Survivor NZ: Nicaragua

Survivor NZ: Nicaragua
Season 1
Presented by	Matt Chisholm
No. of days	39
No. of castaways	16
Winner	Avi Duckor-Jones
Runner-up	Thomas "Tom" Paterson
Location	Nicaragua
No. of episodes	20
Release
Original network	TVNZ 2
Original release	7 May (2017-05-07) – 5 July 2017 (2017-07-05)
Season chronology
Next → Survivor NZ: Thailand

Survivor NZ: Nicaragua is the first season of Survivor NZ , a television series based on the popular reality game show Survivor . The series was announced in February 2016, and premiered on TVNZ 2 on 7 May 2017. ^[1] The season was filmed in Nicaragua, ^[2] the same location as four seasons of the American edition of Survivor: Nicaragua , Redemption Island , San Juan del Sur and Worlds Apart .

The sixteen contestants were initially separated into two tribes, named Hermosa and Mogotón. When ten players remained, they merged into one tribe, named Casar. Avi Duckor-Jones won the season and was named the Sole Survivor. Matai'a Salatielu "Sala" Tiatia was voted the Gem People's Choice Award. ^[3]

Contestants

List of Survivor NZ: Nicaragua contestants

Contestant	Original tribe	Switched tribe	Merged tribe	Main game	Redemption Island
Deanna "Dee" Cambiaso 29, Auckland	Hermosa			2nd voted out Day 1	Lost duel 1 Day 2
Hannah Gough 27, Whangārei	Mogotón			1st voted out Day 1	Lost duel 2 Day 6
Anthony "Tony" Deane 55, Gisborne	Mogotón			3rd voted out Day 4	Lost duel 3 Day 10
Louisa "Lou" McClintock 19, Cheviot	Mogotón			Medically evacuated Day 10
Isabel "Izzy" Pearson 30, Auckland	Mogotón			4th voted out Day 8	Lost duel 4 Day 14
Georgia Bergerson 26, Palmerston North	Hermosa	Hermosa		5th voted out Day 12	Lost duel 5 Day 17
Shayna "Shay" Swain-Tapusoa Returned to game	Mogotón	Mogotón		6th voted out Day 16	1st returnee Day 17
Leandro "Lee" Den Haan 29, Motueka	Hermosa	Mogotón	Casar	7th voted out Day 20	Lost duel 6 1st jury member Day 22
Matai'a Salatielu "Sala" Tiatia 40, Christchurch	Mogotón	Hermosa		9th voted out Day 24	Lost duel 7 2nd jury member Day 25
Shannon Quinn 24, Christchurch	Hermosa	Hermosa [a]		11th voted out Day 28	Lost duel 8 3rd jury member Day 30
Shayna "Shay" Swain-Tapusoa 27, Hamilton	Mogotón	Mogotón		12th voted out Day 32	Lost duel 9 4th jury member Day 34
Jakob "Jak" Thomas 22, Lower Hutt	Hermosa	Mogotón		10th voted out Day 26	Lost duel 10 5th jury member Day 36
Michael "Mike" Sparrow Returned to game	Hermosa	Mogotón		8th voted out Day 20	2nd returnee Day 36
Nathan "Nate" Davis Returned to game	Hermosa	Hermosa		13th voted out Day 35	3rd returnee Day 36
Michael "Mike" Sparrow 27, Tauranga	Hermosa	Mogotón		14th voted out 6th jury member Day 37
Nathan "Nate" Davis 45, Dannevirke	Hermosa	Hermosa		15th voted out 7th jury member Day 38
Barbara "Barb" Raos 53, Auckland	Hermosa	Hermosa		2nd runner-up
Thomas "Tom" Paterson 26, Tauranga	Mogotón	Mogotón		Runner-up
Avi Duckor-Jones 32, Wellington	Mogotón	Hermosa		Sole Survivor

1. Shannon was exiled to Redemption Island for 24 hours after drawing the black buff during the tribe switch. She joined the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge, Hermosa, after their Tribal Council.

Season summary

The season filmed in San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.

Sixteen castaways arrived in Nicaragua and were divided into two tribes of eight: Mogotón and Hermosa. Immediately, both tribes were informed that they would each vote out a player that same day with no opportunity to earn immunity. Following the double elimination, Redemption Island was introduced, giving previously eliminated players another chance to return to the game. Hermosa fared better in challenges, and Mogotón's woes continued with a surprise medical evacuation. Afterwards, tribes were shuffled with the former Hermosa members in the majority on both tribes. Nate and Barb blindsided Georgia on Hermosa, and Tom betrayed his former Mogotón members to side with the Hermosa men and eliminate his rival Shay on Mogotón.

Shay returned to the game after defeating Georgia in the final pre-merge duel, and the tribes merged. The former Hermosa members maintained a majority over Mogotón, but loyalties were in question due to the tribal shuffle. Nate, Barb, Avi and Sala brought in Shannon and counted on Tom to rejoin his old Mogotón players, due to their being down in numbers. The alliance of five quickly took out Lee and Mike, but briefly fell apart after Barb organised a blindside of Sala, the most liked player in the game.

After Sala's blindside, Tom realised he needed to realign with Avi, and they proved to be the most powerful duo in the game (rivaling Nate and Barb). Nate was eliminated at the final four after Barb won a crucial immunity. In spite of both Mike and Nate winning their way back from Redemption Island at the end of the competition, Avi, Tom and Barb remained strong to the end, with Barb saying all along that her mission in the game was to get one of them to win. When the three finalists faced the jury, Barb was grilled for being lazy and accused of not playing for almost half of the game. Tom had many allies on the jury but Avi's stronger argument (highlighting Tom staying in the game due to Avi saving him) earned him the title of Sole Survivor by a vote of 6-1-0.

Challenge winners and eliminations by cycle

Episode(s)	Original air date(s)	Redemption Island duel		Challenge winner(s)		Voted out	Finish	Source
		Winner(s)	Eliminated	Reward	Immunity
1 & 2	May 7 & 8, 2017	None [a]		None [b]		Hannah	1st voted out Day 1	[4] [5]
						Dee	2nd voted out Day 1
		Hannah	Dee	None	Hermosa	Tony	3rd voted out Day 4
3 & 4	May 14 & 15, 2017	Tony	Hannah	Hermosa	Hermosa	Izzy	4th voted out Day 8	[6] [7]
5 & 6	May 21 & 22, 2017	Izzy	Tony	Mogotón	Shannon [c]	Lou	Medically evacuated Day 10	[8]
					Mogotón	Georgia	5th voted out Day 12
7 & 8	May 28 & 29, 2017	Georgia	Izzy	Hermosa	Hermosa	Shay	6th voted out Day 16
9 & 10	June 4 & 5, 2017	Shay [d]	Georgia	Mike [Shannon, Shay]	Mike	Lee	7th voted out Day 20
11 & 12	June 11 & 12, 2017	None [a]		None [e]	Jak	Mike	8th voted out Day 20
		Mike	Lee	Barb [Jak, Nate, Sala]	Tom	Sala	9th voted out Day 24
13 & 14	June 18 & 19, 2017	Mike	Sala	None	Tom	Jak	10th voted out Day 26
					Tom	Shannon	11th voted out Day 28
15 & 16	June 25 & 26, 2017	Jak	Shannon	Avi [Tom, Barb]	Tom	Shay	12th voted out Day 32
		Mike
17, 18 & 19	July 2, 3 & 4, 2017	Jak	Shay	Avi, Nate	Barb	Nate	13th voted out Day 35
		Mike
		Mike [d]	Jak	None	Tom	Mike	14th voted out 6th jury member Day 37
		Nate [d]
				None	Avi	Nate	15th voted out 7th jury member Day 38
20	July 5, 2017					Final vote
						Barb	2nd runner-up
						Tom	Runner-up
						Avi	Sole Survivor

Episodes

No. in series	Episode No.	Title	Timeline	Original air date
1	1	"Episode 1"	Day 1-2	7 May 2017 (2017-05-07)
On Day 1, the sixteen castaways, already divided, arrived on trucks at a beach. Matt, the host, asked them who would be more than happy to be labeled a villain if it meant winning the game, to which Dee rose her hand in agreement. He later proceeded to give them their buffs for their tribes, Hermosa and Mogotón. Matt also announced to the tribes that each tribe would vote someone out on their first day. He then gave them two minutes to strip everything of value from their boats. During the challenge, Izzy managed to steal from Hermosa's gathering. As Mogotón arrived at their camp after the challenge, Tony quickly embraced the leading role. Hannah, Izzy, and Shay agreed to vote out Tom first, as they found him untrustworthy. As Shay approached Sala with their plan, Sala suggested voting out Hannah in order to keep the tribe strong in future challenges. At Hermosa, Dee talked strategy with Georgia and Shannon, but the two weren't sure about her. Georgia managed to get Mike on her side, who also talked with Nate about voting out Dee. Georgia warned Mike about Barb and Nate, as they would likely align as the two oldest tribe members. Mogotón arrived at Tribal Council first, where Hannah was voted out unanimously. Later, at Hermosa's Tribal Council, Dee was voted out, also unanimously. The morning after, Izzy hadn't felt well, as her tribemates looked out for her. The two tribes arrived at an arena with a challenge on set. Matt surprised the tribes by calling Dee and Hannah in. He welcomed everyone to Redemption Island. He explained that after being eliminated from their tribe, they would get a chance to re-enter the game. Redemption Island Challenge: The two Redemption Island inhabitants would use rope to tie together sticks in order to make a pole to retrieve three keys. The first two castaways to retrieve all three keys and unlock three locks would remain in the game. At the Redemption Island Duel, Hannah was in an early lead. Dee managed to catch up to her, but in the end, Hannah won the duel, sending Dee home.

No. in series	Episode No.	Title	Timeline	Original air date
2	2	"Episode 2"	Day 2-4	14 May 2017 (2017-05-14)
After returning to the camp from the Redemption Island Challenge, Mogotón realized that they might have underestimated Hannah. Avi and Tom made an alliance, while Sala approached Tony to join him alongside Lou and Shay to vote out Tom next. Avi talked with Lou and Shay, who assured him that he was safe and that they were going after Tom, which Avi wasn't sure about. At Hermosa, Lee and Mike bonded while eating termites in search of protein. Georgia and Lee discussed voting out Nate if they would lose immunity, as he was a bit of an outsider due to being older than them. Nate likewise grew wary of Georgia, wanting to vote her out. Immunity Challenge: One member of each tribe would act as a caller while two other blindfolded tribe members would navigate the course to retrieve five items and lastly a flag, eventually working with another blindfolded pair who would hoist the items up to the caller's platform. The first tribe to get their flag up to their caller wins immunity. The challenge started fairly even until Tony from Mogotón, who hoisted the items to the caller while blindfolded, accidentally caused an item to drop, letting Hermosa gain momentum and eventually win immunity. At Tribal Council, Tony was voted out due to costing his tribe the challenge.

Voting history

Original tribes Switched tribes Merged tribe Episode # 1 2 4 5 6 8 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 19 Day # 1 4 8 10 12 16 20 [f] 24 26 28 32 35 37 38 Eliminated Hannah Dee Tony Izzy Lou Georgia Shay Lee Mike Sala Jak Shannon Shay Nate Mike Nate Votes 7–1 7–1 4–2–1 3–2–1 Evacuated [g] 4–1 3–2 6–4 6–3 4–3–1 6–1 4–2 4–1 3–1 4–1 3–1 Voter Vote Avi Hannah Tony Izzy Georgia Lee Mike Jak Jak Shannon Shay Nate Mike Nate Tom Hannah Tony Izzy Mike Shay Shay Sala Jak Shannon Shay Nate Mike Nate Barb Dee Georgia Lee Mike Sala Jak Shannon Shay Nate Mike Nate Nate Dee Georgia Lee Mike Shannon Jak Shannon Shay Tom Mike Tom Mike Dee Shay Shay Shay Avi Shay Hannah Tony Lou Mike Lee Mike Jak Jak Barb Barb Shannon Dee Exiled [h] Lee Mike Sala Jak Barb Jak Dee Shay Shay Shay Sala Nate Sala Hannah Tom Izzy Georgia Lee Mike Jak Lee Dee Shay Shay Georgia Dee Avi Lou Hannah Avi Tom Izzy Hannah Tony Tom Tony Hannah Tom Dee Barb Hannah Izzy

Final vote Episode # 20 Day # 40 Finalist Barb Tom Avi Votes 0–1–6 Juror Vote Nate Avi Mike Avi Jak Tom Shay Avi Shannon Avi Sala Avi Lee Avi

1. There was no Redemption Island duel as there were fewer than two inhabitants.
2. There were no challenges due to the double Tribal Council.
3. Shannon was exiled to Redemption Island for 24 hours after drawing the black buff during the tribe switch. She joined the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge, Hermosa, after their Tribal Council.
4. Returned to game upon winning Redemption Island duel.
5. Immediately after the Tribal Council vote on Day 20, a second immunity challenge and Tribal Council vote were held; there was no reward challenge.
6. Immediately after the Tribal Council vote on Day 20, a second immunity challenge and Tribal Council vote were held.
7. Lou was medically evacuated from the game.
8. Shannon was exiled to Redemption Island for 24 hours after drawing the black buff during the tribe switch. She joined the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge, Hermosa, after their Tribal Council.

References

1. "SURVIVOR NEW ZEALAND IS COMING TO TV2". TVNZ. Archived from the original on 25 February 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
2. "TVNZ's Survivor is filming in Nicaragua". Stuff. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
3. Chisholm, Matt (host) (5 July 2017). "Finale - Reunion". Survivor New Zealand. Season 1. TVNZ.
4. "Survivor NZ: Elimination and redemption on first episode". The New Zealand Herald. 7 May 2017.
5. Yates, Siena (8 May 2017). "Survivor NZ: Episode 2 sees the show's first broken alliance". The New Zealand Herald.
6. Fenwick, George (14 May 2017). "Survivor NZ: Episode 3 alive with hypnosis, romance and backstabbing". The New Zealand Herald.
7. "Survivor NZ: Always watch the credits". Stuff New Zealand. 15 May 2017.
8. "Two more down and this Survivor NZ tribe is falling apart". The New Zealand Herald. 22 May 2017.

External links

• Official website