The Floater Stereotype

Often in Survivor, there is a contestant who is known as a floater and they suffer a stereotype about it as a result. They are often more derided and mentioned far more often in Big Brother than they are on this show. But they do exist and have a variety of ways of success at times.

For those who don’t know about it, floater is the term of someone who tries to just get to the end in some way by more or less taking a step back from the game and letting the bigger targets take each other out. This can get someone a win or at least very far. It can also easily backfire, getting a person out pretty quickly over the perceived idea that they aren’t connecting to anyone.

The first Survivor contestant to win with this strategy was Vecepia in Survivor: Marquesas. She didn’t seem like she was doing that much to others that were watching the show (or at least me) weren’t that impressed by her victory at the time. Such is the reason why floaters tend to not be liked as much. But she proved that they can be a threat to the game. There are other floaters who have won as well, but I can’t think of them right now.

There isn’t much else to say about the floater stereotype so I will end this post with this paragraph. I wish that the show would be returning soon, but that is not the case this year as Survivor wants to do at least four more seasons, but has yet to start filming the next one (as far as I know). But at least you can have this blog as a constant part of your life in the meantime and hopefully I can write good posts in time when I normally want to and like to do them. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.