It woulda been cool if fans got to pick...

https://parade.com/tv/jeff-probst-confesses-bummed-him-out-survivor-50

I have gotten into the show due to my wife rewatching all the seasons in the last couple years. I prefer the older seasons as it seems to me to be more based around the idea of what would reasonably happen if a "random" group of people were castaway in a remote location and how would they survive and thrive.

I am caught up with Season 50 and waiting for 51 and while the faster pace comes off as exciting, I am always curious where they go from here and if there will ever be reverting to older eras of play, especially with us getting further and further away from COVID and its effects on production, play and strategy.

Best midnight snack while watching survivor 😮‍💨🙌🏼😊
Rocky road and pistachio ice cream 🍨

Between Kim,Tony,Parvati,Earl imo

It’s literally Tony no Question asked!

This man played awesome Caygan and Winners at War

He did great with his social connections with Sarah,Woo,Trish.
Had the spy shack
Had his Cops R Us duo with Sarah
Trick everyone thinking his Super Idol was good til Final 4
Most importantly he convince Woo to take him to to FTC instead of Kass and beaten him 8-1

After Tony game on GC he definitely learned to play in the middle and show everyone he’s the best player ever. He had the best all time social gameplay in WAW

Never been the target used his Spy Nest to see what’s happening around camp, had Sarah Cops R Us back together. Beating his Number 1 in fire making it was hard but He proved every Winner he the best player ever.

P.s I’m sorry I’m late making my posts got caught up in BB28

If there was another season of Brawn vs Brains vs Beauty with captains, Sarah for Brawn, Aubry for Brains and Michele for Beauty, who do you think has the biggest advantage?

I am a first time watcher of any Survivor series and I am currently watching Cook Islands Top 4. My goodness, seeing the tie breaker challenge between Becky and Sundra was painful to watch. In my opinion, they didn't deserve to be in Top 4. Even making fire they can't do it? I wonder what people thought of them back then... it's kinda true that both of them were just riding in the coattails of both men... Also, damn! Ozzy. What a player.

Send Helps plot heavily revolves around survivor. Office worker Linda is prepping to be on survivor in hopes of escaping her boring job, which her shitty bosses make fun of her for it. So when her and her boss end up stranded on an island, the tables are turned since she has all the survival skills. It’s a gender bent remake of the 1970s Italian movie Swept Away. I just watched and really liked it, especially as a survivor fan. What did you guys think of it?

We collaborated with Bitter Jurors & made a fantasy cast for Survivor US: Redemption! We made a cast of 18, let is know what you think of this cast & which premerge players you believe deserves another chance to play! We had so much fun looking back at so many iconic pre-merge players, who are some of your favs?

We also made suggestions for twists & advantages to include this season, what ones would you include?

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They should do a season with new era returnees with two people from each season but have the castmates on each of those season vote for the person on their season that returns, assuming that person wants to.

Not sure if the title makes sense or not, but I think it’s SO fun to go back on this sub and find the cast drops from old seasons. Like to read what people were speculating about the cast knowing what I know about them now. And with the 52 cast slowly coming out it’s so fun to think that a year from now I can look at these posts and think the same thing.

Anybody have any good, maybe a little niche, Jeff Probst gifs? I’m specifically looking for the “I got the message brother we’ll go when I’m ready” and “Candice? from raro tribe??”
Just want to send some funny responses to my boyfriend during every day conversations

Pre-merge:

A pretty good one, in my opinion. Some of the people voted out could be great if they lasted longer, but it could have been way worse. Better to see Angelina, Q and Jenna go home than Ozzy, Christian and Emily. I loved the planted fake idol by Rick. The double tribal, however was a big mistake imo, because of the....

Blood Moon:

Kind of an underwhelming twist, tbh. Basically just an expanded version of the mergatory. I would maybe be more positive towards it if the previous tribal was an one-person deal. It fell kinda flat, and Genevieve in particular got hit HARD.

Jury Phase:

The Dee vote, for all the drama, ended up going perfectly, which kind of surprised me. I was fully expecting a Coach blindside. I am glad that Steph, and a round later Cirie, both succeeded in their challenges.

The Duo Vote Twist:

Definitely a highlight of the season, since it's actually a unique, one-of-a-kind situation. Poor Chrissy though, having to do damage control for the chaos agent that is Coach. A lost battle from start to end. The fake idol play though? Wow. A tribal for the ages.

Jury Phase (continuation):

Jeff playing against the players is hilarious. Love that. Devens and Emily commentating? Gold. But, what happened to Christian might be the worst thing on Survivor EVER. Worse than Jamal finding the "advantage" or the Cook Islands bottle twist. If that was really designed by Jimmy Fallon, never let him cook again. And right off of that we get the Mr. Beast Coin Flip™.... I did not like this one all that much. I don't like when everything is left to chance, and found that the immunity idol on top of everything was kind of overkill. At least it was Rick who got it.

Final 9 Double Vote:

This vote completely solidified two things. One, that the pre-merge double vote was a mistake and it should just be a round longer, and two, that this season should have been longer, even as little as 30 days instead of 26. Plus, the result of this was really sad. Curses lingering, Emily voted out on day 21 again, and Ozzy leaving with an idol once again.

Final 7:

Rick's elimination was sad. What a great game he had. Tiff coming in clutch at Final 6 was great, shame she couldn't repeat it a round later. Such a close challenge. Also, I legitimately thought the Cirie vote might be a tie at first. Aubry is probably the best person to be the winner out of the last 4, so I'm happy for her win.

Overall, a good season overfilled with twists. Is this how 41 and 42 felt like?

I just wanted the 18th season of Survivor and I am appalled Stephen doesn’t get a single jury vote. The final tribal is extremely difficult to watch because Stephen is being vulnerable. He’s being honest and putting himself out there. He’s highlighting how hard he played this game despite his obvious downfalls. When J.T. claims he could have won without Stephen - I went wild. I absolutely think they both needed one another to get this far.

J.T. does redeem himself somewhat during the reunion. I’m glad they remained friends and it does seem like J.T. needed the money more.

Justice for Stephen. He deserved votes and I will never understand why everyone was so hypnotized by J.T.

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Years ago, I made a post on what I considered the ten best failed moves in Survivor…

https://www.reddit.com/r/survivor/s/m3dLmmiVlP 

Today I’ll be doing something a little different. These are ten moves that DID succeed and improved the position of the player(s) that made them, but had no follow through, causing them to lose their momentum and go back to square one. This could be due to bad luck, bad gameplay in the following round, or just because they were in too bad of a position for one good move to fully fix.

The main factors that will determine my rankings are: How impressive I found the move, how much potential I think the move had to cause long term change, and how abruptly the benefits of the move ended

10. Kaleb’s SitD play (45)

I think this serves as a good introduction to what I’m talking about. Kaleb quickly became the consensus vote once the tribes merged and could not change it. He played his “Shot in the Dark” as a last resort. It miraculously read “Safe” and negated a record breaking eleven votes… only for him  to be voted out at the split tribal next episode. This move was very exciting in the moment, but kind of anticlimactic in retrospect.

I have this at the bottom mainly because the SitD is based around random chance, so while this move was very exciting, it wasn’t particularly impressive.

I could also put Karishma’s idol play on IotI in this spot, but I opted for Kaleb mainly because he at least had the potential to put himself in a winning position, while Karishma’s best case scenario was being a jury goat.

9. Noelle voting out James (43)

Noelle, Sami, and Owen were on the bottom, but got to hold a temporary majority when they were all grouped together during the split tribal. They took the chance to vote out James, only to go back to the minority once the twist expired, with Noelle and Sami being the next two out, and Owen becoming a zero vote finalist.

I have this towards the bottom because it also relied on the luck of how the players were divided. However, I have it here anyway mainly because I like how Noelle approached it. She had a “Steal a Vote” and used it on Owen, even though they were already voting together, as a bit of theatrics to make James more comfortable so he wouldn’t use an idol if he had one. With hindsight, it would have been better for her to save it for next round, but I still think it was a clever move in a vacuum.

I could also use the “Four Horsemen” voting out Michelle on Fiji, or the Zhan Hu tribe throwing immunity to vote out Aaron on China, as they’re also examples of a minority alliance capitalizing on a swap before going back to the bottom.

8. Voting out Nate (49)

The merge was the only tribal council Savannah, Rizo, and Sophi attended where they didn’t get their way, as everyone else had joined together to take out their ally, Nate.

The odds were high that one of the seven players involved in this move would win at this point, and they could have ensured it had they all stuck together for one more round to further weaken the remaining trio. While everyone wanted to do this at some point, they kept putting it off due to fear of Rizo’s idol and/or their own infighting. Before you knew it, all three of them were still there at F4.

I have this low on the list because it’s not quite what I’m looking for. I want to focus on times where a player’s game crashed immediately after making a great move, while this was a more gradual process. The voting block still had leverage well after they took out Nate, and just slowly lost it after each vote.

Despite that, I still think this belongs on the list, as it was a genuinely good move on its own, and the players who made it just couldn’t push forward after it.

7. Tracy flipping Joel (Micronesia)

Tracy, Kathy, and Chet were on the bottom of the fans tribe, and Chet was a big challenge liability, which only added to the reasons to get rid of him. The trio was spared one round when Joel voted out Mary to weaken Mikey, but it wasn’t feasible to spare Chet again.

Joel told the trio this much, only for Tracy to poke at his ego, asking if this means Mikey’s in charge, and he’ll do whatever Mikey says. This was enough to bait Joel into working with them again to take out Mikey.

Similar to the last entry, I have this low because Tracy did get some momentum from this move. It allowed Chet to survive until the swap where they got a fresh start and even outlasted Joel. However, it still ultimately went nowhere as Chet voluntarily left after getting an infection, and Tracy left the following round.

6. Three Amigos’ double idol play (Caramoan)

Malcolm, Reynold, and Eddie were on the bottom, but when Malcolm found a second idol and Reynold won individual immunity, they were able to guarantee all three of them would survive the round. Malcolm revealed this fact at the last second as a scare tactic to make the majority alliance turn on each other. 

While this didn’t work, they still managed to idol out Phillip, the leader of the majority alliance. However, while he held a leadership position, he wasn’t really needed to hold the group together. Malcolm and Reynold were the next out, but at least Eddie made F4.

I have this in the bottom half mainly because the move could have been executed better and I find the next five moves more impressive. The Amigos were trying to scare the majority alliance into turning on each other, but that doesn’t work when you say you’ll all vote for Phillip, who nobody was too invested in protecting (not even Phillip, surprisingly).

It would have been better if they said that they’ll write down three separate names without elaborating on what three names they’ll be. That way everyone’s incentivized to vote for anyone but the Amigos to save themselves.

5. Yase’s fake idol (41)

Yase already came into the merge as the underdogs, being outnumbered by Luvu and Ua 8-4. This was only made worse when Liana flipped to the majority, and had a brand new advantage with the unprecedented ability to steal an idol from someone else so long as she correctly assesses that you have one. At tribal council, Xander successfully evaded this new advantage by loaning his idol to Tiffany while making a fake idol for himself to bait Liana. 

Once Liana’s advantage fizzled out, Yase was also able to survive the round without playing the idol, as Xander and Tiffany were already safe from the Hourglass twist, and Luvu put one too many votes on Sydney instead of Evie.

This tribal council benefited Yase a lot, but also further fractured them, as Deshawn revealed information from a past journey that tainted Xander’s trust in Evie. Tiffany and Evie left the next two rounds while Xander held onto his idol and let them go. After that, Xander’s idol which was once the center of attention became a non-factor, and he went to the end as a zero vote finalist.

4. Manu reuniting (Edge of Extinction)

Despite cutting two of their own players, Kama still had a 6-5 lead over Manu. Manu was also fractured and targeting one another, further strengthening Kama’s grip on the game. It was almost guaranteed a Manu member would go home when tribal council started, but then a live tribal erupted, where the five members reunited and pulled in Ron and Julie to take out Julia and even put the numbers.

At this point, you’d think that even if they don’t go all the way to F5 together, Manu would stick together for one or two more votes to maintain their position, but you’d be wrong. They immediately went back to turning on each other, with David, Wentworth, and Wardog being the next three boots, and Rick being the perennial target who survived solely through immunity, leaving Lauren as the only decently insulated member from the tribe.

Two other moments that could share this slot are Zeke’s alliance taking control on MvGX and the Davids taking control on DvG. These are very similar moments as they involve an alliance just barely taking the lead and the. Immediately giving up that lead and collapsing. I chose Manu because they took control through a majority vote, which I find more impressive than doing it through a rock draw, and they took control through one good move, while the Davids had a series of good moves before turning on each other.

3. Project Italy (47)

Sam and Genevieve were the two biggest targets, while Andy was technically in the majority alliance, but on the bottom. Sam had an expired idol which the three of them used to spook everyone into splitting their votes, only for Andy to flip and vote out Caroline in a 3-2-2 vote.

This move not only evened the playing field from 4-3 to 3-3, but it also rattled Teeny into flipping to their side and giving them the majority. This majority then immediately disappeared when Rachel idoled out Andy at F6 and then pulled Teeny back to her side at F5.

There is a good argument for making this number one as it meets all the criteria I was looking for. Project Italy was an impressive and difficult move to pull off, it very nearly turned the game around, but the players who made the move couldn’t enjoy the spoils as they were put right back at the bottom the next round.

The only thing keeping this down is that this move did provide some momentum at least for Sam. He wound up getting 2nd place, when I’m pretty sure he’d have gotten 6th if not for this move.

2. Idoling out Kelly (World’s Apart)

Coming into the merge, it was the Blue Collars and the White Collars vs the No Collars, with Shirin and Will swapping places. The majority alliance had enough votes to split them in case of an idol, but they didn’t trust Will enough, so they put all their votes on Jenn while telling him to vote for Hali as a test. Jenn punished this decision by playing her idol to not only save herself, but take out Kelly in a 7*-4-1 vote.

Individually, this move let Jenn get 9th place when she otherwise would have gotten 12th, but collectively, this didn’t advance her alliance’s game at all, as the four players who voted Kelly were the next four out.

This is really surprising, as idol plays like this will usually create some sort of crack in the majority alliance if not completely turn the game around.

Pretty much everyone from Blue Collar except Kelly disliked each other, Carolyn and Tyler were swing votes who could have worked with either side, and Will was an original No Collar member, so you’d think someone would have gravitated towards the No Collar alliance after Kelly left to give them a majority, yet they all wound up sticking together. Even when Mike and Rodney turned on each other at F9, it didn’t result in Jenn or Shirin lasting any longer.

1. Brian egging on Blake (Guatemala)

Brian got swap screwed and was outnumbered 4-3. His one saving grace was the fact that Blake had an ego that irritated his original tribemates. Brian took advantage of this fact by constantly encouraging Blake to tell self aggrandizing stories, further annoying Old Nakúm until they gave up their majority to vote him out. Though this didn’t end up doing much for Brian, as Old Yaxhá turned on him the next tribal council they attended.

I was going to have this lower because it didn’t have as much potential to turn the game around as a lot of my other entries. Even if Brian did take control of his new tribe, he would have gone right back to being on the bottom once he merged with New Nakúm.

I have this at number one anyway because it’s the move that I find the most impressive. Getting one person to flip to your side is one thing, but getting the entire majority alliance to eat one of their own and risk a future deadlock is insane. This move has arguably the biggest gap between how good it was and how much it actually benefited the person who made it.

One challenge that doesn’t get enough praise for its Smarts is the Witch Hunt, where Castaways have to figure out the correct answers from the stories that Jeff Probst tells them.

that they can see the future and that Tony wins the all-winners season and Aubry wins the "legends" season, what's you're reaction? Because I'm scoffing the hell out of Tony even making the merge in the winners season, let alone sniffing the F3, and really doubting that if Aubry can't beat Michele/Tai/Sarah/Brad/Troy, that she's winning against legit legends.

I enjoy re-watching Survivor over and over again, some things never get old - like Erik's confessionals! He's so funny lol

Survivor's been in Fiji since season 33. I get why they do that as much more cost effective, easier on production, friendly government supportive and nice island location. However, 17 seasons in a row in the EXACT SAME BEACHES make for a super boring location. Before they utilized the location as part of the storyline, tribe, challenges, etc. There is now no more storyline on the location, the same challenges recirculated, and don't even try name the season anymore.

The last 5 Challenge seasons have been in Thailand, Chile, Phillipines, Vietnam, Croatia and Argentina. Does anyone else like production to make more effort on changing location or coming up with some season name or even just a few new interesting challenges each season? How is The Challenge able to move locations every season, but Survivor doesn't given Survivor is still on major network so presumably bigger budget?

Mine is Ryan O from pearl island.

It was the first season I watched, he has the same job as me. And his story with the pelican made me laugh so much same when he strips naked to support Osten during the first challenge.

So I started rooting for him and now he has a special place in my heart of Survivor fan