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 49 castaway, Rizo Velovic.
- Original season: Survivor 49 (4th Place)
- Age on original season: 25
- Age on In the Hands of the Fans: 26
- Rizo is the second person to be the youngest player on two separate seasons after Jenna Morasca.
- Rizo is the first Albanian Survivor player.
- Rizo and Savannah are the third set players to return on a season after competing in a firemaking challenge against each other. The others are as follows:
- Stephenie & Bobby Jon who competed in firemaking in Palau and returned in Guatemala.
- Cirie & Danielle who competed in firemaking in Panama and returned in Heroes vs. Villains.
- Cirie and Stephenie are both on this season with Rizo and Savannah.
- All 3 times a firemaking pair returned, they were on different starting tribes.
- Stephenie was on Yaxha and Bobby Jon was on Nakum in Guatemala
- Cirie was on Heroes and Danielle was on Villains in Heroes vs. Villains
- Rizo is on Vatu and Savannah is on Cila in In the Hands of the Fans.
- Cirie and Danielle are the only firemaking pair that started on different tribes in their season.
- They were however swapped to Casaya together after episode 1.
- Rizo (and Savannah) competed in two seasons before their first season aired, they’re the 5th & 6th players to do so after Russell Hantz, Malcolm, Michaela, & Zeke.
- Rizo is one of 5 Survivor players who are Muslim, after Ibrehem, Natalia, Naseer, & Omar.
- Rizo only won 1 challenge during the post-merge phase of Survivor 49, and it was a team reward challenge in the merge episode.
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