Cole Cichaki

**Cole Cichaki** was a contestant on Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites: Revenge of the Fallen.

Despite a shaky start, Cole's laidback personality helped to put people at ease, helping them to overlook his strategic prowess seen after he returned to the game. However, it was not enough to save him when people finally saw past his façade and got him out in a chaotic tribal council.

## Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites: Revenge of the Fallen

Cole began the game with the Fans of the game, excited to play against some of the bests that the game had to offer to them. When told they had to vote someone off of their tribe immediately, Cole would throw a vote at Corey, believing him to be a good player. After the votes were cast it was revealed that Kenzie, the one who received the most votes from the Fans, was not actually out, but would make a decision alongside Ness, who was voted out of the Favorites group. Cole would then be placed on Tribe Parvati, where he and Adam would find themselves to be the strongest people on their tribe. They would realize the harsh reality of this as it set in after their tribe lost the first immunity challenge. Invigorated by this loss, Cole decided to set his targets on Ness, seeing her as the weakest link. However, the others, specifically Michael and Emily, were weary of his presence in the game, and saw him as a threat. At tribal council, he would attempt to preach sympathy for voting the first person out of his tribe, with them spitting it right back out at him as they voted him out immediately. However, after his elimination, he was told he would have another chance to get back into the game at the Comeback Challenge before the merge.

At the Comeback Challenge, Cole would persist through all of the obstacles and would even give himself a major lead over his opponents. This lead would end up coming back to benefit him, as he won the challenge and won his spot back in the game.

Cole would make a big splash in the game upon his return, becoming a major part of integral conversations towards the first vote, especially when he, Corey, and Kenzie were attempting to convince Richie to vote with them to get Michael out over Darius for his better social connections in the game. At tribal council, Cole would help to vote Michael off in a 7-3 vote, securing his spot in the majority. After losing the next individual immunity challenge to his ally Adam, Corey and Richie immediately approached him and everyone else with a plan to get Darius off. With no other intended targets in mind, Cole would go along with this plan, seeing this plan as the most beneficial for his game, and Darius would become the next one eliminated from the game.

At the *Survivor Whitewater Auction*, Cole would be one of the only few people to purchase anything, getting much food that would refill his spirits in the game. After the auction, he and the others would be concerned at what Richie's advantage would be, of which he went up and lied to Cole saying that it was just a minor challenge advantage. However, after he narrowly lost the next individual immunity challenge to Corey, he would be told by Richie alongside everyone, except for Maggie and Ness, that he really had the *Idol Nullifier* and that the advantage was a clue to it in an attempt to gain trust with Cole and the others. While Cole would become concerned about Richie's new power in the game, he would also become concerned with how his best ally, Adam, was not the newest target in the game. At tribal council, Cole would vote for Ness as a sign of good faith towards Adam, not wanting to vote against his best ally in the game after he had done the same when on Tribe Parvati. However, Adam would still go home in a 6-1-1 vote, helped by Richie's *Idol Nullifier* that cancelled Adam's hidden immunity idol play. After losing the next individual immunity challenge to Maggie, Cole would be included in on a group plan to take Ness out of the game, but he would also be approached by Richie soon after about a concern for Corey's increasing threat status in the game. The two of them then planned to take Corey out at the Final 5, as he agreed with Richie's perspective about Corey being another threatening player with an increasing chance to win. The two of them would then make a pact to do this and stick together in the game. At tribal council, Cole would vote against Ness, finally achieving what he had set out to do at the first tribal council of the season.

After losing the next individual immunity challenge to Richie, Cole and Kenzie would be approached by him about changing their plans to take Corey out at that next tribal council instead of waiting another round. Cole would be hesitant to do this, as he saw Sam as the bigger threat in the upcoming vote due to his possession of a hidden immunity idol. Cole would then talk to Corey and they would exchange information about everything they knew about the upcoming vote and they both agreed to do two things: get Sam out at the next tribal council, and then take Richie out at the Final 5. However, things would not turn out the way he had hoped they would, despite Cole sticking to the plan and voting for Sam and playing a hidden immunity idol on himself after he had heard that Sam was gunning for him. Sam would use the *Voodoo Idol*, which not only cancelled Cole's hidden immunity idol play but also transferred his immunity from it to Sam. Together, Sam and Richie would take Cole out of the game for a second time, sending Cole out of the game in 6th out of 14th place and making him the fifth member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Cole would give props to Richie for his game and would give credit to Maggie for her honest gameplay. He would then refer to Corey's game as "playing like a pansy". In the end though, he would admit that it worked well for him, and Cole would cast his vote for Corey to win the game.

## Trivia

* Cole is the first contestant to be voted out before the tribe swap and win the Comeback Challenge, doing so in *Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites: Revenge of the Fallen*.