Samoa
A Redemption Island season dominated by Coach's earnest redemption arc and a faith-bound Upolu alliance.
Sole Survivor
Sophie Clarke
Won the jury 6-3-0
Also read at the Final Tribal Council
Era
The New School Era
2010–2020
Timeline
23rd of 50
Aired 2011
Filming
Samoa
3rd of 4 seasons filmed here
The 2 tribes marooned when the game began — and where the names come from.
Named after Savai'i, the largest island of Samoa.
Named after Upolu, Samoa's second-largest (and most populous) island.
At the merge · they became Te Tuna — South Pacific merge tribe — from the Polynesian legend of Tuna the eel: slain by Māui, his buried head sprouted the first coconut tree. 'Tuna' is the Polynesian word for eel.
Veterans who came back for another shot at the title.
The named voting bloc that ran this season — the stories give away late-game moves, so they sit behind the idol.
Coach Wade's Upolu bloc in South Pacific — bound together by group prayer and a literal loyalty oath, 'the Family' held all season. The irony: the most cohesive alliance Coach ever ran carried not him but his quiet ally Sophie Clarke to the title.
Around the fire
“Cirie never needed an idol. She WAS the idol — read every vote a round early and bent the whole jungle to her will without a single immunity win. That's the cei…”
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