Survivor PNW: Crypto

The seventh and final Survivor Pacific Northwest season took place two years after Fans vs. Favorites, in the summer of 2021. For this season, YouTube episodes were never intended; instead, live-stream videos were uploaded to the season's Facebook page. Nine returning players, many with legendary status, and one new player, competed for what many considered to be the final and ultimate Survivor PNW crown. Despite being one of the shortest seasons, it was perhaps the most exciting PNW season, with 7 out of 8 votes being decided by just one vote.

**Bounty Coin (BtC) Twist**

After tribes were randomly assigned, a "pentagon of targets" was randomly and secretly applied to each tribe. Each player was given a "target token" which activates to a "Bounty Coin" when and if that player votes out their assigned target. The successful "assassination" results in "loot" for the player, who inherits all of their targets accumulated Bounty Coins and their target token. Before the first tribal council, players were given their first target in secret. Players had the opportunity to win an activated Bounty Coin if they "solved" their tribe's target pentagon at their first Tribal Council. Cooper and Sasha both solved it at the first Tribal, with Cooper winning an activated coin after a secret coin flip. Activated coins have the power to be played like Hidden Immunity Idols, but negating one vote for each coin played. The coins expired at the final 6. Here were the initial target orders with the arrow translating to "is targeting":

Fruit Ninjas: Tilboon → Mckenna → Jalen → Chin → Karen → Tilboon

Yellow Submarines: Aly → Maleah → Coby → Sasha → Cooper → Aly

## Voting History

**Season Summary**

**Final 10:**

Immunity Challenge -- Relay Race
Fruit Ninjas start out slow with Tilboon taking his time and Mckenna shooting baskets on the wrong hoop. They make up time with Jalen counting Starbursts. Aly is still counting Starbursts for the remainder of the challenge as Chin and Karen complete the wheelbarrow portion and the tribe combines to make five successful ball tosses into the bucket. Fruit Ninjas win immunity!

It’s worth mentioning here that Coby arrives right after the challenge. He had an appointment in the morning and did not compete. As a group of four the players agree to vote for Coby. Cooper leaves to talk to Coby and the target shifts to Cooper. This is in part because Cooper is Sasha’s target, he is deemed less trustworthy than Coby, and Coby is a meat shield. Maleah and Aly pledge their allegiance to Sasha.

Sasha and Cooper both successfully solve the tribe’s target sequence. Players were pretty open about it at camp. Cooper wins the Bonus BtC by a coin flip and receives it in secret right before the reading of the votes. He does not play it.

Votes:

Aly, Maleah, Sasha for Cooper

Coby, Cooper for Aly

Cooper voted out 3-2 with the only BtC in his pocket. Sasha’s target token becomes an activated Bounty Coin and he inherits Cooper’s bonus coin giving Sasha the only two activated coins in the game. Sasha’s new target is Aly.

Aly → Maleah → Coby → Sasha → ~~Cooper~~ → Aly

**Final 9:**

Mege!!!

Immunity Challenge -- Balancing on one foot, balancing ball on a plate. Maleah finishes second and Chin wins immunity!

Karen, Mckenna, and Chin make a final three deal. Chin is targeting Jalen because he is his biggest threat to immunities and has a connection with his sister Maleah. This works for Mckenna because Jalen is her target. They bring in the duo of Tilboon and Sasha to complete the UW bloc of 5. Sasha immediately turns on his allies Maleah and Aly. The minority votes Tilboon thinking pretty much everybody is in agreement.

Votes:

Chin, Karen, Mckenna, Sasha, Tilboon for Jalen

Aly, Coby, Jalen, Maleah for Tilboon

Jalen voted out 5-4; his third time finishing in ninth place. Mckenna’s BtC is activated and her new target is Chin. Sasha has two coins, Mckenna has one going into the final 8.

Tilboon → Mckenna → ~~Jalen~~ → Chin → Karen → Tilboon

Aly → Maleah → Coby → Sasha → ~~Cooper~~ → Aly

**Final 8:**

Immunity Challenge -- Try to knock the opponents ball off their tennis racket bracket. Sasha beats Chin in the championship for his record fifth career individual immunity win.

Sasha targets Chin to take out an immunity and strategic threat but Karen and Mckenna protect their ally. Losing the Sasha and Tilboon bloc, the final three alliance brings in Coby, the only player who has voted wrong at both tribals, to offer an alliance-less player some clout in the game. Maleah is their target because she is deemed the most threatening, hardest to lie to, and most opposed to them. Mckenna uses her activated BtC to nullify Tilboon’s vote in order to break the tie.

Votes:

Chin, Coby, Karen, Mckenna for Maleah

Aly, Maleah, Sasha, ~~Tilboon~~ for Chin

Maleah is voted out 4-3. Since Aly did not vote for Maleah, her coin does not activate. Coby is her new target. Sasha is the only player with an activated coin with two.

Tilboon → Mckenna → ~~Jalen~~ → Chin → Karen → Tilboon

Aly → ~~Maleah~~ → Coby → Sasha → ~~Cooper~~ → Aly

**Final 7:**

Immunity Challenge -- Touchy Subjects Chop Challenge -- Mckenna wins immunity!!

Sasha and Chin both fight for their lives in the game as it becomes clear one of them will go home as the biggest threats without many allies. Mckenna and Karen begin to bring Aly in the fold with a plan to replace her with Chin in their final three alliance. Coby and Mckenna’s bond grows and so does Aly and Karen’s. Sasha pitches to Coby that he is next if Sasha is voted out but Coby’s lack of trust for Sasha is too great to sway him. Sasha’s bounty is high and Coby also knows he earns up to three coins if he votes out Sasha. With the coins expiring at the final 6, he knows the bounty transferred to him does not add incentive to vote him out. Sasha feels the target on his back and uses both of his coins.

Votes:

Aly, ~~Chin,~~ Coby, Karen, ~~Mckenna~~ for Sasha

Sasha, Tilboon for Chin

Sasha is voted out 3-2. Coby’s coin is activated for voting out his target, taking the only activated coin into the final 6.

**Final 6:**

Immediate chaos ensues over the mystery second vote for Chin. Fingers are pointed at Aly, Tilboon, and Coby who all adamantly insist that they voted for Sasha. The group mostly blames Coby because he is being the least vocal about it.

Immunity Challenge -- Memory Race; A 6x8 grid of Survivor logos and corresponding grid of logos with some logos interchanged with different seasons is placed about 20 yards away. Players are to go row by row checking the column index of the differences. Aly blows away the competition with Mckenna coming in second.

Coby finds his PNW record fourth career hidden immunity idol. Tilboon targets Mckenna as the biggest threat to win the game. He pitches to Aly that Chin is the easy vote and in order for her to win, she needs a move like this to add to her resume. He pitches to Coby that going to the final five with three girls is suicide for his game. Coby is closer to Mckenna and fears that Chin could win out in immunity challenges if he stays in the game any longer. Coby uses his BtC, the last tribal to play it.

Votes:

Coby, Karen, Mckenna for Chin

Aly, Chin, ~~Tilboon~~ for Mckenna

**Final 5:**

Immunity Challenge -- Memory Sequence. Mckenna outlasts Coby.

Coby’s idol is public information at this point; he is flaunting it around camp. Coby sees himself as the swing vote between two groups of two -- Karen and Mckenna are an obvious duo and have voted together the entire game. Tilboon and Aly’s target shifts to Mckenna’s closest ally. Coby is pretty conflicted on what side he wants to go to; he says it is a coin flip. His lack of trust for Tilboon influences his decision. Coby plays his idol on himself.

Votes:

Coby, Karen, Mckenna for Tilboon

Aly, Tilboon for Karen

**Final 4:**

Immunity Challenge -- start by calculating the votes cast in the entire game, then recall the boot order, finally solve a five piece square puzzle. All four contestants make it to the puzzle but Coby rides his big lead to a win.

Right after the challenge, Coby goes right to Mckenna and tells her he will be voting for her because she is his biggest opposition for the win. The players all know that the final two contestants will face the jury. Mckenna pleads to Karen and she says she will vote to keep Mckenna and force a tiebreaker challenge between Aly and Mckenna. Karen likes that this move will keep blood off of her hands and that she is giving her friend and ally Mckenna a chance. Mckenna goes back to Coby and promises him the final two if he keeps her and she wins the final immunity challenge. Coby feels like he needs to win out to stay in the game so this deal shockingly makes him change his mind. He won’t vote for Aly because he doesn’t want to go into the Final Three with a duo and Karen is the bigger jury threat. On the way to Tribal, Coby tells Aly to vote for Karen instead of Mckenna; she is prepared to battle Karen in the tiebreaker challenge. Mckenna then backstabs one of her best friends and a player who voted to keep her; Karen is absolutely furious with Mckenna. This is probably the biggest backstab in Survivor PNW history.

Votes:

Aly, Coby, Mckenna for Karen

Karen for Aly

**Final 3:**

Before the challenge, Coby and Mckenna reiterate that they will bring each other to the end if they win the challenge. Both players inform Aly that they will not take her to the end if they win.

Immunity Challenge -- Stacking coins on the knob of a baseball bat. Coby is out first and Mckenna wins final immunity!! Her third of the season.

Mckenna changes her mind and decides she doesn’t want to sit next to Coby at Final Tribal Council.

Votes:

Mckenna for Coby

**Final 2:**

Cooper replaces Maleah on the jury because we forgot to give her a heads up that the Final Tribal Council was approaching.

Votes:

Coby, Cooper, Karen, Sasha, Tilboon for Mckenna

Chin, Jalen for Aly

Mckenna becomes the seventh winner of Survivor PNW, finishing the job after being one vote away from winning her first season. She becomes the first female winner of Survivor PNW, has now won the most immunity challenges for a woman, and has voted correctly in 16 out of 16 tribal councils in her career while only receiving five votes against.