Story Time

Story Time
Survivor ORG Challenge
Description	A recurring writing challenge.
Appearance(s)	Switzerland Revival Korea Papua New Guinea Côte d’Ivoire All-Stars Madagascar Peru Indonesia Salvation

Story Time is a recurring writing challenge that originated in Survivor: Switzerland.

Rules

Each tribe (or contestant) must write a fictional story. Their stories will then be judged based on several criteria, including spelling and grammar, plot, details, creativity, length, and character development. The best story wins.

History

When this challenge first appeared in Survivor: Switzerland, both tribes were required to write a gruesome horror story. Their stories were judged on their creativity, spelling/punctuation/grammar, gruesome features, detail, and plot. Ticino wound up winning and received the ability to choose which of the other tribe's members sit out of the Immunity Challenge as well as who gets sent to Exile Mountain.

It later reappeared during Survivor: Revival as the first immunity challenge of the season. They had to write a fantasy story consisting of five chapters, with five different members writing a different chapter. Vuelta wound up winning the challenge. Later in the season, a challenge named "Story Time" was done but had different mechanics. The contestants had to write two short stories (one true, one false) and they had to determine which stories are false.

The challenge reappeared as the first post-merge challenge in Survivor: Korea where the remaining contestants each had to write a comedic story. Alejandro won the challenge.

It appeared again in Survivor: Papua New Guinea as a reward challenge where the losing tribe would be disbanded and its members moved to the other tribes. Daru, Abau, and Mendi won, leaving Wewak to be disbanded.

It appeared again in Survivor: Indonesia as a combined reward/immunity challenge. The story needed to be a 4-parter with the subject being 'Murder'. Despite some members of Riau throwing the challenge, their two part story( Lucky and Topaz did their parts) won over the story from Limboto, who were send to tribal yet again.

In Survivor: Salvation, it appeared as an immunity challenge, where the five tribes that wrote the best horror/supernatural story would be safe. Baula, Esjan, Súlur, and Hekla all won immunity, while Askja and Laki didn't fully submit; the two tribes then competed in a duel (Trace for Askja and Tyler for Laki) to write a drama story to determine which would be safe. Trace won for Askja, and Laki went to Tribal Council, voting out Ometepe.

Winners

Episode	Challenge Type	Winner
Survivor: Switzerland Go Away From This Game	Tribal Reward	Ticino
Survivor: Revival This is Like a Sick Joke	Tribal Immunity	Vuelta
Survivor: Korea Happy United Merge Mode	Individual Reward/Immunity	Alejandro
Survivor: Papua New Guinea Just Too Weird for Me	Tribal Reward	Daru
		Mendi
		Abau
Survivor: Côte d’Ivoire It's Time to Crack Some Skulls	Tribal Immunity	Savanes
Survivor: All-Stars It's Blindside Time	Tribal Immunity	Zuma
		Rolih
Survivor: Madagascar Step Out of the Shadows	Individual Immunity	Trace
Survivor: Peru Thinking He is In Control	Tribal Immunity	Jivaro
Survivor: Indonesia It's Time to Set a Plan in Motion	Tribal Reward/Immunity	Riau
Survivor: Salvation I Will Go Hulk On His Butt	Tribal Immunity	Baula
		Esjan
		Súlur
		Hekla
		Askja

Other Appearances

The challenge reappeared later on during Revival as the first post-merge immunity challenge. It was won by Chris.

Trivia

• Wojtek, Maxwell, Will, Gerard, Lloyd, Andrei, Uli, Lincoln, Sharky, Hunter, Ben, Jino Ometepe, George, Trace, and TJ are the only contestants to compete in this challenge twice.
  • Maxwell, Andrei, Uli, Jino, and Trace are the only contestants to win this challenge twice.
  • On the opposite end, Will, Ben, and Hunter are the only contestants to lose this challenge twice.