After the awesome first night we had with our first ever Guild Survivor contest, it was time for night two!

Before night two started, I had to first mail the remaining contestants a few things: a lavender shirt, one piece of buff food, and five jugs of bourbon.  The food and drinks were for that night’s challenges.

Then I had to move a few toons around to the new locations as well as toons to film with on FRAPS.  (I do not recommend trying to make decent FRAPS movies while dual-boxing, total pain.)

The final five contestants- Wynlock, Anarius, Dwamli, Poonedman, and Bigbearface- were welcomed back with a summon to Jaguero Island in Stranglethorn Vale.  They were again reduced to only two pieces of clothing gear – no weapons, trinkets, or engineering or run speed buffed gear.

Final five before the first challenge

CHALLENGE 1- Fight for Food
The objective of this contest is to race from the top of Jaguero Island to the first pirate boat (South).  You must board the boat, eat your food until you get a buff, then race back to our starting point.  The trick to this race was supposed to be that everyone was PVP flagged and allowed to do what I referred to as “annoyance PVP” to each other in the combat zone, which was the island and the boat.

Rules- The players were told that they could interrupt someone eating with one unarmed punch.  They were also allowed to use knockback spells and CC spells like stun, sheep, etc.  Since we are on a PVE server, I made the rule that if anyone killed another player during the challenge, it would immediately end with the killer being the one eliminated… we did not want any deaths.  (If you are on a PVP server and want to do this contest, you could certainly change this to full-blown PVP…up to you.) Once players leave the combat area, no more PVP is allowed.  The first player back gets immunity and a reward.  The other four players go to tribal council to vote someone off.
Other rules were… no mounts, no swimming or running buffs, no water walking.  I had one judge on the boat, one on the island, and I covered the Jaguero Island portion.

Results-  For whatever reason, even though all contestants left party and were PVP flagged- they were not allowed to attack other alliance in this area.  Kind of a bummer, but some of the contestants were kept busy enough fighting the pirates on the boat.  I didn’t note who came in first, but the reward was just a fun potion – elixir of giant growth.  Wynlock was votes out during tribal council.

CHALLENGE 2- Walk the Plank
The second summon was to a boat in Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord.  One at a time, the remaining four had to first fly up to the boat mast, drink their five bourbons to get the smashed buff and blurry monitor, and then run (no walking) the mast up and down until they fall off.  The player with the shortest amount of time on the mast/plank is eliminated.  I used the stopwatch on the minimap clock to time them.

Dwamli doing his walk

Results- Dwamli out.  Ironic for a dwarf.

CHALLENGE 3- Cross-Country Race
The players then accepted a summon to the far left pier of Stormwind Harbor.  They  were instructed to first jump into the water and swim to Westfall.  Once there, they had to use their riding mount to travel to Moonbrook and find a one of my alts who was hidden in a building.  The last one to arrive is eliminated.

Rules- No swim speed buffs, no water walking, no flying mounts.  I had a judge on the Westfall beach and another judge watching from that point to Moonbrook.

Results- Bigbearface eliminated.

CHALLENGE 4- Battle of the Minds!
The final two contestants, Poonedman and Anarius, accepted the final summon to Nesingwary Camp in Sholazar, specifically the area surrounded by tents in front of Nesingwary himself.  Using the stopwatch again, I gave the two players one minute exactly to look around this area (from Nesingwary to the tombstone-like markers in front, and from the tent on the left to the one on  the right).  The goal: to be able to answer the most questions right about what they observe.

Rules- They can talk to the NPCs and walk around.  After one minute is up, they have to hearth.  All quiz answers are whispered to the leader (me).

The Questions:
1) How many beds were in the inn tent?
2) What is the pet alligator’s name?
3) What race is the toon with the apple on his head?
4) Korg’s cleaver is in what- a fruit or a veggie?
5) What does the stable master sell?

Results- Believe it or not, it was a tie (!) with both players getting four questions right.  I was a little shocked, but fortunately I had prepared a tie-breaker question, which was:
How many animal skulls are piled around the tents?
The player with the guess closest to the answer would be the winner.

THE WINNER AND NEW GUILD SURVIVOR CHAMPION WAS….

Grats to Anarius, who now has a new Mekgineer’s Chopper!  So close!

As I mentioned in the first post, I will be making a short video of this event in the future, but I have to repair that computer before I can start it.

Thanks to everyone from my guild who participated in this event!  Also, thanks to Gingerbell and Secondchanct for assisting me in judging!  Look forward to doing this event again next year!

I have wanted to host a WOW Guild Survivor event for a LONG time… finally it has started!

First I had to get my guildies interested in the contest because I needed ten contestants that could commit to two nights.  So a few of us farmed mats and got guild bank funding to make a Mekgineer’s Chopper as the prize.  I also constantly mentioned the event in guild chat and the guild facebook group to get sign-ups.

Next I came up with what the challenges would be.  I researched the Survivor TV show online and modified some of the actual challenges to work in WOW.  I also had to come up with winner rewards, which of my toons to park at each location, and the order of events.

Last, I wrote a complete script out in a notebook of everything that would be directed on vent.  I wanted to make sure ALL rules and directions were written out so there would be no getting around them or anything forgotten to be mentioned.

Right before we started the event last night, I decided who would be on each tribe.  I wanted to try to make the teams even as much as possible so I mixed raiders with non-raiders and had no more than two of the same class on a team (this may or may not be possible for you).

So here is a summary of what happened during our first night of Survivor.  I unfortunately forgot to make screenshots until the end, but I will eventually be making a FRAPS video.

– The red shirt team named themselves The Santa Brigade consisting of:
1) Poonedman- ret pally
2) Wolfyports- mage
3) Dwamli- ret pally
4) Everiel- holy priest
5) Bigbearface- druid

– The blue shirt team named themselves Poon-Slayers consisting of:
1) Imorph- feral druid
2) Anarius- ret pally
3) Wynlock- hunter
4) Salvations- pally
5) Lukethorcozz- DK

Everyone was allowed two pieces of gear to wear at the beginning – no weapons, trinkets, or engineering-buffed items were allowed.  Minions and hunter pets were dismissed.  The two tribes were summoned by myself and another judge to The Ruins of Feathermoon in Feralas.

CHALLENGE 1- Island Race
Everyone lined up next to a large rock on the North side of the island (in the water).  The challenge was to race around the island one time, stop for a buff (we used blessing of kings) at the rock, then race around again.  The first team with four members back would win.  The first back overall would get a reward, and the last member of each team back would be eliminated.

Rules- No mounts, no swim or run speed increases of any kind, no walking on water.  You may swim or run on the beach, but the island must not be crossed.  (We had a third judge watching for this on the South side of the island.)

Results- Most of the race was the same people ahead because everyone was running on the beach, so I added a twist towards the end that they had to swim from the broken pier to the rock.  I don’t know if that changed anything or not.  Dwamli was first overall and received A Treatise on Strategy book.  Wolfyports and Imorph out.

CHALLENGE 2- Chess Battle
(this is what we had planned to do, but one team was glitched and couldn’t get into the raid without being teleported out, so we had to move this challenge to VOA- see results for details)
We had a few people get saved to Karazhan right before the chess event.  Our plan was to have each team do the chess event, and the fastest time would win.
The winning team will each get a reward, but both teams go to tribal council after this event and vote for one player to leave.

Results- Since we had to move this to VOA, I had to allow everyone to put their gear back on.  I allowed fish feast buff and a tank pally aura for each team, but no other buffs including hunter aspect were allowed.  I added a judge to each team, but going back I would not do that…one team thought Poon-Slayers had an advantage because my healer went with them.  Just keep judges out and have the first team that exits the raid with the bosses down the winner would be my advice. In the end, it didn’t really matter too much if either team had an advantage- all I gave as a reward to the winners were some smoke flares, and both teams still had to vote someone off.  This challenge was mainly for fun and helping everyone decide who they wanted to vote off.
Poon-Slayers won with Salvations and Everiel being removed from the tribes.

CHALLENGE 3- Cozy Fire Race
We got the remaining tribe members to Darkshore for the last challenge of the night and went back to the two pieces of gear rule.  The tribes had one member assigned to each of three different locations- Grove of the Ancients as the starting point, Eye of the Vortex (top of the hill), and the end of the pier at Ruins of Auberdine.  This foot-race was sort of like a relay race with each team member having to lay down a cooking fire (make sure everyone has trained cooking before the event) to signal the next team member to take off.  The finishing point was the flight path at Lor’danel.  Everyone on the winning team gains immunity.  The losing team votes off another member from their team.

Rules- No run speed bonuses of any kind, no mounts.  Must take the road North as your path.  Each member must wait for the fire to be down before leaving their spot.
Lukethorcozz was voted off, leaving two members on the Poon-Slayers.

Second checkpoint after fires had been laid down

The remaining five were given two minutes to reform as a new lavender tribe with a new name.  They named themselves Imorph-Slayers.  The remaining five- Poonedman, Anarius, Wynlock, Bigbearface, and Dwamli- will be competing against each other as individuals on the second night of the event.

Stay tuned for more Survivor news after tonight!