Wild that after a season in which players openly admitted to the mental toll the game takes when they leave it, that they would even be considering teens.
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18 vs 21 is the only thing I could see working
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Gives a bit of insight into Edge politics, and how Rob implementing the buddy system was a terrible play.
Gives a bit of insight into Edge politics, and how Rob implementing the buddy system was a terrible play.
Fresh blood.
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It would be very hard for a 16yo to win Survivor. They can't even vote!
But seriously, get to the end with two other young bimbos and the jury still has to give the money to one of them (see: season 21, which sounds like the inspiration for this ill-conceived potential season 41 theme).
Even though overall ratings were well up this season, the young person demo viewership was slightly down (or so I read at one point), so that might explain why Snuffed by the Probst: The New Class is being considered.
But seriously, get to the end with two other young bimbos and the jury still has to give the money to one of them (see: season 21, which sounds like the inspiration for this ill-conceived potential season 41 theme).
Even though overall ratings were well up this season, the young person demo viewership was slightly down (or so I read at one point), so that might explain why Snuffed by the Probst: The New Class is being considered.
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41 & 42 have already been cast, so I think they want 16 year olds applying now to play in 2+ years time, which is still too young but at least not as bad.
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The edge politics is way more fascinating than any part of Edge that has been shown on tv.
There would be more reward challenges for food I reckon. This All Star season there was hardly any rewards. They did it tough!
There would be more “romance” as well, most would be single, there’d be less strategy which would take away from the spectacle.
Trying to think who was the youngest person to play so far, I think it was that young lad from the Millennial season a few years ago. Will was his name I believe. Was actually 18 at the time but told everyone he was 21 (he sure was mature enough to convince them, and certainly looked older than he was).
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Spencer in Tocantins was 18 too
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I tried googling it and found this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_contestants
Assuming it's accurate it has Will from Millennial and Michael from Ghost Island as both 18, Spencer and a few others as 19.
I didn't see Millennial season but glenferry23 your comment about Will sounds like my recollection of Michael. Not sure if they both made same claim or your memory or mine is a bit off.
Youngest winners seem to be Jenna (Amazon) and Fabio (Nicaragua), each at 21. Oldest - Bob at 57 (Gabon).
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I like that you stand your ground when you believe you are right. I did say "assuming it's accurate" and because of your follow up post looked into it more:
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Spencer_Duhm has his DOB as 20/12/89 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Tocantins has filming dates as 2/11 to 10/12/08 which by my maths means he was just shy of his 19th birthday when filming finished. Maybe the other list goes off their age when aired??
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Michael said he was 21 to the other contestants. So that others would take him seriously.
I remember a reward challenge that Will went on, and Jeff said that Will had to settle for soft drinks as everyone else got beers.
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So you're saying that Michael deliberately threw all the reward challenges so he wouldn't be found out!
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And Will did not listen to that is my understanding
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I'm not sure they would have been able to stop him. Drinking age is 18 in Fiji.So you're saying that Michael deliberately threw all the reward challenges so he wouldn't be found out!
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I reckon Newfoundland, where they filmed the first few series of that show Alone would be a fine location for Survivor, actual survival would become part of the game.
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Okay caught up this evening on the finale and I have a question for all the Survivor heads out there.
On all the occasions their has been a final 3 how many times has the 3rd person got more than 1 vote?
Off the top of my head I think the answer is never.
In fact normally as per this season they get none whatsoever.
Time to go back to a final 2 I reckon.
On all the occasions their has been a final 3 how many times has the 3rd person got more than 1 vote?
Off the top of my head I think the answer is never.
In fact normally as per this season they get none whatsoever.
Time to go back to a final 2 I reckon.
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It's a conundrum. They have the final 3 so that at least 2 of the contestants are worthy or at least in the contest for votes. It avoids the wipe out in the final 2 where the obvious winner pulls along the goat with him/her and it's a wipeout, leaving no tension at all. Of course, this then means that the goat just sits there in 3rd place getting no votes.
I'm not saying in this all-star season that Michelle was your typical goat. Nora last season was though.
And I’ve always wondered given all the words it could have been called, how it became known as a “goat”. The same word is also used to describe the greatest of all time haha.
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Yeah as above. Final 2 made it worse.
It's a reference to a tethered goat - an animal which the farmer (or whoever) is prepared to sacrifice in order to save the herd. Predators go for the tethered goat, because it can't run away, leaving the rest of the herd unmolested.
So it wasn't my faulty memory! I'm sure they still had the final-2 last time I watched - before fire challenges and ball machine challenges. The last TC vote was a decision by the person who won the final immunity challenge, determining who they wanted to take with them to the final TC. It was the only time people voted for the person they wanted to stay, rather than the person they wanted to eliminate.
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