Season 8: All Stars (Snapvivor)

## Snapvivor 8

Hollywood

Fruit Salad

The ***8th*** season of **Snapvivor** premiered on *January 29, 2023,* where eighteen returning Castaways entered the game. The season lasted approximately two weeks. At the finale, taking place on *February 9, 2023,* Chad won in a **4-3-1** vote against Paisley and Jack, making him the Winner of **Season 8: All Stars**. This season marked Chad's second win, making him the **first two-time Winner** in the Snapvivor series.

The ***All Stars*** *twist* introduced three new Advantages: *Steal a Vote*, *Idol Nullifier*, and *Knowledge is Power*. Additionally, unlike the previous seasons, when an Idol is used or leaves the game, it would be re-hidden. However, advantages would not be re-hidden. As usual, all Idols and Advantages expire at Final 5. The remainder of the season followed the traditional Snapvivor format.

## Castaways

 **Winner**

 **1st Runner-up**

 **2nd Runner-up: *Chad***

 **4th: *Chad***

 **5th: *Jack***

 **6th: *Chad***

 **7th: *Chad***

 **8th: *Paisley***

 **9th: *Paisley***

 **10th: *Paisley***

 **11th**

 **12th**

 **13th**

 **14th**

 **15th**

 **16th**

 **17th**

 **18th**

## Voting History

* *On Night 1, Benjy found the Nashville Idol.*

* *On Night 1, Chad found the Hollywood Idol.*

* *On Night 1, Jack found the Steal a Vote advantage.*

* *On Night 2, Ashley H. found the Idol Nullifier.*

* *On Night 3, there was a Tribe Swap.*

* *On Night 3, Mitch found the Knowledge is Power advantage.*

* *On Night 4, the Tribes Merged.*

* *On Night 4, Jack found the Fruit Salad Idol.*

* *On Night 4, Benjy misplayed the Nashville Idol on Nikole, negating 1 vote.*

* *On Night 4, Jack successfully played the Steal a Vote advantage on Nikole.*

* *On Night 5, Chad found the re-hidden Nashville Idol.*

* *On Night 7 (Part 1), Jack misplayed the Fruit Salad Idol on himself, negating 0 votes.*

* *On Night 7 (Part 1), there was a Re-Vote due to a tie.*

* *On Night 8, Chad found the re-hidden Fruit Salad Idol.*

* *On Night 8, Mitch misplayed the Knowledge is Power advantage on Jack.*

* *On Night 8, Chad misplayed the Hollywood Idol on Paisley, negating 2 votes.*

* *On Night 8, Chad misplayed the Nashville Idol on Jack, negating 2 votes.*

* *On Night 9, Chad found the re-hidden Hollywood Idol*.

* *On Night 9, Chad misplayed the Fruit Salad Idol on himself, negating 0 votes.*

* *On Night 9, Chad misplayed the Hollywood Idol on Jack, negating 0 votes.*

* *On Night 10, there was a Re-Vote due to a tie.*

* *At the Final Tribal Council, Jack voted Chad to win, breaking the tie.*

## Castaway Analyses

### Winner: Chad

"You had so many people suckling at your teet this season. Sometimes they would even look up at you with their beady little eyes and ask “please daddy May I have some more milk?” You’d nod your head and let them latch on while you ease the knife into their unexpected backs. You really played a game worth 2 wins. You pretty much led every vote out once we hit merge. Yeah others definitely had say like on the Benjy and Peanut vote but we all know it had to pass the Chad seal of approval. You led your 6 person alliance all the way to Top 7 taking out all the potential threats like Benjy, Nikole, and Emmet. Even at Final 7 the cards were stacked against you but 4 fucking Idols definitely helped in that sense. If there was ANY flaw and I’m really nitpicking here is letting Paisley get to the end with some locked in jury votes. Obviously you still won after Jack broke the tie, but I do think sitting next to Sean and Jack might render the same outcome with no tie vote needed. Still you really dominated this game from knowing where every advantage was and either eliminating them (Sorry Ashley H) or tricking them to use it wrongly (Sorry Mitch) to even doing your little voting tricks to force a tie to ensure every possible outcome you wanted occurred. This wasn’t a good game or even a great one, it was something that belongs in a text book on how to win these games. Fantastic job my friend."

### 1st Runner-up: Paisley

"You were the last one standing from the opposite side of the game. You were viewed as the drag and the extra vote to bring along by the 6 person alliance when they wanted to shoot at each other. What they didn’t really see is your jury votes lining up for on the jury when your friends went out one by one. Teaming up with Chad and Jack during that time was smart and even choosing Peanut to go first was smart for you. I do think teaming up with Sean at final 5 to take out Chad would have been the ultimate resume move for you and maybe gain an extra vote at the end because of it. Obviously that vote mattered since it came down to a tie vote that Jack broke. I do think one defining move against Chad could have won you this game."

### 2nd Runner-up: Jack

"You played a decent game for sure. You definitely are maturing in your game style and you have a good head on your shoulders. I do think you were more Chad’s #2 and it was hard to see any moves you made yourself without Chad. I do think flipping the vote onto Sean would have been a huge move along with keeping Nikole safe who will become a strong allie for yourself. You did troll a lot like the pretending to flip and keep Nikole safe. That wasn’t necessarily needed and made the jury sour. Still you played a decent game but there is still a good chunk of room for improvement."

### 4th: Sean

"You previous Snapvivor season you flipped a lot and you couldn’t be trusted. This season others flipped on you and you couldn’t trust anyone. You had a solid alliance on the Nashville tribe that got flipped on early in the season. Then come merge you flipped to team Chad. Sadly you were on the bottom of that alliance and were the most expendable (almost so during the Nikole vote). Even once the 6 person wanted to break up neither side claimed you right away and you just joined the anti Chad side. I do think you were stuck between a rock in a hard place since everyone showed you that at some point you couldn’t trust them. You fought hard towards the end but came up one fire making challenge short. Always entertaining and a pleasure to have you in the season to watch you fight every night. You are my favorite player of the season."

### 5th: Zaire

"You flipped a lot and sometimes you were a little messy where some people lost trust. You had a lot of good reads but you just didn’t act soon enough on them. At least you were smart enough to tell Mitch to play the KIP on Chad but it was still little too late. Once Peanut and Mitch left you were kinda on your own. If you coordinated with Sean on the Final 5 vote you could have made it to the top 4 and had a shot to win. Sadly your game just fell apart at the end but still another strong outing."

### 6th: Mitch

"You waited a round or two too long to make a move. You had this ability that could take anyone’s idol or advantage. You could have taken Ashley H’s advantage to stop a future idol play or tried to take one of Chad’s idols. Chad told Jack to act like he was getting the idols knowing you’d try to take one. You should have gone for the more sure thing in taking Chad’s idol since you know for a fact he had one where Jack used his early on and him saying he got others was just a smoke screen. You played a good game that just waited too long to make a move."

### 7th: Peanut

"Your own loyalty and inability to flip earlier cost you the game. Mitch, Zaire, Sean, and yourself came together in order to get rid of the Chad/Jack pare. This was a round too late since Chad had all the idols. Plus with you guys splitting your votes when Chad and Jack picking up Paisley to be their drag wasn’t very wise. You were just picked to go since the boys let Paisley pick who went and you were good at comps and had the worst connection to her."

### 8th: Ashley B.

"This would have been the perfect time for a Mitch/Peanut flip to take out someone like Jack or Chad. Sadly the grip on Chad’s balls this season was too tight and they decided to have the easy vote instead to just survive the double and worry about what’s to come the next night. You were the last player that didn’t really conform to Chad’s will so you had to go."

### 9th: Nikole

"You were the last figure head on the opposite side of the game once Benjy, Ashley H, and Emmet was gone. You were simply too good to keep around. I do believe your vote was definitely interesting and if others took the opportunity to flip then you could have gotten far. Sadly I do think this was part revenge for Kevin and part scared of flipping too early for others."

### 10th: Emmet

"You were a comp threat on the other side of the game that was willing to vote Chad out, and in this game anyone who was willing to vote out Chad had to go. It was just simply the rules of the season. Also not being incredibly active did hurt but nonetheless your comp ability was your biggest scare to others."

### 11th: Ashley H.

"You were able to earn an idol Nullifier and you told people you shouldn’t have (aka Zaire) she ran to tell her group of Sean, Peanut, Mitch, Jack, and Chad. You were the only person on the opposite side of the game with a power so they pushed for you to go. Honestly this was a Chad move to ensure Mitch didn’t use his K.I.P. To steal that from you and eventually use it against him."

### 12th: Benjy

"Chad and friends saw you has a big social threat on the other side of the game. They came up with a plan to float around every other name besides yours and to even steal Nikole’s vote just to make you feel safe. This worked since you played your idol on Nikole when the smarter thing was to idol yourself. Don’t be too hard on yourself since your name was never once leaked from that group and with the information available to you you did the right thing. Just a complete blindside done right by others."

### 13th: Kevin

"Once the others flipped on you the night previously on the Jayla vote, they felt that the bridge was already burnt. They felt that getting rid of you made the most sense since the element of trust was depleted."

### 14th: Isabella

"You weren’t super social this game and you were going to eventually target Chad and this is the start of the point in the game where everyone had his balls in their palms. You weren’t ever going to submit to that so you had to go."

### 15th: Jayla

"Nikole and friends did not trust Kevin in the long term of this game and with how openly close you two were they decided to go after you in order to weaken Kevin. Also telling others you don’t trust others didn’t help."

### 16th: Juan

"You didn’t vote with the majority the night previous which made you an easy pick off."

### 17th: Keith

"Players saw you as a threat due to previous games. Along with throwing out names night one made you a target."

### 18th: Owen

"You came out swinging strong pushing Isabella as the first person to go. Most people did agree but Isabella was able to swing the vote with the help of others on her tribe to keep her safe for the vote and to eliminate you."

## Statistics

 **#2** | Emmet
 **#3** | Isabella
 **#4** | BenjyPeanut
 **#6** | Owen
 **#7** | Jack *(2 Negated)*JaylaSeanZaire
 **#8** | Mitch
 **#9** | Chad *(0 Negated)*Kevin