The System: Washington, D.C.

## Opening Sequence

*The System: Washington, D.C.*, also sometimes referred to as *The System: Washington*, is the third season of The System and the final season in the original Domain Trilogy. This season's theme was based around the domain of modern politics and has many tributes to American government. Episodes for the season can be found below. The Project Title for this season was Project Star.

## Twists

* **Parties**: For the entirety of the pre-jury portion of the game, the contestants were split into 2 parties, the **Popularity Party**      chosen by Max and the **Prism Party**      chosen by Alex. Each party would elect 1 representative to face off against the other party, the winner would receive immunity for themselves for the round and more prisms for their party, while the loser would receive no prisms while their party only got a few. The parties were shuffled during Round 4 before being disbanded at the beginning of Live Night #2.
* **Returning Players**: Production brought back 2 past contestants, Alex from Hyrule and Max from Cyber, for another shot to beat The System.
* **Secret Doors**: At certain points in the game, Secret Doors would appear would appear for the contestants to enter, whomever unlocked the door first would receive the prize that was inside of prisms, vouchers, or the Secret Service who would take away their prisms.
* **The Pardon**: This power was hidden secretly 3 times throughout the season, this would allow the holder to see the contestants in the Chamber for the round and allow them to save 1 potential nominee from the Chamber for the round, the next lowest popularity for the round would take the place of the contestant saved.
* **Live Night #1**: For the first Live Night, a second round happened within the span of the night, with no challenge, the contestants with the lowest overall popularity were sent into the chamber. By the end of the night, one more contestant would be sent packing.
* **Live Night #2**: For the second Live Night, a second round happened within the span of the night, with no challenge, the contestants with the highest prism ratio were sent into the chamber. Following that, a third round took place, where a mission was held, the 1st place contestant only received prisms and the rest of the round carried out like it normally would. By the end of the night, two more contestant would be sent packing.
* **Live Night #3**: For the third Live Night, a second round happened within the span of the night, with no challenge, but instead contestants were given 15 prisms each, to use in addition to their collected prisms for the fast forward round. By the end of the night, one contestant would be sent packing.

## Finale Details

     Section Winner

 Alex
 Dylan

## Trivia

* This is the first season in The System to have returning players, this being Alex and Max.
	+ This also marks the first time a returnee and an international became a finalist.
* This season is the first time to have a Breakdown occur.
	+ This is also the first time and so far only season to have 2 Breakdowns occur in the same season.
* This is the first season to award immunity to contestants.
* The original theme for this season was based off the movie *The Truman Show*.
	+ This season would have featured a twist similar to the one that was used in *The System: All-Stars* with 2 batches of contestants competing at once.
* This is the first season to have missions won exclusively by men.