The Third Tribal Challenge is now under way! All three tribes climb the mountain on the island and arrive at the challenge arena. The Tomo Tribe gets their first look at the new Mala and Plasma Tribes. Sundar from Plasma voluntarily chose to leave the game to focus on irl issues. Frat Dude from the Mala Tribe was voted out at the latest Tribal Council.
But wait, there's more... a fourth "tribe" of people have arrived at the challenge arena, decked in red buffs.
First, there is sparktrain, eliminated day 1 due to missing the cut off in the sign up thread. Next, there is Granny Pie and PenQuin, voted out at the first Tribal Council. Finally, there is Frat Dude voted out at the second Tribal Council. Sundar is not present since he chose to leave the game.
What are these returning players doing here? That's a good question. This season of survivor, we are holding a variation of Redemption Island called "Boober Island." One player from Boober Island will fight his/her way back into the game once the tribes merge. But it won't be easy. He/she will have to survive challenges every challenge cycle in order to participate in the final Boober Challenge before the tribe merge. The winner of the final Boober Challenge will be able to relight their torch using the fire of the island's Magmar. The players who lose the challenges along the way will be forced to leave Boober Island, and at that point they will have no chance to get back into the game or to join the jury. After every Tribal Council, the eliminated player or players will be sent to Boober Island and will compete among the other players on Boober Island. Once on Boober Island, players are fighting against those who they share the island with. Players on Boober Island have the goal of reaching the final Boober Challenge and winning it to reclaim their spot in the game.
After every challenge until the merge, a player or players will leave their tribe and be voted off and sent to Boober Island. After every challenge, a player or player who was on Boober Island will automatically leave Boober Island and be completely eliminated from the game based on his/her challenge performance without a need for a vote. Those on Boober Island do not form a real tribe, and therefore alliances are not all that important. Players will be eliminated from Boober Island based on their challenge performance and nothing else until the final Boober Challenge. The only way to guarantee a player can get off Boober Island is to consistently do well in challenges and to win the final Boober Challenge.
For those of you still on tribes, this poses an additional layer of strategy for you; every person you vote out has the chance to come back into the game. If you vote out a tribemate and he/she comes back, he/she could easily flip on your tribe at the merge and choose to work with people from other tribes who were not involved with voting them out. Be careful and be deliberate with your strategy, as the game just got a lot harder.
With that said, it is time to introduce today's challenge. Each tribe will select three members to compete in three separate round robin tournaments; players put into slot one will fight members from the other tribes who also chose slot one and so on. However, each matchup will be Bo3... in Sumo CAP 3v3. This means players are allowed to have only 3 Pokemon on any of their teams for this challenge. Tapu Lele and Mega Metagross are banned from this challenge. Below are the match ups:
Slot 1: T
TraceofLife v M
Okamu | T
TraceofLife v P
Broken Phobias | M
Okamu v P
Broken Phobias
Slot 2: T
reachzero v M
snake_rattler | T
reachzero v P
cbrevan | M
snake_rattler v P
cbrevan
Slot 3: T
Kyubics v M
jas61292 | T
Kyubics v P
DarkSlay | M
jas61292 v P
DarkSlay
Tomo: 3 (out of 4 matches played)
Mala: 3 (out of 4 matches played)
Plasma: 1 (out of 6 matches played)
Points will be given out to the victor of each Bo3. The tribe with the most points will win Tribal Immunity. If there is a close second place, then the second place tribe will also win Tribal Immunity. If not, then both losing tribes will face tribal council. The Tomo Tribe was slow with line ups, but Trace was required to play and Kyubics volunteered and then I randomly picked reach to play. If either Lucario or Galvantula Tank wants to be subbed in, the Tomo Tribe should let me know ASAP.
The four players on Boober Island will also play Bo3 SuMo CAP 3v3 with Tapu Lele and Mega Metagross banned. However, they will not play a round robin format.
sparktrain will face off against
Frat Dude.
PenQuin will face off against
Granny Pie. The winner of each matchup will be safe and live to stay on Boober Island until the next challenge. The two losers will face off in a Bo3 6v6 SuMo CAP match with Tapu LeLe banned (here, Mega Metagorss will not be banned). The loser of this match will then be eliminated from Boober Island and from the game.
A reminder, all replays must be posted in this thread, preferably by the winner of the matches.
So, who will win tribal immunity? Who will live to stay on Boober Island? Let's get crackin' and find out.
You guys have 48ish hours to finish your matches and extensions will only be given if absolutely necessary. No slowpokes allowed here, schedule things ASAP. Yeah, we're moving fast, and I somewhat anticipate needing that extension but we'll cross that line when we get there. If there's scheduling issues then one of your benched tribemates may come in to make scheduling work better.
Q: Is Focus Sashed Banned in CAP 3v3?
A: No