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Survivor season 35: Debate-style Final Tribal Council confirmed

By Cody Williams

Jeff Probst, host of SURVIVOR, themed "Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers," when the Emmy Award-winning series returns for its 35th season premiere on, Wednesday, September 27 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Jeff Probst, host of SURVIVOR, themed "Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers," when the Emmy Award-winning series returns for its 35th season premiere on, Wednesday, September 27 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. /
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Survivor Game Changers introduced a new debate-style of Tribal Council, and Jeff Probst talked about the decision and said it will be in season 35.

There were some good, plenty of cringe-worthy and some truly, ergh, game-changing moments throughout Survivor: Game Changers. With that said, the biggest came in the finale of the season at Final Tribal Council.

For the 33 previous seasons, Final Tribal Council consisted of the jury members asking their own questions of the Final 3 (or 2 in earlier iterations). While that format worked for some time, it had apparently run its course. Thus, they changed it to a more debate-style Final Tribal Council with all of the jury members having an open Q&A session with the remaining castaways.

The results were quite positive. And back in June, a producer said that the change would be staying. And sure enough, Jeff Probst confirmed that in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, so it will be a part of the upcoming Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.

What’s more, the Survivor host went into detail about the decision to make the change. Apparently it was something that had been stirring for some time. You can hear Probst’s thoughts in the video below:

What Probst is saying about the outcomes being affected had become quite obvious. There have been several instances relatively recently (Kaoh Rong comes to mind) where “bitter juries” have been somewhat poisoned at Ponderosa and then at Final Tribal Council.

Though it doesn’t wholly eliminate that, the open forum discussion at least alleviates some of that. When jury members and the remaining players are able to hash things out, that allows for more clarity regarding how everyone played the game to get to this point.

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As we’ve discussed before, one of the things that makes Survivor great is its ability to adapt and change for the better. That’s why we’re entering season 35, a crazy long run for a reality game show.

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