18 players started the season and now only four remain in the game, hoping to emerge as the winner of Survivor 47: Teeny Chirichillo, Rachel LaMont, Sam Phalen, and Sue Smey.
These four players have most certainly had very different journeys to the Final 4 and there is definitely an understandable frustration among fans with how some players in the mix managed to make it to finale night over other players who might have played a better game. But that’s how things always go on shows such as Survivor, right? There are always a few players who fail to make it to the end or win the game despite playing the best game of the season and a few who make it to the finale that leave us wondering how they lasted as long as they did.
As frustrating as it can be at times watching this unfold, it’s part of what makes us invested in the show as it never fails to give us plenty of things to talk about especially when it comes to dissecting the gameplay of the season’s players and the finale lineup. And boy do fans have thoughts about this year’s Final 4 and it’s clear there is really only one remaining player that fans feel is deserving of winning Survivor 47.
Fans believe Rachel LaMont should win Survivor 47
Ahead of the season finale, the official Instagram account for the show posted a video piecing together interviews in which they asked former Survivor players and fans in attendance who they thought should win the game while posing the question to followers and encouraging them to share their picks for the winner in the comments of the post.
Fans had quite a lot to say and were quick to take CBS up on their conversation starter, jumping into the comments to make their voices heard. The resounding stance among fans was clear: no one deserves to win Survivor 47 more than Rachel LaMont.
The comments section was quite literally flooded with messages of support for Rachel who fans dubbed the puzzle queen the best player of the season.
“Team Rachel all day, best player this season,” wrote one fan. Added another, “If it’s not Rachel I will be so devastated! That’s our girl!!”
In the eyes of Survivor fans there really isn’t a world in which Rachel shouldn’t walk away as this season’s winner and there are only a few scenarios that would explain her not winning it all.
“Rachel will win unless she gets snubbed out by losing the fire challenge. That would be the only scenario she would not win,” noted one fan who had a strong point in that really the only way we could see Rachel not winning is if she by chance ended up in the fire challenge and somehow lost, which seems unlikely given the skills we’ve seen from her this season.
This was a sentiment shared by many fans who see a loss in the fire challenge as the only logistical way for Rachel’s game to go up in smokes and pave the way for Sam, Sue, or Teeny to win the game. And honestly, if Rachel isn’t sitting in the Final 3, the only person fans seem to want to entertain possibly winning the game in that situation is Sam, though we’re not surprised.
Many fans expressed displeasure in seeing Teeny and Sue make it to the Final 4 with one user commenting, “neither of them has played the game anywhere close to Rachel or Sam.”
Of course, we’ve seen plenty of surprising moments on finale night in the past so who knows what might go down in the season finale tonight. It’s clear though that fans are pulling for Rachel and see her as the most deserving player still in the game.
Don’t miss the Survivor 47 finale tonight, Dec. 18, at 8/7c on CBS!