Skatevivor: The X-Files

***Skatevivor: The X-Files*** is the third season of Skatevivor. Its theme is based off the TV show *The X-Files*.

Final Tribal Council resulted in a 6-3-1 vote in favor of Gia, making her *Skatevivor*'s third Sole Survivor.

## Hosts

This season was hosted by Dio, Grim, Ninja, Isabel, and Christine.

## Twists

**Abductions**: During the pre-merge, the losing tribe abducted a member of the winning tribe for the duration of Tribal Council. The Abductee could not communicate with their old tribemates and could not vote at the losing tribe's Tribal Council.

## Idols

Tribal immunity idol.Individual immunity idol.

### Hidden Immunity Idols

There was one hidden immunity idol hidden at each of the starting tribe's camps, as well as one hidden at the Area 51 camp.

Scully Tribe hidden immunity idol.Mulder Tribe hidden immunity idol.Area 51 Tribe hidden immunity idol.

## Season summary

*The X-Files* began with the 18 players divided into two tribes of 9, Mulder and Scully. The Mulder tribe almost immediately proved to be the more chaotic of the two tribes, while the Scully tribe was relatively quiet. A semi-public idol hunt led to Alex finding the Mulder idol and Nate D. finding the Scully idol on the first night of the game. Alex's early (and obvious) idol hunting put her on the outs on her tribe, especially when some of her tribemates completed the hunt and discovered the idol was gone. An Abduction twist was introduced, where the losing tribe had to choose someone to abduct from the winning tribe to sit in on their Tribal Council.

On Scully, Moss used his knowledge about the idol hunt to build trust with Cadence. Rob was eliminated first in an unanimous vote when Scully lost the first immunity challenge. When Mulder attended the second tribal council of the season, their vote was much less straightforward. A majority alliance of James, Christina, Gia, Dark, and Wolfric formed and, after debating whether or not to split the vote, decided to split between Alex and Mani. Gia leaked the vote to Alex and told her to play her idol. With just around an hour left before the vote, Mani told Alex to vote Wolfric with him and Tricky. Alex played her idol, negating four votes against her and eliminating Wolfric with just 3 votes against him.

Wolfric's blindside drastically shaped the rest of the game. An early tribe swap occurred right at the Final 16, resulting in a 5-3 split on both tribes. Mulder 2.0 was made up of an OG Mulder majority of James, Christina, Dark, Tori, and Tricky and an OG Scully Minority of Cadence, Nate D. and Meghan. On Scully 2.0, the OG Scully majority was made up of Andrew, Garrett, Emily, Jamie and Moss with Gia, Mani, and Alex in the minority from OG Mulder. When James took the immunity badge during Greed to avoid a joint tribal, he and his allies Tori, Dark, and Christina decided to blindside Tricky and try to spook Nate D. into playing his idol. Their plan worked, and Nate D.'s idol was flushed. Nate D. and James' relationship worsened after Greed and Tribal Council, and Nate D. was eliminated unanimously when Mulder 2.0 attended Tribal yet again.

Despite morale being low on Mulder 2.0, they finally managed to win immunity and send Scully 2.0 to Tribal Council. While Garrett and Gia were initially targeted, the vote ultimately shifted to Andrew when Jamie fought to protect the people who participated in the immunity challenge (herself, Garrett, Gia, and Emily). Andrew was eliminated unanimously in 14th place, and the two tribes were shocked to discover they were merging at Final 13. The Hosts had to veto proposed Merge tribe names until the castaways finally chose Area 51 as their tribe name.

Alex found the merge idol, which required her to, among other things, make a randomly generated alliance with six other players and speak in it. Garrett became the first member of the Jury after being targeted as an "easy" vote due to his lack of connections. James was blindsided in a 9-3 vote the following round, leaving Tori and Christina on the outs. At the Auction, Mani won Safety Without Power and Emily won the ability to trigger back-to-back tribal councils. Mani, having already leaked Alex's merge idol after helping her find it, decided to turn against her. Alex was blindsided in a chaotic 6-3-2 vote with the idol in her pocket.

Final 10 was poised to be another chaotic round, but Christina ultimately asked to be voted out of the tribe for mental health reasons and went to join the jury. Cadence won immunity at the Final 9, and Mani's name came up as a potential vote but Moss pushed for one of Dark or Gia to go instead. The tribe imploded in in the last few hours leading up to the vote, with everyone on the tribe being targeted except Jamie and Cadence (who was immune). The votes all came in last minute, and Dark was eliminated in a close 5-4 vote. Gia, Emily, and Jamie found themselves at the bottom of the tribe. Gia made a plan to use a fake idol to try to save herself, and Jamie was eliminated unanimously the following round as a perceived jury threat.

Meghan, Moss, and Cadence began to be perceived as a strong trio, with Meghan as the biggest threat. However, Tori was blindsided in 7th place instead of Meghan when Emily and Gia voted with the trio instead of breaking them up. After Meghan won Final 6 immunity, Mani tried to get Moss to use his Safety Without Power or get Gia or Emily to go to rocks for him, but was eliminated unanimously instead. Mani's elimination left Gia as the last OG Mulder standing.

The Meghan, Moss, and Cadence trio was firmly in power at the Final Five. Moss, immune and having realized he needed to cut his ally, decided to vote her out. He told Cadence, who wasn't happy with the plan but voted Meghan out since she had no other choice. When Moss won final immunity, he made the difficult decision to turn on his close ally Cadence. It looked like the vote would most likely come down to firemaking between Cadence and Emily, but Moss and Emily ended up changing their votes from Cadence to Gia. Gia beat Emily in firemaking, securing a spot at Final Tribal Council.

The Jury was impressed with all three players and Final Tribal Council was competitive. Moss knew he had to do a lot to convince the Jury that his more UTR gameplay was deserving of the win, especially since he was sitting next to his close ally Cadence, who had a more visible game and survived to the end despite her threat level. Ultimately, Gia's compelling underdog story and ability to overcome the odds was enough to swing the Jury in her favor, and she won the game over Cadence and Moss in a 6-3-1 vote.

At the Reunion, Meghan won Fan Favorite and Moss won Player of the Season. Cadence won Hero of the Season, Mani won Villain of the Season, Alex won Best Narrator, Andrew won most robbed pre-juror, and Alex and Dark were voted the players specs most wanted to see play again.