Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor: David vs. Goliath.
Tribal Council
- Gabby was voted out 2-1-0.
- Christian played an idol on himself, negating 5 votes.
- Gabby was voted out with the least amount of votes so far this season.
- This was the first episode where Christian voted incorrectly this season.
- Thus, nobody has a perfect voting record anymore.
- With Gabby being voted out, no female David members are left in the game.
- Every remaining David member voted for Christian this episode
- Gabby is the first female to be voted out since Elizabeth in episode 7.
- None of the three Jabeni members who made the merge have been voted out yet.
- John is the only player on the jury that Gabby didn’t vote out.
- She voted out Elizabeth, Dan, Alec, and Carl.
- Dan, Gabby and John are the only players to be solely voted out by players from the same starting tribe post-merge.
- John was voted out only by Davids.
- Dan was voted out only by Davids.
- Gabby was voted out only by Goliaths.
- Every time this happened, Christian also received votes at that tribal council.
- The jury is currently made up of three Davids and three Goliaths.
- Elizabeth, Carl & Gabby – David.
- Alec, Dan & John – Goliath.
- Christian has the most votes against him this season with 15.
- However, 12 of those votes have been cancelled by idols.
- Kara, Mike and Nick are the only players left without any votes against them.
- They are also the three players remaining whose first names are last in the alphabet.
Hidden Immunity Idol/Advantage
- Christian is the first person this season to play an idol on himself and have votes negated.
- He’s also the only person this season to have votes negated at two different tribal councils.
- Christian ties the record (12) for most votes negated with idols in a single season with Kelley Wentworth in Cambodia.
- However, Kelley played both of her idols on herself, while Christian played one on himself and Davie played one on him.
- Nick is the only player remaining with an advantage or idol.
Confessionals
- Nick had the most confessionals this episode with 5.
- He’s got the most confessionals this season with 41.
- Mike had the least confessionals this episode with 0.
Reward Challenge – “Ringo Starz”
- This was the first post-merge reward challenge that Angelina won this season.
- A version of this challenge was previously used in Millennials vs. Gen X.
- Both seasons to use this challenge were “vs” seasons filmed in Fiji and had purple/orange starting tribes with a green expansion tribe.
- The reward challenge is named after Ringo Starr, a member of The Beatles.
- This was the first reward challenge that was done in pairs at Final 8 since episode 10 of Pearl Islands.
- Both of these challenges were won by a male/female pair.
- Burton & Lil in Pearl Islands.
- Angelina & Nick in David vs. Goliath.
- Both of these challenges were won by a male/female pair.
- Mike has taken part in every post-merge reward except for the very first one.
- Davie was also the only non-Jabeni member to go on the reward.
- Mike was the only person to go on the reward but not vote for Alison at the previous tribal council.
- Everyone that didn’t go on the reward voted along with Mike to vote out Carl.
Immunity Challenge – “A Hand Out”
- Nobody has won individual immunity twice yet this season.
- An equal amount of male and female Goliaths have won immunity post merge.
- Alec & Dan, Alison & Kara.
Ratings
- This episode received 7.51 million viewers and 1.5/7 in the Adults 18-49 Rating/Share.
Episode Title
- The episode title “So Smart They’re Dumb” was said by Nick in relation to Gabby and Christian leaving him and Davie out of the Carl vote.
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