Survivor: Egypt

## Production

NJ's Survivor Egypt was the third season of the NJ's Survivor Series. This season featured 16 all new competitors, all fighting to win Season 3. The cast were divided into 4 tribes of 4. The Homok Tribe wore Yellow Buffs, the Meleg Tribe wore Orange Buffs, the Kifog Tribe wore Purple Buffs, and the Gula Tribe wore Blue Buffs.

On day 1 the tribes learned they would be divided into 4 tribes based of their karma levels, when they applied for the season. Homok was the 4 lowest karma levels, Meleg was the second 4 lowest karma levels, Kifog was the second 4 highest karma levels, and Gula was the 4 highest karma levels.

On Day 9 the tribes learned that since 2 tribes didnt even compete in the challenge at all, that it would be a double elimination, and Kifog and Homok were sent to Tribal Council.

On Day 12 the tribes were dissolved. The two remaining Homok members joined the 4 remaining Meleg members, and the 3 remaining Kifog members joined the 3 remaining Gula members. Homok and Kifog were no more, and the tribes were now even at 6 members each. After the Challenge, the cast were also informed of the new twist called "Captain Kidnap."

On Day 19, the inhabitants of Redemption Island competed in a duel to earn a spot back into the game. Owen ended up winning the duel, and a spot back in the game. After the duel was over, the two tribes, and the returning player merged into one tribe, making the game individual, however Redemption Island was still in play.

On Day 25, the Final 7 bid for items in the Auction. After the results were announced, they learned they would be divided back into 2 tribes of 3, with 1 person not being picked at all, but that person would be immune, and guranteed a spot in the Final 6.

On Day 33, the inhabitants of Redemption Island, competed to earn a spot back in the game like on Day 19. Robby won the duel, and winning  his way back into the game. This made it so the original Final 4, before the Duel, became the Final 5 again, and Redemption Island was no more.

On Night 38, Judd cast the sole vote eliminating Wokko, and choosing to take Robby with him to the Finale.

## Twists

**Redemption Island-** Redemption Island was used throughout the entire season, and offered a second chance to castaways. Instead of being sent home after being voted out, they would be sent to Redemption Island, where they would compete in duels, until 2 certain points in the competition where the winner of that days duel would re-enter the game.

**Do or Die-** At every Tribal Council, the castaways who attended would compete in a challenge for score, as well as voting, in an attempt to win Immunity. The person who won would not be revealed until the votes were to be read, and any votes cast against them would no longer count. Scores were never revealed to castaways. This twist also replaces Hidden Immunity Idols.

**Captain Kidnap-** At the beginning of each Immunity Challenge, each tribe would have to select a Team Captain, and in the event there tribe won, the Team Captain would have to select one person from the losing tribe to "kidnap" and bring to them to their tribe, so they wouldnt have to go to Tribal Council. Nobody was allowed to be Captain twice in a row, and this twist lasted until the Merge.

## Castaways

* ^1- Steve was originally removed due to inactivity, but within 5 hours of his med evac, he came back online, so he was sent to Redemption Island instead instead.
* ^2Owen was voted out originally on Day 9, but he won his way back into the game on Day 21 from Redemption Island, so he was not on a second tribe.
* A (\*) indicates that the person at sometime during the competition received a self-vote, which were added into their total # of votes.

## History

### **Episode 1- Even The Strongest Fail Sometimes**

16 Tengagers were abandoned in Egypt. Upon arriving they learned that they would be divided into 4 tribes based off their Karma level when they applied. The Homok tribe consisted of Derek, Owen, Cory and Steve who had the 4 lowest Karma levels, and were given Orange Buffs. The Meleg tribe consisted of McCade, Robby, Wokko, and Clair who had the next 4 lowest Karma levels, and were given Yellow Buffs. The Kifog tribe consisted of Emily, Max, Will and Seth who had the 4 2nd highest karma levels and were given Purple Buffs. And finally the Gula tribe which consisted of Bobby, JW, Coco and Judd who had the 4 highest karma levels, and were given Blue Buffs. At the Immunity Challenge, they learned that they would need to submit Tribe Flags. Each member was supposed to create a flag to be scored based on creativity. Everyone on the Homok Tribe submitted a flag, Wokko was the only one to submit fro Meleg, and Will was the only one to submit for Kifog. Gula submitted nothing, and were sent to Tribal Council. After the challenge though, castaways were informed about the Do or Die Twist, and that Redemption Island was in play.

At Tribal everyone assumed Bobby would've done the immunity challenge, and decided not to do it themselves. Judd won the DoD challenge, giving him immunity, but he didnt need it because he had convinced Bobby and JW to vote with him against Coco, feeling she was the weak link. In the end a suprised Coco was blindsided 3-1, and sent to Redemption Island.

### **Episode 2- A Little Pressure**

Alliances were beginning to form on every tribe, and with the DoD twist, everyone agreed that it was scarier than idols. However alliances were only beginning to form, and not had been officially formed. At the Immunity Challenge, it was spam off between the 4 tribes. Meleg won in a landslide with 17 votes. Gula came in second with 9 votes. Kifog got 5 votes barely beating Homok, who had received 4 votes, sending Homok to Tribal Council.

At Tribal Homok seemed to not been really playing the game. Steve won the DoD challenge, but he didnt need to. Steve along with Cory and Owen voted for Derek, thinking he was holding their tribe down, and it seemed they were right, when Derek didnt vote at all eliminating himself in a 4-0 vote. He was sent to Redemption Island to battle Coco.

### **Episode 3- Inactivity Can Be Devastating**

Derek and Coco spent Night 6 together on Redemption Island, only to duel the next morning. A set of 10 trivia questions forced them both to do a little research. In the end it came down to a question that seemed almost impossible to know, but Derek answered it correctly, while Coco did not, making Coco the first person eliminated from the game.

At the Immunity Challenge, the tribes competed in a Relay Race. However, both Kifog and Homok never even started the race, senidng both Tribes to Tribal as punishment, when only 1 tribe was originally supposed to go.

At both tribals, innactivity seemed to be the reason for voting the way they did. At Homok's only Steve sent in a vote, which caused a shocked Owen to be blindsided 2-1. He actually wouldnt have been voted out had he voted though, but he didn't costing him dearly. At Kifog's Tribal, Emily and Will were the only ones to vote. Even with Emily voted for Will, Seth and Max didnt vote causing them to self vote. It all came down to Will's vote, which caused Seth to be sent to Redemption Island in a 2-1-1 vote.

### **Episode 4- Time to Switch Things Up**

At Redemption, Seth and Owen joined Derek to duel. They played the simple game of 500. Owen got a few points right off the back, but Derek went on a streak getting to 500 first winning the duel. Owen and Seth continued the battle, but Seth never came online, allowing Owen to secure victory and stay alive. Seth became the 2nd person eliminated from the game.

Before the Immunity Challenge, the 4 tribes were shocked when they learned about the Tribe Swap. Keeping the switch simple, the two remaining Homok members (Cory and Steve) joined Meleg, and the remaining Kifog and Gula members joined into one tribe making them even at 6v6. A new twist was also announced called "Captain Kidnap". At the Immunity challenge Meleg won again in a landslide victory over Gula. Meleg chose to kidnap Emily, saving her from elimination. But by doing this, Gula went from 3 old Gula, and 3 old Kifog, to 3 old Gula and 2 Kifog, giving old Gula the numbers.

At Tribal, old tribe lines stuck when the 3 remaining Gula members voted together against the 2 former Kifog Members and voted out Max, who ended up self voting, sending him to Redemption Island in a 4-1 vote.

### **Episode 5- DoD Takes it's First Victim**

At Redemption, Max joined Owen and Derek., but due to his inactivity, Owen and Derek easily won the duel, making Max the 3rd person eliminated from the game.

At the Immunity Challenge, on Wokko and Will showed up, leaving the fate of their tribes in their hands. In a simple game of "Pass the Ball" Wokko defeated Will, sending Gula back to Tribal Council. Wokko was named Team Captain for winning immunity for his tribe, and he chose to kidnap Judd.

At Tribal, the vote was split. Emily and Will stuck together and voted for Bobby, while Bobby voted for Will. JW never voted resulting in a self vote. However Bobby won DoD, negating his two votes, and forcing a tie between Will, and JW. In the re-vote, Bobby switched his vote, eliminating JW in a 2-0 re-vote. After the vote it became very clear though how much of an impact DoD had on the game, and all the competitors began to realize how crazy it made the game.

### **Episode 6- The Losing Streak Continues**

On Redemption Island, Derek and Owen continued their winning streak, and defeating JW, who like the past two eliminations, never came to the duel at all.

At the Immunity Challenge, the remaining castaways competed in the classic "Pass The Torch" challenge. Sit-outs for Meleg were chosen by random.org, and lucky for Gula, the sit outs were Clair, and Steve, two of the most active people Meleg had. The challenge ended up with Meleg winning at the last second. Meleg chose Robby as the Team Captain, and Robby chose to kidnap Bobby, sparing him from elimination. However in doing so, he made a few people upset, because he was supposed to save Emily, but he didnt.

At Tribal, Emily paid the price for Robby not choosing her, and both Will and Judd voted for her, while she self voted, sending her to Redemtion in 3-0 vote.

### **Episode 7- Health Hazzards**

Upon arriving at the next Redemption Island duel, the tribes and competiors learned that the tribes were merging. And the winner of the duel would re-enter the game. In Dodgeball, Owen won flawlessly, and re-entered the game. The new tribe had to come up with a new tribe name, and ultimately choose Nakhti as the new Tribe name. But the happiness was short lived. Due to Cory not being online for 4 days, he was med-evac'd from the game. Due to his elimination though, the remaining 9 competitors all learned they would be apart of the Jury, or Final 2.

At their first Individual Immunity Challenge, the stakes couldnt be higher for some, but Owen ultimately won, guaranteing him safety. However he didnt even need to win. At Tribal the Final 9 learned because Steve had also been offline for 4 days, he was also med evac'd from the game. The game then went from 10 left, to 8 without any vote.

Although Steve was med evac'd he came online about 10 minutes after the announcement. He was granted to not be med eac'd, but he would be going to Redemption, not the regular game.

### **Episode 8- Lines in the Sand**

After the crazy events of the past night, everyone began to form alliances. However most of these alliances didnt last long due to either lying, or betrayl.

The Immunity Challenge forced the Final 8 to answer questions that would reveal a lot of information to their other competitors (like most annoying, least deserving, most deserving, etc.) They were then ased to guess who the group would select for each category. Owen won defeating Judd by 1/2 a point.

At Tribal, the original 4 Meleg planned to stick together and vote out Will, but Clair didnt vote with them. She instead voted with the old Gula tribe against Robby. Scrambling, McCade convinced Owen to vote with them, and he did, forcing a 4-4 tie. In the re-vote Clair, and Bobby both switched their votes to Will sending him to Redemption Island in a 5-1 revote, leaving Judd the odd man out.

### **Episode 9- Back to the Basics**

At the Redemption Island Duel, Will won easily because Steve didnt do the challenge, making Steve the first Jury Member.

At the Auction, Bobby, and Robby became team captains. The Final 7 were being put back into 2 tribes of 3, and 1 odd person out, who'd be immune until after the next Tribal. Bobby and Robby picked their teams, but Owen wasnt chosen, so he was immune. After the Auction, almost everyone agreed to let McCade, and Robby throw the challenge so they could vote out Clair.

Their plan worked, because there was no DoD, to keep the game fair, and Clair self voted sending her to Redemption in a 3-0 vote.

### **Episode 10- Never Ignore Twists**

After Clair's blindside it seemed McCade was in control of the game. Everyone wanted Judd out, so they decided to vote him out if he didnt win immunity. On Redemption, Clair was the only one to do the challenge, so he won the duel, making Will the 2nd Jury Member.

When the Immunity Challenge rolled around, everyone knew they had to beat Judd so they could vote him off. In an auction-based challenge, everyone let McCade win, since Judd wasnt there. Without immunity, Judd knew he was vulnerable, and most likely going home.

At Tribal Council everyone made it clear they wanted Judd out. Once tribal was posted though, the castaways started to remember that if Judd won DoD, and they all voted for him, whoever Judd wanted out would be the one going home. The majoirty alliance of McCade, Robby, Wokko, Bobby, and Owen all decided to just vote for Judd, and hope for the best. Robby however, never ended up voting, so he self voted. The alliance's worst fears came true though when Judd won the DoD easily, negating all 4 votes against him. Judd had voted for Robby anyway, so even without the self vote, he would've gone home. In a major blindside, Robby was voted out 2-0, and the remaining five players learned how dangerous DoD could be to their gameplay.

### **Episode 11- Playing it Safe This Time**

After his blindside, Robby had to win his way back into the game. He got lucky though that when the duel came around, Clair was to busy irl to do the challenge, allowing Robby to defeat Clair, making her the 3rd Jury Member.

After the remaining five competitors saw the duel, McCade made it very clear he wanted Robby to re-enter which he knew would guarantee him a spot in the Final 2. At the Immunity Challenge, Owen, and Judd cracked under the pressure of the puzzles. McCade and Wokko were the only two who had a shot though, because Bobby finished 1 puzzle in about the time it took the two of them to do all 3. However, only Wokko submitted times for all 3 puzzles, earning him Immunity.

Back at camp, McCade, Wokko, and Owen decided to split the votes. They would give two votes to Judd, and 1 to Bobby incase Judd won DoD again. Judd did win DoD though, leaving only 3 votes that counted. Bobby and McCade voted for eachother, leaving Judd's vote the deciding vote. McCade was spared, and Bobby was blindsided 2-1.

### **Episode 12- Didn't Even Need Immunity**

The next morning, Robby and Bobby received exciting news on Redemption. One of them would be re-entering the game. The duel was grueling task, that both struggled a little in. When it came time to reveal who go the higher score, it was revealed first that the winner, won by about 20 points, which was very easy to get. Robby though won in the first duel where both competitors did the challenge in a very long time. With Robby back in the game, Bobby became the 4th Juror, and it was announced Redemption Island was no longer in play.

Robby felt he needed Immunity after being voted out once already, and Judd felt he needed immunity since he'd been the target for the past 6 days. At the Immunity Challenge, Owen and Wokko didnt submit scores, leaving McCade, Robby, or Judd to win Immunity. Judd barely beat McCade, but Robby beat both Judd and McCade by 5,000 points, earning Robby immunity.

Back at camp deals were being struck left and right. The Final 5 began realizing an alliance of 4 cant make it to the Final 3, McCade, Robby and Wokko decided to make a Final 3 deal, and instead of voting out Judd because they were 100% sure he'd win DoD again, and they would blindside Owen instead. They were correct when Judd won the final DoD of the season, but he didn't need immunity because the only person who voted for Judd, was Owen. McCade, Wokko, and Robby's plan worked, blindsiding Owen in a 3-1-1 vote. A shocked Owen became the 5th Juror.

### **Episode 13- I Don't Want to Draw Rocks**

When they got back to camp, Judd was suprised to have only received one vote. But everyone knew without DoD anymore, all the alliance of 3 had to do, was beat Judd in the Immunity Challenge. Judd became the target yet again, but he narrowly won the Immunity Challenge forcing McCade, Robby, and Wokko to turn on eachother.

Before Tribal, McCade and Robby decided to vote for Wokko, knowing Wokko and Judd were going to vote for McCade. The plan was for in the re-vote Robby vote for Wokko, and Judd vote for McCade forcing a tie. But Robby thought that they'd be drawing Rocks, and since Judd had immunity, and Wokko and McCade were in the deadlocked tie, he would be the only one to go home. Mistaken though, since its impossible to draw rocks in the Final 4, Robby voted for McCade, thinking it was the only way he could survive that Tribal. A re-vote didnt happen, because of Robby's switch, McCade was blindsided 3-1, and became the 6th Jury Member.

### **Episode 14- Five Wins in a Row!**

After Tribal, Judd knew he had to win the Final Immunity Challenge, or he'd be out. Robby and Wokko discussed if Judd didnt win, they would still take eachother to the Finale. They both agreed to do take eachother, but Robby secretly decided since Wokko had made zero enemies, and was popular in the Jury's eyes, that if he won Immunity, he'd vote out Wokko instead.

At the Final Immunity Challenge, it became a simple game of Hot Potato. With all 3 passing it around until a certain time, where the holder would be eliminated. When that time came Wokko was holding the potato, and was eliminated, leaving Judd and Robby to fight for Immmunity. In a close second, Robby was one second late, and was eliminated, giving Judd his second Immunity win.

After the challenge, the Final 3 went directly to Tribal, where Judd cast the sole vote to eliminate Wokko, since he was favored by the Jury. Wokko became the 7th and fianl Jury Member, leaving Robby and Judd as the Final 2.

### **Episode 15- The Winner Is.....**

After Tribal, Judd and Robby spent their last night in Egpyt. The next night was the Final Tribal Council. Both Judd and Robby pleaded their cases, as to why they should win, and the Jury got to question them both. In maybe the hardest decision of the season, the Jury was deadlocked 3-3 in the vote. It came down to Steve's vote, but because he didnt vote his vote was randomized (really sucked. I'd much rather had him vote so the winner wasnt decided by random.org) making Judd the winner by a 4-3 vote.

After the vote reveal, contestants began voting for awards. Somehow though, Clair won all of them.

Fan Favorite- Clair

Biggest Hero- Clair

Bigggest Villain- Clair

Best Juror- Clair

## Redemption Island Duel History

Duel #1- Coco .vs. Derek (Winner- Derek)

Duel #2- Derek .vs. Owen .vs. Seth (Winners- Derek and Owen)

Duel #3- Derek .vs. Owen .vs. Max (Winners- Derek and Owen)

Duel #4- Derek .vs. Owen .vs. JW (Winners- Derek and Owen)

Duel #5- Derek .vs. Owen .vs. Emily (Winner- Owen)

OWEN RE-ENTERS GAME

Duel #6- Steve .vs. Will (Winner- Will)

Duel #7- Will .vs. Clair (Winner- Clair)

Duel #8- Clair .vs. Robby (Winner- Robby)

Duel #9- Robby .vs. Bobby (Winner- Robby)

ROBBY RE-ENTERS GAME

## Voting History

**Pre-Finale:**

(\*) inidicates the castaway didnt vote and received a "self-vote"

(VOTE)   indicates the castaway won DoD, and the vote didnt count anymore

(---) indicates that the castaway didn't vote at Tribal, because they were not allowed to

(^) indicates there was a tie, and only the revote is shown

**Jury Vote:**