Bikal

Tribe Profile
Version	United States
Season	Caramoan
Namesake	A town in Caramoan, Camarines Sur
Tribe Type	Starting Tribe
Day Formed	Day 1
Rival Tribe(s)	Gota
Tribe Status	Merged with Gota on Day 20
Challenge Wins	6/11
Lowest-Placing Member	Francesca Hogi (20/20)
Highest-Placing Member	John Cochran (Winner)

Bikal (also known as The Favorites) is a tribe from Survivor: Caramoan. The tribe consists of previous Survivor contestants who were favorites contestants from seasons past. Their tribe color is purple.

Bikal showed their dominance in the pre-merge challenges (only losing two before the tribe switch), and is known for the rise of a new Stealth R Us. However, one castaway's meltdown negatively impacted the tribe, and Bikal's post-switch variation became too weak to win a challenge against the new Gota tribe.

Members

Original Day 15 Andrea Boehlke 23, New York City, NY Redemption Island Brandon Hantz 20, Katy, TX South Pacific Brenda Lowe 29, Miami, FL Nicaragua Corinne Kaplan 33, Los Angeles, CA Gabon Dawn Meehan 41, South Jordan, UT South Pacific Erik Reichenbach 26, Santa Clarita, CA Micronesia Francesca Hogi 38, Brooklyn, NY Redemption Island John Cochran 25, Washington, DC South Pacific Malcolm Freberg 25, Hermosa Beach, CA Philippines Phillip Sheppard 54, Santa Monica, CA Redemption Island  Corinne Kaplan       Dawn Meehan       John Cochran       Julia Landauer       Matt Bischoff       Michael Snow       Phillip Sheppard

Tribe History

• Challenge History
• Voting History

Episode	Challenge	Challenge Type	Sit-Out	Result	Eliminated (Vote)	Finish
1	Water Slaughter	Reward	None	Won	Francesca (6-4)	1st Voted Out Day 3
	It's a Long Way to the Top	Immunity	None	Lost
2	Plunge, Pull, Pop	Reward/Immunity	None	Won	Tribe Immune
3	Cell Block Sea	Reward/Immunity	None	Won	Tribe Immune
4	Head and Shoulders	Reward	Cochran	Won	Tribe Immune
	Smash and Grab	Immunity	Corinne, Dawn	Won
5	Nut Bucket	Reward	Andrea, Dawn, Erik	Won	Brandon (8-1)	5th Voted Out Day 13
	Crate Outdoors	Immunity	None	Lost1
Tribes Switched, Day 14
6	Crate Outdoors	Immunity	None	Lost	Matt (4-2-1)	6th Voted Out Day 16
7	Hot Pursuit	Reward	None	Lost	Julia (3-3; 4-0)2	7th Voted Out Day 19
	Phoenix Rises	Immunity	None	Lost
Tribes Merged, Day 20
Notes: ^1 Bikal opted to forfeit the Immunity Challenge, giving the win to Gota by default. ^2 The vote resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a revote would commence.

		Original Tribes					Switched Tribes
Episode		1	2	3	4	5	6	7		8
Voted Out		Francesca	Tribe Immune	Tribe Immune	Tribe Immune	Brandon	Matt	Tie	Julia	Tribes Merged
Vote		6-4	—	—	—	8-1	4-2-1	3-31	4-0
►►	Cochran	Francesca	—	—	—	Brandon	Matt	Michael	Julia
►►	Dawn	Francesca	—	—	—	Brandon	Matt	Julia	Julia
►►	Erik	Andrea	—	—	—	Brandon	On Gota
►►	Brenda	Andrea	—	—	—	Brandon	On Gota
►►	Andrea	Francesca	—	—	—	Brandon	On Gota
►►	Malcolm	Francesca	—	—	—	Brandon	On Gota
►►	Phillip	Francesca	—	—	—	Brandon	Matt	Michael	Julia
►►	Michael	On Gota					Julia	Julia	None
►►	Corinne	Francesca	—	—	—	Brandon	Matt	Julia	Julia
►	Julia	On Gota					Dawn	Michael	None
►	Matt	On Gota					Julia
	Brandon	Andrea	—	—	—	Phillip
	Francesca	Andrea
Notes: ^1 Tribal Council resulted in a tie. Per Survivor rules, a second vote was held where the castaways involved in the tie would not vote and the remaining castaways could only vote for those involved in the tie.

Gallery

Bikal in the intro.

Bikal at the beginning of the game.

Bikal at their first Tribal Council.

Francesca voted out first - again.

Bikal looking towards the Gota tribe before the Day 5 Reward/Immunity Challenge.

Bikal at the Day 7 Immunity Challenge.

Stealth R Us 2.0.

Brandon voted out in an impromptu Tribal Council at the Immunity Challenge site.

Bikal immediately before the tribe switch.

The new Bikal.

Matt blindsided.

Julia voted out.

Bikal night banner shot.

Trivia

• Like the previous Favorites tribe, Bikal is a purple tribe.
  • Both tribe names end with the syllable -kal.
  • The Bikal tribe also lost the first Immunity Challenge, like Malakal.
  • After the tribe switch both tribes lost the remaining Immunity Challenges.
  • Both produced two finalists.
• Six members of the original Bikal tribe came from seasons that had the Redemption Island twist (three each from Redemption Island and South Pacific).
  • Phillip is the only one of the six to have never participated in a Redemption Island duel.
  • Andrea is the only one of the six to have won a Redemption Island duel.
  • All three members returning from Redemption Island are from the original Ometepe tribe.
• Francesca is the only Bikal tribe member to have never reached the merge phase of her original season, as she was the first one voted out.
  • As a result, Bikal is currently the only tribe in Survivor history to have a returning castaway who was voted off first in their original season.
  • This is the second tribe that voted out Francesca first. Ometepe of Redemption Island was the first. 
• Phillip is the only Bikal tribe member to never have been voted out before coming onto this season, as he was in the Final Three of his original season.
  • This makes him the third "Favorite" to have not been voted out prior to returning on a Fans vs. Favorites season. Ozzy Lusth and Amanda Kimmel from Micronesia both returned having not been voted out in their previous seasons.
• Bikal won every Reward Challenge before the tribe switch.
• Brenda, Dawn, and Cochran are the only Bikal members to improve over their previous placings.
  • Brenda is the only one not to make the Final Tribal Council.
• Michael is the only Fan who was part of post-switch Bikal to make the merge.
• Bikal lived at Tayak Beach, the same beach where Kalabaw lived in Philippines.
• Bikal is the second of three starting tribe of returning players to not have any of its members start out on a tribe of the same color in their previous season(s).
  • The first is Chapera from All-Stars and the third would be Bayon from Cambodia, which did not share its color with any previous starting tribe.