Unfinished Business

## Cast

***Surviving Reelfoot: Unfinished Business*** is the eleventh season of *Surviving Reelfoot*. The season was livestreamed to Surviving Reelfoot's Facebook Page. The season featured 21 returning players competing over a span of 8 days.

Austin became the winner of *Surviving Reelfoot: Unfinished Business* in a 5-3-0 vote over Megan and Todd.

## Twists/Changes

* **Returning Players**: All players who returned for the season were players who had only played Reelfoot once before and had never won.
* **Shot in the Dark**: Similar to the rules in CBS Survivor, Players may forgo their vote to gamble for immunity. Each player starts with one Shot in the Dark. At the start of the game, players had a 1 out of 7 chance for to select a safety scroll. Once the tribes swapped, players had a 1 out of 9 chance. The number of scrolls would then match the size the tribe, decreasing each time a tribe voted out a player. When the tribes merged, there were two safe scrolls until final 9.
* **Earn the Merge**: At the Final 14, players could choose between three different challenges to compete in (memory, skill, endurance), and the top players from each challenge joined the merge tribe. The remaining seven players were sequestered away from the new merge tribe and attended tribal council with each other.
* **Double Individual Immunity Winners**: Individual immunity challenges from the Final 13 to the Final 9 awarded the top two players individual immunity.
* **Delayed Individual Immunity**: At the Final 5 tribal council, individual immunity was awarded after the votes were cast and nullifying all votes cast against the winner.
* **Jury Vote Blocker**: At the Final 3, players competed for the ability to block a jury member from casting a vote.

# Trivia

* The starting tribe names are each from the Cherokee language. Atsila means fire, Equoni means river, and Galvlo means sky.
* The merge tribe name, Lonestar, was a tribute to the host, Parker, being from Texas.
* This was the second season of Reelfoot to feature only returning players.
* Both seasons featuring all returning players had 21 contestants.
* This was the fourth Reelfoot season to begin with an odd number of contestants.
* This was the first season to have a cast with half or all returning players to feature only one tribe swap.
* In both all returning player seasons, the winner has been a contestant who originally played on Season 4: Wilson Hill.
* This was the first season to feature the “Jury Vote Blocker” Advantage.
* This season saw multiple gameplay mechanics from the new era of CBS Survivor be featured for the first time in Reelfoot. These gameplay mechanics include Shot in the Dark, Earn the Merge, and moving the Final 5 to a different camp from the one they merged at after the Final 6 tribal council.
* Eight contestants played their Shot in the Dark over the course of the season. Of those eight, three of those contestants were voted out at the same tribal council they played theirs at after not getting the safety scroll. Two players (Carley and Carlos), didn’t get the safety scroll when they played theirs, but were able to survive through the use of hidden immunity idol plays.
* Josh and Skyler are the first and second contestants to play their Shot in the Dark and get the safety scroll. Carlos is the first contestant to play both a Shot in the Dark and a hidden immunity idol at the same tribal council. Tony is the first contestant to play a Shot in the Dark.
* Adam, Brent, Carley & Todd are all tied for the record of most rounds immune before attending their first tribal council, being immune for the first 6 rounds of the game.
* Austin is the second contestant to win immunity through the “Delayed Individual Immunity” twist and go on to make final tribal council, and the first to go on to win the season.
* The “Touchy Subjects/Superlatives” reward challenge has been featured eight times in Reelfoot history. With Tony not winning the season, he becomes the 8th contestant to win this challenge, but not win the game.
* Austin, Megan, and Todd this season all tied the record for most Individual Immunity Challenges won in a single season of Reelfoot, with each of them winning 3. They are tied with Parker and Brandon from Season 3, Reynolds from Season 4, Joel from Season 6, Jumi from Season 7, and Nate from Season 8.
* Austin is the second winner to win 3 individual immunities in a single season, after Jumi in Season 7. Megan is the second 2nd place finisher to win 3 individual immunities in a single season, after Reynolds in Season 4. Todd is the second 3rd place finisher to win 3 individual immunities in a single season, after Brandon in Season 3.
* This is the fourth Reelfoot season where each finalist won at least one individual immunity challenge during the season, and the second season with a final 3 to achieve this. This seasons finalists hold the record for the most combined individual immunity challenge wins by a group of finalists, winning a combined total of 9 individual immunity challenges.
* Todd, Reynolds, and Megan are the third, fourth, and fifth contestants to win an individual immunity challenge across multiple seasons of Reelfoot. They join Daniel from Seasons 2 & 5, and Jaylen from Seasons 1 & 5.
* This season holds the record for the most amount of votes nullified by hidden immunity idol plays. A total of 22 votes were nullified by the use of hidden immunity idols this season.
* Amber is the third contestant to find multiple hidden immunity idols in a single season, following Jaylen in Season 5, and Innessa in Season 8. She is the first contestant to find multiple hidden immunity idols in a single season, but not play any on herself.
* Reynolds and Megan are the third and fourth contestants to find a hidden immunity idol across multiple seasons of Reelfoot. They join Jaylen from Seasons 1 & 5, and Maria from Seasons 2 & 6.
* This season holds the record for most consecutive tribal councils where a hidden immunity idol was played, with 3 consecutive tribal councils.
* This season set the record for the fastest time a contestant found a hidden immunity idol. Carlos found his idol without a clue on Day 1 within the first 5 minutes of being in his starting tribes camp.