Astervivor Speeds: Flying Fish Cove

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The six castaways were divided into two tribes of three.
* **Merged Tribe Composition:** The final five castaways were merged onto one singular tribe.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** Two finalists (TheSunisTemporary and Morris) faced a jury of three.

## Features

### Changes

* **Unanimous Rock Decision/Rock Change:** During Tribal Council, players were able to go to rocks if they all unanimously agreed to go to them. Rocks were changed so that instead of a random player getting a purple rock and being eliminated, the purple rock signified safety and the amount of people drawing rocks decreased all the way down to the last two, where the person to draw the purple rock was eliminated. They were also able to choose if they wanted to go to rocks instead of revoting.

### Twists

* **The Battleback:** Once the game had reached it's final three, they looked on as the previous three eliminated players all searched for a message to return to the game. The first player that would find the message would return back into the game.

### Powers

* **Extra Vote:** Extra Votes were only found in the Astervivor Auction on the Leaf item. Extra Votes, when played, would allow the player that used it to cast an Extra Vote at a Tribal Council. These were only valid at the Final 5 Tribal Council.

## Season Summary

Right off the bat, six players, four being from previous Astervivor seasons (Two from *New Zealand* and one from *Marble Cave* and *Wadi Rum* respectively) and two being new to the game of Astervivor got seperated into two tribes. The first challenge was **Spam**, in which both tribes had to sent the highest amount of messages within five minutes, the Mate Mothertruckers lost the challenge, only scoring 495 compared to the G'Day Gentlemen' score of 507. The Mate Mothertruckers tribe went to Tribal Council, where Sun and Morris were willing to go to Rocks for the fun of it, with Ava (who went as Lizzy as a joke) partially agreeing to it. Rocks were drawn and Morris was safe, forcing a second draw between Sun and Ava. Ava drew the wrong rock and was eliminated.

After the Ava boot, the two tribes merged into the Pavlova Pals tribe. The first challenge there was the *Astervivor Auction*, in which all players had $100 and the player with the most money at the end would win Immunity, however, if there was two people with the highest amount of money each, then the person who spent the most would win. The former members of the G'Day Gentlemen tribe formed an alliance to eliminated Sun and Morris, and they made a plan for Harp to spend all their money as quickly as possible, with Logan and Tonio not spending anything and thus, forcing Harp to win the challenge. Morris was also trying to spend as much money as possible, ending up buying a hidden dish and a leaf, which contained an Extra Vote advantage on it. Harp managed to buy an Australian flag and a bottle of beer (although he had to spend most of his money to buy said beer), which contained a Challenge Advantage. The final item ended up being sold to Logan, who spent all of his money to buy it. As Sun and Tonio didn't spend any money, though, Logan got immunity for himself.
The Final 5 Tribal Council quickly happened, ending up in a 3-3 tie between Harp and Morris. Morris had to use his Extra Vote advantage at this Tribal Council. In the voting parchment, it was shared that Logan, Tonio and Harp did have an alliance, causing a massive riff between tribe lines. The revote ended up being unanimous against Harp, sending him home.

The Harp boot was one of the most stressful votes and it didn't calm down after the next challenge was revealed to be Nicknames, where players would have to change their nicknames to something in a specific category, with the fastest person to do so gaining a point. This ended up being dominated largely by Sun, with only Logan getting a point as well. Tribal Council was looking to be a mess, as tribe lines were clearly laid out, being Tonio and Logan against Sun and Morris. In a shocking move, Logan flipped on Tonio and voted him out in a 3-1 vote, avoiding Firemaking.

The main twist for the season was revealed to the then Final 3, that being the Battleback. All three quickly searched for a message that would grant them re-entry into the game, with Harp finding the message first, followed closely by Ava and Tonio. Harp now returned into the game. The challenge this time was Stab, in which Harp was quickly eliminated by Sun and Morris, and then Logan by Sun. It was now between Sun and Morris, with Morris just pulling through and winning immunity. Tribe lines were once again drawn, Logan sticking with Harp, voting for Sun and Morris and Sun sticking together, voting for Harp, who was clearly the biggest threat in the game. This caused a 2-2 tie, in which a Tiebreaker challenge was announced, that being creating the best Tribe Chant. Harp fumbled when making his Tribe Chant, and whilst Sun's chant was not good, Harp's chant was worse. The entries ended up being judged by veteran player JohnnyPoteet.

It was once again Final 3, with the original Final 3, Sun, Morris and Logan, staying as the Final 3. The final challenge was Snake, in which they had to get a high score in the game Snake and submit it in before the time ran out. Logan submitted his score in first, which ended up being much lower than Morris and Sun's scores. In the end with a difference of 160 compared to 134, Sun won the challenge and had a spot in the Final 2. The final vote was tough one for Sun, as he had to choose between Morris and Logan. In the end, he chose Morris, eliminating Logan and making him the Final Member of the Jury.

The Finale was quite the mess to be sure, as Tonio forgot to vote for the two finalists, and with Harp voting for Morris and Logan voting for Sun, this caused a 1-1 tie. Ava, the first player eliminated from the rock draw all the way back in Day 3, was the sole decider, choosing Sun to win the game over Morris. Sun was awarded the title of Astervivor Knight.

## Trivia

* *Flying Fish Cove* was only announced an hour before the speed actually occurred, mainly being a test speed to see how they would run.
* *Flying Fish Cove* was the first season in *Astervivor* and *Astervivor Speeds* history to feature a Pagonging of a tribe.
	+ Funnily enough, this ended up being the tribe that had the majority in the Merge.
* *Flying Fish Cove* was the first speed season to feature a tie at the Final Tribal Council.
	+ *All-Stars* was the only season to feature a tie at the Final Tribal Council before then.
* Morris is the first player to become Runner-Up in an *Astervivor* or *Astervivor Speeds* season twice, first getting Runner-Up all the way back in *New Zealand*.
	+ In extension, TheSunisTemporary is the first player to be a Runner-Up in a season and then win a following season.