For the first time in "Survivor" History, the Final Three players went on to face the Jury. At each of the first twelve seasons' Tribal Councils, it was a Final Two. Also: This was the first season to NOT have the typical seven Jurors question the Finalists. Instead, nine previously eliminated players returned as part of the Jury.
For the first time in Survivor history, the Final Four was entirely made up of people whose ethnicity was not Caucasian.