Final Tribal Council

The Final Tribal Council is the final event of the game. This is where the remaining few face the Jury, who will have a very important decision to make in voting for a winner. The person who gets the most votes from the Jury will win the title of Sole Survivor and the one million dollar prize. On Day 39, (or Day 42 in Survivor: The Australian Outback) the final two or three generally either clean up, tear down, or burn down their camp as a tribute to surviving until the end of the game. They then trek to Tribal Council one final time. Since the final three was first started in Survivor: Cook Islands, only Survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: Tocantins have had a final two.

While remaining present to watch over the proceedings, the host would remain silent for the duration of the event. The host will just talk if he will tell which jury member will have their turn to speak next or if it is time for the jury to vote.

Proceedings
After the remaining contestants deliver their opening speeches, the jury will given a brief time to think about their speech before taking over the session. Each Jury member has the option to:
 * Ask each of the final players a question (either for one specific finalist, or all of them), which that player must answer.
 * Make a short speech which requires no answer but is meant to throw the finalist off guard, possibly venting all of the juror's frustrations after being eliminated from the game.

When all Jury members are finished, each final player will make a closing statement, allowing them to respond generally to the jury's questions and again explain why they would be the most deserving winner, though this practice has been abandoned since Cook Islands. After this, the host will then ask the Jury to vote for who they think deserves to win the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollar cash prize. One by one, each jury member will then proceed to the voting booth to vote for the winner. Unlike previous Tribal Council sessions, where players write the name of the tribemate they want to go home, this time, the Jury votes for a winner.

After the vote, the voting urn with the votes is taken away by the host. The players are told that the vote will be announced during the live finale, and the votes are secured somewhere until the live finale of the show when the votes are revealed and the winner is announced. On two situations, in Africa and Thailand, the Final Tribal Council and finale are spliced together to disguise them as one event, until moments later the camera shows the studio audience. This is possible by re-creating the Tribal Council area in the stage.

Prior to the use of a three-way final Tribal Council, the jury has always been odd-numbered with seven people, thus ensuring that no tie would be possible. However, with every Final Three Jury, or as in the case of Micronesia of an even-numbered Jury for a Final Two, a tie may be possible; it is unknown what mechanism is used to resolve a tie should it occur as it hasn't occured yet. During the finale of Micronesia, Jeff Probst was seen holding a white envelope that he claimed held the solution for a possible post Jury vote tiebreaker, but its contents have not been revealed as of yet since there was no tie to talk about.