Survivor: Socotra

***Survivor: Socotra*** is the fourth season of *TravelORGs*, hosted by Andry, Chroma, Gage, Isaiah, Jude, Matty, Megan, and SPKT.

Socotra had an incredibly electrifying start, as the pre-swap portion of the game was riddled with messy game decisions, a major blindside, and almost every vote being split. After the tribe expansion, TravelORGs' first ever auxiliary tribe went winless in challenges, and the tribe never failed to entertain with its constant split votes, advantage plays, and drama.

The merge continued this excitement, as complicated tribe dynamics continued to fracture the tribe into several competing factions, and the continuous power shifts paved the way for this season to be anything but predictable. Although the jury was initially bitter and resentful with the finalists, it became clear that one finalist stood out above the others, and they were rewarded with the win in a near-unanimous jury vote - the ORG's most decisive to date. Overall, while Socotra is praised for its unpredictability, power shifts, and largely-likeable cast, it is also brought down by some unlikeable character moments and an inactive endgame with two finalists not giving it their all at the Final Tribal Council. Despite this, Socotra is yet another TravelORGs season where the positives greatly outweigh the negatives, and it retains a great reputation.

At the Final Tribal Council, Edgar defeated Miles and Jess in a 7-1-0 jury vote to become the series' fourth Sole Survivor. This marks the series' first male winner, and the first time a winner was decided by a margin of more than one jury vote.

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## Twists

* **Idol Fishing:** Every episode, players would be able to cast up to three 5x5 nets over a 20x20 grid. Each net would catch a certain amount of fish. When a player has saved up enough fish, they would be able to buy advantages from the Socotri Fish Market by trading fish for said advantages.
	+ **Immunity Idol:** Full-power immunity idol, which negates any votes cast against the person it is played on.
	+ **Light Pearl:** Negates a single vote cast against a user with it in their possession. Plays automatically, and does not trigger when an idol is played on said user.
	+ **Extra Vote:** When used, allows the player to cast two votes at a tribal council.
	+ **Bag of Rice:** Provides an advantage for the tribe of the purchaser for the next two immunity challenges.
		- This advantage was used on Day 3 and Day 12, by the Darsah Tribe both times. The first time, they won 1 of 2 challenges, and the second time, they won 2 of 2 challenges during which this advantage was in effect.
	+ **Dragon's Veil:** Turns the round into an eclipse vote, where the winning tribe is only revealed immediately before the votes are read.
		- This advantage was used at the Final 7. Jess won individual immunity, and negated one vote against herself.
	+ **Dark Pearl:** When purchased, this disadvantage is to be secretly assigned to another castaway. Unbeknownst to that castaway until it activates, an extra penalty vote will be counted against this castaway as soon as they first receive votes.
	+ **Scroll:** Informs the recipient of how many players will be present at the start of the merge, jury, and Final Tribal Council.
	+ **Spoiled Bag of Rice:** Whomever purchases this advantage has the power to assign a challenge disadvantage to one of the opposing tribes. This lasts for one challenge, and comes into play at the first challenge AFTER it is used.
		- This advantage was used on Day 18, by the Mukalla Tribe against the Wadi Tribe. The advantage was successful and Wadi lost the following immunity challenge.
	+ **Tent:** Opens up a channel to communicate with one person of your choice for the remainder of this phase of the game. This channel will remain open at all times, and will act as an in-server DM channel.
	+ **Extortion Advantage:** When distributed, the power of this advantage is randomized from 200 fish to 500 fish (200, 300, 400, 500). When that is determined, this advantage must be distributed to another contestant. That contestant will have to pay the amount of fish equivalent to the determined power of the advantage, or forfeit their ability to compete in the immunity challenge AND vote at the tribal council of the episode during which this advantage is played.
	+ **Repellent:** For the two episodes after it is assigned, the person to whom it is given will not be allowed to fish.
* **Double Tribal Council:** Two double tribal councils occurred throughout the game, where two people were voted out on the same day.
	+ On Day 7, it was announced that both tribes would attend separate tribal councils and vote one person out at each. In addition, both tribes competed among themselves for Individual Immunity.
	+ On Day 29, the Final 10 was split into two groups of five, and each group competed among themselves for Individual Immunity. Neither group could interact with each other until the groups re-merged at the Final 8.
* **Tribe Expansion:** On Day 9, at the Final 18, the two tribes would split into three new tribes instead of the expected two. The Wadi Tribe, wearing orange, was introduced as a result.
* **Tribe Switch:** On Day 16, at the Final 15, the three tribes shuffled, and formed three new tribes of five.

## Trivia

* This is the first season hosted by Gage and Megan.
* This is the first season to occur in the same continent as a previous season.
* This is the first season to have 22 castaways.
	+ This is the fourth season in a row to have a unique cast size from all previous seasons.
* This is the first season with two starting tribes during which both tribes attended tribal council before Day 10.
* This season features the first ever auxiliary tribe (Wadi).
	+ By extension, this is the first season to feature a tribe expansion.
* This is the first season during which three tribes entered a tribe switch and no tribe was dissolved.
* This is the first season to feature two outright tribe switches, as the only other season with three pre-merge phases featured a mutiny as one of them.