Season 8: Norway

## Season Summary

### **Pre-merge**

**Episode 1 "I Already Have Trust Issues":** On June 7, 2020, 15 castaways were stranded in Norway and split into three tribes of 5: Buala, Liryen, and Mele. Buala consisted of 3 returnees (Drew, Moot, and Punch) and two newbies (Former helper Rem and Ross).Liryen consisted of Three returnees (Tommy, Egg, and Babe) and two newbies (Mac and XD). Mele consisted of 4 returnees (Kiki, Octo, Qraz, and Maya) and one newbie (Fungus). As the tribes settled in, Potato announced a twist: Each tribe would vote for someone to go to exile island, where the group of 3 would send someone home. At Buala, Moot was sent to exile by a 3-2 vote (Ross and Moot voted for Punch). At Liryen, a majority of Mac, Tommy, and Babe formed to send XD to exile in a 3-1-1 vote (Moot randomized his vote to Mac, XD voted for Babe). At Mele, Qraz was sent to exile by a 4-1 vote. At exile, Moot and XD joined forces and voted Qraz out of the game. **Vote count: 2-1**

**Episode 2 "Battle of the Backstabs":** After the announcement of Qraz's elimination, Potato announced that Moot and XD would switch tribes, sending Moot to Liryen and XD to Buala. In a Mascot making challenge, Liryen and Buala won immunity, leaving the four person Mele tribe to go to tribal. The tribe was split into two duos, Fungus and Maya, and Octo and Kiki. The vote was deadlocked, leading to firemaking in the form of hangman. Kiki won, sending Maya home. **Vote count: 2-2; 1-1**

**Episode 3 "On a Tribe of Idiots":** In the second immunity challenge of the season, Mele and Buala won a scavenger hunt by a score of 30-29-26, sending Liryen to tribal. The three-way alliance of Tommy, Mac, and Babe stuck together and voted for Egg, while Egg and Moot voted seperately (Moot for Mac, Egg for Babe). **Vote count: 3-1-1**

### **Swap**

**Episode 4 "Oofing Hell":** Potato revealed that the three tribes would swap into two, Buala and Liryen. The new Buala featured two people from each tribe, (Octo and Kiki from Mele, Tommy and Mac from Liryen, and Drew and Rem from OG Buala.) The duos were all pretty close, so the tribe was split in a 2-2-2 fashion. Meanwhile on the new Liryen, there were three from OG Buala (XD, Ross, and Punch) two from Liryen (Moot and Babe) and one from Mele (Qraz). These groups were less close leading to an uncertain dynamic. Potato revealed that both tribes would go to tribal, with a Slither.io individual immunity challenge. **Ross and Rem won immunity** and the scarmbling began. On the new Liryen, a chaotic vote took place, with Babe getting the majority of the votes. Moot thought that Babe was the Saboteur, and started his crusade against the sabeteour by voting Babe. Ross and XD joined Moot in voting Babe, while Punch voted Fungus, as did Fungus due to failure to vote. Babe voted for XD after attempting to vote for the spectator Ab. **Vote count: 3-2-1** Meanwhile on Buala, an even crazier vote took place. Tommy and Drew put aside their differences and formed a 4 with Mac and Rem. However, Rem tried to flip on Tommy, and Drew refused. This led to Tommy, Drew, and Mac flipping away from an Octo vote into a Kiki vote, since Rem had immunity. Octo sensed that the votes were originally on him, and attempted to set up a situation where if Tommy voted for Octo, he would go. In the end, Tommy Drew and Mac voted for Kiki, Rem and Octo voted Tommy, and Kiki voted for Drew. **Vote count: 3-2-1**

### **Merge**

**Episode 5 "Karma's a Bitch":** After the double tribal, Buala 2.0 and Liryen 2.0 merged into the new Viscara tribe at the final 10. A power alliance of 5,known as the Furious 5,featuring Octo, Tommy, Punch, Mac, and Drew formed, which ultimately became the final 5 of the game. They decided to target Rem, in part because Rem targeted Tommy at the last tribal. **Drew was voted to have immunity** by the fellow castaways, and Rem was uneventfully voted out unanimously (Rem voted for XD). **Vote count: 9-1**

**Episode 6 "Jayla's Law":** Immediately after that tribal, Potato claimed that the saboteur had given someone a zippit ticket that had been using, giving someone secret immunity and skipping the immunity challenge. The Furious 5 decided to target Moot, and the minority of Ross, Moot, and XD voted for Drew (Fungus self voted). Moot, who had relentlessly searched for the saboteur, ironically got voted out at the vote caused by the saboteur. **Vote count:5-3**

**Episode 7 "Suddenly I'm on the Bottom":** A live challenge (The Shooting Range) was held, and **Ross won Immunity.** The Furious 5 decided on Fungus as the target, and once that was decided, the vote was essentially locked. XD didn't vote, and Ross and Fungus voted for Mac. **Vote count: 5-2**

**Episode 8 "This is Usually Where I Die":** Fungus gifted his idol to XD after being voted out. In the traditional rock gifting challenge, **Tommy won Immunity** getting 21 out of the 35 rocks. Mac and Drew each recieved 5, and Ross recieved 4. Tommy had asked the Furious 5 for immunity due to his paranoia of final 7 votes after final 7. In the end, the Furious 5 decided on XD, since Ross had better relationships with Drew and Punch. XD didn't play his idol, and believed he had pulled in everyone to blindside Punch, but he was instead voted out unanimously. He then left the server and never returned, and was banned from the hub due to an incident. **Vote count: 6-1**

**Episode 9 "Lying to me Never Works":** In a musical chairs challenge based off of quick reaction time, **Tommy won immunity** for the second time in a row. The Furious 5 quickly agreed to vote for Ross, and continue dominating. However, Ross recognized that he was on the bottom of the fake alliance of him, Punch, Octo, and Tommy, which the other 3 were never loyal to. Ross and Tommy discussed an Octo blindside, but Ross's real plan was to pull off a 3-2-1 on Punch, with him, Drew, and Mac making up the majority. It should be noted that this was the last time to play advantages, and there were 3 in play. Octo and Drew both had idols, but Octo had an idol nullifier. Ross and Drew agreed that Punch needed to go, and Drew, believing Mac to be in his pocket, approached him about the plan. However, Mac was truely loyal to Tommy and Punch, and quickly informed them about the ongoings. Mac, Punch, and Tommy formed a trio, and plotted a 3-2-1. They knew Drew had an idol, and decided to blindside Ross, who was no longer a target at that point. Tommy decided that Octo was best not informed about the vote, but he wanted to make sure he didn't vote for Punch. So, he approached Octo about blindsiding Drew with the idol nullifier. Octo didn't trust Tommy, and thought that they were voting for him, but he had an idol so he knew he was safe. Octo still wanted Drew gone, so he voted for him. When the votes were read a 3-2-1 did occur, but on Ross, not Punch. Drew nearly quit as a result, but eventually decided against it. Punch, Drew, and Tommy argued for a long time, and Drew yelled at Mac. **Vote Count: 3-2-1**

**Episode 10 (Finale) "Next To You I'm Fucking Ghandi" Part one: Drew won immunity** in a 21 flags challenge. With Drew immune, Tommy, Mac, and Punch set their sights on Octo. Octo attempted to get the votes onto Tommy, but no one was in, despite him thinking Drew and Punch were in. In reality, Drew had made a deal with Tommy to blindside punch, which Tommy didn't do, voting for Octo. While waiting for Drew to vote, Potato lied about votes changing, which almost scared Punch into flipping. Drew didn't vote, but Potato thought he had left a vote for Tommy as a precaution, but he hadn't. So while the vote count was 3 votes Octo 2 votes Tommy, it was supposed to be 3-1-1, with Drew voting for Punch.**Vote Count: 3-2 or 3-1-1**

**Part two:** At the final 4, Tommy, Punch, and Mac were determined to win immunity to vote Drew out. However, Mac and Punch missed the live challenge, and Drew narrowly beat Tommy, meaning **Drew won immunity** and a guranteed spot at FTC. Punch volunteered to go, and went with a vote of 3-1, with him voting for Mac. **Vote Count: 3-1**

**Part three:** In a quick and uneventful FTC, Mac claimed he deserved third, Tommy explained his game, and Drew didn't finish his speech in time for the votes to be read. Everyone but Moot voted for Tommy, with Moot randomizing his vote to Mac. **Vote Count: 6-1**