Survivor: Second Chance

**Survivor: Second Chance** is the 18th season of Survivor.

In a change to previous installments, *Survivor* fans were given the chance to vote for who would appear on the cast through an online public vote.

The season was won by Roman Konieckov in a 7-4-1 vote against Angelina Maslov and Patrik Ciele, his fellow *Malakula* contestants. This season has to date produced xx returning players () for subsequent seasons.

## Production

On April 30, 2009, an announcement was made that for the first time in *Survivor* history, fans had the ability to vote for and assemble the cast for the next season. Through social media, fans voted for fifteen men and fifteen women from a pool of 48 former castaways, each of whom had played only once. Voting ended one hour into the Survivor: Egypt finale, where all of the nominees were present at the Reunion Show with their luggage already prepared for filming. The final roster of 30 was revealed at the end of the show, and were flown to Indonesia immediately afterward. Filming commenced in May 29.

According to Jeff Probst, some of the former players who declined the chance to come back to this season were Alice Voyeur (*Raja Ampat*), Cleo Pack (*Madagascar*), Violet Billson (*Madagadcar*), Hun Vrat (*Greece*), Den Bilosku (*Hawaii*), Dan Grand (*Peru*), Martha Ozcar (*Peru*), Jean Michaels (*Guyana*), Pablo Kontreras (*Caribbean*), Victoria Kallban (*Caribbean*), Nadya Shang (*Polynesia*), Sandra Serkins (*Polynesia*), Matt Mallos (*Polynesia*), Ally Serso (*Japan*) and Sabrina Chanotch (*Malakula*).

The pre-merge contestants were sequestered in Australia.

### Second Chances Vote

Immediately following the *Survivor: Egypt* episode "xx", a shortlist of 48 candidates, all one-time, non-winner contestants, was posted on CBS.com. Contestants were nominated from across 15 seasons, ranging from the first installment, *Survivor: Raja Ampat*, to the most recent, *Survivor: Egypt*. Fans were allowed to vote starting from the end of the said episode until the *Egypt* finale.

At the time of the launch of the poll, four nominated contestants from *Egypt*, Andy Sreidner, Joana Charles, Ken Zabbeer, Tom Chrumall and Vicky Wack, were still in the game. Jeff Probst explained that if either one of them eventually wins their season and garnered enough votes to return, they would be ineligible to compete for this season, giving their spot to the candidate of their gender who garnered the 16th highest amount of votes. This did end up being the case, with Ken winning *Egypt* and finishing in the top fifteen. It is unknown which castaway was in 16th place in the public vote.

 Men
 Women

## Twists/Changes

* **Returning Players**: Thirty former contestants, all of whom have played only once and did not win the game, and whom were determined by public vote, returned for a second chance. They will be divided into three tribes of ten.
* **Hidden Immunity Idols**: The Hidden Immunity Idols for this season will look different from each other, making it more difficult for the players to know if the idols are real or fake. Also, the idols will be hidden in challenges, while the clues will be hidden at each camp.
* **Challenges**: The challenges for this season will also feature the Second Chances theme, as production will incorporate past challenges in which the cast has previously participated in their previous seasons. The lineup of challenges includes some that they have lost before, but not exclusively.
* **Double Tribal Council**: On Day 7, two tribes that lost the Immunity Challenge, would go to Tribal Council and vote out one of their own.
* **Tribe Expansion**: At the tribe switch, the contestants will be informed they will be split into four tribes instead of the expected three. The Misool​​ tribe, wearing yellow buffs, was introduced on Day 10 of the game.
* **Merged Tribe Composition**: The tribes merged on Day 26. The merged tribe was composed of fifteen members.
* **Final Tribal Council Format**: Three finalists faced a jury comprised of twelve members.

## Trivia

* *Second Chance* is the thire season with a cast consisting entirely of returning players, following *All-Stars* and *Venezuela*.
* Roman Konieckov, Angelina Maslov, Patrik Ciele, Maggie Slick, Pablo Panco and Gabriela Lowe all placed higher this season than in their original.
* The entire Final 3 of this season consisted of returnees from *Malakula*