With the final decision in the hands of a jury of former players, Myles Kuah was crowned the winner at the Australian Survivor 2025 finale, earning seven votes to Kaelan Lockhart’s single vote.
On Survivor, contestants who are voted out towards the end of the season are sent to the Jury Villa. The Jury members return for each Tribal Council, and at the finale they place votes for who they belive should win.
In previous seasons of Australian Survivor, there were nine Jury members, which meant there was no chance of a tie between the final two. Australian Survivor Brain v Brawn II was on track to have nine Jury members until Morgan Mitchell decided to skip the jury portion and head home.
“You may have noticed that Morgan is not on the Jury. She’s decided to leave the game and go home, but the game continues,” host Jonathan LaPaglia told the tribe members after she left.
Without Morgan, there were eight Jury members casting votes, which meant a possibility of a tie vote between Myles and Kaelan. So, what would have happened if that were the case?
There was a backup plan if the Australian Survivor 2025 finale ended in a tie
Speaking to Chattr the day after his triumphant win, Myles revealed that the cast was actually told about a plan that was in place if the end result was a tie, but his memory was a little hazy about the exact details.
“I remember we were told,” he said. “I can’t quite remember. I think it was some sort of Rock draw — like a Rocks draw.“
“I might be wrong, that’s what I remember, but I was also in a crazy, 47-day fatigue state at that stage,” he added.
Rocks is a concept that happens at Tribal Council when the contestants can’t decide who they want to vote out, so the players without votes take part in a game of chance, and one of those people is eliminated. Myles explained that Rocks would be slightly altered to fit a finale, in the case of a tie.
“[The jury would] go to a revote, and then if no one flips their vote over, then the Jurors draw a rock. Whoever draws the rocks on the Jury, their vote gets removed from the next revote, with the idea being that it is similar to a real Rocks draw; it incentivizes people to flip over because no one wants to risk losing their jury vote.
“Is it the cleanest thing that could happen? No, but thankfully, we didn’t have to worry about that.”
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