Bobby Jon Drinkard
Ulong's hard-working last man standing, who came back determined to at least reach the jury, and did.
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Bobby Jon was one of the strongest players on Palau's Ulong, a tribe that looked great on paper and lost every single immunity challenge. He survived a tie vote because the tribe valued his athleticism and work ethic, and he formed a no-votes pact with Stephenie LaGrossa while picking the Alabama boys, James Miller and Ibrehem Rahman, off one by one. Eventually only the two of them remained. When Ulong lost one last time, there was no vote to cast, so a fire-making duel decided it, and Stephenie's flame lit first.
He and Stephenie returned together in Guatemala. The brutal opening hike left him barely able to walk until Margaret Bobonich nursed him back. After a swap he helped flip Yaxhá against his own old tribe, and some newcomers grumbled that he didn't deserve a second chance. He also feuded with Jamie Newton. At the merge he begged Stephenie to let him make the jury this time, and she did, but when Gary Hogeboom played an idol, the Nakúm Alliance turned its votes on Bobby Jon.
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- “Survivor: Guatemala,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Guatemala.
- “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
- “Bobby Jon Drinkard,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Bobby_Jon_Drinkard.