Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based on the latest episode of Survivor 49.
Hidden Immunity Idol/Advantage
- MC found the Hina beware advantage and Rizo found the Uli beware advantage.
Immunity Challenge – “Sea of Love”
- Variations of this challenge were previously used in Worlds Apart, Game Changers, Survivor 46, and Survivor 47.
- Kele is the first blue team/tribe to lose this challenge as the blue team won in Worlds Apart & Game Changers and Tuku won in Survivor 47.
Confessionals
- Sophi had the highest number of confessionals this episode with 10.
- Kristina, Matt, and Sophie had 0 confessionals this episode.
- Alex currently has the most confessionals with 27.
- Kristina has the lowest confessional count with 2.
- Her only confessionals so far this season were in the premiere episode.
Medical Evacuation
- Jake was medically evacuated.
- He’s the 24th player to be medically evacuated from Survivor.
- This is the first season since Kaoh Rong that had a player from a blue tribe who was medically evacuated/quit due to medical reasons.
- David vs. Goliath – Pat from Vuku/David was medically evacuated; Bi from the same tribe quit for medical reasons.
- Survivor 42 – Jackson from Taku was medically evacuated.
- Survivor 44 – Matthew from Ratu quit due to medical reasons.
- Bruce from Tika was also medically evacuated.
- He’s also the only player on this list not from an orange tribe.
- Bruce from Tika was also medically evacuated.
- Survivor 46 – Randen from Nami was medically evacuated.
- This is the first odd-numbered new era season to have a medical evacuation.
- It’s also the first odd-numbered season since David vs. Goliath with a medical evacuation.
- Survivor 48 is the only even-numbered new era season to not have a medical evacuation.
- It’s also the first odd-numbered season since David vs. Goliath with a medical evacuation.
Tribal Council
- Jeremiah was voted out 2-0.
- Alex played an idol on himself, negating one vote.
- All three players voted out so far have been voted out unanimously.
- Nicole was voted out 5-1.
- Annie was voted out 4-1.
- Jeremiah was voted out 2-0 (2-1 before Alex’s idol play).
- All three players voted out so far voted for a different player when they were eliminated.
- Nicole voted for Annie.
- Annie voted for Sophi.
- Jeremiah voted for Alex.
- Both Canadian players were eliminated this episode.
- Every time an original tribe went down to two players during the pre-merge, the two remaining players were a man and woman.
- Saboga in All-Stars – Rupert & Jenna
- Ulong in Palau – Stephenie and Bobby Jon
- Matsing in Philippines – Malcolm & Denise
- Ua in Survivor 41 – Shan & Ricard
- Lulu in Survivor 45 – Kaleb & Emily
- Kele in Survivor 49 – Alex & Sophi
- Jake is the only Kele member this season with 0 votes against him.
- Kele & Matsing were both blue tribes on an 18-player season, were against a yellow tribe and red tribe, and had the first four eliminated players.
- Also one of the male players on the tribe was medically evacuated during one of their seasons. Russell in Samoa and Jake in Survivor 49.
- This is the first season where two players were eliminated on day 6.
- Kele is the ninth starting tribe to have four original members eliminated before the other rival tribes lost any members. The others are as follows:
- Maraamu in Marquesas: Peter, Patricia, Hunter, & Sarah
- Ulong in Palau: Jolanda, Ashlee, Jeff, & Kim
- Foa Foa in Samoa: Marisa, Mike, Betsy, & Ben
- Matsing in Philippines: Zane, Roxy, Angie, & Russell
- Ta Keo in Cambodia: Vytas, Shirin, Peih-Gee, & Jeff
- Mana in Game Changers: Ciera, Tony, Caleb, & Malcolm
- Manu in Edge of Extinction: Reem, Keith, Chris, & Rick
- Lulu in Survivor 45: Hannah, Brandon, Sabiyah, & Sean
- Every season since Survivor 44 had an LGBTQ+ player be eliminated in 15th place.
- Survivor 44 – Claire
- Survivor 45 – Sean
- Survivor 46 – Bhanu
- Survivor 47 – Kishan
- Survivor 48 – Thomas
- Survivor 49 – Jeremiah
- Thomas is the only non-POC player on this list.
- Since switching to 90-minute episodes in Survivor 45, only gay men have been eliminated in 15th place.
- Thomas is the only non-POC player on this list.
- The highest number of LGBTQ players have been voted out in 15th place, with eight LGBTQ players placing 15th.
- Sage is the only remaining LGBTQ player this season.
- Game Changers is the most recent season to not have an Asian-American player voted out pre-merge.
- Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers: Simone
- Ghost Island: James
- David vs. Goliath: Natalia
- Edge of Extinction: No Asian-American players on the cast
- Island of the Idols: Vince
- Winners at War: Natalie
- 41: Genie
- 42: Jenny & Swati
- 43: Justine
- 44: Helen
- 45: Brando & J Maya
- 46: Jess, Bhanu & Jem
- 47: Kishan & Anika
- 48: Kevin
- 49: Jeremiah
Episode Title
- The episode title “Lovable Losers” was said by Alex when talking about the Kele tribe.
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on the following Survivor player’s birthday:
- Angie Layton – Philippines
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