Season Summary
The 20 players were initially divided into four tribes based on race for the first six days of the competition, but later merged into two tribes. An early visit to Exile island resulted in Yul discovering the hidden immunity idol. With the tribes nearly equal on Day 19, Probst announced that any tribe member may mutiny and join the other tribe; Candice and Jonathan opted for this move, leaving the Aitutaki tribe at four members, consisting of Yul, Ozzy, Becky, and Sundra, and an eight-strong Rarotonga tribe. However, this served to only increase the determination of the Aitutaki tribe; between strong teamwork skills, Yul's intelligence, and Ozzy's swimming skills, Aitutaki remained strong and continued to win both tribal and individual challenges and systematically eliminated the Rarotonga members. When the Aitutaki 4 were down to 5 remaining Rarotonga members, Yul cemented his Aitutaki alliance by showing them the idol, and convinced Jonathan to vote along with them in order to even the numbers. The Aitutaki 4 would eventually remain in domination of the game, and ended up as the final four. With Yul holding the hidden immunity idol and Ozzy winning the final challenge, the four agreed to let a fire-making challenge decide who would join them at the Final Tribal Council; despite this taking more than an hour to complete, Becky emerged victorious. The jury, seeing Becky's coat-tailing of Yul and poor performance at the fire-making challenge, did not consider any votes for her, and Yul's brains edged out Ozzy's brawn, 5 votes to 4.
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