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Tony Vlachos
3 seasons · 84 days

Tony Vlachos

The spy-shack-building, ally-swearing, idol-hoarding cop who won loud, and then won quiet.

2-time Sole Survivor

3
seasons played
84 days
on the island
1st
best finish
2
final tribal councils

Known for

Tony played Cagayan at full throttle. He built a spy shack to eavesdrop, formed Cops-R-Us with Sarah Lacina and then lied to her anyway, swore on family members living and dead, and dug up three idols, one of them carrying special powers. He kept turning on his own Solana Alliance to set up blindside after blindside, then convinced Woo Hwang to bring him, not the unpopular Kass McQuillen, to the final two. The jury handed him the title, 8-1.

In Game Changers his reputation beat him to the beach. He started digging a spy bunker, got caught by Sandra Diaz-Twine and Caleb Reynolds, and when Tony and Sandra could not share an alliance, she turned the whole tribe on him in the first week.

Winners at War was the patient version: Cops-R-Us reunited, relationships first, spy nest still in service. After the merge he steadily cut every rival, won four immunities, and beat Sarah at fire-making to reach the end, where the jury crowned him again, 12-4-0.

Background: Survivor Wiki

Season by season

  1. Tony Vlachos, Survivor 28: Cagayan
    1Survivor 28: Cagayanage 39, Jersey City, New Jersey1st of 18 · 39 days
  2. Tony Vlachos, Survivor 34: Game Changers
    19Survivor 34: Game Changersage 42, Jersey City, New Jersey19th of 20 · 6 days
  3. Tony Vlachos, Survivor 40: Winners at War
    1Survivor 40: Winners at Warage 45, Jersey City, New Jersey1st of 20 · 39 days

Photos and logos: CBS

Where they rank

  • 2ndMultiple winners2 wins
  • 10thMost times at the final tribal council2 finals
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Seasons played, finishing positions, day counts, jury status, ages and hometowns come from the contestant table in each season's Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the series overview before publication.

Sources (5)

  1. “Survivor: Cagayan,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Cagayan.
  2. “Survivor: Game Changers,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Game_Changers.
  3. “Survivor: Winners at War,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Winners_at_War.
  4. “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
  5. “Tony Vlachos,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Tony_Vlachos.

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