Survivor: Yucatán

Survivor: Yucatán is the first season of the first round of competition for the 2019 Ultimate Survivor Champion. It was filmed in the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve. This season consisted of twenty-two contestants.

The winner of this season was Rob Cesternino, who defeated Shii Ann Huang and Kelly Sharbaugh by a vote of 8-1-0. The other seven moving on to Round 2 are Aaron Reisberger, Chris Hammons, RC Saint-Amour, Elisabeth Filarski, Shawn Cohen, Bill Posley, and Dawn Meehan.

This season was followed by Survivor: Tokelau.

Contestants
The male and female winner of a challenge on Day 1 were made tribal leaders and chose the tribes. However, they chose castaways for the other tribe. When three men and three women were left in the draft, each tribe was able to chose a male and female for their tribe, thus eliminating a male and a female contestant immediately.