Survivor 46
Survivor 46 | |
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Season 46 | |
Presented by | Jeff Probst |
No. of days | 26 |
No. of castaways | 18 |
Location | Mamanuca Islands, Fiji |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | February 28, 2024 present | –
Additional information | |
Filming dates | June 3 June 28, 2023[1] | –
Season chronology | |
Survivor 46 is the forty-sixth season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It was the fourteenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji, and premiered on February 28, 2024, on CBS in the United States.[2]
Production
On February 21, 2023, CBS renewed Survivor for its forty-fifth and forty-sixth season. A preview for the season was released on December 20, 2023, right after the finale of Survivor 45 was aired. The season continued to observe the strict safety protocols just as it did in seasons 41–45. It continued to feature the reduced 26 days of gameplay, with 18 contestants starting in three tribes, as with every season since then.[3] A sneak peek of the castaways' audition tapes were revealed on the Survivor Instagram account in the form of a story, which were deleted after twenty-four hours.[4]
Survivor 46 and The Amazing Race 36 retained the 90-minute runtime. The first two episodes of Survivor 46 each ran for two hours.[5]
Contestants
The cast of 18 contestants was announced on February 5, 2024.[6]
Contestant | Age | From | Tribe | Finish | |||
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Original | None | Merged | Placement | Day | |||
David Jelinsky | 22 | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Yanu | 1st voted out | Day 3 | ||
Jessica "Jess" Chong | 37 | San Francisco, California |
2nd voted out | Day 5 | |||
Randen Montalvo | 41 | Orlando, Florida |
Nami | Medically evacuated |
Day 7 | ||
Bhanu Gopal | 41 | Acton, Massachusetts |
Yanu | 3rd voted out | Day 9 | ||
Jemila "Jem" Hussain-Adams | 32 | Chicago, Illinois |
Siga | 4th voted out | Day 11 | ||
Moriah Gaynor | 28 | San Diego, California |
Siga | None[a] | 5th voted out | Day 13 | |
Ben Katzman | 31 | Miami, Florida |
Siga | ||||
Charlie Davis | 26 | Boston, Massachusetts |
Siga | ||||
Hunter McKnight | 28 | French Camp, Mississippi |
Nami | ||||
Kenzie Petty | 29 | Charlotte, North Carolina |
Yanu | ||||
Liz Wilcox | 35 | Orlando, Florida |
Nami | ||||
Maria Shrime Gonzalez | 48 | Dallas, Texas |
Siga | ||||
Q Burdette | 29 | Memphis, Tennessee |
Yanu | ||||
Soda Thompson | 27 | Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey |
Nami | ||||
Tevin Davis | 24 | Richmond, Virginia |
Nami | ||||
Tiffany Nicole Ervin | 33 | Elizabeth, New Jersey |
Yanu | ||||
Tim Spicer | 31 | Atlanta, Georgia |
Siga | ||||
Venus Vafa | 24 | Toronto, Ontario |
Nami |
- ^ At the start of the individual phase of the game on Day 12, players had to earn their way into the merged tribe by either winning immunity or surviving the Day 13 Tribal Council.
Season summary
Episode | Challenge winner(s) | Eliminated | ||||
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No. | Title | Air date | Reward | Immunity | Tribe | Player |
1 | "This is Where the Legends Are Made" | February 28, 2024 | Nami | Nami | Yanu | Jelinsky |
Siga | ||||||
2 | "Scorpio Energy" | March 6, 2024 | Nami | Yanu | Jess | |
Siga | ||||||
3 | "Wackadoodles Win" | March 13, 2024 | Nami | Nami | Randen | |
Siga | ||||||
4 | "Don't Touch the Oven" | March 20, 2024 | Yanu | Nami | Yanu | Bhanu |
Nami | Siga | |||||
5 | "Tiki Man" | March 27, 2024 | Nami | Siga | Jem | |
Yanu | ||||||
6 | "Cancel Christmas" | April 3, 2024 | Ben, Hunter, Kenzie, Q, Tevin, Tim [Tiffany] (Purple Team)[a] |
None | Moriah | |
7 | "Episode Several" | April 10, 2024 | ||||
8 | "Hide 'N Seek" | April 17, 2024 |
- ^ Tiffany did not participate in the challenge after picking the odd rock, but she correctly guessed the winning team and, as a result, was also safe and joined them on the reward.
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title [7][8] | Rating/share (18–49) [9] | Original air date [7][8] | U.S. viewers (millions) [9] | |
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662 | 1 | "This is Where the Legends are Made" | 0.83/9[12] | February 28, 2024 | 4.90 | |
The 18 new castaways began their adventure.
Nami won the challenge. Siga, the second tribe to finish, chose Savvy. Back at camp, Jelinsky and Q were chosen to do Sweat for Yanu, which was to haul sea water using buckets that had holes in them. The back and forth was tough for both, and Jelinsky decided to quit with more than half their time left. At Siga, Ben and Charlie also failed at the Savvy word scramble puzzle. At Nami, Venus was caught by Randen after trying to find an idol, as he thought she was being sneaky. During Day 2, the tribes had to choose one person to go on a journey. Jelinsky from Yanu volunteered. Siga chose Maria, and Nami chose Tevin. The three were taken to a beach where they had to draw a card and try to convince the torch cardholder they were holding the vote card. Maria drew the torch card. Jelinsky, who had the skull, tried to convince Maria but gave up quickly and forfeited his vote at the upcoming Tribal Council. Maria and Tevin gained an extra vote advantage.
Nami and Siga won immunity. At camp, Jess shared she wasn't confident in her performance in the game. Jelinsky feigned nervousness but still felt confident that he would stay. Tiffany then found a Beware Advantage and solved the clue for the location of the key to unlock a hidden immunity idol. At Tribal Council, while tribe members spoke about difficulties connecting socially with Jess, they voted unanimously for Jelinsky to be the first person eliminated from the game.[10][11] | ||||||
663 | 2 | "Scorpio Energy" | 0.61/7[13] | March 6, 2024 | 4.43 | |
Bhanu confided in Kenzie that he did not feel secure in the game. Meanwhile, Q and Tiffany were concerned about Kenzie's threat level because she easily made connections with people. At Nami, tribemates felt they couldn't connect with Venus. At Siga, Ben successfully made fire to the delight of everyone. Tim was concerned about Maria's extra vote advantage. While having an alliance with the women, Charlie and Maria made a strong pair together, effectively putting the two of them in the middle. Back at Nami, both Venus and Randen felt unsafe so they went on idol searches, and Randen found the Beware Advantage. He also approached Venus for an alliance. At Yanu, when Kenzie pulled Jess and Bhanu for a chat where she thought to take out Q and Tiffany, Jess saw this as an opportunity and told Q about the plan, which made him become even more cautious with Kenzie as an ally.
After the grueling puzzle, Yanu lost again. Despite Nami's win, Venus was angry because the wagon was dragged over her toe. At Yanu, tribemates were concerned that Jess would play her Shot in the Dark, so they made a fake idol. Tiffany tried to direct Jess to the location of their fake idol, but she didn't see it. Q devised a plan to sneak it to her directly instead. Jess was worried at first, so she talked to Tiffany about voting Kenzie out, but Tiffany recognized her plan. At Tribal Council, a paranoid Bhanu whispered to Kenzie and Tiffany, but Jess was sent home after playing the fake idol. | ||||||
664 | 3 | "Wackadoodles Win" | 0.75/9[14] | March 13, 2024 | 4.78 | |
Despite being saved, Bhanu still felt paranoid, though Q gave him a pep talk. At Siga, Jem discovered a Beware Advantage. At Nami, Venus targeted Hunter, feeling he had the most social connections out of everyone on the tribe. Meanwhile, Randen woke up having the medic check him out as he felt numb on one side of his body and was unable to move his hand.
Yanu lost yet another challenge. Jeff then informed the tribes that they would be sending one member for a journey. For placing first, Nami chose the participants; Liz from Nami, Ben from Siga, and Bhanu from Yanu went. Bhanu broke down and disclosed all of Yanu's dynamics to Ben and Liz. The challenge began with each player picking a rock, with the two who pulled blue rocks from the bag competing in a timed puzzle. Ben and Bhanu were the two competing, but both were unable to complete it in the time limit, so they both lost their vote in the next Tribal Council. Bhanu kept quiet with his tribemates that he lost his vote. He decided to let Q know, and Q shared that he would consider keeping Bhanu rather than a social threat like Kenzie. Before Tribal Council, Jeff showed up at the Nami camp, sharing that the medics who had checked out Randen earlier were concerned with the way his condition seemed to be progressing, and thus he was medically evacuated from the game. As a result, Yanu's Tribal Council was cancelled. | ||||||
665 | 4 | "Don't Touch the Oven" | 0.78/9[15] | March 20, 2024 | 4.68 | |
Tribemates were disappointed with how Bhanu had confessed to Ben and Liz about the dynamics of the Yanu tribe. Day 8's treemail alluded to a reward challenge for food, which Yanu hoped to trade for an earlier reward.
Yanu and Nami won the challenge. From Yanu, Q tried to train Bhanu on how to be more strategic and spill less information. At Siga, Maria found the locked box and the whole tribe dug, to no avail. Jem convinced Maria and Moriah that Tim was hiding the Beware Advantage from them. At Nami, Tevin became concerned about Soda's social prowess, so he suggested to Hunter and Liz that they vote her out if they lost the immunity challenge.
Yanu fell short once again. Knowing he was to go home that night, Bhanu tried to find an idol but came up empty. At Tribal Council, Bhanu shared his life story and was comforted by his tribemates before being sent home without a formal vote. | ||||||
666 | 5 | "Tiki Man" | 0.70/8[16] | March 27, 2024 | 4.72 | |
Yanu lamented their continued losing status, and Q hinted to Kenzie that he wanted out of the game, but it was a ruse to make her feel comfortable enough to not play her Shot in the Dark. At Nami, Venus kept watch over Hunter as he searched for an advantage, but he was able to find the re-hidden Beware Advantage without her noticing. At Siga, Tim believed that Jem was the one who moved the Beware Advantage, but she denied it.
Nami placed first yet again and Yanu finally broke their losing streak. Hunter, Tim and Q were picked to go on a journey. The men discussed a final six strategy in which they each picked a plus-one. They then agreed on Hunter competing in the challenge, arranging twenty Survivor logos in chronological order within a certain amount of time, but he failed and lost his vote. At Siga, the women targeted Ben. Jem followed the Beware Advantage's note to an idol. Her method of convincing Ben and Tim she was on their side only made them distrust her more. Charlie and Maria were in the middle; Charlie hoped to work with Ben, as they had grown close, but Maria wanted to work with the women. At Tribal Council, they sided with the men and blindsided Jem with an idol in her possession, using Maria's extra vote to do so. | ||||||
667 | 6 | "Cancel Christmas" | TBA | April 3, 2024 | N/A | |
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668 | 7 | "Episode Several" | TBA | April 10, 2024 | N/A | |
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669 | 8 | "Hide 'N Seek" | TBA | April 17, 2024 | N/A | |
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Voting history
Original tribes | No tribes | Merged tribe | ||||||
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Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
Day | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 | ||
Tribe | Yanu | Yanu | Nami | Yanu | Siga | None | ||
Eliminated | Jelinsky | Jess | Randen | Bhanu | Jem | Moriah | ||
Votes | 5–0 | 4–1 | Evacuated[a] | 3–0[b] | 4–2 | 10–1 | ||
Voter | Vote | |||||||
Ben | None[c] | Moriah | ||||||
Charlie | Jem | Venus | ||||||
Hunter | None[c] | |||||||
Kenzie | Jelinsky | Jess | Bhanu | Moriah | ||||
Liz | Moriah | |||||||
Maria | Jem | Jem[d] | Moriah | |||||
Q | Jelinsky | Jess | Bhanu | Moriah | ||||
Soda | Moriah | |||||||
Tevin | Moriah | |||||||
Tiffany | Jelinsky | Jess | Bhanu | Moriah | ||||
Tim | Jem | Moriah | ||||||
Venus | Moriah | |||||||
Moriah | Ben | None[e] | ||||||
Jem | Ben | |||||||
Bhanu | Jelinsky | Jess | None[c] | |||||
Randen | ||||||||
Jess | Jelinsky | Bhanu | ||||||
Jelinsky | None[c] |
- Notes
- ^ No vote; Randen was medically evacuated from the game.
- ^ Following an open poll of his tribemates, in which they confirmed they would all vote for him, Bhanu was eliminated without a formal vote.
- ^ a b c d This player lost a vote as a consequence of losing a game played for an advantage.
- ^ Maria played an extra vote advantage, allowing her to cast two ballots during a single vote.
- ^ This player played the Shot in the Dark, and as a result, had to sacrifice that night's vote.
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