S55 Finale - A Survivor Moment We’ll Remember Forever

**A Survivor Moment We’ll Remember Forever** is the Finale episode in Survivor 55.

## Plot synopsis

5 players remain entering the season finale of Survivor 55 with the chance to win it all: Austin, Drea, Jonathan, Ryan and Shan.

The game started with 18 players divided into tribes based on their dominant characteristic: social, physical, or strategic games. They have navigated through the tribe stage and most of the individual stage of the game.

Here’s what each player has done so far: Austin had a strong social game, forming a 4-player alliance to get him here, and he has used an idol to blindside the biggest threat to win at one point (Tevin). Drea used her social connections to advance in the game with Jesse until it was time for her to orchestrate the big blindside, Jonathan and Ryan have navigated the game by making social bonds with each other since Day 1 and subtly controlling most major decisions throughout the game especially in the post-merge, and Shan has used her social connections to bond with players from both major alliances and being largely the swing vote most votes with huge decisions that she made. Who will get to the end and win?

The final 5 immunity challenge occurs, and it involves using rope rungs and stairs to climb up 2 walls and then solve a complicated jigsaw puzzle at the end. Shan and Drea reached the top at nearly identical times, and it was Shan who solved the puzzle first to win Final 5 immunity.

Back at camp, the tribe discusses the biggest targets remaining in the game. The main players targeted were Austin and Drea due to their perceived strong games. Jonathan believed Austin was more threatening due to a high chance of winning fire, while Shan believed Drea was more threatening because she had more control in the majority alliance. This left Ryan as the deciding swing vote with a huge decision to make on who to take out at Tribal Council.

Tribal Council #14 votes: Austin, Drea, Austin, Drea, and voted out in 5th place is Drea

The final 4 are Austin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Shan.

The final immunity challenge is a balancing challenge where contestants must navigate a swinging balance beam with letter tile blocks that spell “immunity”. First player to place all 8 blocks correctly and return to the start earns a spot in the Final 3. Austin, Ryan and Shan were all in it until Austin dropped, and then Shan outpaced Ryan to win final immunity.

Back at camp, all 3 vulnerable players practiced making fire. Shan had conversations with each of the remaining players: Austin said that Ryan was a huge threat and that Jonathan should go against him for the best chance of success, while Ryan and Jonathan both tried to persuade Shan to let them face Austin in fire.

At Tribal Council, Shan chose to bring Jonathan to the end and send Ryan into fire with Austin since she trusted Ryan’s firemaking abilities more than those of Jonathan. Ryan made a quick fire, winning the challenge and sending Austin to the jury.

The next night, the final 3 players faced the jury of Austin, Drea, Erika, Frannie, Gabler, Jesse, Tevin and Venus. Jonathan said that he make bonds from day 1 and played an honest game with his allies that got him to the end and made many key early-merge decisions. Ryan said that on top of having the social prowess of Jonathan, he was also active finding idols, winning and almost winning more challenges and convincing the group to vote out Gabler at Final 6, by deciding the Final 5 vote against Jonathan’s wishes and then convincing Shan to place him in fire against Austin and then winning it. Shan said that she played a key role in the blindside against Jesse that removed an idol from the game and yet was the only woman never targeted despite having that move and also that she had the immunity wins to earn her spot at the Final Tribal Council.

The votes for the winner are: Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan and the winner of Survivor 55 is Ryan!!!