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
- Sol is the fourth player to have an Advantage Menu/Take Your Pick power after Debbie in Game Changers, Ron in Edge of Extinction, and Dean in Island of the Idols.
- Sol is the first player who had to give this advantage to another player and couldn’t use it for himself.
- Rachel is the third player to have a Safety Without Power advantage after Jeremy in Winners at War and Drew in Survivor 45.
Merged Tribe
- Beka is based on the Fijian word for “bat.”
- All four tribe names this season are based on the tribe emblem seen on the buffs.
- Beka is the fourth “B” merged tribe after Barramundi in The Australian Outback, Balboa in Pearl Islands, and Bula Bula in Fiji.
- Beka is the 19th purple tribe and the fifth purple merged tribe.
- Beka is tied with Dabu (Micronesia), Aiga (Samoa), Dara (Kaoh Rong), Vata (Edge of Extinction), Koru (Winners at War), Gaia (Survivor 43), and Va Va (Survivor 44) as merged tribe names with the least amount of letters in its name.
- This is the sixth season where all of the tribe names, merged tribe included, had the same amount of letters in their name. The others are as follows:
- Koror & Ulong in Palau – 5 letters
- Naviti, Malolo, Yanuya, & Lavita in Ghost Island – 6 letters
- Manu, Kama, Lesu, & Vata in Edge of Extinction – 4 letters
- Baka, Coco, Vesi, & Gata in Survivor 43 – 4 letters
- Ratu, Soka, Tika, & Va Va in Survivor 44 – 4 letters
- Palau is the only season with this distinction to not be filmed in Fiji.
Immunity Challenge – “Audio Slave”
- Variations of this challenge were previously used in Samoa, South Pacific, Cambodia, Millennials vs. Gen X, Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, Ghost Island, Edge of Extinction, Winners at War, Survivor 43, and Survivor 44.
- Both players who won individual immunity and immunity for their team in this challenge were men.
- Brandon in Survivor 44 and Kyle in Survivor 47.
- Kyle is the 57th player to win back-to-back individual immunity challenges. The others are as follows:
- Kelly in Borneo, Colby in The Australian Outback, Lex & Kim J. in Africa, Tammy in Marquesas, Brian in Thailand, Jenna in The Amazon, Darrah in Pearl Islands, Rob M. in All-Stars, Chris in Vanuatu, Tom & Ian in Palau, Rafe in Guatemala, Terry in Panama, Ozzy in Cook Islands, Boo in Fiji, Amanda in China, Erik & Amanda in Micronesia, Bob in Gabon, Tyson & JT in Tocantins, Laura, Jaison, & Brett in Samoa, Parvati in Heroes vs. Villains, Fabio in Nicaragua, Rob & Ashley in Redemption Island, Sophie in South Pacific, Kim in One World, Malcolm in Philippines, Monica & Tyson in Blood vs. Water, Tasha & Spencer in Cagayan, Joe, Carolyn & Mike in Worlds Apart, Joe & Spencer in Cambodia, Ken in Millennials vs. Gen X, Brad in Game Changers, Chrissy in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, Chelsea, Wendell, & Domenick in Ghost Island, Nick in David vs. Goliath, Rick in Edge of Extinction, Aaron & Dean in Island of the Idols, Tony & Michele in Winners at War, Tori in Survivor 42, Bruce in Survivor 45, and Charlie in Survivor 46.
- Kyle is the 10th player to win the first two individual immunity challenges in a season after Tori in Survivor 42, Aaron in Island of the Idols, Joe in Cambodia & Worlds Apart, Laura in Samoa, Tyson in Tocantins, Terry in Panama, Tom in Palau, Boston Rob in All-Stars, and Keith in The Australian Outback.
- Teeny and Genevieve are the first players to outlast another player during an endurance individual immunity challenge and have neither of them win individual immunity.
Confessionals
- Rachel had the most confessionals in this episode with 7.
- Sue didn’t have any confessionals in this episode.
- Sam has the most total confessionals for a remaining player so far this season with 39.
- Caroline has the lowest number of confessionals for a remaining player so far this season with 14.
Tribal Council
- Tiyana was voted out 4-1.
- She’s the third player to be voted out with four votes this season after TK and Kishan.
- Every time that there was a different mergatory boot and final pre-jury player, there has been one man and one woman.
- Survivor 43 – Elie was the mergatory boot and Dwight was the final pre-jury player.
- Survivor 45 – J Maya was the mergatory boot and Sifu was the final pre-jury member.
- Survivor 46 – Moriah was the mergatory boot and Tim was the final pre-jury member.
- Survivor 47 – Rome was the mergatory boot and Tiyana was the final pre-jury member.
- Every time this happened, a Black man was one of the players voted out.
- Rome is the only one to be the mergatory boot but not the final pre-jury member.
- Every time this happened, a Black man was one of the players voted out.
- The first two players from all three starting tribes that were voted out were one man and one woman.
- Gata: Jon & Anika
- Lavo: Aysha & Kishan
- Tuku: TK & Tiyana
- Also, the women’s first names all end with an “A,” and the men’s first names all end with an “N” (TK’s first name is Terran).
Ratings
- The seventh episode received 4.240 million viewers and 0.57 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Our Pickle on Blast” was said by Tiyana at Tribal Council.
- This was her second episode title after Episode 4, “Is that Blood in Your Hair.”
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on the following Survivor players’ birthdays:
- Tom Buchanan (Africa & All-Stars)
- Rory Freeman (Vanuatu)
- Bi Nguyen (David vs. Goliath)
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