Congratulations Brendan! The winner of the Survivor Nicaragua pool!!!!!!
At the first Tribal Council, Dan makes his case for staying in the game by once again letting the remaining Survivors know that he has money and is therefore not likely to be awarded the million-dollar prize. Holly acknowledges that she is worried tonight, because Dan was trying to get the guys to vote her out so an all male final four could go to the end. Dan denies suggesting an all male alliance and points out that Holly is a threat to win the million dollars because she comes from a small town and needs the money. Holly then makes the point that Dan hasn’t really played the game, so why does he deserve to stay. With this, the Libertad tribe casts their votes and Dan is voted out with four of the five votes cast against him. So, Dan Lembo, the 63-year-old real estate executive from Watermill, NY, became the sixteenth person oted out and the eighth member of the jury of SURVIVOR: NICARAGUA. 
At the second tribal council, Fabio tells host, Jeff Probst about the interesting afternoon he has had with all three people in a once strong alliance coming up to him and pleading their case. He reveals that he did not believe Sash when he told him that he would have taken him to the final three. Fabio also revealed that Chase confirmed that he would not have taken Fabio, if Fabio had not won immunity. Sash then confesses that he has made a lot of different alliances in this game, but that recently he has been more committed to Fabio than Chase has. Sash goes on to say that he “believes” he would have taken Fabio to the end, but since he didn’t win immunity he did have to make that decision. In her final plea to Fabio, Holly reminds him that she was also honest with him today in letting him know that her alliance planned to vote Fabio out. With this, the remaining Libertad tribe casts their votes and Holly is voted out with three of the four votes cast against her. So, Holly Hoffman, the 44-year-old swim coach from Eureka, SD, became the seventeenth person voted out and the ninth member of the jury of SURVIVOR: NICARAGUA. At the final Tribal Council, Chase, Fabio and Sash give their opening statements. Chase welcomes questions from the jury in order to explain his behavior that they might have felt was crazy or wishy-washy. Fabio tells the jury that it was his strategy to play under the radar in the beginning of the game, but when he needed to assert himself at the end he did and won the last three immunity challenges to stay in the game. Therefore, he deserves to be here in the final three. Sash points out that he played the game much differently than Chase and Fabio and since they all outlasted the others, they should be judged on the outwit and outplay components of the game. He also stresses that he views the friendships that he made during the game to be valid and separate from the many alliances that he broke.
The jury addresses Chase, Fabio and Sash, asking them vital questions to help make their decisions of who is the most worthy of the million-dollar prize. Brenda grills Chase on loyalty, since he claimed to be her ally and friend and then voted her out. Chase defends himself by pointing out that he warned her of what was coming, but in the end had no other choice but to vote against her, since the numbers weren’t with her and he wanted to stay in the game. Holly asks Fabio, “Do you think winning the last three immunity challenges was too little, too late?” Fabio responds his plan was to be friends with everybody and only when he knew he was at risk of being voted out did he need to step up and win the challenges. So he stepped up not too late, but at exactly the right time. Sash confesses in his responses that he did backstab a lot of people and break alliances, but it was not to hurt people. It just became necessary to further himself in the game. Sash asks the jury to compare his strategic play to Chase being wishy-washy and Fabio being clueless in a lot of the voting. Chase responds, “It wasn’t wishy-washy. It was me making myself a way out. Where I could play with people I could trust, but didn’t get myself in a situation where if the alliance was done, I‘m done.” Chase then goes after Fabio by saying that Fabio winning the last three immunity challenges does not make him deserving of the million, since he was clueless most of the time and not an active player when it came to strategy and voting. Alina is impressed by the passion in their responses and comments, “I like what’s happening here. I like that this is two maybe three men really fighting for what they want. Thank you guys.” With this, the jury members cast their votes for the winner. Host Jeff Probst reads the votes live from Los Angeles, and with five out of the nine votes cast for him, Jud "Fabio" Birza won the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollar prize for SURVIVOR: NICARAGUA.
Out with the old, in with the new! At the conclusion of the Survivor: Nicaragua live reunion show, the first promo was revealed for season 22 of the reality franchise: Survivor: Redemption Island, which will premiere on Wednesday, February 16, 2011.
“How it works is very simple,” explained Probst. “When you’re voted out at Tribal Council, you don’t go home. You’re not out of the game. You go to Redemption Island and you live alone. And at a certain point in the game another person will join you. You will compete in a duel. The winner stays. The loser goes home. So you’re continuing to live out there on your own with very basic supplies. But you’re still in the game. And at a certain point you’ll be allowed to reenter the game and have a shot at the money.” In other words, people that are voted out will compete against each other for a chance to later rejoin the game.
In another format switch, since each episode will include a Redemption Island duel, you can expect there to be just one combined reward/immunity challenge per episode for the players that have yet to be voted out.
