Survivor: Congo

**Survivor: Congo** also known as **Survivor: Congo — Second Chance** is the 6th All-Star season of Survivor and 30th overall.

Just like in the first *Second Chance* seasons, *Survivor* fans were given the chance to vote for who would appear on the cast through an online public vote.

The season was won by Cameron Luis in a 6-5-1 vote against Angie Kalvin and Patricia Wecar. This season has to date produced xx returning players () for subsequent seasons.

## Production

On August 2, 2012, an announcement was made that for the second time in *Survivor* history, fans had the ability to vote for and assemble the cast for the next season. Through social media, fans voted for fifteen men and fifteen women from a pool of 48 former castaways, each of whom had played only once. Voting ended one hour into the Tuvalu finale, where all of the nominees were present at the Reunion Show with their luggage already prepared for filming. The final roster of 30 was revealed at the end of the show, and were flown to Congo immediately afterward. Filming commenced in August 25.

According to Jeff Probst, some of the former players who declined the chance to come back to this season were

The pre-merge contestants were sequestered in South Africa.

### Second Chances Vote

Immediately following the *Survivor: Tuvalu* episode "xx", a shortlist of 48 candidates, all one-time, non-winner contestants, was posted on CBS.com. Contestants were nominated from across 24 seasons, ranging from the first installment, *Survivor: Raja Ampat*, to the most recent, *Survivor: Tuvalu*. Fans were allowed to vote starting from the end of the said episode until the *Tuvalu* finale.

At the time of the launch of the poll, all nominated contestants from *Tuvalu* were still in the game. Jeff Probst explained that if either one of them eventually wins their season and garnered enough votes to return, they would be ineligible to compete for this season, giving their spot to the candidate of their gender who garnered the 16th highest amount of votes.

 Men

## Twists/Changes

* **Returning Players**: Thirty former contestants, all of whom have played only once and did not win the game, and whom were determined by public vote, returned for a second chance. They will be divided into two tribes of fifteen.
* **Legacy Advantage**: The Legacy Advantage was hidden on the truck used during the marooning, and allowed its holder to gain immunity at either the final twenty four, final eighteen, final fifteen or the final six. In the event that the holder is eliminated, he or she must will it to another player still in the game.
* **Hidden Immunity Idol**: The Hidden Immunity Idols for this season will look different from each other, making it more difficult for the players to know if the idols are real or fake. Also, the idols will be hidden in challenges, while the clues will be hidden at each camp.
* **Challenges**: The challenges for this season will also feature the Second Chances theme, as production will incorporate past challenges in which the cast has previously participated in their previous seasons. The lineup of challenges includes some that they have lost before, but not exclusively.
* **Tribe Expansion**: On Day 12, tribe switch, introducing the Nord and Ouest tribes and mixing 24 remaining castaways into four tribes of six.
* **Double Tribal Council**: On Day 14, two tribes that lost the Immunity Challenge, would go to Tribal Council and vote out one of their own.
* **Joint Tribal Council**: The two tribes who lost the 9th Immunity Challenge on Day 18 were both sent to Tribal Council as a group, but unlike a standard Double Tribal Council, they would vote as a group and only one person was voted out.
* **Tribe Dissolve**: On Day 19, another tribe switch occurred, simultaneously dissolving the Nord and Ouest tribes and mixing the castaways into two tribes of nine.
* **One-time Exile Island**: At the final nineteen, one person was sent to Exile Island because of not being placed on a tribe.
	+ **Advantage Menu**: The exiled castaway was given three possible advantages—a kit with which to design a fake Hidden Immunity Idol, an **Extra Vote**, as well as a challenge advantage for their new tribe.
* **Merged Tribe Composition**: The tribes merged on Day 26. The merged tribe was composed of fifteen members.
* **Vote Steal**: At the final eleven Reward Challenge, a "secret advantage" was placed by the sit-out bench. It was revealed to give its holder the right to steal a vote from another contestant, effectively denying that person a right to vote and allowing the holder to vote twice at one Tribal Council. It is usable up until the final six.
* **Challenge Disadvantage**: The castaway who purchase this during Survivor Action may anonymously disadvantage another person at the Day 42 Immunity Challenge.
* **Final Tribal Council Format**: Three finalists faced a jury comprised of twelve members.