Survivor: Anarchy

**Survivor: Anarchy** is the seventeenth season of *PM Survivor​*.

Zelma Coleman defeated Carla Yarto and Israel Dayan in a 5-3-0 vote to become the Sole Survivor. To date, it has produced three returning players (Carla Yarto, Patrick Palicio and Sierra Vilchis) for subsequent seasons.

## Production

The announcement of the seventeenth season was made on September 11, 2021. Despite the sixteenth season not airing, the season was renewed with the title. The season is expected to air during the fall and after the sixteenth season. The season will start production during December of 2021.

## Twists

* **Anarchy:** The castaways will not be greeted at the start of the game. All twenty players will live on the same beach with no supplies. At the challenges, they will be randomly distributed into groups to compete for immunity. The Anarchy stage of the game lasted until Day 14 when the fourteen players were distrubited into two tribes of seven.
* **Double Tribal Council:** On Day 3, only the first and second place teams won immunity, sending the two other teams to Tribal Council to vote out one person each.
* **One-Time Exile:** During the uneven number on Day 9, eight people were distrubuted between two teams , leaving one person without a team. That person would be sent to a desolated beach, where they would be safe from the vote. at the camp was a note to a secondary immunity idol that was hidden on the beach.

## Season Summary

Unlike previous seasons, the twenty players were not greeted at the start of the season, but rather arrived at a camp with anarchy written over the flag. On Day 3, the players were informed that they would live on the same beach and randomly distributed in teams every round to determine who wins immunity and goes to tribal council. A pact between ten players was created by Zelma Coleman to protect each other. However, the anarchy twist proved to keep the players on their feet as three members were voted out from the alliance during the anarchy stage.

On Day 14, the Anarchy twist came to an end and the fourteen players were divided into two tribes of seven: Anakena and Villarrica. Anakena proved to be the stronger tribe in challenges while Villarrica proved to be the weaker tribe, going to four tribal councils back to back. During the trips to tribal council, Neo Goel, Peggy Jensen, and Patrick Palicio formed a tight group of three.

At the merge on Day 26, the Anakena went into the merge with numbers of six versus three. Despite an attempt to turn against the original alliance by Zahir Khalil, an idol play by Julian Pineda resulting in one of the trios going home. With Patrick remaining and winning immunity, the Anakena tribe turned against Julian, and falling short of immunity Patrick was sent afterwards. Believing to take out the biggest threats to win, Sierra Vilchis and Zahir became the final two members of the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Israel Dayan's lack of loyalty to Sierra was critiqued by the jurors. Carla and Zelma were praised for their strategic gameplays. However, the majority of the jury felt with both women playing similar in strategic games, Zelma played the better social game, earning her the win over Carla in a 5-3-0 vote.

## Trivia

* This is the first season to start the game with tribes not being formed.
* This season marks the first time all castaways lived on one beach without being merged, as part of the Anarchy twist.
* Each stage of the game lasted 5 episodes, the first five episodes of the Anarchy stage, the following five episodes of the team formation and the final 5 episodes of the merge stage.
* This is the first time since *Survivor: Panama* to have two women in the final three with a man.