be revealed before tribal council and an immunity bracelet which would remain unknown to the winner and would be automatically played as an idol after the votes were tallied but before they were read. The four castaways voted out of their tribes would be sent to the Oasis of Odds where they would have to vote one of their own out of the game. The three remaining castaways rejoined the other castaways.
* **Minority Handout:** At only the Final 10 tribal council, castaways who voted in the minority would receive a "minority handout" of $1,200.