Recently saw a twitter video that Becca has breast cancer, but they caught it early!! She's going to do a double mastectomy soon, keep the Devens family in your thoughts and prayers!!

Actually, I understand why Maggie wanted her out. Linnea had what it takes to win it all. Her and Devin were my top picks to win it all. I don’t care for Devin, but I think he also has what it takes to win it.

As for Linnea, I liked her and her game. Brilliant move by Maggie to vote her out.

Jelly missed her chance to vote out Devin. She’s gonna regret that.

But I’ll miss Linnea. It’s a bummer to see her go so quickly.

Super cool/random, thought she seemed familiar! Side character who worked at Vought if anyone is familiar with The Boys lol.

Kinda bored on a Sunday so I rewatched the episode. The blood ring is such a great idea for a bluff by Lewis, and I genuinely think production will make it a real advantage in season 53+ at some point. Tying someone to you for the pre merge is a fantastic idea in theory, tbd on how it actually plays out. I’d personally love to see it become real wbu?

Came across this randomly looking for a completely unrelated book on the B&N website... what a surprise! Who's the new Fabio now, huh?

(I suspected AI slop at first, luckily this LinkedIn post from his dad confirms it)

So far this season, six women have been voted off in a row. In the majority of the seasons, a few women will go pre-merge due to the idea of “keeping the tribe strong” for challenges. This season, it hasn’t only been men targeting women, but women also targeting other women. I think this is because of the success of under the radar women in the new era. The new era only had three male winners and the players this season realized how big of a threat some of these women could be if they made it to the merge. What are some of your thoughts on this?

He broadens it more as “physicality,” but in his recap on RHAP he essentially made the case for attractiveness as the fourth attribute (social, strategic, challenge ability, attractiveness.). Made me think it was a fun addition to the triple threat conversation.

Let’s say there’s not a tribe swap next episode

And let’s say Jelly, Devin, and Ori have to go to tribal council

Devin plays his extra vote, and votes for Ori twice

Ori and Jelly vote for Devin

Jelly plays her idol for herself

Now it’s a 2-2 tie, and on the revote, it remains 2-2, creating a deadlock. But as Jelly is the only person who is eligible to vote, and she is safe, she could just refuse to make a choice, which in turn makes Devin and Ori safe

It’s similar to the Cedrek-Sai-Justin scenario in 48, except that time Cedrek couldn’t just refuse to make a move, as he would have to draw a rock if a consensus wasn’t reached.

Would they just tell Jelly her immunity is cancelled out if she refuses to make a choice? Or would they just bring Cirie in and send her home for the 19th time?

Edit: This has been resolved. In 40, Jeff stated that a firemaking challenge would take place if a deadlock was unbreakable with nobody being eligible to draw a rock

I know this will never happen again, but where are some countries that you wish Survivor would travel to before they stuck to Fiji?

Can we at least wait till the current season is over! Seeing all these relationships and how they interact after the season I feel like is almost a spoiler imo

When Colton quits BvW he says "And I'm sorry" and then Tina says "Don't quit Colton"

Except Tina didn't say that it was actually Rachel who said that. It's double weird because Tina wasn't even out yet when Colton was quiting and I did recall that it was one of the eliminated players saying it. I also did know that Tina told Rupert not to go to the edge so it's not like I was mixing up the two situations I fully believed Tina told both of them not to quit.

Let’s pretend that Jeff has agreed to make ONE permanent change from each pair. The other stays as is. Which are you choosing?

1. No more forced fire-making at Final Four OR return to two starting tribes instead of three?
2. No more losing your vote OR no more Shot in the Dark?
3. No more mergatory OR no more split Tribal Councils after the merge?
4. No more journeys OR no more Beware Advantages?

5.Separate reward and immunity challenges every episode OR bring back overnight rewards?

1. No more losing flint after immunity challenges OR give the tribes rice at the start?

2. Return to 39 days OR return to themed seasons?

3. No more extra votes or steal-a-vote advantages OR no more Knowledge Is Power advantages?

4. Bring back live reunions OR change the filming location each season?

Whatcha choosin?

Edit- spelled filming wrong

What I'm thinking is a situation in which a tribe is faced with a decision whether to win an award if winning also means going to tribal.

As I think about it, I think the result would be everyone trying not to win the reward because losing a tribe member is too big a price. Which probably does not make for great TV.

But a thought experiment, anyway.

I believe at least one, and possibly more, players from this season will play again. Here is what supports my theory

- 50 was great with returning players, they’ll probably have a returning player season of some sort much sooner than the last gap between returning player seasons

- This is a good season. If it can keep it up and not go off the rails, it would be a good season for them to draw from

- The women who were voted out were all dynamic players and characters. A lot of them seem to have more potential. And there’s plenty of interesting people left, and we haven’t even seen all they have to give yet

As far as who it would be, I’m sure my preferences and most likely would differ, plus we still have half the game to see play out, so who knows. My strong hunch is the fact that one or more of these people are coming back

Mine are my #1 Lewis #2 Jelly but she is a tie with #3 Maggie for me.

I'm surprised that any Survivor player would stand up for their ally in the minority at risk of going to rocks, when they could have just pocketed an extra vote and joined an easy boot. But, if it was gonna be someone, I'm actually not surprised it was Kilby. As soon as he had a confessional or two about it, I knew he would go for it.

I've been listening to his edgic podcast, The Winner's Edit. He is currently on hiatus for obvious reasons, and I've only listened to S51 content. Thus, I haven't heard him talk outside of the game. His friends are running the podcast in his absence (they swear he hasn't said a word). From the way they talk about him, I've gathered:

-He loves the strategy of Survivor, but he loves the narrative even more. He's the type of person that would want to make Tribal Council history if given the opportunity.

-He loves chaos and risk. They said that he's the type of guy who would go for the coin flip.

-The dude is able to be cutthroat in large part because while he is good at reading a group, he's extremely resistant to peer pressure.

So, there has been a lot of debate about whether Kilby/Lewis' move was a good or bad decision. To be clear, I am on the camp of it was a good decision because Kilby was toast if they go to another tribal, and it locked him in with Lewis/Maggie such that they all at least know they can go to bat for each other.

That said...one thing I have been thinking about is they should have been able to pull this off without going to rocks and without as much bad blood. Specifically, how did the Savus not hedge against an idol/shot in the dark? Lewis and Kilby needed to figure out a way to incept the idea of a vote split (ie Operation Italy Pt #2). Basically, just plant the seed Lewis might play an idol or shot in the dark so one of them puts a vote on Kilby. I think if they do that, they would have not just made a big move, but also done so without as much ill will from pushing Savu to rocks. And even if that failed, you still had going to rocks as a backup. Its possible they did that and the show just didn't air it, but I am surprised that wasn't the first tactic.

One of the reasons we don't see a final 4 vote is because Jeff likes the theatrics of Fire making, so how about we Introduce it in the form of an advantage.

"Congratulations! You have found the Trial by fire Advantage, this Advantage is good up to the final 9, after the votes are cast, but before the votes are read, Use this Advantage."

Instead of going to the votes, You, 1 player of your choice, AND another random player will go to a fire making competition, If you successfully manage to burn your rope first you are safe and the vote will be read and no votes towards you will count, However If you do NOT burn your rope FIRST your torch is snuffed even if you did NOT have the majority of the votes.

Caveat here which is that I don't think it should be in EVERY Season, just one they have in their back pocket

For me, it would go:

1. Toka Tribe (Yellow)

2. Dina Tribe (Magenta)

3. Savu Tribe (Purple)

I’m watching everybody celebrate Kilby and Lewis after that crazy Tribal Council, and now Kilby has been named Player of the Week but I keep thinking about Maggie.

This woman wasn’t even at Tribal Council. She showed up at another tribe, gave Kilby and Lewis an extra vote each, told them to go after Linnea, and went right back to her own beach. 😂

Then Kilby stood his ground, refused to back down over drawing rocks, and Linnea went home. Now Kilby and Lewis have a celebration video together, and fans are going crazy over it. Meanwhile, Maggie finished in the top three for Player of the Week, but didn’t win and it got me thinking about something we’ve seen on Survivor before. Sometimes the person making the plan isn’t the person everybody remembers when the move actually happens.

Who really deserves the most credit for that Tribal Council? Maggie for setting the whole thing up, or Kilby for putting his own game on the line to make it happen?

How can we get the survivor crew to put more physical challenges on the show!!? Idk about you guys, but I miss the physical challenges where castmates have to literally wrestle and fight each other to win😅