Where The Fuck Is Lithuania?

Where The Fuck Is Lithuania? is the premiere of Survivor: Lithuania.

Day 1
The season starts in the Curonian Spit, Lithuania. Our players are two tribes of 8 castaways, battling it out for the title of Sole Survivor of Lithuania. The Ąžuolas tribe (meaning “oak” in Lithuanian and wearing red) consisted of Anubis, Bubs, Frog, Matty, Neb, Nemo, Ryan, and Samb. The Rūta tribe (meaning “rue” and wearing yellow) had Evan, James, Kam, Keanu, Nathan, Pendant, Piper, and Tayson.

The two tribes were given the first day to get to know each other without the distraction of pesky game things like challenges. Nemo organises a Jackbox session with the fellow tribemates of himself, Ryan, Neb, Frog, and even the host Catnip.

On the Rūta tribe, Kam creates an alliance with Evan, Keanu, and Pendant. They decide to name it after one of the other hosts - Isaac. Speaking of Isaac, he promises encouraging selfies to the good eggs who submit confessionals on this day and there are several players who indeed do so under this incentive.

Day 2
Immunity challenge of the round is announced, preceded by Catnip telling castaways about how small and unknown Lithuania is. The challenge is essentially some trivia about Lithuania. Players are not told much more than that, so they’re not sure what knowledge to prepare for it.

Some of the players (namely Nathan and Nemo) do some prepwork for the challenge within their confessional threads, while Pendant gives useful links to the whole tribe. In the end, none of these players were preparing directly for what was actually needed. The challenge required to simply notice certain Lithuanian subjects (the national flag, the national bird, the coat of arms, and one of the former presidents) among other examples of the same category.

Ąžuolas wins immunity, sending Rūta to their first tribal, and has a banter with the hosts regarding soccer aka football. Feel free to grunt at whichever of those two titles you dislike.

Day 3
Rūta is figuring out who should leave home. In the previous days, James seemed to be the easy target, due to not being online during the first few hours or the full first day. Luckily for him, he came back and started making social bonds soon afterwards, and that’s probably why Pendant brought up Nathan as the main target to the Isaac alliance.

Nathan is voted out 7-1. The first twist of the season is revealed - the Black Vote. Nathan was given the opportunity and obligation to cast one vote, which would be used in the following tribal council attended by Rūta. Nathan casts his vote for Evan, but of course, the other players don’t know that yet. The Black Vote twist is revealed only to the Rūta tribe at this moment, instead of making it public to all the players.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Where The Fuck Is Lithuania?

Players were asked to answer four trivia questions about Lithuania through a series of images, guessing the country's flag, coat of arms, national bird and first female president. Each player was timed, and the tribe with the lowest total time would win Immunity.

Winners:

Voting Confessionals
"ruta"

- nathan!!! i’m so sorry i have to vote you out, but there’s no way the vote will change. i felt like we had a good connection and you were really nice to talk to, but everyone else didn’t really hear as much from you, and one of the worst things that you can do in the game is not be social enough. sorry :/

"ruta"

- sorry mate, better you than me

"ruta"

- I didn’t want it to be me and it’s not, it’s you. See ya.

"ruta"

- I'm sorry man, I love this tribe, on most any other season I'd love to work with you but everyone else just shone a little brighter for me this time. Game is game. </3

"ruta"

- I’m so sorry Nathan but unfortunately I have to go with the flow.

Final Words
"ruta"

- Damn I did not expect that, well played guys. I guess it wasn’t that smart to play while on vacation, but I only had a few days left and after that my summer would be clear and not busy at all, but yeah. I want you guys to know that Evan threw out Tayson's name originally I was just trying to help spread it around, but yeah. I’m not really mad at anybody, just a little disappointed, but I wish you all good luck, go beat Azuolas!

Trivia

 * The episode title was coined by Isaac (host, not alliance), who in turn was inspired by a John Oliver skit.
 * The day Rūta attended Tribal Council was also James's birthday. Pretty relieving to not go at that point, all things considered!