LogVivor: Yukon

***LogVivor: Yukon*** is the third season of LogVivor.

Within the vast and expansive snowy forests of the Canadian territory of the Yukon, this season quickly became steeped in controversy and toxicity. This season introduced new twists and game mechanics but gained infamy through numerous fights, an unprecedented triple quit, extortions, sloppy and confusing gameplay, numerous idol misplays, and all around mess. Amidst all the chaos out there in the Canadian wilderness, one alliance came together to dominate the game and ultimately reigned supreme resulting in a historic Final 3 and win.

Brandon was crowned the Sole Survivor defeating Kayla and Trey in a 5-2-1 vote. To date, it has produced 6 returning players (Brandon, Kayla, Trey, Kamai, Aaron, and Addie) for subsequent future seasons.

It is preceded by LogVivor: Mexico and followed by LogVivor: Seychelles

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The 18 castaways were divided into 3 tribes of 6.
* **Tribe Swap:** After an unprecedented triple quit, a rescheduled tribe swap occurred where the 13 remaining castaways were swapped into 2 new tribes of 6 sending the last picked person to Exile.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe was composed of the final 11 members.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** 3 finalists faced a jury of 8.

## Twists

* **Tribe Captains:** At the beginning of a tribe's start, one person from each tribe would be elected as the Tribe Captain through a tribe vote. The person with the most votes would become elected and granted the opportunity to make game-changing decisions presented to them from time to time.
	+ Decision #1 - *Tribe Schoolyard Pick*. The three newly elected captains singlehandedly picked their tribes in a schoolyard pick.
	+ Decision #2 - *Team Player* or *Personal Gain*. Team Player granted the captain's tribe an advantage in the next immunity challenge whereas Personal Gain allowed the captain to receive a clue to the tribe's hidden immunity idol.
	+ Decision #3 - *Currency* or *Knowledge*. The first decision after the tribe swap with new captains, Currency allowed the captain to pocket 2 Fire Tokens right then and there whereas Knowledge would grant the tribe the ability to sit in on the opposing tribe's Tribal Council.
	+ Decision #4 - *Mental* or *Physical*. This round, the captains got to vote on what type of challenge they would get to compete in. If both chose Mental, the challenge would be an all day timed puzzle score challenge. If both chose Physical, the challenge would be a tribe Zoom endurance challenge. If both captains chose different options, they would be given the opportunity to summit and come to a unanimous decision.
* **Exile:** Because of the unprecedented timing of the Tribe Swap, the uneven number or remaining castaways were swapped into two even numbered tribes resulting in one player (the last to be chosen at random), being sent to temporarily stay on Exile. The exiled player later joined the tribe that went to Tribal Council next, replacing the member it lost.
* **Fire Tokens:** Fire Tokens is a Survivor currency which allows castaways to purchase game advantages/disadvantages from a menu. Fire Tokens were primarily won through winning tribe or individual immunity challenges and voted out castaways had to bequeath their amount of Fire Tokens to a person (or people) left on their tribe.

## Castaways

### Season 3 Superlatives

* Best Strategic Player: Brandon
* Best Social Player: Nick
* Best Physical Player: Brandon
* Biggest Hero: Allie
* Biggest Villain: Lorenz & Kayla
* Best Duo: Brandon & Kayla
* Best Rivalry: Divinety, Lillie, Ella, Jett, Aubrey, Luke vs. Lorenz, Damon, Kayla, Nick
* Most Underrated: Trey
* Biggest Blindside: Kamai
* Best Underdog: Nick & Aaron
* Best Top Dog: Brandon
* Most Robbed: Nick
* Most Robbed Premerge: Addie

* Host Favs: Nick, Brandon & Kamai

## Season Summary

In March of 2022, 18 castaways were marooned to play the game in a colder climate for the first time in LogVivor history within the snowy forests of the Yukon Territory. Before the castaways could even start their new adventure within the Canadian wilderness, the first big twist of the season was dropped on the players. This season, one person from each tribe will be elected to become their tribe's Tribe Captain. From time to time within the game, these captains will be faced with a big decision to make for their own or tribe's benefit. Before even being sorted into tribes, the cast was tasked with voting for one player they would like to elect as a potential tribe captain. After the vote, the top three receivers of votes in Lillie with 4, Brandon with 3, and Lorenz with 2 became elected Tribe Captains, sorted onto their tribes, and were immediately tasked with singlehandedly choosing which players would join them in a schoolyard pick. Through Lillie, Brandon and Lorenz's choices, the 18 players were officially split into 3 tribes, Chùnday, Udzi and Sachäl.

Shortly after the start of the game and sorting of the tribes, the second big twist of the season was revealed. On top of the Tribe Captains, Fire Tokens would also be in play this season. Fire Tokens work as a currency within the game of Survivor that can be won primarily through winning challenges with voted out players bequeathing their tokens to players still left on their tribe to keep circulation going. With the tokens came a menu that held game advantages/disadvantages that ranged in the prices of 2 to 10 tokens that could be purchased up until the Final 5. As a start, all 18 players were given 1 Fire Token each and the game was officially afoot. Throughout the first couple days of the game, Chùnday easily stood out amongst the rest of the tribes as very energetic and talkative much to the annoyance of Udzi and Sachäl. Udzi was a more laid-back tribe where a dominant majority alliance of Brandon, Kayla, Trey and Kamai began to form. On Sachäl the tribe started off normal like any other, but Alex would soon stumble upon an IRL relationship between her tribemate Luke and Aubrey from Chùnday. All eyes suddenly shifted to Luke as a potential easy boot because of the relationship and his dry communication with his tribemates. A majority of Alex, Nick, Lorenz and Damon formed and Luke and Divinety were delegated to the bottom of the tribe. Chùnday and Udzi would go on to win the first immunity challenge of the season with Sachäl losing by one point. Despite Chùnday placing first, the behavior of some members began to grate at the rest of the cast and would ultimately become costly. Sachäl's first visit to Tribal Council would prove to be an easy one as the entire tribe, with the exception of his closest ally Divinety, banded together to vote out Luke.

With Luke now out of the game, a wakeup call was now given to the Chùnday tribe. Many members of the cast across all tribes began to catch on to their charade that a friend group had applied to and is playing the game together. The friend group consisted of 5/6 members of Chùnday in Lillie, Aubrey, Ella, Jett and Aaron with Luke and Divinety from Sachäl included as well. Because Addie was the sole member of Chùnday not in the group, she became an immediate easy target. Heading into the next challenge, the secret of the friend group playing together was beginning to reach its boiling point. This boiling point would spill over when the biggest fight LogVivor has ever seen between members of Chùnday and Kayla, Nick, Damon and Lorenz broke out in the middle of the challenge where many ugly things were said by both parties and ultimately the friend group was exposed and made public. Despite the literal brawl halfway through, Udzi and Chùnday managed to win again sending Sachäl right back to Tribal Council. Because of Divinety's close relationship to Luke, she was immediately targeted. With the target pretty public, Divinety decided to not wait for a vote and quit the game only 40 minutes before Tribal Council. This quit however would unfortunately not be the last one seen this season. Still reeling from the fight and feeling mistreated and bullied by members of the cast, Aubrey, Ella, and Lillie all quit the game at once in what would become an infamous event in LogVivor history known as the Triple Quit.

After the bombshell that was the Triple Quit, the premerge portion of the game was now in complete disarray. Because of the game numbers being ruined and Chùnday losing half of their members in one swoop, a Tribe Swap that was scheduled to occur later in the game needed to happen now. With 13 players left in the game, the Chùnday tribe was officially disbanded and the tribes swapped into 2 tribes of 6 with the last player chosen at random sent to Exile. Brandon would end up as the odd man out and temporarily exiled where he would join the losing tribe at the next challenge and replace the member that was voted out. Because new tribes had been formed, new Tribe Captains had to be elected and Kayla and Alonha would go on to be voted the new captains of the two new tribes respectively. On Udzi 2.0, old tribal lines fell 3-2-1 with former Sachäl becoming half of the tribe over Jett and Aaron from Chùnday and Udzi's sole original member Kayla. With the majority just 1 number away, Alex, Nick and Damon decided to stick together and would go back and forth whether to pull in Aaron or Kayla to hold the majority leaving Jett on the outs either way. On Sachäl 2.0, 4 former Udzi were swapped together and an easy majority was formed over former Chùnday's Addie and Sachäl's sole original member Lorenz. But despite being made up of new members now, Sachäl's losing streak would continue. The former Udzi members in Alonha, Trey, Kamai and Allie decided to keep their easy majority and stick together where the target became Addie for being the least connected person and she was swiftly voted out. With Brandon now joining Sachäl 2.0 taking Addie's place, former Udzi now held a whopping 5-1 majority with Lorenz's chances looking grim. Despite gaining a new member, Sachäl would officially become one of the most losing tribes in LogVivor history as they lost to Udzi yet again officially losing every single tribal immunity challenge. With the challenge being an all day puzzle score challenge, many members of Sachäl began to sniff out who potentially didn't submit a score resulting in their loss. In the end, the two in jeopardy of going home were Lorenz for being on the outs and Alonha who many suspected of not submitting due to her recent inactivity. By the time of their visit to Tribal Council, the Udzi alliance figured they could afford to lose a number and spared Lorenz by flipping on Alonha making her the first captain to be actively voted out.

At the Final 11, Udzi and Sachäl officially merged to become the Healthy Hoes tribe. Because they were the only former Chùnday members to survive, Jett and Aaron unknowingly became some people's immediate targets. Not even a day into the tribe, Aaron begun the new portion of the game off with a bang by being the first person to purchase an item from the Fire Token Menu. For 3 tokens, Aaron purchased an Extortion Disadvantage which he played on Kayla making her pay him a fee. This event sent shockwaves around the tribe as this was territory not yet explored by the cast and would lead to an eventual Extortiongeddon. Inspired by the news of Kayla's extortion, Lorenz decided to Extort Brandon in hopes of making people broke and getting rich in Fire Tokens. After Lorenz won the first individual immunity challenge, Trey knocked Lorenz off of his high horse by extorting him for extorting Brandon as well as exposing old Udzi's majority alliance on Sachäl 2.0 to others on the merge tribe. This would cause Lorenz to go haywire and purchase two more Extortion Disadvantages instead off paying off his own debt to extort Damon and Nick both of whom he thought was responsible. Feeling he was on the outs after Kayla used a Challenge Advantage that cost 2 Fire Tokens from the menu to remove him from the challenge, Jett decided to start spreading lies and rumors about Kayla to hopefully cause even more chaos and fade into the background saving his spot in the game. It would not take long for people to start catching on and expose Jett for his mischief. Despite Jett digging himself a hole, the 4 original Sachäl members (Nick, Alex, Damon and Lorenz) wanted to target Brandon for being a potential threat, but the plan would not stay strong for long as Nick leaked the plan to Brandon in order to save him. The opposing alliance of the 5 original Udzi members (Brandon, Kayla, Kamai, Trey and Allie) set their sights on voting for Damon. Feeling the pressure of the upcoming vote, Damon decided to give his idol away to his ally Nick whom he was unaware was actively in the process of betraying their alliance. In the end, a mixture of the three Jett, Brandon and Damon plans, multiple inactive people self voting, and some flipping on their alliances lead to a very messy and complicated merge vote of 4-4-1-1-1. With the tie between Jett and Damon, Jett was ultimately voted out unanimously on the revote as the first member of jury for being caught in his lies and causing such public mess.

After the mess of the first merge vote, another huge blowup between Lorenz, Kayla, Nick and Damon occurred adding to the on brand chaos of this season. At the next immunity challenge, Alex made LogVivor history by becoming the first woman to win an individual immunity! Shortly after the challenge, Aaron began mouthing off publicly fearing he was the next to go after Jett's ousting and being the only original Chùnday left in the game. For the upcoming vote, the sides of the tribe remained the same as both main alliances kept their unsuccessful targets from last vote in place with Damon and Brandon now at risk again. But it wouldn't take long for things to go awry as the Sachäl alliance began to implode as Damon, Nick and Alex shifted their target from Brandon to their OG tribemate Lorenz for his messy actions in the game. Feeling alone in the game and wanting a way to leverage his spot, Aaron purchased a Safety Without Power for a whopping 8 Fire Tokens briefly before Tribal Council and gave it to Kayla to get in the good graces of her and her alliance. Much to her surprise, Kayla accepted the advantage and played it at Tribal Council allowing her to leave early before the vote. This wouldn't be the last advantage played before the night was over as Brandon played his idol for he was nervous about being targeted again, and Aaron also played his thinking everyone was voting for him. Because of Kayla leaving and Kamai self voting, original Udzi's numbers fell short and the vote tied again this time between Damon and Lorenz with Brandon negating Aaron and Lorenz's votes. Though in the end, the Udzi alliance was able to gain the numbers in the revote and they got their wish as Damon was sent packing. Despite the misread of the situation, Brandon was able to find both of the rebidden idols misplayed from the night before and immediately contemplated playing one again in case he was to be targeted by the other side yet again. The next challenge was LogVivor tradition Touchy Subjects which saw Kamai come out victorious and Lorenz receive many of the negative superlatives. In reaction to this, Lorenz blew up on anybody and everybody which angered many of the other players in the game. Because of this, both sides of the tribe came together to vote out Lorenz but not before both Brandon and Kayla would misplay and waste two more idols in the process.

Now at the Final 8, Nick and Alex started to become nervous with their original tribemates and former alliance members Damon and Lorenz gone and the Udzi 5 gaining more power. But, as the numbers began to dwindle, the original Udzi alliance wasn't as strong as they appeared to be as cracks in the alliance began to form through paranoia and small spats between some of its members. In a shocking upset, the lone wolf in Aaron won individual immunity after a grueling endurance challenge much to the annoyance of the Udzi alliance, namely Kamai, after some gloating and cockiness on Aaron's part. Despite their cracks, the Udzi alliance set their sights on piling their votes on Nick deeming him the biggest threat out of the 3 remaining players not in the alliance. It would not take long for Nick to catch wind of this plan where he concocted a plan of his own to play the idol Damon gave him and idol out Kayla. Suspicious of Nick asking to be voted out, the Udzi 5 created a last minute plan to split their votes on Alex and Nick in fear that Nick was baiting them for a correct idol play. At Tribal Council, Nick played his idol but only negated 2 votes much to his confusion. Instead, it was Alex who received more votes and she, along with Nick, was promptly blindsided. Going into the next round, it was pretty clear the Udzi alliance's next target was between outsiders Nick and Aaron. When neither one won immunity, it became a toss up between the two as to who should go and an easy split vote plan was put into action. Knowing he had a high chance of leaving, Aaron prepared to play his rebidden idol that he found again a few rounds prior. But come time for Tribal Council, Aaron wasn't active for the vote and with the majority of the votes put on him over Nick, Aaron found himself voted out with the idol in his pocket after just gloating about being guaranteed to make the Final 6. Now with only 6 left in the game, the odds felt very stacked against Nick as Brandon, Kayla, Kamai, Trey and Allie continued to steamroll their way through the game. But in a lucky break for Nick, after Brandon won immunity, Brandon decided now was the time he could afford to make a move on one of his alliance members. Brandon set his sights to take out long term ally Kamai recruiting everyone but Kamai to keep secret and do the same. Brandon proceeded to purchase one of the few available items from the menu at this stage in the game, a 50/50 Coin Idol, for 5 Fire Tokens and feeling something off, Kamai did the same. Come Tribal Council, Kayla misplayed yet another idol and feeling insecure, Kamai played his 50/50 Coin Idol. Unfortunately for Kamai, luck was not on his side that night and the coin landed on Not Safe resulting in his unanimous vote out.

Now in the Finale, the original Udzi alliance felt stronger than ever despite just flipping on a member and it was an uphill battle for Nick. On the last day they could do so, Nick purchased a 50/50 Coin Idol and Brandon purchased another. Going into Tribal Council, Nick was the obvious target for the alliance but Allie suddenly started campaigning for herself to be voted out instead feeling burnt out and over the game. Because it was the final time any advantage could be played, all hell broke loose. Because he won immunity, Brandon wanted to protect his allies and played his idol on Kayla and one of his 50/50 Coin Idols on Trey which would ultimately land on Not Safe. On the other hand, Nick played his 50/50 Coin Idol on himself and in another break of luck, it landed on Safe. Because Brandon waited too long to decide to play his other 50/50 Coin Idol on Allie, Nick negating all 4 votes against him, and him respecting Allie's wish to go, Allie was idoled out of the game with 1 vote in a blaze of glory. Now with the numbers 3-1 stacked against him yet again, it was do or die for Nick in the upcoming Final Immunity. Despite this immunity being his only ticket into the Final 3, Nick along with Kayla didn't even show up to the challenge where Brandon easily beat Trey guaranteeing himself a spot at the Final Tribal Council. With the risk of the jury rooting for Nick's underdog story too high, Nick was voted out as the final member of the jury.

In the end, Brandon, Kayla and Trey accomplished an impressive feat and made LogVivor history by becoming the first and so far only all-black Final 3. At the Final Tribal Council, all 3 finalists were actually in contention to receive votes. The jury was impressed with the sheer amount of idols found between both Brandon and Kayla, but they were both criticized for their sloppy uses of them. The jury praised Brandon for his role as the de facto leader of the dominant alliance all season, Kayla was both commended and lamented for her villainous game, and Trey was given his flowers for his smaller and underrated role in the alliance and in the game. In the end, Brandon was crowned as the Sole Survivor with a jury vote of 5-2-1 with all 3 finalists receiving votes for the first time in LogVivor history.

## Trivia

* *Yukon* is the first season to feature 3 starting tribes.
* *Yukon* is the first season to have multiple people quit.
* Chùnday became the first tribe to be disbanded during a Tribe Swap.
	+ They would be followed by Laroul from *Seychelles* and Air and Earth from *Iceland.*
* Brandon is the first player to be Exiled.
* Two additional Tribe Leader Decisions were planned and eventually scrapped for timing due to the Triple Quit. They included:
	+ *Survivor Olympics* in which the Leader would volunteer one person to compete for their tribe's immunity
	+ *No Vote or No Immunity* in which the Leader would have to decide between losing their vote at the first merge Tribal Council or sit out of the first merge Immunity challenge the next round.
* A Double Tribal was also planned to occur at the Final 16, but also scrapped due to the quits.
* Udzi became the first tribe in LogVivor history to win every single premerge tribal Immunity Challenge.
	+ They would be followed by Athena from *Greece*.
* On the other hand, Sachäl became the first tribe to LOSE every single premerge tribal Immunity Challenge.
* Kayla, Jett and Aaron became the first people to not visit a single Tribal Council until the merge.
	+ They would be followed by Sania from *Seychelles* and Terrence from *Greece*.
	+ Jett is the castaway to take the longest time to attend a Tribal Council and be voted out at their first visit.
* Lorenz is the first player to play an Extortion Disadvantage.
* Kayla is the first player to play a Safety Without Power Advantage.
* Alex became the first woman to win an Individual Immunity challenge.
* Brandon is tied with Kobe in *Mexico*, Sania in *Seychelles,* Terrence in *Greece,* Dali in *Guyana, and* Madz *in Iceland* for the most advantages owned at once in a single season with 3.
	+ Brandon however holds the record for most advantages owned throughout the span of a single season with 5.
* Kamai is the first player to play a 50/50 Coin Idol.
	+ Nick, however, is the first and only player to play a 50/50 Coin Idol and have it land on Safe.
* Trey is the second player to reach the Final 3 with 0 votes cast against them.
	+ He is the first to accomplish this feat without the use of a Hidden Immunity Idol.
	+ He is preceded by Kobe from *Mexico* and followed by Caleb from *Seychelles* and Jacob from *Greece*.
* *Yukon* is the first season where all 3 finalists started on the same tribe.
* *Yukon* is the first season to have an all black Final 3.
* *Yukon* is the first season where all 3 finalists received a vote to win.
* *Yukon* is the first season to have all 3 finalists return for another season.
* *Yukon* holds the record for the most idol and advantage plays in a season with 11 in total.
* The Block-A-Vote, Extra Vote, Radar Advantage, and Idol Nullifier were never bought from the Fire Token Advantage Menu.