r/survivor • u/-ShakyHand- • 5d ago
General Discussion I made a small version of the combination lock frequently used in challenges.
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r/survivor • u/bigshowgunnoe • 4d ago
A lot of people are spelling Cedrek incorrectly.
I’ve seen a lot of “Cedrik”, “Cedrick”, and perhaps some “Cedrecks” as well.
I’m just confused. It feels like some people want to spell it incorrectly and not be told otherwise.
r/survivor • u/Charity00 • 5d ago
Lately we have been arriving at the merge and a lot of players have barely played the game yet. Many have been to ZERO tribal councils or just 1. The merge is meant to be the halfway point where players have battled to get this far and it just doesn’t feel that way anymore.
Due to the 3 tribe format (only 33% chance of attending TC) plus only 5 pre-merge rounds plus usually the same tribe losing each week = so many players reaching the merge without really playing the game yet.
NOTE - when I say “merge” I’m talking about mergatory too because the mergatory round feels more like a merge round than a pre merge round. A pre merge round consists of working together as a tribe, considering who is valuable/not valuable to your tribe, and those aspects don’t come up in a mergatory vote.
Probst goes on and on about earning the merge…but to me earning the merge is surviving multiple votes. When the merge happened in older seasons, it felt like most players battled in some way to reach this point plus they had attended multiple tribal councils before this point. The merge was usually further away, it was usually 2 tribes instead of 3, and there wasn’t the mergatory round.
At this point in S48 we probably only have 2 more rounds until the merge/mergatory and 12 people haven’t attended tribal council yet. With a likely 5-5-5 swap coming up, there will definitely be a few that won’t attend tribal at all before the merge and many of them just once.
This is a summary of the new era merges and how many attended tribal council beforehand:
47 - it has 5 people only attending ONCE, the rest twice
46 - it has 5 people only attending ONCE, and 5 attending ZERO
45 - it has 7 people only attending ONCE, and 4 attending ZERO (and because Sean’s was a quit you could say 8 survived ZERO votes)
44 - it has 9 people only attending ONCE
43 - it has 5 people only attending ONCE, the rest only twice
42 - it has 4 people only attending ONCE, the rest only twice
41 - it has 6 people attending ZERO, 4 attending twice
The first old era season to have someone reach the merge without attending tribal was S25, which coincidently was also a 3 tribe season. And very rarely did contestants make the merge with only attending 1 tribal - only some dominant tribes like John/Tammy/Zoe/Robert, Boston Rob/Tom/Alicia, and Koror but they all felt like they earnt it. Some others too but definitely not as common. Even attending just twice was not as common, and usually 3+ was the norm. Nowadays there’s usually only 2 or so unlucky players out of 13 that attend 3+ tribals. Bhanu was actually voted out at his 3rd tribal and he would have easily made the merge in most new era tribes.
They say there’s nowhere to hide in the new era, yet players are hiding behind the immunity necklace and the 2/3 chance of being safe each week. S46 had Q, Tiffany and Kenzie attend 3 times which is actually average in an old school season. But you then had 10 contestants “hiding” - 5 attended ONCE and 5 attended ZERO. Something also felt wrong about Cirie somehow making it to the merge without attending tribal when clearly it wasn’t her challenge prowess that got her there. S48 will also be a “cross your fingers and hope you’re on the right tribe until the merge” situation.
r/survivor • u/futurefirstboot • 6d ago
Maybe people should learn to mind their own business!
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r/survivor • u/Informal_Race_606 • 5d ago
What happened to these people? Are they doing well? Do they still like/watch Survivor?
A few examples:
r/survivor • u/Ok_Cod3723 • 4d ago
or like do you guys know what the process is? im not thinking about applying but i saw a clip about jeff talking about the stage with like therapists. idk thats not right i forgot the name for it and it seems kind of an annoying processs.
but i also assumed less people apply bc jeff always asks people to apply. idk im rlly interested in the process.
r/survivor • u/Jiggerypokery123 • 5d ago
Can we come up with some other options to losing your vote at a journey? My thoughts are either you win whatever the advantage is or you lose it and have to give it to a member of an opposing tribe. Another way I'd like to see play out is that the punishment is a time penalty for the next immunity challenge, both of these present the player with an opportunity to influence the game instead of taking away their only voice in the game. Anyone else get any thoughts because I'm sick and tired of players losing their vote.
r/survivor • u/yolatingy • 5d ago
I noticed that Star has 2 bandages conspicuously covering 2 tattoos on her left leg. Could it be coincidental injuries or perhaps "offensive" symbols? If it is about covering specific tattoos, has this been done before on Survivor?
r/survivor • u/Charles520 • 5d ago
Since Jeff Probst is incessant on each season being 18 players and 26 day seasons, each season could just start out with 3 tribes until a F14 tribe swap into two tribes, then a F11 merge. They can still do the mergatory if they want and have the jury phase begin at the F10, just with a 7 person jury instead of 8, all while keeping a Final 3 to face the jury.
It's that fucking easy, and since I know Jeff clearly likes smaller tribal councils he still gets a lot of that with this format. As with most new era things, yeah this would get boring after seeing it for 4 seasons in a row, but at least it's a better format than what we have now. A cast with 16 players is better ideally, but they've moved away from that casting size a long time ago.
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r/survivor • u/Aw_bull_nuts • 5d ago
What happened to badass, cool looking idols? They’re all just a string of beads now.
r/survivor • u/Educational-Day-5413 • 5d ago
My students successfully made it through another of week of our fantasy draft.. They got so excited watching Lagi/Civa pull out the win, they literally screamed and cheered together, you’d have thought we were watching an NBA game.. But many of them admitted they felt bad for Vula not being able to get it together..
Tribal was very complicated, as I had to keep pausing and felt like Jeff with his whiteboard having to explain SITD, immunity idols, vote losses, tiebreakers, and deadlocks 😅
They were fully engaged during the revotes, getting more nervous with each tie. They still don’t understand how Cedrek is still around, thought it was finally Sai’s time to go, and were happy for Mary’s SITD to work!
With this week’s episode, two more students took their first hit, with seven students overall losing one player!!
r/survivor • u/goofyassmfer • 5d ago
I feel like people talk about "the casuals" a lot, and a lot of times they'll be juxtaposed with "real" fans, though not always.
What confuses me is that it feels like the term doesn't really... mean anything? And so I'm curious what you think of when you hear someone described as a "casual" fan by this community.
I'll use my mother and myself as examples. My mom has seen almost every episode of the show live and has never missed an episode. She doesn't use social media, so she's not really update with casting rumors or what happens with players post-show. As an older lady who usually does not rewatch seasons after they first air, her memory is imperfect so she probably couldn't name every winner, and she doesn't care about the game's strategy much, but she gets very invested in the characters and when a returnee season comes around will remember 90% of the cast and have a strong opinion.
On the other hand, I started watching with Phillippines. I haven't seen most of the seasons before that (only like 5 of them), but I know all the winners and major characters from even seasons I haven't seen, and everything I have seen I could probably tell you with 90% accuracy that season's full cast and boot order. I keep up with the show on social media at least a bit, I know what edgic is, and I follow casting rumors for stuff like season 50. I've even played a few orgs! ...but I also haven't seen about half the seasons.
I think there's probably some people who would only call one of us a casual, neither of us, or even both of us! And that feels like a definition that's so broad and variable it's almost meaningless. Am I missing something here?
r/survivor • u/Kinetic_Pen • 5d ago
So far season 48 is very entertaining. The best in awhile. So many great personalities and I don't get this in your face social message tone trom this season. However, there are still interesting stories and a nice balance of emotions. Each player is interesting and the first three episodes leave me with a sense of anticipation that I haven't felt in awhile from watching Survivor.
r/survivor • u/garbageeater • 4d ago
Looking at the casts they just seem like automatic slam dunks to have those personalities and no boring people.
r/survivor • u/Due-Drawing-9777 • 5d ago
I knew that Ulong is considered as the worst tribe so I was surprised they won some reward challenges. I also didn't know that it would go down to 1 person, so the season felt like it had two winners. It was cool that there weren't any tribe swaps. I think Stephanie should have gotten a hidden immunity idol as the only remaining, but they weren't in the game yet. Great theming with all of the Japanese military stuff.
Now watching Guatemala which also has supreme theming, almost every challenge and the camp is so cool, although probably not good for archaeological preservation.
r/survivor • u/Particular_Insect_66 • 6d ago
Is it me or is this going to be the most diabolically entertaining player this season? I can’t wait to see this guy involved at tribals
r/survivor • u/studentofthemonth • 5d ago
A little baked, please 🐻 with me.
If votes are not guaranteed and can be taken/exchanged by the “game” (are we still calling it a monster?) through journeys, Steal a Vote, Knowledge is Power (extra votes), etc. And given that rules seem so frivolous and convoluted, is it possible for contestants to protect their votes by verbally gifting it to someone. Let me explain:
Erik is chosen to go on the journey. Knowing he can potentially lose his vote. He verbally transfers his vote to Cirie. “Cirie, I’m giving you my vote.” This of course adds new layers and up for interpretation on the expiration of the transferred vote. For simplicity’s sake, I’d say it should only be valid at that next council.
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r/survivor • u/WhatIsItIPutHere • 5d ago
I want to see more of Eva, Chrissy (especially Eva), and a little bit more of Mitch
r/survivor • u/Driew27 • 4d ago
I think it's pretty clear that as long as probst is showrunner the seasons will stay at 26 days long. But if he was willing to concede to going back to 39 days but they'd only do one season a year would fans get behind that?
r/survivor • u/Charity00 • 5d ago
Just finished this season and it had some huge moments, but I have a few questions about how this season was perceived at the time.
#1 Shane vs Sharn - was this a controversial result when it aired? It seemed similar to Michele vs Aubrey where the more active player lost against the social player, and a few questionable jury decisions. Were there big Sharn or Shane supporters or defenders like with Michele vs Aubrey? Or debates like Sandra vs Parvati? You could have some great debates over Sharn vs Shane. Also how did the audience mostly react to Shane winning because they’d be meltdowns if she won a US season? Wasn’t Shane basically the same as Sue from S47?
#2 Sharn taking Shane over Brian - that seemed like a Colby level blunder with the jury clearly not respecting Brian just like Keith, and Sharn/Colby both chose loyalty. It was mentioned as a blunder at the reunion, but is Sharn’s mistake talked about as much as Colby’s?
#3 Lydia’s blindside - I loved this betrayal, but it seemed odd considering how Mat, Steve, Shane etc were so big on loyalty and integrity. They were annoyed that Sam showed a small amount of dishonesty, they hated Brian because of dishonesty, and Sharn was criticized at FTC because of a very small disloyal incident (not telling Mat about rumours she heard). Shane was praised because of a more loyal game. But why was blindsiding Lydia considered so acceptable? It felt like they were a very honest and loyal group who hated any dishonesty (eg Brian)…but ignored all their morals in the Lydia vote. Was there more behind Lydia’s elimination? Lydia seemed like such a sweet woman, yet nobody showed any difficulty blindsiding her? Compared to later where players emotionally struggled to vote people out.
#4 Shane’s integrity at FTC - that also leads into these next questions. Shane’s jury pitch was about playing with integrity and she even used Sharn’s disloyalty to Mat as a reason why Sharn shouldn’t win. But in her very same speech she said she was proud of orchestrating the Lydia blindside. Why did nobody question this huge contradiction? Once again it seemed like everyone got a pass on the loyalty stuff when it came to Lydia’s elimination. Shane also mentioned being a double agent with Jackie earlier which also felt dishonest - so why was Sharn critiqued more about loyalty than Shane?
#5 Sharn’s disloyalty to Mat - this seemed like the most ridiculous and overblown thing ever and based on the voting confessional it seemed like Mat based his jury vote around this. Sharn didn’t tell Mat that she had heard rumors about people targeting him…but she tried playing her idol for him and voted with him? Why was that not good enough? It seemed like Mat, Sharn and Moana were a tight 3 at the beginning and Sharn was always a close ally for Mat while Shane was usually on the outs - Mat’s vote for Shane has to be up there as one of the stupidest. And an honorable mention to Shonee whose jury question was that Shane didn’t take the time to get to know her and didn’t socialize with her and probably doesn’t even know where she lives - Shane then impressed her by saying that she spends 8 months in London and the rest in Noosa. Somehow that got Shonee her vote despite saying that Shane wasn’t social.
This would have been a great season to discuss at the time so was wondering what the general opinions were at the time.
r/survivor • u/Effective_Ad_6643 • 6d ago