Griffin Hallemeier

* Winter Park Main
* Winter Park Mini
* Overall

**Griffin Hallemeier** is a contestant from *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, *Heroes vs. Villains*, *Exile Island*, *Lord of the Lads*, and *All-Stars*.

Griffin began *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral* playing from the bottom, with an early tribe swap allowing him to integrate into the bottom of the majority Lotai alliance. While initially well-positioned at the merge, his time would run short after the opposition would all find themselves immune at the final seven, with Griffin being removed as the result of a null vote.

Griffin's game from hell in *Heroes vs. Villains* saw him visiting seven consecutive pre-merge Tribal Councils, the most of any player in the history of *Survivor Winter Park*. Despite continuously controlling his original Heroes tribe, a tribe swap would introduce former Villains who would be is undoing after successfully manipulating ally Caleb Susunaga at the final eleven.

Griffin's returnee status in *Exile Island* resulted in him being propped up as his tribe leader on Osuego, allowing for early control of the game and the discovery of a Hidden Immunity idol for additional power. Swapping onto Ogeuso brought him into a leading alliance, which would be immediately dismantled at the merge when Griffin would be forced to play his idol to survive the merge vote. Now stuck on the bottom of the tribe with Thorin Groth, the two were forced to survive round after round with different advantages and immunities. Unable to find a successful crack in The Cult Alliance, he was left vulnerable and was eliminated in the final seven after Thorin won immunity.

Griffin's short run in *Lord of the Lads* was defined by his cross-country alliance, which was immediately thrown on the bottom of the singular starting tribe. Despite narrowly coming out on top at the first Tribal Council, he would be eliminated at the final thirteen after being pegged as the strategic figurehead of his alliance.

Intent on playing quieter in *All-Stars*, Griffin's pre-merge tribes allowed him to strengthen connections going into the merge of the game, with little issue reaching it. A divided tribe would let him easily navigate throughout the beginning of the merge, slowly accumulating more allies to position himself for the endgame. After forming a tight Final 3 alliance with Meaghan Schlossmacher and Pedro Kawamura, Griffin would get his way with nearly every elimination and reach the Final Tribal Council for the first time in his *Survivor Winter Park* career (excluding *The Club Conclusion*). Despite seemingly being the frontrunner over the emotional Meaghan and the disregarded Pedro, his answers would leave the pre-merge jurors feeling unimpressed with his social game, resulting in him receiving five jury votes for a second-place finish to Meaghan.

## Survivor Winter Park

### Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral

Griffin entered the game on the Savu tribe. With his friend Tyson Nguyen on his tribe, Griffin believed sole returning player Jacob Thigpen to be an easy target on his tribe, unaware of his alliance with Leah Munro and Nika Forouzannia and his possession of the tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol. After losing the second immunity challenge of the season, his tribe was joined by Alberto Araya of Vanto and Jordan Rotz of Lotai as Prisoners of War for their Tribal Council. With the former seeming to be an ally and the latter to be an enemy, Griffin tried to vote Jacob out but was blindsided when Tyson was instead voted out in a 4-2-1 vote, with Griffin receiving a stray vote from Nika. While likely to be the target for elimination if their tribe lost again, Savu would win the next immunity challenge and reach the tribe swap at the final twelve.

Griffin stayed on Savu after the tribe swap with Nika, being joined by Jayna Shah, Jordan, Rylee Perrault, and Trevor Mummah from the original Lotai tribe. The tribe would prove to be unrivaled in the immunity challenges, winning all three that they had participated in. Had their tribe lost, Trevor would've likely been their target due to his not being able to attend the final day. At the final nine, the tribes would merge. Griffin would continue working with the members of his former tribes and target the members of the former Vanto tribe, despite knowing he was at the bottom of the alliance. He joined in the blindside of Gabriella Pedrazzani, with the next round leading into Trevor's voluntary elimination. At the start of the third day, Griffin still had Alberto and Pedro Kawamura as targets, but with Alberto winning immunity, his alliance went all in on Pedro. This would be foiled when Pedro played an idol on himself, with a null vote resulting from Jordan also playing an idol on himself. Now finding himself in a precarious position, Griffin joined forces with his former Vanto rivals to target Rylee (the alliance member he was least connected to), but would be voted out in a 4-3 vote, becoming the third member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Griffin would vote for Alberto to win the game for his attempts to save him from his elimination. Alberto would narrowly lose to Jordan in a 5-4 vote.

#### Voting History

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

### Heroes vs. Villains

Griffin entered the game on the Heroes tribe. After losing the opening immunity challenge, Grace Wheeler would offer herself up for elimination while, in an attempt to disguise her voluntary vote-off to the host, placing two votes onto Griffin. Not wanting to make any waves early on, he accepted and survived the first Tribal Council. He would form an alliance with Caleb Susunaga and Joseph Ales following the vote, which would prove crucial with their second loss in a row where the grouping would target Grace Peters. In a manic 3-2-1-1 plurality vote, their three votes would be the only ones necessary to eliminate her from the game, highlighting the fracture amongst the tribe. With Makenzie Kennedy and Rylee Perrault as a secondary duo and Carson Gerber on the outside, their third consecutive vote would prove crucial on a tribe of dwindling numbers. Seeing more opportunities with the other side and viewing him as dead weight, Griffin would join in on a unanimous vote against Joseph. The Heroes tribe would go on to lose their fourth immunity challenge in a row. Makenzie approached Caleb and Griffin about a plan to target Rylee for elimination, which the two agreed on. However, Rylee would find out about the plan and force a tie vote between herself and Makenzie, and with Makenzie having spiraled by voting for Griffin instead of Rylee, the two would flip on her for the re-vote.

A tribe swap would prove imperative for Griffin, now finding himself on the Bayani tribe with both Caleb and Gerber, now joined by former Villains Alberto Araya, Cecelia Gutman, and Nicole Salmons. Their first immunity challenge would result in neither tribe being immune and both attending a Joint Tribal Council. Viewing him as the biggest threat to the opposing tribe, Griffin would cast the sole vote for George. The rest of his tribe would attempt to cannibalize Gerber, but the Salarin tribe would join him in instead eliminating Alberto, once again leaving Griffin's tribe down in numbers. After suffering another immunity loss at the hands of Gerber, he would prove to be the easy vote with a unanimous decision against him. Despite the seventh challenge playing into Griffin's cross country strengths, his tribe curse would prove to be stronger as he would once again lose and head to his seventh consecutive Tribal Council of the season. Here, he would be targeted by both the former Villains on his tribe, with Caleb and Griffin tying the vote against Nicole. However, with Cece voting first and forcing rocks if Caleb stayed strong, Griffin would be eliminated from the game in a 2-0 re-vote, finishing in eleventh place.

### Exile Island

Griffin entered the game on the Osuego tribe after being voted tribe captain by his fellow players in the pre-season alongside Thorin Groth. The Osuego tribe saw early success by winning the first two immunity challenges, where Griffin aligned with the other guys on her tribe (Asher Johnson, William Turner, and Zaki Patni). Griffin had little strategy before the swap, with both Tribal Councils he attended being voluntary eliminations. At the final fifteen, the tribes were shuffled, and Griffin found himself on the new Ogeuso tribe with Indie Wolfe and Sawyer Roby from his original tribe and Blake Cox, Clarisa Groff, Samuel Bernbaum, and Thorin from the opposing Hononga tribe. He would immediately abandon his tribe and join an alliance with the former Hononga members, weary of the bond between Indie and Sawyer. At the final fourteen, Blake would remind him of a pre-season clue that would lead Griffin to find the Hidden Immunity Idol during the Faustian Bargain challenge. With both tribes attending a Joint Tribal Council, he would be implored by his former tribe members on the Agnonoh tribe to turn against Thorin. However, after he revealed his possession of a Hidden Immunity Idol, Griffin would work to protect Thorin alongside the rest of the tribe, now convincing Will that he was their tribe's target. Will would eventually crack and flip against his tribe, with Griffin voting along with Ogeuso to eliminate Gabriella Pedrazzani. Griffin's tribe would lose the next immunity challenge, and Sam was sent to Exile Island, now with a 4-2 advantage over Indie and Sawyer, the latter possessing an idol. Griffin had become their target, but his alliance stayed strong, orchestrating a split vote that would burn Sawyer's idol while maintaining their majority. At Tribal Council, Griffin would receive a vote from Sawyer, but Indie would instead be eliminated as a result of their idol play. His tribe would win the following immunity challenge, and they would reach the merge.

At the merge, Griffin continued to work with Thorin, much to the detriment of his own game as Thorin became the biggest target on the tribe. After Thorin won immunity, Blake would lead a charge against Griffin. Griffin would find out about this from Thorin and set their sights on Grace, whom they viewed as a loyal companion of Blake. Knowing that he would need to play his idol that round and that Sawyer was the split vote target, Griffin and Thorin tried to bring them in to create a 3-2 split vote. At Tribal Council, Griffin would play his idol and negate seven votes against him, but Sawyer would fail to follow through on the plan and end up in a tie between Grace and Sawyer. Now aware of the attempted blindside, Blake would rally Clarisa, Keyes, Leah, and Sam to force a majority against Griffin, Thorin, Will, and Zaki to save Grace, with the entire tribe ultimately voting to eliminate Sawyer. After the Tribal Council, Zaki offered to work with him and Thorin despite their status at the bottom. At the immunity challenge, Thorin would implore Griffin to throw it to him, and he obliged, leaving him vulnerable for the round. Continuing to target Grace, Griffin was shocked at Tribal Council when Thorin suddenly gave him immunity before playing a Skip Ticket to leave Tribal Council. With both him and Thorin immune, Griffin would unsuccessfully eliminate Grace, with Zaki instead being eliminated.

At the start of the third day, Thorin would win immunity and send Griffin to Exile Island, giving him time away from camp to (unsuccessfully) look for the Hidden Immunity Idol. He would return to camp after Sam's elimination and attempt to work his way into the majority alliance of Blake, Clarisa, Leah, and Keyes. After winning immunity, he would join a split vote plan to vote Will out as the secondary target (Thorin being the first), causing a tie vote between Leah and Will. Believing him to be the bigger threat, Griffin would vote Will out of the game. The next round would be Griffin's last, as Thorin would win immunity and neither would possess an advantage. Despite pleading their best efforts to Clarisa and Grace to flip against Blake, neither budged, and Griffin would be voted out unanimously, throwing a vote against Grace to shade her for not flipping.

At the Final Tribal Council, Griffin's frustration with Grace's inability to make a move against Blake would cost her his vote, as Griffin would contribute to Blake's unanimous victory.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 3, Griffin was granted individual immunity due to his selection as tribe captain in Round 1.

**^2** In Round 9, Griffin used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 9 votes against him.

**^2** In Round 10, Thorin originally won individual immunity, but gave it to Griffin during Tribal Council.

**^4** In Round 11, Thorin sent Griffin to Exile Island, granting him immunity from Tribal Council.

### Lord of the Lads

Griffin entered the game on the Laddies tribe. With a group of his fellow cross country runners entering the game with him (Derek Romich, Joseph Ales, and Juan Varela), Griffin would quickly find himself stuck between a divided tribe. At the first Tribal Council of the season, Alexander Adams would volunteer for elimination, while another half of the tribe wanted to target Derek for being the biggest physical threat on Griffin's side. A tie vote and an intense deliberation period would result in Derek narrowly staying in a 7-5 re-vote. The same group of six who targeted Derek last round (Alberto Oliveira, Bryant Richey, Pedro Kawamura, Reid Walker, Samuel Fitts, and William Turner) would prove to be a problem in the next round, all wanting to gun for Griffin for his three-time veteran status. With his targets set on Bryant for being a general nuisance, Griffin was looking for the swing votes of Charlie Hoeckendorf and Maddox Muscato to create a majority (Griffin's side had recruited Henry Iddiols, now barely trailing with a 6-5 minority). Neither of them wanted to reveal their cards and decided to throw their votes, resulting in Griffin's elimination in a 6-5-1-1 vote, finishing in thirteenth place.

At the Final Tribal Council, Griffin would vote in favor of his ally JC over Charlie and Maddox, both of whom he did not bond with during his short duration in the game. JC would lose the game in a 7-4-0 vote to Charlie.

#### Voting History

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### All-Stars

Griffin entered the game on the Alpha tribe. He was quickly drawn into a majority alliance with Diego Lindauer, Michael Collins, Ryan Hagerty, and Zoey Thomas, leaving Bryant Richey, Caroline Dentel, and Davis Hofmann as outsiders. Their tribe would lose the first two challenges, and Griffin would aid in the elimination of the former two, leaving the latter as an option in case their tribe lost again. His tribe would win the next two challenges, and Griffin would make it to the tribe swap, finishing in the bottom half of the challenges and landing on the Tavuko tribe. Immediately flung into Tribal Council, Griffin would form a large alliance of the entire tribe (Jacob Thigpen, Lyndsey Keith, Meaghan Schlossmacher, Pedro Kawamura, Ryan, Thorin Groth, and Victoria De Notaris) excluding Davis and Reid Walker, with an easy split vote sending Davis out of the game. At the same round, the opposing Waylu tribe would vote, and, due to rampant paranoia, Griffin would have the Prisoner of War Timeline Twister card played on him by Mac, bringing him to vote at their Tribal Council with immunity. Wanting to spread paranoia, he voted for Kristen Paul without telling anyone; this vote would create irreversible trust issues within the tribe. At the start of day two, Griffin's tribe would only visit one Tribal Council at the request of Reid, who would receive a unanimous vote-out. Tavuko would win the next three immunity challenges, with Griffin slowly finding himself in the middle of a potential Ryan and Pedro vs. Meaghan, Jacob, and Thorin conflict. This would never come into fruition, as the tribe would reach the merge at the final fourteen.

The first challenge of the merge saw Griffin's Heroes faction of eight players left up for elimination. Back at camp, the tribe would seem to have come to a consensus on the elimination of William Turner, who was unavailable for the fourth day of the game. This plan would change after Griffin was informed that Victoria had mentioned targeting Griffin in an attempt to take him out. While she would not follow through with this, and five of the girls would continue to target Will, the rest of the tribe would vote Victoria out of the game. In between days two and three, a divide would rise between Mac and Ryan, with Griffin once again sitting in the middle. He would side with Ryan, seeing that the majority of players were on her side. This would allow Griffin a few rounds of easier eliminations, winning two consecutive immunity challenges at the final twelve and eleven, and Will's consensus elimination at the following round. Thorin would give one of two Hidden Immunity Idols to Griffin to secure his trust going forward The game would take a break and continue later at night, when the tribe would decide to split up Pedro and Ryan. However, during the immunity challenge, Griffin would form a Final Three alliance with both Meaghan and Pedro. While he went along with the plan to primarily target Pedro, Griffin would advise him to play his Shot in the Dark, saving him from elimination and instead sending Ryan home.

At the start of the fourth day, Griffin recognized the threat that Thorin had accumulated and decided to take his shot at him first, alongside the other guys of his tribe (Jacob, Jesse Roldan, and Pedro). At Tribal Council, in an act of paranoia, Griffin would play his idol on Pedro to ensure his safety, but this only negated Thorin's vote and still sent him home. The following round he would work with the tribe to vote out Zoey without knowing she had an idol in her possession. Despite her playing it and him receiving a stray vote from Lyndsey, Jacob would instead be voted out. The following round Griffin would win immunity and enact his revenge on Lyndsey by casting a vote on her in the case of Zoey having another idol. With Zoey now out of the game and at the final five, his alliance held control of the game and targeted Jesse for his paranoia and potential jury chances. He received two votes (with Pedro voting for Griffin to secure Jesse's jury vote) but was able to survive. After winning the final immunity challenge, he stayed true to his Final Three deal and voted Lyndsey out of the game, feeling confident that he could beat any of the three even if Lyndsey had the weakest case.

At the Final Tribal Council, Griffin seemed to be the frontrunner for the majority of players eliminated later in the game, with the earlier jury members criticizing his lack of ability to properly bond with them. He and Meaghan were both credited with their abilities to control the endgame but had little individuality between them. Despite feeling confident in his chances of winning, Meaghan's prevailing social game and authenticity would ultimately be rewarded, as Griffin would go on to lose the season in an 8-5-3 final vote.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 5 (part 2), Mac used his Prisoner of War advantage on Griffin, forcing him to join the Waylu tribe at Tribal Council.

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

**^3** In Round 17, Zoey used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Griffin's vote against her.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

1

* Griffin holds the record for the most jury votes received by a losing finalist, with five.
* Griffin saw the largest improvement points-wise between two different seasons, with a 21-point increase from *Lord of the Lads* to *All-Stars*.

## *Survivor* Career

### Tribe(s)

Clubbers
► Orange Team
Clubbers

### Points Earned

1

**Griffin Hallemeier** is the Sole Survivor of *The Club Conclusion*. He originally competed on *Double Trouble* and *The Jungle Dominion*.

In *Double Trouble*, Griffin found himself leading an all-male alliance at the start of the first round. This would be his undoing, as the girls alliance (with Jacob Thigpen) would force him into a tie vote with Ryan Hagerty due to him being the most strategic player of his alliance. Wanting to save his duo partner, Griffin's best friend Gabriel Fenton-Zeira would flip on him, finishing in ninth place.

Despite starting out strong, Griffin's game in *The Jungle Dominion* would quickly crumble after establishing himself with an opening reward challenge win. A conflict with Justin DeLoach from outside the game, as well as playing against Blake Cox and Samuel Bernbaum in *Exile Island* would result in him being targeted for elimination in the first round, once again finishing in ninth place.

Entering *The Club Conclusion* as a previous two-time first boot, Griffin aligned with the major main *Survivor Winter Park* players to control the majority of the season. Despite being the target of multiple votes from the opposing outsiders and garnering an impressive 14 votes across ten Tribal Councils, he was always able to navigate around elimination with his masterful social game. He was able to lower his threat level to Tyler Sibley, who brought him to the Final Tribal Council after winning the final immunity challenge. There, he would win the game in a convincing 7-3 vote, a complete heel turn from his previous performances.

## Survivor Winter Park Mini

### Double Trouble

Griffin began the game in the Griffin & Nika duo with Nika Forouzannia, with little intention of working with her. He formed an alliance with his friends Caleb Susunaga, Gabriel Fenton-Zeira, and Joseph Ales out of the gate. This alliance would directly oppose Ryan Hagerty, who was leading an alliance with Grace Peters, Jacob Thigpen, Nika, and Nicole Salmons. The opposition alliance viewed Griffin as the strategic figurehead of its alliance and was intent on targeting him. At Tribal Council, Griffin would lead his alliance against Ryan and successfully flip Nicole to their side. However, Gabe would intentionally throw his vote in an attempt to not anger either player, leading to a 5-5-1 tie between Griffin and Ryan. Despite pleading for his vote, Gabe would be convinced by Ryan to save him for being his duo partner and vote his friend out of the game, resulting in Griffin becoming the first member of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Griffin would respect Gabe's move to flip against him at his elimination and vote for him to win the game over Grace. Gabe would win the game in a close 5-4 vote.

### The Jungle Dominion

Griffin began the game on the Overnighters tribe. After winning a reward challenge for a Vote Revealer advantage, Griffin would find himself the target of a majority alliance helmed by a vendetta-driven Justin DeLoach. During the camp phase, he would be separated from the players who wanted to work with him (Jacob Thigpen, Landon Hurd, and Thorin Groth) and was only made aware of their plan to blindside George Stedronsky right before voting. This would prove to be unsuccessful, as the majority of the tribe would instead target Griffin, eliminating him first for the second season in a row.

At the Final Tribal Council, after being asleep for the majority of the season, Griffin would award his friend Thorin with his jury vote over Jacob. His vote contributed to Thorin's 6-1 victory.

### The Club Conclusion

Griffin began the game on the Clubbers tribe. He quickly joined to an alliance led by Cole Groth which brought in Cecelia Gutman, Jacob Thigpen, Joseph Ales, and Leah Munro as the group of regular *Survivor Winter Park* legends. The alliance would target the scattered minority, beginning with Coleman Preisser and his allies Brandon Yohe and Tyler Sibley. After Coleman's elimination (splitting votes onto Tyler in the case of an idol), Griffin would go on to win immunity and would not vote at the first Tribal Council of round 2. After Henry's elimination, he would coordinate with Brandon and Caroline Dentel to unanimously eliminate Garrett, largely for the humor of his potential reaction. This would result in karmic justice in the next round, as the three previously eliminated players would select him to lose immunity despite winning the challenge. This would place him in a precarious six-player voting group, in which two players would need to be voted out. However, he was alongside allies Cece, Cole, and Leah, with Caroline and Francelys Hernandez being their easy targets.

At the final eight, Griffin would be paired up with rival Tyler and lose the immunity challenge. With Cece and Jacob being saved through the Hidden Immunity Idol, Tyler would draw the heat for being the only remaining opposition up for elimination (with Brandon and Cole having immunity), resulting in Griffin being in a tie vote with him against Joseph and Leah. The latter, however, volunteered for elimination to leave the game early, and her wish was granted. The very next round would see Griffin once again targeted by the outsiders, but his former alliance would back him up and send Brandon home on a re-vote.

Griffin would be vulnerable in Round 6 and, with Tyler no longer being seen as a threat to the tribe, decided to target former winner and multi-time host Cole for elimination, which would be unanimous. Right after his elimination, the jury would vote to eliminate another and Griffin became a secondary target, but was spared by Cole's wrath towards Jacob. Tyler would win the final immunity challenge and, having worked with him prior as well as having a minimal target in comparison to Cece, would be taken to the end.

At the Final Tribal Council, Griffin would be respected more for staying on top of the game for the entire season, in contrast to Tyler, who was consistently at the bottom of the tribe. All of his allies would end up voting for him to win, resulting in a 7-3 victory.

#### Voting History

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

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

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

0

* Griffin holds the record for the most votes of any Sole Survivor, with 14. He is followed by Owen Rimes in *Worlds Collide*, with nine.

## Player Profile

### Versions Played

Winter Park - Main
Winter Park - Mini

## *Survivor* Career

### Tribe(s)

Savu
► Savu
Lovantu

### Tribe(s)

Heroes
► Bayani

### Tribe(s)

Osuego
► Ogeuso
Hosuenga

### Tribe(s)

Clubbers
► Orange Team
Clubbers

### Tribe(s)

Beta
► Tavuko
Omega

### Points Earned

23

**Griffin Hallemeier** is the Sole Survivor of *The Club Conclusion*. He originally competed on *Good vs. Bad vs. Neutral*, *Heroes vs. Villains*, *Exile Island*, *Double Trouble*, *The Jungle Dominion*, and *Lord of the Lads*, and later on *All-Stars*.

## Advantages

### Advantages played:

1

* Griffin competed in the most seasons before winning his first, finally winning the game on his seventh season. He is followed by Thorin Groth, who won on his fourth season.
* Griffin holds the record for the most participated tie votes, being involved in nine throughout his career.