Survivor: Winners at War celebrates the show's twentieth anniversary by bringing back twenty legendary past champions to compete for a record-breaking $2 million prize in a season featuring the return of the Edge of Extinction and the introduction of fire tokens.
Day one split the cast into two tribes: Dakal and Sele. Twenty castaways arrived with prior seasons played, and none of this cast has returned since.
Starting tribes
Full cast & placements
Days, tribes and votes are on each castaway's page.
| Place | Castaway | Result | Days | Tribes | Votes against |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tony Vlachos Also played S28, S34 | 12 of 16 jury votes
| 39 | DakalKoru | 0 |
| 2 |  Natalie Anderson Also played S29 | 4 of 16 jury votes
| 39 | SeleKoru | 7 |
| 3 |  Michele Fitzgerald Also played S32 | 0 of 16 jury votes
| 39 | SeleKoru | 4 |
| 4 |  Sarah Lacina Also played S28, S34 | Lost final 4 fire challenge | 38 | DakalYaraKoru | 2 |
| 5 |  Ben Driebergen Also played S35 | 18th voted out | 37 | SeleYaraKoru | 5 |
| 6 |  Denise Stapley Also played S25 | 17th voted out | 36 | SeleDakalKoru | 8 |
| 7 |  Nick Wilson Also played S37 | 16th voted out | 34 | DakalSeleKoru | 8 |
| 8 |  Jeremy Collins Also played S29, S31 | 15th voted out | 31 | SeleDakalKoru | 9 |
| 9 |  Kim Spradlin-Wolfe Also played S24 | 14th voted out | 29 | DakalKoru | 9 |
| 10 |  Sophie Clarke Also played S23 | 13th voted out | 28 | DakalYaraKoru | 6 |
| 11 |  Tyson Apostol Also played S18, S20, S27 | 12th voted out | 25 | DakalKoru | 12 |
| 12 |  Adam Klein Also played S33 | 11th voted out | 23 | SeleYaraKoru | 15 |
| 13 |  Wendell Holland Also played S36 | 10th voted out | 21 | DakalSeleKoru | 12 |
| 14 |  Yul Kwon Also played S13 | 9th voted out | 18 | DakalSele | 3 |
| 15 |  Sandra Diaz-Twine Also played S7, S20, S34 | 8th voted out | 16 | Dakal | 1 |
| 16 |  Parvati Shallow Also played S13, S16, S20 | 7th voted out | 16 | Sele | 5 |
| 17 |  Rob Mariano Also played S4, S8, S20, S22 | 6th voted out | 14 | SeleYara | 4 |
| 18 |  Ethan Zohn Also played S3, S8 | 4th voted out | 9 | Sele | 4 |
| 19 |  Danni Boatwright Also played S11 | 3rd voted out | 6 | Sele | 8 |
| 20 |  Amber Mariano Also played S2, S8 | 2nd voted out | 3 | Dakal | 6 |
Episode guide
All 14 episodes of Survivor 40: when each aired, who won reward and immunity, who left, and how many people watched.
| # | Episode | Aired | Reward | Immunity | Voted out | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greatest of the Greats | Feb 12 | Dakal | DakalSele | Natalie Anderson Amber Mariano | 6.7M |
| 2 | It's Like a Survivor Economy | Feb 19 | Dakal | Dakal | Danni Boatwright | 7.2M |
| 3 | Out for Blood | Feb 26 | Dakal | Dakal | Ethan Zohn | 7.1M |
| 4 | I Like Revenge | Mar 4 | Sele | Sele | Tyson Apostol | 7.1M |
| 5 | The Buddy System on Steroids | Mar 11 | – | SeleDakal | Rob Mariano | 6.9M |
| 6 | Quick on the Draw | Mar 18 | Yara | Yara | Sandra Diaz-Twine Parvati Shallow | 7.8M |
| 7 | We're in the Majors | Mar 25 | YaraSele | YaraDakal | Yul Kwon | 8.2M |
| 8 | This Is Where the Battle Begins | Apr 1 | – | Denise Stapley, Jeremy Collins | Wendell Holland | 8.2M |
| 9 | War Is Not Pretty | Apr 8 | Ben Driebergen, Kim Spradlin-Wolfe, Michele Fitzgerald, Sarah Lacina, Sophie Clarke | Kim Spradlin-Wolfe | Adam Klein | 7.8M |
| 10 | The Full Circle | Apr 15 | – | Tony Vlachos | Tyson Apostol | 8.1M |
| 11 | This Is Extortion | Apr 22 | Ben Driebergen, Kim Spradlin-Wolfe, Nick Wilson, Sophie Clarke | Tony Vlachos | Sophie Clarke | 8.2M |
| 12 | Friendly Fire | Apr 29 | – | Denise Stapley, Tony Vlachos | Kim Spradlin-Wolfe | 8.1M |
| 13 | The Penultimate Step of the War | May 6 | – | Nick Wilson, Michele Fitzgerald | Jeremy Collins Nick Wilson | 7.6M |
| 14 | It All Boils Down to This | May 13 | Michele Fitzgerald | Michele Fitzgerald, Tony Vlachos, Natalie Anderson | Denise Stapley Ben Driebergen Sarah Lacina Eliminated | 7.9M |
Episode, twist and location facts adapted from Survivor Fandom and Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-07-21. Licensed CC BY-SA.
Who got the edit
Confessional counts: the to-camera interviews the edit gave each castaway across Survivor 40. A rough proxy for who the season was built around.
- 1 Tony Vlachos 73
- 2 Sarah Lacina 40
- 3 Natalie Anderson 38
- 4 Michele Fitzgerald 37
- 5 Adam Klein 37
- 6 Ben Driebergen 35
- 7 Jeremy Collins 33
- 8 Tyson Apostol 29
- 9 Rob Mariano 29
- 10 Nick Wilson 28
570 confessionals across the season. Top 10 of 20 castaways shown.
Voting history
Every tribal-council vote of the season. Rows are castaways by finish, columns are councils in order. Each cell is who that castaway voted for.
Key Vote matched the boot Struck through = vote nullified by an idol No vote cast (immune, absent, or already out)
| Voter | Ep 1 Natalie 7-2-1 | Ep 1 Amber 6-3-1 | Ep 2 Danni 8-1 | Ep 3 Ethan 4-3-1 | Ep 4 Tyson 7-1-1 | Ep 5 Rob 4-1 | Ep 6 Parvati 3-2 | Ep 6 Sandra 1 | Ep 7 Yul 3-1 | Ep 8 Wendell 9-3 | Ep 9 Adam 8-2-1 | Ep 10 Tyson 5-2 | Ep 11 Sophie 4-3-2 | Ep 12 Kim 5-3 | Ep 13 Jeremy 3-2 | Ep 13 Nick 4-2 | Ep 14 Denise 4 | Ep 14 Ben 3-2 | Ep 14 Sarah |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Vlachos | Kim | Tyson | Denise | Wendell | Adam | Tyson | Sophie | Kim | Jeremy | Nick | Natalie | Michele | |||||||
| Natalie Anderson | Denise | Ben | Ben | ||||||||||||||||
| Michele Fitzgerald | Denise | Danni | Ethan | Wendell | Yul | Adam | Adam | Tyson | Sophie | Jeremy | Ben | Denise | Ben | Ben | |||||
| Sarah Lacina | Kim | Tyson | Rob | Wendell | Nick | Denise | Michele | Kim | Michele | Nick | Natalie | Ben | |||||||
| Ben Driebergen | Natalie | Danni | Ethan | Rob | Wendell | Adam | Tyson | Jeremy | Kim | Jeremy | Nick | Natalie | Michele | ||||||
| Denise Stapley | Natalie | Danni | Ethan | Sandra | Wendell | Nick | Jeremy | Jeremy | Michele | Nick | Natalie | ||||||||
| Nick Wilson | Amber | Kim | Parvati | Yul | Adam | Adam | Tyson | Sophie | Kim | Jeremy | Denise | ||||||||
| Jeremy Collins | Adam | Danni | Ethan | Denise | Wendell | Adam | Sophie | Kim | Ben | ||||||||||
| Kim Spradlin-Wolfe | Amber | Tyson | Denise | Wendell | Adam | Sophie | Michele | Jeremy | |||||||||||
| Sophie Clarke | Kim | Tyson | Rob | Wendell | Adam | Denise | Jeremy | ||||||||||||
| Tyson Apostol | Amber | Nick | Wendell | Adam | Sophie | ||||||||||||||
| Adam Klein | Natalie | Danni | Parvati | Rob | Wendell | Sarah | |||||||||||||
| Wendell Holland | Amber | Tyson | Parvati | Yul | Adam | ||||||||||||||
| Yul Kwon | Amber | Tyson | Parvati | Wendell | |||||||||||||||
| Sandra Diaz-Twine | Amber | Tyson | Denise | ||||||||||||||||
| Parvati Shallow | Natalie | Danni | Adam | Wendell | |||||||||||||||
| Rob Mariano | Natalie | Danni | Adam | Sarah | |||||||||||||||
| Ethan Zohn | Natalie | Danni | Adam | ||||||||||||||||
| Danni Boatwright | Natalie | Parvati | |||||||||||||||||
| Amber Mariano | Nick |
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