Survivor Nintendo

Survivor Nintendo is the fifth season of Survivor Video Games Edition and features three tribes (Heroes, Villains, YinYang) composed of six Nintendo franchises being Metroid (Samus, Ridley, Sylux); Kid Icarus (Pit, Medusa, Magnus); F Zero (Captain Falcon, Black Shadow, Samurai Goroh); Animal Crossing (KK Slider, Tom Nook, Mr. Resetti); Legend of Zelda (Link, Ganandorf, Zelda); and Earthbound/Mother (Ness, Claus, Lucas). Samus was the winner with Ganandorf and KK Slider tied for second.

Samus, Ganandorf, Claus, Pit, and Captain Falcon returned for Survivor All Stars where they placed 26th, 23rd, 18th, 2nd, and 9th respectively.

Samurai Goroh, Captain Falcon, and Black Shadow returned for Survivor F-Zero where they placed 12th, 5th, & 18th respectively.

Pit, Magnus, & Medusa returned for Survivor Kid Icarus where they placed 9th, 10th, & 13th respectively.

Ganandorf, Link, & Zelda (as Sheik) returned for Survivor Legend of Zelda where they placed 9th, 6th, & 3rd respectively.

Samus returned again for Survivor Winners where she placed 20th.

Ness returned for Survivor Second Chances where he placed 12th.

## Season Summary

On the Villains tribe, Tom Nook seemed to be the easy early target annoying his tirbe during shelter construction and not being percieved as a true villain.  Ganandorf & Medusa took him and Claus in and used the two to target big threats Black Shadow and Ridley with Black Shadow going home.  On the YinYang tribe, Samurai Goroh & Mr. Resetti got on everyone's nerves early on, but Zelda recognized their unlikability as people she could to take to the end with her and win against.  Her and Lucas worked with them to take out Sylux, alienating Magnus who wanted to try and keep the tribe strong.  Though he was set to be targeted next, Magnus added feul to an ongoing feud beteen Goroh and Resetti and they both set their sites on voting for each other, forcing Zelda and Lucas to settle the feud by keeping Magnus and sending home Mr. Resetti.  On the heroes tribe, an early alliance between Samus, Captain Falcon, KK Slyder, and Pit formed, leaving Ness and Link on the outside.  Ness was voted out for being percieved as a greater strategic threat then Link, despite the rest of the tribe, mainly Captain Falcon, struggling to get along with and becoming irritated by Link.  Pit, Claus, & Samurai Goroh found the immunity idol on their repective beaches.

On Day 13 the tribes swapped and went from three to two tribes.  On the new Gamecube tribe, outsiders Link & Ridley bonded and formed an alliance.  Goroh, being the only member of Yin Yang, alienated himself from his new tribe with his personality, but was once again spared as Link, Ridley, Samus, and KK Slyder put aside their differences to vote out  challenge and camp liability, Ganandorf's closest ally Medusa.  On the new NES tribe, Captain Falcon and Pit forged a tight bond with Magnus with the three making a final three deal and Pit revealing his idol to the two.  The three were caught in the middle between voting with Zelda & Lucas or Claus & Tom Nook, but ultimately sided with the latter to vote out Zelda, on the recommendation of Magnus.

When the tribes merged, the original heroes alliance plus Magnus appeared to be in control of things, with the groups of Link & Ridley and Claus & Tom Nook siding with them as well, leaving Ganandorf, Lucas, and Samurai Goroh alone on the outside.  Samurai Goroh played his idol at the first merged tribal council, though it was Link who went home, as Samus and Captain Falcon were reluctant to trust and work with Ridley and Link respectively.  Ridley unites Goroh and Lucas to his side to vote out Captain Falcon next, but fails to get the other original villains on his side and is voted out next, becoming the first member of the jury.  With Goroh next on the chopping block, Samus and KK Slyder decide to betray their alliance, recognizing Captain Falcon's, Pit's, and Magnus's tight bond, and Captain Falcon is voted out next.  Angry at being betrayed, Pit and Magnus try and vote Samus out next, with Pit playing his idol, but fail to pull anybody else to their side, and Magnus is sent home during the split vote.  Pit wins the next immunity challenge, forcing the seemingly united seven other tribe mates to turn on each other.  Samus and KK Slyder convince Goroh, Lucas, and Ganandorf to vote out Claus, but Claus played his idol out of safety at tribal council, catching everyone off guard and sending home Goroh who was apart of every tribe member's final tribal plans.  Masked Man and Tom Nook align with Pit to try and send Samus home, but Ganandorf, working his own strategy to get to the end, aligns with Lucas and votes with Samus to send Pit home.  With Claus and Tom Nook on the outs, the other four tribemates split votes between the two which Ganandorf uses to his advantage to send Lucas home, and perfectly position himself between the two pairs so that one of the two will have to work with him and take him to the final three.  He ultimately decides to go with Samus and KK Slyder, sending Tom Nook & Claus to the jury.

At the final tribal KK Slyder was criticized for riding Samus's coattails to the end, but recieved praise for not alienating any of the jury members.  Ganandorf and Samus both recieved praise for their smart strategic play and taking out big threats pre and post merge, but were criticized for their poor jury management.  Samus was ultimately voted the winner with Ganandorf and KK Slyder both tieing for second place.

## Voting Table

==Jury Votes
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