Survivor host Jeff Probst has addressed a surprising trend on Season 51 after four women were voted out of the game in a row, despite the season beginning with more female contestants than male contestants.

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Jenna Doore became the fourth woman eliminated from Survivor 51 during the Wednesday, October 14 episode, following the previous departures of Aaliyah Puglia, Ana Sani and Patt Cannaday.

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The season began with 11 women and 10 men, but Lewis Kelly was sent to Exile Island at the start of the game, leaving 11 women and nine men competing on the tribes.

"Another woman voted out this episode," Jeff acknowledged in his latest installment of "Field Notes" on Instagram.

"This season, we started with 11 women and 10 men. Then Lewis was sent to Exile so we technically started the tribes with 11 women and 9 men. And yet, the first four vote outs at tribal were all women."

And although women initially outnumbered men, they have also played significant roles in sending one another home.

Jenna helped orchestrate Aaliyah's elimination by throwing her under the bus to Brady Booker, while Maggie Nestor also wanted Aaliyah gone because of her performance in challenges.

Ana was subsequently blindsided after Alexis Levine, Linnea Capobianco and Sharonda Cox changed their voting plans to save Eric Macksoud. Thien An Nguyen then suggested targeting Patt instead of Mike Pinsky the following week.

Jenna's unanimous elimination on October 14 continued the trend.

Jeff explained in his "Field Notes" that the pattern demonstrates how alliances and relationships within individual tribes can outweigh the overall gender makeup of the cast.

"This is an example that tribe dynamics dictate everything," Jeff continued. "More women at the start of the game doesn't necessarily mean more women at the end of the game. Nothing is ever that easy or that clean."

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Jeff also explained how Rob's unexpected departure from the game affected the season's planned tribe swap.

During the October 14 episode of Survivor, the remaining castaways were divided into three tribes instead of two, but the numbers were uneven because Rob had quit the game earlier in the season.

Rob had initially attempted to vote himself out on Day 5 before quitting the following morning, citing an injured foot despite being medically cleared to continue.

According to Jeff, production had planned to divide 18 contestants into three tribes of six on Day 9, but Rob's departure left only 17 players in the game.

"The decision to switch from two tribes to three has to be made months in advance of actually shooting," Jeff explained.

"Because our challenge builds take several weeks of construction and the construction teams need to know if they're building two lanes or three."

Jeff said the production team therefore couldn't simply abandon the planned tribe swap after Rob quit.

"Rob's quit from last week also impacted the switch," Jeff explained.

"When we put this switch on the schedule, we anticipated even numbers on all tribes. But when Rob left, he reduced the numbers by one."

As a result, the new purple Savu tribe ended up with only five members, leaving one purple buff unclaimed during the random tribe selection.

Jeff noted that producers deliberately showed the remaining buff inside the bag so contestants would understand that the uneven tribes were the result of chance rather than production interference.

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"The reason it was important to show that last purple buff still in the bag was to show the players it was a completely random draw," Jeff wrote.

"It may seem like a tiny moment but it reminds players nothing is being manipulated."


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