WARNING: This post is going to spoil the hell out of Australian Survivor’s season finale, not that there’s a lot to spoil anyway.
Well, here we are, folks. The first season of our’s third attempt with this franchise, Survivor Australia, has concluded. The winner? Kristie Bennett, the 24-year-old Sydneysider who won the game by crying.
If you didn’t see it, finalists Kristie, 41-year-old former pro cricketer Lee Carseldine, and 33-year-old Queensland solider El Rowland battled it out for the final immunity challenge via the classic Survivor challenge, ‘balancing on sticks while holding on to another stick’.
What an amazing effort by El to last as long as she did. #SurvivorAU pic.twitter.com/ze0j4G4rXB
— Australian Survivor (@Survivor_AU) October 25, 2016
Rowland came off first, and then Bennett and Carseldine fought it out for a solid six-and-a-half hours before the ex-cricketer came off. Interestingly, and although Carseldine says he fell thanks to full-blown fatigue, Bennett did plead with him to let her win.
Someone needs to tell Lee that he entered a commercial-filled franchised reality television show, not a morality contest. #survivorau
— Jamila Rizvi (@JamilaRizvi) October 25, 2016
Now everyone in future seasons is going to try the “do nothing and hope someone else does it all for you” strategy #SurvivorAU
— Ben Pobjie (@benpobjie) October 25, 2016
Rowland became the 22nd person voted out of Survivor Australia, and one final tribal council later, Bennett was crowned the winner of Survivor Australia 2016. $500,000 prize money, baby.
We’ve already made our feelings on Channel 10‘s handling of Survivor Australia perfectly clear, but it appears not a whole lot of you were *super* keen with the way this season played out, either.
I don’t want anyone to win anymore. Call the whole thing off. The winners should be us, the audience, for watching this rubbish #SurvivorAU
— Alice ?? (@alicevictoria19) October 24, 2016
Oh my God #survivorau is just tragically bereft of any good game play.
— Clementine Ford (@clementine_ford) October 24, 2016
Gonna start a https://t.co/bOEOPqUeYI for @channelten to keep the #survivorau money & give it out next year when someone might deserve it.
— Maeve Marsden (@maevemarsden) October 23, 2016
That was the stupidest vote in the history of this show. Send them all into the sea. #SurvivorAU
— Meg Watson (@msmegwatson) October 23, 2016
I wish #survivorau was like the Hunger Games and you could airdrop them little messages like, ‘ffs you’re a disappointment to us all’
— Jessica Alice (@jessica_alice_) October 23, 2016
But tbh, we all know the real winner here.
First home buyers in #Sydney. #SurvivorAU pic.twitter.com/DzVpqbZjfr
— Maya Ivanovic (@mayaivanovic) October 25, 2016
Channel 10 is already recruiting for Survivor Australia 2017, so see you next year, folks! Brb, brushing up on my fire-building skills.
Photo: Channel 10.
