Jacob Thigpen

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**Jacob Thigpen** is a contestant from *Season 1*, *Season 2*, *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, *Island of Desolation*, and *All-Stars*.

Jacob had little success when he debuted in *Season 1*, being targeted by a pre-game alliance of the majority of his tribe. After saving himself with an idol at his first Tribal Council, he was promptly voted out at his next.

Jacob would see no luck in *Season 2*, with his arm being broken during the opening challenge by Thorin Groth, resulting in him being the first and only player ever medically evacuated from the game.

As the sole returnee in *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, Jacob would initially be on a tribe with his friends that would allow him to survive until the swap tribe, when his entire tribe would have an unspoken unanimous vote against Jacob for simply being Jacob, leaving the game with an idol in his pocket.

After taking almost two years off from playing, Jacob would finally find his footing in *Island of Desolation*, hiding behind the threats of the winners, most of whom were his friends. However, his prolonged unsuccessful removal of Rylee Perrault would eventually be his downfall, as he finished in tenth place following the Split Tribal Council twist.

Jacob took control early in *All-Stars*, finding himself in an easy majority for the entirety of the pre-merge phase, which allowed him to build credibility with other players going forward. By the merge, he would slowly lose trust with others and would continuously receive votes in the case of a split vote, eventually taking revenge against those that had been targeting him. However, a surprise idol play would send him out of the game in seventh place.

## Survivor Winter Park

### Season 1

Jacob began the game on the Angara tribe. Having a reputation that preceded him outside the game, the other guys in Caleb Susunaga, Jacob Ludlow, and Landon Hurd would have their sights set on Jacob after their tribe lost the first challenge. However, with the help of the cameraman, he would be led to the Hidden Immunity Idol's location and would play it at the following Tribal Council. He targeted Ellie Meyer for being the only girl on the tribe and would successfully eliminate her. His tribe would win one of the two necessary immunity challenges to make it to the merge but would fall short at the final eight, and Jacob was unanimously voted out.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 1, Jacob used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 3 votes against him.

### Season 2

Jacob began the game on the Telvani tribe. His run would be cut short at the opening immunity challenge when, while making a run for home base to continue his tribe's lead in the challenge, he would break his arm in a collision with Thorin Groth. Despite his tribe winning the challenge, Jacob would pull himself from the game, needing to go to the hospital.

### Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral

Jacob began the game on the Savu tribe. After winning the first challenge of the season and not breaking his arm, he went back to camp to immediately find the tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol. The tribe would split between him and the two girls (Leah Munro and Nika Forouzannia) against Griffin Hallemeier and Tyson Nguyen, with the latter two wanting to vote out Jacob for being a returning player. Savu would lose the second challenge and would be joined by Alberto Araya of Vanto and Jordan Rotz of Lotai through the Prisoners of War twist. Jordan would quickly join Jacob in voting out Tyson, with Alberto eventually siding with them to create a humorous blindside against his friend. Jacob would receive two votes but, for the first time in his career, survive a Tribal Council without being voted out. His tribe would win the next immunity challenge, and Jacob would be selected as the Prisoner of War for Vanto's Tribal Council, voting out Hannah per her request.

Jacob reached the tribe swap at the final twelve, joining the Vanto tribe with Leah; Alberto, Gabriella Pedrazzani, and Pedro Kawamura of Vanto, and Sam Fernandez of Lotai. Due to Jacob's gluten allergy, the challenge had to be modified for his tribe by using Cheerios instead of Goldfish, greatly affecting their performance in throwing the items in the wind. His tribe would lose the challenge, and while Jacob would subtly push for an injured Sam to be voted out, they would all come to the unspoken conclusion to vote out Jacob. He left the game with an idol in his pocket, finishing twelfth.

Jacob replaced Trevor Mummah as a member of the jury. At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob kept an open mind between the two finalists and thought both their speeches were equally weak. He viewed Jordan as the better player and, being friends with him outside the game, voted for him to win the game. His vote aided Jordan's slim victory of 4-3 over Alberto.

#### Voting History

 3

### Island of Desolation

Jacob began the game on the Va'ena tribe. His pre-game alliance with Blake Cox, Pedro Kawamura, and Susan Mallen held power for the duration of the pre-swap phase, with Nicole Salmons and Rylee Perrault being auxiliary allies to secure a majority for Jacob. After winning the first two challenges, Jacob would begin using Daniel Jaffe as the scapegoat for elimination whenever talking to members of the minority (Dorian Holt, Jenna Liu, and Hannah Arnold). In the third round, Va'ena would lose their first challenge and target Jenna for being a weak team player. While she would target Jacob, two votes would be split on Daniel, while the rest went for Jenna. Both tribes would attend Tribal Council in the following round, and Dorian would be voted out, with Jacob splitting his vote on Daniel this round. Va'ena would head to their third consecutive Tribal Council and finish off the minority by eliminating Hannah, successfully making the tribe swap.

Jacob joined the Tuvanu tribe, staying with Blake, Nicole, and Rylee while being joined by Delaney Gardner, Justin DeLoach, and Landon Hurd from Mohala. With Blake, Jacob would join an all-guys alliance with Justin and Landon, with the four of them having gone to dinner the night before. At their first Tribal Council in the seventh round, Jacob would spare Delaney from elimination for being a loyal vote, instead targeting Rylee for elimination and taking her out in a 5-2 vote. While his tribe would win immunity in the following round, they would head back to Tribal Council in Round 9. Here, the guys would believe Delaney to be the target for elimination. However, Landon earlier shared that he had the Hidden Immunity Idol from his tribe and would use it for them going forward. Jacob viewed this as a potential threat for him and knew that if he saved Delaney that round, she would stay loyal going forward. Blake and Jacob, with Delaney and Nicole, would organize a split vote on Landon and Justin. After Landon failed to play his idol, he would be voted out in a 3-1 blindside, leaving Justin on the outside.

Following Landon's blindside, Jacob would reach the merge. Through the Island of Conquest, Hannah and Rylee would return to the game, severely complicating Jacob's game as he had voted both of them out previously. At the tribe's first Tribal Council, Jacob would successfully convince his tribe to target Rylee once again, with every single player on board for her elimination. However, suspecting she may have received an advantage for returning, Jacob threw a vote at Justin. This would be the case as Rylee would successfully play her Shot in the Dark to negate nine votes against him. Additionally, Jacob would counter Justin's defensive play, who had thrown a vote on Blake, in the case of Rylee playing an advantage. This would cause a tie vote that saved Blake, as Justin was eliminated in a unanimous re-vote. The following round, Nicole wanted to target Pedro, as the night before he had been texting her and Rylee to target each other, with them both finding out what he had said. By this point in the game, Jacob's two closest allies were both Blake and Nicole. The vote turned against Pedro, with Blake and Jacob throwing votes at Rylee in case he played his Shot in the Dark. The following round would be Jacob's demise, as the Split Tribal Council would see him thrown into a group of five, consisting of three people he was not working with (Rylee, Samuel Bernbaum, and Zachary Asarnow) and one that he was (Susie). Rylee's immunity win presented an even worse situation, with Jacob and Susie trying to flip Sam to vote out Zachary. Their loyalty to each other would result in Jacob being voted out 3-2, placing tenth, and becoming the fourth member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob found Sam's speech to be incredibly disappointing and disliked him in the game, while he nearly forgot Owen was playing the game for most of his time out there. He was very impressed with how Delaney handled herself when she swapped into the minority on the Tuvanu tribe and thought she delivered the best speech. He voted her to win the season and aided to her unanimous victory. He voted for Sam to receive second place.

### All-Stars

Jacob began the game on the Sigma tribe. He entered the game with a pre-game alliance with both Kaley Kolb and Meaghan Schlossmacher, but struggled to remain loyal to the two of them as he felt uneasy about trusting anyone in his tribe. His only true loyalty would be to Rylee Perrault for their outside-game relationship. Over his first three rounds of immunity, Jacob would slowly grow closer to William Turner and sense that the target had landed on Kaley and Meaghan for their tribe's vote. After they were targeted at the fourth immunity challenge, Sigma would head to their only Tribal Council, and Jacob would align with the rest of the tribe (sans Meaghan) to vote out Kaley, much to Meaghan's dismay. Jacob would perform poorly at the tribe swap challenge and land on the Tavuko tribe, staying with Meaghan and Reid Walker while being joined by Davis Hofmann, Griffin Hallemeier, and Ryan Hagerty of the Alpha tribe and Lyndsey Keith, Pedro Kawamura, Thorin Groth, and Victoria De Notaris of the Beta tribe. Jacob felt much more comfortable on this tribe, joining the main alliance of Griffin, Meaghan, Pedro, Ryan, and Thorin while targeting Davis for an easy elimination that round. The following day, Jacob's tribe would volunteer to eliminate Reid, and they would win the rest of the challenges until the merge. During this time, Jacob slowly shifted towards the middle of his alliance, being a crucial number in the potential divide between Pedro and Ryan and Meaghan and Thorin.

Jacob reached the merge and was one of seven players vulnerable to elimination at the first vote. His first push was against Will, seeing him as a big threat going forward in the game. However, he did not push back when the target shifted to Victoria, contributing to her 9-5 elimination. The following day, he would be recruited into Mac's alliance with Cece, Griffin, Jesse, and Thorin but trusted the opposing alliance with Pedro and Ryan more, joining with a majority of the tribe to flip against Mac at the final twelve Tribal Council. The next three votes would mostly be Jacob's following the consensus decisions against Cece, Rylee, and Will, but it is worth noting that Jacob began to receive votes from Ryan at Tribal Council in the case of an advantage being played. Jacob joined a coalition of Griffin, Jesse, and Thorin to split apart Pedro and Ryan after getting voted for by both Ryan and Zoey during Will's elimination, While the majority of the tribe was on board with targeting Pedro, Jacob would be one of the many players to tell him that he needed to play his Shot in the Dark. In the event that it worked, Jacob and Jesse planned to vote for Ryan. Pedro's Shot in the Dark succeeded, and Jacob's decision to vote for Ryan would eliminate her from the game.

At the start of the fourth day, Jacob recognized the limited window he had to take Thorin out of the game. After he lost immunity, he would work with the guys and Meaghan to vote him out of the game in a big blindside. This move would make Zoey aware that she was on the chopping block, as Jacob had continued to vote her allies out of the game. At the final seven, Jacob would work with Griffin, Meaghan, and Pedro to vote Zoey out of the game after she failed to win the immunity challenge. However, he would be surprised when she played a Hidden Immunity Idol on herself. He would then become even more blindsided when Jesse flipped against him with Zoey, as the two of them voted for Jacob and their votes were enough to eliminate him from the game.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob believed that Griffin was the finalist who had been running the game after his elimination. He felt that Meaghan was hiding behind Thorin for her game, and agreed with the jury's perception that Pedro hadn't done enough to win the game. Jacob voted for Griffin to win the game, who would lose in an 8-5-3 vote to Meaghan. He voted for Pedro to receive second place, as he believed that he at least intentionally went under the radar.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 17, Zoey used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Jacob's vote against her.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

0

* Jacob was the first player to find, play, and successfully play a Hidden Immunity Idol.
* Jacob is the only player to find multiple idols in the first round, finding one in both *Season 1* and *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*.
* Jacob received the same number of votes against him as Tribal Councils attended (24 each).

## *Survivor* Career

### Tribe(s)

Jacob & Joseph
Silly Sexies

### Tribe(s)

Clubbers
► Yellow Team
Clubbers

### Points Earned

10

**Jacob Thigpen** is a contestant from *Double Trouble*, *The Jungle Dominion*, and *The Club Conclusion*.

Jacob would prove to be a dominant force in *Double Trouble*, willing to play harder due to his poor performances in previous seasons. He would successfully lead alliances, flipping when necessary, only to have his game falter through his duo partner Joseph Ales' use of the Hidden Immunity Idol at the final five. The following round, he would be viewed as a bigger threat and was turned on by Grace Peters, finishing in fourth place.

Jacob and Thorin Groth entered *The Jungle Dominion* with a vengeance plan against George Stedronsky for his previous seasons. The two of them, along with Landon Hurd, would be left out of the controlling alliance for the first two rounds. Jacob would be a consistent target from the Final 7 onward for the former majority alliance, constantly having their plans spoiled by Thorin saving him. He would be viewed as a goat of Thorin's when he reached the Final Tribal Council and would only receive one vote to win.

Jacob had an easy ride in *The Club Conclusion*, working with the majority of the Class of 2022 players to skate past the early game with easy votes and a few immunity wins. Although poised to make it to the Final Tribal Council, his targeting of Cole Groth at the final five resulted in Cole turning against him. The jury would vote Jacob out, giving him a fourth-place finish once again.

## Survivor Winter Park Mini

### Double Trouble

Jacob began the game in the Jacob & Joseph duo with Joseph Ales. After losing the first challenge, Jacob would split from Joseph to form an alliance with Grace Peters, Nicole Salmons, Nika Forouzannia, and Ryan Hagerty. For their first Tribal Council, Jacob set his sights on Griffin Hallemeier to separate him from Caleb Susunaga, Gabriel Fenton-Zeira, and Joseph. Despite Nicole flipping, Jacob would get Griffin voted out on the re-vote when Ryan flipped Gabe onto their side for the vote. With the next round being a double Tribal Council, Jacob would organize a plan to vote out Nicole at whichever Tribal Council she didn't have immunity at while eliminating Caleb at the other vote. For the first round, Jacob voted for Caleb in the case of Nicole having the Hidden Immunity Idol, voting for him again at the final seven.

At the final six, Jacob would win immunity alongside target Joseph, forcing his alliance to turn on its own. While Gabe and Ryan made a push for Nika to be voted out, his trust in her and unwillingness to take out Gabe (whom he viewed as an easy beat at the end) led him to flip on Ryan with Grace and Joseph. The following round, the duo twist would end and Joseph would win immunity, once again foiling Jacob's plan. Feeling more loyal to both Grace and Nika, he would target Gabe for elimination, and the three would work together to vote for him. However, Joseph would play the idol on him and vote out Nika instead. Joseph's immunity challenge win for the third round in a row left Jacob in a tight position. Feeling that Grace would stay loyal, he attempted to force a tie against Gabe but ended up being flipped on, receiving fourth place.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob believed that Gabe was carried to the end by Joseph. He voted for Grace to win the game, admiring her ability to continuously flip and still make it to the end. She would lose in a narrow 5-4 vote.

#### Voting History

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 Caleb
 3
 4
 5

**^1** In Round 4, Joseph used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Jacob's votes against Gabe.

### The Jungle Dominion

Jacob began the game on the Overnighters tribe. Prior to the game, Jacob and Thorin Groth devised a season plan, with George Stedronsky as their first target and Griffin Hallemeier as their third alliance member. After the first challenge, Jacob was stuck with Landon while the other players were rotated around the house. Jacob would push to eliminate George in that round because of his threat level. However, he and Landon would be blindsided when the other four (Blake Cox, Justin DeLoach, Pedro Kawamura, and Samuel Bernbaum) would vote to instead vote out Griffin, leaving Jacob, Landon, and Thorin at the bottom of their tribe. The next round, Jacob would attempt to join forces with George to form a vote-out against Sam, whom he and Thorin did not trust. This would collapse as George and Landon would split their votes away from Sam, but the majority four alliance would all blindside George, once again leaving Jacob out of the loop.

For the final seven, Thorin would win immunity, placing Jacob in the crosshairs of the opposition group. At the last minute, he would be informed about a blindside against Blake. Jacob would find himself in a tie vote with him, but Thorin offered to vote out Jacob at the following round if Blake was voted out at the re-vote. Everyone would accept this offer, and Jacob, now with a shot clock on his life, would be spared. Thorin would win his second immunity challenge, and Jacob was pegged as the vote-out for the final six by everyone. For the round, Jacob began to pretend that he had a Hidden Immunity Idol in the hopes of dissuading the votes away from him. This strategy began to work when Thorin continued to convince the others to split their votes. Without knowing the plan, Jacob would be told at the last second to vote for Sam, and he would successfully ouster him in a 3-2-1 vote. With Thorin being immune at the final five and the others (Justin, Landon, and Pedro) now knowing that Jacob didn't have an idol, the walls would seemingly close in on him, once again not being informed of who to vote for until the last second, when Thorin would tell him to throw his vote onto Pedro. At Tribal Council, Thorin would play his idol on Jacob, much to his surprise, and the two would eliminate Pedro.

For the final four, Justin and Landon would continuously berate Jacob into voting for Thorin, or else he would never win the game. This move would be impossible, as Thorin would win immunity once again and Justin would volunteer for elimination. At the final immunity challenge of the season, both Jacob and Landon knew that they needed to beat Thorin to have a shot at the end. When Thorin won his fifth immunity challenge in a row, Jacob would be taken to the Final Tribal Council over Landon for his loyalty to him throughout the season.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob was lambasted by the jury members for never taking a shot against Thorin (despite Thorin being immune for the last five rounds of the game). Jacob would receive a single vote to win from George, who did not want Jacob to experience a unanimous loss.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 5, Thorin used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 3 votes against Jacob.

### The Club Conclusion

Jacob began the game on the Clubbers tribe. His starting alliance consisted of Cecelia Gutman, Cole Groth, Griffin Hallemeier, Joseph Ales, and Leah Munro. This group would control almost the entire season, with their first target of the game being Coleman Preisser for his connection with Brandon Yohe and Tyler Sibley. Jacob would win immunity this round and vote for Coleman. At the next Tribal Council, his alliance would split votes between Henry Iddiols and Tyler, with Jacob targeting Tyler before switching his vote onto Henry on the re-vote. He would survive the second round of voting, where Garrett Walker was instead voted out. Jacob would win immunity in the third round and spare himself from a round of voting before re-joining with his allies to vote out another outsider, in Caroline Dentel.

The fourth round would see Jacob paired up with Cece for a round, where the two would lose the immunity challenge and be one of three duos eligible for elimination. However, Leah would give her Hidden Immunity to Jacob, which they would play to save themselves that round. In return, she had asked to be voted out of the game since she needed to go home, but Jacob still wanted to eliminate Tyler (who was paired up with Griffin) and thus caused a series of tie votes that eventually resulted in Joseph and Leah's eliminations. Jacob would win his third immunity challenge of the season at the final six and would initially side with Brandon and Tyler to vote Griffin out, but upon a tie, he would switch his vote back against Brandon to rejoin his original alliance. The final five round was complicated for Jacob, as Tyler would be an easy player to beat at the Final Tribal Council but was the only remaining member on the outside of the original alliance. Seeing Cole as the biggest threat, he would convince the tribe to vote him out in unanimous fashion, with Cole voting for him that round. However, the jury would get to vote out a player at the final four, with no new immunity challenge being held. With Cole aggressively campaigning for Jacob's elimination, he was eliminated from the game and became the ninth member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob voted for his friend Griffin to win the game over outsider Tyler. Griffin would win the game in a 7-3 final vote.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 2 (part 2), a second vote was held between the three immune players. Jacob was ineligible to vote for that vote.

**^2** In Round 6 (part 2), a second vote was held between the jury members. Jacob was ineligible to vote for that vote.

## *Survivor* Career

### Points Earned

3

**Jacob Thigpen** is a contestant from *Jeremy Edition* and *Sexy Host Extravaganza*.

He is the host of *Thigsanity*.

Jacob would believe himself to be well-positioned in *Jeremy Edition*, seemingly creating a majority vote against his father for the first Tribal Council of the season. However, Jacob was blindsided by his sisters at the vote, being voted out by his mother on the re-vote, finishing in eighth place.

Jacob would start strong in *Sexy Host Extravaganza*, working with Cole Groth, Ethan Scharf, and Thorin Groth to control the other four scattered players. However, after blindsiding his younger brother, his former allies would flip the game against him and voted him out in sixth place.

## Survivor Winter Park Tiny

### Jeremy Edition

Jacob began the game on the Cult of Thigpen tribe. Jacob would be forced to "vote" a player out right after beginning the game, scraping up a narrow majority against his youngest sister Rachel Thigpen. This vote would then be revealed as a twist, instead granting immunity to Rachel at the first Tribal Council. After losing the opening immunity challenge, Jacob would seemingly form a majority against Jonathan Thigpen (his father), with Ava Thigpen telling him about her intention to also vote him out. Feeling comfortable, Jacob would abstain from voting in order to gain an Extra Vote for later. This decision would prove costly, as the vote would then become a tie between him and Jonathan due to Ava secretly targeting Jacob. Upon a re-vote, Jacob's mom (Karen Thigpen wouldn't feel comfortable voting for her husband again and flipped against him, resulting in his eighth-place finish.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob would be given a second jury vote for abstaining in the first round of voting. Here, he would vote for his brother to win the game twice, as it was his birthday that day. Jeremy won in a unanimous jury vote over his mom.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 1 (part 1), a fake vote was held, with the most-voted player receiving immunity.

**^2** In Round 1 (part 2), Jacob abstained from voting to gain an Extra Vote.

**^2** At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob used his Extra Vote to vote a second time.

### Sexy Host Extravaganza

Jacob began the game on The Second Sexies tribe. Before the game began, he had a pact with Cole Groth, Ethan Scharf, and Thorin Groth to take out Ava Thigpen at their first opportunity, as she had won a previously undocumented tiny season. However, this plan would be foiled when she won immunity and Jacob joined in the vote against her best friend, Bella Anderson instead. The next round, Ava would be vulnerable as Ethan had won immunity, but Jacob would go another route: targeting Jeremy Thigpen, who had won the previous season. Alongside Rachel, Jacob would vote out Jeremy in a 4-2-1 vote (Ava was told to vote for Jacob by Thorin, while Cole voted out Ava to disguise the plan against Jeremy). This blindside would prove to have been premature, as Ava winning immunity would put Jacob in a bad position. With Rachel now working with Cole and Thorin, Jacob would push to vote out Ethan for likely not caring about his elimination, but Cole and Thorin's plan to blindside Jacob would go through, and he was voted out. Following his elimination, Rachel would taunt him for once again doing badly in a *Survivor* season.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jacob would remember how Rachel had treated him after his elimination. This would lead him to vote for Ava to win the game, contributing to her 4-2 win over Rachel.

#### Voting History

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 3

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

0

* Jacob Thigpen and Bella Anderson swapped placements in the two seasons they played: in their first, Jacob was first out in 8th while Bella was third out in 6th, and in their second, Jacob was third out in 6th while Bella was first out in 8th.

## Player Profile

### Versions Played

Winter Park - Main
Winter Park - Mini
Winter Park - Tiny

## *Survivor* Career

### Tribe(s)

Savu
► Vanto

### Tribe(s)

Jacob & Joseph
Silly Sexies

### Tribe(s)

Va'ena
► Tuvanu
Mokihivalo

### Tribe(s)

Clubbers
► Yellow Team
Clubbers

### Tribe(s)

Sigma
► Tavuko
► Omega

### Points Earned

18

**Jacob Thigpen** a contestant from *Season 1*, *Season 2*, *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, *Double Trouble*, *Jeremy Edition*, *The Jungle Dominion*, *Sexy Host Extravaganza*, *Island of Desolation*, *The Club Conclusion*, and *All-Stars*.

He is the host of *Thigsanity*.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

1

* Jacob holds the record for most seasons played across all versions, with 10.
* Jacob's *All-Stars* performance is the only instance of him receiving an odd placement number (7th). Additionally, he has received every even placement number from 14th to 2nd.
* Jacob is one of two players to compete in multiple seasons across all three *Survivor Winter Park* franchises, the other being Cole Groth.