Once the cast were added to their chats, they were informed of the twist - Every challenge would be individual, and the winner would mark 3 castaways on the same tribe for elimination, that tribe would then attend tribal and vote between the 3.
For the first challenge, they did the classic music video challenge which is a staple of this series. In a very close race that ended in a 3 way tie and was decided by tiebreaker, Patrick/ Novamax243 has won and now has the responsibility of marking 3 from one tribe or the other for elimination.
lol the better version of this twist, is 3 winners who send 3 players on their own tribes to tribal, making it a 9 person tribal. Then once a tribe gets down to 4 people, you merge... a 3 person tribal is lame ngl