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Survivor 49
Season 49
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Presented by Jeff Probst
No. of days26
No. of castaways18
Location Mamanuca Islands, Fiji
No. of episodes1
Release
Original network CBS
Original releaseSeptember 24, 2025 (2025-09-24) 
present
Additional information
Filming datesApril 20 (2025-04-20) 
May 15, 2025 (2025-05-15) [1]
Season chronology
 Previous
Season 48
List of episodes

Survivor 49 is the ongoing forty-ninth season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor . It premiered on September 24, 2025 [2] on CBS in the United States. It is the seventeenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.

Production

On December 15, 2023, Manoa Kamikamica, the Fijian Minister of Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport, announced that the Fijian Parliament had renewed its contract with Survivor for an additional two years. [3] A preview trailer for the season was released on May 21, 2025, right after the finale of Survivor 48 aired. Like in the previous season, Survivor 49 and The Amazing Race 38 retain the 90-minute runtime; the premiere episode of Survivor 49 ran for two hours. [4]

Contestants

The 18 castaways competing on Survivor 49 were officially announced on August 20, 2025. [5] [6] The cast includes former Marvel Studios executive Nate Moore. [7] Michelle "MC" Chukwujekwu and Jason Treul were originally alternates but were brought into the game hours before it began after two contestants were removed for violating sequester rules. [8] [9]

List of Survivor 49 contestants
ContestantAgeFromTribeFinish
OriginalMergedPlacementDay
Nicole Mazullo26 Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Kele1st voted outDay 3
Sage Ahrens-Nichols30 Olympia,
Washington
Uli
Sophi Balerdi27 Miami,
Florida
Kele
Michelle "MC" Chukwujekwu29 San Diego,
California
Hina
Kimberly "Annie" Davis49 Austin,
Texas
Kele
Shannon Fairweather28 Boston,
Massachusetts
Uli
Jeremiah Ing39 Toronto,
Ontario
Kele
Jake Latimer36 St. Albert,
Alberta
Kele
Savannah Louie31 Atlanta,
Georgia
Uli
Kristina Mills36 Edmond,
Oklahoma
Hina
Alex Moore26 Washington,
D.C.
Kele
Nate Moore 47 Hermosa Beach,
California
Uli
Jawan Pitts28 Los Angeles,
California
Uli
Steven Ramm35 Denver,
Colorado
Hina
Sophie Segreti31 New York City,
New York
Hina
Jason Treul32 Santa Ana,
California
Hina
Rizo Velovic25 Yonkers,
New York
Uli
Matt Williams52 St. George,
Utah
Hina

Future appearances

Two contestants will return for Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans . [10]

Season summary

The season filmed in the Mamanuca Islands of Fiji. Modriki Island - panoramio (1).jpg
The season filmed in the Mamanuca Islands of Fiji.
Survivor 49 season summary
EpisodeChallenge winner(s)Eliminated
No.TitleAir dateRewardImmunityTribePlayer
1"Act One of a Horror Film"September 24, 2025HinaHinaKeleNicole
Uli
2"Cinema"October 1, 2025
3"Lovable Losers"October 8, 2025

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [11] Rating/share
(18–49)
Original release dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
7021"Act One of a Horror Film"0.6/9 [12] September 24, 2025 (2025-09-24)4.03 [12]

The 18 new castaways arrived in Fiji by boat to begin their Survivor journey.

  • Marooning Challenge: Two tribe members raced into the jungle for crates. Two other tribe members then retrieved a boat full of crates from the ocean. The last two members assembled the crates to make a cube, which one tribe member would climb to ring a bell hanging above them. The first to ring the bell won flint, a pot, and a machete for their tribe. The two losing tribes would have to send a tribe member away to complete another challenge to earn their supplies.

Hina won the reward challenge. Uli sent Rizo to complete the challenge, while Kele sent Alex.

  • Supply Challenge: Each castaway must retrieve ten marked coconuts on a small peninsula, each containing multiple puzzle pieces. Once all coconuts are collected, they must use the pieces to assemble a map revealing the location of a buried ship wheel; each tribe had its own wheel in a different location on the peninsula. Using the wheel, they must raise their tribe's sail, which releases a key to the chest containing the supplies. The first to unlock the chest wins the supplies for their tribe.

Rizo completed the challenge first, winning supplies for Uli.

  • Immunity Challenge: Each tribe was split into three pairs. Each pair in turn navigated a rope tunnel, crawled through a muddy pit, then raced into the jungle to retrieve a large serpent. When all three serpents were retrieved, three players worked together to navigate a ball along a winding snake track. The first two tribes to finish won immunity.

Hina and Uli won the challenge. At Kele, the majority alliance of Alex, Jake, Jeremiah, and Sophi targeted outsiders Annie and Nicole, considering them the weakest members of the tribe physically, Nicole in particular. Annie attempted to form an alliance with Sophi, saying that she wanted to target Alex and Jake in the future. Sophi notified the majority alliance of Annie's proposal, and they considered voting Annie off over Nicole because of this. However, at Tribal Council, they ultimately chose to vote off Nicole.

7032"Cinema"TBAOctober 1, 2025 (2025-10-01)TBD
7043"Loveable Losers"TBAOctober 8, 2025 (2025-10-08)TBD

Voting history

Survivor 49 voting history
Original tribes
Episode 1 2 3
Day3
TribeKele
EliminatedNicole
Votes5–1
VoterVote
AlexNicole
AnnieNicole
JakeNicole
Jason
Jawan
JeremiahNicole
Kristina
Matt
MC
Nate
Rizo
Sage
Savannah
Shannon
SophiNicole
Sophie
Steven
NicoleAnnie

References

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