I just wanted to thank everyone again for commenting your thoughts, plussing all the blogs, and most importantly signing up and being apart of this journey :D!
I know a lot of you have been asking for it, so here is the link to the simulation as promised.
Also not sure if I told you all, but I did change the stats a little bit. At the start of the sim everyone had 3 for all their stats, except the Strategic Ability and Loyalty Level. I made those a 4 and a 1 respectively. This I found aids in making the sim less predictable, and allows for a little more chaos.
And now you all can finally see some of the gifs lol.
BOOT ORDER:
18th: Oh Santa! by Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, and Jennifer Hudson @me
17th: Shirley from Community (December 10th) Symmetry888
16th: Eggnog mmdd1996
Big Presents ***RETURNED***
15th: Gizmo from Gremlins NewNightmare7
14th: Christmas Tree Farm by Taylor Swift disneygeek
MERGE ***BIG PRESENTS RETURNS***
13th: Hey Sis, It's Christmas by RuPaul tonym101101
12th: Annabelle from Annabelle's Wish Tommy123
AIWFCIY ***RETURNED***
11th: Baby Grinch Demgirl6
10th: Max, The Grinch's dog (Jim Carey version) oswordo3
9th: Big Presents tyleror
8th: Buddy the Elf benner_2304
7th: Broken Champagne glass caused from drunk relative aka Shattered Dreams Jaxon
***AIWFCIY RETURNS***
6th: Mariah Carey's 2017 performance of All I Want for Christmas is You(aka the bad one) aka AIWFCIY borisxborisette
5th: Fievel Mousekewitz Mitsuki
4th: Sleigh/Slay Ride by Azealia Banks turkeylover
FINAL 3!
3rd (3 votes): Glittery by Kacey Musgraves Nebula
2nd (4 votes): Bucky's Arm a la GotG Holiday Special Booyahhayoob
1st (8 votes): Santa Claus conquers the Martians aka Santa Claus/Martians SirNiceGuy
I did not make this template btw, this was made by someone on the brantsteele discord group :D
Now Onto some awards/accolades.
Their will be 8 awards.
*Simulation's Fan Favorite
*Host's Favorite
*Greatest Underdog
*Simulation's Most Strategic
*Most Votes Received and Least Votes Received
*Dynamic Duo
*Best Rivalry
So let's get into it.
Starting with the Simulation's Fan Favorite.
This award is always so random, often times they will pick people who got last, or people who didn't have much impact, who would never be a fan fave in a normal survivor, but sometimes they will pick someone who would be a fan fave, let us see if this is one of those times...
The Winner of this award is...
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Buddy! Congrats, I guess. Not really a favorite of mine, or someone who really caught my attention.
Now onto my favorite. The Top 3 people this season, who are in contention for Host Favorite are: AIWFCIY, Max and Shattered Dreams. I think these three were my faves throughout the season, and really made me sad to see them get voted/idoled out. But My all time favorite has to be...
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Shattered Dreams, if you have been paying attention to my closing comments at the end of the episodes, and even the talk on Edge of Extinction, you would know that Shattered Dreams was my fave. A true legend if I do say so myself.
Now onto the Greatest Underdog Award. This award goes to someone who either was always on the outs, and struggled to make it far. Or someone who maybe was not prominent either due to the simulation or the way I was writing the story. I do think the top 3 for greatest underdog has to be: Big Presents, Fievel. and Sleigh Ride. All for very different reasons, but all still under dogs nonetheless. There are definitely others, the whole final 3 I would say were underdogs as well, but these 3 just seemed to be true underdogs from both statements I made, but the winner is...
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Sleigh Ride. Without a doubt it is Sleigh Ride, they were very under-edited from the sim, and made it far in this competition with a target always on their back, and received very few votes along the way. Enough to receive the least amount of vote award? We will have to wait and see.
Next we have the Simulation's Most Strategic. This award is sometimes very accurate, actually most times. But sometimes it puts people as most strategic that I know made very dumb moves (i.e. leaving alliances or voting out someone in the minority, therefore being the reason a strong player doesn't go home). But the simulation has deemed that the three most strategic players were: Fievel, Glittery, and Sleigh Ride. And I guess you could make a case for either three of these people. Being apart of this list does explain how Fievel and Sleigh Ride made it so far whilst simultaneously being on the outs. But the winner, according to the sim is...
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Sleigh Ride! Congrats.
Now onto the Most Votes Received and Least Votes Received awards. Pretty self explanatory. The 3 people who received the most votes were: Buddy, Shattered Dreams, and Santa Claus/Martians. I am sure you can guess who obtained this award just by the sheer amount of votes they negated from idols.
The 3 people with the least amount of votes received were: Gizmo, Glittery, and Sleigh Ride. Now one of these is not as impressive since they were a pre-merge boot. But I still think Gizmo is iconic, simply for their presence on Edge of Extinction. But Glittery and Sleigh Ride each made it far, as rivals, without receiving over 5 votes. The Winner of these two awards are...
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Shattered Dreams with 20 votes Received(by a mile they won this) and Glittery with 3 votes Received. For context with Shattered Dreams, Santa Claus/Martians and Buddy received 12 and 11 votes respectively. and Sleigh Ride and Gizmo both received 4.
Now Onto our Dynamic Duo award. This award is perfect because I think there were 4 main duos of this season. We had: Bucky's Arm & Santa Claus/Martians, AIWFCIY & Shattered Dreams, and last but not least was Fievel & Sleigh Ride. But the winner of this award has to go to....
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Bucky's Arm & Santa Claus/Martians. This duo started episode 2 or 3 and lasted throughout the entire season, with an idol play from Bucky's Arm keeping Santa Claus/Martians safe, which helped them both get to the final 3 with their third wheel Glittery. It truly was nice to see two people on the Characters and etc. Tribe who weren't at each others throats.
Now onto the Best/Most Iconic rivalry of the season. We have actually four nominees in this category: Max vs Fievel, Santa Claus/Martians and AIWFCIY, Glittery vs Sleigh Ride, and Christmas Tree Farm vs Shattered Dreams.
Here is a little explanation of these rivalries.
Max and Fievel: This started episode 2, when Fievel tried to ride on Max's back only for a huge argument to erupt leading to the both of them to despise each other, until Fievel along with the help of Sleigh Ride and Max's idol play on Shattered Dreams did this rivalry end. It was truly iconic.
Next Rivalry is actually one that only lasted one singular episode. And really is not a rivalry but I couldn't not talk about it as it did catapult the merge and got out one of the front runners of the game. This is of course the fight between AIWFCIY and Santa Claus/Martians: This fight happened at the final 11 where AIWFCIY accused Santa Claus/Martians of eating more food than everyone else. The fight was a huge explosion and caused the targets to shift onto them when before they were not. It would have resulted in Santa Claus/Martian's elimination but thanks to an idol, it sent AIWFCIY packing, the at the time, most liked player in the game.
Glittery and Sleigh Ride: This rivalry literally lasted all season, and never ended because despite always targeting one another, neither player could get enough votes to actually take each other out. I don't even know when or why this rivalry started exactly, but there was a lot of events after their mutual dislike was already brewing that causes this hatred to grow even more for each other.
And Last but certainly not least is the rivalry between Christmas Tree Farm and Shattered Dreams. This only lasted two episodes in the pre-merge but it was truly iconic nonetheless. The start of the victim era for Shattered Dreams. Two fights happened across two episodes where Christmas Tree Farm accused Shattered Dreams of being the reason for their team losing, which, probably was not true as Shattered Dreams went on to win 3 individual immunities. I think I would have loved to see Christmas Tree Farm make it farther, just because this rivalry would have been so much more iconic.
But the winner is...
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Sleigh Ride and Glittery. Yes, while they maybe didn't have many big explosive fights like the rest, this rivalry was the most iconic and lasted literally the entire season. It really was the only thing that gave them screen time half of the time.
BUT NOW! I would like to discuss the future of this series.
Now, I probably won't do another Happy Holiday survivor until next year, around the same time. But that doesn't mean I won't do another survivor series, or perhaps a different series?? I am actually thinking about doing a Valentines Day themed survivor where it is sort of a red vs pink vs white tribe dynamic. But this is obviously a little over a month away. And this one would have a more structured sign up. But yeah I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be continuing a series of sorts.
I just wanted to thank everyone again for commenting your thoughts, plussing all the blogs, and most importantly signing up and being apart of this journey :D!