Hello everyone, our sixth season of Survivor will be starting very soon! My co-hosts this time around will be rssp1 and Da Letter El. This season, we're looking for a mix of returnees and new players, so if you're a veteran to Survivor here on Smogon or if this is your first go around and you're interested, we'd love to have you join!
This season we're flexible on the cast size, but we won't be as big of a cast as S3 so that the game moves at a decent pace. Currently, we aim for the game to start quite soon (within a week) and the anticipated game length will be between 39 and 55 days. Sign ups may or may not be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Update: Discord server https://discord.gg/7HHW22s
This game will be hosted both here on Smogon and on a discord server. The rules and set up are pretty much the same as past seasons, except we're aiming to keep things more organized into a single discord server with permission-set channels.
Tentatively, the season is called "F F F" and what the letters stand for won't be revealed until the game starts.
Application process:
To sign up, you must reply stating that you have read the rules and by stating some sort of variation of "in" within the thread. Saying "in" without saying you have read the rules will make you ineligible to play. Additionally, you must complete a very brief casting questionnaire, found directly below. Only send answers to me via Smogon or Discord PM; do not post answers in this thread. Answers to the questions will determine a) who makes it into the season if there's too many people that sign up and b) will potentially help sort out the original tribes.
1) Are you someone who is normally confident with your gut, initial reaction or do you doubt your first decisions frequently? Explain as applicable.
2) What is your past experience with Survivor? Include both your familiarity with TV survivor and your participation in Survivor games inside/outside of Smogon.
3) Do you consider yourself to have quick problem solving and the ability to do well with puzzles and riddles? If so, explain a little bit to show how.
4) Are you willing to regularly share your private thoughts regarding the game with the hosts? (Are you willing to have active "confessionals"?)
5) How active do you think you will be in the game? What timezone are you in and what times can you usually play the game?
6) Why do you want to play this game and/or why do you think you'd do well?
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Current applicants:
1. Whydon
2. MathTurtle
3. Ragmatho
4. InfernoDragon
5. Trace
6. vooper
7. PokeMariTatoe
8. tonithetourguide
9. concuss
10. ajhockeystar
11. Jalmont
12. MK007
13. Aaronboyer
14. bluedoom
15. Huston
16. RODAN
17. Energy
18. Shubaka17
19. OM Room
20. Drookez
21. Laurel
This season we're flexible on the cast size, but we won't be as big of a cast as S3 so that the game moves at a decent pace. Currently, we aim for the game to start quite soon (within a week) and the anticipated game length will be between 39 and 55 days. Sign ups may or may not be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Update: Discord server https://discord.gg/7HHW22s
This game will be hosted both here on Smogon and on a discord server. The rules and set up are pretty much the same as past seasons, except we're aiming to keep things more organized into a single discord server with permission-set channels.
Tentatively, the season is called "F F F" and what the letters stand for won't be revealed until the game starts.
1. Game Basics:
-Don't seek help from people outside of the game. Do not talk to people about the game with people not on your current tribe.
-During the Day phases of the game there will be immunity challenges. Immunity challenges decide who is safe and who has to go to Tribal Council.
-During the Tribal Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost as a whole tribe. The tribe(s) that lose(s) in the immunity challenge will have to go to Tribal Council and vote someone out.
-During the Individual Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost by a single person. The winner of the immunity challenge cannot be voted upon, but (s)he will be able to vote.
-Idols and advantages, including but not limited to extra votes, may or may not be hidden in the game and may be rewarded to the first player(s) to find them.
-Idols or advantages may or may not be rehidden after being played
2. Challenges
-Challenges are the tasks that players or tribes will compete in to win immunity and be safe from Tribal Council. The challenges themselves will all vary and will typically not be very similar to one another.
-At the start of the Day phase, the details of the challenge will be posted.
-During Tribal (Team) challenges, some players may have to sit out some of the challenges (usually to make even teams). Players cannot sit out during two consecutive challenges unless otherwise stated.
3. Tribal Council:
-Tribal Council will occur at the Night phase after the Immunity Challenge. There will be a private vote to see who is eliminated from the game. Votes will take place in discord DM or Smogon convo with the hosts. You may switch your vote a total of three times before the votes are read. This is three times THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE GAME. If you’ve used all three and you try to switch your vote again, you will not be allowed to do so. You can use multiple of these vote changes during one tribal council, so be sure of what you are voting before you submit it! It is ok if you take time to do this, just make sure it isn’t too long and that you submit your votes before the deadline. Voting deadlines are typically 24 hours after the immunity challenge.
-Before you're allowed to vote, the hosts may post questions for you to publicly answer in your tribe's Tribal Council chat.
-The vote total will be revealed to the tribe at the end of the night, but the hosts will not announce who voted for who.
-If any hidden immunity idols are played, all the votes cast against the player who used the HII will be negated.
-In case of an initial tie, there will be a re-vote where you can only vote for one of the people with the most votes. For example, if there are 3 votes for Player A, 3 votes for Player B, and 1 vote for Player C in a 7 man tribe, you may only vote for Player A or B during the re-vote. Additionally, the players with the most votes in the original vote will not be able to cast a new vote in the revote.
-In case of a second tie, the player who leaves will be determined by a random number generator. The players who tied for the most votes both times will be safe from this tiebreaker. In the previous example, players A and B would be safe, as would any player that has immunity or played an idol correctly. -Players voted out (aka dead) cannot be communicated with following their removal from the game. There will be absolutely no communication between dead players and alive players regarding the game. This will change when the game reaches its conclusion, but until then, this rule will be strictly enforced.
-At a certain point, those voted out will form the Jury. The Jury is special in that they follow the game in order to vote for a winner at the end of the game.
4. Winning the Game:
-The goal of the game is to reach the Final Tribal Council, which typically occurs with just two or three people left in the game. You cannot win the game unless you make it to the Final Tribal Council.
-At the Final Tribal Council, the remaining players in the game speak to the jury and try to convince the jury that they deserve to win the game.
-Each finalist is allowed to make an opening statement on why they deserve to win the game. Following opening statements, each Jury member is allowed to make either a statement or ask the finalists a question if they choose to. They may say or ask whatever they want. An open and public dialogue may occur, and back-and-forth conversations with many members is encouraged.
-When everyone is done speaking, the jury will vote privately on who wins the game. Whoever gets the most votes wins.
5. Forum/Discord Mechanics:
-A typical phase will go like this: A host will post a challenge and the rules. The challenge will take place over the following day or two. The losing tribe will then go to tribal council where they will vote a person off. Some challenges may be a little different, but this is how a majority of them will go.
-The voting stage will start immediately after a challenge and end within 24 hours. Extensions will be rare, so don't expect them. -Inactive players who fail to vote will place an unconditional and public vote for themselves.
-No anonymous nicks will be allowed for the purposes of this game. No impersonating as well. You will be punished if caught.
-There will be a designated discord sever for the game with private channels for the individual tribes. You can also privately PM people ONLY on your tribe, but to have an alliance chat with more than 2 players you need to make a request in your confessional space for the hosts to create an alliance channel. If it's time sensitive and the hosts aren't online, you may temporarily make a discord group outside of the server but you MUST invite the hosts to that. Once any alliance is formed, a new chat/channel has to be created if members are to be added.
6. All Smogon/Circus behavior rules are enforced. Notably, this includes: -
Don't be excessively harsh to other players, hosts, or members of the production team.
-Don't share screenshots to players inside the game about game related content.
7. Rules are subject to change upon Host Discretion.
-Don't seek help from people outside of the game. Do not talk to people about the game with people not on your current tribe.
-During the Day phases of the game there will be immunity challenges. Immunity challenges decide who is safe and who has to go to Tribal Council.
-During the Tribal Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost as a whole tribe. The tribe(s) that lose(s) in the immunity challenge will have to go to Tribal Council and vote someone out.
-During the Individual Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost by a single person. The winner of the immunity challenge cannot be voted upon, but (s)he will be able to vote.
-Idols and advantages, including but not limited to extra votes, may or may not be hidden in the game and may be rewarded to the first player(s) to find them.
-Idols or advantages may or may not be rehidden after being played
2. Challenges
-Challenges are the tasks that players or tribes will compete in to win immunity and be safe from Tribal Council. The challenges themselves will all vary and will typically not be very similar to one another.
-At the start of the Day phase, the details of the challenge will be posted.
-During Tribal (Team) challenges, some players may have to sit out some of the challenges (usually to make even teams). Players cannot sit out during two consecutive challenges unless otherwise stated.
3. Tribal Council:
-Tribal Council will occur at the Night phase after the Immunity Challenge. There will be a private vote to see who is eliminated from the game. Votes will take place in discord DM or Smogon convo with the hosts. You may switch your vote a total of three times before the votes are read. This is three times THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE GAME. If you’ve used all three and you try to switch your vote again, you will not be allowed to do so. You can use multiple of these vote changes during one tribal council, so be sure of what you are voting before you submit it! It is ok if you take time to do this, just make sure it isn’t too long and that you submit your votes before the deadline. Voting deadlines are typically 24 hours after the immunity challenge.
-Before you're allowed to vote, the hosts may post questions for you to publicly answer in your tribe's Tribal Council chat.
-The vote total will be revealed to the tribe at the end of the night, but the hosts will not announce who voted for who.
-If any hidden immunity idols are played, all the votes cast against the player who used the HII will be negated.
-In case of an initial tie, there will be a re-vote where you can only vote for one of the people with the most votes. For example, if there are 3 votes for Player A, 3 votes for Player B, and 1 vote for Player C in a 7 man tribe, you may only vote for Player A or B during the re-vote. Additionally, the players with the most votes in the original vote will not be able to cast a new vote in the revote.
-In case of a second tie, the player who leaves will be determined by a random number generator. The players who tied for the most votes both times will be safe from this tiebreaker. In the previous example, players A and B would be safe, as would any player that has immunity or played an idol correctly. -Players voted out (aka dead) cannot be communicated with following their removal from the game. There will be absolutely no communication between dead players and alive players regarding the game. This will change when the game reaches its conclusion, but until then, this rule will be strictly enforced.
-At a certain point, those voted out will form the Jury. The Jury is special in that they follow the game in order to vote for a winner at the end of the game.
4. Winning the Game:
-The goal of the game is to reach the Final Tribal Council, which typically occurs with just two or three people left in the game. You cannot win the game unless you make it to the Final Tribal Council.
-At the Final Tribal Council, the remaining players in the game speak to the jury and try to convince the jury that they deserve to win the game.
-Each finalist is allowed to make an opening statement on why they deserve to win the game. Following opening statements, each Jury member is allowed to make either a statement or ask the finalists a question if they choose to. They may say or ask whatever they want. An open and public dialogue may occur, and back-and-forth conversations with many members is encouraged.
-When everyone is done speaking, the jury will vote privately on who wins the game. Whoever gets the most votes wins.
5. Forum/Discord Mechanics:
-A typical phase will go like this: A host will post a challenge and the rules. The challenge will take place over the following day or two. The losing tribe will then go to tribal council where they will vote a person off. Some challenges may be a little different, but this is how a majority of them will go.
-The voting stage will start immediately after a challenge and end within 24 hours. Extensions will be rare, so don't expect them. -Inactive players who fail to vote will place an unconditional and public vote for themselves.
-No anonymous nicks will be allowed for the purposes of this game. No impersonating as well. You will be punished if caught.
-There will be a designated discord sever for the game with private channels for the individual tribes. You can also privately PM people ONLY on your tribe, but to have an alliance chat with more than 2 players you need to make a request in your confessional space for the hosts to create an alliance channel. If it's time sensitive and the hosts aren't online, you may temporarily make a discord group outside of the server but you MUST invite the hosts to that. Once any alliance is formed, a new chat/channel has to be created if members are to be added.
6. All Smogon/Circus behavior rules are enforced. Notably, this includes: -
Don't be excessively harsh to other players, hosts, or members of the production team.
-Don't share screenshots to players inside the game about game related content.
7. Rules are subject to change upon Host Discretion.
Application process:
To sign up, you must reply stating that you have read the rules and by stating some sort of variation of "in" within the thread. Saying "in" without saying you have read the rules will make you ineligible to play. Additionally, you must complete a very brief casting questionnaire, found directly below. Only send answers to me via Smogon or Discord PM; do not post answers in this thread. Answers to the questions will determine a) who makes it into the season if there's too many people that sign up and b) will potentially help sort out the original tribes.
1) Are you someone who is normally confident with your gut, initial reaction or do you doubt your first decisions frequently? Explain as applicable.
2) What is your past experience with Survivor? Include both your familiarity with TV survivor and your participation in Survivor games inside/outside of Smogon.
3) Do you consider yourself to have quick problem solving and the ability to do well with puzzles and riddles? If so, explain a little bit to show how.
4) Are you willing to regularly share your private thoughts regarding the game with the hosts? (Are you willing to have active "confessionals"?)
5) How active do you think you will be in the game? What timezone are you in and what times can you usually play the game?
6) Why do you want to play this game and/or why do you think you'd do well?
---
Current applicants:
1. Whydon
2. MathTurtle
3. Ragmatho
4. InfernoDragon
5. Trace
6. vooper
7. PokeMariTatoe
8. tonithetourguide
9. concuss
10. ajhockeystar
11. Jalmont
12. MK007
13. Aaronboyer
14. bluedoom
15. Huston
16. RODAN
17. Energy
18. Shubaka17
19. OM Room
20. Drookez
21. Laurel
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