User blog:Bwburke94/Brendan's Rules of Twists

This page is part of Brendan's Tips for Writing Survivor Fanons.

Don't double boot right after a switch
The first immunity challenge after a Tribe Switch should be tribe vs. tribe, not individual.

Don't double boot right before the merge
"I'll take back the necklaces... oh, and by the way, tribal immunity is no more." Yeah, that doesn't work narratively. Use a Cook Islands-style Double Elimination instead. Or better yet, use a Double Elimination not right before the merge.

Don't run two Double Tribal Councils in a two-tribe season
Self-explanatory, I assume.

Don't have more than 15 episodes... seriously, this isn't the ORG, people!
A 16-episode season leaves you in scheduling hell layout-wise.

Don't split the finale into two episodes
Goes hand-in-hand with the 15 episode maximum.

Don't have multiple tribal immunity challenges in a single episode
This seems to be a favorite trick of IAmNothing712, the wiki's founder. He used it in episode 5 of Couples' Showdown, the premiere of Burma, and episode 7 of One World - Thailand.