Twistvivor: Patience

***Twistvivor: Patience*** is the first season of *Twistvivor.* Originally hosted by only two people, Crimson and Pace, *Twistvivor* quickly became a popular ORG for implementing seasonal twists and other unique features in each of their seasons. *Patience* featured a small amount of castaways just to get things going, and despite some players being inactive or quitting, the season became a favorite in the *Twistvivor* community.

Eddie became *Twistvivor's* first Twisted Survivor, defeating Uni in a 7-3 vote. Many players from this season have returned to play in future seasons, and some are still part of the *Twistvivor* community to this day acting as production members or spectators. This season has also influenced other future seasons in terms of tribe names, twists, and format.

## Production

This is the first season of Twistvivor, which was hosted by the two original founders of Twistvivor. This includes Pace, the main founder and then-owner of Twistvivor, and Crimson, the co-founder.

## Twists/Format

* **Strike System:** Failing to meet certain protocols or rules would result in a castaway receiving a strike. This includes not completing a challenge before a deadline, not submitting a vote before a deadline, not communicating whatsoever in the season server for an extended period of time, and breaking any general rule of *Survivor*. If a castaway receives three strikes in a single season, they would be ejected from the game.
* **Tribe Composition:** The sixteen castaways were split into two tribes of eight.
* **Tribe Switch:** At the Final 12, the castaways were mixed into three tribes of four.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe was composed of ten members.
* **Safe Tribals:** This twist occurs when a tribe ties during a vote, resulting in nobody being voted out at that tribal council. Each tribe only gets one of these, and it is always the first tribal council that the tribe that ties in a vote experiences a tie. If a tribe switch or merge takes place, every tribe's "safe tribal" will replenish.
* **Abstaining your vote:** If a castaway saw fit, they could withdraw from voting at a tribal council they attended in order to receive an extra vote at the next tribal council they attended. The extra vote was only usable for the next tribal council.
* **Fourth Place Decision:** The castaway that was voted out at the Final 4 was given the opportunity to decide if the Final Tribal Council would be with the Final 2 or the Final 3.
* **Final Tribal Council:** Two finalists faced a jury of ten members.

## Season Summary

The cast of *Patience* was very spotty. However there were some gems, like Eddie and Brynn, who showed their potential at merge. Uni and Jack were both very active the entire time, and Simple and Chicken were really good, but unfortunately were premerge boots. In terms of twists, the season twists were a lot of fun. Abstaining your vote was a great twist, which is why we made it a Twistvivor classic. Also, fourth place choosing a Final 3 or Final 2 FTC was a good twist. Overall, the entire season was very enjoyable and very foundational to the continuance of Twistvivor.

## Trivia

* This is the first season in *Twistvivor* history.
* To date, this season has produced twelve returning players (Jax, Phoenix, Toaster, Simple, Chicken, Seish, Proc, Creative, Addi, Jack, Karma, and Uni) for future seasons.
* The castaways featured in the season one DVD cover are as follows from left to right, top to bottom: Uni, Eddie, Jack, Becca, Brynn, and Simple.
* The "Abstaining your vote" twist that originated in this season was featured in a Bandit Survivor video on YouTube discussing unique fan-made twists created by the ORG community.
	+ Crimson helped write the script for this portion of the video as well.