Survivor: The Australian Outback

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Elimination notes

• Debb - Debb proved to be socially inept and her personality quickly grated on the nerves of her Kucha tribemates. Finding herself unable to fit in and unable to convince the tribe that Jeff was a weak link, Debb was eliminated by a unanimous vote. (voted out 7-1)
• Kel - Kel proved to be the outcast of the Ogakor tribe, never truly bonding with anyone else. He was accused by Jerri of smuggling beef jerky into the game, and despite being one of the stronger members of the tribe, was voted off in a unanimous decision. (voted out 7-1)
• Maralyn - Despite being well-liked by her tribe, "Mad Dog" Maralyn proved to be too much of a challenge liability to keep around. Her stumble in the Episode 3 Immunity Challenge confirmed her to be a weak link, and she was voted off by even her closest allies. (voted out 5-1-1)
• Mitchell - Mitchell had made a strong alliance with Jerri and Amber, who believed Colby was with them in the vote. However, Keith and Tina proved to have stronger ties to the Texan, and Colby sided with them in the vote, creating a deadlocked tie. As Mitchell admitted he was ready to leave the game (having been targeted in the first place for being too weak), a past vote cast against him at the previous Tribal Council voted him out of the tribe (Keith, voted for by the Jerri/Amber/Mitchell alliance, had no previous votes). (voted out 3-3)
• Kimmi - Kimmi, who had a hard time fitting in with her tribe, found herself on the outside of Kucha when she argued with Alicia over treatment of chickens won on a Reward Challenge. When Kucha finally ended their winning streak, it was Kimmi who paid the price. (voted out 6-1)
• Michael - Self-proclaimed leader of the tribe, Michael fell into a fire he was tending at camp. Suffering serious burns on his hands, he was airlifted out of the game, and could not return. This was the first time anyone had left Survivor due to injury.
• Jeff - Once the merge arrived, the 5 Ogakors and the 5 Kuchas found themselves deadlocked in the vote. Ogakor voted for Jeff, who had been revealed earlier in the game by Kimmi to have had previous votes cast against him. Kucha voted for Colby, who had no previous votes to his name. With the tie decided by previous votes, it was Jeff who was voted out. (voted out 5-5)
• Alicia - Secure with their alliance, the Ogakor tribe eliminated the strongest remaining member of Kucha, Alicia. The former Kucha members targeted Jerri, but did not have the votes to turn the game around. (voted out 5-4).
• Jerri - With Nick winning a crucial Immunity Challenge, Colby, Tina, and Keith from the Ogakor alliance finally decided to take out one of their own. Jerri, who got along with very few members of her tribe, received votes from everyone except her close ally, Amber. (voted out 6-2)
• Nick - Nick was targeted by Ogakor as the strongest remaining member of Kucha, as well as one who was becoming progressively more sick. (voted out 4-2-1)
• Amber - Deciding that Elisabeth and Rodger deserved to stay in the game, Tina and Keith turned on the Ogakors for the second time as they voted out Amber, whose game had ended the moment her close ally, Jerri, had been voted out. (voted out 4-2)
• Rodger - Outnumbered by Ogakor's 3-person alliance, Elisabeth and Rodger found themselves with no place to turn. Rodger volunteered to go before Elisabeth, as she needed the money more than he did. (voted out 3-2)
• Elisabeth - As the last remaining member of Kucha, Elisabeth was unanimously voted out by the Ogakor alliance. (voted out 3-1)
• Keith - When Colby proceeded to win the final Immunity Challenge (his 5th IC win in a row), it was Keith who was voted off by the dominant Texan, who decided he'd rather face Tina than Keith in the Final 2, despite the fact that Keith would have been an easy player to defeat.
• Colby - Colby's final vote proved to be a fatal one, as Tina narrowly defeated him in the jury vote. Colby received votes from Amber, Nick, and Rodger, all of which felt they had developed more of a friendship with Colby than Tina (Rodger felt Colby played a more dominant game as well). He ultimately lost the votes of the other jury members, who considered Tina the better strategic player.
• Tina - Tina received four votes from the jury giving her the million dollars and title of Sole Survivor of the Australian Outback. Deemed the more adept strategic player by the jury, Keith, Elisabeth, Alicia, and Jerri admitted they had Tina's vote 100%, and they would never have voted for a physical contestant. Tina never received a vote against her during the entire season.

Trivia

• At the reward known as "The Great Barrier Reef Visit" Colby Donaldson took coral from the island and gave it to the other tribe members as a gift. When this episode aired in Australia, during the commercial break an ad stated it was illegal to take coral from the Great Barrier Reef. According to the rules of Survivor, Colby should have been eliminated from the game immediately for breaking the local law. He was fined approximately AU$100,000.
• The "Great Barrier Reef" Reward Challenge was actually located on an island a few miles off the Australian mainland, and not actually on the true reef.
• Survivor: The Australian Outback was one of two seasons of Survivor where the merged tribe lived at an entirely new camp, as opposed to living at the better of the existing tribe camps. The only other season in which this occurred was Survivor: The Amazon.