Survivor: Game Changers — Mamanuca Islands is the 34th season of the American
CBS competitive
reality television series
Survivor, featuring 20 returning castaways. The season premiered on March 8, 2017 with a two-hour episode. This season is the third to film in Fiji after
Survivor: Fiji and
Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X.
[2] It is the fourth season to feature entirely returning players, following
Survivor: All-Stars,
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, and
Survivor: Cambodia and is also the eleventh season to feature at least one returning player.
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This season introduced several alterations to the game format. Unlike previous seasons, in which hidden immunity idols were hidden according to a consistent method, idols this season were to be hidden by a variety of methods.
[1] The process for resolving a tied vote was changed for this season, removing the second ballot where only non-tied castaways were allowed to vote between the tied castaways and proceeding directly to the procedure to resolve a deadlocked tie: an open deliberation between non-tied voters. The rest of the process remained the same.
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