Survivor: Africa

***Survivor: Africa***, also called ***Survivor: Brains vs Brawn vs Beauty***, is the fourth season of the reality show *Survivor*. Three tribes of six players each were established at the beginning of the season, each being defined by traits that its members tended to employ in their daily lives.

## Production

Jeff Probst claimed that the season format (initially code-named as "B.B.B.") was due to popular demand.

## Twists/Changes

* **Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty:** The division of the tribes is based on the most prominent personal attributes of each castaway.
	+ The Zamba tribe is the "Brains" tribe; consisting of players who mostly rely on intelligence to get by in life.
	+ The Boran​ tribe is the "Beauty" tribe; consisting of players who mostly rely on their looks and social skills.
	+ The Samburu tribe is the "Brawn" tribe; consisting of players who mostly rely on their brute strength and endurance.
* **Hidden Immunity Idol:** Hidden Immunity Idols were hidden at all pre-merge tribe camps, concealed inside random objects with a tribe emblem painted on them as identifiers.
* **Two Tribe Switches:** There were two tribe swaps in this season, the first one on Day 13, and the other on Day 19.
	+ **Fake Merge:** On Day 19, the two tribes convened for a feast and were led to believe that they were merging. However, after finishing the feast, they discovered that they would be switching tribes and would live on one camp for the rest of the game.
* **Double Tribal Council:** On Day 22, both tribes must go to Tribal Council to eliminate one of their own.
* **Final Three:** Instead of the conventional Final Two facing the jury, the Day 39 Tribal Council was held with a Final Three facing a seven-person jury.

## Season Summary

The eighteen new castaways were divided into three tribes based on primary attributes: Samburu (Brawn), Zamba (Brains), and Boran (Beauty). The Beauty tribe stumbled out of the gate early, losing three of the first four Immunity Challenges and being reduced to only Alejandro, Bellesia, and Maia. The Brawn tribe, led by Dave, only lost one member, Helen due to quitting the game after not being able to handle the conditions, while the Brain tribe went undefeated in challenges.

With 14 players remaining, the castaways were shuffled into two tribes of eight: Samburu —featuring the three Beauty, three Brains, Dylan, Leila and Salim and Christa from the Brawn tribe—,and Zamba, consisting of Brains Benji, Anaya and Julia, and the other four Brawn. The Brawn initially planned to hold strong and get rid of Benji, but her and Julia convinced Matty and Sani to turn on the original Brawn tribe, voting out physical threat in Kyrie instead but they never went to tribal.

On Day 20, both tribes were given clues suggesting a tribal merge, but then discovered they were still separate tribes, mixed by random draw, and returned to their camps awaiting for the immunity to then find out it was a double tribal. The new tribes consisted of, Samburu: Benji, Anaya, Alejandro, Dave, Kyrie and Sani. Zamba: Julia, Salim, Leila, Bellesia, Christa and Matty. This development proved crucial for the minority Brains members, who successfully convinced Alejandro and Kyrie to join their side. The new Zamba tribe, quickly turned on eachother with no one having a consencist on which direction to go into. But with Julia and Leila coming together they eventually got out Salim, who they distrusted for continously strategizing with the other tribemates.

The two tribes merged with 10 players remaining, two beauty, four brains and four from brains. While the original tribes looked like they were going to stick together, Leila attempted to sway her old ally Kyrie back to the Brains alliance, but Kyrie was indecisive. Instead, Anaya and Benji persuaded Alejandro and Bellesia to swap to defect from Brawn to Brain, which they did, eliminating Kyrie and putting the Brains in power.

But this was soon short lived as the Brawn used an idol to cause paranoia within the brains and eliminate them one-by-one till Anaya remained. Anaya used her connections in the game to create a new power alliance with the beauties and Matty, who choose who to eliminate. Matty's decision resulted in the eliminations of Dave and Christa due to their strong strategic and social prowess.

Anaya was set to go until Matty decided that he can't have Alejandro the biggest jury threat in the game at Final Tribal Council so decided to tie the vote leading to a Anaya vs Matty tiebreaker. In the end, the Final Three features 1 brain, Anaya, 1 brawn, Matty and 1 beauty, Bellesia.

At the Final Tribal Council, the jury was critical of Bellesia's backstabbing and of her less-dominant strategic game. The jury was impressed by both of Anaya and Matty's games. Split between the two warring alliances, Matty's social game ultimately impressed the jury more than Anaya's underdog story, winning him the title of Sole Survivor in a 5-4-0 vote.