Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based on the latest episode of Survivor 50.
Jury
- Coach is the only player on the jury so far that’s been on a Survivor jury in a previous season.
- Dee won and Chrissy was a finalist.
Exile Island
- Despite being on a season with Exile Island in the subtitle (Panama), Cirie has only gone to exile island on the two returning seasons she’s been on with Exile (Micronesia & In the Hands of the Fans).
- The three members of the “Rizard of Oz” alliance have all been to Exile Island missing out on a big game twist.
- Rizo & Ozzy were on Exile during the Blood Moon tribal
- Cirie was sent during the Double Duos challenge and was immune at that night’s tribal council.
Double Duos Twist
- This is the first US Survivor season with this twist.
- It’s been previously used on the South African, French, Norwegian, Philippine, Quebecois, & Swedish franchises.
Immunity Challenge – “Two Days Gone”
- This challenge had 3 parts that were used in some variation in previous seasons.
- Ball & net portion: Edge of Extinction, Winners at War, Survivor 41, & Survivor 45.
- Rick and Emily have done this portion of the challenge in two separate seasons.
- Emily won the first time but lost the second time, while Rick has lost twice.
- Rick and Emily have done this portion of the challenge in two separate seasons.
- Net crawl & plank bridge portion: Survivor 43, Survivor 44, Survivor 45, Survivor 46, Survivor 47, & Survivor 48.
- It’s been used in every season of Survivor since Survivor 43 with the exception of Survivor 49.
- Emily, Tiffany, & Joe have done this portion of the challenge in two separate seasons.
- Emily has lost twice, Tiffany has lost once and won once & Joe has won twice.
- A player named Chrissy was voted out in the episode when this challenge was used in Survivor 48 & In the Hands of the Fans.
- Maze board portion: Philippines, Cagayan, San Juan del Sur, Millennials vs. Gen X, Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, David vs. Goliath, Edge of Extinction, Island of the Idols, Survivor 43, Survivor 48, & Survivor 49.
- Chrissy, Christian, Rick, & Joe have done this portion of the challenge in two separate seasons.
- Joe has won twice.
- Chrissy, Christian, Rick, & Joe have done this portion of the challenge in two separate seasons.
- Ball & net portion: Edge of Extinction, Winners at War, Survivor 41, & Survivor 45.
- All of the remaining Black players in the game were immune this episode.
- Joe & Tiffany won individual immunity
- Cirie was sent to exile and was exempt from being voted out at tribal council.
- This was the first time in Cirie’s entire Survivor career that she was immune at a post-merge tribal council.
- This was Tiffany’s first time winning individual immunity on Survivor.
- This is Joe’s 5th time winning individual immunity on Survivor.
- This is the first time that Stephenie hasn’t participated in a post-merge reward.
Confessionals
- Cirie had the most confessionals this episode with 8.
- Emily had 1 confessional this episode.
- Ozzy has the highest confessional count with 48.
- Tiffany currently has the lowest confessional count with 15.
- Chrissy had the 3rd lowest number of average confessionals in a season
- Heather – Survivor 41: 1 confessional average
- Naseer – Survivor 41: 1.22 confessional average
- Chrissy – In the Hands of the Fans: 1.38 confessional average
- Chrissy had the 3rd lowest number of average confessionals in a season
Tribal Council
- Chrissy & Coach were voted out 10-1-1.
- This is the first 10-1-1 vote on Survivor.
- This is the first time on US Survivor that two players were voted out together as a pair.
- This is Chrissy’s first time being voted out of Survivor.
- With Chrissy being voted out, Joe is the only player left in the game who’s never been eliminated.
- Both players eliminated in this episode competed on a season with “Heroes” in the title.
- Coach was on Heroes vs. Villains
- Chrissy was on Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers
- Coach received more elimination votes this season (11) than he did in all 3 of his previous seasons combined
- He received 6 votes in Tocantins, 4 votes in Heroes vs. Villains, & 0 votes in South Pacific
- Chrissy received more total elimination votes this season than she did votes against & winning votes in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.
- She received 7 votes against her and 2 votes to win.
- The most recent returning player season, Winners at War, also had a double elimination on day 16.
- Sandra & Parvati were voted out.
- This was the first double elimination since Survivor 42 that didn’t have two Black players voted out
- James & Ryan were voted out in a double elimination in Survivor 43.
- Sifu & Kaleb were voted out in a double elimination in Survivor 45.
- Tim & Soda were voted out in a double elimination in Survivor 46.
- Sai & Cedrek were voted out in a double elimination in Survivor 48.
- This is the 6th time that a split tribal council resulted in two players from the same starting tribe being voted out.
- Jenna & Michael from Malolo in Ghost Island
- Aaron & Missy from Lairo in Island of the Idols
- Rocksroy & Tori from Ika in Survivor 42
- James & Ryan from Coco in Survivor 43
- Sai & Cedrek from Vula in Survivor 48
- Chrissy & Coach from Kalo in In the Hands of the Fans
- Two people from each starting tribe received votes in this episode.
- Cila: Emily & Rick
- Kalo: Chrissy & Coach
- Vatu: Aubry & Rizo
- This is the fourth tribal council in a row where someone was unable to vote.
- Coach is the first man since Jake in Survivor 45 to use his Shot in the Dark.
- Coach has placed 12th on two separate seasons.
- Both seasons he placed 12th on are full returnee seasons (Heroes vs. Villains & In the Hands of the Fans)
- He also won 7 challenges in both of these seasons.
- Coach has been a jury member three times and a finalist once.
- He’s never been voted out pre-jury.
- In both of Joe’s seasons, the 2nd member of the jury was a woman named Chrissy in her 50s.
- Tiffany and Jonathan are the only original Kalo members left.
- Tiffany is the highest ranking female Kalo member
- Jonathan is the highest ranking male Kalo member.
- Christian, Joe, & Jonathan are the only players left without any votes against them.
- This is the first time this season where there’s more Cila and Vatu members left than original Kalo members.
- This is also the first time that there’s more Cila members left than original Vatu & Kalo members.
- It’s the first time this season where one starting tribe has held a majority over the other two.
- This is also the first time that there’s more Cila members left than original Vatu & Kalo members.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Double the Fun, Double the Demise” was said by Coach.
- This is his 2nd episode title in a row.
Survivor Birthdays
- This week’s episode aired on the following Survivor player’s birthdays:
- Eddie Fox – Caramoan
- Tom Laidlaw – Island of the Idols
- Both of these players started on an orange tribe in their seasons.
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