Survivor: VIP (2020 Israeli season) explained

The 2020 season of Survivor: VIP (he|הישרדות VIP|Hisardut VIP) is the tenth season overall of the Israeli reality program Survivor and the third VIP season. The season featured 18 celebrity contestants competing against each other for the 1 million NIS prize. The season was filmed in the Philippines between August and October 2019, and began airing on Reshet 13 on May 2, 2020.

Format changes

This season largely retained the format of previous seasons, with several changes:

• Airing format: This season aired four to five episodes per three-day cycle, compared to the two episodes per cycle schedule of previous seasons.
• Cabin Guard: Voted out players became Cabin Guards, who lived at the Negotiation Cabin (as seen in all seasons since the 2012 VIP season), where representatives from each tribe met to broker deals, such as allocating resources or picking contestants to switch tribes. If the deliberating contestants could not come to a conclusion in the allotted time, the Cabin Guard who had been there the longest would make the decision for them.
• Duels: There were three types of duels involving the Cabin Guards, of which the first two were similar to the zombie's duels from season seven, Survivor: Honduras.
  • Vote duel: Immediately after each tribal immunity challenge, the losing tribe's Cabin Guard would challenge one of the tribe members to a duel. If the Cabin Guard won the duel, they voted in the duel loser's stead at the upcoming Tribal Council, and had the power to summon one member of the losing tribe to the Cabin to strategize for the vote. If the Cabin Guard lost the duel, they exited the game. After the merge, these duels occurred immediately before the immunity challenge.
  • Cabin Guard duel: If the Cabin Guard won the vote duel, they duelled the player voted out at the next Tribal Council for the right to remain the Cabin Guard. At two predetermined points, winners of these duels returned to the game.
  • Reward duel: After the merge, one tribe member competed in a duel against the Cabin Guard. If the player won the duel, one of their tribemates received a video call from a loved one. If the Cabin Guard won two consecutive duels, they would immediately return to the game. These duels were held in lieu of the veto challenges seen in all seasons since the second season, Survivor: Pearl Islands.
• Popularity ratings: Contestants regularly ranked their tribemates throughout the game. On the first day, players ranked the others; the nine most popular players formed the Kapre tribe, while the remaining nine formed the Anting Anting tribe. Before each reward challenge, players ranked their tribemates. Before the merge, the player from each tribe with the lowest rating was unable to enjoy the reward should their tribe win the challenge, and were unable to compete in the individual immunity challenge should their tribe lose the tribal immunity challenge. After the merge, the player with the lowest rating was unable to compete in the reward challenge.
• Penalty vote: After the merge, the contestant who placed last in the immunity challenge received a penalty vote at that night's Tribal Council. This was similar to the veto challenge penalty votes from the 2012 VIP season.

Contestants

List of Survivor: VIP contestants!Contestant!Original tribe!Post-Cabin swap!Post-mutiny!Switched tribe!Merged tribe!Main game!Cabin Guard

48, Tel Aviv Television presenter, Big Brother 3
60, Ramat HaSharon Singer
48, Ramat Gan Actor
49, Hadera Journalist, politician
20, Afula Miss Israel 2018
18, Hod HaSharon Singer, actress
45, Bat Yam Activist
Returned to game
70, Ramat Gan Dancer, choreographer
32, Petah Tikva Beauty and the Geek 2 winner
42, Haifa Former basketball player
Returned to game
39, Rehovot Singer, The Amazing Race 6
Returned to game
22, Tel Aviv Model
47, Kfar Saba Comedian
29, Ra'anana Actress, model, Big Brother 2
30, Netanya Olympic judo bronze medalist
40, Tel Aviv Singer, Survivor: Pearl Islands
29, Tel Aviv Big Brother 9 winner
37, Petah Tikva Former footballer

Season summary

Episode(s)!scope="col" rowspan="2"

Original air date(s)	Challenge winner(s)			Vote duel		Voted out	Finish	Cabin Guard duel
Reward	Tribal immunity	Individual immunity	Winner	Loser	Winner			Loser
1 & 2	May 2 & 5, 2020	None		Quit Day 1	None
2 & 3	May 5 & 9, 2020			None				1st voted out Day 3	None
4, 5 & 6	May 12, 16 &<br />19, 2020		None		2nd voted out Day 6	None
7, 8, 9 & 10	May 23, 26, 27 & 30, 2020							Quit Day 9	None
11, 12, 13 & 14	June 2, 6, 9 & 13, 2020		3rd voted out Day 12	rowspan="2"
15, 16, 17 & 18	June 14, 15, 16 & 17, 2020							4th voted out Day 15	None
19, 20, 21, 22 & 23	June 20, 21, 22, 23 & 27, 2020		5th voted out Day 18	rowspan="3"
24, 25, 26 & 27	June 28, 29, 30, & July 4, 2020							6th voted out Day 21	None
28, 29 & 30	July 5, 7 & 8, 2020	None	7th voted out Day 22		rowspan="2"

Episode(s)!scope="col" rowspan="2"

Original air date(s)	Challenge winner(s)		Reward duel		Vote duel		Voted out	Finish	Cabin Guard duel
Reward	Immunity	Winner	Loser	Winner	Loser	Winner			Loser
31, 33 & 34	July 11, 14 & 15, 2020		8th voted out Day 24	rowspan="2"
35, 36, 37 & 38	July 18, 19, 21 & 22, 2020								9th voted out Day 26	None
39, 40, 41, 42 & 43	July 25, 26, 28, August 1 & 2, 2020								10th voted out Day 28	None
44, 45, 46, 47 & 48	August 4, 8, 9, 11 & 12, 2020	Survivor Auction							11th voted out Day 30
49, 50, 51 & 52	August 15, 16, 18 & 22, 2020					None			12th voted out Day 32	None
53	August 23, 2020	None							13th voted out Day 32
54, 55, 56, 57 & 58	August 25, 29, 31, September 1 & 2, 2020			None					14th voted out Day 34
59, 60 & 61	September 5, 8 & 12, 2020			None					15th voted out Day 37
62	September 13, 2020							Jury vote
									2nd runner-up
									Runner-up
									Sole Survivor

Voting history

					Original tribes		Post-Cabin swap		Post-mutiny		Switched tribes				Merged tribe
Episode #					2	3	6	10	14	18	23		27	29	34	38	43	47	52	53		57	61
Day #					1	3	6	9	12	15	18		21	22	24	26	28	30	32			34	37
Eliminated
Votes
Voter					Vote
																Regev
												Ido
										Semion
				Nikol						Lital
	Benny	Benny	Yarden	Benny	Israel			Benny

Jury vote
Episode #	62
Day #	37
Finalist
Votes	colspan="4"
Juror	Vote

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Jury revote
Episode #	62
Day #	Finale
Finalist
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