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Old school Survivor would never work. A lot of people (myself included) thought that by introducing the "twist" of no twists, it would actually throw the Survivors off-balance. However, upon further reasoning, how much do players REALLY account for twists in their plans? They STILL make alliances even though they could be broken up at any minute by a shuffle. They STILL alienate the minority members of their tribe. They STILL pagong minority alliances, and only shift the game up when they are guaranteed to have enough votes to maintain majority (such as the Colby/Tina/Keith alliance shedding Jerri and Amber while still maintaining majority). The only difference that arises from the twists are that the castaways are MENTALLY prepared for twists to occur at any moment (even though they still bitch, complain, cry, and are shocked when one happens, for the most part). They don't ACTUALLY play the game any differently.

IMO, one of the best and most awesome twists they've never done is the constant tribe swap. At every RC, the new tribes should be picked and locked in until after that week's IC, and then they'll rearrange again, and so on and so forth until we hit the jury phase. I've seen it happen in a couple ORGs, and it has played out with fantastic results EVERY time. Every single one.

Kirblar wrote:

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GodIsAnAtheist wrote:

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Kirblar wrote:

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The constant tribe swap doesn't work because then there are no consequences for voting someone off. Its part of the reason the F10 tribe swaps were a mistake both times they were done.

There are also no consequences for voting someone off when you have a majority alliance and you just pagong everyone. Without going into further detail, I really don't think that is a logical explanation for why it wouldn't work.

There ARE consequences, as those people are then on the Jury.

But when booting people has no positive or negative repercussions, it fucks with the game.

But...I'm talking about pre-jury. There usually aren't twists post-merge. And there ARE still consequences, regardless, because you are forced to (theoretically) form new relationships every cycle, and thus the alliance lines get very blurred.