Episode 1 Stats

Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor 43.

Season

• This is the 11th consecutive season to film in Fiji.
  • It’s the 12th season to film in Fiji (including Survivor: Fiji).
• This is the first time that three consecutive seasons started with three tribes.
  • Seasons 41, 42, & 43 all started with three tribes.

Cast/Tribes

• The average age of the cast is 30.89.
• This is the first newbie season since Canadians were allowed to apply in which no Canadians are present on the cast.
  • Island of the Idols had Tom.
  • Winners at War was a returning player season.
  • Survivor 41 had Erika & Shan.
  • Survivor 42 had Maryanne, Omar, & Drea.
    • Coincidentally, both “new era” seasons had a Canadian woman win the season (Erika & Maryanne).
• Cody and Geo are the first castaways from Hawaii.
• Mike (52) is the oldest player this season, while Sami (19) is the youngest.
  • Both are on Baka.
    • Sami is the youngest Survivor player by birthdate (he was born in 2002).
• Owen was in the casting finals for David vs. Goliath.
• Cassidy was originally cast for 41 but was cut when filming was post-poned due to COVID.
• Noelle is the third amputee to play Survivor after Chad from Vanuatu and Kelly B. from Nicaragua.
• The tribe names this season are based on Fijian words for different trees.
• This is the 5th three-starting tribe season with red, yellow, and blue tribes.
  • Philippines, Worlds Apart, Kaoh Rong, and Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers are the others.
• All three of the starting tribes this season have four letters in their names.
  • This also happened in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, which coincidentally had red, yellow, and blue starting tribes.
• Baka
  • Average age: 30.33.
  • Oldest member: Mike Gabler (51).
  • Youngest member: Sami Layadi (19).
  • Baka is the 24th yellow tribe.
  • The only other yellow tribe to start with the letter “”B” was Boran in Africa, which was 40 seasons prior.
• Coco
  • Average age: 31.83.
  • Oldest member: Lindsay Carmine (42).
  • Youngest member: Ryan Medrano (24).
  • Coco is the 28th blue tribe.
    • Blue is the most used tribe color in Survivor.
    • Fiji, Millennials vs. Gen X, and Ghost Island are the only seasons filmed in Fiji without a blue tribe.
  • The last tribe to start with the letter “C” was Chan Loh in Kaoh Rong and it was also a blue tribe.
  • Both LGBTQ+ players this season are on the Coco tribe (Karla and Geo).
  • Coco is the 7th consecutive blue tribe, which is a record for most consecutive tribe colors.
    • Kalokalo- David vs. Goliath
    • Manu- Edge of Extinction
    • Lumuwaku- Island of the Idols
    • Sele- Winners at War
    • Luvu- Survivor 41
    • Ika- Survivor 42
    • Coco- Survivor 43
      • There’s been a blue starting tribe in the last four seasons.
• Vesi
  • Average age: 30.5.
  • Oldest member: Nneka Ejere (43).
  • Youngest member: Dwight Moore (21).
  • Vesi is the 22nd red tribe.
  • It’s the 4th red tribe to start with the letter “V” after Villains, Vata, and Viakana.
    • Villains is the only red “V” tribe to not be on a season set in Fiji.

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Reward Challenge: “Crate Wide Open”

• Vesi won the first reward challenge.
  • Vesi is the first tribe in the “new era” to win the opening flint reward challenge and also win the immunity challenge in the premiere episode.
    • Ua won the reward and lost immunity in the premiere of 41.
    • Ika won the reward and lost immunity in the premiere of 42.
• This is the first “new era” season where the losing tribes chose different tasks to earn their supplies.
  • Baka chose savvy.
  • Coco chose sweat.
    • 41: both tribes chose sweat.
    • 42: both tribes chose savvy.

Immunity Challenge: “Freedom of Choice”

• Coco and Vesi won the immunity challenge.
  • Baka didn’t win any challenges this episode.
  • Vesi won both challenges this episode.
• This is the second time in a red, blue, yellow starting tribe season where the yellow tribe lost the first immunity challenge.
  • Worlds Apart: Masaya lost the first immunity challenge while Escameca and Nagarote won.

Confessionals

• Elie had the most confessionals this episode with 10.
• Jeanine had the least confessionals this episode with 1.

The Summit

• Every season since David vs. Goliath has a separate “island” that castaways are sent to.
  • Edge of Extinction & Winners at War had the Edge of Extinction.
  • Island of the Idols had the Island of the Idols.
  • Survivor 41, 42, & 43 have the summit island.
• Karla, Mike, & Dwight went to the summit.
  • Karla didn’t risk her vote.
  • Mike got an immunity idol for the first two tribals he attends while Dwight lost his vote at the first tribal he attends.

Tribal Council

• Morriah was voted out 5-1.
  • Both Morriah/Marya to play were voted out pre-merge and were the first players voted out of their tribe.
    • Jackson was the first player eliminated from Taku, but he was medevaced.
  • Both were also voted out at their first tribal council they attended.
• Morriah is the 26th woman voted out first.
• She’s also the 44th person voted out/eliminated on day 3.
  • Millennials vs. Gen X is the only season where nobody was voted out or eliminated on day 3. This is due to the cast being evacuated due to a cyclone.
• This is the first season since Island of the Idols where only one player was eliminated in the premiere.
  • Winners at War: Natalie and Amber voted out.
  • 41: Abraham and Sara voted out.
  • 42: Jackson medevaced and Zach voted out.
• This is only the second time a premiere episode was 2-hours long and only one person was eliminated.
  • The other was 23 seasons ago in Heroes vs Villains.
    • Both times a woman was voted out unanimously (Morriah & Sugar).
• In Survivor 42 the last (and most recent) player eliminated had the last name Young (Jonathan), and in Survivor 43 the first player eliminated has the last name Young (Morriah).

Ratings

• The first episode received 5.046 million viewers and 0.79 in the Adults 18-49 demo.

Episode Title

• The episode title “LIVIN” was said by Cody. He said it’s his life motto and he also has it tattooed on his butt.

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