Double Elimination

A **Double Elimination** is a recurring twist where two (or more) players are voted out on the same tribal night. There are currently two distinctions of this twist, the more occuring **Double Tribal Council** and the **Double Elimination**.

### Double Tribal Council

The more common version of the twist, the **Double Tribal** subjects two different tribes to Tribal Council to each vote out a member of their tribe.

In *Crystal Cavern*, rather than competing for Tribal Immunity, the post-swap Kiruna and Orapa tribes competed separately for Individual Immunity. Danny and Jo$h would both win from their respective tribes, resulting in the unanimous elimination of Vui and the first ever Hidden Immunity Idol play in the series which would take out David in the process. The surviving thirteen players would all go on to form the first merge tribe.

In *Pokémon Valley*, a similar formula was done as last season's as the Asuna and Suiren tribes competed separately, where Ice and Vooper would win immunity from their respective tribes. Will was unanimously voted out on the Suiren tribe, while Euro was set up to go in a 4-2-1 vote, however, due to King Coffee's Steel Deal advantage, which cancels a Tribal Council that he attends, Euro was spared and would go onto making it all the way to the Final Tribal Council that season.

Due to the Dark Vote twist in *Dark Temptation*, this Double Tribal acted as an insurance policy to make sure that every player attended tribal at least once before the merge. The winners of the challenge would be Edvin and Stood respectively, resulting in the vote out of Jackson and the blindside of Umbreon, where Kenny and Kevin would be left in the dark. Unlike the past two seasons, this Double Tribal was not followed up by a swap or a merge, leaving the members to remain on their tribes.

Dubbed as **Turbulance** for theming purposes, this twist was used not once, but twice in *Clockwork*. For the first time ever, Individual Immunity was not offered for both occurrances, instead the top two performing tribes would win Tribal Immunity and the bottom two tribes would attend tribal separately.

In the first instance, the Bohm and Rahkopf tribes would win immunity once again, sending the Duchire and Viridian tribes to Tribal Council, where both Xerop and Zach were voted out on Day 6. The second instance on Day 12 saw the Bohm and Viridian tribes winning immunity where Gbard and Gimp would be voted out in 3-1 votes on Duchire and Rahkopf respectively.

Just like in *Clockwork*, this twist was once again used twice in *Cyberscape*. Unlike all of the previous seasons which had both Tribal Councils done in separate channels, the Double Tribals in *Cyberscape* were each done in the one channel, where both tribes could see the other's tribal unfold. The first occurance, dubbed as **The Erasion** twist, saw Gavin and Wham win immunity for the respective tribes and watched the devastating vote offs of Benni and Jackson, who would both be sent to the Scratch.

The second Double Tribal, this time dubbed as **The Virus**, had Eli and Vooper win Individual Immunity, the latter of which would give up his necklace to Adam M.. The Crash tribe had a very dynamic tribal, where Bas would be exiled via an advantage play, as well as two sides battling it out, ultimately ending with Jack flipping on his ally, Stood, sending her to the Scratch in a close 3-2 vote. Meanwhile, the Null tribe would have a much more straight-forward vote, unanimously voting out Cobalt, who would later return from the Scratch and become the future runner-up of the season.

A Double Tribal had been planned for the Final Twelve round of *Space Groove*, however, due to the Alien Egg breaking during the same round, **The Invasion** event took precedence over the twist, where DJ was voted out. Due to the game now being left with only eleven players left and the merge occuring at ten, the Double Tribal twist could not occur without a change in schedule and as a result, was cancelled for this season.

In *Vanaspati*, Ilynca and future winner, Om, won Individual Immunity from their respective tribes and saw Charles and Crystal both voted out unanimously.

Just like *Clockwork* and *Cyberscape*, there were two Double Tribals in *Manga no Sekai*. The first one occurred during the second episode, where instead of competing for Individual Immunity, the tribes competed for Tribal Immunity and only the first placing tribe, Hasegawa, would win immunity. The other two tribes attended tribal separately and saw Jessica and JSB be voted out in a 6-0 and a 6-3 vote respectively.

The second time however, had the remaining fifteen players compete for Individual Immunity, which would be won by Brodie and Kat. This Double Tribal saw not two, but three eliminations that night in Alice, Blake, and the advantage-created contestant, Totoro.

### Double Elimination

Unlike Double Tribals, where multiple tribes would attend tribal to vote out a member each, the inverse is said for the **Double Elimination** twist. This twist subjects one tribe (or group) to voting out more than one member of the tribe, usually done so by booting the two players who received the highest number of votes that night.

This version first made its appearance in *Wanted*, where the recently-merged played in pairs for the round, with the exception of Jadyn, who did not have a partner due to an uneven number of players. The challenge would have one pair winning Individual Immunity for the both of them. In addition, the players were informed that the two players who received the highest amount of votes at tribal would be voted out, where the two would then have to compete in a duel, with the winner earning their way back into the game.

The challenge was won by Jackswan and Wham, both of whom had coincidentally gone the entire pre-merge without attending a single Tribal Council. The votes were quickly split up between Jose, Phoenix, and Ren, the last of whom used a Hidden Immunity Idol on himself to save himself, leading the other two to be eliminated in a 3-3-2-1-0 vote. The two would compete in the duel the next day, where Jose pulled a comeback against Phoenix and returned to the game.

In *Ascension*, only one tribe, Stygius, would win Tribal Immunity, forcing the other two tribes to attend Tribal Council as one group, where the two players with the highest votes would be eliminated. However, due to Byte's leave from the game, this round was adjusted slightly where now only the person with the highest votes would be voted out, where Alex was blindsided in a 8-2-1, and the two placed 17th and 16th respectively.

The same deal occurred at the top of the merge in *Manga no Sekai*, this time only one individual would win immunity. Cobalt won the challenge and earned himself Individual Immunity, whilst Coffee bought the **Friendship Hug** from the Seishen Shop, who would share it with Brodie, protecting both of them from the vote as well. *Furthermore*, Luka played his **Gambling Frenzy** and rolled Safe, earning himself immunity as well. With four people and public targets protected from the vote, the Dabi v Dabi tribe were forced to scramble as eyes quickly turned to the pair of Josh and Xerop. In the end, Josh was able to escape the vote, though the same could not be said for his partner as he was voted out in a 8-4-1-1 vote alongside Haley.

## Trivia

* *Manga no Sekai* is the only season to feature both a Double Tribal and a Double Elimination.