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Australian Survivor (2016) is the first season of the Network Ten incarnation of the competitive reality TV show Australian Survivor.

After 55 days, Kristie Bennett defeated Lee Carseldine in a jury vote of 8-1 to become the Sole Survivor. To date, Australian Survivor (2016) has produced six returning players (Brooke Jowett, Flick Egginton, Lee Carseldine, Nick Iadanza, Phoebe Timmins and Sam Webb) for future seasons.

Production[]

This season, announced by Ten in November 2015, is the third Australian edition of the program, the second to feature non-celebrity contestants and the first to air on Network Ten. This season is hosted by Jonathan LaPaglia.[1]

This new season gives Australian Survivor the rare distinction of being one of the few Australian programs to have aired across all three commercial networks in Australia. This season was filmed in Samoa, the same location as four seasons of the American edition: Survivor: Samoa, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Survivor: South Pacific, and Survivor: One World. The filming location was later officially confirmed on May 9, 2016, first by LaPaglia in a radio interview on the Hamish & Andy show.[2]

In total, 250 Australians and at least 180 Samoan locals worked on the program, including Trent Pattison, who has previously worked on the American version of Survivor as well as Ten's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

Twists/Changes[]

  • 55-Day Game: This season is filmed for 55 days, the longest in the Australian franchise.
  • Three Tribes: The 24 castaways are divided into three tribes of eight.
  • Hidden Immunity Idol: Hidden Immunity Idols will be available, which will abide to the same standard rules from the American version.
  • Double Tribal Council: The two losing tribes at the Day 12 Immunity Challenge will both attend Tribal Council.
  • Tribe Switch: At the Double Tribal Council, each tribe was told to vote without knowing that the person with the most votes would be sent to the other tribe attending the session. The person sent over also gets to pick one member of their original tribe to join them on his new tribe.
  • Tribe Dissolve: On Day 19, the tribes met for a Reward Challenge. Saanapu won, and were given the right to individually choose which tribe they want to stay on and collectively choose the members of the other two tribes to join the new Saanapu tribe. The nine who were not picked formed the new Vavau tribe, and Aganoa was disbanded.
  • Kidnap: After winning the Day 29 Immunity Challenge, Saanapu was given the right to send one of their tribe members to observe Vavau's Tribal Council. They sent Brooke, and she was given the right of picking one of the Vavau tribemates to join Saanapu, and the Tribal Council ended with no elimination.
  • Exile Beach: On Day 39, the four people eliminated during the first stage of the Immunity Challenge, were sent to "Exile Beach" where they will stay until Tribal Council. In addition, there was a Hidden Immunity Idol hidden at Exile Beach. This twist was used again after the Night 47 Reward Challenge, where the people who did not get to go on the reward were sent to Exile Beach.

Castaways[]

Contestant Tribe Affiliation Finish Votes
Against
Original Tribe Switched Tribe Absorbed Tribe Post-Kidnap Merged Tribe
AUS3 des t Des Quilty
59, Sunshine Coast, QLD
Courier Driver
Aganoa 1st Voted Out
Day 2
7
AUS3 bianca t Bianca Anderson
36, Melbourne, VIC
Private Investigator
Saanapu 2nd Voted Out
Day 5
5
AUS3 evan t Evan Jones
30, Melbourne, VIC
High School Teacher
Aganoa 3rd Voted Out
Day 8
5
AUS3 peter t Peter Fiegehen
62, Canberra, ACT
Air Traffic Controller
Saanapu Quit
Day 10
2
AUS3 barry t Barry Lea
44, Cairns, QLD
Former Pro Rugby Player
Vavau Vavau 4th Voted Out
Day 14
7
AUS3 tegan t Tegan Haining
33, Sydney, NSW
Personal Trainer
Vavau Saanapu 5th Voted Out
Day 17
6
AUS3 rohan t Rohan MacLaren
28, Melbourne, VIC
Model
Aganoa Aganoa Vavau 6th Voted Out
Day 21
2
AUS3 kat t Kat Dumont
26, Perth, WA
Partnerships and Brand Manager
Aganoa Aganoa Vavau 7th Voted Out
Day 23
10
AUS3 andrew t Andrew Torrens
29, Brisbane, QLD
Marketing Expert
Vavau Vavau Vavau 8th Voted Out
Day 25
6
AUS3 craig t Craig I'Anson
32, Brisbane, QLD
Recruitment Officer
Vavau Vavau Vavau 9th Voted Out
Day 27
2
AUS3 phoebe t Phoebe Timmins
27, Sydney, NSW
Criminal Lawyer
Aganoa Aganoa Vavau Vavau 10th Voted Out
Day 31
12
AUS3 conner t Conner Bethune
23, Canberra, ACT
Law Student
Saanapu Vavau Vavau Vavau Fia Fia 11th Voted Out
Day 33
6
AUS3 kate t Kate Campbell
28, Perth, WA
Financial Analyst
Vavau Vavau Vavau Vavau 12th Voted Out
Day 35
10
AUS3 nick t Nick Iadanza
28, Adelaide, SA
High School Teacher
Vavau Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu 13th Voted Out
1st Jury Member
Day 37
15
AUS3 kylie t Kylie Evans
38, Melbourne, VIC
Firefighter
Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu 14th Voted Out
2nd Jury Member
Day 39
11
AUS3 sue t Sue Clarke
59, Perth, WA
Personal Trainer
Vavau Vavau Vavau Saanapu 15th Voted Out
3rd Jury Member
Day 41
15
AUS3 jennahlouise t Jennah-Louise Salkeld
27, Gold Coast, QLD
Law Graduate
Vavau Vavau Saanapu Saanapu 16th Voted Out
4th Jury Member
Day 43
5
AUS3 brooke t Brooke Jowett
23, Melbourne, VIC
Sales Executive
Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu 17th Voted Out
5th Jury Member
Day 45
4
AUS3 sam t Sam Webb
28, Sydney, NSW
Charity CEO
Saanapu Vavau Saanapu Saanapu 18th Voted Out
6th Jury Member
Day 49
6
AUS3 matt t Matt Tarrant
29, Adelaide, SA
Magician
Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu 19th Voted Out
7th Jury Member
Day 51
6
AUS3 flick t Flick Egginton
23, Gold Coast, QLD
Personal Assistant
Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu Saanapu 20th Voted Out
8th Jury Member
Day 53
4
AUS3 el t El Rowland
33, Brisbane, QLD
Army Corporal
Aganoa Aganoa Saanapu Saanapu 21st Voted Out
9th Jury Member
Day 54
6
AUS3 lee t Lee Carseldine
40, Brisbane, QLD
Former Pro Cricketer
Aganoa Aganoa Saanapu Saanapu Runner-Up 1
AUS3 kristie t Kristie Bennett
24, Sydney, NSW
Senior Account Executive
Aganoa Aganoa Vavau Vavau Sole Survivor 11

Season Summary[]

The game began with three tribes of eight, and in each, an alliance of four or five formed the majority. On Saanapu, Flick and Brooke recruited Sam, Matt, and Conner. On Vavau, Craig, Andrew, Sue, and Jennah-Louise joined forces. And on Aganoa, Evan aligned with Phoebe, Rohan, Lee, and El, but drama from the idol clue twist between him and Rohan would see the alliance turn on Evan. In a mock vote at a joint Tribal Council consisting of Vavau and Saanapu, Conner and Nick were voted out but instead of leaving the game, were switched to the other tribe and they brought Tegan and Sam with them respectively.

With 18 contestants remaining, a Reward Challenge won by Saanapu gave them the power to decide which tribe between Vavau and Saanapu to stay on. After the five remaining Saanapu remembers chose to stay at Saanapu, they then had the power to choose their remaining members. They selected Sam, El, and Lee for their challenge strength as well as Jennah-Louise with the intention of voting her off.

The game became one-sided after the swap, as not only did the stronger Saanapu tribe dominate in challenges but Phoebe's idol plays ousted the two strongest members of Vavau in Rohan and Craig. After a fake Tribal Council spared Kristie, Phoebe's ally who she threw under the bus to save herself, Brooke further decimated Vavau by adding Sue to her tribe. Phoebe would be voted out at the next Tribal, and the tribes would merge at 13.

The Saanapu alliance, with the original members of Flick, Brooke, Matt, and Sam at the core and with the help of members from post-swap Saanapu, would vote out the remnants of post-swap Vavau as well as outsiders from Saanapu up until the final seven. At that point, Flick viewed Brooke as too big of a threat and flipped to Lee, El, and Kristie to vote out her best friend. Despite El and Lee's obvious strong bond, which appeared romantic to some, Flick and Kristie did not flip back and voted out Sam and Matt.

At the final four, Flick tried to force a 2-2 tiebreaker but Kristie still would not flip and Flick was sent to the jury. Despite not having won a previous individual challenge, Kristie won the Final Immunity Challenge and voted El out. At Final Tribal Council, despite Lee having more control of the game, Kristie's underdog status and the fruition of her floater strategy resulted in her receiving 8 of the 9 jury votes and becoming the Sole Survivor.

Episode Air Date Challenges Eliminated
(vote)
Finish Ratings9
Reward Immunity
1 August 21, 2016 Saanapu Des
(7-1)
1st Voted Out
Day 2
783,000[3]
Saanapu1 784,000[3]
Vavau1
2 August 22, 2016 Vavau1 Bianca
(5-2-1)
2nd Voted Out
Day 5
734,000[4]
Aganoa1
3 August 28, 2016 Vavau Vavau Evan
(5-2)
3rd Voted Out
Day 8
662,000[5]
Saanapu Saanapu
4 August 29, 2016 None Saanapu Peter
(no vote)2
Quit
Day 10
677,000[6]
Vavau
5 August 30, 2016 Saanapu Aganoa Nick
(5-3)3
Sent to Saanapu
Day 12
728,000[7]
Aganoa Conner
(3-3;
2-2;
consensus)3,4,5
Sent to Vavau
Day 12
6 September 4, 2016 None Saanapu Barry
(7-1)
4th Voted Out
Day 14
560,000[8]
Aganoa
7 September 5, 2016 Saanapu Vavau Tegan
(2-2-0;
4-0)4,6
5th Voted Out
Day 17
662,000[9]
Vavau Aganoa
8 September 6, 2016 Saanapu None No Tribal Council 717,000[10]
9 September 11, 2016 Saanapu Saanapu Rohan
(2-1-1-0)6
6th Voted Out
Day 21
586,000[11]
10 September 12, 2016 None Saanapu Kat
(6-2)
7th Voted Out
Day 23
672,000[12]
11 September 13, 2016 Saanapu Saanapu Andrew
(4-3)
8th Voted Out
Day 25
690,000[13]
12 September 18, 2016 None Saanapu Craig
(2-0)6
9th Voted Out
Day 27
649,000[14]
13 September 19, 2016 Saanapu Saanapu Sue
(no vote)7
Kidnapped by Saanapu
Day 29
699,000[15]
14 September 20, 2016 Saanapu1 Phoebe
(3-1)
10th Voted Out
Day 31
699,000[16]
15 September 25, 2016 Survivor
Auction
Brooke Conner
(6-4-1-1-1)
11th Voted Out
Day 33
568,000[17]
16 September 26, 2016 None El Kate
(6-2-0)6
12th Voted Out
Day 35
654,000[18]
17 September 27, 2016 El,
Kylie,
Lee,
Nick,
Sam
[Kristie]8
(Flick,
Matt)
Kylie Nick
(8-3)
13th Voted Out
1st Jury Member
Day 37
691,000[19]
18 October 3, 2016 None Jennah-Louise Kylie
(7-3)
14th Voted Out
2nd Jury Member
Day 39
684,000[20]
19 October 4, 2016 Brooke,
El,
Lee,
Sam
[Sue]8
Jennah-Louise Sue
(5-4)
15th Voted Out
3rd Jury Member
Day 41
660,000[21]
20 October 9, 2016 None Brooke Jennah-Louise
(5-3)
16th Voted Out
4th Jury Member
Day 43
708,000[22]
21 October 10, 2016 Sam
[Lee]
Lee Brooke
(4-3)
17th Voted Out
5th Jury Member
Day 45
760,000[23]
22 October 16, 2016 Matt None No elimination 660,000[24]
Flick
[Kristie]
23 October 17, 2016 El,
Lee,
Sam
Lee Sam
(2-2-1;
4-0)
18th Voted Out
6th Jury Member
Day 49
760,000[25]
24 October 23, 2016 None Lee Matt
(3-1-1)
19th Voted Out
7th Jury Member
Day 51
714,000[26]
25 October 24, 2016 None El Flick
(3-1)
20th Voted Out
8th Jury Member
Day 53
750,000[27]
26 October 25, 20169 None Kristie El
(1-0)
21st Voted Out
9th Jury Member
Day 54
859,000[28]
Jury Vote Lee
(8-1)
Runner-Up 1,082,000[28]
Kristie
(8-1)
Sole Survivor
Notes:
^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.
^2 Peter quit the game the afternoon of Day 10, cancelling Aganoa's Tribal Council.
^3 In a surprise twist, Vavau and Saanapu were subjected to a mock vote, where the players voted out were switched to the other tribe. Those voted off, Nick and Conner, were given the privilege to take an original tribemate to join them on their new tribe. They chose Tegan and Sam respectively.
^4 A tie occurred. Per Australian Survivor rules, a revote would commence.
^5 Per Australian Survivor rules, in case of a deadlock tie, the non-immune players would have an open discussion to eliminate one of the tied players. If no consensus is reached, the non-immune castaways would be forced to draw rocks.
^6 A Hidden Immunity Idol was used, therefore all votes against the user were negated.
^7 After winning the Immunity Challenge, Saanapu was allowed to send one member to eavesdrop on Vavau's Tribal Council. They sent Brooke. At Tribal Council, the tribe found that, instead of a vote, Brooke was allowed to permanently kidnap one member of Vavau. She chose Sue.
^8 This person sat out of the Reward Challenge, but correctly chose the winning team, allowing them to go on the reward.
^9 The season premiere and season finale were coded into two programs ("Launch" and "Tribal Council" for the premiere and "Grand Finale" and "Winner Announced" for the finale), thus two separate sets of ratings were produced.

Voting History[]

Original Tribes Switched Tribes Absorbed Tribes Post-
Kidnap
Merged Tribe
Episode 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26
Voted Out AUS3 des t
Des
AUS3 bianca t
Bianca
AUS3 evan t
Evan
AUS3 peter t
Peter
Mock
Vote
Tie Deadlock Mock
Vote
AUS3 barry t
Barry
Tie AUS3 tegan t
Tegan
AUS3 rohan t
Rohan
AUS3 kat t
Kat
AUS3 andrew t
Andrew
AUS3 craig t
Craig
AUS3 phoebe t
Phoebe
AUS3 conner t
Conner
AUS3 kate t
Kate
AUS3 nick t
Nick
AUS3 kylie t
Kylie
AUS3 sue t
Sue
AUS3 jennahlouise t
Jennah-Louise
AUS3 brooke t
Brooke
Tie AUS3 sam t
Sam
AUS3 matt t
Matt
AUS3 flick t
Flick
AUS3 el t
El
AUS3 lee t
Lee
AUS3 kristie t
Kristie
Vote 7-1 5-2-1 5-2 No vote1 5-32 3-32,3 2-22,3 4-02,3 7-1 2-2-03, 4 4-0 2-1-1-04 6-2 4-3 2-04 3-1 6-4-1-1-1 6-2-04 8-3 7-3 5-4 5-3 4-3 2-2-13 4-0 3-1-1 3-1 1-06 8-1
Kristie Des Evan Rohan Andrew Andrew Craig Phoebe Conner Nick Nick Kylie Sue Jennah-Louise Brooke Matt Sam Matt Flick El Jury Vote
Lee Des Kat Conner Kate Sue Kylie Kristie Jennah-Louise Brooke Sam Sam Matt Flick None
El Des Evan Conner Kate Nick Kylie Sue Kristie Brooke Matt Sam Flick Flick None Lee
Flick Bianca Conner None None Nick Tegan Conner Kate Nick Kylie Sue Jennah-Louise Brooke Sam Sam Matt Lee Kristie
Matt Bianca Conner Flick Conner Tegan Tegan Kate Sue Sue Sue Sue Jennah-Louise El El None El Kristie
Sam Bianca Flick Conner Conner Barry Conner Nick Nick Sue Kristie Kristie El None5 Kristie
Brooke Bianca Conner Conner Conner Nick Tegan Kate Kate Nick Kylie Sue Jennah-Louise El Kristie
Jennah-Louise Nick Barry Kate Kate Nick Kylie Kristie Kristie Kristie
Sue Nick Barry Phoebe Kat Kristie Phoebe Matt Nick Nick Kylie Kristie Kristie
Kylie Peter Flick Flick Conner Tegan Tegan Kate Kate Nick Sue Kristie
Nick Barry Kylie None Conner Sue Sue Kristie
Kate Barry Barry Phoebe Kat Andrew Phoebe Phoebe Kylie Nick
Conner Bianca Flick None None Barry Phoebe Kat Kristie Phoebe Phoebe Nick
Phoebe Des Evan Sue Kat Andrew Craig Kristie
Craig Nick Barry Phoebe Kat Andrew Phoebe
Andrew Nick Barry Phoebe Kat Kristie
Kat Des Evan Rohan Andrew
Rohan Des Evan Kat
Tegan Barry Kylie None
Barry Nick Sue
Peter Kylie Quit
Evan Des Kat
Bianca Peter
Des Kat
Notes:

^1 Although Saanapu won the Immunity Challenge, Peter opted to quit the game, thus allowing Aganoa to visit Tribal Council without voting off one of their own.
^2 In a surprise twist, Vavau and Saanapu were subjected to a mock vote, where the players voted out were switched to the other tribe. Those voted off, Nick and Conner, were given the privilege to take an original tribemate to join them on their new tribe. They chose Tegan and Sam respectively.
^3 A tie occurred. Per Australian Survivor rules, a second vote was held where the castaways involved in the tie would not vote and the remaining castaways could only vote for those involved in the tie.
^4 A Hidden Immunity Idol was used; therefore, all votes against the user were negated.
^5 Lee used his vote stopper advantage on Sam, preventing him from voting that Tribal Council.
^6 El and Lee did not vote as they could only vote for each other. By virtue of winning the Final Immunity Challenge, only Kristie voted.

Trivia[]

  • This season uses the Survivor: South Pacific rendition of "Ancient Voices."
    • For its international broadcast on Amazon Prime, the series' theme tune is changed to Awakenings as used on the UK version.
  • The font for this season is MondoBeyondo BB.[29]
  • Australian Survivor (2016) has a lot of Australian Survivor firsts.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to have three starting tribes.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to use Hidden Immunity Idols.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season not to have a contestant named David.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to have a male be the first person voted off.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to use Exile Island.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to have a female winner.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to not have anybody vote themselves off.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to have the rule against voting for yourself.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to have someone quit.
    • This is the first Australian Survivor season to have a merge with 13 castaways
  • The highest-ranking members of each original tribe were all women.
  • In 2020, the host of the season Jonathan LaPaglia was inducted into the Australian Survivor Hall Of Fame.

References[]

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