Sammie Woodside

* 25
* Cébaco

**Sammie Woodside** is a castaway from *Survivor: Cébaco* and *Survivor 25*.

Initially an outsider in the original Tinto tribe, Sammie proved to be strategically impressive throughout the swaps without having an official alliance to back her in the game. She became close with Luke Arnold and Meghan Pierre until Day 38 where they doubted Javon Karim's game, leading to their betrayal against each other. Despite her moves in the game, the jury respected Javon's social game which ultimately caused her to finish second in a 6-3-0 vote.

Despite returning to the game as a Favorite for *25*, Sammie turned her back against the Favorites in order to position herself well with the Fans of the game. Although she was included in discussion to take out big players in the game that would lead her to Final Tribal Council, Sammie's game became discredited by being labeled as a follower for agreeing with the more influential fans in the game.

## Profile

* Survivor 25

**Age:** 35**Current residence:** Clarksville, Tennessee**Occupation:** Firefighter

## Survivor

### Cébaco

**^1**  In "Feeling Like I’m Not Going to Make It Out Alive", Sammie used a Hidden Immunity Idol on herself, negating six votes against her.
**^2**  In "An Ally for Now", the vote ended with a 3-3-3 tie between Bryce, Sammie, and Steven, forcing a revote. Sammie did not receive enough votes to be eliminated.
**^3**  In "Confidence or Cocky?", the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Kalea and Meghan, forcing a revote. Sammie did not change his vote in the revote.

### Survivor 25

Sammie returned as one of ten Favorites that comprised the Berhala tribe. Sammie was included in a pact created by Kasey Portero that consisted of Molan Bai, Jax Nicholson, Samir Zaman and Ziya Bakshi. After Berhala lost the first immunity challenge, Sammie was originally planning to stay loyal to the pact, however, when she realized that Kasey was turning against the pact, she went along with her. At Tribal Council, Sammie stayed loyal to Kasey and voted Samir in the majority. With Tribal Council's vote leading to a hectic night, Sammie found herself being approached by Kenza Bannani to target the public duo, Molan and Ziya, but her closest ally, Kasey, insisted on keeping them safe, despite Sammie's own desire to target them. When Berhala lost the second immunity challenge, Sammie was approached by Molan and Ziya on pinning their votes on Ahmad with Kasey's help. Kasey conversed with Sammie about what would be the best move for them moving forward. At Tribal Council, Kasey and Sammie ruined Kenza's plan to split the vote, by blindsiding Ahmad. The following day, Kenza offered Sammie an alliance with Jax, Molan and Ziya, but Berhala winning immunity halted any plans to officiate the alliance.

On Day 10, Sammie was one of the four Favorites that were swapped to the Pemuja tribe, officially closing the door on her new alliance. The swapped Pemuja proved to be the stronger tribe when they won the first immunity challenge as a new tribe. Upon returning to camp, Sammie was approached by Clara Souza about an all-women's alliance with Adrianna Crawford and Kasey. As a new alliance of four, they held the power, which wasn't shown until Day 17 when they lost their first immunity challenge as a new tribe. Sammie was the first returnee to turn against the other returnees by going after Patrick Palicio. When Adrianna backed Sammie on the plan, the women's alliance officially decided Patrick would be the next to go, which he did in an unanimous vote. The next cycle, the tribe won the following immunity challenge. Clara strong-armed the swapped Pemuja tribe to stick together in an upcoming merge.

The tribe's speculations were correct when the two tribes came together to merge as the Alyak tribe on Day 20. With both swapped tribes wanting to stick together, Ziya attempted to bring former favorites, Ben, Kasey and Sammie to their side. Thinking over her options between sticking with the returnees or her new swapped Pemuja alliance, Sammie felt she had more control of the game with the swapped Pemuja alliance leading to her voting out Kenza at the first merge vote. After the first successful vote, Sammie was in a new majority position that she could cruise to the end with, but at Tribal Council, she was blindsided by Kasey when she chose to flip against the alliance to vote out Ben. Kasey's move put Sammie into the minority within the merge tribe where she was powerless at the following tribal council where Adrianna was voted out.

At the Survivor Auction, the tribe was informed that there would be two eliminations on Day 30 as part of a Double Elimination. Leaving the auction and immunity challenge without immunity, Sammie felt that her best move would be to target a member of the duo. When Clara admitted the same target, Clara took action to reinforce her alliances in the game including Sammie. At Tribal Council, they were able to successfully survive and vote out Ziya and Francine Lamb. With Clara, Kasey and Phenix having a majority over the game with Sammie, Kasey managed to convince the alliance to target Talon Rowe at the next Tribal Council. However, the move opened Sammie's eyes to realize that Kasey has been the one playing the middle since the merge. Having more trust with Kasey over Molan, Sammie pushed for a split vote between Molan and Kasey to Clara and Jax. They were originally good with the plan, but Kasey winning immunity challenge gave her room to change the narrative and target Jax instead. Not wanting to risk her game, at Tribal Council, Sammie threw a vote towards Molan in precaution for a Hidden Immunity Idol.

The following day, the two targets became clear as Molan and Kasey were the next to go. With Kasey winning the final five immunity challenge, Clara, Phenix and Sammie shifted their attention to Molan. When Kasey lost the final immunity challenge to Phenix, Sammie pushed Kasey as a target knowing that Kasey would try to get rid of her. In the end, Sammie proved to be less of a threat than Kasey giving her a spot at the Final Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Sammie argued that she positioned herself well with the Fans in order to get rid of the bigger threats in the game. However, the jurors perceived her moves to be moves made by Adrianna and Clara, who used their relationships with the fans to successfully get their way. Sammie's game being discredited by the jurors resulted in her loss in a jury vote of 6-3-0 vote, earning 0 votes to win the game.

## Trivia

 **Days spent on Redemption Island:** | N/A

* Sammie is the second contestant to make Final Tribal Council in two consecutive seasons, followed by Jacob Caldwell.
	+ Both times Sammie has been at a Final Tribal Council, the vote resulted in a 6-3-0 vote.
* Despite making it to Day 39 in both her seasons, Sammie has never won an Individual Immunity challenge.