Survivor: India

Survivor: India includes a cast of sixteen castaways, including interesting and exciting contestants such as: Ophelia Hishati, Jonathan Morton, Tess Hennessey, and Shaya Williams. This season is the second season of the series and introduces the tribe swap into the game.

## Survivor: India

### Tribes

Haryana TribePradesh Tribe

Punjab Tribe

### Filming Date

August 1, 2010 -September 8, 2010

This season is preceded by Survivor: Fiji and succeeded by Survivor: Chile

## Pre-Merge

### Episode 1

At the first immunity challenge of the season, the Haryana Tribe won tribal immunity, keeping them all safe for the round. At the Pradesh camp, the lines were quickly drawn in the sand as a majority alliance formed between Tess, Rachel, Ellis, Patricia, Winnie, and Marco. Meanwhile, on the other side of the line, was a duo between the two older men of the tribe, Kenneth and Alexander. For Kenneth and Alexander, there seemed to be no escape from being voted off. There was no discussion regarding the vote among the six person alliance, so people planned to vote either Kenneth or Alexander based off of who they wanted out on a personal level, and there was really nothing else to it. At tribal council, Kenneth Parks is voted out by a vote of 4-2-2.

### Episode 2

At the second immunity challenge, the Pradesh Tribe won tribal immunity, ensuring the entire tribe's safety. Back at the Haryana camp, things seemed to be very happy and there were no real alliances created yet. Small conversations took place all over the camp, mostly focusing around the performance of everyone in the immunity challenge. At the end of the day, most people planned to vote out Heidi, the older woman of the tribe, for her underperformance in the challenged held thus far. At tribal council, Heidi Herren is voted out by a vote of 7-1.

### Episode 3

At the third immunity challenge, the Pradesh Tribe won their second tribal immunity in a row. At the Haryana camp, the happy environment in the tribe came to an end as Sophia began offering alliances to several people, one with Ian and Todd, one with Ophelia and Shaya, and another one with Jonathan and Carlos. Sophia was hoping to be safe from all angles, but after Carlos and Ophelia began comparing notes, a four-person coalition, including Ophelia, Shaya, Jonathan, and Carlos, against Sophia began to form. Meanwhile, Ian and Todd still trusted Sophia at this time and planned on voting Jonathan with her, who they saw as a weak competitor. At tribal council, Sophia Cantina is voted out by a vote of 4-3.

### Episode 4

At the fourth immunity challenge, the Haryana Tribe won their second tribal immunity. Back at the Pradesh camp, the six person majority alliance had no intentions on turning on each other, so the vote seemed pretty clear. Despite Alexander knowing that its was him against the rest of his tribe, he still tried to campaign for himself, specifically by trying to convince Patricia and Winnie, two people he felt were on the bottom of the alliance, to side with him. This did not seem to phase them, however, as they did not believe him and also did not want to shake up the game. At tribal council, Alexander Domino is voted out by a vote of 6-1.

### Episode 5

At the beginning of the fifth episode, everyone is told to drop their buffs as they would all be switching tribes. The new Haryana Tribe consisted of Rachel, Tess, Ophelia, Winnie, Marco, and Patricia, while the new Pradesh Tribe had Ian, Carlos, Todd, Shaya, Jonathan, and Ellis. At the fifth immunity challenge, the Pradesh Tribe pulled out the win. At the Haryana camp, there was an uneven split between original Haryana and Pradesh Tribe members, with Ophelia being the only one on the tribe coming from the original Haryana Tribe. Because of this, Tess and Marco brought together their previous Pradesh tribemates and began discussing voting out Ophelia, as they believed it would be the easiest and most obvious vote. Despite Ophelia being in the obvious minority, she still fought to keep herself in the game by gathering all the women to try and form a girl's alliance. Everyone in the meeting began debating whether to vote off Ophelia or Marco, except for Tess, who was dead-set on voting out Ophelia. At tribal council, there is a tie, with a vote of 3-3. After the revote, Rachel switches her vote, causing Marco De la Vera to be voted out by a vote of 3-1.

### Episode 6

At the sixth immunity challenge, the Haryana Tribe won their first immunity following the swap. Back at the Pradesh camp, the previous Haryana Tribe majority alliance members of Shaya, Jonathan, and Carlos wanted to continue sticking together on their new tribe. Their plan was to vote out Ellis, the sole former Pradesh Tribe member, but they needed more than three votes to accomplish this. Meanwhile, Ian and Todd were split on whether to stay loyal to their original tibe, or flip and side with Ellis as they were on the minority on their previous tribe. Ian and Todd eventually were confronted by Shaya, who predictably was requesting they vote out Ellis. Before tribal, Ian and Todd discussed who they would vote, but were not able to come to an agreement. At tribal council, Ellis Nuntil is voted out by a vote of 4-2.

## Merge

### Episode 7

At the first individual immunity challenge, Shaya pulls through and becomes the first individual immune from tribal council. Back at camp, the two former tribes seemed to have no interest in working with each other. The former Pradesh tribemates seemed to be set on voting out Winnie, while the former Haryana tribemates seemed to be set on voting out Jonathan. In the midst of this divided merge tribe, stood Ophelia, who wanted to work with her original pre-swap tribemates, but was only being grouped in with her post-swap Haryana tribemates. When Ophelia tried talking to her original tribemates, they didn't seem to trust her and therefore told her no information. Despite her being ostracized from her original tribe, she still wanted to prove her loyalty to them by throwing her vote. At tribal council, Winnie Cosdon is voted out by a vote of 5-4-1.

### Episode 8

At the second individual immunity challenge, Shaya pulls out her second individual immunity win in a row. Back at camp, the divide within the tribe did not see to soften up, as the two sides went right back to their people once again. However, one thing did change, as Ophelia's rogue vote the previous tribal council worked in proving her loyalty to her original tribemates. She was included in their conversations, and discussed who they would vote. On the other side, Patricia, Tess, and Rachel planned to vote Jonathan again, but they knew they would probably not have the votes. At tribal council, Patricia Deerfield is voted out by a vote of 6-3.

### Episode 9

At the third individual immunity challenge, Todd wins his first individual immunity. Back at camp, things finally begin to shift within the tribe, once again mostly due to the antics of Ophelia. Ophelia knew previously her strategy of forming an all-girls alliance had worked, so she decided to revisit the strategy by pulling Shaya, Tess, and Rachel together and confronting them with the idea. Tess and Rachel being very desperate for allies were quick to jump on the offer, and Shaya starting to become a close ally of Ophelia's, agreed to this plan. While this alliance has been formed, the boys know nothing about it and still believe that their original tribe alliance is still going strong. Their plan was to vote out Rachel, but right before tribal council, Ian was confronted alone by Ophelia, who told him that the target was flipped to Shaya last minute, which was her way of her splitting the votes of the boys. At tribal council, Ian Hinson is voted out by a vote of 4-3-1.

### Episode 10

At the fourth individual immunity challenge, Todd wins his second individual immunity in a row. At camp, the girls alliance that had formed came to a quick downfall as voting plans were discussed. Shaya and Tess got into a major argument which fractured the girls alliance in half, with Ophelia and Shaya on one side, and Tess and Rachel on the other. Because of the unrest among the women of the tribe, the men found this as a great opportunity to take one of them out. Because of last week's plan to take out Rachel failing, they decide to use this tribal as a way to take another shot at her. At tribal council, Rachel Baumhauser is voted out by a vote of 3-2-2.

### Episode 11

At the fifth individual immunity challenge, Tess pulls out a clutch immunity win after her only ally was voted out last tribal. With basically every alliance in the tribe fractured, the vote is completely up in the air. Despite an argument breaking out last week, Tess goes back to the girls to try and rekindle the relationship between them. Since Ophelia and Shaya don't have anyone else to team up with, they reluctantly agree to teaming up with Tess, and plan to vote Todd out with her. Meanwhile, the men were also sticking together, with Ophelia as their target in mind, as they saw her as the sneakiest one left out of the girls. Going into tribal, the vote seemed to be split down the middle, but when an offensive altercation between Jonathan and Shaya break out, the votes once again are back up in the air. At tribal council, there is a tie, with a vote of 2-2-1-1. After the revote, Shaya and Carlos switch their votes to Todd, and Jonathan switches his vote to Ophelia, causing Todd Franklin to be voted out by a vote of 3-1.

### Episode 12

At the sixth individual immunity challenge, Jonathan pulls out an important individual immunity win for himself. At camp, because the women working together rather than against each other is proving to work every vote, the girls have no intention of splitting up at this vote. With tensions still high between Jonathan and Shaya, the boys decide to vote out Shaya in order to ease the tensions. The boys, knowing their only chance to flip votes in their favor would be to get Tess on their side, go to her to convince her to vote out Shaya. Unfortunately for them, this was not seeming to work out. At tribal council, Carlos Nadia is voted out by a vote of 3-2.

## Finale

### Episode 13, Part 1

At the eigth individual immunity challenge, Jonathan pulls out another very crucial individual immunity win. Back at camp, now that the girls were forced to vote one of their own out, Tess was quickly isolated in the tribe, as Ophelia and Shaya, who were game-long alliance members, were not going to turn on each other. Tess knew that her only chance of staying this tribal council would be to team up with Jonathan to get out Shaya. When she talked to him, he deeply considered the offer, but was still conflicted as he knew he would be on the bottom next tribal council regardless. At tribal council, Tess Hennessey is voted out by a vote of 3-1.

### Episode 13, Part 2

At the final individual immunity challenge, Jonathan wins his third straight individual immunity win and secures his spot in the final 2. From the second he won immunity, it seemed to be very obvious who he taking to the end, as he had a deep hatred and vendetta against Shaya. At tribal council, Shaya Williams is voted out by Jonathan.

### Episode 13, Part 3

At the final tribal council, the nine jurors, Shaya, Tess, Carlos, Todd, Rachel, Ian, Patricia, Winnie, and Ellis all asks questions to both of the finalists. In the end Ophelia Hishati wins against Jonathan Morton by a vote of 6-3. Ophelia receives the votes of Shaya, Tess, Rachel, Patricia, Winnie, and Ellis. Jonathan receives the votes of Carlos, Todd, and Ian.