NOTE: This is NOT a ranking of the CBS Survivor seasons it is a ranking of the 1st Generation Suitman's Survivor seasons, a groupgame which began in August 2011 and ended in November 2012.
#2: Heroes vs Villains (Season 15, April-May 2012)
Winner: bekla123 (5-4)
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How to start this.. Well.. When I look back on Heroes vs Villains it just reminds me of how AWESOME IT WAS! God that cast was amazing. I managed to get 10 of the biggest heroes, including the likes of Bekla, Sparks and Punx, and pit them against 10 of the biggest villains, including the likes of BENLINUS, GameTime and Sarge. The pre-merge of this season had a great storyline. Everyone though the Villians would quickly crush the Heroes, but NOPE. It was the other way around. As the Heroes looked like they just kept getting more and more united (even though there were divisions), the Villains continued to split apart as they were loosing until merge hit.
The Heroes were 8-4 up when the tribes merged into Yin Yang, and the first merged tribal awaited. Etaco won the first individual challenge and used his new SPECIAL IMMUNITY to void Hinata from voting. On one side in the game you had the Heroes sitting pretty - RShow, Survivor8, Bekla, Sparks, Punx, Hinata, Kikorus and Leonine. On the other side you have four big player villains - BENLINUS, Millzipede, Sarge and Etaco. The Villains knew that the obvious plan was going to be for the Heroes to pagong the Villains. Except, not all the Heroes wanted to do that. Sparks and Bekla were planning to flip from their Final 6 alliance. Ben knew that with all of them on board, the vote would go in their favor, but he didn't know if he could trust them. Meenwhile, RShow plans the first pagong of the Villins as Sarge, and decides to take command of the Heroes, and get them to all vote Sarge. The Villains found out about this and proceded to plan a risky split vote with Bekla and Sparks, to split between RShow and Survivor8. Ben made it even more riskier by asking Etaco to play his idol on Sarge, well aware that they COULD be lying and that he could be sent home. The vote payed off. 5 votes against Sarge were voided, and RShow was sent onto the Jury with three votes. However, it seemed as if one the flippers didn't flip. Bekla didn't flip. Kikorus however, also had other plans. Kikorus wanted Survivor8 gone, so voted him with the Villains. Sparks stayed put, and voted Survivor8 in the split vote. Sarge then flipped to the Heroes, and told the Heroes all the Villain plans, not thinking he was going to be voted out, but glad Etaco played the idol. He was stunned when the Heroes did vote for him, and the Heroes were also stunned by RShow's boot. The Villains were left to wonder who flipped and who didn't. Everyone was all over the place. Following the events of Tribal previous, EVERYONE was worried. Hinata and Sparks won joint Immunity after a tie in the challenge, and the original plan was for the Villains to vote for Punx, who had gone on a rage at Tribal, shouting at the Heroes that flipped (which they didn't know who they were). Kikorus decided it was too risky to vote for a Hero again, and stayed with the Heroes, while Bekla realised that the Villains could actually overcome the pagong, and used the fact that the Villains THOUGHT she flipped to get on the Villains' good side. The Heroes decided it was finally time for Ben to go. After his rage, Punx was worried he would be a gonner for his outburst, but there were more problems at the Villains side. Sarge had already thought up of the plan to vote out Punx, but Ben said that Survivor8 was more of a threat, and told the Villains to change their votes. The Villains did so, and Sarge was furious. An argument broke out via mail, where Sarge scorned Ben for acting too much like the leader - ordering people to change their votes. After Sarge refused to change his vote to Survivor8, he then voted for Ben for a second tribal in a row. But it didn't matter. Punx, worried he would go, targeted Survivor8 after hearing that some Villains may be doing so. That ment that Punx, Bekla and Sparks' votes were enough to send Survivor8 packing, and Punx was relieved. Ben quickly found out that Sarge had indeed voted for him the previous Tribal. He was absoloutly furious that someone had backstabbed him, and decided that Sarge needed to go, even though he was on his own tribe, and planned a blindside. At the Immunity Challenge, Hinata accepted all the sacrifices accept one which she passed on, and won her second Immunity in a row, but voiding her of being able to vote for the next three Tribals. ben then used this to his advantage. His (still secret) flippers Bekla and Sparks agreed to vote Sarge with Ben. Punx meenwhile was delighted when he heard they were voting out a Villain, and hastily agreed to vote for Sarge. Meenwhile, Ben told his fellow Villains - Millie, Etaco and Sarge - to vote for Leonine. Etaco and Millie agreed with haste, but Sarge was still furious that Ben was acting like the supreme leader. He tried to get the other Heroes that could vote, who were Leonine and Kikorus, to vote for Etaco. But Sarge's fate was sealed and he was packing 4-3-2. Fellow Villains Etaco and Millzipede had no idea what had happened. Leonine decided to step the game up, and get Ben GONE. But when Ben won Immunity at the Auction, that plan fell apart. Millzipede and Etaco were pissed they didn't get any insight into yesterday's vote, and were even more pissed AND worried when they didn't get any mails from their alliance. In a new plan, Millie tried to vote for Ben. Ben was gutted that Millie had now gone behind his back, even though he had gone behind theirs, and planned a split vote between Millie, Kikorus and whoever the Heroes voted, to first of all stop the idol, and then to, if no idol was played, get rid of Millie, or, if he changed his mind, Kikorus. The split vote was almost a success, until Millie voted Sarge insted of Kikorus after dropping her plan to vote Ben. The subsequently vote tied between Etaco and Millie, and Ben now had no second option. When Millie realised she had sealed her own fate, she couldn't do anything. While Etaco was still insistant he was going, Millie was given the boot 4-3, with Benlinus voting for his, in his own words, 'Kort of the Season'. The next day, Bekla decided it was time to get rid of Ben, who was currently running the show. After she won Immunity and got the special power to void someone from voting, she chose Ben. This put final Villains Ben and Etaco in a rough spot. During a heated Tribal, Ben tried to get all the people who were yet to make a move to do one now. But the Villains couldn't budge the new super-alliance of remaining Heroes, and Benlinus was sent packing, leaving Etaco as the Final Villain. Bekla was now in control of the game with her alliance of Heroes, and planned to take Sparks and Punx to the finals. However, Leonine wanted to take Sparks and Kikorus with him to the finals, and so two alliances within the Hero alliance formed. The plans to finally rid the game of Villains was put on hold however when Etaco won Immunity and voided Bekla's vote with Special Immunity. The Alliance had to do something, so they all voted for Hinata, with the exception of Hinata herself, as they thought she had no blood on her hands from not being able to vote for the past few Tribals. Hinata voted for Leonine. Etaco voted for Bekla, who most people thought of as the powerhouse. Hinata was sent to Ponderosa. Etaco knew he HAD to win next Immunity, but he lost out to Bekla, who granted Punx Immunity too with her Special Immunity power. Etaco tried to convice Bekla and Punx to vote with him for Kikorus to tie it up and send it to rocks, but with no luck. The entire five Heroes voted for Etaco and the final Villain was unanimously sent home. The Heroes alliance was now facing off against each other. When Punx won Immunity, Bekla knew it was way too risky to vote out Leonine, as she knew he had the idol, so to keep Punx and Sparks as her final 3, Bekla voted for Kikorus, while she told Leonine and Kikorus that she was voting Punx. Leonine however knew it was too risky to keep her in the game, so he voted for Bekla with Kikorus, thinking that Sparks would vote with him. But Sparks' allegiances were with Bekla, so he voted for Kikorus, who was sent packing. Leonine was left feeling betrayed by Sparks, and knowing that he had to win Final Immunity. But, in the Endurance challenge at Final 4, a small slip-up cost him the challenge - and the game. After Bekla won Immunity, Leonine was the obvious target. But once again Leo put his faith back into Sparks to vote out Punx and cause a tie. But Sparks thought he could beat Bekla due to her pissing off most the Jury, so he betrayed Leo for the second time and Leonine became the ninth and final member of the Jury. At the Final Tribal Council, many of the Jurors lashed out at Bekla for betraying them, but praised her a little for actually making moves. Most of the Jury called Sparks out for totally sheeping Bekla, and not making a move when he could of. The Jury took some time to praise Punx for his brilliant social game, interacting with everyone around him, and he gained Jury votes for that, after many people saying he was a very smart player. However some others said he also clutched on to Bekla too much to stay in the game. In the end, after recieving 5 votes to win, Bekla became the third two-time winner, again on back-to-back seasons. Punx came runner up after recieving 4 votes, almost beating Bekla, but not quite, while Sparks recieved no votes from the Jury at all.
I guess fundamentily what you can say about post-merge is that it wasn't a pagonging from the get go as lots of people thought it would be. The blindsides of RShow and Survivor8 (two Heroes) straight out the gate made it clear that at the merge, the Villains managed to wiggle themselves in and fracture the Hero Six. In theory I think the Villains could have done a Foa Foa and been the Final 5/4, however after the two blindsides of the Heroes, the Villian Four then themselves started to break down, primarily due to Sarge's vote for Ben. This break down caused Sarge's blindside (because he went against Ben), then Millie's blindside (because she went against Ben), and then when you thought the last two Villains might have just wiggled back in, Ben's own blindside, leaving Etaco, who managed to survive one more Tribal by winning a challenge. So no, even after the Hero blindsides were over and the Villains got knocked out one by one, it still wasn't a pagonging because effectively, the Villains managed to take out themselves (or if you want it to be more detailed, Ben's Russell Hantz-like policy screwed the Villains, which would have actually got him the win had he actually had the numbers). Obviously after that things toned down a bit because Bekla Queen'd her way to the end. Let's be honest, only Bekla can backstab everyone in the game yet have a social game so damn good she STILL managed to win. Comments on the other Heroes: Uhmm.. Sheep. Apart from RShow and Survivor8.. Who Bekla helped get rid of straight after the merge. And maybe Punxy because no one messes with the Punxysaur :D Case closed.
Fave Castaway on Season = Bekla, the one and only true Queen. BOWN DOWN NOW.
You completely forgot about my amazing blindside in the pre-merge where I split up the GameTime/Sarge final 2 deal. Where I used my idol to stop my elimination, and made me and Etaco vote for different people in order to pit the final 2 against each other. :(
The villains could have completely dominated the season like you said, if Ben hadn't gone all Hantz on us. He secretly targeted all of the villains behind our backs, but as soon as we turned on him it was the work of the devil :L
The villains could have completely dominated the season like you said, if Ben hadn't gone all Hantz on us. He secretly targeted all of the villains behind our backs, but as soon as we turned on him it was the work of the devil :L
This kinda justifies my hasty move against Ben at the first Villains' TC, even if it led to my demise.
NOTE: This is NOT a ranking of the CBS Survivor seasons it is a ranking of the 1st Generation Suitman's Survivor seasons, a groupgame which began in August 2011 and ended in November 2012.