Board Thread:Season Offers/@comment-24261369-20140502035742

My goal for this bid was to create a “fresh” experience that isn't a copy of a previous Wikia season. In addition, once it became clear this season would start during the run of a full-returnee season, I knew I had to create a season that would start a new era of the ORG.

==Season Info== Location: This season will be located in Banco Chinchorro, off the east coast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. *Banco Chinchorro in Google Maps *Photos of Banco Chinchorro Castaways: There will be 21 castaways in this season. With over one hundred people having applied for Survivor: Sardinia, there are enough rejected applicants to form a good cast on its own.

Tribes: The castaways will be divided into 3 tribes of 7 members each.

Merge: There will be a merge at some point in the season. There will be a Hidden Immunity Idol hidden at the merged tribe’s camp.

Jury: The jury will begin with twelve or fewer contestants remaining in the game.

==Tribe Names and Colors== Chetumal: Blue buffs. Named after the capital city of Quintana Roo.

Mujeres: Green buffs. Named after Isla Mujeres, a municipality of Quintana Roo.

Xcaret: Red buffs. Named after a Maya archaeological site on the Caribbean coastline of Quintana Roo.

==Twists== Three Tribes: For the first time since Survivor: Korea, three tribes of seven will compete.

Exile Island: The winning tribe in each reward challenge will send someone to Exile Island. That person will have a chance to find a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Hidden Immunity Idol: An idol will be hidden somewhere in the game. As always, this idol has the power to nullify votes cast against the holder if used properly. Idols expire after the Day 37 Tribal Council.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">==Changes== <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Limited Repeated Challenges: No challenge that appeared more than once in the first 17 seasons will reappear in Mexico, with the exceptions of Touchy Subjects, Face-Off, and Trials. The reason for this is because the ORG challenges are getting stale, and I want to find as many good new ones as possible.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Limited Flash Games: Flash games will be limited in extent, in order to be fair to contestants using laptops or tablets, or otherwise lacking access to Flash.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Challenge Deadlines: Non-live challenges will last 12-24 hours. The challenge results will be posted at a set time, which will be posted at the start of the challenge and known to the contestants in advance. This is because the winning tribe needs to be able to exile someone as quickly as possible after the challenge is over.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Email Address: All challenge scores, votes, and confessionals will be sent to an email address owned by one of the hosts. This will be an address that has never been used for a game before, but email forwarding to the wiki Gmail address will be used so that the Survivor ORG Wiki admins have confessional access. If necessary, multiple email addresses may be used for different purposes.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">==Viewers' Lounge== <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">*As has been standard for several seasons now, there will be a Viewers’ Lounge where non-contestants can talk about the season. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">*The hosts will release confessionals to the VL periodically, to update the viewers on what is going on behind the scenes. This is to allow the viewers to make more informed decisions in the Fan Favourite poll. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">*The standard Viewers’ Lounge rules apply. Viewers caught leaking game information to contestants will be removed from the VL.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">==Extra Information== <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Days (Virtual): This season will return to the usual Survivor: Wikia standard of 39 days.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Days (Real Time): This season will end no later than 29 August 2014. This is because the Northern Hemisphere contestants’ summer holidays end shortly after that date. For example, the American summer holidays end on 1 September (Labour Day), which would affect the activeness of contestants from the U.S.A. and Canada.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">Why I think Mexico would be a good location: There has never been an all-newbies season in North America – Hawaii, Cuba, and Revival were all returning player seasons. Aside from this oddity, the reason I chose Mexico was because I have done research into Mexican culture, and I have ideas on how to incorporate said culture into the challenge designs. In addition, the Banco Chinchorro atoll is known for shipwrecks, which could lead to a Pearl Islands-ish theme.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">==Why I think this bid should be chosen== <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">*Mexico is a unique location that has not been used in the past. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">*I promise there will be great twists to shake up the game. I have the 39-day layout <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'CourierNew',Courier,monospace;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:normal;">*The hosting staff will make an effort to cast as many interesting contestants as possible, including veterans of the spinoff wikis (DrPanda, Robinson Expedition, RPG) and veterans of other ORGs (Facebook, Tengaged, et cetera) in order to make an active cast. <ac_metadata title="SURVIVOR: BANCO CHINCHORRO"> </ac_metadata>