U.S. States Viewer Voting #24

Last time, there were only 25 states left. The other 25 were up for rejoin.

People voted for their top five. The top three in points get to rejoin.

Points work as such:

1st: 7 pts

2nd: 5 pts

3rd: 3 pts

4th: 2 pts

5th: 1 pt

Gekko0923: Last time, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Delaware, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Ohio, California, Louisiana, Alabama, New Jersey, North Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, New York, Connecticut, Utah, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, and Massachusetts were up for rejoin! Let's see which three of them won the rights to reenter!

Remember, if you don't rejoin now, you will be eliminated for good!

The following states were completely ignored (0 votes)!

Delaware

Wisconsin

Ohio

Missouri

Illinois

Illinois: This is ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!

Missouri: In the sea of southern states, I was forgotten...

20 remain!

Also not rejoining are:

Indiana (2)

Nebraska (2)

Rhode Island (2)

New Jersey (2)

Connecticut (3)

Of the 11 Confederacy states, all of them are either still in the game or still eligible to rejoin!

Connecticut: Guess that's where the game is trending.

Rhode Island: No! I don't wanna leave! Don't take me back to that dark place!

Dark place? Definitely not. We take good care of our eliminated states. Definitely.

Next 6 out are:

Arkansas (4)

North Dakota (4)

New York (4)

Georgia (4)

Oklahoma (5)

Kansas (5)

Here we see some more Southern states get eliminated.

New York: What?! Only four votes? What happened?

Georgia: Southern favor. Which, apparently, I didn't get my fair share.

North Dakota: Well, if I got eliminated, South Dakota is bound to fall soon...

Wait, didn't you get along with SD in the lore? What's up with that?

Anyways, only Mississippi, Tennessee, California, Louisiana, Alabama, South Dakota, Utah, Oregon, and Massachusetts remain. Remember, only three get to rejoin.

The vote tallies were as follows:

11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 19, 22, and the winner got a whopping 31!

Oddly, no one got between 6-10 points.

The two 11s go to....

...

...

The Southern pair of Mississippi and Alabama!

Alabama: Darn! We shouldn't have split the votes between us!

Mississippi: Don't worry. One of us Southern states gotta rejoin. We got the numbers.

Next, three states with 12 votes. They are:

...

Louisiana...

Utah...

and

...

Massachusetts!

Massachusetts: No!

Louisiana: This is rough. Good luck, Tennessee, my brother.

Now the final four: Tennessee, California, South Dakota, and Oregon, three of you will rejoin the game. The other will be eliminated for good.

The vote counts were 13, 19, 22, and 31 respectively.

And with that, the one not rejoining is:

....

...

...

...

Oregon! With only 13 votes!

Oregon: I honestly don't have anything to say about this. Good luck guys!

California got third with 19 votes, Tennessee got second with 22 votes, and South Dakota won with 31 votes!

The viewers desperately wanted a Southern state to rejoin, and they succeeded, with:

-California making up part of the United States' southern border

-Tennessee being widely considered as a Southern state

-South Dakota being the Southern Dakota sibling (though 31 votes is surprising!)

Time to see the updated elimination order!

50th: Arkansas

49th: Indiana

48th: Mississippi

47th: Nebraska

46th: Oklahoma

45th: Delaware

44th: Wisconsin

43rd: Rhode Island

42nd: Ohio

41st: Louisiana

40th: Alabama

39th: New Jersey

38th: North Dakota

37th: Missouri

36th: Kansas

35th: New York

34th: Connecticut

33rd: Utah

32nd: Georgia

31st: Illinois

30th: Oregon

29th: Massachusetts

Wild West: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado

Outsiders: Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington

Rebels: Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, Texas

Avengers: Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Arizona, Virginia

Underdogs: Iowa, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Maine

Cardinals: South Carolina, West Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland

Rejoiners: California, Tennessee, South Dakota

It's time for a team swap!

We will be swapping into 4 teams of 7!

First, we need someone from the Wild West to swap onto the Rejoiners team, to make it 7 teams of 4. Montana, you've been randomly selected to so!

Now the teams look like this:

Wild West: Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado

Outsiders: Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington

Rebels: Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, Texas

Avengers: Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Arizona, Virginia

Underdogs: Iowa, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Maine

Cardinals: South Carolina, West Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland

Rejoiners: California, Tennessee, South Dakota, Montana

Now we have 7 teams of 4, but we need 4 teams of 7.

So what should we do?

Have each of the 4 new teams consist of one person from each of the 7 old teams!

This makes it so that everyone is with completely new states (aside from 2/5 of the former Wild West and possible connections with South Dakota)

Now, I could be boring and make it so that everyone listed first on the list above makes up Team 1, everyone listed second makes up Team 2, etc, but no.

I will choose the teams to create as much drama as possible!

Let's do this!

Team 1: Idaho, Hawaii, Florida, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, California

Team 2: Wyoming, Alaska, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, South Dakota

Team 3: Nevada, Vermont, Texas, Arizona, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee

Team 4: Colorado, Washington, Michigan, New Mexico, Maine, South Carolina, Montana

We'll get to naming them later but put any suggestions in the comments if you want!

As promised, to make up for the loss of lore, here are some of the alliances the states have created!

This is just a starting point, and will develop as the series continues.

Alliances are listed with the PERCEIVED LEADER listed first, then the second-in command next, and the bottom of the alliance/fickle members listed last.

For instance, for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Russell's alliance could be written as:

Russell, Parvati, Danielle, Jerri, Sandra

The order in which the alliances are listed depends on their importance. If there are two warring alliances, they will obviously be the top two. Friendships are usually listed last.

States can be in as many alliances as they want, or in no alliances at all.

You'll find that there can be alliances within alliances.

But we all know who won that season. So, anyone is still a threat to win this!

Here are the major alliances:

Alliances:

Southern Bloc: Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky

Northern Organization: California, Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington, Minnesota, Michigan, Maryland, Colorado

Wild West: Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Nevada

Cardinals: North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland

Outsiders: Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington

Underdogs: Maine, New Hampshire, Iowa, Kentucky

Three-Wheeled Shopping Cart: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado

New England: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont

Avengers: Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia

Big 2: Florida, Texas

True Outsiders: Alaska, Hawaii

M-alliance: Minnesota, Michigan

South Dakota: I'm surprised that I won the rejoin vote! I'd like to stay a little longer this time, and hopefully make North Dakota proud, even if we pretend to hate each other sometimes!)

California: I was too much of a partisan last time. I need to integrate myself into this Southern alliance, as they have the momentum. But as the perceived leader of the North, that will be hard.

Tennessee: The South has to keep this up! Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, all them guys we lost, I'm gonna make y'all proud!

Virginia: Being on the same team as West Virginia is gonna be torcher. He's going to rely on sympathy again to thwart me, and with Kentucky on his side.

Florida: I'm ready to face California if Team 1 has to go to war. I beat him once, and I am more than willing to do it again.

Montana: Colorado developing a relationship with Wyoming makes me upset. I want to get him out so badly, but I don't want to hurt Wyoming.

Maine: South Carolina is the obvious target this round. I don't think the others notice how dangerous she can be, especially with her proximity to Florida and other key members of the Southern alliance. Man, I wish this was a contestant vote.

South Carolina: I'd like to keep this momentum going and knock off one of the Northern states. Who to pick on during my pitch? We'll see.

3 votes per user. All votes weigh the same.

The state with the most votes will leave the game.

You can put all three of your votes on the same state or split them.

Colorado

Pitch: I haven't done anything wrong. The Rockies and Nuggets are cool, right? I can't get eliminated without Wyoming by my side.

Washington

Pitch: I'm the perfect blend of nature and technology. I'm home to Amazon and Microsoft, and you wouldn't want to get rid of those, right?

Michigan

Pitch: My ally, Massachusetts, just got eliminated. And if it had to come down to it, I would betray the Northern alliance if I had to. We're not as tight as it seems. Target SC if you want a Southern state gone, but if you wanna keep picking away at northern states, go for Maine this round.

New Mexico

Pitch: I'm still trying to find myself. I'm still shocked that I outlasted states like New York and Georgia on the Avengers team. I hope that you can continue to see me as a nonthreat and take me forward.

Maine

Pitch: South Carolina needs to go. If there's a North vs. South war that's going on, it is starting NOW. The South cannot gain any more momentum.

South Carolina

Pitch: Maine honestly pisses me off. But this round, I would like all of you Southern sympathizers to vote Washington out. California said something about trying to join the South, and I think Washington is the last one holding him back.

Montana

Pitch: I wanted to go against Colorado this time, but with Wyoming still in, I can't be selfish. I guess you guys should just eliminate whoever you want this time.

Fun Fact: My name is "mountain" in Spanish. Put your "mountain" of votes somewhere else.

1. Vote in the comments.

2. Use list format with three VOTES to eliminate. Explanation of the voting method can be found above.

3. Vote by Nov 3 at 8:59 PM PST! (Comment must read as Nov 2-3 in EST zone)

4. Put any team name suggestions in the comments!