Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based on the latest episode of Survivor 45.
Hidden Immunity Idol/Advantage
- Julie is the first woman to successfully negate a majority of votes against herself with a hidden immunity idol since Natalie in Winners at War.
- She’s the first woman in the new era to do this.
- She’s the second woman in the new era to have a majority of votes negated with a hidden immunity idol after Danny played his idol for Frannie in Survivor 44.
- She’s the first woman in the new era to do this.
- Drew is the first person to have the Safety Without Power advantage but never used it.
Immunity Challenge: “Unspun Heroes”
- Variations of this challenge were used in Guatemala, Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur, Cambodia, and David vs. Goliath.
- Stephenie in Guatemala is the only woman to win this challenge.
- This is the first time this challenge was used as an individual immunity challenge on a season with a merged tribe color that wasn’t red.
- It was used as an individual immunity challenge in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Tribal Council
- Emily was voted out 1-0 after a 6-1 vote in which Julie negated 6 votes against her.
- She’s the fourth player to be voted out 1-0 (not counting seasons with a Final 2 where the final immunity winner casts the sole vote).
- Lauren was voted out 1-0 in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.
- Sandra was voted out 1-0 in Winners at War.
- Maddy was voted out 1-0 in Survivor 44.
- All four players to be voted out 1-0 are women.
- The original vote at tribal council where Lauren was voted out in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers was also 6-1.
- She’s the fourth player to be voted out 1-0 (not counting seasons with a Final 2 where the final immunity winner casts the sole vote).
- This was the first time since episode 7 that Jake didn’t receive any votes.
- In the new era, someone from the yellow starting tribe has always been voted out on day 21.
- Liana from Yase in Survivor 41
- Sami from Baka in Survivor 43
- Emily from Lulu in Survivor 45
- With Emily being voted out, this is the first new era season where someone with a “mat chat” in the premiere episode won’t win.
- Erika, Maryanne, Gabler, and Yam Yam all had a mat chat in the premiere episode.
- Not including the initial vote in episode 6, where Kaleb successfully played his Shot in the Dark, Julie has voted correctly AND cast a vote at every tribal she’s attended.
- She’s the only player this season with this distinction.
- This is the third new era season where four original tribe members made it to the final 6.
- The first was Luvu in Survivor 41 (Erika, Deshawn, Heather, and Danny).
- The second was Taku in Survivor 42 (Maryanne, Jonathan, Lindsay, and Omar).
- The jury consists of only Belo and Lulu members so far.
- The only two Reba members to be voted out after the pre-merge portion of the game (J. Maya & Sifu) are not on the jury.
- Lulu is tied for the record for the earliest that a tribe went extinct, with its last original member (Emily) being eliminated in 7th place. The others are as follows:
- Ulong in Palau: Stephenie was the last member of the tribe and was voted out in 7th place.
- Solana in Cagayan: Jefra was the last member of the tribe and was voted out in 7th place.
- This makes Emily tie with Stephenie and Jefra for the record of lowest finish of the highest placing member of a starting tribe.
- Since new era seasons are shorter, Lulu holds the record for the earliest in the season that a starting tribe lost all its original members, having it happen on day 21.
- In Palau and Cagayan, this happened on day 30.
- This is the second time since episode 13 of Micronesia (when Erik was blindsided) where the majority of the votes were shown before being read by Jeff.
Confessionals
- Dee and Austin had the most confessionals this episode with 10
- Jake had the lowest number of confessionals with 4.
- Of the remaining players, Drew has the most total confessionals with 56, and Julie has the lowest number of total confessionals with 35.
Ratings
- The tenth episode received 4.835 million viewers and 0.81 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “This Game Rips Your Heart Out” was said by Emily at tribal council.
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on Colleen Haskell (Borneo), Stephenie LaGrossa (Palau, Guatemala, Heroes vs. Villains), and Christian Hubicki’s (David vs. Goliath) birthday.
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