Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites
Season Run	December 1st, 2010 - February 4th, 2011
Location	Marshall Islands
Episodes	14
Survivors	20
Days	39
Winner	Benjamin 'Ben' Tan
Runner-up(s)	Tyler Comber
Tribes	██ Foa Foa ██ Galu ██ Foxhound
Heroes vs. Villains	Ben, Jacky
Last Chances	Nicole
Final Showdown	Ben
Series Chronology
Previous Season	Marble
Next Season	Distant

Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites is the ninth season of BambiTJ93's fanfic version of the reality television series Survivor, which premiered on December 1st, 2010. It was the first fanfic written in 2011. Read the season here!

The show premiered on December 1st, 2010 at 8pm with a special 90-minute premiere, then returned to its normal hour-long format in the following week.

As with Survivor: Koopa Beach, fans submitted characters to compete against their favorite castaways from the last eight seasons. New applicants include Champ 15, Classified121, DonPianta, Drrockz, Luigenius, Megaman1998, Princess Toady, and Wimpzilla. Kyogreperson and Laguzgirl13, whom created characters in Koopa Beach, returned to make one new fan for this season. In addition, this is the first season to reuse a location, being the Marshall Islands from Survivor: Reals vs. OCs.

During Episode 5, after the tribal shuffle, a reward challenge took place that severely injured three players; Timmy, Kris, and Jacky. Jacky's injury was the worse of the three, and it took him out of the game, making it the second time he was removed due to injury. The injuries caused in this challenge forced producers to never use it again in future seasons.

Survivor: Green Hill favorite Ben was named the winner in the final episode on February 4th, 2011, defeating fan Tyler in a 6-2 vote. Tyler won $100,000 as the "Sprint Player of the Season", narrowly beating out Ben and David.

Ben and Jacky would return for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains as a villain and hero respectively. Jacky placed 17th, while Ben made it to the Final 4, but was denied access to the Final Tribal Council by his fellow villains.

Nicole would return to the game in Survivor: Last Chances. She would become the first fan of this season to return to the game. She placed 21st.

In the initial stages of this season, before it was Fans vs. Favorites, it was Fans vs. Second Chances, with ten pre-merge players returning to get a second shot at the game. Choices considered were Marcus, Shadow, B.D. Joe, Jared, Kory, Scott, Cloud, Rob, Luigi, Galaxo, Vixey, Sagwa, and Leafeon. Shadow, B.D. Joe, Jared, Cloud, Luigi, Galaxo, Vixey, and Leafeon all eventually returned in second chance styled seasons.

Survivor: SEGA All Stars contestant Billy and Survivor: Marble winner Robert participated in casting for the Favorites tribe, but were cut in favor of Amigo and Enoch. Robert would later return for Heroes vs. Villains.

Contestants

INTRO
Foa Foa: David, Nicole, Sami, Jill, Tyler, Kris, Matt, Winslow, Alex, Timmy
Galu: Jada, Sora, Enoch, Freddi, Ben, Arlando, Amigo, Cynder, Amethyst, Jacky

Contestant		Original Tribe	Switched Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Total Votes
	Enoch Marble	Galu			1st Voted Out Day 3	8
	Winslow	Foa Foa			2nd Voted Out Day 6	7
	Cynder Spyro the Dragon Cuties	Galu			3rd Voted Out Day 8	6
	Alex	Foa Foa			4th Voted Out Day 11	7
	Jacky Virtua Fighter SEGA All Stars	Galu	Foa Foa		Removed Due To Injury Day 12	0
	Kris	Foa Foa	Foa Foa		5th Voted Out Day 14	5
	Sora Kingdom Hearts Reals vs. OCs	Galu	Galu		6th Voted Out Day 17	11
	Matt	Foa Foa	Galu		7th Voted Out Day 19	7
	Amigo Samba de Amigo SEGA All Stars	Galu	Foa Foa		8th Voted Out Day 19	3
	Sami	Foa Foa	Foa Foa		9th Voted Out Day 21	3
	Timmy	Foa Foa	Galu	Foxhound	10th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	8
	Jill	Foa Foa	Galu		11th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	5
	Arlando Emerald Hill	Galu	Galu		12th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	5
	Amethyst Koopa Beach	Galu	Galu		13th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 31	5
	Nicole	Foa Foa	Galu		14th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 33	5
	David	Foa Foa	Foa Foa		15th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 36	8
	Jada Reals vs. OCs	Galu	Foa Foa		16th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 37	7
	Freddi Freddi Fish Cuties	Galu	Galu		17th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 38	5
	Tyler	Foa Foa	Foa Foa		Runner Up	4
	Ben Green Hill	Galu	Foa Foa		Sole Survivor	1

The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.

The game

Episode	Challenges		Exiled	Eliminated	Vote	Finish
	Reward	Immunity
"Start Of Something New" - Kris	None	Foa Foa	None	Enoch	8-2	1st Voted Out Day 3
"This Weird Bond" - Nicole	Galu	Galu	Amethyst	Winslow	7-2	2nd Voted Out Day 6
			Nicole
"He's Not My Boyfriend" - Freddi	Foa Foa	Foa Foa	Amigo	Cynder	6-3	3rd Voted Out Day 8
			Sami
"Suspicious Or Not?" - Kris	Galu	Galu	Amethyst	Alex	5-4	4th Voted Out Day 11
			Nicole
"Great Mexican Shark Hunter" - Ben	Foa Foa	Galu	None	Jacky	No vote	Removed Due To Injury Day 12
				Kris	5-2	5th Voted Out Day 14
"Crazy Science" - Tyler	Foa Foa	Foa Foa	Arlando	Sora	6-2	6th Voted Out Day 17
			Sami
"Straight Forward Deal" - Amigo	Galu	Ben	Jada	Matt	5-1	7th Voted Out Day 19
		Freddi	Nicole	Amigo	3-2	8th Voted Out Day 19
"You Donkey" - Gordon Ramsay	Galu		Timmy	Sami	3-1	9th Voted Out Day 21
			Tyler
"The Fox And The Hound" - Ben	Merge	Arlando	None	Timmy	3-0	10th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24
"Fishy Threat" - Ben	Amethyst, Freddi, Nicole, Tyler	Ben	David	Jill	5-4	11th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27
"Formidable Duo" - David	Auction	Nicole	Ben	Arlando	5-3	12th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30
"Another Ben Tan Mission" - Ben	None	David	None	Amethyst	5-2	13th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 31
		Tyler		Nicole	5-1	14th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 33
"Mark This In The Guinness Book!" - Ben	David [Freddi]	Freddi	Tyler	David	3-2	15th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 36
"Finale"	None	Freddi	None	Jada	2-1-1	16th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 37
		Tyler		Freddi	1-0	17th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 38
"Reunion"	Jury Vote			Tyler	6-2	Runner Up
				Ben		Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Original Tribes				Swapped Tribes						Merged Tribe
Episode #:	1	2	3	4	5		6	7		8	9	10	11	12		13	14
Eliminated:	Enoch 8/10 votes	Winslow 7/9 votes	Cynder 6/9 votes	Alex 5/9 votes	Jacky No Vote	Kris 5/7 votes	Sora 6/8 votes	Matt 5/6 votes	Amigo 3/5 votes	Sami 3/4 votes	Timmy 3/3 votes	Jill 5/9 votes	Arlando 5/8 votes	Amethyst 5/7 votes	Nicole 5/6 votes	David 3/5 votes	Jada 2/4 votes	Freddi 1/1 vote
Voter	Vote
Ben	Enoch		Cynder			Kris			Amigo	Sami	Nicole	Freddi	Tyler	Amethyst	Nicole	David	Jada
Tyler		Alex		Alex		Kris			Amigo		Nicole	Jill	Arlando	Amethyst	Nicole	David	Jada	Freddi
Freddi	Enoch		Cynder				Sora	Matt			Timmy	Jill	Arlando	Jada	Nicole	Jada	Ben
Jada	Sora		Sora			Kris				Sami	Nicole	Freddi	Tyler	Amethyst	Nicole	David	Tyler
David		Winslow		Alex		Kris			Amigo	Sami	Nicole	Jill	Arlando	Amethyst	Nicole	Jada
Nicole				Alex			Sora				Timmy	Jill	Arlando	Amethyst	Jada
Amethyst	Enoch		Cynder				Sora	Matt			Timmy	Jill	Arlando	Jada
Arlando	Enoch		Sora				Sora	Matt			Nicole	Freddi	Tyler
Jill		Winslow		Alex			Matt	Matt			Nicole	Freddi
Timmy		Winslow		Alex			Sora	Matt			Nicole
Sami		Winslow		Timmy		David			David	David
Amigo	Enoch		Cynder			Kris			David
Matt		Winslow		Timmy			Sora	Timmy
Sora	Enoch		Cynder				Matt
Kris		Winslow		Timmy		David
Jacky	Enoch		Cynder
Alex		Winslow		Timmy
Cynder	Enoch		Sora
Winslow		Alex
Enoch	Sora

Jury vote
Finalist:	Tyler 2/8 votes	Ben 6/8 votes
Juror	Vote
Freddi		Ben
Jada		Ben
David		Ben
Nicole		Ben
Amethyst	Tyler
Arlando		Ben
Jill		Ben
Timmy	Tyler

Review

The Season: The fan made characters were received a lot better then in Koopa Beach, but Fans vs. Favorites is still middle tier. Most of the better players were taken out pre merge, but the post merge had some strong moves (voting out Amethyst, Timmy), and a good ending.

The Winner: While Ben is considered to be one of the smartest strategical players ever in the series, how he won Fans vs. Favorites is middle tier. He got one alliance to break up, which saved him, but he won because his opponent, Tyler was making too many bold and irrational moves, which gave Ben an easy win.

Characters (C) TJBambi93 / Sega / Square Enix / Activision / Humongous Entertainment / Champ 15 / Classified121 / DonPianta / Drrockz / Kyogreperson / Laguzgirl13 / Luigenius / Megaman1998 / Princess Toady / Wimpzilla