Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor 41.
Reward/Immunity Challenge – ”Losing Face”
- A version of this challenge was previously used in South Pacific, Millennials vs. Gen X, Game Changers, David vs. Goliath, Edge of Extinction, Island of the Idols, and Winners at War
- Yase and Luvu won the immunity challenge.
- Luvu still hasn’t lost an immunity challenge so far this season.
- They’re the 6th tribe to win the first five immunity challenges in a season.
- Koror in Palau*
- *Episode 5 had a double tribal council and no immunity challenge.
- Moto in Fiji*
- *Moto gave up their immunity in episode 4, but they initially won the challenge.
- Tandang in Philippines
- Aparri in Cagayan
- Kama in Edge of Extinction
- Luvu is the first blue tribe to do this.
- Koror in Palau*
- They’re the 6th tribe to win the first five immunity challenges in a season.
- Yase is the first four person tribe to sit out a player during a challenge.
Season
- This is the first season since Blood vs. Water to have at least 6 people voted out/eliminated before a tribe swap.
Advantage/Twists
- Genie found the three way idol beware advantage.
- She’s the first woman to find it.
- She’s also the first person to find it and not open it.
- Shan ended up opening it instead and received the idol.
- Naseer also found the three way shared immunity idol.
- All three immunity idols are now activated as each person has said the phrase.
- Nadiya Anderson is the only Sri Lankan player in Survivor to not find a hidden immunity idol.
- Natalie found idols on both San Juan del Sur and Winners at War.
- Shan and Liana were sent to the summit.
- Liana risked her vote and Shan protected hers.
- Liana is the first person ever to receive the “Knowledge is Power” advantage.
- Liana risked her vote and Shan protected hers.
- Each tribe has exactly two people with an idol or advantage.
- Luvu: Deshawn has an extra vote and Naseer has a hidden immunity idol.
- Ua: Ricard has an extra vote and Shan has a hidden immunity idol.
- Yase: Liana has the Knowledge is Power advantage, and Xander has an extra vote and hidden immunity idol.
- JD’s extra vote has changed hands more times than any other extra vote.
- It started with JD, went to Shan, then back to JD, then back to Shan, then to Ricard.
- This is the first time every member of a tribe has possessed an advantage/idol.
- Shan and Ricard are the only remaining members of Ua and they both have an advantage/idol.
Tribal Council
- Genie was voted out 2-1.
- The only tribe to vote out women is Ua.
- Shan is the highest ranking woman on Ua, while Ricard is the highest ranking man.
- The only other times a 2-1 vote has happened in Survivor was when Ibrehem was voted out in Palau and Russell was voted out in Philippines.
- Genie has only voted for Ricard and JD at tribal council.
- Genie is the 23rd person to be voted out on day 11.
- Kim Mullen in Palau was the first.
- Ricard and Shan have voted together at every tribal they attended.
- Ua was the 10th tribe to go down to three players before the merge. The others are as follows:
- Maraamu in Marquesas
- Sook Jai in Thailand
- Ulong in Palau
- Matsing in Philippines
- Luzon in Cagayan
- To Tang in Kaoh Rong
- Soko in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers
- Jabeni in David vs. Goliath
- Manu in Edge of Extinction
- Ua is the third pre-merge tribe to get down to only two people after Ulong in Palau and Matsing in Philippines.
- Ua is the first tribe to do this and not be a blue tribe.
- All three of these tribes were made up of one man and one woman.
- Ulong: Stephenie & Bobby Jon.
- Matsing: Denise & Malcolm.
- Ua: Shan & Ricard.
- Ulong and Matsing both had the woman place higher than the man.
- Upolu in South Pacific is the only “U” tribe that didn’t get down to two players in the pre-merge.
- Ua now has the same number of letters in its name (2) as it does tribe members.
Confessionals
- Shan had the highest confessional count this episode with 13.
- This is the highest number of confessionals in an episode so far this season.
- Deshawn, Erika, and Heather had the lowest confessional count with 0.
- This is the first time Deshawn didn’t have a confessional this season.
- Shan has the highest confessional count so far this season with 30.
- Heather has the lowest with 2.
- She has the same confessional count as Abraham, who was voted out in episode 1.
- Ricard, Shan, Sydney, and Tiffany are the only remaining players with a confessional in every episode so far this season
Ratings
- The fifth episode received 5.41 million viewers and 1.0 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “The Strategist or the Loyalist” was said by Shan when weighing her options on who to vote out between Ricard and Genie.
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