Survivor: Worlds Apart Premiere

Well, I’m going to keep you updated about the movie watching that I’m doing. And while I know that there is not enough material with just B. B. Andersen, I’ll be doing something else while I write about him. I don’t know yet if I’ll do a drinking game with it or not. I might not. We’ll see what ends up happening. Plus, you may see a whole ‘nother set of movies on a new list getting created. It all depends on what my Christmas presents end up being and what my dreams may put things on my list. There’s a lot of movies that I want to add to the list pretty soon. This could wind up being a long update before we even get to the actual part, so either bear with me or skip to the part that says, “In the first segment of this show…” This is going to take a while. And while I keep track of deceased contestants, I won’t do Caleb Bankston until that season is on DVD. Wow, I’ve already said a lot in just one paragraph. Okay, Adam: breathe. Just breathe and relax. You can write this later. Since the show doesn’t even start until February, I probably shouldn’t even have started this the day after the last season ended. If you aren’t interested in the movies that I’ve been watching lately, then please skip to the paragraph that begins: now that I’m done with talking about movies. I won’t hold it against you. I don’t even know why I’m telling you about it. I guess that I just want you to know the instance I start watching Survivor: Borneo again, although, when I do that, I will add a new post to my TV blog every Sunday that I’m able to watch Survivor. Now, let’s start rambling as I have a lot to say.

I am adding this paragraph to tell you that I will be talking a lot about the movies that I watched until Survivor started again. So if you don’t want to know about them, then please skip to later in this blog. If you do want to read about them, please feel free to. I’m not even sure why I’m telling you about all of this. But I put it all here and if you don’t want to read about, then skip to the paragraph that says that I’m done talking about it. I won’t blame you if you do it. Now to begin this long and boring update about movie watching that I did

I won’t bother telling you when I watched these movies until the season started. I’ll just tell you what movies I watched and what I ended up replacing them with. I watched Aladdin and replaced it with a VHS recording of a performance of the play Arsenic and Old Lace. I then rolled Arsenic and Old Lace as was going to watch it, but the audio was poor and garbled. Turning up the volume didn’t help with the problem, so I watched a Christmas home video instead as this was back in December, before the next year started. In fact, movies watched in one year can be watched the next year (but normally not the same year) so Aladdin could possibly return to the list in 2015. Arsenic and Old Lace was replaced by The Aristocats. Thus ends the movie watching of 2014. For various reasons, a new list, to be watched on Tuesdays, was added. Here are the movies in alphabetical order: Flight of the Phoenix, a Little Princess, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: the Movie, Raise Your Voice, Taken, and the Wizard of Oz. All of them were added because of dreams that I had about them. It should be noted that the Wizard of Oz that I’m watching is a play version that I was in and not the classic Judy Garland movie.

So I wound up watching Pocahontas and replaced it with Rat Race. I watched Stargate and replaced it with Recess: School’s Out. While I normally would only watch that towards the end of the school year, since I’m not in school anymore, I’ll watch it anytime before the first back to school commercial of the year airs. If I’m not able to watch it by then, it will be taken off of the list and I won’t be able to watch it again until next year. I also watched Raise Your Voice and replaced it with the Ron Clark Story. I’ve never actually seen that before. My mother accidently got that for me for Christmas. She meant to get me Front of the Class, but she got that instead.

We then get to the next week. I watched National Treasure and replaced it with a post event DVD of the National Youth Gathering from 2007. Shout out to all LCMS members! I was there in Orlando that summer. Anyways, I then watch Little Rascals and replace it with The Miracle Worker, which is about Helen Keller, for those that didn’t know. I then watched The Aristocats and replaced it with Amadeus, which I’ve never seen before, but am interested in watching. After that, I watched Flight of the Phoenix and replaced it with The Hitchhiker’s Guide of the Galaxy.

The week after that, I watched Fifty First Dates and replaced it with Enchanted. Fifty First Dates was one of my sister’s movies that I had to take off the list at the soonest point that I could. I am ignoring the commentary with this movie so it can be replaced. I just have only two of her movies left, unless I have to worry about VHS movies of hers being removed sometime. Back to movies: I then watched The Miracle Worker and replaced it with Mulan. After that, I watched The Omega Code and replaced it with (drum roll please) The Omega Code 2. Lastly, for that week at least, I watched a Little Princess and replaced it with Lilo and Stitch.

We get to the next week. Yes, I am already getting bored of this update and don’t know what the point of this movie update is. But, I figure that my blog posts would be too short without my ramblings like this. I will stop posting any and all movie updates when I finally get to watch the Survivor: Borneo special again. After getting rid of the Sunday list, I’ll be watching the first season again while taking notes about it which I’ll share during a hiatus between airing seasons. And yes, I’ve told you that before.

Anyways, Saturday was when I watched the post gathering DVD of the 2007 LCMS National Youth Gathering. I end up replacing it with Our Lips are Sealed. I went to the 2010 gathering as well, the one in New Orleans, but there is no DVD of that for me to watch. (Just an interesting thought for the superstitious: if something bad has happened to New Orleans/Louisiana area in 2005 and 2010, then is something bad going to happen this year, in 2015?) The next movie that I rolled was Mulan. I replaced it with Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. I do not currently have the first Night at the Museum movie so you won’t see me watching it just yet. I then watched Power Rangers: the Ultimate Rangers. That has four hours worth of episodes that can be watched consecutively. I replaced it with Paulie. With the old choice stuck between o and r, I was stuck with another p choice since I lacked any q movies. In fact, if one list doesn’t have a choice to replace it within a certain letter range, then I have to give up that list. More on that if I cross that bridge. I actually have other p choices, but I didn’t want to choose between the other ones for various reasons. Lastly, for this week in question, I watched Taken and replaced it with the first movie in the Toy Story series.

Here’s another worthless paragraph! If you actually read through the whole posts I make in the past (thank you for doing that, but please do better things with your life), you may have noticed that I mentioned being a fan of CinemaSins. Well, I once tweeted them that they should do Toy Story. They then ended up doing Toy Story. I find that a great honor, even if I probably wasn’t the only one who suggested that. Now if you want to skip to an actually important part of this blog post, go ahead and do so. I won’t mind. I really don’t know why I’m telling you about all these movies. I guess it is so you know when I start to watch Survivor: Borneo again, only during hiatus is when you’d see my thoughts on B. B. Andersen. And since his time in the game was pretty short, I might write other notes while I’m at it.

On Saturday, I watched Monster’s Inc and replaced it with Ice Age. On Sunday, I watched The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and replaced it with two things actually, the first of which will be my grade school graduation DVD. The one that will replace it will be my high school graduation DVD. But we’ll get to the later. I’m just glad that I finally stopped rolling fours for once on Sunday. Now The Hobbit series will probably reappear on this list later this year. Typically, I watch a movie, but don’t watch it again the same year. But, there are some exceptions to that rule. Anyways, on Monday, I watched another dancing video and still have more of them to watch after that so it will remain on the list for now. On Tuesday, I watched Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: the Movie. Now of the new Tuesday list, it had four movies that I watched last year on it, a movie I dreamt about in December, and a movie that I had been trying to add since last year before I gave up the list for December. It looks like the movie I could have added soonest has now spent the longest time on the list. In the first five weeks of having this list, I rolled from it a different choice so far. Anyways, I replaced the Power Rangers movie with Made of Honor.

Now I’ve mentioned in this blog before my strange history with the Charmed DVD collection of mine. I started my collection with the fifth season. I then got the first, then the sixth, then the second, then the third, then the fourth. I still don’t have the last two seasons yet. But watching the show out of order is really confusing. I didn’t want to ever do it again, but it happened again. Last summer, my brother got me a Power Rangers DVD for my birthday. It was the second volume of the second season, since he wasn’t able to start at the beginning. So I watched it and then added the Power Rangers movie that I mentioned earlier onto the list. Of course, after watching it I had a dream about it, which is why it was on the list again this year. Since the third season of Power Rangers starts right after the movie takes place, I will probably get that season next on DVD. But I still have to get both volumes of the first season and the first volume of the second season. But I’ll talk more about that in my new blog. I started a blog about Madam Secretary. Here’s the link: http://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/

Here’s the next week of movie watching: On Saturday, I watched Heidi and replaced it with Fireproof. I highly recommend the movie Fireproof to anyone that hasn’t seen it. And if you have seen it, then I suggest that you watch it again. On Sunday, I watched Celtic Woman: A New Journey and replaced it with the next Celtic Woman live concert. On Monday, I watched another dancing video and there are still more of them left so they do not need to be replaced at the moment. On Tuesday, I watched The Ron Clark Story. It’s actually a pretty good movie. Afterwards, I replaced it with The Sound of Music, and, like other things on this list, this is a recording of a play version, this one having my cousins in it.

The next week gets a bit confusing since I wasn’t able to watch things normally. Plus, there was a movie that I watched without it being any list. Why I watched it, I’ll get to shortly. I ended up watching my grade school graduation DVD, which doesn’t actually have any footage from said graduation on it. The name I gave it is kind of a misnomer. Anyways, that choice remains on the list as there’s still my high school graduation to watch. I also watched The Omega Code 2 and replaced it with Monster’s University. After I had watched Monster’s Inc earlier this year, I stopped by a store and bought Monster’s University, its prequel, since there were no other movies at the time for me to add onto the list. What I’m referring to is that sometimes there are movies for me to add to the list that changes my usual method of replacing movies. The usual method of replacing movies on the list is normally decided by me simply rolling for a replacement. But if I recently acquired a new movie, I dream about a movie I have, or I simply want to watch a movie, then I add it to the list without having to roll for something.

So I ignored the movies for a day of the week to watch The Ultimate Gift. Why did I watch that? Well, I’m going to tell you possible spoilers about that movie. A dead grandfather is central to the plot of the movie. The day I watched this movie was the anniversary of my grandfather’s death. (My other grandfather is still alive.) That is why I ignored the rolling list for that day.

Now there’s only one last week of movie watching to tell you about from before the new season starts. Then I will just post updates once a week about each week of movie watching. On Saturday, I watched the Decker Family DVD that I’m pretty sure I told you about before. I then replaced it with the Chronicles of Narnia movie series. I’m not entirely sure that I should put that on the list again, but I think that it might work out, for now at least. I’m worried about certain movies no longer being available to me, but that could change if I want it to or I could go to a video store that I know has the movies that I’m interested in. Alternatively, I could just get rid of that option with something else. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

On Sunday, I watched Celtic Woman: Songs from the Heart. When I watch that, I also have to go online to watch two songs from the concert that aren’t on the DVD. Ultimately, looking up stuff online may be a good thing considering how I watch something online to do a cast assessment of the season. If you are reading this post, then there won’t be a cast assessment this season and I’ll explain why later. That concert will be replaced by the next Celtic Woman concert called Believe. On Monday, I watched Recess: School’s Out. I replaced it with A Walk to Remember. The last movie that I would wind up watching before the season premiere of Survivor was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That would be replaced by Dumbo. Now Dumbo should be with Rain Man and the Back to the Future trilogy as summer movies. But a Dumbo dream of mine put it on the list sooner.

Now that I’m done with talking about movies, I might as well bore you to death about various dreams I had about Survivor. One was about Survivor: Guatemala and implied that a contestant from that season died. Well, I’m not exactly sure that’s what the dream meant as they are hard to interpret sometimes. Another Survivor dream implied that a lot of my former classmates had competed on Survivor. Now in reality, I have never known a Survivor contestant before they have done the show. (I’ve technically never known any after they’ve done the show either, but thanks to social media like Facebook and Twitter, I can interact with them that way.) I hope that I will meet one in person someday, although I’d settle for a Skype conversation. I’d start vlogs where I’d interview contestants, but I lack the technology to do that and probably won’t get it anytime soon. While I could potentially borrow the technology, I don’t want to impose on anyone.

You may also be wondering where my cast assessment is this season. Well, I wasn’t able to do one. Normally, my best source of information for something like that is the Survivor preview show that airs on the TV guide network. They didn’t do one this year (that I know of at least). There might be another network with a special, but I was unable to find one before the start of the show. Seeing the first episode will taint my opinions in a cast assessment and I would be unable to do one in a real way. Thus, you will not see one this season. But I hope to be back in future seasons with it. They are well read posts, unless Google is lying to me. They could be considering how they mentioned that nobody had read my first post on my new blog (the link is posted above) even though the blog mentioned having some people looking at it. As for cast assessments, I said the first time that I didn’t know if I’d ever do them again. So I don’t know if you’ll see something about them again or not.

I had written some of a post about a cast assessment, but since you won’t see that, I’ll just steal what was meant to be in that post in this paragraph. Other parts of the post aren’t worth sharing in my mind. When a Survivor season starts with three tribes, there tends to be a way each of those tribes fare. There’s the tribe that fails immediately, gets dissolved, but still manages to have players in the finale (such as Saboga, Matsing, and Luzon). While I did not predict that the brains tribe would lose a lot last season, I did think that it would be funny if they failed as a tribe. I was right. So I don’t know which of the three tribes from this season would fail, but I’m guessing that it would be the no collar tribe. The second tribe in a three tribe season tends to do well when there’s still three tribes, start failing at the dissolve to two tribes, and be the first ones completely eliminated after the merge (such as Mogo Mogo, Kalabaw, and Solana). It would be hard to predict which one of them would be that, but I’ll go with the white collar tribe. Then there’s one last type of tribe in three tribe seasons. That’s the dominate tribe that starts out well during the three tribe stage, stays doing well in the two tribe stage, and winds up with members in the finale (such as Chapera, Tandang, and Aparri). I think that the blue collar tribe will be that tribe. I do wonder if any of my predictions will be right. I do think that we’ll find the typical three tribes dynamic, as mentioned earlier, but I don’t know yet which tribe will do what. The blue collar tribe could fail with its expectations, much like how the brains tribe did poorly in Cagayan. But I am convinced before the season starts that the winner of this season will probably come from that tribe.

Anyways, I don’t know whether or not to get into what I think about specific contestants or not. I mean, I don’t have thoughts about all of them, just some. But with those few players, I might as well mention what my thoughts regarding them are. Nina is deaf, but not in the typically sense it seems. Many commentators on youtube were thinking that she’ll be out before the merge, which just seems a bit mean-spirited to me. Do I think that she’ll do well just because they think she’ll fail? Maybe. There was another contestant named So. She was one of the lost players from last season so it makes you wonder if someone dropped out of this season and allowed her to play. Meanwhile, I just hope that my computer doesn’t have the annoying grammar check every time I write the name So. At least I can ignore what they say, which I do a lot.

There’s not much else to say outside of what transpired in the episode. I’m glad for those of you who have read this whole post. I wouldn’t mind if you skip to the actual important part. I’m not even sure why I keep doing this. But this might be something that I’d try to stop doing but never actually succeed in stopping to do. I really hope that I have said all that I need to for this blog post, outside of the episode itself. I’ll try my best to keep the movie updates to a single paragraph that will be labeled in advance. I especially hope that I can roll Seventeen Again so I can replace it with and then roll the Survivor Borneo special which would probably mark the end or close to it of my movie watching list until I have another season to get caught up on. But unless an unfortunate death happens to a Survivor contestant or Blood versus Water gets released to DVD, I won’t have anything to worry about, for the moment at least. Of course, outside of the first two seasons, I wouldn’t have to worry about watching feature length specials about them before or after watching the season itself. Future ramblings shouldn’t be this long in the future and as soon as this paragraph ends, I’ll get to the actual point. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get the usual introduction of the contestants that we get at the very beginning. Since I didn’t do a cast assessment, I might mention some of what I think of different people as they are introduced. Dan is a cocky person, from what I can tell. I’m never sure how cocky players will do in the game. Typically they are out before the merge, but some people who are cocky are like Tony and win the season. Each tribe chooses a representative. Might this be the new twist we’ve heard about? Interestingly, only men are chosen as representatives. Each of them chooses another person to make a decision. I’m wondering if these pairs will form instant alliances. There’s a blog I read and the writer is convinced that pairs is how this game will work considering how that typically happens during three tribe seasons.

In the second segment of the show, the no collar tribe gets to their camp. The pair of leaders have to decide between honesty and deception. Honesty is a bigger bag of beans. Deception would have a smaller bag of bean, but a clue to the hidden immunity idol. Sierra doesn’t believe that her tribe leaders actually chose the bigger bag of beans, which they did. Why even tell them that there was a choice if they are just going to choose the wrong one? You’d just tell them that you only had a smaller bag of beans and there wasn’t much of a choice. The white collar pair chooses the deception choice while the other two tribes make the honesty choice. This is more than likely the new twist that I heard about. It’s a pretty good one, one I’m surprised hasn’t really appeared before.

In the third segment of the show, So comes up with her lie regarding the choice and made up a third option that could have happened. Shirin was not fooled by their lie. Now that So and Joaquin are in an obvious alliance to the other players in the game, the other players on their tribe consider forming an alliance against them. Mike is already becoming the crazy person in his tribe. He randomly ate a scorpion and got sick from it. I already don’t have much hope for his long term chances in the game. I haven’t picked a favorite to win yet. Jenn and Vince are probably going to have a showmance. Will it work out? They normally don’t work out, but we’ll see. Joe becomes a leader like person regarding building the shelter.

In the fourth segment of the show, there are arguments on the blue collar as to how to build the shelter.  They thought that Dan was too serious about it. Nobody seems to like him and he knows it. If you ask me, this pair twist may make them easy targets for the other four players. Vince is probably jealous of Jenn and thinks that she connects more with Joe than with him. Well, it looks like their showmance won’t work out after all. Carolyn looks for an idol even though she doesn’t have a clue for it. Wouldn’t you know it, she finds the idol.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. They show the yellow tribe winning the challenge so following my theory regarding that, I’ll probably think that they lose the challenge. If you don’t believe me, then rewatch Caramoan and see how other Gota was shown winning a challenge that they would end up losing. It doesn’t always happen like that, but you’d be surprised how often that is what happens. At the first stage, everyone starts out using keys but then everyone then switches to untying the knots. I always hate the challenges where only one person can help at a stage. The blue collar tribe loses a lot of time at this stage and the other two tribes get a huge lead. Only one of the three puzzles has to be solved. In the end, the no collar tribe is the first tribe to win the challenge and a race for second place starts happening next. At least people can switch at the challenge even though only one can compete at the time. The blue collar tribe pulls a come from behind second place finish. The white collar tribe failed at the puzzle and thus attends the first tribal council. Shirin is the one who failed at the puzzle and thinks that she’ll be voted out. But is that what will happen? Carolyn’s idol could come into play here.

In the sixth segment of the show, a great nature shot of a bunch of birds eating the corpse of a dead deer or deer-like creature. What a great shot! Is that supposed to represent Shirin? Maybe. But we’ll see how this all unfolds. Carolyn senses that she’s the target. She tells Tyler about her hidden immunity idol. With everyone in the game having a confessional, then I have no way of telling who will get voted out. Will the tables turn on So? Will Carolyn play her idol? There’s a lot of drama at tribal council which is hard to summarize. In the end, Carolyn does not play her hidden immunity idol. She must be convinced that she’s not actually the target. In the end, So is voted out. I’d be so nervous if I had an idol that I’d sooner waste it than risk getting voted out with it in my possession. Ultimately, Carolyn made the right choice.

On the next Survivor, the white collar tribe gets a bit risqué and Nina fights with her tribe. Maybe the commentators were right about her. But we’ll see what ends up happening. I just hope that she isn’t voted out just because of her deafness.

Total confessionals: Kelly- 1, Carolyn- 4, Will- 2, Joaquin- 3, Sierra- 1, Vince- 3, Joe- 2, Jenn- 4, Lindsey- 2, Max- 3, Dan- 4, Hali- 2, Tyler- 3, Mike- 2, So- 5, Rodney- 2, Shirin- 2, Nina- 1.

The elimination of So means that Jenn, Dan, and Carolyn have the highest confessional count in the game. As usual, I may have messed up the numbers. At least I do the best that I can. Anyways, the people currently at the bottom of the confessional count are Kelly, Sierra, and Nina. Things, of course, can and will change early into the season. Remember that my blog will be updated on Thursdays until holy week due to Lent. But I should be here every week as normal. Also, be sure to read my random blog posts that I added between the end of last season and the start of this one. I’ll probably always have random blog posts, unless I’m blogging about a previous or current Survivor season. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Ten Worst Survivor Tribes

Before I say anything else, I might as well point out that there might not be a cast assessment in this blog this year. I have not been able to find the preview show I was looking for online. Without it, I'm not sure how I could do it. Let me know if you can think of any good links that would work for a cast assessment. Meanwhile, I'll get to the actual point of this blog post. This could be my last random post before the new season starts.

I once posted what I thought the ten dumbest Survivor tribes were. Now, there’s a difference between dumb tribes and just plain bad tribes. So I will go into deal about which ten tribes I think are the absolute worst in Survivor history. I am picking the ten that I think did far worse than any other tribes. I will also mention which tribes aren’t going to get a place on this list and what tribes came close, but ultimately weren’t worthy of being with the main ten.

What are the ten? I’ll get to that later. But, first I should mention the tribes that I’m not choosing. Some tribes are complicated due to tribe swaps messing up the tribe. With La Mina, for instance, the original tribe is not remembered as much as the post swap tribe, which didn’t do as well in the game. The original Aitutaki was pretty bad, but we remember the Aitutaki four alliance that dominated after the merge so this won’t appear. I will mostly consider the original tribes and how they did. That’s why a tribe like Fang won’t appear on this list, although they were pretty bad. I’m also only talking about tribes that did bad before the individual stage of the game. That’s why you won’t see Pagong on this list. Something that I feel that I must note here is that since Ravu only lost a ton due to the worst twist in Survivor history, you will not see it on the list because it did not have a level playing field like other tribes that are on the list did.

Now to the honorable mentions: It’s a bit complicated wondering which tribe was the first to be considered among the worst. Was Samburu bad enough to be on the list? Not in my mind. And Sook Jai was a pretty bad tribe, but mostly not until after the fake merge. Zhan Hu was pretty bad, but ultimately, not bad enough for this list. And I’ve mentioned before how I think that Fang is too confusing to be on this list. Before I get to the top ten, there’s something that I should mention: if a terrible tribe managed to produce the winner of that season, I’m still going to put the tribe on the list, but I will put them towards the beginning of the list instead of the end. Regardless of that fact, they were still bad tribes. Also, please remember my list of dumbest tribes because tribes that made dumb moves aren’t necessarily bad in the way tribes on my list are. But now, I’m onto the list.

#10 Matsing (Philippines): You might be wondering why this is only number ten. It’s the only tribe that never won any challenges. But tons of worse tribes lost plenty more challenges than Matsing. Plus they are kind of redeemed by how well Malcolm and Denise did. The tribe was dissolved based on how pitiful it was and it shouldn’t be excluded from the list because of having the winner come from it. So I made it number ten on this list because it is one of the worst tribes in Survivor history.

#9 Maraamu (Marquesas): This is considered to be the original tribe that sucked. It went onto a losing streak very early into the game and it wasn’t until after a tribe swap happened that this tribe won challenges. It only had three challenge wins, a record that wasn’t broken for a while, although I forget if it was tied anytime soon afterwards. What’s interesting about this tribe is that three people on it got to be on a tribe with every contestant this season. That’s a feat that doesn’t happen easily. It was also people who were members of this tribe that formed the outsiders alliance that ending up flipping on the would-be final four. The winner of the season was from this tribe, but it still sucked.

#8 Foa Foa (Samoa): This will be the last bad tribe on the list that ended up having the winner of the season. Starting with number seven, the other tribes would not wind up producing the winner. You see, with the effect of Russell Hantz’s sabotaging his own tribe, they failed a lot in the game and ending up winning only one reward and one immunity challenge, losing all the rest. Despite this, the four members that made the early merge all outplayed the other tribe despite the two to one odds against them. Nobody even knew what happened until it was too late. Were they not saved by the early merge, they might rank closer to number one. But they produced a great winner, even though they sucked as bad as they did early on.

#7 Luzon (Cagayan): Brain fail are the two words that perfectly describe this tribe. It was pretty funny to me to see a tribe full of smart people be so dumb at playing the game. They lost half of their members pretty quickly. After being saved by a tribe swap that actually got rid of the tribe, the rest of the members made it pretty far, but none of them made it to the end. While they could have been better had they actually known how to use their smarts, they ultimately failed at living up to their name and earn a spot on this list.

#6 Heroes (Heroes versus Villains): You may think that I hate on the heroes tribe too much. You’d probably be right. But this tribe was pretty pitiful, when you think about it. It probably suffered from bad casting. (Look at the females on this tribe and tell me why any of them were heroes because I’d really like to know why myself.) And while one would probably like the heroes to succeed, simply because they were heroes, these people probably weren’t who you wanted to win. They failed a lot in the game and were pretty weak in the game. It does not surprise anyone that they failed. If only they were better cast.

#5 Espada (Nicaragua): In an old versus young season, you wouldn’t think that the old tribe would do well. But just how bad it did is why it is now on the list. While you’d want an old tribe to win to defeat stereotypes about it, it didn’t do that well as a tribe, even though they had some good players. A medallion of power advantage might have been the only reason the original tribe won a challenge. They also had some pretty weak players that didn’t do so well.

#4 Morgan (Pearl Islands): In the very beginning of the game, this tribe failed pretty quickly and stayed failing until the other tribe intentionally threw an immunity challenge. Due to a twist, the highest ranking member of the tribe was also the third person voted out of it. It did suck a lot and only succeeded in some way due to Drake’s bad decisions. Ultimately, whereas other minority tribes before it pulled a turnaround after the merge by producing the winner, this tribe was the first premerge minority tribe (in my mind at least) to not wind up with the eventual winner coming from it. At least they brought us Darrah who could have done more were it not for that stupid immunity twist towards the end. Oddly, nobody from this tribe has been asked back for another season. But since they were as bad as they were, it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise.

#3 Gota (Caramoan): Ah, Gota. So many people were bad from this tribe. It’s highest placing member was one of the most obvious goats to enter the final tribal council. In a fans versus favorites season, you’d except the fans to do bad. But this tribe failed terribly at the game. Like the heroes tribe, it was probably miscast, if you believe the rumors that over half of the tribe was recruits. It can be a bit of a surprise that this tribe succeeded in anything at all. The only thing that made it good was after the tribe swap which still caused its original members to lose. Some of these players knew what to do in the game, which is a good thing in the end. But it failed miserably as a tribe in general.

#2 Coyopa (San Juan del Sur): This may only be on the list since this season this tribe was a part of aired recently. But, when you think about it, it was a pretty pitiful tribe. Only the merge saved this tribe, but not enough to have a serious contender for the win. One might not even be able to say for sure what had happened that caused this tribe to be so terrible. How were all the good loved ones on the other tribe? Why did this tribe due so poorly? Like many bad tribes, we may never actually know the real answer. But this tribe was very terrible at the game and what it enthralled.

You may be thinking right now: okay, there’s an obvious bad tribe that hasn’t been listed yet. It has to be number one, right? Well, to me the answer of the worst tribe in Survivor history would have to go to a single tribe alone. No other tribes are even close to being as terrible as it was. The term used for describing a terrible Survivor tribe comes from it. It won barely any challenges, not one of them for immunity. It lacked any clear leadership and near the end of its existence, we saw the other tribe being able to sit out the same members in back to back challenges just because the other tribe didn’t have hardly anyone left on it. A unique twist happened because it was so pitiful; one never seen in any other Survivor season. Only one member from it made the individual stage of the game. You may have guessed it by now, but there’s one clear and obvious choice for the worst tribe in Survivor history.

#1 Ulong (Palau): At first, nobody knew that this tribe would be so freaking terrible. Nobody was prepared for just how much this tribe would lose. It was actually quite interesting to see them lose so frequently in the game. One member was able to outlast all the other tribe members while the tribal part of the game was still happening. It’s a bit surprising that she was able to outlast two of the other tribe’s members. But Ulong was so bad at the game, a merge didn’t even happen because of how few members (or, technically, just a single member), they had in the game. I don’t think that any other tribe was as bad as Ulong one. That why it gets my number one pick.

Well, I hope that I didn’t forget any notable bad tribes. I don’t think that any tribe other than Ulong deserves to be number one. You may notice the difference between this list and the one that I did on dumb tribes. There is a clear difference. I also hope to return at some point with a best tribe list, but I won’t make any promises about it yet. Keep an eye out on this blog anytime Survivor is on hiatus and you should see interesting posts like these. Well, I hope that they are interesting and I hope that there are people who are reading it. Please keep reading this blog of mine, although I’d probably keep posting even if people didn’t read it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Important Survivor Events that went Unaired

Sometimes, editing can make or break a season of Survivor. In fact, editing can severely affect anything in television or movies. Bad editing can ruin a lot of things. I mean, Turbo: a Power Rangers movie and Thomas and the Magic Railroad would probably have much better reception if they weren’t so poorly edited. But since better edits of those films don’t exist (as of this blog post at least), then we are just left with the version we have and hope that it isn’t inferior by as much as it could be, considering how we could know more of what should have been there. Now I have heard from various sources things I will tell you in this post. I will cite sources whenever possible. But, sometimes, events that are important to a Survivor season will not make the final edit. This blog post is to inform you of those events. Some important Survivor events went unaired. This will not be a top ten, just a list of different noteworthy events in my mind that I figure my readers should know about, if they don’t already.

Amazon- cause of fire: Okay, I’m not even sure about this one being true. I could be remembering it wrong, but maybe not. The way I heard about it is sketchy enough that I probably don’t think it’s true. But I’ve mentioned this before. My brother heard this from one of his friends (or a friend of a friend) that apparently worked in this Survivor season. You may remember at the final five, there was a fire at the camp that destroyed most of the remaining player’s belongings. One of the contestants still in the game was blamed for this fire. But that’s not the case. What was the real cause of the fire? We don’t know. The person in question knows the real cause. Here’s the strange part: he can’t reveal what the cause was until six months after the series finale of Survivor. How weird is that? This could just be an elaborate hoax that few people know about besides me. But, if Survivor ends, I’ll wait six months to see if any news breaks about this.

Pearl Islands- more on the outcasts: Lots of people hated the outcasts twist in Pearl Islands. I don’t know why so many people say that the twist was bad, but it helped make the season better. Just seems very weird to me. But, as a fan of the outcasts, I think that one part where it failed is that the audience never saw anything that happened while the outcasts were out of the game. From the moment Nicole was voted out to the moment that they arrived for a twist challenge, we saw none of what happened to them. The outcast tribal council didn’t reveal as much as it could have about this tribe’s dynamics. Why did the votes fall the way they did? When could they have even aired what happened? Redemption Island, while not always edited well, at least gives more insight into the game than this ever did.

Pearl Islands- why Osten quit: Sometimes on Survivor, what’s in the final edit deliberately changes what actually happened in the season. Like when Osten became the first quitter. There was a lot about it that they didn’t show, some of which would have made Osten look better than he did. Did we know of Osten’s staph infections? No, we didn’t. He had to tell people about it after the season had finished airing. The quit might have been more orchestrated by production than they would have you believe. With him having all these problems that they didn’t show you about, it made him even more likely to quit. And he did quit, but we saw a much different version of it than we should have. But we have a contestant who knows more about what happened that episode which he quit. And he told Survivor Oz about it. Link: https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/ryan-opray-interview/

Palau- immunity vote: Actually, we may know things about this thanks to Survivor Wiki. But, there still remains an unexplained mystery about the double tribal council episode that season. Before Ulong was to vote out a member, the members of Koror voted to give one of them immunity. We have no idea why people voted the way they did. Wikia has who voted for who. It’s unknown where they got their information from or if it is accurate. However, they are the only ones who have it (the voting record) so I trust them more than I would anyone else. But we still don’t know that much about the vote itself or why it happened. Link: http://survivor.wikia.com/wiki/The_Best_and_Worst_Reward_Ever

China- idol question: Some people may have wondered why Jamie couldn’t have stolen one of James’s idols in this season. Well, there is clearly a rule that prohibits stealing idols. While the edit makes her look a bit clueless, not realizing that she could have grabbed an idol and used it to save herself at the next tribal council, there is a rule that prevents hidden immunity idols from being stolen. But nowhere onscreen is this rule ever addressed. I don’t know how they could have addressed it, but it explains why she didn’t steal it, even if she didn’t know it was real.

Nicaragua- possible expulsion: This one was pretty strange. One wonders if it even affected the season as much as it could have. But something happened with Sash that could have had serious consequences was pretty much guilty of production interference. Due to an infamous (word being used correctly for once) double quit in the season, the show didn’t want there to be even more bad things happening. That’s why there were no consequences when there otherwise could have been. But let’s get into more detail about it. Jane is the person who told production about this. Supposedly, Sash offered to help pay off Jane’s mortgage and she told production about it. I wish I had a good link for this story, but I don’t. I still don’t know if this is true, but it could be.

One World- idol incident: In the rulebook of Survivor, it says that one is not allowed to steal a hidden immunity idol from another player as an idol is considered a personal item. You can steal an idol clue, which I find strange, but that’s probably a different discussion. Now an incident happened in One World that probably happened but couldn’t be aired. It seriously affected the whole season. I still don’t know why this happened. But it is widely believed that Bill stole Colton’s hidden immunity idol and threw it into the sea. Why Bill did this in the main question about it that I want answered. But it happened and Colton learned about it. Suddenly, Colton hates Bill and we are lead to the moment when Manono gave up immunity. Without this season, Colton comes off even worse than he is by hating Bill. But this event could have revealed more about this season. It couldn’t be shown since it would raise too many questions. Link: http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/10/survivor-one-world-idol-stealing/

Caramoan- Shamar’s evacuation: If you don’t know about this one, you really should. That is why I’m going to tell you about it right now. Production screwed up a lot of Caramoan. That is not a secret. It was, quite possibly, the poorest edited season out of all the seasons ever done. I actually like the season in question, but there’s still a lot they did wrong with it. Medical pretty much caused Shamar to be medically evacuated. If you don’t believe me, click on the link at the end of this paragraph. There’s no reason he would lie about all of these things. In fact, the reunion show fiasco may have been to help prevent him from telling the truth about it. Of course, he would tell people about it anyways. So listen to what the link says and you may learn something you’ll be glad you heard, if you didn’t know about it already. Link: https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/shamar-thomas-interview/

Caramoan- Erik’s evacuation: Well production wasn’t actually responsible for this evacuation happening, they did make it look much different than it actually was. We didn’t see his leg infection. Only in Ponderosa did we see it. As far as we know, he had low blood pressure and was pulled from the game. But that’s not what happened. That’s not serious enough and wasn’t the real cause. I don’t know why people were so messed up in Caramoan. I still like the season, but it’s not hard to understand why people hate it so much. They could have done so much better with the editing. But they screwed up too much and had to cover their asses. So we saw less of him than we should have thanks to him being pulled from the game. Link: https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/erik-reichenbach-caramoan-interview/

San Juan del Sur- idol burning: This one was probably unimportant. It could have been something that we thought would be in the final edit, but wasn’t. Once they started the season, they ended the first episode with a weird comment regarding idol burning. It never actually happened on the show. It might have not been in the final edit since they would probably be breaking the rules by taking somebody’s idol and burning it. Only if a hidden immunity idol is not in possession of anyone or is willingly destroyed by its owner, would such a thing happen. So we still don’t know what this was about or what happened regarding it. The only idols that have ever been burned on the show were fakes. A real one was thrown into the sea during Gabon, which was pretty dumb. But we’ll never know what happened with the idol burning this season. Well, not unless someone talks to a contestant about it or they simply reveal what the thing was about.

That’s all the secrets of the show that I can think of for now. I know that I probably missed a lot of other important events that were edited out of the show. I mean, so freaking often we have a contestant that gets voted out and the real reason why they were eliminated was edited out. So many people talk about this in their interviews after the show is over. I could give examples, but that would take too long. The point is: sometimes important stuff gets edited out of Survivor. And we as fans may not know what it was. But I will keep an eye out for anything and everything that we should know about that wasn’t in the final edit. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Blood versus Water Seasons Similarities

With the twenty-seventh season of Survivor and the twenty-ninth season using the same major twist (blood versus water), it’s only inevitable that people compare the two seasons to each other. This blog post will point out the similarities (and differences) between the two seasons.

·         The highest ranking pair in both seasons was a mother/daughter pair.

·         The lowest ranking new player in the first blood versus water was paired with the person who ended  up winning. The first person voted out of the second blood versus water was paired with the winner.

·         Both seasons saw an injured contestant become a finalist.

·         Both seasons had brothers playing.

·         Both seasons had a person quitting the game.

·         Both seasons had two boyfriend/girlfriend pairs and a married couple.

·         Both had contestants that played other reality shows before they played Survivor.

·         Both had a male gay couple that was in a relationship.

·         Both quitters were with a romantic partner.

·         Both seasons lacked any cousins playing with each other.

·         Both seasons had a pair completely eliminated before the merge.

·         Both seasons had a men’s alliance that failed. (For the record, there has never been a successful all  men alliance in Survivor as of this blog post.)

·         Both seasons had pairs united by a tribe swap and more were united by the merge.

·         Both seasons had a sports player on it.

Now you might be wondering what some of the differences are. Well, I’ll get to that next. There are a lot of differences that existed between the two seasons. I might as well mention what they are, if only I could stop drawing this out… I think that I will.

Blood versus Water	San Juan del Sur
Did not have any sisters playing with each other.	Did not have any engaged people playing with each other.
Did not have a father and child.	Did not have a person with their aunt/uncle.
Had no twins.	Had the twinees!
The lowest ranking pair was married to each other.	The lowest ranking pair was a father and daughter.
A man won the game.	A woman won the game.
The game was more focused on singles- those without loved ones in the game.	The game was more focused on pairs- those with loved ones still in the game.
Had more pairs that weren’t related.	Had more blood relative pairs.
Had an even number of men and women.	Had more men than women.

Well, that’s all the trivia I can think of for now about the blood versus water twist. There’s probably more that I can’t remember. But I thought that this would be interesting, so I’m spreading my thoughts about it with you. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor All Final Fives

A Survivor fan probably remembers the strange way of how Cook Islands began with five players on each tribe. Also, people wonder what twists could bring back players who made it far in their seasons. So I thought, why not take the final fives of various seasons and put them on one tribe against other final fives from other seasons? You may have noticed that I did a list like this with the final fours of various seasons. But, I thought that I should see if final fives would work. Just to be clear about something: the gender ratio has to be pretty close to even. So if the final five wasn’t three men and two women or two men and three women, then I won’t be choosing it, even if it was likely that they would return anyways. I will go through all the seasons and, if all goes well, I can find four tribes that will work from various seasons. What are they? Well, let’s look. (Sorry if the font is weird on this blog post.)

We start with Borneo. The final five was Sean, Sue, Rudy, Kelly, and Richard. Sue is definitely not coming back, Rudy probably isn’t, and Kelly won’t so this tribe won’t happen. Next we have Australia. The final five was Elisabeth, Rodger, Keith, Colby, and Tina. Elisabeth is not returning and Colby probably won’t so this tribe isn’t happening. Next we have Africa. The final five was Ethan, Kim Johnson, Lex, Tom, and Teresa. If Ethan is healthy enough and everyone can play, then this tribe could conceivably happen. The Marquesas final five was Sean, Vecepia, Kathy, Neleh, and Paschal. I see no problems with this tribe happening. The Thailand final five was Brian, Clay, Helen, Jan, and Ted. Production has openly admitted to not liking Brian and he probably won’t play again. Likewise, I doubt any of them would return, regardless of if they all accepted. The Amazon final five was Heidi, Jenna, Butch, Matthew, and Rob. I don’t think Heidi wants to do the show again, Jenna returning is complicated due to her quitting her second season, and Rob is very busy with his podcast. The Pearl Islands final five was Burton, Johnny Fairplay, Sandra, Darrah, and Lillian. They are unlikely to have Johnny Fairplay return to the game again, so I say that this is unlikely to happen. The All-Stars final five was Amber, Boston Rob, Tom, Jenna Lewis, and Rupert. I don’t see Amber or Rob playing again, so this won’t happen.

Now we get to Vanuatu. The final five that season was Chris, Julie, Eliza, Twila, and Scout. Julie can’t play again since she dated Jeff Probst. However, gender imbalance gets rid of this tribe anyways. In Palau, the final five was Caryn, Jenn, Tom, Katie, and Ian. Since Jenn is dead, this tribe can’t happen. In Guatemala, the final five was Cindy, Danni, Lydia, Rafe, and Stephenie. Due to gender imbalance, this tribe can’t happen. In Panama, the final five was Danielle, Cirie, Shane, Terry, and Aras. This tribe I could easily see as happening. In Cook Islands, the final five was Ozzy, Sundra, Becky, Yul, and Adam. Depending on if Ozzy agreed to return, I’d see this tribe as possibly happening. The Fiji final five was Dreamz, Kenwood, Yau-Man, Earl, and Cassandra. Due to gender imbalance, that won’t happen. Next, we get to the China final five. That was Amanda, Courtney, Denise, Todd, and Peih-Gee. I’m not sure that Denise would play again and Todd is going through a constant crisis with alcohol, so I don’t see this tribe happening. Next is the Micronesia final five which was Erik, Natalie, Amanda, Cirie, and Parvati. This one I don’t see happening due to gender imbalance. It was a great final five, but Cirie can’t be on more than one starting tribe in the same season anyways.

Now we get to Gabon. Ken, Matty, Susie, Bob, and Sugar were the final five that season. I don’t see Sugar returning to the game so this probably won’t happen. The Tocantins final five was JT, Stephen, Taj, Coach, and Erinn. Taj has openly stated that she won’t play again so this tribe probably won’t happen. Next we have the Samoa final five. The Samoa final five was Jaison, Mick, Natalie, Russell Hantz, and Brett. Since I’m not sure if they’ll let Russell back (not to mention the gender imbalance), so we won’t be seeing this tribe. Next we have the final five of Heroes versus Villains. That was Colby, Jerri, Parvati, Russell, and Sandra. Once again, they probably won’t let Russell back and Colby doesn’t want to play again so this won’t happen.

The Nicaragua final five is next. That was Dan, Holly, Chase, Fabio, and Sash. Even without the gender imbalance, Chase is too busy with his music career and Sash probably won’t play again due to an unaired event that would probably not let production think he’s a good returning player. Then we have the Redemption Island final five which was Andrea, Ashley, Natalie, Phillip, and Rob. Since Rob isn’t playing again, this tribe won’t happen. The South Pacific final five was Ozzy, Albert, Coach, Rick, and Sophie. This won’t happen due to gender imbalance. The One World final five was Alicia, Christina, Chelsea, Kim, and Sabrina. It’s the first final five to be comprised of a single gender. So, this tribe won’t happen. The next final five was in Philippines. It was Denise, Abi-Maria, Malcolm, Lisa, and Michael. This probably would happen, in my mind at least. Then we have the Caramoan final five which was Erik, Dawn, John, Eddie, and Sherri. This could potentially happen if John wants to play again.

The Blood versus Water final five was Monica, Gervase, Ciera, Tina, and Tyson. I don’t think that Monica will play again so this won’t happen. The Cagayan final five was Trish, Tony, Woo, Spencer, and Kass. This one I could see happening. The last known final five at the moment was from San Juan del Sur. It was Natalie, Missy, Baylor, Keith, and Jaclyn. Yet another one eliminated due to gender imbalance. Now, we get to the tribes that could potentially happen in a season like this. I have to remember which of the tribes would produce an even number of men and women in the end.

Borneo- no, Australia- no, Africa- probably yes, Marquesas- yes, Thailand- probably no, Amazon- probably no, Pearl Islands- no, All-Stars- no, Vanuatu- no, Palau- no, Guatemala- no, Panama- yes, Cook Islands- probably yes, Fiji- no, China- no, Micronesia- no, Gabon- probably no, Tocantins- no, Samoa- no, Heroes versus Villains- no, Nicaragua- no, Redemption Island- no, South Pacific- no, One World- no, Philippines- yes, Caramoan- probably yes, Blood versus Water- no, Cagayan- yes, San Juan del Sur- no. Now I only need four tribes, but there can’t be gender imbalance. So let’s see if this will work. Here are the seasons/tribes I will go with: Marquesas, Panama, Philippines, and Cagayan. That’s my idea for a Survivor season. I hope that you like it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Rites of Passage Analysis

Mistakenly know by many as fallen comrades, the rites of passage is something seen in the finale of each season until Redemption Island entered the game. It is when we remember the contestants from earlier in the season who were all eliminated before the finale (plus, usually there’s one from the finale that’s included to). Some like it and some don’t. I, personally, probably just have mixed feelings about it. Sometimes it works better than other situations. When one group of contestants was successful at Pagonging another tribe, the thing becomes kind of lame since the people talking don’t know much about the people they are talking about. It’s rumored that the rites of passage will not appear in future Survivor seasons. Whether that will end up being true or not is unknown. But I will offer an in-depth analysis of the rites of passage on Survivor. I will go over the good and the bad as I discuss my own personal thoughts on this part of Survivor.

The good: It’s a good way of remembering all the contestants from the season. One may not be able to remember much about all the contestants from this show, but the rites of passage is a good way of recapping who those people were. Plus, it serves as a great build-up to the final immunity challenge. It’s the type of thing that you’d want to be in the finale of a season and expect to be there.

The bad: It’s time consuming. If contestants at the rites of passage don’t know the ones out of the game that well, then it just seems like a waste of time. The type of players in the finale make or break this type of thing. For instance, you don’t want someone like Russell Hantz there who doesn’t say anything about these people that he beat.

More of my thoughts: I honestly don’t know what to say about it. Some seasons it works better than others. I don’t think that we’ll lose anything by it never being featured again. But, it will also seem like something is missing without it being there. It’s hard to tell what to really think about it. If it never appears again, it will have been a good run, although it is over now. So I’m not sure what all I had to say about it, but here this post is anyways. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor Tarnished Legacies

If you check out other Survivor websites like www.survivorpodcast.blogspot.com you might have seen a list there. You might have seen one on www.survivoroz.com as well. Basically, there are some Survivor players that started out pretty well and were memorable the first time they played. But then, they play again and basically fail at the game and people wonder why they were considered good in the first place. That’s the point of this blog post. I’m going to tell you about tarnished legacies in Survivor history by pointing out notable ones in my mind. I decided that this will not be a top ten; instead, this will just be a list of various contestants that I feel have tarnished legacies. To reiterate, this list is not arranged in any order. I may like people on this list. I also may have mixed feelings about any of these players due to their tarnished legacies in later seasons. But, I’ll get to my list.

We start with Sue Hawk. She was a memorable person the first time she played. Then, the second time, she’s mostly just remembered for complaining about an incident and quitting the game over it. While she did have a good reason for quitting, she’s not remembered as well in All-Stars because of that. Colby Donaldson was a good player the first time around. The second time, he didn’t do as well as he used to. But the third time, he totally sucked. He was no longer worthy of being a great player in Heroes versus Villains. He was just terrible at the whole thing and only outlasted the other heroes because he was so weak compared to them. Next up, we have Johnny Fairplay, or, as he could have been known after Micronesia: Johnny Wouldn’t Play. He could have done a lot in Micronesia. While some might have expected him to be the first person voted out that season, the way it happened just makes you hate this guy even more. It’s a shame that he was cast over all the other great applicants. But, he made his choice and might have done us a favor by sparing us a return visit to the show.

Next, we get to someone like Stephenie LaGrossa who may not be as obvious a choice as other people are. She was very well liked in Palau. But in Guatemala, she wasn’t that good and in Heroes versus Villains she was even worse. It’s sad really. Ozzy Lutch is also worthy of this list. While he was a great player the first time around, the second time didn’t do him any favors and the third time just had him coming off as egotistical. Of course, I should point out that I like some of these contestants on this list. But, that doesn’t mean that they don’t have a tarnished legacy now. Take Yau-Man Chan. He was a wonderful contestant in Fiji. He was one of the very few bright spots in that terrible season. But in Micronesia, his tribe just got rid of him very quickly as his great game play just wasn’t there the second time around. Then we have someone like James Clement who was well liked the first two times he played. The third time? Well, he just came off looking like a huge ass to everyone before he was finally voted out of the game.

I’ll now mention someone I think is overlooked in the whole tarnished legacy thing: JT Thomas. He tarnished his legacy a lot in Heroes versus Villains. He went from being the first person to play a perfect game to being the dumbest player for a while. It’s a shame that he hasn’t been back to defend his win. I would add Russell Swan to the list, but his game the first time wasn’t actually as great as it could have been. Russell Hantz played two great games, but the third time showed his ways come up short and he left crying like a little girl. I would say that he would be more worthy of the list should his evil legacy from the first two seasons not still stand.

The last player that I’ll mention that has a tarnished legacy is one that should be pretty obvious for most people. In his first season, he got his entire tribe to give up immunity. In his second season, he whined and quit. Colton Cumbie has a terrible tarnished legacy because he just didn’t want to play the game with people who hated him. Of course they would hate him after his villainous ways in his first season. But instead of trying to play the game or take the free ride his tribe was having by constantly winning immunity, he decided to just up and leave the game. At least he’s sparing us from a future reappearance on this show. Well, sorry if you wanted a top ten. Sorry if you disagree with anyone on this list or if you think that I missed someone. I don’t hate everyone on this list. A lot of these people I like. But, I decided to post this anyways. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Possible New Ways of Dividing Tribes at the Start

In Survivor history, there have been times when the tribes were divided by a certain way. Such ways have been pretty basic: men versus women (Amazon, Vanuatu, Panama, and One World), old versus young (Panama and Nicaragua), or returning players versus new players (Micronesia and Caramoan). Others have been more creative: battle of the cultures (Cook Islands), brains, brawn, and beauty (Cagayan), players versus their family members (Blood versus Water and San Juan del Sur), and the upcoming battle of the social classes (Worlds Apart). So you do have to wonder what new possible ways they could do that which they haven’t done it before. Well, that’s what this post is about.

Here, I start with seasons that would not involve returning players. Why not do a season that starts with players from rural areas fighting against those from urban areas? Would the rural people have an advantage by being most outdoorsy? Would the urban people do better at certain challenges? Call me biased, but I think that the rural tribe would do better. If people don’t think that will work, then why not have people from different states? You could separate the west coast from the east coast and add in the Midwest. Or you could put people from water related areas with people from more land based areas. There are probably other ways a person’s job can fit into a new way of doing a Survivor season. A season could do college students versus professors. Or you could get different graduating classes from different schools but the same year as competitors. Maybe fans of different types of sports could play it out. Now I’m just rambling (as usual) and I’m not sure I have much good ideas for that.

But, I do have ideas on how to do new returning player seasons. Everyone says that they should do old school versus new school, as in, the seasons that a contestant first played in being older versus the newer seasons. They might have to rename something like that as I’m pretty sure that more than two tribes would work best for it. Of course, a real second chances season is something that they should do and it’s a shame that they haven’t already done it. If you look through past blog posts that I’ve written, then you should notice that I’ve already done multiple ideas of which seasons would work with what returning players. They could do winners versus runner-ups. They could do runner-ups versus last voted out. They could do second-timers versus third-timers. There are probably other choices for any of this stuff, but I’m done with this post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.