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Sandra Diaz-Twine won Survivor twice without ever winning an individual challenge.

Bingo. We need the "smash each others' plates"/"chop the coconuts" challenge.

Or, just, more aggressive (and better) players. There's clearly two camps in the majority tribe, and that break can be exploited.

For time reasons — you can't do a Redemption Challenge, Reward Challenge and Immunity Challenge in the same hour.  And it's not so much the Reward Challenge itself that's missed as it is the "okay, who do you want to bring with you?" strategic aspect which is sadly gone.

It's also about the jury, as Chuck Klosterman wrote (and I excerpted last week).  Imagine if that first jury said, "You know what?  Kelly had better survival skills, did better in challenges, and was pretty nice to people.  She wins," rather than "Richard played the game better."

As one of the producers said after the season, Hatch both made the show what it was and ruined it for everyone thereafter. Imagine a Survivor in which for the first few seasons, there aren't voting alliances but rather week-to-week ad hoc decisions based on who has been most useful to the tribe on challenges and in…

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I'd like to narrow that down to her intonation of rih-GOTT.

Next week is a big episode, because, wow, would they really get rid of the three older contestants in a row?

I don't believe so; I think the only competitor who has passed away is Jennifer Lyon (Palau), who died of cancer.

With a duck fetus inside of it.

Who was reality tv's "scheming gay guy" before Richard Hatch?  Only one I can think of is Justin from RW: Hawaii, but Hatch was on a totally different plane. I still think these recaps underestimate how much of the archetype-setting was done *by* this show, and this season of it.  Was there an Otherwise Athletic Black…

Worse, perhaps: balut, from Survivor: Palau (Tom/Ian/Steph season).  It's a fertilized duck embryo that's boiled alive and eaten in its shell.

Or, just, more difficult clues and navigating tasks. When's the last time the teams had to drive themselves to a hard-to-find location?

It's a Zach Galifianakis joke. (Sigh)

Purist. I loved Boston Rob's exploration/exploitation of the rules, esp. the Great Argentine Meat Fracas.

Plane tickets are covered separately.  Everything else needs to be covered by the cash allocated at the start of each leg.

"So how did they pay for those bus tickets?"

If he had kept his head down after surviving a black rock draw, which had a 1/8 chance of eliminating him and a 3/8 chance of putting his tribe down 6-5.  (Or something like that.)