Tribal Council

Tribal Council is the place where Survivor contestants are voted out from his/her respective tribe. Tribal Councils are held after a tribe lose a challenge and the time of the Tribal Council is occasionally held at nightime.

Role In Survivor
During the Survivor series, Tribal Council has been held ever since the very beginning of Survivor. It has played a significant role during every season. It is here that when a tribe loses, they must vote out a member from their tribe. There is a specific process how Tribal Council is held. First of all, a tribe will bring their torches and the host will tell them to leave it against the wall. Then the tribe will sit down. After the entire tribe has sat down, the host would usually discuss with the tribe how they lost?, what could be done to make the tribe better and who deserves to go home. After the discussion is finished, the host would tell the tribe to vote one of their members off and would also warn the tribe that they cannot vote for themselves. Sometimes, the host would ask if one of the tribe members have immunity idols. After the voting is done, the host would fetch the votes and then read each one of those votes to determine who is eliminated from the tribe. Soon as the final vote is read out and the host has told who is eliminated, that eliminated tribe member will fetch their torch and the host would muff out the flame of the torch. The eliminated tribe member would walk away and the host would tell the tribe to go back to their campsite.

Tribal Council also is held for merged tribes. The process of Tribal Council is the same, except that when a tribe member from the merged tribe has been voted out, that eliminated tribe member becomes part of a group called the Jury. Even though the eliminated tribe member is no longer competing in Survivor, that eliminated tribe member is seen again at the next Tribal Council. This process continues until only three survivor members are left.

At the final Tribal Council, a different process comes into play. First, the Jury will ask the Final Three questions (in the order that they were eliminated) in order to determine who deserves to win the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor. After the questions have been asked, the host will ask the Jury to vote for a winner. Soon after the Jury votes, the host will read out the votes to see who the winner is of the respective survivor season.