Myles Kuah has been seriously impressive on Australian Survivor 2025 so far, and he told Chattr in an exclusive interview that his intense pre-show research helped him gain a deep knowledge of the game.
The Financial Analyst used his trade skills to nut out what had happened in previous seasons and figure out the odds of when they would likely happen in Australian Survivor: Brain v Brawn II.
Myles said those predictions — including when Merge and the Tribe Swaps would happen — turned out to be true, except for one twist he missed.
“I actually built multiple Excel spreadsheets from previous seasons. So I predicted every twist, except for the Baron twist,” he revealed.
“Every single one! I could get the timings of them, because of the averages that I was looking at,” he explained. “I made weighted averages of previous twists, and I looked at the timings.”
Myles told Chattr that while the data helped him figure out when twists, like non-elimination Tribal Councils, were happening, he knew that anything was possible on Survivor, so he used the spreadsheets as a guide rather than as gospel.
“I wasn’t expecting expecting the twists because you can’t go into a Tribal Council thinking, ‘Oh, this is going to be a normal one’, in case it isn’t.”
However, Myles said that he was “very wary” during the Tribal Councils that lined up with the timings in his spread sheet.
“It felt pretty good to be right. As they came along, I was like, ‘Yep, got this one right in the spreadsheet.'”
Myles also used his data to figure out his Survivor strategy
Myles didn’t just use his spreadsheets to predict when twists would happen in the game — he also used it to plan a game strategy.
The 24-year-old told Chattr that he was on the younger side of the players cast on the show and had studied previous contestants of similar ages.
“I looked at other younger players. I had a list of all the Survivor players, and I looked at stuff like their careers, age and whatnot.
“What I found with younger players, and I really understand it now having played, is that even the ones that make it deep, often make it deep as second in commands and as sidekicks, essentially,” he explained.
There has only ever been one Australian Survivor winner under the age of 25, which was Kristie Bennett in Season 3. Myles said he considered this when devising a strategy that varied from the young players who’d competed before him.
“It was a big driver for me, especially as we hit Merge, to try and find a bit of agency and not just get swept along in the game as the really young, under-25 players often do.”
Myles doesn’t consider himself a Survivor superfan
While Myles may sound like the oracle of Australian Survivor knowledge, he told Chattr that he only started watching the reality series recently.
“I’m actually not as big of a fan as a lot of people think I am. I only got into it a couple of years ago, but the way that I enjoy things is I get a very intense level of interest,” he said.
“I would go out there [on the beach] and I’d be rolling Survivor SAP off the top my head, and it’s like, freaked people out a lot, like, ‘Oh my god, Myles, is this massive fan.’ Like, I am a big fan, but very much a recent convert who just gets a little bit obsessive.”
Give this man the title of Sole Survivor 2025, already.
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