Big Money No Whammies

*Big Money No Whammies* is the first episode of *Survivor: Heroes vs Villains*.

* Gameplay
* Confessionals

## Challenges

**Reward/Immunity Challenge:** Scavenger Hunt Advanced

Winner: Renhet

## Day 1

Wow it feels so freeing to say that. 16 seasons later, and I'm more rejuvenated to really set a tone for these bunch of newbies. From like the Heroes and Villains combined, I have hosted like a good 10% of the entire cast- so which is like a leg up for me because most of these people don't know how I play and I'm pretty sure that they will like just think that I'm there. Like fucking Jerri Manthey. I PRAY to godt that I'm the Jerri Manthey of this Villains tribe because I want people to count on me to vote with them and I will not be a threat whatsoever!
Anyway, I'll make like an official cast thoughts in a video later! xoxo

I'm going to give like first, first impressions of EVERYONE, and then I'll go more in depth with everything tomorrow.
Martynas - idk him! :O From what I've seen, seems nice!!
Liam - I LITERALLY love him and I hope we both make merge because I'm ready to drop everything for this king. One of my besties in this community.. truly love him...
Brian L. - Doesn't stan Ariana Grande, but we'll make it work.
Jason - I've only heard good things and seen good things, so WOO!
Sam - I hate str8 men usually and have DRAGGED him many times in VLs, but so far, amazing !!!
Chris - He seems nice so far!
Tom - idk him AT ALL.
Dwayne - KING n I havent played together in years, but Im ready to stan...
JP - I dont know much about him, but I was on call with Cammy, him and Anna and he seems FUNNY!
Shea - legend... I hope the 2 of us are able to work tg!!! Always full of interesting tea and stories, so Im sure we wont be super dkajshdsa...
Miguel - idrk Miguel! only seen him win a lot kJHFASJK
Anita - Idk! I feel like theres potential for us to work tg post-Minshan era, but maybe she hates me from that jkHDFAS...
Toby - A true king i love. Hope to get to play the game with him!!
Marco - idk him!
Sharky - My husband... <3 - <3 love him sm wow
Drew - My twin and truly going to be a lifeline for me in this game bc he kinda balances out...
Gevonte - LEGend!! im excited to get to know him since ive only seen him around!!
Louise - LOUISE and I have never worked together, but I hope this is our game... because if not YIKES DKJASHDS :((( shes so cute n stans ariana like i want us 2 slay..
Hunter - love this legend 2... havent talked to him jussss love him.
That's it for today!! But I promise a lot more from my twink ass tomorrow MWAH!

I’ve never met Tom, JP or Liam 2.0 before. I even heard that JP didn’t submit an app for the season either so part of me was like, why are you even here? Not trying to be mean but that was my first thought. And Gevonte, I’ve seen around the ORG community for ages but we’ve just never made it onto a season together, or we have but never met each other in the game, so this is our first time playing on the same tribe. I still don’t fully know what to make of this tribe yet so far but I think there are a few people I could try getting an alliance going with soon and hopefully that will keep me safe until the merge. Speaking of, I was a little disappointed to hear there would be no tribe swaps, although it’s not altogether unexpected. That worries me because I like to count on tribe swaps to shake the game up because being stuck with the same group of people for too long, my luck could eventually run out. But I guess, on the other hand, it's also a good thing because looking at the Villains tribe...I don't think I know a single one of them. I might have played with Drew before but honestly I barely remember him. Everyone else is a complete mystery to me so...maybe it's better to stick with the Heroes for now.

No but this cast is actually really cool and REALLY STACKED. Like damn, Canadienne got some good people here. I think the scariest part is having six different people I hosted in the game with me...I never really realized the huge fear of meta gaming until now...oh god.
So I have all my Japan and Chile people with me on the Heroes tribe. Toby, Louise, Martynas, all cool, all people I love, but I know I can't just work with them, that's too obvious. So let's look at the other people.
Miguel is interesting because I haven't seen him around that much. I don't know what his deal is. Same with Tom and Marco, they seems like swell guys but again I don't know their deal. So that'll stop me from meta gaming with all of them which is probably a good thing.
Playing with Gevonte again while I'm already playing Genius with him SO THAT'S HAPPENING.
Speaking of playing with people again, reuniting with Liam after playing Main Survivor ORG together makes me so happy. Our time together was cut short and I thought we could have done some damage.
Finally, JP. He intimidates me. He's won Canadienne, he's also a part of the "703 unanimous win club" with me, it's just that he knows what he is doing. And I'm not gonna target him for past games, but I absolutely should keep an eye on him because he's gotta be doing something right if he keeps winning.
Speaking on the no swaps thing, I think this is a good and bad thing. On one hand, stronger bonds. On the other, if we go into merge with a minority, we might just be pagong'd and I hate that feeling. I think I could wiggle my way into cracks, since I have three of my Nunavut babies on the other side, but again, they're villains. They're on that tribe for a reason, and it's to be backstabbers or liars or just straight up assholes. I'd wanna give them a chance but that would be playing with a bonfire.
We'll have to see, I hope I can make merge and not be a "fuck you" position, but only time will tell.

This tribe is interesting because it's a lot of people I didn't expect to see. Like I haven't really seen Martynas or Marco play an ORG in a long while, Jp returning to a wiki org is something of a surprise, Hunter I'd have never thought would play two at once, etc. So it's definitely a surprising kind of Heroes tribe to be put on, but I'm unsure as of yet whether it's a pleasant or unpleasant surprise, because I feel like I'm on the outer orbit of this tribe rather than a core member, just based on how the pregame relationships are laid out. It'll be intriguing to see how this tribe develops, and I'll do my level best to try and socially position myself well, but given the...lack of social game success I've had thus far, I'm not super excited.

## Day 2

If we go to Tribal Council, I think Tom would be the easy target because everyone I’ve spoken to says that he’s the quietest person on the tribe. But honestly, the person I want to target first is Louise. This is a HvV season so why shouldn’t we take out a big threat first? Why go for the easy vote? When we get to the merge, I don’t want to be playing with Louise because she’s a very good social player and she would be a threat down the road. I don’t need to keep a player in the game who’s a threat and not on my side. Also, I saw how she won BB3, so there’s no debate about whether or not she’s good at the game; plus, she’s one of two Heroes who have been on two seasons of Survivor before, next to Gevonte, whereas the rest of us are only on our second chance. So part of me feels that...she’s already had her second chance, she doesn’t need a third chance as much as the rest of us need our second.

Sharky - I kinda love Sharky and everything he's about. We played together in Celestial, and I had so much fun with him. We did the damn thing in that game, and I hope we're able to do it again. I trust him completely, but of course, I still have my own game to worry about aside from him!
Drew - Drew is my twinnie, and although we didn't work together super duper well in Singapore, I hope to change that here and do the damn thing together. I think it's very, very possible for us to slay this game, but I will be on the watch the farther we go.
Sam - Surprisingly, I'd consider Sam as my #3 right now. I came into this thinking nothing super amazing about him, but I've slowly come to really enjoy talking to him. He just better understand that he can't manipulate him because I have more than 3 braincells hehe...
Shea / Dwayne - Shea and Dwayne are kinda on the same level here. I enjoy talking to them both so much, and I really think we'll work well together, but I don't trust them as much as I trust any of the people above them right now! All could change, but this is currently my thought process.
Jason - I like Jason, and I think we could work together, but his conversation skills are very dry for me, and I think I've only scratched the surface. It'll be interesting to see if he flips the script come voting time.
Anita - I like Anita, but I feel like she kinda ... stunts the conversations we have. It's nothing too bad, but it sure doesn't make me wanna work with her over anyone above her right now, even if we did, at one point, play together.
Chris - Everyone seems to have the same issue with him in that he just... isn't social. I don't know what's up with that, but whew!! I do know a bit about him from our short convo, but it isn't anything game related... so we'll see if he opens up more soon.
SO yes! First long confessional down, and I hope many more to come.

Toby: we all seem to be really interested in being loyal and that’s awesome.
Me: I agree, I'm happy about this group, I can totally see us going far together, and definitely more calm to have this alliance on the hero tribe and not with the villains haha
Toby: Absolutely, heroes are the far better tribe to be on, we take things calmer and won’t be betraying our alliances for no reason LMAO
We agreed on United Nations as we're pretty international ourselves and we leave to the beach before anyone noticed. Marty took me to the side and said:
Martynas: "How do you feel about the group?"
Me: I love it!
Martynas: Happy to hear that 🙂 aren't this exact the same people we talked about yesterday?
Me: Yeah, this is great for us.
Then I stole the rest of the banana he had left...
Overall I like this group I feel really confident, I can also tell now that Toby is in a great position of the game, not only he has this international alliance with us but also lets not forget he's from England and might as well have a close relationship with Liam Louise and JP so Im gonna have to keep an eye on him and make sure im on his good side. Lets see what happens now, the game is afoot!

Eh...
Despite of that, i am in alliance! And it looks like an amazing group! Me, Miguel, Toby, Marco and Hunter! All good dudes... the worst part... kther 5 are also amazing people and whenever we have to vote anyone out - will be difficult...

Martynas calls me up, and is like "Yo have you talked to Marco or Miguel a bit?"
At this point, I had gotten along decently with Marco, and Miguel, while I hadn't chatted with him much, seemed chill.
Me: Yeah why?
Martynas: They wanna make a five man alliance
Okay we're moving fast apparently XD
So now I'm in an alliance with Miguel, Marco, Martynas and Toby. I got the three Ms and the fucking know-it-all (I love you Toby), called the United Nations cause we're all around the globe.
I must say, I'm happy to be part of a quick alliance but I'm a little apprehensive on how fast it moved. I'm hoping there's more time for me to get to know these guys before I have to talk serious game with them.
But so far, things are looking better for me :)

Gevonte - Hosted him a couple of times but so far he's not really been that talkative to me, so idk where we stand as of right now...
Hunter - My guy! We worked together in Caribbean and I'm hoping we can do it here again. We could've been so much tighter in Caribbean if I wasn't swap fucked, so I believe that we're on good terms and we could really work well again together!
Jp - God, a mixed bag here. I love Jp and we get on so well outside of the game but I'm so worried that us being the Final 2 of Tibet will end up causing discomfort with other players, but it was a year ago, so I don't know how people may be feeling about us being on the same tribe. I'm keeping all nicey-nice with him for now but I think I'm gonna have to cut him at some stage - I just hope I can before he cuts me or I get the boot for being "aligned" with him...
Louise - I frickin love this woman she's so funny to talk to and I feel like she gets my British-isms the most out of this tribe. We played together once before but it didn't really lead to us working together and I think I actually voted her out at the merge, but there doesn't appear to be any bad blood? I don't know if she even remembers it or knows I was the Liam from that game, but regardless, I hope we can work together here.
Marco - He's pretty cool! One of the players I had no idea of who they were coming into this game - we actually have a lot of common ground, he's in the military and I have a military background, he studied the same degree as me, so yeah that's pretty cool!
Martynas - The only other person on my tribe I didn't know coming into this game. He's pretty cool but apparently he overplays socially according to Toby so uh, I'm keeping him at arm's length a bit when it comes to trust. Sorry!
Miguel - This dude is so much fun to talk to. We aligned together on Great Plains and I'm hoping we can come together again here because he's a pretty cool dude and I'm loving getting to know him all over again.
Toby - I didn't expect this at all, and in complete honesty I'm nervous as fuck playing with him. He's hosted me in all of my previous "Big 3" seasons so he probably knows my play style amazingly, which is so worrying. For now I'm playing it all nicey-nice with him especially because I need him to trust me, and I believe he does for now. He's been pretty open with me thus far and we've briefly talked game so that's reassuring to me that he trusts me. But I'm definitely not going to be able to trust him 100% which is annoying, cause we get on so well outside of the game, and I've never had to play with him before. I'm probably always gonna have that doubt in my mind that he'll see what I'm doing and vote me off early, so hopefully I can avoid that...
Tom - He's pretty cool! I just finished hosting him in Timbuktu so maybe we can work together well here? Who knows!
As for the other tribe, Jesus...First we have Sam who I backstabbed about two weeks ago in Comoros, but we made up after the game ended and I think we're good now. At the first chance I get to talk to him though, I'm gonna tell him that we should keep pretending that we're mad at each other after that game - it's the perception everyone else has as far as I know, and I think that could mean we could be a very undercover duo going into the merge, which excites me hehe.
Secondly, Anita. She was a rude bitch to me in confessionals so I really can't wait to fucking boot her arse off of this season, and I will be doing it as soon as we merge if she somehow makes it that far. Hope you enjoy reading this when the episode goes live girl x.
But otherwise, we should be good! KING BRIAN R IS IN THIS SEASON AND I CAN'T WAIT TO FINALLY PLAY WITH MY GUY!! Jason and Sharky will be so much fun to talk to again too!
All in all, I'm optimistic! Just hope I can get on the right side of these numbers premerge and we should be set hehe

## Day 3

I was also thinking we should search for the idol as an alliance, so if one of us finds it, we can use the idol for our alliance or even for the whole Heroes tribe to protect us if we end up going against the Villains at the merge and need it.

Sam and both Brians are lovely, Sofi concerns me as she won't want to work with me, Drew is.... concerning but nice, I like Sharky, everyone else is pretty okay.
I think the troubling thing is that I was the worst in the challenge by far. It's never good for your first impression to be the worst impression. I'm mad at myself for after 2 years of waiting fucking up the first challenge.
I definitely think there's a good chance I could be leaving. I can feel it, I'm such an easy boot right now because of how bad I did. I'd be really disappointed in myself if i left first but it is what it is. i can try to be social but idk if they're gonna keep me after that.

Basically, from what I gathered, a combination of Shea and Brian L kinda spread Christian as being socially inactive, and people kinda just are in agreeance, so that’s FINE for me! I liked him from the conversation we did have, but it wasn’t worthwhile enough for me to like fall in love with him.
Sam, Sharky, and Drew are my babies, and I love them a whole ass lot so WOO-AH!! Can’t wait to slay this game with them.

But like the person leaving was apparently my doing. Though, I never intended for it to be, Shea- who thought was in trouble, ran around and said it was Christian, after talking to me about like conversations. And now with the clock winding down, its becoming more solidified. So I will gladly take my credit for making this move tonight. Should've been more active bruh.

This is partially funny and partially scary. I worked hard in that immunity challenge to get us as many points as we could. Like, I ran into four different stores to get different items for the challenge! I was committed dang it!
And we won...and I got the most points out of everyone. Not the tribe, EVERYONE!
So here we go again, just like Russia I'm trying hard from the get go and might make myself seem like a big challenge threat.
I don't why this makes me laugh but it's like "HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING???" to myself

I have three people I've hosted before on this tribe with me: Louise, Martynas and Toby.
I've played with Liam before.
I'm currently playing with Gevonte in another game and have gotten along well with him
Yet who do I feel like I get along the most with.
MARCO! I don't understand it but he's just...there's something about him that I like and I want to talk to him more and get to know him more and just...wow there's always room for new relationships but I just didn't expect this.
Not complaining though...Marco is actually pretty cool :)

Winning the first challenge was great, I think it sorted us into some quite neat strata, and I'm happy where I am - not the biggest contributor and threat, but I definitely pulled my weight. Hopefully some more wins can come our way, because, should the United Nations alliance, as the five of us christened ourselves, stay intact and loyal, that's essentially 5 safe Tribal Councils. Which is so, so tempting that I'm willing to overlook how awfully convenient this alliance's formation was. Almost.