How Survivor Works

Survivor has been around for a long time and has a lot of twists to its regular TV format. The online version recreates the experience of the ultimate social experiment. Below are guidelines to how Online Survivor works:

Between 16-24 competitors are broken into two or sometimes three teams, called tribes. They are taken to separate “locations”, or chat groups created by the producers. Each tribe is segregated and can only communicate with those competitors in their tribe chat at the time. Any chats initiated between individuals within that tribe, must include that seasons production members and/or hosts.Within those created “Tribe chats”, tribe members must build relationships and create a team who can compete at different regular online challenges.At regular intervals, the tribes meet for challenges. Some challenges are mental, physical or creative challenges. These will require access to the internet for app downloads, games and access to a camera or video for other challenges. There are two types of challenges. Reward Challenges gain the winning tribe a reward, which may include an advantage at the next immunity challenge, inside information on what is happening at the other tribe or other benefits.

Tree Mail

Tree mail is the on game messaging system from producers/hosts advising participants of challenges, information, storm warnings or for you to check a recent post on the group page.

Immunity Challenges

Immunity Challenges keep the winning tribe safe. The losing tribe must hike to Tribal Council where they meet with the host and answer questions about what has been going on around camp. Each member of the tribe than casts a secret vote to oust a fellow tribe mate. Once everyone has voted, the host tallies the votes, then shares them with the tribe. The person with the most votes must leave the Tribal Council area immediately. The rest of the tribe makes the hike back to camp.

Tribal Council

About halfway through the season, the two tribes merge into one.The entire tribe makes the hike to each Tribal Council. Reward and Immunity Challenges become individual. Sometimes, the winner of the reward challenge is allowed one or two people to share the reward with. The winner of the Immunity Challenge can keep his or her immunity at Tribal Council or may give their immunity to someone else. Immunity keeps them safe from the vote and cannot be voted out.When nine people are left in the game, the people who are voted off at each Tribal Council begin to make up the jury. They leave the tribe chats, but they return to listen in on each Tribal Council. They cannot interact with the remaining contestants. When only two players remain, they come to Tribal Council to face the seven-member jury. The final two state their reasons why they should win. The jury is then allowed to ask them questions. The final two make closing comments and then the jury votes for who should win the title of Sole Survivor. The votes are sealed and revealed at a later date during or after the edited public release of the game , where the Sole Survivor is awarded infinite bragging rights and their avatar upon the Australian Survivor Online honour board. Rules

Participant Standards

  1. Participants must be 18+.
  2. No bullying, racism, sexism or harassment. Show respect to fellow contestants, hosts and producers or observers.
  3. PG Rating. No discussions on drug use, violence, or sexual content.
  4. Contestants must have access to a smart phone, internet enabled with the ability to download apps and a camera to take photos, screenshots and video.
  5. This game is a social game with equivalent time frames to the show. It will be ongoing for around 50 days on some occasions.
  6. This game is designed to be fun and challenging. It is meant to be an experience with similar themes to the actual TV show. Don’t take anything personally.
  7. Any contestant found to be cheating or breaking any of the agreed rules of Australian Online Survivor, or the in-game rules shall be removed from the game at the discretion of producers.
  8. All images, comments and discussions shared between participants become the property of Australian Online Survivor and may be published as part of the Season release of the game.
  9. Producers/Hosts have the final say.

Game Play

  1. All discussions must be within the realm of the game, within the Facebook platform. No external discussions, in any other applications or platforms is permitted. All agreements and game play is within Facebook and must be within the game.
  2. You cannot take screenshots of private chat to show others. You may, however cut and paste the text from chats and edit accordingly to share with tribe members for the benefit of your game.
  3. When requested, you must submit a confessional statement or comments on the progress of the game, within 12 hours of the request.
  4. In game penalties may apply for any rules broken, bad sportsmanship or misconduct and is at the discretion of the producers.
  5. You may create a private alliance chat with as many people from your tribe as you like. You must however add the allocated producers for that season. Some people might need to tweak their security settings to receive these messages from contacts who aren’t your approved Facebook contacts.
  6. Producers will set up Tribe chats. They have the right to change the title of your chat to enable them to track important plot lines and discussions.
  7. All directions by hosts and producers must be followed.