Sam Phalen
The Gata leader who lost his partner early in the merge and spent the rest of the game swinging from the outside.
Known for
Sam came into the Survivor 47 merge as the de facto leader of Gata with a promising alliance behind him, but his tight pairing with Sierra Wright made them a target. He had lost his vote at the auction by holding the most money, and a tie between him and Sierra ended with her going home instead.
From there tribemates could not stop seeing him as a physical threat, and he was stuck playing as an outsider, even having his vote blocked by Rachel LaMont. A clever scheme at the final seven gave him a jolt of control, but every attempt to take down frontrunner Rachel came up short. He gave a respectable Final Tribal pitch, yet Rachel won 7-1-0.
Background: Survivor Wiki
The season they played
- 2Survivor 47age 24, Nashville, Tennessee2nd of 18 · 26 days
Source
Seasons played, finishing positions, day counts, jury status, ages and hometowns come from the contestant table in each season's Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the series overview before publication.