Location, Location, Location

Before I get to this post, I should get to an important update. You see, I will not be able to do any of the planned calendars for December or January as I won’t be able to post about an episode of Survivor until next year at the very soonest or most likely in my mind. This means that you will only see updates in this blog on Wednesdays until next year. This is different from the usual Advent season as I normally have to delay when the blog is posted due to being at church while the new episode airs lives. Since I can’t post about episodes, then there will be no posts on episodes or none not on Wednesdays for a while. I have done ways of rigging rolls to go my way before to ensure that I could watch certain episodes at different times in the year, but this won’t happen again (if it does at all) until January at the soonest.

Now as to what this post is about, I’m really just examining places Survivor has gone to. Well, I may just be listing them more than doing anything else. With Survivor not going to Europe, they have still been to places pretty much every other continent or general area in the world. I have split this into different sections. If Survivor has been somewhere four or more times, they get to be added to that part of the list. Otherwise, they will be subjected to the general main area such as continent it was in.

Asia seasons (sans Philippines): This is where Survivor began. Despite this, it wasn’t until much later that a contestant of Asian descent won the game. Survivor has been here for the 1^st season (Borneo), the 5^th season (Thailand), the 15^th season (China), the 31^st season (Cambodia, filmed 32^nd season), and the 32^nd season (Kaoh Rong, filmed 31^st season). It is the most recent place not to be Fiji to be where Survivor would be filmed thus far. This continent helped inspire this post in some ways that I might get into in one of my posts on Survivor: China.

Oceania (sans Samoa and Fiji) seasons: This is the most well known and logical place for Survivor to film any of its seasons. Survivor has been here for the 2^nd season (Australia), the 4^th season (Marquesas), the 9^th season (Vanuatu), the 10^th season (Palau), the 13^th season (Cook Islands), and the 16^th season (Micronesia). It branches out into two other subgroups that I’ll get to later.

Africa seasons: Survivor has only been here twice. Once was for the 3^rd season (Africa) that was filmed in the country of Kenya. The other was for the 17^th season (Gabon). Neither of those seasons were filmed in a beach, which might affect some viewer’s perspective of it. I might have to do a post as to whether or not it matters that a season is filmed at a beach as I don’t care where it is filmed.

Brazil (filling in for South America) seasons: I’m calling this Brazil as Survivor in America has not filmed any season of their show in any other country in South America thus far. They should as I recommend Peru as a place that they should visit. The two Brazilian locations were very different. The first was the 6^th season (Amazon), filmed in the most well known place of this country and area. The 18^th season (Tocantins) was filmed in what could be seen as the lesser known highlands. I never heard of that area before, but I doubt that many have.

Central America seasons (sans Nicaragua): Survivor has been here for the 7^th season (Pearl Islands), the 8^th season (All-Stars), the 11^th season (Guatemala), and the 12^th season (Panama). What else is there to say about this? I have no idea.

Fiji seasons: This is now the most used location in all of Survivor history. After filming the 14^th season (Fiji) here, they have filmed every season here starting from the 33^rd (Millennials versus Gen X), then they continued for the 34^th (Game Changers), the 35^th (Heroes versus Healers versus Hustlers), the 36^th (Ghost Island), the 37^th (David versus Goliath), the 38^th (Edge of Extinction), the 39^th (Island of the Idols), the 40^th (Winners at War), and are set to film the 41^st and more seasons there.

Samoa seasons: They filmed four seasons here starting with the 19^th (Samoa), before filming the 20^th (Heroes versus Villains), the 23^rd (South Pacific), and the 24^th (One World). They weren’t originally supposed to film the other two seasons there, but I’ll get to that at the end of this post.

Nicaragua seasons: They filmed four seasons here as well other time. They did the 21^st (Nicaragua), the 22^nd (Redemption Island), the 29^th (San Juan del Sur), and the 30^th (Worlds Apart). It is hard to know if there is anything else to say about this, so I won’t.

Philippines seasons: This was the last one that I’m mentioning as it was the last grouping that I feel works for this post. They filmed the 25^th (Philippines) the 26^th (Caramoan), the 27^th (Blood versus Water), and the 28^th (Cagayan) all here over time.

There were also some planned, then rejected locations of this show. I want to say that this happened three times, but it may have only happened twice with it affecting three seasons. Jordan was to be the filming location for the fourth season, but 9/11 changed this. Tonga was considered for both the 23^rd and thus 24^th season, but they returned to Samoa instead. I don’t quite understand the economic issues that caused this to happen, but that was it.

That’s it for this post. Sorry if it was dumb in some ways. I just really wanted to list the general location of various seasons and never really examined them that well. But this is a post that I wanted to write and take care of so here it is. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.