Cody Singalay

**Cody Singalay** is a contestant from *Survivor: South Africa*.

Cody managed to become part of a dominating duo partner alliance with Daniel Jimenez. On Day 36, Cody was blindsided in a 4-2 vote after he was targeted due to his close game relationship with Daniel.

## Profile

Cody is a 26 year old Film Producer from Denver, Colorado. He has also been interested in the process of storytelling and has studied gameplay clues while watching past Survivor seasons on his TV. Now he is hoping to get a chance to show everyone how much of a Survivor superfan he is and hopes to strategically mastermind the whole game.

**If You Could Bring 3 Things With You To The Island What Would They Be:** A camera, a surfboard, and a private jet.

**What Past Player Will You Be Most Like:** I liked how much of a social game player Chris Hopkins was. I will probably play like him but be super strong strategically as well.

**Why Will You Be Sole Survivor:** I believe I have every aspect you need in the game of Survivor to win it all. Now I just have to actually do that while I'm out there playing.

## Survivor

Cody began the game on the Zulu tribe. Early on, he became part of a big 7 person majority alliance which consisted of himself, Natalie Steinbeck, Julio Rodriguez, Antonio Hernandez, Lisa Mathieson, Daniel Jimenez, and Josh Sinclair. On Day 3, Zulu won the first immunity challenge. Cody quickly began to bond with his fellow tribe member Daniel. They both formed a friendship and decided to form a Final 2 with each other very quickly. On Day 6, Zulu won immunity once again. Cody felt like his tribe was clearly the dominant tribe out of the two starting tribes. On Day 9, Zulu lost their first immunity challenge. At camp following the immunity challenge, Cody's alliance had a meeting. They knew the vote would be between one of the 3 tribe members who were not in the majority alliance: Lori Christopher, Gigi Ramirez, or Celeste Go. Before leaving for tribal, Cody's alliance decided that it was best for his alliance to target Lori due to her weak challenge strength. At tribal, Lori was sent home in a 7-3 vote. On Day 12, Zulu won immunity. Cody and Daniel continued to plot together while trying to keep their close friendship a secret.

The following day, a tribe swap occurred. Cody became nervous that he would be split up from his alliance. Luckily for him, Zulu still had the majority when he stayed on the Zulu tribe along with Daniel and Antonio. They were joined by former Tsonga tribe members Leon Petchers and Didi Conley. At camp, Cody, Daniel, and Antonio got together and told each other that they needed to stick together. Cody was happy he at least had Daniel still. Zulu then went on a challenge winning streak, never losing a single reward or immunity challenge.

On Day 20, the tribes merged. Cody decided to form connections with the people who he was meeting for the first time. He didn't want to form any alliances right off the bat since the merge was a bit overwhelming for him since there were still 13 players still in the game. The next day, Cody lost the first individual immunity challenge. Back at camp, he got together with Daniel. They both decided that it was best to lay low and hear other people's ideas for the vote. They heard from a majority of the merged tribe that Julio needed to go for his bossy and condescending personality and for his close game relationship with Marco Singh. At tribal, Cody voted for Julio who ended up using an idol on Marco. Julio was still voted out in a large 11-2 vote. On Day 22, Cody won the reward challenge along with Didi, Irene Chen, Josh, Leon, and Marco. He quickly used his humor in hopes of forming closer relationships with the people he was on reward with. On Day 24, Cody was worried that people were beginning to notice his close friendship and game relationship with Daniel. After the immunity challenge, Daniel let Cody know that Antonio was targeting the both of them. Daniel stated that Antonio let some people know that he and Cody needed to be separated. Both Cody and Daniel decided it was best to target Antonio for throwing out their names and for being a challenge threat. At tribal, Cody and Daniel managed to convince a majority of the tribe to target Antonio over them. Antonio was sent to the jury in an 8-4 vote. On Day 27, Cody started to notice that the game was getting a lot more interesting. The OG Zulu members decided it was best for them to stick together. After the immunity challenge, Celeste and Lisa overheard the OG Tsonga members talking about how they were going to vote out Irene who was also an OG Tsonga member. Celeste and Lisa told Cody and the others about what they had heard. They all decided to let Irene know in hopes that she would jump to their side since OG Tsonga had a 6-5 majority over OG Zulu if Irene stuck with Tsonga. Irene let the OG Zulu members know that she was 100% willing to join them and that she was going to approach Lindsay Richards about it. Irene felt betrayed by Lindsay the most since the two of them formed a close bond over at the swapped Tsonga tribe. This caused a huge argument to form between Irene and Lindsay. At tribal, Cody was happy that Irene wanted to stick with his group. Cody's group decided to target Leon for being the mastermind of the OG Tsonga side. Before the votes were read, Leon played an idol on himself which shocked Cody and his alliance. Irene was then voted out in a 5-0 vote. After tribal, Cody couldn't believe what just happened. He was relieved that he still had many allies in the game, though, including Daniel. On Day 30, Lisa started to feel ill at the immunity challenge. At camp immediately following the challenge, Lisa collapsed. When medical showed up, they concluded that Lisa was extremely exhausted and dehydrated and needed to be removed from the game. Cody said his goodbyes and became annoyed that another OG Zulu member was out of the game. On Day 31, Daniel won reward and decided to take Cody, Celeste, and Didi along to go on it as well. Not much game talk took place which made it clear to Cody that the OG Zulu alliance was not going to stay a thing for much longer. The next day, more chaos took place at camp following the immunity challenge. Daniel became paranoid that he was being targeted by Lindsay, Marco, and Leon. Both Cody and Daniel knew that they were in trouble again since people still wanted to split both of them up. Cody and Daniel both approached Josh and threw out the idea of voting for Leon. They told Josh that Leon was a huge game threat overall and would win if he made it to the Final 3. Josh told them that he agreed and would vote with them. Josh then let Cody and Daniel know that Celeste approached him and mentioned targeting Marco. He told them that she wanted Marco out for being an underrated strategic threat and that Didi and Mason Jefferson were also voting for Marco. Cody let Josh know that Leon was the bigger threat over Marco. At tribal, Marco used an idol on himself which negated Didi, Mason, and Celeste's votes. The vote tied in a 3-3-0 vote between Daniel and Leon. Cody told Daniel that Daniel's gut was right about him receiving votes from Lindsay, Marco, and Leon. At the revote, Cody didn't have much hope that Daniel would survive. He felt like Didi would join Lindsay, Marco, and Mason and have majority over himself, Josh, and Celeste. Leon ended up being blindsided in a 4-3 revote after Didi voted alongside Cody, Josh, and Celeste. Cody was extremely happy that Daniel was saved. On Day 34 after the immunity challenge, Cody didn't know what to do for the vote at tribal. He felt like he and Daniel owed Didi for what she did at the previous tribal, but also felt like she was too much of a wildcard and social threat. Cody managed to get a majority group to target Didi anyways. At tribal, Cody received his first vote from Didi, but she was sent to the jury in a 5-2-1 vote. On Day 35, both Cody and Daniel felt like the vibes were off. No one was speaking to either of them. They started to feel like a majority group was going to vote out one of them at tribal. Before leaving for tribal, Cody and Daniel decided to search for an idol. After an hour of looking, Daniel found a hidden immunity idol. Both Cody and Daniel couldn't believe it. They knew it had to be used. Daniel mentioned that he was going to most likely use the idol on himself since he was usually targeted a lot more than Cody. They decided to target Mason since Mason was another overall game threat and received 0 votes against him up to that point. At tribal, Daniel used the idol on himself. It ended up being extremely successful, negating 5 votes. Mason was sent to the jury in a 2-0 vote. After tribal, everyone was shocked that Cody and Daniel pulled off that move. Cody knew that the target was extremely huge on his back, along with Daniel. On Day 36, Cody tried his best to convince Lindsay, Josh, and Celeste to target Marco alongside himself and Daniel. He wasn't sure if they were going to end up doing it. At tribal, Cody pleaded his case with everyone to stay in the game. He was targeted due to the other's wanting to separate himself and Daniel once and for all. Cody was looked at as someone that no one was really targeting since Daniel was looked at as more of a strategic threat. Cody was then ultimately voted out in a 4-2 vote, finishing the game in 6th place and becoming the 8th member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Cody didn't have his mind made up on who he was going to vote for to win the game. He asked each of the members of the Final 3 (Marco, Josh, and Lindsay) to explain their full games in 1 word only. Marco said his game was "fancy." Josh said that his game was "social." Lindsay said that her game was "well-rounded." In the end, Cody agreed with Lindsay's answer the most and voted for her to become the Sole Survivor. Lindsay ended up winning the game in a 5-3-2 vote over Josh and Marco.