Survivor Thread (Re-named) *US Spoilers*

Probably why they haven't been back to Australia, that season was fucking brutal haha. I remember there being a massive bushfire too that nearly took over their camp.

 

Another thing I enjoyed about watching Survivor Australia again recently was the differences in challenges. I kind of miss the old school challenges they had - one was more fear-based (jumping off a cliff into water) and one at the start was like searching for hidden things throughout a river from what I recall. Seems like these days the setup for all immunity/reward challenges are pretty much identical to ones used in seasons past - so challenges involving any of the following: a blindfold maze, throwing objects at targets, catching competitions, wrestling matches and giant staircase challenge will all be coming up soon I guess.

Also miss some of the pure endurance challenges, as opposed to ones where it's more balance based which they seem to use these days. Must be a bore to host/film though.

 

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Now with the knowledge of the merge happening immediately after that last tribal council, I definitely think the girls made the wrong decision. J'Tia was definitely one they could take to the end if they managed to make it to the single tribe merge after with her as I can't see her getting along that well with anybody else in the game (nor would she have gotten any F3 votes at all). I presume they will split into 2 tribes for now though so could be quite an interesting game, now is definitely the time for Spencer to make his move and get into a guys alliance.

 

I actually think Tony made the correct decision, although it's hard to judge for sure without knowing more of the game dynamics and ultimately it wasn't a massive call as to which way he went.

If he stuck around in the other alliance, he would have certainly been the 4th or 5th member leaving him to get voted out most likely either 3rd or 4th after Trish (in his tribe) if the initial two beauty people were voted out. As it is now, he still has two more people to vote out if he sticks with this new alliance so he ensures that he is going to be voted out at worst 4th in this tribe. From his perspective, this isn't a terrible outlook at all as they are a decent chance to make the merge before it even gets to this stage.

Similar logic is probably why Trish flipped, she would have known she was on the bottom of the brawns alliance and as she didn't really get along with most of them anyway so it's a no-brainer for her to do something like this to extend her life in this tribe. Pretty average awareness from Cliff and co to not try to prevent this happening a bit more.