Palau versus Future Season

This may be my last random blog post for quite a while. By the summer, if not sooner, I will finally watch and blog about the first season. The posts will show up at some point. With that happening during the summer, it might not be until the next gap between the 29th and 30th season that I will do random blog posts like this again. I'm not even sure that I like it or not. I'll probably get more ideas over time so you'll see what happens. With the new season of Survivor starting on Wednesday, I figure that I might as well get back to the main and regular blog posts for a while until the season is done. And I'll let you know what happens with the random die roll, although I am done with the Christmas movies and have only one special left to watch before too long. So without further ado, here's my blog post.

There are three players from Survivor: Palau who have played other Survivor seasons. I’m going to mention them now and list the seasons they played and which one I think they did best in. So here goes another random blog post. The three people who have played Survivor: Palau and done other seasons after that are Bobby Jon, Stephenie, and Tom. And I want everyone from this season who can play again to return to the game at some point. So what I’m wondering is did they do best in the season they debuted or a future season?

I’ll start with Bobby Jon. In Survivor: Palau he was on the terrible Ulong tribe. He had mixed success with voting people out of the game. He did not vote against Jolanda or Jeff when they were voted off. He succeeded in causing a tie with Angie and James which eventually got them both voted out. He was one of only two contestants throughout the whole series to be subject to a tie-breaker twice. Like Lindsey from the third season, he won the first tie-breaker and lost the second. Since the tie-breaker challenge in Palau was very strange, most people don’t count it as a real tie-breaker just like they don’t count him being idoled out in Guatemala. He is the only player to be eliminated from a tribe of two. That was the strange way that eliminated him from the game just one player before the jury. On both of his seasons, he had a memorable rivalry with another man. In Palau he seemed to spar with Tom from time to time and in Guatemala he regularly butted heads with Jamie. Every pre-merge boot he voted against in Guatemala was successful. The two post-merge votes he cast were not done successfully, unless you count his jury vote. He would have made it farther in the game had Gary not played a hidden immunity idol, but since that was played at the time before the votes were cast, this is generally not counted, although I think that it should be. I should take it up with the wikia editors, but first, I should stop being lazy and actually get an account at the website instead of being one of the many outcasts there. In case you didn’t know, outcast is the name that Survivor wikia gives to its unregistered/anonymous users. He might be the only player to be the last one eliminated before the jury in one season and be the first member of the jury in another season. He also might be the only two time player to have an only three day improvement in the game when he played the second time. While he is good player, I’m not exactly sure that he was stand out in either season he was in. But he must have been stand out enough since they wanted him back for Blood versus Water, only to cut him and his cousin before filming began. I’d say that he probably did better in Guatemala since he got to be on the jury, something that he always wanted to do.

The next player that I’ll mention is Stephenie. In Survivor: Palau, she became the first Survivor contestant to vote against every member of her tribe. While her tribe was weak, she outlasted every single one of them and became the only player to be on a tribe of one. This caused an unusual feat in the game when she became the only contestant from that season to be on more than one tribe. She was absorbed by the dominate tribe, thus a merge that season didn’t end up happening. The dominate tribe didn’t want her to have an advantage in the game by outlasting her old tribe so they eventually voted her out of the game and she became a member of the jury. She returned to the game in Guatemala where she had a much different way of playing that game that was equally ineffective. While all her votes in the game was successful at getting someone voted out, she only got one vote to win the game since she basically screwed over all her friends by the time she reached the finals. She is the only player from Guatemala to return to play the game again, which is generally not counted by some since she wasn’t originally from that season. She returned on the twentieth anniversary season as a hero, despite her villainous ways in Guatemala (let’s face it, a lot of the heroes should have been villains, they just already had too many villains in the first place). She was the second person voted out of the game and to my knowledge is the only second place contestant to be the second person voted out of another season (although I could be wrong about that as I sometimes am). Not sure if she did best in any of them or just bad in all of them for different reasons each time.

The only other player left to mention is Tom. I’ve stated this before, how I believe that over the course of one season, he won more challenges of a combination of tribal and individual challenges. He is the only winner to never leave his original tribe (all the others had to after they merged). He was definitely very likable and loved by almost everybody during his season. He had a bit of a bumpy ride in Heroes versus Villains and didn’t really last long in it. For goodness sakes, he was voted out instead of the guy wearing a cast! But not everyone can rule that well in every season they’ve played. In fact, only one person has arguably done this (Sandra). At least his scheming got Cirie voted out of the game and he proved to still be an effective player and getting others to help him do what he wants. Obviously, he did the best in the season that he won.

Contestant’s Name	Palau	Guatemala	Heroes versus Villains
Bobby Jon	good	better	did not play
Stephenie	likable	villainy	jinxed
Tom	best	did not play	worst