In the countdown to the Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans premiere on Wednesday, February 25, Inside Survivor’s Rob Brodeur will be posting a history of stats for each of the 24 returning castaways.
Today, we are looking at Survivor: Cook Islands, Survivor: Micronesia, Survivor: South Pacific, and Survivor: Game Changers castaway, Ozzy Lusth.
- Original season: Cook Islands (Runner-Up)
- Returning seasons: Micronesia (9th Place), South Pacific (4th Place), Game Changers (12th Place)
- Age on original season: 24
- Ozzy was the youngest man on Cook Islands and youngest returning man on Micronesia
- Age on In the Hands of the Fans: 44
- Ozzy holds the record for most times being voted out of Survivor, with 5 times.
- Once in Micronesia & Game Changers.
- Three times in South Pacific.
- Ozzy also holds the record for most times being voted out in a single season with 3 times.
- Ozzy was on both yellow merged tribes on Survivor.
- He was on Te Tuna in South Pacific and Maku Maku in Game Changers.
- The merged tribe is yellow this season so if he makes it to the merge, he’ll have been on all 3 yellow merged tribes.
- He was on Te Tuna in South Pacific and Maku Maku in Game Changers.
- In Cook Islands, Ozzy only received votes at his first tribal council and at final tribal council.
- Chris in Vanuatu and Katie in Palau also hold this distinction.
- Ozzy is the only player to return to the game twice in the same season after being voted out twice.
- Ozzy was the first Latino man to make it to final tribal council on a season and the second Latino after Sandra in Pearl Islands.
- Ozzy was the first Latino player to finish in 2nd place.
- Ozzy and Christine are the only players to win redemption island duels on South Pacific
- Ozzy is one of 3 players to win the same challenge on two separate seasons. Parvati & Keith are the other two.
- He won “Get a Grip” as an immunity challenge on Cook Islands & as a redemption island duel on South Pacific
- Ozzy and Ciera are tied for 3rd most elimination votes in all of their seasons of Survivor, with 34 total votes.
- Andrea has the most with 36, and Wentworth has the 2nd most with 35.
- Ozzy, along with Aubry, Q, & Tiffany have been voted out while in possession of a hidden immunity idol.
- Ozzy is one of 5 players to receive 4 jury votes at final tribal council and not win the season.
- Chase in Nicaragua, Domenick in Ghost Island, Gavin in Edge of Extinction, & Natalie in Winners at War are the others.
- Ozzy has been present at final tribal council in 4 different seasons.
- He was a finalist in Cook Islands, and on the jury in Micronesia, South Pacific, & Game Changers.
- Cirie has also achieved this feat, being on the jury in Panama, Micronesia, Game Changers, & Australian Survivor vs the World.
- He was a finalist in Cook Islands, and on the jury in Micronesia, South Pacific, & Game Changers.
- In Micronesia, Ozzy was the only man from Malakal to take part in the tribe swap that season and be voted out.
- Fairplay and Yau-Man were voted out pre-swap.
- Penner and James were medically evacuated.
- Ozzy is one of 5 players to be the highest ranking member of his tribe in two different Survivor seasons. Stephenie, Sandra, Tony, & Natalie A. are the others.
- Ozzy was the highest ranking member of Aitu in Cook Islands and the highest ranking member of Savaii in South Pacific.
- Ozzy is the only player this season who was sent to Redemption Island.
- Ozzy is one of 3 players, including Candice and Aras to be sent to both Exile Island and Redemption Island.
- Ozzy is the only player to play on a season with every iteration of casting style.
- He was on Cook Islands, which had all new players
- He was on Micronesia, which had half new and half returning players
- He was on South Pacific, which had one returning player per tribe
- He was on Game Changers & In the Hands of the Fans which had all returning players.
- Ozzy is the only player to make it to the merge 4 times.
- Ozzy won every individual immunity challenge on Cook Islands with the exception of one which was won by Adam.
- Ozzy is tied with Tom, Terry, Colby, Mike H, & Brad for most individual immunity wins with 5.
- Ozzy was the first player to find a hidden immunity idol on his returning season.
- He’s the first player to find multiple hidden immunity idols and never negate a vote with one.
- Ozzy & Cirie have started on the same tribe in all 3 seasons they’ve been in together.
- Micronesia – Both started on Malakal
- Game Changers – Both started on Nuku
- In the Hands of the Fans – Both started on Cila
- Ozzy is one of 7 players whose first season was prior to Heroes vs. Villains who have played 3+ times and none of those times were on Heroes vs Villains.
- Jenna Lewis, Tina Wesson, Amber Mariano, Jeff Varner, Ethan Zohn, & Jonathan Penner are the other 6 players with this distinction.
- Ozzy, Coach & Cirie were all inducted to the Xfinity Survivor Hall of Fame.
- Ozzy & Cirie in 2011, and Coach in 2015.
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