Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor: Island of the Idols.
Tribal Council
- Jack was voted out 2-0.
- Dean used a hidden immunity idol, negating 5 votes against him.
- Jack is the first person voted out this season with less than 6 votes against him.
- He’s the first person named Jack to play Survivor.
- This was the first tribal council Karishma attended since episode 1 where she didn’t receive votes.
- Everyone that voted for Dean in this episode has a name that starts with either “J” (Jack, Janet, & Jamal) or “K” (Karishma, Kellee), while the only two players whose names don’t start with J or K (Dean & Noura) voted for Jack.
- All three post-swap tribal councils only had two people receiving votes each time.
- Episode 5 – Tom & Karishma.
- Episode 6 – Jason & Elaine.
- Episode 7 – Jack & Dean.
- Noura is the only original Vokai with a perfect voting record this season so far.
- She didn’t vote in episode 5, but she correctly voted at every tribal council she was able to vote.
- Jamal has the lowest amount of correct votes of the remaining players with only 1 correct vote (he voted out Tom in episode 5).
- Of the eight seasons filmed in Fiji, there have been three men as the final pre-merge boot and there have been five women.
- Fiji – Lisi Linares.
- Millennials vs. Gen X – Michaela Bradshaw.
- Game Changers – Jeff Varner.
- Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers – Ali Elliott.
- Ghost Island – Bradley Kleighege.
- David vs. Goliath – Lyrsa Torres.
- Edge of Extinction – Wendy Diaz.
- Island of the Idols – Jack Nichting.
- This episode was the first time Karishma voted incorrectly.
- Elaine and Missy are the only players to vote at every tribal council they attended and have a perfect voting record.
- Elizabeth and Noura both have perfect voting records, but lost their ability to vote at one of their tribal councils.
- This was the first time Dean voted correctly since episode 1.
- Jack is the only person voted out pre-merge who switched tribes at the swap.
- Every Lairo player to stay on Lairo after the swap (Dean, Karishma, & Tom) received votes at post-swap tribal councils.
- Nobody received votes at more than once tribal council post-swap this season.
- Aaron is the only male Lairo member to not receive any votes pre-merge.
- Karishma voted for both of the former Lairo players that she swapped with at post-swap tribal councils.
- She voted for Tom in episode 5 and Dean in episode 7.
- Going into the merge, half of the original Lairo members have votes against them (Dean, Elaine, & Karishma) while the other half don’t have any votes against them (Aaron, Elizabeth, & Missy)
- Noura is the only original Vokai member to receive votes and still be in the game.
Jury
- Jack is the first member of the jury.
- He’s the first player voted out pre-merge to immediately become a jury member since Courtney in Heroes vs. Villains.
- Coincidentally, Rob and Sandra were both on that season and neither of them was on the jury.
- Rob was voted out pre-jury and Sandra was a finalist/the winner.
- Coincidentally, Rob and Sandra were both on that season and neither of them was on the jury.
- He’s the first player voted out pre-merge to immediately become a jury member since Courtney in Heroes vs. Villains.
- Jack is the lowest placing player on a season (excluding Edge of Extinction) to be a member of the jury.
- The only other person to come in 14th place and be a member of the jury is Joe Anglim in Edge of Extinction.
- In 39 seasons, there have been 24 men as the first jury member and 15 women (Hali Ford was the first juror twice).
- Men: Greg Buis, John Carroll, Dave Johnson, Ryan Opray, Lex van den Berghe, Sarge Masters, Coby Archa, Bobby-Jon Drinkard, Austin Carty, Brad Virata, Rocky Reid, Marcus Lehman, Brendon Synott, Erik Cardona, Coach Wade, David Murphy, Jim Rice, Jonas Otsuji, Michael Snow, Aras Baskauskas, Josh Canfield, Neal Gottlieb/Nick Maiorano (Neal was removed, but was officially the first jury member), Chris Noble, and Jack Nichting.
- Women: Alicia Calaway, Kelly Goldsmith, Erin Collins, Jamie Dugan, Eliza Orlins, Alina Wilson, R.C. Saint-Amour, Sarah Lacina, Hali Ford (twice), Kass McQuillen, Michelle Schubert, Desi Williams, Elizabeth Olson, and Reem Daly.
- This is the sixth season to have the jury start before the merge (not including Edge of Extinction).
- Jack is the tenth player voted out pre-merge to become a member of the jury. The other jury members who were voted out pre-merge are as follows:
- Thailand – Erin Collins.
- Cook Islands – Brad Virata, Rebecca Borman, & Jenny Guzon-Bae.
- Fiji – Rocky Reid & Lisi Linares.
- Gabon – Marcus Lehman.
- Heroes vs. Villains- Coach Wade & Courtney Yates.
- Jack is the tenth player voted out pre-merge to become a member of the jury. The other jury members who were voted out pre-merge are as follows:
Confessionals
- Kellee had the most confessionals this episode with 6.
- This is the first episode where the person who went to Island of the Idols didn’t have the most confessionals in an episode.
- This is Kellee’s second episode where she had the highest confessional count.
- Both times she had the most confessionals in an episode, it was 6.
- Dan and Elizabeth had the least amount of confessionals with 0.
- Vince is the only male to have the most confessionals in an episode pre-merge.
Hidden Immunity Idols/Advantage
- Kellee is the first player to give another person a hidden immunity idol and also vote for that person at tribal council.
- Both hidden immunity idols played this episode were played by/for someone that didn’t originally possess the idol.
- Kellee gave her idol to Dean.
- Jamal played his idol for Noura.
- This is the first time since episode 4 of Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers where there was a successful pre-merge idol play.
- Joe played a hidden immunity idol, which sent Alan home.
- It’s the first time since Game Changers where a pre-merge idol negated a majority of the votes.
- In Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, the vote was a 2-2 tie, where Joe’s idol negated 2/4 votes, while the idol play in Game Changers, where Tai played his idol for Sierra, negated 6/11 votes.
- It’s the first time since Game Changers where a pre-merge idol negated a majority of the votes.
- Joe played a hidden immunity idol, which sent Alan home.
- This is the first time a pre-merge tribal council had two hidden immunity idols played.
- This is the first season since Blood vs. Water where there are no idols or advantages present going into the merge.
Island of the Idols
- Janet is the first player to decline to do the test on Island of the Idols.
Immunity Challenge – “Faulty Towers”
- The challenge title is based on the classic British sitcom from the ’70s named Fawlty Towers.
- Lairo only won 2/9 of the pre-merge challenges.
Ratings
- The seventh episode received 6.82 million viewers and 1.3/6 in the Adults 18-49 Rating/Share.
Episode Title
- The episode title “I Was Born at Night, but Not Last Night” was said by Boston Rob about Sandra wanting to make a bet with him that a woman would win the season.
- He’s said this line previously in an episode of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.
- The original episode title was “A Moment of Inspiration” and it was said by Kellee Kim about her idea to give Dean her hidden immunity idol.
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Coach was the first jury member of Heroes vs Villains, not Courtney
Edited. Thanks!