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Season 31 · 2015Second Chance

Cambodia

Cambodia

A fan-voted, all-returnee season of redemption, beloved for its high-level, fast-moving strategy.

Jeremy Collins

Sole Survivor

Jeremy Collins

Won the jury 10-0-0

Year
2015
Location
Cambodia
Format
Second Chance
Days
39 days
Castaways
20
Grand prize
$1,000,000
Jury vote
10-0-0

Also read at the Final Tribal Council

How Jeremy Collins won


Jeremy coined the 'meat shield' strategy — keeping bigger threats around to draw the fire — and paired it with a heartfelt story to win unanimously.

From the Reader

Second Chances, Hard-Won

2 min read · season retrospective

The bigger picture

In context

Era

The New School Era

2010–2020

Timeline

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Filming

Cambodia

1st of 2 seasons filmed here

Starting tribes

The 2 tribes marooned when the game began — and where the names come from.

Bayona Cambodian temple

Named after the Bayon, the temple at the center of Angkor Thom famed for its giant smiling stone faces.

Ta Keoa Cambodian temple

Named after Ta Keo, a towering, largely undecorated temple at Angkor.

At the merge · they became Orkun Cambodia (Second Chance) merge tribe — Khmer for 'thank you', suggested by Kimmi Kappenberg as a gesture to the fans who voted the returnees back onto the season.

Alliances born here

The named voting blocs that ran this season — the stories give away late-game moves, so they sit behind the idol.

The Bayon Alliance

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Said on the show

'Bayon Strong' — the original-Bayon bloc of Second Chance, with Jeremy Collins quietly at its center alongside Spencer, Tasha, Stephen, and Kimmi. Jeremy's meta-game (his 'meat shields' theory of steering threats around himself) carried the tight core of Jeremy, Spencer, and Tasha to the end and a unanimous win.

The Witches' Coven

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Said on the show

The scrappy outsider trio of Second Chance — Kelley Wentworth, Ciera Eastin, and Abi-Maria Gomes — who, stuck on the bottom, preached chaos and the 'voting bloc' gospel, trying to blow up the majority with idols and big swings. Emblematic of the season that mainstreamed shifting, vote-by-vote alliances.

All the great alliances

Also filmed in Cambodia

Idols & advantages

The twists in play

The whole arsenal

Idol moments

  • Nine Votes, Nullified

    Andrew Savage sent to the jury

    Kelley Wentworth

    On the wrong side of the numbers, Kelley sat on an idol she'd found early and hidden for weeks — then played it as the dominant alliance dumped nine votes on her. All nine vanished, and Savage went home on three.

In the record book

9

votes erased by a single idol

On the wrong side of the numbers in Cambodia, Kelley played an idol against a nine-vote avalanche — wiping every one of them away in the single biggest negation the game has seen.

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Around the fire

Common questions

Who won Survivor Cambodia?
Jeremy Collins won Survivor: Cambodia (Season 31, 2015), taking the jury vote 10-0-0.
Where was Survivor Season 31 filmed?
Survivor: Cambodia was filmed in Cambodia.
When did Survivor Season 31 air?
Survivor: Cambodia aired in 2015 and ran 39 days.
Who were the finalists in Survivor Cambodia?
Jeremy Collins won at the Final Tribal Council alongside Spencer Bledsoe and Tasha Fox.

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