Australian Survivor Season 05 Episode 16 Descriprion
The next morning, the tribe celebrates Steve’s forty-second birthday. It also turns out to be Mat’s son’s birthday and he writes a message in the sand as a birthday wish to his son.
Reward challenge: Castaways will have to race out to grab an idol. The catch is there is one less idol than the number of castaways per round and the person who does not grab an idol is eliminated. This process will repeat until two remain in the challenge, where a final heat held. For the final heat, the first person to grab the idol and return to the start line wins. The winner will receive a day at the spa.
The competition comes down to Benji and Mat. In the end, Mat wins Reward. He is given the choice to bring two people along and he chooses Fenella and Sharn. On the Reward, Mat and Sharn do propose to Fenella that she continues working with them and that they create a sub-alliance now. Fenella believes that Mat merely sees her as a number, but she also knows she has to keep her options open. After the Reward, Mat brings back a basket of hygiene supplies to give out to the tribe.
Later, Benji acknowledges that he voted Robbie out in order to pretend to create trust with Mat. Benji believes that the best way to take Mat out is to get in close and blindside him when he least expects it. Benji does approach Sam to see if he will blindside Mat at the next Tribal Council. Sam is considering making the move against Mat this round because he feels that he is on the bottom of the Champions alliance. Sam, Benji, Shonee, and Fenella talk about voting Mat out next. Sam pulls Monika aside to see if she will join in, but Monika is put off by Sam’s tone and finds that he’s acting very paranoid.
Immunity challenge: The players must swim under a steel grate and stay above the water. As the tide rises, the players will run out of breathing room. If the fear of drowning is too much, that person can bail out. The last person still under the grate wins the challenge. (Mat Wins)
With Mat winning Immunity, the former Contenders and Sam discuss voting Steve out since he’s close with Mat. Sam begins to play both sides, plotting with the Contenders and then speaking with Mat to assure him he is still on his side. However, word has gotten back to Mat that Sam was speaking strategy with the Contenders. Sam states that the only time he went against Mat was when he told Lydia that the Champions were thinking of voting her out and warned her to not assert herself in challenges. When Mat hears this, he feels very betrayed that Sam did this.
Given Sam’s revelation, Mat believes that he can no longer trust Sam and proposes to the Champions that they vote Sam out tonight. Mat also informs Benji that the vote is going towards Sam in an effort to continue the trust they’ve established. Benji does consider going along with Mat again because the numbers might not be there for a blindside. Later that day, Sam tells Mat that Benji informed him that Sam might be voted out. Mat is again angered that someone else has betrayed his trust. Mat is conflicted on whether to vote out Benji or Sam because Benji has been consistently plotting with everyone while Sam has been giving away too much information to the Contenders.
At Tribal, Sam does reveal that he’s on the chopping block and airs his grievances about the Lydia vote and how he felt upset that Lydia was the first to go. Sam also admits to telling Lydia about the Champions wanting to vote her out. Steve brings up the fact that his name was brought up as someone to be voted out and Mat notes that he was very hurt by Sam’s revelation. Sam pleads with his alliance not to vote him out as he has consistently voted with the Champions and argues that his attempts to help Lydia was actually an attempt to stay loyal to his Champions alliance. After the votes are cast, Sam and Fenella are revealed to have voted for Benji, but the remaining Champions plus Benji and Shonee believe that Sam can no longer be trusted and cast their votes for him. Sam becomes the fifteenth person voted out and the second member of the Jury.
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Australian Survivor Show Descriprion
Australian Survivor is an Australian reality game show based on the international Survivor format. Following the premise of other versions of the Survivor format, the show features a group of contestants, referred to as “castaways” as they are marooned in an isolated location. The castaways must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves. The contestants compete in various challenges for rewards and immunity from elimination. The contestants are progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted off the island by their fellow castaways. The final castaway remaining is awarded the title of “Sole Survivor” and the grand prize of A$500,000.
The series first aired in 2002 on the Nine Network, who as of 2020, also hold the first-run Australian broadcast rights to the flagship American edition of Survivor. In 2006, a celebrity edition aired on the Seven Network. Both iterations of the series only lasted one season due to low ratings.
In November 2015, the Network Ten announced at its network upfronts that it would be reviving the series in 2016. The series commenced airing on 21 August 2016. Unlike its predecessors, the series was renewed by Network Ten for another season for 2017, and has continued to be successful since. An All-Star edition featuring former contestants aired in early 2020. A second 2020 edition set to feature new civilian players was expected for later in 2020, but production on that season was postponed due to issued travel restrictions as well as safety concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This season is now set to be produced in mid-2021, in an Outback location near the town of Cloncurry, Queensland and is set to air in late 2021.
Australian Survivor Show Format
The show follows the same general format as the other editions of Survivor. To begin, the players are split into two or three tribes, are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meagre supplies for a period of several weeks. Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for immunity, forcing the other tribe to attend Tribal Council, where they must vote one of their tribemates out of the game by secret ballot.
About halfway through the game, the tribes are merged into a single tribe, and challenges are on an individual basis; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out during this stage become members of the Tribal Council Jury. When only two players remain, the Final Tribal Council is held. The finalists pleads their case to the Jury as to why they should win the game. The jurors then have the opportunity to interrogate the finalists before casting their vote for which finalist should be awarded the title of Sole Survivor and win the grand prize of A$500,000 (or a A$100,000 charity prize in the celebrity season).
Like other editions of the show, the Australian edition has introduced numerous modifications, or twists, on the core rules to prevent players from over-relying on strategies that succeeded in prior seasons or other editions of the show. These changes have included tribe switches, players being exiled from their tribe for a short period of time, hidden immunity idols that players can use to save themselves or another player at Tribal Council from being voted off, voting powers which can be used to influence the result at Tribal Council and players being given a chance to return following their elimination.
Survivor in Australia
The first Australian version of the Survivor format was filmed in late 2001, and aired in 2002 on the Nine Network. The program was a contractual obligation if the network were to be allowed to continue to broadcast American Survivor. The program was criticised for poor casting and lower production value than the popular American edition and it was not renewed due to low ratings. The Nine Network still hold the first-run rights to American Survivor and have continued to broadcast the American edition of the program ever since. Since 2013, recent seasons air on Nine’s secondary channel; 9Go! and streamed on 9Now within hours of the original American airing.
In 2006, the Seven Network found a loophole in the contract between the Nine Network and Castaway Television, which allowed them to produce a celebrity version of the series, due to a celebrity format being viewed as different from the original format. The Seven Network did not renew the series.
In November 2015, Network Ten revealed at its upfront event that it would air a new season featuring regular contestants to air in the last quarter of 2016. This new season gives Australian Survivor the distinction of being one of the few Australian programs to have aired across all three major commercial television networks in Australia. Australian Survivor has continued to air yearly, concluding its most recent season in March 2020.
Following Network Ten’s acquisition by CBS (the United States broadcaster of the format) in 2017, starting in December 2018, CBS made the complete American Survivor series available on their paid Australian streaming platform, Paramount+ (known as 10 All Access until 2021). The broadcasts include the previously unaired to Australia Survivor US: Marquesas, which Nine did not air due to its commitment in airing their 2002 version of Australian Survivor. A select few seasons are also uploaded to 10’s free streaming site, 10 Play. Each US season is uploaded some time after the season has aired on Nine Network, when the rights to that season revert to CBS under their agreement. Additionally, as of September 2020, both seasons of Survivor NZ and the Philippines & Island of Secrets editions of Survivor South Africa were also uploaded on 10 Play. In 2021, 10 Play offered week-to-week streaming via 10 play of the Immunity Island edition of the South African series as it aired in South Africa.
