Former Survivor Contestants who Hate the Show (or at Least Aren’t Fans Anymore)

The statement that James from China made at the most recent reunion show speaks to something that does happen a lot in Survivor. He didn’t want to watch the show anymore after his dumb decision that season he first played. This might explain why he was so terrible the third time he played. He must have wanted to be disliked and not brought back again. But this speaks to an interesting thing that happens with the show. How many former contestants don’t like it?

It would seem that Greg Buis of the first season has never watched any other season of the show than the one he was on. Well, that’s what people say and I have no way of verifying the information. I do not think that he hates the show, but do you call that what a fan would do?

After the horrible opening twist in Palau, one of the victims of it, Jonathan, seemed to what nothing to do with the show anymore. They had originally wanted him to play in Guatemala, but he wouldn’t do it. This might have helped ruin Wanda’s chances of playing again. We don’t know for sure if he was a bad player or not since he only did one challenge that he didn’t even know would count.

It is likely that Sue Hawk will never have any further association with Survivor. She was doing good with it the first time around and was considered a good and iconic part of it, with some still thinking good of her the first time she played. After the second time, she will probably never be seen on Survivor again and not just because she quit it. It is unlikely someone will get her to talk about the show again.

Maybe it is the first season that brought out a lot of people who didn’t like the show anymore. I just know that I will not be able to mention all of the people who this might apply to. Matt Elrond does not want any further association with Survivor to the point that he doesn’t exist anymore. He’s now a man named Wyatt Nash. You may think that sounds crazy, but it’s true. Others don’t want to associated with Survivor because there is more to their life than that.

I don’t know what else there is to say in this post. I hope to get other posts written for the future. I need to make time to write this and other blogs because I just need to stay caught up and not write most of these the day of like this one. But I guess as long as you can see what I write in time, then it won’t matter when I wrote it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

The Pros and Cons of the New Final Tribal Council Format

Since it seems like the new final tribal council format, where more of an open forum happens instead of the traditional one on one format. While Survivor’s motto has always been outwit, outlast, outplay, this format is actually talked about and used some. But there are some downsides with the change too. I might as well get into the good and bad of this.

Pros: In this one, you don’t have to worry about forgetting anything if you are on the jury as you can always bring up more details the next time around. It can also benefit the finalists who then get more of a chance to respond and talk about their game and why they deserve to win. You don’t have to do more for one person than you would for all of the others should you be more worried about needing some player’s votes more than others. I have noticed that blowout votes have been less common in this new format than has been in others meaning that one is less likely to win in a landside in this format. We had the first ever jury tie this way, which might not be a bad thing.

Cons: People can hog up the conversation in this format regardless of it they are jury members or even if they are finalists. Whereas one is certain to be able to talk in the old format, you might not be able to talk this way. Even if you do, it could be edited out, unlike the old format where a jury member’s speech would never ever be on the cutting room floor. I guess that another flaw of this is that some finalists might be focused on more than others, but I seem to recall that happening in the other format as well. We seem less likely to get more iconic speeches and even questions this way.

Well, that’s all for this blog post. I hope that I have more time to write more of all that I want to in the future. I doubt that I would ever be gone from this or any other blog for a while, but I’ll never know for sure, especially with all that I have planned. I hope that no Wednesdays are missed, but it is possible that random ones will be. Sorry if I seem cryptic as I don’t know everything that will happen. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor Stereotypes Analysis

What do I mean by the title of this post? Well, it’s quite simple, actually. It seems that when it comes to the types of contestants in the game, there are different stereotypes that can appear over and over again. These can imply many different things about a group of people. I will explore the different types of players that we see from time to time, according to the editors, that is. This will not include all of them as I don’t think that I can remember what they are all like.

The black contestant who seems lazy: We see this so often that it makes us wonder if there is some sort of biased against all of these men who play. We often see these people just lying around a lot of the time, perhaps telling others to shut up. Or maybe they are lazy and the editors always want to point it out for some odd reason.

The Asian woman who is always mistreated: I don’t know why we’ve seen this as often as we have. But it seems like so many women who are of Asian descent are always mistreated by the tribe or tribes that they are on. They always seem to be looked down upon or getting tons of votes from other people. This has happened in so many seasons that it can be a bit of a surprise that an Asian woman has actually won the game. Still, it took a while for this to happen.

The super fan: So often, we see people who think that they know everything about the game because they have seen so much about it and have been fans of it, often from a very young age. They often seem to think that they know everything there is to know about the game and use it to their advantage. What these people often don’t realize is that there is a difference between knowing the game and actually playing it. Often, they don’t last or aren’t popular among the other players.

The person who never camped before: Why do we see this from time to time? Why would someone who has never gone camping in their life think that they can do Survivor? Do these people just want to be on TV? Do they think that somehow not having that much knowledge about basic survival skills is going to be a good thing? I don’t get it. I don’t think that we see much of this anymore, but it is still very annoying to hear these people complain all the time about their lack of experience.

The bossy person: These people never seem to last that long most of the time. Sometimes, we do see them last long enough, but almost never do they have a chance at actually winning the game. All they do is order people around and then wonder why they got voted out.

The leader: Not to be confused with the previous grouping, these people like to take charge of their group and bring forth leadership into it. This isn’t always met well with whoever might be on the other side of this. Other times, these people are the clear winners of the game.

The strong person: Often, these people think that they can use their brute strength to just win every challenge they need to beat the game. This isn’t how things work. You can’t win on strength alone. Now that doesn’t mean that it isn’t an asset that you should go without. But I can’t think of anyone who won the game based on strength alone.

The cocky person: There are times when these people win, but more often than not, these people will ultimately fail in some way because of their cockiness. Sometimes it can give you what you need to in order to win the game. But the less people know of this, the better it will be for you.

The woman who thinks she can use sexiness: Ever since Parvati played, it seems like so many women think that they can replicate her success. Very few people can win like a previous winner has. All of these women have things in common. They often aren’t good, notable, and they never seem to win or even make it to the jury. Maybe someone, even a man, could use sexiness to win. But even if it did work for Parvati, it would have only worked one of the three times she played.

The eccentric gay man: It might be a bit sad for lesbians that they never seem to stick out on this show. But the gay men always seem to be such great and eccentric characters that producers will always be casting them and it has nothing to do with appeasing minority standards. They often give us great forms of entertainment such as wonderful confessionals or otherwise great moments that it seems that most of the straight men (and women) are somehow incapable of doing.

The recruit who’s never seen the show before: You might not always know who these people are unless you keep track of certain things as you learn about these people before the season starts to air. But these aren’t always bad players. However, they often come off as very arrogant. I don’t know why the show’s producers would ignore applicants to recruit a person who has never seen the show before. By this point, you should only hire contestants who have seen the show or they shouldn’t be playing it in the first place.

The black woman with attitude: “I will always wag my finger in your face!” Thankfully, these people are not seen as much anymore. I don’t know if they always seemed to just come off this way to others in the game or if they really did seem like they were full of attitude of some sort. I don’t know what else there is to say about this, just that I hope it doesn’t appear again.

Well, that’s all for this post. Did I cover them all? Do you think that I left out any important ones? Are any of these wrong? Maybe I only think that some of these are real stereotypes when they actually aren’t. If you care enough to comment, let me know what you think. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

The Death of the Survivor Auction

Maybe you noticed its absence at first or maybe you didn’t. Maybe you care or maybe you don’t. One thing is for sure: the Survivor auction is gone and doesn’t appear to be coming back. It had only showed up in about half of the seasons anyways. But then it stopped showing up for good. Why is it gone? Well, we might as well delve into that here.

Sometimes we just have to deal with the fact that old Survivor elements will go away over time. We saw that with the rites of passage, which never seemed to work when they arrived at contestants that they didn’t know. Still, it was a nice way of us remembering the players from before the finale.

One may wonder if something stopped working right with the whole process of the Survivor auction that caused them to get rid of it. Let’s go back to the last time that it was used. The season was Worlds Apart. There was an opening twist at the auction where a person got bought out and then got a secret award back at camp. But this leads to problems later. So did more of the auction, but less so. The main thing that could be received from the auction was that too many people wanted a secret advantage in the game. Now you’d think that they could just do an auction without one. But why do one at all?

I don’t know if I can make a case for why the auction should return. It lead to a lot of weird things in past seasons and could even make things lopsided at times in ways of some sort. I don’t like how people could just sent others to Exile Island and get all of their money. I do wonder very briefly why that rule didn’t appear with Ghost Island, but they realize that the auction doesn’t work anymore.

Why doesn’t it work? And did it ever work? There would be a lot of bidding on items that people did not know what they really were. Thus, they could wind up with trap items that they wouldn’t really want. People could mess up the letters to home bit for the other players. This could lead to a rigged system that the players would know and then exploit instead.

The biggest problem was that people would just save all of their money until the end when the biggest item of the night was up for sale. The producers decided to make it more interesting the last two times the auction appeared. Of course, it made sense to get rid of the rule where contestants could pool money as soon as advantages like in the next challenge or secrets to idols were available. Still, one person just buying whatever they wanted, immediately if they wanted to, seemed like a bad idea.

Now why couldn’t they change the rules? I’m not sure. Maybe it would have gotten too complicated and made it too hard to keep track of everything. It would have been too hard or taken out all of the fun that it is supposed to be. If there are too many flaws with something, it might be better to just start over from scratch. Remember the Articles of Confederation?

Well, that’s about it for this blog post. The auction on Survivor was a good thing at one point. But then it really stopped working well. Rather than try to fix it or get rid of what broke it, the producers must have thought it would just be better to go without it for future seasons. I doubt that we will see it again. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

What Other Island Twists Could They Do?

If Ghost Island had anything good to it, it is that it makes me wonder what other twists they could do with islands in the future. We had islands where people get exiled and islands where people who got voted out sought redemption and could get back in the game. But what other twists could an island play into in the future? Here are my thoughts on the matter as I come up with some of my own.

Foresight Island: Imagine getting a glimpse at what is to come in the game. That’s what this island could be all about. People are sent here and they will learn information about what is to come in the game. It could be about upcoming twists, challenges, or anything that could be deemed interesting. But it would not just be a clearly painted picture. It would be some sort of unclear thing that they would have to figure out or be confused about.

Curse Island: In this twist, the exiled person would be confronted with three things: a challenge, a time limit to complete the challenge, and a curse that would either be affected on himself should he lose the challenge or anyone of his choosing if wins. It would take the theme of reversing the curse, but use other newly made twists of whatever the producers come up with.

Luxury Island: One of my ideas for a season involves it being one tribe from the very beginning with the members randomly divided for reward and immunity challenges. In case there are an odd number of people in the game, this would be used as a special reward place that they could go to as they enjoy immunity and some limited comforts before they have to go back into the main game.

Espionage Island: Imagine if what you say or do could be witnessed by someone else in the game. If you are sent to this island, you would get to see footage from the other tribe’s camp or any type of normally hidden thing that the always filming camera would capture and get to witness it for yourself. People would have to be way more careful about what they say and do if they know it will be shown to anyone who winds up on this island.

Well, that’s all that I can think of right now for this blog post. Maybe there are other twists that could work as well. Then again, maybe none of these would work out. Some islands could be rewards that a person on the winning tribe could go to instead of punishment that someone on the losing tribe would have to go to instead. We’ll see what happens. I was not a fan of Ghost Island so I hope that they do some more interesting twists instead. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Overusing the Tribe Swap

I want to still like the tribe swap the way that I used to. But I just don’t know if I can keep liking it the way it keeps being used over and over again. While I’d more than love to work for this show by being a creative twist designer or something like that, I have the feeling that the producers have hired a lot of really long Survivor fans to do twists and they wind up not working out well. Another problem is that it seems that the swap is used way too much. What can be done about it? I guess that I’ll see what the result of it is by analyzing the tribe swap and saying how it is now overused.

The first truly major twist in Survivor was the tribe swap. It first appeared in the third season and has appeared in more seasons than it hasn’t. It has also appeared in some other forms like dissolves of tribes and even the appearance of new tribes. Gabon was the first real time that it appeared twice in the same season. The last season it hasn’t truly appeared in was South Pacific, although Philippines counts enough in my mind since the dissolve of Matsing doesn’t count that much in my mind.

Maybe it is the addiction of more than one swap that has been the major problem with it in recent times it has been done. But that could be because of how lopsided things can get. Or it could be because of how short a time we get to know one tribe. Also, the addition of a third tribe was a good idea at first. But then it quickly became overused over the seasons.

I don’t want each season to have one tribe failing over and over in part due to swaps that always seem to benefit one tribe over the other. It seems mean in a way. Plus, more to the point, it doesn’t seem fair for these people on whatever the losing tribe may end up being. The fact that it has happened during all-star seasons in addition to all new player seasons doesn’t make me feel about it. If you lose early on, it could quickly turn into you always losing because the numbers will always be against you after one swap than another. At the merge, you will have almost no chance of winning if things were bad at one point and the swap keeps making things bad.

Maybe it is the fact that too many of the recent seasons have had some sort of theme to them of one group versus another group. Thus, a swap seems like it makes the most sense to put in there in order to shake up the game like it would need to be. All of those seasons wouldn’t work without a swap of some sort. But then you have to wonder why it keeps appearing in other seasons. Maybe I can understand wanting to keep any returning players on their toes. But does it have to keep appearing all the time? It just seems dumb to have it show up multiple times in a season when just once has worked in the past. Plus, not doing one every now and then makes sense too.

I think that’s all that I want to write for this post. I want to still like the swap, but if it is used too much and makes thing too lopsided for the rest of the game, then it isn’t the great twist that I thought that it was. Maybe they could improve things by not doing it every season. Or maybe it would work better if it seemed or could be more even in the future. That is my main thoughts on the matter. If it could be more equal, then it would work better. Otherwise, don't do it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor: Ghost Island Finale

Well, when I was looking through my rankings of the seasons that have happened thus far, I wonder if I had them ranked correctly. Now, I could always change my own rankings. I don’t know yet if I will or not. But I do think that this season has been rather lackluster. At least other seasons have fared a whole lot worse than it has. I wouldn’t even call it bad. But it isn’t really good.

While not as bad as Exile Island, I just have not liked the Ghost Island twist as much this time around. It seems to be nothing more than a reason to bring up past seasons. We have enough of returning players so many times that it can be annoying that an all new season still needs to have so many references to things in the past. How is this show supposed to get new fans if old seasons they missed are always being referenced time and time again? Maybe it is because no one has reversed the curse that it seems that this season brought nothing special to it.

We know for sure that the forced tie at the final four will happen again. What I hope doesn’t happen again is the ridiculously short reunion show that happened last season. They need to fix the reunion show. I’d rather there not be one than have it be stupid and messed up. You’d think that they’d learn their lesson not to fuck with things after Caramoan, but they have mostly gotten worse since then. Even if Caramoan remains the worst technically, the truly horrendous ones happened after it. Last season’s was awful and it will be hard for me to have good feelings if they continue to mess it up.

I’m not sure what will happen going into this finale. I don’t know who will win or who I want to win. I do not think that either Sebastian or Angela have a shot. Donathan seems far too annoying in the edit. Then again, so was Sophie in South Pacific and she won somehow. Laurel could win, but I don’t see it as likely. As for Wendell, I think that he rode too many coattails. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get to Jeff talking about the people before the show starts. I do wonder if this will be the Jeff Probst show as usual. Maybe he needs it ever since the real Jeff Probst show got cancelled. I do worry about reality show hosts having too huge an ego. Look at our mess of a president. *sips tea* We then get to the review of the players thus far. It seems that Donathan, Laurel, Domenick, and Wendell are together in an alliance. I like the whole truth bomb label that they gave Donathan. Normally people who tell the blunt truth all the time have autism. That’s what I do. We are reminded of the fake idol that Domenick has.

We then get back to the people after tribal council. Domenick is wary of Donathan. I’m surprised that it took them this long to realize what he is like. Sebastian thinks that he needs to get out of other people’s shadows and take control of the game. Will he be the next Kimmi? She had nothing for her going into the finale and then was suddenly a target by trying to make big moves. She did badly both times that she played. Wendell wants to target Sebastian. We then get to the challenge. This maze challenge is the number one reason why I’d want to play Survivor. Sadly, I just don’t know if I’ll make it that far.

The winner of the challenge gets a food reward as well as immunity. But what will happen with Ghost Island? Will someone be sent there? When will this happen? It’s interesting that everyone has different places in the maze where their bags are. They aren’t all at the same place. This makes me wonder about the fairness of the challenge. Are all of them the same distance? I guess that we won’t know for sure and can only wonder. Also, why does it seem like all the puzzles are different? Or does it just seem that way because the yellow one has the top so soon? Wendell wins the challenge. We gets to pick people to join him on the reward. He picks Sebastian and Angela. Why them? That doesn’t make sense. Or are you trying to pick the people that you know won’t last to lessen the blow?

In the second segment of the show, we get to Wendell after his victory as the rest of the tribe goes back to camp. Wendell just wants to play nice to potential jury members. But will people see through his ploy? Sebastian still wants to blindside people. Laurel is upset that Wendell picked who he did for the reward and is afraid that she will lose a challenge because of it. People want to vote out Domenick and Donathan is part of the crowd. Angela doesn’t seem to realize that she wouldn’t be part of a move if it were against her. She spills the extra vote that Sebastian has to Domenick. Donathan spills the same secret to Laurel. Why? Just, why? Loose lips sink ships. The people of today need to learn this.

We get to tribal council next and I wonder if there’s a way to edit these long paragraphs. I’m not even sure I’m going to attempt them. But I will try to not do them going forward. Maybe I need to stop saying random things. Donathan thinks that he could be going home, but that doesn’t seem to be a likely event to happen. Domenick calls out Donathan’s shit. Sebastian admits to the extra vote now that Domenick calls out Donathan.

While I admire Donathan’s honesty, it’s not always the best policy. I don’t know what this godfather reference was that they talked about just now. I need to watch that sometime. Wendell reveals his idol. People need to learn what the word secret means.

Domenick plays the fake idol before the votes are cast. How is he mimicking Ben from last season? Only Ben played a real idol. The votes are cast. No real idols are played. People did vote for Domenick. They were right about the tribal council being crazy. But will this be the only crazy one left this season? Sebastian is voted out. He didn’t use the extra vote, but it wouldn’t have helped him anyways. We then get James originally from China and Erik originally from Micronesia on the stage briefly. We’ll see them later at the reunion show. I just hope that they don’t take the time away from this season’s players. I also have to wonder if there were any podcasts with these players from past seasons in them.

In the third segment of the show, we go right back to the next challenge. There is no talk about the vote of the previous night. I hope that Wendell and Domenick at least try to win the challenge. It would be far more interesting to see who they could give an idol to than just expecting them to play it like Sash and Chase did in Nicaragua the last time they could play it. Wendell wins the challenge. When will this last Ghost Island thing come into effect?

In the fourth segment of the show, we get back to camp. Domenick is more than likely going to use his real idol this time around. Donathan says that he would bring Domenick to the end. He has some key words here: “I don’t want to put my fate in a fire-making challenge.” Domenick wants to vote out Laurel. I don’t even know if Donathan is being honest here. Laurel says that she’d want Donathan to be on the jury as he would vote for her. She thinks that the votes would be split and benefit a third person. This has never happened. That doesn’t mean that it never would. But I don’t think that it would. Wendell wants to make sure that he’s making the right choice.

We then get to tribal council. Everyone except Wendell and Domenick thinks that they are vulnerable tonight at tribal council. Donathan thinks that he could win as he hasn’t won a challenge. Wendell thinks that he could use his idol and even admits to it at tribal council. Will these people crack? I’m hoping that for the first time in a while, the final vote will be close. The votes are then cast.

Wendell lets Domenick go first with the idol play. Domenick plays the idol for himself. Wendell then plays his idol on Laurel. This makes me hope that people voted for Yanni and it would still count for Laurel. Donathan is voted out and it seems that both idols are wasted. But they wouldn’t have lasted beyond this tribal council though. I would have wasted it too. Jeff then brings out Donathan at the show that is happening. Sia is giving Donathan money. At least she had the sense not to interrupt the show to do so. Maybe she knows there might not have been a chance too.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. This time, they are up front with what will happen at the final four. Why does someone who drop have to start over and not from the place where they can? Why did Domenick have to replace the ball again? I do have to wonder if there will be an obscure person winning final immunity. Remember when Susie won that challenge in Gabon? She didn’t deserve to make it that far. Domenick wins the challenge. But his words could still come back to haunt him. Will he consider the Laurel move that Wendell did a betrayal? All four of them will be going to Ghost Island together. And there is a note that Domenick gets.

In the sixth segment of the show, Domenick is glad that he gets to visit Ghost Island. Wendell is pretty sure that Domenick won’t pick him to be the safe vote. Domenick is upfront to us about it. Who will he pick to compete against Wendell? Laurel doesn’t think that she could win the challenge. I still wonder what this task is that Domenick has to do.

Angela thinks that she shouldn’t face off in the challenge. I don’t think that thinking you will lose at the final vote is a good choice to make. Who is the bigger threat between Wendell and Laurel? Perhaps Yanni is? Domenick gets to pick a cursed urn from the past. But what’s the point of this? Will he pick the urn from Australia, Cagayan, or Game Changers?

He thinks that he should give his necklace away so that he can fight against Wendell. Listen, Wendell can be labeled a coattail rider. What has he done on his own? I don’t know if Domenick should make that crazy move. But I’d honestly be okay if anyone who isn’t Angela wins. Domenick could make the next biggest blunder if he gives immunity up. But we’ll never know for sure what the other option could be if he goes with one over another.

In the seventh segment of the show, Domenick thinks that one wrong decision can haunt you forever. Both of the women think that the other one can win the jury vote. Wendell thinks that the purple place would be the safer one. Domenick picked the urn from Cagayan. We then get to the decision. He then picks Laurel to be the safe person. Jeff lets Wendell sit at the purple one. Wendell wins, making Angela the person who is eliminated. The tribe didn’t speak, though.

In the eighth segment of the show, Wendell thinks that he has a good chance at winning the game. He has to bring his a game. Laurel wants to make sure that the jury knows that she has made moves. I’m not sure that she has, but it would make for a good underdog story. Domenick thinks that it could be a close vote. I think that he could be very right about that. He thinks that the tribal council will be one for the ages and is afraid of coming off as too cocky. We then get to the final tribal council, although we get a commercial before any more is shown. It is also almost 9 so to little to no surprise, we will be losing some of the reunion time that we used to get.

Total confessional count: Laurel- 25, Sebastian- 12, Angela- 11, Domenick- 43, Wendell- 28, Donathan- 26. New confessionals this episode: Wendell- 8, Donathan- 3, Yanni- 7, Sebastian- 4, Angela- 4, Domenick- 12.

In the ninth segment of the show, I can’t make sense of everything as we start with the outwit portion. Michael isn’t fond of Laurel’s game. He thinks that Domenick played the best social game and that Wendell wasn’t as good with it. But Wendell thinks that he was more personal with conversations. I think that Wendell is unintentionally giving help to Domenick. Wendell thinks that he was the one who was making the big decisions. Domenick tsks him off. He thinks that there was no mastermind because he takes orders from no one. Most of the people who worked with the duo thinks that Domenick was the one who brought people into the alliance.

We then go to the outplay portion of the challenge. Laurel thinks that she never had to rely on winning challenges in the game. Wendell helped do some of the camp life. I don’t know if I like this jury format because I’m not sure that all of the jurors would get to speak this way. Wendell thinks that he was loyal. Domenick then goes back to the Sebastian vote. Sebastian isn’t buying that he wasn’t doing the move the wrong way. Was Domenick’s game an act? They might be confusing him with Phillip. Chris thinks that Domenick played well even though they had fought a lot.

The outlast portion of the game is then done next. What’s interesting is that both of the other finalists had picked Laurel in this episode to continue. Domenick admits that he played really aggressively. You have to be aggressive. B e aggressive. Wendell thinks that he played a big game. There wasn’t that much spoken here and unless they edited it out, not every juror got to speak. Samantha who is a child in the audience gets to cast a vote for who she thinks will win.

In the tenth segment of the show, we get to the people casting votes. I wonder what would happen if there’s a tie. Who would she cast the tie-breaker for? Surprisingly, he reads the vote there at the island instead of later at the reunion show. This may be a tie. And it is. Laurel gets to cast the deciding vote. If I had to guess, this won’t be revealed until later at the reunion show. We still don’t know how they would resolve three way ties or ties with two jury members. Maybe that won’t happen anyways. Jeff takes the deciding vote away to read later. I do like that he did this since it is a tie. I think that Wendell might win based on what Domenick said earlier. But will he? The winner is Wendell. Poor Domenick could have changed things by picking someone different. Or maybe he was doomed either way.  Now, we will get only half an hour for the reunion show.

In the eleventh segment of the show, Jeff reveals who the votes on the jury were for. Domenick then wonders about the choice of the fire at the end. He might have made more mistakes than just the one at the end. Jeff talks to Michael some as well. He graduated early from high school. It seems that Chris is now friends with Domenick.

In the twelfth segment of the show, Jeff talks to Erik and James about what happened. We talk about James first. He didn’t even want to watch Survivor anymore because of it. Erik then talks about what happened with him. Jeff is forgetting about how great they played outside of the moves that failed them in the game. Did he get to this apology that he said he would do? I don’t think that he did.

In the thirteenth segment of the show, we get to a look at the next tribal council. It will be called David versus Goliath. Why are they always doing versus themes? It wouldn’t hurt to do a normal season again. One tribe will be the underdogs who worked up and the other tribe are people who are strong already. Jeff then does the totally unnecessary plug in to the summer show on CBS that they are doing. It is a show called TKO which seems like a remake of Wipeout. They could have talked to players from the game and waste our time with this instead. It’s like when they promoted The Millers during the reunion show of Blood versus Water. This show could wind up with the same fate.

In the fourteenth segment of the show, we get to Jeff wanting to cast people for the show. If someone is inspired on twitter, he will get it done. I wonder if we’ll know who this person is. Well I got to work later tonight and probably don’t care that much if I ever get cast. At least this blog will be on people’ radar, but then they could always mistake me for another Adam Decker.

Points at reunion show: Stephanie Gonzalez- 0, Jacob- 0, Morgan- 0, Brendan- 0, Stephanie Johnson- 0, James- 0, Bradley- 0, Chris- 1, Libby- 0, Desiree- 0, Jenna- 0, Michael- 2, Chelsea- 0, Kellyn- 1, Sebastian- 0, Donathan- 0.5, Angela- 0, Laurel- 1, Domenick- 1, Wendell- 1.

The reunion show wasn’t that bad, although it was shorter than I would like it to be. Still, giving us only half of a reunion show was quite a problem. But maybe they don’t care. Plus, the people on twitter are going to want to suck up to producers instead of bashing the show. It is too late for those who already did that and can’t quickly delete it.

I have different thoughts going into next season. One, I’m getting tired of the recurring themes of the versus seasons. I do wonder how they keep coming up with one theme after another. It makes me wonder if I should try to come up with different themes. But it is hard to tell what they will think of and I don’t think that I could have done that a lot of the time.

Before I go any further, it is time to get to the end of the season awards. These are the awards that I give this season, although not all of them are good awards. Let’s start with the bronze award of the season. I will give it to Domenick for his overall cockiness throughout the season. The silver will go to Donathan for his honesty being generally poor game play. As for the gold, it will go to Chris for all of his dumb moves in the episode where he was voted out.

When it comes to the breakout character of the season, I feel that, as always, there are a lot of good people who could get it. But in my mind, the only person who I think works best to get it is Michael. He may have struggled the whole game, but I think that he was quite a good player regardless.

What is the most memorable moment of the season? I don’t know what all would qualify for it. But I do think that one thing stands out. I think that Chris’s downfall is the most memorable part of this season. It may not have been good for him, but I love that episode where he was voted out. I also can’t wait for this month to end so it doesn’t try to complete words that I write normally.

Before I go any further, I might as well go into the ranking of this season. Before I get to that, I’ll rank the tribe swap of this season against 27 that I have ranked now. (27 is not the right number of tribe swaps, but is the number that I have now.) The first tribe swap of the season will rank as 7^th best. The second swap of the season will rank only as 23^rd best. Speaking of 23, I would rank this season as 23 out of the 36 seasons.

Well, that’s it for this season. I might be glad that I overslept this morning as I just might be up too late this time at my late night job. I didn’t use to work on Wednesday nights and may have to switch when I work so can stay here later and be okay the next day. What I will say is that these posts will continue as usual throughout the summer. You’ll see something every Wednesday, although, I might skip one of them every now and then. I’ll have to tell you why in case it ever happens.

I still don’t know when or if you will see posts on old seasons for a while. I’m hope that I can get it done at some point. If you do, you will see these posts change and random posts disappear in favor of them. Does this make sense? I will tell you if anything changes in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.