Survivor: All-Stars

***Survivor: All-Stars*** is the seventh season of *​PM Survivor Series*.*​*

In a change to previous installments, the contestants are returning contestants from the six previous seasons.

Dawn Flynn defeated Jacob Caldwell and Dina Gomez in a close 5-3-0 vote to become the seventh Sole Survivor. To date, it has produced six returning players (Darrell Castillo, Jacob Caldwell, Marcus Benton, Naya Emerson, Stephon Cooper, and Valeria Baglio) for subsequent seasons.

## Production

The thought of bring back all the best players was always considered for every single season. An all star season was confirmed, but the official season number was questioned. It happened that after the previous season, it would be a great time to do the all star season. The season's format will follow Tahiti's schedule with sessions on the weekdays (Monday through Friday).

## Twists

* **All-Stars:** All the contestants are players from previous seasons.
* **Three Tribes:** For the first time in the series, the castaways are divided into three tribes of six.
* **Hidden Immunity Idol:** A Hidden Immunity Idol is hidden at each one of the tribe's camps.
* **Tribe Absorption:** On Day 12, the tribe that loses the Reward Challenge would be dissolved, with its remaining members to be absorbed by the other two tribes.
* **Final Three:** Unlike the first six seasons where the jurors cast their vote between two members at Final Tribal Council, it's expanded to three members pleading a case to win the game.

## Season Summary

The eighteen returning castaways were divided into three competing tribes: Budoni, Cabras, and Poetto. Cabras became the most dominant tribe of the three by winning 6 out of the 8 challenges before the swap. Budoni was the weakest of the three tribes, however, it was Poetto that saw the most tribal councils out of the three by attending two tribal councils. The three tribes competed in a reward challenge that disbanded the losing tribe which ultimately was Poetto.

With Poetto being dissolved, Dawn Flynn and Marcus Benton were sent to Cabras and managed to find another duo, Kaycee Lopes and Silas Moreno, to align with. Cabras went to the remaining of the tribals for the pre-merge of the game.

On Day 21, the eleven remaining players merged into a new tribe. Dawn, Kaycee, Marcus, and Silas pulled in support of Jacob Caldwell to control the first merge vote. Seeing the power that the group of four were holding, they tried to turn the votes against them by taking a shot at Silas. However, Silas used a Hidden Immunity Idol to save himself. Still fearing the four might have another trick of their sleeve, they unanimously took out former winner, Stephon Cooper. At the final 8, Kaycee and Silas were ready to make a move against their alliance of four, so they gathered support and blindsided Marcus. The move made by Kaycee and Silas led to their vote offs following Marcus. Hoping to not let history repeat itself, Jacob turned against his original season ally, Barnes Coleman, by getting Dawn and Dina Gomez on his side.

At the Final Tribal Council, Dawn was commended on her strategic gameplay even though she was one of the biggest underdogs of the season. Jacob's physical wins earned him respect of some of the juries which helped him received very few votes cast against him. Dina's gameplay was nonexistent to the jurors. In the end, Dawn became the Sole Survivor over Jacob and Dina in a 5-3-0 vote.

## Trivia

* This is the first season to feature returning contestants.
* This is the first season to feature three starting tribes at the beginning of the season. To follow this format, the tribal Immunity Idol needed to be split into two parts, to give the two winning tribes immunity.
* This is the first season to not have a combined reward and immunity challenge.
* This is the first season to have three players at the Final Tribal Council.
* This is the first time that the females won majority of the immunity challenges.
* This season has the most episodes of any season, with 16.