Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor 44.
Immunity Challenge: “No Quarter”
- Variations of this challenge have been used in Africa, Gabon, Survivor 41, and Survivor 42
- Survivor 43 is the only “new era” season that didn’t use this challenge.
- This challenge has only been used in seasons filmed in Africa and “new era” seasons.
- Both times this challenge was used in Africa, the yellow tribe won.
- In the “new era” seasons, a different colored team has won each time.
- In Survivor 41 the blue team won, in Survivor 42 the orange team won, and in Survivor 44 the purple team won.
- The tree puzzle at the end of the challenge was used in Winners at War.
- A similar tree puzzle was used in One World and Worlds Apart, but it was much smaller.
- This is the first “earn the merge” challenge that didn’t have a blue team competing.
- This is the first time the “earn the merge” twist was done where nobody was sitting out.
- Survivor 41: Erika and Naseer sat out
- Survivor 42: Lindsay and Rocksroy sat out
- Survivor 43: Noelle sat out
Mergatory
- This is the first black merged tribe in the “new era.”
- The most recent black merged tribe was in Winners at War.
- This is the 16th black tribe in Survivor history.
- It’s the 15th black merged tribe.
- This season has the same tribe color scheme as Cagayan, Millennials vs. Gen X, and Ghost Island.
- There were orange, green, and purple tribes pre-merge with a black merged tribe.
- Tom from Island of the Idols is the only Canadian player to not make it to the merge.
- Erika & Shan in Survivor 41
- Omar & Maryanne in Survivor 42
- Kane in Survivor 44
- Both of the players who are from Puerto Rico (Heidi & Yam Yam) made it to the merge this season.
- Matt is the 20th player to make it to the merge without casting a vote at a pre-merge tribal council. The others are as follows:
- The Tandang tribe in Philippines (Abi-Maria, Lisa, Skupin, Artis, Pete, & RC)
- Keith & Joe in Cambodia
- Nick & Michele in Kaoh Rong
- Cirie in Game Changers
- Jessica in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers
- Chris in Ghost Island
- Joe, Julia, Ron, Julie & Aurora in Edge of Extinction
- Sydney in Survivor 41
- Matt is the only player to attend a pre-merge tribal council and make it to the merge without casting a vote.
- This is the first season since Ghost Island that didn’t have a blue tribe.
Confessionals
- Carson had the most confessionals this episode with 6.
- Lauren and Danny had 0 confessionals this episode.
- Lauren hasn’t had a confessional since episode 3.
- Of the remaining players, Yam Yam has the most confessionals with 35 and Heidi has the least amount of confessionals with 8.
Tribal Council
- Josh was voted out 7-3-1.
- He’s the fourth player to be voted out with this vote total. The others are as follows:
- Michael Snow in Caramoan
- Natalie Anderson in Winners at War
- Chanelle Howell in Survivor 42
- Josh is the 12th player to be voted out on day 13.
- The most recent was Elie in Survivor 43.
- Josh is the first man to be voted out at the “mergatory” tribal council.
- Sydney was voted out in Survivor 41
- Lydia was voted out in Survivor 42
- Elie was voted out in Survivor 43
- Josh is the first man to be voted out this season.
- This episode was the first time this season where Lauren and Jaime cast a vote.
- Matt is the first player to be unable to vote at multiple tribal councils.
- He’s also the first player to be unable to vote and immune at the same tribal council.
- Kane is the only player remaining who has voted but never voted someone out.
- He voted for Brandon in episode 1 and his vote was nullified
- He voted for Yam Yam this episode but Josh was voted out.
- Carson is the only Tika player that has attended a tribal council but not received a vote.
- None of the remaining Soka players have any votes cast against them.
- This includes Jaime who swapped to Soka.
- All three post-swap Tika members voted for a different person at tribal council.
- Carolyn voted for Kane
- Josh voted for Yam Yam
- Yam Yam voted for Josh
- Carolyn is the only post-swap Tika player that didn’t get a vote at this tribal council.
- This is the first tribal council this season where no women received votes against them.
- Carolyn is the only woman so far this season to receive votes and not be voted out.
- Every starting tribe now has at least two players fewer than they started with.
- Ratu: Maddy & Matthew
- Soka: Claire & Josh
- Tika: Bruce, Helen, & Sarah
- Half of the LGBTQ players made it to the merge.
- Claire, Matthew, & Josh were eliminated before the merge
- Carolyn, Frannie, & Yam Yam made it to the merge.
Ratings
- The sixth episode received 5.185 million viewers and 0.71 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Survivor With a Capital S” was said by Matt before heading into tribal council.
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on the following Survivor players’ birthday (April 5th): Liliana Gomez (Fiji), Matt Quinlan (One World), Jessica Johnston (Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers), Rick Devens (Edge of Extinction)
- Coincidentally all four of them were the first player voted out of a tribe.
- Liliana was the first player voted out of Moto
- Matt was the first player voted out of Malolo
- Jessica was the first player voted out of Solewa (merged tribe)
- Rick was the first player voted out of Lesu (expansion tribe)
- Coincidentally all four of them were the first player voted out of a tribe.
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