Survivor: Fiji - Season Summary

Season Summary

Due to one player dropping out prior to the game, the season started with 19 players. After arriving at their beach as one group, instructions and materials for building a camp were dropped from a plane. Before the first challenge, the teams were divided by Sylvia, the one they saw as their leader; as she was the odd-one out, she became the first to visit Exile Island. After the challenge, the winning team, Moto, returned to the constructed camp, while the losing team, Ravu, was directed to a different beach where only meager supplies awaited them; Sylvia joined Ravu shortly afterwards. While both tribes vied equally in challenges, it was clear Moto was in much better shape due to the better camp; however, this served to build an alliance between Earl and Yau-Man. When Earl became a target to be sent to Exile Island, he conspired with Yau-Man to find one of the two individual immunity idols located at the camps.

A pre-merge tribal shuffle served to further alliances; Earl and Yau-Man brought Michelle, Cassandra and Boo into their fold, while Alex became the leader of an alliance between himself, Mookie, Edgardo, and Dreamz, self-titling themselves the "Four Horsemen". The tribes merged by traveling to Exile Island, then returning to the original Moto camp, finding that all the structures and luxuries had been removed. The first post-merge immunity challenge divided the contestants into two randomly selected teams, putting Michelle with most of the Horsemen, and leading to her being voted out. By this point, Yau-Man and Mookie, using clues given to him by Lisi before her elimination, held possession of the two immunity idols. A critical gameplay moment came at Tribal Council on Day 27—Earl's alliance, with the help of Stacy, Boo and an alliance-shifting Dreamz, was able to trick Alex into playing Mookie's immunity idol, but instead targeted and eliminated Edgardo, which led to the elimination of Mookie and Alex in the subsequent votes.

The reward challenge played by the final six players was for a truck. Yau-Man won the challenge, but made a deal with Dreamz to trade the truck in exchange for the final challenge's immunity necklace should Dreamz win it. Yau-Man also became the first player to send himself to Exile, in hopes of using the clue there to find an immunity idol. Boo and Stacy were eliminated in the following days, and Dreamz won the final immunity challenge. At the subsequent Tribal Council, Yau-Man was voted off after Dreamz reneged on his promise to give up the immunity idol. At the final Tribal Council, Dreamz' actions and Cassandra's quiet game led the jury to vote unanimously for Earl.