The Two Lost Contestants of San Juan del Sur

You may have already known about this, but you may not have either. Survivor: San Jan del Sur was supposed to have twenty contestants and Redemption Island. That didn’t end up happening. There was a medical situation with one of the planned contestants resulting in that pair having to drop out of the game. We do not know whether it was a male/male pair or a female/female pair, but we know that it is not a male/female pair. This could potentially affect the rumored team in the game from the Amazing Race. However, since that team was announced awhile after the season started filming, they probably wouldn’t have leaked them as being part of it if they were the pair that was cut. You do have to wonder what will happen to these planned players now that they can’t play this season of Survivor. Typically, in past seasons, if a person couldn’t compete originally, they would be put on the next season. But, since these were pairs of players who have preexisting relationships, then we might not see them in the same season, since most seasons don’t allow that. I have wondered about RC’s father since he was supposed to play in Blood versus Water with RC before his high blood pressure removed him from the cast. He wasn’t put in the all-newbies cast of Cagayan, although I don’t know if he could have been. Cagayan might have already been cast and he might have been stuck as an alternate for Cagayan, something that could have helped him, but didn’t since nobody from Cagayan had to be replaced at the last minute. You do have to wonder if he’ll appear in the thirtieth season of Survivor, whatever that will be.

Back to the point, since this pair can’t compete in San Juan del Sur, what will happen to them? Will they compete in future seasons? They will probably have to be separated with one person on one season and another person on another season. How would it be decided who is on what season? Would they flip a coin or something? Would one of them decide to be on a sooner season than the other one? Will they only be able to be on future seasons if they make a thirty-first and thirty-second season? I could see this pair never being able to compete on Survivor. Or, one could appear on the thirtieth season and the other could appear on the thirty-first season. One could appear on the thirty-first season and the other could appear on the thirty-second season. One could appear on a future season while the other one might never end up appearing. We don’t know what will happen yet, but we could if we knew who either of these players are. I think that it makes the most sense for the first one to appear on a fall season and the other on a spring season so that during the fall season’s reunion show, the player who turned out to be the partner can talk about the game and talk about his or her partner being on the next season as a way of introducing the next season of Survivor that will air. Wouldn’t that be a great lead-in for the future of Survivor? In fact, if one of them is on the thirtieth season, they can introduce themselves as a lost contestant from this season, but they are on the next season.

Now, we think about something else. What is replacing Redemption Island? What is this new twist that would use the Redemption Island arena and, presumably, the Redemption Island duels? There could be different things that they could do with this. You do have to wonder if there will still be ways to get voted out players back in the game with this twist. Will it be something that can appear both before and after the merge? Will it be like Exile Island, but you have to win duels there to leave? Is it some sort of reward where you get to stay as much as you want to? Is it the right to switch tribes? Is it the right to get your loved one to join your tribe? Is it the right to banish someone to the other tribe? Will it offer advantages to the challenges in the game? Will it help only certain players? How will they decide who competes in the challenges? Are they lying to us and Redemption Island is still in the game? We’ll see what happens in good time. Sorry if this blog post was purely speculative. Also sorry if there aren't that many random blog posts before the premiere. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.