I don't think a lot of people fully grasp the sheer amount of skill and precision it took for Chris to pull this win off. 1. If Chris just won all three immunity challenges and made it to the finals without any real strategic hustling, he does not win. 2. If Chris is in the finals against any of his three greatest threats, Victoria, Lauren, or Rick, he does not win. 3. If he did not convince the right number of people that Victoria was a bigger threat than him (which is technically only a half truth, cause she was way more beatable in challenges and they could've taken her out at 5 after Chris), he doesn't win. 4. If he didn't convince Lauren to give him her idol (like seriously, how does a girl who worships the hell out of Parvati ultimately end up pulling an Eric) he doesn't win. 4. If he doesn't convince Rick to give back the second half of his EoE idol (a move that DOESN'T benefit Rick at all) he doesn't win. 5. If Rick doesn't make it into the final 4, and someone else got credit for taking him out, he doesn't win. 6. If Chris doesn't win the final immunity challenge, and someone else decided who competed in the fire making, he does not win. 7. If Chris does not then give up that very immunity he won to take on the greatest competitor of that season and ultimately defeat Rick Devens himself, he Definitely. Does. Not. Win. Oh yeah, one more: 0. If he did not defeat 10 other competitors in a do or die challenge, one of which being Joey Amazing, the Greatest Challenge Beast in Survivor History, guess whose not winning. I feel like we are in Avengers Infinity War territory. With millions of possible variables and outcomes of how this season could have ended, and in only ONE of those, where each and every one of these actions had to happen exactly the way it did, does Chris Underwood become the Soul Survivor of Survivor Edge of Extinction. I call that a perfect final four days.

Me: Well done Chris! You did what you could've done in the time u had. Deserved! Also me: Damn. Forgot he was on this season.........

imagine viewers who may have tuned into season 38 for the first time to see the finale and have no idea who chris is. #survivor

That was the weakest round of applause I have ever heard. You can tell the audience was not impressed. They usually also play the theme song whenever the winner is announced. They didn’t do it this time.

looking at it the edge of extinction twist was really unfair to the players actively in the game and who had to survive way more elements.

*Commenters:* This is so annoying Rick is rigged to win this season and it's so obvious by how much airtime he's g- And the winner is Chris.

Rick fans: Lauren's edit makes no sense! She's not getting any winning content! Lauren fans: They're making Rick too over-the-top to be a winner! Chris: Hold my beer.

Chriswas given HALF an idol not an idol. He convinced Lauren to play hers for him (she didn't have to). He convinced Rick to give the half back (he didn't have to). He won final immunity. He TOOK OFF THE NECKLACE to personally slay Devens. Gavin and Julie coasted. Put Rick Vic or even Lauren in final 3 and everything changes but Chris deserved to win against Julie and Gavin.

if anyone plans on re-watching this season, all you gotta do is watch episodes 1-3 and the finale. literally every other episode has no relevance to the season

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Nothing against Chris, but this didn’t feel like the end of the season. It’s just *plop* and victory

I feel bad for Rick cause he played so hard while Chris just got back in WITH an idol, but you gotta applaud Chris he could’ve lifted that mass so long ago and been last place, but him winning made this season a little bit better for me since Rick looked like the obvious winner. Besides, Chris is the first winner to win and get snuffed in the same season. Survivor history right there.

chris winning made 95% of the season a waste.

What an absolute joke. He got to bond with the jury for 20 plus days and is immediately given an idol at the final 6. How does that equal the winner of a season?

While I personally was rooting for Rick, I cannot deny that what Chris achieved in only the very last episode was gutsy, unexpected, and just flat-out amazing. And I'm really happy most of the jury felt the same. That said, Kudos to Gavin for getting 4 votes. I liked Rick's and Chris's games better, but Gavin definitely played a solid game as well and earned those votes.

What an unpredictable, insane finish... I kinda loved it

Stupid, Chris should not have returned that late into the game. I hope Survivor doesn’t do another Edge of Extinction style season.

did you hear and see the audience's reaction? something tells me they were not impressed.

I cryed when Joe did not come back from edge.

Rick is still the true winner to me. He won 4 individual immunity. Found and played idols. Returned from the dead. Made it to final 4 with basically everyone wanting him out for awhile. He only got out after Chris made the move that Dominick didn't do. Taking off his necklace and beating rick at fire in a epic fire making showdown. I believe rick will come back in season 40. He probably won't win with the full returnee cast but I want to see him again because he is good TV.

So, pretty much all of the gameplay after the third elimination is a waste of time?

While I wanted Devens to win, Chris played his butt off with the days he had and took out the biggest threat to win in an amazing play so he deserved it! Go Chris and Devens for second chance!

Aubry and David voting for Chris really rubs me the wrong way. They praise the strategical part of Survivor, yet vote for the person who failed at not getting voted out. Once again Queen Michele deserved her win. I used to like Aubry, but I’m completely over her.

Gavin, Rick, Lauren, and Victoria for second chance

Terrible ending. Oh well. I liked Aurora, Devens, Lauren, Wentworth.

Rick victoria or lauren should have won. Awful finish to the season

Victoria swore she'd vote for gavin, what a big LOL

@ZP Survivor do you have a link or can you upload the Final 3 forum with the jury. I can't find it anywhere online. Thanks.

So you’re telling me I wasted a whole season watching people actually play the game and then have someone (who got to know the jury for a long time, sat around, Compete in one challenge and given an idol) to come in at the end to win it all? I even forgot Chris existed until this finale.

This is exactly what this season deserves for this terrible twist. Hopefully this is a lesson to the producers to never do this again. At least Devens lost.

To be honest, I am really happy that Chris won, as his story arc was interesting and very unique. He played really well once he got himself back into the game, and I’m glad that someone used the theme of the show to actually win the game. Only negative is that if they all knew that someone from the edge would win, why was there basically no footage during episodes on what was going on at the edge. I don’t think we had seen a confessional from Chris since episode 4 or 5! The twist set up for a challenge beast to come back in late and take the glory, and that’s exactly what happened. Hats off to Chris, well played!

I think Gavin should’ve won Imagine he won 😭 he’s been watching the show since age 8 Awhh

I feel like I should have stopped watching this season when Chris was voted out. And then watched the season final. And that's it 😂

So we got two seasons of survivor back-to-back which lived up to their respective themes. David (Nick) slaying Goliath's to win. Chris returning from Edge of Extinction to win. Wow, great job producers!

Most of the people don't like Sophie as a winner. After this season and hvshvsh i realized that she was good winner. . She was strategic

Yeah gotta say this is really frustrating given the fact that Chris had access to tons of info about the game before he won his way back in. In addition, he essentially played 6 or so days in the actual game, and while I agree that it's pretty impressive what he did accomplish, he had a free idol and knew who to go to for the other one because of Kelley. Lets compare that to Gavin's game. Okay, sure, you can say that Vic made all the moves for him, which is still pretty untrue, but even if that's the case, Gavin managed his threat level much better and made sure that she'd be voted out before him, which is what happened. In addition, Gavin never found an idol, but managed to convince someone to use one on him when he really had no bargaining chips to work with. Gavin never had his name written down, even in the premerge, and played for a full 39 days. Yes, Chris still was "in the game" per say, but living at the EoE is a lot less stressful than being in the game itself. He did make a huge move at the end that took guts, but I don't think it stacks up to the overall and complete game that Gavin played.

i don't even care if everyone considers this to be a horrible ending to the season i'm just glad that rick lost LMAOOOOO

the worst winner, bravo jeff this is yours idea

I’m so happy that Chris won. He worked so hard for everything and he honestly deserved it

Atleast Julie didn't Win!

Any chance you could post the final tribal, I couldn’t get to see any of it :(

I thought Devens was the darkest timeline? Boy was I wrong.

Devens couldn't vote correctly this time either.

Gavin is the most robbed finalist ever. He played the entire game with 0 votes against him and had two immunity wins. This show isn’t Survivor anymore.

Without doubt the worst ending imo however well done chris!

One of my favorite winners. Very fitting of the title of survivor edge of extinction sole Survivor as he experienced the edge and won at the end. Truly deserving indeed

i'm soo fricking happy Chris won..tho i was rooting for Gavin from the start.

Everyone was complaining about all the idols Rick found... He was typically the first one to start looking and sometimes was the only one looking... At least it was shown like that. Its not that its rigged its just no one else wanted to look as much.

Its been over 10 years amd jeff hasnt aged

Well that was the most disappointing final 3 in history and the worst winner. Victora, RIck and Lauren games were screwed by Chris returning and having jury infromation. Any of those 3 would have been a good winner. Victoria, Rick and Wardog were my favorite new players. I also hated Ron for most of the time but i started liking him near the end he was a fun character.

I really enjoyed this season. A lot of Idol Plays, good players, good blindsided, good musics

I can’t fault Chris for exploiting the Edge of Extinction twist’s benefits as he did what he had to do. But Getting a free pass to the final six, being gifted a half an idol, and spending weeks bonding with the jury is such an unfair advantage. He never had to betray people like Gavin or Julie since they were never voted out. We, as fans, spent weeks developing an attachment to the players still in the game and all then the third boot gets thrown back in... And bam! He wins. I feel like I wasted my time with this season.

I liked Devens but I'm pleased with this result. Chris deserved it. As Wardog said, the theme is not on trial the players are

I am just happy that Chris and Gavin made it to the end, I was so torn by which one was gonna win and I am so happy that the two of them made it to the end, Congrats to Gavin and Chris for making it to the end, even though Gavin didn't, I think that if you made it to the last tribal council, you are still a sole survivor at heart.

Victoria, who was Gavin’s biggest ally did not vote for him. It could have tied up to 5-5.

That gotta be a joke lmfao. 1:04

Im not saying chris didnt play a good game in his 4 or so days, but he was essentially playing with nothing to lose, and he had made personal connections with the entire jury on EoE in a non game context which puts him at a huge advantage for jury votes. I would argue its much easier to make it through the end when nobody on the island knows ur game cuz you had no game up until that point. Like everyone else knew who the liars were and who had no chance of winning so they planned their game around that, but chris was just a big question mark which was a huge advantage. Of course i still stand by the fact that every winner deserved their win, but I think this time chris only deserved it because the game itself, or at least the season itself, was broken

Can you please post the preview for next season.

Gavin deserved to win and I’m sticking to it.

Chris is the deserving winner. He survived Edge of Extinction and fought his way back to camp

damn my heart broke for devins

we wasted time watch whole season, someone voted out third, win this season, aoe is bad twist

lets get real here I think we all knew from the very beginning of the semifinal tribal council whoever won that fire making challenge won the game

Rick Devens should have won for sureeeeee. He was the only person who actually did anything smh. The fact that he survived for as long as he did on the bottom makes him deserve the win over any other player that season. He found idols, made big moves, and won several immunity challenges. We better see him back in later seasons.

Can you please put the part where the jury ask questions please ! I didn't get the chance to see what happened

Survivor jumped the shark...again.

Gavin played a really good game and tried his best, it’s cool that Chris won after his struggle at the island

Such a terrible F3. Has there ever been a F3 this undeserving of the million before?

I'm so proud of Chris, mah boi came back and won after all :D

I don't think Chris should win for staying in the game for 3 days to make top 3 (btw ik he survived more than 3 at the beginning)

It’s not Chris’s fault that he was trying to win the game

I can’t believe Chris won but I’m super happy about it!

Oh my gosh! Zp Survivor, you predicted the winner! Nice job :)

This season avenged for season 16: Micronesia with Erik giving up his immunity to Natalie but going home ‼️🙌🏼

Yes! My winner pick won back-to-back seasons. Chris is so handsome, got married, and won survivor! He seriously has big d energy as well to manage to get the jury to vote him for the win 💪🏼

Worst winner and waste of my god dam time.

It was really unfortunate for Devens. It was an easy win for him if he made it to final 3. I must say, Chris needed that move in order for him to prove that he deserved that million dollars. It was an awesome season. I had blast watching it and lookin forward to season 39.

I'm confused. The comments on Aurora's vote out seemed to suggest that Rick was "Ben 2". And now he was robbed? Rick lost fair and square, and Chris won fair and square. Gavin never really was in control or responsible for big moves, and Julie was.. well she didn't do much, so why is it that Chris is the "the worst winner". Like I'm actually very happy with this season and it's ending but, I guess that's just me.

I'm a big big fan of Survivor, Chris win wouldn't sink in. I really felt he's undeserving and he won due to luck. What has he done, nothing.

Chris' win marks the death of Winner Edits

best ending ever I loved it and hoped for Chris to win

Love your channel man! Happy to see Chris pull it out :)

David VS Goliath was epic, and this season totally let me down.

Zp's winner pick was correct! So his prediction wasn't bad after all.

How different would this season have been had there been no Extinction Island? I would imagine the pre-merge not changing at all ... 18th: Reem (1st Voted Out) 17th: Keith (2nd Voted Out) 16th: Chris (3rd Voted Out) 15th: Rick (4th Voted Out) 14th: Aubry (5th Voted Out) 13th: Wendy (6th Voted Out) ... but I feel the merge and endgame would be very different. No Chris. No Rick Devens. So finish the boot order in terms of what the game could have been had there been no Extinction Island. 12th: ??? (7th Voted Out) 11th: ??? (1st Jury Member) 10th: ??? (2nd Jury Member) 9th: ??? (3rd Jury Member) 8th: ??? (4th Jury Member) 7th: ??? (5th Jury Member) 6th: ??? (6th Jury Member) 5th: ??? (7th Jury Member) 4th: ??? (8th Jury Member) 3rd: ??? (Second Runner Up) 2nd: ??? (Runner Up) 1st: ??? (Winner)

Chris actually played a good game, not many people see that I just dislike Chris because he’s the one that went into a frickin fire challenge against devins and made him lose!!!!!

im not mad. this is funny

I knew Lauren was a bad player. She is easily manipulated. When she went against Victoria, her game went downhill fast.

Your prediction was right

Chris played great for 11 days. Gav played mediocre for 39 days. Makes sense to me.

The 6th 5th or 4th places should have won

Probably the worst winner the shows ever had

Very happy Rick D won $100, 000 Sia award for most entertaining player. He deserved to win the game but still got 2nd place money$$$

In my opinion better is a redemption islands ( duel) 2 or 3 people challenge no more challenges at 10 people

I can see why people are upset that he won, but he made a bold move at the very last second and he played against the best and won. Devins definitely deserved to win too, but he did get a little bit cocky and his overconfidence got him in the end

I’m really torn on how I feel tbh. On one hand I enjoyed that final hurrah from Chris where he gave up his immunity necklace so he’d have to build fire against Devins.... but Devins was the freaking MVP this season. Ngl, the first half of his game play was meh. But he came back from edge of extinction with guns blazing. He fought tooth and nail to stay in the game each week, even with everyone a) not wanting to work with him & b) not even hiding their attempts at gunning for him. He was public enemy 1# but he didn’t give up. He outwitted a lot of the jury members by flushing idols, throwing some fake idols into the mix, etc.

Chris was not taking the game's outcome too serious. That led to all-in move, which ironically brought him victory.

CBS: ok, one day left. Give Chris an idol for him to share? Producer: Yes. Chris:Lauren play ur idol for me Lauren: **gets voted out** Chris: **wins by 2 votes**

Awful ending to a decent season.

Can I get like 9 episodes of my life back?