Game Changers

Survivor: Game Changers · Season 34

Episode Guide

How Survivor: Game Changers unfolded, week by week.

  1. 1“The Stakes Have Been Raised”Mar 8, 2017Twenty self-styled game changers hit the beach, every one of them famous for being willing to make a big move, and the first vote sets the tone for how unforgiving this cast will be with each other. Ciera Eastin, the player whose whole reputation is built on going for it, never gets the chance to here. Sapped by an early challenge loss, her tribe decides the woman who flips games is too dangerous to keep around even on Day 3, and Ciera is voted out first, in 20th.
  2. 2“Survivor Jackpot”Mar 15, 2017Tony Vlachos plays at a hundred miles an hour from the jump, hauling logs into the woods to build a hidden 'spy bunker' and scheming so loudly that he spooks his entire tribe. All that frantic energy backfires; when the tribe loses, the group decides the most dangerous man on the beach has to go before he gets rolling, and Tony, of all people, is blindsided and voted out in 19th.
  3. 3“The Tables Have Turned”Mar 22, 2017Caleb Reynolds, back for a real shot after his brutal heat-stroke evacuation in Kaoh Rong, finally gets to play a full week of Survivor. It doesn't last. Caught on the wrong side of the numbers after a tribe loss, Caleb is voted out in 18th, his comeback cut short almost as soon as it started.
  4. 4“Dirty Deed”Mar 29, 2017For the first time, two tribes are hauled to a single joint Tribal Council, and the twist scrambles everyone's plans. Sandra, the reigning two-time queen, works the chaos to steer the vote, and Malcolm Freberg, one of the biggest all-around threats in the entire cast, is blindsided in 17th before he can mount the run everybody feared.
  5. 5“Vote Early, Vote Often”Apr 5, 2017J.T. Thomas, sure he has a finger on the tribe's pulse, gets a little too clever for his own good. He makes a move meant to lock up his spot and instead exposes himself, and the tribe quietly turns the tables, blindsiding J.T. out in 16th.
  6. 6“What Happened on Exile, Stays on Exile”Apr 12, 2017The queen's reign finally ends. Sandra Diaz-Twine has talked, charmed, and maneuvered out of every tight spot across two full seasons, but this time the tribe decides the only way to be safe from her is simply to cut her. Sandra is voted out in 15th, the first time in her storied career her torch has ever been snuffed.
  7. 7“There's a New Sheriff in Town”Apr 19, 2017This one stops being a game. Scrambling for a way to stay, Jeff Varner publicly outs his fellow castaway Zeke Smith as transgender at Tribal Council, without Zeke's consent. The tribe is horrified and immediately rallies around Zeke in support, and with the whole group united against what just happened, Probst sends Varner home on the spot, no vote taken, in 14th. It's one of the heaviest nights the show has ever aired, and the cast's compassion toward Zeke is what everyone remembers.
  8. 8“A Line Drawn in Concrete”Apr 26, 2017The merge arrives as Maku Maku and the jury phase opens. Hali Ford, the easygoing law student, lands just outside the new majority's numbers. Without the votes to swing things her way, Hali is voted out in 13th, the first member of the jury.
  9. 9“Reinventing How This Game Is Played”May 3, 2017Ozzy Lusth, the four-time player and one of the best provider-athletes the show has ever had, is exactly the kind of physical threat the merged tribe wants gone before the individual run heats up. They refuse to give him the chance to go on an immunity tear, voting Ozzy out in 12th.
  10. 10“It Is Not a High Without a Low”May 10, 2017Debbie Wanner, who's reinvented herself a dozen times and trusts her own reads completely, finally overplays her hand. Her allies decide she's become more loose cannon than asset, and Debbie is blindsided to the jury in 11th.
  11. 11“Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow”May 17, 2017A marathon stretch of the game thins the herd fast. First Zeke Smith, sharp and well-liked, is read as too strong a strategic threat and voted out in 10th. Then Sierra Dawn Thomas is blindsided in 9th, and the secret 'Legacy Advantage' she'd guarded for weeks passes, by her own pre-written instructions, straight to Sarah. Andrea Boehlke, who'd been steering much of the post-merge game, pushes a little too hard and is taken out in 8th, and the blunt, brilliant Michaela Bradshaw follows her to the jury in 7th.
  12. 12“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”FinaleMay 24, 2017Finale night delivers one of the most heartbreaking exits the show has ever filmed. At the final six, every other player is holding either individual immunity or a hidden idol, and Cirie Fields, one of the greatest never to win, is left with nothing to play. With no legal vote available against anyone else, she's eliminated without a single ballot being cast, going out in 6th. Then Aubry Bracco falls in 5th and Tai Trang in 4th, leaving Sarah Lacina, Brad Culpepper, and Troyzan Robertson at the end. Sarah, a real-life police officer who played a ruthless, criminal-minded game she openly compared to working a case, wins the title 7-3-0 over Brad.