I agree with you that he's really, really overrated! (Not here, necessarily, but by r/survivor and 2+2 types, and by the show itself.) But what I was trying to say is that in this hypothetical scenario where he gets booted via TPI, it would just be that much easier for Spencer proponents to push the "Spencer was…

Idea: Many of us, myself included, have been wondering why the heck Spencer's edit has been so flattering, when objectively, he hasn't really done that much. Does anyone else think it might be possible that maybe the reason might be because he gets ousted by the Tyler Perry idol? Okay, well, contestants that get…

I'm not sure I'm convinced that UTR winners are less common these days than they were previously, because I don't know who you would consider a UTR winner from the past. Natalie, for sure. Tina? Amber? Bob? And wasn't Sophie perceived as UTR/Coach's coattail-rider at the time of South Pacific?

Tony's move came from paranoia. Argue all you want about the strategic soundness of the move, it was clearly coming from a place of fear. (Did y'all even see the opening scene of the show? That was some Rupert-level "WHO THE HELL VOTED FOR ME?!?!" shit.) Just because something happens to be strategically sound (I…

I guess we have totally different approaches to Survivor, then, because I don't inherently like or dislike good gameplay. My number one priority is entertainment, especially in the form of personal character arcs. In fact, as far as I can tell, good gameplay is probably more closely associated with boring TV than…

I'm definitely in the minority here, but I am absolutely loving Kass and what she brings to this season. Is she a good player? Nah. But I couldn't really care less so long as she keeps things chaotic (khaotic?). I love it when you have players who just YOLO their way to the end of the game and stop things from being…

I don't know if it's more funny to think that Sarah was giving all of those ridiculous, grandiose confessionals ("I'm the president!" "It's a Sarah sandwich!" etc.) because she was trashed on merge-feast rum, or if she was totally sober, and really is just that terrible of a Survivor player.

Older women/moms are nearly always my favorite Survivor contestants, so I was all over Trish's breakout this episode. It's refreshing to go away from the "nice and morally conflicted older lady" archetype of the past few seasons (Dawn, Monica, Lisa) and go in the complete opposite direction, to "deranged…

I, like you, watched early Survivor when it aired and peaced out after Palau. I'm going to make a pitch for the season of Survivor which got me back into the show (until Redemption Island took all of my fannish interest and shredded it to pieces): Nicaragua. The people here tend to be down on Nicaragua. I would…

I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but True Dork Times (http://truedorktimes.com/) has a crapton of nerdy Survivor stats, mostly around challenge performance and votes cast. There was also this recent article on Survivor Oz where the author concluded, based on statistics, that a hidden immunity idol…

Love the podcast, really enjoyed seeing you guys improve over the course of last season, and I'm looking forward to the upcoming season of podcasting almost as much as the new season itself.

Sweet. Tribe Beauty better not Tandang this shit pre-merge or I'm not going to get any points.

I'll come out of lurkerdom to play, why not. With the three-tribe set-up, is there going to be bonus points for one's tribe coming in first versus coming in second?
Woo: Because I'm always going to pick the Asian brotha, even though he seems… not very smart. Hopefully he'll challenge beast it like Ozzy and give me…