Celebrity Survivor - Athlete Edition

Celebrity Survivor: Athletes

Winner

The first season of Celebrity Survivor. Premiering on June 13, 2015, this was the first intro Maul Risen created. Headlined by athletes such as LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and Jerry Rice, this was the first idea he created. It spawned several returnees as well, including James, Jordan, JJ Watt, Serena Williams, and John Cena among others.

This was the first, and so far only, season to be simulated on the Maul Risen channel, as Serena Williams defeated Lisa Leslie and Shaquille O'Neal in a 5-3-1 vote.

Intro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWBJMDiKW4I&list=PL2vT6\_DKvoZrVynoJ8HY6T9kPFChEoDfJ&index=1

## Season

Maul simulated the season in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn7WJ9Va\_sA

### Episode 1:

Right away in Foa Foa an alliance of Alex Rodriguez, JJ Watt, LeBron James, Michael Jordan and Skylar Diggins-Smith broke out, resulting in the Big 4+1 alliance. Also brewing in Foa Foa, David's Angels formed with David Beckham, Lindsey Vonn, Lisa Leslie, and Venus Williams. At Galu, a foursome of Brittney Griner, John Cena, Serena Williams, and Shaquille O'Neal forming the Muscle alliance. Meanwhile Alex Morgan, Danica Patrick, Deion Sanders, Jerry Rice, and Ronda Rousey form their majority alliance: Beauty of Football.

Galu wins reward and immunity challenge sending the Foa Foa tribe to tribal council. At Foa Foa beach, Hope Solo, the only person who's not in an alliance, finds the first immunity idol in Celebrity Survivor history. At Galu, Shaq also finds an idol, becoming the first man to find an idol in Celebrity Survivor history. Meanwhile Brittney is rubbing the tribe the wrong way.

Before Tribal Council, Skylar, who hurt herself at the challenge, gets medically evacuated and removed from the game. This is huge because she was in the majority Big 4+1 alliance (which is now Big 4).

### Episode 2

Fresh on losing Skylar, Foa Foa avenges her and wins immunity sending Galu to their first tribal council. After the challenge however, A-Rod and Lisa have a major fight about the way the challenge was handled. He also tells her that basketball players aren't meant for this game, resulting in Lisa to blow up a little. Meanwhile at Galu, Tiger Woods, who's not in an alliance, bonds with Deion Sanders who's trying to woo him to his side.

At tribal council, Brittney Griner is voted out narrowly by a 6-4 vote against Alex Morgan due to Brittney not getting along with everyone. Deion managed to persuade Tiger, the swing vote, to vote out Brittney. Serena, Shaq, and John lose a number and are outnumbered by their tribe.

### Episode 3

Galu wins immunity sending Foa Foa to tribal council. Before tribal, Michael Jordan and A-Rod, both in the same alliance, have a major fight over who they think should go home. This is A-Rod's second fight with someone in the tribe and it doesn't go unnoticed. At Galu, the Beauty of Football alliance has banded together after the last tribal and is now very strong and loyal to one another.

At tribal council, Hope Solo is the swing vote and chooses to vote out JJ Watt instead of Lisa 5-4, making the Big 4 alliance down to 3. David's Angels decides to go for JJ in case an idol was in play and didn't think that anyone would play it on JJ.

### Episode 4

Galu wins immunity for the second time in a row sending Foa Foa to tribal again. Losing momentum, the Big 4 alliance is now very weak and now turning on each other.

At Tribal Council, A-Rod is voted out due to his hot head nature and being a nuisance to the camp. He's voted out on a 4-3-1 vote against Lindsey and MJ. Hope, on an island, threw a rogue vote on MJ.

### Episode 5

LeBron James and Michael Jordan, now the GOAT alliance, are the last of their alliance and they must go against David's Angels. At the immunity challenge, the momentum continues for Galu, winning 3 in a row sending Foa Foa to Tribal Council once again.

At camp, Hope and Lisa have a minor fight. Seeing this as an opportunity, MJ and LeBron attempt to persuade Hope to join their side as the other outcasts of the tribe. Meanwhile at Galu, Tiger and Deion continue to bond as Deion's trying to keep his options open and potentially take Tiger to the end as a goat.

At tribal council, Hope feels unsafe due to the fight with Lisa so she plays her idol on herself and votes with the GOATs. She receives 4 votes and they are all voided. Not trying to make it obvious who they were voting for, instead of voting for Lisa, they throw their vote on Lindsey Vonn, and she goes home on a ~~4~~-3 vote with 4 votes negated by Hope's idol. Lindsey becomes the first player in Celeb Survivor to be voted out due to an idol.

### Episode 6

Jeff reveals that both tribes will vote someone out as it's a double tribal.

Down to 3 in his alliance and knowing there's an idol hidden, David Beckham goes to look for it and finds it. Meanwhile LeBron and Hope after the vote last tribal bond a lot over their outcast personas in the game.

At Galu, John and Shaq have a minor fight about who they think they should target, as it's a double tribal. They're done in numbers and are frustrated with each other as well.

At the first Tribal Council, Foa Foa go first. There's a tie between Hope and Lisa 3-3 and revote. In the revote, LeBron and MJ changed their vote to Hope as they didn't wanna go to rocks and didn't think Hope was worth it as she goes home on a 4-0 revote.

At the next Tribal Council, Galu goes to tribal for the first time in a while. Feeling unsafe, Shaq plays his idol on himself and blocks 5 votes for himself resulting in Alex Morgan to be voted out ~~5~~-4. Tiger ended up voting with the Muscle despite much bonding with Deion. She become the first person from Beauty of Football to go home.

### Episode 7

After the double tribal, Galu wins immunity again, sending Foa Foa to tribal once again.

At Foa Foa, David bonds a lot with Venus as they form a Final 2. At Galu, Jerry Rice finds the idol after Shaq's play last tribal.

At Tribal Council, Trying to show how much he trusts her, David plays his idol on Lisa, showing that he doesn't trust Venus as much as he thought he did. It cancels out 2 Lisa votes but is wasted as Venus was loyal and voted for LeBron as LeBron goes home 3-~~2~~. Confused, Venus doesn't trust David as much as before, as his paranoia sets in and distrusts her, wasting his idol.

### Episode 8

The tribes merge with 4 original Foa Foas (David, Lisa, MJ, Venus) and 8 original Galu (Danica, Deion, Jerry, John, Ronda, Serena, Shaq, Tiger). Notably, Serena and Venus, sisters, reunite and start working together.

In a double immunity challenge, David wins the guy immunity and Serena wins the girl immunity.

At tribal, feeling unsafe with the new people, Jerry plays his idol on himself. This proves to be a good read as he receives 7 votes. With 5 votes, John Cena gets voted out ~~7~~-5. Everyone decided to go against the Beauty of Football alliance and target Jerry, however he caught word of this and played his idol, causing John to get the other votes from the Beauty of Football alliance. John was targeted due to his likability and athletic prowess. John was also the one to go to the Foa Foas and pitch them to get out Jerry or Deion, settling on Jerry due to them thinking Deion was more likely to have an idol.

### Episode 9

For the second time in a row, David wins immunity proving to be a huge threat in this game. Deion and Venus have a huge fight, causing Serena to despise Deion even more.

In the first normal vote in a while, Jerry gets voted out 7-4 against Danica, this time with no idol. Deion decided to go after Danica because he caught her talking game and saying she'd vote with the other alliance and wanted to go against her. Everyone else was dead set on getting Jerry out due to his ego and confidence after his idol play.

### Episode 10

In the reward challenge, Tiger, Shaq, Lisa, David, and Serena all win reward and a clue to the hidden immunity idol.

Being the last remaining member of his alliance, MJ pulls out an immunity win after laying low for a couple of episodes. Meanwhile Serena has become appreciated around camp as people start to like her company as Venus is her right hand woman with the other tribe.

After being targeted last week for being a snake, Danica is voted out by the people she went to 6-3-1 against Venus and David. Danica ended up going back with the Beauty of Football but her wishy washiness caused the rest of the cast to see her as a threat and voted her out.

### Episode 11

After being all over the place the whole game, Tiger wins immunity. At camp, after getting votes last tribal, Venus goes out to find the idol. To her luck, she finds it and feels immense power. Meanwhile David is working his magic with the rest of the tribe, becoming more and more appreciated.

At tribal, Venus decides not to play her idol, and gets 3 votes. However it isn't enough as Ronda gets 6 and leaves 6-3 as the Beauty of Football alliance continues to get decimated.

### Episode 12

Down to the final 8, Venus and Serena have taken over the game as they combined their two alliances to almost completely dismantle the Beauty of Football alliance. Deion is the last member of his alliance and needs to win immunity. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't and David wins his 3rd immunity of the season. At camp, Shaq and Lisa bond a lot over their time playing for LA teams.

At tribal, there are a lot of rogue votes but eventually Deion is finally eliminated and goes home 5-1-1-1 against MJ, Venus, and Tiger. The Beauty of Football alliance is officially over after dominating the game early on. MJ and Tiger throw votes at each other.

At the next immunity challenge with the big target gone, Tiger wins his 2nd immunity challenge. Lisa is becoming appreciated around camp more.

In a shocking vote, David is voted out 4-3 against MJ. David was the biggest threat after winning 3 immunities and he wasn't able to get Venus to use her idol on him. The Original Galus all vote out David and managed to get MJ to vote with them against his former tribemate as well. The other biggest person they were able to persuade was Tiger, who's been all over the place the entire season. They managed to convince him that they might not get this opportunity to blindside David ever again so they had to take advantage.

### Episode 13

At the reward challenge, Shaq, Venus, and Tiger win reward. Shaq and Venus both vie for Tiger's vote and allegiance. MJ wins immunity for the 2nd time, making himself look a little more threatening. Venus attempts to bring MJ back with them by bonding with him.

At the tribal council, Venus has an idol at Final 6 but doesn't use it. However, they finally decided to cut the middle man and vote out Tiger and unanimously vote him out 5-1. After trying to get his vote the entire episode, both sides just decided that it would be much easier to get someone who can't make a decision out instead of each other since he never gave any of them an answer if he would vote for them or not.

### Finale

At the Final 5 we have Lisa and Venus vs Serena and Shaq with MJ in the middle. Venus has an idol and has to use it at Final 5. At the immunity challenge, Shaq wins his first immunity. With Shaq winning immunity, Serena decides that this is a good time to tell him that she would take him to Final 3 over her own sister due to her own sister playing a much better game than her and her wanting to reward Shaq's loyalty.

At tribal, Venus plays her idol on herself since this is the last time she could. In the initial vote it's 1 vote Venus that's void, then 2 votes Lisa and 2 votes MJ. Lisa and Venus ended up voting against MJ instead of against Serena due to Venus wanting to stay loyal to her sister. Shaq ended up throwing a rogue vote for whatever reason on Venus, maybe mishearing what Serena told him about their Final 2. In the revote, MJ ends up leaving 2-1 against Lisa. For the second time they took out the middle man.

In the Final 4 it's now Lisa and Venus vs Serena and Shaq. Venus and Serena are seemingly against each other. In the immunity challenge, Serena wins her 2nd immunity challenge and solidifies herself in the Final 3.

Seemingly the vote should've been a straightforward 2-2 vote on Shaq and Venus/Lisa and going to fire. Instead in a move that shocked the world, Venus received 2 votes, Shaq received 1 vote, and Lisa received 1 vote, meaning Venus gets voted out. Seeing that she had no shot to beat her number 1 ally, Lisa decided to turn her back on Venus and vote with Shaq for Venus. Shaq's original plan was for him and Serena to vote for Lisa (since she didn't want to vote for her sister), but the two LA basketball players decided to vote with each other against the player who played the best game and Serena's sister. Having not voted for her sister the entire game, Serena really wanted to get to the final 3 with her, but ultimately saw it as a win that she didn't have to vote against her to get her out.

#### Final Tribal

Shaq seemingly set this whole thing up to go behind his partner's back and vote out her own sister, not to mention persuade Lisa to go against her own partner in the process. Serena played an all-around better game than Shaq, but Shaq seemed like the frontrunner to win pre-questioning. Lisa ended up being the last player on a very successful alliance despite being behind the scenes most of the game.

In the end, the final vote was Serena winning 5-3-1. She won due to her more balanced game and immunity challenge wins. Venus also managed to get a lot of votes for her sister at the end.

John Cena ends up winning the very first Fan Favorite award due to his jokes and likable personality.

##### Jury Votes

 Jerry
 Danica
 Ronda
 Deion
 David
 Tiger
 Michael
 Venus

## Trivia

* The first season of Celebrity Survivor.