Jax Nicholson

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**Jax Nicholson** is a castaway from *Survivor 23* and *Survivor 25*.

Known for being the founder of the Makeni Alliance in *Survivor 23*, Jax's alliance held control over the pre-merge of the game. Despite forming the alliance, he played selfishly often making moves to further his own game, betraying his own allies in the process, yet still earning their trust back. He managed to win five individual Immunity Challenges, tying the record for most Immunity Challenge wins in a single season. His challenge wins and the Makeni Alliance loyalty allowed him to secure a spot at Final Tribal Council. Despite being respected for his challenge wins, his moves burned multiple jurors costing him the title of Sole Survivor in a 7-2, naming him the runner-up of the season.

In *Survivor 25*, Jax approached the game trying to be perceived as less threatening and less in control of the tribe. He made a deep run with the swapped Berhala alliance, where he turned against his allies during the Double Elimination, in fear that he would never be forgiven for previous attempts of betrayal. Convinced he was included in a new majority alliance, he became too confident down until he was ultimately voted out at the final six.

## Profile

* Survivor 25

**Age:** 31**Current Residence:** Victoria, Australia**Occupation:** Pilot

## Survivor

### Survivor 23

**^1**  In "", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Jax and Tyler, forcing a revote. Nobody changed their vote on the revote, forcing a rock drawing tiebreaker. Jax was immune from the tiebreaker.

### Survivor 25

Jax returned as one of ten Favorites that comprised the Berhala tribe. Jax was one of the three to want to target Samir Zaman from the start of the game after his impressive run in his original season. After Berhala lost the first immunity challenge, Jax was able to attempt to see his target come to fruition. Luckily with the push for Samir to go coming from Ahmad Maseeh and Kasey Portero, they were able to successfully see him voted out in a 5-3-2 vote. After the first Tribal Council putting multiple people on the edge, Jax was approached with a plan to split votes between Molan Bai and Ziya Bakshi by Kenza Bannani, which Jax agreed to. When Berhala lost their second immunity challenge sending them back to Tribal Council, the tribe seemed on board to take out Molan by splitting the votes. However, at Tribal Council, Jax was left blindsided when a move was made to take out Ahmad. The entire tribe was filled with uncertainty based on the previous tribal, but they were able to win the following Immunity Challenge to secure them immunity. During their day off of Tribal Council, Kenza approached Jax with a plan to work with the enemies, Molan and Ziya, which they agreed to.

On Day 10, the new alliance of four stayed on the Berhala tribe along with four members from the Fans tribe. When their alliance stayed together through the merge, the four of them took it as a sign from the Survivor Gods. However, despite their luck with staying together, their streak of losing continued as they were sent to two back-to-back Tribal Councils where they capitalized on swaying Danica Boiko and Francine Lamb to their side to vote out Jalen Bailey and Malayiah Howard. They were able to win one immunity challenge to allow them a few days of security, but lost the following immunity challenge. With the alliance having to turn against the six members working together, the core Favorites decided to stay together to vote out Danica. Based on the early days with Molan and Ziya, and voting against them, Jax, Kenza, Francine and Danica spoke about voting out Ziya. Feeling that Kenza was on board with the plan, Jax went into Tribal Council, turning against the duo. He was surprised when Kenza stayed loyal to the Favorites alliance. Instead of digging a deeper grave for himself, he flipped back in their core Favorites's favor to eliminate Danica.

On Day 20, the two tribes came together to merge as the Alyak tribe. Despite attempting to burn his allies, Jax swore his loyalty to the swapped members of the Berhala tribe. Kenza let Jax know that if the vote goes the way it's supposed to go, they will move forward as a new majority. At Tribal Council, the plan fell apart and Kenza was voted out. Wanting to fix his errors from the previous time he played the game, Jax wanted to play under the radar and not become too big of a target early on, he went with the flow of the alliance's plan to vote out Ben Dubois which was successful. With a new line being drawn in the sand, the swapped Berhala held a majority with Kasey and Talon on their side. On Day 26, Jax won the reward challenge along with Clara Souza, Molan, Sammie Woodside and Talon Rowe where an alliance was thrown out. Despite not fully working together as a unit, it allowed way to prevent them from targeting each other. At the following tribal council, the swapped tribal lines were still in play when Adrianna Crawford was voted out.

When both of his alliances wanted to target each other, Jax was faced with a decision to target Clara or Ziya. Jax burned Ziya twice in the game, and felt he would never receive full forgiveness from her. At Tribal Council, Jax protected his alliance formed from the reward challenge and decided to vote out Ziya along with Kasey. Making the move against his swapped Berhala tribe, Jax went full force on trying to sway the target to get rid of them, making his next target Francine. When Clara also wanted to protect the reward alliance for as long as possible, she pushed her support for Francine as well, leading to her vote out during the second vote of the Double Elimination.

Completely turning against his former alliance except for Molan, he felt in a great spot heading into the final days of the game, and winning the final seven immunity added onto his high morale. Shortly after his win, he was surprised by Clara and Sammie wanting to turn against Talon and Molan still gunning for Clara despite being saved during the second vote of the Double Elimination. At Tribal Council, Jax went with the majority and voted Talon out of the game. After Tribal Council, Jax became aware that Kasey held the power within the tribe and saw that she was playing the middle too well for his liking. He attempted to rally everyone against her, but when Kasey won the Immunity Challenge, the plan blew up in his face. Unknowingly to Jax, the swapped Pemuja tribe still remained intact and in control of the next vote, which would either be him or Molan. Jax attempted a final move for Molan and Sammie to vote Phenix out of the game. At Tribal Council, his plan fell through and he was voted out in a 4-1-1 vote, becoming the seventh member of the jury.

#### Voting History

**^1**  In "", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Danica, and Ziya, forcing a revote. Jax changed his vote to Danica on the revote.

## Trivia

 **Days spent on Redemption Island:** | N/A

* Jax is tied with Alessia Gaston with most individual immunity wins in a single season, with five.