Heroes Vs Villains

***Heroes Vs Villains*** was the fifth Survivor Stings season. 16 iconic heroes and villains from Jay's previous ORGs competed to figure out which way of playing is superior.

## Production

This season was co-hosted by Zoe and Jay (Series Admin). It was a full community member season divided by Heroes and Villains. The blog is https://survivor-alandislands.tumblr.com/.

## Twists/Differences

* ***Exile Island:*** Each round, the losing tribe selected someone to go to Exile Island, sending them away but also granting them immunity. Exile Island featured idol clues. It remained until the Final 6.
* ***Pre-Merge Individual Tribal***: After a pairs challenge, 10/13 pre-merge players were sent to a cross-tribal tribal council.
* ***No Swap:*** Instead of a swap, the starting tribes remained until the merge.

## Season Overview

### **Description**

Heroes vs. Villains began with a music video challenge. The Heroes tribe lost and Gwen was eliminated after causing chaos around the tribe. After being voted out, she sent hateful messages to several people in private and was subsequently banned from the series. In the second round, the Villains once again won the challenge. They chose to send Estee exile island. After Tim tried to pull a big move by eliminated Dylan, and was subsequently targeted because of that, going home in a unanimous vote.

At Exile Island, players received either a clue to the hidden immunity idol or a challenge advantage. In the third round, Raffy won an individual reward where he was then able to choose who to send to exile island. Because he wanted to be safe and strategize with Ellie, Raffy chose to send himself and Ellie. Zach lost his vote in the idol hunt, in a challenge where losing meant a consequence. At tribal council, Duncan was eliminated due to an alliance between Chris, Zach, Timmy, and Maynor.

The fourth round brought a pairs immunity twist. Players could choose to send their partner to tribal council, but if both players sent the other person, they both went. However, if fewer than three people were sent to tribal, then everyone went. In this instance, Abbey and Steven were the only people who would've gone to tribal and, though Abbey was down, everyone eventually went to tribal council except for Maynor (immune) and Dyaln and JG (exiled together). At that tribal council, Zach played a hidden immunity idol, negating a majority of four votes against himself. It then tied between Chris and Steven 3 to 3. And, in the revote, Chris was eliminated 6 to 2. During this round, Ellie, Raffy, Abbey, and Colin created the Gay Bitches and Their Child Alliance, which would be a chaotic union of power players.

At the final twelve, with no swap in sight, there was a split vote on the heroes tribe between Dylan and Estee, with Dylan ultimately going home. This was an emotional tribal council, where Ellie was a swing vote. Ellie had one alliance with Steven & Dylan and another with Abbey & Estee. In the final challenge before the merge, the Villains faced a decision between Timmy and Maynor. Their plan was to exile Maynor, but the exile island decision was so contentious that it had to be randomized, leading to Zach going to exile. Colin found a Vote Steal Advantage to try to steal Timmy's vote and send him home. However, Timmy played an idol, JG played his idol on Colin (negating Maynor's vote), and Maynor was sent home with only Timmy's stolen vote, cast by Colin.

When the merge happened, Timmy was disillusioned with the dynamics going on in the game, after losing his closest ally in the form of Maynor. He became something of a social pariah on the tribe, and was eliminated unanimously. Raffy also won both the creative challenge reward and the overnight immunity challenge. JG was the only serious competition in the overnight challenge. The overnight tasks challenge proved a significant moment for bonding; a moment of drama was sparked when Ellie called their alliance chat while everyone was on call together in the tribe chat. Raffy send JG to exile to keep him safe after his impressive display in the challenge.

At final nine, Colin won immunity in a very tight challenge. While Colin, Ellie, JG, and Raffy were campaigning to flip on Abbey, Abbey's alliance targeted Sam. However, Ellie wanted a stronger majority on the Abbey vote and tried to pull in Sam, hoping to use the fact that Abbey was targeting him. But, thanks to Abbey's strong social game/mist, Sam told the plan to her, and that alliance was able to flip the game back on Ellie. Ellie was then eliminated after Abbey played an idol on herself, though it would have been a 4 to 4 tie without it. Zach went to exile.

In bracket chess, Colin won against Raffy despite stiff competition. Sam went to exile island. Raffy invested in trying to flip Steven to vote against Abbey with JG and Colin. Colin, however, was loyal to Abbey and told her the plan, flipping back so that Abbey would not use her Safety Without Power Advantage. This led to Raffy being eliminated 4 to 3.

Final seven was an invisible round. Sam won reward in the form of choosing someone to sit out the next immunity challenge, and he selected JG. Zach was voted out unanimously, with Abbey leaving tribal to avoid voting him off. The final six tribal went to a Rock Draw after a tie between Sam and Abbey. Steven was eliminated in the randomizer. Despite the odds and people realizing she was a threat, Abbey won the next two immunity challenges, sending Sam and then JG home. While JG competed valiantly in the final endurance challenge, ultimately Abbey prevailed as the winner of the season. Both Estee and Colin also received winning votes.