The first torch Probst snuffed by vote on Survivor 42 belonged to a lifelong superfan who knew the rulebook cold. Jackson Fox got medically pulled on Day 3, so once the game actually started voting, Washington University debate standout Zach Wurtenberger was the first one his own tribe sent home.
On Ika he could feel it coming and reached for the new toy: a Shot in the Dark, the season's coin-flip safety play that costs you your vote to draw. He gambled it, pulled the 'not safe' parchment, and the rest of the tribe zeroed him out 5-0. Going out seventeenth on an empty Shot — for the guy who'd studied every season — is the cruelest possible way for a superfan's run to begin and end.
