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Blue RidgeSurvivor
Outwit · Outplay · Outlast
A real game of Survivor, played by real people in North Carolina.
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I Don’t Really Know “How to Play the Game”✦The Pickle in the Apple Pie✦La La Land✦You Don’t Have the Right Parts✦Fake Baited✦What if the Sky Falls on Us?✦With an H✦I’ve Had Fun but It Still Hurts✦A Brand New Narrative✦If Black Bears And Cardinals Were To Fight✦A Natural Leader✦Can We Go Apologize?✦I Don’t Wanna Take a Nap, I Wanna Play✦This Whole Survivor Thing✦Push It Out✦The Ling Reader✦My Own Little Boat✦Ugly Face and Bad Personality✦You’ve Got to Pick Your Horses✦The Astute Player✦Going Ham✦It’s 50/50✦
What is Blue Ridge Survivor?
Survivor, made by fans
Blue Ridge Survivor is a live reality game: a full season of Survivor, played in person by everyday people. Castaways split into tribes, battle in challenges, scheme around camp and vote each other out by torchlight until one is crowned Sole Survivor and takes home the cash.
Creator and host Logan Pardue designs the game, runs it with a volunteer crew of friends, then edits every minute into full episodes you can watch free on YouTube.
Outwit
Alliances, blindsides, hidden idols and secret advantages.
Outplay
Challenges built by the crew: puzzles, balance, endurance and trivia, for reward and for immunity.
Outlast
Days at camp on rations and very little sleep, with a vote hanging over every conversation.
2Seasons of Survivor
35Castaways
32Episodes to watch
29Hours of episodes
How the game works
From Night Zero to Sole Survivor
Every season follows the same basic structure, with new twists each time.
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Night Zero
The castaways arrive, size each other up and compete in an opening challenge that can hand someone an early edge.
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Tribes
Players split into tribes, each with its own buff color and camp: the Black Bears and Cardinals in Season 1, Azurite and Malachite in Gold River, Ichabod and Jekyll in Cape Fear.
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Challenges
Reward challenges win food and comfort. Immunity challenges win safety. Expect puzzles, balance, endurance and trivia.
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Twists
Exile Island, hidden immunity idols, Redemption Island, mining excursions and tribe swaps have all shown up so far.
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Tribal Council
The losing tribe votes someone out by torchlight. Their torch is snuffed, and the tribe has spoken.
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The Merge
The tribes become one under a new name and buff, like the Honey Bees in Season 1 and Rhodolite in Gold River, and it's every castaway for themselves. Players voted out from here on start forming the jury.
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Final Tribal
The finalists face the people they voted out. They plead their case, and the jury votes.
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Sole Survivor
One player outwits, outplays and outlasts everyone else, and takes home the title and the cash prize.
“The tribe has spoken.”
The seasons
2 seasons. 35 castaways.
Each season gets its own theme, tribes and twists. Start anywhere, but Season 1 is where the story begins.
Season 3Coming soon
Cape Fear
- Filmed
- 2026
- Where
- Greensboro, NC
The next chapter is already filmed. Cape Fear was played in Greensboro in 2026 and is next in line for the editing bench.
Tribes
IchabodJekyll
Merge
Harker
Episodes start after Gold River
Season 2Now airing
Gold River
- Filmed
- August 2025
- Where
- Marion, NC
- Castaways
- 20
Twenty new castaways, a mountain campground in Marion and the franchise's biggest game yet. This season is mining themed: gemstone tribes, a camp with a gold theme and treasure buried in the dirt.
Tribes
AzuriteMalachite
Merge
Rhodolite
- Mining excursions, where players dig for treasure (not all gold shines equally)
- A temporary tribe swap
- The Outcasts: players who were voted out fight to relight their torches
Fitting theme: North Carolina was home to America’s first gold rush.
9 episodes · 8h 54m so far
Season 1Complete season
Blue Ridge Survivor
- Filmed
- 2023
- Where
- Blue Ridge Parkway
- Castaways
- 15
- Prize
- $1,200
Where it began. Fifteen strangers, two days and three nights on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and $1,200 for the very first Blue Ridge Sole Survivor.
Tribes
Black BearsCardinals
Merge
Honey Bees
- Exile Island and hidden immunity idols
- Redemption Island: one last shot back into the game
- A jury of eight crowns the winner
The finale, “It’s 50/50”, runs 98 minutes and is the channel’s most watched episode.
13 episodes · 9h 53m
Episode guide
Watch every episode
Blue Ridge Survivor: Gold River
Season 2 · Filmed August 2025 · 9 episodes · 8h 54m
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7:09
Blue Ridge Survivor Season 2 Trailer
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1:24:55
I Don’t Really Know “How to Play the Game”
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55:28
The Pickle in the Apple Pie
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56:22
La La Land
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49:20
You Don’t Have the Right Parts
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1:12:06
Fake Baited
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1:08:20
What if the Sky Falls on Us?
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57:21
With an H
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49:01
I’ve Had Fun but It Still Hurts
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41:21
A Brand New Narrative
Blue Ridge Survivor: Season 1
Season 1 · Filmed 2023 · 13 episodes · 9h 53m
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3:33
Blue Ridge Survivor 2023
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40:03
If Black Bears And Cardinals Were To Fight
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37:04
A Natural Leader
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41:10
Can We Go Apologize?
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46:20
I Don’t Wanna Take a Nap, I Wanna Play
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40:13
This Whole Survivor Thing
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33:00
Push It Out
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32:15
The Ling Reader
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52:59
My Own Little Boat
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59:50
Ugly Face and Bad Personality
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35:34
You’ve Got to Pick Your Horses
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31:41
The Astute Player
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44:27
Going Ham
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1:38:11
It’s 50/50
Who Is The Mole? All Stars
Aired 2025 · 10 episodes · 9h 43m
Thirteen returning All Stars work together to build a prize pot while a hidden saboteur, the Mole, quietly works against them. After every round, whoever knows the least about the Mole is executed. Hosted by Jamie Bourn and Spencer Carroll.
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1:08:08
That’s a Red Flag
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47:37
Is It Moley or Is It Delusion
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45:35
I’d Rather Have Nothing Than Be a Hero
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48:44
That Beautiful Brain
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53:39
I’m Not a Memory Gal
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54:20
Girly Girl
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1:03:24
Some Serious Hooking
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54:51
The Ticket Gremlin
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56:12
Is It a Unicorn or an Alpaca
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1:30:16
I’m Not Afraid to Do Things That I’m Scared Of
More from the channel
The Blue Ridge Survivor family
Between Survivor seasons, the channel also runs a sister game.
Sister series · Aired 2025
Who Is The Mole?
Thirteen returning All Stars work together to build a prize pot while a hidden saboteur, the Mole, quietly works against them. After every round, whoever knows the least about the Mole is executed.
Hosted by Jamie Bourn and Spencer Carroll
- 2023
Blue Ridge Survivor is born
Casting opens in the spring and 15 strangers play Season 1 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- 2024
Season 1 premieres
Thirteen episodes from June to November, capped by a finale over an hour and a half long.
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Gold River and the Mole
Season 2 films in Marion in August, and Who Is The Mole? All Stars airs that fall.
- 2026
Gold River premieres, Cape Fear films Now airing
Twenty new castaways hit YouTube on June 21, and Season 3, Cape Fear, is played in Greensboro later that year.
Casting
Got what it takes?
Blue Ridge Survivor is cast from its community. When applications open for a new season, they're announced in the Facebook group.
- A long weekend away, with tribes, camps and rations
- Challenges, twists and tribal councils run by a dedicated crew
- No experience needed: plenty of castaways arrive never having played a live game
- Players have traveled from as far as Florida, Massachusetts and Vancouver, Canada
Or write to BlueRidgeSurvivor@gmail.com
Good questions
Is this the real Survivor?
No. Blue Ridge Survivor is a passion project made by fans and not run for profit, inspired by CBS's Survivor. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by CBS or the official show.
What's a live reality game?
An LRG is a reality competition format played in person by regular people instead of on TV. There's a whole community of them around the country, and many castaways play more than one.
Where is it played?
In North Carolina. Season 1 was played along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Gold River at a campground in Marion, and Cape Fear in Greensboro.
How long does a game last?
About a long weekend. Season 1 ran two days and three nights.
Is there a prize?
Yes, real cash. The first Sole Survivor won $1,200.
Do I need to be a Survivor superfan?
Knowing the basics helps, but plenty of castaways arrive having never played a live game. What matters is that you're up for the challenge and the people.
Where can I watch?
Every season is free on the Blue Ridge Survivor YouTube channel, and right here in the episode guide.
Behind the scenes
Made by friends
Logan Pardue has been designing and hosting games for years. He builds Blue Ridge Survivor's format and twists, hosts every tribal council, and then spends months turning the footage into a season.
- Logan PardueCreator and host, Blue Ridge Survivor
- Jamie BournHost, Who Is The Mole?
- Spencer CarrollHost, Who Is The Mole?
The hosts are backed by a volunteer crew of friends: camera operators, cohosts, challenge coordinators, drivers and designers. Former castaways have even come back to work behind the camera. In Gold River, spot them in the purple buffs.
I genuinely appreciate you all regardless of how this all goes. We are all family.