"Survivor: Caramoan" crowns a winner

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="image620 " style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 350px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;"><img alt="Dawn, Cochran and Sherri at their final tribal council to see who wins $1 million on "Survivor: Caramoan."" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/12/trio_tribal13x_620x350.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div class="imgText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dawn, Cochran and Sherri at their final tribal council to see who wins $1 million on "Survivor: Caramoan</div><div class="imgText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On his first day on the island, pasty-white John Cochran burned so badly it was painful to look at him. All season he built on the image of Cochran the geek, the beta male who could never compete with the young bucks. Except that he started winning physical challenges, mental contests, strategic tests and, on Sunday, $1 million.</div><a data-assetid="10015533" data-assettypeid="49" data-nodeid="207" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-207_162-10015533-1.html" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="storyEmbed" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 4px 20px 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; zoom: 1;"><figure class="gallery" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><img class="image220" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/01/22/101916_D0308b_220x157.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 140px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;" /></figure><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; z-index: 11;">20 <span style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PHOTOS</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; color: #202022; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;">"Survivor: Caramoan - Fans vs. Favorites"</h3></div></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"></span><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In an unanimous vote from all eight jury members, Cochran was voted winner of "Survivor: Caramoan," the 26th season of CBS' veteran reality show.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It feels incredible ... I'm kind of speechless,'' said Cochran, a Harvard law student who wrote a thesis for the college on the strategy of "Survivor." It was Cochran's second time on "Survivor," after competing previously on "Survivor: South Pacific."</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Immediately after the win, he was asked by host Jeff Probst what advice he would give to players of the game.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"You have to be calm without being complacent, and be vigilant without being paranoid. It's a constant tightrope balancing act."</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cochran was joined in the final three by Dawn, a mother of 6 children from Utah who was known for her tears this season; and Sherri, a fast-food franchisee from Idaho.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 610px;"><img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="409" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/12/trio_LA_13_610x409.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="610" /><div class="image-caption" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; display: inline; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0.5em; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the final three, from left, Dawn, Cochran and Sherri, months later in Studio City, Calif., moments before Cochran wins "Survivor: Caramoan."</div> <span class="greySplitter" style="border: 0px; color: #c4c4c4; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">/</span> <span class="image-credit" style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The three-hour season finale had more of the dramatic turns that have marked the show all season. The opening credits had barely rolled before skinny, shaggy Erik was keeling over. The doctor was called out, and made the call that Erik's dizziness and shallow pulse meant he could no longer compete in the game.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So in the first five minutes of the show, the final five was down to four. Next to go was Eddie, the grinning, goofy firemen from New Jersey who had managed to linger in the game with no discernible strategy or success in any of the challenges.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still, Eddie hadn't made any enemies and that was worrisome enough for Cochran, who won the final immunity challenge, to swing the vote against Eddie.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"You're the only one who can beat me," Cochran said of Eddie.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"If I would have gotten to the final three, first place was mine for the taking," said Eddie, which is not true and just as clueless as he's been all season.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then it was on to the most delicious part of the entire season, where the final three are questioned by the jury of players whom they have vanquished.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 610px;"><img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="407" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/12/jury13_610x407.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="610" /><div class="image-caption" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; display: inline; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0.5em; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The jury members grilled the three finalists on why they should get the $1 million. From left, Michael, Phillip, Malcolm, Reynold, Andrea, Brenda, Erik and Eddie.</div> <span class="greySplitter" style="border: 0px; color: #c4c4c4; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">/</span> <span class="image-credit" style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poor Sherri was insulted over and over again by the jury members, some of whom didn't even bother to ask her a question. She was treated as an inconsequential third wheel next to power players Dawn and Cochran. By the end of the questions, one could see she knew her game, however far she had come, was over.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"You never did anything in this game. You were a seashell on the beach the entire game," said shaggy dog Erik, who had recovered enough from his swoon to bare his fangs.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't need your vote,'' retorted Sherri. "Obviously I'm not going to get it. So you can sit down."</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A lot of the jury members chided Dawn for all her tears and mental shakiness this season. They asked why she thought she was a contender in the game when she seemed so vulnerable all the time.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I think a lot of the emotion had to do with how hard it was for me to be duplicitous," Dawn told the jury. "I wanted to be in control of my own game ... I had to give myself permission to actually play the game. ... I had to come out reminding myself this is a game for $1 million. It's football and I have to be willing to tackle."</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="cnet-image-div image-WIDTH_220 float-left" style="border: 0px; color: black; float: left; font-size: 15px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="157" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/12/dawn_teeth_220x157.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="220" /><div class="image-caption" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; display: inline; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0.5em; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After much prodding from wronged soul sister Brenda, Dawn removes her bottom retainer which Brenda had rescued for her on "Survivor; Caramoan"</div><span class="greySplitter" style="border: 0px; color: #c4c4c4; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">/</span> <span class="image-credit" style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A bizarre moment occurred when super girl Brenda, one of the late casualties of the show, asked soul-sister betrayer Dawn to remove her bottom teeth. Brenda felt she had a claim on those teeth, after swimming to the bottom of a pond a few episodes ago to retrieve them for hysterical Dawn. Brenda thought that good deed meant something, but was shocked to see Dawn's vote against her a round or two later.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I rather hoped Dawn would say no, but she finally did pull out her plate and showed her bottom gap. It didn't get her Brenda's vote though.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And in a development which makes you wonder how much lag time there is between leaving the island and the results show, Brenda had to make a satellite appearance on the post-season show because she is hugely pregnant and couldn't fly to California. She was still kind of holding a grudge against Dawn despite Probst's sister-bonding prods.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Cochran defended himself to the jury he described how he has watched every episode of the last 13 years, wore a "Survivor" bandana in high school and wrote a "Survivor" newsletter before later doing his thesis on the show.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This is the culmination of 13 years of passion for 'Survivor,'" he said. "This is an obsession. The fact that I am here is surreal and an honor."</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I've lied along the way, I deceived along the way, and I'm proud of it and I want to own it," he told the jury.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This was Cochran's season, and he earned a rare unanimous win from a jury of his peers. A recent law school grad, he was asked if being a lawyer was in his future. He said no, he wanted to be a writer, that he had the gift of gab.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><ul class="arrows gray" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-image: url(http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbs/generic/genericSprite.png); background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57583617/survivor-caramoan-recap-endgame-strategies/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; 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background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57570435/survivor-caramoan-pretty-people-take-a-hit/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Survivor: Caramoan": Pretty people take a hit</a></li><li style="background-image: url(http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbs/generic/genericSprite.png); background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57569328/survivor-caramoan-fans-vs-favorites-debut-history-repeating/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Survivor: Caramoan" -- History repeating</a></li><li style="background-image: url(http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbs/generic/genericSprite.png); background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57569269/new-survivor-season-pits-fans-against-favorites/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New "Survivor" season pits fans against favorites</a></li></ul><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the post-season show, host Probst asked Cochran what has changed for him in the two seasons he's played in "Survivor."</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Accepting my eccentricities as part of me, instead of being an embarrassment," said Cochran.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes from the post-season show: Malcolm was voted Sprint player of the season by viewers and won $100,000; Malcolm also has appeared on a soap opera; the 27th season features a spooky promo of red liquid dissolving in water and will be called "Survivor: Blood vs. Water," airing in September.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What's your take on the season finale? 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Dawn, Cochran and Sherri at their final tribal council to see who wins $1 million on "Survivor: CaramoanOn his first day on the island, pasty-white John Cochran burned so badly it was painful to look at him. All season he built on the image of Cochra…

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