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=Survivor Winners=

Kim - Survivor: One World
Kim caught the attention of Alicia Rosa during the trek to the girl's camp because she posed as a strong player, which forged her into Alicia's alliance, along with Chelsea Meissner, Kat Edorsson, and Sabrina Thompson. Kim's levelheadedness was proven when she shunned  Manono member Colton Cumbie with poise and composure, despite Cumbie's constant visits to their side of camp as it started to annoy her tribe and viewed his affinity for them as a camouflaged act of sabotage. After the evacuation of tribemate Kourtney Moon, despite Chelsea and Kim discussing the possibility of booting Kat for her challenge ineptitude, the alliance stood strong and eliminated Salani's oldest member, Nina Acosta. Kim and the rest of the Salani tribe then prospered, winning three consecutive challenges, and received free immunity when the Manono tribe decided to go to Tribal Council after winning the Day 11 Immunity Challenge.

Kim remained a Salani member after the Day 12 tribe switch, where she formed a secondary alliance with newcomers Jay Byars, Michael Jefferson, and Troyzan Robertson, where she found herself in the leadership position. Kim increased her power by obtaining a Hidden Immunity Idol, which she disclosed to her closest ally, Chelsea. The forged alliance, however, did not need to take action, as the new Salani demolished the new Manono in subsequent challenges, merging with them with a 7-5 discrepancy, but the original members (men and women) remained 6-6.

The two revisions of the tribes found Kim working with two pacts, the all-girl original Salani alliance (Alicia's regrouped alliance with former outsider Christina Cha being adopted to the group) and the new Salani alliance. After Kim manipulated Jay and Troyzan to oust Jonas Otsuji and cannibalize new Salani alliance member Michael, she eventually revealed her master plan—blindside Jay and Troyzan to pave the way for an all-girl endgame. The plan worked, and the men took the fall in subsequent Tribal Councils, though one of her longtime allies, Kat, was disposed of by Kim after the latter's controversial choice of who to bring with her after winning a Reward Challenge and Kat giving Kim a bad attitude after Kim won Immunity.

Throughout the merge, Kim collectively won four of the last five Immunity Challenges, and, with a Hidden Immunity Idol in her possession, Kim was essentially invincible. After Kat's elimination, Kim convinced Alicia that Tarzan was the mastermind of the tribe, pledging her loyalty to her and driving the vote against Tarzan. Following her victory at the final two Immunity Challenges, and the eliminations of Alicia and Christina, Kim found herself in the final three with her closest friends, Chelsea and Sabrina. Kim's quiet yet destructive strategy, and avoiding the target despite how strong she appeared in the merge, earned the respect and votes of seven of nine jury members, crowning her as the 24th Sole Survivor.

At the live Reunion Show, Kim won an additional $100,000 for winning the Fan Favorite Award.

Boston Rob - Survivor: Redemption Island
Unlike his nemesis Russell Hantz, Rob was warmly received by his tribe. It didn't take him long to be accepted into an alliance, which consisted of Andrea Boehlke, Matt Elrod, Grant Mattos, Natalie Tenerelli, and Ashley Underwood. His first target was Kristina Kell, who was looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol. They decided to split the vote between Kristina and Francesca Hogi when Ometepe lost the first Immunity Challenge. At that Tribal Council, Rob saw an opportunity to manipulate Phillip, who was a loose cannon. Phillip's vote would break the tie and send Francesca to Redemption Island. When Ometepe lost the second Immunity Challenge, Rob made a deal with Phillip that he would protect Phillip and welcome him into the Ometepe Alliance if he followed the plan and acted as if he was getting voted out, but he told him that it wasn't Phillip going home. Rob and the Ometepe Alliance then blindsided Matt, a member of their own alliance. They did this because they feared Andrea and Matt would develop into a power couple, very much like Rob and Amber did in Survivor: All-Stars. After Ometepe won the third challenge, they then voted out Kristina, but split the vote with Phillip, just in case she had the idol. Rob then found his own Idol when he lied that he had bowel problems and went to look for it. Ometepe then won the remaining Immunity Challenges left until the merge, turning an 8 to 6 disadvantage into a 6-5 advantage pending the result of the final duel.

When Matt re-entered the game as a result of Redemption Island, he decided to keep with Rob despite considering flipping. He was honest in telling Rob he was initially considering flipping on their alliance, which prompted Rob turned his other allies on Matt, thus sending him back to Redemption Island. The Ometepe Alliance then started their pagonging of the Zapatera Tribe, voting off Mike Chiesl, David Murphy, Julie Wolfe, Ralph Kiser, and Steve Wright. During this period, Zapatera tried to target either Rob or Phillip unsuccessfully, with only a few instances of his allies briefly straying from his buddy system strategy. It would be that strategy that caused Natalie to alert Rob that Ashley was considering working with some Zapatera members, which solidified that Rob's optimal endgame scenario would involve Phillip and Natalie.

After Steve was voted out, there was nowhere left to hide, and the Ometepe Alliance was forced to turn on themselves. Rob continued to be in control, and he convinced everybody to vote off Andrea instead of Phillip, who he conspired to take to the Final Three with because of his unpopularity with the jury members. Ashley was Rob's next intended target due to her previous albeit minor betrayal of trust as well as her closeness to Natalie. This plan was halted when Ashley won the Immunity Challenge. Rob was forced to eliminate his good friend in the game, Grant, due to his superior strength in challenges to Natalie. Andrea then came back into the game via Redemption Island and was then voted off again by Rob, Phillip, Natalie, and Ashley, who was starting to open her eyes to Rob's gameplay. Rob played his idol as it was the last chance to do so, negating Andrea's vote and forcing Ashley and Natalie to vote for Andrea. Rob had destroyed all other clues or evidence to other Immunity Idols in the game. Rob then won immunity from the second to last Tribal Council, and thus won a spot in the final three. Rob then decided to take Phillip and Natalie to the final three with him. He believed he could win against them because Phillip is disliked by the jury especially by the Zapatera members, and Natalie had done nothing in the game and around camp, and had just been one of his minions. Ashley, realizing that she was going to get voted off, tried to convince Natalie to vote for Phillip, forcing a tie, but Natalie stayed loyal to Rob, consequently voting off Ashley.

At the Final Tribal Council, Rob delivered his argument to why he should be the Sole Survivor, which was much more developed than Phillip's or Natalie's, which were both very weak. However, he was criticized for being cutthroat and a cult leader, and his potentially creepy relationship with Natalie. Rob raised the stakes by saying that regardless of tonight's result, this would be his last day on Survivor. David lobbied for Rob to get the votes needed to win, citing Rob's gameplay this season as one of the best in Survivor history. Rob then won an easy victory, mastering his strategy and finally becoming the Sole Survivor, only losing Ralph's vote to Phillip, as Phillip said earlier that Ralph was Zapatera's hardest worker. Rob won by an 8-1-0 margin.

Tony - Survivor: Winners at War
Tony returned to play in the all-winners season Survivor: Winners at War, where he was initially placed on the Dakal tribe. Not wanting to make the same mistakes he did in his last time out, Tony opted to keep a low profile and focus more on getting to know his tribemates on a personal level. On Day 3, after losing the Immunity Challenge, Tyson Apostol initially targeted Tony, to which Tony fired back and campaigned against Tyson. In the end, Tony joined Yul Kwon in dismantling the supposed "poker alliance" and voted out Amber Mariano.

The next day, Tony reconnected with his fellow Cagayan castaway Sarah Lacina, and the two recreated their old Cops-R-Us alliance from said season. A few days later, Sarah received a note from the Edge of Extinction telling her about a Vote Steal advantage hidden at the opposing Sele tribe's camp. To help infiltrate their camp without getting caught, Sarah got help from Tony to camouflage her via rubbing ashes on her face. Sarah succeeded in getting the advantage without anyone noticing her.

On Day 11, Dakal lost the Immunity Challenge, and Tyson was targeted for his duplicity. Tony, however, wanted Nick Wilson out because Tyson was more use as a target shield than Nick. Ultimately, Tony joined the majority in voting out Tyson. The next morning, a Tribe Switch occurred. Tony remained on Dakal with Kim Spradlin-Wolfe and Sandra Diaz-Twine, along with original Sele members Denise Stapley and Jeremy Collins. Though Tony and Sandra were dead-set on getting Denise and Jeremy out, they worried Kim would flip to the latter's side since she was on the outs before.

On Day 16, host Jeff Probst announced that only the first tribe who won the challenge would be immune, and thus there would be two separate Tribal Councils for each of the losers. Yara won the Immunity Challenge, which meant Dakal and Sele would both vote someone out. Tony was paranoid about the state of his tribe, so he attempted to reuse his strategy of spying on his tribemates to gain information. That night, he decided to join the group in voting out Denise, but unbeknownst to him, Sandra had given Denise an idol to save herself. This plan backfired, as although Denise used the idol for herself (along with one she already had for Jeremy), she voted Sandra out in return. This move left Tony on the outs, but fortunately, he won the next Immunity Challenge and lived to see another day.

On Day 19, the tribes merged into the Koru tribe, along with Tyson, who returned from the Edge of Extinction. From there, a new alliance of "lions", as Tony dubbed them, were getting together to vote out the "hyenas". For Tony, this meant low-level threats like Nick, Adam Klein, and Wendell Holland. Though the group was divided between the three, they settled on Wendell and voted him out that night. Adam quickly followed after a few chaotic days.

Tony won his first individual Immunity Challenge on Day 25, and he then turned his focus to Jeremy, who wanted to separate his two closest allies Sarah and Sophie Clarke. Despite it looking like Jeremy was going to go, a series of chaotic events led to Jeremy using his Safety Without Power advantage to leave Tribal Council without voting or being voted against. Tony's alliance quickly shifted gears and blindsided Tyson that night.

Early the next morning, Tony went searching for a Hidden Immunity Idol while everyone was still asleep. Although he was found by Nick, Tony managed to find the idol without Nick in sight. The next day, Tony received an advantage from the Edge of Extinction. It was an Extortion Advantage that would block the target from voting or competing in the Immunity Challenge unless they paid a certain number of Fire Tokens. Tony was excited until he realized the advantage was being played against him. Desperate to gain back power, Tony convinced Nick, Jeremy, and Ben Driebergen to give him one Fire Token each, giving him enough to pay the extortion. He was able to compete in the Immunity Challenge, which he won.

Afterward, although Tony was initially set on voting out Jeremy, he decided to split the votes between Jeremy and Sophie, the latter he worried was getting too close to Sarah. Sophie was blindsided that night and was sent to the Edge of Extinction. Though Sarah was initially angry with Tony for what he did, she chose to stick with him. The next day, Tony won his third individual immunity in a row, and he later learned that Kim was targeting him. Tony retaliated by getting his alliance together to vote off Kim.

Despite still wanting Jeremy out, Tony shifted his efforts toward Nick because he viewed Jeremy as a shield. However, Nick won Immunity, and, knowing about Michele Fitzgerald's 50/50 Coin, Tony decided to split the votes between Jeremy and Michele. Michele played her advantage at Tribal Council, nullifying her votes, but it was no use as Jeremy received the most votes and was sent to the Edge. This left Michele on the outs, and everyone was ready to vote her out next. However, when Michele won the next Immunity Challenge on Day 34, the majority turned on each other. Tony discovered through his spy nest that Denise wanted him out, so he in turn lobbied against Denise. In the end, though, Tony joined his alliance in voting out Nick.

Natalie Anderson returned from the Edge of Extinction on Day 35, and she immediately put Tony on the spot by saying the jury loved him. Tony grew concerned about this, along with the possibility of Natalie having some sort of advantage form the Edge. He tried suggesting to his alliance that they vote off Denise, but to no avail. He turned out to be right; Natalie played an idol on Night 36, nullifying her votes. Tony and Ben both played their idols after her, resulting in a null vote. At the revote, Tony got his way, and Denise was voted out.

Right after Tribal Council, Tony searched for the idol, but Natalie found it before he could. Tony won his fourth individual Immunity on Day 37, and back at camp he discovered through his spy nest that Natalie had the idol. Knowing this, Tony told Ben and Sarah to vote for Michele. However, unbeknownst to Tony, Ben asked Sarah to vote him out that night, to which Sarah obliged. The next day, Natalie won the Final Immunity Challenge, and she was adamant on forcing Tony to compete in the fire-making challenge, eventually deciding to pit his partner in crime, Sarah, against him. In a close battle, Tony beat Sarah and secured his spot in the Final Three, with Sarah becoming the final member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, the jury praised Tony for his prowess in every aspect of the game. However, Tony was also criticized, especially by Jeremy for his betrayal and broken promises. Despite Jeremy's critique, he followed Sandra in becoming the second two-time Sole Survivor with 12 jury votes to Natalie's 4 and Michele's 0.

JT - Survivor: Tocantins
Assigned to the red Jalapao tribe, J.T. was popular and well-liked by all his tribe mates and his physical prowess in challenges made him very valuable to fellow tribe member Stephen Fishbach. As of Day 2, they created a rock-solid alliance and with the help of Taj Johnson-George became the power-players, eliminating Sandy Burgin, Spencer Duhm, and Sydney Wheeler back to back in Jalapao's three straight Tribal Councils.

Despite his persona and the various ways he benefited the tribe, J.T. was on the losing end when it came to tribal numbers. When Jalapao merged with Timbira, Jalapao was down in numbers 4-6. It was Coach Wade who approached him and Stephen to create a new alliance, known as the Warrior Alliance. Due to the medical evacuation of Joe Dowdle and Timbira slowly self-destructing, J.T. was able to play up his social game and play hard when it came to individual challenges, earning the respect of those voted out.

In the final few rounds of the game, J.T. began winning consecutive individual Immunity Challenges sending strategies into a tailspin after he became a target. Despite all this, the original alliance he created with Stephen was honored when J.T. took him to the Final Two over Erinn Lobdell. In the end, he became the eighteenth Sole Survivor by a vote of 7-0, the series' second landslide unanimous vote and was the first Sole Survivor to play a "Perfect Game" with no votes cast against him.

Todd - Survivor: China
After the welcoming ceremony was completed, Todd was placed on the Fei Long. Upon reaching camp, Jean-Robert Bellande identified him as a strategic player and decided to let Todd be the schemer. Todd decided to place the leadership position on Aaron Reisberger. Fei Long won the first challenge, earning the flint. Over the next few days, Todd aligned himself with Amanda Kimmel and Aaron. Todd was generally chosen to sit out of challenges because of his small stature. Fei Long won the next Reward Challenge and in addition to fishing gear, Fei Long earned the right to kidnap a member of Zhan Hu. They decided on Jaime Dugan because Zhan Hu would be demoralized without her sunny personality. He also bonded with Leslie Nease as her referred her as "Mom" and her noting him as a sharp kid. Fei Long continued its dominance by winning immunity.

Fei Long's winning streak ended when Zhan Hu won the Day 7 Reward Challenge, and kidnapped Leslie. When Leslie returned, she told everyone she had fun and told some secrets to Zhan Hu, such as Aaron being the leader of Fei Long. Aaron, alarmed by this deemed Leslie untrustworthy. Fei Long lost the challenge miserably because of Courtney Yates's physical weakness. While gathering materials for the materials for fire, Todd and Courtney heard the loud Jean-Robert and James Clement discussing to vote out Leslie or Courtney. Todd was shocked by them carelessly talking in front of the people they wanted gone. Todd considered his options of getting rid or Leslie or Jean-Robert. Ultimately, Leslie was voted out. Fei Long won the next Reward Challenge, which was a visit from a local Chinese fisherman and his family and a meal. Fei Long kidnapped Dave Cruser, who got on everyone's nerves. At the Immunity Challenge, Todd was paired up with James. Both scored points, contributing to Fei Long's victory.

On Day 13, a local Chinese fisherman came to camp, giving them a note. The note explained to select Zhan Hu's two strongest warriors that will benefit the tribe most. After a long deliberation, the tribe decided on Frosti Zernow and Sherea Lloyd. Todd was confused by this but anticipated a Tribe Switch. He was right as Zhan Hu got a similar note and chose James and Aaron. When Frosti and Sherea arrived, the tribe was given a fruit basket. Jean-Robert proposed that Sherea was voted out first, then Frosti next, however the rest of the tribe was unsure about it. Fei Long won the Immunity Challenge because Jaime and Peih-Gee Law threw the challenge. Todd planned on kidnapping the remaining Fei Long member on Zhan Hu to get another clue to the idol if the won the next challenge. After winning the Reward Challenge to a local bathouse, they kidnapped James. After finding the Hidden Immunity Idol with the help of Amanda and the clue, Todd gave the idol and the location of the second idol to James with the intent of him throwing the challenge and blindsiding Jaime. Todd told his alliance, which now included Denise Martin, about the idol and to try and win the next Immunity Challenge. However, Fei Long had a hard time stomaching the food, particularly Denise. Zhan Hu won the challenge, destroying Todd's plan. Todd and Amanda discussed whether to vote out Sherea or Jean-Robert. Courtney pleaded with them to vote out the annoying Jean-Robert as Courtney liked Sherea more. However, Sherea was deemed untrustworthy and eliminated instead.

The tribes merged and enjoyed a huge celebration with food and entertainment. The first individual Immunity Challenge was about the events of the celebration. Frosti won the challenge, beating out Jaime. The former Fei Long members decided the former Zhan Hu tribe should go first. With that, Jaime became the first member of the jury. At the next Reward Challenge, Todd's team won. Todd, Amanda, Jean-Robert, and James, went to a local Chinese village. They enjoyed food and received a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, both of which was found by James. Todd and Amanda enjoyed the fact the Jean-Robert was the last person to find out about the idols. Because James hadn't offered him an Idol, Todd flirted with the idea of blindsiding James. Jean-Robert came to Todd, hoping to blindside James, after securing Peih-Gee and Erik Huffman's votes for the bold move. Disturbed by the fact that Jean-Robert was coming up with the same ideas as himself, Todd deemed the poker player as the biggest threat to him. Todd blindsided Jean-Robert by garnering James, Amanda, Courtney, and Frosti's votes.

Todd was concerned about Courtney's budding friendship with Frosti. At the Reward Challenge, Todd was selected to be on the red team. They lost badly, costing them a trip down the river and food. He was really irritated with Peih-Gee when she accused James for not trying his best at the challenge, viewing her as the new Jean-Robert. At the Immunity Challenge, given the choice of competing or eating hamburgers, Todd chose the food while Peih-Gee beat out Frosti for immunity. After the challenge, Todd decided that Frosti and Courtney needed to be broken up over eliminating Erik, who was well liked by everybody. Frosti was unanimously voted out. After Frosti's boot, a Reward Challenge was held about Chinese trivia. Peih-Gee won and elected to take Erik and Denise with her. While they were away, James declared the four remaining people to be the final four but Amanda wasn't comfortable with going to the Final Tribal Council with any of them. After Erik won immunity, Amanda wanted James out of the game as he still had both Idols and was the biggest physical threat. Todd complied and James was blindsided without using either of his idols. The next Reward Challenge was a Loved Ones Challenge. Todd was paired with his sister, Brandi, who informed everyone that their younger sister had a miscarriage. Many of the tribe members, most notably Courtney, wondered whether they were lying about the miscarriage to gain sympathy, with Courtney drawing parallels between Todd's situation and Jon Dalton's controversial lie in Survivor: Pearl Islands. Denise and her husband won the challenge, she selected Todd, Amanda, and their loved ones to join them. At the Immunity Challenge, Todd came very close to winning but faltered at the end. Because of Todd's mistake, Peih-Gee won immunity. The former Zhan-Hu members tried to convinced Denise that her best chance of going to the end was with them but she stayed loyal, voting out Erik in a 4-2 vote.

At the final five Reward Challenge, Todd proved accurate with the crossbow, just barely losing out to Denise. Denise shared the reward with Courtney and Todd. After enjoying the food, Todd and Courtney still complained. This aggravated Peih-Gee and Amanda, with the latter having been dancing with of the idea of blindsiding Todd. Todd was the first out of the Immunity Challenge, which Amanda won. The Fei Long members stayed loyal and voted out the last original Zhan-Hu, Peih-Gee. After voting out Peih-Gee, the final four were happy because they thought they would all be voted out before the merge. The next challenge was for a meal to give someone energy for the Final Immunity Challenge. Todd was neck-and-neck with Amanda, but she edged him out. Amanda shared the reward with Todd where they talked about the game. She told him that she lost trust in him, much to his shock. Todd managed to patch up their friendship and they reaffirmed their promise to go to the end together. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Todd was the first out while Amanda won immunity again. After the challenge, Todd and Denise were deemed the biggest threats to win the game. At Tribal Council, Todd acted shocked when Amanda seemingly sold Denise out, which Amanda though was a move to made her look bad in front of the jury. Despite this Denise was deemed the biggest threat and was voted out. Amanda confronted Todd about the events of Tribal Council. He claimed it was an accident, but she didn't believe him.

At Final Tribal Council, Todd opened his case by stating his friendships was separate from the game and apologized for hurting the jury's feelings. Todd was viewed as the biggest liar of the final three. However, Todd justified his actions, stated that he had played the game since the beginning, and gave satisfactory answers to the jurors that asked him questions without appearing overly apologetic for his actions. They were impressed by his responses to the jury, while Jean-Robert was left speechless. Todd became the 15th Sole Survivor in a 4-2-1 vote. He earned the votes of Jaime, Jean-Robert, Frosti, and Peih-Gee.

Tom - Survivor: Palau
On the first night of the competition, Tom aligned himself with Ian Rosenberger, Katie Gallagher, and Stephenie LaGrossa. The next day, it was revealed that tribes will be formed by Schoolyard Pick and the last two people would go home. Tom was selected by Katie, who was selected by Ian, to be part of what would be the Koror tribe. Tom would pick Janu Tornell to be on the tribe.

At the inaugural Immunity Challenge on Day 3, Tom suggested to only take the fire making kit, in contrast to Ulong when Jolanda Jones wanted to take as much as possible. Despite their an apparent age disadvantage in contrast to the much collectively younger Ulong, Koror won immunity, flint, and the right to choose camps. With minimal input from the other tribe members, Tom suggested they start anew. Koror's decision to move out proved to be a disastrous one, as they capsized on their way to their new island, ostensibly losing their fire-making kit in the depths of the sea. Reaching their new camp did not help either, as the beach teemed with rats.

Tom had become the leader of Koror and one its main providers, along with Ian. At the next Reward Challenge, Tom faced off against Jeff Wilson. Despite a hard-fought battle, Tom lost to Jeff and Koror lost to Ulong. At the Immunity Challenge, Tom lead Koror to another victory. At the next Reward Challenge, both tribes had to pick a representative for building a bathroom. Janu, Coby Archa, and Caryn Groedel all wanted the job, but Tom ignored them in favor of Ian and Gregg. Coby became aware of Tom's Alliance. Koror won the Reward Challenge and the production team remodeled Koror's shelter, which they needed so desperately. At the Immunity Challenge, Tom's opponent was Bobby Jon. The two battled twice, with Tom winning both times. The men of Koror along with Janu won Koror its fourth Immunity Challenge in a row. Back at camp, Tom had to climb over Willard Smith to tend to the fire. Willard claimed that his age prevented him from helping at camp. Tom viewed this as "Why should I do this when others can do it for me." The next challenge was purely for reward because both tribes had to go to Tribal Council. Koror won again as usual. After the challenge, Tom was quick to nominate Willard for elimination for being the tribe's biggest detriment. He added that Willard can do well in puzzle challenges at the merge and can take one of the seats at Final Tribal Council. The tribe complied and Willard was unanimously voted out. Tom competed in the next Reward Challenge along with Gregg, Coby, and Caryn. They lost to Ulong for the first time in days. However, that would be the paltry group of four win a challenge. Koror won all remaining challenges and reduced Ulong to one person, Stephenie. Coby was becoming more and more aggravated with Tom because he believed that Tom was encouraging the women to act lazy.

On Day 22, Stephenie arrived at Koror beach with a container. It had a note, explaining that Ulong was conquered and Stephenie is now a member of Koror. Tom remembered his alliance with Stephenie and promised to protect her. A native fisherman came to the group, wanting to teach the group how to fish. Tom was ecstatic because he can interact with the locals and respect them. Coby wanted the other men to spend the night fishing if possible. After bringing back a bountiful booty of fish, the tribe feasted. Tom got drunk on some rum, much to Katie's amusement. Tom won the first individual immunity when everyone else dropped out of the challenge for food. Tribal Council was held immediately after the challenge and Coby was voted out for his dislike of Tom and his alliance revealing the tribe's secrets to Stephenie. Tom, Caryn, Gregg, and Janu won the next Reward Challenge, allowing to them to partake in a traditional Palauan feast. Tom enjoyed interacting with the locals. Janu had to excuse herself from the feast, but she helped herself to the leftovers meant for the others. At the Immunity Challenge, the first castaway to bail would spend the night on a new beach alone called Exile Island. Tom comically considered dropping out to get away from the rats. In the end, Janu opted out first and Tom won his second Immunity Challenge. When Janu returned, she wanted to leave the game. The others (Tom included) wanted Stephenie gone for her athleticism, competitive spirit, and determination to win. When Janu realized this, she laid her torch down to stop them.

After Janu left, Stephenie was angered that they were going to send her to the jury rather than someone who wanted to be voted out. Tom calmed Stephenie, even handing her the Immunity Necklace. However, he deemed it his safest option to eliminate the last remaining Ulong member. The final seven gotten envelopes with money in them from Tree Mail, foreshadowing a Survivor Auction. Based on the note that came with it, Tom speculated that more than Food will be sold at the Auction. He was right when Jeff offered letters from home. The letters were the only thing the firefighter and father purchased at the auction. At the Immunity Challenge, Tom did well but accidentally gave Ian the immunity win. Back at camp, Caryn informed him that Stephenie was trying to get the women to vote him out. Tom was confused by this, stating that she was better off with the women. Stephenie was unanimously voted out for her scheming. At the final six Reward Challenge, Tom was the second person out after Caryn. Katie knocked Ian out of the challenge in order to go on reward. Tom and Ian realized with Katie on their side, Gregg and Jenn were planning to eliminate them once Caryn is gone. Tom encouraged the outsider to pretend like she is going home in order to enforce a tie. His fears of the challenge being for Loved Ones were confirmed when the others return with their loved ones. At the Immunity Challenge, Tom made it to the final round against Ian. His poor marksmanship caused him immunity once again. Ian told Katie of the plot, which she was against. Unwilling to force a tie, Katie voted against Gregg, blindsiding him.

Before the Reward Challenge, Tom recommended to Ian that he pick a woman to join him on the reward if he won, therefore preventing a women's alliance from forming. However, Ian won the Reward Challenge and asked Tom to join him. When he returned, he persuaded Katie to stay loyal. Katie described it as if he was threatening her. Tom resumed his dominance when he won the final five Immunity Challenge. At Tribal Council, Caryn revealed that he and Ian were controlling the game. Frightened by this, everyone voted off Caryn, making her the fifth member of the jury. The next Tree Mail had a feast awaiting them. Tom was happy because they had gotten something because they made the final four. Tom beat out Ian to win immunity again. After the challenge, Ian said that it would be a difficult choice for him. Taking this as a sign that Ian would vote him out if he hadn't won immunity, Tom voted against Ian at Tribal Council. This caused a tie, but instead of drawing rocks, Ian and Jenn faced off in a fire-making challenge. Ian won easily, eliminating Jenn from the competition. After Tribal Council, Tom berated Ian for his apparent lack of loyalty, causing him to break down in tears. After the Rites of Passage, the final three competed in their Immunity Challenge. Katie was the first to drop out after about five hours. Tom offered to take Ian to Day 39 if he steps down. Ian refused, saying he wanted to duke it out. Eventually, this guilted ridden Ian offered to step down if Tom took Katie to the final two. Tom still offered Ian a seat at Final Tribal Council, but Ian insisted stating Tom and Katie's friendship meant more to him, and he was willing to make the sacrifice. Tom said that Ian had earned his respect. An impromptu Tribal Council was held, and Tom confirmed Ian's elimination.

At the Final Tribal Council, the jury vilified Katie. Tom was not spared from the jury's wrath either. Coby said that Tom played a dirty game, whether he would admit it or not. He would give his vote depending on answers given to the jury. Stephenie felt that Tom didn't protect her enough. Jenn viewed him as a chauvinist and was disrespectful to her. Tom answered the jury's questions and criticism to the best of his ability. He closed his case by saying that "You met the real Tom Westman, good or bad". In the end, Tom won the title of Sole Survivor in a 6-1 vote. Coby voted for Katie because he felt she gave more honest answers.

Yul - Survivor: Cook Islands
Yul began the competition as part of the green Puka Puka (nicknamed "Puka") tribe, which was entirely comprised of Asian-Americans. When the tribes marooned off the Cook Islands, the four racially divided tribes scoured the ship for supplies. Frantic as everybody, Yul got distracted by all the commotion, causing the chicken he was holding to escape, only to end up in the hands of another contestant, Jonathan Penner.

Four to five days in, Yul immediately began a friendly bond with tribemate Becky Lee, which would eventually blossom as a formidable alliance of two, while slightly became distant to another tribemate, Cao Boi Bui, whose "Asian jokes" silently aggravated the other tribe members, Jenny Guzon-Bae and Brad Virata. Any strategies within Puka Puka were put on hold, as the green tribe won two consecutive Reward/Immunity Challenges. On Day 5, Yul was sent to Exile Island, where he solved the clues to a broken compass, which was revealed as the Hidden Immunity Idol, giving him a high degree of power.

When the four tribes became two on Day 7, Yul, Becky, and Cao Boi were transferred to the new Aitutakitribe, along with members from the other three original tribes. Yul bought time to expand his alliance, adding former Rarotonga members Jonathan, who happened to be the only other person to be sent to Exile Island at the time, and Candice Woodcock. After losing the subsequent Immunity Challenge, an added twist that sent Candice to Exile Island ruined Yul's plans to take his new alliance in motion. To make up for Candice's absence, Yul improvised by convincing Cao Boi and Jessica Smith to eliminate Cecilia Mansilla. The new Aitutaki tribe later enjoyed a lengthy winning streak, winning four of the next five challenges.

After a double elimination twist that would forcibly send Aitutaki to Tribal Council, Yul was approached by Cao Boi, who presented a plan which he called "Plan Voodoo." The salon owner speculated that Jonathan had the Hidden Immunity Idol and that there was a budding "Whites' Alliance" once the Caucasian contestants would be reunited at the merge. As a solution, Cao Boi proposed that the vote should end up a 3-3 tie between Candice and Jonathan to nullify any power obtained by playing the idol. While oblivious of the fact that Yul was the true owner of the idol, this, and his eccentric personality caused Cao Boi's "Plan Voodoo" to backfire, sending him home and keeping Yul's alliance intact. When Rarotonga finally broke Aitutaki's winning streak, Yul joined in sending Jessica home for being an alliance outsider.

On Day 20, the castaways were given the chance to mutiny. Candice and Jonathan took the opportunity, leaving only Yul, Becky, Sundra Oakley, and Ozzy Lusth, who was the next intended target. Despite the numbers disadvantage, the Aitu Four rallied together to win the remaining challenges, and would punish Candice at every opportunity by sending her to Exile Island for her betrayal. The Aitu Four would enter the merge with five Raros and needing someone to flip, and Yul turn towards Jonathan to flip back to Aitu. After showing him the Hidden Immunity Idol, Jonathan agreed and would like to vote off Nate Gonzalez instead, trusting him the least. Yul agreed and Jonathan flipped to the Aitu side, resulting in Nate being blindsided.

Yul revealed his idol to the tribe at the Survivor Auction. After the remaining Raros, including Jonathan, were voted out, Yul was in the final four, with his alliance. During this time, Yul realized that he was being viewed as the brains of this operation and how he sent players to the jury mattered. This resulted in him posturing to the eventual members of the jury by agreeing to Adam's request for Jonathan to go before him and also bringing Jonathan's hat back to Tribal Council following his blindside. On Day 38, a Tree Mail stated to perform the Rites of Passage and proceed to the Final Immunity Challenge. Confused by this, Jeff revealed that this season would feature a Final Three for the first time at Final Tribal Council instead of the usual Final Two. Although unable to win immunity, his Hidden Immunity Idol kept him safe. He offered the idol to Becky, but she rejected it stating it was only fair to enter a tiebreaker between Becky and Sundra after all they've been through.

At Final Tribal Council, Yul explained his strategy and also revealed how much it meant for him to be a part of this season as he grew up with few Asian American role models on television. When Candice asked him about playing the jury, Yul's awkward answer left Candice's eventual swing vote up in the air. In the end, Yul was declared the Sole Survivor for his brilliant strategy and excellent social game over Ozzy's dominance in challenges in a 5-4-0 jury vote.

At the Live Reunion Show, Yul lost to Ozzy for most popular contestant of the season, with the latter winning a car.

Jeremy - Survivor: Cambodia
Jeremy was chosen by public vote from thirty-two candidates to compete on the "Second Chance" season, Survivor: Cambodia.

Jeremy was a part of the Bayon tribe. After hitting the beach, he immediately formed alliances with Andrew Savage, Keith Nale, Joe Anglim, and Tasha Fox. His intention was to surround himself with shields in the form of more vocal players such as Andrew and physical threats such as Joe. On Day 5, Andrew told the tribe a heartfelt story about how he met his wife and this made everybody cry. After the story, Jeremy left the shelter so that he could be alone. He then stated in a confessional that his wife was pregnant with their third child, so he was playing for them. Jeremy always remained on Bayon even after two tribe switches, and they won nearly all the Immunity Challenges.

After the first tribe switch, he formed a bond with original Ta Keo member Spencer Bledsoe. On Day 9, he found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol and found the idol during the Immunity Challenge. After Bayon lost their first, and only, Immunity Challenge, Jeremy and his allies Stephen Fishbach and Monica Padilla agreed to vote out original Ta Keo Kelly Wiglesworth. However, Kimmi Kappenberg told him that Monica tried to start an all-girls alliance, which infuriated him. As a result, at Tribal Council, Jeremy, along with Kimmi and Stephen, voted together to blindside Monica.

The tribes officially merged with 13 players remaining. Jeremy's alliance was the majority alliance over Kass McQuillen and Ciera Eastin's minority alliance. Despite being in the majority alliance with most of the original Bayons, plus Spencer and Kelly, the multitude of intertwining relationships as a result of the tribe switches resulted in everybody creating temporary voting blocs to take out common threats. Jeremy was able to find his second Hidden Immunity Idol and played it on Stephen during the final ten Tribal Council, thus sparing Stephen from elimination and blindsiding Ciera. However, Stephen was voted out at the next Tribal Council. With eight players remaining, they got to meet their loved ones. Jeremy met his wife Val Collins (whom he competed with as her loved one previously in San Juan del Sur), and she told him that they were going to have a boy. However, Jeremy stated in a confessional that he was not going to tell anyone, believing that it could jeopardize his game.

With six players remaining, Jeremy was in the majority alliance that consisted of himself, Spencer, Tasha, and Kimmi. However, Kimmi jumped ship to Keith and Kelley Wentworth's side. Spencer and Tasha warned him about Kimmi possibly flipping, but Jeremy did not believe them. At Tribal Council, both Jeremy and Kelley played their idols, each negating the three votes against them. This was the first time in Survivor history that no votes did count for anybody at Tribal Council. Jeremy, angry that Kimmi voted against him, decided to vote against her at the revote. He skipped to the voting booth and happily voted against her, which angered the jury. However, both Tasha and Kimmi were tied with three votes each. Then Jeff asked them if anyone was willing to change their votes and all of them said no. Afterwards, Jeff gave Jeremy, Spencer, Kelley, and Keith Nale two minutes to decide whether they were going to send either Kimmi or Tasha home. Otherwise, both would become immune, and Keith would be eliminated by default. Jeremy and Spencer still wanted to eliminate Kimmi. Consequently, both Kelley and Keith then decided to eliminate Kimmi, sending her to the jury so that Keith wouldn't get voted out.

After the Tribal Council, Kelley won the final five Immunity Challenge. Back at camp, Jeremy whispered to Keith to vote out Spencer. At Tribal Council, Keith did not put out the fake idol Kelley gave him, and Jeremy stayed loyal to Spencer and voted against Keith, sending him to the jury. Later, Jeremy won the Final Immunity Challenge. Despite having an alliance with Spencer and Tasha, he very briefly considered taking Kelley to the end. However, Jeremy decided almost right away that he was going to vote out Kelley. At Tribal Council, Jeremy pretended that his vote was up in the air. In response, Spencer threatened to vote for Kelley to win and sway the jury to vote for her as well, if Jeremy were to vote him out. As planned, he honored his alliance with Spencer and voted out Kelley, making her the final member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jeremy was praised by Stephen for his loyalty and playing with honor and integrity. However, Andrew criticized him for skipping and being arrogant during Kimmi's elimination, and Kimmi chastised him for replacing her with Spencer in their alliance. When Kelley asked the finalists what their second chance was about, Jeremy said that he was doing it for his family, including his unborn son, and that he struggled with keeping his wife's pregnancy a secret for the entire game. Ultimately, the ten jurors voted for Jeremy, making him the Sole Survivor of Survivor: Cambodia, and the fourth person to win by a unanimous jury vote.

Tony - Survivor: Cagayan
Tony was initially placed on Aparri, the Brawn tribe of Cagayan. While in the woods, fellow police officer Sarah Lacina looked him in the eyes and asked if he was a cop, though he lied and said no. She told him she could tell because she too was a cop. Soon after, he admitted to her that he was a cop and they bonded and formed an alliance called "Cops-R-Us". Tony spent the first few days building a "spy shack," finding a Hidden Immunity Idol, and forming alliances with both Sarah and Trish Hegarty. He also harbored some resentment towards Cliff Robinson for his popularity within the tribe. Tony lied to Sarah, saying that Cliff and Lindsey Ogle were gunning for her successfully manipulating her against her initial alliance. Sarah then convinced Trish and Woo Hwang to come into their alliance and throw the fourth Immunity Challenge to vote Cliff out, followed by Lindsey. Tony, along with Lindsey, sat out of the challenge while the others (except for Cliff) attempted to throw the challenge. Cliff, however, single-handedly saved himself by winning the challenge for Aparri. Due to their challenge prowess, Aparri never attended Tribal Council.

On Day 12, a Tribe Switch occurred, sending all of Aparri's members, with the exception of Sarah, to the new Solana tribe, along with original members Jefra Bland and LJ McKanas. After Solana lost the next Immunity Challenge, the former Aparri members were set to vote LJ out, though Trish, who had bonded with LJ, attempted to get Tony to vote Cliff out instead. At Tribal Council, Tony and Trish joined LJ and Jefra in blindsiding Cliff. Upon returning to camp, Trish and Lindsey got into a heated argument, resulting in Lindsey quitting the game. Tony was happy with this development.

After winning the next Reward Challenge, Solana won the right to raid Aparri's camp. The tribe sent Tony and Woo to conduct the raid, with the two also receiving a clue for a Hidden Immunity Idol at the Solana camp. Tony, however, thought of using this clue in order to target Aparri's strongest member, Jeremiah Wood. He claimed in front of the other tribe to have been instructed to give a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol to a member of Aparri and gave it to Jeremiah. The plan, though, did not work because Jeremiah immediately recognized that it was the same clue that the original Solana tribe had received prior to the tribe switch, though it managed to cast suspicion on Jeremiah.

Tony made it to the merge on Day 17 and became part of the merged tribe, Solarrion. Being down in numbers, the new Solana Alliance needed Sarah's vote, but Sarah overheard her former allies Tony, Trish, and Woo yell "Top 5!" along with Jefra and LJ at the previous challenge, which made her feel excluded. Tony tried to pull Sarah back into their alliance, seemingly to no avail, as Sarah was committed to staying with the opposing Aparri Alliance. Trish saw an opportunity to swing Kass McQuillen, who was bickering with Sarah, by offering to vote Sarah out should Kass join them. A hesitant Tony eventually agreed to target Sarah after recognising that he had not succeeded in flipping her after she refused to swear on her badge. At Tribal Council, Tony and LJ made a grand stand by playing their Hidden Immunity Idols for each other, though this was all for naught as the Aparri Alliance had actually targeted Jefra. Kass, however, decided to flip and Sarah became the first member of the jury.

At the next Tribal Council Tony suggested voting out Morgan McLeod as due to her laziness she was the least likely to have an idol. His alliance agreed and Morgan was voted out. Though now in a position of power, Tony found himself to be increasingly paranoid after the Aparri Alliance voted for him at the following Tribal Council where Morgan was voted out. Tony decided to target LJ as he believed LJ was the biggest strategic threat in the game. Tony decided to play up his paranoia and suggested voting out Woo to LJ, following this Tony then framed him by claiming that LJ wanted to vote Woo out. Tony then told Trish that LJ was sketchy and untrustworthy but Trish dismissed this as Tony being paranoid. The team of Tony, Jeremiah, and Spencer Bledsoe won the next Reward Challenge, and Tony used this opportunity to try to use their alliance's votes. Tony then told Woo that LJ had been targeting him getting Woo on board to target LJ. At the next Tribal Council, Tony and Woo joined the Aparri Alliance in blindsiding LJ, much to Trish's shock.

The following day, Jefra began to feel insecure about Tony's deception towards everybody and confronted Trish to try to gun for him. Trish and Kass, however, were able to assuage Jefra's fears and pull her back into their alliance. Trish also had Tony reassure Jefra himself, which he did by swearing on his family members. It was also at this time that Tony's paranoia led to him finding a Hidden Immunity Idol with "special powers."

The alliance came back together and decided to target Jeremiah as they believed Spencer had the idol and would be more likely to play it for himself. This proved to be correct as Spencer did have an idol but played it for his own safety with Jeremiah going home. While Spencer played his idol, Tony bluffed using an apparently fake idol in order to ensure that he played it on himself rather than Jeremiah.

At the Survivor Auction, Tony, along with Spencer and Tasha Fox held out on buying any food, anticipating that there would be an advantage offered and feared that either Spencer or Tasha would get it. When an advantage was indeed offered, Tasha backed out while both Tony and Spencer bid the maximum amount of $500 for a chance to draw rocks to win the advantage. Tony won the advantage, which turned out to be a clue to another Hidden Immunity Idol, which he also found. At the same time, Tony began to fear the possibility of a women's alliance forming between the remaining women, who had outnumbered the remaining men in the game. Tony and Woo again struck a deal with Tasha and Spencer, and they blindsided Jefra at the next Tribal Council.

The next morning, Kass, fed up with Tony's double-dealing, got into an argument with Tony, in which Tony revealed that he had the Hidden Immunity Idol with "special powers." This led to Kass, Tasha, Spencer, and Woo plotting to flush Tony's Hidden Immunity Idol, though Kass later changed her mind, instead wanting to face Tony at the Final Tribal Council due to her perceiving him as an easily beatable Hantzian jury goat. At Tribal Council, she and Woo rejoined Tony and Trish and sent Tasha to the jury.

Woo then revealed to Tony the next day that he and Kass had conspired against him the previous night. Tony confronted Kass about this, but later claimed to forgive her, stating that he planned on going to the end with her and Trish. Unsatisfied, Kass revealed this to Woo, which made Woo question his own loyalty to Tony. After Tony won the next Reward Challenge and picked Trish to share his reward with, Kass, Spencer, and Woo plotted to split the pair up. At Tribal Council, Tony revealed that he actually had two Hidden Immunity Idols in his possession. He played the regular one for himself and proceeded to join the rest of the tribe in blindsiding his ally Trish.

Although the Hidden Immunity Idol with "special powers" expired at the final five, Tony bluffed by claiming that it could be used until the final four. The remaining castaways were then surprised by a visit from their loved ones. Although Tony was glad that his friend, Arnold, visited him, he was upset that his wife, Marissa, could not come as she was taking care of their baby girl. After Kass won the next Immunity Challenge, Spencer came up to Tony and told him that he believed that there would be a Final Two. Spencer claimed that if either Kass or Woo won, they would take each other to the end. If Tony voted Woo out and Spencer won, he would take Tony. Unconvinced by Spencer's argument, Tony joined Kass and Woo in voting him out at Tribal Counci due to him being a big jury threat.

Upon returning to camp, Kass and Woo agreed that voting Tony out was both in their best interests and agreed to take each other to the end. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Woo narrowly beat Kass by half a second to win immunity. Back at camp, both Tony and Kass pleaded with Woo, with Tony appealing to Woo's sense of honor, pointing out that the jury would see him as being disloyal if he voted Tony out. At Tribal Council, Woo shocked everyone by voting Kass out, making her the ninth and final member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, the jury scolded Tony. He was confronted by Sarah for swearing on his badge and by Jeremiah for swearing on his family. He was also confronted by LJ and Jefra for his blindsiding both of them. He was then lambasted by a furious Trish for swearing on his late father's grave, then proceeding to blindside her. In spite of this, Morgan and Spencer both lauded Tony for his control of the game. In the end, Tony received eight jury votes to Woo's one (from Tasha), earning him the title of Sole Survivor of Survivor: Cagayan.

Parvati - Survivor: Micronesia
Parvati returned to compete for a second time as part of the all-star Malakal tribe. She initially formed a strong alliance with her fellow Cook Islands contestant Ozzy Lusth along with the duo of former China contestants Amanda Kimmel and James Clement. After their tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge, they tried to swing Jon Dalton over to their side to gain a majority over the alliance of Yau-Man Chan, Ami Cusack, Eliza Orlins, and Jonathan Penner. However, Jon was voted out instead because he wanted to be with his expectant girlfriend. Parvati then made a pact with Cirie Fields to go all the way to the final three with Amanda. After losing the third Immunity Challenge, Parvati was targeted by the opposing alliance, but her alliance (having recruited Cirie) succeeded in voting off strategic threat Yau-Man.

At the tribe switch, Parvati and James were separated from their alliance as they moved to Airai. However, she remained safe as her tribe won the remaining tribal Immunity Challenges. On Day 20, she made a deal with Natalie Bolton to make an alliance with James and Alexis Jones, plus a final four deal with Alexis and Amanda, both of which Natalie accepted.

At the merge, Parvati found herself in a good position as she was aligned with six (Alexis, Amanda, Cirie, Natalie, Ozzy, and James) of the nine opposing contestants left. The alliance succeeded in voting out outsider and Parvati's primary rival Eliza Orlins. During the tenth Immunity Challenge, Parvati convinced Jason Siska to step down from the challenge so the tribe could have food, which worked (under the condition that the tribe would not vote for him). However, Parvati's "Couples Alliance", along with affiliate Erik Reichenbach, decided to turn back on what they had said and vote out Jason. Cirie saw this as an opportunity to blindside physical threat Ozzy who had the Hidden Immunity Idol and needed Parvati's Airai connections for it to work, which she agreed to. She recruited her Airai female allies Natalie and Alexis in on the plan, and Ozzy was blindsided in a 5–4 vote. After Ozzy was voted off, Parvati failed to patch things up with James and momentarily Amanda (who kept her distrust to herself but eventually ended up voting with Parvati at every subsequent tribal). The five remaining women then formed an alliance to vote off the men, starting with Jason. However, when James was evacuated and Erik won Immunity, they were forced to vote off one of their own. Amanda was the intended target, a plan which Parvati did not want to be part of. She then helped Amanda find the Hidden Immunity Idol (which was buried under the tribe's flag). Parvati and Amanda debated the merits of voting out Alexis or Natalie, with the duo eventually deciding to vote for Parvati's initial target preference, Alexis on the basis that she was a bigger jury threat.

Parvati recognised the importance of keeping the idol out of Natalie's hands if Erik won the Reward Challenge and convinced Amanda to get Erik to send Parvati to exile, the plan was successful. After the alliance's plans of voting out Erik, the last remaining man, were foiled by him winning immunity, they decided to target Natalie. Following a plan made by Cirie, Natalie convinced Erik to give her the Immunity Necklace, saving herself and thus eliminating Erik. When she failed to win immunity, Natalie was eliminated due to her not being part of the final three deal made by Parvati, Amanda, and Cirie. Parvati made it all the way to the final three with Cirie and Amanda (as promised). However, she was shocked to learn that only two of them would face the jury. She was eliminated first at the Final Immunity Challenge but was chosen to be in the Final Two by Amanda, likely because of Amanda and Parvati's strong friendship along with Cirie's strong likelihood of winning if she made it to the Final Tribal Council. At the Final Tribal Council, Parvati tried to convince the jury to vote for her because of her aggressive gameplay compared to her previous season and her cutthroat playstyle. Parvati was divisive on the jury, Natalie and Alexis adored her but she was accused of being a mean person (by Eliza) and a backstabber (by Ozzy), despite this the jury decided to award Parvati the title of Sole Survivor with a vote of 5–3 against Amanda. Parvati received the votes from all the women on the jury and Jason.

Tyson - Survivor: Blood vs Water
Tyson one again returned for Survivor: Blood vs. Water to play with his girlfriend, Rachel Foulger. Tyson was initially placed on the Galang tribe with the other returning players. After both tribes were forced to vote somebody out immediately during the First Impressions vote on Day 1, Tyson voted for Laura Morett, but Candice Cody voted out by the majority. Tadhana voted out Laura Boneham, and Rupert Boneham elected to swap places with his wife, resulting in Laura B. joining Galang and both Candice and Rupert being sent to Redemption Island.

In the first few days, the tribe unified in their distrust towards Colton Cumbie. Tyson formed the Galang Alliance with Tina Wesson, Gervase Peterson, Monica Culpepper, and Aras Baskauskas, which agreed not to discuss any strategy with Colton. Rachel, despite being confident in her ability to play the game on her own, found herself being an outsider against the dominant Five Guys Alliance on Tadhana, although she did seem to have an alliance of her own with John Cody, who was in that alliance. However, Vytas Baskauskas thought that if Rachel was sent to Redemption Island, Tyson would switch places with her, which would weaken Galang, so Rachel was voted out on Day 6. On Day 7, before Rachel, Candice, and Marissa Peterson competed in the duel, Colton quit the game and Tyson called out Brad Culpepper for leading the charge in Rachel's elimination. Tyson was given the opportunity to take Rachel's place and he told Rachel that it was up to her. Rachel assumed that Tyson was in a comfortable position in his tribe and that felt he needed to stay on his tribe, especially since that would foil the reasons why Rachel was voted out in the first place. However, Rachel lost the duel and was eliminated from the game. Even though Rachel reassured him that she enjoyed her time in the game, Tyson was very upset about her losing and felt it necessary to get to the end, otherwise, he would regret not switching with her.

Galang only lost once, on Day 13, after which Tyson and his alliance decided to vote out the fierce challenge competitor Laura M. over the outsider who struggled to fit in, Laura B., hoping that Laura M. would beat Brad on Redemption Island to assure that Monica would trust in them before anyone else. During this time, Tyson grew closer to Gervase as they shared in a secret location where they ate coconuts without the rest of the tribe knowing (referring to themselves as "Coconut Bandits") and Tyson became weary of Aras, who was in control of the alliance and the tribe, and who appeared to be a threat to win. The tribe switch on Day 14 saw Aras, Gervase, and Tyson get switched over to Tadhana where they joined Caleb Bankston, Ciera Eastin, and Hayden Moss. Caleb and Hayden told the returning players about the Hidden Immunity Idol clues, and Tyson managed to get the new players and Gervase to form an alliance against Aras. On Tadhana, Tyson shifted his strategy to focus on making it look like Aras was in control and should be targeted, and by eating as much food as he could.

When the tribes merged into the Kasama tribe on Day 19 following Laura M.'s re-entry to the game, Tyson immediately found the Hidden Immunity Idol using the information he was given earlier by Caleb and Hayden, and Tyson recruited Monica into the plan against blindsiding Aras, and those two, along with post-swap Tadhana and Laura M., successfully blindsided Aras on Day 21, leaving Tina, Vytas, and Katie Collins on the outs. The outsiders were not happy with Tyson, with Tina saying that Tyson had lost their jury votes and both Vytas and Tina voted against Tyson at the Tribal Councils in which they were sent to Redemption Island. With only Katie left, Tyson felt that the last couple left, Ciera and Laura M., needed to be split up as well and led the blindside against Laura M. on Day 26.

At this point, Tyson felt a bit comfortable, to the point where he opted out of the Day 29 Immunity Challenge to eat instead of competing. Hayden, Katie, and Caleb formed a plan to get rid of Tyson but after telling Ciera, Ciera informed Tyson, which solidified a final four alliance between Tyson, Ciera, Monica, and Gervase. Hayden and Caleb found out that Ciera told Tyson the plan so they tried to convince Tyson to vote out Ciera, but Tyson decided he trusted Caleb and Hayden less and opted to vote out Caleb, viewing him as a likely candidate to win the jury vote. Tyson did not feel comfortable going into that vote so he decided to play his Hidden Immunity Idol, but he ended up wasting it.

After wasting his idol and Hayden announcing to the tribe that Tyson would beat any of them in the final three, Tyson felt uneasy about where he stood in the game. Luckily for him, Laura M. won the duel on Day 30 and gave a clue to the location of the re-hidden idol to Ciera, who shared the information with Tyson. Tyson found the Hidden Immunity Idol and was relieved again, saying, "Now, I can take a nap. I wasn't going to be able to nap unless I found that idol." However, at the Day 32 Tribal Council, all the drama that came out of the conversation convinced Ciera to renege her alliance with Tyson, Monica, and Gervase, forcing a 3-3 initial vote and a 2-2 revote. Tyson, Ciera, and Katie were forced to draw rocks, and Katie drew the white rock, sending her out of the game. Tyson hugged her on the way out, complimenting her on making a bold move, but then Tyson's trademark "sarcastic jerk" side showed when he followed that up with, "that's your seat over there" as he pointed towards the jury section.

Despite many attempts to convince Monica that she needed to make a big move against Tyson, the alliance of Tyson, Monica, and Gervase stayed strong for the remainder of the game, voting out Hayden, Ciera, and Tina (who came back from Redemption Island on Day 36). Tyson also won the last two individual Immunity Challenges, though Monica was upset with Tyson when he used his idol on Gervase at the Day 37 Tribal Council since it showed a lack of trust in her.

At the Final Tribal Council, Tyson explained that he did not play with any malice and that he just wanted to play hard and avenge Rachel's elimination. He also apologized to Katie for the rude comment he made to her. Due to his intentions for playing the game the way he did, being in control most of the time, and playing hard, the entire jury aside from Vytas voted for Tyson to win the title of Sole Survivor over Monica and Gervase, who finished in second and third place respectively.

Sarah - Survivor: Game Changers
Sarah was initially placed on the Nuku tribe, where she aligned with Cirie Fields. However, many other Nuku members were targeting Cirie and Sarah and were willing to go along with that plan if they lost. However, because Nuku won the first two challenges, they did not go to Tribal Council. After a Tribe Switch on Day 7, she, along with fellow Nuku members Cirie, Andrea Boehlke, Ozzy Lusth and Zeke Smith, along with original Mana member Troyzan Robertson, was switched to the newly formed third tribe, Tavua. There, Sarah aligned with outsider Troyzan, but Tavua did not go to Tribal Council due to strong performances at the next three Immunity Challenges.

After Tavua was dissolved at a second switch on Day 14, she, along with Andrea, Ozzy, Zeke, and Tai Trang, was switched back to Nuku, where they were joined by Jeff Varner and Sandra Diaz-Twine. After Nuku lost the Immunity Challenge on Day 16, Sarah voted with the majority at Tribal Council, resulting in Sandra's elimination and Debbie Wanner joining the tribe after returning from Exile Island. After Nuku lost immunity again on Day 18, Jeff outed Zeke for being transgender at the subsequent Tribal Council, hoping to paint him as being capable of deception. Sarah tearfully accused Jeff of making a malicious attack, and expressed her support for Zeke. She then joined the rest of the tribe in verbally voting out Jeff.

Once the tribes merged into the Maku Maku tribe on Day 19, Sarah joined the Tavua Alliance led by Andrea and Cirie. However, she also formed strong bonds with the rival Power Six alliance, led by Brad Culpepper and Sierra Dawn Thomas, and joined them to eliminate Hali Ford at the first post-merge Tribal Council. On Day 24, Sarah found herself the swing vote between the two alliances. Andrea and Cirie wanted to vote out Zeke for betraying the Tavua Alliance, while Debbie attempted to recruit Sarah to join the Power Six to eliminate challenge threat Ozzy. At Tribal Council, Sarah joined the Power Six to blindside Ozzy with the added insurance of Debbie's Extra Vote.

On Day 25, Sarah managed to retrieve the Vote Steal advantage, which was placed under the sit-out bench at a Reward Challenge. Although Sarah competed in the challenge, she noticed the advantage while Michaela Bradshaw, who was sitting out, did not. Before boarding the boat to leave the challenge, Sarah managed to grab the advantage without her tribemates noticing. After the next Immunity Challenge, the Power Six targeted Andrea, though Sarah felt excluded from the decision and conspired with Zeke. However, Sarah reconsidered after Sierra proposed a final three deal with her and Debbie. Later, Debbie told Aubry Bracco that Sarah did not trust her. Aubry informed Sarah and the rest of her alliance of this, which made Sarah flip to the Tavua Alliance to blindside Debbie.

Sarah later revealed her Vote Steal advantage to Cirie in order to secure her trust. After Andrea won the next Immunity Challenge, she campaigned to eliminate Zeke for continuously plotting against the Tavua Alliance. This worried Sarah and Michaela, as they were afraid that this would allow the remnants of the Power Six to later regain the majority. However, both Sarah and Michaela joined their alliance in blindsiding Zeke at Tribal Council. The following day, Sarah tearfully reunited with her husband, Wyatt, at the Loved Ones Challenge. Though the team of Aubry, Andrea, and Brad won, Sarah and Cirie were chosen to join them on the reward, along with their loved ones. Following this, Sierra told Sarah about the Legacy Advantage she acquired at the marooning, stating that if she were to be voted out, she would will the advantage to her. As a result of this information, Sarah orchestrated Sierra's elimination, feigning expressions of shock after the votes were read. Unaware that Sarah had participated in her blindside, Sierra willed Sarah the Legacy Advantage, which appeared in her bag the following morning.

Prior to Tribal Council on Day 35, Sarah gave her Vote Steal advantage to Cirie as a sign of trust. In order to save Sarah from Tai's plan to eliminate her, Cirie tried to play the advantage at Tribal Council. However, it was then revealed that the advantage was non-transferable, and could only be played by the person who found it. Sarah asked for the advantage back and subsequently played it, negating Tai's vote and putting two votes on Michaela, one of Cirie's closest allies. Brad and Troyzan voted for Michaela as well, resulting in her elimination. After returning from Tribal Council, Sarah confronted Cirie for attempting to use the advantage without discussing her plan beforehand, and Cirie told her that she did so only because Sarah did not believe that Tai was coming after her. After finding out from Tai himself about his plan to vote her out, Sarah apologized to Cirie and rebuked Tai for backstabbing her.

The following day, Brad won immunity and chose to share the reward with Sarah and Troyzan. On the reward, the three agreed to target Tai. At Tribal Council, Sarah played the Legacy Advantage, which negated the three votes cast against her, Tai played a Hidden Immunity Idol on himself and Aubry, and Troyzan played an idol on himself, leaving Cirie as the only non-immune person, causing her to be eliminated by default. On Day 37, Sarah and Tai were caught in the middle of the duo of Brad and Troyzan who were targeting Aubry, and Aubry who was targeting Troyzan. Both Sarah and Tai ended up siding with Brad and Troyzan, leading to Aubry's unanimous elimination. On Day 38, Brad and Troyzan targeted Tai, while Tai targeted Troyzan, leaving Sarah as the swing vote. Tai tried to persuade Sarah to force a tie and allow him to compete against Troyzan in a fire-making challenge, but Sarah ultimately sided with Brad and Troyzan and Tai was unanimously voted out.

Sarah received a mixed reception at the Final Tribal Council. She was lauded for her strategic control and social flexibility, but condemned for using social relationships for strategic gain and her numerous betrayals. Sarah's strategic control throughout the post-merge phase beat out Brad's dominance in Immunity Challenges and Troyzan's lack of evident gameplay and she was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 7-3-0 vote.

Natalie - Survivor: San Juan Del Sur
Natalie, a former contestant on The Amazing Race, competed on Survivor: San Juan del Sur with her twin and Race partner, Nadiya Anderson. When it was time to separate into tribes, Natalie was placed on the Hunahpu tribe. Natalie was quick to bond with Jeremy Collins, who she even deemed her "designated twinnie". At the first Immunity Challenge, Hunahpu came from behind after Coyopa struggled with the puzzle. This victory became bittersweet as Nadiya ended up the first boot of the season. Natalie was upset when she learned of Nadiya's elimination to the point of tears, with some of Natalie's tribemates comforting her. Julie McGee then won the Hero Duel and fishing gear for the tribe. However, the tribe was forced to trade their fishing gear for a new flint since the first one was lost by Jon Misch. At the Immunity Challenge, Sumo at Sea, Natalie faced off against Val Collins and won. Hunahpu would win again after Kelley Wentworth won the rematch against her opponent, Jaclyn Schultz.

At the next Hero Duel, Wes Nale won the duel for Coyopa over his father, Keith. After the duel, Jeremy publicly outed to the tribe that one of Coyopa's members was former Major League Baseball pitcher John Rocker, infamous for his racist and homophobic Sports Illustrated interview. At the Immunity Challenge, Natalie was paired with Jon for the challenge. They participated in two separate rounds and won both, which was critical for Hunahpu winning the challenge. After the win, Natalie started to yell at John about his past. Eventually, John became sick of the yelling and said he would knock her teeth out if Natalie was a male. At the next Hero Duel, Hunahpu started clapping with the exception of John's girlfriend, Julie, when they learned that John was voted out. Jon won the duel over his girlfriend, Jaclyn. However, Hunahpu ultimately lost their first Immunity Challenge. Drew Christy included Natalie in on his plan of voting out Kelley because of fear of her leading a women's alliance. Natalie, who was annoyed with Drew's laziness and false accusations, thought Drew was ridiculous because the season had more men than women so it would not make strategic sense. Despite that, Natalie's alliance with Jeremy allowed for the women to turn the tables. At that Tribal Council, the women plus Jeremy banded together to take out Drew and was successful, eliminating him in a scattered 5-2-1-1 vote.

On Day 10, instead of a Hero Duel, there was a tribe switch. In a random draw of buffs, Natalie would stay on Hunahpu with Jeremy, Julie, and Reed Kelly. Jon, Keith, Kelley, and Missy Payne were transferred to Coyopa and were replaced by Alec Christy, Josh Canfield, and Wes. When showing the newcomers the Hunahpu camp, Natalie revealed that Hunahpu had very little rice left. At the Immunity Challenge, Hunahpu easily destroyed the new Coyopa tribe. The tribe then pleaded for more rice and was willing to give up anything. The next day, Jeff Probst came with rice but took all of the luxuries Hunahpu accumulated up until that point. At the Hero Duel, Reed won the tribe a Survivor barbecue over Coyopa's Baylor Wilson. Reed selected Julie to join Baylor on Exile Island. However, Natalie volunteered to go to exile with Baylor instead. While on exile, Baylor shared her clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol with Natalie. Hunahpu won the Immunity Challenge, keeping Natalie safe from elimination.

On Day 16, the tribes' Tree Mail heavily implied a merge. This was true and the tribes enjoyed a tribe feast. Because of their time on Exile, Jeremy and Natalie were easily able to get Baylor and Missy on their side. Jeremy clashed with Josh with each trying to get the other voted out. However, their campaign to eliminate the other was postponed because of Julie quitting the game. At the next Reward Challenge, Natalie was teamed with Reed, Jeremy, Keith, and Wes and won a trip to a Survivor taco bar. The castaways enjoyed the feast of tacos, but no strategy was discussed as everyone was on different alliances. At the Immunity Challenge, Jeremy won individual immunity. Afterward, at the first Tribal Council after the merge, Josh was voted out in a 6-5 vote.

At the next Reward Challenge, the castaways were separated into two teams and had to face off against each other in one on one matches. Natalie faced of against Jaclyn twice and won both rounds. Natalie's team consisting of herself, Jeremy, Wes, Reed, and Alec won the challenge. But Jeremy and Natalie gave their rewards to Jon and Jaclyn as a way to cement their alliance with them. After Baylor won immunity, the alliance intended to have a split vote between Keith and Reed. However, at Tribal Council, Natalie was stunned when Jeremy was blindsided out of the game.

After Jeremy's blindside, Natalie was angry with Jon and wanted revenge for her fallen comrade. At the next Reward Challenge, Natalie was teamed with Baylor, Missy, and Wes but they lost. Wes was sent off to Exile, and Missy was allowed to go on reward because of Reed giving his spot to her. Back at camp, Natalie wanted to look for the idol with Baylor. She sent Reed and Keith away to find firewood while the women would get water. Natalie was able to successfully find the idol, much to her and Baylor's delight. At the Immunity Challenge, it ultimately came down to Natalie and Reed. However, Natalie claimed in a confessional after the challenge that she started seeing stars, and her eyes were closing. Natalie realized that she wasn't going to last much longer. Natalie bartered for food and Jeff returned with pizza, chicken wings, a cookie, and a tall glass of water. Natalie stepped down and Reed won immunity. The plan was to split the vote between Keith and Wes. However, Reed anticipated that plan and wanted to vote out Jon. At Tribal Council, Keith said to "stick to the plan", which alarmed the others of Reed's plan. Before the votes were read, Natalie told Jon to play his idol. Jon did use the idol, which prompted Keith to play his. All votes against both men were voided and Wes was eliminated.

Jaclyn thanked Natalie for saving Jon. However, Jon told Jaclyn not to give anyone else credit for anything. Natalie believed that Jon was concerned with making himself look like the mastermind to the jury. At the Reward Challenge, Natalie and her allies swiftly eliminated Reed, Keith, and Alec from the challenge. However, the challenge ended with Missy winning by default because it became clear that the remaining participants in the challenge would throw the challenge until they have the person who they wanted to win. Missy picked Baylor and Natalie to join her on the trip to the horseback ranch. Natalie revealed to Missy that she and Baylor had found the idol. However, the women were worried about Jaclyn flipping to the men. At the Immunity Challenge, Keith won immunity and Reed was voted out at Tribal Council in a 7-1 vote.

At the next Reward Challenge, Natalie emerged victorious over Jaclyn. She exiled Alec and picked Jaclyn and Jon to join her on reward. However, Natalie picked the young couple because she wanted to further make them unsuspecting of a blindside. Natalie then decided to enact her vengeance on Jon. Natalie informed Baylor of her plan and told her to not tell her mom about Jon's blindside. Although she was uncomfortable about leaving her mom out in the dark, Baylor was willing to vote out Jon. However, Jon won individual immunity. Jon wanted to split the vote between Alec and Keith, with the latter being kicked out. However, Natalie decided to vote against Alec, only telling Baylor of her intentions. Alec was voted out in a 4-3 vote.

Jaclyn, Jon, and Missy were confused because Alec was eliminated instead of Keith. When it was learned that Natalie voted against Alec over Keith, she played it off as a mistake. Baylor was laughing when Jon was eating up Natalie's lie. At the Reward Challenge, Natalie was teamed with Baylor and Jaclyn but they lost. Natalie was the one who was sent to Exile Island. On Exile Island, Natalie reflected on the fact that this was the longest she went without Nadiya. At the Immunity Challenge, Natalie won individual immunity over Jon. Natalie wanted to do a split vote between Jaclyn and Jon in case the latter used his Hidden Immunity Idol. Natalie asked Baylor to get her mom to write Jaclyn's name down. Although Missy had her reservations, she did vote against Jaclyn and the vote was a 2-2-2 vote. When it was time to revote, Jon was voted out.

After Tribal Council, an upset Jaclyn started to yell at Natalie for her betrayal. Natalie was happy about Jaclyn's outburst because it would discourage people from working with her. Although Natalie had a deal with Missy and Baylor to make it to the end together, she was not against making it to the finals with Jaclyn and Keith. Keith won the next Reward Challenge, which was for an advantage at the final 5 Immunity Challenge. Afterward, said advantage helped Keith win immunity. At Tribal Council, Natalie, wanting to add to her resume, decided to use her Hidden Immunity Idol on Jaclyn and blindside Baylor.

Despite Natalie eliminating her daughter from the game, Missy was not angry with Natalie as she didn't have to vote out Baylor. The women then agreed that Keith should be the one taken out next. At the Final Immunity Challenge, it was originally between Keith and Natalie. However, Jaclyn solved the puzzle first, which allowed her to win final immunity over Natalie. Natalie was worried about Jaclyn and Missy turning on her. However, the women voted out Keith at Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Natalie's opening statement was that she was deserving because she fulfilled the criteria of outwit, outplay, and outlast more so than the other women that she was beside with, and elaborated on each one. Natalie ended her statement by saying that she believed that the bright move for Missy and Jaclyn should have been voting her out last Tribal Council over Keith. Jeremy advocated for Natalie, telling the jury that they have no choice but to award her as he considered her to be the best player. When the vote came, Natalie was declared the Sole Survivor over Jaclyn and Missy in a 5-2-1 vote.

Richard - Survivor: Borneo
Richard Hatch competed in the inaugural season of Survivor, which would later come to be known as Survivor: Borneo. He was placed on the orange Tagitribe, where his outspoken and somewhat arrogant nature rubbed his tribemates the wrong way. Richard's arrogance became clear over the next few days, such as claiming on Day 1 that he had already won the game and being unhelpful around camp. After losing the first Immunity Challenge, Richard speculated that he was in danger of being voted out due to his arrogance. He decided to target Stacey Stillman for being the weakest link. However, the tribe voted out Sonja Christopher instead as she had cost the tribe the challenge the day before.

The next day, Richard attempted to catch fish with Kelly Wiglesworth and Susan Hawk, however, they were unsuccessful. In a confessional, Richard expressed his desire to get to know Stacey better, as he had voted for her at the previous Tribal Council and revealed that Stacey believed Rudy Boesch was the one who voted for her. After revealing he was gay to the rest of the tribe, Richard was scared to tell Rudy, as he feared Rudy would be homophobic. However, after telling him, Richard was surprised to learn that Rudy was comfortable around him and even referred to Richard as one of the nicest people he had ever met. During an unaired Reward Challenge, Richard was the designated weight bearer for Tagi. He lost the challenge to Joel Klug of Pagong. However, they managed to win the subsequent Immunity Challenge on Day 6.

After winning fishing gear at the next Reward Challenge, Richard revealed his proficiency at fishing, catching a stingray and fish for his tribe, causing some envy from Sean Kenniff. Richard's fishing ability increased his position in the tribe, with many of his tribemates praising his ability. Tagi once again lost the Immunity Challenge on Day 9, sending them back to Tribal Council. Richard again targeted Stacey for her weakness. This time, he got his way, as Stacey was voted out in a 5-2 vote. Richard then formed Survivor's first alliance on Day 10 between himself, Kelly, Rudy, and Sue. Although acknowledging having an alliance was sneaky, Richard deemed it necessary to ensure his survival for the next few rounds. Richard expressed confidence about this alliance, saying that if they stuck together, they would be unstoppable. Things began well for the alliance as Tagi was able to win the next Immunity Challenge.

The tribe later became annoyed at Dirk Been and Sean's failed attempts at catching fish as they were wasting time instead of working. Richard revealed another skill of his by performing better than anyone else with the slingshot the tribe needed for the next challenge. Despite his accuracy though, Tagi was unable to win the Reward Challenge on Day 14. At camp, Richard found a snake, and despite knowing its lethal consequences, decided to play with it. After losing the following Immunity Challenge, Richard planned with his alliance about whether they should vote out Dirk or Sean. Although they initially decided on voting for Sean, after seeing how weak Dirk had become, they changed their votes and Dirk became the Tagi Alliance's first victim. After successfully ousting Dirk, Richard became confident that he was in control of the game. The tribe started thinking about the merge and decided that winning the next Immunity Challenge was crucial in order to go into the merge with even numbers. Around camp, Richard decided to start walking around naked, which both amused and irked his tribe. The Tagi tribe managed to win immunity on Day 18, which meant they would go into the merge against Pagong tied with 5 members each.

After merging into the Rattana tribe on Day 20, Richard's alliance had a decision to make: either vote out the former Pagong members or Sean, the only Tagi member not in the alliance. Richard expressed his surprise at Sean and Gretchen Cordy's unwillingness to form an alliance, calling it sheer stupidity. Richard bonded well with his new tribemates, learning how to play cards from Gervase Peterson and bonding with Greg Buis. He was also excited when he learned that he was still the only person in the tribe who knew how to fish. At the first Tribal Council of the merged tribe, Richard's alliance decided to target Gretchen, as she was seen as the leader of Pagong. After an unexpected 4-1-1-1-1-1-1 vote, Gretchen was voted out.

The following day, the tribe began to realize how good of a position Richard had put himself in. As he was the only person able to fish, if the tribe voted him out, they would not eat anything other than rice. Richard and Greg continued to get to know each other, with both thinking the other one was overconfident and neither knowing whether they should trust the other one. The Tagi Alliance noticed how threatening Greg could become if he stuck around and voted him out at their next Tribal Council on Day 24. Richard and Sue celebrated their position in the game, but became weary of Kelly's wavering trust in the alliance. After Rudy accidentally overcooked Richard's fish, he decided to stop fishing for a few days so the tribe would appreciate it when he did catch fish. This backfired slightly as Colleen Haskell became annoyed at Richard's attitude. This was further made worse when the women of the tribe managed to catch fish by themselves, rendering Richard useless. The former Pagong members became aware of Richard's alliance and formed their own counter alliance. Richard then celebrated his 39th birthday on Day 27 by walking around naked. This annoyed several members of the tribe which caused Richard to put his clothes back on. Richard continued to notice Kelly distancing herself from the alliance and began to wonder if she would flip on him if she got the chance. Although the counter alliance targeted Richard, his own alliance stuck together, and Richard barely made it through the next Tribal Council where the alliance piggy-backed off Sean's alphabet voting strategy to vote out Jenna Lewis.

After surviving the last Tribal Council, Richard became delighted and considered stopping catching fish until all of the ex-Pagong members were voted out. Kelly and Sue planned on eliminating Richard at the final three and revealed that they never truly trusted him. Richard won the Immunity Challenge on Day 29, keeping him safe going into an uncertain Tribal Council. Kelly officially left the alliance and considered joining the ex-Pagong members. Sean also became uncertain with his former Tagi tribemates. However, the Tagi Alliance stayed strong once again to vote out Gervase. On Day 32, Richard joined Sean on a reward and got to eat breakfast on a yacht. Sean's father, Jim, was also on the ship and gave all of the remaining contestants a care package from their loved ones back home. At the next Immunity Challenge, Richard annoyed his tribemates by singing "99 Bottles of Beer", in hopes of throwing his tribemates off balance. He, however, did not make it halfway through his song before falling off the plank. Back at the beach, the alliance, sans Kelly, discussed voting her out due to her untrustworthiness. However, Kelly managed to win immunity, forcing them to vote out the last Pagong member remaining, Colleen.

The next day, Richard and Rudy further solidified their alliance, saying that they would never vote against each other and planned on voting out Kelly next. However, Kelly managed to win immunity again, forcing them to vote out Sean, the only person left to never be part of the alliance. Now, with nowhere left to turn, the alliance was finally forced to turn on itself. On Day 37, the final four reflected on how far they had come, commenting on how much weight they have all lost and the effect the game has had on their bodies. That night, Kelly continued her immunity streak, which put Richard in hot water. Although Richard and Rudy voted against Sue, Kelly joined Sue in voting against Richard. After both Richard and Sue pleaded their case on why they should stay, Kelly changed her vote, eliminating Sue and saving Richard.

Host Jeff Probst woke the remaining three castaways up early the next day to partake in their Rites of Passage and Final Immunity Challenge. After reflecting on all of the castaways who had been voted out before them, Richard, Kelly, and Rudy began their Final Immunity Challenge. After two and a half hours, Richard came to the conclusion that both Kelly and Rudy would take him to the Final Two. Because of this, Richard stepped down, eliminating himself from the challenge. Richard's prediction proved right as Kelly voted out Rudy, bring Richard to the Final Tribal Council. On Day 39, the two finalists reflected on how far they had come. Both Richard and Kelly prepared for the questions they would be asked by the jury. After burning down their camp, the finalists headed to their Final Tribal Council.

During his opening speech, Richard argued that he had played the best game. After being questioned by Gervase, Richard admitted that if he could change one thing about his game, he would put less trust in the other contestants. Jenna asked the finalists who they would want to see in the Final Two instead of them; Richard chose Greg and Rudy. Colleen asked Richard what character traits got him to the end. Rich answered "observation" which confused Colleen as he had not got to know anyone very well. Greg asked the two finalists to pick a number between one and ten; Richard chose seven. However, Greg later revealed that the numbers had no impact on his vote and that he had already made up his mind about who to vote for. Sean admitted that he loved Richard's "Fat Naked Fag" strategy. During Sue's speech, she called Richard whiny and a loser in life. However, Sue also compared him to a snake and Kelly to a rat. She finished her speech by lamenting that the jury should let the game end the way nature intended, for the snake to eat the rat. In the end, Richard received the votes of all of the ex-Tagi members and Greg, granting him the title of Sole Survivor in a 4-3 vote.

Earl - Survivor: Fiji
When Sylvia Kwan was tasked to divide the other 18 castaways on Day 3, she assigned Earl on the Ravutribe, which was later forced to live in squalor after they lost the first Immunity Challenge. While the tribe almost set to extinction due to its living conditions and failure in challenges, Earl formed a close bond with tribemate Yau-Man Chan that would evolve into them becoming close allies throughout the course of the season.

After Ravu lost the Immunity Challenge on Day 6, the Moto tribe sent Earl to Exile Island, allowing him to skip Tribal Council. On the island, Earl found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol which he shared with Yau-Man. Ravu's extensive losing streak had allowed the two to receive more clues during their respective times on Exile Island, agreeing to find the idol together.

During Tribe Switch on Day 15, a luck of a draw sent Earl and Yau-Man to the new Moto tribe, the luxuries of which they also enjoyed. In this tribe, Earl formed the Syndicate Alliance along with original Ravu allies Yau-Man and Michelle Yi, as well as original Moto outsider Cassandra Franklin. On one occasion, Earl and Yau-Man again attempted to locate a Hidden Immunity Idol with the same strategy as they had implemented on Ravu days before; Earl led the tribe in trying to retrieve Moto's stranded boat, while Yau-Man stayed behind and used the tribe's improved tools to look for the idol. This time, Yau-Man was successful in finding the idol and later shared the information with Earl. With the advantage of the luxurious camp, as well as Ravu's continuing dysfunction, Moto won the remaining Immunity Challenges before the merge.

After the tribes merged into the Bula Bula tribe on Day 22, the new tribe returned to the original Moto camp, only to be surprised to see it stripped of its luxurious amenities. At the next Immunity Challenge, a twist divided the Bula Bula tribe into two teams of five, with only the losing team attending Tribal Council immediately after. Earl's team, consisting of Boo, Cassandra, Edgardo and Yau-Man, won immunity. Earl, despite escaping the vote, failed to save Michelle, who was outnumbered by three of the four members of the rival Four Horsemen alliance, much to Earl's displeasure.

Though the Syndicate Alliance still had a 5-4 numbers advantage over the Horsemen, one Horsemen, Dreamz Herd, who was upset of being left out of knowing about his alliance possessing the Hidden Immunity Idol on Ravu, informed them that Mookie Lee had it, and later, Alex Angarita. Unsure of where Dreamz' loyalties truly were, Earl's ally Stacy Kimball suggested to target the unprotected Edgardo instead. At an eventful Tribal Council on Day 27, Alex played the idol, but Earl and his alliance swerved the vote to an unsuspecting Edgardo, tipping the scales in favor of the Syndicate Alliance. Earl later found the rehidden Ravu idol after being sent by Boo who won the Day 31 Reward Challenge.

When Yau-Man sent himself to Exile Island on Day 34, he received another clue to another Hidden Immunity Idol, which he shared with Earl, who later found it on Day 36. That night, Earl and Yau-Man were left out of the loop as Boo, Cassandra, Dreamz, and Stacy attempted to target Yau-Man after being alarmed of Yau-Man's intentions when he made a deal with Dreamz at the Reward Challenge. At Tribal Council, Yau-Man picked up a cue from Stacy suggesting that the alliance would split their votes. Earl and Yau-Man voted for Stacy, and Yau-Man used his idol to send her to the jury. The following night, Earl played his idol as it was the last time he could do so, but received no votes and Boo was unanimously voted out. After Dreamz won the Final Immunity Challenge on Day 38, he reneged on his deal with Yau-Man and did not give him the Immunity Necklace at Tribal Council. With the agreement broken, Earl joined Cassandra and Dreamz in voting out Yau-Man.

At the Final Tribal Council, Earl was praised for a stellar strategic game but was chastised for betraying Yau-Man. Earl explained he had to eliminate Yau-Man as he could have defeated him. Earl's agreeable game play, combined with the jury's discontent over Dreamz' multiple betrayals and Cassandra's perceived coattail-riding, awarded him the first unanimous Survivor victory, winning all nine jury votes.

Cochran - Survivor: Caramoan
Cochran returned as a Favorite for Survivor: Caramoan. In the opening Reward Challenge, he was paired with Francesca Hogi against Fans Matt Bischoff and Laura Alexander. Laura taunted him saying "You think you can handle me?". Cochran retorted saying, "You would be surprised at what I could handle". Francesca scored the point for the Favorites and they eventually won the challenge. After the Favorites (Bikal) got to their camp, Cochran reformed an alliance with Dawn Meehan, promising that he would not betray her again. Over the next few days, Cochran developed a gigantic sunburn, which made him look kind of like a tomato (per the suggestion of his tribe mates saying such a thing, and Brenda Lowe even compared him to a little pregnant lady because of his limitations from the sunburn). At Tribal Council, Cochran and Dawn became the swing votes, since the alliance of Francesca targeted Andrea Boehlke, and Phillip Sheppard's Stealth R Us targeted Francesca. In the end, Cochran and Dawn sided with Phillip's alliance, sending Francesca home 6-4.

After Francesca's elimination, the Bikal tribe started dominating challenges. During this time, Phillip dubbed him the "Intelligentsia Attaché". Cochran enjoyed the rewards that Bikal won and overall was just glad to be in the game, stating that "everyday is Wednesday night at 8 pm", referring to when Survivor episodes air on CBS. A minority alliance member, Brandon Hantz became resentful of Phillip. Fearing Brandon's wrath, Bikal requested to go to Tribal Council. An impromptu Tribal Council was facilitated by Jeff Probst in which everyone verbally voted out Brandon unanimously.

On Day 14, a tribe switch occurred. Cochran stayed on Bikal with Corinne Kaplan, Dawn, and Phillip. The tribe received Fans Julia Landauer, Matt, and Michael Snow, from Gota. The new Bikal was out-muscled by the new Gota and lost. Cochran noticed Matt and Michael's friendship and successfully turned the vote against Matt. Bikal lost the next two challenges because of Phillip. Phillip tried to explain that he threw the challenges, but Cochran saw through his bluff. The Favorites split the votes between Michael and Julia in case one had an idol, but neither had one. Cochran decided to vote out the relatively mundane Julia (who Cochran initially described as "vanilla", but rescinded that comment as it would be "an insult to the vanilla flavor") over Michael and his budding friendship with Corinne.

On Day 20, the tribes merged and the former Gota moved to Bikal beach. When the first Immunity Challenge was hinted to be a gross food eating contest, Cochran decided this was the challenge for him to win. Cochran barely beat out Malcolm Freberg for individual immunity. Everyone was okay with this as him winning immunity was unlikely. Cochran heard from Dawn that Corinne was planning Phillip's blindside. Cochran relayed the information to Phillip who decided to send Corinne home. Cochran stayed with the Favorites and voted out Corinne. He also followed Andrea's plan to vote off Michael to avoid a Hidden Immunity Idol. Dawn lost her retainer and threatened to pull out of the game unless she found them. Brenda helped Dawn retrieve them, but the incident caused Cochran to view Dawn as volatile. After Reynold Toepfer won immunity, Stealth R Us decided to split the vote between his allies, Eddie Fox and Malcolm. But Malcolm shocked everyone by pulling out two idols and using them, blindsiding Phillip. At the Survivor Auction, Cochran bought a letter from home and more importantly, an advantage at the Immunity Challenge. The advantage was useful as it helped him outlast the physically stronger Eddie, giving him his second individual immunity. After a split vote, Malcolm was voted out for having a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.

At the next Immunity Challenge, Andrea won immunity. Reynold was the intended target, but Andrea started lobbying for Brenda's elimination for she was to easily win if she were to make to the Final Tribal Council. The alliance ultimately split the vote against Eddie and Reynold, resulting in the latter's elimination. Andrea wanted Brenda gone even with Eddie vulnerable. Cochran and Dawn chose to vote against the original target, Eddie. Andrea was blindsided when Sherri Biethman chose to vote her over Brenda and Eddie. Brenda won the Loved Ones Challenge and gave up her and Dawn's right to spend time with their loved ones to the other four. Although he was grateful for having to spend time with his parents, Cochran noted that likability is a liability and deemed Brenda the biggest threat to win the game. Dawn won immunity and Cochran asked her and Sherri to vote Brenda out. Sherri readily agreed but Dawn was conflicted after all Brenda had done for her. In the end, Cochran's plan came to fruition and Brenda was blindsided, leaving her devastated. While returning to camp, Erik Reichenbach collapsed. The medics deemed him unfit to continue, leaving everyone in shock. The Day 37 challenge was changed to a Reward Challenge due to Erik's evacuation. After a long competition, Cochran won the advantage to the Final Immunity Challenge. After the Rites of Passage, the Final Immunity Challenge commenced. Cochran's advantage was that he didn't have to untie any bags of puzzle pieces. Because of that, Cochran had a lead. The lead evaporated when he had trouble with the puzzle, allowing Sherri and Dawn to catch up. Cochran ultimately won the Final Immunity Challenge. After wondering who would be easier to beat, Cochran honored his alliance with Dawn and voted out Eddie.

At Final Tribal Council, most of the jury scolded Sherri for riding coattails and even some of them avoiding talking to her. Dawn, on the other hand, was castigated for her emotional breakdowns and questionable gameplay ethics. Because of the negative attention Sherri and Dawn received, as well as his overall (social, strategic, and challenge) balanced and respected game, the jury gave all of their votes to Cochran, making him the 26th person to win the title of Sole Survivor and the second person to play a "perfect game."

Nick - Survivor: David vs Goliath
Nick was initially placed on the David tribe. Early on, Nick was more interested in forming alliances than working at camp, but unbeknownst to him, Carl Boudreaux became irritated with Nick's laziness and began gunning for him should David lose the first challenge. Although David did indeed lose the first Immunity Challenge on Day 3, Tribal Council was cancelled due to Pat Cusack being medically evacuated, thus sparing Nick. The following morning, Nick regrouped and formed an alliance with Christian Hubicki. When David again lost immunity, both he and Christian found themselves as the swing votes for the impeding Tribal Council. Despite Nick wanting Lyrsa Torres out, he eventually joined Christian in voting out Jessica Peet. Upon returning to camp, both Nick and Christian told Davie Rickenbacker that Gabby Pascuzzi was responsible for Jessica's elimination, leading to Nick plotting with Davie and Bi Nguyen about taking out Gabby. However, David won the next Immunity Challenge, putting any plans on hold.

During the Tribe Switch on Day 10, Nick and Lyrsa were switched to the new Jabeni tribe, where they were outnumbered three to two by the original Goliaths. After Jabeni lost immunity on Day 15, Natalie Cole tried to force Nick into giving her his jacket on behalf of Angelina Keeley, earning Nick's ire. Both he and Lyrsa then tried to convince Mike White to turn against Natalie, who had been rubbing her original Goliath tribemates the wrong way with her abrasive personality. At Tribal Council, Mike sided with Nick and Lyrsa, voting out Natalie. When Jabeni lost immunity again, Nick and Mike contemplated on which of Angelina or Lyrsa to take out. Eventually, Nick joined Angelina and Mike in sending Lyrsa home.

When the tribes merged into the Kalokalo tribe on Day 18, Nick became a part of a cross-tribal alliance with Christian and Gabby, along with Goliaths Mike, Alec Merlino, and Alison Raybould. At the first post-merge Tribal Council, he joined the rest of the tribe in unanimously eliminating Elizabeth Olson. The following morning, Nick and Davie found a clue to an advantage. With Carl and Davie's help, Nick was able to find the advantage, which turned out to be a Vote Steal. With the David Alliance down in numbers at the following Tribal Council, Davie played his Hidden Immunity Idol on Christian, and Nick, Christian, and Davie were able to blindside John Hennigan by splitting the minority vote and flushing one of Dan Rengering's idols. Still down in numbers to the opposing Goliath Alliance, Nick used his advantage at the next Tribal Council on Day 25 to steal Alison's vote. Carl then used his Idol Nullifier in tandem with Nick's Vote Steal to nullify Dan's second idol, sending Dan to the jury.

Nick and Davie woke up early the next morning to search for a new idol, with Nick finding a clue saying that the idol was on the other side of the island and that he would have to wait until dark to find it. That night, Nick snuck off to find the idol, and successfully claimed it for himself. Feeling confident, he then took the offer to sit out of the next Immunity Challenge, along with Angelina and Carl. At Tribal Council, he joined the rest of the tribe in unanimously voting out Alec for being a physical threat. With the David Alliance now in the majority, Carl led the charge to eliminate Alison next. Although Nick was on board with the plan, Gabby became irritated with Carl's approach. At the next Tribal Council, both Christian and Gabby betrayed the David Alliance and joined Alison, Mike, and Kara Kay in blindsiding Carl.

Upon returning from Tribal Council, Nick was upset with Christian over Carl's blindside and declared that his alliance with Christian was over. The following morning, Nick met his father Jim at the family visit. Nick and Angelina won the subsequent Reward Challenge, choosing Davie and Mike to join them. During the reward, they voiced their intentions to reach the final four together. Following the Immunity Challenge, Nick agreed with Gabby about blindsiding Christian, but then he, Angelina, and Mike came up with a plan to put two votes on Gabby in case Christian played his idol. At Tribal Council, Christian played the idol on himself, and Gabby was instead sent to the jury.

After Gabby's elimination, Nick made a fake idol and "found" it under the raft in front of Angelina, Christian, and Mike so that they would not search for a real one. However, Davie was leery of Nick's ruse and told Christian that Nick possibly had two idols and that he planned to blindside Nick. Leading up to the next Tribal Council, Nick realized that Alison was a physical threat. He revealed to Davie that his raft idol was fake, and Davie agreed to vote against Alison with him. However, Mike pulled Nick aside and told him that Davie had targeted him earlier, before trying to get Nick on board with voting out Christian before Davie. At Tribal Council, Davie played an idol on himself, prompting Nick to play his fake idol to get a read on his tribemates' reactions. He then played his real idol on himself, but received no votes, and Christian was voted out.

Nick won his first individual immunity on Day 36, and chose to share the reward with Angelina and Mike. On the reward, Nick and Mike helped Angelina find an idol for herself before Nick and Angelina agreed to target Alison next. At Tribal Council however, Nick was shocked when the former Goliath Alliance banded together to blindside Davie. An angry Nick confronted Angelina and Mike over Davie's blindside, and worked to ensure that Alison would go home next. After Nick won the next Immunity Challenge, however, he and Kara considered taking out Mike instead for being a threat. However, they eventually sided with Angelina and Mike to send Alison to the jury. Nick then won the Final Immunity Challenge on Day 38. He then voiced his intention to take Angelina to the end, prompting Kara and Mike to practice making fire. Mike ultimately beat Kara to join Nick and Angelina in the Final Three.

At the Final Tribal Council, Nick was commended for his social and strategic acumen, as well as his immunity wins, but was criticized for his game peaking too early. In the end, Nick's strategic moves, strong social game, and underdog status were preferred over Mike's late strategic dominance and Angelina's selfish gameplay, and he was awarded the title of Sole Survivor over Mike and Angelina in a 7-3-0 vote.

Brian - Survivor: Thailand
As part of the Chuay Gahn tribe, Brian considered his experience a "business trip" and wasn't immediately targeted due to his physical strength and his ability to provide food for the tribe. Early on in the game, he was considered a trustworthy individual, despite his used car salesman occupation being known by all. However, his status as trustworthy would soon change dramatically. When Brian's tribe lost the first and second Immunity Challenges, he joined the majority to vote out John Raymond and Tanya Vance. After the grind gate incident between Ted Rogers, Jr.and Ghandia Johnson, Brian was worried that the rift between the two would divide the tribe. So he enlisted the help of Helen Glover to side with himself, Ted and Clay Jordan to vote out Ghandia, which they did successfully in Episode 4. By doing so, he created a Final 2 Alliance with Helen, despite already having one with Ted. Chuay Gahn then enjoyed two immunity wins.

When there were only 10 Survivors left, the two tribes began living on the same beach, believing they had merged into one tribe. However, this was not the case. Chuay Gahn continued their winning streak for two more episodes, dwindling the former Sook Jai members to only 3. When the tribes finally merged with 8 contestants remaining, Brian was a strong force in keeping the Chuay Gahn alliance strong and ousting the remaining former Sook Jai members at back-to-back Tribal Councils. They were very successful, voting out Ken Stafford, Penny Ramsey, and Jake Billingsley respectively. At this point, Brian had three Final 2 Alliances, each with Helen, Ted, and Clay.

At the Final 5, the remaining contestants (all members of Chuay Gahn) were forced to turn on each other. Helen and Ted had a plan to pull over Jan Gentry and vote out Clay, whom they believed did not deserve a spot in the Final 2. When Brian heard the two had been talking, he wrongly believed this was against himself, with neither Helen or Ted having this idea in mind. After winning individual immunity, Brian, together with Jan, Helen, and Clay, voted out Ted despite their Final 2 Alliance. At the Final 4, Brian enjoyed another immunity win and informed Helen that Jan would be voted out. However, he went with Clay and used Jan to vote out Helen, believing she had conspired against him and was unbeatable in the Final 2.

On Day 38, Brian felt comfortable with his game and immunity wins, despite backstabbing two of his former tribemates. He managed to win the final immunity and chose to vote out Jan, taking Clay to the Final 2. Jan was the only former Chuay Gahn Final 5 member Brian did not have a Final 2 alliance with. Believing Clay was more hated, Brian thought he had made the right decision. However, Brian faced a tough jury and in particular a very angry Helen.

In the end, Brian Heidik beat out Clay Jordan in a 4-3 vote to become the fifth Sole Survivor. He managed to gain the votes of Jake, Ted, Helen, and Jan. Brian was benefited by a usual occurrence on Survivorwhen two of Brian's votes came from a vote against Clay, particularly Helen and Ted whom Brian himself betrayed in the game, but still voted for him over Clay. Ted mentioned that he was voting for Brian because he was "the lesser of two evils".

Wendell - Survivor: Ghost Island
Wendell was initially placed on the Naviti tribe where he proved to be an asset to the tribe early on with his background as a furniture designer as he used his building skills to help build the shelter. He also built a strong bond with Domenick Abbate. At camp, when Sebastian Noel told Wendell that he wanted Domenick out, Wendell notified Domenick about it, leading to him stating that Chris Noble was the ringleader of the tribe mainly because of a rivalry between them that started after the opening Reward Challenge. Naviti however won the first two Immunity Challenges.

When a Tribe Switch occurred on Day 7, Wendell stayed on Naviti along with Chris, Domenick, Angela Perkins, and Morgan Ricke. Domenick, Morgan, and Wendell still targeted Chris and were also wary of Angela since she never worked with them until the switch. However, after losing the Day 9 Immunity Challenge, their plan was foiled when Chris was sent to Ghost Island via rock draw, causing a 4-4 split between the former Naviti and Malolo members. Domenick tried to build trust with the Malolo's to vote out Angela by showing them a fake Hidden Immunity Idol, but this caused James Lim to distrust him and targeted one of the trio of Wendell, Domenick, and Morgan. At Tribal Council, Wendell, Morgan, and Domenick targeted Angela for being Chris's right-hand man, but Morgan was blindsided by the former Malolos. Back at camp following Morgan's blindside, Domenick and Wendell were left in the minority, but they had hope when Domenick told Wendell that he found a real idol and also when Donathan Hurley and Laurel Johnson talked to them about forming a Final Four Alliance. However, any strategy was put on hold as Naviti won the next two Immunity Challenges.

A second Tribe Switch occurred on Day 15. Wendell, along with Chris and Laurel, were switched to the new Yanuya tribe. Yanuya won the next Immunity Challenge after Wendell led them from behind. After Yanuya won the Day 18 Reward Challenge, Wendell found an idol that was revealed to be the Immunity Necklace that Erik Reichenbach gave to Natalie Bolton in Survivor: Micronesia. Yanuya won the last challenge before the merge.

When the tribes merged into the Lavita tribe on Day 20, the Naviti Alliance initially planned to use their 8-5 numbers advantage to pick off the former Malolos. However, Chris and Domenick's rivalry reached a boiling point. Domenick and Wendell approached Chris about the three of them working together, but were unsuccessful. At Tribal Council, Wendell joined almost the entire tribe in blindsiding Chris. The following morning, Wendell and Domenick reaffirmed their alliance with Donathan and Laurel. After the Day 25 Immunity Challenge, Michael Yerger wanted to target Wendell for his social game and tried to rally the former Malolos to vote against him. When the Naviti Alliance planned to split the vote between Michael and Libby Vincek, Libby was worried, but Wendell assured her that she was safe. At Tribal Council, Wendell joined the rest of the tribe in the split vote plan, with Libby being voted out after Michael played a Hidden Immunity Idol. The foursome of Wendell, Domenick, Donathan, and Laurel then took control of the game by voting out Desiree Afuye for trying to flip on the Naviti Alliance, then took out Michael during the Double Elimination twist.

At the Family Visit, Sebastian won the challenge and chose Wendell, Domenick, and Donathan to go with him. However, Wendell decided to decline the reward to volunteer to go to Ghost Island for an advantage. This move however, left the women bitter and had Kellyn Bechtold try to orchestrate his blindside. When Wendell got to Ghost Island, he received Malcolm Freberg's Final Immunity Challenge advantage from Survivor: Philippines. At the next Immunity Challenge, Wendell got to use his advantage, but he still lost the challenge. Despite being targeted by Kellyn, the Final Four Alliance stuck together in blindsiding Chelsea Townsend for being a physical threat after she won back-to-back Immunity Challenges. At the final seven however, Donathan turned on Wendell and Domenick, as he knew he was on the bottom and that he could not beat either of them in the end. Despite this, they spared him at Tribal Council when the vote resulted in a tie and voted Kellyn out in the revote.

Wendell and Domenick then went after Donathan for trying to betray their alliance. When Wendell won the final six Reward/Immunity Challenge, he chose Angela and Sebastian to go with him. Although Wendell and Domenick wanted to blindside Sebastian next for his likability, Wendell stated he chose Sebastian to make him still feel good about him in order to win his jury vote. At Tribal Council, Donathan was spared again as Sebastian was blindsided when he did not play his Extra Vote after Domenick's bluff he made with his idol. When Wendell won the next Immunity Challenge, he wanted to make a move against Domenick and to play his idol on someone to try to gain the jury's respect. At Tribal Council, Wendell played his idol for Laurel to solidify their bond, but it only negated one vote and Donathan was finally voted out. When Domenick won the Final Immunity Challenge on Day 38, Domenick finally decided to target Wendell, but had to consider who had to go against him in the fire-making challenge. Domenick privately considered giving his Immunity Necklace to Angela and taking on Wendell himself in the fire-making challenge. At Tribal Council, however, Domenick chose to keep immunity and brought Laurel to the end, forcing Wendell to go against Angela in the fire-making challenge. Wendell ultimately won the fire-making challenge, making Angela the 10th member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Wendell explained how he used his building to help build his social game and that he also flew under-the-radar to let Domenick do most of the dirty work despite receiving votes against him a few times. While the jury praised him for his social game and laid-back strategy, they questioned his strategic moves compared to Domenick's. Following the jury voting, host Jeff Probst immediately read the votes, revealing a tie for the first time in Survivor history 5-5 between Wendell and Domenick. As the third place finalist, Laurel became the 11th and final juror and had to cast the winning vote. On the finale, it was revealed that Laurel voted for Wendell due to their bond throughout the game, making Wendell the Sole Survivor of Survivor: Ghost Island.

Tommy - Survivor: Island of the Idols
Tommy was initially placed on the Vokai tribe, where he quickly joined the majority in targeting outsiders Jason Linden and Noura Salman. When Vokai lost the second Immunity Challenge on Day 6, Tommy contemplated voting out Jason, or going with Lauren Beck's plan to blindside Molly Byman for her social connections. At Tribal Council, he went with Lauren's plan and joined a new majority in eliminating Molly.

After the Tribe Switch on Day 12, Tommy remained on Vokai with Jason, Lauren, and Dan Spilo, but found himself in the precarious position of possibly facing a tie vote at Tribal Council should Vokai lose an Immunity Challenge, since the tribe was now divided equally between original Lairo and Vokai members. When Vokai lost immunity on Day 16, Tommy and his allies targeted Elaine Stott, hoping that they could pull in Aaron Meredith to their side. At Tribal Council, however, Elaine revealed that she had a Vote Blocker and would use it to steal Jason's vote. When it came time to vote, Aaron stuck with the original Lairo alliance and eliminated Jason, leaving Tommy in the minority. The following day, Tommy and Lauren tried to throw Dan under the bus to the Lairo majority to save themselves, but Missy Byrd saw through their plan and instead conspired to eliminate Tommy to separate him from Lauren. A visibly relieved Tommy avoided this fate when Vokai narrowly won the final pre-merge Immunity Challenge.

When the tribes merged into the Lumuwaku tribe on Day 20, Tommy and Lauren tried to pull in their original Vokai allies Janet Carbin and Kellee Kim to side with the post-switch Vokai majority. However, they sensed that Kellee was not on board with this plan, so they switched the target onto her instead and they sided with the post-switch Vokai to blindside Kellee at Tribal Council. When the Lumuwaku tribe was temporarily split up for a Double Elimination on Day 27, Tommy found himself on a team with four women from original Lairo, and when he failed to win immunity, Missy targeted him for being the biggest threat. Finding himself the clear target, Tommy used his past social connections with Elaine to pull her in, and when Missy alienated her ally Karishma Patel, the latter now wanted to target Missy as well. At Tribal Council, Tommy, Elaine, and Karishma came together to blindside Missy, sending her to the jury.

At the Reward Challenge on Day 31, Tommy got to see his girlfriend Nicole as part of the Family Visit. Tommy and Janet won the subsequent challenge and brought their allies Dan and Lauren with them on the reward, but alienated the other half of the tribe in the process. When Lauren won the next Immunity Challenge, Tommy and his allies attempted to pull in Elaine and Dean Kowalski to split their votes between Karishma and Noura in case Karishma had a Hidden Immunity Idol. Unbeknownst to them, however, the alliance of Dean, Elaine, Karishma, and Noura targeted Tommy to split up his alliance with Lauren. At Tribal Council, Dean whispered to Tommy that he was the target, angering Noura, and setting off a frantic scramble that eventually resulted in Karishma's elimination.

The following morning, Tommy and Janet went looking for a Hidden Immunity Idol, which Janet found and revealed to Tommy. When Dean returned from the Island of the Idols on Day 34, he revealed to Tommy, Dan, and Lauren that he had obtained an Idol Nullifier, prompting Tommy to tell Dean about Janet's idol. Later, Tommy solidified a final three deal with Dan and Dean, planning to take out his supposed ally Lauren at the final four fire-making challenge for being the biggest threat. After Elaine was voted out at the next Tribal Council, however, host Jeff Probst surprised the tribe when he announced that Dan had been ejected from the game for repeated inappropriate touching, forcing Tommy to rethink his plans.

On Day 36, the Lumuwaku tribe relocated to the Island of the Idols, where they were given new buffs by mentors Rob Mariano and Sandra Diaz-Twine. Shortly after Rob and Sandra left the island, Tommy found a clue on his buff and soon deduced that there was an idol hidden somewhere on the island. Since one of the clues was color-based, Tommy asked Dean for assistance due to Tommy being color-blind. Dean, however, deciphered the rest of the clues on his own and located the idol for himself. After Dean won immunity, Janet asked Tommy to get the rest of the tribe to vote for her so that she could use her idol to blindside Lauren. Fearing Janet's ability to make fire, Tommy betrayed his long-time ally and informed Dean and Lauren of Janet's plan, prompting Dean to use his Idol Nullifier to negate Janet's idol, eliminating Janet instead.

The following morning, Tommy attempted to convince Noura to take him to the end in case she won the Final Immunity Challenge by lying to her about not being able to make fire. When Noura did indeed win the Final Immunity Challenge, she announced her intention to take Tommy to the end and for Dean and Lauren to face off in the fire-making challenge. He then spent the day helping Dean make fire, and got Noura to distract Lauren from practicing her fire-making skills. That night at Tribal Council, Noura saved Tommy, while Dean defeated Lauren in the fire-making challenge, leaving Tommy, Dean, and Noura as the Final Three.

At the Final Tribal Council, Tommy explained to the jury that he used his social game to control his fate and the flow of the game. He, however, was questioned over not winning challenges and only focusing on the social aspect, instead of focusing on all aspects of the game. While he explained that he threw a lot of challenges so that he would not be voted out, he was also criticized over his supposed lack of big moves, especially compared to Dean. Tommy and Dean both made attempts to downplay each other's games, with Tommy arguing that Dean didn't do anything with his advantages and rode coattails most of the game. Ultimately, Tommy's strong social game prevailed over Dean's late game bloom and Noura's perceived emotional decisions, and he was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 8-2-0 vote.

Chris - Survivor: Vanuatu
Since the beginning of the game, Chris had been struggling to survive. In the first Immunity Challenge, balance was required to get all the tribe members across and light a fire. Chris never made it across the beam. Early on, the athletic men of the Lopevi tribe figured the rest of the tribe would agree Chris would be the weakest link and the first boot. However, the four athletic men were in for a shock when Chris, Rory Freeman, Lea Masters, Chad Crittenden, and Travis Sampson created the Fat Five alliance and took out Brook Geraghty in a 5-3-1 vote.

The athletic men were picked off and the game became divided by gender in terms of alliances, rather than age. Only Rory, Lea, Chris, and Chad made the merge from the original Lopevi tribe and were outnumbered by the original Yasur tribe made up of Scout Cloud Lee, Twila Tanner, Julie Berry, Ami Cusack, Leann Slaby, and Eliza Orlins. Rory, Lea, and Chad were all voted off within the first nine days of the merge, leaving Chris the last man standing.

On Day 28, a Loved Ones Challenge was held, and the loved ones also got to compete in a special Immunity Challenge the following day. During the Immunity Challenge, the women took note of how much heart Chris and his fiancée Lorie had. This caused Ami and her alliance to keep Chris around one more week and vote out tribal annoyance Eliza. Twila and Scout, not happy with their positions in the game, hatched a new plan that could drastically change the outcome of the game. Together they approached Chris about a new alliance. Chris, Twila, and Scout managed to lure in Eliza, the next target, and this new alliance successfully eliminated Ami's closest ally, Leann. The alliance targeted Leann because Ami already had immunity. From there the new alliance made up of Twila, Scout, Chris, and Eliza picked off Ami, the biggest threat, followed by Julie, who Chris considered his little sister.

When it came down to the final four, Chris looked over his odds and decided to vote with Twila and Scout to get rid of his biggest competition, but closest friend, Eliza. Eliza earned the sixth spot on the jury. From there, Chris won his third individual Immunity Challenge and voted out Scout, who he felt was more popular with the jury members than Twila, facing off against Twila in the Final Two. At the Final Tribal Council, Chris was called out about his lying and abusing close relationships in order to progress. It seemed at first like the odds were against Chris with five women and only two men on the jury, but Chris also knew Twila was the least liked of all by the jury members. Chris owned up to all his actions, was apologetic to many jury members, and gave a great political performance, while Twila was rougher but more honest in her answers. The final votes came in and in a 5-2 vote, Chris beat out Twila for the million dollar prize.

Denise - Survivor: Philippines
Denise started on the Matsing tribe. She started out in a good position as her occupation as a sex therapist helped her social game, as she connected with Zane and Malcolm, her and the latter of which formed the Matsing Alliance. When Matsing lost the first Immunity Challenge on Day 3, the tribe initially wanted to vote out Russell for poorly choosing the roles for everyone in the challenge and also barking out orders. However, Zane asked the tribe to vote him out for costing the challenge, but it was actually a ruse to gain sympathy on those who liked him and wanted him around. At Tribal Council, Denise joined the rest of the tribe in blindsiding Zane unanimously as his plan backfired. Early the next morning, Roxy approached Denise about Angie and Malcolm cuddling overnight, believing them to be a power couple and wanting to vote Angie out to break up the pair. But unbeknownst to her, Malcolm was Denise's ally. Denise later became annoyed by Roxy for her laziness around camp and religious beliefs minutes before going into the Day 6 Immunity Challenge. Matsing lost immunity again by a small margin. Roxy and Russell attempted to swing Denise to split up Angie and Malcolm while still unaware that Denise was Malcolm's ally. At Tribal Council, Denise joined the rest of the tribe in voting out Roxy unanimously. When Matsing lost their third challenge in a row on Day 8, Denise and Malcolm were split between voting Angie or Russell due to their weak performances in the challenge. At Tribal Council, they decided to send Angie home for being a liability in challenges. Denise and Malcolm became suspicious that Russell already had the Hidden Immunity Idol and considered blindsiding him at the next Tribal Council. When Matsing lost their final challenge on Day 10, Denise and Malcolm agreed to vote for Russell as they tried to make him feel comfortable heading into Tribal Council just in case he had the idol. At Tribal Council, everyone was concerned that they were going home, but in the end, Russell was sent home.

Before the Reward Challenge, Denise and Malcolm thought there was a chance of a tribe absorption, so they looked for the idol, which Malcolm found first. Even though they were in an alliance, the idol was in Malcolm's possession. At the Reward Challenge, Denise was separated from Malcolm and she was absorbed into the Kalabaw tribe. Kalabaw lost the Reward Challenge, but faced another setback when they lost Dana after she was too sick to continue. When Kalabaw lost the next Immunity Challenge on Day 13, Denise joined the men's Kalabaw Alliance and discussed voting out Katie or Dawson for their weak challenge performances. At Tribal Council, Denise joined the Kalabaw Alliance and Katie in voting out Dawson. Kalabaw won the next Reward Challenge after Jonathan made a deal with the rival Tandang tribe that Kalabaw would give up their remaining rice supply in exchange for the reward. When Kalabaw lost the last Immunity Challenge before the merge, Denise joined the rest of the tribe in voting out Katie unanimously for her weak challenge performances and being the only outsider left. Returning from Tribal Council, Denise was in distress as she has been to every Tribal Council, believing that she was cursed.

Denise made the merge on Day 17, as a member of the Dangrayne tribe where she and Carter won the first individual Immunity Challenge on Day 19. Denise then joined the split vote plan between Jonathan and RC to flush out Jonathan's idol. At Tribal Council, the split vote plan came into fruition when Jonathan played his idol, making RC the first juror. But she, Malcolm, and the Kalabaw Alliance were then left in the dark when Jeff was blindsided by the Tandang Alliance at the next Tribal Council.

When the foursome of Denise, Malcolm, Jonathan, and Carter won the next Reward Challenge, they agreed to break up the Tandang Alliance by getting Michael and Lisa to flip since they were on the bottom of the alliance. After Michael won immunity on Day 25, Denise suggested to her alliance that they vote for Artis as a safe vote against Abi-Maria playing her idol that she revealed along with Malcolm's on Day 22, as she believed Abi-Maria would be too selfish to play her idol for Artis. At Tribal Council, although Lisa stayed loyal to Tandang, Michael flipped and blindsided Artis. Michael and Lisa then joined the Kalabaw Alliance. However, their flipping started a rivalry between Abi-Maria and Denise. Denise, Malcolm, Michael, and Lisa then made a final four alliance. The Kalabaw Alliance then decided to split the vote between Abi-Maria and her ally Pete in case Abi-Maria played her idol, but Michael considered flipping on the plan and blindsiding Malcolm when Abi-Maria and Pete tried to sway him, Lisa, and the former Kalabaw's. At Tribal Council, Michael stuck to the plan as Abi-Maria played her idol and Pete became the fourth juror. When Abi-Maria surprised everyone by winning immunity on Day 30 after she bought an advantage at the Survivor Auction, the final four alliance decided to target Jonathan, but he was trying to sway votes against Denise in case Malcolm played his idol by getting Michael to flip. At Tribal Council, Michael once again stayed loyal as Jonathan was sent to the jury. Denise then joined the rest of the tribe in voting out the last original Kalabaw member Carter. She was then spared when Abi-Maria was voted out as Michael and Lisa wanted to keep Denise around to have a chance at beating Malcolm in the Final Immunity Challenge.

At the final four, Malcolm won an advantage for the Final Immunity Challenge that included a sealed note he must open at the Immunity Challenge. After the Reward Challenge, knowing that Michael and Lisa weren't going to vote against each other, Denise asked Malcolm if he was willing to commit with her to forcing a tie vote between herself and Lisa at the next Tribal Council, but he hesitated to committing to the deal due to how dangerous Denise's social game was going into the Final Tribal Council. This made Denise suspicious of Malcolm's loyalty and forced her to strike a Final Three deal with Michael and Lisa to vote out Malcolm if he were to lose the Final Immunity Challenge, but Denise was concerned about Michael due to him flip-flopping on his decisions and was also unknown to the fact that Michael and Lisa made the same deal with Malcolm during their previous reward. Malcolm wasted away his advantage as he did indeed lose the Final Immunity Challenge, putting Denise's plan into action. Back at camp, Denise and Malcolm made their pitch to Michael and Lisa to keep them in the game. At Tribal Council, Michael and Lisa chose to keep Denise and voted Malcolm out as the eighth and final jury member, with Malcolm bitterly congratulating Denise on the way out.

At the Final Tribal Council, Denise made her opening statement saying that she used her social game to adapt in three different tribes and also create sub alliances, but had to turn on them to further herself in the game. She also stated that she has survived every Tribal Council of the season because of her social game, as she had outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted everyone by doing so. While she came under fire for being an appeasing sex therapist by Malcolm and betraying alliances, Michael's lack of social awareness and Lisa's inconsistent loyalties along with Denise's social game earned her the title of Sole Survivor in a 6-1-1 vote, only losing RC and Carter's votes as they voted Lisa and Michael respectively.

Danni - Survivor: Guatemala
Danni was initialy placed on the Nakúm tribe. When it was revealed that Stephenie LaGrossa and Bobby Jon Drinkard were playing a second time, Danni was excited to learn Nakúm would get Bobby Jon. After a grueling eleven-mile hike, the Nakúm tribe reached the better of the two camps first and won flint as well. Despite that, the tribe's strong men were repeatedly vomiting. This weakness showed in the Immunity Challenge, which the Yaxhá tribe won. Danni joined in voting out Jim Lynch who was seen as the physically weakest of the ailing contestants. Nakúm would bounce back and prove to be the stronger tribe by winning the remaining challenges and earning the tribe fishing supplies and comfort. During the second Immunity Challenge, Danni was able to identify Gary Hogeboom as a former football player.

On Day 9, both tribes went to a Mayan ruin at what was thought to be a challenge. Instead, host Jeff Probst asked both tribes who was most need of nourishment. Danni and Jamie Newton were seen as the hungriest for their respective tribes and both received apples. As the questions continued, both tribes were asked who had the most tribe pride. Nakúm picked Cindy Hall and Yaxhá picked Brian Corridan. Jeff then announced a tribe switch and that only Brian and Cindy would stay on their respective tribes. Because Nakúm had an extra member, there would be a drawing of buffs to determine who would stay on Nakúm. Danni went first but drew a blue buff, transferring her to Yaxhá. Brooke Struck went next and she would draw the gold buff, meaning that Bobby Jon, Brandon Bellinger, and Blake Towsleywould join Danni and Brian on the new Yaxhá, giving Danni a 4-3 majority. Gary and Amy O'Hara would join them soon after. The group won immunity and the next Reward Challenge, earning them a crocodile-proof swimming pool.

During this period, Blake annoyed the group by constantly telling them about his college stories. After losing the Immunity Challenge, Brian used this to his advantage to persuade Danni a to vote out Blake over Brian. Realizing she was the swing vote (a position she hated being in), Danni was concerned about losing her numbers advantage. However, her personality clashed with Blake's, so she blindsided him at their first Tribal Council post-switch. At the next challenge, it was revealed that both tribes would go to Tribal Council that night and the tribes would compete in a Reward Challenge for a feast. Despite Yaxhá's best efforts, Nakúm won the feast. At camp the former Nakúms targeted Brian for being the most strategic and successfully voted him off. Yaxhá won the next Reward Challenge for a chocolate feast and even invited Nakúm over for a pool party because it was Danni's birthday. Unfortunately, Yaxhá lost the next immunity and would enter the merge without numbers. The tribe voted out Amy for her injured ankle. After Amy's elimination, Jeff announced that the tribes had merged.

The former Yaxhá tribe walked to the Nakúm camp and woke them up to tell them of the news. The former Nakúm members did not warmly welcome Danni and the other Yaxhás. Lydia Morales named the merged tribe Xhakúm. At the first individual Immunity Challenge, the castaways had a choice to eat or complete for immunity. Danni chose to complete along with Bobby Jon, Brandon, Cindy, Gary, and Judd Sergeant. Danni was the first person out. During the challenge, Jamie irritated everyone with his arrogance by telling everyone that Judd and Cindy were there to protect the former Nakúm tribe's numbers advantage. The Yaxhá tried to convince the others to vote out Jamie over Brandon for his arrogance, the fact that Brandon deserved to be in the game more and the Nakúms would still have the numbers. However, the Nakúms held strong and voted off Brandon and then Bobby Jon. Jamie was voted out next for his increasing paranoia. Danni would stay affiliated with Gary, but she kept her options open. He tried to convince the tribe to vote for Judd for being untrustworthy as he lied about the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. Danni realized that Gary was next to go and rather than trying to turn things around, she conceded and contributed to Gary's unanimous vote out.

Danni was on the chopping block but was still determined to save herself, confident that the majority alliance was ready to turn on each other. At the Survivor Auction, Danni bought herself an advantage at the next Immunity Challenge. Judd bought time to spend with his wife and chose Stephenie and Cindy to join him with their respective loved ones, sending Danni, Lydia, and Rafe Judkins to the former Yaxhá camp. Danni made connections with Rafe and Lydia, even forming a Final Two deal with Rafe. At the challenge, Danni used her advantage and won immunity. Because of this, she was able to convince Rafe to convince Stephenie to turn on Judd. At the final Reward Challenge, Cindy won a car and was given the option of giving cars to the others at the expense of her own car. Cindy kept her car, which angered Rafe. Danni was spared once more due to her deal with Rafe and Cindy's apparent selfishness. At the final four Immunity Challenge, Danni failed to win immunity. However, Danni convinced Rafe that it was in his best interest to keep her over the much physically weaker Lydia as she would take him to the Final Tribal Council. Rafe agreed and Lydia was unanimously voted out. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Danni won and consoled Stephenie who was crying. Seeing Stephenie's tears, Rafe released Danni from her word to bring Rafe to the Final Tribal Council. Danni chose Stephenie to bring to the Final Tribal Council because she viewed Stephenie as easier to beat and as equally deserving as Rafe.

At the Final Tribal Council, the jury (except for Rafe, who campaigned for Stephenie due to Danni's decision to vote him out) were convinced to vote for Danni by her honest answers, loyalty, and ability to make it this far despite the Pagonging. Because of that, she won the title of Sole Survivor in a 6-1 vote.

Vecepia - Survivor: Marquesas
Vecepia started out on the Maraamu tribe, which faced a power struggle between its leader-figures and the workers. This lack of unity heavily reflected on challenges, which sent them to Tribal Council three times in a row. Vecepia, as one of the subordinates, joined the Maraamu Alliance of Rob Mariano, Sarah Jones, and Sean Rector to overthrow the odd Peter Harkey and Patricia Jackson, who were the tribes' weakest members and answered to Rob's arch-rival, Hunter Ellis, who was voted out next. Being fellow African-Americans of Christian faith, Vecepia and Sean formed a close bond.

On Day 10, the tribes were switched, transferring Vecepia, Rob, and Sean to the rival Rotu tribe. The minute they moved to Rotu, it was clear that Vecepia, Rob, and Sean were on the outs of an already established Rotu Four alliance of John Carroll, Robert DeCanio, Tammy Leitner, and Zoe Zanidakis. Vecepia had the best chance of the three because of her ability to form bonds with her new tribemates and by flying under the radar. However, when Rotu lost the Day 15 Immunity Challenge, the two pacts banded together to eliminate the lone floating Rotu member, Gabriel Cade, who was accused of being untrustworthy and apathetic towards the game. After Gabriel's elimination, Vecepia, Rob, and Sean were left at the mercy of the Rotu Four but were spared when they won the Day 18 Immunity Challenge, entering the merge with seven members, as opposed to Maraamu's paltry roster of three. Vecepia had begun to play for herself from the merge on and, in doing so, she voted out her ally Rob on Day 21 when he was deemed as the biggest strategic threat on the new Soliantu tribe.

Following Rob's elimination, the Rotu Four became overconfident that they would run the game by making the others believe there was no alliance, until a rather revealing Immunity Challenge on Day 24. The challenge, which would require players to remove tribemates from the challenge until one remained, left Vecepia and the other non-Rotu Four members in particular trouble when the Rotu Four systematically eliminated them, thus revealing the alliance. The other outsiders were her only allies and remaining original Maraamu tribe mate Sean, Neleh Dennis, and Paschal English, who shared a father-daughter-like relationship, and the unaligned Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien. As a solution, the five formed a new Outsiders Alliance, dethroning the Rotu Four's leader, John, after a 6-3 vote. For reasons best known to herself, Zoe also voted for John.

The new alliance would then systematically vote out Zoe, Tammy, and Robert at the next three Tribal Councils, leaving the alliance of five to battle among each other, thus returning to their former sub-alliances, with the pairs of Vecepia and Sean, and Neleh and Paschal both vying for Kathy's vote. Ultimately, Kathy sided with Neleh and Paschal, both of whom she had been with since Day 1. The three voted for Sean because of his grating, vocal personality.

On Day 37, Vecepia won the next Immunity Challenge, leaving Kathy, Neleh, and Paschal vulnerable. Anticipating that Neleh and Paschal would never vote each other out, Vecepia and Kathy forced a tie vote between Kathy and Neleh. When the tribe agreed they would not change their votes, host Jeff Probstdeclared a deadlock and, after the final four could not unanimously agree on who to eliminate between Kathy and Neleh, Jeff handed a bag of rocks to Kathy, Neleh, and Paschal, stating that whoever draws the purple rock would be eliminated. Paschal, who received no votes at that Tribal Council, or at any point in the game, drew the unlucky rock, sending him home.

At the Final Immunity Challenge, after Kathy dropped out, Vecepia seized the opportunity to strike a deal with Neleh. She would give immunity to Neleh if Neleh promised to take her to the Final Two. Neleh agreed, and Vecepia gave immunity to Neleh. That night, Neleh fulfilled her promise, and Kathy was voted out.

It was revealed on Day 39 that Vecepia had made the move to betray Kathy because she felt that Neleh had been riding coattails, and the jury members would see that as well and not respect such a strategy. At the Final Tribal Council, several jury members castigated both Vecepia and Neleh for hiding behind religion despite their duplicities (Vecepia for betraying Kathy the night before, and Neleh for betraying the Rotu Four and only starting to play the game on Day 24). One particular comment came from Tammy, who found both of them to be hypocritical as both were religious followers and would boast ethics, morals, and integrity, but would then lie and deceive to get ahead in the game. Paschal, however, did not castigate either and said he felt both of them were deserving of the win, was proud of both of them, and would be proud to have them as his daughters.

When the final vote came in, Vecepia would receive votes from John, Tammy, Robert, and Sean, proclaiming her as the fourth Survivor winner, as well as the first African-American Sole Survivor.

Sophie - Survivor: South Pacific
Sophie, like several members of the Upolu tribe, was skeptical about the addition of Coach Wade to their tribe. This skepticism was furthered when Coach lost the first Reward Challenge over fellow returning player Ozzy Lusth. Upon reaching camp, Sophie introduced herself as a Russian and Economics major who "graduated four days ago." Knowing his "Dragon Slayer" baggage would be hard to release, Coach opened a conversation while stargazing at their first night, with the conversation concluding with the recruitment of Sophie to his five-person alliance, which also consisted of Albert Destrade, Brandon Hantz, and Rick Nelson. Coach fortified his alliance of five by adding a sixth member, Edna Ma. While Brandon kept his secret of being a relative of the infamous Russell Hantz from his tribemates, Sophie was observant enough to suspect he might be hiding something. Sophie was also seen as a strong competitor, being called "insane" by host Jeff Probst during the first Immunity Challenge, in which Upolu narrowly won.

After the Immunity Challenge loss on Day 5, Sophie received a vote coming from Stacey Powell, but Sophie's majority alliance eliminated Coach's biggest threat, Christine Shields Markoski. Days later, alliance partner Albert found the hidden clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, but could not find the Idol itself. With Sophie and Coach's help, the three found the Idol, which was secretly kept by Coach, even from Rick and Brandon. The Upolu majority alliance successfully eliminated Stacey and Mikayla Wingle at their next Tribal Councils, entering the merge with the entire alliance intact.

When the tribes merged on Day 19 into the Te Tuna tribe, Sophie stuck with the Upolu alliance, and, along with Savaii member John Cochran, eliminated the five other Savaii members: Keith Tollefson, Ozzy, Jim Rice, Dawn Meehan, and Whitney Duncan. During the process of this "Pagonging," Sophie was able to win two consecutive Immunity Challenges, the second win which was especially key since she narrowly beat out Whitney.

After the ex-Savaii members were voted out, the original Upolu alliance of five decided to stick together and eliminated Cochran and Edna. The next round of the game saw the alliance turn against each other. Sophie was able to make Coach and Rick turn against fellow alliance member Brandon because of his antics and his unpredictability. However, when Brandon won immunity, they had to switch their target to Albert. Their plans changed again at Tribal Council when Brandon gave the Immunity Necklace to Albert. In the end, Coach sided with Rick and Sophie voting out Brandon and she narrowly escaped being sent to Redemption Island in a 3-2 vote.

At the final Redemption Island duel on Day 36, Ozzy defeated Brandon and came back in the game with an apparent target on his back. At the following Immunity Challenge, which required balancing wooden blocks, Sophie made an unattractive gesture—outright asking Albert to help her get her blocks, which was intercepted by Jeff. Her move failed, however, when Ozzy won Immunity. With Ozzy immune and Coach having his Hidden Immunity Idol, Sophie was on the hot seat at Tribal Council, being told by Ozzy that she was a "pretentious, spoiled brat" after her gesture at the Immunity Challenge, reducing the medical student to tears and anxiety, stating that her bluntness was natural to her. Despite this, Sophie dodged elimination once again after Rick was voted out for his quieter gameplay in a 3-2 vote.

At the Final Immunity Challenge on Day 38, a closely-contested battle between Ozzy and Sophie commenced. But at the puzzle-building part, Ozzy struggled, giving leeway to Sophie, who eventually won the challenge. As the last remaining Savaii member, Ozzy was voted out, leaving Sophie (declaring herself "the new Dragon Slayer"), Albert, and Coach as the Final Three.

At the Final Tribal Council, while castigated by the jury for coming off as acerbic to others, Sophie used her frankness to her advantage by calling Coach "a little girl" and exposed all the lies he created. She also stated that she would change her perceived rudeness after Ozzy brought the topic up days ago. In the end, Sophie was rewarded the title of 23rd Sole Survivor and the million dollar prize, beating Coach and Albert in a 6-3-0 vote, receiving the votes of Brandon, Dawn, Jim, Keith, Ozzy, and Whitney.

After the game, at the Reunion Show, she stated that it was hard for her to "act dumb", but she had to in order to advance herself in the game.

Ethan - Survivor: Africa
As part of the Boran tribe, Ethan was seen as a strong player who could potentially win challenges, and was not targeted early because of his congenial personality. During Boran's two back-to-back Immunity Challenges losses, he joined the majority to vote off Diane Ogden and Jessie Camacho. Over the next few days, Ethan would cement a long-term alliance with Lex van den Berghe and Tom Buchananfrom his Boran tribe.

A twist on Day 13 saw both of Ethan's alliance members switch from Boran to the Samburu tribe, leaving Ethan alone with old Boran members Kim Johnson and Clarence Black. Two of the new Boran members from the Samburu tribe, Teresa Cooper and Frank Garrison, had an old misunderstanding with younger original Samburu member Silas Gaither. So, on Day 15, a secret consensus was reached between Teresa and Frank and the original Borans (in which the two ex-Samburus would swear loyalty to Boran) by purposefully throwing the next Immunity Challenge in order to vote out the unpopular Silas. Both of Ethan's alliance members, Tom and Lex, remained safe on the Samburu tribe, carrying all three into the merge.

Ethan's alliance soon began to take control of the game, along with other members Kim J. and Kelly Goldsmith, all from the original Boran. They immediately targeted old Boran member Clarence due to his physical strength and he was voted out. But unbeknownst to Lex, he had received another vote at Tribal Council, who he believed had come from Kelly, but Teresa was the real culprit. This led Lex on a witch-hunt against Kelly which almost led to the demise of Ethan's alliance when Kelly possessed the power with the other four ex-Samburu members, Teresa, Frank, Kim Powers, and Brandon Quinton. But at the last minute, Brandon switched his vote, saving Lex and eliminating Kelly. But this move came back to haunt Brandon, when Ethan's alliance saw him as untrustworthy and voted him out at the next Tribal Council.

Ethan, Lex, Tom, and Kim J. regained control of the game, ousting previous Samburu members Frank, Kim P., and Teresa in the next three votes, carrying them into the final four. Kim J. surprised everyone by winning the remaining Immunity Challenges, putting the men (who already planned to be the final three) in trouble. Tom and Lex were eliminated respectively, thus bringing Ethan to Day 39.

In the end, Ethan beat out Kim in a 5-2 vote to become the Sole Survivor, receiving votes from Kelly, Frank, Teresa, Tom, and Lex.

Aras - Survivor: Panama
Originally part of the younger male Viveros tribe, Aras and the rest of the tribe struggled early on, as the group of younger men was unable to set up camp, nor make fire. Their goofing off and foolishness almost carried over at the first Immunity Challenge, narrowly beating the older women Casaya tribe, finishing third place and avoiding Tribal Council.

On Day 4, Aras became a member of the new Casayatribe and formed an early alliance with Shane Powers, Courtney Marit, and Danielle DiLorenzo. But the alliance was threatened with implosion when Shane wanted to quit the game, having smoked three packets of cigarettes a day prior to Survivor. But Aras convinced him not to quit, and the alliance regrouped and voted out Melinda Hyder, one of the two older women of the tribe. The dysfunctional Casaya tribe would then win two consecutive Immunity Challenges.

Aras led the charge to vote out Bruce Kanegai due to their clashing points of view, but Courtney, Danielle, and Cirie Fields felt that Bobby Mason was much more of a threat than Bruce, and they voted Bobby out. When the tribes merged into the Gitanos tribe in Day 16, the ex-Casaya tribe members, Aras, Shane, Bruce, Cirie, Courtney, and Danielle had the power in numbers against the four ex-La Mina tribe members. Due to Terry Deitz, the largest target, winning immunity, the alliance voted out Nick Stanbury, Austin Carty, and Sally Schumann in three straight Tribal Councils.

On Day 25, Bruce was evacuated out of the game due to constipation, causing him immense pain. When Terry continued to win individual immunity, the alliance was forced to turn on themselves at the final six. Shane, together with Cirie and Aras, targeted Danielle, but Courtney, together with Terry, Danielle, and Cirie wanted to vote out Aras. Not happy with any of these options, Cirie brewed a plan of her own, and together with Aras and Danielle, voted out Courtney, whom Cirie believed was aligned with Shane.

Terry continued his immunity winning streak and once again the alliance was forced to take out one of their own. Shane, believing he was safe, targeted Danielle. But once again, Cirie had her own plans, and together with Aras and Danielle, they voted out Shane, who had aligned with Terry. At the final four, the long-standing rivalry between Terry and Aras was once again raised when Aras won a Reward Challenge, much to Terry's dismay. When given the choice of picking someone to go on the reward with him to cross the Panama Canal, he decided to pick Cirie, which in turn sent both Terry and Danielle to Exile Island. When sent to Exile Island, Terry and Danielle formed an alliance against Aras and Cirie with plans of ousting Aras.

However, Aras managed to win immunity, making him safe. Terry, due to the widely-known fact that he possessed the Hidden Immunity Idol, was also safe. This created a 2-2 tie between Danielle and Cirie, who competed in a fire-building challenge to determine their fate. Shown over two episodes, Danielle won the challenge, and Aras's ally Cirie was eliminated. With Terry's idol now useless, it was now fair game between the final three, Aras, Danielle, and Terry.

The Final Immunity Challenge was the first to be preceded by a "prepare for the Immunity Challenge" reward for the Reward Challenge winner. The Immunity Challenge was not one that the winner of the Reward Challenge would profit from. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Danielle out-balanced the two guys to win immunity, giving her the power to choose her opponent in the Final Two. Danielle eventually chose to eliminate Terry, making him the final member of the jury and propelling Aras into the Final Two. The challenge ended the perceived battle between both Terry and Aras.

On Day 39, while he and Danielle had glasses of champagne, Aras slipped on a wet rock and fell, sending shards of glass into his hand and back. His wounds required seven stitches by the medical crew.

In the end, despite the injury, Aras beat out Danielle to become the Sole Survivor in a 5-2 vote, gaining the votes of Austin, Sally, Courtney, Cirie, and Terry.

Tina - Survivor: The Australian Outback
As part of the Ogakor tribe, Tina was not targeted in the beginning of the game, seeming to mesh well with all her tribemates and was not seen as a physical liability, despite losing the Day 6 Immunity Challengefor Ogakor.

When Ogakor lost immunity on Day 15, Tina proved to be a strategic player when she managed to convince allies Colby Donaldson and Keith Famie to force a tie between Keith and Mitchell Olson (who was aligned with Amber Brkich and Jerri Manthey), whereby Mitchell would be voted out due to his previous vote at the Day 12 Tribal Council. Tina's plan worked, eliminating Mitchell and allowing her, Colby, and Keith to wrestle control of the Ogakor Alliance from Amber and Jerri.

When the tribes merged into the Barramundi tribe on Day 20, the tribe was evenly divided between the original members of Ogakor and Kucha. Facing a tie at the first Tribal Council as a merged tribe, Tina threw the first individual Immunity Challenge to Keith, thereby preventing the Kucha Alliance from being able to vote against him, preventing the possibility of Keith being eliminated due to previous votes if the vote resulted in a deadlock. The Ogakor Alliance then voted for Kucha's Jeff Varner; the vote indeed resulted in a deadlock and Jeff was eliminated by virtue of his previous votes, effectively handing control of the tribe to the Ogakor Alliance. Tina's subsequent strategic prowess then allowed the Ogakor Alliance success over the Kucha Alliance by systematically eliminating them, while having a perfect timing to eliminate two of their own, Jerri and Amber, when needed.

After Amber's departure, Tina, Colby, and Keith took control and eliminated the remaining two Kuchas, Rodger Bingham and then Elisabeth Filarski, at the next two Tribal Councils. After Colby won the Final Immunity Challenge, he chose to eliminate the unpopular Keith instead of Tina, a move that would ultimately cost him the win.

At the Final Tribal Council, Tina became the Sole Survivor in a 4-3 vote, in which she gained the votes of Elisabeth, Jerri, Keith, and Alicia Calaway, making history by becoming the first woman to win the game.

Mike - Survivor: Worlds Apart
Being a blue-collar laborer, Mike started off on the Escameca tribe. He initially formed an alliance with Dan Foley and Kelly Remington, of which he was viewed as the leader. However, he began to earn the ire of his other tribemates Lindsey Cascaddan, Rodney Lavoie Jr., and Sierra Dawn Thomas when he repeatedly insisted that the tribe do more work around camp. Nevertheless, the tribe did well in challenges. They won the first three Immunity Challenges and thus avoided going to Tribal Council for the first eight days. During that time, Mike's reputation became more favorable as Dan's antics and Rodney and Lindsey's rivalry took the attention off of him. However, Escameca finally lost their first Immunity Challenge on Day 11. After the challenge, Mike, Dan, and Kelly aligned with Rodney. Rodney wanted to vote for Lindsey for her outbursts at camp, but Mike and Kelly privately considered voting him out instead. At Tribal Council, they stuck with Rodney, and the four of them split their votes between Lindsey and Sierra and eliminated Lindsey in the revote.

On Day 12, a tribe switch occurred that brought the three tribes down to two. Mike remained on the Escameca tribe with Dan, Rodney, and Sierra, but lost Kelly. They were joined by white collars Joaquin Souberbielle and Tyler Fredrickson, as well as no collar Joe Anglim. However, Joaquin and Rodney started bonding, worrying Mike and Dan. On Day 16, Mike decided to throw the Immunity Challenge to save Kelly, who he feared was the next target at the Nagarote tribe. After the challenge, Joaquin, Rodney, and Tyler targeted Joe because he was the biggest challenge threat, but Mike and Dan wanted to get rid of Joaquin because his friendship with Rodney was too strong. Joe joined them in order to save himself, with the three then trying to secure Sierra's vote. At Tribal Council, Sierra sided with Mike, Dan, and Joe blindsiding Joaquin in a 4-3 vote. Afterwards, Mike explained to Rodney why he got rid of Joaquin, but Rodney was still angry.

On Day 17, the tribes merged into the Merica tribe, and Kelly joined Mike's side again. He was also able to gain former white collars Tyler and Carolyn Rivera and former no collar Will Sims II as allies. Joe won immunity on Day 19, thwarting the Escameca Alliance's plans of getting rid of him, so Mike targeted Joe's ally Jenn Brown instead. At Tribal Council however, Jenn played her Hidden Immunity Idol, negating the seven votes cast against her, and blindsiding Kelly in a 4-1-0 vote. After winning the next Reward Challenge, Joe received a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol, which he showed to Tyler, though Mike caught them. Tyler told Mike about the clue to keep the alliance's trust. Though Joe could not find the idol, Mike decided to frame him by claiming that he saw Joe find it, which sidelined Joe from continuing his search; Mike continued looking, and eventually found the idol himself. When Joe won immunity again on Day 22, the alliance targeted Hali Ford, and she was blindsided in a 7-4 vote. Tyler won the next Immunity Challenge, ending Joe's immunity streak. Joe then tried to trick Mike into keeping him by showing him a fake idol, claiming that it was the real one. Despite having the real idol, Mike still asked Joe to give him the fake one. At Tribal Council, Mike played the fake idol on Will and that learned it was indeed fake. The votes were split between Jenn and Joe, but Mike used Shirin Oskooi's swing vote to send Joe to the jury.

Early the next day, Mike overheard Rodney's sub-alliance consisting of Rodney, Carolyn, Tyler, and Will plotting to vote him out next. Later at the Survivor Auction, Mike held out from participating in order to have all of his money for a game advantage. Though the tribe agreed to purchase letters from their loved ones at Shirin's suggestion, Mike attempted to renege on the agreement; after earning the ire of his tribemates, particularly Carolyn and Dan, Mike relented and subsequently lost the lottery to earn the advantage, which went to Dan. After the auction, as the tribe was reading their letters from home, Mike blew up Rodney's four-person alliance to everybody. However, this resulted in him getting kicked out of the alliance and becoming the primary target as the tribe lambasted him for doing so at a time that was meant for everyone to read their letters. When another altercation at camp resulted in Will berating Shirin in front of the tribe, Mike came to Shirin's aid and pulled her aside, resulting in Mike, Jenn, and Shirin ending up in the minority. However, Mike saved himself by winning the next Immunity Challenge. At Tribal Council, Jenn was voted out.

A twist at the next Immunity Challenge allowed both Mike and Carolyn to win immunity. At Tribal Council, Mike bluffed about giving the idol to Shirin so that the others would switch their votes. Tyler and Will switched their votes to Dan, but Mike did not give the idol to Shirin and she was sent to the jury. Mike, Carolyn, and Sierra won the next Reward Challenge on Day 30. However, his team did not give up the reward to Rodney, which upset him because it was his birthday. During the reward trip, Carolyn considered teaming up with Mike. After getting back from the Reward Challenge, Rodney acted like he wanted to quit so that Mike would not play his idol, but Mike sensed that he was lying. Carolyn won immunity, but Mike was safe due to him having the Hidden Immunity Idol. Mike wanted to target Tyler and tried to convince Carolyn to vote for him, which she pondered over. At Tribal Council, Carolyn and Sierra sided with Mike. Mike played his idol, negating the four votes cast against him and blindsiding Tyler in a 3-0 vote. That night, Carolyn told Mike about Dan's Extra Vote advantage and they decided to get rid of him next. Mike, Carolyn, and Will won the next Reward Challenge and during the reward, Mike proposed a Final Three deal with them, which Carolyn considered. On Day 35, Mike narrowly defeated Sierra to win immunity. After the challenge, Rodney asked him if he was voting for Dan, which he thought about. He then told Carolyn and Sierra that Dan, Rodney, and Will were voting for Carolyn. At Tribal Council, Carolyn played her Hidden Immunity Idol, negating the five votes cast against her, and her and Mike's votes sent Dan to the jury.

On Day 36, Mike's mom visited as part of the Loved Ones Challenge. Mike won the subsequent Reward Challenge, earning him time to spend with his mom and got an advantage for the next Immunity Challenge. Early the next day, Mike and his mom went to the location of the challenge, where they discovered that his advantage was that he and his mom got to practice for the upcoming challenge for thirty minutes. However, they did not make any progress, which worried both of them. Nevertheless, Mike was still able to win the Immunity Challenge. Afterwards, he and Carolyn decided to vote for Rodney, with Sierra joining their side. He then talked to Rodney, who told him that Sierra had done nothing to upset the jury, leaving Mike to ponder whether to vote out Rodney or Sierra. At Tribal Council, Sierra accidentally told everyone that she was a threat, so she was blindsided in a unanimous vote. On Day 38, Mike won the Final Immunity Challenge. Back at camp, Rodney told him to vote for Carolyn, but Mike wanted to go with her to the end. Mike then told Carolyn his intention to force a tie at Tribal Council that night between her and Rodney, resulting in fire-making tiebreaker and started prepping Carolyn for the tiebreaker. At Tribal Council, the vote indeed came out tied between Carolyn and Rodney, forcing them to compete in the fire-making tiebreaker. After an hour, Carolyn won and made it to the end, sending a furious Rodney to the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Mike was praised for winning numerous challenges and making it to the end despite being the prime target, but was criticized for playing a bad social game. In the end, Mike received six votes, while Carolyn and Will received one vote each, earning him the title of Sole Survivor.

At the Reunion Show, Mike was one of the thirty-two contestants eligible to return for Survivor: Cambodia. While he was one of the top ten male vote-getters, his victory on Worlds Apart disqualified him from returning.

Sandra - Survivor: Pearl Islands
Sandra was initially placed on the Drake tribe where she proved herself an asset early on when her knowledge of the Spanish language helped her tribe get a huge advantage at the Panamanian village on Day 1, helping secure a huge deal for her tribe in provisions and food. Although she was not a force in challenges, Drake dominated challenges early on. During this time, Sandra grew very annoyed with Jon Dalton. This conflict came to a head when he wanted her to sit out for the Reward Challenge on Day 7 being a weak swimmer. She countered by stating that she was on the shore well before him. Sandra was also the first person to loot the opposing tribe, taking the Morgan tribe's tarp. Eventually, after finding the Buried Treasure, Burton Roberts proposed to throw the next Immunity Challenge to eliminate one of the weaker members. Despite doubts about the plan, the tribe went through with it. A twist was revealed that the winning tribe would Kidnap one of the losing tribe's members. Morgan chose Rupert Boneham to abstain from the vote. The tribe voted out Burton for his failed plan. Unfortunately, by giving Morgan momentum, Drake lost all remaining Immunity Challenges. Sandra's social status kept her safe as the tribe voted out Michelle Tesauro as she was blamed for an Immunity Challenge loss. When Sandra learned that Trish Dunn was attempting to blindside Rupert, Sandra redirected the vote toward Trish.

At the next challenge on Day 19, everyone was shocked when The Outcasts, the game's first six eliminated contestants, returned for one final shot. The Outcasts won, sending both tribes to Tribal Council, where Sandra joined in voting out the increasingly volatile Shawn Cohen.

Ultimately, Burton returned to Drake and Lillian Morrisreturned to Morgan, with the tribes subsequently merging into the Balboa tribe. The Drake Alliancemade amends with Burton, who convinced the alienated Lillian to align with Drake and vote out Andrew Savage, the former Morgan tribe leader and perceived biggest physical threat, with Ryan Oprayquickly eliminated afterward. At the final eight, thinking that Darrah Johnson would be voted out, Sandra cast her vote for Jon. She was shocked when Rupert was voted out instead. Upon reaching the camp, Sandra stole the fish Rupert had caught earlier but accidentally spilled the very heavy bucket. Sandra was able to deflect suspicion off her, but her closest friend and ally Christa Hastie was blamed instead. Knowing that Christa would tell everyone, Sandra kept the fact that she was the real culprit to herself. At the Loved Ones Challenge, Sandra was the only one to know that Jon was lying about his grandmother's death. Unfortunately, Sandra's husband, Marcus, was the first person out because of that. Sandra tried to convince Tijuana Bradley to betray Burton and Jon. However, the men regained the trust of the Drake women and voted out Tijuana. Unfortunately, the men later flipped on Sandra, and Christa was ousted at the next opportunity.

At the final five, while Burton and Jon were on reward, Sandra formed an alliance with Darrah and Lillian. Neither Burton nor Jon suspected a women's alliance, with Jon making Sandra swear on her kids her loyalty. She secretly said that she swore that she would screw him and Burton. When Darrah won her third straight immunity, the women turned to challenge threat Burton over the antagonistic Jon, blindsiding him at the next Tribal Council. On Day 37, Jon turned Darrah and Lillian against each other. At the Immunity Challenge, all four castaways were vulnerable due to a twist that let the jury compete against the remaining castaways, which they won. Sandra and Jon turned on Darrah for her challenge streak. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Sandra was the first out and Lillian ultimately won immunity. Sandra stated that she would be shocked if Lillian took her to the Final Tribal Council over Jon. However, Lillian was impressed by Sandra's will to provide for her family, and deemed her more deserving and chose her.

At the Final Tribal Council, some jurors addressed her gameplay, questioning Sandra on whether she had worked for her position. Sandra answered the juror's questions effectively and noted that she was loyal to her alliances and worked hard. In the end, Sandra easily bested Lillian in a 6-1 vote, only losing Tijuana's vote.

Adam - Survivor: Millennials vs Gen X
Adam began the game on the Millennials tribe, Vanua. He seemed to be in a good position as the Triforce alliance prompted the formation of a counter alliance that he was a part of. Despite being in a 6-4 advantage, Michelle Schubert led the charge to cause three members to flip and join the Triforce in blindsiding Mari Takahashi, leaving Adam and Zeke Smith on the outs. Both of them were upset with Hannah Shapiro after Tribal Council despite her desire to work with them in the future. Now in a vulnerable position, Adam tried to regroup the remnants of his alliance and found Vanua's Hidden Immunity Idol.

After the tribe switch, he was put on Takali with Millennials Figgy Figueroa and Taylor Stocker and Gen-Xers Ken McNickle and Jessica Lewis. At their only Tribal Council visit, knowing how powerful Figgy and Taylor were, Adam took the opportunity to blindside Figgy. This would cause Taylor to target him for the rest of the game, though Adam was unaware of Taylor's grudge against him.

At the merge, Adam found an advantage that allowed him to steal someone's reward. Later that night he attempted to build trust with Taylor by telling him about his advantage and advising him to target Will Wahl. Taylor however used the latter to turn the merged tribe against Adam. Despite Adam's paranoia after Will won the Immunity Challenge, which caused his own allies to distrust him, his alliance protected him by voting out Michelle, though Adam received four votes from the Triforce. Adam continued to worsen his position by arrogantly telling Jay Starrett that he was on the bottom, further angering his allies. At the next Tribal Council, Taylor attempted to turn the majority on Adam by lying about Adam eating the food Taylor stole and revealing the latter's advantage, which Adam confirmed. However, Adam was saved again and Taylor was voted out.

After that, the decisions got tougher as sub alliances began jockeying for position. Adam joined David Wright's alliance in blindsiding Chris Hammons at the next Tribal Council. At the final ten, Adam told David to play his Hidden Immunity Idol on Ken after Sunday Burquest lied to him about Ken being the target, which resulted in a tie between Hannah and Zeke. Then a rock drawing tiebreaker occurred, where Jessica picked the black rock and was sent to the jury.

At the Family Visit, Adam met his brother Evan. He then announced that he has an advantage to steal a reward, but will not use it. Jay won the challenge and chose to share the reward with Will, Sunday, and Adam. Evan shared information about their mother's battle with cancer. To show his gratitude to Jay for sharing the reward with him, Adam gave Jay the Reward Steal. Adam won the next Immunity Challenge. At Tribal Council, he played his idol on Hannah, which negated the four votes at against her, but it was unneeded as Will had flipped and Zeke was blindsided. On Day 34, Adam decided to target Will because he was trying to play both sides. Adam's plan worked as Will was blindsided. After Ken won immunity at the final seven, Adam wanted to split the votes between David and Jay to eliminate both Jay's idol and a major threat to win. However, Hannah wanted to vote out Sunday, leaving Adam conflicted. He told Jay to play his idol, and confided in him about his mother's cancer battle. At Tribal Council, Adam sided with Hannah and Sunday was blindsided. On Day 36, Adam, David, Hannah, Bret LaBelle, and Ken blindsided Jay. On Day 37, Ken won immunity. Adam and Bret decided to target David; Adam then searched for an idol, which he found. He told Hannah about his new idol and plan to eliminate David. At Tribal Council, Adam played the idol on himself but received no votes and Hannah and Ken sided with David, blindsiding Bret and leaving Adam shocked. On Day 38, Ken won the Final Immunity Challenge. Knowing he and David were the targets, Adam practiced for a possible fire-making tiebreaker, but at Tribal Council, Ken sided with Adam and Hannah and David was blindsided.

At the Final Tribal Council, Adam and Hannah argued about strategic decisions, and Adam finally admitted to the entire jury about his mother having cancer. Believing he played the best strategic and social game amongst the finalists, the jury of 10 unanimously voted for Adam to win the title of Sole Survivor, making him the fifth winner to win unanimously.

Amber - Survivor: All Stars
As one of the quieter personalities of Survivor: The Australian Outback, Amber's inclusion in the All-Starsinstallment of Survivor came as a surprise to most fans. She was a member of the red Chapera tribe, a boisterous group including Rob Mariano, Rob Cesternino, Susan Hawk, Tom Buchanan, and fellow The Australian Outback alumna Alicia Calaway.

In the season's premiere episode, Rob M. and Amber agreed to form an alliance.

As part of the most dominant tribe in Survivor: All-Stars, Amber enjoyed a healthy winning streak, until Day 12, where they suffered their first loss in an Immunity Challenge. Rob M. and Amber's relationship was a matter of discussion at the Tribal Council, but Amber claimed to have come to play Survivor, not a dating game. Ultimately, the tribe decided to remove Rob C., who was perceived as the bigger strategic threat over the more combative Alicia.

The following day, in a twist that "dissolved" the yellow Saboga tribe, two of its four remaining members, Jenna Lewis and Rupert Boneham, joined Chapera. Rob and Amber quickly fortified a long-term alliance with the tribe's two new members, one of the pair's many "agreements." The Chapera tribe then enjoyed a lengthy winning streak, winning immunity the next three times. The group did lose one member, however, when Susan opted to leave the game due to an indecent encounter with Richard Hatch.

In the season's ninth episode, a tribal shuffle managed to merely make each contestant switch buffs, with the exception of Amber, who remained on the Chapera tribe with Lex van den Berghe, Shii Ann Huang, Jerri Manthey, and Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien. Amber bluntly stated she felt screwed over by this outcome. The tribe went on to lose the next challenge and, in one of the season's more famous moments, Rob said to Lex, "You take care of her, I'll take care of you." Not knowing about Rob's plea, Amber worked hard to sway Kathy on her side against Jerri, since Jerri was not an original Mogo Mogo member like the rest of the majority alliance. Jerri was voted out, with Lex staying true to his deal with Rob and Kathy convinced that Amber would be loyal.

In the following episode, the merge occurred, and Lex was chosen to be eliminated, despite Rob's promise to "take care of him." In the episodes following, Rob and Amber managed to maintain several "alliances," including their agreement with Rupert and Jenna, an agreement with Tom Buchanan, and an agreement with Alicia. With all these castaways believing themselves to be safe, Rob and Amber proceeded through the game, eventually finding themselves in the final four with Jenna and Rupert. While it appeared Rob was the mastermind, Shii Ann Huangnoticed that Amber was just as devious but managed to maintain a more pleasant persona.

On Day 37, Amber won her first individual Immunity Challenge, and she and Rob convinced Jenna to vote out her ally Rupert instead of forcing a tie. In the final three, Rob won immunity and chose Amber to continue with him to the Final Two. Facing the jury, Rob and Amber met much criticism for their gameplay, particularly because of how the power couple mixed personal friendships with strategy. Amber maintained her composure, appealing to the largely hurt jury and explained that her strategy was to work closely with someone while still making her own moves.

In the season finale several months later, Rob and Amber revealed they were still dating, Amber even wore a yellow "I Love Rob" shirt (and was booed by the audience in the process) at the Finale/Reunion. Just before the votes were read, Rob surprisingly proposed to Amber and she accepted. It was revealed that, in a 4-3 decision, Amber was the Sole Survivor.

At the Survivor: America's Tribal Council special, Amber was one of ten females from the first eight seasons to be in the "Hottest Survivor Woman" category. Amber ended up winning. She also awarded Shii Ann a new car as thanks for her deciding vote.

Ben - Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers
Due to his past as a marine, Ben was initially placed on the Levu tribe consisting of "Heroes". Ashley Nolan and JP Hilsabeck immediately wanted to work with Ben due to his strength and perceived trustworthiness. Ben initially was close to Alan Ball, but that relationship worsened after Alan went off on JP and Ashley. When Levu lost the first Immunity Challenge, Ben joined the rest of the tribe in voting out Katrina Radke. Following her elimination, Ben became closer to Chrissy Hofbeck after the latter identified Ben as the best possible ally in this tribe. However, any further action with his fellow Levus was put on hold as a tribe switch occurred that put him on the Yawa with three original Sokos (Mike Zahalsky, Cole Medders, and Jessica Johnston) and one original Yawa, Lauren Rimmer. Ben and Lauren became close as the only non-Healers on the new Yawa tribe. Cole rubbed Ben the wrong way with his eating habits, and both Ben and Lauren tried to turn Mike against Cole. However, Yawa won the next three Immunity Challenges.

At the merge, Ben was a swing vote between the Soko Alliance and the remaining Heroes and Hustlers, the latter two groups which banded together. Lauren initially wanted to work with the Healers, but Ben's relationship with Chrissy and his rivalry with Cole caused him to prefer the Heroes and Hustlers. This led to the Pagonging of the original Sokos until the final nine. During that process, Lauren told Ben about her Extra Vote advantage, Ryan Ulrich told Ben about his Hidden Immunity Idol, and Joe Mena tried to use Ben's marine status against him. Ben started to gain a target on his back as the leader of the majority alliance, referred to as "King Arthur" which would dub his alliance The Round Table. On Day 25, Lauren won a reward and included Ben, Ashley, and Devon Pinto to discuss making a move against JP, Chrissy, or Ryan Ulrich. This plan was also fueled by Devon's lack of trust in Ryan after he told both Devon and Ben about his Hidden Immunity Idol. During the reward, Ben found a second merged idol (the first being in Ryan's possession). Back at camp, Devon nominated Ben to act as a spy by voting for Mike in order to gain information from the new minority after the vote. The plan worked as his alliance and Joe and Mike blindsided JP, and Ryan and Chrissy had no idea Ben was involved.

For the next few days, Ben pretended to be betrayed by Ashley, Lauren, and Devon, much to Joe's amusement. After Chrissy won the next Immunity Challenge, Ben suggested to his alliance that they take out Joe because he was no longer needed. However, Ben's status as a strong player began to worry his allies. Ashley and Lauren considered voting Ben out before Joe, but Devon was unsure. Ultimately, they blindsided Joe and flushed Ryan's idol, relegating Mike to the minority along with Ryan and Chrissy. Returning from Tribal Council, Chrissy found out that Ben was playing double agent and called him out on it which caused the two to argue. On Day 31, Ben met his wife Kelly at the Loved Ones Challenge. Things continued to heat up on Day 33 as Lauren, Devon, and Ashley were caught by Ben planning to vote him out. Ben tried to target Lauren, who had found the rehidden idol as well as her Extra Vote advantage. Panicking for numbers, Lauren gave Mike half of her idol as a sign of trust. At Tribal Council, Mike threw Lauren's idol in the fire which allowed Ben to successfully eliminate his target in Lauren, despite needing his own idol to negate everyone else's votes against him.

At that point, Ben became the undisputed target. All the other contestants made it explicitly clear, though Ben continued to try to find other avenues. Unable to convince the tribe or win immunity, Ben resorted to finding idols and then taking out his chosen targets. On Day 36, Ben found his second idol moments before going to Tribal Council and played it before the votes were cast, and Ashley was sent home. On Day 37, Ben played his third idol (which he found hours after the previous Tribal Council) normally and forced a tie between Devon (his target) and Mike (who received Devon's vote). Mike was voted out in the revote. With no more idols in the game, Ben thought he needed to win immunity to ensure he made it to the end. He came close on multiple occasions in what was a back-and-forth Final Immunity Challenge, but was unable to capitalize and Chrissy won the challenge. However, a twist changed the Tribal Council from a standard vote to a forced fire-making challenge. Chrissy saved Ryan and forced Devon and Ben to participate in the challenge, in which Ben succeeded.

At the Final Tribal Council, Ben's argument to the jury was that he was constantly playing hard in all facets of the game, especially in finding Hidden Immunity Idols. He was applauded for finding idols, but panned (particularly by Joe) for his weak social game, which Ben explained was the most difficult part of the game for him due to his PTSD from his marine tenure. In spite of this, Ben's astounding idol-finding run and his ability to beat the odds and make it to the end were preferred over Chrissy's dominance in Immunity Challenges and Ryan's subtle gameplay, and he was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 5-2-1 vote.

Michele - Survivor: Kaoh Rong
Assigned to the Beauty tribe, Michele quickly bonded with Anna Khait and Julia Sokolowski to form a women's alliance. They had considered recruiting Tai Trang as a fourth member of their alliance to gain the majority, but the girls quickly lost trust in him after they caught him searching for a Hidden Immunity Idol. However, Gondol proved to be the most dominant of the three tribes as they won the first two Immunity Challenges, putting any plans on hold. When Tai reluctantly decided to help kill the chickens, he got emotional, having his tribe comfort him except Nick Maiorano, who offered no empathy. But Nick's attitude set the girls against him as they tried to recruit Caleb Reynolds in voting Nick out. However, Gondol won the next Immunity Challenge on Day 8, once again putting plans on hold. Gondol faced their first setback on Day 9 when Caleb was medically evacuated due to heat stroke after the Reward Challenge, but Gondol managed to bounce back from his evacuation by winning the next Immunity Challenge.

When the Tribe Switch occurred on Day 12, the Beauty girls were separated from each other as Michele was switched to the new Chan Loh tribe along with Nick, Anna stayed on Gondol, and Julia was exiled to the former To Tang camp. The new Chan Loh tribe won the next Immunity Challenge on Day 13, keeping Michele safe again. During the next Reward Challenge that involved releasing a set of buoys from a net, Michele struggled to release the buoys, putting Chan Loh behind and losing the challenge. Back at camp, Michele was distraught as Anna had been voted out at the last Tribal Council, and she worried that her performance in the Reward Challenge would make her a target, but Debbie Wanner assured her that she was safe and the two aligned against Kyle Jason. Nick, however, told Michele not to align with Debbie, but Michele did not appreciate Nick's patronizing attitude. Gondol then won the last Immunity Challenge before the merge on Day 16, abstaining Michele from Tribal Council once again.

When the tribes merged into the Dara tribe on Day 17, Michele and Nick became potential swing votes as the Brain and Brawn alliances were vying for their votes. After Nick won the first individual Immunity Challenge on Day 19, Michele and Nick decided to join the Brawn alliance, as they felt that Jason and Scot Pollard's arrogance made them least likely to get jury votes at the end. However, before Tribal Council, host Jeff Probst and a doctor came to visit the camp to inspect injuries that the castaways sustained. This resulted in Neal Gottlieb being evacuated after he was diagnosed with a life-threatening infection and became the first member of the jury.

After the next Immunity Challenge, Cydney Gillon approached Michele and Julia about targeting Nick for being a threat to the Brawn alliance. However, Michele and Julia debated sticking with the Brawn-Beauty coalition to target Debbie or make a bigger move by joining the Dara Women's Alliance in blindsiding Nick. At Tribal Council, Michele and Julia ultimately joined the women's alliance in blindsiding Nick, making him the second juror. The alliance initially decided to betray Julia for playing a double agent, but their plan was thwarted when Julia won immunity. Cydney and Aubry Bracco then wanted to target Debbie for her volatility after she failed to realize the fact that Jason or Scot had an idol and that Julia was playing both sides. At Tribal Council, Michele joined Aubry, Cydney, and Julia in blindsiding Debbie. After the next Immunity Challenge, the women's plan was initially to vote out Tai to flush out his idol, but Aubry tried shifting the target to Scot. At Tribal Council, Michele and Julia were left out of the plan when Tai turned on Jason and Scot, refusing to form the super idol and blindsiding Scot with Jason's idol in his possession.

Michele was confused when she was left out of Scot's elimination and felt that she and Julia were on the outs. Michele and Cydney won the next Reward Challenge and chose Aubry to go with them. During the reward, Michele tried to reintegrate herself into their alliance as Aubry and Cydney wanted to take out Jason and Julia before taking out Tai for being too likable at the end. After Michele won a critical Immunity Challenge at the final seven, the majority alliance decided to target Julia over Jason for her challenge and social prowess, but Michele was worried as Julia has been her closest ally since Day 1, so Michele and Cydney debated on targeting Julia or Tai. At Tribal Council, Michele ultimately turned on Julia, sending her closest ally to the jury.

After Julia's elimination, Michele hoped that by voting out her closest ally, she had gained trust in the majority alliance. However, Tai wanted to blindside Michele for her likability. After the Immunity Challenge, Cydney leaked Tai's scheming to Michele, forcing Michele to have to do damage control. At Tribal Council, Tai tried to throw Michele under the bus saying that she was on the bottom of the majority alliance, but Michele ratted him out about his disloyalty, mainly when he turned on Jason and Scot and how he had floated with the majority in almost every vote he was a part of. Tai used an Extra Vote advantage to cast two votes against Michele, but the majority alliance stuck to their original plan in sending Jason to the jury.

Following Jason's elimination, Joe del Campo won the next Reward Challenge and chose to share the reward with Aubry and Cydney. Back at camp, Michele and Tai made amends and planned to target Aubry. However, unknown to her, when Aubry returned to camp the next morning, Aubry made amends with Tai and decided to go to the end with Joe, while Michele and Cydney teamed up against Aubry and Joe. However, Joe started feeling ill as a result of feasting at the last reward. After his condition started getting worse, the medical team decided to pull him from the game.

After Joe was evacuated, Michele was targeted by Aubry and Tai for her close personal relationships with the jury. After Aubry won the final four Reward Challenge, she chose to share the reward with Cydney to try to weaken Michele for the Final Immunity Challenge. Back at camp, Michele tried to convince Tai to break up Aubry and Cydney's partnership. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Michele came from behind to win immunity, thwarting Aubry's plan. Michele and Cydney then decided to target Aubry as they felt that she was the best likely speaker going into the Final Tribal Council and tried to get Tai to flip. At Tribal Council, Michele and Cydney stuck to their plan voting Aubry, but Tai switched his vote to Cydney, forcing a tie and causing a fire-making tiebreaker to occur. Aubry won the challenge, making Cydney the final jury member, and making Michele, Aubry, and Tai the Final Three.

Michele then won an unprecedented final Reward Challenge on Day 38, which gave her the right to deny a juror of their voting rights. She considered removing Joe for his unfaltering loyalty to Aubry, Neal for his loyalty to Aubry and persuasiveness, or Scot being the victim of Tai's biggest move in the game. Aubry campaigned hard for Scot to be eliminated, knowing that Joe and Neal were her guaranteed votes. At Tribal Council, Michele ultimately voted Neal out of the jury, feeling that he could easily persuade the jury into voting Aubry. Before leaving Tribal Council, Neal said some harsh words to Michele to try and throw her off her case going into the Final Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Michele was reprimanded for coasting during the pre-merge, but was praised for working her way back into the majority after Scot's elimination by turning on Julia and winning two Immunity Challenges. Scot openly advocated for Michele, citing that Aubry's game became less impressive near the end while Michele finished strong. Michele's social game ultimately helped her beat out Aubry and Tai in a 5-2-0 vote, becoming the Sole Survivor of Survivor: Kaôh Rōng.

Natalie - Survivor: Samoa
Natalie began the game on the Foa Foa tribe. She was quickly recruited by Russell Hantz for his "Dumbass Girl" alliance, being labeled the "long-haired blonde". During Foa Foa's losing streak, Russell did not vote Natalie out because he thought that she was the most loyal to him and that he could beat her in the Final Tribal Council because of her weakness in challenges. Privately, Natalie believed that she could win if she stayed with someone like Russell, who rubbed people the wrong way. In the end, Natalie survived Foa Foa's losing streak and made it to the merge with Russell, Jaison Robinson, and Mick Trimming.

During the beginning of the merge, she proved to be an asset to the Foa Foa Four. Due to befriending several members of the original Galu tribe, Natalie was able to sway them into voting out Erik Cardona instead of Jaison. Following this, Kelly Sharbaugh was eliminated after Russell's strategic play of a Hidden Immunity Idol. At the next Tribal Council, there was a tie between Natalie and Laura Morett, but Natalie remained safe, due to Russell being able to convince John Fincher to betray the Galu Alliance. Natalie, along with the rest of the Foa Foa Four plus Shambo Waters, who flipped to Foa Foa's side, then proceeded to vote out all the remaining Galu members. However, their plans were put on hold when Brett Clouser went on an immunity streak, causing the Foa Foa Four to lose Shambo. Natalie became the target next should Brett win immunity as she was the least likely to be able to beat Brett in the Final Immunity Challenge. Natalie went to Russell and convinced him that he needed her because she was no threat in the final vote. Russell believed this and planned to target either Jaison, as he had mentally checked out of the game in the preceding days, or Mick, because he was a jury threat, next. At Tribal Council, Natalie's plan paid off and Jaison was voted out.

Natalie, Mick, and Russell were heavily focused on getting rid of Brett, as with an almost exclusively Galu jury, and Brett's likability, charm, and late immunity run, all three realized that there would be no hope for any of them to beat him in a jury vote. At the Final Immunity Challenge, Natalie dropped out of the challenge second, leaving it to Russell to beat Brett. Russell managed to defeat Brett and seal his fate, allowing Natalie, Mick, and Russell to breathe a sigh of relief in finally eliminating Brett, and become the Final Three.

At the Final Tribal Council, most of the jury berated Russell for his overly aggressive and deceitful gameplay and poor social performance, alternatively ignored or dismissed Mick for his poor leadership, "feckless" gameplay, and for barely interacting outside the Foa Foa Four, and called Natalie a coattail-rider. Erik, however, argued that Natalie was just as deserving and dangerous as the other finalists due to her strategy and even said that he was voting for her. Ultimately, it came down to Natalie's social interaction with the other contestants that allowed her to receive seven out of the nine jury votes. Thus, Natalie was able to prove Russell's judgment wrong and she was crowned the 19th Sole Survivor in a 7-2-0 vote.

At the live Reunion Show, hurt by his loss to Natalie, protesting that "she didn't do anything", Russell allowed Natalie to keep her $1 million and offered Natalie an additional $100,000 for the title of Sole Survivor. She politely declined the offer, stating the title of Sole Survivor is priceless and should only be obtained by one means: winning the votes of the jury.

Sandra - Survivor: Heroes vs Villains
Sandra was initially placed on the Villains tribe where would start the game amongst the majority alliancewith Coach Wade, Courtney Yates, Jerri Manthey, Rob Mariano, and Tyson Apostol, with Courtney and Rob being her biggest allies. The Villains enjoyed early success in challenges. only losing to the rival Heroestribe once, with Randy Bailey being voted out at their first Tribal Council on Day 8. The following day, a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol came with the Villains' reward. However, the clue falls out and revealed in front of the whole tribe. With Sandra threatening that whoever looked for the idol would be marked and voted out at the next Tribal Council, the tribe agreed to punish anyone who did. However, after Rob suspected that Russell Hantz went looking for the idol, Sandra went to spy on him at her alliance's behest. After Sandra spotted Russell looking for the idol, the alliance agreed to vote him out next.

When host Jeff Probst revealed on Day 15 that both tribes would vote someone out in a Double Tribal Council that night, the majority alliance planned to get split their votes 3-3, with three of the alliance voting for Russell, three voting for Russell's ally Parvati Shallow, and, expected the rival alliance of Parvati, Russell, and Danielle DiLorenzo to all vote for either Tyson. This would flush out the idol, and allow whoever between Parvati and Russell was not protected by the idol to be voted out on the revote. However, Tyson foolishly cast a fourth vote for Parvati, leading to his own elimination when Russell unexpectedly played the idol for Parvati rather than on himself; Tyson was eliminated by a 3-2-0 vote against Russell.

After this, the majority alliance would crumble. Coach and Jerri would both switch over to Russell's alliance, and Rob was voted out at the next Tribal Council. When the Villains again lost immunity on Day 21, Sandra lied to Russell, telling him that Coach was gunning for him; Russell bought the lie and Coach was voted out 4-3. Despite the Villains winning the next Reward Challenge, the tribe again lost at the subsequent Immunity Challenge and Courtney was voted out unanimously, with Sandra voting against her ally to protect herself, leaving Sandra at the bottom of the Villains' alliance at the merge.

With an even number of at five Heroes and five Villains on the merged Yin Yang tribe, Sandra would be the one to warn her friend and former Pearl Islands ally Rupert Boneham and the other Heroes about Russell lying about a proposed all-female alliance, to not trust him, and that she was willing to flip and help the Heroes Alliance. She warned that the Villains had every intention of sticking together, and Russell had no plans to help them. Though Rupert wondered if what Sandra said was true, the other Heroes would refuse to believe this after J.T. Thomas gave Russell his Hidden Immunity Idol, which Russell would then pass on to Parvati. At the merged tribe's first Tribal Council, Parvati would play two idols for both Sandra and Jerri, negating all five of the Heroes' votes against Jerri, and leaving J.T. to be voted out with all five of the Villains' votes.

At the final nine, Sandra would again attempt to switch to the Heroes' side, but she would be thwarted by Candice Woodcock flipping to the Villains' side, sending Amanda Kimmel to the jury. After the Immunity Challenge the following day, Jeff Probst would read a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol aloud to the entire tribe. In the ensuing scramble, Sandra would be the one to find the idol choosing to keep it to herself. At Tribal Council that night, Candice was voted out after Rupert and Colby Donaldson piled their votes on her to save themselves when the Villains split their votes. The failed split vote exposed fractures within the Villains alliance, with Russell now wanting to target Danielle and Parvati. At the next Tribal Council on Day 33, Sandra stuck with Danielle and Parvati in voting against Rupert. However, Jerri and Russell voted with Heroes to send Danielle home in a 4-3 vote.

Sandra would make one last attempt to help the Heroes, but Rupert would instead try to work with Russell, and told of Sandra's plan to Russell, leaving Sandra no choice but to vote him out. Sandra, sensing danger, would play her Hidden Immunity Idol for safety, negating two votes against her, but Rupert would have been voted out 4-2 regardless. The next day, Colby was then voted out for being the last Hero standing. The others, seemingly unaware of the large jury threat Sandra posed, did not target her. Russell wanted Jerri to be voted out, while Jerri targeted Parvati. Parvati wanted Sandra voted out, believing that she was the biggest jury threat, but after Russell won the Final Immunity Challenge, Parvati was forced to go along with the others in voting Jerri out.

At the Final Tribal Council, Russell received negative comments from the jury, rendering him a non-factor. Parvati would try to own up to her game, but would be criticized for aligning too closely with Russell, and also for not making enough of an attempt to socialize or even talk strategy with any of the Heroes. She was also criticized for, at times, outright mocking the Heroes and belittling their attempts to get into the game, in particular, mocking the letter J.T. sent to Russell when he gave Russell his idol. Sandra played up that she had wanted Russell out since Day 1, that she had interacted well with both sides and many times tried to help the Heroes, and her ability to get to the end despite losing her core allies early, and being at the bottom of the Villains alliance. Parvati attempted to point out Sandra's poor performance in challenges, and lack of any big strategic moves. All five of the Heroes jury members, along with close friend Courtney, would award Sandra their votes, giving Sandra her historic second Sole Survivor title, with 6 votes to 3 for Parvati and 0 for Russell.

Fabio - Survivor: Nicaragua
Fabio became the younger La Flor tribe's resident comic relief, sending his tribemates to laughter at every opportunity. His antics however, gained him an enemy in NaOnka Mixon, whom Fabio had a conflict with after the former lost their socks. Using his personality as strategy, Fabio assumed a strategically clueless, bemused character, though completely insightful of tribe politics.

Early on, Fabio was an alliance outsider, having initially aligned with Shannon Elkins, Alina Wilson, Kelly Bruno, and Benry Henry. Shannon wanted Brenda Lowe eliminated because she was perceived a threat. At the first La Flor Tribal Council on Day 6, Shannon began to aggressively berate Chase Rice for playing both sides. Fabio attempted to calm Shannon down, but to no avail when Shannon then directed homophobic remarks to Sash Lenahan, whom he suspected as gay. The conversation ended with NaOnka being called on to answer, only to deliberately say she disliked Fabio and his antics. At the end of the night, Fabio stuck with Shannon anyway, but Benry and Kelly B. voted with the rival alliance, sending Shannon home because of his comments; after which Fabio's remaining alliance partners were left in the minority. However, Fabio remained indispensable for his challenge strength, which attributed to La Flor's early successes, winning three of the first four Immunity Challenges.

After a Day 12 tribe switch, Fabio, along with Kelly Shinn, Kelly B., Brenda, and Sash remained on La Flor. There, he befriended new members from the rival Espada tribe, Jane Bright, Marty Piombo, and Jill Behm. By virtue of being an original La Flor, Fabio seemed to have been included in Sash and Brenda's alliance. The second coming of La Flor won the following Immunity Challenge, keeing Fabio safe.

On Day 15, both tribes were forced to vote off one of their own. Jill, the next intended target, won individual immunity, forcing Fabio, Sash, Brenda, and Jane, who was also adopted to the alliance as she harbored resentment toward Marty and Jill, to shift plans. The alliance split their votes between Marty, who possessed Espada's Hidden Immunity Idol, and Kelly B., an original La Flor, but perceived as a threat. Marty's pandering to Fabio nearly endangered the plan, with Fabio believing Marty's lie about him being a chess grandmaster. Ultimately though, Fabio stuck with the plan and forced a 3-3 tie at Tribal Council between Marty and Kelly B., but it was Kelly B. who took the fall after the revote. Fabio lasted long enough to reach the merge, becoming a member of the Libertad tribe.

Fabio would then either join several, albeit failed, alliances. Marty included Fabio in an all-male alliance to topple Brenda's alliance, only to fail when Chase and Sash ultimately sided with Brenda. While he was kept around, the remaining castaways, mainly Sash, Chase, and Holly Hoffman, realized Fabio's strategy could actually work as he had not made any enemies among them or the members of the jury. With no viable strategic options, winning Immunity Challenges was Fabio's last resort, winning the remaining three Immunity Challenges, keeping himself safe from the vote, while the formed alliance turned on each other. Fabio then joined Chase and Sash in voting Holly out, making them as the Final Three.

At the Final Tribal Council, Chase and Sash were lambasted for being indecisive and "spineless" respectively, while the two accused Fabio for being clueless the entire game, though Fabio rebutted he did it on purpose. In the end, with five votes to four, Fabio's unconventional strategy won him the title of Sole Survivor garnering the votes of Marty, NaOnka, Kelly S., Dan Lembo, and Benry.

Jenna - Survivor: The Amazon
Jenna started on the all-women Jaburu tribe, where she aligned with younger members Christy Smith, Deena Bennett, Heidi Strobel, and Shawna Mitchell. When Jaburu lost immunity on Day 6, Jenna joined her alliance in voting out Janet Koth. When Jaburu lost immunity again on Day 12, Jenna helped her alliance vote out JoAnna Ward. A Tribe Switchresulted in Jenna, Deena, and Shawna remaining on Jaburu. The new Jaburu tribe lost immunity on Day 18. At Tribal Council, Jenna joined Deena, Matthew von Ertfelda, and Rob Cesternino in voting out Shawna for her closeness with Alex Bell.

When the tribes merged into the Jacaré tribe on Day 19, Jenna's alliance now with Alex and Rob managed to control the first few votes, voting out Roger Sextonfor his sexism, and Dave Johnson for being a physical and mental threat at the first two post-merge Tribal Councils. Jenna even won immunity on Day 24. However, on Day 27, Jenna turned on Deena, and joined everyone minus Christy and Deena in voting her out for turning on Alex. At the Survivor Auction, Christy outbid Jenna, winning her letter from home, but when another bid was put out by Jeff Probst, the other players let Jenna win the second letter which was from her cancer-stricken mother. Jenna was upset at Christy for outbidding her. At Tribal Council, she along with Heidi and Alex voted for Matthew, but Alex was blindsided.

Heidi and Jenna were furious at Rob for turning against Alex at Tribal Council. While the men were out working, Heidi and Jenna lobbied Christy to align with them in order to oust one of the men. Jenna won the next Immunity Challenge. At Tribal Council, she contributed to Christy's blindside. On Day 36, Jenna broke down in tears, and said she wanted to leave. At Tribal Council, she voted for Rob, but Heidi was voted out. With Heidi gone, Jenna was targeted by the men, but they could not vote her out after she won the Immunity Challenge which forced the men to turn on one another. Matthew formed a secret alliance with Jenna to take her to the Final Two. Although Jenna was interested in siding with Butch Lockley, the tribe unanimously voted him out, sending him to the jury. Jenna won the Final Immunity Challenge which gave her the power to eliminate either Matthew or Rob. She eliminated Rob as she considered him to be a jury threat due to his strong strategic game.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jenna was criticized for her lack of work ethic and even wanting to quit a few days earlier. However, she also had strong relationships with the jury and was seen to have played a more strategic game from the start. Jenna was ultimately awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 6-1 vote, only losing Butch's vote.

Chris - Survivor: Edge of Extinction
Chris was the standout performer in challenges in a struggling Manu tribe that went every Tribal Council before the Tribe Switch. Chris started the game in a strong majority of six as outsiders Wendy, Keith, and Reem isolated themselves. After the first Tribal Council where Reem was voted out, things got a bit more complicated as Chris developed a friendship with Keith. On Day 6, Chris was happy to let Keith participate in the ring toss portion of the challenge in an attempt for the latter to redeem himself following a poor swimming performance. This decision proved costly, resulting in Manu's second immunity loss. Chris entertained the possibility of voting with David, Rick, and Wendy in voting out Kelley, who was perceived as the bigger threat of the tribe's two returning players and had close allies in Lauren and Wardog. However, the tribe chose to keep the stronger Kelley and voted out Keith. Following a third loss in a row, Chris would once again consider voting out Kelley. David and Rick instructed Chris not to tell Wardog due to his closeness with Kelley. However, wanting to preserve his relationship with Wardog, Chris disobeyed David and Rick's advice and told Wardog that there were other plans floating around. However his decision proved futile, as Wardog turned the vote on him for being seen as untrustworthy, with David and Rick turning on Chris as they lost trust in him as well. At Tribal Council on Night 8, Chris was blindsided in a 5-2 vote. After Tribal Council he opted to go to the Edge of Extinction to join an unhappy Reem and Keith.

While on the Edge of Extinction, Chris found an advantage that allowed him to practice the future re-entry challenge. In an attempt to find another advantage, Reem and Keith were searching in the water where Keith found it after Reem pointed it out. Chris was annoyed that Reem apparently "let" Keith have the advantage, which offended Reem and caused an argument. That advantage allowed Keith to give another player a disadvantage in the re-entry challenge.

On Day 17, Reem, Keith, Chris, Rick, Aubry, and Wendy competed in the re-entry challenge and Keith selected Chris to receive the disadvantage in the form of 30 knots to untie before moving on to the final stage. That disadvantage slowed Chris down, but he managed to complete it and reach the final stage. He came close to winning but his ball fell off, allowing Rick to win and get back in the game. Jeff Probst asked Chris about his lowest point of his Survivor experience, to which Chris lamented his mistakes in the game but accepted that playing a perfect game was an unrealistic goal and ultimately owned them. Chris accepted the offer to continue on the Edge of Extinction, where he remained and participated as a jury member until the second re-entry challenge on Day 35.

On Day 35, in a field of ten voted out castaways consisting of Reem, Aubry, Joe, Eric, Julia, David, Kelley, Wardog, Ron, Aurora, and himself, Chris narrowly beat the competition to finally re-enter the game after 28 days on the Edge of Extinction. Similar to Rick when he re-entered on Day 17, Chris came in with two halves of a Hidden Immunity Idol. Needing to give one half of the idol to another player for a round of voting before it could have any power, Chris gave his half to Rick, whom he had the best relationship with out of the remaining players. Chris approached Lauren about her idol, having been told about it by Kelley on the Edge of Extinction. He told her that the jury felt that Lauren needed to play that idol on herself or another player to add a big move to her "Survivor resume". When Julie won the combined Immunity and Reward Challenge on Day 36, she took Chris and Lauren with her, with Chris targeting Victoria as the biggest jury threat. Chris also asked Lauren to play her idol on him that night to fulfill that big move he told her she would need to make to win. Lauren obliged, and Rick's idol was played as well negating four of the six votes that night at Tribal Council cast either for Rick or Chris, sending Victoria to the jury with two votes.

On Day 37, Rick won immunity and gave Chris his half of the idol, saving Chris so that they could work together to get to the Final Three. That night, Chris played the idol, negating 3 votes against him and allowing Rick and Chris to blindside Lauren. On Day 38, Chris won the Final Immunity Challenge. Rick pled for Chris to fulfill their deal, but Chris felt that Rick was his biggest threat in a jury vote, so he told him to brace for a firemaking challenge. Chris then told Gavin and Julie to both practice firemaking, and whoever did the best at camp would face Rick that night. However, it later dawned on Chris that he might need one more big move in his resume to convince the jury that he played well enough in his 11 days in the main game to merit jury votes. That night at Tribal Council, Chris gave up immunity to face Rick in the firemaking challenge for the final spot at Final Tribal Council. This risky move paid off as Chris defeated Rick, making him the 13th and final member of the largest ever jury.

At Final Tribal Council, Chris emphasized the moves he made in the last 3 days of the game, claiming that they were bigger than any moves Julie or Gavin made and that he should not be penalized for being on Edge of Extinction for most of the game. Gavin argued the opposite, that his game was better than Chris's because he managed to stay in the main game and without ever having a vote cast against him. Julie's pleas were mostly ineffective, as the jury was mostly torn between Chris and Gavin's contrasting but effective enough gameplay. Ultimately, 9 out of 13 jurors believed Chris made the most of the time he had in the game, particularly commending his bravery to face Rick in the firemaking challenge. Those 9 votes were enough to make Chris the first ever Sole Survivor to come back into the game after being voted out.

Bob - Survivor: Gabon
At the start of the season, Bob was placed on the Kota Tribe. Bob had originally been in an alliance with fellow tribemates Jacquie Berg, Marcus Lehman, Charlie Herschel, and Corinne Kaplan. The Kota Tribe proved to be strong by winning the first three challenges. However, when Kota lost the Immunity Challenge and were forced to face Tribal Council, Bob joined his alliance in voting out Paloma Soto-Castillo.

In the following episode, there was a Tribe Switch which ended up taking Jacquie to the opposing Fang tribe. When Jacquie was voted off, Randy Bailey was welcomed into Bob's alliance. The Kota tribe would still stand strong, and the tribe won the next two Immunity Challenges. Bob also helped vote out Dan Kay over the weaker Susie Smith in fear that Dan had the Hidden Immunity Idol. This ended up being the vital mistake to Bob's alliance as Susie would end up switching sides.

On Day 21, both tribes assumed that a merge would be coming up but instead, they were welcomed with another tribal swap. Bob and Marcus remained on Kota while Charlie, Randy, and Corinne moved to Fang. When Fang won the Immunity Challenge, Bob had to face Tribal Council where tribemates Ken Hoang, Crystal Cox, and Susie voted out Marcus.

After Marcus was voted out, both tribes merged into the new Nobag Tribe ("Nobag" is Gabon spelled backwards). Charlie ended up getting voted out at the next Tribal Council and it soon appeared that Bob's alliance would crumble. Bob was targeted next, but when he got sent to Exile Island, he created a fake Hidden Immunity Idol. He used to fake idol to secure his spot in the game and Randy, his own alliance member, was blindsided. After Randy's elimination, Bob created another Hidden Immunity Idol in an attempt to save himself and last alliance member, Corinne. Although it was futile and Corinne was eliminated, it caused Ken to betray his own alliance and vote against Matty Whitmore.

Bob's winning streak continued by winning his fifth challenge in a row. This was something his other tribemates did not expect. Later, Ken tried to propose a deal with Bob and said that if he had won immunity he would give it up to Ken since he had tricked him at the last Tribal Council. However, Sugar Kiper informed Bob that it was just a trick to blindside him and Bob went against the idea. In the following Tribal Councils, Crystal and Ken were both voted out respectively.

In the Final Immunity Challenge, Bob lost to Susie in a card building challenge. Bob seemed doomed again, but he was able to convince Sugar to go on his side and vote against Matty. Knowing that a tiebreaker challenge might occur, Bob also started practicing how to build a fire. At Tribal Council, a tie did occur, and as Bob had expected, a tie would take place. Matty and Bob were forced to compete in a fire building challenge and once again, Bob won.

At the Final Tribal Council, Bob was confronted by Ken for not giving up his immunity. Crowley was also confronted by Randy for using the fake Hidden Immunity Idol against him. Corinne asked Bob to show a nasty side of him and make her believe why Bob didn't like Sugar and he tried showing a nasty side by disliking Sugar, but when he started saying something positive about Sugar, Corinne interrupted and told him she didn't want to hear the good side of Bob. In the end, the jury voted Bob as the Sole Survivor in a vote of 4-3-0. Bob earned the votes of Marcus, Charlie, Randy, and Corinne, essentially all the original Kota's plus Randy. In addition, at the Reunion Show, Bob also won the "Sprint Player of the Season" award, earning the fan's vote over Sugar and Matty.

=Big Brother Winners=

Dan - BB10
Dan started in Big Brother 10. When his close ally Brian Hart became evicted in Week 1, Dan appeared to be on the outs, but he managed to get off the others' radar by giving them the perception that he was not a threat by throwing early competitions. During Week 4, he was voted by the viewers to be America's Player for the week, both he and Memphis Garrett formed The Renegades, and he successfully completed the America's player task by casting the deciding vote against Jessie Godderz, resulting in his elimination. Both he and Memphis stayed in control for the rest of the game and made it to the Final Two where Dan would win in a unanimous 7-0 vote. With his consistent victory, he became the first of three winners, and first US winner to succeed in a unanimous vote, and play a Perfect Game (Not receiving any eviction votes, and getting all jury votes). Dan is further remembered for his bold moves such as convincing Bryan Ollie to throw an HOH competition to him, only to betray him and get his ally Michelle Costa evicted.

Dr. Will - BB2
On Big Brother 2 (US), Will was known for his friendship with fellow housemate Mike "Boogie" Malin, his showmance with Shannon Dragoo, and getting nominated four times and staying in the game with the help of his over the top clever strategies. On Day 82, he won $500,000 that season after staying 82 days inside the house and receiving the majority of votes from the previously evicted houseguests.

Derrick - BB16
He was a part of The Detonators, Team America, a final two alliance with Cody named The Hitmen, and a backup final two deal with Victoria Rafaeli. He was formerly a member of the Bomb Squad, Los Tres Amigos, and The Rationale. Derrick made it all the way to the end without ever being nominated (although he was nominated by default when he failed to win the Final HOH which was won by his ally Cody) and won by a vote of 7-2 making him the first winner in Big Brother U.S history to accomplish this feat.

Cody - BB22
Cody began BB22 by winning the first HoH. Following his win, both he and Memphis formed a final 2 alliance called The Commission, and the two brought in other houseguests into their alliance called The Committee. The Committee controlled the season, which kept Cody safe. Cody had several alliances and deals, such as separate final 2 deals with Memphis, Enzo and fellow BB16 castmate Nicole, as well as a final 3 alliance with Enzo and Memphis called The Wise guys. Cody had a hand in evicting several players, including his own allies. He was a competition threat again, winning 4 HoH's and 4 PoV's. Cody managed not to be nominated throughout the season. After winning the Final HoH, he became the first ever houseguest to make it to the final 2 without ever going on the block. Cody's dominant strategic and social games, and competition wins earned him the win in a unanimous 9-0 vote. He was in alliances with almost everyone in the house, and developed very strong friendships with Enzo, Nicole F, Memphis and Dani but had a minor dislike towards David, short lived running feuds with Janelle and Kevin and a long running-feud with Kaysar. By having no eviction votes cast against him and receiving all the jury votes, he became the second American houseguest to play a Perfect Game, after Dan from Season 10, and the fourth houseguest overall in North American Big Brother History.

Maggie - BB6
Maggie was a member of The Friendship Alliance, the rivals of the popular Sovereign Six Alliance. Her secret partner in the house was Eric Littmann. After Eric was evicted early in the game, Maggie took over as the leader of the Friendship alliance and successfully led the majority of the alliance deep into the game. Her strong persuasion skills have led to fans of the show referring to Maggie as a cult leader. When her ally Ivette Corredero won the final HoH, she took Maggie to the Final 2 where Maggie would win in a close 4-3 jury vote.

Hayden - BB12
During the early stages of the game, Hayden was targeted for being in a showmance with Kristen Bitting. His presence in the dominant Brigade alliance and his ability to win four Head of Household competitions allowed him to ultimately stay in the Big Brother House for 75 days and receive four of the seven Jury votes to be crowned the champion over fellow Brigade alliance member Lane Elenburg.

Andy - BB15
Playing an extremely quiet game in the beginning, Andy formed a close alliance with power couple Amanda Zuckerman and McCrae Olson while managing a tight alliance with Elissa Slater and Helen Kim to keep himself safe from the MVP's nominations. Andy waited until the 3 A.M. alliance to pick up his gameplay, where he flipped on his former alliance with Helen and Elissa to take the former out of the game. After solidifying a final-four alliance with the Exterminators, Andy backstabbed Amanda and McCrae and manipulated McCrae into taking out Elissa during the season's second Double Eviction. Following this he went on a competition spree, winning the Final 4 HOH competition, the Final 4 Veto competition, and parts 2 and 3 of the Final HOH competition. Andy is mainly remembered for his deception and for backstabbing many other HouseGuests, namely Helen, Amanda, and Elissa. He utilized his social capital in the game to avoid ever being a target, and thus he never received an eviction vote. His ability to lie effectively and on the spot allowed for him to pull off multiple blindsides while continuing to be in good standings with the members of the jury. Despite being deemed a "rat" by viewers and contestants alike, Andy was granted the win in a final vote of 7–2, making history as the first openly gay winner.

Boogie - BB7
In Big Brother 7 (US), he and Will revived their Chilltown alliance from season 2 and managed to control most of the game, blatantly lying to most of the houseguests by forming fake alliances and orchestrating their evictions. He had a showmance with Erika Landin, for whom he claimed to have no true feelings and only used to get further in the game. For these reasons, Mike is generally known as one of the most notorious villains in the show's history. Despite Will's eviction at the final four, Mike managed to make it to the final two and win the season in a 6 to 1 jury vote.

Nicole - BB18
In Big Brother 18, she became best known for her under the radar gameplay, showmance with Corey Brooks, and avoiding nomination until Day 91. She joined the 8-Pack alliance in Week 1. Nicole was in a comfortable position throughout the first half of the season, and subtly convinced others to do what she wanted, all while avoiding blame and covering her tracks. However, when her ally, Zakiyah Everette was blindsided in the first half of the double eviction, Nicole along with Corey and Paulie Calafiore were on the outs. However, they regained power during the second half of the double eviction as Corey became the Head of Household. Paulie was evicted in Week 8, leaving Nicole and Corey on the bottom. Despite being in the minority, and the obvious targets in the following week, they managed to survive when Nicole convinced HoH Natalie Negrotti to target Paul Abrahamian and Victor Arroyo. When Paul won the PoV and Corey went up as the replacement, they managed to convince James Huling, who was the swing vote, to align with them and evict Victor. However, after Victor returned by winning the jury buyback, and Nicole became the HoH, she and Corey began playing the middle between Paul and Victor and James and Natalie. She ended up casting the tiebreaker vote to evict Michelle Meyer. In Week 11, when Victor became HoH, she joined Corey and Paul in taking Natalie out. However, after Corey won HoH at the final 5, he and Nicole decided to split up Paul and Victor, and worked with James to evict Victor for the third and final time. However, when Paul became the HoH at the final 4, Nicole was nominated for the first time against Corey. After Paul won the final PoV, he left the nominations the same. Nicole survived as James cast the sole vote to evict Corey. Despite losing part 3 of the final HoH, she convinced Paul to take her to the final 2 over James. Her behind the scenes gameplay, subtle persuasion, and the jury's distaste towards Paul's behavior won her the game in a close 5-4 vote. She became the first female to defeat a male in the final 2.

Michie - BB21
A polarizing houseguest, Jackson set himself well for the majority of the pre-jury phase by aligning with Jack Matthews, forming a showmance with Holly Allen, and being a part of two alliances. In Week 5 however, a huge blowup caused all of Jackson's allies except Holly to turn on him. The following week, Jackson and Jack were nominated, but Jackson survived eviction. Following that, he managed to go on a competition run, winning several competitons, while also forming a final four alliance with Holly, Cliff Hogg III, and Nicole Anthony, all of which allowed him and Holly to be in control for the rest of the season. At the final five, he convinced Cliff and Nicole of a lie that Tommy Bracco was targeting them, saving his showmance, Holly. His competition wins and strong gameplay eventually won him the game over Holly in a 6-3 vote. Jackson was a major competition threat in the second half of the season, winning 4 HoHs, 4 PoVs, and America's Field Trip, tying Paul Abrahamian for winning the most competitions (HoHs and PoVs) (8 wins) among all male players in a single season, as well as becoming the male houseguest to have won the most competitions in a single season (9). While viewers felt that he played the best game, his questionable behavior throughout the season such as verbal abuse and cheating on slop created controversy with fans and his fellow houseguests. On finale night, Jackson was confronted with his actions. As a result, Jackson's body language and attitude were noticeably subdued when he exited the house after his win.

Jun - BB4
In the season which saw Jun play the game with her ex-boyfriend Jee, as part of the X-Factor twist, her secrets alliances with Jee and Alison Irwin ensured that both women reached the final two. Jun received six of the seven jury votes and was thus crowned the winner. She is notable for perfecting and claiming the floater strategy. Jun is also remembered for using her cooking skills to make her housemates want to keep her in the game.

Evel Dick - BB8
In Big Brother 8, Dick, along with Dustin Erikstrup and Jessica Hughbanks, was part of the "Rivals" twist. Dick's rival was Daniele Donato, his estranged daughter. Dick was known for his various personal attacks on houseguests as a means of intimidation after he and Daniele were nominated during Week Six. He narrowly escaped eviction in week 6 due to America's Player which required America's player Eric Stein to vote to evict Dustin Erikstrup instead of Dick despite Eric wanting to evict the latter. Both he and Daniele made it to the Final Two, where he won the season in a 5 to 2 vote.

Ian - BB14
In BB14, Ian was a member of Team Boogie in the Coaches twist. After the reset, Ian joined with Dan, Danielle, Britney, and Shane to form The Quack Pack alliance. In week 6, he orchestrated his former coach, Mike's eviction. He was a competition threat, winning 4 HOHs and 2 PoVs, thus making him the third male HouseGuest in the history of the show to win six competitions. After the alliance splintered in the final stages of the game, Ian won the game over Dan by a 6 to 1 vote, only losing Danielle's vote. He is also remembered for his friendships with Britney and Dan, his showmance with Ashley, and for strategically taking continuous have-nots and punishments without complaint.

Kaycee - BB20
Best known for her dominance in competitions during the latter half of the season and allegiance to the dominant Level Six alliance, Kaycee was close to Level Six members Tyler Crispen and Angela Rummans with the three having a final three deal, and her having a final two deal with the former. Despite appearing to be a non-threat during the first half of the season, she turned it up during the latter half, winning a hacker competition, 2 HoH's and 5 of the last 6 PoV's, tying Janelle Pierzina, Daniele Donato, and Paul Abrahamian for winning the most PoV's in a single season. When she won the final HoH, she brought Tyler to the final 2. Her athletic prowess won her the game in a close 5-4 vote.

Rachel - BB13
She returned to the game in Big Brother 13 as part of the dynamic duo twist, being partnered with her then fiancé, now husband, Brendon Villegas. When Brendon was evicted in week 6, Rachel was in the house for the first time ever without him, and could play the game with less distraction, instead focusing on strategy. Rachel also dominated in competitions; winning 4 Head of Household and 2 Power of Veto competitions. Rachel ultimately won the game over Porsche Briggs in a close 4-3 jury vote.

Drew - BB5
Throughout the game, Drew was a part of the Four Horsemen alliance, won several competitions, and is the first winner that has never been a final nominee on any eviction night. Drew controversially chose to take his alliance member Michael Ellis to the Final Two over his showmance Diane Henry, feeling like he had a better chance against the former. His risk payed off, and he managed to receive 4 out of 7 Jury votes, including Diane's, and was thus crowned the winner.

Steve - BB17
Steve was a covert member of the Scamper Squad who also fostered a side alliance called Rockstars with John. While The Sixth Sense was still alive, Vanessa decided to bring Steve into a side alliance with Austin and the twins (which eventually became the Scamper Squad). Steve was able to use this collaboration to further himself in the game. For most of the game he was under the radar and followed people, mainly Vanessa, but that was part of his strategy. However, Steve secretly wanted to evict Vanessa, fearing he could not beat her, but could not do so until the Austwins alliance was broken up. Steve targeted the trio during his Week 11 HOH, culminating in Julia's eviction. He played more aggressively at the end of the game, winning three out of the last four HOHs and being the sole vote to evict Vanessa at Final 3. After making it to the Final Two, the Jury accused him of floating throughout the game. However, Steve argued that he did not float because of his under-the-radar gameplay, and he made moves that benefited him throughout the game. He compared his own choices to Liz's, as she followed Austin and Vanessa throughout her time in the Big Brother house. This comparison enabled him to win Big Brother by a vote of 6–3, along with evicting Vanessa. Steve was also able to earn several competitions throughout his stay in the Big Brother house and eventually became the sixth male HouseGuest in the history of the show to win six competitions (4 HoHs and 2 PoVs).

Josh - BB19
He was best known for his friendship with Christmas Abbott, banging pots and pans through the house while singing circus music, calling people "meatballs", his loud Diary Room confessionals, and getting into arguments with several houseguests. At the first HoH competition, he took the golden apple, which granted him immunity for the week, because he believed he was a target. He then proceeded to lash out at Megan Lowder and call her a snake. He got into several heated arguments with Cody Nickson, Jessica Graf, Kevin Schlehuber, Elena Davies, and Mark Jansen. The altercations combined with his emotional outbursts made him a target early on, but he eventually got his foot in the door and started working with Paul Abrahamian and Christmas. For the most part, he was loyal to Paul and did what he wanted, but eventually, he realized Paul was making everyone else do his dirty work, and he saw how dominant Paul's game was. He then began using his goodbye messages to expose Paul's lies and, ultimately, thwarted his attempts to shift all blame onto him and Christmas. During the final weeks of the game, he contemplated turning on Paul several times, especially after winning the Final 5 HOH, but never actually did it. When he won the final HoH, he made a risky decision to take Paul to the final 2, believing that the jury disliked Paul more than either himself or Christmas. His risky decision paid off, and he was awarded the win in a 5-4 vote.

Jordan - BB11
She began the game as part of the Popular clique and was the only member remaining after the second week. Her showmance with Jeff Schroeder earned the two the name of "America's Couple." While she wasn't viewed as the strongest physically or strategically, Jordan's kindhearted gameplay earned her the win over Natalie Martinez in a 5-2 vote.

Lisa - BB3
Originally aligned with Chiara Jude Berti, Roddy Mancuso, and her showmance Eric Ouellette, Lisa found herself sitting on the block next to Eric in Week 4. Although Eric was evicted, she discovered that Chiara and Roddy had turned on her, causing Lisa to shift loyalties to the other side of the house, particularly building a strong relationship with Danielle Reyes. When Eric was given a chance to get back into the game, Lisa voted against it, so that she could play the game without distraction and avoid a target being put on her back. Lisa eventually made it to the final three with her allies Danielle and Jason Guy, after managing to survive over Amy Crews at the final 4. She won the final Head of Household competition, choosing to evict Jason, and taking Danielle to the final two. Her social game and likability helped her become the first female winner in the show's history, and take away $500,000. She lasted 82 days in the house, and received 9 of the 10 votes from The Jury.

=Top Chef Winners=

Melissa - All Stars LA
Quickfire Wins: 3 Elimination Challenge Wins: 6 Top Place Finishes: 7 Bottom Place Finishes: 3

Paul - Texas
Quickfire Wins: 2 Elimination Challenge Wins: 8 Top Place Finishes: 8 Bottom Place Finishes: 1

Michael - Las Vegas
Quickfire Wins: 2 Elimination Challenge Wins: 3 Top Place Finishes: 9 Bottom Place Finishes: 1

Stephanie - Chicago
Quickfire Wins: 2 Elimination Challenge Wins: 5 Top Place Finishes: 10 Bottom Place Finishes: 3

Richard - All Stars
Quickfire Wins: 4 Elimination Challenge Wins: 4 Top Place Finishes: 8 Bottom Place Finishes: 1

Mei - Boston
Quickfire Wins: 1 Elimination Challenge Wins: 3 Top Place Finishes: 8 Bottom Place Finishes: 1

Brooke - Charleston
Quickfire Wins: 5 Elimination Challenge Wins: 3 Top Place Finishes: 5 Bottom Place Finishes: 6 (Eliminated) Last Chance Kitchen Wins: 2

Kristen - Seattle
Quickfire Wins: 1 Elimination Challenge Wins: 4 Top Place Finishes: 5 Bottom Place Finishes: 1 (Eliminated) Last Chance Kitchen Wins: 5

Joe - Colorado
Quickfire Wins: 2 Elimination Challenge Wins: 2 Top Place Finishes: 4 Bottom Place Finishes: 2 (Eliminated) Last Chance Kitchen Wins: 2

Gabe - Portland
Quickfire Wins: 1 Elimination Challenge Wins: 3 Top Place Finishes: 6 Bottom Place Finishes: 2

Jeremy - California
Quickfire Wins: 3 Elimination Challenge Wins: 3 Top Place Finishes: 5 Bottom Place Finishes: 3

Kelsey - Kentucky
Quickfire Wins: 0 Elimination Challenge Wins: 2 Top Place Finishes: 4 Bottom Place Finishes: 4

Hung - Miami
Quickfire Wins: 4 Elimination Challenge Wins: 1 Top Place Finishes: 6 Bottom Place Finishes: 3

Hosea - New York
Quickfire Wins: 1 Elimination Challenge Wins: 2 Top Place Finishes: 5 Bottom Place Finishes: 4

Nicholas - New Orleans
Quickfire Wins: 3 Elimination Challenge Wins: 3 Top Place Finishes: 5 Bottom Place Finishes: 6

Kevin - DC
Quickfire Wins: 1 Elimination Challenge Wins: 1 Top Place Finishes: 4 Bottom Place Finishes: 6