- The game begins with two crews, the Red Raiders and the Blue Bandits. Each round, there will be a daily challenge. Each team will select a captain to lead them for the round, either by general consensus or by a majority vote if necessary. Once you’ve been captain once you cannot do it again unless everyone on your crew has also done it. The winning crew is safe for the round.

- The captain of the losing crew each round will send 3 players from their own team to the Brig to put them up for elimination. The winning crew's captain will then pick one of the bottom 3 to grant the "Royal Pardon", saving them from having to play the elimination. The remaining two players will then compete and player that loses is thrown overboard and is out of the game.

- HOWEVER, if the safe players on your team unanimously agree to do so, they can “mutiny” and throw your captain overboard instead, automatically eliminating them from the game and canceling the elimination challenge for that round. Mutiny ballots are cast in PMs every round and revealed before the elimination results are announced. If the decision is not unanimously in favor of mutinying it is NOT revealed how people voted.

- After a certain number of eliminations, the remaining players from each crew will run the final to determine the winners of The Expedition!