Brazil Bonanza! Rules
Your Tribe:
You will choose three different people to serve as your tribe. Each tribe member will earn you 1/3 of their weekly score. There are set times when you will be allowed to change your tribe (see below). Your tribe will also include a team captain that will change each week. The captain will earn you 100% of his/her score for that week. The team captain can be someone already on your tribe (in which case you earn 100% of his/her points as captain and 1/3 of his points as a tribe member), or you may decide to choose someone else. Game Change: There are no longer any negative scores and there is no more 'counting.' If a player has one or more occurrences (more than one PI for example) he only scores the points possible. You cannot earn multiple points in any category.
Each tribe member will earn points by doing the following:
Tribe Changes
You will choose your three-person tribe when you register. You may make adjustments until picks close for episode 1. You will keep this tribe for weeks 1, 2, and 3. When you make your picks for week 4, you will be allowed to change 1 person on your tribe without penalty. Additional changes will cost you 750 points each. Clarification: If CBS airs 2 episodes back-to-back, we will call it week 1.
The tribe you choose during week 4 will remain your tribe until week 8. At that time, regardless of whether or not there is a merge, you will be asked to boot one member of your tribe. You will then earn 50% of each tribe-member's points for the remainder of the game. (You will continue to receive 100% of your captain's points). The two-person tribe you have will remain for weeks 8, 9, 10, and 11. New! Additional changes will cost you 1000 points each.
During week 12's picks, you will be allowed to change one of your players for 2500 points. The other player may also be changed, but it will cost you an additional 3000 points. After episode 12, you will not be allowed to adjust your tribe.
The Questions
You will be asked to answer 10 questions each week. Some of those questions will involve the CBS teasers, promos, and challenge/boot predictions. Others will involve some lucky guessing. The scoring decisions made by Gabby and TigerLily are final. Remember, this is only for fun! Score changes will only be made for technical errors.
You will choose three different people to serve as your tribe. Each tribe member will earn you 1/3 of their weekly score. There are set times when you will be allowed to change your tribe (see below). Your tribe will also include a team captain that will change each week. The captain will earn you 100% of his/her score for that week. The team captain can be someone already on your tribe (in which case you earn 100% of his/her points as captain and 1/3 of his points as a tribe member), or you may decide to choose someone else. Game Change: There are no longer any negative scores and there is no more 'counting.' If a player has one or more occurrences (more than one PI for example) he only scores the points possible. You cannot earn multiple points in any category.
Each tribe member will earn points by doing the following:
- Your player is involved in a challenge win (240 RC, 300 IC)
- Your player has a PI (300 points)
- Your player is mentioned in PI (210 points)
- Your player makes an on-air voting agreement (150 points)
- Your player gets in an on-air conflict (150 points)
- Your player speaks at TC (300 points). This is a change. Jeff does not have to ask the person a direct question
- New! Your player"s vote is shown or his voice is heard in the voting confessional (150 points)
- Your player provides food/water or starts a fire (150 points).
- New!Your player is asked a question by Jeff outside of TC (at a challenge, for example) (150 points)
- Your player finds a hidden immunity idol (240 points)
- Your player receives a vote at TC (90 points)
- Your player is mentioned as a boot candidate (90 points)
- Your player is exiled, kidnapped, or otherwise forcibly separated from his or her tribe on a temporary basis (150 points)
- Your player is 'called out' as having a poor performance in a challenge by Jeff (90 points). Example: 'Bob has given up!' 'Bob falls off the beam AGAIN!'
Tribe Changes
You will choose your three-person tribe when you register. You may make adjustments until picks close for episode 1. You will keep this tribe for weeks 1, 2, and 3. When you make your picks for week 4, you will be allowed to change 1 person on your tribe without penalty. Additional changes will cost you 750 points each. Clarification: If CBS airs 2 episodes back-to-back, we will call it week 1.
The tribe you choose during week 4 will remain your tribe until week 8. At that time, regardless of whether or not there is a merge, you will be asked to boot one member of your tribe. You will then earn 50% of each tribe-member's points for the remainder of the game. (You will continue to receive 100% of your captain's points). The two-person tribe you have will remain for weeks 8, 9, 10, and 11. New! Additional changes will cost you 1000 points each.
During week 12's picks, you will be allowed to change one of your players for 2500 points. The other player may also be changed, but it will cost you an additional 3000 points. After episode 12, you will not be allowed to adjust your tribe.
The Questions
You will be asked to answer 10 questions each week. Some of those questions will involve the CBS teasers, promos, and challenge/boot predictions. Others will involve some lucky guessing. The scoring decisions made by Gabby and TigerLily are final. Remember, this is only for fun! Score changes will only be made for technical errors.