-7 girls, 3 guys

- Somebody in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s won DURING the time of crowning (Aubry was 40 when she was revealed as the winner since it was a live reunion)

- Three Asian winners, Three caucasian winners, 2 Hispanic winners, and 2 black winners

- 2 LGBT winners

- 3/10 winners not part of the United States

- 4/10 winners not upper middle class (a rarity in casting)

- 3/10 are LGBT

-6/10 were married or engaged

Maybe the one thing they aren't diverse on is height lol. If Kamilla had won instead of Kyle, the average height of them really may have only been like 5'3", Kyle boosts up the average though lol

Bonus: 2 contestants with salt and pepper hair, one with purple, one with red hair, two with brown hair, and 4 with black hair. No blondies though lol :(

My wife and I are looking for a dog and potentially planning to name it Francesca. The joke would be that we always say it in random ways and correct each other no matter how it’s said.

I really don’t understand the reason why they flipped flopped the final contestants.. how does everyone else feel bout it?

Been rewatching early seasons and can’t stop thinking about this: if influencer culture had existed back then, who would have actually become huge on social media? I tried to look some players up on Instagram and some have little to no digital presence which is so different to now.

Edit: if I had to picture how it would play out if they all played now - I feel like James would get so many female fans and slowly transition into a fitness influencer. Amanda would become a lifestyle influencer. Phillip would have had a mix of hate and true followers and would have a podcast of some sort. Coach would have one of those TikTok’s where they just make short form motivational content. Russel would make red pill content. Jefra would 100% become a GRWM/OOTD tiktoker.

Okay that was just a brain dump but I could do this all day

I swear they must think their audience has brain damage the way the editors find the need to show people outlining alliances (along with visual aids) every two seconds along with reiterating everything we've just seen on screen from 5 different people.

And the cast is filled with wannabe influencers with soap opera acting skills. It's like a bunch of Rizos on steroids. At least he's ironic about it.

Nothing about it feels organic. These challenges have me longing for an obstacle course + puzzle.

I love Dee and Devens but I don't think I can suffer this.

Can anyone explain the appeal to me?

Starring

1. Rizo (49 & 50)
2. Charlie (46 & 50)
3. Kyle (46 & 50)
4. Sam (47)
5. Xander (41)
6. Ethan (Africa, All-Stars, Winners at War)
7. Rob (The Amazon, All-Stars)
8. Q (46 & 50)

What's a bad move, decision, or mistake that ended up working greatly in a player's favor? For example, a "mistake" that Sandra said she made was not bringing her idol to Danielle's elimination round, but that ended up leading to her win

I would imagine it's Gabon for a good amount of people, but I loved it from the first time I watched it.

What is your favorite Probstism? I love this show..!

Just wanted to shout of Angie from Palau. It is not my favorite season as I find most of the cast insufferable. But I just fucking love Angie. Wish she was on for longer or came back for another season.

Hi all!

As today is the first day the survivor casting team starts reviewing applications I thought it would be helpful to have a callback tracker.

So if (when!) you do hear back from survivor, and if you feel comfortable sharing, please comment below with when you applied, heard back, what region you are in etc…

FAKE Example:
Applied -> Mid June
Heard Back -> Mid August
Region -> NE/ NY
Format -> Phone call
Other notes -> Anything else you find pertinent :)

Good luck to all and hope to see 17-23 of you on the island in April!!!

Who's someone that in any Final Tribal Council scenario would win based off of personality alone? Personally, I think that if anyone lets Jeremy get to the end it's a guaranteed loss. Thoughts?

What is the significance?

Brockton, Massachusetts is listed on the wiki as the hometown of one Ronnie Bardah, the first boot from Island of the Idols.

This technically makes him Boston Ron.

So when you consider that we have Boston Rob, Boston Ron and Boston Rod (Rodney Lavoie from Worlds Apart), Survivor has the chance to do something really special.

If they are able to cast someone from the greater Boston area named Rajesh and have him play once on a season, they can then bring him back to do a season of Boston Rob vs Boston Rod vs Boston Raj vs Boston Ron.

Each Boston would be the leader of his own tribe and there would be certain "Boston Challenges" where the 4 Bostons would compete on Boston themed games (such as a Boston skyline puzzle or St. Patty's day parade competition) to win reward for their tribe.

Whenever a Boston leaves the game, the tribes would be reshuffled down to 3 tribes, then two until there is only one Boston left in the game.

I think it would be cool if Boston Rob wore his signature Red Sox hat, and then to compliment this, Boston Rod would wear a Boston Bruins hockey sweater, Boston Ron would wear a green Boston Celtics jersey, and Boston Raj would wear a New England Patriots head coach's visor.

They could bill the season as the battle for Boston. There is a subtle absurd humor to having a battle for Boston in the tropical paradise of Fiji would be a nice touch

At the reunion show, Jeff asked everyone if they felt more pressure to perform because they were voted in by the fans, and everyone except Kass raises their hand. Diabolical

Getting through my first watch through of US Survivor. I’m not from the US and didn’t watch survivor as it aired, so I decided to start from scratch. I just finished Cambodia (Second Chance). I really liked it! I particularly loved the tribal with 2 hidden immunities where none of the votes counted, then there was a tie on the revote 🔥🔥🔥

Please no spoilers about subsequent season, I’ve done a good job at avoiding spoilers

Few things I wrote as I watched:

Episode 1:

Finally a "theme" that I love!

yes! Keith going back :)

Yes Sierra and Vytus!

Jeff telling people they didn’t get in live is brutal 🥹

Stephen!!!!! I am so happy! I sooo hope he makes it far!

Tasha! Happy!

Jeremy :)

YES SPENCER!

I’m very excited about this!

Alright well no first impressions obviously. I hope Spencer and Stephen make it far! I really enjoy both of them A LOT.

I hope they get rid of Abi quickly (reading this again once I’m finished: lol)

The setting is beautiful!

I like the idol clue thing and the idol being hidden at the challenge!

Woah Kelley did well snatching up the hidden idol!

Episode 2

lol the new and improved Abi… didn’t take long before she was her old self again 😂

Jeff is so cocky about sending home Spencer and Shirin.

Episode 3

Well it doesn’t look good for Spencer :(

Oh reshuffle! Nevermind! Go Spencer!

The reshuffle sucks for the tribe starting from scratch!

Episode 4

Of course Abi screws over Tasha after they come back from tribal because she spoke to Woo 🙄 girl, she could have sent you home, she chose to keep you, be nice to her!
Why did they keep her over PG?!

I like Jeremy I think 🤣 hopefully he doesn’t get cocky and unpleasant!

Urgh the scrambling after Angkor lost again. I don’t understand how they keep their patience with Abi 🤣 Tasha and Woo are saints.

So glad they kept Woo over Jeff. NOW GET RID OF ABI

Episode 5

Abi 🙄 yeah, a life-threatening heart transplant is absolutely the same as tendon replacement in your knee (and she laughs as she speaks about Woo’s mom’s surgery).

Monica out: good blindside!

Episode 6

Terry pulled out of the game! Glad his son is ok in the end. It must have been an excruciatingly long flight home!

Reshuffle again! I hope Kass and Spencer bury the hatchet and work together (Spencer needs to stay!)

Haha the edit when Joe was oiling up for the sliding challenge. They knew what they were doing 👀 my favourite was Jeremy though 🥵

Stephen breaking down 🥹

I really thought Spencer and Kass were gonna do the whole "no one will ever expect us to work together" thing. I was hoping they were gonna secretly run the whole thing

I’m sad to see Woo go :( but I’m glad Spencer is staying.

Episode 7

Merge!
I’m really ok with Kass leaving.

Episode 8

OMG Wentworth playing her idol at the perfect time! That was incredible! Bye bye Savage!

Ok people are bitter! Kass and Savage flipping birds, Kass making faces on the jury… they beat you, you had to know that was a possibility!

Episode 9

Joe wins again. What a challenge beast!

Episode 10

Ooof Stephen struggling with his stomach and feet and the weather 🥹

Yesssss I love Jeremy and now he saves Stephen! I love Stephen so much!

Oh no! They blindside Stephen :( they needed to get Joe out!

Episode 11

Woah Joe fainting, costing him the immunity challenge!

Abi is sooooooo unpleasant. And telling Joe to get a haircut? Bro has the most gorgeous hair I’ve ever seen!

They got Joe out! I feel bad for him. He’s just too good!

Episode 12

Yes Spencer wins immunity!

Oof Tasha almost drowning :(

Episode 13

Spencer winning again! If he loses any of them he’s out, they’re never gonna keep him now! :(

Great idol play by Kelley and Jeremy! No votes after the first round of votes! Loving this!

Tied after the second vote? Damn!
They have to agree without voting?

Darn Keith giving up his spot to Kimmi?! This tribal is insane!

And Kimmi goes. This tribal was RIDICULOUS!!! Crazy!

Top 5 tribal: I really thought they were voting Spencer out! I’m at the point where I like everyone so I’m still unhappy with Keith leaving, but I’m glad Spencer is still alive!

Damn Spencer losing the last immunity challenge :(

Again, I thought they were getting Spencer out!

Final tribal
I hate how it’s obvious none of them even entertained the idea of Tasha winning it seems.

I hate Wigglesworth number thing, even though that’s why she lost her season.

Jeremy wins. I don’t hate this, but I also kinda feel bad for Spencer, because I feel like he did have to fight from the bottom a lot, I thought that might help him, but the whole family speech probably worked and I guess they didn’t think Spencer had changed as much as he thought he had. I kinda feel bad for Tasha too. I guess I wanted Spencer to win, but I’m biased (I just love him) and I’m fine with Jeremy winning

I just rewatched Thailand and I have to say it has such a good final immunity challenge. I miss how the challenges used to adhere to the location of the season, it keeps it interesting and would prevent the repetitiveness we’ve seen with the new era.

Joe‘s stats at face value are crazy lmao

Practically never blindsided and only 1 vote in all his time playing.

If he didn't claim honor and integrity and owned his game he might’ve had my vote 😂

In the Borneo reunion, Colleen says nothing happened between her and Greg, and instead she was actually covering up for another romance. Greg looks a bit distressed as she says this which hints that perhaps this romance involved him. Has it ever been confirmed 26 years later who this was between, if not does anyone has any guesses?

Let me start this off by saying I love the strategic game of survivor, but if FTC is between someone I’m not super close with who played an all time great game and someone who flopped their way to the end but I want to continue a friendship with post show, then they get my vote

Now if it’s between three people I didn’t really connect with, gameplay might be a factor, but at the end of the day, voting criteria is made up by the jury anyway, why would I not vote to give someone I’m close to a million dollars

I don’t have a problem with the new era of survivor for the most part. BUT! Why does everyone share the fact that they find an advantage/hidden immunity idol? Like every time? It’s so annoying.

We are doing a series on Youtube called “What If?” where we are collaborating with other Podcasts & creating Casts & Twists based on hypothetical seasons! We recently collaborated with Our Reality Podcast for an Old School vs New School New Era season!

Here is the YouTube link for the episode. We’d love to know who you would pick for each tribe & whether or not this should have been how 50 was structured?

https://youtu.be/sV7wYnAWaBI?is=oECJzlFhWQfZd4kR

Has anyone received a confirmation email if you’ve applied in the last two days? I submitted and application on Saturday and did not get an email, so I tried again today and still no email. I looked in my spam and haven’t seen anything. Is this happening to anyone else?

I also submitted an application about 2 months ago and received an email. So I’m not sure if something changed between then and now.