"You Started, You're Finishing"
Season	Nicaragua
Episode Number	12/15 (297)
First Broadcast	December 1, 2010
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Previous	We Did It Guys
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You Started, You're Finishing is the twelfth episode of Survivor: Nicaragua.

ChallengesEdit

Reward Challenge: Gulliver's Travels
The tribe would be divided into two teams by school yard pick. The teams would be tethered together and would untie an 8-foot (2.4 m) stuffed dummy from a table named "Gulliver" after the novel Gulliver's Travels. The teams would then carry the dummy through a series of obstacles. The first team to cross the finish line would win.
Reward: Movie (Gulliver's Travels) and snacks
Winners: Benry, NaOnka, Chase, Dan, and Holly (Holly gave up her reward in exchange for a tarp and a can of rice for the tribe. Dan joined the reward as he guessed the correct team)

StoryEdit

Day 28Edit

Tribal CouncilEdit

Tribal Council 11: Libertad
No Vote
QUIT: NaOnka Mixon & Kelly Shinn

Final WordsEdit

Still in the RunningEdit

Espada
Dan	Holly	Jane	Jill	Jimmy J.	Jimmy T.	Marty	Tyrone	Wendy	Yve
La Flor
Alina	Benry	Brenda	Chase	Fabio	Kelly B.	Kelly S.	NaOnka	Sash	Shannon

TriviaEdit

Behind The ScenesEdit

OtherEdit

• Mixon and Shinn marked the fifth and sixth times that a contestant eliminated themselves from the game, respectively.
  • The move also made this season tied with Survivor: All-Stars with the most number of quitters, with both seasons having two.
  • This episode also marked the third and fourth times that a player quit at Tribal Council, following Osten Taylor from Survivor: Pearl Islands and Janu Tornell from Survivor: Palau.
  • This also marked the first time that more than one contestant quit the game at one time.
• Their voluntary expulsion resulted to a controversy among fans, because the incident made it seem that they had a "free pass" to Ponderosa. This issue has been remedied, when it was revealed during the Survivor: Nicaragua reunion show that, if a player quits the game during the Jury phase of the game, the producers have to option to still include them or not in the Jury, and withhold their prize money.
• This episode also marked the first time that the players were instructed to go to Tribal Council without any twists or any preceding challenge. This was to give Kelly S. and NaOnka time to think over their decision about wanting to quit, and then if they still wanted to quit (which they did), they would be eliminated at that Tribal Council.
• After this episode, there are no more remaining women from the original La Flor tribe.

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

• CBS Episode Summary