Lisa Mathieson

**Lisa Mathieson** is a contestant from *Survivor: South Africa*.

Lisa wasn't looked at as a threat for most of the game due to her lacking strategic gameplay. She was well liked socially, though, managing to receive 0 votes her whole time in the game. On Day 30 following the immunity challenge, Lisa started to feel ill. When medical arrived, they concluded that Lisa was extremely dehydrated and needed to leave the game. She finished the game in 10th place. She recovered a few days later and was able to become the 4th member of the jury.

## Profile

Lisa wants to prove that even at her big old ripe age, she can dominate the game of Survivor. As a high school principal, Lisa believes she will exceed at the social aspect of the game. She also believes she will do well at challenges involving puzzles, but might be slow at anything physical.

**If You Could Bring 3 Things With You To The Island What Would They Be:** Coffee, books, and a bible.

**What Past Player Will You Be Most Like:** I will represent strong, older women just like Margarita did last season. She also had a very good social game, which I plan on having as well.

**Why Will You Be Sole Survivor:** I may be old, but I have a lot more life experience than probably a majority of this cast will have. That will be the difference in how I will play this game and could possibly be the Sole Survivor.

## Survivor

Lisa began the game on the Zulu tribe. Early on, she became part of a majority alliance which consisted of 7 people. On Day 3, Zulu won immunity. On Day 5, Lisa had a long conversation with Josh Sinclair. Lisa said that Josh reminded her of her son. Both of them decided to work together in the game. On Day 6, Zulu won immunity once again. Their winning streak eventually came to an end on Day 9 when Zulu lost immunity. Back at camp, Lisa decided to go along with whatever her alliance wanted to do regarding the vote. They all decided to target Lori Christopher since she was not in the alliance and was weak during the immunity challenges. At tribal that night, Lori was sent packing in a 7-3 vote. On Day 12, Zulu won immunity once again.

On Day 13, a tribe swap occurred. Lisa swapped to the newly added Limpopo tribe, which had to start their entire shelter from scratch. Lisa's old Zulu tribe mates Josh, Julio Rodriguez, and Celeste Go all joined her on Limpopo. They also received 2 former Tsonga tribe members: Mason Jefferson and Marco Singh. Lisa was happy that she was still on a tribe with her closest ally Josh. The next day on Day 14, Limpopo won immunity. They also managed to win immunity on Day 17 and Day 19, never attending a single tribal council.

On Day 20, the tribes merged. Lisa was excited about making it to the next part of the game. On Day 21, Lisa decided to bond with some people she never met before the merge. Before tribal that night, Lisa heard that Julio was being targeted for his bossy personality and close relationship with Marco. At tribal, Julio ended up playing his idol for Marco but was sent home himself in an 11-2 vote. On Day 24, Lisa decided that she was going to continue to build relationships with her fellow tribe mates but continue to play a quiet game with Josh. She felt like it wasn't a good time to make any big moves yet. She was approached by Antonio Hernandez to target Daniel Jimenez due to his close relationship and bromance with Cody Singalay. Lisa let Josh know Antonio's plan and they both decided that it was a good idea to target Daniel. Lisa knew that Irene Chen was also going along with the plan. Antonio let Lisa know that he was being targeted due to his challenge strength, but Lisa felt like it was a dumb move to take out Antonio over many other bigger threats. At tribal that night, Antonio was still voted out in an 8-4 vote. Lisa became annoyed with how other people were voting. On Day 27, OG Zulu decided they needed to stick together and stop taking each other out. OG Tsonga had a 6-5 majority over OG Zulu, but Irene wanted to join OG Zulu and take out someone from the Tsonga side. Lisa, along with Celeste, overheard all of the OG Tsonga members say that they wanted to target Irene for flipping over to the Zulu side. Lisa and Celeste let Irene know about this and the whole OG Zulu side + Irene decided to target Leon Petchers for being the "brains" of the operation over at the other side. At tribal, Leon ended up playing an idol on himself which left Lisa and her allies shocked. Irene mentioned that she had an idol too but left it at camp. Irene was voted out and sent to the jury in a 5-0 vote. On Day 30, Lisa felt like it was time for her to play a bigger game and stop laying low. Before the immunity challenge, Lisa began to feel ill and a bit lightheaded. She believed it was temporary and would eventually go away. At the immunity challenge that day, Lisa dropped first and stated that she needed to sit down. After Didi Conley won immunity and the challenge concluded, Lisa asked if medical could come and check on her back at camp. Upon arriving at camp, Lisa collapsed due to exhaustion. Medical rushed over to check on her. After a few tests, medical realized that Lisa was severely dehydrated and exhausted. Lisa wanted to stay in the game, but knew that her health was more important than the game. Medical let Lisa and the players know that Lisa needed to leave the game. Lisa gave her goodbyes to everyone and wished everyone good luck, especially Josh. She sang a song out loud to the tribe while medical took her away. She recovered 2 days later and was able to become the 4th member of the jury. She finished in 10th place.

At Final Tribal Council, Lisa told the 3 finalists that they all did good at something different throughout the game. She asked all 3 of them to describe their games in 1 single word. At the end of her speech, Lisa let the Final 3 know that they should all be proud of themselves, but she was voting for Josh to win. In the end, Lisa did cast her vote for Josh to win the game, but he finished in 2nd place behind Lindsay Richards and ahead of Marco in a 5-3-2 vote.