This is the twelfth cycle of Survivor México (2023), covering episodes 56 to 60.
Story[]
Challenges[]
Episode 56[]
Challenge: Vampire Bats
The castaways will hang onto a raised log for as long as possible. Once they drop from the log, they are out of the challenge. The last two people left hanging win reward and leadership.
Reward: Pasta bolognese and soft drink.
Winners: Kenta Sakurai and Pablo Martí
Challenge: Make Your Point
Divided into two teams, one of four members and the other of five, each team will send two castaways to play in each round. The players will start on a platform in the sea, where they will take some colored ropes, then get on a raft and use a rope to pull themselves and the raft to the shore of the beach. Once on the shore, they will place the ends of the colored ropes on posts, matching the color of the rope to the color indicated on the post, which will make the ropes form two intersections within a circle. At the two intersection points, they will dig up a ball. The pair will then work together, using two ropes as a rail, to transport the two balls to a pedestal each to score a point. The first team to score five points wins reward.
Reward: A picnic that includes a variety of food and juice.
Winners: Pablo's Team (Aarón Albores, Aranza Carreiro, Eduardo Guerrero, Pablo Martí, and Ximena Duggan)
Episode 57[]
Reward Challenge #3: Palm Beach
Divided into two teams, one of four members and the other of five, each team will send two castaways to play in each round. The players will be harnessed to a sled filled with puzzle pieces, which they will have to pull through an obstacle course. At the end of the course, one member of the pair will crank a winch to lift the top of a palm tree puzzle, while the other member assembles the puzzle following a pattern of holes in the pieces. The first castaway to complete their puzzle will score a point for their team. The first team to score seven points wins reward.
Reward: A buggy experience that includes burgers with french fries and soft drinks.
Winners: Pablo's Team (Aarón Albores, Aranza Carreiro, Eduardo Guerrero, Pablo Martí, and Ximena Duggan)
Episode 58[]
Challenge: Divided into two teams, one of four members and the other of five, each team will send two castaways to play in each round. The players, tethered to each other, will push a two-wheeled rotating structure through an obstacle course until they knock down two gates with the wheels. One member of the pair will then separate from their partner and move to a board, where they will roll balls across the board to three slots. All the balls will have to be placed in the slots in sequential order, with one ball in each slot, from the closest to the farthest, to score a point. The first team to score five points wins reward.
Reward: RD$750 extra for each member of the team to spend at the Survivor Auction.
Winners: Pablo's Team (Aarón Albores, Aranza Carreiro, Eduardo Guerrero, Pablo Martí, and Ximena Duggan)
Challenge: Survivor Auction
Each castaway will be given RD$1000, while the winners of the previous Reward Challenge will receive RD$1750. They will use the money to bid on items, mostly food, in increments of RD$50. Castaways may share money among their team members of the current cycle, but not items.
Episode 59[]
Challenge: Bow Diddley
Castaways must balance a ball on a rounded bow. At some point, they will get on a narrow perch, and some time later, they will move up to a narrower and higher perch. If they drop their ball or fall off their perch, they will be out of the challenge. The last person standing wins reward and immunity.
Reward: Apple strudels and coffee.
Winner: Ximena Duggan
Challenge: House of Cards / Around the Bend / Inside Track
The castaways will compete in three rounds of a challenge that is run in six stages, with the winner of each round becoming a finalist. In the end, there will be three finalists who will compete in a final round of the same challenge. The winner of the final round wins reward and immunity.
Stage 1: The castaways will build a house of cards with wooden tiles. The first seven people to build a house of cards tall enough to reach the indicated mark move on to the second stage.
Stage 2: The castaways will toss balls attempting to land one ball in a octagonal trough. The first five people to accomplish this move on to the third stage.
Stage 3: The castaways will be attached to a rope that is wrapped around a cube structure, having to maneuver through the rope course to reach a post and retrieve a flag. The first four people to raise their flag move on to the fourth stage.
Stage 4: The castaways will use wooden pieces to assemble a puzzle, which in turn will build a three-level balance beam. The first three people to correctly solve the puzzle and cross the balance beam move on to the fifth stage.
Stage 5: The castaways will climb on top of a net to untie three bag of balls. The first two people to retrieve all the bags and get to their finish mat move on to the final stage.
Stage 6: The final two will maneuver five balls, one at a time, down a table maze and navigate them into five slots at the end. The first person to land all the balls wins.
Reward: Tlacoyos and soft drink.
Winner: Eduardo Guerrero
Episode 60[]
Challenge: Ram-Ball On
The castaways will compete in three rounds of a challenge that is run in five stages, with the winner of each round becoming a finalist. In the end, there will be three finalists who will compete in a final round of the same challenge. The winner of the final round wins reward and immunity.
Stage 1: The castaways will dig up five balls from the sand. Once they retrieve all the balls, they will assemble a tower by stacking wooden tubes, sets of stands, and the five balls. The first six people to successfully build their tower move on to the second stage.
Stage 2: The castaways will toss balls attempting to hit a post and one of the balls bounces into a basket. The first four people to land one ball into the basket move on to the third stage.
Stage 3: The castaways will tie two heavy cubes to a rope, which they will then carry, one at a time, under a net crawl by pulling them from their ropes. The first three people to untie the cubes from their respective ropes and place them on the finish mat move on to the fourth stage.
Stage 4: The castaways will balance a ball on the top of a long pole and make their way under the rungs of monkey bars. If they drop the ball, they will have to start over. The first two people to reach the finish post without dropping the ball move on to the final stage.
Stage 5: The final two will use a slingshot to break three tiles and cause the rope at the base of each tile to detach. The first person to detach all the ropes at the bases by breaking all the tiles wins.
Reward: Beef enchiladas and soft drink.
Winner: Pablo Martí
Challenge: Stacked Up
While standing on a wobbly beam, nominees must use a long fork to stack twenty wood pieces, ten large and ten small, on a free-standing structure. The first three castaways to complete their stack and keep it standing for five seconds would be saved from elimination.
Winners (in order of finish): Aarón Albores, Ale Saadi, and Sergio Torres
Tribal Council[]
Episode 60[]
Voting Confessionals[]
Eduardo's confessional was shown as he entered the voting booth.
![]() Sergio |
“ | (votando en contra de Kenta) Te nomino a ti. Nomás por un tema de estrategia, y porque si se te llega a abrir este portal hoy, consideres el tema de tu papá. Te he visto que te afecta mucho ya la parte del hambre, la comida, la falta de comida. Entonces, es parte de la estrategia, para que... porque también eres un jugador fuerte. |
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![]() Saadi |
“ | (votando en contra de Sergio) Uff, de verdad que pensé que el momento en que llegara a nominar a esta persona, me iba a dar mucha alegría, iba a estar feliz... y la realidad es que no. Me cae súper bien, es muy buena persona, es muy noble; pero estoy pensando de una manera de estrategia, por si llego a ir, pues el chiste es salir de la Extinción, ¿no? Discúlpame. |
” |
![]() Aranza |
“ | (votando en contra de Aarón) Pues voto por el Capi, por estrategia. La verdad es que... no sé, como que no lo he descifrado todavía, y siento que el Capi es, bueno, Aarón, no sé, nunca sabes qué esperar de él, y como no ganó el collar, creo que es momento de... de mandarlo; a ver si... pues se va a su casa un rato. O sea me cae bien, pero estaría... estaría bien que se fuera. |
” |
![]() Eduardo |
“ | (votando en contra de Saadi) Gatuna, mi amor. Semana 13. Ya llegamos lejos. |
” |
Extinction Duel[]
Extinction Duel 12 | ||
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Competitors | Result | |
![]() Aarón |
1st | |
![]() Saadi |
2nd | |
![]() Sergio |
3rd | |
![]() Kenta |
4th | |
ELIMINATED:![]() Kenta Sakurai |
Still in the Running[]
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Trivia[]
Secret Scenes[]
- Aarón habla de los sobrevivientes: Aarón talked about the unique qualities of each of the castaways and considers everyone a family.[1]
- Los sobrevivientes crearon una gran fogata: The castaways created a large bonfire and spent a pleasant night.[2]
- Kenta regresó a su realidad: Kenta returned to his reality, looked in the mirror, weighed himself, took a bath and enjoyed a delicious dinner.[3]
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