Cara Atchison

**Cara Atchison** is a contestant from Australian Survivor: Brains v Brawn

Starting the game on the bottom of the Brains tribe, Cara's selflessness caused her to be voted out early on when she played her producer-given Hidden Immunity Idol for her best friend George Mladenov. However, she was granted a lucky break, being sent to the Brawn tribe in a twist that was originally a contingency plan by the producers to save George, to which she pledged her loyalty for the rest of the pre-merge. Despite a series of notable game blunders, Cara was able to secure her position alongside George as double agents between the clashing Brains and Brawn Alliances and, eventually, with the blatant rigging in their favour by the producers, the pair scraped their way to the final four. There, George realized that he needed to keep Hayley Leake to defeat Flick Palmateer in the Final Immunity Challenge and thus reluctantly sacrificed Cara, sending her to the jury.

## Profile

*Retrieved from 10play.com.au*

**Real Estate Agent, 47**
Real Estate Agency Owner Cara, may be known as the Duchess of Double Bay, but can she bring her reign to the Outback? At the age of 20, the quirky adventure seeker realised that she had a secret power. As an empath, Cara can sense and feel emotions as if they're part of her own experience – someone else's pain and happiness, become her own.

## Australian Survivor

### *Brains v Brawn*

Cara was targeted numerous times both in the pre-merge and by the Brawn Alliance post-merge in an effort to weaken George, but was saved each time by arbitrary twists imposed by the producers as part of their campaign to enable George to win the game, which very nearly succeeded.

### Voting History

**^1** In "Episode 1", George used a Safety Without Power advantage on Cara, granting her immunity, but at the cost of her vote.
**^2** In "Episode 6", the Brains were subjected to a mock Tribal Council where the player they voted out was switched to the other tribe. Cara ultimately received enough votes to be swapped to the other tribe.
**^3** In "Episode 13", Hayley used a Hidden Immunity Idol on Laura, negating Cara's vote against her.
**^4** In "Episode 14", Cara became ineligible to vote after losing the Immunity Challenge.
**^5** In "Episode 17", George used a producer-given Hidden Immunity Idol on Cara, negating 8 votes against her.
**^6** In "Episode 20", Cara used a producers-given Hidden Immunity Idol, but did not negate any votes against her.
**^7** In "Episode 21", the vote ended with a 2-2-2 tie between Cara, Dani, and Flick, forcing a revote. On the revote, Cara did not receive any votes to be eliminated.

## Post-Survivor

* Cara appeared as George Mladenov's loved one in *Heroes v Villains* to support him during the Final Immunity Challenge.

## Trivia

* Cara holds the record for casting the most votes against one person, with six cast for Laura Wells.
* Including elimination votes received at the mock vote, Cara holds the record for the most votes received in a single season of *Australian Survivor*, with 27.
* Cara is the first *Australian Survivor* player to return as another contestant's loved one at a family visit. She appeared as her castmate George Mladenov's loved one in the finale of *Heroes v Villains*.

## References

1. ↑ https://10play.com.au/australian-survivor/participants/season-6-brains-v-brawn/cara/pa210711mpnfo