Suitman Presents: Earn Your Stripes

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## Series Chronology

***Earn Your Stripes*** is the nineteenth season of the Suitman Presents mixed reality series, which premiered on March 21, 2022, and concluded with a final jury vote on April 3, 2022.

It is an original format by JacksonWalsh known as *Earn Your Stripes*, combining elements of both The Challenge and Big Brother into a unique new physical, social and strategic battle, as players scheme for the right to become ‘Tigers’ - earning safety and power in the process - whilst also having to navigate tough socially-testing decisions.

## Production

*Earn Your Stripes* was first announced as the nineteenth season of *Suitman Presents* during the airing of *Survivor: Jamaica* on March 4, 2022. Applications opened on March 5, 2022, closing two weeks later on March 19, 2022. The full cast of 20 was announced on March 20, 2022, the day before the season premiered.

This season was produced and hosted by RealJacksonWalsh, with production assistance from SuitMan13, NJKoda1998, SammySosaTV, AlmightyOZ, Spark\_, Ian.Reis and Christian37.

## Format

* EARNING PHASE
* PROVING PHASE
At the head of every round, players will be given 30 minutes to talk to everyone, either as a whole or in smaller groups, to determine who should enter the Trial. Every player designated as a "Tiger" has two votes - everyone else has one. Once 30 minutes pass, each player privately casts their vote(s). The four players with the most votes are announced and enter The Trial. The four in the Trial compete, with the winner of the Trial then becoming a Tiger themselves, and has earned their stripes. There will always be a clear winner.

The newly-striped Tiger, along with safety for the round, is given two important decisions immediately following the Trial in "The Tiger's Vision".

* They save one other person from the Trial from going into the Survival Vote - the remaining two players are locked in.
* Everyone who voted for them to enter the Trial, including any revotes, is then revealed. They then choose someone who placed them into the Trial into the Survival Vote. This player cannot be anyone who was in the Trial or the elected Tiger themselves. If there are no options to pick from, they may select anyone that did not participate in the Trial to enter the Vote.

At the end of the Vision, three players have been selected for the Survival Vote - two who entered the Trial and lost and one who was selected directly by the Tiger to enter it. Every player, including those in the Trial, are then given one last 30 minute period to determine who they are voting for to leave the game. Again, all Tigers have two votes - everyone else has one. Once the votes are tallied, the player with the MOST votes will have failed to Earn Their Stripes and exits the game permanently. In the event of a tie, the current Tiger will break it.All players will compete in a Tiger Competition, similar to an HOH - the winner becomes the Dominant for the round and is the only person completely safe for the round. Last place is immediately sent to The Den. All competitions have a concrete first and last. Players may be the Dominant in back to back rounds.

All players will be given 30 minutes to deliberate on who should enter the Den besides the player who got last. Once the deliberation period ends, all players cast a vote. Then, the Dominant's vote is revealed, immediately sending whoever they voted for into The Den. Afterwards, all of the remaining votes, called The Streak, are revealed, with the highest vote-getter being the third player in the Den. Any votes cast for the player the Dominant voted are ignored. If there is a tie, then the Dominant breaks it.

The three players selected enter the Den, an isolated location, and are given a simple task - determine who amongst them should NOT be there and should instead be saved. Once the deliberation ends, all players publicly vote for someone to STAY in the Den by voting for them privately. Players may vote for themselves. Then, all votes will be revealed publicly.

There are three scenarios here: a 1-1-1, a 2-1-0, and a 3-0-0.

* In a 1-1-1, no player is saved as a decision could not be reached.
* In a 2-1-0, the player with NO votes is saved and escapes the Den.
* In a 3-0-0, the player who received all the votes, INCLUDING THEIR OWN, is saved.

The players come back from the Den and reveal the result. Any safe player joins the voting player, while the remaining players face Exile. All players not in the Exile Vote were given the time of the Defiance Debate to discuss their vote - players immediately vote upon finding out the Exile nominees. Each player casts a vote, with the Dominant casting two. The player with the most votes is eliminated and sent into Exile. In the event of a tie, the Dominant breaks it.

Once seven players have joined Exile, they will interrogate the remaining two players and will cast a vote at the end of the entire game to determine the champion of *Earn Your Stripes*.

## Game Summary

### Elimination Chart

* EARNING PHASE
* PROVING PHASE

### Episode Progress

Key
     The contestant was the Earn Your Stripes Champion.
     The contestant was a runner-up.
     The contestant won the challenge and became a Tiger/Dominant.
     The contestant was saved from the Survival Vote by the Tiger.
     The contestant was called into the Survival/Exile Vote by the Tiger/Dominant, but survived.
     The contestant was saved from the Survival/Exile Vote by the Defiance Debate.
     The contestant saved themselves from the Purge by winning a challenge.
     The contestant did not win or lose the challenge, and was safe from the Survival/Exile Vote.
     The contestant lost the challenge, but was successful in the Survival/Exile Vote.
     The contestant was voted into the Survival/Exile Vote, but survived.
     The contestant lost the Trial and the Survival/Exile Vote, eliminating them.
     The contestant lost the Purge and was immediately eliminated.