LogVivor: Seychelles

***LogVivor: Seychelles*** is the fourth season of LogVivor.

Generally panned as one of the best LogVivor seasons to date, this season saw a high level of dynamic power shifts, entertaining blindsides, and game-changing twists, advantages, and secret islands all cumulating in an entertaining, ever-changing, and memorable season. With an iconic cast of characters, it also saw many franchise firsts including multiple Tribe Swaps, a tribe expansion, a mutiny, tribe decimation, and even a Cirie-out constantly keeping the players on their toes. Located amongst the beaches of the many islands of the archipelagic country set off of the coast of Africa, this season's aesthetic and main twists are themed around the pirates of early Seychelles history.

Caleb was crowned the Sole Survivor, defeating Nate and Madeline in a 6-2-0 vote. To date, it has produced a whopping 10 returning players (Caleb, Nate, Elio, Edwin, Jordan, Elijah, Sania, Dali, Eliov and Gevon) for subsequent future seasons.

It is preceded by LogVivor: Yukon and followed by LogVivor: Japan.

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The 18 castaways were divided into 2 tribes of 9.
* **Tribe Swaps:** After the 3rd round, the first Tribe Swap occurred where the 15 remaining castaways were swapped into 3 new tribes of 5. The second Tribe Swap occurred after the 5th round where the 12 remaining castaways were swapped into 2 new tribes of 6.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe was composed of the final 11 members.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** 3 finalists faced a jury of 8.

## Twists

* **Treasure Island:** After each tribal immunity challenge, one member of the winning tribe would volunteer to unknowingly be sent to Treasure Island. Once the castaway arrived to the separate island, they were presented with a choice between competing in a challenge for an advantage or to decline and immediately return with nothing. If the castaway chose to compete and successfully completed the task, they would earn the right to choose 1 of 6 treasure chests each containing a unique advantage. If they failed, a predetermined curse would go into effect on them or their tribe as a whole.
	+ Visit #1 Challenge: Complete a 30 piece jigsaw puzzle in under 5 minutes. Failure would result in the tribe idol being more difficultly hidden than usual.
	+ Visit #2 Challenge: Place a bet on which tribe will win the next immunity challenge. Failure would result in the player publicly sitting out half of their tribe at the next immunity challenge.
	+ Visit #3 Challenge: Score 70% on a 10-question Survivor trivia quiz. Failure would result in the player losing their vote at the next Tribal Council they attend.
	+ Visit #4 Challenge: Complete a Survivor-related word search in under 5 minutes. Failure would result in the player having to prevote 2 hours ahead of the next Tribal Council they attend.
	+ Visit #5 Challenge: Place a bet on player being able to score 2 points for their tribe during the next immunity challenge. Failure would result in all advantages and idols present in the player's tribe becoming null until merge.
	+ Visit #6 Challenge: Successfully do 30 pushups nonstop in a call. Failure would result in the player receiving a penalty vote at the next Tribal Council they attend.
* **Shanghais:** After each tribal immunity challenge, the winning tribe would collectively decide on one member of the losing tribe(s) to save from Tribal Council and shanghai them to their tribe for the time being. During their stay on the opposing tribe, the shanghaied player would select one member of the tribe they are visiting to give a clue to a difficultly hidden and powerful advantage, the Super Idol Fragments. If the player they shared the clue with ended up finding the fragment, the shanghaied player who shared the clue with them would receive the other fragment.
* **Tribe Expansion:** During Round 4 the Tribe Swap commenced per usual, but instead of swapping within the same two starting tribes, a third new tribe was introduced resulting in the number of tribes expanding from 2 to 3.
* **Mutiny:** During Round 5, a mutiny offer was given to the castaways shortly before the upcoming immunity challenge. Because of the small tribe numbers, only the first person from each tribe to accept the offer would have their wish granted where they would then be allowed to choose between which of the 2 opposing tribes to mutiny to.
* **Double Tribal Council:** During Round 5, only the first place tribe would win immunity sending both losing tribes to attend Tribal Council separately to both vote out one player.
* **Chain of Safety:** At the Final 8, whoever won the individual immunity challenge that round would grant one player safety and start a chain of safety. That immune player would then choose one player to also grant safety to and so on until 4 players were immune and 4 were left vulnerable to be voted out at Tribal Council that night.

## Castaways

### Season 4 Superlatives

* Best Strategic Player: Caleb
* Best Social Player: Sania
* Best Physical Player: Nate
* Biggest Hero: Elio
* Biggest Villain: Caleb
* Best Duo: Elio & Caleb
* Best Rivalry: Jordan vs. Edwin
* Most Underrated: Jordan
* Biggest Blindside: Sania
* Best Underdog: Nate
* Best Top Dog: Sania
* Most Robbed: Sania
* Most Robbed Premerge: Dali

* Host Favs: Jordan, Sania & Caleb

## Season Summary

In May of 2022, LogVivor officially returned to the beach where 18 castaways were marooned among the hundreds of islands within the small African country of Seychelles. Upon their arrival, the 18 players were split into 2 tribes, Soley and Zil.

In the first few days of the season, the two tribes started off as usual with mingling, game talk, past relationships coming into play, and alliances already starting to form. On Soley, the tribe dynamics almost immediately became established over the course of these starting days. Immediately clicking with people he knows outside of the game, Elijah formed a core alliance of him, Colin, Dali, and Nate with Amelia and Elio unknowingly being brought in as outsiders to secure their majority. Unbeknownst to them, this alliance would leave Gevon, Shadow and James on the outs with Shadow becoming more and more alienated by the minute for simply not gelling well with his tribemates. On Zil, no significant alliances or groups formed right away, rather many strong feelings and one-on-one relationships both good and bad came into factor right away. Caleb expressed his hatred for the other tribe due to bad game history with many of its members and rekindled with friends Sania and Eliov, Edwin and Lucas immediately butted heads, Jordan reached out to and became connected to as many people as possible, Maddox and Chayce barely talked to anyone much to the ire of everyone else, and Sania cried over thinking this tribe was doomed to lose challenges.

Despite Sania's worries, Zil came out on top at the very first immunity challenge by pure luck thanks to Maddox. After the challenge, two big twists were revealed to the players with the winning tribe having two big decisions to make. First, they will volunteer someone to go on a journey to a secret island, and second, they will be granted the power to shanghai someone from the losing tribe saving them from their Tribal Council. After some deliberation, Sania decided to take the leap of faith and go on the journey and Shadow is shanghaied to Zil after lots of pushing from Caleb.

With the two tribes on their way back to camp, Sania arrives to the new mysterious island named Treasure Island. There, she is presented with a decision: "*Compete*" in a challenge for an advantage with risk of a punishment if failed or "*Decline*" and turn back with nothing. Not wanting to play scared, Sania chooses to compete, crushes the challenges, chooses one of the six treasure chests presented to her as a result, wins a Block-A-Vote advantage, and is swiftly sent back to her tribe. After returning from her journey from Treasure Island, Sania became one of the few people to actually make an effort to talk to Shadow during his brief stay with Zil which would unknowingly kickstart a lasting impact on her game. As a second part of the Shanghai Twist, the shanghaied player is given a clue to a game-changing advantage to give to one of the members of the tribe they are staying at. If the person the shanghaied player chooses to share the clue with finds the advantage, they too will be rewarded as an act of good karma. Shadow unsurprisingly chose Sania to share Part 1 of the clue with where she comes out empty handed after a brief search, but now suddenly is in a big position of power.

Back on Soley, many people were left frustrated with their easy vote in Shadow being shanghaied to the other tribe and now unavailable to vote out. Easily enough, the majority alliance quickly made a Plan B and decided on Gevon for not showing up to the challenge in which it was revealed he accidentally slept through it. After waking up, Gevon went into scramble mode trying to figure out what to do. Thankfully for him, over the course of the game, Nate and Gevon became close and with this vote, Nate was suddenly put into a difficult place in sticking with his alliance or voting out his #1. By the time for Soley's visit to Tribal Council, Nate decided to stick with his new friend and throw a vote onto the completely inactive James with Gevon. But in the end, Nate's decision didn't matter as Gevon became the first person voted out, and now red flags were suddenly raised when the vote count his alliance expected didn't come into fruition.

With the confusion of the vote count spreading paranoia throughout the tribe, Nate tried to pin his rogue vote on Elio. Some people fell for it, but others like Dali saw through the charade and believed Nate was to blame. Soley would go on to lose again at the next Immunity Challenge where Caleb chose to go to Treasure Island and Elio was the next person shanghaied to Zil. On Treasure Island, Caleb accepted the challenge to place a bet on which tribe would win the next Immunity Challenge choosing his own tribe Zil who was now 2 for 2 before swiftly being sent back to his tribe. On Zil, Elio shared Part 2 of the clue with their closest ally Caleb after his return. Despite the Soley majority alliance being rocked by the rogue vote and losing a number in Elio, they still banded together to unceremoniously vote out James for his complete inactivity. Suspicions were raised however when it became clear Shadow threw his vote onto Dali for zero reason further alienating himself from his tribe. This random vote would prove lethal when Soley lost immunity yet again for the third straight time and all eyes fell on Shadow again to be voted out. Because he won the bet from the previous round, Caleb was able to choose one of the five remaining treasure chests and won an Extra Vote advantage. Because of their repeated victory, Eliov was now the one to volunteer to be sent to Treasure Island, but his visit wouldn't prove as successful as the first two. After accepting the challenge, Eliov became the first person to fail resulting in him becoming cursed and losing his vote at the next tribal he attends as punishment much to his dismay. While Eliov was being cursed on Treasure Island, Zil chose to shanghai Elijah where he would share Part 3 of the clue with Sania becoming the second person to do so. Back on Soley, the vote was set in stone from the moment they lost, and the final outsider of the alliance in Shadow was sent packing.

At the Final 15, the tribes expanded and swapped into 3 tribes of 5 introducing the Laroul tribe being the first time in LogVivor history the number of tribes increased during a Tribe Swap. On Soley 2.0, despite old Soley members Elijah and Elio being outnumbered 3-2, Elijah was confident he could pull in his friend Sania to work with them ousting her fellow old Zil members Lucas and Maddox because of their inactivity. On Zil 2.0, it became abundantly clear that this tribe was one of the most inactive tribes in LogVivor history something which worried Nate from the get-go. Though he was worried, old Soley held majority with him, Amelia, and Colin sticking together leaving old Zil members Chayce and Madeline on the outs of their own OG tribe. On the new tribe Laroul however is where relationships and tribe dynamics became the most complicated. Despite Dali being the only old Soley member on this tribe outnumbered 1-4, all 5 of the players in Edwin, Eliov, Caleb, Dali and Jordan all had solid relationships with one another making it very difficult to establish who could be the majority. This situation would become even more complicated when Soley and Zil won immunity sending Laroul to the first tribal post swap. With Soley coming in first becoming the tribe's very first victory, Elijah sent himself to Treasure Island where he won a Weak Idol good for only the next tribal he attends from one of the four remaining treasure chests. As her tribe discussed who to shanghai, Sania was able to convince her tribe to choose her friend Caleb to keep him safe and give her the clue in which he predictably shared Part 4 of the clue with her yet again.

With Caleb gone and unknowingly being the glue that held the tribe together, Eliov losing his vote, and the tribe's already small size, Laroul's first visit to tribal was bound for disaster. Despite being good friends with Dali outside of the game, Eliov didn't want to be seen as a duo with her and set his sights on rallying Jordan and Edwin to vote out his friend. Jordan was immediately on board, but Edwin hesitated not trusting this is something Eliov would do. Everything would come crashing down as Eliov told Dali to her face over a call that he was targeting her thinking she would find it funny as his friend which completely backfired. Dali immediately became emotional, hung up on Eliov, and ran striaght to Jordan and Edwin begging them to turn the tables on Eliov with her and vote him out instead. By the time of Tribal Council, Dali's plan proved successful as Eliov was the one voted out instead before he could even get to cast a single vote in the game. Caleb came back blissfully unaware from his time shanghaied to Soley absolutely shocked and frustrated with his ally after hearing what happened during his time away.

At the Final 14, just before the upcoming Immunity Challenge, a huge offer was made to the remaining castaways. A Mutiny Offer was put into place with only the first person from each tribe allowed to accept the deal having their wish granted to mutiny because of the small tribe numbers. No one from Soley or Zil took the bait, but both Caleb and Dali jumped at the opportunity to leave their dreadful new tribe with Caleb accepting the deal first where he chose to mutiny to Soley with his allies leaving Dali, Jordan and Edwin behind now with only 3 members. After the bombshell that was Caleb mutinying from Laroul, it was also revealed that only the first place tribe would win immunity sending both losing tribes to a Double Tribal to separately vote out one player each. With a newfound momentum after the swap and mutiny, Soley won their second challenge in a row sending both Zil and Laroul to separate Tribal Councils. Elio volunteered to go to Treasure Island and placed the bet that they could score two points for their tribe at the next Immunity Challenge unknowingly misinterpreting the prompt, and Soley chose to shanghai Nate where he shared Part 5 of the clue with Sania. After accomplishing an impressive feat of having 4 separate shanghaied players share their clues with her, Sania finally found the advantage which turned out to be 2 Super Idol Fragments. One fragment belonged to her with the other now belonging to Nate for being the most recent player to share their clue with her. Separately, the fragments are useless, but when played together, they form a Super Idol that can be played after the votes are read. Both Sania and Nate became ecstatic with this find with the powerful advantage immediately bonding them for the foreseeable future.

Shortly after, Zil made its first appearance to Tribal Council where Chayce was easily voted out completely unanimously 4-0 after literally never speaking once in the entire game. After that boring and predictable tribal, Laroul's visit would be just the opposite. Going into tribal, Jordan wanted to target Edwin, but Edwin and Dali sided together to take out Jordan not aware that he had found an idol on his OG tribe Zil. Suspecting he was being lied to and targeted, Jordan played his idol and with the tribe numbers so small and not wanting to take the 50/50 risk. Jordan's idol play spooked Edwin into also playing his idol from this tribe to keep himself safe much to everyone's shock. With both Jordan and Edwin negating all the votes cast and Dali being the third and only other member of the tribe not suddenly immune, Dali achieved an insane feat by becoming the first and only person in LogVivor history to be eliminated by default with 0 votes cast against them.

Because of Laroul's decimation, a second Tribe Swap occurred for the first time in LogVivor history at the Final 12.

To be continued

## Trivia

* *Seychelles* is the first season to include an expansion during the Tribe Swap going from 2 tribes to 3.
	+ Laroul is the first tribe to be considered an "Auxiliary" tribe.
* Eliov is the first player to be voted out without ever getting to cast a vote.
	+ He would be followed by Abi from *Japan.*
* Caleb is the first player to mutiny from a tribe.
* *Seychelles* is the first season to include an idol that could be played after the votes are read.
* *Seychelles* marks the first time all votes at a Tribal Council were nullified by idols.
* Dali is the first and so far only player to be eliminated by default after a vote at Tribal Council.
* Laroul is the first tribe to be decimated down to only 2 surviving members.
	+ They would be followed by post-swap Aphrodite from *Greece*.
* Laroul is also the second tribe to be disbanded after a Tribe Swap.
	+ They are preceded by Chùnday from *Yukon* and followed by Air and Earth from *Iceland*.
* *Seychelles* is the first season to have two Tribe Swaps occur in a single season.
* Caleb is the first player to be on 4 different official tribes in a single season.
	+ If counting Kaidence's time on The Outcasts tribe in *Mexico*, he is the second.
* Sania is tied with Kobe in *Mexico*, Brandon in *Yukon,* Terrence in *Greece,* Dali in *Guyana,* and Madz in *Iceland* for the most advantages owned at once in a single season with 3.
* Caleb is the first player to play an Extra Vote Advantage.
* Caleb is the third player to reach the Final 3 with 0 votes cast against them.
	+ He is preceded by Kobe from *Mexico* and Trey from *Yukon*, and followed by Jacob from *Greece*.
* Caleb is the first Sole Survivor to not be in possession of two Hidden Immunity Idols at once at any point during the game.
* On Treasure Island, the 3 treasure chests that were not opened during the game each contained a Challenge Disadvantage, Radar Advantage, and Knowledge Is Power respectively.
* *Seychelles* has produced the most returning players out of any season with 10.
	+ 10/18 or 55% of the cast has returned for another season.