Karine Lavigne-Fortin

Karine Lavigne-Fortin is a contestant from Survivor Québec (2023).

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Age: 37
Emplacement: Chelsea
Occupation: Professeure de karaté

À 37 ans, Karine est dans la meilleure forme de sa vie! Cette sensei honore son titre en transmettant sa passion des sports de combat au plus grand nombre. Son côté fille de bois, ses aptitudes physiques et sa détermination font d'elle une adversaire de taille. Elle est toujours là pour les autres mais elle est prête à tout pour se rendre au bout. Fière d'avoir décroché l'argent et le bronze au championnat du monde de karaté, l'heure est enfin venue d'aller chercher la plus haute marche du podium et d'être l'ultime survivante de Survivor Qc.^[2]

Survivor Québec[]

Karine was placed on the Kalooban tribe, where she got along the most with Pierre-Alexandre Guillot; though the two were not the most powerful members of the tribe, they were always well-positioned socially and were in the know about every vote before the tribe switch. Additionally, Pierre-Alexander and Karine had been close with the Kalooban members that had been blindsided (Denis, Martin, Sylvain, and Vicky), with all of them falsely believing that they had the pair on their side. Karine also became the first contestant to find a Hidden Immunity Idol.

On Day 16, a tribe switch occurred, sending Karine to the Tiyaga tribe alongside two other Kalooban women and four original Tiyaga tribe members. Though the situation seemed bleak for the three original Kalooban women, the sole female original Tiyaga tribe member on their new tribe, Marika Guay, felt that she was at the bottom of her original alliance and wanted to throw these women a lifeline. Thus, after the Tiyaga tribe lost the eighth Immunity Challenge, Marika plotted with them to vote against Christophe Tiffet at Tribal Council as they were predicting that Sango Bien-Aimé would play his Hidden Immunity Idol on their ideal target, Jean-Junior Morin. However, without Marika's knowledge, Karine became interested in working with the men and leaked the plan to them, prompting them to turn on Marika. At Tribal Council, Karine confirmed her allegiance to the men by voting against Marika with them, eliminating her in a narrow 4-3 vote. Maryse Lauzon was initially next in line to be eliminated after the Tiyaga tribe lost the following Immunity Challenge as well, but this eventually shifted to Martine Larose Reda thanks to Maryse's newfound closeness to Sango and her passionate plea at Tribal Council which contrasted Martine's halfhearted one.

When the tribes merged into Pag-Asa, Christophe's majority alliance, which now also included Maryse and Karine, was able to regroup; they recruited yet another new member into their fold, Justine Turpin. Joël Dandurand was their first target for elimination, but when he won the first individual Immunity Challenge, they split the votes between Sylvain Béland and Nicolas Brunette instead. Sylvain was voted out for a second time and, without the Pag-Asa tribe's knowledge, sent to Redemption Island. In a surprise Double Elimination, the Tiyaga Alliance immediately had another chance to vote out Joël after he lost the intervening Immunity Challenge. The alliance split their votes between Nicolas and Joël; Joël played his Hidden Immunity Idol for himself and Sango played his own for Kimberly Fortin in order to establish loyalty. As a result, Nicolas was eliminated as collateral damage.

With nine contestants remaining in the main game, Sango wanted to make a move, so he took advantage of a reward that he shared with Sandrine Fortier, Maryse, and Justine; the four agreed to work with Joël to blindside Jean-Junior at the next Tribal Council. After Jean-Junior won the following individual Immunity Challenge, their target switched to Christophe. However, Justine preferred to work with Christophe's group in the long run and leaked Sango's conspiracy to them. Thus, with the majority alliance pivoted to targeting Sango instead of Joël at the next Tribal Council. Indeed, Sango was voted out in a narrow 5-4 vote and sent to Redemption Island.

With the majority alliance now shortened to five loyal people, its members easily voted out Joël, Maryse, and Sandrine over the following three cycles. Additionally, Karine found another Hidden Immunity Idol, but this one had an expiry date. On Redemption Island, Nicolas won the final duel against Sandrine and Sylvain and returned to the main game. As most of the tribe seemed to have the same short-term headspace to simply concentrate on voting Nicolas back out of the game, Karine, wanting to bolster her resume, made a misguided plan in what would turn out to be a big show rather than a big move. This involved convincing Nicolas to vote against Christophe at the next Tribal Council, while in reality, she would play her expired Hidden Immunity Idol on Nicolas to no effect and play her still active one on Christophe, effectively protecting Christophe and eliminating Nicolas again. Meanwhile, what really happened was that Nicolas ultimately worked with Kimberly and Christophe to blindside Jean-Junior instead, with Karine and Justine being left out of the plan as well. Needing to win out from this point on, Karine won herself individual immunity at the final five but failed at the final four, causing her unanimous elimination right before the Final Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Karine joined the jury in voting for Nicolas to win the title of Sole Survivor; he won in a 6-1-1 vote over Christophe and Kimberly.

Episode	Tribe Affiliation	Challenge	Challenge Type	Sit-Out?	Result
1	Kalooban	Race to Shore/Losing Face	Reward	No	Lost
1		Rock n' Roll	Immunity	No	Lost
3		Nut Bucket	Reward	No	Lost
5		Sumo at Sea	Immunity	No	Won
7		Blind Cube Crisis	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
9		Brain Food	Reward	No	Lost
11		Mazed and Confused	Immunity	No	Won
13		United We Stand	Immunity	No	Lost
15		Slip, Slide & Score	Reward	No	Lost
17		Shoulder the Load	Reward/Immunity	No	Won
19		Phish Farm	Immunity	No	Lost
Switched Tribes, Day 16
21	Tiyaga	Idol Hands	Reward	No	Won
23		All Mixed Up	Immunity	No	Lost
25		Octopus' Garden	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
27		Shut Your Trap	Reward	No	Won
29		Hot Pursuit	Reward	No	Won
Tribes Merged, Day 23
31	Pag-Asa	Keep on Your Toes	Immunity	No	Lost
33		C.A.T.	Immunity		Lost
34		Mud Pack	Reward	No	Lost
36		Survivor Québec Auction
37		Last Gasp	Immunity		Lost
41		Touchy Subjects	Reward		Lost
43		Station By Station	Immunity	No	Lost
47		A Leg Up	Reward		Lost
49		Bermuda Triangles	Immunity		Lost
53		Fire and Rain	Reward		Won
55		Vertigo	Immunity	No	Lost
59		Ram-Ball On	Reward		Invited
61		Got a Hunch	Immunity		Won
63		Get a Grip	Immunity		Won
65		Blind Maze	Immunity		Lost
Voted Out, Day 43

Episode	Karine's Votes	Voted Against Karine
1	Martin	-
6	Kalooban Tribe Immune
7	Vicky	-
12	Kalooban Tribe Immune
13	Mock Vote¹
18	Kalooban Tribe Immune
19	Denis	-
24	Marika	-
25	Martine	-
31	Sylvain	-
33	~~Joël~~²	-
37	Sango	-
43	Sandrine	Joël, Maryse
49	Sandrine	-
55	Justine	-
61	~~Christophe~~³	Individual Immunity
64	Ineligible⁴	Individual Immunity
67	Kimberly	Christophe, Kimberly, Nicolas
Voted Out, Day 43
Voted for Sole Survivor	Nicolas

^1 In Episode 13, the Kalooban tribe was subjected to a mock Tribal Council where the player they voted out was switched to the other tribe.
^2 In Episode 33, Joël used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Karine's vote against him.
^3 In Episode 61, Karine used a Hidden Immunity Idol on Christophe, negating her vote against him.
^4 In Episode 64, Christophe used a Vote Blocker advantage on Karine, preventing her from voting at Tribal Council.

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Trivia[]

Karine is the first castaway in Survivor Québec to find a Hidden Immunity Idol.
Karine is the first woman to win multiple individual Immunity Challenges, as well as the first person overall to win consecutive Immunity Challenges.
Karine is the first castaway to not vote at a Tribal Council she attended.