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Season 30 · 2015

Survivor 30: Worlds Apart

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Mike Holloway is the Sole Survivor

Mike Holloway won on a 6–1–1 jury vote, beating Carolyn Rivera and Will Sims II at the final tribal council.

  1. 1Mike Hollowaywinner
  2. 2Carolyn Rivera
  3. 3Will Sims II
San Juan del Sur
San Juan del Sur, Rivas, Nicaragua
39 days
15 episodes
18
castaways
Final 3
faced the jury

What made it different

Divided the cast by working life into Blue-Collar, White-Collar and No-Collar tribes — Escameca, Masaya and Nagarote.

All 18 castaways, in boot order

  1. 1Mike HollowaySole Survivor · 39 days
  2. 2Carolyn RiveraCo-runners-up · 39 days
  3. 3Will Sims IICo-runners-up · 39 days
  4. 4Rodney Lavoie Jr.Eliminated · 38 days · jury
  5. 5Sierra Dawn Thomas2 seasons played14th voted out · 37 days · jury
  6. 6Dan Foley13th voted out · 35 days · jury
  7. 7Tyler Fredrickson12th voted out · 32 days · jury
  8. 8Shirin Oskooi2 seasons played11th voted out · 29 days · jury
  9. 9Jenn Brown10th voted out · 27 days · jury
  10. 10Joe Anglim3 seasons played9th voted out · 24 days · jury
  11. 11Hali Ford2 seasons played8th voted out · 22 days · jury
  12. 12Kelly Remington7th voted out · 19 days
  13. 13Joaquin Souberbielle6th voted out · 16 days
  14. 14Max Dawson5th voted out · 14 days
  15. 15Lindsey Cascaddan4th voted out · 11 days
  16. 16Nina Poersch3rd voted out · 8 days
  17. 17Vince Sly2nd voted out · 6 days
  18. 18So Kim1st voted out · 3 days

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Probst, on this season

  • Dan is… wrong… again!

    To Dan Foley. Called out across the water while Dan worked the puzzle, repeatedly.

  • It is as if this is a foreign language being learned for the first time.

    To Both tribes. A word puzzle that stumped both tribes for roughly two hours.

Trivia from Survivor 30

  • In which season did the Extra Vote advantage first appear?

    Worlds Apart — Worlds Apart (Season 30). Dan Foley became the first player to vote twice at one Tribal Council.

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The winner, runners-up, jury vote, dates, day count, cast size and location on this page come from Wikipedia's Survivor 30 article, cross-checked against the series overview table before publication.

Sources (3)

  1. “Survivor: Worlds Apart,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Worlds_Apart.
  2. “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
  3. Martin Holmes, “The 20 Greatest Jeff Probst Burns,” Inside Survivor, June 14, 2020, https://insidesurvivor.com/the-20-greatest-jeff-probst-burns-44459.

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