Lulu lost its flint on Day 1 and basically never recovered, dropping challenge after challenge while the other two tribes cruised. Hannah Rose walked away from the game before a single vote was ever cast, so when the sinking tribe finally hit Tribal, there was a name already circled: Brandon, struggling in the challenges and short on bonds, was the easy first call.
He went out seventeenth after just 5 days, no idol, no immunity win, nothing to slow it down. Footnote, sure, but a specific one: with Hannah's quit not counting as a vote, Brandon is the first castaway anyone actually voted out of Survivor 45.
