1. “Give Me an Idol or I’ll be Under Your Bed Tonight!”

18 new players began the journey to become the Sole Survivor. Sea quickly became paranoid over her perceived lack of connections on her tribe and worked to form relationships with Nolan and Raul. At Anibare, a majority was formed consisting of Joshlyn, Huzzy, Wes, Coco, and Robbie. At the immunity challenge, Robbie scored an advantage at the cost of Anibare losing to Buada by a single point in the tiebreaker round. At Anibare, Robbie and Coco formed a tight bond while the tribe debated who to send home. In the end, the votes swung against Zyler, who was seen as inactive and sent home in a 7-1-1 vote.

2. “Flipping on this Trash Ass Tribe”

After the vote, Coco became enraged at learning Huzzy and Joshlyn had a made separate alliance with Robbie called “The Hustlers” behind her back, and vowed to flip on Anibare at the first possible opportunity. After Buada won their second straight challenge, the Anibare majority debated whether to send Tris or Chase home for their perceived weakness in challenges. At tribal, the vote went against Tris and he was voted out 7-1.

3. “I Was Literally Charging My Insulin Pump!”

Dev created a 5-strong “Foa Foa 5” alliance with Alyssa, Nolan, Raul, and Ryan to target Jacob at Buada, with Nolan privately maintaining that Sea was his true final 2. Coco managed to find the Anibare idol after the tribe won their first immunity challenge and chose not to tell anyone about it. After poor turnout at the immunity challenge, Dev’s Buada alliance followed through on their plan to take out the inactive Jacob, who self-voted and was sent home 9-0.

4. “Someone Hand Me a Mocktail”

The tribes switched into two new tribes of 7, with Jadine being randomly selected to go to Exile Island and sit out of the next round. After Anibare won a very close game of Tengaged Scattergories, the minority “Original Anibare” alliance of Wes, Huzzy, and Joshlyn failed to flip any of the Buada members to their side. While Joshlyn tried to form a new alliance with Alyssa, Wes attempted to throw Huzzy under the bus to save his own game by claiming Huzzy was untrustworthy and trying to play both sides. The gamble worked, and the original Buada group switched their votes to Huzzy, sending him out of the game 6-1.

5. “To Me, The Possibilities are Endless”

After his closest ally left the game, Joshlyn attempted to scramble for new relationships, believing himself to be next on the chopping block. Robbie searched for the Buada idol to send to Joshlyn, not knowing it had already been found by Ryan earlier. After Israel compiled a list of all the answers immediately after the challenge began, Buada won the non-live trivia challenge by a hair which sent Anibare to their first post-swap tribal. At tribal, Robbie and Coco debated whether or not to try and make a move against Nolan, but ended up playing it safe and sending the inactive Cassidy out of the game 7-0.

6. “Not Giving Up ‘Till the End”

With the Buada idol found, Joshlyn believed himself to be out of options if his tribe were to lose the next challenge. At Anibare, Coco and Robbie formed the “SCAR” alliance with Nolan and Sea to help get numbers for themselves at the merge. Nolan expressed his belief that Israel could be pulled in at the merge to vote out the perceived “friend group” of “Dev, Jadine, Alyssa, Raul”. Anibare won the challenge, and despite Joshlyn’s attempts to scramble the original Buada majority stuck together, sending him out of the game 6-1.

7. “ROCKSLIDE!”

The two tribes merged into one and began the individual stage of the game. At the immunity challenge, Wes narrowly defeated Robbie to win the first individual immunity of the season. While Dev and Israel set their sights on Robbie who was perceived to be the biggest threat, Nolan began to doubt his place in the Buada majority and switched allegiances to join Coco, Robbie, and Sea. Ryan also chose to stick with his post-swap Anibare tribe and believed it was in his best interests to vote with them for the time being. With Robbie’s extra vote advantage from the first challenge, the new group of Coco, Robbie, Sea, Chase, Nolan, and Ryan narrowly blindsided Dev and sent him to the jury in a 7-6 vote.

8. “Time for a Missile Strike?”

Sea won Survivor Knockout after the tribal votes were read, securing a spot in the final 10. Fearing a leak in her alliance chat, she shared a fake clue with the rest of the group. Believing Nolan to be an “impostor” Robbie created a new sub-group of himself, Coco, and Sea while Wes, Jadine, and Alyssa attempted to regain numbers by targeting Coco, believing that she had an idol and was playing way too hard for their liking. Coco managed to find the merge idol just minutes before tribal council as she debated trying to instigate a last minute flip to get Wes out of the game. Despite Robbie’s increasing paranoia that Nolan was plotting against him, the majority alliance ended up sticking together and voting out Raul with Coco playing one of her idols and canceling 5 votes against her in a 6-5(0)) vote.

9. “Let’s Make a Toast to Flipping the Narrative”

Coco and Robbie decided that Wes, Ryan, and Nolan were their biggest competition left in the game and plotted to vote them off next. Meanwhile, Sea worried that her game was being overshadowed by Coco and Robbie, as Nolan began to ponder how to get to his preferred final 3 of himself, Ryan, and Sea. Coco won the immunity challenge and after finding an old Rebelman blog post, was able to quickly find the re-hidden merge immunity idol. When Coco and Robbie attempted to get Wes on board to vote out Ryan while splitting the vote with Israel, their plan backfired and ended in a tie between Robbie and Ryan at tribal council after Wes, Jadine, and Alyssa saw it as an opportunity to potentially flush an immunity idol out of play. After Ryan transferred his idol to Chase for safe keeping and a messy public argument between Robbie and Ryan during the re-vote period, Robbie unsuccessfully tried to lie his way out of the tie and was sent home in a 7-1 revote.

10. “This Bitch Needs Immunity”

After narrowly surviving the vote, Ryan worried about his place in the game. At the immunity challenge, Coco narrowly edged out Wes to win touchy subjects in a tiebreaker determined by speed. At tribal council, vote was split between Israel and Chase, both viewed as wild cards who weren’t loyal to either major side. Despite Coco’s attempts to lobby for Ryan to be voted out instead, the majority swung against Chase after Israel successfully lobbied Wes, Jadine and Alyssa to save himself. Chase was subsequently sent to the jury with an idol in his pocket, 6-3.

11. “The Dirty Laundry’s Coming Out”

After Chase’s exit, Wes narrowly beat Coco in the immunity challenge to earn a spot in the final 7. Believing that Coco had an idol, Wes/Jadine/Alyssa decided to try and bluff that they were voting Coco to flush it out of play while really setting their sights on Coco’s #1 ally Sea. While Nolan and Ryan wanted to vote one of the perceived “trio” of Wes/Jadine/Alyssa out, Coco lobbied Sea and Israel in an attempt to blindside Nolan to prevent him from playing the middle while simultaneously forcing Ryan to work with them at the final 7 to control the rest of the game. At tribal, however, Coco overplayed her hand and misplayed her idol on herself, leading to a public blowup during the re-vote period after a 3-3-2 tie between Sea and Nolan. In the end, Wes/Jadine/Alyssa got their way and Sea was sent home in a 4-2 re-vote.

12. “I’m Done Playing Miss Nice Girl”

After Israel voted against her interests again, Alyssa decided to no longer trust him moving forward. Coco began to aggressively try and sway Nolan and Ryan to her side, claiming that Wes/Jadine/Alyssa were an inseparable trio and would send him home as soon as they could. After Wes won immunity again, he told his alliance to lie about wanting to take each other to the end so they wouldn’t appear to be working together. This worked like a charm on Nolan, who believed he no longer had any trust left to lose with Coco anyway and stood a better chance with the jury staying by in the trio’s good graces. While the majority of the votes went to Coco, she played her third and final idol to cancel them out and send Jadine to the jury, 2-5(0)).

13. “Can’t Let Fate Decide”

After Coco survived again, most of the cast still resolved to vote her out for 6th, believing that the idols were finally gone and that she was the biggest threat left to win. After Coco beat out Nolan and Alyssa to win the endurance challenge and secure a spot in the finale, however, the remaining players had to scramble to find a new target. Ryan and Coco quickly targeted Wes for his perceived relationship to Jadine and Alyssa as well as his strength in challenges and strong strategic game. Wes and Alyssa initially targeted Ryan but switched to Israel, while Nolan found himself as the swing vote for the round. The votes initially came back a 3-3 tie, but Nolan, not wanting to go to rocks so late in the game, switched his vote and sent Wes to the jury in a 3-1 revote.

14. “My Dog Would Make a Better Winner than Any of These Scumbags”

Nolan narrowly beat out Coco to win the final 5 immunity challenge. Despite Coco’s attempts to paint Alyssa as a bigger jury threat, she was voted out unanimously for 5th place, 4-1. During the final immunity challenge, Alyssa struggled to find the correct trivia answers while Nolan and Ryan raced head to head for final immunity. Ryan started out with a big lead in the puzzle, but ended up beating Nolan by just seconds to the finish line. With Ryan’s spot at final tribal secured, Alyssa tried to get Nolan and Ryan to vote Israel out (and vice versa), with Nolan and Ryan settling on sending Alyssa to Ponderosa as they viewed her as the bigger threat to win. At final tribal council, the jury was divided on who to award the win but ultimately viewed Israel as the person who had burned the fewest bridges with the people he voted out. Israel went on to narrowly win the season in a 4-3-2 jury vote, with Ryan coming in second.