Ami Cusack
Vanuatu's ringleader of the women, whose grip on the game slipped the moment her own alliance started to wobble.
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Ami took charge of the all-female Yasur tribe in Vanuatu, siding with the hard workers and helping Eliza Orlins blindside swing vote Dolly Neely. After the swap she caught Travis Sampson asking Chris Daugherty to throw a challenge and got him voted out, then targeted Lisa Keiffer as untrustworthy. At the merge, Twila Tanner and Julie Berry chose the women over the Lopevi men, and Ami's bloc steamrolled Lea Masters and Chad Crittenden. But when her closest ally, Leann Slaby, balked at sending Chris home, Chris pulled Eliza, Twila and Scout Cloud Lee into a counter-alliance, blindsided Leann, and then took Ami out.
Micronesia brought her back as a Favorite, stuck in the losing faction against the Couples Alliance. A swap rescued her into a Favorites majority on the new Malakal, but she drew up a plan with the Fans to blindside Ozzy Lusth, then backed out of it. Erik Reichenbach told the Favorites anyway, and Ozzy had her voted out just before the merge.
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Sources (4)
- “Survivor: Vanuatu,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Vanuatu.
- “Survivor: Micronesia,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Micronesia.
- “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
- “Ami Cusack,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Ami_Cusack.