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Survivor · Season 28 · Cagayan · Feb 2014 – May 2014

Survivor 28: CagayanTony Vlachos won Survivor 28.

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Survivor 28: Cagayan put 18 new castaways in Palaui Island, Santa Ana, Cagayan, Philippines for 39 days, split into three : Aparri, Luzon and Solana. The tribes were reshuffled in a in Episode 4. On Day 19 the 11 players left into one tribe, Solarrion, and from then on voted-out players began joining the .

Lindsey quit on Day 14. At the the 9 jurors gave Tony 8, Woo 1.

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39days in the game
18castaways
15
8–1winning jury vote
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Final jury voteDay 39

Each square is one 's vote for the winner.

Setting

Where it was filmed

What this shows: The island where the season was shot, the season's theme, and what each name means, where we know it.

Palaui Island, PhilippinesSanta Ana, Cagayan

Eighteen new players in three tribes of six sorted by their dominant trait: brains, brawn or beauty. Despite the Philippine location, the look borrowed from Balinese culture.

  • Aparristarting tribe
  • Luzonstarting tribe
  • Solanastarting tribe
  • Solarrionmerged tribe
  • The logo, torches and tribal Immunity Idol featured Balinese demon designs.
  • Filmed right after Blood vs. Water to save costs.
  • The fourth season in a row filmed in the Philippines.

Sources: Survivor: Cagayan · Wikidata Q1410310

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The whole season on one line

What this shows: Every episode's challenges and who won them, who went home at and by how many votes, swaps, the , the jury and plays. Tap a challenge for its history.

Palaui Island, PhilippinesEighteen new players in three tribes of six sorted by their dominant trait: brains, brawn or beauty. Despite the Philippine location,…
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    • 2 tribal councils
    • Garrett found a hidden immunity idol.
    • Tony found a hidden immunity idol.
    • Garrett was voted out still holding the hidden immunity idol.
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    • Brice voted out after a tie3
    • LJ found a hidden immunity idol.
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    • Tribe swap
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    • Merge: Solarrion
    • Jury starts
    • Tony played the hidden immunity idol for LJ. It turned out not to be needed.
    • LJ played the hidden immunity idol for Tony. It turned out not to be needed.
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    • Spencer found a hidden immunity idol.
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    • LJ voted out5–3–1
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    • Tony found a super idol.
    • Spencer played the hidden immunity idol. It turned out not to be needed.
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    • Tony found a hidden immunity idol.
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    • Tony played the hidden immunity idol. It turned out not to be needed.
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    • 2 tribal councils
    • Finale
Previously on…Survivor 28 Episodes 1–12

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Written automatically from the season data, up to Episode 12. Nothing after that point is used.

Episode 13 recap

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Episode 13, Day 38: Spencer voted out 3–1; Kass voted out 1. 2 players left.

After Episode 13 · Day 38
Title hidden“It's Do or Die” · aired May 21, 2014
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Situation report

Where the game stands

What this shows: The state of the game at the end of the episode picked above.

38 / 39day of the game
2finalists faced the jury
9 / 9 so far
0secret held right now
Stage of the game, by episode
Starting tribes

Game over. Tony won the jury vote 8–1.

Episode 13 · Day 38

Episode 13“It's Do or Die”

What this shows: The key events of this one episode, pulled from the vote, challenge and advantage records.

  • Kass and Woo won individual .
  • Spencer voted out 3–1. Joins the .
  • Kass voted out by Woo. Joins the .
  • Tony won the 8–1 and is the .
Cast status

Who's still playing

What this shows: All 18 castaways, split into who is still in the game, who is on the , and who left before the jury began. The ring is the player's at that point. Tap a player to follow them across every panel (their profile is one tap away in the Following chip).

SolarrionAparriSolanaLuzonadv holding an
Final 22
On the 9
Out before the jury7
Votes

Who got written down

What this shows: How many times each player's name was written on a ballot at , up to this episode. Switch to the table for votes cast, how often they voted with the majority, wins and days lasted. Tap a player to follow them.

  • Still in the game
  • Already out
Votes

Who controlled the votes

What this shows: One square per up to this episode: filled when the player's final vote named the person sent home. Lots of filled squares means they were usually in the majority.

Showing Tony, most often in the majority so far (9 of 9). Tap any player on the page to follow someone else.

Numbers are episodes. Tap a square for that vote.

Tribal council log

Every vote, newest first

What this shows: Each up to this episode, in a sentence, then each name that got votes with the people who wrote it. The person sent home is in orange; struck-through names were cancelled by an .

  1. Day39

    Tony wins 8–1

    · Episode 13 · the jury votes for a winner

    8
    1
  2. Day38

    Kass voted out by Woo

    Episode 13 · Merged tribe (Solarrion) · 3rd place

    Woo cast the only vote and sent Kass home.

    1
    • Safe with : Woo.
  3. Day37

    Spencer voted out 3–1

    Episode 13 · Merged tribe (Solarrion) · 4th place

    Spencer was voted out with 3 of 4 votes. The rest went to Woo (1).

    3
    1
    • Safe with : Kass.
  4. Day36

    Trish voted out 4–1

    Episode 12 · Merged tribe (Solarrion) · 5th place

    Trish was voted out with 4 of 5 votes. The rest went to Kass (1).

    4
    1
    • Safe with : Spencer.
  5. Day33

    Tasha voted out 4–1–1

    Episode 11 · Merged tribe (Solarrion) · 6th place

    Tasha was voted out with 4 of 6 votes. The rest went to Trish (1) and Tony (1).

    4
    1
    1
    • Safe with : Spencer.
    • The majority used a between Tony and Trish.
  6. Day30

    Jefra voted out 4–3

    Episode 10 · Merged tribe (Solarrion) · 7th place

    Jefra was voted out with 4 of 7 votes. The rest went to Spencer (3).

    4
    3
    • Safe with : Tasha.
Alliances and voting blocs

Who voted with whom

What this shows: Each circle is a castaway, coloured by starting . A line joins two players who wrote down the same name at , thicker the more often, up to this episode. Tap a player to follow them, or a named to see its members.

18 players, 50 ties. Strongest ties: Spencer and Tasha (8), Tony and Woo (8), Trish and Jefra (6). Each player is a button: press Enter to follow them.

  • Aparri
  • Luzon
  • Solana
  • Out of the game by now
  • Winner

Named alliances

Tap a player to see who they voted with most. Tap empty space to clear.

From the Survivor WikiAlliance details · 3

When each named alliance formed and ended, and how often its members actually voted the same way. Faded = not formed yet or already over at this episode; grey names are out of the game.

  1. Solana Alliance

    Active

    Formed Episode 1 (Day 6) · lasted to the end

    Trish and Tony took control of post-switch Solana with the two remaining Beauties, and Woo joined later. Kass's switch at the merge gave it the majority.

    Tony, helped by Woo, kept blindsiding his own allies, but the group never lost the numbers; Tony and Woo reached the end and Tony won.

    Voted together at 4/8 tribal councils they attendedSource: survivor.fandom.com ↗

  2. Cops-R-Us

    Over · Ep 5

    Formed Episode 1 (Day 6) · ended Episode 5 (Day 16): ended in a betrayal

    Tony and Sarah made a secret pact after he revealed he was also a police officer, aiming for two cops at the end. The switch split them.

    After the tribe switch Sarah turned on Tony and stayed with her Solana alliance, and she was voted out at the merge.

    Voted together at 0/0 tribal councils they attendedSource: survivor.fandom.com ↗

  3. Aparri Alliance

    Active

    Formed Episode 5 (Day 16) · ended Episode 13 (Day 37): ended in a betrayal

    Tasha and Spencer formed it on the post-switch Aparri tribe in response to Tony's "top five" group. Despite losing the numbers, they used the other side's mistrust to stay alive deep into the game.

    Kass's defection at the merge led to Sarah's blindside, and the group was slowly worn down; Spencer was voted out at the final four.

    Voted together at 6/7 tribal councils they attendedSource: survivor.fandom.com ↗

Threat meter · Episode 13

Who was in danger

What this shows: before each , the 5 players a simple score ranked most at risk, and whether the person voted out was one of them. Tap a name to follow them.

Simple model · not a prediction

Going into the vote in Episode 13: 2 players at risk, Kass and Woo safe with immunity.

Spencer was voted out (1st on our list). Not counted in the hit rate: only 2 people were at risk, so any top 5 would include them.

89%hit rate this season: the person who left was in our top 5 at 8 of 9 votes
70%by chance: 5 random names would catch about 6.3
How this is scored
Danger score inputs and points
InputPoints
Votes received so farper vote that counted, all season (a revote counts once)+1
Votes at their last tribalper vote against them at the last tribal council they went to+2
Individual immunity winsper win so far: winners are seen as threats+2
Holding an idol or advantageif they hold one going in: they can protect themselves−2
Voted on the losing sideif their vote at their last tribal didn't go to the person sent home+3

Scored after the challenge and before the vote: whoever won immunity is safe and left out. Only things that already happened count. Ties are listed A to Z. A vote counts toward the hit rate when more than 5 people were at risk and at least one of them had a score.

This is a simple model, not a prediction engine: it can't see alliances forming, camp life, idols nobody knows about or who is seen as a jury threat. The “by chance” number is what picking 5 names at random would score on the same votes.

Blindside index · whole season

Biggest blindside of the season

What this shows: the vote-out that scores highest on our index so far: idols in their pocket, allies who turned on them, their own vote and how one-sided it was.

8.6score
  • Went home holding an idol or advantage+4
  • 2 allies voted them out: J'Tia, Tasha+2
  • They voted for J'Tia+2
  • A one-sided 3–2 vote+0.6

Next biggest: Trish (Ep 12, 6.8) · Spencer (Ep 13, 6.5)

How this is scored
Blindside score inputs and points
InputPoints
Idols or advantages in their pocketper idol or advantage they went home holding×4
Allies who voted them outper voter in an alliance with them, or on their side of a split vote at their last shared tribal×1
They voted for someone elseif their own vote went to another player×2
How one-sided the vote wasx (their votes - next highest) / all votes, so 0 to 3×3
An idol flipped the voteif cancelled votes would have sent someone else home×3

A simple, documented score from the vote records. It can't know what players were told at camp or in the house; it only reads the votes.

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The edit

Who the edit focused on

What this shows: Each square is one player in one episode, darker when they got more (talking to camera). Sorted by confessionals up to this episode. Fans read a big edit as a sign of whose story it is. Counts from survivoR.

Through Episode 13: Tony had the most (97, 21%). The winner, Tony, had 97 (21%), the most.

Player12345678910111213Total
97
67
62
36
28
26
23
22
16
15
12
12

Hover or tap a square for the count. Tap a name to follow that player.

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What the experts said

What this shows: Podcasts and videos from Rob Has a Podcast (including Taran Armstrong's analysis), plus official CBS clips, about the episode you picked and the season as a whole. Links open on their site; a video only loads from youtube-nocookie.com when you press Watch.

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Jury management

How the jury voted

What this shows: Each , in the order they joined the jury: how they left, who voted them out, and which they voted for to win. ● is their vote; ✕ marks a finalist who helped send them home.

8/9Tony's share of the jury (89%)
8/9jurors voted for someone who helped get them out
Jurors (rows) against finalists (columns): ● marks the juror's vote, ✕ a finalist who helped get them out.
Juror
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
Tony helped get them outvoted for Woo; Woo helped get them out
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
voted for Tony; Tony helped get them outWoo helped get them out
voted for TonyWoo helped get them out

“Helped” means wrote their name down at the Tribal Council where they left.

Glossary

Survivor words, explained

What this shows: The show's terms in plain English. Any underlined word on this page opens the same explanation when you tap it.

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Jury

Players knocked out late in the game. They stay on to watch the rest of it, and at the finale they vote for who wins.

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Finalist

One of the last two or three players, who face the jury's vote for the win.

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Returning player

Someone who had already played the show (or the other show) before this season.

Boot

Fan slang for a player being voted out or evicted. "First boot" means the first person out.

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Blindside

A player is voted out without seeing it coming, usually because their allies voted against them.

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Confessional (the edit)

A short interview to camera, away from the other players, cut into the episode. Fans count them to see whose story the editors are telling.

Tribe

The team a castaway lives and competes with before the merge. Each tribe has its own camp and colour.

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Tribal council

The meeting where players vote someone out. Each player secretly writes down a name; whoever gets the most votes leaves the game.

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Immunity

Protection from being voted out at the next tribal council. Tribes win it as a group early on; after the merge, one player wins it in a challenge.

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Hidden immunity idol (idol)

A hidden object a player can find and play at tribal council after the votes are cast. Votes against the protected player don't count.

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Advantage

A secret power found around camp or on a trip, such as an extra vote or the chance to block someone's vote.

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Tribe swap

The players are reshuffled into new tribes, which splits up old loyalties.

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Merge

The point where the tribes join into one. From then on everyone competes for themselves and immunity is individual.

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Mergatory

Fan nickname for the stretch just before or around the merge, when the game is in limbo between tribes and individual play.

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Final tribal council (FTC)

The last vote of the season. The finalists make their case and the jury votes for who should win.

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Sole Survivor

The winner of a Survivor season.

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Shot in the Dark

A one-time gamble at tribal council: a player gives up their vote for a small chance (about 1 in 6) of being safe.

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Fire-making challenge

At the final four, the player with immunity is safe and picks one other to be safe. The last two race to build a fire, and the loser goes home.

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Split vote

The majority spreads its votes across two names on purpose, so an idol can't save everyone. If an idol saves one name, the other still goes home.

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Tie and revote

If two players get the same number of votes, everyone except them votes again between the tied players.

Rules of the game →

Medical evacuation (medevac)

A player is removed from the game by the medical team. No vote happens.

Rules of the game →

Alliance

A group of players who agree to vote together and protect each other. Alliances are secret, often shift, and are named by the players or by fans.

Voting bloc

Players who keep writing down the same name. We work blocs out from the vote records alone, so a bloc hints at an alliance without proving one.

Redemption Island

A twist where voted-out players go to a separate island instead of home. They fight in duels, the loser of each duel is out for good, and the last one standing returns to the game.

Edge of Extinction

A twist where voted-out players can stay on a bare island instead of going home. They can later win a challenge to get back into the game, and those who stay still vote on the jury.

Exile Island

A separate camp where a player is sent alone for a while, often with a clue to a hidden idol. They are still in the game and come back for the next challenge.

Rock draw

If a revote is still tied and the players can't agree, everyone not tied or immune draws a rock. Whoever draws the odd-coloured rock goes home.

Game data: survivoR (MIT) by Daniel Oehm · github.com/doehm/survivoRAlliances and settings: summaries in our own words of Survivor Wiki and Wikipedia pages (CC BY-SA), linked on each card. Analyst links: Rob Has a Podcast. Cast photos © CBS, hotlinked for personal review.

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