Survivor: Battle Royale

Sharks Tribe (Post-Swap)

***Survivor: Battle Royale*** is the sixth season of ***Survivor***, and was filmed on Saturday, March 27th, 2021.

The season was revealed on the Instagram page @idol.identifiers on Wednesday, March 31st, 2021, where four returning players and two new players were leaked in the first promo for the season. The full cast was revealed on the same account on Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 and the season premiered on Thursday, April 22nd, 2021. After the Finale aired on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2021, it would be Bri England who would reign victorious over Dacota Weiegert and Sam Adler at the Final Tribal Council, both of whom tied for second place.

## Format

* **Tribe** **Composition**: The season started out with 14 players divided into two tribes of 7, with 9 returning players coming in to join the 5 new players.
* **Tribe Expansion**: Once 12 players remained, the players were swapped out of their current two tribes and into three tribes, with the third tribe being formed then and there.
* **Joint-Tribal Council**: At a random point in the tribal stage of the game, the two tribes who lost an immunity challenge would be forced to go to tribal council and vote off one player.
* **No Tribal Prep**: At a random point in the tribal stage of the game, the tribe that lost an immunity challenge would have to go straight to tribal council without going back to camp to talk about the vote.
* **Merge Tribe Composition**: The merge tribe was composed of 10 players.
* **Double Tribal Council**: At a random point in the game, the contestants were asked to vote someone out immediately following the elimination of another player in the game, this happening when there was 8 players left in the game.
* **Hidden Immunity Idols:** The immunity idols were hidden at the tribes' "camps." Once a player finds it, it is theirs to keep until they want to use it. If and when a player uses it, any votes counted against them will not count. On the chance they are voted off they must will their idol to someone still in the game.
* **Final 4 Passage Challenge**: Instead of a typical voteoff at the Final 4, the winner of the Final Individual Immunity Challenge was told to pick someone to go to the end with them, with their choice sending the other two to fight in one last challenge that would determine who would become the third finalist and who would become the final person eliminated from the season.
* **Final Tribal Council Format**: The Final 3 faced a jury of 7. The jurors discussed the finalists amongst themselves in a jury discussion format this season, revolving around the theme of "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast" and how the finalists had done all of these aspects in the game.

## Season Summary

The season started out with the nine returning players and five new players being separated into two tribes of seven, the tribes being named the Scorpions and the Snakes. When twelve players remained after each tribe lost a player, the players swapped in the game's first ever tribe expansion, the third tribe being the Sharks. The game would take another turn as it would introduce the game's first joint-tribal council, where the new Sharks Tribe and the new Snakes Tribe went to vote one player out of the game. The Sharks Tribe would continue to face more difficulties as they would continue their losing streak for the rest of the tribal stage of the game.

The players were shocked once again when the final ten players merged into one tribe, and blindsides would commence quickly from all angles of the game. Blindsides from all angles would occur, leading to shocking betrayals and the game's second rock drawing. In the end, three females emerged out of the ashes; those being Bri England, Dacota Weiegert, and Sam Adler. While each had a story to share at the Final Tribal Council with their reasons to win the game, it would be Bri who would ultimately emerge victorious from the battles, thus, winning the war of the season.

## Trivia

* *Survivor: Battle Royale* is the first season to feature female contestants competing for the third time.
* *Survivor: Battle Royale* is the first season to not feature a contestant from *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge* becoming a returning player, with the prior four seasons bringing back one or more contestants from the aforementioned season for their second chance.
* *Survivor: Battle Royale* is the first season to start the game off with an even number of male to female players.
* *Survivor: Battle Royale* is the first season to have more female than male players at the merge.