Seems Like a No Brainer

Seems Like a No Brainer is the season finale of.

Duel
Challenge: A Leg Up Participants would put one foot on one end of a seesaw with the other end having a ceramic vase balanced on it. The castaways would attempt to keep the vase balanced on the end with their their foot still on the seesaw. The last castaway to have their vase balanced on the end of the seesaw would return.

Winner:

Immunity (Day 37)
Challenge: A Numbers Game

The castaways would race along a balance beam to collect a series of bags containing 100 numbered tiles. The first castaway to place their tiles on a board in order from one to one hundred would win.

Winner:

Immunity (Day 38)
Challenge: Meso Maze

The castaways would race through a maze to collect four bags of puzzle pieces at four different stations. Once all four bags were collected, the castaways would race to the top of a pyramid and assemble a word puzzle. The first castaway to correctly solve the puzzle would win.

Winner:

Voting Confessionals
"murlonio"

- Rob, you're a great player, and my biggest competition so that's why I'm voting for you tonight.

Voting Confessionals
"murlonio"

- I have never known anyone that could lay in bed day after day each day. "murlonio"

- I can't believe it's taken 38 days to finally write your name down. I won't miss you. You're a nutcase. That's it.

Voting Confessionals
"murlonio"

- No big surprise here. You did a great job. I'd much rather of played this game with you than against you, but hey you know it's the way it works.

"murlonio"

- Hey, Phillip. Take that money and spend it wisely. I feel sorry for you, and I love you man. Have a good one.

Reunion
-David Murphy proposed to his girlfriend Carolyn in the audience. She accepted.

-Rob Mariano revealed Grant was still very hurt about the blindside, and had not responded to his cells in months. He tried to make amends with Grant at the Reunion but Grant refused.

-Phillip Sheppard was confirmed to have been a past Federal Agent after all.

-Grant Mattos had married actress Christina Cox between the shows taping and the Reunion.

-Andrea and Matt had maintained a long distance relationship since the show taping concluded.

Behind The Scenes

 * Due to time constraints, the Rites Of Passage ritual for the fallen castaways was omitted at the final edit of the episode, though CBS released the said clip on their YouTube account and the CBS website.
 * The Final Three repainted the back side of the Murlonio tribe flag with "Ometepe."

Other

 * This episode marked the most contestants still in contention during the season finale, with eight (four who are yet to be voted out, and another four who participated in the final Redemption Island Duel).
 * Rob became the twenty-second Sole Survivor.
 * All of the pre-merge evictees (excluding Russell) did not have a chance to speak at the live reunion show.
 * This was the first episode since  where a member of Ometepe was eliminated from the game.
 * This episode was divided into two parts in some countries.
 * This episode hold the record for most castaways eliminated in one episode, with five.
 * The final 5 immunity challenge, A Numbers Game, would later appear as the fifth duel in Blood vs. Water .