Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Unofficial Survivor Themed Drinking Party

Sometimes, when I get bored, I pretend that I'm a party planner and am able to plan extravagant parties that involved ridiculous amounts of booze. Being stuck at the airport for close to an hour and a half yesterday night, I wrote up a Survivor Themed Drinking Party. If I am one day able to make this a reality, I will do it.

Survivor Themed Party (warning: alcohol involved. Copious amounts of it.)
Outdrink. Outplay. Outlast.

Send out invitations with the appropriate buff for each person. Encourage them to decorate their buffs before they bring them back to the party. (Here's a place you can order buffs)

Start with an even number of people and depending on how many you have, you can either start the game with two tribes or pretend that you’ve already merged. Encourage the two tribes to make up names for themselves: the more inappropriate, the better.

Ways to split the tribe:
• Girls vs. Guys
• Older vs. Younger
• Schoolyard pick (has anyone else ever wondered what this actually means?)
• Whether you use hashtags on Instagram or not
• Hard liquor vs. winos
• Macs vs. PCs
• Bros vs. not bros
• Trumpets vs. Bones (eh, Cal Band?)

The Hidden Immunity Idol
At any given point in the game, players may elect to try and “find” the hidden immunity idol. This is done by the following:
A hidden immunity station is set up on a table. There will be 10 shot glasses lined up and each glass is sitting atop a small box. Under one box, there will be a hidden immunity idol. In order to look under the box, the player must down the shot before looking. If you’re really persistent, you can drink as many shots as you want until you find the idol but at that point, you may forget that you have the idol, and get alcohol poisoning.
Feel free to try and find the idol at any given time and keep it as hidden as you can. As the game progresses, I’m sure it’ll be more difficult to hide.
There will also be hidden immunity idol clues given out in reward/immunity challenges. We’ll do our best to make them as cryptic as the show. Potential clues:
• The idol is hidden in the box furthest to the right (not that cryptic)
• The idol is hidden under the light rum (maybe you’re good at distinguishing the color of light rum. I personally am not.)
• The idol is hidden between the 70 proof alcohol and the 80 proof alcohol (yea good luck with that)
• The idol is hidden under some alcohol (cryptic enough for you?)

Immunity/Reward Challenges
So because this is a condensed game, it’s just easier to make reward and immunity challenges the same. Start with group challenges, and then move to individual challenges after the merge. Tribal Council will take place after every event. Also copious amounts of alcohol. Feel free to add/make up your own games. Here are some to get you started:

Group Challenges:
• Survivor Flip Cup – why not start with a Survivor themed drinking game? Start with the teams on opposite sides of the table. Engage in regular flip cup. Losing side votes off a member. In round 2, the losing team with one less member has to drink the same number of cups as the losing team. The number of cups on each side has to equal the number of people in the higher number team.
     o For example, Team A and Team B have five people on each side, Team A wins the first round. Team B votes someone off. In round 2, both teams still have 5 cups but Team B is down a person, which means someone has to drink two cups. If Team B loses again, they play the next round with 5 cups and only 3 people. If Team A loses in round 2, then both teams cut down a cup and play with 4 cups. Continue until one team has no more players.
• Three part challenges – pick a combination of three mini challenges and string them together.
o For example, the first members of a tribe need to recover 3 ping pong balls by answering three trivia questions. The next members need to sink the balls into cups. The final members complete a puzzle.
• The (mini) Great American Challenge – Each team needs to finish 5 slices of pizza, a 6 pack of beer, and a puzzle
• Blindfolded puzzle – One player is blindfolded, the rest of the players drunkenly yell at him to put together a puzzle.
• Modified beer pong – each team has ten cups set up in normal beer pong fashion. First to sink 5 wins. No re-racks, every one must shoot in rotation. Ain’t nobody got time for a full game of beer pong.

Individual Challenges:
Landmines
• Player trivia – ask true/false or multiple choice questions about the players that you can collect from them before the party.
• Memory game – show a sequence of symbols and then the players have to repeat them back one at a time
• 30 piece puzzle – get a 30 piece puzzle and whoever completes it first gets immunity
• Survivor Rage Cage – play like regular rage cage but when your cup gets stacked, you’re eliminated from the challenge
• Categories – pick a category, go in a circle and everyone has to name something from that category. If you falter, you’re out. Potential categories:
      o Disney characters you’d like to f*ck
      o Men Taylor Swift has dated
      o Harry Potter spells
      o Mixed drinks

Rewards:
Rewards can pretty much be whatever you want. Maybe you want to reward the team with more drinks. Maybe you want to give them a clue to the hidden immunity idol. Maybe the reward is a generous gulp of water. Let your Faux Jeff Probst decide! The fate of everyone’s alcohol poisoning is in his hands.

The Merge
The merge should happen when the original number of players you have are about half. So if you start out with 20 players, merge at around 10. If you start with 10, merge when there’s 5 left. The jury is composed of players that get voted out after the merge.

Tribal Council
Because we’re condensing 39 days into essentially one day, tribal council will be drastically shortened. No worries, with the added component of alcohol, the game will be just as fun. For each tribal council, the tribe that needs to vote a member off has 5 minutes to decide who they’re kicking off. The member voted off takes a shot and can participate on the side as a cheerleader until the jury comes back to vote for the sole survivor.

The Jury
Unlike the jury on the show Survivor, the jury at the party can be as loud and as obnoxious as they like. They are not only permitted but encouraged to wreak havoc on the remaining members and engage in as much alcoholic debauchery as they would like.

The Final Vote
In the final vote, the three remaining players after the merge will have one minute to make their plea to the jury. Anything goes.
Winner gains the title of sole survivor and biggest alcoholic.

And most importantly, outdrink!

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