Twisted Speeds: Trials of Patience

***Twisted Speeds: Trials of Patience*** is *Twistvivor's* second speed season. This season was the link between speeds and *Twistvivor* with fast paced gameplay and unique twists throughout the game so the players never knew what was coming next. Despite a few of the cast quitting, the overall gameplay definitely made up for it and this season is generally regarded as a good season within the community.

After navigating this twist filled season, Joe managed to defeat Few and Pair in a 3-2-1 vote to be crowned as the second Twisted Speed Survivor. This season featured many twists including *Twistvivor's* iconic Abstain to Gain twist being introduced from the merge, adding another layer of strategy to the season. Many of these players will return to play in subsequent seasons.

## Production

The production team remained very similar to speed season one with Lansie and Crimson being hosts and Dekt and Artless remaining on the production team. Speed season one alumni James also joined the production team for this season.

## Twists/Changes

* **Tribe Composition:** The eighteen castaways were split into three tribes of six.
* **Hidden immunity idols:** A hidden immunity idol was hidden at each camp.
* **Double Eliminations:** Each pre-merge challenge only had one immunity winner, meaning that the other two tribes were forced to go to tribal council separately and vote out one member each. This continued until the three tribes merged.
* **Merge:** The merged tribe was composed of 12 members.
* **Abstain to gain:** Starting from the merge, castaways could abstain their vote at a tribal council to gain an extra vote at the next one. The extra vote had to be used at the next tribal council and the last time castaways could abstain was the final 6.
* **Auction:** Similar to speed season one, the first merge challenge was an auction where castaways were given 500 Saudi Riyals to bid on items such as immunity for two tribal councils, two mystery items, nothing, a dice idol and information regarding an upcoming twist.
* **Dice idol:** This is an idol that when played, a number will be rolled between 1 and 6 and the number it lands on will be the amount of votes negated against the castaway it is played on. The last time this can be used is the final 5.
* **Double Eliminations:** Immediately after the auction and Joe won immunity for two tribal councils, the Merge tribe were subject to a double elimination. Another double elimination occurred at the final 9, where the castaways were randomly split into two groups of four. These two groups attended separate tribal councils and had to vote out one member each. The winner of the immunity challenge did not attend either tribal council.
* **Final Tribal Council:** Three finalists faced a jury of six members.

## Season Summary

This season's premerge started off pretty anti-climatic as both the Halting tribe and Continuous tribe faced the first double elimination in where both Ezra and Lobert were voted off respectively due to being inactive. The following double elimination saw the Continuous tribe and Patience tribe go to tribal council and voted off two more inactive players in Bella and Millie respectively. The last round of the merge is where the game really picked up though with the Continuous tribe facing their third straight tribal council Uso was voted off 2-1 after Carter played the Continuous tribe idol and negated a vote against himself. Afterwards, the Patience tribe attended tribal council for the second time and Sylvie used the Patience tribe idol to idol out Bomi after it was clear she was at the bottom of the tribe for voting in the minority at the previous tribal council.

The merge kicked off with 12 players and the auction challenge took place where the castaways were given 500 Saudi Riyals to bid on various items. Joe won immunity for two tribal councils, Carter won a mystery item (later revealed to be an extra vote which was usable until the final 5), Josiah won a mystery item (which was that he had lost his vote at the next two tribal councils), Duke won a dice idol and Sylvie won information about an upcoming twist (which was that a double elimination would happen with the castaways being split into two different groups and each group attending a separate tribal council). The abstain to gain twist was also introduced at this point where castaways could choose to abstain their vote at a tribal council to gain an extra vote at the next one. The Merge tribe were then faced with *another* double elimination in which chaos ensued with Pair using the Halting tribe idol to idol out Sylvie and a tie vote occurred between Pair and Josiah where Pair narrowly escaped elimination again with Josiah being sent home on the revote. Carter quit after Josiah was voted out and the game continued with 9 castaways remaining. The next round began immediately with the castaways being informed that yet *another* double elimination would be occurring and the winner of the immunity challenge would go straight through to the final 7 and wouldn't attend either tribal council. Pair won immunity and was guaranteed a spot in the final 7 while the rest of the 8 castaways were split into two groups. Joe, Appel, Jay and Virgo would attend the tribal council for 9th place while Few, Duke, Beyo and M64 would attend the tribal council for 8th place. Virgo was voted out 3-1 after being screwed as the people she attended tribal council with were not her allies. Twisted Orgs then witnessed its first ever rock draw with Beyo being rocked out of the game after a deadlocked vote occurred between M64 and Few. Beyo then quit being on the jury as a result. The final 7 was a lot slower paced with Joe winning the Saudi Arabia trivia challenge and M64 was unanimously vote out in the first single elimination of the season. It was then the final 6 and Pair managed to win the scavenger hunt challenge guaranteeing herself a spot in the final 5. The Merge tribe then voted off Jay in a near unanimous vote. The 5 final immunity challenge saw the castaways try to complete a series of tasks as quickly as possible and Pair managed to beat the other 4 castaways and win immunity. Duke then played their dice idol and the number it rolled was 2, meaning it negated the 2 of the 3 votes casted for him which sent appel home with 2 votes. The final 4 came and Pair continued their immunity streak as they won the 'I hang on' immunity challenge and guaranteed themselves a spot at the final tribal council. Duke was then voted out unanimously for being too big of a threat to win. At the final tribal council, the jury viewed Pair as a one trick pony, who relied on immunity challenge wins to get to where they were, they saw Few as being under the radar and a good social player but the jury couldn't ignore Joe's dominant villainous game especially at the endgame with him spearheading his close allies Jay's, Appel's and Duke's elimination which is why he was crowned the second Twisted Speed Survivor.

## Trivia

* This is the first speed season to not feature a swap.
* This is the first speed season to feature a deadlocked vote.
	+ This is also the first speed season and first season in Twisted ORGS history to feature a rock draw.
* This speed season currently features the most double tribal councils with 5.
* This is the first speed season in which a castaway quits the game.
	+ This is also the first speed season in which a castaway quits the game after being voted out.
* This speed season currently has the smallest amount of jury members with 6.
* The castaways featured in the speed season two DVD cover are as follows from left to right, top to bottom: Pair, Joe, Few, Jay, Duke and Appel.