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, Savannah Louie.
- Original season: Survivor 49 (Winner)
- Age on original season: 31
- Age on In the Hands of the Fans: 31
- Savannah is the first winner to return in the season immediately following her winning season.
- All-Stars: Sandra was not on the cast
- Sandra was contacted about being on the season, but couldn’t play due to having parasites from being on Pearl Islands.
- Guatemala: Tom was not on the cast
- Micronesia: Todd was not on the cast
- Heroes vs. Villains: Natalie was not on the cast
- Redemption Island: Fabio was not on the cast
- South Pacific: Rob was not on the cast
- Philippines: Kim was not on the cast
- Caramoan: Denise was not on the cast
- Blood vs. Water: Cochran was not on the cast
- Cambodia: Mike was not on the cast
- Michele (whose season was filmed before Cambodia, but aired after) was also not on the cast.
- Game Changers: Adam was not on the cast
- Edge of Extinction: Nick was not on the cast
- Winners at War: Tommy was not on the cast
- Survivor 45: Yam Yam was not on the cast
- All-Stars: Sandra was not on the cast
- Savannah is the youngest winner by date of birth (November 16th, 1993)
- Savannah had the most confessionals in Survivor 49 with 84.
- Savannah & Rizo are the third set of 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.
- Savannah (and Rizo) competed in two seasons before their first season aired, they’re the 5th & 6th players to do so after Russell Hantz, Malcolm, Michaela, & Zeke.
- Savannah tied the record for most individual immunity challenges won by a woman with 4. The others are as follows:
- Kelly in Borneo
- Jenna in The Amazon
- Kim in One World
- Chrissy in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers
- Rachel in Survivor 47
- Savannah is one of 4 women to win a firemaking challenge against a man.
- Stephenie (Palau), Carolyn (Worlds Apart), & Heidi (44) are the others.
- Dee, Kyle, & Savannah are the 28th, 29th, & 30th winners to play multiple seasons of Survivor.
- Vecepia, Brian, Chris D, Earl, Todd, Bob, Natalie W, Fabio, Mike H, Chris U, Tommy, Erika, Maryanne, Gabler, Yam Yam, Kenzie, & Rachel have only played on one season.
- Savannah, Dee & Kyle all won their seasons with 5 votes.
- Savannah, Dee, & Kyle all won the first tribal immunity challenge of their season.
- Savannah & Kyle both used an extra vote advantage on their winning seasons.
- Savannah is the only new era winner to lose her vote during the season she won.
- Both female winners on this season started on red tribes in their original season.
- Dee started on Reba in Survivor 45
- Savannah started on Uli in Survivor 49
- Savannah and Dee both have a 56% voting record, voting correctly at 5 of the 9 tribal councils they attended.
- Savannah & Dee are the only female first-time winners to come from a red starting tribe.
- Amber & Sandra were on red starting tribes when they won their second seasons.
- Savannah holds the record for most challenges won by the sole survivor in the new era with 12.
- She also holds the new era record for most individual challenges won with 5.
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