Canadian Survivor: New Caledonia

*****Canadian Survivor: New Caledonia***** is the fourth season of *Canadian Survivor*.

Dan Nagy became the first European-Canadian Sole Survivor, defeating Lisa Horowitz in a 4-3 vote.

## Production

After a gruelling season in Tanzania, production decided to go back to the beach and chose New Caledonia.

## Format

* **Tribe Composition:** The sixteen castaways were divided into two tribes of eight.
* **Tribe Switch:** A luck of a draw sent three members from both tribes to join the rival tribe.
* **Summit:** On Day 19, both tribes were tasked with selecting an ambassador to attend a summit. The ambassadors would have to choose which camp the merged tribe would live at, along with giving it a name.
* **Merged Tribe Composition:** The merged tribe was composed of ten members.
* **Transferable Immunity Necklace:** Beginning from this season, the winner of the Immunity Challenge reserved the right to transfer the Immunity Necklace to another player, keeping the recipient safe instead and leaving the original wearer vulnerable.
* **Purple Rock Tiebreaker:** In case of a deadlocked tie and there is no consensus as to how the vote will go, everyone, including people who did not receive votes except the owner of the Immunity Necklace, will pick a rock from a bag. Inside the bag, there is one purple rock, and the contestant who gets it will be automatically eliminated from the game.
* **Final Tribal Council Format:** Two finalists faced a jury of seven. The jurors individually addressed the finalists.

## Season Summary

The 16 castaways were divided into two tribes, named after the Bays that they lived on: Oro and Upi. Oro, went to a single Tribal Council and they would bounce back as a unified front, and began dominating in challenges, winning four in a row. On Upi, Fatema took a leadership role and lead the charge on eliminiating Lucien and Paul. On Oro, Isayas found himself on the outside looking in on a unified six.

On Day 10, a random tribe switch occurred, keeping the tribes' numbers the same. Bill, Isayas and Justyna were sent to Upi in an even split and Chris, Hope and Monica to Oro, in a minority to the original tribe. After the new Upi's loss at the fourth Immunity Challenge, Joe went to the original Oro and offered to vote with them, to take out Queen Fatema. On Oro, Dan and Michelle were sick of Carmela and Sandrine, they created a mixed tribal alliance and voted out Carmela. On Day 18, Monica ditches Hope, driving Hope to send her home, but Dan and Michelle had other plans, forcing a draw between Sandrine and Monica. In a revote, Chris switches his vote and completes Dan & Michelle's plan is eliminating Carmela and Sandrine before the merge.

On Day 20, the remaining would merge into Kanumera and Dan would create a majority alliance with Bill, Hope, Joe and Michelle. The merged tribe would unanimously send Isayas home before the jury, but 3 days later, Hope would jump over to Justyna and send Bill to the jury first. On Day 26, Justyna would create a competing alliance and they would go into Tribal Council and force a tie, Chris and Joe would flip in a revote, forcing a rock draw and ending Justyna's game and counter alliance. Fate was on Dan's side and he wouldn't give up his advantage.

Dan would take out Hope and Joe's targets in the following Tribal Council - Chris and Monica, respectively. Down to 5, Dan ended Hope's game and against the odds, Lisa would win the final two Immunity Challenges, forcing Dan to go against his alliance - sending Joe to the jury. At the Final Three Tribal Council, Lisa chose to take Dan to the Final Tribal Council over Michelle.

At Final Tribal Council, Dan and Lisa were met with a bitter jury. Lisa would receive votes from her former allies - Monica and Justyna, plus Chris, who voted out of spite that Dan sent him to jury. Meanwhile, Dan received votes for his strategic gameplay and although all votes came from his former allies, he was the deciding factor on two of their votes. Dan would become the series' first European-Canadian winner.

## Trivia

* *New Caledonia* is the first season to be set on the Oceanian continent.
* *New Caledonia* is the first season not to introduce a new tribe color, as all three colors (blue, green and red) had been used in previous seasons.
* *New Caledonia* is the first season in which the first three eliminated contestants are of the same gender.
* *New Caledonia* is the only season where a summit occurred after a tribe switch.
* This season has the record of the fewest eliminations by a unanimous vote, with two.
	+ This would later be tied in *Peru*, *Dominica* and *Japan*.
* *New Caledonia* is the first season to utilize the rock drawing tiebreaker.
* *New Caledonia* is the first season where at no point during the season did the male castaways outnumber the female castaways. This would next happen in *Belize* and *Egypt*.
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*Kootenays* • *Borneo* • *Tanzania* • ***New Caledonia*** • *India* • *Peru*

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*Solomon Islands* • *Bahamas* • *Greece* • *Marshall Islands* • *Belize* • *Egypt*

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*Norway* • *Dominica* • *Japan* • *Tonga* • *Madagascar*