It’s been a few weeks since the Survivor 50 finale, which means we finally had enough time to rewatch the entire season again from a full vantage perspective. And while we are thrilled that Aubry Bracco finally got to claim the title of Sole Survivor, there are some other castaways who played the best game this season. We would have loved to see these players get a shot at pleading their case for the $2 million at Final Tribal Council.
Rick Devens
Devens played the same game in Survivor 50 as he did in Survivor: Edge of Extinction, and honestly, both times, he deserved to be sitting at the end. He’s a true master of this game with a “never give up” attitude that managed to keep him in the game far beyond the expiration date assigned to him by other players. I want him to have an open invitation to compete on any future season of Survivor whenever he wants.
Genevieve Mushaluk
Genevieve’s Survivor 47 edit didn’t reveal exactly how good of a player she is until after the merge, but once fans saw her in action, we wanted more! Her first game was definitely cut short, but her second game was cut even shorter during the Blood Moon twist that left her on a tribe with people aligned against her. If she ever returns to the game, I would definitely advise her not to declare an arch nemesis on day 1 since you never know how the tables are going to turn…
Christian Hubicki
Survivor 50 was Christian’s season. He was playing a flawless game. If it wasn’t for the Jimmy Fallon twist that truly never should have existed—the risk outweighed the reward insurmountably and was not worth it in the end—he would have made it much further in the game. He was playing a cunning game from the first second he landed on that beach and no doubt he could have kept it rolling to the end had it not been for Jimmy Fallon.
Kamilla Karthigesu
Just like Genevieve, Kamilla was a victim of the full moon when her “ally” Jonathan Young finally got a chance to join up with his pre-game alliance, leaving her on the wrong side of the people around her through no fault of her own. After losing fire in Survivor 48, we would have loved to see her get a chance to dominate this game openly instead of from the shadows like before. And she did such a good job of campaigning for the Final Three as a juror in her first season that I would have loved to see her plead her own case at the end. Hopefully one day!
Tiffany Ervin
Tiffany was burned with a poor edit this season, but that doesn’t mean she played the game poorly. In fact, by the end, she, Aubry, and Cirie Fields were all basically on the same page strategically—part of the reason they have to get each other out—and were true equals with only slight differences in their social game. But after being played in Survivor 46, she came back and played everyone else in Survivor 50. She definitely would have had a great argument at the Final Tribal Council.
Rizo Velovic
Rizo was so close at getting his redemption this season. After losing the fire-making challenge to Savannah Louie in Survivor 49, he played an extremely savvy game, aligning with two powerhouses in Cirie Fields and Ozzy Lusth. And of course, poetically, he went up against another player who previously lost fire and had a lot to prove. While he didn’t make the Final Three, he did make history as the first player to lose the fire-making challenge in back-to-back seasons.
Cirie Fields
After five American seasons and one international season, Cirie has yet to sit on the non-jury side of Final Tribal Council. And in part, I blame her “rare circumstance” curse. She made the Final Three in Survivor: Micronesia and then…oops…they decided to go back to two players at Final Tribal Council instead of the “three” precedent they established in Survivor: Cook Islands. Oddly enough, only three seasons since then have randomly had a Final Two instead of a Final Three—and of course, Cirie was burned in one of them.
Then she made the Final Six in Survivor: Game Changers only to be hit with the rarest Tribal Council circumstance in all of history—every single player secured immunity in some way except for her. She went home by default. Survivor 50 was finally her season to win, but alas, it didn’t work out and she went out once again with Jeff Probst letting her say, “the tribe has spoken.” But we would have loved to see her at the end!
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