Season 3 (Love Desert)

The Season 3 Cast.

Princess Peach

Dahlia Xppensef

Seink Hoele

Kleo Konja

Cierra Sinclair

**Love Desert Season 3** is an unrecorded season that started around the **20th of August 2020**. It is the only completed season to not hold a finale, but a winning couple was decided by the story vote and announced on the **3rd of September 2020**. The crowned winners of this season are Codianna Mckenna and Luigi Mushroom, and eliminated contestant Nikolas Notorso was given the judge-favourite award. This season, alongside seasons 1 and 2, were not filmed, and therefore the history isn't well-documented.

The cast contains many sims originally planned to compete on Season 2, as said season was cancelled after its first episode.

Only 9/25 of the contestants were created after Season 2's cancellation, those 9 being: Cierra, Seink, Nikolas, Kinsley, Fatima, Ernest, Lorelei, Stella and Mariela.

This season is best known for its cast of "joke characters". Many creations took inspiration from Season 1's Papa Mario, with on-the-nose names based on puns, personalities and jokes. Papa's brother, Luigi Mushroom, is a shining example of a joke name.

Season 1's Xander Barton and Max Lockett were brought back to compete on this season, after they were both previously planned to return to Season 2.

After this season, four Season 3 contestants were brought back to compete on the recorded spin-off, All-Stars 1: Seink Hoele, Bella Vu, Dahlia Xppensef and Kleo Konja. Bella won the All-Stars 1 crown in a couple with Season 1 superstar Mariah.

After All-Stars aired, three Season 3 contestants were brought back to compete on Season 4 of Love Desert: Howl Hatter, Stella Ware and Lorelei Brady. Their performances on the season were mid.

Another two Season 3 contestants returned to compete on Season 5 of Love Desert: Mariela Meehan and Kinsley Ivy. Furthermore, Howl Hatter returned again this season. None of them did particularly well.

Two Season 3 contestants returned to compete on All-Stars 2, being Princess Peach and Howl. Peach reached the top 2 couples at the finale, nearly winning the season as part of a throuple. Howl impregnated Season 5's Ellie on episode 7 after entering as a bombshell, but did not do very well in the competition after that point.

Season 3 and 5 contestant Kinsley was later again brought back, this time to compete on Season 6. She made it to the semi-final in a strong couple.

Season 3 semi-finalist Zack Garza was considered for All-Stars 1, to the point where he had every runway look prepared, but he was cut during late casting. Stella Ware and Cierra Sinclair also had some looks prepared to potentially compete, though they were cut earlier in casting process.

A new villa was constructed for this season, and remained in use all the way until a new villa was introduced on Season 8.

This season was mostly cast with sims created by Jude (9 sims, 1 of which being a collab with Hannah), while Hannah created 4 (collab inclusive), Ruoxi created 8, Holly created 2 and Euan made his creator debut with Seink Hoele. As previously mentioned, the majority of these creations were intended to compete on Season 2.

## Format

Similar to most modern seasons, Season 3 used a set elimination structure every episode. This time, however, the contestants were judged entirely as couples, with no individual elimination round, and contestants were eliminated if they failed to find a partner.

* At the end of each episode, the contestants choose who they want to couple up with. The recoupling occurs according to each sim's decisions, typically based on each sim's top 3 choices.
* If there is an odd number of sims, the sim who isn't chosen by any of the contestants is eliminated.
* The judges then vote with their personal opinion, listing the current couples from best to worst.
* The voting round is considered the elimination round. The couple with the least votes is eliminated as a pair. After the first elimination round where only one couple was eliminated, every elimination got rid of 2 whole couples (4 individuals).

This system is fairly different to All-Stars and Season 4's system, as the judges never voted individuals this season during bottom placements, and didn't allow contestants to compete without a partner.

This format led to the infamous elimination of Shaw Alves, the only contestant to never compete in a voting round due to his elimination as a bombshell for being alone at his first recoupling.

## Contestants

### Episode 1 Cast

These 12 contestants entered at the beginning of the season, one of which being Season 1 returnee Xander:

Amy ZingBella VuBreanna MasonCodianna MckennaDahlia XppensefErnest ShopboyKash MoneyKinsley IvyLuigi MushroomNikolas NotorsoWaldemar GoncalvesXander Barton (Season 1 Return)Of the contestants above: Bella, Kash, Dahlia, Waldemar all competed on Season 2's first episode and were re-cast for this season.

### Episode 2 Bombshells

These 5 newcomer bombshells entered the villa on episode 2.

Cierra SinclairKleo KonjaPrincess PeachShaw AlvesZack Garza4 contestants above, all but Cierra, competed on Season 2's first episode before being re-cast for this season.

### Episode 3 Bombshells

3 new contestants entered the villa on episode 3. Kleo was also brought back to the competition following his elimination last episode, plus Max returned from Season 1 to compete.

Ailee LockettHowl HatterStella WareKleo Konja (Returning)Max Lockett (Season 1 Return)
### Episode 4 Bombshells

4 new contestants entered the villa on episode 4, as the final group of bombshells. On top of that, Max returned to the competition following last episode's elimination:

Fatima GoldLorelei BradyMariela MeehanSeink HoeleMax Lockett (Returning)
## Placements

 **BOTTOM ASSASSIN**
**(Most bottom**
**placements survived)**

### Results

The contestants coupled up each episode, and were voted as follows:

\*Episode 1's couples were chosen at random, and given a date each to show their compatibility (or lack thereof).

### Milestones Set by Season 3 Contestants

Codianna was the first contestant to win 4 voting rounds in a season (finale inclusive). She won every voting round consecutively from episode 3 to the finale.

Bella has the most mini-challenge wins in a single season, with 3. She later won 2 more mini-challenges on All-Stars, showing that she's quite talented.

Shaw and Breanna are the only non-finalists to get eliminated without ever placing in the bottom, due to the format of this season.

## Episodes

### Episode 1

 MINI-WIN
 ELIMINATED (1 COUPLE)

### Episode 2

 MINI-WIN
Xander Barton + Kleo Konja
 ELIMINATED (2 COUPLES)
 ELIMINATED (DE-COUPLED)

### Episode 3

 MINI-WIN
 BOTTOM 4 COUPLES
Ailee Lockett + Dahlia Xppensef
Howl Hatter + Cierra Sinclair
 ELIMINATED (1 COUPLE)

### Episode 4

Mariela Meehan + Fatima Gold
 ELIMINATED (2 COUPLES)
 ELIMINATED (DE-COUPLED)

### Episode 5

 MINI-WIN (TIE)
 VOTE WIN
Princess Peach + Zack Garza
 ELIMINATED (2 COUPLES)
**Nikolas Notorso + Ailee Lockett**

### Episode 6 (Finale)

 4TH PLACE
 3RD PLACE
 2ND PLACE
 1ST PLACE, THE WINNERS OF SEASON 3

## Winners

The crowned couple of Season 3, Codianna and Luigi, were together from the beginning to the finale, save for one recoupling where Lorelei got with Luigi, and Codi got with Nikolas. They were middling at the beginning, but then rose to the top, getting 2 judge-vote wins together before the finale, and an audience-vote win at the finale, where the judges didn't vote on the couples, earning them the crown.

They were highly regarded by a couple of judges, but underestimated by the rest, namely their own creator. With such big names as Bella Vu and Dahlia Xppensef going up against them, they had some tough competition to overcome.

They are married now, as a happy couple living in Mirage Park, Del Sol Valley. Their marriage has evidently been thriving.

Luigi often makes appearances on recorded seasons as the resident pianist for some of the dates. Codianna makes a regular appearance at every finale alongside Luigi. The two of them have also made appearances as guest judges on Season 5 and Season 6.

## Trivia

* This is the first season to exclusively eliminate contestants as couples, rather than vote on them individually when they're in the bottom.
* This is the first season to eliminate contestants outside of a voting round, as being alone at a recoupling led to the elimination of 3 contestants during the season.
	+ The above two rules were later used during Seasons 5 and 6.