Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains

***Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains*** is the twentieth season of the PM Survivor Series.
The season was filled with returning players who were known for their honor and integrity (Heroes) or their deception and duplicity (Villains). Alessia Gaston was declared the winner in a 7-1-1 vote against Misty Bray and Sierra Vilchis. To date, it has produced one returning player (Carla Yarto) for subsequent seasons.

## Production

*Heroes vs. Villains* featured ten former castaways known for their acts of integrity and honor, the Heroes, and ten former castaways known for their deeds of deception and duplicity, the Villains. All challenges in this season were based on challenges used in every contestant's previous season. The casting started with 36 previous players with the cast coming down to only 20 players.

On March 4, the first two players revealed. Until the premiere of the season, the remaining eighteen players will be revealed sporadically. On March 10, the final two players were revealed to complete the cast of 20 players.

## Twists/Changes

* **Heroes vs. Villains:** Ten of the most heroic castaways battled against the ten most villainous castaways for the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollar prize, hence the season title.
* **Hidden Immunity Idol:** Like the previous season, the last time to play an idol will be on Day 36.
* **Double Tribal Council:** On Day 16, both tribes competed for individual immunity for an elimination later that night.

## Season Summary

The twenty returning castaways were pre-divided into two tribes of ten based on their previous style of gameplay. The Heroes tribe dominated a vast majority of the challenges, winning 8 out of 11, and going to tribal council three times, while Villains attended the other five tribal councils. The Heroes tribe was taken over by the majority alliance of Carla Yarto, Marcus Benton, Misty Bray, Sierra Vilchis and Stephon Cooper, controlling all three tribal councils they attended. Meanwhile on the Villains tribe, the tribe played a more messier and villainous game turning against each other, but the trio of Alessia Gaston, Belle Hoang and Rachel Barr was one of the more stable alliances until Belle and Rachel attempted to blindside Alessia. The karma followed Belle at the next tribal council where Valeria Baglio played the Hidden Immunity Idol.

With seven Heroes and five Villains remaining, the tribes came together for a merge at twelve. While the newly formed Yin Yang seemed to have the Heroes on top, Stephon led the charge for the outsiders Dylan Crawford, Kalea Thompson and the Villains to seize power to blindside Marcus. An idol play prevented the overthrow of power to happen resulting in three members outside of the Heroes alliance to go home. Until a double idol play by Rachel and Oren Galvan tied the vote between allies Carla and Marcus. The alliance and outsiders chose to keep Carla over Marcus.

Despite the overthrow of one of the leaders of the Heroes alliance, the attention turned towards the bigger threats in the game, however, the threats came together for the next two votes. A fourth idol play to send home Stephon, opened the door for former winner Rachel to fall afterwards. The heroes having the numbers over villains at the final five sent Jeremey home and with the odds of three against one. Alessia's immunity run secured her a spot at Final Tribal Council, leaving Misty and Sierra to turn against their long term ally, Carla.

At Final Tribal Council, the jury blasted Misty and Sierra for their lack of heroic qualities throughout the season while Alessia's immunity wins and shield strategy was praised by the jurors. Alessia won the title of Sole Survivor over Misty and Sierra in a 7-1-1 vote respectively, making her the first three-time player to win the game.

## Trivia

* This is the first season to feature three-time returning players.
* This is the only all-returning player season where no tribe switches occurred.
* This season's logo featured silhouettes of the castaways from the Heroes and Villains tribes.
* Alessia Gaston is the first player to achieve the record of playing Survivor for 100 days, achieving this milestone on Day 23.
	+ Stephon Cooper became the second player to achieve the the record on Day 32.
* This season marks two achievements regarding the Final Three Final Tribal Council.
	+ This is the first time the final three is composed of all-females.
	+ This is the first and thus far, only season with an all-African-American Final Three.
* This is the first season to have two runners-up, due to Misty Bray and Sierra Vilchis both receiving one vote from the jury. As a result, there were two second-place finishers and no third-place finisher.