Twists

Since this was the original season, there were no twists unless one would count for the surprises shown throughout the duration of the competition.

However there were some examples in the season in which a player was sent to Exile Island not by another player, but by other circumstances. During the first instance used, Pentolach was sent to Exile Island simply for choosing the wrong hole to dig down. During the Hot Seat Auction, Sonato was sent to Exile Island by purchasing the wrong item which was kept a secret from the players until someone had already bought it.

Before the season started, the confirmed cast was asked to deliberate among themselves in order to choose colors to represent their player identities. Most players chose the colors that best suited their personal preferences.

The players were informed before the start of the season that in their survival experience they would immediately be accommodated with a "players' village". This setup included a communal wheat farm, (which was very soon plundered and never replanted) player tents adorned with the respective color of all six players (each of which were established with a bed, a crafting table and a shulker box) and a set of lights to keep hostile mobs from spawning in the vicinity at night. Players were allowed to alter the player village however they wanted in order to benefit their prosperity in the survival aspect of the game.

Challenge and Elimination Summaries

Round 1

• Before their survival experience began in the game, all six players were led to their first event. They were given a survey to fill out which included eight questions for them to answer. These questions had to do with the players' pre-season impressions of the other contestants, and the players were required to record their response to these questions by answering with the name of any of the six players in the game. Players were allowed to write their own name down if they thought it as the best answer to put down. This was an activity to get players thinking about others' perceptions of them. The eight questions and the players' answers are listed below:

Who deserves to win this game? - _DiamondPierce_ (3 Votes), Pentolach (1 Vote), pjanicelli (1 Vote)

Who would be eliminated first? - Sonato (2 Votes), pjanicelli (2 Votes), _DiamondPierce_ (1 Vote)

Who has bad sportsmanship? - Charredfreak11 (3 Votes), Pentolach (2 Votes)

Who'd have the best social game? - CMan2717 (2 Votes), Pentolach (1 Vote), Sonato (1 Vote), Charredfreak11 (1 Vote)

Who would be the most cocky? - Charredfreak11 (3 Votes), Sonato (2 Votes)

Who is not threat-worthy? - CMan2717 (2 Votes), _DiamondPierce_ (1 Vote), Pentolach (1 Vote), Sonato (1 Vote)

Who would be the most average? - _DiamondPierce_ (2 Votes), CMan2717 (2 Votes), pjanicelli (1 Vote)

Who has the best shot to win? - Pentolach (3 Votes), Charredfreak11 (1 Vote), CMan2717 (1 Vote)

• The players were told that for each question, they would record their answer by taking a book from several chests (There were five books in each of eight chests, enough to record the each player's respective answer for all questions in an organized way) and then place the book once answered back in those same chests. Before playing the second part of the challenge, all players would move to the colored wool block of their respective player color, on which they would stand. In front of each player were three levers, representing the three lives they had in the next part of the challenge. One at a time, the survey questions were read aloud, and for each question, the players would place a sign in front of their standing positions, stating the answer not that they themselves gave, but the answer which they thought was the most answered by the majority of the players. The host would then reveal the most stated player answered for the question, and whoever guessed the majority consensus correctly would be allowed to switch on one of three levers of any opponent they attempted to try eliminating from the competition. Anyone who did not guess correctly would not get the ability to switch a lever for that question. If all three of player's levers were switched on, they would be out of the challenge.
• The players had various perceptions amongst each other. Many negative traits were put onto Charredfreak11 and pjanicelli, while CMan2717 and _DiamondPierce_ were given mostly positive traits by the players. Quickly after 2 rounds, Pentolach was eliminated. Sonato and pjanicelli's inactive presence were thereafter eliminated in the next round. For the first few rounds, _DiamondPierce_, CMan2717 and Charredfreak11 took no hits to their switches because they secretly decided to team up. Since those players were the ones getting their guesses of the consensus correct, they didn't worry about others touching their switches. CMan2717 however was targeted after Question 4, and he was soon eliminated at the end of Question 5. For Questions 5 and 6, both times _DiamondPierce_ and Charredfreak11 got the consensus incorrect, halting any flips of their switches. On Question 8 though, both remaining players were at one switch left. Charredfreak11 chose _DiamondPierce_ as the player with the best shot to win, but _DiamondPierce_ perceptively chose Pentolach, and was correct, making _DiamondPierce_ the winner of the First Impressions Activity and the recipient of the secret book with the advantage.
• It was later known that _DiamondPierce_ broke one of the books' rules for holding the advantage. The rule that _DiamondPierce_ would not be able to share the details of the advantage until it was used was broken very soon after he obtained it. _DiamondPierce_ told CMan2717 about the powers of the advantage and the host decided to rule that he would have to give it up to someone else, not being able to use the advantage for himself. _DiamondPierce_ gave it to CMan2717 to be used at a later time.

Bonus Challenge 2 (Catchup Challenge) - CHAOS

Rewards: 4 Points (Only bottom half can win points, the top half prevents the addition of points)

Winning Player: _DiamondPierce_

• Unlike other challenges, only the players currently in the bottom half in the ranks (_DiamondPierce_, CMan2717 and pjanicelli) were able to earn the 4 points. The top half players (Pentolach, Charredfreak11 and Sonato) were only able to prevent any addition of points by winning.
• In front of the players at the start was a simple parkour course, filled with a combination stone brick stairs and iron fences. At the end of this course stood a pillar of stone bricks suspended in the air with ladders attatched to it, which led up to a black Skulker Box. Inside the shulker box was a paper titled "4 Point Note". When told to start, the players would begin a free-for-all race to take out the paper from the shulker box, only accesible by completing the parkour course without being hit off by any other player. Players were told before the start of the challenge that they could use any items or tools which they had present in their survival inventory. The person who brought back the paper to the starting line would win the challenge.
• This challenge lasted less than 45 seconds. Due to the directional confusion of pjanicelli, the lack of skill present in CMan2717 and Pentolach's PvP skills, and the slowness of Charredfreak and Sonato to catch up with the eventual winner of this challenge, _DiamondPierce_ was easily able to reach the end pillar and climb up the ladder without being knocked off, and come back to the starting line with the note in his grasp. Because _DiamondPierce_ was then at the time fourth place out of the six, he was able to earn the 4 points and advance to first place.

Round 2

• Players were told to come inside one of the village houses and take a seat on one of the stone brick stairs. They were each given 32 emeralds to spend on any item being sold in the auction, and were told to bid in increments of 1 emerald. The auction was to end without warning, and so players were suggested to buy whatever interested them. Three "Hot Box" items were bid on at various points in the auction, but the items inside were kept secret from the players who bid until the transaction of emeralds was complete by the player to whom the item was sold.
• During the auction, items were sold in this manner:
  • 16x Cooked Fish - Charredfreak11
  • 20x Polar Bear Spawn Egg - Charredfreak11
  • Secret Note (Exiled Out of Auction, Give Half of Emeralds to Another Player) - Sonato, chose _DiamondPierce_
  • Hot Box #1 ([Sharpness III, Fire Aspect I] Diamond Sword) - _DiamondPierce_
  • Flower O' Power (an Oxeye Daisy enchanted with Knockback II) - CMan2717
  • 7 Points - _DiamondPierce_
  • Hot Box #2 (Ender Dragon Head) - Charredfreak11
  • Clue to the Point Tote - _DiamondPierce_
  • Hot Box #3 (10 Points) - CMan2717
• During the auction, everyone seemed to buy something or more with which they were satisfied, except for Sonato. Somewhat into the auction, Sonato bought a secret note, which everyone thought was most likely some type of advantage. Instead, the note ordered him to be sent to Exile Island and give half of his remaining emeralds to another player. He chose to give them to _DiamondPierce_. With these added emeralds, _DiamondPierce_ was able to outbid the other players for a few items in the latter part of the auction. Both _DiamondPierce_ and CMan2717 bought an amount of points added to their point total. Although _DiamondPierce_ bought the clue to the Point Tote, it was Charredfreak11 who was able to find the actual item after the challenge when _DiamondPierce_ who mistakenly read his clue aloud.

• Once the five remaining players got to the challenge site, they were randomly divided into two teams by the means of a dispenser dropping the respective colored wool blocks of players, with the one player whose block didn't come out sitting out of the challenge, but receiving a consolation prize of 3 points. Team White was made up of CMan2717 and Sonato, while Team Black was made up of _DiamondPierce_ and Charredfreak11. Because Pentolach was the odd one out, he would not compete in the challenge and sit out, however he would receive a consolation prize of 3 points.
• Taking turns, a member of each team would move into the choice box in attempt to make a match of their team's colored wool. To score a point for their team, one must successfully make a match of their own team's wool color. Due to only one person allowed in the box at a particular time, if such person failed to make a match of their color, they wouldn't score a point, must cover their revealed guess back up, so one could only rely on the memory of the placement of the colors for a legitimate strategy. Even though one could compare the challenge to a "Memory Game", a point could only be scored if their tribe color is revealed. So for instance, regardless of whether someone from Team White or Team Black gets a match with the color white, a match with white equals a point for Team White. The first team to score 5 points, or 5 pairs of their team's wool color, wins 8 points in the game for each member of the team.
• Originally, CMan2717 and Sonato were in the lead with 2 points, which angered Charredfreak11 and caused dysfunction within Team Black. However, as the probability of finding a match of black wool increased, Team Black rebounded and gained 3 points and Team White started to struggle with a streak of incorrect guesses. As Team White kept struggling and miscommunicating with each other, _DiamondPierce_ and Charredfreak11 managed to slowly remember where black wool was revealed and gradually worked their way up to earning 5 matches to win the challenge.

• In preparation for this challenge, Charredfreak11 and Pentolach planned to take out the rest of the competitors and be the final two in the challenge. However the remaining three banded together and knew of this plan. In the first round, _DiamondPierce_ and Sonato tried to target Pentolach, and CMan2717 used his Flower O' Power to target Charredfreak11 as far away from the pyramid as he could in one strike. This caused Carredfreak11 to be eliminated from the competition. In the following round, Pentolach was universally targeted by the remaining three to his surprise and ended up to be eliminated in fourth place. CMan2717 was simply the slowest to reach the center in the third round and got out at third place. After a long PvP battle, Sonato was able to slip past _DiamondPierce_'s direction and fell into the "waiting room" to win the challenge.
• As the winner, Sonato chose to exile Pentolach after the following challenge until the second Results Ceremony.

Results Ceremony 2

Eliminated: Pentolach

Round 3

• A block of each player's respective color of clay was placed behind each of the four entrances into the arena pool, inside of a Shulker Box. This was such that each player had a block of their own color in all four Shulker Boxes around the arena. Then the players would choose a door on which to stand as their home door. When instructed to begin, all four players left in the game would enter the area, attempting to capture each of their colored clay blocks by maneuvering past players and obstacles. If a player fell into the pool below or was knocked off by another's punches, they would have to tread back to a small set of stairs near their home door, step up back to the surface, and enter through their door to continue. Once a player obtained all four blocks of their color from each section of the arena, they would return back to their home door and place all four blocks in the Shulker Box nearby. The first person to do so would win 10 points.
• This challenge lasted an unexpectedly short amount of time. Charredfreak11 was repeatedly knocked off by other players who didn't want him to win, but while CMan2717 and Sonato were more focused on preventing him from doing well, _DiamondPierce_ swiftly collected his clay blocks and returned them back to his Shulker Box to win the challenge and the 10 points included.

• The teams were initially separated by alphabetical order of the color names. In this case, Team White was composed of Charredfreak11 and Sonato, since their colors were in the first half of the alphabet (Blue & Green). CMan2717 and _DiamondPierce_ made up Team Black since their colors were in the last half of the alphabet (Orange and Red).
• Everyone would hop into the boat on their side of the ring. Both teams would select a boat driver and a spawner. When the light switches to green on the stoplight above, the boat driver would sit in the front seat of the boat and sail in a counter-clockwise direction while the spawner would sit in the back seat of the boat and spawn squids, from a limited number they were permitted every round, behind their boat to slow down the other team. The boats would continue in this manner until one team is fast enough to catch up to the other, and be close enough to them to strike the boat or one of the players. Once this happens, the team who caught up to the other team scores a point in the challenge, and another round would start. The first team to score 3 points would win the challenge.
• During this challenge, chaos was very visible. Team White was in complete dysfunction for the first round, with Charredfreak11 getting extremely angry that Sonato wanted to drive the boat. Due to this incident, Sonato had poor driving skills, causing Team Black to score the first point. Following the drama of this, Charredfreak11 angrily demanded that he drive the boat and Sonato spawn squids behind, and so they switched roles. While Team Black was very cooperative, _DiamondPierce_ wasn't doing a great job of avoiding the squids being placed, and CMan2717 randomly placed squids whenever he wanted. This lack of strategy backfired on Team Black when CMan2717 decided to spawn all of his squids in one small area, slowing them down immensely when Team Black narrowly avoided them as they got to that point in the ring, but Team White got caught by them as they circled back to that point. This let Team White score the next point, tying the game up, 1-1. Because of their new configuration, Team White once again pulled ahead to reach Team Black and win another point. Because of his careless squid spawning, _DiamondPierce_ suggested that they both switch roles on their team. So now, CMan2717 was the boat driver and _DiamondPierce_ was the squid spawner in the final, sudden death round as the game was tied up, 2-2. Both CMan2717 and Charredfreak11 were doing a good job of driving, and for a while neither team seemed to be closer to reaching each other. It was only after two minutes of this that the squids were starting to become a big trouble for both teams and both boats were moving at a much slower rate due to maneuvering through the infestation of squids in the water. CMan2717 made the mistake for Team Black of being careless and rammed into the outer wall instead of turning, giving Team White the opportunity to catch up and hit them. Because of this, Team White won the challenge, earning both Charredfreak11 and Sonato 12 more points.
• As the winners of this Team Challenge, Sonato and Charredfreak11 were instructed to choose one of the two losers to be exiled until the next challenge. Subsequently stated was that if they could not agree on someone, one of them would randomly be exiled instead. After a bit of discussion, they both decided to exile CMan2717. Although eveveryone knew that CMan2717 possessed some sort of advantage, little did they know that it gave him the ability to be exempt from being exiled. As a result, _DiamondPierce_ was exiled by default.

• Players stood right above the iron trapdoor on their part of the course. They will first open the trapdoor and descend the ladder below until they opened a chest at the bottom. Inside the chests were four nether brick stair blocks. Taking one block at a time, they would place each stair and go back down to get the next one. This would happen, with the players placing the blocks in ascending order, until they have placed their fourth stair. They would go back into the original chest and take one of a collection of slimeballs, additionally having been stored, to the top of the staircase, climb a ladder to stand on a slime block above, and attempt to throw the slimeball into a hopper. If a player didn't make the shot, they must go back to the chest under the surface and grab another one. In order to progress, one had to successfully throw a total of 5 slimeballs in the hopper. From there, they would dig down into the sand tunnel starting from the top of the staircase. Once they dig through the tunnel to get to the ladder on the other side of the structure and climb up the ladder to the final part of the challenge, where they'll transport all of their slimeballs from the hopper into a chest. Finally, they will step on a gold pressure plate to set off a chain of fireworks. The first person to set off the fireworks wins.
• At the start, everyone raced out to collect their nether brick stair blocks, and it was apparent that mcgoldenman12 and _DiamondPierce_ were ahead, with CMan2717 and Sonato trailing right behind. However, once at the slimeball throwing part of the challenge, everyone was struggling, having to come back and forth between the throwing station and the original chest many times for more slimeballs. Suddenly out of nowhere, CMan2717 figured out a technique to effectively shoot the slimeballs into the hopper. He pulled ahead into the next part of the challenge while everyone else just began to get a technique going. Soon after, mcgoldenman12 threw 5 slimeballs into the hopper and went ahead. _DiamondPierce_ and Sonato finished the slimeball throwing next and brought up the rear into the sand dig while CMan2717 was just about to finish and win first place. mcgoldenman12 finished less than a minute later in second place. about 20 seconds later, _DiamondPierce_ finished in third place, followed by Sonato seconds later in fourth.

Round 4

• After a countdown, players will race out from the clay tunnel entrances, up a waterfall inside the stair structure, slide down the inward flow of water into a shallow pool where they would aim to climb up a ladder atop a pillar to steal a unit of cocoa beans from the chest at the top. While attempting to do this, players will have to prevent the others competing from obtaining the beans before them, and so are allowed to strike other competitors using PvP items. During every round, the first person to "steal" the beans from the chest scores a point in the challenge. The first person to score a total of 3 points would win the challenge and the first place prize of 15 points. The second person to do so would win 7 points, and the person left remaining would earn nothing.
• When the three players left in the game arrived at the challenge, they noticed that there were four entrances, which made them realize that apparently an extra person would get the right to compete. As a surprise twist, Sonato was brought back as part of the "dead man's twist" to compete in the challenge for the right to distribute the various point values according to his preferences. If Sonato placed first in the challenge, he would be able to distribute first, second and third places. If Sonato placed second in the challenge, first place would be safe from distribution, keeping their first place prize. Sonato would then dole out who got second and third place among the two left.
• As the challenges started, all three players still in the game agreed to target Sonato and make sure that he didn't have any opportunity to get points. However during each round, all of them became suspicious of each other's secret intentions and attacked each other while Sonato swept past them to quickly gain points in succession. Growing frustrated at each other, the three made a pact after Sonato gained two points only to attack him and become fixated on preventing him from gaining the one point he needed to win the challenge. This was all for naught though when Sonato lept out of the waterslide faster than the others, gained a height advantage over the others when ascending the ladder, and took the beans to score his final point to win the challenge.
• As the distributor of points, Sonato gave first prize to CMan2717, second prize to mcgoldenman12 and third prize of nothing to _DiamondPierce_. His reason for distributing the points in this manner was to equalize the playing field as much as he could to give everyone a fighting shot to advance.

• All players would take 5 arrows, the starting amount for this challenge (for every recent death, players would start off with one less arrow). During the first round, each player will have their amount of arrows to try to shoot all of their arrows at the target in the back from the first station, a prismarine block platform. Depending on the color of the block they shoot, they are allotted various points, from 1 point all the way to 7 points. The person whose best shot hit the block color worth the least amount of points will have to lose an arrow. Then the next round would begin, and the person who lost the arrow in the previous round would have one less attempt to shoot. The manner in which the rounds are played would continue in the same way and so on for the following rounds until one person is left with one arrow left with which to play. Once someone is down to one arrow, players will move onto the second station, a minecart track moving around in a circuit where players would have to aim and shoot the arrows while riding in a minecart. This would go on until one player is eliminated in third place when they lose their last arrow. From there, the two left in the challenge would proceed to the final station, an elevated watchtower with the front almost completely encased in quartz slabs except for a small opening from which to aim. Rounds will continue there until a second person loses their last arrow and the last person remaining with at least one arrow wins the challenge.
• Due to many recent deaths, mcgoldenman12 started with only 3 arrows and _DiamondPierce_ started with 4 arrows, while CMan2717 didn't need to incur a penalty as he had not taken a death in the recent game, starting with a full 5 arrows. However, this didn't do much for him as CMan2717 quickly lost the first three rounds, giving him only two attempts to aim for the highest score coming into the 4th round. Luckily he caught a break when _DiamondPierce_ lost the next two rounds, giving him only 2 attempts as well. Nobody expected mcgoldenman12 to be so skilled in archery. After CMan2717 lost his second to last arrow, everyone moved to the next station. Now, CMan2717 only had one arrow to shoot, while _DiamondPierce_ has 2 arrows, and mcgoldenman12 was still perfect with 3 arrows. Here, mcgoldenman12 lost his first arrow, but in the following round, CMan2717 scored lowest, which meant he was eliminated from the challenge. Both _DiamondPierce_ and mcgoldenman12 advanced to the final station with 2 arrows. Although this proved a much more difficult station for mcgoldenman12 than the last two, he managed to pull out higher scores than _DiamondPierce_ in consecutive rounds to take away his last arrows. With this having been done, mcgoldenman12 officially won this challenge.

• Team CMan2717 entered Part 1 of the challenge 22 seconds before Team _DiamondPierce_. Quickly both teams dove into the deep pool and got blocks to try building across. Team CMan2717 realized that their bridge was blocking their entrance. Team _DiamondPierce_ caught up to the other team and quickly got their wooden blocks collected. Both teams simultaneously exited through the room onto the second room after building the bridge.
• Part 2's parkour course proved difficult for both _DiamondPierce_ and CMan2717's team. It took minutes before anyone was able to reach the final part of the course. Luckily for _DiamondPierce_, Charredfreak11 made it across and granted Team _DiamondPierce_ access to the next part of the challenge. Shortly after, pjanicelli made it across for Team CMan2717 and although behind, still gave CMan2717 a chance to catch up to _DiamondPierce_.
• Once again, _DiamondPierce_'s team grew a larger lead over CMan2717's team when they figured out what to do for the logic puzzle on Part 3. Sonato was able to find the redstone in under the sand, and immediately knew to make a lever from the materials on the surface. CMan2717's team tried to aim for finding a secret clue along the walls of the room, but it took a bit before CMan2717 discovered the sand under the tree, and had to form the new strategy of a redstone configuration.
• The labyrinth on Part 4 was once again pretty tough for both teams. Both CMan2717 and _DiamondPierce_ managed to make it to the top floor for their respective teams first, and both finalists took different strategies. Although _DiamondPierce_ tried to guide his nearest teamate, Charredfreak11, to him to the top floor in order to help him, it cost him time to not only direct the teamate up to where he was but also to have both of them navigate to the end of the course. CMan2717 took a more self-interested approach. Rushing to find the labyrinth's exit, he recognized that all that was needed to advance was one person finishing. This proved effective as he was able to have his team advance to the next room additionally gaining a small lead over _DiamondPierce_'s team.
• Part 5 was generally easy for both teams. Everyone simply spammed their attacks in order to kill the animals as fast as possible. Both teams were neck and neck as the items drops for each animal almost simultaneously. Team _DiamondPierce_ placed their items into their respective chests and were allowed access into the next room. Team CMan2717 forgot to have their item drops inserted into the chests and after some confusion for why they weren't allowed into the next part of the challenge, were told that they were missing something. They suddenly realized their mistake and tried to recover as fast as possible.
• The trivia station at Part 6A took the longest for any of the teams to complete. On their first try, Team _DiamondPierce_ got almost every answer right, except for the deceptively presented 1st and 2nd place criteria. As a result of this, when they tried to change their unknowingly correct answers, they created more wrong answers and further confusion. Team CMan2717 had the same confusing downward spiral with their progress, with their initial problem being a few incorrect guesses for challenge win criteria. Answers changed which only confused both teams more and more. This went on for a solid 8 minutes. At a certain point, players had to gradually be gvien hints about which answers were correct. At a certain point, finally Team CMan2717 had all the right answers and were permitted to continue onward to the twist before the other team. _DiamondPierce_'s team finished about half a minute later.
• When Team CMan2717 had to come to the decision of choosing a member of the team to sit out for Part 6B, the decision seemed easy. Lagging behind for most of the challenge was pjanicelli, so he openly opted to be transported to the finish line. Shortly later, when _DiamondPierce_'s team had to make the decision, the choice to make was a bit harder. No one was any detriment to the team, but Sonato opted to sit out to speed up the process of advancing to the final room.
• CMan2717's team quickly rushed into Part 7 of the challenge. Suddenly mcgoldenman12 decided to abruptly quit the game and leave, making CMan2717 all alone to find the lever to win. _DiamondPierce_ and Charredfreak11 arrived at the final room. By an occurence of luck from falling behind, Charredfreak11 managed to find the lever after 5 seconds inside the room. Team _DiamondPierce_ made it out of the final room and _DiamondPierce_ won the final challenge. This meant that _DiamondPierce_ had become the official winner of the Hot Seat competition.