Survivor10 - Palau

The competition was increased to twenty contestants for this series. Before filming began, the cast was told to dress in street clothes indicative of their careers for publicity photos. This ended up being their only clothing for the duration of the game. Tom Westman's wife told him to wear pants over his swim trunks, as she remembered the Pearl Islands season where the contestants were also tricked into wearing street clothes for the game. The two tribes competing were named Ulong, in blue, and Koror, in brown, after two islands in the nation of Palau. For the second time in Survivor history, tribes were not selected by the producers, but rather the contestants themselves. In this tribe selection process, two people did not get placed in a tribe, resulting in their elimination. This meant a total of three, including the traditional tribal council vote-off on Day 3, were eliminated in the first episode.

The Ulong tribe managed to lose every Immunity Challenge, giving Koror the first tribal sweep on Survivor. When Ulong was reduced to only one tribe member, Stephenie, she was given a map to Koror, and upon arrival was given a Koror buff. While the players in the game referred to it as a merge during the finale episode, the apparent official opinion of producers is that it wasn't a merge, as the season was described as being the first, and so far only, without a merge.

Tom Westman defeated Katie Gallagher in a 6-1 vote.

he was the winner.