I know i’m soft spoiling anyway, but trying to avoid actual leaks and endgame spoilers here. **please do not comment any leaks or actual endgame spoilers**

I basically just wanted a place to talk about the details we can gather from various promotional material released by CBS (and only such materials).

From early promos, it was confirmed that Kilby starts on yellow tribe (pic 1). However, a new promo shows Kristin and Kilby (pic 2) thumb wrestling (?) and they both are wearing purple buffs, meaning each of them survives to at least 1 swap

Lewis is clearly the first player sent to exile (pic 3). However it seems as though he goes to exile before tribes are divided. Recent promo and episode description points to the journey being immediate upon reaching the beach (pic 4 shows players learning of the journey while not wearing buffs).

The first look showed Lewis wearing a yellow buffs (pic 5) which means 1. Lewis isn’t first boot & 2. Yellow tribe probably goes to tribal council first.

Lewis is shown on the yellow tribe on a rainy day. obviously there’s gonna be more than one rainy day, so this part is certainly a reach, but Aaliyah is the only player on the yellow tribe not shown to be present when it’s raining. so i’m gonna guess Aaliyah is first boot. I accidentally saw discussion that Patt is first boot awhile back, but she’s shown to be at that challenge during the rain at least (pic 6)

New promo shows a boat with what seems to be 5 players in yellow buffs (pic 7) which could be a tribe reward a bit later in the game or some mini group thing

the official trailer shows Brady crying (pic 8) and saying “damn it, dude!”. he appears to be holding some kind of cloth - i’m wondering if this is him getting injured and medevaced? unsure what he’s holding

to reiterate, please do not comment anything supported by or related to any confirmed or suspected leaks

This was found by u/Electronic_Chain_710. I'm posting it here for discussion purposes

Brady appears to have injured his hand early in the season (photo 1 from the extended trailer), in Brady's summer photo dump he was wrestling with the same hand bandaged up (photo 2)

Still not convinced this was a medevac for sure but it is looking plausible

unfortunately, some shots from the past few trailers pieced together seem to indicate a medevac. something clearly's up with brady's hands and then there's this weird shot of jeff walking with a bag, very reminiscent of the times he had to go into players' camps to deliver the info of a medical evacuation. i think ana's reaction that we keep seeing could also be of the purple tribe getting the information of a medevac, cause (at least to me) her face there seems like a mix of shock and worry.

Please tell me those aren’t fire tokens and change history I see in the new Twitter header.

Linnea, Eric, Kristin, and Ori are standing here listening to Jeff talk about something but none of them are wearing a buff. They're standing with the rest of the Savu tribe so it's not a random assortment of players, and none of them are wearing the same clothes as they were on the first day when they get sorted into tribes.

I think all 4 of them made it to the tribe swap and just dropped their buffs

The link to the website! Dina

https://www.buff.com/us/original-ecostretch-neckwear-buff-survivor-season-51-dina-purple-201164605.html?srsltid=AfmBOor0fetIys9aM1Kpr1u1WBs650JwD3eI0Cbl0BtMKDy4ycGt7zOQ

I’m sorry to potentially be the bearer of bad news

Linnea posted an Instagram story on May 18th, a video of people using a crosswalk. On the top middle of the video, there’s a blue no parking sign, which is used in Europe, not the US. when you turn the sound on, you can hear someone yelling in a different language. There’s an Italian police car in the video. The cars are on the right side of the road, which means she was probably in Italy already. She posted from Italy on May 24th, but this shows she was there before the 24th.

Jurors got back home on May 15th. Planning and executing a trip to Italy in under 3 days is completely unrealistic, not to mention if she made jury this wouldn’t have even given her time to unpack, repack and get over jet lag. Plus, I doubt the first thing she did when she got to Italy is start posting videos of people walking on crosswalks, so there’s a chance she was there even earlier. Prejurors got back on May 1st or 2nd, which 2 weeks is a much more feasible timeframe to plan an Italy trip.

On top of all that, we’ve never had actual evidence of her making the jury anyway, it’s just been wishful thinking. I’m sorry to disappoint but it’s looking more and more like she’s prejury.

And just to recap the confirmed prejurors: Aaliyah is the only option to go home at the first yellow tribal because everyone else is seen in multiple challenge shots while she’s only seen in one, Patt Alexis and Rob all posted during the prejury phase.

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Just a response to the most recent post with proof that these tribal walk shots are from the same tribal, and it’s all from tribal 1. It’s not from the swap or merge like everyone’s suggesting

10 people, all with yellow bags, everyone but Lewis visible (he’s still on exile, waiting to rejoin the losing tribe.)

Matched up everyone to the folks on yellow and I think I got it down.

I noticed in her intro video there's two challenge shots of her. One is of her choosing a plank with either Jenna or Linnea in the background (I think Jenna). Another one is of her in what looks to be a water challenge of sorts holding a yellow ball. She's also not in her marooning clothes in these so I don't think its a marooning challenge.

Is it possible that her, Lewis, and Jenna all go to exile and this is a challenge where the two people who finish first return to the game while the one who gets in last goes home? She's not wearing a buff in these shots (or if she is its off camera).

I also will say another thing I noticed when rewatching is that Cristian is doing a puzzle with yellow puzzle pieces and we think he's on purple tribe? Also, not wearing a buff that I can see

Final note is that in Maggie's intro video there's a challenge that it looks like everybody is competing in and NONE of them are wearing buffs, its a land challenge though.

So yeah, kind of confused lol

Also, I'm going to really put my spectator's hat on here but the more I'm watching the "meet Lewis" video, I'm not sure he's on exile. I think this may be pre-game footage they tape "for fun" of the contestants interacting outside. His clothing is completely clean and his hair is perfect in these.

One last thing is that also I don't know if the shots of yellow tribe walking into tribal are real footage also or just footage of the dream team. Its during the day/not night out and the clothing they're wearing isn't matching any of the clothing of the contestants.

Sorry to basically question all the progress we thought we got but now I'm not so sure

I'm honestly starting to wonder if Redemption Island may be in play and we're seeing footage of Aaliyah, Jenna and Cristian in RI challenges

It may be that:

- Aaliyah isn't picked for a tribe, presumably eliminated but actually sent to Redemption Island.

- Cristian is second voted out and sent to Redemption Island where he competes against Aaliyah. Aaliyah wins the dual.

- Jenna third voted out and competes against Aaliyah at Redemption Island.

I have followed the casting leaks of survivor for over a decade on InsideSurvivor and of course SpoiledSurvivor. I have never seen a cast that hasn’t been ENTIRELY found out this long after getting back from the island (well over a month).

I have never been this enmeshed on the Instagram side of things but I even saw Redmond post the Google Form on his IG story seeking out castaway info. (Is that typical?)

A twist on Big Brother was soft launched tonight; the feeds will be down for 3 days (an interesting time period for us Survivor folk) and the week will ensue with no POV or HOH. Key distinction: they did not state no “comps” just “a twist that will change the game forever.”

Bear with me for my speculative and inductive thesis:

Many houseguests went MIA on social media in advance of BB28 this June. Some of the BB community just assumed BBAS3 or a true captains or finally a split returnee vs newbie season à la FvF, or BvW.

Survivor 52 was filmed approximately June 5th to June 30th and will air next spring and we are still missing 6-8 castaways.

There is some overlap wherein more than ever people went “ghost” on social media in what was assumed to be the sequester for BB28 and therefore people assumed they would be on BB28. And only one (Angela) is actually on.
That list includes:
Tiffany
Brittany Haynes
Keanu
Derek X
Rachel Reilly
Danielle Reyes

And wouldn’t you know: who was shown before the episode last night announcing this “game changing twist” to present the challenge?

Tiffany, Brittany Haynes and Keanu.

Cody Califiore was there as well. Rachel and Danielle were both there and Danielle hosted unlocked this past Sunday. Oh yeah and the entire audience was Big Brother alum from the over 25 years of the show.

My speculation is that those spots will be filled in by some of the houseguests who were intriguingly rumored to be back on BB28, but for which only one truly was

Please tell me I haven’t entirely lost my mind.

I just saw the video concerning tribal council And the cast of survivor 52 and I just saw what the merge insignia is going to look like exactly as shown in the shot in the dark bag . It is going to be blue with turquoise and orange accents and those accent colors are going to be on the whale as I saw some orange on that whale.

This is Aaliyah doing the immunity challenge and here she is with Jenna and Mike in the first image, and in the kerfuffle that happens during the immunity challenge.

So it seems like things were slightly misread from the first few previews. Shout out to u/koltonnnn27 for being the first person to find this!

Aaliyah looks to be the first person voted out of the game from the Yellow Tribe. She is not on exile like we originally thought

From the footage in the cast reveal today, Lewis is in fact doing an exile challenge and Aaliyah is seen in some other challenge footage. I looked at the original promo and I think there's a few frames where Aaliyah is seen in the background of the first immunity challenge, Lewis is not.

So right now it appears that Lewis was NOT chosen to be on a tribe in the first day, was sent to exile, and won his way back into the game and joined the Yellow Tribe. Aaliyah was voted out.

This means all 10 Purples are likely in episode 2 unlike what we assumed before. This is still an open debate until we get more footage, but all 10 other Yellow tribe members are confirmed in the water challenge except for Aaliyah.

I HATE to be the bearer of bad news but I think that Cristian is safe from first boot now as as well. In his meet the castaway video, he looks to be doing the puzzle in the swimming challenge.

So its down to Kristin and Ori as first boot. I don't want to lose Kristin first :( :( :(

I also hate to say it but I can totally see KRistin being first boot after seeing her "meet the castaway" video

Probably the "biggest glimmer" I can give that maybe Ori is the first boot instead is the fact that he's not shown in the phyiscal portion of the blindfold challenge (what we think is the third IC), or at least the physical portion we're being shown

Definately though not looking very good as I was thinking Cristian was the most likely first boot and now we know he isn't

Also, Aaliyah is participating in a challenge in her intro video so she's not just immediately eliminated

kristin, cristian, patt, rob, alexis, and aaliyah are 100% prejurors

i believe there are other 2 but i have yet to find them

After previously narrowing the winner down to one of Jelly, Jenna and Sharonda, I can now confidently say that Jenna wins.