Tie-Breaking Revote

A Tie-Breaking Revote is used throughout the game when two or more castaways receive the same amount of votes in a single Tribal Council. Those that do not have tied votes must then revote for either of the castaways until someone has the majority, where they will be eliminated. If a revote does not break the tie, a fire-making challenge or rock-drawing tie breaker usually occurs.

## Potential Revotes

### Throwaway Votes

In some instances, castaways have predicted that a tie was potentially going to occur at tribal council and have put their vote against someone without votes. This ensures that the castaways do not have to vote again and potentially remain deadlocked, and can be efficient in removing a perceived threat without directly causing their elimination.

* In *Survivor: Panama*, Darcy told Axel to vote against Cody to prevent a tie.
* In *Survivor: Philippines*, Montana switched her vote from Aiden to Bianca to prevent a tie.
* In *Survivor: Malaysia*, Aura voted for Cara to prevent a tie out of spite for her original Penang allies.
* In *Survivor: Island of Secrets*, Heather was conflicted about voting for either Danni or Leyla but she voted for Christian to ensure her vote wouldn't force a tie.

## Deadlock Ties

### Fire Making

When castaways are deadlocked in votes in the Final Four, a fire making challenge occurs. Given an ample amount of fire-making essentials, contestants are to make a flame high enough to burn through a rope, raising a flag (in some cases, light a torch). First player to do so wins the challenge, and the opponent is sent home for good.

### Rock Draw

Castaways that are deadlocked in votes apart from the Final Four will go under a rock-drawing tie-breaker. The person who won immunity does not draw rocks, nor do the people who received the deadlocked votes (unless proven necessary in some cases). The person who draws the odd rock will be eliminated from the game.

### Null Vote

In the rare instance where all castaways who received votes at tribal council play an idol, then these castaways become immune. The entire tribe votes again for any other eligible castaway, and the person with the highest votes as usual is eliminated.

## Trivia

### Records

* A black tribe has had to revote the most times of any other coloured tribe, with a total of 11.
	+ If Hidden Immunity Idols were not used and all of the revotes went ahead, black tribes would also be the most common to revote, with 18 times.
* The earliest tie of Survivor history is Day 4 of Survivor: Philippines.
* The latest tie of Survivor history is the tie at the Final Tribal Council of Survivor: Island of the Idols.
* Survivor: Fiji is the only season to have two rock-drawing tie-breakers.
* Survivor: Argentina holds the record for the most legitimate tie-breaking revotes with 4.

### Miscellaneous

* Thomas, Jade, Rick, and Lateysha have been the subject of multiple Tribal Councils where they were tied in votes, resulting Tie-Breaking Revotes.
	+ On the other hand, Johanna has been affected by two. She was apart of one tie-breaker and was eliminated from a rock-draw as a result of a tie.
* Laura and Dion have been eliminated because of idol uses preventing a revote on two different seasons.
* Bailey and Winston are the only castaways to participate in more than one rock draw.
* Anthony is the only castaway to be present at multiple null vote tribal councils.
* No brown or pink tribes have been apart of tie-breakers, nor have they used idols to prevent a revote.
* Skye, Nick, India and Bethany are the only Sole Survivors to be apart of a tie-breaker in the season they won.
	+ Similarly, Bethany, Natalia, Marina, Jase, Winston, Jon and Derrick have been apart of tie-breaking revotes in seasons that they did not win. These castaways have either won prior to the revote or would go on to win in a subsequent season.
	+ Bianca (on multiple occasions), Alexys, Hunter, Jack and Mitchell are all castaways who won their season and prevented a revote by using an idol on themselves.
	+ Castaways to use an idol and prevent a revote that won previous or subsequent seasons include Marina and Karleigh (on two occasions).