Carson Garrett was Survivor 44's breakout superfan — a 20-year-old, NASA-bound engineering student who studied the game so obsessively he reverse-engineered the molds producers use to make idols, then built his own replicas in the sand. Beneath the wide-eyed enthusiasm was a real player who won two individual immunities and stayed central to the vote.
He came up just short, losing a final-four fire-making challenge to Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt to finish fourth. Endlessly likable and genuinely innovative, Carson modeled his game on fellow nerd-favorite Christian Hubicki and became one of the most beloved characters of the new era.
