Survivor: Cagayan premiere

So the twenty-eighth season of Survivor is about to start. They will put brains versus brawn versus beauty. They say that those are the three main reasons that people need to win the game. So it might be fun to list some of the winners and what of the three traits they have. My apologies if they are not listed here. I’m not sure that all of them or any of them will make the list. I don’t think that every winner would fit any of the three qualities. Where is the social tribe? How is beauty an advantage in the game? What man looks good? Women are the attractive ones. Regardless, I’ll get to the list of winners and what traits they had soon. Also, the posts may seem strange depending on if I’m going back to the old way of doing it or not. I think that I’m going back to the old ways, so look for blog posts older than episode 25.2 and you should be able to see the difference.

Here are the winners that would be on the brain tribe: Richard, Tina, Ethan, Vecepia, Brian, Sandra, Chris, Danni, Aras, Yul, Earl, Todd, Parvati, Bob, Natalie, Rob, Kim, Denise, and John. Here are the winners that would be on the brawn tribe: Ethan, Brian, Jenna, Chris, Tom, Bob, JT, Fabio, Rob, Sophie, Kim, and Tyson. Here are the winners that would be the beauty tribe: Ethan, Jenna, Amber, Parvati, JT, and Natalie. I think that is all I can think of right now. That’s all the winners, but I’m not sure if that’s all of the attributes for them. This season should be sort of easy to predict who wins based on what of the three attributes they have based on what tribe they started on, but they could have the other two in the end as well.

There are some things that I wonder about this season. Will there be a tribe swap? Will there be a tribe dissolve? There are many different ways of handling the three tribe situation. They could go from 3 to 1. They could go from 3 to 3 to 1. They could go from 3 to 2 to 1. They could go from 3 to 2 to 2 to 1. They could go from 3 to 3 to 2 to 1. They could do something else too, but they very likely would only do one of them and not something else.

So it’s time to start talking about the different twists they’ve announced for this season that aren’t the main twist of this season. At the beginning of the game, a leader of the tribe will be chosen. This could potentially mean that there will be no tribe swap at all during the game. Or it could mean that the leader twist immediately ends upon the tribe swap part of the game. Now I’m pretty sure that the leader position is done for a while in the game and not just at the opening part of the game. I’ve been wanting them to redo that twist since they first did it in Samoa. Russell Swan’s evacuation messed it up some so one could wonder if all three leaders will make it to the merge or if they’d have to replace leaders like they did with Russell. I’m not entirely sure if the first impressions twist is being used again or not. I don’t really like how one person will get rid of another person, but since it isn’t a permanent removal from the game, it might not be as bad as normal. I do wonder if a leader could send themselves instead of a different person. You’d think that someone on the brains tribe would figure that out, if that’s who they truly are in the game. There might be a rule against it, so we’ll have to wait to see what happens. There will be a lot of hidden immunity idols this season. They’ve even added a newish one. They’d dubbed it the Tyler Perry idol based on the film maker who most people either love or hate. I simply don’t care about his work although I don’t have anything against it either. The rules of the hidden immunity idol sounds very similar to the failed idol format of both Panama and Cook Islands where whoever had the idol was guaranteed to never even be voted against because it was too powerful for people to even consider that sort of thing. At least it won’t be present until after the merge.

Now, I’ve said that I will root for Kass to win this season since she followed me on twitter. Turns out, that was more of a hack than a real support to follow. So I might still root for her or I could root for someone else. More than likely, I’ll find someone else, although I could stick with her for the time being. Trish from this season followed me on twitter so maybe I’ll stick with her instead. I do wonder who will win. The winner all depends on how the names are arranged. On wikia, whoever is alphabetically last by first name is the winner because in seasons that have finished airing, that’s where the winner is listed. That would make Yung the winner. On wikipedia, there are two main different lists. One has the contestants names listed with hometown and tribe also mentioned. The winner of seasons that are completed is the last name mentioned. Since they are listed alphabetically by last name, Jeremiah is the winner this way. Their other way of listing names is the voting chart where the winner is the first name mentioned. So by alphabetical order of first names, which is how they are currently listed, Alexis is the winner. So that makes three potential winners at the moment and all of them could be wrong. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Jeff introduces the contestants for this season and what tribe they are on. The confessionals are mostly even for each tribe as they all arrive on the location of what would become the start of the game. L J becomes the leader of the beauty tribe. Sarah becomes the leader of the brawn tribe. David becomes the leader of the brains tribe. L J decides to get rid of Morgan. He has very dumb reasons for doing that. Sarah decides to get rid of Trish. “The jacket doesn’t match the pants so it’s not a suit,” is what David says about his outfit. David decides to get rid of Garrett. “Now it’s the three tribes worrying what did we just do,” was one of Jeff’s awesome one liners. And yes, I will do random quotes as often as I can. I also need to eat supper at some point. And tweeting is very difficult to do since I’m trying to keep up with this blog. Meanwhile, I’m recording this episode for people. Garrett arrived at his beach and decided to look for the hidden immunity idol. Trish decides to help the team out by helping to set up camp. Morgan decides to look for the hidden immunity idol. When this twist appeared in Tocantins, the person who went for the idol didn’t last long in the game whereas the person who helped set up camp made it to the merge and jury. Garrett finds the hidden immunity idol in what might now be the newest record for earliest found hidden immunity idol. Morgan is looking for the idol as her tribe made it to the beach.

In the second segment of the show, Morgan lied and said that what was already there was what she picked for the tribe. She was “dressed like a mermaid coming out of an ocean,” according to L J. Mermaids are pretty so it seems appropriate. There might be alliances formed on that tribe already, although it is a bit hard to tell for sure what is happening in all the drama of the game starting. Yung knows who Cliff is. Sarah thinks that Tony is a cop. Tony says that he isn’t, although he is. So there might already be a rivalry between the two of them this season. All the tribes have now arrived on the beach and J’Tia is becoming the leader black woman. Jolanda did that and failed in Palau. So she might not be that good a player this season like a lot of people think she’ll be. Every player now has a confessional this season. I think that J’Tia will be the first one voted out of her tribe and Kass doesn’t think that her tribe (the brains tribe) is not very smart.

In the third segment of the show, the immunity challenge happened. I made myself a sandwich to eat with supper with a fruit cup to go with it. The challenge seems too complicated for me to talk about as it happens, so I’ll take this opportunity to eat. I think that the brains tribe will end up losing the challenge. Beauty wins the immunity challenge and the brawn tribe comes in second. This means that the brains tribe will go to the first tribal council of the season.

In the fourth segment of the show, the drama after losing a challenge started to unfold. Kass thinks that it’s a good idea to tell J’Tia that she wants to vote against J’Tia. J’Tia wants to say how strong she is by randomly bursting out in to tears for no good reason. Or something like that happened. So J’Tia or David might be the target to be voted out tonight. Garrett doesn’t want to reveal the fact that he has an idol so let’s see how long that lasts. A spider spooked someone at tribal council. J’Tia might not do that well, but I don’t know yet if she will or won’t. Garrett might be on the outs of his tribe for the moment. J’Tia thinks that voting out David would be a good idea. So the voting happened next and it looks like I don’t know who will be voted out, although I do have a guess as to who it might be. There was no idol played at tribal council tonight. The votes weren’t read until after the commercial.

In the fifth segment of the show, it turns out that after the tribal council votes are read that David is actually the first person voted out of the game. Does that mean that they have to choose a new leader on his old tribe? I think that this makes this the first time that a famous person was the first person voted out of the game. And it looks like they don’t have to choose a new leader, it seems at least. This early into the game and we might already have a showmance between Morgan and Jeremiah. There was a dramatic shot in the show for seemingly no good reason since they weren’t going into a challenge suddenly. Neither Trish nor Kass seems like that good a person to root for.

In the sixth segment of the show, they decided to do combined reward/immunity challenges again. I’m not sure why it is this soon into the episode so we might see a ton of the reward before the tribal council. Both the second place and first place person will win some form of reward as well as some form of immunity. What happened to challenges that weren’t combined all the time throughout the season? Did All-Stars have combined challenges all the time? I don’t think that they did. But I should continue trying to eat yet another late meal while I try to do my only blog post before Lent starts this season. Tweeting at the same time doesn’t seem to work. There were some injuries at the challenge, so that might come into play later into this season. The brains tribe for some odd reason is struggling at the puzzle because apparently only one person can do the puzzle and they chose a player that they didn’t think was that good just a few days ago. The brains lost the second immunity challenge as well.

In the seventh segment of the show, Tony found his tribe’s hidden immunity idol. The brains tribe was wondering who to vote out and J’Tia once again seems like the obvious choice. Garrett’s open forum of what happened could turn against him or Tasha’s sudden craziness could do that too.

In the eighth segment of the show, more drama unfolded at the dumb tribe, I mean, smart tribe. The way things are going right now, Garrett better play his hidden immunity idol. Is it bad that I already have nominees for the dumbest move award of the season? I might have to list all the bad moves that I choose from for each season. J’Tia thinks that imitating Brandon Hantz is a good idea when she dumps out her tribe’s rice. I’ll be disappointed if she isn’t voted out tonight. After the drama unfolded at tribal council, Garrett didn’t play his hidden immunity idol. I guess that he gets to keep that idol as a woman’s alliance on his tribe forms. This makes me wonder what they’ll do after they vote out Spencer.

On the next Survivor, not much interesting is shown on the promo. Too bad. I’m sure something good and interesting will happen, just not sure what.

Confessional counts of players: Garrett- 6, Jefra- 1, Spencer- 2, Latasha (Tasha)- 4, Trish- 4, Yung (Woo)- 1, Brice- 3, Sarah- 4, Alexis- 2, L J- 2, Morgan- 4, Kassandra (Kass)- 5, Lindsey- 3, Cliff- 3, David- 3, J’Tia- 3, Tony- 6, Jeremiah- 1

So, if I did this correctly, Garrett’s high confessionals was not a good thing. I didn’t split the confessionals up based on the halfway point of the episode. But since all the other episodes are normal, then I shouldn’t have to worry based on stuff like this. I have the feeling that this will be a very good season and might mean that there won’t be returning players in seasons in the near future. I’m very much looking forward to the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.