Pick your favorites daily! Vote in EW's best Survivor winner ever bracket Pick your favorites daily! By Dalton Ross :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/DaltonRossauthorphoto2e15b12006e2438a99fb06db6d682421.jpg) Dalton Ross is a writer and editor with over 25 years experience covering TV and the entertainment industry. Survivor is kind of his thing. EW's editorial guidelines on March 24, 2026 7:31 a.m. ET Who is the best Survivor winner ever? Ask 10 Survivor fans and you may get 10 different answers. Which is part of the fun of the question.

Pick your favorites daily!

Vote in EW's best Survivor winner ever bracket

Pick your favorites daily!

By Dalton Ross

Dalton Ross is a writer and editor with over 25 years experience covering TV and the entertainment industry. *Survivor* is kind of his thing.

EW's editorial guidelines

on March 24, 2026 7:31 a.m. ET

Who is the best *Survivor* winner ever? Ask 10 *Survivor* fans and you may get 10 different answers. Which is part of the fun of the question.

Hardcore *Survivor* fans love to discuss and debate the intricacies of the game and their favorite seasons and winners in the same way that sports fans enjoy chattering nonstop about their teams.

But what do most fans think when posed with the question of whose the greatest *Survivor* winner ever? Let's find out!

EW has put together a bracket with all 49 season *Survivor* winners, with a match-up happening every day until the best of the best is crowned at the *Survivor 50* finale. And then the winner of *Survivor 50* can take on the king or queen of the bracket to see who comes out on top there.

Because common math tells us that 49 does not equal 64, some winners have received first round byes from **'s panel of *Survivor* experts and already advanced to the second round. Also, the two-time winners Sandra Diaz-Twine and Tony Vlachos were guaranteed on making it to the second round since *Heroes vs. Villains* Sandra defeated *Pearl Islands* Sandra in round one, and *Winners at War* Tony bested *Cagayan* Tony. The rest is all up to you!

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Think Ben Driebergen is highly underrated? Have at it! Believe Kim Spradlin-Wolfe wasn't actually that dominant? I mean… that sounds crazy, but the vote is yours to make!

Yesterday's matchup pitted *Guatemala* winner Danni Boatwright against *Survivor 48 *champion Kyle Fraser. Would Danni defeat Kyle the same way her Kansas City Chiefs always beat Kyle's beloved Bills when the playoffs come around? NO! Instead, it was Kyle with a dominant victory, as the medically evacuated *Survivor 50* player nabbed 70 percent of the vote. That means he will move on to round two and a battle against *Cook Islands* winner Yul Kwon.

But now it is time for the penultimate matchup of round one, and it is a battle between new era champions, as *Survivor 42* winner Maryanne Oketch takes on *Survivor 49* winner (and recent *Survivor 50* victim) Savannah Louie. Will Maryanne be rewarded for her dynamic late-season push, or will Savannah take it thanks to her record-tying immunity run? Vote for your favorite below, and then come back here tomorrow for the results and weigh in on the next battle. Because now the winners truly are at war!

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