Team Moz, with four alumni of the CBS reality show, “Survivor,” triumphs in the Crowleys’ annual Durham fundraiser.

Wendy Langford of Nokesville, Va., was on a star-studded team last weekend in the third annual Durham Warriors Survival Challenge, and in the end, Langford was a star in her own right.

Competing on Team Moz, four of whose seven members had competed in the CBS reality show “Survivor,” Langford, 47, was the last person standing following a tribal council Sunday morning at Maine Forest Yurts in Durham. Former “Survivor” champion Bob Crowley and his wife, Peggy, hosted the three-day event patterned after “Survivor.” Proceeds, as always, benefit the military and service groups who get to spend nights in the Cowleys’ yurts, which are well-equipped forest cottages.

The Crowleys estimated they raised $40,000 over the weekend, not including $10,000 in donations of materials and food.

Along with Langford, Joel Klug of Milwaukee, a contestant in the very first episode entitled, “Survivor: Borneo” in 2000, and Jill Behm of Erie, Pa., from “Survivor: Nicaragua” in 2010, were the final three contestants up for judgment Sunday following three days of contests near little Walkabout Pond, in the woods and across the road from the Crowleys’ farm. The final tribal council chose Langford.

Team Moz also included Trey Robertson of Miami, who was in “Survivor: One World” in 2011. Team Moz stayed united and voted off all challengers, who in turn formed the jury for the individual challenges. Langford turned in strong performances in two of those three challenges to win “The Bobster,” a trophy made of lobster shells and named after Crowley.

“I would say the level of competition was over the top,” Crowley said Monday. “The Survivors were to the wall. They weren’t giving any slack.”

All the contestants and the many volunteers who put the challenge together enjoyed a lobster bake on Sunday afternoon, then fanned across the country to head home.

The strength of Team Moz was on full display late Saturday morning, during the “Dominoes” challenge. Crowley and his team of challenge planners, led by Kevin Thurber of Topsham, devised a game that required great planning – in the case of Team Moz on the part of Behm – and the dexterity of the rest of the tribe. In the “Dominoes” game, one person stacks wooden blocks in a line on boards attached to ropes, which are held as evenly as possible by the remainder of the team. The first team to have all the dominoes fall won.

Behm was quicker and better than anyone else setting up the dominoes in a row straight enough so they all could be knocked down.

Like many former “Survivor” contestants, one of Behm’s teammates on “Survivor Nicaragua,” Jimmy “T.” Tarantino, of Gloucester, Mass., has become good friends with the Crowleys. Tarantino was having a ball at the Durham games, using a sea conch for a bullhorn when councils voted out one of their members.

“It gets better every year,” Tarantino said. “There was a puzzle (Friday) that was amazing – as good if not better than ‘Survivor’ quality.”

Tarantino is familiar with Maine Forest Yurts.

“I come up regularly to cut wood with Bob, and make trails,” he said. “Good things come to good people, you know.”

Dan Foley of Gorham, who finished sixth in “Survivor: Worlds Apart” last year, said he was all set to take part in the Durham Warriors Survival Challenge last year.

“I had to withdraw,” Foley said. “I got called to the big show. I was supposed to compete here again this year. But they felt I would be more of a draw if I could be around greeting and talking to people.”

Foley, like everyone else on the Maine Forest Yurts grounds last weekend, knows what goes into this undertaking.

“They put a huge amount of effort into this,” he said. “How can people not be filled with respect and admiration for what they’re doing?”

The Durham games also featured a local contestant, Katy Maxim of Durham, who competed for Team Waya. Maxim, 41, said she became connected to the event last year when her son Tyler’s Cub Scouts Pack 145 served as volunteers.

Maxim, dining services manager at the University of New England, was the seventh person voted out.

“I really like endurance sports,” she said. “I’ve done Tough Mudder races. I love ‘Survivor’ – I watch it all the time.”

Maxim said she had to adjust quickly to “very primitive sleeping arrangements.” Contestants slept under the stars on tarps, on a hill overlooking Walkabout Pond.

“We have fire,” Maxim said. “We have rice. We have beans. We’ve been sleeping near the fire, because it’s been getting cold at night.”

Maxim made note of the strength of Team Moz compared to Team Waya, which had no “Survivor” participants.

“They have a very real advantage,” she said. “Our team is the only team that does not have a ‘Survivor’ member in it.”

Team Tawadi had two former “Survivor” contestants.

In addition to Maxim, contestants from Maine included Jared Eaton of South Portland, Matt McCarthy of Sanford and Bob Penny of Brunswick.

Tribe members are chosen by the teams themselves, not the challenge organizers. Captains are selected first, then the captain selects the next team member, who selects the next.

“The ball just started rolling to have the ‘Survivor’ members on one team,” Tarantino said.

Throughout the crowd of about 200 Saturday, there were people who have attended many “Survivor” events and all three Durham Warriors Survival Challenge contests. Claudia Munoz of Las Vegas, who kept track of the tribal votes on the three team boards, which features photographs of each tribe member, is definitely one of those.

“I’ve been a super fan since Day 1,” Munoz said. “I’ve gone to ‘Survivor’ finals in Los Angeles and New York, and spent about $40,000 on hotels and stuff.”

Members of the Tawadi team set up for the “Dominoes” challenge last Saturday in the Durham Warriors Survival Challenge.Staff photos by Larry GrardBob Crowley chats with a fan on hand Saturday in the Durham Warriors Survival Challenge that he and his wife, Peggy, host at Maine Forest Yurts on Auburn/Pownal Road. Crowley won the “Survivor: Gabon” episode of the hit CBS reality television show in 2008.Dan Foley of Gorham, who finished sixth in last year’s “Survivor: Worlds Apart” episode of the CBS reality television show, enjoys himself last Saturday during the Durham Warriors Survival Challenge at Maine Forest Yurts.Wendy Langford, winner of this year’s Durham Winners Survival Challenge, holds her trophy, “The Bobster,” as she stands with Bob Crowley on Sunday.