Survivor: Cook Islands is the thirteenth season of the United States reality show Survivor .
It was officially announced by Jeff Probst during the Survivor: Exile Island finale. Applications were due February 3, 2006. The location was discovered by the website Survivor Maps before it was revealed on the Survivor: Exile Island finale. The show premiered on September 14, 2006. The two-hour season finale aired on December 17, 2006, followed by the Reunion show live from CBS Television City in Los Angeles.
During this season of Survivor , the contestants were divided into four tribes by race; African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and White American, a decision that generated some controversy prior to the premiere. Besides random division or team-choosing by the contestants, tribes had previously been divided by gender and/or age. The respective tribes' names were Manihiki ("Hiki"), Puka Puka ("Puka"), Aitutaki ("Aitu") and Rarotonga ("Raro"). These four tribes were named after islands located in the Cook Islands. In the third episode, the four tribes evenly divided into two new mixed tribes, just Aitutaki and Rarotonga. After the merge, the tribe decided to name themselves Aitutonga.
A mutiny offer was made to all remaining players during this season. In Survivor: Thailand , mutiny was offered but no one accepted the offer. In this season, two players from the same tribe accepted the mutiny offer, which turned out to be a critically important turning point in the game, as it caused the remaining members of that tribe to become underdogs through the rest of the competition.
During the Immunity challenge in Episode 9, the losing tribe was given a bottle with a note in it that was only to be revealed after that tribe voted off a member at the following Tribal Council. As it turned out, the note required the losing tribe to immediately vote a second person off, thus creating the first time one tribe has voted off two members during a single Tribal Council.
The concept of Exile Island returned, with a hidden immunity idol located somewhere on the island. While the idol itself was never used to prevent a player from being eliminated, it was used strategically as a lure to swing a vote at a key turning point in the game.
Instead of the usual Final Two players facing a jury of seven, there was a Final Three facing a jury of nine, which included players that were voted out before the merge. The final jury setup meant that a two or three-way tie to decide the winner of the game was possible, though the method to resolve this tie was unknown at the time.
In the end, Yul Kwon defeated Ozzy Lusth and Becky Lee by a vote of 5-4-0 to become the Sole Survivor.
Ozzy Lusth, Jonathan Penner, and Parvati Shallow were selected to be three of the favorites of Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites. They would then place 9th, 16th, and 1st place.
Shallow would again return for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains along with Candice Woodcock in her first return to the series. Shallow will be a part of the 'Villains' tribe, and Woodcock will be part of the 'Heroes' tribe.
The 20 players were initially divided into four tribes based on race for the first 6 days of the competition, but later merged into two tribes. An early visit to Exile island resulted in Yul discovering the hidden immunity idol. With the tribes nearly equal on Day 19, Probst announced that any tribe member may mutiny and join the other tribe; Candice and Jonathan opted for this move, leaving the Aitutaki tribe at 4 members, consisting of Yul, Ozzy, Becky, and Sundra, and an 8-strong Rarotonga tribe. However, this served to only increase the determination of the Aitutaki tribe; between strong teamwork skills, Yul's intelligence, and Ozzy's swimming skills, Aitu remained strong and continued to win both tribal and individual challenges and systematically eliminated the Rarotonga members. When the Aitu 4 were down to 5 remaining Rarotonga members, Yul cemented his Aitu alliance by showing them the idol, and convinced Jonathan to vote along with them in order to even the numbers. The Aitu 4 would eventually remain in domination of the game, and ended up as the final four. With Yul holding the hidden immunity idol and Ozzy winning the final challenge, the four agreed to let a fire-making challenge decide would would join them at the Final Tribal Council; despite this taking more than an hour to complete, Becky emerged victorious. The jury, seeing Becky's coattailing of Yul and poor performance at the fire-making challenge, did not consider any votes for her, and Yul's brains edged out Ozzy's brawn, 5 votes to 4.
As said on the Exile Island reunion show, the concept of an Exile Island returns — with new twist(s). According to a local guidebook, pre-production began in the spring of 2006 and principal filming began on July 3, 2006 and ran through August 11, 2006, for broadcast in September.
Contestants were given two minutes to salvage whatever they could from a boat before having to paddle to their shore. As the castaways frantically scoured the ship for supplies, Puka Puka's Yul grabbed a chicken, got distracted by the commotion and the chicken escaped and got into the hands of Rarotonga's Jonathan. At Aitutaki, Billy haplessly created shelter, but Ozzy's survival skills duped him. In Rarotonga, Jonathan's stolen chicken got escaped as Jessica accidentally freed it, angering Jonathan. At Manihiki, the women complained as their leader Sekou took a lot of breaks. In a combined Reward/Immunity Challenge. All tribes (except for Manihiki) won reward (flint) and immunity. In addition, Puka Puka, who came in first, got an extra reward in the form of a fire-making kit that included kerosene and water-proof matches. The Manihiki guys (Sekou and Nate) sent Jonathan from Rarotonga to Exile Island in return for Puka Puka's lost chicken (much for the girls' dismay; for they felt isolated as the boys took the responsibility of sending someone to Exile Island for themselves). In the end, Stephannie, Sundra and Rebecca banded together to get rid their overbearing but weak leader Sekou in a 3–2 decision. After the vote, they received their flint so they can make fire.
Day 4 started well for Manihiki when the tribe managed to start a fire. Jonathan returned from Exile Island to Rarotonga, and was disappointed as nothing much has changed since he left. At Puka Puka, tribe members rapidly became fed up with Cao Boi's jokes and never-ending stories. At Aitutaki, feeling like his tribe could do better, Ozzy forced his tribe to throw the next immunity challenge to get rid of Billy, who had not been putting in much effort at camp. At the challenge, Puka Puka and Rarotonga tied for first place, so they each received two large tarps as reward and immunity. Manihiki finished third and was also safe from Tribal Council. The losing tribe, Aitutaki, sent Yul from Puka Puka to Exile Island, where he successfully deciphered the clues to discover the hidden immunity idol (a broken compass) in the sand. At Tribal Council, Billy gushed about finding love with Rarotonga's Candice, which was later found to be his taking her comments to him wildly out of context. Candice said "We love you" to him as he said that he may be the next to go, but he was mislead and claimed that she said "I Love you" to him. Either way, Billy became the second castaway to be voted out 4–1.
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