Old school. Draft the cast and sweat it out. No points, no maths. Whoever owns the last castaway standing wins the whole thing.
Points. Everything below. Your castaways earn points every week and the highest total at the finale takes it.
Your commissioner picks one when they set the league up. The rest of this page is the points version.
Draft castaways. They earn you points by doing things on the show. Call the winner early and stick with it. Most points at the finale takes it.
FantasyTV scores each episode once, the same for everybody. Your commissioner decides which categories count in your league and what each one is worth, so the numbers below are the starting point, not the law.
| On a tribe that wins immunity | 3 |
| Wins individual immunity | 2 |
| Wins the fire making challenge at final four | 2 |
| On a tribe or group that wins reward | 2 |
| Wins individual reward. Anyone they take along scores too | 1 |
| Wins a journey challenge | 1 |
| On the tribe that wins the marooning | 1 |
| Wins the supply challenge, and everyone on their tribe | 1 |
After the merge, a temporary group counts as a tribe.
The stuff that fills the first fifteen minutes of an episode. Each of these pays once per castaway per episode, no matter how many times it happens.
| Reads tree mail out loud | 1 |
| Talks strategy at the water well | 1 |
| Makes fire at camp, or helps make it | 1 |
| Finds food. Fish, crab, coconuts, fruit, bugs, whatever | 1 |
| Goes to exile | 1 |
| Goes on a journey | 1 |
| Shows up at the auction | 1 |
| Gets love from home. Visit, letter, or video | 1 |
| Plays an idol or an advantage. Extra vote, steal a vote, knowledge is power, all of it | 2 |
| First to get an idol | 1 |
| First to get an advantage. Idols do not count twice here | 1 |
| Finds the clue that starts the hunt | 1 |
| Plays their shot in the dark at tribal | 1 |
| Makes the merge. Once a season | 2 |
Before each episode you name who you think wins the season. You can change it whenever you want, and nobody sees your pick but you.
Here's the catch. You score 1 point for every episode in a row you had the real winner, counted backward from the finale. The second you switch off them, the run stops and everything before it is gone.
Say the season runs 13 episodes and Maria picks Jelly from the start. At episode 9 she gets nervous and switches to Brady. Brady goes home in episode 10, so she switches back to Jelly for 11, 12 and 13. Jelly wins.
Maria scores 3, not 13. Her run only goes back as far as episode 11, because episodes 9 and 10 broke it. Had she left it alone, she'd have had all 13.
Nerve is the whole game here. Pick early, and live with it.
If two teams finish level, in this order:
Still level after that, it stays a tie. Share the trophy.
We score the episodes here, once, and every league works off the same sheet. That way nobody is arguing about whether a coconut counted.
Your commissioner controls what those results are worth in your league. They can drop categories, change values, or add their own.
Only what airs counts. Not previews, not deleted scenes, not what somebody posted afterward. If it wasn't in the episode, it didn't happen.
Survivor does things nobody planned for. New twists, weird edits, an advantage that doesn't fit any box here. When that happens the commissioner makes a call in the spirit of the rules and everyone lives with it.
Once an episode is scored it stays scored, unless something was plainly missed or entered wrong.
Rules can change between seasons as the show changes.
Back to the Board