Kainalu Palakiko

* Greek Islands
* Tibet

**Kainalu Palakiko** is a contestant from *Zovivor: Tibet* and *Zovivor: Greek Islands*.

Voted as the initial leader of the Ngawang tribe in Zovivor: Tibet, Kainalu became a key part of the majority, being seen as a shield for multiple people. After the swap, he had to fight from the bottom when Reed O'Brien flipped on the Ngawang members to vote out Rhonda Cruz. Kainalu was able to survive due to his strength in challenges making him an asset, but at the merge, his strength backfired, and he was voted out as the 2nd member of the jury.

At the reunion, he was revealed to be in the top 3 vote-getters for Fan Favorite alongside Elton Allan and Sinomtha Sikunyana, but he lost to Elton.

Returning in Zovivor: Greek Islands, Kainalu attempted to form an alliance with the other athletic men on the Orpheus tribe, hoping it would keep him safe, but the volatile personalities of his allies Steven Venkman and Draco Naidoo dragged Kainalu down to the bottom of the tribe. Kainalu was able to survive to the merge only through his allies being eliminated first, but he was quickly voted out at the merge due to his status as a physical threat.

## Profile

**Pronouns**: He/Him
**Age**: 31
**Location**: Honolulu, HI
**Occupation**: Surfing Instructor
**Hobbies**: ---
**Pet Peeves**: ---
**What are three words to describe you?** ---
**What is one accomplishment you're most proud of?** ---
**Why will you be the Sole Survivor?** ---

## Survivor

### Cook Islands

Upon arriving at camp, Ozzy thrived and began to show his survival skills at an early start. This earned him in good standing with his fellow tribe mates and allowed him to form a bond with everybody, except Billy Garcia. During the events of Days 4-6, Ozzy began to notice Billy's lack of work ethic and suggested to his tribe that they intentionally lose the next Immunity Challenge to vote Billy out. Despite a mixed reception to the idea, the tribe followed and J.P. Calderon sat out of a challenge that would be more suited to him than Billy, and at Tribal Council Ozzy got his wish and Billy was eliminated.

After a tribe reshuffle, Ozzy and Cecilia Mansilla were placed on the Aitutaki tribe. Ozzy was chosen by Yul Kwon. He and Cecilia were outnumbered by former Rarotonga and Puka Puka members. At their first Tribal Council he made an alliance with Cecilia and Sundra Oakley. The alliance thought they had Jessica Smith and Cao Boi Bui on their side at Tribal Council, but Cecilia was voted out when Cao Boi and Jessica flipped to the opposite alliance. Despite being outnumbered, Aitutaki won the next three Immunity Challenge's. During the Double Tribal Council twist on Day 15, Ozzy was spared because of his physical strength and when the majority alliance turned on themselves, Cao Boi was blindsided. Aitutaki lost the next Immunity Challenge and Ozzy was once again spared as Jessica was eliminated for not fitting in with the tribe.

During the mutiny on Day 20, former Aitutaki tribe members Candice Woodcock and Jonathan Penner flipped and joined the Rarotonga tribe. After the Mutiny Aituitaki won the next two Immunity Challenge's. During this time, Ozzy successfully maintained strong relationships with Yul Kwon, Sundra Oakley, and Becky Lee - together, these four would form one of the series' most powerful alliances.

Ozzy made the merge with a 5-4 numbers advantage. While merged Ozzy became good friends with Nate Gonzalez, who was a former Rarotonga member. Despite coming into the merge with a numbers disadvantage Ozzy won the Immunity Challenge, staying safe at the first Tribal Council. Yul convinced a former Rarotonga member, Jonathan, to flip on his former tribe and join the Aitutaki alliance. At the first post-merge Tribal Council, Nate was blindsided by a 5-4 vote. During the next few episodes Ozzy stayed true to his alliance by voting out Candice, Jonathan, Parvati Shallow, and Adam Gentry in that respective order. He also told the ex-Rarotonga members he did not really care who was eliminated, showing signs of flipping on his alliance, although he never did flip. Ozzy also won 5 of the 6 Immunity Challenges post-merge, losing only one Immunity Challenge to Adam on Day 30. Ozzy's alliance made it to the final four, where Ozzy once again won Immunity. At the Final Four Tribal Council, Ozzy enforced a tiebreaker challenge between Sundra and Becky, with Becky emerging victorious. At the Final Tribal Council, Ozzy was praised for his physical strength, however he only received four jury votes, finishing second to Yul.

At the live Reunion Show, Ozzy was announced as the fan favorite player of the season, winning himself a new Mercury Mariner.

* Challenge History
* Voting History

### Micronesia

Ozzy arrived in Micronesia with mixed reactions from both the Fans and Favorites. Everyone liked him for his talents that he displayed on his original season, but were cautious because of how likely he was to win if he made it far. Ozzy made a strong alliance with Amanda Kimmel, and they joined forces with the other couple in the Malakal tribe, Parvati and James, to form the Malakal Couples Alliance. They quickly realized they only had four members in a tribe of ten people. The alliance tried to convince the two swing votes Jon Dalton and Cirie Fields to join them as opposed to the other alliance which made up the Malakal tribe. After Malakal lost the first Immunity Challenge, Jonny Fairplay asked the tribe to vote him out since he was missing his expectant girlfriend. The tribe granted his wish and Jonny Fairplay was unanimously voted out. The alliance obtained the majority by getting Cirie Fields to side with them. The alliance managed to vote out Yau-Man Chan who was the member of the opposite alliance Cirie was most concerned about at the third Tribal Council. However, Ozzy and James immediately regretted voting Yau-Man off instead of Eliza Orlins since she started to get sick.

On Day 13, a tribe switch occurred. Ozzy stayed on Malakal with alliance members Amanda and Cirie and opposing alliance member Ami Cusack and they were joined by Chet Welch, Erik Reichenbach, Joel Anderson, and Tracy Hughes-Wolf. Ozzy lead his alliance of himself, Cirie, and Amanda to the merge by eliminating Joel, Chet, Tracey, and Ami at the following Tribal Councils. He decided to keep Erik over Ami since he thought he was the more trustworthy of the two players. Ozzy found a Hidden Immunity Idol after being sent to Exile Island, and made a fake Hidden Immunity Idol to cover his tracks, which Jason Siska found, believing it was the real idol. At the first Individual Immunity Challenge Ozzy put up a tough fight but eventually ended up losing to Jason. Ozzy voted out Eliza at Tribal Council because she was the last remaining outsider not immune. At the next Immunity Challenge Jason, the last outsider, agreed to a deal with Parvati to step down for food for the tribe as long as her alliance didn't vote him out. Everyone halfheartedly agreed not to vote for him. The core alliance members of Amanda, Ozzy, James, and alliance affiliate Erik decided to renege the promise. But Cirie saw this as the perfect time to blindside Ozzy due to him being a physical threat and having the Hidden Immunity Idol. All the remaining women voted against Ozzy except Amanda, supplemented by Jason's vote, which resulted him being blindsided.

At Final Tribal Council, Ozzy's vote appeared to be the most obvious of the night as he heavily criticized Parvati and reiterated his feelings for Amanda. He voted for Amanda, who lost to Parvati by a vote of 5-3.

* Challenge History
* Voting History

**^1** In Template:Ep, Ozzy was immune by virtue of being sent to Exile Island prior to the Immunity Challenge.

### South Pacific

> savaii
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> I'm here to play in a humble way, but I'm also here to win., Ozzy Lusth (on competing in *South Pacific*)

Assigned to the red Savaii tribe, Ozzy lead the tribe in most camp activities and even acting as support, as evidence when he comforted Dawn Meehan when the latter went to a mild depression. While his physical prowess kept him in the tribe, his tribemates did not let him take control over the tribe, as seen during Savaii first Tribal Council, where Ozzy's plot to oust John Cochran was put on hold, when the tribe eliminated his initial ally Semhar Tadesse, who blew the Immunity Challenge for them. Few days down the line, Ozzy joined Jim Rice's proposed a "3+2" alliance made consisting of the tribe's most athletic members (Ozzy, Jim, Keith Tollefson, Whitney Duncan, and Elyse Umemoto), stating that once the remaining competition was over with, the males would secretly blindside the two females. The group delayed any of its plans, when Savaii won the Day 5 Immunity Challenge. On Day 7, Ozzy found the Hidden Immunity Idol in hopes of redeeming himself from his infamous blindside in his previous season. The next day, Savaii lost the Immunity Challenge, where Ozzy joined the rest of the tribe in voting Mark Caruso out for being the oldest person in the team.

On Day 9, Jim was worried about seeing Ozzy getting closer with Elyse since Semhar's elimination. With this, Jim plotted to avoid Ozzy from obtaining more power by plotting with the outsiders Cochran and Dawn. The plan materialized in Day 14, when Jim, Cochran, and Dawn voted against Elyse, and with Keith and Whitney played safe by voting for Dawn. Ozzy and Elyse were thrown off-guard, as the latter got blindsided.

That night, disappointed by Elyse's surprise removal, Ozzy declared himself a "free agent," removing himself from the alliance and declaring to the tribe he had the Hidden Immunity Idol; but soon patched things up with his tribe and led them to winning the next Immunity Challenge.
Worried by Upolu's one-person advantage (one of their tribemates, Christine Shields Markoski was dominating the Redemption Island duels), Ozzy proposed to his tribe a risky plan he called "Trojan Horse"—should Savaii loses the next Immunity Challenge, the tribe would purposefully vote him out, effectively sending himself to Redemption Island in hopes of defeating Christine. Ozzy then surrendered his Hidden Immunity Idol to Cochran, stating that he would get it back should he return to the game. At the duel, Ozzy did defeat Christine, and re-entered the competition as part of the newly merged Te Tuna tribe, where he won the first individual Immunity Challenge along with Dawn. Anticipating a 6-6 tie vote between the former warring tribes, Ozzy gave his Hidden Immunity Idol to Whitney, stating that a Savaii member getting voted out is highly unlikely because two of them had immunity, while one other person would use the idol. Unknown to them, Cochran was pulled by the rival Upolu tribe, with the Harvard Law student spoiling Savaii's strategies and secrets. At Tribal Council, the anticipated 6-6 tie happened between Keith and Rick Nelson, forcing a revote. But not wanting to end the vote a stalemate (which would culminate in drawing rocks, where the unlucky person who would pick the colored rock would be eliminated) and the idea of playing the game based on probability, Cochran betrayed the Savaii alliance and joined Upolu in voting Keith, sending him to Redemption Island. The Savaii tribe was furious with Cochran.

Defenseless and unable to win individual immunity once again, Ozzy was immediately voted out returning to Redemption Island. He began to defeat his former tribemates, including Cochran, stating that he would feed them, but defeat them anyway. He eventually re-entered the competition at the Final Five and claimed Individual Immunity.

When the final five contestants returned at Te Tuna camp, Coach expressed his desire to bring Ozzy at the Final Tribal Council, where he would be giving his own Hidden Immunity Idol if necessary. However, Ozzy was suspicious if Coach would really do such promise. At the next Immunity Challenge, ex-Upolu member Sophie Clarke who was ahead of Ozzy, until she audaciously ordered Albert to help her win the challenge, only to be interrupted by Jeff Probst because it was a direct violation of the Survivor Rulebook. Nonetheless, Ozzy won immunity. Appalled by Sophie's actions, Ozzy blasted the economics graduate at Tribal Council for her blunt deeds and calling her a spoiled brat, causing her to become emotional. Ultimately, Coach did not fulfill his promise to Ozzy by keeping his idol unused, and eliminated Rick instead of Sophie.

In the key Final Immunity Challenge, he had the early lead but struggled with the puzzle portion and lost to Sophie (who Ozzy tried to get rid of the day before). Ozzy made a pitch to Coach to enforce a tie at Tribal Council, but failed. Ozzy was voted out for the third time, this time, permanently.

As a member of the jury, Ozzy blasted Albert Destrade, Sophie, and Coach for giving false hopes, condescending demeanor and breaking his "honor and integrity" code respectively. Eventually, Ozzy gave his vote to Sophie, claiming that she deserved it since she was the reason Ozzy was eliminated, and along with five other jury members, Sophie was crowned as Sole Survivor.

At the Reunion Show, Ozzy received the Fan Favorite Award of the season, winning himself $100,000, with Jeff Probst claiming that Ozzy obtained the highest percentage of votes since the award's inception.

* Challenge History
* Voting History

**^1** In Template:Ep, the vote ended with a 6-6 tie between Keith and Rick, forcing a revote. Ozzy did not change his vote on the revote.

### Game Changers

Ozzy started on Nuku, where his water skills helped his tribe win a toolkit in the marooning. Ozzy and JT discussed the possibility of voting out Cirie, claiming it was not because of a grudge from *Micronesia*but to keep the tribe strong. Nuku won the first two Immunity Challenges, keeping plans on hold and Nuku in tact going into the swap. He was switched to the Tavua tribe (third tribe) along with fellow Nuku members Cirie, Sarah, Andrea, and Zeke, along with Mana member Troyzan. Tavua dominated the next three challenges, only losing a Reward Challenge though Ozzy himself performed well. During this time with no Tribal Council visits, Ozzy once again became the tribe's provider, citing fishing as a meditation to keep his head in the game as well as strengthen his position in the tribe.
He, along with Sarah, Andrea, and Zeke, were switched back to Nuku after the second tribe switch. Nuku lost immunity on Day 16, meaning this would be Ozzy's first Tribal Council of the season. Original Mana members Sandra and Varner appeared to be in a 5-2 minority, but Sandra approached Ozzy, Sarah, and Andrea with a plan to take out Tai to prevent a Kaôh Rōng core alliance forming at the merge with Debbie and Aubry still in the game. Ozzy admitted he was almost convinced, further solidifying how dangerous Sandra is as a player. At Tribal Council, Ozzy joined the majority in voting out Sandra Diaz-Twine for the first time in her *Survivor*career. Nuku lost immunity again on Day 18. Ozzy was targeted by Varner when the latter found out Zeke was playing him and aligned with Ozzy. However, the plan failed miserably when Jeff outed Zeke for being transgender during Tribal Council, appalling Ozzy and the rest of the tribe. Ozzy told Jeff he should be ashamed of himself. Ozzy contributed to Jeff's verbal unanimous elimination.

Ozzy reached the merge, making him the first and currently only player in *Survivor* history to make it to the merge four times. At the merged Tribal Council, Ozzy aided his alliance in eliminating Hali Ford. At the second Immunity Challenge which he won in Cook Islands, it came down to him and Tai Trang, but Ozzy ultimately lost to Tai. Though the initial targets were either Zeke or Andrea, Debbie Wanner campaigned for Ozzy's elimination. At Tribal Council, he voted for Zeke, but the Power Six alliance voted for him and Debbie used her Extra Vote Advantage to throw another vote on Ozzy, so he was blindsided. He came in 12th place and was the second member of the jury

At the Final Tribal Council, he criticized Sarah's deceitful game-play and lauded Brad Culpepper for dominating in Immunity Challenges and playing a straight-up game, and even told Brad he was his champion. Debbie agreed with Ozzy's position and aided in this campaign, both of them going as far as laughing when Sarah said that the friendships she made in the game were genuine. He ended up casting his vote for Brad to win, but he lost to Sarah in a 7-3-0 vote.

* Challenge History
* Voting History

## Trivia

* Kainalu is the first contestant from Hawaii.
* Kainalu is the first Pacific Islander contestant.