Survivor: Know Your Enemies

Survivor: Know Your Enemies is a Large Social Game which took place between Aug 31, 2020 and October 19, 2020. It was moderated by zoraster and PrivateI. SummerInWonderland defeated tris and Aristophanes in a 7-0-0 vote.

Players

Player	Original Tribe	Swap Tribe	2nd Swap Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish
Grody	Bangkok				1st Voted Out 24th Place
T-Bone	Alexandria				1st Voted Out 24th Place
rahldahla	Alexandria				3rd Voted Out 22nd Place
kdowns	Alexandria				4th Voted Out 21st Place
Reundo	Casablanca	Delhi			5th Voted Out 20th Place
Gammagooey	Casablanca	Delhi			6th Voted Out 19th Place
CreativeMod1	Alexandria	El Paso			7th Voted Out 18th Place
Cheery Dog	Casablanca	El Paso			8th Voted Out 17th Place
VashtaNeurotic	Bangkok	Delhi	Florence		9th Voted Out 16th Place
animorpherv1	Bangkok	El Paso	Florence		10th Voted Out 15th Place
Aronis	Casablanca	El Paso	Florence		11th Voted Out 14th Place
DeasVail	Alexandria	El Paso	Guadalajara		12th Voted Out 13th Place
Mist7676	Bangkok	Delhi	Guadalajara	Honolulu	13th Voted Out 12th Place
D3f3nd3r	Bangkok	Delhi	Guadalajara	Honolulu	14th Voted Out 1st Juror
DK	Bangkok	El Paso	Guadalajara	Honolulu	15th Voted Out 2nd Juror
Pine	Bangkok	Delhi	Guadalajara	Honolulu	16th Voted Out 3rd Juror
Awoo	Alexandria	El Paso	Florence	Honolulu	17th Voted Out 4th Juror
Espeonage	Casablanca	Delhi	Florence	Honolulu	18th Voted Out 5th Juror
Haschel Cedricson	Casablanca	El Paso	Guadalajara	Honolulu	19th Voted Out 6th Juror
SleepyKrew	Casablanca	El Paso	Guadalajara	Honolulu	20th Voted Out 7th Juror
Malkon05	Bangkok	Delhi	Florence	Honolulu	21st Voted Out 8th Juror
Aristophanes	Alexandria	El Paso	Florence	Honolulu	Runner-up 3rd place
tris	Casablanca	Delhi	Guadalajara	Honolulu	Runner-up 3rd place
SummerInWonderland	Alexandria	Delhi	Florence	Honolulu	Sole Survivor 1st place

Voting History

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Synopsis

Episode 1A: Neither Alliance is My Ideal

Challenge 1: Search Your Heart (And The Web)

New tribes Alexandria, Bangkok, and Casablanca competed in a speed trivia competition that allowed outside resources. Tribe members assigned themselves to a category and earned a point for their tribe by giving a correct answer faster than their competitors assigned to the same category.

T-Bone (Science) was the only one to earn a point for Alexandria. D3f3nd3r (Soc. Studies), Mist7676 (Sundries), and DK (Bangkok) scored for Bangkok. Aronis (Speeches), SleepyKrew (Sports), Cheery Dog (Stories), and Reundo (Survivor) earned Casablanca safety. Challenge performance seemed to factor little in subsequent discussion of who to vote out. For submitting the fastest correct answer, SleepyKrew earned an Avoidance Advantage.

New Tribes

On Casablanca, the social scene moves at a slower pace than the other tribes, even before they found out they won immunity. Espeonage and Haschel attempt voice chats, but don't seem to come out of it too positively. Haschel has a better vc with Aronis later. {SleepyKrew, Haschel} and {Espeonage, Aronis} joke about forming F2s. Could these be the start of more serious connections?

Cheery, tris, and Gamma are named as possibly being in trouble should there be a tribal council, but particularly Cheery. Cheery realizes this and wants to improve his standing. tris confesses wariness of Esp from their previous game. Gamma begins forming an alliance with SleepyKrew and Espeonage. Aronis is close with Espeonage and wants to connect more with Reundo. Aronis muses in a voice confessional over how to be the right amount of aggressive. It's not necessarily clear what everyone thinks of their tribemates on Cassablanca: they're still feeling it out, it seems.

On Bangkok, grody seems to be a clear outsider due to relative inactivity, though he is liked by Vash. The first night of the game, there is a 644-message group chat between {Pine, Malkon, Mist, and DK} where they discuss the Sequester game DK is modding, and socially bond. Meanwhile, Malkon allies with Vash on the basis of them being former Survivor winners and threats. The elephant in the room is Vash wanting to work with D3f, and Malkon not wanting to.

Ani and Malkon also hit it off early on. Pine and Mist put the drama of Survivor: PD behind them and seem to be a strong pair. DK confesses to thinking of Malkon as a friend outside of the game, while Malkon is wary based on the last game they played together. Vash and D3f also seem wary of DK based on his reputation and play in the most recent non-anon. While the actual Sequester group chat isn't active the next day, it as a faction seems to have staying power.

Meanwhile, Vash makes the "A Spicy 5 Some" group chat for the alliance of {Malkon, D3f, ani, and Vash}, which has yet to get much use for game talk. Pine hosts Jackbox for the tribe, which most of them participate in. The episode title comes from Malkon, who is caught in the middle of two alliances he isn't entirely happy with and hopes to avoid future tribals...but is also fitting of situations going on on Alexandria.

On Alexandria, initially rahldahla is absent and T-Bone makes a bit of a poor impression on some tribemates. It's a relatively quiet first night for the tribe, with Summer and CMod most notably staying up quite late chatting. Both express wariness of each other but seem to be a budding pair. Ari and T-Bone, formerly on the List Mod team together, are also a clear pair. Awoo, initially hoping for T-Bone to be an easy boot, finds that they connect after some game talk. Awoo forms a plan to build an alliance of {T-Bone, Summer, Ari} with CMod as his "side bae". Thus, the Boots on the Mooooo'n group chat forms. This group seems settled on a rahl vote. However, Summer and CMod find T-Bone's lack of non-game talk, and seemingly stronger connection to Ari, off-putting.

Meanwhile, kdowns forms an alliance with DV and CMod, and they decide to add Summer and rahl to make 5. In confessional, DV makes it clear he wants Awoo to stay. Some drama ensues about T-Bone and kdowns, with kdowns taking offense that T-Bone seems to have made it sound like kdowns was actively pushing rahl as a vote. The "Love shack <3" group chat forms, which CMod praises the vibe of. They propose a T-Bone vote. rahl finds T-Bone the most boring and is fine with this. CMod and Summer begin to plot through how to handle being in the midst of two majority alliances, and end up pulling in Awoo to a "Meow" chat of swing votes. As they talk through options, CMod pushes hard for a T-Bone vote. In confessional, Summer and Awoo both feel alienated by kdowns and confess interest in voting him out soon if not now. It seems this tribe may make ample use of this extended tribal council phase.

Episode 1B: Probably Survivor Suicide

On Casablanca, we see our first alliances forming. Gamma follows through on "The Haulers" alliance he has planned, and confesses to wanting to do more game talk with Reundo, but wanting to be careful about overplaying and accidentally ending up in a 2nd alliance. Haschel and Reundo declare "Intent to Work Together," which is not quite an alliance, but both seem to feel positively about this arrangement. SleepyKrew worries he's overplaying, but decides to put together "The Usual Suspects" as a secondary group. Aronis confesses that he feels he's improved from the "mid to low" part of the tribe to being able to "set [himself] up" to be better positioned and have better access to information as a result of avoiding TC. Esp continues to confess that he has a poor opinion of Haschel based on their early voice call. For the rest of the tribe, the main people being mentioned as a little hard to connect with still seem to be Cheery, Gamma, and tris.

On Bangkok, as ani jokes, they have their priorities straight -- we're hearing more about ways they're trying to utilize the non-anon format to play games together than about any possibility of votes changing. One development is that ani, who figured out very quickly that there are Discord groups assigned to tribes starting with the letters E, F, G and H, has separately shared that information to Malkon and Vash. In the Pathfinder Bois group, a djinn and a red panda squad are getting designed. DK seems worried about his spot in the tribe, seeing the MS LSG meta as rather quick-paced. D3f expresses wariness of his allies as being strong players. ani mentions bonding with Pine and that he expects this to be an important relationship.

Vash says he and Mist are connecting based on physics, but Mist has a rather low opinion of him. Pine confesses he feels closest with Mist and Malkon, and that a big move against Vash may be warranted due to Vash's apparent threat level relative to the rest of the tribe. grody is well aware he's on the outs, and jokes that the numbers alliance got him. ani consents to being the alternate vote. Grody is voted out 7-1.

By contrast, our Alexandria tribe is still actively decision-making until quite a while through this TC. kdowns is ill, but is surprised he's been as strategically active as he has been so far by starting up the group alliances he's part of. Awoo warns T-Bone that he is rubbing his allies the wrong way and raises the idea to T-Bone of a "slow pivot" to kdowns. T-Bone's reaction is to warn kdowns. kdowns speaks to DV and CMod in their group chat to fact check, and kdowns seems to conclude that T-Bone is full of it. Awoo learns that kdowns sees this vote as being pretty settled for T-Bone. Awoo and Summer are woeful in confessional that they have less agency on the tribe than CMod seems to, though Awoo seems to find it a little exhilarating. On the other hand, Summer is struggling with feeling like her relationships are too obvious, and that she doesn't think she's the social center of the tribe.

CMod breaks the news to Ari that T-Bone's social game isn't going over well and he's probably going to be the vote. Ari gives his perspective on it in a touching video confessional. The episode title is a nod to Ari's awareness that he is loyal to a fault. He accepts that T-Bone may be voted out, but will not vote for him and will keep trying to save him. Ari tries to swing {Summer, Awoo, DV} to help, but DV just isn't on board with it and Summer helps Ari accept this. Summer confesses that Ari's play around T-Bone makes her less confident about working with him than when the tribe started. DV continues to confess to feeling close with Awoo, despite them not being in a group alliance together. rahl hasn't connected with T-Bone and still seems quite content that this is the vote. The tribe blindsides T-Bone with 6 votes, with the other 2 going toward rahl.