Team Palau

Okay. You may have heard of my constant wanting a team of players from a single season to play again on one tribe. I'm not sure if team x would be the right way of describing the tribe or not. So far, I've only created a list for one season. I will mention the contestants from Palau and come up with a list of six contestants, three men and three women, who would be good for returning in a unique twist that might never be done unless I get hired on Survivor as a creative consultant (I'd rather do that than be a contestant). I will mention all twenty players from the season and come up with the final list. I will start with a list of the women from this season and then go to the men. I will have people from both tribes. I actually want everyone from this season to appear in another season, but for this list, I will only choose six. Sorry if the name of this blog post is confusing.

Women: Wanda was screwed by one of the most unfair twists in the show's history. But I'm not sure that I'd include her in this twist because she might work better in another. Jolanda was the first person voted out, so I'm not sure she'd make that great a returnee. Ashlee and Kim were also not as memorable so I don't think that I'd include them. At the Palau reunion show, Jeff Probst said that they both had enough of the game so we might not see that again. There are even rumors that Ashlee wanted to be voted off, but since they didn't show that in the show, we have no idea if that's true or not. This then leads to Angie, who I think would be a good returning player. She became a force to be reckoned with when she had to prove herself to the tribe. She was the last person picked (which actually wasn't the worst thing since the two not picked wouldn't even play) and did help prove herself in the game. She was actually screwed by a twist when the intended target got a surprise immunity and she lost after a revote. I'd choose her as a representative from Ulong, with the two others from Koror. Janu is a quitter, so even though she had strategic reasons for quitting and might have even been offered to play again, I'm not going to include her on this list. Stephanie has played three times, so she's out. Caryn made it pretty far and could be considered a good returning player. Jenn is dead and she remains the only Survivor player who is guaranteed to never play again (although most quitters are assumed to be out as well). Katie is the runner-up and she wanted to play in Micronesia but was cut (I think). I would have her return as well. Those are my three women: Angie, Caryn, and Katie.

Men: Jonathan was screwed by a very stupid twist, but he should probably on a one returnee per tribe season and not a season like this. Jeff asked to be voted out, so that makes him an unofficial quitter that I can't include. The next man is James, who was a pretty memorable person. I'd think that he'd make a good returning player since he was great on the entertainment level. Everything he said may have turned out to be wrong, but he sure was a great player, to some. Ibrehem might be good to some people. The Muslims might like him since he was one. He might still be one. I don't know. But I do know that he wasn't that good a player. He was pretty weak and helped his tribe lose a lot of their challenges. I hope that he's not offended if he or anyone he knows is reading this blog. I still want him to play again, just like I want everyone from this season to play again. I just don't think that he'd work well with this twist. Bobby Jon was a great contestant. He played again in Guatemala and became the first player to be eliminated because of a hidden immunity idol (not Stacy from Fiji as most people think). He is the favorite contestant of the only person I know who has read this blog, but doesn't always. But since he's a two time player, I'm not sure that I'd include him anyways in this twist. The next man out of the game was Coby. Coby was pretty entertaining and might have even been a jury threat. But he seemed like too much of a complainer and I'd rather not include him. The next man voted out was Gregg. Gregg would be a pretty good returning player in my mind. He made it pretty fair and had a pretty memorable showmance. His only problem was showing his cards to the other players. A more memorable screw-up was Ian who some say quit, but I say he didn't. I mean, can you really quit at the final three? I don't think that you can. In the Australian version of Survivor, the entire final four wanted to quit, but didn't because the producers said that if they did, the fifth place contestant would be the winner. Boy, the Australian version of Survivor created more controversy in one season than the American had in 26. But I'd rather not get into all the other problems that show had and stick to the blog post at hand. Ian stepped out of a record long challenge to give immunity to Tom with the idea to vote him out instead of Katie. He might have been asked for Micronesia and I forget why he didn't play again for that at least. Hopefully, we'll see him again sometime. Tom is not included on this list. He's the only winner to be on his original tribe for the whole game and the only two time player who made the jury phase of the game to only be on two tribes. But since he's won and played twice, I'm not putting him on this list. Those are my three men: James, Gregg, and Ian.

So if they ever did this twist of mine where two tribes of new players face an old school tribe all from the same season in the same location from said season, those would be my six players who would return to the game. I will quickly do a list of how else the returning players from this season could return for another season. All-Stars: Stephanie (again), Katie, Coby, Gregg, and Ian. Second chances: Wanda, Angie, Jonathan, Gregg, and Ian. Favorites: James, Gregg, Ian, Katie, Janu *, and Coby. One returnee per tribe: Ibrehem and James (due to their rivalry), Angie and Willard (due to their similarities), Jonathan and Wanda (due to their misfortune from a twist), Katie and Caryn (due to their rivalry), Ian and Tom (due to their friendship that eventually turned on each other). I hope that you liked this post.