RULES
1) You pick 4 players you think will do the best in the game. 2 have to be male, 2 have to be female. What tribe they are in doesn't matter. You have between now and next Wednesday at 6:59 p.m. Central to make your picks. Anything submitted after that doesn't count, and anybody who edits their picks after that time is DQ'ed.
2) Pre-Merge Rules: Each time one of your players survives a tribal council (or their tribe doesn't go), you get 1 point. They also get 2 point for finding a Hidden Immunity Idol - although that is not retroactive for anyone who finds one in the first episode.
2a) Any player who plays an HII at tribal and it keeps them from going home, you get 3 points. If they give it someone else and it saves that person, you get 2 points. If they get voted off while in possession of the HII, you lose 2 points.
2b) For every one of your players that makes the merge, you get 2 points.
2c) Any player that gets 5 confessionals in an episode gets 1 point. **New as of Season 34**
3) The goat pick: Choose one player for entire season to make it as far as possible because they have no chance at winning, ex. Hannah from MvGX in Season 33. Player will receive 2 points for every survived episode pre-merge, and 1 point post-merge. Player will also receive -1 point for winning individual reward, and -2 for winning individual immunity. If player makes it to final tribal, player receives 7 points. Bonus .5 points will not be given for the goat, and neither will HII points. **New as of Season 34**
3a) Player won't receive penalty for winning reward or immunity if its the challenge where people answer questions and chop others ropes 3 times. (These challenges rarely happen anymore, but non-threats are often in the mix to win, by doing nothing.)
4) Post-Merge Rules: Since they usually don't let you know the merge is happening until that in-episode, these rules only apply to episodes after the one where they merge. In the episode where the merge takes place, you'll get points for any players you have in the first II challenge (and reward challenge if they have one), as well as for surviving TC.
4a) In the week after the merge episode, everyone picks the 2 players they think will go the furthest. Can be 2 men, 2 women, or 1 of each, doesn't matter.
4b) If you have players remaining from your initial picks, you can stick with them and get a 0.5 point bonus on everything going forward.
5) Post-Merge points: Win reward challenge (as either individual or a team): 1 point; Win individual immunity challenge: 2 points; Find Hidden Immunity Idol: 2 points; use HII to save yourself: 3 points; use HII to save someone else: 2 points; survive tribal council: 1 point; voted off while possessing HII: -2 points.
5a) So if you had two people left from your original picks, and went with them after the merge, every time they survived tribal council, they'd each earn 1.5 points, 2.5 points for winning individual immunity, etc.
6) Having the person who finishes 5th earns you +2 points; 4th = +4 points; 3rd = +6 points; 2nd = +8 points; 1st = +10 points. The 0.5 point bonuses apply here as well.
In the words of One World's Tarzan, "The game is afoot." Rules 2c, 3, and 3a were added this year and are by no means permanent if people don't like them. If anyone wants to tweak rule 3, let me know.
And for the confessionals point, tonight Tony, Malcolm, and Sandra would have gotten it. I quit counting at 5 but Tony and Sandra had 6+. Cirie and Michaela had 4, and Caleb, Debbie, and Jeff Varner had 3. All others had 1 or 2, so this rule probably won't be a game changer.
