Aggvivor

### Summary

This season flipped everything on its head. The two stronger tribes, Saanapu and Vavau, lost the first immunity challenge, causing 4 women to be voted out first. On Vavau, the tribe was in harmony, with the big boys (Cooper, Nick F, and AJ) on top, and the 2 girls (Candace & Ale) and Ethan on the bottom. On Saanapu, Hayden & José aligned all the men together to stay strong, while looping in José's love interest, Kenna. This left Jessica, who just lost her closest allies, on the outs. When both tribes had to go to Tribal, the boys on Vavau eliminated Ale, while Jessica was able to flip the boys on Saanapu to vote Kenna. However, both ladies were instead sent to the opposite tribe, and chose their closest allies, Candace and José, to accompany them. While José wasn't able to save Kenna from the Vavau boys, Ale & Candace managed to find some wiggle room, convincing the Saanapu boys to target Jessica.

Meanwhile, Aganoa had been winning every single immunity challenge, despite having all the weaker men on the tribe, but won largely due to Brooke. Mason & Dylan became a power duo, picking up Ilan & Taylor to control the tribe. Grace, Kadie, and Brooke were extremely distrusting of Arvyn, after he made his tribemates uncomfortable, which made him the easy target. When Aganoa had the option of staying together or splitting up, Grace & Kadie were vocal about splitting up, as putting all the Challenge beasts on one side would send them to tribal repeatedly. However, Mason & Dylan continued to have a stronghold, and decided to stick together and pick up Saanapu tribemate Nick B.

With the remains of Vavau and Saanapu on the new Saanapu beach, Hayden, José, & Ryan scrambled to break up the Vavau 6. Ale & Candace were getting annoyed with their tribemates' obnoxious dominance on the tribe, and worried that their place on the tribe would be taken away for one of them. After blindsiding Nick F., Candace, Ethan, and Ale had to drop Ryan & José in order to keep Vavau strong, which they had several regrets about. When it came down to only the former Vavau members on the blue tribe, Ethan was kidnapped and saved for another round by Aganoa, where his social game allowed him to make quick and necessary connections. Now only down to 4, Candace tried to flip Cooper against AJ, so that they can go into the merge with 100% people they trust, but Cooper trusted AJ more than Candace, and foolishly used his idol to save him and blindside Candace right before the merge.

8 former Aganoa. 4 former Vavau. 1 former Saanapu. Ale was pissed that not only did her best friend go home, but now her alliance is protection-less against the fully intact Aganoa tribe. However, cracks had been forming between Brooke & Arvyn, which worried Mason & Dylan about Brooke's loyalty to their tribe, as they saw Arvyn being more loyal than her. Brooke was blindsided at her first and only tribal, followed directly by her ally Kadie. After Arvyn's antics finally got him eliminated, the remaining Aganoa teamed up to eliminate Cooper and Nick B. Meanwhile, AJ found an idol at Exile Beach, and only told Ale and Ethan. Ale, noticing that she had the numbers to make a move and get further, flipped the Aganoa girls to vote out Ilan. AJ & Taylor had also been getting closer, and she was subtly working AJ away from his former Vavau allies. Dylan & Mason preyed on AJ's fear of Ale taking the win in the end, which was only reinforced when a paranoid Ale asked AJ to play his idol on her. With Ale voted out, the final 6 was now comprised of pairs: Grace & Taylor, Dylan & Mason, and AJ & Ethan.

Dylan & Mason were painted as the largest targets, as they had controlled most aspects of the game at that point, but Taylor wasn't willing to flip right away. After AJ won immunity, he used his idol on Ethan, blindsiding ringleader Mason. Dylan, realizing his time was running out, made a deal with Dylan to vote out the girls over him. However, when the vote came down to a tie between Dylan & Ethan, AJ had to stay true to his promise to Ethan, and eliminate Dylan. After Grace lost to AJ in a fire making tiebreaker, Taylor was able to pull out a shock victory against AJ. Taylor, having a played a decent game herself, made the big move to take AJ to the final over Ethan.

At Final Tribal Council, AJ argued that he had to fight harder, losing almost all the premerge challenges despite being a physical beast, coming into the merge having not played with over half the people remaining, and navigating everyone else's alliances and beefs to be sitting there. Taylor argued that she didn't have to play as hard in the beginning, but had her ducks in a row should the opportunity arisen, and insisted that she was never targeted because she was always a swing vote, taking out Cooper, Nick B., and Ale. Dylan held resentment against AJ for lying to him at the last minute when he didn't have to, and Mason attributed AJ's success to luck and his appearance, but AJ agreed, saying that he utilized his natural advantages to build relationships. In the end, AJ won 7 out of 9 jury votes, only losing Dylan & Mason's to Taylor.

## Season 2

### Summary

In the first portion of the game, rivalries were formed. On Samatau, an early love triangle between Brandon, Lena, & Katelyn put a target on their backs, while Harley's arrogant nature rubbed several women the wrong way. On Asaga, Claire & Emery formed an early power duo in the game, creating side alliances with Isaiah, Madison, Joe, & Bryson. However, Isaiah's negative reaction after losing the immunity challenge spared outsiders Jed, Jacob, & Sydney, allowing them time to gather numbers to blindside Madison at their next tribal. However, Claire & Emery were able to regain control, scoop up the outsiders, and vote out weak-link Taylor, which left Casidy with no allies and wwas voted out at the following tribal, only to be sent to Exile Beach with Jacob instead. Meanwhile, several showmances were forming: Hunter & Gracen, Jed & Sydney, and Harley & AC.

Casidy & Jacob then joined the Samatau tribe, and Samatau chose Hunter & Matt, who just wanted to get away from Harley. Casidy & Lexi formed a very tight bond right away, which prompted the newly formed Girls Alliance + Harley to blindside poor Jacob. Over on Asaga, Hunter & Matt quickly aligned with resident power duo, Claire & Emery, and aimed at Joe, Jed, Bryson, & Izzie. However, when Jed made a fake idol and lied about it being real, the original Asaga tribe had no choice but to vote Matt out to save themselves. When Samatau won a reward challenge that had to send one player into the jungle, Harley campaigned hard, won the vote, and found the Super Idol.

When tribe switch occurred on Day 27, the trio of Bryson, Izzie, and Joe found themselves in the minority against Stephen, Lexi, Hunter, & Jonah. After Izzie was voted out, Bryson and Joe planned to not only save themselves, but break up the Samatau stronghold. Jonah also tried to save them, by telling them that his vote was going towards Bryson, and if they had an idol, they should use it to blindside Hunter, who had a lot of numbers on the other side. When the votes were read, 4 votes for Bryson were negated by his idol, and instead of voting out one person collectively, they created a tie between Hunter & Stephen, forcing Lexi & Jonah to choose which ally to cut. However, the votes tied again, and while Lexi, Joe, and Bryson all agreed to cut Stephen, Jonah put his foot down on Hunter, causing the first rock draw. In a "Big Move Gone Wrong" fashion, Joe was rocked out of the game, leaving Bryson by himself, with Jonah as his only tentative ally. But Jonah mutinied the next round! Samatau won their an underdog victory, sending Asaga to tribal where they finally booted Jed, who was just causing mayhem because he didn't really know how to play the game all that well.

The tribes merged, and Sydney & Casidy were voted out for not being in a close alliance with anyone. Also, a secret twist of the season was that Jonah and Claire are secret siblings, and haven't been able to play with each other until the merge. Meanwhile, the targets on Emery & Claire grew larger and larger, which prompted Claire to turn on Emery in a surprise split vote. However, the old Samatau tribe was sticking together and using Claire's dysfunctional Asaga tribe to gain higher spots up in the game, leaving her as the sole Asaga representative in the Final 8. However, she was able to win back-to-back immunities, leaving Samatau to turn on itself. Jonah & Stephen brought in Claire, Lexi, Hunter, & Gracen to flush Harley's advantage (which he has kept a total secret to everyone but Madeleine) and blindside Madeleine. However, Lexi, Hunter, & Gracen realized how dangerous that trio was compared to Harley, leading Hunter to use his idol on Madeleine, sending Stephen home. Claire & Jonah worked even HARDER over the next two days to flip the showmance against Harley and the girls, which proved successful. However, Harley correctly assumed he was the vote, and used his idol, blindsiding Jonah.

At the Final 6, the 2 groups of 3 were ready to go to rocks, but Lexi's idol play and blindside of Claire gave Harley's alliance the advantage in the final 5, where they took out Gracen. Harley went on an immunity run, winning four immunity challenges in the endgame. Lexi was aware that Harley's immunity streak could take him to the Final 3, where he would choose Madeleine over her, so she convinced Hunter to vote Madeleine with her, that in the event that they had to go to fire, Hunter would beat her easily. However, Harley wanted to take Madeleine to the end, so they voted Lexi to give Madeleine a better shot at fire should Lexi flip on them. Lexi defeated Madeleine in fire, and was taken by Harley to the Final Tribal Council.

At Final Tribal Council, Harley argued that he ran the game from start to finish. He never received a vote against him until the final 7, he played his idol correctly, he was able to let Claire & Emery eat each other so he could slip into the shadows and recoup with former Samatau, he found the Super Idol, he won 6 immunity challenges, and he eliminated Jonah from the jury on the grounds of not seeing the game the same way. Lexi didn't have as long of a resume as Harley, but argued that her relationships are what kept her afloat. Her early connections with Harley, Madeleine, Hunter, & Gracen literally brought her to the Final 5, she formed an alliance when Casidy was swapped to Samatau that protected her, she was never the biggest target in all of her alliances, she formed a relationship with Claire & Emery, and used the information or lack of to figure out the plan so she was never out of the loop.

Sydney warned Harley that the jury may be impressed by his gameplay, but their respect has yet to be earned because of the way he treated people in the game. Casidy praised Lexi's ability to stay calm under pressure and use her social skills to save her from being voted out at 10. Emery said that Harley's game is the game he envisioned himself playing, but was disappointed by how cocky Harley was about his victory IN FRONT OF his tribemates, and disappointed in Lexi for not standing up for people more, which she argued against. Bryson reminded the jury that *Survivor* is a social experiment above all else. Stephen asked Harley how he helped other people during the game, to which he answered Madeleine, while also mentioning he was saving her to beat her, which caught a lot of heat from the jury. Claire revealed to the finalists that Jonah is her brother, and that she felt very disrespected by Harley when he eliminated him, basically going off on him: "If you say you respect this game, and you take away the dream of a lifelong fan a jury vote. But not just a lifelong fan, someone who respected the game more fiercely than you and treated everyone with human decency. So you think you and Jonah think differently, well this jury is on a whole different book." Yeah, Lexi won.

## Champions v. Contenders

### Summary

The Champions got onto an early numbers lead on the Contenders, with a power alliance of Clay, Maddie, Hunter, Alaina, and Wu, while Canon & Madi and Erin & Rae worked on making cracks in their stronghold. On the Contenders tribe, they started the game in hyper-drive, with a strong dominant male alliance of Brock, Marek, and Tre at the center, Logan and Noah as trusted mates, and Annika & Alanna as the number-sealer. However, after Miko & Kendall were voted out, Alanna & Annika plotted to save the girls and weaken the men's alliance. When Vona and Marek both blocked all the votes with their idols, the girls successfully eliminated Connor, but didn't hit at the core.

The Contenders went on a winning spree, sending the Champions to 6 straight tribals. Maddie & Clay felt very in control of their alliance, but when Rae & Erin exaggerated a statement from Maddie to Clay, he went on a rampage. The girls convinced him that Maddie & Hunter were running that alliance, and they saw Clay as the outsider there. Clay, realizing he had been playing with the wrong people, flipped on his alliance, sending Alaina, Maddie, Kelechi, Wu out the door. Although Kelechi was saved by an Exile Beach twist where he managed to defeat Wu for a ticket back into the game, his tribe feared he had a special advantage, and voted him out again. Canon & Madi had been able to latch onto Clay and the girls' safety train, and had also been able to throw Izzy under the bus, giving them better odds at staying in. However, Madi couldn't be trusted by the majority of the Champions for being sneaky AND good at challenges, so she was blindsided, enraging Canon.

On Day 25, the remaining 15 castaways were told to drop their buffs. Vona & Erin were the only girls on the new Contenders tribe, and avoided tribal council due to having all the fit men on their tribe. While the Champions tried sticking together, they were unable to because of their former rivalries, which led to Hunter & Izzy being swiftly blindsided. The trio of Annika, Alanna, and Logan had been an obvious grouping since the early Contender days, and Claudia had been feeling excluded before the tribe swap, but since being stuck with them, they've welcomed her with open arms. However, Claudia felt as if their intentions were fake, and ordered the blindside of Annika right before the merge.

When the merge hit, the Contenders men's alliance, now only consisting of Tre, Brock, Marek, & Noah, wanted to eliminate all the other big threats in the game that posed a threat to them in the future. Rae had been targets for their social game, Clay for his irrational indecisiveness, Canon for his brains & brawn, Logan for his numerous friends, and Alanna for being a dangerous player. Rae was the first merge casualty, leaving 3 Champions against 8 Contenders. Canon managed to sway his Contender allies into voting out Claudia, despite a counter-move co-founded by Marek to blindside Brock. With tensions already high, Logan was targeted out of fear of people losing their closer allies. When Marek & Brock patched things up, Erin tried to take a big swing at the Contender boys, using her newly found Vote Steal, but Tre was not all-in, and ended up splitting minority votes to take her out.

After Noah, Vona, Alanna, Tre, and Canon teamed up to eliminate Brock, they set their sights on Marek next. But instead of being voted out, Marek became the Dead Man Walking, preventing him to vote or compete for immunity for 4 days. With Marek now as an expendable number, it became too easy to get him out, and Clay became the new #1 target. However, Canon wanted to have Noah and Alanna with him at the Final 3, so he rallied his troops to vote out Vona, but they were unwilling to vote out Marek, which caused them to be on the outs come the Final 5. Noah saved himself with an idol, blindsiding Tre, and Alanna beat Canon in fire. Noah won the final immunity challenge and chose Clay, sealing his fate.

Noah was criticized for not playing enough of a strategic game and playing too nice, while Clay was critized for abusing the strategic game and playing too hard. In the end, Clay beat Noah in a close 5-4 vote.

## Champions v. Contenders 2

### Summary

Both tribes saw early conflicts rising in the beginning: the gender divide on the Contenders tribe led to strong men getting targeted early on, and the Champions saw themselves with controversy after controversy. First, Chris had been performing very poorly in the physical and vontunteered puzzle portions of the challenges, which put his head on the chopping block. However, he saved by Hayden leaking the plan to blindside Keshawn, which sent Hayden home instead. Next, Keshawn's misogynistic behavior towards the women on his tribe, with the exception of Hannah, had irked the tribe into voting him out next despite his strength. Hannah, who was already pretty flirty with Parker & Philip, pissed off Kayla & Caroline respectively, and was voted out before Chris.

The Champions found themselves in the minority of both new tribes at the tribe switch. Parker & Clairah were able to find in-roads on the new Contenders tribe, but Kaitlyn & Reese struggled, resulting in the latter's elimination. Inseparable besties Ben S. & Caroline worked to find cracks and cause chaos amongst the former Contenders, and it turned out the boys were very willing to flip on Kaleigh. However, the Champions assumed power and saved Kaleigh, eliminating Tre. The Contenders tribe then voted to kidnap Ben, and armed with 2 men and 7 women, were able to pull off an impressive streak of challenge wins, which in turn, send former Contenders Kaleigh, John, Braeden, & Payton out of the game. Idol wise, Grace found the Contenders idol, Ben has the Champions idol, and Lauren has 2 idols from separate rewards.

The tribes merged on Day 29, and the Champions took power, eliminating the Contender women's alliance, while Lauren & Susan cozied up to the power alliances. Susan & Lauren were able to flip Kaitlyn, Clairah, and eventually Ben over to blindside Philip. This caused a rift between Caroline and Ben, but with Kaitlyn's mediating skills, she was able to unite the two together again. Meanwhile, power couple Parker & Kayla wanted to dismantle the Ben, Kaitlyn, Caroline power trio, concocting a scheme to split votes between Susan & Lauren with them, but then actually blindsiding Kaitlyn instead with Clairah. Ben noticed Clairah getting really close to the showmance, and relayed an eerie vibe to his alliance, sparking Kaitlyn to use her idol and blindside Clairah. However, Clairah was sent to Exile Beach, and awaited an opponent to reenter the game. The Final 7 stood as follows: Parker & Kayla and Ben, Caroline, & Kaitlyn were aligned with each other, but after their respective shots at one another, all bets are off at the moment. Susan & Lauren are easy votes, but Lauren has 2 idols, and wants to use them to get to Final 4. Both girls lean towards working with the power trio, but have regards about Kaitlyn. Ben also now has 2 idols, and wants to use them at Final 5 to guarantee his alliance Final 4.

At the Final 7, Kaitlyn won immunity, and no matter what Parker & Kayla said, they were next on the list. However, Parker struck a deal with Ben, promising him and Caroline Final 4 if they voted out Susan, they did, without telling Kaitlyn the reason for their move. Susan came back after defeating Clairah, and was promptly voted out again, but not before patching things up with enemy Kaitlyn. At the Final 6, both alliances made a move to come after Lauren, and Lauren seemed to rock with Parker & Kayla with the hopes of voting out Kaitlyn. Ben pleaded hard with Lauren to vote Parker out with them, but she never said yes. This prompted Ben to remind Parker about their deal, telling him that he had to vote Susan so he has to vote Lauren. He agrees, but Caroline tells Lauren out of friendship that she should use her idol, and that Ben was spearheading the plan to vote her. Lauren used one of her idols to blindside Ben with one votes, and then she linked with Parker & Kayla to vote out Kaitlyn. However, Caroline and Lauren's relationship was stronger, so after Caroline won immunity, Lauren and Kayla battled it out in fire, and resulted in Caroline being against the two lovebirds. Despite good arguments from both sides, Caroline was not able to convince Kayla that she would 100% lose against Parker.

## All-Stars

### Summary

With a cast full of determined pre-mergers, fierce jury members, finalists & 2 sole survivors, the cast played HARD from the jump, starting at the very first challenge when Dylan & AJ found a clue to a hidden immunity idol at Tribal. The Mokuta tribe turned against *Nicaragua* Sole Survivor Lexi, which left former castmates Emery and Hunter scramble for numbers. The *Samoa* alliance of Ale, Candace, and Dylan also posed a threat to the rest of Mukta, especially because of how close Ale & Candace were on their first season. Meanwhile on Vakama, the early elimination of Ethan forced Season 1 Champ AJ to have to play more aggressively. A majority consisting of Ben, Reese, Grace, Alanna, Marek, and Madi formed, and the majority of them wanted to save AJ & Jessica, and further weaken the Harley-Claire-Jacob-Katelyn alliance. However, Marek saw a future working with the *Nicaragua* alliance, and looped in Madi to flip the vote on AJ. Madi was conflicted between her former castmate and the bonds she had created already, so she told her new alliance of Marek's betrayal, and when the alliance plotted to vote Marek, she told him about the counter-plan. Marek found & played the Vakama idol, while AJ managed to convicne Dylan to send him the idol he found at Tribal council. At the end of the vote, Claire was left with one vote from a confused Madi and was sent home. After seeing Vakama take down power player Claire, Emery decided he needed to play a safer game. After voting out Ale, Emery gathered the numbers to blindside Caroline and break up the girls. However, Caroline found the Mokuta idol and sent Emery home instead. A fractured Vakama then went to Tribal, only to send Harley & Jessica to Exile.

At the tribe switch, Dylan, Braeden, and Candace found themselves in the minority of the new Mokuta tribe, while Harley, Marek, and Reese felt similarly on Vakama. Dylan and AJ reconnected, as did Braeden & Ben and Grace, which allowed the former Mokutians to form a majority and blindside Madi. On the new Vakama tribe, Harley & Marek threw Reese under the bus to make a guy group with Noah, Hunter, and Canon. Reese aligned with Caroline and Alanna, but was unable to trust Rae because she would relay info back to the guys. Katelyn & Reese were both voted out of their respective tribes to compete in a firemaking challenge for safety, which Reese pulled out a surprising victory. Reese, now knowing where she stood, worked with her girls to flip Hunter & Harley, resulting in Noah and Rae's eliminations. Meanwhile, Alanna found the Tribal Halter advantage, and decided to secretly hand it off to Candace at the Final 14, where she used it, which ultimately caused the 13-person merge. Harley's threat level grew by the day, so he used his idol at the last premerge tribal, and a paranoia train which led to Canon's elimination.

The tribes merged on Day 27, forming the Kalokalo tribe. *Niacragua* castmates Harley, Hunter, & Jacob found themselves on the outs, a well as Marek for his sneaky reputation. Ben & Caroline finally reunited after playing together but separate, and now they can finally go to Final 2 together. Because they both swapped alliances at the tribe swap, Ben & Caroline brought their alliances together. While Braeden, Grace, Alanna, & Reese were happy to join, Dylan, Candace, and Jessica only did so out of necessity. However, Marek used an idol on Harley, pulling back-to-back blindsides on Grace & Alanna, the latter vote with the help of the *Samoa* cast.
When the tribe was split up into 2 teams, 2 immunities, 2 tribals, 2 people going home, Reese was faced against the Samoans and Hunter and Jacob. And after losing immunity to Jessica, she campaigned hard to flip Samoa against the boys, claiming that they're going to cut them sooner rather than later, and lied and told them that they approached her about seeing if Dylan would flip on the girls. Meanwhile on the green team, Braeden, Caroline, and Ben had their choice between power players Harley and Marek, and with only one idol to split between them, there was a 50/50 shot of both of them making it thru. The alliance covered their bases, telling both guys the other was the target, and Caroline promised that whoever jumps ship, she's gonna find a way to get them through the game. After weighing his options, Marek knew he had to jump ship and flush Harley's idol. Harley was more resilient to the CvC2 alliance's warnings, but they constantly reassured him Marek had to go by complaining about him. At tribal, Marek convinced Harley to use his idol on him, which sent Harley straight to the jury to sit next to his friend Hunter.

A twist at the Final 9 re-introduced Exile Beach, but this time it was claiming 3 victims at a time. The *Samoa* alliance needed to survive this twist, so they voted out Reese assuming she wouldn't have an idol. Caroline flipped on her word against Marek, and Marek & Jacob voted Ben, wanting to eliminate the best connected player. The following tribal, Jacob escaped by winning an absolute clutch immunity, forcing Caroline & Braeden to try to work with him. The votes tied at 3-3, sending both Braeden and Jessica to Exile Beach. Between the revote, Caroline pointed out that Dylan could beat a lot of people, but not Candace. This caused an argument between the 2 ladies AND Dylan to rethink his vote. He flipped on Candace, blindsiding her with an idol in her pocket, and sending her to Exile. Only Jacob, Caroline, and Dylan remained, and Jeff threw an absolute curveball when he handed them red buffs and told them they were going to a new camp and forming a new tribe with everyone that survives Exile Beach. Ben & Candace won the first challenge, and Jessica pulled out an endurance victory against Marek. All 3 were given red buffs, and sent to the new Eda Bula tribe, while the losers, Braeden, Marek, & Reese, were sent back to Kalokalo. Despite attempts to weaken the CvC2 alliance, Ben & Caroline pulled through, saving both of their allies and eliminating Marek.

Candace was untrusting of Dylan for good reason, but felt she had to keep working with him until she had an opportunity to vote him out. Alone in numbers, Jacob found the Eda Bula idol, and although he thought CvC2 would have his back, they did not, and tried to vote him out. The Samoa alliance equally took a shot at Caroline, but both shots were negated by idols, which sent one message to the tribe: rocks. Each alliance voted for the person from the opposite alliance they liked the most and could beat easier, to spare them from rocks. Dylan & Braeden drew black rocks, but Jessica drew the white rock and was eliminated, leaving Jacob on the outs once again, and Candace now with an opportunity to make a move. Candace tried to get into Braeden, Caroline, and Reese's minds to group up and turn on Ben and Dylan. Braeden was down, but Reese & Caroline had regards. Reese noticed Braeden's sudden mood change, and united Candace & Dylan to vote out Braeden instead.

The time finally came, in Caroline's mind, to take out her Final 2 Ben. Despite being real life besties, Caroline feared her hard work would be overlooked by Ben's seemingly easy control of the game, and winning immunity only gave her the cover she needed to get Dylan & Jacob to blindside Ben. But Ben is no dummy, and even though he had an idol for protection, Ben wanted to trust that his allies would keep him safe, as he wanted to use his idol to get him and his girls to final 4. At tribal council, Jeff presented the *Trial By Fire* twist, and offered it to anyone who felt in danger. Ben felt almost obligated, seeing that neither Jacob, Dylan, nor Candace moved, and decided to take on the advantage, assuming that Reese or Caroline would volunteer and throw the challenge since the Challenger isn't in danger. Reese volunteered and was shut down, but Caroline didn't offer once. The rest of the tribe agreed to send in Jacob, the best firemaker, but Reese wouldn't do it, which forced a random rock draw to determine who would be playing. Dylan selected the odd rock, lost to Ben, and after an immune Ben & Caroline had an intense conversation, was the next biggest threat to go.

Ben tried to patch things up with Caroline, but was heartbroken that she didn't want to go to the end with him. At the Final 5 tribal, both Ben & Candace played their idols, which sent Caroline to the jury by her best friend's hand. Ben was voted out at the following tribal for being too much of an endgame threat, even by Reese, who was forming connections with Jacob & Candace that she was confident could get her far. This would be her undoing as Candace won immunity, but knew that despite a lot of the boys hating her, Reese had too many friends on the jury as well that could sway some votes. It is remarkable that in an *All-Star* season, 4/7 pre-mergers made it to the merge & Final 7, and 3 of them made up the final 3. Jacob & Candace represented their seasons in the Final Tribal.

Candace argued that she targeted strong players from the jump, because she knew as a pre-merger that they would be running the game, which was her plan. Come the tribe swap and merge, she had no choice but to align with her former Samoans. And she was loyal until Dylan flipped on her. She tried to instigate his blindside at the Final 8, but was thwarted by Jacob flipping. When the votes nulled, Candace asked Ben, Reese, and Caroline to vote for her and they would vote Reese to keep each other safe, which garnered some loyalty with them, and why they went after Dylan, Jacob, and each other before her. It was all a matter of getting out Ben & Caroline, 2 people that would not bring her. Once she did, she knew she was going to Final 3 no matter the outcome of the Final Immunity Challenge. Jacob played the game from the bottom, losing Claire and Katelyn early on. He claimed he wasn't really friends with Hunter or Harley after their season, but this season of being targeted for being a strong male, he felt more connected to them since the only people at the time that would work with him, were them. He made the merge, and while he didn't plan his friends' demises, their eliminations opened more doors for him than closed. He was a free Agent, and between 2 once very close-knit now fracturing alliances, he was in a perfect position. Once the stench of the boys wore off and the Final lines were drawn in the sand, every person wanted to take him to Final 2. But it wasn't just luck, he actively gamed with the boys and the girls, and won several clutch immunities. Some female jury members took offense to Jacob's struggles of being a strong male in *Survivor*, when strong women are typically voted out quick in their first season, examples include: Jessica and Candace in *Samoa*, Katelyn in *Nicaragua*, Annika and Madi in *Champions v. Contenders* and Reese in its second iteration. In the end, Candace earned 9 jury votes and the title of the *Sole Surviving All-Star*.

## Brain v. Brawn v. Beauty

### Summary

Survivor goes to the Australian Outback, one of the world's most desolate and bipolar locations, to film *Survivor'*s Big Return. The Brain Tribe saw an early power struggle between the men and women, where tight duo Daniel & Santi managed to gain control, lose it, and be at the mercy of the girls and Zachary. Fortunately, the Brawn tribe was on a whole different level of dysfunction. Angel's mafia boss attitude got him a lot of negative attention from the girls, but with help from allies Ashley & Brandon, he was able to assert control. However, his control crumbled when his closest ally Brandon injured his knee, resulting in his evacuation. Meanwhile at Beauty, the tribe was getting along very well with the exception of Emily & Wyatt. While Emily had more sway over the guys than Wyatt did, he was able to swing his bestie Mukta to help him out and get him numbers, all the while stirring the pot against Emily to make her public enemy number one. A surprise tribe swap vote saw Emily from Beauty and Santi from Brains be voted out of their tribes and sent to Brawn, and a second vote to steal an opposing member from the opposite tribe put Danny with 6-1 odds, and Jackson as the clear target on the new Brain tribe.

Emily and Santi faced certain elimination, but Angel & Ashley scooped them up and blindsided Quade instead. A tribe dissolve and switcheraoo saw Emily turn against Angel, who had been working hard picking up solid numbers like Zachary, Jasmine, and Sean. However, her betrayal confirmed all the shady rumors, and a double tribal twist where she was pitted against Amina showed that she didn't have the connections she thought. On the new Brawn tribe, Ashley, Mohit, and Maia were in the minority, but Maia and Mukta formed a close friendship, as did Ashley and Daniel. Once those 2 pairs clicked, they pulled in Santi to form a core alliance, then tried to get Austin and Mohit to turn against Amina and Micaela. However, their split vote attempt was unsuccessful, resulting in Maia's blindside. After Daniel helped Santi with his idol to eliminate Austin, Santi began to launch a smear-campaign on Angel from the other side. This caused the Brains and Beauty remaining to turn on their respective Brawn members, sparing Ashley. Things got worse when Micaela found an advantage that placed her and Amina at the Brain's tribal council, where they aided the tribe in flushing Angel's idol, and voting out his closest Brawn ally, Martha.

At the merge, Ashley was able to reconcile differences between Angel and Santi...for a time. Angel's alliance, consisting of Jasmine, Sean, Jackson, and Wyatt, combined with Santi's alliance of Mukta, Daniel, and Ashley (double agent), leaving Mohit, Jess, Amina, and Micaela at the bottom. Mukta was in possession of both the Beauty and Brawn idols, while Sean and Jackson emerged as beautiful immunity beasts with idols in their pockets and allies up the wazoo. Jess & Mohit found themselves eliminated pre-jury, but a twist in the immunity challenge gave Angel the perfect shot to cast a sole vote on Santi, sending him to Redemption Rock. His allies needed to send him a weaker competitor to re-enter the game, so they chose Micaela, leaving Amina as the sole "Ice Spice Stan Club" member left. Santi won his way back, but he was in the minority numbers-wise, losing Wyatt when Ashley flipped to avoid a tie. Ashley found herself in a lot of hot water with both alliances for now being an exposed Double Agent. She was able to win safety during a new twist, along with Angel, Jasmine, Sean, and Jackson, leaving Daniel, Mukta, Amina, and Santi vulnerable. All 4 went into scramble mode, with 3 of them trying to throw Amina under the bus. While Daniel and Mukta's social games were earning them safety over Santi, they tried to push votes off of him, which, in turn, pushed the votes onto them. However, all plans were scrambled when Amina found a Secret Hidden Immunity Idol at Tribal Council and played it. This sparked Mukta to go into fight or flight, using one idol to save herself, and knowing that she had the sole choice which ally to eliminate, chose to give her second idol to Daniel, eliminating Santi as the only eligible person to receive votes, despite actually receiving 0 votes.

At the Final 8, Angel sat in the driver's seat, with Jasmine, Sean, and Jackson as passengers, Amina as a hitchiker, Ashley & Daniel were kicked off the trip, and Mukta were never invited. Sean and Jackson's tight alliance grew worrisome to rest of the cast, especially when a drunken Sean let it slip to Jasmine that both he and Jackson had idols on a reward. Despite this, Angel still wanted to trust his boys, and focus on eliminating Ashley. But when Amina joined Daniel, Mukta, and Ashley's car and tied the vote, Jasmine persuaded Angel to turn on Sean and let an idol back into the game. Unfortunately for them, Amina found the rehidden Moto Maji idol. Angel cut a deal with Jackson that if Jackson plays his idol on Angel this next round, him, Jackson, and Jasmine will find the new one and go to Final 3. However, the other alliance had different plans, and Jackson should've used his idol on himself, but went out a hero. Angel, without an idol and down in numbers, saw his torch almost get snuffed, being saved by the Safety Scroll from one of the 4 Magic Urns. While he was able to save himself, he couldn't save Jasmine from being voted out. Angel began to isolate himself, but Amina knew that she was the next one out after Angel, so they worked together to idol out Ashley and Angel beat Daniel in fire, leaving Mukta now once again on the bottom. Angel won final immunity and had his mind set on voting out Mukta, but she convinced him that Amina's journey was too much of a threat. Amina went to 8/11 pre-merge tribals, found multiple idols, had all of her allies taken out at the beginning of merge, but persevered, won immunities, and now can beat the Mafia Boss of the season. Whereas Mukta barely went to tribal, found idols because she had time to look for them, never strayed against her alliance, and didn't make any big moves. Total lie, but she needed to sell him on it, and it worked. Angel voted Amina out, sending him and Mukta to Day 50.

At Final Tribal, Angel was criticized of course for his treatment towards others, attitudes, negativity, and bullying, but commended the way he always ended up with power at the end of the day, and against every odd, made it to the end. Mukta was criticized as well for not playing more of a flexible game and not turning on her allies of her own volition, but was praised for her social game which allowed her to escape being the main target the majority of the time. Angel apologized for his actions, insisting that the power got to his head, but he did have moments in the game where he was building relationships, not destroying them. Mukta argued that she was flexible, working with Angel's group and Amina interchangeably, and didn't turn on her allies sooner because with the Santi vote, it was too early but it was forced, and for the other 2, she knew she had the best shot at beating Daniel in immunity and Ashley in FTC. When asked what their biggest moves were, Angel said that winning 2 firemaking challenges and sending home the biggest strategic duo of the season in Daniel & Santi was his, while Mukta said that choosing to give her 2nd idol to Daniel was hers, as it eliminated the chaotic quantity that is Santi, which took some heat off of her, as Angel and Ashley also had beef in addition to Daniel, and allowed her to jump into the Sean, Jackson, and Jasmine blindsides. In the end, Angel received the votes of his friends, but it was less than the amount of Mukta's friends on the jury, so she became Sole Survivor. Pretty girls with a smile

## Heroes v. Villains

### Twists

1-5 Original Tribes
1 Pandora's Urn
6 Vote to Swap
7 Double Tribal
8-9 Swapped or Original Tribes
8 Double Agent is given the option to switch back
10-13 Switched Tribes
maybe 3 tribes?? hehe (Rogues)
13 Mutiny
14 Post-Mutiny
15-20 Merged Tribe
21 Isolation Vote
22-25 Merged

### Alliances

1. ↑ Cooper used the Vavau idol on AJ, negating 2 votes against him.
2. ↑ Arvyn used the Aganoa idol on himself, negating 8 votes against him.
3. ↑ Nick B. used the Saanapu idol on himself, negating 4 votes against him.
4. ↑ AJ used the Exile Beach idol on Ethan, negating 3 votes against him.
5. ↑ Grace used the Fia Fia idol on Taylor, negating 1 vote against her.
6. ↑ Nick B. used the Vote Stopper advantage on Mason, blocking him from voting.
7. ↑ Bryson used the Asaga idol on himself, negating 4 votes against him.
8. ↑ Hunter used the Samatau idol on Madeleine, negating 3 votes against her.
9. ↑ Harley used Half of the Super Idol on himself, negating 4 votes against him.
10. ↑ Lexi used the Asatoa idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
11. ↑ Harley won the reward challenge on Day 47, which allowed him to remove a juror. He chose Jonah.
12. ↑ Vona used the Contenders idol on herself, negating 5 votes against her.
13. ↑ Marek used the Voting Urn Idol on Brock, negating 5 votes against him.
14. ↑ Rae used the Champions idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
15. ↑ Vona used the Contenders idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
16. ↑ Noah used the Koro Savu idol on himself, negating 4 votes against him.
17. ↑ Erin used the Vote Steal advantage on Noah, stealing his vote.
18. ↑ Keshawn used the Champions idol on himself, negating 2 votes.
19. ↑ Kayla used the Contenders Limited Idol on herself, but negated 0 votes.
20. ↑ Grace used the Contenders Idol on herself, negating 5 votes against her.
21. ↑ Kaitlyn used the Soli Bula Idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
22. ↑ Lauren used the Popcorn Machine Idol on herself, negating 5 votes against her.
23. ↑ Lauren used the Mystery Crate Idol on herself, negating 2 votes against her.
24. ↑ AJ used the Tribal Council Limited Idol on himself, negating 5 against himself.
25. ↑ Marek used the Vakama Idol on himself, negating 5 votes against himself.
26. ↑ Caroline used the Mokuta idol on herself, negating 5 votes against her.
27. ↑ Candace used the Tribal Halter which was transferred to her by Alanna from Vakama. Tribal Council was cancelled.
28. ↑ Harley used the Vakama Idol on himself, negating 3 votes against him.
29. ↑ Marek used the Vakama Idol on Harley, negating 6 votes against him.
30. ↑ Harley used the Kalokalo idol on Marek, but negated 0 votes against him.
31. ↑ Jacob used the Eda Bula Idol on himself, negating 4 votes against him.
32. ↑ Caroline used the Kalokalo Idol on herself, negating 4 votes against her.
33. ↑ Before the votes were revealed, Ben volunteered to participate in the Trial By Fire twist. After the votes could not be agreed.
34. ↑ Ben used the Eda Bula Idol on himself, negating 3 votes against him.
35. ↑ Candace used the Mokuta Idol on herself, negating 1 vote against her.
36. ↑ Angel, Ashley, Jackson, Jasmine, & Sean won immunity, and Amina, Daniel, & Mukta used hidden immunity idols, therefore leaving Santi as the only person eligible to receive votes, eliminating him.
37. ↑ Angel was voted out, but chose the Save Scroll from Urn 1, granting him safety.
38. ↑ Daniel used the Brain Idol on Santi, negating 4 votes against him.
39. ↑ Angel used the Brawn Idol on himself, negating 2 votes against him.
40. ↑ Micaela found an advantage, which allowed her and one other person from her tribe the ability to vote at the opposing tribe's tribal council. She selected Amina.
41. ↑ Amina used the Secret Hidden Immunity Idol on herself, negating 5 votes against her.
42. ↑ Mukta used the Beauty Idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
43. ↑ Mukta used the Brawn Idol on Daniel, negating 1 vote against him.
44. ↑ Jackson used the Brain Idol on Angel, negating 1 vote against him.
45. ↑ Amina used the Moto Maji Idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
46. ↑ Rishi used the Podium Idol on himself, negating 7 votes against him.
47. ↑ Madison used the Blood Idol on herself, negating 4 votes against her.
48. ↑ Abby used the Water Idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
49. ↑ Natalie used the Water Idol on Madison, negating 6 votes against her.
50. ↑ Hannah used the Water Idol on herself, negating 9 votes against her.
51. ↑ Ama used the Fire Idol on herself, negating 6 votes against her.
52. ↑ Barg used the Blood Idol on himself, negating 3 votes against him.
53. ↑ Barg used the Fire Idol on himself, negating 3 votes against him.
54. ↑ Hannah used the the combined Survivor Shop Idols after the votes had been read, negating 2 votes against her, and sending Caleb to the jury instead.
55. ↑ After the votes were cast, the Heroes tribe was given the Pandora's Urn Option: Read the votes and vote someone out OR conceal the votes and everyone survives the night. However, the they failed to agree unanimously, and Hannah was saved from elimination, though she didn't know.
56. ↑ Hannah used Jackson's transferred Limited Tribal Council Idol on herself, negating 7 votes against her.
57. ↑ Ben used the Villains idol on himself, negating 3 votes against him.
58. ↑ Annika used the Villains idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
59. ↑ Mukta used the Heroes idol on herself, but negated 0 votes.
60. ↑ Kaitlyn used the Rogues idol on herself, negating 3 votes against her.
61. ↑ Annika used the Spa Day Idol on Ben, negating 7 votes against him.
62. ↑ Kaitlyn used the Rogues Idol on Annika, negating 2 votes against her.
63. ↑ Parker used the Vigilantes idol on Angel, but negated 0 votes.
64. ↑ Mukta used the Heroes Idol on Kaitlyn, negating 2 votes against her.