User blog comment:Lifeishard/My Twist Ideas/@comment-24526522-20200117225043

Looking for feedback on a twist I plan on using for Season 9 of my series, this might be a good place to put it. It's called The Executive Twist. Basically, there are two tribes of 8 at the start, and based only on first impressions, each person must vote for somebody else on their tribe to become the first Executive. The person on each tribe to get the most votes earns the title, and must make two separate decisions that round that affect the gameplay in some manner. Once the round is over, at the next Reward Challenge, the former Executive(s) must pick a new person on their tribe to take their place (or, if the Executive gets voted out, the tribe must vote for somebody to become the Executive). The thing is, someone who already was the Executive in the past cannot be the Executive again unless everybody on the current tribe has been the Executive at some point, in which case the cycle refreshes.

At the merge, a new Executive will be crowned for each tribe as normal, and those two Executives will compete in a one-on-one challenge to determine who will actually be the Executive for that round; from there, the twist continues on as normal, but with the one merged tribe having one Executive. The twist lasts until the final three.

Typically, the first decision made each round pertains to the Reward Challenge at hand. Examples include choosing which people will or won't compete in the challenge, selecting an advantage for the challenge, etc. The second decision each round is more strategic based and is made immediately before the Immunity Challenge - picking somebody from the tribe to have immunity at the next Tribal Council, picking somebody to lose their vote, exiling somebody from participating in the pre-tribal, etc. Some decisions are made in public, while others are made in private, depending on the nature of the decision.

I'm curious if this sounds like it would be interesting at all. I've planned the first few eliminations of Season 9 using this twist and it's turned out pretty well, but I'm always open to feedback on improving it!