CreatORG: Ukiyo

***CreatORG: Ukiyo*** is the sixth season of *CreatORG*.
Ukiyo began as CreatORG's more promising seasons, with a never before done twist featuring vote powers attempting to influence the meta of playstyle. This twist however fell apart, and soon did the morale of the season as the premerge was riddled with high emotions and painful repeat tribal councils for many. The dominant swap tribe, Soru managed to make the merge with all six of their members and quickly assimilated majority over the rest of the cast. Though losing two of it's members in the early merge, the remaining four where able to make it all the way to the end together. The season was concluded when Trilly won the title of Sole Survivor over Michael and Bas in a 5-4-1 vote.

## Twists/Changes

* **Hidden Immunity Idol**: An advantage hidden in the game that allows the holder to play it for themselves or another player to nullify any votes cast for them.
* **Vote Powers**: Regarded as the most complicated twist in CreatORG history, voting powers was CreatORG's first ever full season twist. Though the effective power of these votes remained the same, counting as only one vote - different advantages could be applied to one power or the other. Players were required to select between two different voting parchments, Kuro (black) or Shiro (white). Advantages existed in the game to effect these two different voting parchments. This season was regarded as unsuccessful in drastically impacting how the season played out, it's effectiveness only occurred after the tribes had merged. Players struggled with how to collaborate or make use of these powers strategically, thus the twist did not garner much use. The advantage designed to interact with the twist were as follows:
	+ **Nightmare Power**: Changes all of the votes that night to Kuro power, blocks two players votes.
	+ **Dream Power**: Changes all of the votes that night to Shiro power, grants two players individual immunity.
	+ **Kuro/Shiro Idol**: Blocks all Kuro/Shiro votes of the specific idol type respectively.
	+ **Kuro/Shiro Shroud**: Converts three target votes to the opposite vote power.
	+ **Jade Necklace**: Power to convert the effective vote power of your parchment live after the votes have been cast.
	+ **Vote Block**: Power that requires you to guess your targets vote power, if you guess correctly their vote will be blocked at the tribal council.
* **Tribal Cycles**: A balance mechanic twist meant to help in the instance of two opposite vote power advantages conflicting at a tribal council, every cycle alternated between Kuro and Shiro favor. On nights where Kuro was favored, any Kuro shrouds would have been prioritized over Shiro shrouds, vice versa for nights with Shiro favor. Alongside the Vote Powers twist, this was seen as highly unimpactful on the season and due to the nature of it being unable to be explained to the players, it was not received with any strategy.
* **Spirit Lotus**: On Day 9 the Spirit Lotus power was introduced to the game, it was announced for the next three cycles there would be an anonymous individual challenge you could participate in for partial safety. The challenge was Semantris, and the top highest scorer for each round would receive the Spirit Lotus which had the potential to block up to two votes at the next tribal council they attend. The owner has the power to select what type of votes to block (2 Kuro, 2 Shiro, or 1 Kuro and Shiro). The three winners of this challenge in order were, Aidan, Tr3y, and Blake.
* **Tribe Swap**: For the first time in CreatORG history, an expansion tribe, Soru, was introduced into the game, shuffling the remaining players into tribes of six on Day 8.

## Castaways

### Future Appearances

* *Cyberscape*: Adam M., Aidan J., and Bas
* *Ascension*: Katie and M00n
* *Manga no Sekai*: Blake and Hannah C.
* *Neon White*: M00n, Michael, and Salted

## Trivia

* *Ukiyo* has the shortest preseason to date, having only 25 days between the reunion of the previous season and the cast reveal. *Pokémon Valley* and *Ascension* follows right behind, each having a 26-day preseason.
* The hosting team for *Ukiyo* features all five previous winners.
* *Ukiyo* features the largest sized original tribes, with 11 members each.
	+ *Ukiyo* is also the second season ever to have only two starting tribes, following *Dark Temptation*.
* This season is the first season to feature an auxiliary tribe.
* This season is the second season to not have a female player reach the Final Tribal Council, following *Dark Temptation*.