Cambodia
A fan-voted, all-returnee season of redemption, beloved for its high-level, fast-moving strategy.
Sole Survivor
Jeremy Collins
Won the jury 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
Era
The New School Era
2010–2020
Timeline
31st of 50
Aired 2015
Filming
Cambodia
1st of 2 seasons filmed here
The 2 tribes marooned when the game began — and where the names come from.
Named after the Bayon, the temple at the center of Angkor Thom famed for its giant smiling stone faces.
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.
Veterans who came back for another shot at the title.
The named voting blocs that ran this season — the stories give away late-game moves, so they sit behind the idol.
'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 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.
Debuted this season
Idol moments
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.
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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