Why Survivor : Game Changers Was The Best Season Of Survivor Yet.

The tribe has spoken

I'm pretty sure that most of you watched the 'Survivor' Reunion Show on the 24th of May.

And you also know that Sarah Lacina was given the title of Sole Survivor, with a 7-3-0 vote over Brad Culpepper and Troyzan Robertson.

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Well, how did she get there, and how did she BEAT the 19 other GAME-CHANGING CASTAWAYS?

Well, lets start with the first elimination

1st Castaway voted Out - Ciera

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At camp, Mana targeted Ciera for her strategizing but told her the target was Michaela. Michaela was angry after finding out she was the decoy target, which caused some of her tribemates to reconsider their plans, but at Tribal Council, the tribe stayed united and voted Ciera out.

Basically, Ciera started strategy WAY too early, and look where that got her..... BOOTED

2nd Castaway Voted Out - Tony

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Nuku won the challenge. Back at camp, Tony and Sandra campaigned against the other — Tony argued that Sandra needed to go for her poor challenge performances and status as the only two-time winner, while Sandra argued that Tony's inability to remain calm made others paranoid. Ultimately, the tribe sided with Sandra and Tony was voted out.

Sandra got NO VOTES at this tribal council. Yes, i'm just as confused as the rest of you are. Well, in the words of Sandra, "THE QUEEN STAYS QUEEN".

3rd Castaway Voted Out - Caleb

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Nuku and Tavua won the challenge, and Troyzan retrieved the hidden immunity idol while his tribe celebrated. At Mana, Tai tried to convince his alliance to target Hali over Caleb, but Brad warned Tai that keeping Caleb in the game would only strengthen the perception of Caleb and Tai as a strong pair, making them larger targets come the merge. At Tribal Council, Tai decided to stay loyal to his alliance, and joined his tribemates in sending Caleb out of the game.

Guess what, Caleb (who is basically Tai's BF) got voted out by him. Sneaky Sneaky

4th Castaway Voted Out - Malcolm

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At Tribal Council, both tribes attempted to realign with original tribemates Hali and J.T., who attempted to convince their former tribemates to target Brad and Sandra, respectively. J.T. quietly told Brad that Nuku's target was Sierra, in hopes that it would allow the Mana tribe to save her with their hidden immunity idol and eliminate Sandra. However, though Brad convinced Tai to play his idol on Sierra, negating the six votes against her, the Mana tribe targeted Malcolm instead, eliminating him from the game. As the tribes left Tribal Council, Michaela blamed J.T. for Malcolm's elimination.

Malcolm was voted out in the second most AMAZING tribal council ever (The best one being where Cirie was voted out, JUST BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO VOTE OUT.) This was also the FIRST EVER tribal council, where two tribes have to vote out one person TOGETHER

5th Castaway Voted Out - J.T

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Mana placed first and Tavua placed second. At the Nuku camp, J.T. and Michaela targeted each other; Aubry sided with J.T., but Sandra teamed up with Michaela out of revenge for Malcolm's elimination. Both sides lobbied for Jeff's vote, but he ultimately chose to vote against J.T., who chose not to bring his hidden immunity idol to Tribal Council and was eliminated from the game. After J.T.'s elimination, Sandra confessed to watching Teletubbies every day.

J.T blabbered to the other tribe about voting out Sierra, the previous tribal council and he got booted in return, WITH HIS IDOL

Yes, you read that last line right. Sandra watches Teletubbies. Just wow.

6th Castaway Voted Out - Sandra

Mana won the challenge. Back at camp, Jeff was confident that Tai was going home, but Sandra was skeptical, and campaigned against Tai for his original season bond with Aubry and Debbie. Though her tribemates agreed with her points, they still planned to eliminate her that night. However, Tai accidentally told Jeff that Sandra was the target, which made the others anxious. At Tribal Council, Sandra took advantage of Tai's paranoia, leading to Tai openly telling his tribemates to target Ozzy for being a physical threat, causing a huge argument between Tai and Zeke over Tai's unpredictability. Jeff and Sandra retaliated by telling their tribemates to vote out Tai for being untrustworthy. However, when the votes were read, the original Nuku tribe stayed loyal and sent Sandra out of the game, voting her out for the first time after 94 days of cumulative play over three seasons. Debbie then joined the Nuku tribe.

She was due to get booted sooner or later because no one is stupid enough to let a 2-time winner get to the merge. Anyways, 94 days of NOT being voted out......HOLY CRAP. I literally play survivor online (shoutout to Roblox) and i am like the first or second voted out, like WTF. Sandra received a standing ovation from her tribemates (and from me)

7th Castaway Voted Out - Jeff

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Mana won the challenge after deciphering the word "METAMORPHOSIS". At Nuku, Jeff tried to convince Zeke again to get rid of Ozzy but Zeke was conflicted due to his strategy of keeping larger targets in the game as shields. Zeke's hesitance caused Jeff to believe that Zeke and Ozzy had a secret alliance, which he exposed to the other tribe members, causing them to question their loyalties. At Tribal Council, a desperate Jeff outed Zeke as a transgender man, and tried to insinuate that Zeke's hiding this aspect of his life showed an ability to be deceitful. However, everyone else—including host Jeff Probst—quickly and emphatically rebuked Jeff Varner for this tactic. After a long discussion, Varner apologized, and expressed shame and remorse for what he had done. Seeing that Varner's actions would clearly lead to his elimination, Probst took an open roll call from all of the players, and then eliminated Varner without a formal vote.

This was one of the BIGGEST tribal council, in the HISTORY of survivor. The whole tribe was against Jeff's 'methods', and in the end, Jeff was voted out.....VERBALLY. The tribe had a unanimous decision to vote him out, after the 'events' at tribal council. Post-game, Jeff apologized to Zeke about what he did, and also told us that he got FIRED from his job because of what he did. Fortunately, he was hired by another company.

Merge

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In this season, Jeff Probst added a twist at the merge. One person from each of the tribes had to volunteer to sit out at the merge feast, otherwise, each of the tribes would get some measly crackers and a swig of ice tea. Tai and Brad volunteered to sit out, so that the rest of the tribe could pig out (yes i'm talking about you Aubry)

8th Castaway Voted Out / First Member of the Jury - Hali

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Andrea won the challenge. Back at camp, Sierra believed that Hali had a hidden immunity idol, and conspired to split the votes between her and Michaela. However, Cirie and Zeke worked to change the target from Michaela to Hali in order to save Michaela. Ultimately, Cirie's plan won out and Hali was eliminated, becoming the first member of the jury.

Hali definitely played a MUCH better game than she did in 'Worlds Apart'. However, she made A LOT of enemies, and that led to her getting the boot.

9th Castaway Voted Out / Second Member of the Jury - Ozzy

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Tai outlasted Ozzy to win immunity. Back at camp, Zeke told Sierra that she was being targeted by Cirie's alliance. Sierra told Cirie that Zeke told her about their plans, which prompted Cirie to target Zeke. However, Debbie decided to target Ozzy instead for his strength in challenges, and she rallied Brad, Sierra, Sarah, Tai, and Troyzan together. Sarah found herself caught between Debbie's and Cirie's factions; at Tribal Council, Sarah sided with Debbie, who used her extra vote to ensure Ozzy's elimination.

Honestly, voting out Ozzy was smart, and dumb, at the same time. It was smart, because HELLO, he is THE immunity KING, and it was dumb, because Debbie used her advantage for NOTHING. Even if she didnt use it, he would have still been voted off

10th Castaway Voted Out / Third Member of the Jury - Debbie

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Troyzan won immunity. Back at camp, the majority alliance decided to target Andrea for being a strategic threat. However, Sarah felt excluded from the decision, and conspired with Zeke to overthrow the majority, though she later reconsidered after Sierra proposed a final three deal with Sarah and Debbie. Debbie instructed Aubry to vote against Michaela, and told Aubry that Sarah didn't trust her in order to gain Aubry's trust. However, Aubry told the others, including Sarah, about Debbie's comments, which made Sarah consider voting Debbie out for her volatility. At Tribal Council, Sarah decided to flip on the majority alliance, joining the others in sending Debbie to the jury.

Aubry hooted = Debbie booted

Sarah flipped to vote Debbie out, and this was one of her game-changing moves

11th Castaway Voted Out / Fourth Member of the Jury - Zeke

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Andrea won immunity; safe from Tribal Council, Andrea plotted to eliminate Zeke that night, though Michaela and Sarah were skeptical of giving the other alliance a chance to regain the majority. At Tribal Council, the minority alliance voted against each other to avoid elimination, but the majority alliance betrayed Zeke, sending him to the jury in a vote of 5-3-2.

Zeke had already started plotting to vote Andrea out, ever since Hali's elimination. If there is one thing that I learnt while watching Andrea play-twice, is that you simply DO NOT mess with her. Andrea let the alliance and voting Zeke out, also, because if he made it to the final 3, he would have the BEST story like in the HISTORY of survivor ever

12th Castaway Voted Out / Fifth Member of the Jury - Sierra

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Brad won immunity. The majority alliance decided to target Sierra, while the minority planned to vote against Andrea; both sides tried to convince Michaela and Tai to vote with them. In order to convince Michaela and Tai to vote against Sierra, Sarah told them about Sierra's legacy advantage. At Tribal Council, Tai and Michaela voted with the majority alliance to send Sierra to the jury. While Sierra was leaving, Sarah feigned surprise in order to convince Sierra that she hadn't voted against her; Sarah's ruse worked, and Sierra privately willed her the legacy advantage

Sierra was on the outs, ever since Sarah flipped and sent Debbie to the Jury. In a desperate move to save herself, she revealed that she had a legacy advantage......... that led to her being voted out by Sarah, AND Sierra willing to Legacy advantage TO Sarah. gg Sarah

13th Castaway Voted Out / Sixth Member of the Jury - Andrea

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Aubry won the challenge in six minutes. Back at camp, she tried to rally her allies against Brad, but Andrea tried convincing Aubry to go against Sarah instead. Cirie, wanting to keep Sarah in the game as a bigger target than herself, talked to Sarah about betraying Andrea that night. At Tribal Council, Andrea and Aubry voted against Brad, but Cirie, Michaela and Sarah voted with the minority alliance of Brad, Tai and Troyzan to send Andrea to the jury. An emotional Aubry, left out of the plan to eliminate Andrea, was consoled by Tai, but Cirie noted that Tai's ability to emotionally connect with others could be threatening.

TBH Andrea was the queen, and she was DETHRONED. Andrea played one of the best games I have seen, and honestly, she should have won. She was blindsided for being a HUGE social threat and physical threat. After all, she did get Zeke out.

BTW... Gurl, you are rocking that bun XD

14th Castaway Voted Out / Seventh Member of the Jury - Michaela

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Brad won the challenge. Back at camp, Tai told Aubry he wanted to target Sarah, but Aubry relayed Tai's plan to Cirie, who later told Sarah. Sarah, skeptical about Tai's betrayal, gave Cirie her vote stealer as a sign of trust, which Cirie promised to return to Sarah after that night's Tribal Council. However, Cirie considered using it to save Sarah and eliminate Tai. At Tribal Council, Cirie tried to use the vote stealer to steal Sarah's vote with the intention of voting against Tai twice, but Sarah revealed that the advantage was non-transferable; following some final strategic discussions, Sarah decided to steal Tai's vote instead, and teamed up with Brad and Troyzan to eliminate Cirie's closest ally, Michaela.

This girl, was a BOSS. She had her signature hair-flip moves, along with her attitude. Basically, she didn't even stop to watch her torch being snuffed. She just.....WALKED. During tribal, there was chaos once again, and people started whispering in each others ears. Oh yeah, i'm sorry, this was AFTER Cirie, almost played SARAH's advantage. After Sarah pointed out that the vote was non-transferrable, Cirie had to give it back to Sarah, and she played it. She stole Tai's vote and booted Michaela to the jury

15th Castaway ELIMINATED / Eighth Member of the Jury - Cirie

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yes, you read it right.....ELIMINATED not VOTED OUT

Brad won the challenge and chose to share his reward with Troyzan and Sarah. During their feast, they conspired to split the votes between Aubry and Tai in case of Tai's hidden immunity idols. Tai, put off by Brad's attitude, told Aubry about his idols and promised to play one on her that night to ensure her loyalty; the two teamed up with Cirie to counter the alliance on the reward. At Tribal Council, Aubry, Cirie and Tai voted against Sarah while Brad, Sarah and Troyzan split their votes against Aubry and Tai. Tai played his idols on himself and Aubry, while Sarah played her immunity-granting legacy advantage, which prompted Troyzan to play his hidden immunity idol. As Cirie was the only player left without immunity, she was automatically eliminated despite receiving no votes against her

This SPECIFIC tribal council broke SO MANY records

- Most people immune = 5

- Most idols played - 3

and, a person was voted out, because there was no one left to vote out (sorry Cirie)

16th Castaway Voted Out / Ninth Member of the Jury - Aubry

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Brad won the challenge. Brad and Troyzan decided to target Aubry for being more threatening than Tai at the final Tribal Council, while Aubry targeted Troyzan as Brad's closest ally. At Tribal Council, Sarah and Tai decided to vote against Aubry, sending her to the jury.

Aubry was SO MUCH FUN to watch. She was hilarious and funny, and she played a good game. Also, who can hate Aubry?

Poor Aubry, now she can go eat her coleslaw at Ponderosa

17th Castaway Voted Out / Tenth and Final Member of the Jury - Tai

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Brad won the challenge to earn his fifth and final individual immunity. Out of revenge against Tai's betrayal, Brad and Troyzan planned to vote against him, while Tai tried to convince Sarah to force a tie against Troyzan, believing that either of them could beat him in the resulting fire-making tiebreaker challenge. At Tribal Council, Sarah sided with Brad and Troyzan, and Tai became the tenth and final member of the jury.

Even after successfully playing 3 idols, Tai was booted by the final 3. Tai is a HUGE threat, and if he wasn't voted out that night, he might have beat Brad and taken home the million dollar check, so it was a smart move by Brad and company

Final Tribal Council

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The next night, the finalists and jurors convened for the final Tribal Council. Unlike previous seasons, in which jurors addressed the finalists individually with a prepared statement or question, host Jeff Probst led a moderated discussion divided into the game's three major components: "Outwit", "Outplay" and "Outlast". During the discussion, Sarah was commended for her strategic and social manipulation but condemned for manipulating social connections for strategic gain; Brad was applauded for his leadership throughout the game but criticized for arrogance and being in the minority alliance throughout most of the game; and Troyzan was regarded as Brad's follower throughout the game, and paid little attention from the jury.

It was down to Brad and Sarah, at the end of the night

Reunion show

At the live reunion show, it was revealed Sarah won the title of Sole Survivor and $1,000,000 with votes from seven jurors — Hali, Zeke, Andrea, Michaela, Cirie, Aubry and Tai — while Brad placed second with Ozzy, Debbie and Sierra's votes, with Troyzan in third with no votes.

Also, the news about Zeke's outing was broken down, along with the story behind Michaela's attitude, and a sneak peek of a new season.....'Survivor Healers vs Hustlers vs Heroes'

*Mic drops*