Australian Survivor - Eighth Season

Survivors ready? Go!

For five unforgettable seasons...

..Australian Survivor has tested its players

in the most gruelling ways.

Oh!

Every year, the challenges get tougher.

Push! Come on.

Every year, the game gets more intense.

And every year,

the players are pushed...

What a Herculean effort that is!

..to their limits.

Pull!

Physically...

Come on!

..mentally...

..and emotionally.

Through it all...

I swear on my dad.

..incredible winners

have emerged.

And one all-star reigns supreme.

I am a golden god.

Now, a new chapter is about to be written.

The Australian outback.

A land as challenging and mysterious as it is breathtaking.

Vast, untouched wilderness.

Soaring temperatures.

Deadly animals.

The most extreme conditions

ever seen on Australian Survivor.

A new breed of player is rising up from the red earth,

and they come from two very different worlds.

The Brawn tribe -

at the top of their physical game,

ready to take on the toughest challenge with brute strength.

And the Brains tribe -

strategically superior,

socially cunning

and always one step ahead.

Here, only the smartest and the strongest players...

..will survive.

Two tribes, two opposing game plans,

and an age-old rivalry -

brains versus brawn.

48 days.

24 people.

One Survivor.

Playing Survivor in the Australian outback

is going to add a whole new dimension this year.

It's unforgiving, brutal.

You're going to have to have a lot of grit and determination.

The Brawn tribe have got it in the bag.

We're tough. We're strong.

We have that never-giving-up attitude.

This game is fierce,

but it's no match to the snakes I deal with every single day.

I'm a correctional officer

and I work at a maximum men's security prison.

I work with the worst of the worst.

The moment I walk into work, game face is on.

To do my job, you have to have brawn.

You can't just walk into the jail

and expect that your brains will get you anywhere.

They need to know who the boss is.

And that's me.

I'll take no prisoners.

I'm on the Brawn tribe.

Well, look at me.

I was born for this.

The gladiator style of competing, it's in my blood.

I will just be putting my body on the line like I always have.

The Ween comes out of the square.

Oh, my God, we're in a Wanganeen!

The man for all occasions! He's done it again!

People might remember me

for playing football for Essendon and Port Adelaide.

Wanganeen from behind!

I was the first Indigenous player to play 300 AFL games

and to win the AFL Brownlow Medal.

When I step over that white line to play, the beast comes out.

So don't mess with me.

I'm playing to win.

When I found out that Australian Survivor was going to the outback,

I was like, "Oh, shit!

"That's a long way from the ocean."

I'm a professional big wave surfer.

The waves on the big wave world tour are the biggest waves in the world

and I currently hold the record

for the biggest wave surfed by an Australian female,

which is 35 foot,

which is almost three storeys high.

When you're faced with a 30ft wall of water,

one mistake can cost you your life.

I know what it takes to be fearless,

to put your body on the line

and go hard.

I'm ready for it.

I definitely think Brawn's going to win.

We're sending a message to the Brains that we're ready for battle.

We, as human beings,

have conquered this planet because of our brains.

Our strength is easily matched by other animals,

but it was our brain that set us apart.

Ultimately, when it comes to the crunch,

brains is what's actually going to get you through

to the end of this game.

The only muscle that matters is the brain.

And I've got the biggest and the best brain of them all.

Hello, sir. Thank you for coming today.

Please vote 1 Labor at today's election.

Thank you so much. I shall. Thank you. Thank you.

I'm a member of the Labor Party in Bankstown

and I'm basically a professional spin doctor for a living.

My job is to put lipstick on a pig,

to make things sound and look beautiful.

Survivor is a lot like local politics -

there's two sides, these factions within a tribe,

and I've been outwitting, outplaying and outlasting

a conga line of people

that are trying to get rid of me in the Labor Party.

I don't want to stab people in the back.

I want to get my axe and swing it right at their face

and let them see it coming.

I don't think I can win.

I know I'm going to win.

People look at me

and they might think I'm the silly blonde girl,

but I'm a successful businesswoman and I've got a hidden superpower.

So I've got this.

I'm a real estate business owner,

and when it comes to my job, I do everything,

from visiting multimillion-dollar properties

to managing my team around me.

In my job, you have to be really good at reading people.

So I'll be playing a social game,

working out who to trust, without them even knowing,

with my superpower.

I'm an empath.

I have this ability where I can actually hold people's hands

and feel their deep-rooted issues come to me in words.

And the benefit in Survivor is beyond anything that anyone else can do.

There's never been anyone like me.

I might look like one of the stronger guys,

but my biggest muscle would be my brain.

I'm an ex-professional cyclist

I've won 50 professional races,

and when I was 23, I won the green jersey in the Tour de France.

When you're on a bike,

you basically have to make a million little decisions under pressure

that could risk your life.

You've got 200 people charging down a road

that might only be five metres wide.

Can I fit through that gap?

Is this guy going to move further

and I'm going to hit the fence and fall off at 70km an hour?

It's win or crash.

You can be the strongest cyclist in the world,

but if you don't have the brainpower to execute,

you're going to be nowhere near the front.

Survivor is my new Tour de France.

This will be a Survivor that Australia has never seen before.

Two worlds colliding - the outback and Survivor.

This is a game. It's the ultimate game.

It is going to be far tougher

than anything that we've seen before.

We're going to put ourselves through absolute hell

to have a crack at playing Survivor,

the greatest game in the world.

It's absolutely amazing.

And winning out here is going to mean so much more.

Brains versus Brawn - bring it on, baby!

Let's smash this.

Let's go, baby. Let's go.

- Yew! - Yeah!

My heart is racing.

Come on in, guys.

Here we go, baby.

Feels like a dream.

Here we are.

This is it.

Game on.

Oh, yeah. Game on.

Let's go.

- Alright, well... - Here we go, baby.

Welcome to Australian Survivor: Brains V Brawn.

Yellow - you are the Brain tribe.

- Yew. Yep. - Smart, mentally tough.

Highly strategic.

That means, Red, you guys are the Brawn tribe.

Whoo!

Physically strong, hardworking,

willing to put your bodies on the line.

This is going to be an epic battle.

And, we're going to find out what's more valuable in this game.

Mind...

..or body.

Woman on the end here with the short blonde hair.

- What's your name? - Rach.

So what do you think is going to give Brains the edge over Brawn?