Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based on the latest episode of Survivor 51.
Reward Challenge – “Five Blind Mice”
- Variations of this challenge were previously used in The Australian Outback, Marquesas, Thailand, The Amazon, All-Stars, Vanuatu, Guatemala, Fiji, Micronesia, Tocantins, Heroes vs. Villains, Nicaragua, Redemption Island, South Pacific, One World, Cagayan, Worlds Apart, Cambodia, Millennials vs. Gen X, Game Changers, Ghost Island, Island of the Idols, Survivor 42, Survivor 48, & In the Hands of the Fans.
Immunity Challenge – “Hartford Whalers”
- Variations of this challenge were previously used in Thailand, Nicaragua, & Survivor 46.
- Every time this challenge was used, the team or tribe that came in first had that season’s 7th place finisher.
- Penny in Thailand
- Benry in Nicaragua
- Venus in Survivor 46
- This challenge has never been won by the same colored tribe/team more than once.
- In Thailand, the purple tribe won
- In Nicaragua, the blue team won (with players from the red merged tribe)
- In Survivor 46, the orange tribe and green tribe won.
- In Survivor 51, the yellow tribe won.
- The challenge name references an NHL hockey team.
- This is the first time in a season with yellow & purple starting tribes where two different tribes won the first and second immunity challenge.
- In Samoa, the yellow tribe lost the first two immunity challenges while the purple tribe won
- In Australian Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, the yellow tribe won the first two immunity challenges while the purple tribe lost.
Hidden Immunity Idols/Advantages
- Jelly found a hidden immunity idol.
Confessionals
- Linnea, Rob, & Sharonda had the most confessionals this episode with 5.
- Thien An, Carter, & Cristian had 0 confessionals this episode.
- Devin has the highest total number of confessionals with 13.
- Cristian has the lowest total number of confessionals with 1.
Tribal Council
- Ana was voted out 6-4.
- This is the first time that 10 players cast votes at a pre-merge tribal council since episode 1 of Winners at War
- It’s also the first 6-4 pre-merge vote since Vytas’ boot episode on Cambodia.
- Both players voted out so far this season had 6 votes cast against them.
- All 3 women voted out of a purple tribe on day 5 have been Asian-American or Asian-Canadian.
- Helen Li in Survivor 44
- Jessica Chong in Survivor 46
- Ana Sani in Survivor 51
- Ana is the first new player to place 20th in a season but not be the first one voted out of the season.
- Mike White was voted out in 20th place on In the Hands of the Fans, but he was a returning player.
- Samburu, Sook Jai, & Solana are the only “S” starting tribes to vote a man out first.
- Eight “S” starting tribes have voted a woman out first.
- Salani is the only one where this was guaranteed as there were only women on the tribe to begin with.
- Eight “S” starting tribes have voted a woman out first.
- Rob is the first player to try to cast a vote for himself (without a twist being involved)
- Christian cast a vote for himself on In the Hands of the Fans, but it was due to the “One in the Urn” twist.
- Coincidentally, Rob trying to vote for himself happened in game on the same day that the Christian boot episode aired on TV as April 22nd was day 5 of Survivor 51.
- Christian cast a vote for himself on In the Hands of the Fans, but it was due to the “One in the Urn” twist.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Weaponized Honesty” was said by Devin talking about his strategy.
Survivor Birthdays
- This episode aired on the following players birthday:
- Joe Anglim – Worlds Apart, Cambodia, & Edge of Extinction
- Sharonda Cox – Survivor 51
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