Template:Season Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs Favorites is the 26th installment of Survivor. This season was the second season to feature the Fans vs. Favorites format, originally introduced to viewers in Template:S.
John Cochran was crowned the Sole Survivor after achieving the second Perfect Game in Survivor history. He beat out Dawn Meehan and Sherri Biethman in an 8-0-0 Jury vote.
Production
Applications started july 26 2013. 22 people apply, but only 18 of those 22 made the cast.
Twists/Changes
The main twist has not benn revelead
Everytime a tribe wins a challenge. they will get a clue to a hidden immunity idol.
Castaways
| Contestant | Original Tribe | Switched Tribe | Merged Tribe | Finish | Votes Against | |
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Jxhn Template:S4 |
Lama | ||||
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SectionLeader | Pant | ||||
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Muffinman | Lama | ||||
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Jbc8 |
Pant | ||||
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Dolphinsoccer |
Lama | ||||
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Realchance Template:S4 |
Pant | ||||
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Hippydude126 |
Lama | ||||
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Sammy1172 |
Lama | ||||
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Thebizareone | Lama | 7 | |||
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Redheat |
Lama | ||||
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Radiohead Template:S4 |
Pant | ||||
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Coolexchangestudent Template:S4 |
Lama | ||||
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Nickbrad97 |
Pant | ||||
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Alex321
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Pant | ||||
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Boblol654
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Lama | ||||
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Ginamarie
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Pant | ||||
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Tryandbeatme |
Pant | ||||
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Christie8cute |
Pant | ||||
Season Summary
Will be posted at end of the season.
Episode Guide
EP1. you like dragging things out. Don't you?
Voting History
will be posted at the end of the season
Trivia
- This is the eighth season to feature returning players.
- However, this is the first season since Template:S to feature returning female players.
- This is the second season in a row to feature a returning player who was voted out before the merge/jury phase of the game.
- It is the first season to feature returning players who already played against returning players as newbies.
- This is the first season since Template:S to feature 20 castaways.
- 6 of the returning players came from seasons that have the Redemption Island twist (3 each from Template:S and Template:S).
- Out of all three Redemption Island returning players, only Francesca Hogi failed to make it to the Merge in Caramoan.
- Out of all three South Pacific returning players, only Brandon Hantz failed to make it to the Merge in Caramoan.
- Interestingly, Francesca was the first person to be sent to Redemption Island in her season, while Brandon Hantz was the last person to be sent to Redemption Island in his season.
- This is the fifth season to have a returning player from the season directly before it.
- Like the original Fans vs. Favorites season, the tribe colors are purple for the Favorites, orange for the Fans and green for the merged tribe.
- In addition, the same starting tribe colors were also used in Template:S and Redemption Island.
- All three returning players from Redemption Island are from the Ometepe tribe.
- Francesca is the first returning castaway to be voted out first from their original season.
- Coincidentally, she was voted out first in this season as well.
- The font used in the "Caramoan" part of the season logo is HFF Splintered Dream .
- This season's Tribal Council set is inspired by the Nipa Hut, a local traditional dwelling in the Philippines.
- This is the second season where a 3-3-3 vote occurred during a Tribal Council, following Redemption Island.
- Coincidentally, it happened during the third episode of both seasons.
- This is the first season in which two 3-3-3 votes occurred.
- This is the first season to have a tribe win the same challenge twice in a season, although the first win was by default, and the two wins were with different members due to the Tribe Switch.
- This is the third season where two tied votes have happened before the Merge, the first two being Template:S and Template:S.
- This is the first season since Template:S to have the first eliminated person on the Merged tribe not be a member of the Jury.
- This is the first season since Template:S where the first person voted out from the Merged tribe wasn't a member of the Jury.
- This is the third season in which multiple Hidden Immunity Idols were played at the same Tribal Council, the first two being Template:S and Template:S.
- This is the first season in which two idols played at the same Tribal Council have both negated at least one vote.
- This is the first season in which more than one person found an idol more than once.
- This is the first season in which a female player (Andrea) got voted out while in possession of an idol.
- This is the first season in which the Loved Ones Challenge had two loved ones instead of one.
- This is also the first time that Jeff Probst cried during the Loved Ones Challenge.
- Both of the tribes' highest ranking women are its oldest women: Dawn Meehan for Bikal and Sherri Biethman for Gota. Both of the tribes' highest ranking men is the third to appear in the opening: Eddie for Gota and Cochran for Bikal
- Just like the first Fans vs. Favorites, two people were medically evacuated this season.
- This season holds the record for the latest medical evacuation day in the show's history with an evacuation on Day 36.
- This is the fourth season after Template:S, Template:S and Template:S to feature two medical evacuations.
- This is the only season that the Reunion Show had only members of the Jury appear on stage and no pre-Jury vote offs.
- The live reunion show only featured the contestants who made it on the jury phase. All of the pre-jury evictees sat along with audience.
- Due to his in-game altercation with Phillip, Brandon Hantz was banned from attending the live reunion show.
- The Reunion show also has the record of least amount of people talked to, with only 7/20 people being allowed to speak. (Cochran, Dawn, Brenda, Andrea, Reynold, Malcolm, and Phillip)
- This is the third season to have a tie for runner-up.
- However, this is the first time the runners-up originally come from separate tribes.
- John Cochran becomes the second Sole Survivor to play a "perfect game", receiving no votes against him and getting all of the Jury Votes.
- J.T. Thomas was the first to accomplish this feat in Template:S4.
- Cochran is the first Sole Survivor to play a '"perfect game" with a Final Three.
- All of the castaways in the Final Tribal Council stayed on their original tribe post-Tribe Switch.
- This season marks the first time a male winner has won the title of Sole Survivor in a season, in which at least half of the total castaways are returning players.
- This is the first season to have two returning castaways from the same previous season at the Final Tribal Council.
- John Cochran, Dawn Meehan, and Brenda Lowe are the only returning players to place higher then they did in their original season.
- Brenda is the only one who didn't make the Final Tribal Council.
- All the players that remained on Gota after the Tribe swap were eliminated from contention of winning the season consecutively, starting with Malcolm and ending with Sherri.
- Coincidentally, the 3 contestants who returned from South Pacific were not eliminated in a Tribal Council setting, due to Brandon being voted out outside of Tribal Council and Dawn and Cochran making it to the Final 3.
- Ironically, only four of the ten fans actually auditioned for the show.
- This is the currently the only season so feature at least 10 returning players and not feature the When It Rains, It Pours challenge.
References
External links
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