Greatest of the Greats

Greatest of the Greats is the season premiere of.

Day 1
Twenty previous winners return for the shows 20th anniversary. Sandra Diaz-Twine is upset to learn that Rob Mariano is on the season and with Amber Brkich, as he never told her he was coming back despite the two spending thirty six days together on Island of the Idols. The players are divided into two tribes of 10: Dakal and Sele.

The Daka tribe features Yul Kwon, Sophie Clarke, Tony Vlachos, Nick Wilson, Amber, Tyson Apostol, Kim Spradlin, Sandra, Wendell Holland and Sarah Lacina.

The Sele tribe features Rob, Denise Stapley, Adam Klein, Danni Boatwright, Ben Driebergen, Michele Fitzgerald, Jeremy Collins, Natalie Anderson, Ethan Zohn and Parvati Shallow.

Jeff Probst notifies the players about a new Twist called Fire Token, a twist where everyone starts the game with one coin each, but requires them to will their Fire Token to another player if they are voted out, the return of Edge of Extinction, and the grand prize being $2,000,000.

The two tribes then immediately compete in a joint Reward /Immunity Challenge. Dakal wins, earning themselves immunity and flint.

After Dakal arrives at their camp, they find a Fire Token menu, which allows them to buy food and Advantages. They then begin setting up camp.

At Sele, Adam and Denise bond while looking for the water well, but the rest of the tribe notices their absence, making them concerned, with Jeremy pointing out that Adam and Denise are making a rookie mistake.

Back at Dakal, Tony is keen on running out to look for a Hidden Immunity Idol, but restrains himself, as he does not want to repeat the same mistake he made on Game Changers. Amber attempts to look for an idol, and talks about how she has to keep up with the game. Yul  talks to Sophie  about working together. They discuss about Rob and Tyson being tight, and the two playing poker with Kim and Jeremy.

Back at At Sele, Rob and Parvati discuss their past together, and talk about working together this time. Danni talks to Ben, Adam and Ethan about targeting Rob due to him playing so many times and having a lot of connections. Ben however reveals this to Rob. Rob confronts Danni, who comes clean. Rob, feeling like he can trust her due to her telling him the truth, talks to her about working together and forming an old school alliance with him, Parvati and Ethan, which she seems open to.

Day 2
In the morning, Sele is scrambling as they have to Tribal Council tonight. Adam and Denise are on the chopping block for going off alone together the previous day. Ben, wanting to keep Adam because he thinks Adam can help him, warns him about what 's going on, infuriating Adam. Adam then talks to both Ben and Ethan about splitting up Natalie and Jeremy due to their close friendship. Ethan relays Adam's plan to Rob and Parvati, which they seem open to. When Natalie, Jeremy Parvati, Ben and Danni try to discuss which of Adam or Denise should be the boot, nobody is willing to give a straight answer. Meanwhile, Parvati and Rob are shocked they they are in power and no danger despite how dangerous they are.

A tribal Council, Adam argues that their are more dangerous relationships to be worried and everyone twists other people's words, causing Jeremy to wonder if Rob and Parvati have something planned. When the votes are revealed, Natalie is the first boot by a 7-2-1 vote, leaving Michele and Jeremy out of the loop. After leaving tribal council, she gives her fire token to Jeremy and heads to Edge of Extinction.

Day 3
At Dakal, Sandra voices her frustration about Rob lying to her about not coming back and even talks about taking Amber out first, and Yul talks to Sandra and Sarah about rallying the one time and disconnected players against the poker alliance. Yul then talks to Wendell and Nick about working with him and Sophie, since they are all fairly disconnected with the Survivor community. Wendell suggests getting Rob and Amber out as soon as possible.

At Sele, Michele, upset about being left out of the vote and wanting to prove she's a deserving winner, talks to Ben about Rob and Amber being in control. The two decided to target an old schooler next. Jeremy is upset losing Natalie, but is happy when he finds Natalie's Fire Token, which she gave to him in his bag.

During her first day on the Edge, Natalie receives an advantage and luxury item menu and is informed of finding ways to earn new fire tokens. Following a clue left by the Edge Sail, she discovers an idol that works for the next three Tribal Councils, which she can sell to anyone on the losing tribe.

At the immunity challenge, Dakal takes the lead when Jeremy struggles to get over the wheel. Jeremy however eventually gets over, allowing Sele to advance. Dakal's struggle in the ring tossing part, allows Jeremy to win the challenge for Sele, sending Dakal to tribal council.

At camp, Dakal does a lot of scrambling. Several names are thrown out such as Amber, Nick, Sandra, Tony, and Tyson. Sandra decides to spread truth and lies. She tells Nick that Kim and Amber want him out for being shady and the most recent winner. Sandra then goes off and reaches in her bag, where she finds an idol. She believes the idol was sent to her by Natalie. After finding out from Tyson that he wants Tony out, Sandra tells Tony, who then campaigns for Tyson's elimination. Yul tells Tyson that everyone is worried about the poker alliance. Realizing he is in trouble, he abandons Kim and Amber to save himself. Kim starts to think she's the target as nobody is talking to her, and gets emotional. Yul tells Tony that Tyson will vote for Kim or Amber, but Tony does not believe it.

At Tribal Council, Tyson, Kim and Amber try to convince the tribe that there is no Poker Alliance in the game, with Amber and Kim trying to convince others to take out Nick for being the most recent winner. When the votes are revealed however, Amber is the boot with 6 votes against her. After leaving tribal council, Amber gives her fire token to Rob. She then goes to Edge of Extinction, where she meets Natalie.

Challenges
Reward/Immunity=Challenge: By Any Means Necessary Two members from each tribe would battle for a life ring. The tribe that gets one of their members to have a hand on the ring and one on their tribe's flagpole scores a point. The first tribe that scores three points wins. Reward: Flint Winner: Tribes must paddle out and retrieve a bag of numbers before making their way back to shore by crossing a series of obstacles. One member of each tribe must then use the numbers in the bag to solve a number combination to unlock three rings, which two members must then throw at three targets. The first tribe to hit all three of their targets wins. Winner:
 * -|Immunity=Challenge: Blue Lagoon Bustle

Voting Confessionals
''No voting confessionals were aired in the episode. A transcript of the confessionals was published on EW.com.''

Voting Confessionals
''No voting confessionals were aired in the episode. A transcript of the confessionals was published on EW.com. Tony did not say anything when he voted.''

Other

 * The opening Reward/Immunity Challenge actually required tribes to score five points, but was edited down to three due to a lopsided victory by Dakal. The two unaired matches were:
 * Sandra Diaz-Twine and Sophie Clarke defeating Danni Boatwright and Michele Fitzgerald; and
 * Nick Wilson and Yul Kwon defeating Adam Klein and Ethan Zohn.
 * The only two players going into this season without any votes against them in their Survivor careers, Nick Wilson and Natalie Anderson, have received their first elimination votes in this episode.
 * This episode's first Tribal Council marks the first time that Michele attended a pre-merge Tribal Council.
 * This episode's second Tribal Council marks the first time that Denise Stapley was immune from a pre-merge Tribal Council, and the first time that Yul has entered Tribal Council at risk of being voted out.
 * This episode also marks the first time that Denise has won a tribal Immunity Challenge.