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: “Ballin a Jack”
- This challenge was previously used in San Juan del Sur, Cambodia, and Island of the Idols (it was also used in Australian Survivor: Blood vs. Water).
- Joe Anglim in Cambodia is the only man to win this challenge in the US version.
- Frannie won her second immunity challenge.
- A woman has won immunity in every post-merge episode.
Hidden Immunity Idol/Advantage
- Heidi found a hidden immunity idol.
- Both players who were voted out with fake idols were unaware that their idols were fake when they were voted out.
- Sarah and Kane both had idols that they thought were real.
- This is the sixth time that an extra vote was used to vote for someone that didn’t go home.
- Worlds Apart: Dan used his extra vote to vote for Carolyn, who used an idol, sending Dan home.
- Kaoh Rong: Tai used his extra vote against Michele, but Kyle was voted out instead.
- Ghost Island: Kellyn used her extra vote against Laurel, but Michael was voted out instead.
- Survivor 41: Deshawn used his extra vote against Evvie, but Sydney was voted out instead.
- Survivor 42: Drea used her extra vote against Mike, but she was voted out instead.
- Survivor 44: Jaime used her extra vote against Heidi, but Kane was voted out instead.
- This is the first “new era” season with a Canadian player in which a Canadian player didn’t make it to final tribal council.
- The original holders of the extra vote and vote steal (control a vote) either directly or indirectly used their advantages on each other.
- Heidi controlled Lauren’s vote in episode 7.
- Lauren’s extra vote was used by Jaime to vote for Heidi in episode 9.
- This is the first season to have both an unsuccessful vote steal and unsuccessful extra vote.
- The opposite of this happened in Game Changers in which a vote steal and extra vote were successfully used.
- Survivor 43 is the only season in the “new era” to not have an extra vote advantage present.
Confessionals
- Danny had the most confessionals this episode with 6.
- Heidi and Jaime had the least amount of confessionals this episode with 2.
- Everyone had at least 2 confessionals this episode.
- Yam Yam has the most confessionals with 49.
- Heidi has the least amount of confessionals with 17.
Tribal Council
- Kane was voted out 5-3-1-1.
- This is the second time this vote count has happened.
- Rachel Ako in Millennials vs. Gen X is the only other player to be voted out 5-3-1-1.
- Kane was unsuccessful in voting anybody out this season.
- Episode 1: He voted for Brandon, who negated the vote with a hidden immunity idol.
- Episode 6: He voted for Yam Yam but Josh was voted out.
- Episode 8: he voted for Frannie but her votes were negated by a hidden immunity idol.
- Episode 9: He voted for Danny, but Kane was voted out.
- This is the first “new era” season to have only one player eliminated on day 17.
- In Survivor 41 Naseer and Evvie were voted out.
- In Survivor 42 Tori and Rocksroy were voted out.
- In Survivor 43 James and Ryan were voted out.
- At least one man has always been voted out on day 17 in the “new era.”
- Lyrsa in David vs. Goliath is the only woman to be the sole player voted out on day 17 in her season.
- Tori was voted out in a double elimination, and Sue quit on day 17 of All-Stars.
- This episode continued the trend in which none of the tribal councils this season have had a typical vote (all votes counted, everybody voted, no advantages used, etc.)
- Episode 1: Brandon used his idol and negated 2 votes for him. Matthew and Jaime used their Shot in the Dark and didn’t vote. Lauren banked her vote using her double vote advantage.
- Episode 2: Sarah could not vote due to losing her vote at The Summit.
- Episode 3: Claire used her Shot in the Dark and didn’t vote. Matt lost his vote at The Summit.
- Episode 4: Josh used his idol and negated two votes for him.
- Episode 5: No Tribal Council.
- Episode 6: Matt was unable to vote due to him losing his second vote at The Summit.
- Episode 7: Half of the tribe was immune and unable to vote.
- Episode 8: Danny played an idol for Frannie and negated six votes for her.
- Episode 9: Jaime used the extra vote and voted twice for Heidi.
- This episode is the first time this season where everyone voted and every vote that was cast counted towards the vote total.
- Three players received their first votes in this episode.
- Danny, Heidi, and Jaime had never been voted for prior to this tribal council.
- Coincidentally, they were all members of post-swap Soka.
- Danny, Heidi, and Jaime had never been voted for prior to this tribal council.
- Kane is the second man to sit out of an immunity challenge that occurred before his elimination.
- The first was Phillip in Caramoan.
- Everyone that’s been voted out post-merge so far has voted for Yam Yam at a tribal council.
- Lauren is the only player left who voted for Yam Yam and is still in the game.
- However, this vote was controlled by Heidi’s advantage, so everyone that has voluntarily voted for Yam Yam has been voted out post-merge.
- Lauren is the only player left who voted for Yam Yam and is still in the game.
- All three Ratu men have been eliminated from the game.
- Carson and Lauren are the only players left in the game without any votes against them.
- This is the seventh season where the first three jury members are men.
- Guatemala: Bobby Jon, Jamie, & Gary.
- Gabon: Marcus, Charlie, & Randy.
- One World: Jonas, Michael, & Jay.
- Caramoan: Michael, Phillip, & Malcolm.
- Blood vs. Water: Aras, Vytas, & Caleb.
- San Juan del Sur: Josh, Jeremy, & Wes.
- This is the fourth season to have an equal 3-3-3 tribe split at the final 9.
- Survivor 43, Kaoh Rong, and Cagayan also had three players from each starting tribe at the final 9.
Ratings
- The ninth episode received 5.221 million viewers and 0.74 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Under the Wing of a Dragon” was said by Danny in a confessional when Frannie suggested working with the original Ratu members.
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on Jeremy Crawford’s (David vs. Goliath) birthday.
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