Pedro Kawamura

* Winter Park Main
* Winter Park Mini
* Overall

**Pedro Kawamura** is a contestant from *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, *Worlds Collide*, *Island of Desolation*, *Lord of the Lads*, and *All-Stars*.

Pedro began *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral* on the disastrous Vanto tribe, with consecutive losses solidifying his core three alliance with Alberto Araya and Gabriella Pedrazzani into the merge. At the merge, they were promptly targeted, resulting in him and Alberto needing a streak of Hidden Immunity Idols and immunity wins to successfully fracture the majority alliance. At the final three, Jordan Rotz's final immunity win allowed him to eliminate Pedro, who he saw as the bigger jury threat over Alberto.

A member of the beauty tribe in *Worlds Collide*, Pedro's majority Class of 2022 alliance allowed him to safely navigate into the merge, where he remained in power alongside an all-guys alliance that dictated the majority of the Marumani tribe. On the fourth day, he was viewed as the largest threat remaining in the game and was swiftly eliminated at the final seven.

Pedro's successful pre-gaming for *Island of Desolation* ensured that his name was not brought up as a target for the entirety of the pre-merge, aligning with the winners and other multi-time returning players. However, his constant manipulation of the opposition and intentional lying to his alliance members resulted in the tribe turning against him at the start of the merge, deciding to eliminate him at the final eleven.

Similarly to his previous seasons, Pedro began *Lord of the Lads* in the majority position, aligning against the cross country alliance, which allowed him to easily reach the second day. After their elimination, Pedro's apparent dedication to both the challenges and advantage-finding brought him into the limelight, repeating his original season's mistakes by needing a series of immunities on a round-to-round basis. Out of options by the final six, he was promptly eliminated.

Entering his fifth season with a sprained ankle, Pedro played *All-Stars* with an intention to lower his threat coming into the season. The Tavuko tribe's overwhelming majority at the merge allowed him to safely cruise through the merge phase, rarely being brought up as a target. He was brought into a final three deal with Griffin Hallemeier and Meaghan Schlossmacher by the final nine, which was solidified following his girlfriend's dramatic elimination from Pedro's successful use of the Shot in the Dark. His alliance controlled the remainder of the game, with all three making the Final Tribal Council. Ultimately, his decision to intentionally slide under the radar came back to bite him at the Final Tribal Council, with many jurors feeling he had done little active gameplay in the season and that his jury relationships were facetious. He received three votes and was the second runner-up.

## Survivor Winter Park

### Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral

Pedro began the game on the Vanto tribe. He was fortunate to land on the tribe with his friend Alberto Araya and the two would stay loyal to each other while together. The other three tribe members were Gabriella Pedrazzani, Hannah Schrader, and Nicole Salmons. The former two knew each other from outside the game, and Pedro saw an opportunity to unite the four of them together to take Nicole out. At the first Tribal Council of the season, everyone would vote Nicole out of the game. Pedro's tribe would win the next challenge but head back to Tribal Council in the third round. This time, Hannah had volunteered for elimination, and everyone voted her out of the game. The three remaining Vanto members stayed together during the tribe swap, being joined by Jacob Thigpen and Leah Munro from Savu and Samuel Fernandez from Lotai (who was also friends with Pedro and Alberto). The tribe would lose after Jacob's gluten allergy required them to use a lighter material for throwing, and Pedro would vote him out of the game, seemingly without discussing the vote with anyone else. Their tribe would lose the fourth challenge in a row, and the tribe would split down the line by gender as Jayna Shah would join them as the Prisoner of War. While the guys would stick together to vote out another Savu outsider Leah Munro, the three girls forced a tie against Sam for being generally useless in challenges and strategy. Not wanting to participate in a rock draw, Pedro would flip against his friend on the re-vote. At the final ten, Vanto would lose their fifth immunity challenge, but their Tribal Council would be cancelled when Nika Forouzannia quit the game, leading into the merge.

At the merge, Pedro would stay loyal to Alberto and Gabi, with their intentions of voting out their friend Trevor Mummah after he volunteered for elimination. Additionally, Pedro would find the tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol to give more power to the alliance. However, Pedro would be blindsided by the Lotai majority alliance of Griffin Hallemeier, Jayna Shah, Jordan Rotz, Leah, and Rylee Perrault when Gabi was instead voted out in a 5-3-1 blindside, leaving Alberto and Pedro to scramble. Trevor would volunteer for elimination again, sparing the two for another round. After returning for the third day, Alberto would be immune from the final seven Tribal Council, which left Pedro as the only target for the alliance. He decided to use his idol to save himself that round, with him and Alberto targeting Jordan as the ringleader of the opposition alliance. After Jordan counter-played his idol, the first null vote in *Survivor Winter Park* occurred, requiring a re-vote in which Pedro was still immune. Sensing that Griffin was the alliance's cannibalized target, Pedro would attempt to save him by voting for Rylee, but Griffin would be voted out in a 4-3 re-vote. Pedro won immunity the next round and, with Alberto having an idol to use and the alliance knowing he would play it, aligned with Jordan and Leah to vote out Rylee from the game. Pedro now found himself in the swing vote position on the tribe and decided to stick with Jordan and Leah for the next round to vote Jayna out of the game. She would end up playing an idol to send Leah out of the game, keeping Pedro in a middle position. However, Jayna and Jordan would re-align for the next round and, with Pedro immune, forced Alberto into a tiebreaker competition in which he came out on top. The final immunity challenge would determine the winner of the season, as everyone needed it to ensure who they took to the end. Unfortunately for Pedro, Jordan would win the challenge and after hearing the jury's cheers for Pedro to do well, he would vote Pedro out of the game.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro voted for his season-long ally Alberto to win the game, who narrowly lost to Jordan in a 5-4 vote.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 9, Jordan used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Pedro's vote against him.

**^2** In Round 9, Pedro used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 5 votes against him.

**^3** In Round 11, Jayna used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Pedro's votes against her.

### Worlds Collide

Pedro began the game on the La'maui (Beauty) tribe. The alliances on the tribe quickly split between the majority Class of 2022 players with Pedro, Adelaide Tso, Danyal Siddiqi, and Marina Rentz and the minority Class of 2023 players with Caroline Berryman, Jesse Susunaga, and Sienna Vittone. After losing the first challenge, Pedro's alliance would target one of the girls for their poor performance in the challenge. Jesse S. would flip to their side for Tribal Council, and Sienna was voted out. The tribe would return to Tribal Council in the third round and split votes between Caroline and Danyal (an outsider of the alliance who nobody took seriously), with Pedro voting Caroline for both votes. In the fifth round, Pedro would swap onto the Irikoma tribe and become their tribe captain, responsible for distributing the Immunity Tickets each round. He stayed on the tribe with Danyal and Marina, while being joined by Sarah Riess, William Turner, and Zoey Thomas from Ko'okiri and Davis Hofmann and Hannah Arnold from Vonaku. He would lead their tribe to two immunity wins before losing in the seventh round, where he would join in a unanimous vote against Sarah. By this point, he was aligned with Danyal, Davis, Marina, Will, and Zoey, and the alliance of six ran the tribe, targeting Hannah at their Tribal Council right before the merge.

At the merge, Pedro would continue working with his alliance from his tribe swap to target the men of the original Vonaku tribe, beginning with Jesse Roldan and Matthew Raines (with Pedro winning immunity for Matt's elimination). The next round would see Pedro's ally, Danyal, volunteer for elimination, resulting in him losing a loyal ally. Pedro would win immunity through his Immunity Ticket usage at the final eight, and he lost his vote at Tribal Council but convinced his allies to continue targeting the Vonaku members, this time with Davis. Pedro was blindsided when he played a Hidden Immunity Idol to send his ally Marina out of the game. The next day, Pedro had a plan to work with the stronger guys in Drew Desabrais and Will to take out the weaker players in Daria Cuellar-Hernandez and Owen Rimes to ensure a good winner. This plan would ultimately fail, as the others viewed Pedro as a bigger threat and blindsided him at the final seven, with Will being the only player to stay loyal.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro did not respect either of the finalists but ultimately voted for Owen to win for actively playing around the minority position, as opposed to Daria playing underneath Zoey for the entire season. Owen won the game by an 8-1 vote.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 13, Pedro lost his vote due to possessing the Immunity Ticket immunity.

### Island of Desolation

Pedro began the game on the Va'ena tribe. Before the season, Pedro had worked heavily to start his game in a good position and ended up with Blake Cox, Jacob Thigpen, and Susan Mallen on his starting tribe, with the four of them controlling their tribe for all five rounds. At the three consecutive Tribal Councils he would attend, Pedro would go along with the unanimous votes against Jenna Liu, Dorian Holt, and Hannah Arnold while throwing out Daniel Jaffe as the fake target to whomever would be going home that round. Pedro would use this time to connect with Nicole Salmons and Rylee Perrault, but these relationships would quickly become irrelevant as Pedro would reach the tribe swap, landing on the Ki'halo tribe. His new tribe kept Daniel and Susie while gaining Clarissa Groff, Owen Rimes, Samuel Bernbaum, and Zachary Asarnow of the Mohala tribe. Pedro bonded with the guys of the opposing tribe and, after losing their first challenge, would join in on them, targeting challenge threat Clarisa while blindsiding Susie. At the tribe's following Tribal Council, Pedro would finally dispose of easy vote Daniel after he tried to target Pedro for elimination, and the tribe would join in on a unanimous vote against him. Following this vote, Pedro would reach the merge for his third consecutive season. In between days, Pedro would text both Nicole and Rylee that the other was targeting them in hopes of creating distrust between them at the merge.

At the merge, Pedro would rejoin with his original allies from the Va'ena tribe, who wanted to target Rylee after she returned from the Island of Desolation after being voted out in the pre-merge. He would vote for her at Tribal Council, but her successful Shot in the Dark forced a tie between Blake and Justin. Still closely aligned with Blake, he voted for Justin on the re-vote and joined in the unanimous decision. After Justin's elimination, Pedro's shenanigans with Nicole and Rylee would catch up to him when they told each other about what Pedro had said, and the tribe would turn against him for being an untrustworthy player ready to play hard. Pedro continued to target Rylee, but at the Tribal Council, Pedro realized that he was the target after casting his vote and was told by Susie that he needed to play his Shot in the Dark. However, a debacle in production determined that he only could've played his advantage at the voting booth, and, now armed with outside information from Susie, he was unable to do so. The vote was read, and Pedro was eliminated in an 8-3 vote.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro found Sam's lack of respect for the jury and Owen's lack of agency throughout the game to not be worthy of his votes, instead voting for Delaney to win the game for properly articulating her gameplay. His vote contributed to the unanimous victory for her, voting for Owen to receive second place over Sam.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 15, Pedro used her Shot in the Dark die, making him ineligible to vote at Tribal Council. His Shot in the Dark succeeded, negating 5 votes against him.

**^2** In Round 17, Zoey used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Pedro's vote against her.

### Lord of the Lads

Pedro began the game on the Laddies tribe. He had recruited Alberto Oliveira to participate in the season, and the two quickly became each other's top allies. With a large cross-country alliance forming (consisting of Derek Romich, Griffin Hallemeier, Joseph Ales, and Juan Varela), Pedro would helm a counter-insurgency with Bryant Richey, Reid Walker, Samuel Fitts, and William Turner. At the first Tribal Council of the season, Pedro would try to take out the biggest athletic threat in Derek, but Alex would beg for his elimination. Although he voted for Derek on the re-vote, Alex would be voted out instead. The following round, Pedro moved the target onto returning player Griffin and took advantage of a scattered vote to eliminate him in a 6-5-1-1 blindside. This move put Pedro on the map, as he suddenly became the biggest target in the game. After losing immunity, he and Alberto would push to eliminate Joseph as another outsider, but Alberto would save Pedro with the use of his Hidden Immunity Idol to negate seven votes against Pedro, with ally-turned-enemy Will getting voted out. The idol would subside Pedro's target, as he would connect more with swing votes Charlie Hoeckendorf, JC, and Maddox Muscato to coordinate a majority against the three players who voted out Will (Derek, Henry Iddiols, and Joseph). These next three votes would be near-unanimous every time, and Pedro successfully hid back under the radar.

At the start of the second day, Pedro grew irritated with playing the game slowly and would be the only player to try in the final eight immunity challenge, winning his second of the season. Pedro's immunity win led to Alberto getting targeted for elimination by Bryant, JC, Maddox, and Sam. Alberto would give his idol to Pedro to save him at the voting booth, and Pedro would lead the charge to take out Sam, who had been leading the alliance up until that point. Realizing the target was on his back, Pedro gunned for his third straight immunity challenge and would be successful. He would use his immunity to target Bryant, another player he had lost trust in at the start of the day, and was once again successful. At the final six, Pedro's immunity streak would run out, and after having accumulated one of the largest targets on his back in *Survivor Winter Park* history, he was voted out.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro wrote off Maddox as a coattail rider but was torn between Charlie and JC. Ultimately, JC's ability to play the middle and rise from the bottom impressed Pedro more than Charlie's ability to stay on top the whole season. JC would go on to lose the game in a 7-4-0 vote against Charlie.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 3, Alberto used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 7 votes against Pedro.

### All-Stars

Pedro began the game on the Beta tribe, having to participate on crutches due to spraining his ankle before the season. He quickly joined forces with Kristen Paul and Victoria De Notaris as a trio, additionally aligning with the other guys on his tribe in Drew Desabrais, Jesse Roldan, and Thorin Groth. His tribe would win the first two challenges, allowing him to solidify trust with every player except Lyndsey Keith and Natalie Watkins. Beta would lose immunity in the third round, with Thorin wanting to target Kristen for elimination. Pedro, knowing that he wanted her around, would tip Kristen off about her being on the chopping block. He would vote for Natalie at Tribal Council and send her out of the game after Kristen successfully played her Hidden Immunity Idol. Despite blindsiding the other guys, Pedro would still work back into their good graces as Kristen remained their target. After winning immunity in the fourth round, Pedro reached the tribe swap, finishing on the Tavuko tribe by default for not participating. He remained with Lyndsey, Thorin, and Victoria and was joined by Davis Hofmann, Griffin Hallemeier, and his girlfriend Ryan Hagerty from the Alpha tribe and Jacob Thigpen, Meaghan Schlossmacher, and Reid Walker from the Sigma tribe. Pedro joined an alliance with Griffin, Jacob, Meaghan, Ryan, and Thorin to target Davis for elimination in that round.

The next day, Pedro's tribe would forfeit the immunity challenge in round six to vote out Reid. For the rest of the pre-merge, Pedro would lean on Lyndsey being the tribe's next target but slowly found himself on the opposite side of a power struggle with Meaghan and Thorin, who were looking to potentially split up Pedro and Ryan. This move would never come to fruition, as the tribes would merge at the final fourteen. Pedro would lose immunity and be one of seven players up for elimination. While the target was originally on William Turner, Pedro shifted the blame to Victoria after hearing that she wanted to take out Griffin in order to weaken Thorin and would vote her out despite being close earlier in the game. Pedro wanted to take to the sidelines on the third day, staying loyal to Ryan after Michael Collins began to target her. He would vote out Mac in the final thirteen Tribal Council and participate in a split vote against Rylee in case Cece or Will played an advantage in the twelfth round. He voted Rylee out at the final eleven and, after finding the *March Madness* Timeline Twister card, would immediately play it after winning immunity at the final ten, where Will would be voted out. For the first time all season, Pedro would find himself in trouble after a short break for dinner, where he would be viewed as a jury threat by Thorin, and the rest of the tribe would jump on board with the plan to vote Pedro out. However, Pedro had found a 1-in-2 Shot in the Dark earlier in the game and was informed by multiple players to play it. At Tribal Council, he would take the risk, and it would pay off, as he would negate a majority of the votes to survive the round. Unfortunately, his play would send Ryan out of the game in his place, sending her to the jury bitter. He solidified a crucial Final Three alliance with Griffin and Meaghan before leaving for the night.

At the start of the final day, Pedro would lose another crucial immunity challenge and would find himself back in the heat, with Thorin wanting to finish what had happened yesterday. Not wanting to ever be the target for elimination again, Pedro would follow with whatever the majority of the tribe wanted to do, in this case execute a blindside against Thorin at the final eight. After his elimination, he would continue working to Griffin and Meaghan's will, this time falling victim to an idol play by Zoey Thomas that would send Pedro's ally Jacob out of the game. He found himself the swing vote between Lyndsey and Zoey in the following round, deciding to stick with targeting Zoey as she was the bigger threat in the game. Despite knowing that Jesse was the target in the final five, he would intentionally not cast a vote against him in order to buy his jury vote should he make it to the end, pretending to be blindsided after his 3-2 elimination. Pedro would lose the final immunity challenge of the season and find himself fighting with Lyndsey for a spot at the Final Tribal Council. His alliance with Griffin and Meaghan would pull through, and Pedro would reach the Final Tribal Council for the first time in his career.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro emphasized how playing with a sprained ankle forced him to play a lot quieter than he was used to, especially given the length of the season. However, most of the jury believed that his strategic game had ceased by the middle of the merge, being taken to the end by players who knew they could beat him. He was largely ignored by the jury and was directly lambasted by Ryan, who stated that he was only respected because he was a man. Despite some praise for his social game, which would result in the votes of Cece, Jesse, and Rylee, he would ultimately finish in third place.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 15, Pedro used his Shot in the Dark die, making him ineligible to vote at Tribal Council. His Shot in the Dark succeeded, negating 5 votes against him.

**^2** In Round 17, Zoey used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Pedro's vote against her.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

1

* Pedro holds the record for the most points earned, with 69. Additionally, he holds the record for most tribal challenge wins (16) and most overall challenge wins (24).
* Pedro is the lowest-placing player to be the final member of his starting tribe, being the last remaining player on the La'maui tribe in *Worlds Collide* and finishing in seventh place.
* Pedro participated in all three seasons that started with three tribes.
* Excluding the seasons with automatic merges, Pedro is one of three players to make the merge on four separate occasions alongside Cecelia Gutman and Rylee Perrault.
	+ Pedro and Cece are the only two players to never be voted out before the merge phase, as Rylee returned to the game in *Island of Desolation* through the Island of Conquest.

## *Survivor* Career

### Points Earned

5

**Pedro Kawamura** is a contestant from *The Jungle Dominion*.

Pedro was able to find his footing early in *The Jungle Dominion*, allowing him to control the early game and create a clear divide between the players. After seizing control, he continued to create a pathway for him to flip back and forth between alliances, to varying degrees of success. His ability to play the middle position would ultimately be his undoing, as Pedro would be eliminated by a Hidden Immunity Idol at the final five by Jacob and Thorin.

## Survivor Winter Park Mini

### The Jungle Dominion

Pedro began the game on the Overnighters tribe. Winning the opening immunity challenge, Pedro was granted a walking stick for the round, allowing him to freely create a plurality alliance with Blake Cox, Justin DeLoach, and Samuel Bernbaum, with the intention of using Jacob Thigpen and Thorin Groth's ill will towards George Stedronsky to bring the latter in for the first round. Pedro's alliance brought in George for a narrow blindside against Griffin Hallemeier. The next round, Pedro was uneasy about working with George down the line and saw him as more of a liability than the minority alliance of Jacob, Landon Hurd, and Thorin. The four banded together to vote out George in a plurality vote.

Now in a comfortable majority, Pedro found himself as the swing vote for the round between both alliances, with the minority highlighting that he was at the bottom of the alliance. Fearing Blake's reputation as the winner of the previous main season, Pedro would flip against his alliance and vote him out following a tie vote, with the promise of Jacob being eliminated the next round. After concern about him possessing a Hidden Immunity Idol, Landon offered himself up as a split vote target, with Pedro voting against him. When Sam was instead eliminated from the game, Pedro's game began to slip. Despite a close immunity loss, he believed himself to still have the majority of Landon, Justin, and Thorin back on his side. Pedro would instead be eliminated from the game following the latter's idol play on consensus target Jacob.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro saw no value in the game that Jacob played. He would instead reward Thorin with his jury vote, respecting his move against him in the final five. Thorin would win the game in a near-unanimous 6-1 vote.

#### Voting History

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 5

**^1** In Round 5, Thorin used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Pedro's votes against Jacob.

## Player Profile

### Versions Played

Winter Park - Main
Winter Park - Mini

## *Survivor* Career

### Tribe(s)

Vanto
► Vanto
Lovantu

### Tribe(s)

La'maui
► Irikoma
Marumani

### Tribe(s)

Va'ena
► Ki'halo
Mokihivalo

### Tribe(s)

Beta
► Tavuko
Omega

### Points Earned

22

**Pedro Kawamura** a contestant from *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, *The Jungle Dominion*, *Worlds Collide*, *Island of Desolation*, *Lord of the Lads*, and *All-Stars*.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

1

* Pedro holds the record for most tribal immunity wins (16). Additionally, he ties the record for most overall immunity wins (25) with Thorin Groth.