Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X is the thirty-third season of Survivor.
The season used a variant of the tribe division twist previously employed in Survivor: Nicaragua.
Ultimately, the season was won by Adam Klein in the fifth unanimous vote in the series. He received all 10 jury votes, defeating fellow finalists Hannah Shapiro and Ken McNickle.
Production
Filming for the season was scheduled to start in mid-March 2016, but had to be delayed by two weeks because of the effects of a cyclone that passed through the Fiji islands. The cyclone destroyed challenge props and the newly-built Tribal Council set, with the production team having "to scramble in two weeks to rebuild everything".[3] During the peak of the typhoon on Day 2, the castaways were evacuated from their beaches and were sequestered in a barren room located at base camp until the cyclone subsided. The castaways returned to their camps nine hours later.[4]
The pre-jury trip took place in Australia.[5]
Twists/Changes
- Millennials vs. Gen X: The 20 castaways will be divided into two tribes based on their age. The Vanua tribe will hold the millennials, while the Takali tribe will hold the Gen X castaways.
- Hidden Immunity Idol: Hidden Immunity Idols are hidden at all pre-merge tribe camps, concealed inside random objects with a tribe sigil painted on them as identifiers.
- Summit: On Day 8, four random castaways from each tribe met for a summit feast where they could get information on the rival tribe.
- Tribe Expansion: As in Survivor: Cambodia, a third tribe will be introduced at some point in the pre-merge stage of the game. The Ikabula tribe was introduced on Day 13, and wore green.
- Legacy Advantage: While the tribes were allowed to grab supplies for the game, an envelope containing the Legacy Advantage was up for grabs. It would grant its holder an advantage in the game, given that he or she makes it to Day 36. If he or she is eliminated before Day 36, the advantage must be willed to another player. It was revealed that the Legacy Advantage could be used for immunity at the Day 36 Tribal Council.
- Early Merge: As was the case in Cambodia, there will be another merge involving the final 13. All three post-expansion tribes will merge into one.
- Reward Steal: The right to steal one reward from another player was up for grabs at the merged tribe camp.
- Expanded Jury and Final Three: Instead of the conventional Final Two facing the jury of seven, the Day 39 Tribal Council was held with a Final Three facing a ten-person jury.
Castaways
Contestant | Tribe Affiliation | Finish | Votes Against | |||
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Original Tribe | Expanded Tribe | Merged Tribe | ||||
Rachel Ako 37, Los Angeles, CA |
Takali | 1st Voted Out Day 4 |
5 | |||
Mari Takahashi 31, Los Angeles, CA |
Vanua | 2nd Voted Out Day 7 |
7 | |||
Paul Wachter 52, Sugarloaf Key, FL |
Takali | 3rd Voted Out Day 10 |
6 | |||
Lucy Huang 42, Diamond Bar, CA |
Takali | 4th Voted Out Day 12 |
2 | |||
CeCe Taylor 39, Granada Hills, CA |
Takali | Vanua | 5th Voted Out Day 15 |
11 | ||
Figgy Figueroa 23, Nashville, TN |
Vanua | Takali | 6th Voted Out Day 18 |
6 | ||
Michaela Bradshaw 25, Fort Worth, TX |
Vanua | Ikabula | 7th Voted Out Day 20 |
4 | ||
Michelle Schubert 28, Yakima, WA |
Vanua | Vanua | Vinaka | 8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 23 |
10 | |
Taylor Stocker 24, Post Falls, ID |
Vanua | Takali | 9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 25 |
7 | ||
Chris Hammons 38, Moore, OK |
Takali | Vanua | 10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 28 |
7 | ||
Jessica Lewis 37, Voorheesville, NY |
Takali | Takali | Eliminated 4th Jury Member Day 30 |
9 | ||
Zeke Smith 28, Brooklyn, NY |
Vanua | Vanua | 11th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 33 |
14 | ||
Will Wahl 18, Long Valley, NJ |
Vanua | Ikabula | 12th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 34 |
6 | ||
Sunday Burquest 45, Otsego, MN |
Takali | Ikabula | 13th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 35 |
5 | ||
Jay Starrett 27, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
Vanua | Ikabula | 14th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 36 |
10 | ||
Bret LaBelle 42, Dedham, MA |
Takali | Ikabula | 15th Voted Out 9th Jury Member Day 37 |
5 | ||
David Wright 42, Sherman Oaks, CA |
Takali | Vanua | 16th Voted Out 10th Jury Member Day 38 |
10 | ||
Hannah Shapiro 24, West Hollywood, CA |
Vanua | Ikabula | Runners-Up | 13 | ||
Ken McNickle 33, Denver, CO |
Takali | Takali | 3 | |||
Adam Klein 25, San Francisco, CA |
Vanua | Takali | Sole Survivor | 6 |
Season Summary
The 20 castaways were initially divided into tribes based on generation: Millennials vs. Gen X. The Gen X tribe, Takali, struggled early on losing three of the first four Immunity Challenges. Initially, the tribe was run by Paul Wachter until his sudden blindside early into the game, causing a major fracture between the remaining tribe members. The majority of the Millennial tribe, Vanua, was ran by the Majority Millennial Alliance. At 16 players remaining, the castaways were randomly divided into three tribes, during which, Millennial outsiders Adam Klein, and Zeke Smith took the opportunity to defect against the other Millennials, blindsiding showmance member Figgy Figueroa, and dealing a fatal wound to the previous Majority Millennial Alliance.
Come the merge, the tribe was initially unified against Millennial Alliance, but, it soon split into two alliances of five, Zeke's Vinaka Alliance led by Zeke and David's Vinaka Alliance led by David Wright. Following a deadlock vote between Zeke and Hannah, Jessica Lewis became the third player ever to be eliminated via rock draw. This seemingly spelt the end of David's alliance, but, after Will Wahl defected from Zeke's alliance, they were able to recoup and systematically take out the rest of Zeke's alliance.
At the final six, Adam joined Bret LaBelle and Jay Starrett in a failed attempt to target David due to his growing odds of winning. Ultimately, come the final four, Adam managed to successfully convince remaining castaways Hannah and Ken McNickle to eliminate David.
At the Final Tribal Council, Adam was received with adoration from the jury in doing so. This, along with his strong social game, family-orientated motives, and the jury's general dismissal of the other two's game, awarded Adam the title of Sole Survivor in the series' fifth unanimous jury vote at 10-0-0.
Episode | Air date | Challenges | Eliminated (Vote) |
Finish | Viewers (in millions) |
Ratings/Share (18-49) | ||
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Reward | Immunity | |||||||
1 | "May the Best Generation Win" | September 21, 2016 | Vanua1 | Rachel (5-3-1-1) |
1st Voted Out Day 4 |
9.46[6] | 2.3/8[6] | |
2 | "Love Goggles" | September 28, 2016 | Takali1 | Mari (7-3) |
2nd Voted Out Day 7 |
9.16[7] | 2.1/8[7] | |
3 | "Your Job Is Recon" | October 5, 2016 | Vanua1 | Paul (6-3) |
3rd Voted Out Day 10 |
8.52[8] | 1.8/7[8] | |
4 | "Who's the Sucker at the Table?" | October 12, 2016 | Takali | Vanua | Lucy (2-1-0)2 |
4th Voted Out Day 12 |
9.06[9] | 2.0/8[9] |
5 | "Idol Search Party" | October 19, 2016 | None | Ikabula | CeCe (4-1) |
5th Voted Out Day 15 |
8.59[10] | 1.9/7[10] |
Takali | ||||||||
6 | "The Truth Works Well" | October 26, 2016 | Vanua | Ikabula | Figgy (3-2) |
6th Voted Out Day 18 |
8.30[11] | 1.9/7[11] |
Ikabula | Vanua | |||||||
7 | "I Will Destroy You" | November 2, 2016 | Vanua | Takali | Michaela (4-2) |
7th Voted Out Day 20 |
6.93[12] | 1.6/5[12] |
Ikabula | Vanua | |||||||
8 | "I'm the Kingpin" | November 9, 2016 | None | Will | Michelle (9-4) |
8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 23 |
8.81[13] | 1.9/7[13] |
9 | "Still Throwin' Punches" | November 16, 2016 | Bret, Chris, David, Ken, Sunday, Taylor |
Ken | Taylor (7-4-1) |
9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 25 |
8.49[14] | 1.8/6[14] |
10 | "Million Dollar Gamble" | November 23, 2016 | Adam, Bret, Hannah, Sunday, Zeke |
David | Chris (7-4) |
10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 28 |
7.59[15] | 1.5/5[15] |
Bret, Sunday, Zeke [David]3 |
Jay | Jessica (5-5; 4-4; tiebreaker)4,5,6 |
Eliminated 4th Jury Member Day 30 | |||||
11 | "About to Have a Rumble" | November 30, 2016 | Jay [Adam, Sunday, Will] |
Adam | Zeke (5-0)2 |
11th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 33 |
8.77[16] | 1.9/7[16] |
12 | "Slayed the Survivor Dragon" | December 7, 2016 | None | Jay | Will (6-2) |
12th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 34 |
8.50[17] | 1.7/6[17] |
Ken | Sunday (4-2-0)2 |
13th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 35 | ||||||
13 | "I'm Going for a Million Bucks" | December 14, 2016 | David1 | Jay (5-0)8 |
14th Voted Out 8th Jury Member Day 36 |
9.14[18] | 2.0/7[18] | |
[Adam, Jay]7 |
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None | Ken | Bret (3-2)4 |
15th Voted Out 9th Jury Member Day 37 | |||||
Ken | David (3-1) |
16th Voted Out 10th Jury Member Day 38 | ||||||
Jury Vote | Ken Hannah (10-0-0) |
Runners-Up | ||||||
Adam (10-0-0) |
Sole Survivor | |||||||
14 | "Reunion" | 6.40[19] | 1.3/5[19] | |||||
Notes: ^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.
^2 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played, negating all votes against its user. ^3 David drew the odd-colored rock when the teams were formed and, as a result, automatically joined the winning team on reward without competing. ^4 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played; however, no votes were cast against its user. ^5 The vote resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a revote would commence. ^6 Per Survivor rules, in the event of a deadlock tie, the non-immune castaways would have an open discussion to eliminate one of the tied castaways. If no consensus is reached, the non-immune castaways will have to draw rocks, with the castaway who draws the odd-colored rock being eliminated. ^7 Jay played his Reward Steal advantage and stole David's reward. He picked Adam and David to join him on the reward. ^8 The Legacy Advantage was played, negating all votes against its user. |
Voting History
Original Tribes | Expanded Tribes | Merged Tribe | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||||||
Voted Out | Rachel |
Mari |
Paul |
Lucy |
CeCe |
Figgy |
Michaela |
Michelle |
Taylor |
Chris |
Tie | Deadlock | Jessica |
Zeke |
Will |
Sunday |
Jay |
Bret |
David |
Ken |
Hannah |
Adam | |
Vote | 5-3-1-1 | 7-3 | 6-3 | 2-1-01 | 4-1 | 3-2 | 4-2 | 9-4 | 7-4-1 | 7-4 | 5-52, 3 | 4-44 | Lottery5 | 5-01 | 6-2 | 4-2-01 | 5-06 | 3-22 | 3-1 | 10-0-0 | |||
►► | Adam | — | Figgy | — | — | — | Figgy | — | Michelle | Taylor | Chris | Zeke | Zeke | — | Zeke | Will | Sunday | Jay | David | David | Jury Vote | ||
►► | Hannah | — | Mari | — | — | — | — | Bret | Michelle | Jay | Chris | Zeke | None | — | Zeke | Will | Sunday | Jay | Bret | David | |||
►► | Ken | Rachel | — | Paul | — | Figgy | — | Michelle | Taylor | Chris | Zeke | Zeke | — | Zeke | Will | Sunday | Jay | Bret | David | ||||
►► | David | Rachel | — | Paul | Lucy | CeCe | — | — | Michelle | Taylor | Chris | Zeke | Zeke | — | Zeke | Will | Sunday | Jay | Bret | Adam | Adam | ||
►► | Bret | Rachel | — | CeCe | — | — | Michaela | Michelle | Jay | Jessica | Hannah | Hannah | — | Will | David | Jay | David | Adam | |||||
►► | Jay | — | Mari | — | — | — | — | Michaela | Adam | Taylor | Jessica | Hannah | Hannah | — | David | David | Adam | ||||||
►► | Sunday | CeCe | — | Paul | — | — | Michaela | Michelle | Taylor | Jessica | Hannah | Hannah | — | Will | Adam | ||||||||
►► | Will | — | Mari | — | — | — | — | Michaela | Adam | Jay | Chris | Hannah | Hannah | — | Zeke | David | Adam | ||||||
►► | Zeke | — | Figgy | — | — | CeCe | — | — | Michelle | Taylor | Chris | Hannah | None | — | Adam | ||||||||
►► | Jessica | CeCe | — | Paul | CeCe | — | Figgy | — | Michelle | Jay | Chris | Zeke | Zeke | Eliminated | Adam | ||||||||
►► | Chris | Rachel | — | CeCe | CeCe | — | — | Michelle | Taylor | Jessica | Adam | ||||||||||||
►► | Taylor | — | Mari | — | — | — | Ken | — | Adam | Adam | Adam | ||||||||||||
►► | Michelle | — | Mari | — | — | CeCe | — | — | Adam | Adam | |||||||||||||
► | Michaela | — | Mari | — | — | — | — | Bret | |||||||||||||||
► | Figgy | — | Mari | — | — | — | Ken | ||||||||||||||||
► | CeCe | David | — | Paul | Lucy | Michelle | |||||||||||||||||
Lucy | CeCe | — | Paul | ||||||||||||||||||||
Paul | Rachel | — | CeCe | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mari | — | Figgy | |||||||||||||||||||||
Rachel | Sunday | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: ^1 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played, negating all votes against its user.
^2 A Hidden Immunity Idol was played; however, no votes were cast against its user. ^3 Tribal Council resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a revote 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 Per Survivor rules, in the event 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. ^5 Since no consensus was reached, a rock draw occurred. Jessica drew the odd-colored rock and was eliminated. ^6 The Legacy Advantage was played, negating all votes against its user. |
Reception
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Trivia
- The font used for this season is a variant of SRG Marker.[20]
- This is the first season since Nicaragua with 20 new castaways. Coincidentally, Nicaragua also employed the Old vs. Young twist.
- This is the third season to have tribes divided by age, following Panama and Nicaragua.
- This is the first season to merge directly from three tribes.
- This is the first season to not have the individual cast photos of each contestant released. Stills from the first episode, rather than the normal photo shoot, were released.
- Though not publicly released, the individual cast photos were used in online promotional materials.
- This is the first season since San Juan del Sur not to feature any variant of the Extra Vote.
- This is the third season in which all but one pre-merge boot were females, after Redemption Island and South Pacific.
- This is the first season where the players were evacuated due to a weather issue, occurring on Day 2.
References
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- ↑ https://www.dafont.com/srg-marker.font
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