Cirie Fields is, as of this writing, the best “Survivor” player to never win; she is competing in the 50th season, which could provide her with the title of Sole Survivor, but she hasn’t reached that milestone yet. Unfortunately, during Fields’ fourth outing — “Game Changers,” following “Survivor: Panama,” “Survivor: Micronesia,” and “Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains” — she fell short yet again, and became the first “Survivor” player in the show’s history to get voted out without receiving any actual votes.
Here’s how it went down. During “Game Changers,” Fields, whose social game is one of the best “Survivor” has ever seen, made it to the final episode and seemed poised to, perhaps, win it all this time. Only five other players remained: Sarah Lacina, Brad Culpepper (“Survivor: Blood vs. Water”), Tai Trang and Aubry Bracco (both from “Survivor: Kaôh Rōng”), and Troy “Troyzan” Robertson (“Survivor: One World”). And with that in mind, Fields’ path was potentially clear.
Sadly, that wasn’t in the cards. In the third-to-last immunity challenge, Culpepper won the immunity idol, and at the tribal council that followed, everybody but Fields was protected in some fashion; Lacina played a legacy advantage, Culpepper had the challenge idol, and Trang, Robertson, and Bracco all possessed hidden immunity idols. Not knowing about all of the other idols or Lacina’s advantage previously, Fields was understandably stunned to leave without receiving a single vote, as she was the only option. “It was so epic, and being a ‘Survivor’ fan, I didn’t even recognize the brutality of it, honestly,” Fields told Entertainment Weekly in the aftermath. “I was so shocked as a fan that it took me a while to consider like, ‘Wow, wait a minute, calm down, you’re out.'”
“My mind is still blown,” she continued. “So it wasn’t really brutal for me this time.” That’s fair! At least Fields took home the final prize during the first season of “The Traitors US” as a consolation.
This story originally appeared on TVLine
