Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor: Winners At War.
Tribal Council #1
- Jeremy was voted out 3-2-0.
- Michele played the 50/50 coin and flipped “safe,” negating two votes against her.
- Jeremy was voted out on day 31, which coincidentally is the same number as Cambodia, the season he won.
- Tony is now the only player this season who hasn’t received any votes as Ben received his first votes this episode.
- Ben received the same amount of votes this episode as the counted votes that he received in Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers.
- He got two votes this episode, and he got two votes that counted against him in Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers.
- Everybody on Sele has been voted for this season.
- Denise is the only Sele member that didn’t get voted for at this tribal council.
- Ben, Jeremy, and Michele all received votes.
- Since Michele played her 50/50 coin and was safe, only male Sele members had votes that counted at this tribal council.
Tribal Council #2
- Nick was voted out 4-2.
- The last 4-2 vote on Survivor was during David vs. Goliath when Davie was voted out.
- Nick was on the wrong side of both of these votes, being one of the two players to vote for the person who didn’t go home.
- The last 4-2 vote on Survivor was during David vs. Goliath when Davie was voted out.
- Michele voted incorrectly at both tribal councils in this episode.
- She voted for Ben at the first tribal council and Denise at the second one.
- She’s voted incorrectly at 6/12 of the tribal councils she attended.
- She’s only voted correctly at 3/7 post-merge tribal councils.
- Out of everyone left in the final 7, Tony and Sarah are the only players who didn’t receive any votes in this episode.
- Ben, Jeremy, and Michele got votes at the first tribal council.
- Denise and Nick got votes at the second tribal council.
- Denise is the only player left who has more than two votes against her (that have counted).
- With Nick being voted out, Michele is now the only remaining post-swap Sele member.
- Of the five players left, two are from New Jersey (Tony & Michele), two are from Iowa (Denise & Sarah), and Ben is from Idaho.
- The final 3 of Kaoh Rong (Aubry, Tai, Michele) also made it to the finale of their second season.
- Aubry and Tai made it to the finale in Game Changers.
- Michele made it to the finale in Winners at War.
- If you count Aubry as still being eligible to win during the finale of Edge of Extinction (before the outcome of the re-entry challenge), then the Kaoh Rong finalists have made it to the finale in all seasons they’ve competed in.
Hidden Immunity Idol/Advantage
- Michele has successfully used two advantages that were new to the season she competed in.
- In Kaoh Rong, she won the advantage to remove a jury member.
- In Winners at War, she got the 50/50 coin flip advantage and negated two votes against her.
- Everyone on the merged tribe has been in possession of a hidden immunity idol or game advantage except for Wendell and Adam.
- Tyson: Idol purchased for him by Natalie on Edge of Extinction.
- Sophie: Hidden Immunity Idol.
- Kim: Hidden Immunity Idol.
- Jeremy: Safety without Power advantage.
- Nick: Challenge Disadvantage (sold to him by Natalie).
- Ben: Hidden Immunity Idol.
- Denise: 2 Hidden Immunity Idols.
- Michele: 50/50 Coin.
- Sarah: Steal a Vote.
- Tony: Hidden Immunity Idol.
- Amber, Danni, Ethan, Yul, Wendell, and Adam are the only players who haven’t had an idol or game advantage this season.
Immunity Challenge #1 – “Running Down a Dream”
- The challenge name is based on a song of the same name by Tom Petty.
- Nick won the immunity challenge.
- He’s the first player to win immunity who wasn’t on post-swap Dakal.
- A variation of this challenge was previously used in Millennials vs. Gen X, David vs. Goliath, and Edge of Extinction.
- It’s only been used in seasons set in Fiji.
- It’s been used on both seasons to feature the Edge of Extinction.
- It’s also been used in the penultimate episode of both seasons.
- Nick is the only person to compete in this challenge twice, and he won both times he competed in it.
- This was the first time Tony hasn’t been immune in three episodes.
Immunity Challenge #2 – “High Step Back”
- Michele won the immunity challenge.
- This is her third individual immunity across two seasons.
- A variation of this challenge was used in Gabon, Redemption Island, Blood vs. Water, Kaôh Rōng, and Game Changers.
- Michele and Sarah have competed in this challenge before.
- Michele won this season, while Sarah lost both times.
- This challenge was also used in Australian Survivor 2017 and was also won by a castaway named Michelle.
- Everyone that’s won individual immunity this season has won at least three times (combining this season and their previous seasons).
- Only post-swap Sele members won immunity this episode.
- Nobody from post swap Yara has won immunity yet.
- There has only been one post-merge reward challenge this season.
- There was also an unaired reward challenge that would have been used in episode 11.
Edge of Extinction/Fire Tokens
- Jeremy gave his 2 fire tokens to Michele after being voted out.
- Nick is the second person after Tyson to be voted out without fire tokens.
- Coincidentally, the first time Tyson was voted out, he gave his fire token to Nick.
- Natalie found the challenge disadvantage and sold it to Nick for 8 fire tokens.
- This is the highest-priced advantage that’s been sold this season.
- Natalie has found 5/7 advantages on Edge of Extinction.
- The only other players to find and sell one are Tyson and Parvati.
Confessionals
- Tony had the most confessionals again with 11.
- Michele had the second most confessionals with 10.
- Going into the finale, Tony has the most confessionals with 60, while Adam, who has the second most, has 36.
- Every player still in the game had at least 4 confessionals.
- Sophie and Adam had 0 confessionals this episode, while everyone else on the edge of Extinction had at least one.
Ratings
- The thirteenth episode received 7.5 million viewers and 1.4 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “The Penultimate Step of the War” was said by Jeremy during a confessional.
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