Glossary

What follows is a **glossary** of some Survivor RP terms.

## Auction

The Survivor Auction, a common reward challenge that takes place after the merge. The contestants are given $500, with which they must outbid the other contestants for certain items, mostly food, with instances where a temporary use of amenities or letters from loved ones are also offered. There are also instances where there are game-changing powers that contestants can outbid on, such as the power to send another player to Exile Island, an advantage at the next Immunity Challenge, or a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol. The host will pound a gavel on the auction table, denoting that the item has already been sold.

An auction has appeared in fifteen out of thirty seasons. Every season from *The Everglades* (1) to *Italy* (8) held an auction, but no season from *Japan* (9) to *Egypt* (15) did so. It was reintroduced with *Cranberry Isles* (16), and has mostly alternated appearances in seasons since then. Auctions have only appeared in even-numbered seasons from *Cranberry Isles* onwards, and have been absent in odd-numbered seasons. The auction also did not occur in *Rome* (28), but returned again for *Bermuda Triangle* (30).

## Blindside

When someone who shows up to Tribal Council expecting to be safe is actually voted out that night. They can come in many forms, though the most obvious strategy is the use of a Hidden Immunity Idol or other advantage.

## Challenge

Challenges are the main source of competition in Survivor, when tribes or individuals face off against each other to win immunity and be safe from Tribal Council that night. Custom Challenges, i.e. original creations, are the most prevalent form of challenges, while challenges lifted from real-life Survivor appear less frequently than they did in the first eight season.

## Disqualification

When a player is forcibly removed from the game and their position (and juror status, if applicable) is disqualified because the person engaged in cheating or other unacceptable behavior. Only two players have been disqualified while a season is ongoing: Adachi for bargaining jury votes and Moth-chan for spreading damaging accusations across tribe lines.

## Evacuation

When a contestant is pulled from the game for medical reasons. Usually, there are out-of-character reasons for this occurring, such as Char Aznable's disqualification in *Wild West* or Iori Mutou's loss of their computer in *Jan Mayen*. Juggernaut's evacuation in *The Everglades*, as well as John Ward and Mahito's evacuations in *Bermuda Triangle*, stand out as being conducted in RP, however.

## Final Tribal Council

As the name implies, it is the final Tribal Council of a season, when two or three finalists face a jury of nine to eleven contestants that have been voted out. The jury casts votes for who to win the season after a period of speeches and deliberation. If there is a tie between two finalists, then the third finalist casts the deciding jury vote. In circumstances where this cannot occur, such as a 3-3-3 tie with no fallback as in *Mesoamerica*, two tiebreaking methods have been used: the pre-jury casting a collective tiebreaker vote (both *Greece* and *Mesoamerica*) and the finalists voting among each other (*Mesoamerica* only).

## Idol

### Hidden Immunity Idol

A pocket-sized talisman that prevents the user or their ally from being voted out in a Tribal Council vote by negating any votes against them and causing the person with the second-most votes to go home instead. They have been used in every single season.

### Idol Variants

For a list of idol variants and other advantages, see this section.

## Jury

A group of eliminated castaways (typically past the merge portion of the competition) that return to witness the remaining castaways' actions at Tribal Council. The information they take in from these visits is supposed to help them decide who to vote for to win the grand prize and the title of Sole Survivor at the end of the game. They are usually forbidden to speak, with the exception of the Final Tribal Council, where they are allowed to address the finalists and ask them questions.

## Luxury Item

A personal item that is brought to the season in a contestant's possession. If the luxury item can prove useful in a challenge, it is allowed to be used once. Luxury items may also include inseparable companions such as a cat or robot.

## Merge

When the tribes come together and become one, with the players then competing individually. It typically accompanies the start of the jury, though this can vary. When the merge occurs can also change: for the first twenty-five seasons, it usually started at the Final 13, though with many exceptions for merged tribes starting with 15 or fewer members. Since *Bhutan*, seasons have generally adopted a merge starting at the Final 14, with all of its members making up an 11-person jury, with the only exception being *Nova Scotia* with its Lighthouse twist (started with 15).

## Pagonging

A strategy employed after the merge in which the former members of one tribe systematically and purposely eliminate former members of another tribe one at a time. The name comes from the real Survivor tribe of Pagong, which this happened to. In Survivor RP, it occurred during *Romania*, with the Final 5 all being former members of Otopeni. *Japan* also had a Final 4 all being former members of Amaterasu. The Final 6 of *Sri Lanka* were all former members of Vanattil. The Final 3 (and thus Final Tribal Council) of *Jan Mayen* were all former members of Olonkin. The most manifest Pagonging occurred in *Socotra*, when eight former members of Maluf were eliminated consecutively during the merge, leaving only former members of Aljar as the Final 6.

## Quit

When a contestant elects to remove themselves from the game for in-character reasons or because of out-of-character issues. It can occur at camp, in the case of Brown Bear in *The Everglades* and Robert E.O. Speedwagon in *Wild West*, or at Tribal Council, in the case of Markus Kruber and Seija Kijin in *Gorgona*. Typically, eliminations counted as quits on this wiki were conducted for in-character reasons, as out-of-character removals are usually conducted via an evacuation (though players leaving without warning may be counted as quits and not evacuations). *Nahanni*, *Egypt*, and *Hokkaido* erroneously allowed contestants to vote for themselves at certain points, though players that were eliminated by doing so are only counted as quits if their Tribal Council was unanimous.

## Rock Draw

A tiebreaker that occurs when a Tribal Council vote is deadlocked two times in a row, at the initial vote and the re-vote. Contestants that were voted against in the ties, hold the Individual Immunity Necklace, or are safe via a Hidden Immunity Idol do not compete. The remaining contestants draw rocks from a bag and the person with the odd-colored rock is eliminated. *Nahanni* saw three of these, the most of any season. A rock draw did not occur from *Wild West* to *Egypt*, though one occurred during *Cranberry Isles*. The *Cranberry Isles* Rock Draw was the last Rock Draw for three years, until it happened again in *Bermuda Triangle*.

## Roster Timeline

The roster timeline is an art asset created for a season that features all competing characters, and is continually updated as contestants are eliminated.

## Tribal Council

An elimination ceremony where the contestants are held accountable for their actions in the game, usually with one person being voted out of the tribe.

### Double Tribal Council

When two tribes go to Tribal Council on the same night, in separate ceremonies.

### Joint Tribal Council

When two tribes vote as one at Tribal Council, at the same ceremony.

### Split Tribal Council

When a merged tribe is split into groups that vote separately at multiple Tribal Councils.

### Reverse Tribal Council

When two tribes vote out a player at the same time, and *then* compete in a challenge, with the losers' vote nominee being eliminated.

## Tribe

A competing team in Survivor, either against rival tribes in the case of starting, switched, and expanded tribes, or against itself, in the case of merged tribes.