Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based on the latest episode of Survivor 47.
Hidden Immunity Idol/Advantage
- Sue is currently the only player in the game with an advantage or idol.
- Rome is the second player to have the vote steal advantage and be voted out pre-merge after Brad in Survivor 41.
- However, Brad never used his vote steal, so Rome is the only player to use a vote steal advantage and be voted out pre-merge.
- Teeny is the first non-binary player to be in possession of and have a hidden immunity idol played for them.
Merged Tribe
- This is the second time that a blue, yellow, and red tribe had a merged purple tribe after Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.
- Solewa also had a 5-4-3 split between starting tribes.
- Solewa had three original Yawa members, four original Levu members, and five original Soko members.
- The Survivor 47 merged tribe has three original Lavo members, four original Gata members, and five original Tuku members.
- Solewa also had a 5-4-3 split between starting tribes.
- This is the second time that a purple merged tribe followed a red merged tribe after Survivor 41 and Survivor 42.
- Both non-binary players who were on Survivor made it to the merge on their season (Evvie in Survivor 41 and Teeny in Survivor 47).
- The merged tribe is on the same beach as the merged tribes in Game Changers, Ghost Island, Edge of Extinction, Winners at War, Survivor 42, and Survivor 44.
- It’s the second purple merged tribe on this beach after Kula Kula in Survivor 42 and the fifth purple tribe at this beach after Naviti, Jabeni, Kula Kula, and Yanu.
- Survivor 46 is the only season where the winner started on this beach but did not merge at this beach.
Immunity Challenge: Reward – “Feel The Earn”
- Variations of this challenge were previously used in Tocantins, Redemption Island, South Pacific, Blood vs. Water, Worlds Apart, Kaôh Rōng, Survivor 45, and Survivor 46.
- This episode had the most winners of any time this challenge was played, with six players winning it.
- The previous number was three.
- This episode had the most winners of any time this challenge was played, with six players winning it.
- Kyle, Rachel, Sam, Sue, and Teeny won the reward in episodes 5 and 6.
Immunity Challenge – “Bow Diddley”
- This challenge was previously used in South Pacific, Cagayan, Cambodia, Millennials vs. Gen X, Edge of Extinction, Survivor 41, and Survivor 42.
- More men have won than women (5-3).
- However, both times this challenge was used in Australian Survivor, a woman won.
- More men have won than women (5-3).
- Tasha in Cagayan and Ricard in Survivor 41 are the only players who won this challenge who share a starting tribe color (green) in the season they won it.
- Whitney in South Pacific – red tribe
- Joe in Cambodia – pink tribe
- Ken in Millennials vs. Gen X – purple tribe
- Gavin in Edge of Extinction – yellow tribe
- Lindsay in Survivor 42 – orange tribe
- Kyle in Survivor 47 – blue tribe
- Brown and black are the only starting tribe colors that haven’t produced a winner of this challenge, but it also was never used in a season with brown or black starting tribes.
- The last time this challenge was used was in a season with a purple merged tribe.
- Kyle is the first person to be the only player with immunity during the mergatory episode.
- Ricard in Survivor 41 and Tori in Survivor 42 also won individual immunity in the mergatory episode, but there were other people immune (the players that were saved by the hourglass twist).
- He’s the first person to be the only player wearing the merge buff at tribal council.
Confessionals
- Rome had the most confessionals in this episode with 7.
- Sierra, Caroline, and Gabe had the lowest number of confessionals with 2.
- Sam has the most confessionals of the remaining players with 38.
- Rome had a total of 38 confessionals when he was voted out.
- Caroline has the lowest number of confessionals of the remaining players with 11.
- She’s had 2 confessionals for three episodes in a row and has never had more than 3 confessionals in an episode.
- Due to Rome not making it to the merge, he has broken Gina Crew’s record of most pre-merge confessionals in Marquesas. She had 37 and Rome had 38 this season.
Tribal Council
- Rome was voted out 9-2-1.
- He’s the first player in Survivor history to be voted out 9-2-1.
- All three Lavo players who made it to the merge have voted for Rome at some point.
- Sol voted for Rome in episode 3.
- Genevieve and Teeny voted for Rome in this episode.
- The only two Lavo players to not vote for Rome are Aysha and Kishan, who both were voted out pre-merge.
- The fall of The Roman Empire was in 476 AD, and Rome was voted out in Season 47, episode 6.
- Rome is the first player to be voted out on day 12 since Brendan in Ghost Island.
- He’s the earliest mergatory boot, as the mergatory boot in seasons 41-42 was on day 14, while the mergatory boot in seasons 43-46 was on day 13.
- Every mergatory vote had at least one player who was unable to vote.
- Sydney in Survivor 41
- Omar in Survivor 42
- Jesse & Jeanine in Survivor 43
- Matt in Survivor 44
- Kaleb & Austin in Survivor 45
- Hunter & Moriah in Survivor 46
- Kyle in Survivor 47
- Rome is the second man to be the mergatory boot after Josh in Survivor 44.
- The others were Sydney in Survivor 41, Lydia in Survivor 42, Elie in Survivor 43, J Maya in Survivor 45, and Moriah in Survivor 46.
- The three starting tribes have voted out different amounts of players so far.
- Tuku has had one player voted out (TK).
- Gata has had two players voted out (Jon & Anika).
- Lavo has had three players voted out (Aysha, Kishan, & Rome).
- This was the first time since the merge episode of Island of the Idols that 12 people were eligible to be voted out at a single tribal council.
- None of the former Tuku players received any votes in this episode.
- The three remaining Lavo players were all separate during the initial part of the immunity challenge.
- Teeny was on the yellow team, Sol was on the blue team, and Genevieve sat out due to her advantage.
Ratings
- The sixth episode received 4.350 million viewers and 0.62 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Feel the FOMO” was said by Andy at tribal council
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on the following Survivor player’s birthday
- Austin Li Coon from Survivor 45.
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May I add that each of the New Era seasons to start with primary colours, respectively, has for its merge a different secondary color (43 was green, 45 was orange and 47 is purple).
Season 47 completed the set.