Quintavius "Q" Burdette
Survivor 46's lightning rod: a commanding presence who asked to go home, stayed, and became everyone's smokescreen.
Known for
Q looked like the glue on a struggling Yanu, allied with Tiffany Nicole Ervin and Kenzie Petty, then came home from a journey as a founder of the Journey Six. Power suited him a little too well. When his push against Tiffany stalled at the final ten, he blurted at Tribal that the tribe should vote him out, and the chaos exposed that he had leaked her idol. Frozen out afterward, he became the perfect cover story as Hunter McKnight, Tiffany and Venus Vafa were each blindsided holding idols. A late bond with Maria Shrime Gonzalez revived him, but it scared Charlie Davis, and Q got blindsided with his own idol in his pocket.
He came back to In the Hands of the Fans calmer, joining Vatu's majority even after trading away his vote during a night on Exile Island. After the swap, he asked Mike White to throw a decoy vote at him to protect Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick. Mike turned the decoy into the real thing.
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- “Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_50:_In_the_Hands_of_the_Fans.
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- “Q Burdette,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Q_Burdette.