'Survivor' Season 41 Boasts One of the Show's Most Diverse Casts in History

There’s a whole new season of Survivor, and a whole new cast looking to win a nice $1 million. 18 people from all over the country have descended on an island in Fiji to test their resilience and mental and physical fortitude, as if 2020 didn’t test that enough for all of us.

In case you’re joining the show for the first time: Survivor follows groups of people put into tribes and given minimal supplies to survive on an island; all they have is each other. Each episode, the tribes have to compete in immunity challenges. Whichever tribe wins, doesn’t have to send anyone home that night. For the losers, a fiercely strategic game commences to find out which of them is going home. Once the tribes are thinned out, everyone combines into one tribe, and the game’s goal is then to be the last one standing.

There’s a lot of twists thrown in with each year, and season 41 is no exception. This season, players have no food to start with, and within the first episode, two of the three tribes had their flint taken away. Plus, there’s only 26 days of filming versus the usual 39, so the intensity has ramped up.

Another exciting piece of news for the new season: this is the most diverse cast of Survivor yet. It’s a refreshing sight to see the show better represent the multicultural country it draws its competitors from. Who would decide to put themselves through this hell? To be on Survivor, you’ve got to forget everything about the real world, and focus on, well, surviving in both a social and physical game. It also helps to know how you want to play the game, whether it's emulating a past winner’s gameplay or doing something different. Here are the 18 players for season 41 of Survivor.