Abi-Maria Gomes

Abi-Maria Gomes is a contestant from.

Profile
Retrieved from CBS.com

Personal Claim to Fame: Traveling the world on my own and becoming an American citizen. I now have dual citizenship in the United States and Brazil.

Inspiration in Life: Steve Jobs’ words, "Stay Hungry. Stay foolish."

Hobbies: Languages, hiking, dancing, surfing and skiing.

Pet Peeves: Complainers

3 Words to Describe You: Driven, creative and charming.

If You Could Have 3 Things on The Island What Would They Be and Why?

1) I would bring a book to distract me.

2) I would bring a pen for writing.

3) And, I would bring a notebook to write on.

SURVIVOR Contestant You Are Most Like: Parvati – she is as charming as I am.

Reason for Being on SURVIVOR: The money!

Why You Think You’ll “Survive” SURVIVOR: I bring social skills and team work. I am a motivator. I will also bring a very positive energy.

Why You Think You Will Be the Sole SURVIVOR: I will bring my “A” game! I am strategic, I am athletic and I have an ability to persuade situations to my favor.

Survivor: Philippines
Abi-Maria was one of the 6 original Tandang members. She formed a tight alliance with RC and soon used her flirtatious and charming attitude to recruit Pete while RC recruited Skupin and formed a majority alliance.

RC's trust in Abi was so strong that she shared her clue to the hidden immuniy idol with her, but Abi soon lost trust in RC as RC grew close to Skupin. This made Abi betray RC and form a closer bond with Pete who recruited Lisa and Artis into becoming the new majority alliance. Abi shared the clue with Pete who helped her find the idol.

Abi lost complete trust in RC when she found the clue to the idol in RC's backpack (planted by Pete) which destroyed any chances of RC becoming allies with Abi ever again.

When Matsing was dissolved, Malcolm joined Tandang at a random switch while his fellow Matsing tribemate, Denise, was moved to Kalabaw. This shift made it easier for the Tandang 4 (now Tandang 5) to eliminate Skupin, since Malcolm could easily replace him.

Abi and the rest of the original Tandang 7 remained safe from tribal council until they merged with Kalabaw. Abi joined the others in spliting their votes between Penner and RC but since Penner played his hidden immunity idol; her rival RC went home.

Abi was soon classified as one of the three "bullies" of the tribe along with fellow Tandang tribemates Artis and Pete. But despite this negative connotation; they still managed to vote out Jeff Kent when Lisa and Skupin decided to stay Tandang strong and after Penner voted for Abi by mistake, making Jeff the next member of the jury. It was in this tribal council where she revealed that she had a hidden immunity idol.

Due to Abi's negativity towards Lisa, the latter joined forces with Skupin and decided to jump ships and blindside Artis in order to dwindle Pete and Abi's power's.

Pete and Abi soon become the odd men out which made it top priority for Pete to win immunity since Abi had the idol but Pete failed to win. After a failed pursuation with Skupin, Pete soon became the next member of the jury.

During the auction, Abi spent all her cash on an advatage in the game. It was revealed that this advantage would allow her to skip the first 2 parts of the challenge and have a 1 in 3 chance at winning immunity. She then devised a plan to make a fake hidden immunity idol and pretend that the "advantage" she bought had 2 parts, one was for the immunity challenge and the other being the clue to the idol.

Everyone was in shock when she won her first and only immunity challenge, making her safe for tribal council and sending Jonathan Penner home.

With the fake idol still in her pocket, she felt that she was safe thinking that she fooled the whole tribe into thinking that she really had an idol. The rest of the tribe had doubts in Abi's idol but played safe by voting out Carter since he is a threat in challenges, this move would also "force" the "idol" out of Abi.

With only 5 people left, Abi tried to convince Lisa that Malcolm, Skupin and Denise were definitely gonna take each other to the final 3 and that they needed to vote Malcolm and/or Denise out in order to have a chance at winning since they would be the likely win. She tried to imposition herself as the swing vote by appealing to Skupin and Lisa and told them that they would not stand a chance against Malcolm and Denise in the final 3, even going to the extent of calling Skupin an idiot once and a moron twice. But Lisa and Skupin decided before tribal council that Malcolm was the real threat and that they needed Denise in the final 4 in order to ensure that Malcolm didn't win immunity so they rejected Abi's offer to vote out Denise and instead voted for Abi via unanimous decision.

Trivia

 * Abi-Maria's father is the Brazilian visual artist Gomes de Souza.
 * Abi-Maria is the twenty-fourth person to find the Hidden Immunity Idol.
 * In an interview with Dalton Ross, Abi-Maria revealed that she was originally recruited for, but was cut because she might gain an advantage due to her being Brazilian. She actually resided close to the filming location.
 * Abi-Maria holds the record for most tribal challenges sat out from, as she participated in just 2 out of 8 tribal challenges.
 * The only tribal challenges in which Abi-Maria did not sit out were ones that required all tribemates to compete.
 * Although she did not volunteer to sit out of the Reward Challenge in Down and Dirty, she did not participate due to the Kalabaw-Tandang deal in the first round.
 * She also sat out of the Reward Challenge during when she wasn't chosen to be on a team.
 * She even sat out on the first two parts of the Immunity Challenge in as part of an advantage she bought in the Survivor Auction.
 * On Day 27, Abi-Maria walked halfway out of Tribal Council before she realized that she forgot her torch.
 * Abi-Maria's mother is the only loved one to not speak English, so Abi had to translate for her mother and Jeff.
 * On Malcolm Freberg's profile for, he stated that his "Personal Claim to Fame" was having spent over a month with Abi-Maria, and is still considered legally sane by the state of California.