Cydney Gillon

Cydney Gillon is a contestant from Survivor: Kaôh Rōng.

Despite starting the game on To Tang and aligning with Scot Pollard and Kyle Jason, Cydney flipped on her former To Tang tribemates after the merge. As the founding member of the Dara Women's Alliance, Cydney emerged as a keen strategist, engineering the blindside of Nick Maiorano and positioning herself on the winning side of five straight votes. Much of this success came as part of a productive partnership with Aubry Bracco that eventually got her to the final four, where she lost to her ally in a tiebreaker firemaking challenge.

Profile[]

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Name (Age): Cydney Gillon (23)
Tribe Designation: Brawn
Current Residence: Douglasville, Ga.
Occupation: Body Builder
Personal Claim to Fame: I am most proud of receiving my International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness Pro card at the National Physique Committee Nationals in 2012. I was a junior at Penn at the time and I'd just turned 20. I had to train 3 times a day, not including track practice, in order to make my dream happen.
Inspiration in Life: My mother. She is the strongest woman I know and her loyalty is forever unwavering. She has been diagnosed with breast cancer twice, and even though she could barely walk from her chemo treatment, she still put me first and flew into support my bodybuilding show.
Hobbies: Sprinting, lifting/weight training and sleeping.
Pet Peeves: Obnoxious criers, bigots, overly weak people and basically anything related to closed-minded mentalities.
3 Words to Describe You: Opinionated, driven and disciplined.
If You Could Have 3 Things on the Island What Would They Be and Why? Branch chain amino acids/supplements- I need my vitamins so I hopefully won't lose all my muscle; a picture of my family and friends for motivation; and tweezers because my eyebrows can get crazy.
Survivor Contestant You Are Most Like: Tony, because his loyalty to those who really mattered was unwavering. He played the game from the beginning to the end.
Reason for Being on Survivor: My main reason for being on the show is winning the money to pay off medical school and college debt. I also want to be able to help my mother around the house so she doesn't have to decide which bills need to be paid.
Why You Think You'll "Survive" Survivor: My sense of humor will be most useful. You can't walk around looking like someone killed your dog all day. I think I will up the team morale. Beyond that, I think my athletic abilities can help win this competition.
Why You Think You Will Be the Sole Survivor: I believe that I have the tact and discipline to make it to the end. If I make it to the final 3, I'm confident I would get the needed votes because I will have created relationships and a story that my fellow tribe mates would want to vote for.^[2]

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Episode	Tribe Affiliation	Challenge	Challenge Type	Sit-Out?	Result
1	To Tang	Wooden Ships	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
2		Dragging the River	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
3		Rice Race	Reward/Immunity	No	2nd
4		Dig It	Reward	No	Lost
4		Snake, Rattle & Roll	Immunity	No	Lost
Switched Tribes, Day 12
5	Chan Loh	New School	Immunity	No	Won
6		Baba Buoys	Reward	No	Lost
6		Get Over It	Immunity	No	Won
Tribes Merged, Day 17
7	Dara	Roller Ball	Immunity		Lost
8		United We Stand	Reward		Lost
8		Uncomfortably Numb	Immunity		Lost
9		Knot Your Fault	Reward	No	Lost
9		Backed Up	Immunity		Lost
10		Free Will	Reward		Lost
10		This Much	Immunity		Lost
11		The Hook	Reward	No	Won
11		Running the Numbers	Immunity		Lost
12		Weight and Sea	Reward		Lost
12		Got a Hunch	Immunity		Won
13		5x5	Reward		Invited
14		Home Stretch	Reward		Invited
14		Gimme Three Steps	Immunity		Lost
Eliminated, Day 37

Episode	Cydney's Votes	Voted Against Cydney
1	Alecia; Darnell¹	-
2	Jennifer	-
3	To Tang Tribe Immune
4	Alecia	-
5	Chan Loh Tribe Immune
6	Chan Loh Tribe Immune
7	No Tribal Council
8	Nick	-
9	Debbie	Jason, Scot, Tai
10	Scot	-
11	Julia	-
12	Jason	Individual Immunity
13	No Tribal Council
14	Aubry	Aubry, Tai²
Eliminated, Day 37
Voted for Sole Survivor	Michele

^1 In "I'm a Mental Giant", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Alecia and Darnell, forcing a revote. Cydney changed her vote to Darnell on the revote.
^2 In "Not Going Down Without a Fight", the vote ended with a 2-2 tie between Cydney and Aubry, forcing a fire-making tiebreaker. Cydney was eliminated at the tiebreaker.

Post-Survivor[]

Cydney won the Figure Olympia at the 2018 IFBB Olympia.^[3]
On March 1, 2019, Cydney won the Arnold Classic 2019 Figure International competition.^[4]

Trivia[]

Cydney is both the youngest and the highest-ranking member of To Tang.
Cydney is the only female member of To Tang to make it to the merge in Survivor: Kaôh Rōng.
Cydney successfully voted out all five of her To Tang tribemates.
- She is the third castaway ever to successfully vote out all of their original tribemates during a single season, after John Cochran (in South Pacific) and Denise Stapley (in Philippines). She was followed by Ricard Foyé in Survivor 41 and Jesse Lopez in Survivor 43.
Cydney is the first person to be the last voted out of a season without being voted out the day before the Final Tribal Council.
Cydney lost 28 lbs. during her time on Kaôh Rōng.^[5]