Survivor: New York City

**Survivor: New York City** is the first of the Survivor LiqORG Online Reality Game (ORG) series.

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## Summary

16 people from all over the world, packed their bags and headed to the City that Never Sleeps, New York City, for a 1 in 16 shot at the title of SOLE SURVIVOR.

The players were divided into two tribes, named after historic Gangs of New York. The Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits. Most were first-time players, others included a past winner and fan favorite in the United Kingdom, and others were looking for redemption from a short time in Seychelles.

The first immunity came down to the wire, but it was the Bowery Boys who pulled out a 24-hour endurance challenge by a second, causing Dylan to be the first boot from Australia due to his time zone. The Bowery Boys’ luck ran out though and they lost the next two challenges. Their first tribal led to the blindside of Oreo, who left with an idol in his pocket that he claimed earlier the same episode. Then, it was Danielle who had her torch snuffed for being the least active. After that, the Dead Rabbits lost a controversial immunity challenge, booting Yui after he had a public display of outrage with co-hosts Patrick and Yankee.

After four boots, the tribes were unexpectedly divided by 3 in a swap. The newly formed Shirt Tails tribe had the two Singapore girls Lyla and Sophixx develop a bond. The new Bowery Boys had two old tribe members that had distant relations in Aiden and Frank. When they lost the first challenge, Aiden was convinced to flip on Frank and vote him out. In a double tribal next episode, Zach was the Shirt Tails boot for going on vacation and being the only guy with three girls, but the Dead Rabbits had a classic tribal with Mynt playing his idol and saving an old tribe ally in Melissa after a tiebreaker forced Lukas to flip on Blaze, who left with Steal a Vote in his pocket.

The three tribes merged, and an Auction started things off. Kaleb grabbed the Public Idol as one of the higher profile players entering the merge. But, his domineering style rubbed some the wrong way, and others fingered him and Mynt as the two who ran the old Dead Rabbits. Down 6-3, the original Bowery Boys had their work cut out for them. However, Lyla flipped and played an Idol on Aiden, sparing him from the boot. Meanwhile, Kaleb took a gamble and was willing to sacrifice himself for his best ally Mynt, who both got votes.

The Final 8 saw a 4-4 divide with Aiden/Sophixx/Lyla/Lexa on one side and Jackson/Lukas/Mynt/Melissa on the other. Lukas had Steal a Vote from the Auction, and used it to give his alliance the edge per Jackson’s push to blindside Lexa. However, Sophixx did not give up, and flipped Lukas next tribal in a historic 3-2-2 vote to send Melissa out the door. In Final 6, Lyla used her Extortion advantage from the Auction to make Mynt forfeit immunity and lose his vote, while Sophixx used an old Idol Nullifier from the swapped Public Idol note on him as well, sealing his fate. But, Mynt did not go out quietly, handing his half of a split idol to Jackson, who had the other half, before his exit.

The Final 5 presented an advantage-geddon scenario when Lyla won immunity and Aiden and Jackson had Idols to play at the last tribal they could be used. Sophixx’s calm and cool social game prevailed, and Lukas could not flip his way out of the boot.

To start the finale, Sophixx won immunity, and that led to everyone getting a vote. Ultimately, Sophixx convinced Aiden to back out of voting for Lyla, and Team Singapore knocked Aiden out with just two votes.

The FIC was an intense battle between the two Singaporean ladies, with both holding a lot of feelings for Jackson. Sophixx ultimately prevailed, voting out her closest ally Lyla and cruising to a 6-1 Jury vote to become LIQORG's first Sole Survivor.

## Changes

* **William is awesome**: very awesome dude!

## Twists

* **Public Idols Twist**: All idols this season were made public. To claim an idol, a player would have to be the first on their to type a particular phrase in the next immunity challenge. Most public idols came with a *secret note*. This note was in fact another advantage. The player who claims the idol would have to choose to give either the immunity idol or the attached advantage to another member of their tribe.
	+ The first public idol was revealed in the first immunity challenge. The idol was claimed by Mynt. The advantage accompanying it was a **Tribe Swap Member Advantage**, which he passed to Lyla.
	+ The second public idol was revealed at the second immunity challenge. The idol was claimed by Oreo. The advantage accompanying it was a **Steal a Vote**, which he passed to Blaze.
	+ The third public idol was revealed at the first immunity challenge after the swap. The idol was claimed by Lyla. The advantage accompanying it was an **Idol Nullifier**, which she passed to Sophixx.
	+ The fourth public idol was revealed at the first immunity challenge after merge, revealed during the auction as one of the items up for auction. Kaleb outbid the other castaways and claimed the idols for himself. There was no advantage accompanying this idol.
	+ The fifth public idol was revealed at the final 7 immunity challenge, with a slightly different twist. The twist involves the person who claims the idol, getting an advantage in the challenge, which in this case involves determining the difficulty level of the challenge for the remaining castaways, while forfeiting their own participation. The castaway who claimed this was Aiden.
	+ The sixth and final public idol was revealed after the final 7 tribal council. Mynt had claimed the idol. The iidol was in fact a half idol, where he must present the other half to another castaway. He passed his to Jackson.

## Trivia

* At the f13 immunity challenge, a Survivor trivia based challenge, a controversial dispute had broken out between a castaway,Yui, and a host, Yankee. The controversy surrounded an actual real life Survivor player, Ethan Zohn, who's origins remains unclear in a trivia challenge based off real life Survivor players from New York City. This dispute eventually sealed Yui's fate on the his tribe, as he was immediately booted, following the tribe's loss in the challenge.
* Lexa did not have a single vote upon merging. She lost the first merge vote to a disadvantage she obtained from the immunity challenge (auction), and lost her second vote to a steal a vote played by Lukas, who then subsequently used her vote to vote Lexa out.
* I personally do not understand why this was considered trivia, but in the all stars season, there was a challenge which required knowledge of past seasons and this came up. Sophixx and Lyla were talking about fish in mandarin in their alliance chat with Aiden. *like whyyy??????*
* Blaze and Oreo later return to play as returnee captains in Survivor: New Orleans.
* Blaze, Kaleb, Lyla, Sophixx return to play in Survivor: Cape Canaveral (All-Stars).