Pick Your Survivor

How the game works

Survive longer than everyone else. Pick a castaway who makes it through the episode, and save enough castaways to keep going all season.

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    Weekly picks

    Pick one castaway before each episode. Picks lock 10 minutes after the episode starts, and you can change yours until then.

    You can use each castaway only once all season, whether they survive or not. Other players can pick the same castaway in the same week.

    Everyone’s picks are hidden until the lock, then revealed to the league.

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    Surviving and elimination

    If your castaway is still in Survivor at the end of the episode, you survive. If they leave the game for any reason (voted out, medevac, quitting, removal), you’re out.

    Double eliminations don’t change anything: you still make one pick, and it just has to make it to the end of the episode.

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    Running out of picks

    If you survive an episode but have no unused castaways left in the game for the next one, you’re eliminated at the end of that episode. You still rank above anyone whose pick was voted out that same episode.

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    Missed picks and pick debt

    Missing a pick doesn’t eliminate you, but each missed episode adds one pick debt.

    Next time you pick, the game adds one random castaway from your unused pool for each unit of debt, right after picks lock. All of them must survive, and all become used.

    Miss three episodes in a row and you’re eliminated at the third lock, below everyone else eliminated that episode. If you skip and are left without enough unused castaways to cover your next pick plus your debt, you’re out as of the first episode you skipped, below everyone else eliminated in it.

    Skipping can never win you the league. If the game ends while you still owe debt, you’re out as of the first episode you skipped, below everyone else eliminated in it.

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    The finale

    Before the finale, submit an ordered list of unused castaways, one for each elimination stage. Pick 1 must survive the first elimination, pick 2 the next, and so on.

    Don’t submit finale picks and you can’t win: you’re out when the finale starts, below everyone else eliminated in the finale.

    If you don’t have enough unused castaways, you go as far as your list takes you.

    You also predict the winner and the final jury vote split. These are only used to break ties among players who survive every stage: correct winner first, then the closest vote split. Anyone still tied shares the win.

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    Standings

    Players still in rank above eliminated players, and those who lasted longer rank higher.

    Among players still in, more unused castaways ranks higher, counting each unit of pick debt as a castaway you’ve already spent, then less pick debt. Missing a week never moves you up. This week’s pick doesn’t count against you until the episode is scored.

    Players eliminated by the same event share a position. Submission times never matter.

Survivor 51, Episode 1 was a bye: nobody picked, nobody took on debt, and Aaliyah can’t be picked.