Twistvivor: Game of Death

***Twistvivor: Game of Death*** is the fifteenth season in the *Twistvivor* series, and it was hosted by Kaiden's production team. Objectively being the most twist-heavy season in *Twistvivor* to date, the season still held a lot of amazing players, twists, and moves that were made along the way. The season features the most tribes that have been used in a single season. On top of all of this, to date, this season has been deemed the best objective season in *Twistvivor* history.

Courtney defeated Globe and Door at the Final Tribal Council in a 9-1-0 vote, tying Christian from *The Three Rings* at the time for closest to becoming the first perfect winner. Courtney also became the first female winner since Anna in *Enter the Darkness*. This season has continued to produce amazing alumni for future seasons, and some other players have joined the production team.

## Production

This season was hosted by Kaiden's production team, which would be the last season his team hosted as a team. Alongside Kaiden as co-hosts were Crimson and Vee. The production team was comprised of Aaron, Alein, Alice, OCFrey, Legendz, Luci, Meredith, and Phoenix.

## Twists/Changes

* **Tribe Switch Every Cycle:** Every cycle up until the Final 6, the players still remaining in the game would switch tribes.
* **Game of Death:** At each tribal council up until the Final 5, one player participating in tribal council would be randomly selected to play the Game of Death. That player could either step away and not play the game, and in return lose their vote for that tribal council; or they could play the Game, resulting in a random number being generated between 1 and 10. Depending on which number was generated, that player would either lose their vote, gain an extra vote, have nothing happen to them at all, gain an immunity idol, or be instantly eliminated from the season.
* **Edge of Extinction:** Players who were eliminated due to the Game of Death were sent to the Edge of Extinction where they would await their chance to return to the game. At two points in the game, the players on the Edge would compete in a challenge in which the sole winner of the challenge would return to the game.

## Season Summary

Despite the heaviness of the twists this season, it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable seasons to watch play out in *Twistvivor* history. We saw the season start out with a huge robbery in Max being voted out first, and then a surprise vote-in to a firemaking competition to give us our third boot of the season. Immediately after that, everyone was swapped into different tribes, which caused the game to feel fast paced and energetic. With every swap came more drama, and an even better boot order, as people who were seen as inactive or disconnected were voted out before the people who were doing well. The Game of Death proved to be relentless too, as both Sparky and James fell victim early on. Near the end of the first premerge, players like Nik and Rocky were absolutely robbed of making it farther than they should have, which just caused more drama for the outcome of the season.

After the first merge, we saw Sparky return to the game, and then everyone immediately swapped into other tribes. This started the long streak of highway robberies, with players such as Cal, Crazy, Swiss, and Cornbread all being voted out in obscure ways, robbing them of making it to the second merge. Once the second merge took place, the last two returnees in Nezzie and Sbeve were voted out, leaving a Final Four of very deserving winners. After James' elimination, someone who fought hard to build his resume after his return from Edge of Extinction, the Final Tribal Council consisted of competitive finalists in Door, Globe, and Courtney. However, a very deserving winner in Courtney emerged, as she almost became the first perfect winner in *Twistvivor* history. This season was absolutely amazing to see play out, and many of these players deserve more chances to play in future seasons.

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## Trivia

* This season of *Twistvivor* features the most tribe switches out of every season to date with thirteen, including both merges. However, this is the second season of *Twistvivor* to feature the "Tribe Switch Every Cycle" twist, after *Enter the Darkness*.
	+ Unlike *Enter the Darkness*, the tribe names were not created by the players, but rather were created beforehand by the hosting team. On top of this, the tribe names were not reused like in *Enter the Darkness*.
* Originally, this season was supposed to start with only one tribe in Oceania, but after some hosting and casting decisions, it was decided that the players should be divided into two tribes to start.
* Originally, at the demerge, there were only supposed to be three tribes in Pig, Latin, and Tagalog. However, after some errors that were made in pre-season planning regarding returning players from the Edge of Extinction were fixed, Romani was added as the fourth tribe.
* This is the third season, following *Go Big or Go Home* and *The Three Rings*, in which every member of the Final 3 in the Final Tribal Council were from the same tribe.
	+ Subsequently, this is the second season, after *Go Big or Go Home*, in which the Final 4 castaways were all from the same tribe.
* To date, this season has produced five returning players (Courtney, Swiss, Sparky, Zav, and Cornbread) for future seasons.
* The castaways featured on the season fifteen DVD cover are as follows from left to right, top to bottom: Door, Courtney, Globe, James, Cornbread, and Jordan.