Zoey Thomas

**Zoey Thomas** is a contestant from *Season 2*, *Worlds Collide*, *Guild of the Girlies*, and *All-Stars*.

Zoey's debut in *Season 2* began with her strong connection with Cole Groth, and the two of them would control the season. Although she originally flipped to work with the girls during the early merge phase, her social connections would allow her to navigate back and forth along Cole to both reach the Final Tribal Council, where Zoey would lose the game to him in a 5-2-0 vote.

As a member of the brawn (Ko'okiri) from *Worlds Collide*, Zoey would immediately become the figurehead of her tribe, allowing for plenty of options when entering the swap phase, notably Daria Cuellar-Hernandez. She would form an Extra Vote alliance with Davis Hofmann and Owen Rimes, which would grant them a powerful voting block for later use. Zoey would hide behind the larger threat of the all-male alliance, which controlled the early merge, allowing her to take them all out in sequential order later down the line. However, her decision to keep Owen until the final three would cost her the game, as he would win the final immunity of the season and vote her out.

Zoey's reputation preceded her in *Guild of the Girlies*, coming in hot with the opening immunity win and the perception that she was the leader of a majority pre-game alliance. With each passing round, her target would grow from both outsiders and those within her alliance. At the end of the first day, she would finally be eliminated in ninth place.

In her final season, Zoey struggled to find a key ally in *All-Stars*, but rather a series of moving alliances that helped to diminish her target throughout the pre-merge phase of the game, only facing the threat of elimination in one round. She would join Ryan Hagerty's leading faction at the merge and would survive a series of votes with ease until her elimination, which would send Zoey on an unlucky run of losing allies and requiring the use of a Hidden Immunity Idol. Left without immunity, she would be voted out in sixth place.

## Survivor Winter Park

### Season 2

Zoey began the game on Komoran tribe. Despite her tribe losing the first challenge, Zoey would be spared following a medical evacuation on the opposing tribe. This spared both her and Kristen Paul from elimination as the only two girls in their tribe. An immunity win in the second round would allow her to integrate better into her tribe. This would be solidified in the third round, where Zoey would be brought into a split-vote plan with Ashton Corddry, Cole Groth, Kristen, and Thorin Groth between Caleb Susunaga (the primary target, receiving the votes of the three men) and Jacob Ludlow (their backup, receiving Kristen and Zoey's votes). Confusion between the walk to Tribal Council and Jake going home would still provide a positive outcome for Zoey. Her tribe would win the next challenge, and she would reach the merge at the final ten.

The walk to camp at the final ten would prove crucial to the game, with Zoey sticking to her six-player original Komoran tribe majority (with Joseph Ales from the opposing Telvani tribe) to target Cecelia Gutman, Kaley Kolb, and Ryan Hagerty. However, after voting out Cece, Zoey became concerned about all of the guys teaming up with the girls, deciding to merge the four remaining women while bringing in Ashton and Thorin. Wanting to target Caleb for his unwillingness to align with the girls, Zoey would cast her vote against him at the final nine but would be blindsided when all the guys instead voted out Kristen. Now more divided from her former allies, Cole would throw her a lifeline in the following round by splitting the guy's vote and leading to the elimination of Caleb. Zoey would lose Kaley at the start of the next day for not arriving but would win immunity in the final six. There, she would target Thorin, but his idol would send home Ryan, leaving Zoey as the last standing girl in the game. The next round, the two would argue back at camp, and they would both try to eliminate each other, but Zoey would survive the round. She went on to win the final four immunity challenges, having the choice of taking one player to the end and forcing the other two into a sudden death challenge. For his loyalty, she would take Cole to the end and force Ashton to fight Joseph for his spot at the end.

At the Final Tribal Council, Zoey would be chastised for simply taking Cole to the end due to him being viewed as the more strategic of the two. She would go on to receive a single vote from George, claiming it to be a text-in from Cece. However, this vote has been retroactively changed to include every juror (as only Joseph and Thorin were actually there). In this scenario, Zoey receives the votes of Cece and Kristen and takes home second place.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 9, Thorin used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Zoey's vote against him.

**^2** In Round 10, Zoey won immunity and took Cole to the Final Tribal Council.

### Worlds Collide

Zoey began the game on the Ko'okiri (Brawn) tribe. Her tribe would split between men and women, with Zoey specifically aligning with Daria Cuellar-Hernandez and Sarah Riess in a core majority, using Angelie Velasquez as an outside vote against Drew Desabrais, Jason Zavitz, and William Turner. In the first round, Zoey would find a Vote Abstain advantage, which allowed her to hold her vote at one Tribal Council to gain an Extra Vote for the future. At their tribe's first Tribal Council in the second round, Zoey found Jason to be the least realistic ally for her in the future and pushed for his elimination, successfully voting him out 4-3. At the vote, Angie played her Hidden Immunity Idol on herself as a sign of distrust in her alliance. This, combined with Drew and Will pleading for their safety by pledging their strength and loyalty going forward, would move them above Angie on the totem pole. When the tribe attended Tribal Council two rounds later, they unanimously voted out Angie, who had been targeting Zoey that round. Following this vote, her tribe would reach the tribe swap and dissolve.

Zoey landed on the Irikoma tribe, alongside Sarah and Will. She would be joined by Danyal Siddiqi, Marina Rentz, and Pedro Kawamura of the La'maui tribe and Davis Hofmann and Hannah Arnold of the Vonaku tribe. With an uneven majority, Zoey quickly conceded to the will of the other players on her tribe to target Sarah in the hopes of lowering her threat level and getting rid of a player that she started to lose faith in on her starting tribe. Her tribe would win the first two immunity challenges, allowing her to integrate with Danyal, Davis, Marina, Pedro, and Will as a majority alliance. At their first Tribal Council in Round 7, Zoey would abstain from voting to activate her Extra Vote for later and would hide this fact as Sarah would be voted out unanimously by the others. Two rounds later, her tribe would return to Tribal Council, where an easy vote presented Hannah as the least important player on her tribe. Following this Tribal Council, she would reach the merge.

For the first two rounds of the merge, Zoey would join with the non-original Vonaku members to target both Jesse Roldan and Matthew Raines. During this time, she would protect the other two members, Davis and Owen, as the three of them collectively held three Extra Votes, allowing them an immense amount of voting power the further they made it in the game. After Zoey's first immunity win, she would lose her vote, but Danyal would be voted out unanimously. At this point, Daria would become her number one ally, as she recognized her as an easy player to beat at the Final Tribal Council. Winning immunity for the second round in a row, the rest of the tribe would turn their sights against Davis, and Zoey would join them in that vote, only to be blindsided when he played an idol to send Marina out of the game. This would end the third day.

On the final day of the game, Drew, Pedro, and Will would be viewed as the biggest threats on the board. With Drew being the most connected to the girls and Owen and Will winning immunity at the final seven, Pedro would be Zoey's target for elimination, and he would be voted out in near-unanimous fashion. Zoey would win her third immunity of the season and continue what she started by voting Will out of the game next, marching her one step closer to the end while still holding her Extra Vote. Knowing Davis' aptitude for finding advantages, the following round would require Zoey to orchestrate a split vote between Drew and Davis to ensure one of their eliminations, targeting Drew at the re-vote. At the final four, Zoey would once again win the immunity necklace, now left with the decision between Davis and Owen. Weighing between whoever would be the easier beat at the final immunity challenge, Davis' three immunity wins would make him the more threatening option between him and Owen, and Zoey would vote him out of the game. This would prove to be a costly mistake, as Owen would dominate the challenge and, after a long deliberation period, go on to vote Zoey out of the game, eliminating her in third place as the last member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Zoey was thoroughly unimpressed with both finalists, feeling as if she was the reason both of them had made it as far as they had. However, she could not respect the game Daria played, or lack thereof, and with Owen at least having an immunity idol play and the claim that he was solely responsible for her elimination, she would vote for Owen to win the game and contribute to his 8-1 victory over Daria. She would be awarded the title of Most Valuable Player by the crew team for the season.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 7, Zoey abstained from voting in order to gain an Extra Vote for the future.

**^2** In Round 12, Zoey lost her vote due to possessing the Immunity Ticket immunity necklace.

**^3** In Round 13, Davis used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Zoey's vote against him.

### Guild of the Girlies

Zoey began the game on the all-female Ladies tribe. She had an immediate target on her back due to her insolation with a large alliance, consisting of Caroline Dentel, Jazlyn Dailey, Kameron Tinsley, Mya Khatri, and Van Nguyen. Worried about being the first target, Zoey won the first immunity challenge of the season, wanting to weaken her potential opposition by taking a shot at Cecelia Gutman and Kristen Paul, sending the former home in the first round. From here on, Zoey would act as a follower of her alliance to lower her threat level with little success, following the consensus eliminations of Kaley Kolb, Lilly Yon, Lydia Yon, and Meaghan Schlossmacher. Each round would see her gain more of a target on her back, especially after winning the immunity challenge at the final twelve. For the final vote of the day, Zoey would look to target Victoria De Notaris as the path of least resistance for her staying. However, Kristen would go on to play an idol on her and a majority of Zoey's alliance would flip on her, seeing her as the jury threat that she was in her previous season.

At the Final Tribal Council, Zoey would come to respect the game of Kristen more than her friend Jaz, largely discarding Victoria as a player. Despite not working together throughout the season, she would vote for Kristen to win the game, who would lose by one vote to Jaz.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 6, Kristen used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Zoey's vote against Victoria.

### All-Stars

Zoey began the game on the Alpha tribe. At the start of the game, a united front would form against Bryant Richey, Caroline Dentel, and Davis Hofmann for their poor performances in the opening challenge of the season, with the former two being both of Zoey's targets for elimination when her tribe lost the first two challenges of the season. After this, she would settle into a group with Griffin Hallemeier and Ryan Hagerty. Additionally, she would find the *Bloodlines* Timeline Twister card, allowing her to form a pairing with someone in which any advantages played between them would work on both players. Neither of these connections would be helpful when, in the fifth round, Zoey would place in the top ten of the swap challenge and join the Waylu tribe, staying with Diego Lindauer and Michael Collins while gaining Drew Desabrais, Jesse Roldan, Kristen Paul (from the Beta tribe), Adam Holbrook, Cecelia Gutman, Rylee Perrault, and William Turner (from the Sigma tribe). Zoey would immediately find herself in hot water, placed as the target of the Sigma plurality alongside a paranoid Jesse Roldan. However, some pleading with Thorin Groth on the opposing tribe at Tribal Council would earn her the *Exile Island* Timeline Twister card, allowing her to eject herself (and Jesse, via the *Bloodlines* Timeline Twister card she had earned earlier) from Tribal Council. Now safe from Tribal Council without a vote, potential ally Drew would be voted out of the game.

Zoey would catch a break by the start of day two, and a rogue vote against Kristen cast by Griffin (pulled into their Tribal Council by Mac) would send her, Cece, Diego, and Will from a majority position into the primary targets of the tribe. She would join up with Adam, Jesse, Mac, and Rylee to take out Kristen at the final seventeen, leaving the other three to panic at the bottom of the tribe. After losing the next challenge, the target would land on Cece, but Zoey would cast a vote against Diego on the off-chance that she had an advantage. Zoey's intuition would be right, and her sole vote against Diego would send him out of the game. This would shake the tribe up enough at the next vote that, after losing their third straight challenge, Adam would become a new target for elimination. Not trusting him since they landed on the same tribes, Zoey would vote him out of the game as the final pre-merger of the season.

Zoey would be one of seven players up for elimination at the merge vote, wanting to target Will for being a big threat who she didn't trust in the game. The vote would swing against Victoria at the last minute, leaving her blindsided in the first round. This round would conclude the day, and in between rounds, Zoey would find herself as a core member of Ryan's alliance to combat Mac, a rivalry that began between days. Zoey would lose immunity but participate in the split vote on Cece, with Mac being voted out at the final thirteen. In the following rounds, she would once again split her vote on Rylee in the case of Cece and Will having advantages. After Cece's elimination, Zoey contributed to a near-unanimous vote against Rylee in the final eleven. At this point in the game, Zoey struggled to find someone with whom she was particularly close, despite having many allies such as Griffin, Jesse, Lyndsey, Ryan, and Thorin. Finding Jacob to be untrustworthy, she would target him as another split vote during Will's elimination at the final ten, losing Jacob's trust in the long run. She would also find a Hidden Immunity Idol and the *Exile Island* Timeline Twister card at the final nine, granting her more power going forward. Her first major blindside would occur in the same round, when Jacob would get revenge on Ryan and vote her out, burning one of Zoey's closest allies in the process.

Fearing that she was the next target and that nobody was telling her the right vote, Zoey would use her Timeline Twister card to escape from Tribal Council, not being able to participate in the Tribal Council where Thorin was eliminated. Upon returning, she would lose a crucial immunity challenge and knew that she would need to use her idol to save herself. Knowing that she had power for the round, she would inform Jesse about a plan to vote Jacob out, and the two would follow through, eliminating him with two votes. Her time would finally run out at the final six, when she would push for Lyndsey Keith's elimination for not being a true all-star. She would fight with Meaghan at Tribal Council about her not being the biggest threat in the game, but to no avail, as Zoey would be voted out in a 3-2-1 vote.

At the Final Tribal Council, Zoey didn't respect Meaghan's attitude towards her and found Pedro to be an inactive player throughout who was mostly unwilling to work with her. Griffin, on the other hand, was her ally at multiple points in the game, and she viewed him as the most consistently dedicated player and decided to vote for him to win. She voted for Pedro to receive second place.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 5, Zoey used the Send Away advantage, granting her immunity at the cost of her vote.

**^2** In Round 15, Pedro successfully used his Shot in the Dark die, negating Zoey's vote against him.

**^3** In Round 10, Zoey used the Self-Exile advantage, granting her immunity at the cost of her vote.

**^4** In Round 17, Zoey used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 4 votes against her.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

3

* Zoey is the highest-ranking four-timer to play *Survivor Florida*, earning 57 points across her career.
* In *Worlds Collide*, Zoey became the only player to vote for two different people at the same Tribal Council (excluding changing votes upon a re-vote).