This is the eighth cycle of Survivor México (2023), covering episodes 36 to 40.
Story[]
Challenges[]
Episode 36[]
Reward Challenge #1: Losing Face
Divided in pairs, the castaways will push a chariot around a series of obstacles. Along the way, they will stop at two stations and use a machete to cut a rope to release a straw bale. At the end of the obstacle course, they will place the straw bales on a scale, so that the scale will rise and allow them to retrieve some wooden planks. They will then hang the wooden planks on poles in a specific order to spell "SURVIVOR", with their tribe's name as the final piece. One member of the pair will then use a slingshot to launch sandbags at the hanging wooden planks, having to knock down all the wooden planks to score a point. The first tribe to score seven points wins reward.
Reward: Food supplies (mushrooms, eggs, oranges, lemons, four onions, red and green peppers, one cauliflower, slices of bread, 1 kg of rice, 1 L of milk, and chicken legs).
Winner: Toros
Episode 37[]
Reward Challenge #2: Carry On / Stacked Up
In teams of three, one member will have to complete an obstacle course while being attached by a rope to a heavy weight, which will be carried by the other two members to help them along the course. At the end of the course, the castaways will lift the weight, allowing their teammate attached to the weight to move freely on a balance beam, who will then have to use a long fork to stack five balls and five stands on top of one another on a structure to score a point. The first tribe to score seven points wins reward.
Reward: A catamaran trip that includes mini-burgers, cheese sticks, chicken wings, and piña coladas.
Winner: Toros (Adianez Hernández, Aranza Carreiro, Eduardo Guerrero, Fharid Sámano, Pablo Martí, and Sergio Torres)
Episode 38[]
Reward Challenge #3: Log Handler
Divided in pairs, the castaways will carry a series of wooden planks across an obstacle course. At one point in the course, they will use the planks as monkey bars to move along a suspended chain, and then use them to build a bridge. At the end of the course, they will place five of the planks and a net in a pentagon-shaped structure to assemble a basket. Once the basket is assembled, each member of the pair will have to toss a ball into the basket to score a point. The first tribe to score seven points wins reward.
Reward: Sushi and tea cups.
Winner: Leones (Aarón Albores, Ale Saadi, Gary Centeno, Kenta Sakurai, Nahomi Mejía, Natalia Barquet, and Ximena Duggan)
Episode 39[]
Challenge: Over-Extended
Castaways must balance a ball by pushing it against a disk on a post using a pole. At regular intervals, they will add another section of pole, making it harder to balance. If the ball falls off, that person is out of the challenge. The last person left standing from each tribe wins immunity.
Winners: Pablo Martí and Aarón Albores
Challenge: Box Your Mind / The Gauntlet
One member of each tribe will compete head-to-head with a member of the opposing tribe. They will start on a a platform, where they will memorize a board with 18 animal figures. They will then cross a balance beam to another platform, avoiding two other members of the opposing tribe who will try to knock them into the water by swinging balls at them. Once they are on the other platform, they will take some pieces and place them on a new board trying to replicate the same order of figures from the first board. They can go back to the start as many times as necessary by crossing the balance beam each time. The first person to correctly recreate the order will score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score five points wins reward.
Reward: Chicken kebabs, french fries, guacamole, and coffee.
Winner: Toros
Episode 40[]
Challenge: Divided in pairs, one of the members will run across platforms in the water until they reach a boat. Once this member is in the boat, the second member of the pair, who will be inside a spinning octagon connected to the boat by a rope, will have to run to make it spin and pull the partner in the boat out of the water. Once both teammates are reunited, one of them will go to a board with towers of different colored discs, and will have to solve a sort puzzle by moving the discs from tower to tower so that each tower contains only discs of one color. Once the puzzle is solved, the other member of the pair will toss balls into a window in a net bell to land them on top of a platform, there will have to be two balls on the platform to score a point. The first tribe to score six points wins immunity.
Winner: Leones
Challenge: A Bit Tipsy
The nominees would pull on a rope attached to an unbalanced table to keep the table level. They would retrieve one of eleven wooden blocks from three stations while holding on to the rope to keep all the blocks on the table upright. Once the block was retrieved, the castaway would have to stack the block on the table and retrieve the other blocks. Should any of the blocks fall, the castaway would have to return to the table and re-stack the blocks. The first two players to have all eleven blocks standing and return to the first station would be saved from elimination.
Winners (in order of finish): Sergio Torres and Fharid Sámano
Tribal Council[]
Episode 38[]
Following the third Reward Challenge of the cycle, a verbal vote was held to send one castaway from each tribe to Exile. The exiled castaway from the losing tribe of the Immunity Challenge would automatically be nominated to the Extinction Duel.
Leones[]
Exile Vote: Leones | |
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Voted Against |
Voter |
![]() Natalia (6 votes) |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aarón, Duggan, Eduardo, Kenta, Nahomi, Saadi |
![]() Eduardo (1 vote) |
![]() Natalia |
SENT TO EXILE:![]() Natalia Barquet |
Toros[]
Exile Vote: Toros | |
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Voted Against |
Voter |
![]() Sergio (4 votes) |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adianez, Aranza, Gary, Pablo |
![]() Adianez (1 vote) |
![]() Fharid |
![]() Gary (1 vote) |
![]() Sergio |
SENT TO EXILE:![]() Sergio Torres |
Episode 40[]
Sergio, as the exiled castaway of the Toros tribe, would automatically be nominated to the Extinction Duel.
Tribal Council 8: Toros |
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No vote |
NOMINATED:![]() Sergio Torres |
Tribal Vote | |
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Voted Against |
Voter |
![]() Fharid (5 votes) |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adianez, Aranza, Gary, Pablo, Sergio |
![]() Gary (1 vote) |
![]() Fharid |
NOMINATED:![]() Fharid Sámano |
Voting Confessionals[]
Gary's vote was not shown during his confessional.
![]() Gary |
“ | (votando en contra de Fharid) Sé que no se la va a tomar personal, y ya está todo hablado. |
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Extinction Duel[]
Extinction Duel 8 | ||
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Competitors | Result | |
![]() Sergio |
1st | |
![]() Fharid |
2nd | |
![]() Adianez |
3rd | |
ELIMINATED:![]() Adianez Hernández |
Still in the Running[]
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Trivia[]
Secret Scenes[]
- Pablo y Adianez querían mandar a alguien más al exilio: Pablo and Adianez were thinking of sending another castaway to Exile.[1]
- Aranza y Adianez hablan de lo que les espera: Aranza and Adianez believe they have good men in their tribe and these will think of them so as not to send them to the Extinction Duel.[2]
- Aarón asegura que Toros caerán poco a poco: Leones speculate about the Extinction Duel. Aarón assures that from this point on, Toros will fall little by little and they have everything to win.[3]
- Adianez regresó a su realidad: Adianez returned to her reality, looked in the mirror, weighed herself, took a bath and enjoyed a delicious dinner.[4]
Other[]
- This cycle marks the first time Fharid was nominated to an Extinction Duel.
References[]