Survivor: Nicaragua
Survivor: Nicaragua | |
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Winner | Jud "Fabio" Birza |
Presented by | Jeff Probst |
No. of episodes | 15 |
No. of days | 39 |
No. of castaways | 20 |
Production | |
Location(s) | San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua[1] |
Filming dates | June 14, 2010 – July 22, 2010 |
Release | |
Original release | September 15, 2010 – December 19, 2010 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains |
Followed by | Survivor: Redemption Island |
Survivor: Nicaragua is the 21st season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor.[2] It premiered on September 15, 2010 at 8:00pm, moving to the Wednesday timeslot for the first time since Survivor: Borneo.[3][4] Applications were due in January 2010, filming started from June and ended on July 2010. Nicaragua and the following season, Survivor: Redemption Island, were filmed near San Juan del Sur in Rivas Department on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.[5][2][6]
This season's opening titles uses the original version of "Ancient Voices" — Survivor 's opening theme song — first used for the debut Survivor season. Traditionally, each season features its own version of "Ancient Voices", using instruments and sounds meant to evoke that season's location or theme. One was created for Nicaragua but was not used, though the song was released onto iTunes on October 10.[7] The reason for this omission has not been publicly disclosed. Survivor host Jeff Probst also announced that the Hidden Immunity Idol will continue to be used in the game. However, as idols had been found too easily in the past two seasons, the idol was hidden differently.[8] The clues to the idols' locations were visual rebuses rather than text as in past seasons.[9] In addition, the tribes vied for control of a new item, the Medallion of Power, which offered an advantage to the tribe who held it at a challenge, but should they use the Medallion, it went to the other tribe for the next challenge. This season also marked the return of the tribal swap, which was absent in the previous three seasons. When the tribal swap occurred in episode 5, the Medallion of Power was retired.
Additionally, the 20 contestants were originally divided up into two tribes based on their ages. Until a tribal swap in episode 5, the Espada tribe featured contestants over the age of 40, while the La Flor tribe included contestants aged 30 years and younger. This was the second season in which tribes were divided by age, the first one being Survivor: Panama. Notable contestants this season include Kelly Bruno, a triathlete whose leg was amputated at six months old because of a birth defect, and former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson. Bruno is the second Survivor contestant to be an amputee, the first being Chad Crittenden of Survivor: Vanuatu, who lost his right leg to cancer. Jud "Fabio" Birza was named the winner in the final episode on December 19, 2010, defeating Chase Rice and Matthew "Sash" Lenahan in a 5–4–0 vote. Birza became the youngest person to ever win the game, at age 21 years and 6 month. Jane Bright won $100,000 as the "Sprint Player of the Season."
The season was released by CBS DVD on November 18, 2014, in a DVD set including all episodes and numerous special features, including unaired scenes and the Life at Ponderosa webseries. It will only be made available through online purchase, manufactured by Amazon.com's CreateSpace.
Contestants
Contestant | Original tribe | Switched tribe | Merged tribe | Finish |
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Wendy DeSmidt-Kohlhoff 48, Fromberg, Montana |
Espada | 20 | 20 | 1st voted out Day 3 |
Shannon Elkins 30, Lafayette, Louisiana |
La Flor | 20 | 20 | 2nd voted out Day 6 |
Jimmy Johnson 67, Tallahassee, Florida |
Espada | 20 | 20 | 3rd voted out Day 8 |
Jimmy Tarantino 48, Gloucester, Massachusetts |
Espada | 20 | 20 | 4th voted out Day 11 |
Tyrone Davis 42, Inglewood, California |
Espada | Espada | 20 | 5th voted out Day 14 |
Kelly Bruno 26, Durham, North Carolina |
La Flor | La Flor | 20 | 6th voted out Day 15 |
Yve Rojas 41, Kansas City, Missouri |
Espada | Espada | 20 | 7th voted out Day 15 |
Jill Behm 43, Erie, Pennsylvania |
Espada | La Flor | 20 | 8th voted out Day 18 |
Alina Wilson 23, Downey, California |
La Flor | Espada | Libertad | 9th voted out 1st jury member Day 22 |
Marty Piombo 48, Mill Valley, California |
Espada | La Flor | 10th voted out 2nd jury member Day 24 | |
Brenda Lowe 27, Miami, Florida |
La Flor | La Flor | 11th voted out 3rd jury member Day 27 | |
NaOnka Mixon 27, Long Beach, California |
La Flor | Espada | Quit 4th jury member Day 28 | |
Kelly Shinn 20, Mesa, Arizona |
La Flor | La Flor | Quit 5th jury member Day 28 | |
Ben "Benry" Henry 24, Los Angeles, California |
La Flor | Espada | 12th voted out 6th jury member Day 32 | |
Jane Bright 56, Moore County, North Carolina |
Espada | La Flor | 13th voted out 7th jury member Day 36 | |
Dan Lembo 63, Water Mill, New York |
Espada | Espada | 14th voted out 8th jury member Day 37 | |
Holly Hoffman 44, Eureka, South Dakota |
Espada | Espada | 15th voted out 9th jury member Day 38 | |
Matthew "Sash" Lenahan 30, New York, New York |
La Flor | La Flor | 2nd runner-up | |
Chase Rice 24, Fairview, North Carolina |
La Flor | Espada | Runner-up | |
Jud "Fabio" Birza 21, Venice, California |
La Flor | La Flor | Sole Survivor |
Future appearances
Brenda Lowe returned for Survivor: Caramoan as a part of the "Favorites" tribe, placing 6th overall.
Season summary
Twenty new castaways were divided into tribes by age: La Flor, which consisted of castaways 30 and younger, and Espada, which consisted of castaways 40 and older. Both tribes also vied for ownership of the newly introduced Medallion of Power, which granted them an advantage when played in challenges.
Several members of the older Espada tribe vied for leadership. While Jimmy J. initially took control, he was quickly overthrown by Marty and voted out. Marty furthered his control of the tribe by finding the Hidden Immunity Idol and voting out aspiring leader Jimmy T. Despite dominating the challenges in the first eleven days of the game, the younger La Flor tribe also had their own share of conflicts. Two warring alliances emerged, one led by Shannon and the other led by Brenda, with both alliances vying for Chase's vote. A confused Shannon lashed out at La Flor's first Tribal Council, causing Chase and some of Shannon's own alliance members to vote him out. Brenda not only gained control of the tribe but she also found La Flor's Hidden Immunity Idol.
A tribe swap on Day 12 caused allegiances to shift. Alina, Benry, Chase, and NaOnka moved to Espada, while Marty, Jill, and Jane moved to La Flor. At the new Espada, Holly and Dan aligned themselves with the younger members. At the new La Flor, the once-powerful Marty fell from grace, and Jane teamed up with the original La Flor tribe members. Brenda planned to split the vote between Marty and original La Flor outsider Kelly B. in order to flush Marty's idol and send Kelly B. home. Unfortunately for them, Marty decided not to use his idol and Kelly B. was sent home anyway, while Marty still had his immunity idol. Sash told Marty that in order to remain in the game, he must give him his idol. Marty complied, and Sash stayed true to his word by keeping him around, only to send Jill, Marty's closest ally, home instead.
On Day 19, the two tribes were merged into the Libertad tribe. Brenda's original La Flor alliance regrouped, with the addition of Holly and Jane. Marty, however, convinced Dan, Benry, and Fabio to follow him. Without any alliances, Alina was targeted by both voting blocs and sent to the jury first. Marty then tried to form an all-male rebellion against the females, which did not work and sent him home instead. It seemed that Brenda and Sash were in total control of the tribe, but Holly made her own move by turning everybody else on Brenda. Brenda put her faith wholly in her alliance without attempting to plead with them, but they ultimately eliminated her.
With Brenda gone and the sudden voluntary exits of Kelly S. and NaOnka, Sash was left alone without any allies, but eventually regained power by winning the next Immunity Challenge, becoming the swing vote between Holly, Chase and Jane's alliance and the alliance of Dan, Fabio and Benry. Sash joined Chase, Holly and Jane to eliminate an unsuspecting Benry, whom Sash saw as the bigger threat. The newly formed majority alliance planned to eliminate Fabio next, but he went on to win individual immunity. While Dan was the only non-immune of the minority alliance, Chase, Holly and Sash decided to turn on jury threat Jane, and voted her out instead. Fabio won immunity again and Dan was voted out, but after Fabio won his third successive immunity challenge, Chase and Sash decided to turn on Holly, whom they thought had the best chance to win the game against them.
At the Final Tribal Council, Sash was blasted for his numerous deceptions, while Chase was castigated for his indecisiveness at several points during the game. Fabio, on the other hand, was accused of seemingly coasting throughout the competition by acting strategically clueless the entire time, but he rebutted that he did that on purpose to not hurt anybody's feelings, and still stay longer in the game. In the end, Fabio's unconventional strategy earned him the title of Sole Survivor by a vote of 5-4-0.
Episode title | Original air date | Challenge winner(s) | Eliminated | Finish | |
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Reward | Immunity | ||||
"Young at Heart" | September 15, 2010 | None | La Flor | Wendy | 1st voted out Day 3 |
"Fatigue Makes Cowards of Us All" | September 22, 2010 | Espada[lower-alpha 1] | Shannon | 2nd voted out Day 6 | |
"Glitter in Their Eyes" | September 29, 2010 | La Flor[lower-alpha 1] | Jimmy J. | 3rd voted out Day 8 | |
"Pulling the Trigger" | October 6, 2010 | La Flor[lower-alpha 1] | Jimmy T. | 4th voted out Day 11 | |
"Turf Wars" | October 13, 2010 | Espada | La Flor | Tyrone | 5th voted out Day 14 |
"Worst Case Scenario" | October 20, 2010 | La Flor | Jill | Kelly B. | 6th voted out Day 15 |
Holly | Yve | 7th voted out Day 15 | |||
"What Goes Around, Comes Around" | October 27, 2010 | Espada | Espada | Jill | 8th voted out Day 18 |
"Company Will Be Arriving Soon" | November 3, 2010 | None[lower-alpha 2] | Jane | Alina | 9th voted out 1st jury member Day 22 |
Fabio | |||||
"Running the Camp" | November 10, 2010 | Benry, Dan, Fabio, Marty, Sash | Brenda | Marty | 10th voted out 2nd jury member Day 24 |
"Stuck in the Middle" | November 17, 2010 | Chase, Fabio, Jane, Kelly S., NaOnka | Jane | Brenda | 11th voted out 3rd jury member Day 27 |
"You Started, You're Finishing" | December 1, 2010 | Benry, Chase, |
None[lower-alpha 5] | NaOnka | Quit 4th jury member Day 28 |
Kelly S. | Quit 5th jury member Day 28 | ||||
"Not Sure Where I Stand" | December 8, 2010 | Chase [Holly, Jane] |
Sash | Benry | 12th voted out 6th jury member Day 32 |
"This is Going to Hurt" | December 15, 2010 | Chase [Holly, Sash] |
Fabio | Jane | 13th voted out 7th jury member Day 36 |
"What About Me?" | December 19, 2010 | None | Fabio | Dan | 14th voted out 8th jury member Day 37 |
Fabio | Holly | 15th voted out 9th jury member Day 38 | |||
"Reunion" | December 19, 2010 | Jury vote | |||
Sash | 2nd runner-up | ||||
Chase | Runner-up | ||||
Fabio | Sole Survivor |
- In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Combined reward and immunity challenge.
- ↑ There was no reward challenge due to the merge.
- ↑ Holly gave up her reward in exchange for a tarp and a can of rice for the tribe.
- ↑ Dan did not participate in the challenge after not being chosen for a team, but he had correctly guessed the winning team and, as a result, joined them on the reward.
- ↑ There was no immunity challenge due to Na'Onka and Kelly S. quitting the game.
Episodes
No. in series |
Episode # |
Title | Rating/Share (Household) |
Rating/Share (18-49) |
Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
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303 | 1 | "Young at Heart" | 6.8/12[10] | 4.0/13[10] | September 15, 2010 | 12.23[10] | #7[11] |
The game started with the castaways split into two groups. When they arrived at the beach, Jeff announced the Medallion of Power, though did not explain what the power was, and that it was hidden in a lagoon nearby. The castaways scrambled to find it, with Brenda finding it up a tree. When the castaways reassembled in front of Jeff, he announced that the groups they arrived in are not the tribes, but instead the tribes would be split by age, with the 40 and over castaways called Espada and the 30 and under castaways called La Flor. La Flor then traded the Medallion of Power to Espada in exchange for flint and fishing gear. Once at the Espada camp, Jane started a fire with a pair of reading glasses. At the La Flor campsite, Kelly B. showed her tribe her amputated leg, which made several of her tribemates cautious about a sympathy vote for her should she make it to the final Tribal Council. Chase made an alliance with Shannon and then made another one with Brenda. Alina and Kelly B. found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol while picking up the tree mail. They could not decipher the clue, but decided to keep the clue to themselves.
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304 | 2 | "Fatigue Makes Cowards of Us All" | 7.0/12[12] | 4.0/12[12] | September 22, 2010 | 12.59[12] | #19[13] |
At La Flor, Sash made an alliance with NaOnka and Brenda and talked about creating a "minority alliance". NaOnka thought somebody stole her pair of socks out of her shoes while they were hanging up, so she took Fabio's spare socks and then had a short confrontation with him when he attempted to ask her about the socks. Over at Espada, Holly snapped at Jill for eating snails which Holly thought were inedible. Holly dumped the snails, which caused the rest of her tribe to question what had gone wrong with her. Holly overheard Dan calling her "crazy" and decided to take revenge on him by dumping his $1,600 pair of alligator-skin shoes into the ocean. After a while, she confessed to the tribe to dumping them into the sea. Holly thought about quitting the game, but decided to keep going after receiving counseling from Jimmy J.
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305 | 3 | "Glitter in Their Eyes" | 7.1/12[14] | 3.5/11[14] | September 29, 2010 | 12.26[14] | #18[15] |
At Espada, Marty was getting more resentful of Jimmy J.'s position within the tribe. Jill told Marty that he should show the tribe the Hidden Immunity Idol, so he did and announced that he was sharing it with the tribe to make them stronger post merger. Over at La Flor, the alliance of Brenda, Chase, Kelly S., NaOnka, and Sash discussed voting out Alina.
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306 | 4 | "Pulling the Trigger" | 7.0/12[16] | 3.8/11[16] | October 6, 2010 | 12.05[16] | #19[17] |
At La Flor, Brenda and NaOnka found the Hidden Immunity Idol. NaOnka kept the idol. Alina and Kelly B. noticed that Brenda and NaOnka were searching for the idol and set off to find it themselves, not knowing that NaOnka already had it. NaOnka overtly followed the two and then argued with Kelly B. Over at Espada, the tribe tried to strategize and practice for the upcoming challenge with Marty nominating Tyrone to lead them as tribe caller. As Marty predicted, this nomination did not go over well with Jimmy T. who asserted that he wanted to lead the tribe in a challenge.
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307 | 5 | "Turf Wars" | 6.9/11[18] | 3.8/11[18] | October 13, 2010 | 12.32[18] | #15[19] |
Marty and NaOnka thought they were in total control of their tribes, but Jeff spoiled their plans by telling the castaways to drop their buffs as there would be a tribal switch before the start of the Reward Challenge. The castaways drew rocks for captains, with Brenda and Holly being selected. Brenda was told to pick three members from the older tribe that would join the younger tribe and she picked Jane, Jill, and Marty. Holly had to pick four members from the younger tribe to join the older tribe and she selected Alina, Benry, Chase, and NaOnka. Jeff declared that the old versus young tribes were done along with the Medallion of Power.
The newly formed tribes went on to compete in the Reward Challenge and Espada took the win. Back at Espada's camp, Tyrone told the new young tribe members how the camp worked, which did not sit well with Alina and NaOnka. Holly tried to align herself with the younger group. Over at La Flor, Jane told Brenda and Kelly B. to watch out for Marty and Jill's alliance. Marty told the tribe that he had a Hidden Immunity Idol. On day 13, an intense rain storm drove NaOnka to break down emotionally and she considered quitting, but Alina and Chase convinced her to stick it out.
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308 | 6 | "Worst Case Scenario" | 7.0/12[20] | 3.6/11[20] | October 20, 2010 | 12.26[20] | #14[21] |
On day 15, Dan thought about quitting the game. Yve asked Holly about why she wasn't told about the previous Tribal Council vote against Tyrone. When Yve found out from Holly that Dan was thinking of quitting, Yve thought she could use that info to lobby the younger members of the Espada tribe in voting out Dan. Over at La Flor, Brenda planned to flush out the Hidden Immunity Idol by splitting a 3–3 vote between Marty and Jill.
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309 | 7 | "What Goes Around, Comes Around" | 6.6/11[22] | 3.5/10[22] | October 27, 2010 | 11.82[22] | #19[23] |
After Espada returned to their camp site, Chase, Holly, and NaOnka talked about voting out Alina ahead of the merge. Over at La Flor, Marty was seething over Jane's flip to the younger group at Tribal Council and confronted her about it, but she neither confirmed or denied her vote.
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310 | 8 | "Company Will Be Arriving Soon" | 7.0/11[24] | 3.7/11[24] | November 3, 2010 | 12.30[24] | #13[25] |
Marty was ecstatic that the tree mail on day 19 announced the tribal merge and a move to the Espada camp site. Before La Flor arrived, Alina lobbied for the six Espada members to stick together to the final six, but there was little enthusiasm for such an alliance. Marty named the new tribe 'Libertad', the Spanish word for freedom. After the merge, Brenda and NaOnka reestablished their alliance made before the tribal switch and told each other what had happened at each tribe. On day 20, NaOnka made breakfast, but got angry when she ate last and got the smallest share. Her anger prompted her to steal food and supplies which she hid in the jungle. NaOnka shared her stolen items with Alina and told Alina that she was being targeted by the tribe. When other members of the tribe noticed that items were missing, Holly said that she saw NaOnka take the flour jar and put in her bag. NaOnka vehemently denied that she took the flour, claiming that she put it back, but did not explain why the flour was in her bag. Eventually, NaOnka confessed to stealing the food after Alina and Chase convinced her that if she confessed, it would be better than continuing to lie. Even then, she tried to convince them that she stole it for the benefit of the tribe, and so that they wouldn't greedily eat all of it too soon. But most of the others, most prominently Marty, refused to believe this story and knew that she stole the food for her own benefit. The alliance of Brenda, Chase, Jane, and Sash decided to protect NaOnka by distancing themselves from her. Sash admitted that it would be better strategically to bring NaOnka to the finale at this point because of her actions, as obviously, no one would vote for her to win, which would greatly benefit whoever else was in the finale with her.
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311 | 9 | "Running the Camp" | 6.4/10[26] | 3.2/10[26] | November 10, 2010 | 11.29[26] | #19[27] |
The day after Tribal Council, Marty continued his plotting against Jane by proposing a plan to Benry and Dan to feign a vote against NaOnka to Chase and Holly, but really vote for Jane. Marty said that this would flush out NaOnka's Hidden Immunity Idol and blindside Jane.
At the Reward Challenge, the random draw for teams turned out to be men versus women. Since there were eleven castaways, Chase was the odd man out and did not participate. However, he could select the team he thought would win, and if they won, he would join them on the reward. He selected the women, but this turned out to be a poor choice when the men won the challenge. On the reward, Marty continued his lobbying for his plan to vote out Jane.
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312 | 10 | "Stuck in the Middle" | 6.9/11[28] | 3.5/10[28] | November 17, 2010 | 11.98[28] | #17[29] |
After Brenda and Sash tipped their alliances at the last Tribal Council, Holly decided that she had to make a move in the game and get either Brenda or Sash voted out next. She then recruited Jane, Benry, and NaOnka into voting for Brenda. She talked to Chase about voting for Brenda, but he was more concerned about Benry being a bigger threat. Holly left Kelly S. out of the plan believing that she wouldn't switch because she was riding Brenda's coattail. A rain storm came and the tribe moved their three wooden chests around the fire in order to protect it before they headed off to the challenge.
At the Reward Challenge, the team of Chase, Fabio, Jane, Kelly S., and NaOnka cruised to victory. While on their reward, NaOnka took Fabio aside and filled him in on the plan to vote out Brenda. Kelly S. looked on in surprise and questioned their actions to Chase but he didn't fill her in on the blindside against Brenda. When the losing team returned to camp, they discovered that the three chests had caught fire and burned down, taking with it their machetes and almost all of the tribe's food. After the winning team returned to camp, Chase told Brenda the entire plan to vote her out, but Brenda shrugged it off. Chase again lobbied to vote out Benry to NaOnka, but NaOnka would not budge and she then told Benry, Jane, and Holly that Chase could not be trusted, since he had told Brenda about their plan.
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313 | 11 | "We Did It Guys" | 4.7/8[30] | 2.0/7[30] | November 24, 2010 | 8.02[30] | #24[31] |
A recap of the first 27 days including previously un-aired bonus footage. | |||||||
314 | 12 | "You Started, You're Finishing" | 7.0/11[32] | 3.6/11[32] | December 1, 2010 | 12.26[32] | #6[33] |
When the tribe returned from camp after Tribal Council, Kelly S. felt left out of her alliance as she did not know that the vote was going against Brenda. NaOnka felt that Brenda had "thrown her under the bus". Holly told NaOnka that she trusted her more now that she had told her about Brenda's plans. Chase thought that the core alliance was himself, Holly, Jane, and NaOnka. On Day 28, the rain returned with a vengeance and made camp life miserable. NaOnka and Kelly S. had doubts that they could continue in the game, as they were both exhausted by the conditions of the weather. NaOnka gave her Hidden Immunity Idol to Chase, and with NaOnka thinking about quitting, the alliance of Chase, Holly and Jane brought in Sash, but he preferred that NaOnka and Kelly S. stayed in the game and considered joining Benry, Dan, and Fabio in an alliance.
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315 | 13 | "Not Sure Where I Stand" | 6.8/11[34] | 3.6/10[34] | December 8, 2010 | 12.13[34] | #10[35] |
With NaOnka and Kelly S. quitting, Sash knew that he was the fourth man between the two three-person alliances of Chase/Holly/Jane and Benry/Dan/Fabio. Sash told Benry, Chase, and Fabio that he would play his Hidden Immunity Idol at the next Tribal Council so that he would no longer be seen as a threat and to get the two alliances to see him as a swing vote. Chase told Sash that he would take him all the way to the end and that he would take Sash on the next reward along with Holly, since she had given up her last reward.
At the Reward Challenge, Chase, Jane, Benry, and Holly advanced to the second round. Chase and Benry then advanced to the final round, which was won by Chase. To join him on the reward, Chase selected Holly and Jane, reneging on his promise to Sash. While Chase and the women were on their reward, Sash talked to the remaining three guys about joining their alliance, but Dan and Benry were leery about Sash's true alliances and did not trust him. On the reward, Chase realized that he made a major mistake by not taking Sash on the reward and that he would have to regain Sash's trust. In order to do so, Chase and Holly came up with a plan to tell Sash that the two would vote out Jane and take Sash to the final three. Chase also told Benry that Jane would not make it to the final three, to which Benry said that was fine and he was willing to vote out Fabio. Chase and Holly told Sash that leaving him behind was really a sign of trust in him, since they figured that he was loyal to them and that it would be safe to leave him alone with the Benry/Dan/Fabio alliance. Sash told Chase and Holly that Benry was lying about being willing to vote for Fabio. When Benry joined the conversation, the three told him that the next target was Fabio.
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316 | 14 | "This is Going to Hurt" | 7.0/12[36] | 3.5/11[36] | December 15, 2010 | 12.32[36] | #10[37] |
Day 33's tree mail contained a Sprint HTC Evo 4G with videos from the castaways' loved ones. Fabio and Chase agreed that if one of them were to win the Reward Challenge, they would take the other on the reward along with Sash. At the Reward Challenge, Jeff introduced the castaway's loved ones. The team of Chase and his mother won the challenge. Chase then selected Sash and his mother and Holly and her husband to join in the challenge, reneging on his promise to Fabio. Dan, Fabio, and Jane were very upset at Chase's choices. While on their reward, Chase, Holly, and Sash agreed that they would go to the final three together and that their top priority at this point is to get Fabio voted out.
However, Fabio went on to win the Immunity Challenge the next day, which ruined their plan. Fabio told Chase that Jane had to go, but Chase was conflicted about the choice between Dan or Jane. Holly approached Sash and Chase and confirmed that Dan was also on board with voting off Jane. The three of them finally decided that this was the only choice left. Then Jane joined them and asked if her alliance of four with them were still strong. When the three hesitated in answering her and then finally admitting that they were discussing voting for her, Jane knew that her alliance had turned on her, and proceeded to unleash a tirade against everyone. She flipped them off immediately when she learned of their betrayal, avoided everybody else at camp for the rest of the day, and even dumped a bucket of water on the camp fire shortly before Tribal Council, stating that since she started it, she was going to put it out. At Tribal Council, Dan told Jeff and the Jury of Jane's recent actions. Jane stated that she was going to be voted out. After some digging by Jeff, the alliance of three stated that the next castaway voted out after Jane would be Fabio or Dan. Jeff then asked why Dan, Fabio, and Jane did not form an alliance and vote against Holly to force a tie with Fabio being immune due to his Individual Immunity and Chase and Sash having their Hidden Immunity Idols. The votes were cast and Chase and Sash played their idols since this Tribal Council would be their last opportunity. Jeff's suggested alliance did not form and everybody voted for Jane. Jane's sole vote against Sash was discounted and she became a member of the jury. | |||||||
317 | 15 | "What About Me?" | 7.3/12[37] | 4.1/10[38] | December 19, 2010 | 13.58[37] | #8[37] |
Knowing that he was odd man out in the alliance of Chase/Holly/Sash, Fabio worked on breaking up the alliance. At the Immunity Challenge, while Fabio fell behind due to a missed answer on the second question, he quickly caught up to Chase, Holly, and Sash during the puzzle assembly stage and picked up the win. Fabio talked to Chase and Sash about voting out Holly before Dan using the argument that Holly was a bigger threat than Dan for jury votes. At Tribal Council, Dan lobbied to keeping him around because nobody would give him a million dollars and that Holly was a threat to win. However, his lobbying went for naught when he was voted out.
On day 38, the final four received tree mail telling them to take the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to their final Immunity Challenge. At the challenge, Fabio outlasted Sash to take the final Individual Immunity. The win forced the Chase/Holly/Sash alliance to turn on one of their own. All three talked to Fabio about taking them to the Final Three. Sash told Fabio that if Fabio had not won immunity then Sash would have taken Chase and Fabio to the Final Three, but Fabio thought Sash might be lying. When Fabio asked Chase about the alliance's plans should Fabio lose immunity, he told him that the plan was always to vote out Fabio and that he would have stuck to the plan. Holly told Fabio that Sash was the biggest threat for jury votes and that she would have stuck to the alliance's plans to vote him out. At Tribal Council, the alliance of three continued their pitch to Fabio to keep them in the game. Ultimately, Fabio saw Holly as his biggest threat, and she was sent home. Chase, Fabio, and Sash woke up on day 39 and enjoyed the traditional breakfast. Before heading off to the final Tribal Council, the trio burned their camp site. At the final Tribal Council, Chase focused on being open with the jury about how he played the game. Fabio told the jury that he was always open with everybody, had not back stabbed anybody, and had earned his spot in the Final Three. Sash emphasized that he was remorseful about the alliances that he had broken but that the friendships he made were important to him. Chase was mocked by several members of the jury for his rash decisions. Chase and Sash charged Fabio with never knowing what was going on. Still, the jury chose Fabio as the title of Sole Survivor over Chase and Sash in a 5–4–0 vote. | |||||||
318 | 16 | "Reunion" | 6.1/11[37] | 3.0/8[38] | December 19, 2010 | 11.19[37] | #14[37] |
The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst. |
Voting history
ReceptionSurvivor columnist Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly ranked Nicaragua as the worst season of the entire series, for four reasons: "1) Splitting the tribes up by age and the Medallion of Power were both enormous flops. 2) Like One World, Thailand and Fiji, just too many unlikable players. 3) Two people quitting with only 11 days left. 4) No big memorable moments. Even Thailand had the fake merge and Fiji had the big Yau-Man/Dreamz free car deal gone bad, but what was Nicaragua 's signature moment? Unfortunately, it was people quitting, and that was memorable for all the wrong reasons."[39] When Jimmy Fallon, a longtime fan of the show, interviewed Jeff Probst on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, he said that he was disappointed with this season and called it a popularity contest. Probst even admitted that season was boring, and that was why he and the producers decided to add the "Redemption Island" twist for the next season.[40] Nicaragua is ranked as the third-worst season of the series by Examiner.com (only ahead of Gabon and Fiji), and the fourth-worst season by The Wire (only ahead of Samoa, Gabon, and Redemption Island).[41] In 2012, when Survivor fan site "Survivor Oz" held its first annual poll ranking every season of the series (up to that point), Nicaragua was ranked as the second-worst season of the series, only ahead of Redemption Island.[42] In the official issue of CBS Watch magazine commemorating the 15th anniversary of Survivor, Probst stated that Nicaragua's tribe division by age "is a division I hope we never do again," and also called the Medallion of Power "one of the worst named and most poorly executed twists we’ve ever come up with. Embarrassing on all accounts."[43] References
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