Survivor 51 players vote whether or not to keep Final Four fire-making challenge in the game

Halfway through thepremiere episode—when I thought I truly could not be surprised by something—our two tribes gather for their first immunity challenge, but instead, host and showrunner Jeff Probst decides to let them take a vote on a major game element that’s been permanently in play since season 35.

One thing that fans constantly comment on is theFinal Four fire-making challengeand how much they want it gone. But last season, when some of the power was put “In the Hands of the Fans,” fire-making was still voted in as a part of Final Four’s elimination gameplay.

So this season, Jeff’s putting it “In the Hands of the [Players]” and letting the twenty of them—minus the player who started the game over onExile Island—vote on whether or not the Final Four fire-making challenge would return once again inSurvivor 51.

But he makes it very clear that it will take a majority vote to actually remove fire making from the end game. And when he calls for the vote slowly but surely, five people raise their hands: Danny “Kilby” Kilby, Eric Macksoud, Kristin Flickinger, Rob Antonson, and Sharonda Cox.

After Jeff counts the vote, Patt Canaday also raises her hand slightly in the back, but he doesn’t count it when he affirms that he and the show are in the right for having left the fire-making challenge in the game for all these years. He then decides to take a few secondary—but not veritable—polls for his own emotional clarity and asks:

Who votes to get rid of idols? (No one)

Who votes to get rid of advantages? (No one)

Who votes to get rid oftwists? (No one)

So for all the fans at home who constantly complain about the continuous appearance of the Final Four fire-making challenge? Know that even if you don’t like when it shows up in the season—at least for this season—the players technically voted in favor of it being in play, so whoever loses fire making (unless it’s one of the five that voted against it, ironically) actuallywantedto take on the fire-making challenge in the end, if it came to that.

And now we know for sure at least one more mechanic that is for sure going to appear in this season because as of now, there are a few things we know we can expect, but overall, “permanent uncertainty” really is ruling the game.

What do you think? Would you have voted to remove fire-making if you were a castaway onSurvivor 51?

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