Quit

## *Survivor* Gameplay

### Description

A method of elimination by which a contestant voluntarily leaves the game without an official vote taking place

### Appearances

*Australian Survivor* (2016)
*Australian Survivor: Blood v Water*

A **quit** is a rare method of elimination in which a contestant chooses to leave the game voluntarily without a vote taking place.

## Occurrences

The first quit occurred in *Australian Survivor* (2016). Despite Saanapu winning their third Immunity Challenge on Day 10, Peter Fiegehen felt that his health had reached a critical point, having been suffering from a gastrointestinal illness from the first few days of the game, and thus viewed himself as a liability to the tribe. After a tearful goodbye from his tribemates, Peter decided to leave, becoming the first ever castaway to quit on *Australian Survivor*.

In *Blood v Water*, Alex Frost injured his back on Day 2 while heading to the first Immunity Challenge, and was assisted by his Water tribemates. Due to his injury, he didn't participate in the challenge that his tribe would go on to lose. Back at camp, Andy Meldrum targeted Alex for his injury, seeing him as an easy vote. However, Nina Twine and Mark Wales managed to get the majority of the tribe to blindside Andy instead. On Day 12, after Water lost the Immunity Challenge, Alex was still suffering from back pains. The tribe was planning on voting out either Khanh Ong or Sophie Cachia. However, at Tribal Council, Alex publicly asked his tribe to vote him out due to him fearing his injury was worsening. When his tribemates didn't agree to do so, Alex decided to quit the game.

## Unofficial Quits

In some situations, a contestant has requested that their tribe vote them out of the game. Although not officially a *quit*, the circumstances surrounding the vote result in the public, or production, perceiving the incident as 'quitting the game'. Usually, this is successful in getting said player eliminated.

*Champions v Contenders (2018)* saw contestants wishing to leave the game at consecutive Tribal Councils. The first of these contestants was Jenna Austin, who sustained a lower leg injury at the first Immunity Challenge. Her injury worsened after a physical Reward Challenge, causing Jonathan to have a helicopter pick her up and get examined prior to the start of the Immunity Challenge. Jenna returned to the game at camp with a brace. Despite the Contenders tribe's near unanimous apathy toward Paige Kerin, they agreed that Jenna was no longer able to help in challenges, to which Jenna concurred. This was an especially tough decision for close allies Heath Davies and Tegan Gasior, but ultimately Jenna was voted out unanimously 9-1.

The next episode, Moana Hope wished to be voted out by her Champions tribemates due to suffering from a debilitating illness. Moana sat out of an Immunity Challenge that would have put her physical ability to good use, and due to Shane Gould and Jackie Glazier struggling, the Contenders won immunity. The plan was in place to split the votes between Shane and Jackie to flush Shane's idol out, until Moana pleaded the tribe to let her leave the game. Sharn was able to convince her to stay long enough for the tribe to vote her out all while successfully flushing Shane's idol.