Survivor: South Pacific is the twenty-third season of Survivor. It was first announced by Jeff Probst on the Reunion Show of Survivor: Redemption Island. It premiered on September 14, 2011 with a 90-minute premiere.[2] New player Sophie Clarke beat out veteran player Coach Wade and fellow new player Albert Destrade in a 6-3-0 vote to win the title of Sole Survivor. To date, it has produced five returning players (Brandon Hantz, Dawn Meehan, John Cochran, Ozzy Lusth, and Sophie Clarke) for subsequent seasons.
Production[]
The season was filmed in the vicinity of Upolu, Samoa, and premiered on September 14, 2011 with a 90-minute debut. It is in the same filming location as Survivor: Samoa and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. Fiji and Tonga were said to be alternate locations.
Aggie Grey's, the hotel that was used in the two aforementioned seasons was used once again to accommodate the staff and crew. The duration of their stay was reported to be identical to their last visit to Samoa. The said hotel had no availability from May 16 to September 16, 2011. Locals have been very appreciative hosting the show for a third time, stating that it helped boost their tourism industry (with revenues reported to be approximately $6,000,000 for filming seasons 19 and 20). The show also helped the devastated country recover from the 2009 Samoan tsunami.
Twists/Changes[]
- Redemption Island: Redemption Island returned this season, but with new tweaks. During "group duels," or duels that have more than two competitors, only one winner stays, sending all the other contestants home.
- One Returning Player Per Tribe: Two former contestants returned to compete in this season. Former castaways Coach Wade and Ozzy Lusth joined this season's batch of contestants. Host Jeff Probst stated that their poor social skills had put them to jeopardy in their earlier seasons, and that this would be their chance to improve in that aspect.
- Challenges: Similar to the previous season, with the advent of the Redemption Island duels, this season featured several challenges for both reward and immunity. Only a single standalone Reward Challenge occurred during the season.
- Hidden Immunity Idol: The clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol was hidden at camp. Once the clue is unearthed, the player will have a better chance of finding the idol.
- Merge: This season merged with twelve castaways in the game.
- Double Elimination: On Day 27, Te Tuna was subjected to a double elimination, where two castaways would be eliminated after two rounds of voting.
- Expanded Jury and Final Three: Instead of the conventional Final Two facing the jury of seven, the Day 39 Tribal Council was held with a Final Three facing a nine-person jury.
Castaways[]
Contestant | Tribe Affiliation | Finish | Redemption Island Status |
Votes Against | ||
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Original Tribe | Merged Tribe | |||||
Semhar Tadesse 24, Los Angeles, CA Spoken Word Artist |
Savaii | 1st Voted Out Day 3 |
1st Eliminated Day 6 |
8 | ||
Mark Caruso 47, Forest Hills, NY Retired NYPD Detective |
Savaii | 3rd Voted Out Day 8 |
2nd Eliminated Day 9 |
6 | ||
Stacey Powell 43, Grand Prairie, TX Mortician |
Upolu | 4th Voted Out Day 11 |
3rd Eliminated Day 12 |
10 | ||
Elyse Umemoto 27, Las Vegas, NV Dance Team Manager |
Savaii | 5th Voted Out Day 14 |
4th Eliminated Day 15 |
3 | ||
Mikayla Wingle 21, Tampa, FL Lingerie Football Player |
Upolu | 6th Voted Out Day 16 |
5th Eliminated Day 17 |
4 | ||
Christine Shields Markoski 39, Merrick, NY Teacher |
Upolu | 2nd Voted Out Day 5 |
6th Eliminated Day 19 |
4 | ||
Jim Rice 35, Denver, CO Medical Marijuana Dispenser |
Savaii | Te Tuna | 10th Voted Out Day 24 |
7th Eliminated 1st Jury Member Day 25 |
8 | |
Keith Tollefson 26, Edina, MN Water Treatment Technician |
Savaii | 8th Voted Out Day 21 |
8th Eliminated 2nd Jury Member Day 25 |
12 | ||
Dawn Meehan 40, South Jordan, UT English Professor |
Savaii | 11th Voted Out Day 27 |
9th Eliminated 3rd Jury Member Day 28 |
9 | ||
Whitney Duncan 26, Nashville, TN Country Music Singer |
Savaii | 12th Voted Out Day 27 |
10th Eliminated 4th Jury Member Day 28 |
7 | ||
John Cochran 24, Washington, DC Harvard Law Student |
Savaii | 13th Voted Out Day 30 |
11th Eliminated 5th Jury Member Day 31 |
13 | ||
Edna Ma 35, Los Angeles, CA Anesthesiologist |
Upolu | 14th Voted Out Day 32 |
12th Eliminated 6th Jury Member Day 33 |
15 | ||
Brandon Hantz 19, Katy, TX Oil Tanker Crewman |
Upolu | 15th Voted Out Day 35 |
13th Eliminated 7th Jury Member Day 36 |
4 | ||
Rick Nelson 51, Aurora, UT Rancher |
Upolu | 16th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 37 |
15 | |||
Ozzy Lusth 29, Venice, CA Cook Islands & Micronesia |
Savaii | 7th Voted Out Day 18 9th Voted Out Day 22 17th Voted Out 9th Jury Member Day 38 |
1st Returnee Day 19 2nd Returnee Day 36 |
17 | ||
Albert Destrade 26, Plantation, FL Baseball/Dating Coach |
Upolu | Second Runner-Up |
1 | |||
Coach Wade 39, Susanville, CA Tocantins & Heroes vs. Villains |
Upolu | Runner-Up | 0 | |||
Sophie Clarke 21, Willsboro, NY Medical Student |
Upolu | Sole Survivor | 5 |
Season Summary[]
The sixteen new castaways, previously divided into two tribes, Savaii and Upolu, were joined by returning contestants, Coach and Ozzy, with Coach joining Upolu and Ozzy joining Savaii by random draw. Redemption Island was again in play: voted out players would be sent to Redemption Island and participate in duels, with the winner remaining there until either the next duel or until two specific points where players were brought back into the game.
Both tribes rallied under the leadership of Coach and Ozzy. Ozzy's style was somewhat more aggressive, establishing a rift between the majority of his alliance and the outsiders, specifically the weaker Cochran. Coach, having reflected on his past performances on Survivor, had a more open style, which most of the group readily followed, including Brandon, who later revealed himself to be the nephew of former Survivor castaway Russell Hantz, and had feared revealing this to draw his tribe's ire. Both Coach and Ozzy also found their tribes' respective Hidden Immunity Idols.
The two tribes fared equally at challenges and retained similar numbers, and as they approached the perceived merge, Ozzy offered a plan to volunteer to be voted to go to Redemption Island, where he would likely win the challenge over Christine, a former Upolu member, assuring that the tribes would be equal at six members each when merged. This plan went as expected, and the newly merged tribe named themselves Te Tuna. However, Ozzy's previous rash behavior to Cochran was seen as an opportunity by the former Upolu members, and they were able to turn Cochran to their side on the first vote after the merge, voting out former Savaii member Keith. The Upolu members and Cochran would continue to dominate at Tribal Council, sending the remaining Savaii members to Redemption Island.
With no other Savaii members remaining, Cochran was voted out. Brandon won immunity at the final six, but offered it to his closest ally Albert, who was the intended target of the vote. Brandon was voted out and defeated by Ozzy the next day at the final Redemption duel. Ozzy returned to the game and won the subsequent challenge; at Tribal Council, Sophie broke down into tears but affirmed her commitment to the game, and was spared over Rick. In the Final Immunity Challenge, Sophie was narrowly able to defeat Ozzy; and she and her former Upolu members voted out Ozzy for the third and final time.
Albert, Coach, and Sophie faced the Final Tribal Council, where Coach was criticized for manipulating his tribe while simultaneously preaching the importance of honor, Albert was considered to have given his former tribe members false hope, and Sophie was criticized for being condescending. The jury awarded Sophie the title of Sole Survivor over Coach and Albert in a 6-3-0 vote, respectively.
Episode | Air Date | Redemption Island | Challenges | Voted Out (Vote) |
Status | Viewership (in millions)[3] |
Rating/Share (18-49)[3] | |||||
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Inhabitant | Challenger | Eliminated | Finish | Reward | Immunity | |||||||
1 | "I Need Redemption" | September 14, 2011 | Savaii | Upolu | Semhar (8-1) |
1st Voted Out Day 3 |
10.74 | 3.4/10 | ||||
2 | "He Has Demons" | September 21, 2011 | Semhar | Savaii1 | Christine (4-3-1-1) |
2nd Voted Out Day 5 |
10.46 | 3.2/9 | ||||
3 | "Reap What You Sow" | September 28, 2011 | Semhar | Christine | Semhar | 1st Eliminated Day 6 |
Upolu1 | Mark (6-1-1) |
3rd Voted Out Day 8 |
10.71 | 3.2/9 | |
4 | "Survivalism" | October 5, 2011 | Christine | Mark | Mark | 2nd Eliminated Day 9 |
Savaii1 | Stacey (7-1) |
4th Voted Out Day 11 |
10.72 | 3.1/9 | |
5 | "Taste the Victory" | October 12, 2011 | Christine | Stacey | Stacey | 3rd Eliminated Day 12 |
Upolu1 | Elyse (3-2-2) |
5th Voted Out Day 14 |
10.69 | 3.2/9 | |
6 | "Free Agent" | October 19, 2011 | Christine | Elyse | Elyse | 4th Eliminated Day 15 |
Savaii1 | Mikayla (4-3) |
6th Voted Out Day 16 |
11.24 | 3.3/9 | |
7 | "Trojan Horse" | October 26, 2011 | Christine | Mikayla | Mikayla | 5th Eliminated Day 17 |
Upolu1 | Ozzy (5-1) |
7th Voted Out Day 18 |
11.79 | 3.5/10 | |
8 | "Double Agent" | November 2, 2011 | Christine | Ozzy | Christine | 6th Eliminated Day 19 |
None | Dawn | Keith (6-6; 6-4)2,3 |
8th Voted Out Day 21 |
11.95 | 3.6/10 |
Ozzy | 1st Returnee Day 19 |
Ozzy | ||||||||||
9 | "Cut Throat" | November 9, 2011 | Keith | None | Jim | Ozzy (9-2) |
9th Voted Out Day 22 |
10.80 | 3.2/9 | |||
Whitney | Jim (7-3) |
10th Voted Out Day 24 | ||||||||||
10 | "Running the Show" | November 16, 2011 | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | 7th Eliminated 1st Jury Member Day 25 |
None | Sophie | Dawn (7-2) |
11th Voted Out Day 27 |
11.66 | 3.3/9 |
Jim | Keith | 8th Eliminated 2nd Jury Member Day 25 |
Sophie | Whitney (7-1) |
12th Voted Out Day 27 | |||||||
11 | "A Closer Look" | November 23, 2011 | Recap Episode | N/A | N/A | |||||||
12 | "Cult Like" | November 30, 2011 | Ozzy | Dawn | Dawn | 9th Eliminated 3rd Jury Member Day 28 |
Cochran (5-2) |
13th Voted Out Day 30 |
11.05 | 3.1/9 | ||
Whitney | Whitney | 10th Eliminated 4th Jury Member Day 28 |
[Coach] (Cochran) |
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13 | "Ticking Time Bomb" | December 7, 2011 | Ozzy | Cochran | Cochran | 11th Eliminated 5th Jury Member Day 31 |
[Albert, Brandon, Coach]5 |
Coach | Edna (5-1) |
14th Voted Out Day 32 |
11.59 | 3.3/9 |
14 | "Then There Were Five" | December 14, 2011 | Ozzy | Edna | Edna | 12th Eliminated 6th Jury Member Day 33 |
Brandon (3-2) |
15th Voted Out Day 35 |
10.87 | 3.1/9 | ||
[Rick] | (Albert) | |||||||||||
15 | "Loyalties Will Be Broken" | December 18, 2011 | Ozzy | Brandon | Brandon | 13th Eliminated 7th Jury Member Day 36 |
None | Ozzy | Rick (3-2) |
16th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 37 |
13.07 | 4.0/10 |
Ozzy | 2nd Returnee Day 36 | |||||||||||
Sophie | Ozzy (3-1) |
17th Voted Out 9th Jury Member Day 38 | ||||||||||
Jury Vote | Albert (6-3-0) |
Second Runner-Up | ||||||||||
Coach (6-3-0) |
Runner-Up | |||||||||||
Sophie (6-3-0) |
Sole Survivor | |||||||||||
16 | "Reunion" | 9.92 | 3.1/9 | |||||||||
Notes: ^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.
^2 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played, however, no votes were cast against its user. ^3 The vote resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a revote would commence. ^4 Albert shared reward with Coach and then gave up his own reward to Cochran, while keeping immunity. ^5 After winning the duel, Ozzy had to choose three people to temporarily join him at Redemption Island with their loved ones.. ^6 Brandon shared reward with Rick, and later gave up immunity to Albert at Tribal Council. |
Voting History[]
Original Tribes | Merged Tribe | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||||||||
Voted Out | Semhar |
Christine |
Mark |
Stacey |
Elyse |
Mikayla |
Ozzy |
Tie | Keith |
Ozzy |
Jim |
Dawn |
Whitney |
Cochran |
Edna |
Brandon |
Rick |
Ozzy |
Albert |
Coach |
Sophie | |
Vote | 8-1 | 4-3-1-1 | 6-1-1 | 7-1 | 3-2-2 | 4-3 | 5-1 | 6-61,2 | 6-4 | 9-2 | 7-3 | 7-2 | 7-1 | 5-2 | 5-1 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 3-1 | 6-3-0 | |||
► | Sophie | — | Stacey | — | Stacey | — | Edna | — | Keith | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Cochran | Edna | Brandon | Rick | Ozzy | Jury Vote | ||
► | Coach | — | Christine | — | Stacey | — | Mikayla | — | Keith | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Cochran | Edna | Brandon | Rick | Ozzy | |||
► | Albert | — | Christine | — | Stacey | — | Edna | — | Keith | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Cochran | Edna | Sophie | Rick | Ozzy | |||
► | Ozzy | Semhar | — | Mark | — | Cochran | — | Cochran | Rick | Rick | Cochran | Sophie | Albert | Sophie | ||||||||
► | Rick | — | Stacey | — | Stacey | — | Mikayla | — | Keith | None | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Cochran | Edna | Brandon | Sophie | Coach | |||
► | Brandon | — | Christine | — | Stacey | — | Mikayla | — | Keith | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Cochran | Edna | Sophie | Eliminated | Sophie | |||
► | Edna | — | Stacey | — | Stacey | — | Mikayla | — | Keith | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Rick | Brandon | Eliminated | Coach | ||||
► | Cochran | Semhar | — | Mark | — | Elyse | — | Ozzy | Rick | Keith | Ozzy | Jim | Dawn | Whitney | Rick | Eliminated | Coach | |||||
► | Whitney | Semhar | — | Mark | — | Dawn | — | Ozzy | Rick | Rick | Ozzy | Edna | Edna | Cochran | Eliminated | Sophie | ||||||
► | Dawn | Semhar | — | Mark | — | Elyse | — | Ozzy | Rick | Rick | Ozzy | Edna | Edna | Eliminated | Sophie | |||||||
► | Jim | Semhar | — | Cochran | — | Elyse | — | Ozzy | Rick | Rick | Cochran | Edna | Eliminated | Sophie | ||||||||
► | Keith | Semhar | — | Mark | — | Dawn | — | Ozzy | Rick | None | Eliminated | Sophie | ||||||||||
Mikayla | — | Christine | — | Stacey | — | Edna | Eliminated | |||||||||||||||
Elyse | Semhar | — | Mark | — | Cochran | Eliminated | ||||||||||||||||
Stacey | — | Sophie | — | Edna | Eliminated | |||||||||||||||||
Mark | Semhar | — | Jim | Eliminated | ||||||||||||||||||
Christine | — | Edna | Eliminated | |||||||||||||||||||
Semhar | Cochran | Eliminated | ||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: |
Trivia[]
- South Pacific is the first season to feature a contestant who is a relative to a previous contestant; Brandon Hantz is a nephew to Russell Hantz.
- South Pacific is the third season to take place in Samoa, following Survivor: Samoa and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.
- The location for this season was originally going to be in neighboring Tonga, but it was declined for economic reasons.
- For the first time, no tribe won back-to-back challenges.
- South Pacific is the third season to feature a pattern in which the tribe that wins each Immunity Challenge alternates each episode, following Survivor: Borneo and Survivor: The Amazon.
- South Pacific is the seventh consecutive season to have a female be the first voted out and the first eliminated.
- South Pacific is the second season in a row where a tribe gets systematically voted out (a term known in the fandom as pagonged) post-merge.
- South Pacific is the sixth season to feature returning contestants, following Survivor: All-Stars, Survivor: Guatemala, Survivor: Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, and Survivor: Redemption Island.
- This is the third season to feature only a pair of returning players competing.
- This is the sixth season to have a returning player at the Final Tribal Council.
- Ozzy Lusth became the first contestant to be voted out three times in a single season.
- Sophie Clarke is the second winner that was a first-time player to defeat a returning contestant at the Final Tribal Council. The first was Danni Boatwright, who beat Stephenie LaGrossa in Guatemala.
- Three contestants entered the competition through Sears' casting contest: Mark Caruso, Rick Nelson, and Sophie Clarke.
- South Pacific is the only season to feature Redemption Island and only have one person return from Redemption Island.
- South Pacific is currently the latest season with a recap episode.
- The rendition of Ancient Voices used in South Pacific would later be used for the Network Ten revival of Australian Survivor.
- South Pacific is tied with David vs. Goliath for most number of distinct individual immunity winners, with eight.
References[]
- ↑ http://deadline.com/2012/05/full-2011-2012-tv-season-series-rankings-277941/
- ↑ Martin, Lara (August 11, 2011). "Big Brother finale, 'Survivor' premiere get extended episodes". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s69/big-brother-usa/news/a334584/big-brother-finale-survivor-premiere-get-extended-episodes.html. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.spottedratings.com/2011/09/spotvault-survivor-cbs-south-pacific.html
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