YesterORGs: The Space Race

The Space Race is the first season of YesterORGs. It was won by Ellie in a 6-0 vote against Honey.

The season thus far produced 4 returning players. Plumpkin, Tommy and Meuh in S2: the Black Plague. Later on, Maya also returned in S5: The Māori.

## Format/Twists

**Starting Tribes:** The players were split into 2 tribes of 8, NASA and SSP.

**Mutiny:** At the final 15, a mutiny was proposed for up to 2 people from each tribe for the duration of the immunity challenge. If a player mutinies to the tribe that loses the final 15 immunity challenge, they will be immune at this tribal, but will not be able to cast a vote.

At the final 13, a second mutiny was offered, also for up to 2 people. Since SSP had a higher number of members, any amount of players mutining from NASA would be matched by SSP, even if less people from SSP choose to mutiny, meaning players may be randomly picked to change tribes. Unlike the previous mutiny, immunity and losing your vote was not part of the deal. In addition, anyone who had already mutinied couldn't mutiny a second time.

**Merge:** At the final 10, the tribes merged into the Scientists tribe.

**Final tribal council:** The season ended with a final 2 facing a jury of 7 (which started at the final 9).

**Cross-tribe messaging:** The season allowed players to send messages to members of the other tribe. These messages could only be sent once every 12 hours and could contain a maximum of 100 words.

**Rover search:** The winning tribe of an immunity challenge has one of its members sent on a rover search. The player sent is either chosen democratically, or through challenge performance.

## Advantages

Three advantages were available during the season:

* Voting Sabotage Idols
* Rocket Parts
* Extra messages

Here is a page explaining the season's advantage hunting system.

## Episodes

*Episode 1* - Just wait till the bloodshed starts

*Episode 2* - Full Chaos Mode

*Episode 3* - You're Asking for People to Distrust You

*Episode 4* - That's a Whole New Beast to Tackle

*Episode 5* - It's The Cold War on Steroids

*Episode 6* - The Sharks Have Come to Bite

*Episode 7* - Now It's Time to Shake It Up a Bit!

*Episode 8* - I Just Want to Be a Good Person, No More, No Less.

*Episode 9* - Bang Bang

*Episode 10* - I’m Stomping the Snakes

*Episode 11* - I'm Sticking My Neck Out Here

*Episode 12* - My Master Plan Has Fell Into Place

*Episode 13* - Sinking The Ship and Destroying the Liferaft.

*Episode 14* - Baudshaw is the hero we never deserved

*Season 1 reunion*

## Player rankings

The leftmost number is their placement on the player rankings, the one in parentheses is their placement in the season.

**16th: Baudshaw** (14th) Baudshaw came into this season playing **eight different ORGs**. This didn't help him at all during the game as he was rarely active, only coming on during challenges. He also made some rude remarks towards his tribemates that rubbed them the wrong way, and had a very poor social game. This eventually sent him home unanimously at the first NASA tribal council.

**15th: Caroline** (16th) There isn't much to say about Caroline, it was just bad timing for her. I can tell she would have been a strong contestant by the way she came into the vote. She knew it was a blindside, but she didn't have the time or manpower to do anything about it. She was sent home in a 7-1 vote after she pushed for Meuh.

**14th: Tommy** (15th) During the game, a lot of people saw Tommy as a fairly strong competitor. At the second SSP tribal, he was in a position where he had the majority numbers against Maya, when people started flipping their votes. Tommy made quite a few mistakes this vote, both fucking up his own position and voting for the wrong person by voting Meuh, losing him majority. Tommy's game was full of silly mistakes which is why he's being placed in 14th.

**13th: Turkey** (12th) Turkey definitely had the potential to be a strong player and go far but was too caught up in creating drama and causing chaos. He was sort of in the middle of the NASA tribe and had a good path to making Merge. At the second Mutiny, he got Plumpkin to mutiny with him and go to the SSP Tribe. His social prowess and push for SSP members led him to be targetted and be the first mutinied eliminated in the pre-merge. He was a smart player, he just made very very dumb decisions.

**12th: Phil Nye** (10th) During the game, Phil was a *fairly* active player. He was in a solid position on NASA, until he fucked it all up by voting for Aka at the last pre-merge vote. This both put him on the bottom of his tribe going into merge, and in the minority of tribal lines at merge. This ultimately led to his demise in an easy and nearly unanimous merge vote. His overall gameplay didn't show too much, which is why he's being ranked quite low.

**11th: Maya** (13th) In such a short time, Maya had a very wild ride that eventually led to her being eliminated, mostly by the game. She and Ellie had blatantly lied to Caroline on her elimination which led to her and Ellie being close on the SSP tribe. She leaked out the majority alliance to Tommy, which started distrust between her and the rest of the tribe. Her head was on the chopping block when Tommy was eliminated, on the first vote and the revote, but she pulled through as she watched one of her closest allies go. After that, she was relatively safe until Turkey and Plumpkin had mutinied, causing her to be sent to the NASA tribe, to be eliminated at their second tribal. Her inability to flip the vote off her and eventful pre-mutiny is why she is being placed 11th.

**10th: Plumpkin** (8th) Plumpkin was one of the cockiest and shittiest players this season. I'll try to tone down on the trash talk, but his extremely weak social play couple with his floating gameplay led to a mediocre placement both in game and on these player rankings. The only reason he isn't ranked lower is due to how far he got and how solid of a position he was in until his eventual vote off. The only reason I talk so much shit about him is because he talks shit about others with no ground to stand on. (Baconos wrote this one.)

**9th: Zeron** (9th) Zeron was a pretty quiet player through the season. He wasn't a goat, but he didn't really control any votes or make any big decisions. One thing I will give him, is that he was positioned extremely well in the pre-merge, he was allied with the right people and was almost ensured merge. His vote-off was more than random (not the best move), being the first juror and the first to be picked off by Ellie's army. He had some funny moments, but the clowniest was when he didn't vote at FTC which is why he is ranked so low.

**8th: Aka** (11th) You may be wondering why our final pre-merge boot is ranked so *high* on the rankings. I'll explain why Aka is our 8th placer here. Aka was playing an amazing game. He was in a solid position on SSP until he was eventually force mutinied to the sub-par NASA tribe. After a couple challenge losses, Aka was put in a losing position with no chance of surviving. If it weren't for this mutiny, I believe that Aka would have gotten extremely far in the game, putting himself in a dominant position and beating out opponents like Ellie and Bane. The reason he isn't ranked higher is because none of this actually happened, and he did go home in 11th, but his potential this season shone bright.

**7th: Kuya** (6th) At first glance, you might be questioning why we're placing our 6th placer relatively low. Kuya's game needs to be considered as a whole. Kuya mutinied at the first mutiny (for no real reason) which is usually just digging yourself a grave then lying in it. He had immunity at his first tribal council on SSP and survived. After he mutinied he made okay relationships with the rest of the OG SSP tribe until Turkey and Plumpkin mutinied, giving them a bigger target to go for. They made merge and survived quite far, not having a single vote on them. Eventually they went to rocks and were eliminated with a 1/3 chance of being eliminated. I don't see Kuya winning in most scenarios, but they definitely had quite the game.

**6th: Jack** (7th) To be honest, Jack didn't have the greatest season. He struggled to find his footing, being fairly inactive, self voting, and not having a dominant social game. The reason he's being ranked so high is purely based on his awareness and strategic game. He realized that Ellie was a big threat and tried to take her out, only to have the plan flop and backfire on him, sending him home.

**5th: Sams** (5th) To put things short, Sams was one of our most confident players. In the pre-merge, he wasn't the most social, but it was enough to keep him afloat. After the second mutiny, he became a target after Aka and Maya needed someone to get rid of to stay alive. He survived for reasons that weren't his own, but he was still *very* close to being eliminated. He came into merge with the goal to win. After the Touchy Subjects challenge, his eyes were opened after he saw that nearly everyone considered him a goat. He tried to grab power and take credit for some big moves. He played very strong and was an underdog to the end. His elimination at F5 was because of his yearning to make big moves.

**4th: Honey** (2nd) No matter what people like to say, Honey did not play a bad game. He beat out 14 other castaways and managed to get 2nd place. In this top 5, all of them had similar social games, so I won't go too in depth on that, but it's Honey's strategic game that really shines. As Baconos likes to say, "By the last 2-3 votes, the bootlist is decided." Honey somehow managed to turn that statement on its head, and he voted out Sams at 5, and Meuh left at 4. By final 4, you could call Honey a goat, but he put himself in a position where he COULD NOT get voted out, and he had a great opportunity to get to the end and try and steal the win. However, with a 6-0 and a weak jury speech/final tribal that didn't quite hit all the marks he needed to hit on his game, he will be ending up in 4th for these player rankings. (Honey also never voted incorrectly and played a perfect game.)

**3rd: Meuh** (4th) Meuh has one of the most unique games of the season and is definitely **iconic** til the end. Their perfect game was ruined by the first tribal, where Caroline voted them out of rage. Since that vote, Meuh was repeatedly targetted on their tribe throughout the pre-merge, and even tied up on Tommy's elimination. In the pre-merge Meuh picked up two Voting Sabotage idols, which may not seem like a lot, but in perspective, Meuh could have flipped any vote in the direction they wanted. Meuh was robbed of F10 immunity from Maya, but it didn't matter as Phil Nye went instead. Meuh picked up a total of about 4-5 Voting Sabotage idols over the course of the game, and they had a big plan. Meuh was in the position at F6 and F5 to eliminate the biggest players of the game and make the two **biggest** moves of the game. They had to spread their Voting Sabotage to allies for the plan to work though, which led Honey to flip on Meuh **both times** and screw over their plans, leading Meuh to be eliminated at F4 after failing to execute the moves. Meuh is ranked so highly because of their social and strategic game. The Voting Sabotage idols were just an extension of their already existing amazing game and substantial mind.

**2nd: Bane** (3rd) Bane played one of the most dominant social games alongside Ellie that I've ever seen in an ORG. During the pre-merge he was dominantly finding passwords quickly, and gaining a quick lead for NASA. He also put himself in an Under the Radar and controlling position, keeping the votes off of him. Once merge hit, things went swell for Bane, until people grew sentient and tried to turn the votes on him and Ellie. He somehow managed to stay safe, keeping himself in a high-threat and dominant position all throughout the remainder of the game, with his social play peaking. He had iconic conversations and alliance chats with people like Plumpkin, Jack, and Ellie to name a few. He had a good chance at winning if he did well at final tribal, and it was sad to see him leave at final 3 (modifié)

**1st: Ellie** (1st) Player of the Season is honestly an understatement for Ellie. She had one of the most consistent and strong games I've personally ever seen in an ORG. Early on in the pre-merge she was positioned very nicely with all of her corners covered as she had many allies. As Aka left and got pre-merge pagonged with Maya, she was left with a few close allies, but not as good as if Aka had stayed. She controlled nearly every SSP vote and can honestly take all the credit for Turkey's elimination. Once merge hit, she was united with her sparkly friend Bane and they dominated the merge. After her and her army dominated the first half of merge, she was suddenly thrust onto the chopping block with Bane and they together swerved through each vote with the help of Honey flipping on Meuh and Bane clutching a Voting Sabotage Idol for the F6 vote. They went onto winning F3 and leaving Bane behind. They easily won 6-0 against Honey, which they both played amazing games. I personally find it amazing that, Ellie never had to play a voting sabotage idol herself, she always had the people doing it for her. She played a villainous and manipulative game, while having a great reputation with the Jury. Not a lot of players can say they have done that. She is ranked #1, easily. No Question about it.