Survivor: Sri Lanka

## Sri Lanka

Survivor: Sri Lanka is the third season of the discord ORG Globevivor. It began on May 12, 2023, and concluded on June 23, 2023. It was won by Holly G, who defeated Zel M in a definitive 8-1 Jury Vote at the Final Tribal Council.

## Production

Survivor: Sri Lanka was a 43-day season. The marooning occurred on May 12, 2023, three days following the reunion of the previous season, Survivor: Belize.

There were 18 castaways divided into 3 tribes of 6, each named for ancient Sri Lankan kingdoms. These tribes were Jaffna, wearing orange, Sitawaka, wearing white, and Kandy, wearing red. In Episode 5, the Sitawaka tribe, which was the smallest tribe at that point, was dissolved, and the remaining castaways were distributed between the Jaffna and Kandy tribes. In Episode 8, the remaining 11 castaways merged into the Serendipity tribe, wearing yellow.

The season was led by head host Jay, with help from hosts Blaze, Chelsie, Shep, and Sapphire.

## Features

### Twists and Advantages

* Tribe swap: On Day 12, the Sitawaka tribe was dissolved, and the remaining 14 castaways were evenly distributed between the Jaffna and Kandy tribes, each having 7 members.
* Hidden Immunity Idol: One Immunity Idol was hidden at each premerge tribe camp. It allowed its user to play it after the votes were cast but before they were read, to negate all votes cast against the user, or whoever the user played the idol on. Castaways would search for the idol using bot commands in a submissions channel, each command providing a clue to the next command. Once they reached the last command, they would add their tribe name to the final command, and the bot would either give them the idol or send an ominous message suggesting that the box they opened had once been full, but was now empty.

## Season Summary

The eighteen castaways were divided into three tribes of 6. The Kandy tribe dominated the early tribe portion of the game, winning the first four tribal immunity challenges. The Jaffna tribe attended only one tribal council, and the Sitawaka tribe was reduced to only three members, losing three of the first four tribal immunity challenges.

On the Kandy tribe, a dominant majority alliance quickly formed between Holly, Scott, Timothy, and Zel, leaving Austin and Christine on the outs due to their struggles connecting to the tribe and relative challenge weakness. Timothy found the Kandy Hidden Immunity Idol. On the Jaffna tribe, Pika made strategic bonds early, but when he attempted to rally the votes to eliminate Kiernan, Fifi pulled Luther and Shunda to her side, voting with Kiernan to blindside Pika and seizing control of the tribe. On the Sitawaka tribe, Liam and Ginga were easy boots because they struggled to connect socially and did not contribute to the challenges. However, when the tribe attended their third tribal council, Robert convinced Nicole that she was being targeted and used her paranoia to attempt to blindside his ally Pepper. The vote tied, but Tobin managed to assure Nicole that Robert had always been the target, and that if she flipped, she would be safe with them. Nicole voted for Robert on the revote, sending him home. Tobin also found the Sitawaka Hidden Immunity Idol.

On Day 11, the tribes were swapped. The Sitawaka tribe was dissolved, and the castaways were distributed evenly between the Kandy and Jaffna tribes. Although the Kandy tribe won the first tribal immunity challenge, they then lost two in a row, leaving them with 5 members to Jaffna's 6. Scott also found the Jaffna Hidden Immunity Idol, with the clues from the Kandy Idol.

On the new Jaffna tribe, a shaken Nicole found herself alone, in between three members of the original Jaffna tribe and three members of the original Kandy tribe. She quickly bonded with both sides, but her relationship with Scott led her to trust the Kandy members more. However, Scott was convinced that it would be necessary to lose a member of Kandy in order to lower his tribe's threat level ahead of the merge, so he offered up Austin as an easy vote.

On the new Kandy tribe, Sitawaka duo Tobin and Pepper found themselves also in a swing position, between two members of Jaffna and three members of Kandy. The two bonded easily with Timothy and Holly, and the four formed an alliance. Christine was offered as another Kandy sacrifice at the tribe's first tribal council, but when Timothy told Riot that it was Pepper that had given Christine their name as the decoy vote, Riot and Luther targeted Sitawaka and put the Kandy pair in the swing position. At the second tribal council, Timothy and Holly chose to prioritize their alliance with Tobin and Pepper, blindsiding Luther and burning Riot.

On Day 18, the tribes merged into the Serendipity tribe. Scott continued to target Kiernan just like he planned to on Jaffna, and he pulled the rest of the Eye Kandy alliance into the plan. Fifi became involved, however, and she cut a deal with Scott to change the target to Riot and keep Kiernan in the game one more round. When Scott came for Kiernan again the following round, the Sitawaka three flipped to vote with Fifi, who had convinced Scott that Kiernan really was going home. Timothy and Zel attempted to convince Scott that Fifi was untrustworthy and that he should play his idol, but he did not, and he was blindsided. On Day 25 and 26, the individual immunity challenge was Touchy Subjects. Fifi was voted most on all of the threatening questions. When the Sitawaka and Jaffna alliance chose to split the vote between Timothy and Zel, Tobin flipped to vote for Fifi with the Kandy three, blindsiding her. This alliance persisted, joined by Pepper and Nicole, to take out Kiernan. This left Shunda as the sole remaining Jaffna, with three members of Sitawaka and three members of Kandy. Shunda sided with the Kandy members first to. blindside Pepper, then flipped back to target Timothy. When Zel flipped with Shunda to vote for Timothy, and Tobin flipped to vote for Nicole with Timothy and Holly, the tied vote deadlocked, and Tobin drew a rock to be eliminated from the game.

When Holly won immunity at the Final 5, Timothy announced that he was playing his idol and the two had control over the vote. Holly put her foot down and insisted on getting rid of Nicole rather than Zel, and Nicole was sent to the jury. Holly also stuck with Timothy at the Final 4, not wanting to put herself at risk of being targeted. This sent Shunda and Timothy to a Firemaking Challenge, which Timothy won. Zel won the Final Immunity challenge, and believed that she could beat Holly at the Final Tribal Council but could not beat Timothy. She took Holly with her to the Final Tribal Council, but after Holly shocked the jury with a strong Final Tribal Council performance, she defeated Zel in a landslide 8-1 vote, only losing the vote of Zel's ally Shunda P.