Vlachos has competed in three seasons of Survivor: Cagayan, Game Changers, and Winners at War. He is only the second person to win two seasons of the competition reality show.
A reality show contest where sixteen or more castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for roughly 39 days. Frequent physical challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “Immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their players.
America’s most cunning contestants, a mix of famous faces and everyday Americans, play the ultimate murder mystery game. Hosted by Alan Cumming at an ancient castle in Scotland, they will work together on exhilarating missions to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000. But hidden amongst the Faithful contestants are the Traitors, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithful and claim the prize for themselves.
Ten years ago, Survivor aired its twenty-eighth season, and changed the course of the CBS reality series as we know it. Survivor: Cagayan had eighteen dynamic characters stranded in the wilderness for the ultimate game of social strategy, divided into tribes that represented "brains," "brawn," and "beauty." And from its first episode–with the start of the Brains tribe's destruction–to its last–including one of the worst moves in Survivor history–it was non-stop entertainment.