Megan Sanchez

**Megan Sanchez** is a contestant from *Survivor: Australia*.

Megan was a member of the Ogakor Trio alliance with Benjamin Carter and Nick Downs, which quickly dominated both the pre-merge and post-merge stages of the game. After the alliance managed to flip Zane Rosales at the final eight, Megan's close bond to Nick made them seem like a power duo alliance destined to make it to the end. Because of this, Benjamin and Zane forced a tiebreaker and eliminating Nick, which subsequently saw Megan voted out on Day 38 when Benjamin won the final Immunity Challenge.

## Survivor: Australia

As a member of Ogakor, Megan's bond with Nick Downs saw him form an alliance with her and Benjamin Carter. In addition, this alliance incorporated fellow tribe members Jay Vasquez and Christina Young into their fold, giving them a 5-3 majority on the tribe. At the tribe's first Tribal Council, the group of five voted out Marta Bradford. At the next Tribal Council, the core Trio alliance considered voting out Paul Keith, but instead wished to maintain a 6-4 majority at the merge, and saw an opportunity to blindside Christina in order to keep Paul and Kim Short on their side. They included Jay into their plan and successfully voted out Christina.

Despite the plan at the Tribal Council before, Paul and Kim attempted to work with the four tribe members from Kucha and blindside Jay. Instead, Nick and Benjamin worked to convince the Kucha tribe to vote out Paul, and he was subsequently the first person voted out of the merged tribe, in an 8-2 vote. After voting out Kim and causing a 4-4 tie between Ogakor and Kucha, Benjamin played double agent for the tribe in an attempt to flip Zane Rosales to the Ogakor side, all while convincing the remaining Kucha he would side with them. Kucha, on the other hand, was targeting Megan. At Tribal Council, Zane had indeed flipped to the Ogakor side, and the five voted out Brady Wallace in a close 5-3 vote. At the final seven, the only two options to vote were Kucha's Kevin Wolfe and Charlie Brewer. While Jay attempted to vote out Charlie, Megan and her allies Benjamin, Nick, and now Zane, instead wanted to vote out Charlie for her stronger performance in Immunity Challenges and belief she was a far better strategic player. Deciding to leave Jay out of this vote, the four made a Final Four pact to ensure they would make it to Day 38. For Megan, this meant she could easily vote out Zane and reach the final three with her original Ogakor Trio alliance. The four voted out Charlie and then Kevin, with both attempting to vote out Megan in the process. At the final five, Megan won Individual Immunity, which caused Jay to campaign to Benjamin and Zane to vote out Nick, with Nick and Megan seen as a tight duo. But the pact made earlier in the game held up and Jay was voted out 4-1. Now at the final four, Nick and Megan believed Zane would be the next vote once Benjamin had won Individual Immunity. However, Benjamin had decided to vote against Nick and force a final four fire-making tiebreaker between Zane and Nick, where Nick was still the favourite to win due to tending to the fire more at camp. But after facing off, Zane surprised everyone, including the jury, by winning the tiebreaker and eliminating Nick. Now in the final three without her closest ally, Megan believed her only chance at making it to the Final Tribal Council would be by winning Immunity. Benjamin however set a record-breaking five-Immunity win streak, and held the power to vote out either Megan or Zane. Megan tried convincing Benjamin the stronger choice would be to vote out Zane, as their games differed significantly and would likely split opinion, and votes, in both ways. Despite this, Benjamin stayed true to his late-game alliance with Zane, and voted out Megan.

As a juror, Megan found it difficult to choose between both Zane and Benjamin, and rarely spoke up at the Final Tribal Council. After considering both of their pitches, Megan felt Benjamin's overall game and loyal work to the Ogakor Trio alliance was worthy of winning, despite Zane's underdog approach to the game. She was the only original Ogakor tribe member to vote for Benjamin, but her vote proved to be the deciding vote, as she voted alongside the three Kucha members and crowned Benjamin as Sole Survivor in a narrow 4-3 victory.